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Media Mentions
Aug. 27, 2014
Belly gets bigger with 7-Eleven – Crain's Chicago Business
Aug. 12, 2014
BuzzFeed's Valuation Eclipsing Tribune Validates Mixed-Bag Media – Bloomberg
Aug. 11, 2014
WTTV Move Shows CBS Testing The Market – TV News Check
Aug. 10, 2014
Internet radio giant Pandora seeks local advertising revenue - Chicago Tribune
Would You Tweet for These Flip-Flops? – Adweek
Aug. 9, 2014
Dawn of the Planet of the Smartphones - Business 2 Community
Aug. 7, 2014
Is Local TV Digital Growing Too Slowly? – MediaPost Communications
Social Ad Spend To Pass $11 Billion By 2017 – MediaPost Communications
For Retailers, Being Social is Harder Than It Looks – Sourcing Journal Online (subscription)
Aug. 6, 2014
Viacom 3Q Profit Falls as Film Revenue Declines – Fox Business
Aug. 5, 2014
'Native' growth driving online ad spending – Business News Americas
Aug. 4, 2014
Mobile Local Apps: To Bundle or Not to Bundle – Street Fight
July 30, 2014
EW Scripps, Journal Merging Broadcast Ops – TV News Check
Station Transaction Activity Surges in 2014 – Radio World
Is this the next SaaS unicorn? Invoca grows 1200% in 3 years by solving Salesforce's biggest blind spot – PandoDaily
July 29, 2014
Station Trading Roundup: 2 Deals, $128M – TV News Check
July 24, 2014
LinkedIn's Direct Sponsored Content Allows Brands To Personalize Messages – MediaPost Communications
3 Ways Amazon and Apple Are Simplifying Tech in a New, Old Way – Wall St. Cheat Sheet
Facebook Improves Mobile Ad Targeting To Specific Devices – MediaPost Communications
Pressdemocrat.com named top community website – Santa Rosa Press Democrat
July 23, 2014
Geomarketing: It's Where It's At Today – CMO
The voice renaissance: Why Amazon and Apple are returning to the roots of mobile – VentureBeat
July 21, 2014
How Mobile Payments Are Changing The Game For Service Businesses – Forbes
July 18, 2014
Openings and New Hires at Main Street Hub, Yext, PlaceIQ, and CallFire – Street Fight
July 17, 2104
7 reasons that YouTube matters for marketing – Business Journal
July 16, 2014
The 5 Things You Must Know to Leverage the Future of Digital Marketing – Entrepreneur
July 15, 2014
FSIs Still Holding Strong For Newspapers – NetNewsCheck.com
July 14, 2014
Google 'Moat' Against Competition Appeals, Says FBR; Less Case for Yahoo! – Barron's (blog)
Radio's Most Powerful Headed To Radio Show – Radio Ink
The Key To Unlocking Value For Social Media Companies – ETF Daily News
How Do Social Media Companies Make Money? – Money Morning
Media startup LSN Mobile raises $1M from Fulcrum Equity Partners – Atlanta Business Chronicle (blog)
How LivingSocial collects data on its customers and plans to turn it into profit – Washington Post
July 10, 2014
Pew: 14% of Stations Have Full-Time Statehouse Reporters – Broadcasting & Cable
America's Shifting Statehouse Press – The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism
Yodle goes public to boost online ad, marketing offerings for local businesses – Tech Times
July 9, 2014
Local-Focused Cloud Marketing Service Yodle Files for IPO – Web Host Industry Review
July 8, 2014
Yodle Files for IPO; Faces Hurdles in Bid to Conquer $28B Digital Local Ad Market – Fox Business
Morris Steps up as Reese Steps Aside – Radio Ink
July 4, 2014
Get a Leg Up On Local Search with Call Tracking – Business 2 Community
July 3, 2014
Marketing Day: EPIC Files Facebook Complaint, Google's Android Wear Apps, Q&A With Denny's Social Media Lead – Marketing Land
SearchCap: Google Polish Penalties, AdWords Disallows Porn & Matt Cutts Takes Leave – Search Engine Land
July 2, 2014
Twitter Names Noto CFO, Hopes For Better Wall Street Relationship – MediaPost Communications
July 1, 2014
Station Trading Roundup: 4 Deals, $15000 – TV News Check
June 30, 2014
Twitter Globally Expands Mobile App Promo Ads, Enhances Targeting – MediaPost Communications
Local's Sleeping Giants; A Tale of Two Keynotes – Street Fight
June 29, 2014
Bidstalk – Demystifying Mobile RTB – VC Circle
June 28, 2014
Smartphones Are Transforming the Way Marketers Generate and Manage Leads – Business 2 Community
June 26, 2014
Study: Brand Likes Up 30% On Facebook – MediaPost Communications
June 25, 2014
How to Keep a Customer for Life – CIO Insight
Search And Call Measurement: An Advanced Placement Class – MediaPost Communications
