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Today, I want to introduce you to a group of Latina women who are doing extraordinary work on behalf of the Hispanic community — a community that represents 18.2 percent of the total population of the state of New York.
These women are making a difference and have excelled in the fields of health, education, community, art, culture, business and technology; they have worked hard throughout their careers and have made a positive impact on society, fighting for progress so that 30 percent of the Hispanic population may obtain health insurance; so that the income of Hispanic families will increase past $38,000 per year; to raise the level of Hispanic college graduates to more than 13 percent; to help 67 percent of children over 16 years old and in the labor force complete their high school education and go to college all of which can be viewed and measured through studies of the Census Bureau of the United States.
During the Conference on LGBT Suicide Risk and Prevention at the San Francisco State University, the component that struck me most (and made me want to make this a 2 part blog) was the work being done by the Family Acceptance Project around LGBT youth's families and faith communities to increase support for LGBT youth and decrease the various problems that LGBT youth face: family and community rejection, depression, homelessness, substance abuse, STDs and suicidal thoughts and attempts. Caitlin Ryan, Project Director of the Family Acceptance Project, spoke at length about the issues the project tackles.
Apr 7, 2014 (Tell Me More) — The shooting at Fort Hood leaves many people talking about mental health and military culture. Host Michel Martin learns more from veteran Xiomara Sosa; and former Undersecretary of Defense Ed Dorn.
Two weekends ago I attended the Conference on LGBT Suicide Risk and Prevention at the San Francisco State University. While I knew that LGBT peoples had higher rates of suicide ideation and attempts than their heterosexual peers, the numbers were themselves shocking. Anne Haas, PhD, from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention explained that, overall, there are some data discrepancies when it comes to counting LGBT people. Sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) are not identified in death certificates, nor is it systematically identified in the National Violent Death Reporting System; this prevents the analysis of suicide mortality rates by SOGI.
Hacer el bien y ayudar a los miembros de la comunidad le hacen feliz. Graduada en psicología y con una maestría en salud mental, en 2005 fundó una consultoría que ha ido creciendo. Veterana del ejército fundó en 2011 un organización sin ánimo de lucro para ayudar a los veteranos y sus familias en cuestiones de salud mental.
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The alarming news of another military service member going on a shooting rampage killing and wounding other service members on a military base is unnerving. For us Latinos it is especially upsetting to know that Iván López, a Latino, perpetrated the recent Ft. Hood shooting. I do not care for highlighting a person's ethnicity or culture in these tragic events, but I feel that I have a responsibility as a Latina, a veteran, and a mental health professional to state the obvious that others are already commenting on.
This post is going to be more personal than I've written before. But now that I am resurfacing, I thought it would be appropriate to do so. Many people know that I have been working very hard for a long time to acquire my graduate degree so that I can legally have my own clinical mental health private practice someday. I set that goal for myself immediately after 9/11. I knew it was where I needed to be in the near future because where I was no longer brought me joy. And 9/11 fundamentally changed my entire paradigm. I was at the Pentagon that day.
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THURSDAY, Feb. 13, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Americans seeking treatment for mental health disorders may be four to 16 times more likely to be infected with HIV than those in the general population, a new study reveals.
The findings emphasize the need to provide testing for HIV — the virus that causes AIDS — in mental health care facilities, the researchers said.
The study authors provided HIV testing to more than 1,000 people in Philadelphia and Baltimore who sought treatment for mental health problems such as depression, psychosis and substance abuse from January 2009 to August 2011
More than 38,000 Americans died by suicide in 2010, the most recent year for which we have national data. This makes suicide, once again, the tenth leading cause of death for all ages; the second leading cause of death for young adults ages 25 to 34.1 Despite changes in recent decades that might reasonably have been expected to reduce suicide rates—increased awareness about mental disorders, the availability of treatment, and community-based public health efforts aimed directly at preventing suicide—U.S. rates of suicide deaths have not decreased. In fact, suicide has proven stubbornly difficult to understand, to predict, and to prevent.


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Sept. 11, 2001–a day that changed our country forever–is remembered annually by the Williston Fire Department with signs erected on the lawn. The Williston Pioneer remembers this day and salutes the men and women who lost their lives during that time. God bless America!
For more than 227 years, the United States Constitution has served as the cornerstone of this nation's freedom and way of life.
A Williston woman who owned an adult care home was sentenced to eight years and 10 months in prison after she pleaded to charges that she abused her clients.
Two people were arrested after they were allegedly caught in the middle of a burglary.
According to a press release, Levy County Deputies Cpl. L. Prine and K. Weatherford's rapid response to a 12-year-old's panicked phone call for help resulted in the capture of two suspects.
Eugene Donald Jr. was found guilty of one felony count operating an unlicensed nightclub in a residential neighborhood east of Williston by a Levy County jury on Wednesday and will be sentenced on Wednesday, Sept. 3, after the Levy County's Sheriff's Office takes the opportunity to make an impact statement.
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Satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Many would agree that there's no such thing as bad publicity.
Publicity, in any form, gets your name out there and people will talk–and remember.
It took a couple of hours on Thursday and all day Friday, but by the time the weekend started the Supervisor of Elections was able to announce that former District 4 Commissioner Lilly Rooks had won the Republican nomination by a three-vote margin.
The final count: 1,728 votes for Rooks to 1,725 votes for incumbent Commissioner Ryan Bell of Chiefland. Rooks will face Democrat Jamie Griffin in the Nov. 4 general election.
It was a sweet comeback for Rooks, defeating the man who unseated her four years ago, and after suffering two strokes earlier this year.
As a scientist, Dr. Ken Sulak is trained to make observations.
He makes his living studying the ways of the natural world, with an emphasis, in recent years, on the lives of sturgeon swimming the lengths of the Suwannee River.
But his professional work over time has bled into his personal interests: observations on the lives of humans and their place in the world.
"In the course of being on the river, you run into a lot of people, a lot of old timers," Sulak said from his office at the U.S. Geological Survey last week.
Four Williston property owners learned Monday night that when the city says clean up your property, it means clean up your property.
