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Warren’s financial support came almost exclusively from grassroots, online donations: Of the more than $6 million Warren raised, the average donation was $28 from 135,000 people who gave 213,000 contributions.
Sanders swamped Warren’s fundraising, bringing in $18 million in the first quarter. And while Warren in her 2012 Senate campaign was lauded for prodigious fundraising — $40 million in all — and an expansive donor list, O’Rourke, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg all outraised Warre...
There were some bright spots for Warren, including the $11.2 million she has in the bank to start the second quarter, a strong figure can sustain her campaign at least for the near future. She can go back to her existing donors for more money since so few of them have given large donations already. And in a sign of sus...
Harris brought in $12 million, about half of which came from online donors, and she has about $9 million cash on hand, according to the campaign, with a burn rate at 30 percent. Sanders burned through about $4 million in the first quarter, even though he launched his campaign seven weeks after Warren. However, he also ...
Warren about matched Harris’ online small donor donations. Both campaigns invested heavily in digital fundraising infrastructure and both are for the first time tapping their existing email lists for presidential donations — as is O’Rourke, whose email list was freshly built during his close Senate loss against Republi...
O’Rourke raised $9.4 million in the first quarter. Only Sanders has had the benefit of having an expansive email list of people built for a presidential campaign.
In February, Warren announced she would voluntarily halt special access to big donors; no longer holding cocktail parties, fundraising dinners or private meetings with only large-scale backers. Her fundraising chair, Michael Pratt, arguing the campaign needed a more balanced approach, left the campaign soon after.
Warren’s strategy has been to lead the pack in introducing new policies, and while other candidates’ time has been occupied by pitching to big donors, keeping them off the road, Warren has invested that time in traveling and holding events across the country. She's also led the field in policy proposals that have garne...
That approach is costlier — but the Warren campaign believes the long-term investment will ultimately pay off because of her personal interaction with voters.
The woman was transported to the hospital with suspected serious injuries, according to Alpha.
While debriefing the incident at the Patton Township police station, Alpha said they were called out to a vehicle fire in the parking lot of their downtown station.
The compartment fire was extinguished and the car was towed.
No responders were injured in either incident, Alpha said.
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on April 30, 2018, on page 1.
Turnout for the first Lebanese expatriate vote in parliamentary elections was low in Europe, Africa, Australia and the Americas compared to the first phase of the vote in Arab states Friday. As of Sunday night when The Daily Star went to print, when some polls had yet to close, around 31 percent of 70,355 registered vo...
With 22,380 voters in Australia, Armenia, Europe, the island of Guadeloupe, Africa, Latin America and North America out of 70,355 registered voters casting ballot, the turnout was 31.81 percent. The final tally from Arab states Friday was over 65 percent of 12,615 registered voters in six Arab states.
Polling stations opened first in Australia at midnight Saturday Beirut time and closed at around 3 p.m. Sunday with 6,829 out of some 11,826 – or 58 percent of Lebanese registered voters – participating.
Out of 311 registered voters in Armenia, 130 voted while 8,504 out of 24,484 voters turned out across Europe.
Some voters in Washington D.C. were also unable to cast their ballots because their names were not on the voters' list.
As I’ve said before, Technologizer doesn’t need everybody to see the ads here–just a critical mass of folks. I don’t have a reliable way to measure how many visitors use an ad blocker, but here’s a guesstimate: In February, roughly fifteen percent of all Technologizer page views had the ads blocked. I might be more ala...
Or to put it another way: Ad blocking isn’t devastating Technologizer.
In the Ars post, Fisher says that he takes pride in the fact that his site’s ads aren’t in-your-face crud. Which led me to realize that although Technologizer has a number of guiding principles about the advertising we carry, I’ve never outlined them here.
First of all, my overarching philosophy when it comes to ad-related matters is pretty simple: In the face of financial realities, I attempt to err on the side of making myself happy. By which I mean, we do things that I don’t mind when I’m reading other sites, and try to avoid the things that tick me off.
Technologizer turns down ad formats that make me gnash my teeth elsewhere (such as text links within stories, which we’ve repeatedly been approached about adding).
When we do run ads that go further than most to grab your attention (such as one you may see on this very page) we put limits on their activity so they don’t drive you completely bonkers. And such ads are a once-in-a-while thing rather than a constant onslaught.
We run multiple ads on most pages, but don’t cram ten or fifteen of them into every available crevice, as some bigger sites do. And I hope it goes without saying that when we run ads, it’s clear they’re ads.