Hoffman: Cox-Fox Swap 'Very Fair Deal' – Broadcasting & Cable
June 24, 2014
Like My Facebook Page, Buy My Product? Well, No – TIME
Mobile Marketers Know Who You Are and Where You've Been – Adweek
June 23, 2014
Beyond Siri – MediaPost Communications
June 21, 2014
SIM Partners Gets $8M in Funding – Insurance News Net
June 20, 2014
Native Ad Disclosures Come To The Forefront, Again, In ASA Ruling Against Outbrain – Marketing Land
Foursquare Boasts National Brands - What About SMBs? – MediaPost Communications
BIA/Kelsey analyst: Mine geofence data to align mobile with user objectives – Mobile Commerce Daily
June 19, 2014
Is Google Glass The Next Big Money Maker? – NASDAQ
Twitter To Buy Snappy TV To Drive TV Viewership – MediaPost Communications
June 18, 2014
What's Pandora Stock Worth? – Motley Fool
Clear Channel Launches AuDiO For Political Ads – MediaPost Communications
Leesburg Libertarian Enters 10th Congressional Race – Leesburg Today
SIM Partners Raises $8M to Help Multi-Location Brands Drive Customer Acquisition With Velocity – VentureBeat
June 17, 2014
Station Trading Roundup: 5 Deals, $4.6M – TV News Check
SIM Partners lands $8 million in venture funding – Crain's Chicago Business (blog)
June 10, 2014
Ifbyphone, hiring fast, doubles HQ space in West Loop – Crain's Chicago Business
June 6, 2014
Station Rev Status: Spot OK, Retrans Crucial – TVNewsCheck
Phone Calls from Mobile Search to Hit 73 Billion in 2018 – Mobile Marketing Watch
Phone Calls From Mobile Search To Hit 73 Billion In 2018 – CMO.com
Top 5 Local Ad Stats of the Week: National Brands – Local Search Insider
Reddit makes a big pitch to small businesses – Digiday
June 5, 2014
Russian video ad company finds a home in NYC – New York Business Journal
Reports: Mobile pushing calls to SMBs, ticket sales – BizReport
Big data & Analytics: Mojave assesses app risks for BYOD – RCR Wireless
How Your PPC Program Can Help You Retain Customers – SEMPO
June 4, 2014
4 tools and 5 tips for making the most of native advertising – VentureBeat
June 3, 2014
Mobile Helps National Brands Master Local Marketing – CMSWire
Convergence Drives Gains at Cox Dayton – NetNewsCheck.com
Station Trading Roundup: 7 Deals, $355,000 – TVNewsCheck
Should You Take Your Marketing Mobile? – IT Best of Breed
June 2, 2014
30 Days Into Foursquare's Great Schism: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Street Fight
May 29, 2014
More Than Half Of Mobile Ad Dollars Will Be Location-Based By 2018 – GeoMarketing
May 28, 2014
Verve Mobile Launches White-Label Mobile Offers – MediaPost Communications
5 effective Facebook ad tools for small businesses – Inside Facebook
Google comes to Norwalk in pitch to small business – The Advocate
How to Provide World-Class Customer Service – Baseline
New Listing Services Will Help Local Data Go Digital – Street Fight
Small businesses overlook the power of local search – MarketWatch
May 27, 2014
Why local-mobile will capture more ad dollars – BizReport
Station Trading Roundup: 1 Deal, $150000 – TV News Check
Five ways technology can help agencies prove their worth – CampaignLive
May 25, 2014
CustomInk goes from S to XXL – The Washington Post
May 24, 2014
Demystifying Online Marketing For Local Business Owners – Huffington Post
May 23, 2014
Strata Survey Looks At Agency Ad Trends – WebProNews
Big Deals = Big Changes In Station Groups – TV News Check
May 21, 2014
Local Mobile Search in US Still Outpacing Other Major Global Markets – Street Fight
Social mobile ads spike – brand-e.biz
May 20, 2014
Social media marketing revenues in the United States predicted to reach $15 billion – QR Code Press
May 19, 2014
Facebook Reportedly Makes $500 Million Ad Deal – WebProNews
Social Ad Revenues to Hit $15 Billion by 2018 [Study] – ClickZ
May 18, 2014
Social media drives US ad revenue – Warc
May 16, 2014
Social media ad spending will hit $15 billion by 2018 – Internet Retailer
U.S. Social Media Ad Revenues to Hit $15 Billion by 2018 – Mobile Marketing Watch
#SocialSkim: Most Engaging Topics on Twitter and Facebook, Platform Updates, Scaling Content – MarketingProfs
Social-mobile ad revenues to outstrip desktop by 2018 – BizReport
May 15, 2014
Social Ad Revenues to Reach $15 Billion by 2018 – Direct Marketing News
U.S. Social Ad Revenue To Hit $15B By 2018 – NetNewsCheck
BIA/Kelsey: US Social Ad Revenues To Hit $15B In 2018 – WebProNews
US Social Media Ad Revenues Projected to Hit $15B by 2018 – Radio World