In the first meeting in many years to hear code violations, the Board of Adjustment found all four cases presented guilty of violations and issued sentences.
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Justin Bieber, his father and entourage smoked so much marijuana on a private jet, the pilots were forced to wear oxygen masks, and they were also ''extremely abusive'' to flight crew.
Justin Bieber's private jet was so thick with marijuana smoke, the pilots had to wear oxygen masks.
The 'Believe' singer, his father Jeremy Bieber and an entourage of 10 flew from Canada to New Jersey last Friday (31.01.14) and ignored warnings to stop smoking the narcotic, with flight staff forced to take drastic action as inhaling the smoke would have led to them failing drug tests, NBC News reports.
The official incident report said: ''The captain of the flight stated that he warned the passengers, including Bieber, on several occasions to stop smoking marijuana.''
And the 19-year-old singer and his dad were ''extremely abusive'' to the flight attendant, prompting her to take refuge in the cockpit.
The report continued: ''The captain also stated he needed to request that the passengers stop their harassing behaviour toward the flight attendant and after several warnings asked the flight attendant to stay with him near the cockpit to avoid any further abuse.
''The flight attendant stated the passengers, including Bieber and his father, Jeremy Bieber were extremely abusive verbally and she would not work another flight with them.''
When the plane landed, it was met by police and Customs and Border Protection agents, and though the aircraft ''reeked'' of marijuana smoke, no drugs were found inside the cabin, or in baggage, despite sniffer dogs alerting officers to three of the suitcases on board.
The troubled singer was questioned separately because ''in past examinations, Bieber had become argumentative and abusive when together with his security team.''
He admitted smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol, but stated that he did not have any additional marijuana.
According to website TMZ, Justin knew the plane would be searched before it even took off because he is on a Homeland Security watch list following his two recent arrests for assault and driving without a valid license, driving under the influence (DUI) and resisting arrest.
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Gwinnett Medical Center's Chief Operating Officer Jay Dennard said a twist of fate is to credit for his current profession. After his family-owned jewelry business was robbed at gunpoint in 1991, the family decided to sell. Dennard took the proceeds and became a trust investment officer with a major bank before moving into the health care field, where he believes he has a "higher calling."With 12 years in the medical profession, Dennard - who holds three master's degrees - served as assistant administrator, support services/financial analyst at GMC's Duluth campus before assuming his current position in January. When he's not busy managing the day-to-day affairs of GMC, you might find Dennard watching Georgia Bulldogs football, reading Tom Clancy or participating in Boy Scout activities. Dennard is married to his wife of 13 years, Margaret. The couple met on a blind date, exchanged vows about a year later, and now have two sons, 11-year-old Trey and Will, 8. On what he likes about being COO: I love the diversity of the job. I could be somewhere talking construction at one time and a little while later meeting with the lab folks. It's great. Day in and day out working with the people here. The new tower ... it's 200,000 square feet but when it's all said and done, it's just bricks and mortar. These (physicians and associates) are what enhances the overall patient experience. On the new, 155-bed north patient tower: It's very exciting. I cannot imagine to have seen the great facilities built in the early '80s to these now that will take us into the future. It improves pride for the associates and for patients, they feel they are at a destination hospital. On his hobbies: I love reading and history ... tennis, walking and politics. My wife and I love to travel. In New York, we do theater, have nice dinners. We like St. Simons ... we go to the beach, ride bikes. On his hometown: I grew up in Perry, near Henderson. You probably can't Google and find it. - As told to staff writer Heath Hamacher
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Ford Canada has issued a recall on 1,098 Fusion sedans from the 2013 model year due to a problem with the headlamps.
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Kitty Pryde Is Taking Time Off From Working At Claire's To Get Internet Famous
She's been called the singing equivalent of Tumblr by Buzzfeed, received hesitant yet solid praise from the New York Times, and, according to the flabbergasted singer, struck a tender nerve with Humbert Humberts the Web over. Her name is cribbed from the Marvel Comics universe, but her demeanor is more Disney than daredevil. She's the newest in the burgeoning crop of web-born stars: Kitty Pryde.
Pryde (a.k.a. Kitty Beckwith) hails from Daytona Beach, Florida, where she attends college, works at a Claire's in the mall, and writes poppy rap songs about Justin Bieber, being young, and falling in love with not-so-quality boys. With one EP under her belt (The Lizzie McGuire Experience), and another in the works produced by rapper Beautiful Lou, Pryde hit the pinnacle of Internet buzz last week when her video, "Okay Cupid" (no reference to the dating site intended) went viral. The vid features the skinny, freckled young woman of indeterminate age (she refuses to divulge that detail) rapping almost petulantly over one of Lou's tight beats about her wayward crush — he does lines and calls drunk at 3 a.m., but that's cool with her.
The denizens of the Web immediately latched onto acts like Kreayshawn when attempting to place Pryde, a natural progression since both women have gained traction in the music world via the web — Kreayshawn with her viral video for "Gucci Gucci," Pryde for "Okay Cupid" and tunes she posts to Tumblr. Still, a comparison to rapper Lil B might be more apt where Pryde is concerned. The word "irony" has been thrown around a lot in relation to the singer — She's rapping about Disney shows and pop stars! She's has ironic Lisa Frank stickers! — but according to Pryde, she's not being ironic, just honest.
Lil B is a similar figure — the jaded masses looked at him askance when he released the cautionary song, "I Got AIDs" at the end of last year, convinced B had tongue firmly in cheek. B, however, just responded: "A lot of people who respect my music are sexually active and stuff like that; I wanted them to make sure to get tested and spread the love."
Sure, Pryde boasts the sexuality and sense of humor native to singers like Kreayshawn and Ke$ha, but it's also tempered with the kind of earnestness that Lil B projects — which is why, in part, she's caught the fascination of so many of the Web-surfing public.
The O Music Blog recently caught up with Kitty Pryde to find out more about her music, Internet fame and what she has in store when it comes to tunes. Spoiler: She has not yet been signed, so she plans to continue dropping tunes on the Web when the mood strikes her. How very Lil B of her.