We work with a classy ad partner–Federated Media–who does a great job of finding advertisers who are relevant to the Technologizer community. You won’t find ads involving moms who have discovered cures for yellow teeth here, and we’ve been known to ban some advertisers, period.
We run slideshows, which can involve a lot of clicks. But we don’t run many of them, and try to make every one special.
Our RSS feed offers ad-free full-text versions of all content (first page only for multiple-page posts).
I don’t think there’s any way to support editorial content through advertising in a way that will make everybody happy all of the time. (If there was, ad blockers wouldn’t exist.) But we’re trying–and we’re grateful for both the support that makes Technologizer a viable business and the constructive criticism that help...
To be honest, I don’t mind advertising on sites, so long as it is relevant and not too obtrusive. i.e. it doesn’t distract from the site content. I guess this is part of the reason why I don’t run ad-blocking software, along with the fact that some sites can actually look a little bare/empty without advertising. Some o...
The only advertising that does really vex me are those ‘takeover’, Flash-based ads – those are really quite horrible and make me far less likely to revisit sites that use them; I just wish that both advertisers and some site owners realise that obtuse advertising does not necessarily have a greater impact than more res...
Thanks for the transparency on this (as well as an approach that I personally like). Some advert approaches make sites so hard to just read that I stop going there. I follow some other tech folks, but I won’t take a link to some of their sites unless the story is hella-interesting AND I haven’t already read about it on...
Good policy on ads. While some users use ad blockers, the majority do not.
– Inline ads that pop up a bubble when you inadvertently roll over a linked word (Intellitxt and its ilk). If they were on a timer and only activated after X seconds, and didn’t go out of their way to replicate legitimate ads, then they wouldn’t be so bad.
– Flash ads that use every effect the plugin has to offer. They’re obnoxious (especially the ones with sound), and they bog down my poor 11-year-old “netbook”. (Toshiba Portege 7200cte w/ P3 650. Hey it’s thin, light, and it was free.) Those stupid “peel the page back” banners fall under this category as well.
I have a long memory and doubleclick.net will never be allowed to run scripts in my computers. Perhaps your Federated Media don’t smell as bad as doubleclick.net, but I think they still smell.
Just whitelisted you on Adblock Plus.
I don’t hate ads, I just think that more sites abuse/overuse them than not, so I tend to just whitelist certain sites (like Google) and block the rest. When I use Chrome instead of Firefox, the bad sites become painfully obvious and in less than an hour I’m back to Firefox with Adblock Plus.
I am probably not going to whitelist Ars Technica, though.
I’m one of those ad-blocking folk 😉 But this is how I see it: people going as far as to search something that blocks ads, install it and actually have it self-update itself, are NOT the ones advertisers are after: these people wouldn’t even pay attention to or click their ads anyway.
The advertisement sector should really start to grow up and adapt to the internet. I say this because imo they really, REALLY haven’t. For example: most advertisers still COMPLETELY neglect so-called ‘amateur’ content on YouTube, such as communitychannel, Kassem G, charlieissocoollike or the vlogbrothers, while they AR...
The weird thing is this: we all block ads, online and off. With print magazines, typically the recto (right-side page) is given to ads, and the ads have a different look than editorial pages. We all train ourselves to ignore those pages. Ads on newspaper pages are mixed in; we train ourselves to focus on the editorial ...
The only medium that ad-blocking can be noticed, however, is the internet. So advertisers, along with the sought-after data on who is clicking on the ads, also get data on who is ignoring/blocking those ads.
Advertising has brought us a lot of free content in capitalist countries over the decades. But it’s mostly a waste of money, IMO, to those who pay for the ads. That is advertising’s dirty little secret. And on the internet, those dirty undies are showing.
Serve up your own ads.
I use NoScript in Firefox, so I don’t get ads from most sites that use third party delivery. The few sites that deliver their own ads and provide useful functionality to warrant enabling scripts get their ads before my eyeballs. I could run AdBlock, too, but it just isn’t worth the bother and load beyond what I get fro...
As pond noted, we all learn to ignore ads. Frankly, most ads have no effect on me. For example, TV ads are usually about products I don’t care about or are devoid of any real content, so they are useless to me and don’t induce me to buy. I regularly note, to my children, what is not said in ads and their focus on emoti...
Having said all of that, I’ve even been known to click on ads just to try to give some money to a site that’s been useful to me. Beyond that, ads aren’t a good way to get revenue from me other than by an advertiser’s wishful thinking.
pond is correct that we ignore most adverts, only the most innovative and attention grabbing ever get through. I listen to a lot of TWiT podcasts, and thanks to their ads I now subscribe to audible.co.uk (although since I’m in the UK, TWiT won’t have got the credit) – those adverts are highly relevant and in the case o...