Report: US Social Media Advertising Revenues to Reach $15B by 2018 – FMQB
Social Media Ad Revs To Hit $15B By 2018 – TVNewsCheck
Social Media Ad Revs Forecast To Hit $15B By 2018 – CMO
Report: Mobile Will Account for Half of Social Advertising Revenue by 2017 – Street Fight
Mobile social helps drive unprecedented jump in social media ad revenues: report – Mobile Marketer
BIA/Kelsey: US social media ad revenues to reach $15B by 2018 – RBR.com / TVBR.com
U.S. Social Media Ad Revs to Reach $15B by 2018 – Radio Online News
BIA/Kelsey Sees Social Media Ad Revenues Growing 24% Through 2018 – AllAccess.com
Forecast: SocMedia Ad Revs to Skyrocket – BizReport
Social Media Ad Revs Forecast To Hit $15B by 2018 – MediaPost
Composition of Social Ad Revenues Set for Big Changes – MarketingCharts
May 14, 2014
Why Facebook and Twitter are courting small businesses – Digiday
Why following your hometown sports hero could lead to digital advertising dollars – INMA's Innovative Advertising Solutions Blog
Spotzot Powers Groupon Coupons – ClickZ
Small U.S. businesses failing to optimize websites – SmallBizAdvisor
Quartet of Senators Warn Against Limiting Auction Bidders – Broadcasting & Cable
May 13, 2014
Existing Customers Spend 2/3 More, Cost 10 Times Less – MediaPost
3 Mobile Marketing Musts for Brick-and-Mortar Retailers – Street Fight
May 12, 2014
Millennial Media plans to swing for singles and doubles instead of home runs – Baltimore Business Journal
National Advertisers Forecast To Spend More On Local Media Than Local Marketers – MediaPost Communications
So You Want to Own Your Own San Angelo Radio Station? – San Angelo LIVE!
May 9, 2014
IBiquity Touts Auto Integration – Radio World
May 8, 2014
BIA/Kelsey Finds National Advertisers Playing Bigger Role In Local Markets – All Access Music Group
May 7, 2014
A Checklist to Get Your Customer-Loyalty Program Off the Ground – Entrepreneur
May 6, 2014
More Evidence that Dealers Continue Advertising Using Traditional Channels – Dealer Marketing Magazine
May 5, 2014
Marketing Shifting from Acquisition to Engagement. – 4Hoteliers
Peeling Back Local Paid-Search Forecasts To Analyze What Goes Into the Numbers – MediaPost Communications
Facebook's Path to Dominating Mobile (Local TBD) – Street Fight
May 1, 2014
Is BuzzFeed Worth $1 Billion? – Adweek
April 29, 2014
Station Trading Roundup: 1 Deal, $33 Million – TV News Check
Back from nearly dying, Yellow Media has seen shares surge by 150% – CanadianBusiness
April 28, 2014
Street Fight Daily: LivingSocial Slips Further, Consumers Balk on Mobile Wallets – Street Fight
Local Media Ads Expected To Pass $158B By 2018 – MediaPost
Boosting Customer Loyalty with Big Data – Fox Business
GOLOCAL Finalists AAA – Frequency
Local Media Ad Growth Forecast Revised Up – NetNewsCheck.com
Digital Services Hyper-Competitive, Worth It – NetNewsCheck.com
Local Media Revs to push $158b – BizReport
Radio's Revenue Share to Decrease Over Time. – Radio Ink
Local Ad Revenue to Hit $158 Billion by 2018 – Radio Ink
Report: Local Media Ad Revs Will Climb to $158.6B By 2018 – Street Fight
BIA/Kelsey Expects U.S. Local Media Ad Revenues To Grow From $133.2B In 2013 To $158.6B In 2018 – AllAccess.com
BIA/Kelsey: U.S. Local Media Ad Revenues To Reach $158.6B In 2018 – FMQB
Growing ad pie will offset smaller radio share, forecaster says – Inside Radio
Local media ad revenues to grow to $159 billion in 2018 – RBR.com/TVBR.com
April 27, 2014
Social networking advertising revenue doubled in 2016 – Bubble News
April 26, 2014
Boosting Customer Loyalty with Big Data – BusinessNewsDaily
April 25, 2014
Local TV Ads Forecast To Rise 8% In 2014 – MediaPost Communications
Connectivity Closes $6.35M Funding, Helps Businesses Monitor Social Media – MediaPost Communications
Twitter rolls out new profile pages, & e-marketing ... – Mississippi Business Journal
Why Small Businesses Should Be Utilizing Customer-Loyalty Programs – Entrepreneur
April 24, 2014
BIA: Local TV Revenue to Hit $20 Billion – Radio Ink
Local TV Ad Revenue Expected to Grow 8% – Broadcasting & Cable
BIA/Kelsey: Local Television Revenue Expected to Exceed $20 ... – TV Technology
Local TV Revenue Set To Top $20B This Year – TV News Check
Connectivity Raises $6 Million to Make Marketing Automation Work ... – Street Fight
Street Fight Daily: Reddit Targets Locations, Facebook's Billion ... – Street Fight