So, you kind of suddenly got famous last Friday. Pretty crazy.
Yeah, ehhh! It's really scary.
Why is it scary?
I don't know, getting a lot of attention at once is very unexpected. Yoni Wolf, who is probably my biggest influence and the love of my life, he saw the thing in the New York Times about me and saw that I was talking about how he was my biggest influence or whatever, and he read a whole bunch of interviews about me and then he sent me a message on Facebook. He was like, 'Here's my number if you ever want to talk about anything. I'm really honored that you mentioned me everywhere and that you're such a big fan.' So I was like, 'OK,' and we talked on the phone and he gave me all this advice about music. It was very weird, because I never thought that that would happen. But it did! I don't know if I'm still dreaming, I don't know.
So what was his best piece of advice?
I guess that I shouldn't take myself too seriously, and that he noticed that I already don't, so he was like, 'Don't start. Don't fall into that. It'll change everything.'
So do you know — how did your song spread so quickly?
I really have no idea. I guess it's a combination of a lot of stuff. There's a lot of different communities that it's in the middle of. It's in the whole online hip-hop community, but I don't think they were very happy about it. [It's also popular with] people who are really into blogs and just listen to everything that music bloggers have to say. It just got posted so many places. One person would hear about it and another person would post it somewhere. I guess that's just how viral things happen, so I don't know if it counts.
But you already had managers, right? So you were already working on a career?
The only place that we actually sent that video to was The Fader. The Fader were the first people that had it and after The Fader got it, we didn't see it again because I was at work. I had to go to my job. I wasn't even there when it came out. My managers weren't there either; they were at their day jobs. None of us were really there to spread it around. I think I had time to post it on my Facebook wall and that's it.
What's your day job?
I work at Claire's. In the mall. I was like, 'This works. This is a very me store to work at. I think I'll apply,' and then I got the job and I was like, 'Cool.'
Do you pierce ears? Or just sell necklaces and things?
Oh yeah, I do. It's terrible. I really don't like doing it, but I do it.
Do people recognize you now when you're, like, mid-pierce?
Yesterday was the first time that I worked since the whole New York Times thing. Yeah, a couple of people recognized me. They didn't say stuff to me. They were just like, 'That's Kitty Pryde.' I heard someone say that when I was walking through the mall and I was like, 'Oh my gosh, that's terrifying.' But nobody came in my store and tried to talk to me or anything. I was really glad about that.
Well, maybe you'll get more ear-piercing appointments now.
Yeah, this is my last week at Claire's, though! It's sad. I don't get a chance to fraternize. I'm not quitting, I'm just taking some time off because of all the crazy stuff. I feel bad. All these cool things are happening and I'm like, 'Well, I can't do it, I have to work that day.' So I'm just going to take some time off until it quiets down.
So your song — I saw on your Tumblr that you had written it to impress a boy while in traffic.
Yeah, I was driving on a very long drive by myself and I was stuck in traffic and it was right after Beautiful Lou gave me that beat, so I had it on my iPod. I was just listening to my iPod — I had the beat on repeat because it was cool. It was like the soundtrack of my terrible drive. And then I just started thinking of the words, because I was thinking about this boy that I liked and yeah, so… It all came at the same time. And then I hurried up — I was like, 'Oh, that sounds cool,' so I had to text it to myself while driving. It was a horrible idea.
Has the guy heard the song? Have you heard anything from him?
Yeah, he's my boyfriend now!
So that worked out well.
Yeah, it worked out. He's here — he's playing videogames in my livingroom.
Did you win him over with the song?
No, it was before the song came out, which was good because I think that if he had heard the song he would have been like, 'What…?' But, you know, whatever. I didn't let him listen to it for a very long time — I was like, 'Don't hear it. I don't want you to hear it. I really don't want you to.' Then, eventually, it just got to be a really huge thing, so I was like, 'If you want to hear it, that's fine.'
Yeah, I would think someone would have played it for him by now.
Yeah, I don't really know what people are saying to him, because he doesn't really talk about it, but I'm sure there's people saying things…
And your EP — The Lizzie McGuire Experience. Are you a fan of that show?
Yeah! That's like my favorite show! I still have like every episode. I'm compared to her a lot because I act a lot like her, I guess. My mom always called me 'Lizzie McGuire' when I was little — when that show was on. I was just like really clumsy and would do dumb stuff. You know how she's really moral and she gets upset about stuff when people break the rules and she'll tell on people and she just wants to be a good friend? I would stress out about stuff like that and my mom would compare me to that. So that's why I named it that. It's not some pop culture statement. I've never made a pop culture statement on purpose. So people reading into things are weird.
That's funny. You have a lot of fans among people I know who are in their 20s and 30s and they're probably looking for some kind of irony, but it seems like you're pretty straightforward.
Yeah, ever since that Justin Bieber song came out, I've read all sorts of articles about what I'm trying to say to the world. I just think that's funny because I was just trying to say that I love Justin Bieber.
What do you think of some of the other musicians that you're been compared to — Ke$ha, Kreayshawn…?
I like them all. Like Kreayshawn and Ke$ha, I can definitely dance to their music and I love them and I think they're really cool. But I haven't got to talk to them yet, so I can't be like, 'Oh, yeah, they're good friends.' I think their music is awesome, but I don't think that it's like mine. I guess I can see it, because we're all small girls and at least me and Ke$ha both have freckles. But that's kind of all the same that I see. Kreayshawn, I guess because we both try to rap — she succeeds and I… not so much.
I don't think our music is the same because they kind of talk about different things than I do, probably because their lives are so much different than mine. They actually party and wear fancy clothes and Ke$ha talks about going out to the club and crazy stuff like that. I don't really talk about that, because I would rather talk about normal stuff. I've tried to write a few songs about the club and stuff like that, but they never come out very good.
Do you go to the clubs? Is that a thing for you?
Um, I've been to the club before. Maybe a couple of times. And I was like, 'This is really weird and awkward and… whatever.'
So all your lyrics are pretty true?