As for Adblock, I used to use it before switching to Chrome. It always struck me how different the web looked on an iPhone. On the one hand there’s no flash, but on the other hand there are tons of adverts everywhere due to the lack of AdBlock.
Thanks. I’ve white listed Technologizer since you do keep the ads tame. I also White listed Kotaku, but I’m going to Blacklist ’em again. They have those crazy expanding flash based ads on the top and it drives me batty.
the ads along the right margin don’t bother me. what botheers me, and why i refuse to install flash, is that the ad makers use every trick they can think of to annoy the web visitor, flashing pictures, sound that play on page load and anything else that they want. how can anybody read content when the ad is distracting...
static ads are fine, you can keep the flash ads.
I would go blocker-less if I could trust sites not to hand the “keys to the kingdom” over to the advertisers. Unfortunately, sites do not do that. Even flashing alone is annoying enough. I have been known to block elements that were part of the site itself, and not even an add, due to annoyance factor. For example, hav...
As far as flash, I run whitelist only with Flashblock. If a site isn’t in my whitelist, it doesn’t get to run Flash. I don’t do that for adblocking reasons, I do it for security. Not long ago, a new version of Flash came out that wouldn’t work in full-screen mode, so I was running an out-of-date version that did work...
The point is, ads typically want to use those features. And they’re frequently hosted on 3rd-party sites and subjected to little or now review by the actual content producers on the sites a person visits. So you visit a trustworthy site, but end up with a trojan due to java/flash exploits.
Or, you go to a “safe” site to download something for your 10 year old niece, and get graphic sexuality on the ad banner with her standing right there. It happens – and you NEVER know where.
So thanks to site admins who can’t be bothered to hand-pick their advertisers and hand the keys over to someone else, users like me carte-blanche block everything.
It may come as a surprise but, for most of human history, the future didn’t produce any anxiety in us. That is because human life changed so little from generation to generation that one could easily imagine and even “foretell” the future: The same as the present. And, indeed, as James Gleick explained in his 2016 book...
Not only did we become curious about what the future would look like, we started to become anxious, because change was accelerating and bringing unpredictable features. Indeed, not even Albert Einstein could have predicted the internet, for example. In fact, he didn’t even live to witness the launch of satellites, let ...
With fast, accelerating progress come risks that we worry about.
For instance, genetic engineering (modifications of crops, animals, and even humans), computers and algorithms that we can no longer do without, robots that gradually replace humans in many places (including homes and hospitals), and the climate increasingly becoming erratic due to our profligate production of greenhou...
This anxiety about the future, the accelerated pace of change and the great concerns we have about developments around the corner was captured by Time magazine last week, with a seven-page section titled “The Future is Now.” In it, the magazine asked 10 leaders and opinion-makers (Christine Lagarde, Justin Trudeau, Mel...
Indeed, only the ability to critically assess information and dynamically changing situations and environments will allow tomorrow’s leaders to steer society and the economy in the right direction.
Even more interesting was the release, two months ago, of the 2018 “Future of Knowledge” foresight report by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation, in collaboration with the UN Development Programme. The report first highlighted the fields of knowledge that will drive tomorrow’s Fourth Industrial Revo...
No one will be surprised to find Switzerland, Finland and Sweden occupying the top three places of this list, ahead of the US, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Singapore, the UK, and Japan. It is also not surprising to find Yemen at the very bottom, and Syria just four places higher.
However, it may come as a nice surprise to find the UAE in 19th place, just ahead of Israel, Malaysia at 33, China at 39, and Saudi Arabia at 66.
The seven dimensions of the Global Knowledge Index were: Pre-university education; technical and vocational education and training; higher education; research, development and innovation; information and communications technology (ICT); economy; and general enabling environment.
A ranking was established for each of these fields, before being combined into the global index.
Governments and observers can glean interesting insights from these rankings. For example, one finds that the UAE is doing very well (ranked 12th) in pre-university education, whereas Saudi Arabia is not (74th). The Kingdom also needs to improve its technical and vocational education and training, in which it ranks 117...
The report stresses the importance, fast development and growing roles of ICT, AI, data analytics, the “internet of things,” cybersecurity and blockchain, as well biotechnology and “future skills.” Interestingly, most of these are “key enabling technologies,” and the report devotes several pages to explaining the impor...