April 23, 2014
The Mobile Future Demands Marketers Get Back to Basics – Business 2 Community
Station Trading Roundup: 3 Deals, $1.6M – TV News Check
Is Facebook's Data Good Enough For Location-Targeted Ads? – AdExchanger
April 21, 2014
SMEs shifting from acquisition to engagement – Thewisemarketer.com (subscription)
Local TV Stations Face Structural Challenges to Revenue Model – Techzone360
April 18, 2014
The Internet Radio Revolution Has Arrived – Music Indistry News Network
Ask the Right Questions When Considering Call Tracking ... – Business 2 Community
April 17, 2014
BIA/Kelsey Says Advertisers Shifting to Internet Radio – Radio World
Top 3 Tips For Optimizing Social Advertising On Facebook – Business 2 Community
[Data] Customer Retention Strategies Highest Priority for Brands in ... – The Content Standard
Recent Studies Show Mobile's Broadening Reach – Street Fight
April 16, 2014
Internet Radio Changing Consumer Habits – NetNewsCheck.com
BIA/Kelsey: Net Radio Changing Listening Habits – All Access Music Group
Nine interesting US digital marketing stats we saw this week – Econsultancy
Mobile marketing revenues in the U.S. break new records – Mobile Commerce Press
April 15, 2014
Don't Overlook the Mobile Searcher – CRM Buyer
AOL to Roboticize Vid Content Selection | Adwords Changes Afoot ... – Marketing Vox News
Don't Count Out Email Newsletters – Adweek
April 14, 2014
Report projects rapid growth in mobile ad revs – Newspapers and Technology
The Case for Cable – Fast Company
April 13, 2014
Times of San Diego Read by 23,000 Individuals in 1st Month – Times of San Diego
April 11, 2014
U.S. Mobile Local Ad Revenues to Reach Record Heights – Mobile Marketing Watch
Consumer Attitudes to Local Search Reveal Problems and Opportunities for Brands – MarketingCharts
USA Mobile Local Ad Revenues to Reach $4.5 Billion in 2014 – Cellular News
Mobile Local Ad Revenue Expected To Triple Over Next Five Years – WebProNews
April 10, 2014
Location-Based Mobile Ads To Reach $4.5 Billion this Year – MediaPost
BIA/Kelsey Forecasts U.S. Mobile Local Ad Revenue to Triple in Next 5 Years – Media Sales Today
Mobile Local Ad Revs to Reach 44.5 Billion in 2014 – Radio-Online.com
In a Mobile World, Marketers Shouldn't Underestimate the Importance of Call Tracking – Business2Community
BIA/Kelsey Predicts Continued Mobile Growth – FMQB
Small Businesses Focused on Existing Customers in 2014 – MarketingProfs
Growth Seen In Mobile, Location-based Ads – NetNewsCheck
Local mobile ad spend increasing with inventory growth: report – Mobile Marketer
Mobile Ad Revenues Growing Faster Than Previously Expected – Street Fight
Big Gains Forecast for Location-Targeted Mobile Ad Spend – MarketingCharts
Forecast: Local Mobile to surpass $4 billion mark this year – BizReport
More Advertising Money Moving to Mobile – Radio Ink
BIA/Kelsey Forecasts U.S. Mobile Local Ad Revenues To Reach $4.5 Billion in 2014 – AllAccess.com
BIA/Kelsey: 2014 US mobile local ad revenues hit $4.5 billion – RBR-TVBR
Local mobile forecast to hit $4.5 billion this year – Inside Radio
April 9, 2014
Small Business Owners Shift Investment From Customer Acquisition to Customer Engagement – Media Sales Today
April 8, 2014
Payment Technology: If it Ain't Broke…Start an Entire Industry to Fix it – Street Fight
Report: "Phone Calls Are The New Click" – FMQB
Native Advertising Still Befuddles Marketers – MarketingLand
Station Trading Roundup: 3 Deals, $65,200 – TVNewsCheck
April 7, 2014
Twitter Buys android Lock Screen App 'Cover' – MediaPost
April 6, 2014
2014 "Tipping Point" Year at NAB – Radio Ink
April 5, 2014
7 Commandments of Monetizing Mobile Search – Chief Marketer
April 4, 2014
Wall Street Eats Up GrubHub In Market Opening – MediaPost
GrubHub IPO: Stock surges in debut – Crain's Chicago Business
Investors hunger for GrubHub – Marketplace
April 3, 2014
Baselworld 2014 Goes Native—With Social Media – Expo
SMBs Shift Investment from Customer Acquisition to Customer Engagement, BIA/Kelsey Finds – CRM Magazine
The 9 Best Ways to Improve Google Paid Search ROI – Business2Community
April 2, 2014
How Small Businesses Find Profit In Loyal Customers – MediaPost
New Report Finds Small Businesses Shifting to Customer Engagement – Examiner.com
April 1, 2014
Radio's top biller is again all-news WTOP – Inside Radio
How Mobile May Flip The Money Switch – NetNewsCheck
March 29, 2014