Yeah, I would say so. I guess there's probably some if I went through and thought about it that are like, 'Oh, I probably just said that because it rhymes.' But for the most part, they're all pretty true. The one about stalking the boy — really, really in-depth — that's not true. I didn't really stalk him, I promise.
So when did you start making music? How old were you?
I think it was January — not this past January, but the one before that. I got a MacBook for Christmas, so I was like, 'Oh, GarageBand.' So I just started messing around with that and I posted the songs on my Tumblr. A couple of people, people that I knew in my real life, my friends, would listen to it and be like, 'Oh, that's funny.' And that's as far as it would go.
Did you have any musical training before that?
No, I didn't know how to use GarageBand, either, I just kind of messed around with the sliders the whole time. When I was seven I tried to play the piano, and that's about as far as my musical training goes. I have no idea what I'm doing.
So what are you up to now?
I'm working on an EP with Beautiful Lou, so it's going to be a bunch more 'Okay Cupid,' I guess. Not the same deal, it'll just be me and Beautiful Lou. It's not going to be a studio thing, it'll just be the same way I always do everything — mixed by the same guy, my friend who's a college student. I'm definitely going to start working on an album, but I think we'll go into a studio for that.
Any labels interested in signing you?
I don't really know. I'm too trusting of a person, so I just kind of leave that up to my managers, because I get really excited about things right away and I'm like, 'Oh my God, a record deal!' and I don't really think about things. I just don't want to make any mistakes by saying anything to anybody by myself, so I just let my managers handle all that stuff. But I think some people have talked to them about signing me. But we haven't had any serious discussions about it yet.
So you said your friend is in college. Are you in college as well?
Um… Yes, I will say. Since the New York Times told everybody that I'm a college student, I guess I will confirm that, yeah, I'm in college.
What year are you?
I'm not going to tell you that.
Is there a reason why you want to conceal your age?
I don't know. Since nobody knows right now, it's really funny watching them try to figure it out. It's going to come out soon; we're going to tell everybody soon. I promise. We're just waiting for the right moment. The people that are asking me the most are like, 'I need to know how old you are so that I know whether I'm allowed to legally think you're super hot.' And I'm like, 'That's really creepy and weird.' I don't want that.
Yeah, that must be creepy. All this attention must be kind of weird, since people will basically say anything online.
Yeah, they say what they want because I think a lot of the times they don't think I'll ever see it. They think I'm not paying attention, but sometimes I'll just stumble across a really weird thing and I'm like, 'This is disturbing, I'm just going to get off the Internet now.'
Well… If you're in college now, I guess you've grown up with the Web. Obviously you were using Tumblr before and all that. Do you think being so used to Internet culture has prepared you for any possible negativity?
Actually, I think that of all the people that I know, I'm definitely glad that this happened to me. My best friend — she's one of the girls in the video — she's just not as used to the Internet as I am, so she was a little upset [about some of the comments]. People will find any aspect of anything to say something mean about online. But since I've been so active online, I'm really desensitized to a lot of the mean stuff that people say. A lot of it, I think, is really funny.
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(12/06/12) - The "Right to Work" legislation is one step closer to becoming law and Governor Rick Snyder wants it on a fast-track.
It's been a very passionate and emotional day at the state capitol as hundreds of people storm the front lawn, the rotunda, and at times even the chambers, speaking out against the controversial effort.
In a nut-shell, the right to work bills would halt unions from collecting fees from non-union workers.
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So here is a big Baman Piderman related announcement I felt the need to talk about in person rather then textually. I am incredibly awkward and self repeating in it, however, so I will type the short version here. Today I quit my full time position as an art director of an animation studio so that I could work full time on our web show. Alex also did this. This is a big deal to me, and I am pretty overwhelmed but grateful for an opportunity like this that can only be described as a dream. These past few months have been some of the hardest Alex and I have ever had to go through, which is something people who know us personally are sadly all too aware of. Family tragedy, incredible grief, and wading through the mire to try to keep your neck above drowning in those kinds of rough feelings. I am so grateful for the wonderful friends I have that have stuck by both me and Alex the past five months. Candidly I'll admit too many people have seen me either crying or surly during it all, heh. Yet most of you are still all here! OH GOD. THANK GOD. ASDFSG
…Anyway what I'm saying is going through something so awful has helped me see that there is no point wasting time not charging at your dreams anymore, and with a little coercion from Alex I managed to fearfully leap into this with him. It is terrifying but in a wonderful way.
If it's not too much trouble, please keep watching Baman Piderman and make your friends watch Baman Piderman and make their friend's friends watch Baman Piderman and by god I think we can make this work and really make a ton of good content and maybe change the way in which animated content is presented as something only television can sustain. We have so many big ideas for you guys, and I hope you will keep following us.
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My hands shake worse than a crack addict when I take video. I'm too cheap to go buy a tripod, so I just don't try and take video anymore. There's a new app that's ready to cure some of my problems though. It's called Cycloramatic and it's the most amazing app you're going to see today.
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If you are not familiar with our Scenario Option Development model as it applies to the Future of Radio, you should read our white paper. We identify three drivers of the future. Advertisers' confidence in radio, or lack there of, is one of them. Here is another discouraging story from MediaPost about radio dropping in advertiser favorability. It's one more reason that stations who are transitioning to a multiplatform digital model will sustain or grow their revenue while those that subscribe to the mantra, "If I can't monetize it today, I'm not going to do it" will find themselves on the short end of the digital media stick. We'll be exploring this trend with ideas to turn it around at our conference in March.
Here's an article from Ad Age Digital about the short supply of people with skills in selling digital. What's interesting to me is that they are talking about the same issues radio has confronted for years in finding effective sales people. They start by looking for people with experience and find there just aren't enough candidates available. Then they decide to hire rookies and train them in the digital skills. They find out that tech oriented people sometimes work and sometimes not. Why? Because at the end of the day successful salespeople have to have that trait SRI (Selection Research) defined as "courage," that unteachable trait that kicks in when the prospect says "no" and the rep gets energized to carry on with the sales process until the deal is closed.