I was glad to see a full discussion of future skills, especially as, the report notes, “research shows that current college students do not feel like they will be prepared for the workplace after their education.” However, the report stresses the need to develop “soft skills,” which it defines as proficiency “in commun...
These are all great recommendations, but I would have liked to see at least a mention, if not a central place, given to “critical thinking” among the skills that will be crucial in the future. Indeed, only the ability to critically assess information and dynamically changing situations and environments will allow tomor...
The best thing we can teach today’s students is the ability to think correctly, adaptively and creatively. These skills will always be needed and useful, and all future knowledge will be determined by it.
Radcliffe and Lard this week.
With Radio l's Greatest Hits and the Ultimate Knocking Off.
Roadshow to Bowness with the best bands on stage.
The best new music and the Afternoon Lovefeast.
Kevin Greening with the Chart Hour from 4.00, including the daily rundown of Radio l's Most Wanted Chart.
Red as recorded live at the Phoenix Festival last weekend.
Briggy Smale presents a look at the live music scene.
With a session from Ivor Cutler.
By David Leyonhjelm - posted Tuesday, 18 September 2018 Sign Up for free e-mail updates!
Disgust is a powerful emotion but makes for a poor bedfellow when it comes to legislation.
The nation’s reaction to graphic footage of suffering during a shipment of live sheep to the Middle East earlier this year was understandably one of disgust; it was visceral and vocal.
And yet, while legislating to eradicate an entire industry to punish the deeds of one (now removed) miscreant might appease the outrage, it is hardly a formula for sound policy. It wouldn’t even improve the welfare of sheep.
Even if much of the opposition to live animal export is genuinely based on concerns for animal welfare, and not an attempt by animal rights zealots to impose their peculiar views on the rest of us, surely it is incumbent on protesters to ensure that a ban on live sheep exports would achieve better animal welfare outcom...
It is hard to see how our Aussie sheep have special rights, separate and superior to their ovine comrades in say Sudan or Somalia. That’s relevant because the more sheep Australia exports, the less other countries will export.
It is a simple fact that Australian sheep are exported more humanely, with better animal welfare, than any other country. And because of our ESCAS (Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System), we don’t stop when they are offloaded. We actually tell our export customers how to look after the sheep, even when they’re no long...
Australia is the only country in the world that actively works in overseas markets to improve animal welfare conditions. We are the only country that attempts to regulate livestock exports all the way from Australian farms to the feedlots and abattoirs overseas.
This comes at a cost. Millions of dollars in compulsory producer levies are used to fund training, education, research and development in animal welfare, both within Australia and in the countries that buy our livestock. And this costs us business too; some countries will not accept being told by us how to look after s...
But such is Australia’s commitment to animal welfare in the live export industry. If we were to stop exporting live sheep, they would be replaced by livestock from other countries. As evidence, in 2007 Australia could not meet the Middle East’s demand for live animals due to drought, so animals were imported from Sudan...
Demands that the countries purchasing our sheep must convert to an exclusively pre-slaughtered boxed and chilled model show appalling arrogance, if not outright racism.
Such calls are essentially telling poor people in other countries how to live; to buy a refrigerator and purchase their meat already killed and packaged, just like us wealthy white folk do.
Even if they own refrigerators, the people in the countries that buy our sheep have their own culture which involves eating freshly killed sheep during religious festivals. Imagine if Australians were told by another country we shouldn’t eat ham at Christmas, and that they therefore wouldn’t sell us pigs.
Floyd Mayweather appears to have backed out of a planned New Year’s Eve fight with Japanese kickboxing star Tenshin Nasukawa less than three days after he appeared at a Tokyo press conference announcing the bout, claiming he was “blindsided” by the promoter regarding the nature and magnitude of the event.
The five-division boxing champion said in an Instagram post on Wednesday that he had agreed to a three-round exhibition “purely for entertainment purposes with no intentions of being represented as an official fight card” and was “completely derailed by the new direction this event was going”.
On Monday, the Rizin Fighting Federation, a Japanese mixed martial arts company, announced Mayweather would fight Nasukawa, the undefeated 20-year-old kickboxing prodigy, during an hour-long press conference in the downtown Tokyo district of Roppongi attended by the American boxer and One Entertainment CEO Brent Johnso...
The fight between Mayweather and Nasukawa was to headline the Rizin 14 card that had already been scheduled for 31 December at the Saitama Super Arena outside Tokyo, but key stipulations including the contracted weight, number of rounds, type of gloves and – crucially – the rule set under which the bout would take plac...

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