This Partnership Will Help Yelp Inc Compete With Facebook Inc and Google Inc – The Motley Fool
March 26, 2014
Revenue slips, but WTOP remains nation's top biller – Washington Business Journal
WTOP Top Biller For Fourth Consecutive Year; Overall Industry Revs Remain Steady At $14.8B In 2013, Finds BIA/Kelsey – All Access Music Group
News WTOP/Washington, D.C. Once Again #1 Billing Station – FMQB
Report: WTOP Was Radio's Top Earner in 2013 – NetNewsCheck
2013 radio revenues steady at $14.8 billion – Radio & Television Business Report
(AUDIO) What About The 2013 BIA Numbers? – Radio INK
2013's Top Billing Radio Stations In Chicago, US Revealed – Chicagoland Radio & Media
WBBM-AM tops revenue list for Chicago radio – Chicago Tribune
BIA/Kelsey: WTOP Leads Radio Station Revenues for Fourth Consecutive Year – Radio Magazine
Z100 dials in with advertisers to tune of $51 million in 2013 – NY Daily News
WTOP Leads Radio Station Revenues for Fourth Consecutive Year; Overall Industry Revenues Remain Steady at $14.8 Billion in 2013, According to BIA/Kelsey – Enhanced News Online
All-news WBBM-AM among nation's top revenue-generating stations – Chicago Business Journal
March 25, 2014
WTOP Does It Again – Radio INK
March 23, 2014
Chicago startup pitches mobile ads to CTA passengers – Chicago Tribune
March 15, 2014
6 Must-Attend Local Advertising and Marketing Conferences in 2014 – Search Engine Journal
March 12, 2014
Brands Favor Social Media For Local Promotions – MediaPost Social Media & Marketing Daily
Feb. 25, 2014
BIA/Kelsey: Hispanics Top Digital Shoppers – NetNewsCheck
Growing Hispanic Population Requires Brands To Rethink Search, Social Marketing – MediaPost Communications
Hispanic Consumers Love Digital – Radio Ink
Study: Hispanics Outpace Others in Social and Mobile Local Shopping Info – TV Technology
Hispanics Lead Stats In Social Media Usage – MediaPost Communications
Study Finds Local Broadcasting Generates $1.24 Trillion in Economic Activity Annually – FierceCable
Study: Radio's Economic Impact Continues to Grow – FMQB
Study: Hispanics Outpace Others in Social and Mobile Local Shopping Info – Television Broadcast
Hispanic consumers more likely to use mobile for local shopping sources – Chain Store Age
Hispanic Consumers Adopting Mobile Media at Record Pace – Radio Online
Feb. 24, 2014
Study: Local Broadcasting Generates $1.24 Trillion Annually – Television Broadcast
Study: Radio's Economic Impact Continues to Grow – FMQB
An Anchor Picture is Worth a Thousand Words – Broadcasting & Cable
Report: Broadcasters Impact Economy In Big Way – Radio Ink
Feb. 20, 2014
BIA/Kelsey Promotes Fratrik to SVP – Radio World
At Media Cos., Stakes Rise For Digital Sales – NetNewsCheck.com
Feb. 19, 2014
Mark Fratrik Moves Up At BIA/Kelsey – Radio Ink
BIA/Kelsey Promotes Fratrik to SVP – TV Technology
BIA/Kelsey Promotes Fratrik to SVP – TV Technology
BIA/Kelsey Ups Mark Fratrik To SVP – All Access Music Group
BIA/Kelsey Promotes Fratrik To SVP – NetNewsCheck.com
BIA/Kelsey Promotes Fratrik to SVP – Television Broadcast
Mark Fratrik Promoted to Senior VP at BIA/Kelsey – Radio Online
Feb. 10, 2014
Groupon Unveils Self-Service Tool to Draw Merchants to Deal Site – Bloomberg Technology
Feb. 3, 2014
Report projects near-term mobile ad growth – News & Tech
Jan. 30, 2014
Undervalued IZEA Could Generate Twice Its Market Capitalization In Revenues Next Year – Small Cap Network
Jan. 29, 2014
xAd doubles revenue in 2013, announces global expansion for 2014 – Inside Mobile Apps
Jan. 28, 2014
XAd More Than Doubles Revenue In 2013, Ends The Year On a $65M Run Rate – Adotas
Jan. 27, 2014
Station Trading Roundup: 2 Deals, $90,000 – TVNewsCheck
Super Bowl forecast in Charlotte: 1.2 million to 1.3 million viewers – Charlotte Business Journal
Small Businesses to Further Embrace Social Media in 2014 – eWeek
Here's Why Native Ads On Pinterest, Instagram, And Snapchat Could Be Huge Moneymakers – Business Insider
Jan. 26, 2014
D.C. area appointments for Jan. 27 – The Washington Post
Jan. 23, 2014
YP CMO Checchi Shares Local Mobile Plans For 2014 – MediaPost
Jan. 21, 2013
Nearly 300 TV Stations Sold In 2013 – TVNewsCheck
Tribune Co.'s Local TV acquisition deal biggest of busy 2013 – Chicago Business Journal
TV Station Sales Doubled in 2013 – TVTechnology
5 Questions To Ask Yourself About Building Your Brand's Online Presence – Huffington Post