Here's an article from Tom Taylor's newsletter "Taylor On Radio-Info" commenting on the willingness of consumers to pay for online radio services. For about $36.00 per year you can listen to as much Pandora as you like with no commercials. Why not? And with Livio Radio's Bluetooth Internet Radio Car Kit you I can get Pandora on your car radio.
New Gartner study shows consumers becoming more willing to open their wallets to pay for online radio.
The enthusiasm is mostly because of the growth of mobile devices – "mobile phones capable of playing back music files and/or accessing online streams", according to the Gartner list of "topline assumptions." It says "download-to-own services are more mature and still deliver more revenue than other online or mobile music models." But that's going to change – "their growth will begin to slow down as more consumers begin to turn to subscription services that are leveraging the popularity of consumer smartphones, media tablets, and in the future, devices such as TVs with Internet connectivity built in." (Download the Gartner report here). Kurt Hanson's RAIN newsletter says "subscription services (e.g. Spotify, MOG, Rdio, Pandora) alone will take in $532.1 million this year, growing to $808 million next year." In other words, the psychology's shifting in favor of consumers being willing to pay for what they've been getting for free from over-the-air radio – because they'll gain more control over it.
OK, I realize this may not be a news flash for many of you but it underscores Arbitron's desire to shift their business from measuring only terrestrial radio to answering Tim Westergren's desire to have Pandora measured with the same metrics as terrestrial radio.
Terrestrial operators who continue to ignore digital platforms proceed at their own peril.
Here's a link to an article in Media Daily News.
My friends in the search world tell me posting video to You Tube can significantly increase you search standings. Here's a great article about using You Tube for telling your brand story to listeners and to advertisers.
Here's a link to an article from Ad Age Digital interviewing Tim Westergren about his feeling that until Pandora can express their numbers in average quarter hour and cume, they won't fully monetize their audience. Arbitron wants to help them.
Google is coming to your SMB's with help for your client's digital strategy. What are you doing to position your station as the digital resource in your market? You can earn that responsibility or cede it to Google.
GoMo: Google Helps SMBs Go Mobile
from Local Media Watch – BIA/Kelsey, November 1, 2011
During our DMS conference in September, we held a session on the "starting line" tools for SMBs to establish a mobile presence. This is step 1, before the higher frequency discussion of targeting mobile ads.
It's what I like to call the "art of the landing page"… where does the click "go"? Indeed, fighting to get clicks — or building any strategy to do so — is a moot point if you don't have an optimized landing page.
And like we heard from Duda Mobile's Itai Sadan (at DMS and in a past post), a low single digit percentage of online sites are ?optimized for mobile. Google has separately reported 79 % of its top advertisers' sites aren't optimized.
That's why today Google officially launched a program to encourage, educate and assist in getting businesses to optimize mobile landing pages. This includes tips, quality ratings ("gomometer") and samples of what your mobile site currently looks like.
Interestingly, Google isn't directly monetizing this effort. In fact, the SMB- facing page to learn more has links to third party services that specialize in mobile website development and optimization (including Duda).
Google will benefit in lots of ways from the effort though; the more user friendly and optimized the mobile web is, the more users will be compelled to the browser. This is opposed to Apple's app-centric worldview.
This is one flank in the longstanding apps vs. mobile web battle. Google is very much interested in a world where mobile experiences are accessed through the browser, simply because the that's where it owns search.
So far Google has made other moves such as announcing that mobile search rankings and quality score will be influenced by whether or not sites are optimized. Today's move is another step in the same direction.
More than that, it will benefit the entire ecosystem, including SMBs, vendors, and users. But make no mistake, this is a move to accelerate Google's $2.5 billion mobile revenue run rate, for which search is the biggest driver.
Given Google's gravity and promotional ability, this will certainly help. But though we're bullish on the mobile web, apps aren't going away anytime soon.
Check out this info being reported by eMarketer here . Their headline is about digital vs. TV but look at the spot radio number. Attention paid to Internet is 34% with radio dipping to 10%. That's a scary Halloween story.
eMarketer is reporting on research conducted among online radio listeners and their preferences relative to buying songs. Bottom-line is that music listeners prefer free streaming sites for finding new music. The fact that researchers are considering online radio users as a separate category from terrestrial radio is significant. Online listening continues to attract large numbers. The trend cannot be ignored. Here is the link to eMarketer's story. What are your conclusions from this study?
This morning I had the opportunity to have breakfast with a friend who is also the CEO and founder of a large company in the retail electronics business. I asked him what he thought about the announcement last night that Steve Jobs was stepping down from the top spot at Apple. His reaction was similar to that of many of us who believe that the loss of Jobs innovative leadership and stewardship of the Apple brand could threaten the future of the company. But he then went on to comment about the fact that Jobs replacement, Tim Cook, was a great operator but unproven as an innovator with similar brand leadership skills as Jobs. He said it was similar in his company where he has great operations people who really know how to "turn the cranks" but don't have his skill at protecting and growing the brand through enhancing and caring deeply about the user experience.


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Institutions, governance and incentives in common property regimes for African rangelands
AbstractThe general distinctions between open access, state property, common property and private property are now well established in the academic literature. When applied to African rangelands, however, common property admits a wide variety of resource management regimes. To formulate effective policies it is necessary to understand the structure and operations of particular regimes. In this paper we discuss three examples of common property regimes, two from the southern African nation of Lesotho and one from the west African nation of Senegal, to illustrate some of the key characteristics of common property regimes. In particular, it is important to understand the structure of governance, the types of institutions that govern behavior, and the compatibility between governance, institutions and individual incentives. A common property regime can only be effective if its institutions are compatible with the structure of governance. The extent of its effectiveness also depends upon the incentives and expectations of individuals expected to enforce the rules of the institutions or comply with their terms. At present, most African governments lack the organizational capacity and political will necessary to implement state property regimes, official regulations on resource use, or individual property rights for rangelands resources. In many cases it is more appropriate for governments to define and enforce group rights to particular resources, then help to establish conditions in which internal group dynamics yield efficient resource management outcomes. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1995
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The U.S. Secret Service first told state officials about the data breach on Oct. 10, but state officials said they were warned not to the tell the public immediately because it could jeopardize the investigation.
