I still find myself stumbling when I try to talk to people about my experiences — as if I am once again standing before a stranger, punching keys on a machine I don’t understand, in a vain attempt to find a useful phrase that might bridge an ever-widening gap between me and him.

A lot of membership pros will think, “All I am trying to do is get this guy to write a check for $1,200 to join, that’s all I want him to do. I don’t care that he is going to be a member for 20 years. That’s nice, but none of that matters unless I get him to write the first check,” Stackpole says. “And so, folks, especially marketing and membership sales folks, sometimes get frustrated with this idea [LTV], because it doesn’t seem to have any relevance to the immediate goal.” The traditional LTV calculation looks like this: (dues + nondues revenue) x average tenure = LTV But Stackpole says associations have greater ability today than ever before to track and assign a dollar value to nonmonetary engagement like committee service, knowledge contribution, grassroots advocacy, or anything else the association deems important. Adding those elements to the equation can reveal the long-term worth of an association’s most engaged members.

When centralization arises elsewhere in an apparently decentralized system, it comes as a surprise or simply goes ignored.

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That’s what anti-union owners do. They build successful businesses and then take good care of their employees.

Lilla seems to have mistaken his autobiography for American history.

the first president whose entire political existence hinges on the fact of a black president

The insult intensified when Obama and Seth Meyers publicly humiliated him at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2011.

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But that is the point of white supremacy—to ensure that that which all others achieve with maximal effort, white people (particularly white men) achieve with minimal qualification.

“When you’re a star, they let you do it”

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White supremacy has always had a perverse sexual tint.

his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power.

Their individual triumphs

NPR’s Story Lab, an agitating body within the organization meant to aid in the internal development of new shows and training resources

We should empower those with different ideologies to be able to express themselves.

SWEs

Biological males that were castrated at birth and raised as females often still identify and act like males

clear biological causes and links to prenatal testosterone

They’re universal across human cultures

“While we do everything we can to be as transparent and objective as possible, there are pockets of America that see us as biased,” Sharockman said.

It contained no uniform commitments and no enforcement provisions.

I don't think the West needs to apologize -- or pay -- for having invented the steam engine.

The Iranian-Russian strategy is a nightmare for the entire Sunni Middle East. And for us too.

moderate and Western-allied, led by Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states, Egypt and Jordan

Devine and colleagues (Devine & Monteith, 1993; Plant & Devine, 2009) argue that the motivation to break the prejudice habit stems from two sources. First, people must be aware of their biases and, second, they must be concerned about the consequences of their biases before they will be motivated to exert effort to eliminate them. Furthermore, people need to know when biased responses are likely to occur and how to replace those biased responses with responses more consistent with their goals.

As this election fades into the distance, explanations for the outcome will become gentler and more opaque.

After coming into contact, for just minutes each day, with two more Latinos than they would otherwise see or interact with, the riders, who were mostly white and liberal, were sharply more opposed to allowing more immigrants into the country and favored returning the children of illegal immigrants to their parents’ home country

 Even if this is true for non-profits (which I think is debatable), being a for-profit news organization does not preclude it from being mission-driven too. New Jersey’s news landscape is dominated by hyperlocal digital sites in towns all across the state, all of which are for-profit. These sites are community anchors — vital to the information needs of residents throughout New Jersey — and are not “in it for the money” either.

The only thing that separates journalists from partisan communicators is impartiality.

Are Serial listeners in it for the important examination of the criminal justice system? Or are we trawling through a grieving family's pain as a form of entertainment? These are questions much more easily posed than answered.

One of the most classic rules of journalism — the reporter is not the story; the story is the story — seems to be impossible for Serial to follow.

Yet Jackie could also be hard to pin down

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[I]f the newsman is called upon to give information bearing only a remote and tenuous relationship to the subject of the investigation, or if he has some other reason to believe that his testimony implicates confidential source relationships without a legitimate need of law enforcement, he will have access to the court on a motion to quash, and an appropriate protective order may be entered. The asserted claim to privilege should be judged on its facts by the striking of a proper balance between freedom of the press and the obligation of all citizens to give relevant testimony with respect to criminal conduct. The balance of these vital constitutional and societal interests on a case-by-case basis accords with the tried and traditional way of adjudicating such questions,

The reporter's job should be, as fully as possible, to conduct interviews and seek information on the record

He opted against wearing his Confederate flag cowboy boots, he said, because “I didn’t want it to be too much.”

This year, no one has flipped from Clinton to Sanders

Exposing the Invisible spoke to him recently about this project and he describes how he found visuals to describe deportation of migrants that, for example, had outstayed their visa, a process that happens late at night using hidden infrastructure that was impossible to document. However, by using a range of techniques such as first-hand accounts, aeroplane spotting websites and working with an architectural studio to visualise these hidden spaces, he was able to generate a rough outline of the process.

What I try to do next is to ask them where exactly the photograph is rejected and where the border of rejection ends, defining the distance. For me, this is the disruptive element that forces the requester and the rejecter out of our established positions. It also allows ‘the photographed’ to draw their own perimeter of secrecy, be it legally established or imaginary. This element of the work is very much a performance. One in which both the photographer and the photographed stumble and look a bit surprised.

Create a ‘map’ using the white space where you can place the company, institution or person you want to obtain information on. Explore the different options in the left hand menu to show the connections between companies, institutions, boards of directors and people. You can work on different visualisations at the same time.

To access a list of worldwide registers, have a look at here.  Frequently used by investigative reporters for diverse investigations, the Panama registry of companies is a great tool for journalists and activists interested in issues pertaining to corruption and tax avoidance. LittleSis is a free database of who-knows-who of business and government. They define themselves as the grass-roots watchdog network connecting the dots between the world's most powerful people and organisations. OpenCorporates is a database which aims to gather information on all the companies in the world. The database currently offers information on 50 million companies in 65 different jurisdictions. Information that can be found on OpenCorporates includes a company's incorporation date, its registered addresses and its registry page, as well as a list of directors and officers. TheyRule is a website offering interactive visualisations of the biggest companies in the US, helping you see who has the power in each company and what the ties are between individuals at the top of corporations. TheyRule also provides data relating to various institutions and foundations, shedding light on who is hiding behind lobbies and think tanks in America.

Solving this puzzle usually requires a good deal of digging and fishing around through databases and records to peel back layers upon layers of fake companies that serve as fronts for criminals to secretly privatise their assets.

Regardless of how complex these systems are and what levels of anonymity are established and maintained, money leaves a trail.

ICWATCH is a project created by Transparency Toolkit, a toolkit that provides a set of tools to collect data from various open data sources

Share Lab, the Investigative Data Reporting Lab

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Authors aren’t privileged anymore because everyone writes commentary somewhere and everyone’s commentary shows up some place

There seems to be no way out except deeper inside the sinkhole or to go cold turkey from the sound of our own voices.

what they did to terrorists and people who actively wished to do America harm

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the very people who put their lives on the line to give them the freedom to stand tall upon said high ground without fear of attack.

Without access to the 6 million CIA documents they studied I can’t disagree, though I feel no compulsion to assume its validity either.

Surely with modern medical technology we can begin to quantify pain somewhat, but it will always remain subjective to the individual receiving it.

Yet we seem ready to allow for the subjective opinions of those who merely read about it to define it for us. Why?

More importantly however is why should it matter? Recall that we are committed to killing the enemy. They are no longer valued as human to us. Why are we allowing their feelings to impact how we destroy them?

Until that point violence will occur and if you don’t want your tribe wiped out, the most efficient way of ending the aggression is with wiping out the enemy.

When a country commits to war

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