Mcommerce is greatly driven by small and medium sized businesses – Mobile Commerce Press
Study: $8 Billion in Station Sales in '13 – Broadcasting & Cable
Jan. 20, 2014
2014: Tipping point for mobile – BizReport
SHADES OF '99: New Data Show The Tech Boom Is Looking More And More Like A Bubble – Business Insider
Jan. 17, 2014
BIA/Kelsey: '2013 Was A Slow Year For Station Sales' – AllAccess.com
Report: Radio Sales in 2013 Show Slight Industry Change – FMQB
Jan. 16, 2013
There Were Few Large Radio Transactions in '13 – Radio World
Attribution To Push Mobi Ads to $11B Market – NetNewsCheck
New Report by BIA/Kelsey Focuses on Measuring Mobile Advertising's Effectiveness – FMQB
Net neutrality overturn could dampen mobile Web innovation – Mobile Marketer
Jan. 15, 2014
DoApp Launches Self-Serve Mobile Ad Network For Apps – MediaPost
Jan. 14, 2013
The Real World Is on the Verge of Its Own Data Revolution – Street Fight
Station Trading Roundup: 1 Deal, $1.175M – TVNewsCheck
Automated Call Marketing Firm Invoca Secures $20 Million – MediaPost
Jan. 13, 2014
Phone Leads for Local Businesses: The Unsexy Cousin of the Click – Street Fight
Why advertisers and publishers should take native ads seriously in 2014 – Luxury Daily
Jan. 12, 2014
More than Half of Social Media Ads Spending will go to Native In-Stream Ads – SocialBarrel.com
Jan. 11, 2014
Social Ad Spend In The U.S. To Reach $11 Billion By 20147! – DazeInfo
Jan. 7, 2014
A Broadcaster's Guide To Washington Issues – TVNewsCheck
Jan. 6, 2014
YP Acquires Sense Networks, Eyes Mobile Ad Expansion – MediaPost
What's Happening In Washington – TVNewsCheck
Jan. 5, 2014
Washington area appointments for Jan. 6 – The Washington Post
Jan. 2, 2014
Station Trading Roundup: 3 Deals, $1.4M – TVNewsCheck
Redwood Television to Buy KVIQ Eureka – Broadcasting & Cable
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Rob Duke's curator insight, August 21, 11:06 AM
A misleading headline. Dutta might want to rethink the way he explains this concept. While I agree, it's a simple request to comply on the scene and then go to the station and complain; the other side also has a legitimate complaint that nothing changes with that approach (as we saw under Jim Crow through the civil rights era and even until today); and, furthermore, it's a slippery slope to merely comply because the government tells you to do so. Is there a solution? Officers have some reasonable expectation to safety and citizens have a reasonable expectation to have an authentic way to challenge police actions. Without proof of the circumstances, it becomes a case of dueling perceptions. Did the officer have the requisite alchemy of sometimes nebulous ingredients sufficient to satisfy the demands of reasonable suspicion and/or probable cause? It depends on the circumstances, time, place, manner of the activity, even the training and experience of the officer factors in. Frankly, no citizen is ever going to have all this info (or be qualified to evaluate), nor is it reasonable for us to ask officers to delay officer safety concerns (e.g. pat down searches for weapons, warrant checks, etc.) long enough to satisfy a citizen that a stop is based upon legitimate probable cause and not racial profiling--nor could we expect there to be agreement under the stress and emotion of the real-time detention. Given these circumstances, I propose one not-so-novel solution; and one solution not generally under discussion. First the not-so-novel solution: 1. Improve evidence gathering and storage through the use of recording devices: belt recorders, livescribe pens, body cameras (where available), vehicle cameras. Furthermore, a system to routinize the collection and preservation of this evidence needs to be designed, built and funded, so that all agencies/communities, regardless of fiscal resources, can be protected equally. Now, for the novel solution: 2. Engage in a three-part approach to dispute resolution and restoration: Part I: enlist experts (each community has candidates possessing skills or who can be trained) familiar with community visioning and team building to create dialogue and design systems to begin removing saddle burrs, extracting thorns, dislodging the wedges of discontent in communities. These issues include not just problems associated with what Muir calls the "Power of the Sword"--though coercive power is certainly the most