The public first learned of the breach on Oct. 26, when Gov. Nikki Haley held a news conference to say 3.6 million Social Security numbers and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers — 16,000 of them unencrypted — were accessed from tax returns filed since 1998.
She urged taxpayers to call a toll-free number to learn if they were exposed. If so, they would receive activation codes needed to sign up for a year of credit monitoring paid for by the state. Experian, which received a no-bid contract, has agreed to cap the state's cost for monitoring and use of its call center at $12 million.
The news conference, on a Friday afternoon, occurred after at least two days of discussions about how to coordinate the release and set up a hotline. One email from an attorney in Atlanta congratulates everyone for pulling the plan together and notes how important it is to have a call center equipped to handle the expected flood of calls.
"Excellent work, everyone!" wrote attorney Jon Neiditz, a partner in Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough's Atlanta office, the morning of the news conference. "Having a working call center of well-trained professionals that can handle high volumes ... will make this go 10 times as well as it would have otherwise." He ends with "Congratulations (knock on wood)."
It didn't go well: The call center was unable to handle the flood of phone calls that day. A recorded message told people to call back. Officials scrambled to fix it. The following day, callers were provided the credit-monitoring activation code on a recorded message. By Monday, there was no need to call at all. Haley later blamed reporters for clogging the lines.
Experian suggested the state give a different explanation: saying the state and Experian were simply unprepared for the overwhelming response and had unintentionally created an "exaggerated sense of urgency" by omitting that people could register through Jan. 31. That date was nowhere on initial news releases.
News releases did give conflicting information on the call center. The Department of Revenue said in its release and in emails to reporters that it would operate 24/7, while the governor's release gave set hours. The website for logging into Experian also had issues. Complaints included a congressman's spokesman saying the site tried to charge him.
It also became clear the state had no idea whose data was actually compromised, despite the initial directions to call and find out.
At first, deputy Chief of Staff Ted Pitts told staff that residents should call the hotline to learn if their data was breached. In coming days, officials simply urged anyone who had filed since 1998 to sign up for monitoring.
The two-step process was only to keep taxpayers from another state from signing up.
"Due to the massive and unprecedented number of callers, we were able to get Experian to change their normal process to make it easier for South Carolinians to sign up," Haley spokesman Rob Godfrey said Friday.
The nature of the total number of 3.6 million people affected also changed. It wasn't just Social Security numbers, but other information culled from tax returns. By Oct. 30, the state warned the figure represented entire tax returns, exposing Social Security numbers, along with bank accounts and routing numbers, all unencrypted, plus the card numbers, unencrypted from returns older than 2003.
A Revenue chart on projected costs, dated Oct. 28, shows 3.95 million taxpayers were compromised. The chart specifies how many filers had dependents, whether they filed jointly, or, if they filed separately, married, single or widowed. Officials have not answered how the agency can provide such detail on the chart, but not know whose information was taken.
Businesses got added into the mix four days after the initial announcement, despite initially reporting they weren't believed to be affected. The state has said it can't tell which businesses were exposed, though an internal email gives a breakdown with very specific numbers of the accounts: 340,185 business sales accounts and 317,322 withholding accounts were compromised.
The firm Dunn & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. offered to provide business owners a credit monitoring service at no cost to either them or the state. But according to the emails, the company thought it would offer it for free "for a year or so," not for the life of the business, as Haley told reporters. The company agreed to provide it "for the life of the product" after she made the public promise.
"Thank you for doing this for life. That's what we told the press," wrote chief of staff Bryan Stirling.
"In the spirit of our conversation, our goal is to help these businesses out long term until this problem is resolved," company Chairman and CEO Jeff Stibel responded.
In the weeks following the announcement of the data breach, the governor held almost-daily press briefings on the situation as information changed.
"From the outset of responding to this unprecedented criminal attack on South Carolina, our highest priority has been protecting taxpayers and keeping them informed of each development in real time," Godfrey said. "At times that has meant making adjustments on the fly, but every adjustment has been made in the interest of informing and protecting people as quickly as possible."


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Without really noticing we've been heading towards the end of the traditional outdoors childhood. Something that many millions of adults took for granted is becoming the exception rather than the norm for today's children, where-ever they live. Roaming ranges are down, physical activity is down and the ability of children to identify common wildlife is being lost.
Nicholas Hytner's Othello was so good I saw it twice. It's not the first time Sir Nick has wowed the critics. And I somehow doubt it will be the last. I perch comfortably outside his office, staring at black-and-white action shots of hit after hit: Adrian Lester in Henry V, Simon Russell Beale in Much Ado About Nothing, James Corden in One Man, Two Guv'nors. If there's such thing as a grammar of theatre, Hytner is fluent in it.
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Making nature part of children's everyday experience is a simple and effective way of plugging them into the world around them. Children are naturally inquisitive and love to explore; it's about getting them hooked and excited about the simple things. It could be about watching ants marching to their nests, snails clinging to a wall or birds singing in a tree.
Game culture is everywhere - on our phones, in our living rooms, and on our movie screens, though we have yet to see games played out in public, in our cities or on our high streets. There are playgrounds, where children can play on their own, and there are betting shops, where adult players can gamble, but an immersive space where kids and adults can mingle through play?
I have this terrible habit of booking tickets to plays that sound interesting then months later, moments before curtain up, I realise I haven't got a clue what the plot is and wonder if I'm going to be sat for three hours in the dark, literally and metaphorically. I had a bad Beckett experience once.
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Building Character From Personal Tragedy
My life changed forever on March 28, 1945. My dad, a naval aviator, was killed on that date in a military aircraft crash into the Chesapeake Bay off Oceana Naval Air Station, Virginia. It was two days before my fourth birthday. Donald E. Smith joined the U.S. Navy as a seaman, during the darkest days of the Depression in 1932. He told the recruiter that he wanted to join the navy to "learn a trade."
After serving in the fleet, Seaman Smith was accepted to the Naval Academy Prep School and then entered the Naval Academy in 1934. Upon graduation from Annapolis in 1938, Smith went on to flight school at Pensacola and flew numerous combat missions in the North Atlantic and South Pacific during World War II. He had risen to the rank of Lt. Commander and had been sent home from the war and assigned a Squadron Command at Oceana ten days before he was killed.
Like so many military families touched by the tragedy of war, my mom did her best to pull her life together. She brought my brother and me back to New Jersey where her parents owned a small farm near Trenton. My widowed mother worked hard as a department store clerk and cashier for an insurance company to support her young children with the aid of her parents. Tragedy promoted patriotism and my mother never let my brother and me forget that our dad was a hero, not only to his family, but his country.
What might have been a life of travel from duty station to duty station as part of a navy family would now become more predictable for me. I learned about hard, physical, farm labor, but I also learned about responsibility. My character, values and patriotism were molded by my mother and grandparents on that farm over the next decade.
I also learned about politics at an early age from my grandfather, who was a rock solid Republican. I learned so well that as an eleven year old, I bet my neighbor a chicken that General Eisenhower would defeat Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 election. Ike and I both won and I proudly claimed my chicken. My political career was off and running!
Navy Veteran Of Vietnam
I followed in my father's footsteps and joined the U.S. Naval Reserve during the Cuban Missile Crisis. After I graduated from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania in 1965 with a Political Science Degree in Government and History, I served on active duty with the Navy for two years. One of those years was aboard the USS NAVASOTA (AO-107) in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War. Prior to deployment, I married my college sweetheart, Mary Jo Hutchinson. After returning home from Vietnam, I taught school in California for a while and then we settled in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire in 1970.
Life in a small town was good. I taught American history and government and coached football and baseball at the high school level. In a few years I left teaching and purchased and managed a small real estate firm.
Mary Jo and I raised our three children in New Hampshire.
Reagan Ignites My Passion For Public Service
Living in the "Live Free or Die", conservative, state of New Hampshire with the "First in the Nation Primary" re-kindled my political interest.
I ran for local school board and won three times, serving as chairman for 2 terms. In 1976 a governor from the state of California decided to enter the New Hampshire Primary to challenge then President Gerald Ford. I remembered Ronald Reagan as that courageous conservative, who led California during our years living there after returning from Vietnam. I immediately became a volunteer and watched in awe, as he came within a few delegates of wresting the nomination from Ford at the 1976 Republican Convention.
I knew Reagan would be back in the fight in 1980 and it was his effort to "restore America" which motivated me to run for Congress in New Hampshire in 1980. Reagan became President of the United States that year, but it would take Bob Smith three attempts to finally be elected to the Congress in 1984, joining Reagan in his second term. I was excited to be part of the Reagan team in the fight to build up our national defense, enhance world security by challenging Soviet Communism around the globe, to cut taxes and to inspire us to face the challenges of the future with optimism.
United States Congressman, New Hampshire (1985-1990)
Service on Veterans Affairs Committee and Science and Technology Committee
I entered the Congress in 1985 thrilled to be a part of the "Reagan Revolution", but I soon realized that a freshman Republican congressman in a hopeless minority would have little hope of changing things. Then I met Newt Gingrich and became part of the Conservative Opportunity Society (COS). Judd Gregg (NH), Bob Walker (PA), Connie Mack (FL), Trent Lott (MS), Duncan Hunter (CA), Vin Weber (MN), Dan Burton (IN), Newt, myself and very few others held our meetings in a small room on Capitol Hill each week to devise a strategy to win back the House of Representatives. We wrote a book called "A House of ILL Repute" and fought for the next ten years, until victory was ours in 1994 with the Republican takeover of the House in the "Contract With America."
I left the House in 1990 when I was elected to the U. S. Senate from New Hampshire, but I was always proud of my involvement in the "cause" in the early years of my political career. We stood on principle and we won elections in both the House and the Senate. The highlights of my House and Senate career are listed below and further amplification on these issues may be found in other locations on the website.
United States Senator, New Hampshire, (1990-2003)
Service on the following Senate Committees:
- Environment and Public Works Committee, Chairman 1999-2001, Ranking Member 2001-2003
- Ethics Committee, Chairman (two years)Armed Services Committee, Member, 1991-2003
- Chairman Acquisition and Technology Subcommittee of Senate Armed Services Committee (Responsible for oversight and budget for all new military technology programs)
- Chairman Strategic Forces Subcommittee of Senate Armed Services Committee (Had direct oversight and budget responsibility for missile defense systems and offensive missile platforms such as submarines, aircraft and land launchers)
- Member Judiciary Committee (Participated in hearings for all federal judicial nominations)
- Voted for Justice Thomas and voted against Justices Ginsberg and Breyer
Awards and honors Highlights
- Airline Security Award from the Allied Pilots Association for supporting guns in the cockpits
- Golden Gavel Award for chairing the U.S. Senate for over 100 hours
- National Security Leadership Award for votes promoting a strong national defense
- National Taxpayers' Union Best Friend Award for votes saving taxpayer dollars
- Bill of Rights Defender of the Year Award presented by Gun Owners of America for defending the Second Amendment
- League of Private Property Voters for promoting and protecting private property rights
- Numerous awards from American Legion, Disabled Veterans and other veterans groups for work on POW/MIA accounting and overall support of veterans issues
- Nationally recognized by Humane Society of the United States and other groups for introducing and passing legislation for the prevention of animal abuse
- Ranked in the top 5 percent of the House and Senate as one of the most conservative members on social, economic and military issues
- Pro-Life Leader in the House and Senate for 18 years
Run For President In 1999-2000
In 1999 I entered the race for the 2000 Republican nomination for President of the United States. I campaigned extensively in the early primary and caucus states of New Hampshire, Iowa and Louisiana. Also in that race among others were Pat Buchanan, Gary Bauer and, of course, George W. Bush.