visible police problem--but we must also pay particular attention to the "Power of the Purse", the under-investment in communities that sustains the need and existence of underground economies based upon contraband and vice, and, the "Power of the Word", that enables all sorts of verbal and political dirty dealings (rent-seeking behaviors) to mask inequities and impotent attempts to remedy the myriad of problems that lie at the root of any major community disgruntlement. We're foolish to think that, Ferguson, Los Angeles, Chicago, etc. are experiencing unrest only because the cops are engaging in racial profiling. Dispute Resolution only works if we blast the problem with sunshine so that all problems are addressed on something resembling equal footing, whether these be problems of the sword, the word, or the purse. Part II: capacity must be built so that everyone has access to Dispute Resolution systems. This means that we need to find funding for system design and mediation centers that can resolve problems in real time--not the years civil and criminal courts often need to process cases (though courts are, of course, still needed for serious cases and as the appellate process for more informal programs of dispute resolution). We can't expect ADR to work if we don't design, implement, fund, evaluate, tweek, and perform expert analysis to improve theoretical understandings of what works and what doesn't. Part III: community leaders, including the cops, must be trained in Dispute System Design and Alternative Dispute Resolution techniques. It's not enough to find a vision and restore goodwill (Part I), nor develop a plan to capture the promise of good intentions as concrete goods to be shared by all (Part II), we must also teach people, encourage them, and provide time, public spaces, private meeting spaces, and other resources to actually embrace the concept of restoring their communities through dispute resolution.
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One of the first actions taken by the new administration was adopting a branding campaign. Cordova's new logo and slogan can now be seen on several city and police vehicles as well as all official paperwork.
Most visibly, the brand is displayed on a welcome sign that was recently installed on the Cordova-Parrish Highway, one of the main gateways to the city.
"We're really trying to symbolize a unified front because every one of us working together are going to make Cordova what it's going to be tomorrow and for years in the future," Gilbert said.
The branding campaign was designed free of charge last summer by students from Auburn University who created concepts for several rebuilding projects.
On their own initiative, one of the groups also pitched the idea of a logo and slogan that could be used by local officials while marketing the city to potential partners.
Gilbert was impressed with the imagery of the bottom half of the city's name being hidden by the phrase "Building back better, safer, greener."
"It's like Cordova is growing up out of those words," he said. "I can see that branding campaign being phased out in 10 years because we won't be building back anymore. We will be built back. We will be better. We will be safer. We will be greener."
Gilbert added that the "greener" part of the slogan has caused a minor stir among some residents.
Officials have not committed to making Cordova a "green city" as the council of Greensburg, Kansas did after 95 percent of that city was destroyed by an EF5 tornado in 2007.
However, Gilbert said sustainability will be considered in the upcoming rebuilding effort.
"Greener is in essence smarter, building more intelligently and efficiently," Gilbert said.
Although the branding campaign has been rolling out for several months now, its official debut was last week when the new sign was installed less than a mile from one of the interstate exits to the city.
It replaced a grouping of dented, rusty signs that have concerned Gilbert from his first days in office. He wants to provide a different first impression to the many professionals who are coming to the city to assist with the rebuilding effort.
"We want them to think, 'These people have bought in. They care about their image. They're moving foward, and I want to be a part of that.' I think something as simple as a sign can capture that," Gilbert said.