I picked up thousands of supporters and contributions along the trail, but as the months wore on, it became apparent that the Republican Primary voters wanted Bush. In the summer of 1999 I withdrew from the race and endorsed then Governor, George W. Bush of Texas.
Leaving The Republican Party
In my Senate duties I became increasingly frustrated with the Republican Party leaders and officials who were constantly refusing to fight some of the extreme liberal appointments of President Bill Clinton on key administration positions, especially liberal activist federal judges, such as Ruth Bader Ginsberg. I was one of only THREE senators to vote against putting her on the Supreme Court.
I simply could not understand why senators who claimed to be "conservative Republicans" would vote for Ginsberg. In addition Clinton was pushing his aggressive gun control agenda in the Congress and Republican leaders were content to let much of it pass, when we could have easily blocked it.
Furthermore, most Republicans left it to me, and a very few others, to fight the pro-life battles as many were afraid of the political consequences.
At this point I made a decision which would have a dramatic impact on my political career. I resigned from the Republican Party and became an Independent. I did not plan to make this a final move. My objective was to "shake up" Republicans. In my Senate floor speech (which is posted on my website), when I resigned from the party, I warned my colleagues and the entire Republican hierarchy, that, if you continue to place your politics above your principles, the American people will soon figure it out and banish you from power.
While an independent, I always supported the principles of the Republican Party. It is interesting to note that while the leadership often lost the support of such "Republicans" as Senators Jeffords, Snowe, Collins and Specter, my voting record was consistently over 98% in support of Republican Party principles.
Unfortunately, I was proven correct regarding the voter's reaction. Although President Bush won two close elections, the Republicans in Congress made the same mistakes their Democrat predecessors made. They had scandals, arrogance prevailed, debt and spending rose, government grew larger, we did nothing to secure our borders and the Rove strategy of division and special interest politics failed miserably, causing us to lose the House and Senate and finally the White House in 2008.
Returning To The Republican Party
After four months, I felt that I had made my point and I informed Senator Lott that I felt that I could fight for the principles of the Republican Party more effectively from within rather than outside the party. Sadly, just days after informing leadership of my decision to return, Senator John Chafee passed away suddenly. Republican party leaders, to their credit, decided to allow me to keep my seniority on all committees and I was selected Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee.
I then "plunged" into my Senate work and the election of George W. Bush as President. I campaigned extensively and raised money for him in New Hampshire where he won a very close election. As we turned the page into 2001, I was beginning to "gear up" for my re-election campaign in 2002. However, the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington put my campaign on hold in September of 2001 as, like the rest of America, I was focused on responding to the aftermath of that terrible and tragic attack on our nation's homeland.
My 2002 Republican Senate Primary
I knew that I would have a tough general election opponent in Democrat Governor Jeanne Shaheen. Since the Republicans accepted me back into their Senate ranks and my active support for the election of President Bush, I was confident that my loyalty would be repaid with the full support of President Bush and the Republican Party establishment in my re-election. I was wrong.
Just a couple of weeks after the 9/11 attacks, Congressman John Sununu announced he was going to run in against me in the Republican primary election in 2002. President Bush and I had a good relationship even though we were opponents in the 2000 Presidential primary. As stated earlier, I had supported him and raised money for him in the 2000 general election for President. In addition I had nearly a 100 percent record of support in nearly 18 years in the House and Senate in support of the core conservative issues of our party.
I felt very comfortable asking Karl Rove, the President's Deputy Chief of Staff and top political operative, for an endorsement in the primary. A few days later he informed me that "the President would in fact endorse my re-election in the primary, that he would do so publicly and help me to raise money." I relayed my gratitude to the President. Karl Rove then came to NH and in direct response to a reporter's public question stated "that President Bush would endorse Senator Smith as soon as the filing period had ended." After my opponent subsequently filed against me and I inquired about the President's endorsement I was tersely informed "It is not going to happen."
This signal to the establishment of the state and national Republican Party to work against me or withhold support was the major reason I lost the primary. When people ask me why this happened, I can only guess that they thought my opponent's poll numbers against then-Governor Shaheen were better than mine and they did not want to lose the seat.
I believed then and believe now that "winning is not winning", if you sacrifice loyalty and principles in the process. My frustration and anger and what I perceived to be a betrayal caused me to send a "letter of endorsement" to John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential election race. It was a stupid mistake. I do not support John Kerry on any significant issues. I did something in anger and I apologize for it. If some want to hold this against me, I fully understand.
In any case, that is the past and the future is what matters. I do not hold any grudges. As Willie Nelson says in one of his songs,
"I find it easy to forgive, but forgetting seems to take the longest time."
This election is about rising to the challenges of the future not dwelling on the past. I am running for US Senate again because I believe that I have the qualifications and leadership qualities to meet those critical challenges and lead our nation forward.
The 2002 primary was a bitter election battle and a devastating personal loss for Mary Jo and me. However we still maintained our New Hampshire home on Lake Winnipesaukee which was then and is now our family compound. After watching with dismay these past several years as Republicans seem to have lost their way and then seeing the results of the 2008 and 2012 elections, I could no longer stand on the sidelines and watch. I need to get back into the arena. I believe that my background as a former U.S. Senator is a unique opportunity for New Hampshire to benefit from my experience and leadership on the major issues facing our nation and our state today.
That is why I am running again for the U.S. Senate. Among other issues, I intend to focus on repealing Obama Care, laying out a plan to balance our budget and reduce the nation's debt, replacing the current tax code with a fairer less complicated system, reducing the size of government, enhancing our national security, providing assistance for veterans and our troops and ending illegal immigration.
While others will tell you what they will do, I invite you to review my website and see what I have done. New Hampshire and our nation needs more than anything else at this moment in history, a passionate, principled, no-nonsense, proven conservative leader, not another politician. Check out my record and I hope you will agree that I can, have and will always put principle above politics as your United States Senator. I am asking you to join me in the spirit of Ronald Reagan and rise to the challenges we face in a positive campaign. We are Americans. We can meet any challenge as we defend our freedoms and values!
I look forward to meeting you on the campaign trail. I would be honored to have your support! Thank you.
- Senator Bob Smith