Gilbert also hopes to inspire residents to take responsibility for the things they can control, such as their own civic pride, while they continue to wait on matters that are out of their hands, such as downtown demolition, to be resolved.
"Rather than wallow, we can be involved and get all these little things going in the right direction. As long as they're in my control, I intend to make Cordova from the most miniscule detail to the very largest building the best that it possibly can be," Gilbert said.


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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
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White privilege, lived.
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The poster for "Emperor" shows Tommy Lee Jones as Gen. Douglas MacArthur in gigantic silhouette, his corncob pipe nearly the same height as the American man and Japanese woman embracing at the bottom of the frame, deep in the embrace of what appears to be Forbidden Wartime Movie Love.
Only the title tells us this won't be your standard issue World War II movie.
In fact, save for flashbacks, "Emperor" is set in the immediate aftermath of the war. The embers are still burning through much of Japan, and the nation is on its knees, with the defeated Emperor Hirohito behind palace doors while MacArthur and his team debate his fate.
Indeed, this big-picture tale occasionally pauses for a star-crossed romance about an American college student turned soldier and the Japanese woman he continues to love even after their countries are at war. But, as is the case with most of the elements in "Emperor," the cliches are relatively few and spaced apart, and the tearjerking and profound moments are authentic and well-earned.
Matthew Fox's thin voice and chiseled looks make him seem more like a veteran of campus life than the worst war the world has ever known, but he nonetheless gives a solid performance as Gen. Bonner Fellers, who's given the task of overseeing one of the most crucial post-war American military investigations.
In a mere 10 days, Fellers must determine if Emperor Hirohito should be arrested and tried for instigating the war against the States and overseeing unspeakable atrocities —or if he will be allowed to remain in charge. The latter would send the message to the Japanese people that the post-war American mission is not to occupy and control, but to facilitate the rebuilding of the nation and the recovery of its people.
As "Emperor" tells it, MacArthur will make his decision almost solely on the basis of Fellers' report. (The general spends much of his time posing for dramatic photos and working the press as he eyes a post-military run for president.)
Tommy Lee Jones looks like he brought his own pants and demeanor to the set, then allowed the costumer to outfit him with uniform, sunglasses and hat, and instantly transformed himself into MacArthur. The performance is a bit hammy and Hollywood at times, with MacArthur occasionally delivering a one-liner so good you can practically see it on the screenwriters' laptop. But Jones adds welcome spark to a movie that more than once (make that more than twice) gets a little too bogged down in the details.
Whether Fellers is interviewing various Japanese officials during his investigation or reflecting on his romance with the niece (the lovely Eriko Hatsune) of a Japanese general, we're constantly reminded of the vast differences between the American and Japanese cultures. Director Peter Webber and screenwriters Vera Blasi and David Klass clearly have an enormous respect for and devotion to detail, but there were times when I wanted to raise my hand and say, "Is this going to be on the mid-term?"
"Emperor" is expertly photographed, whether we're following Fellers through the blue-tinged rubble of a bombed-out village or flashing back to the pastel-colored romance in the States. (I'm still not sure why it seems as if two out of three "remembering better days" flashbacks involve the man chasing the laughing woman through a forest, a field or at the beach. When you were falling in love, did you ever chase or were you the chasee in such a tableau?)
Not for a second is this some Fox News Channel-baiting, American retro guilt film. It was a just and right war for the Allied Forces, and the good guys won. But "Emperor" makes it clear this was a devastating war for both sides, with repercussions far beyond 1945. There's room to credit American and Japanese leadership for their joint efforts to find a common foundation for rebuilding, even as there was still simmering hatred in both quarters. "Emperor" is a solid and important look at a sometimes-forgotten chapter in the World War II saga.
Programming note: on the heels of "Lincoln," this makes two movies in six months in which Tommy Lee Jones has the pivotal supporting role in a piece of historical fiction with lengthy scenes explaining the procedural customs and intricate political mores of the time. Two excellent performances in two fine films — but I'm really hoping he doesn't sign up to co-star in a movie about Gerald Ford and the machinations behind the Whip Inflation Now movement.
White privilege, lived.
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Bookworm Bookmark
Make a reading buddy to make reading more fun! Make one for every book you read and write the book name on the back. Collect worms and make a mobile for your classroom.
Construction Paper
Wiggle Eyes
Glue Stick
Markers or Colored Pencils
Large Bottle Cap or Small Plastic Lid to Trace Around
Trace six times around a snapple cap or other bottle cap onto a piece of construction paper. Cut out the circles. Glue the circles together in a row to make a worm. Glue on wiggle eyes. Cut out or write the letters "READ!" on the circles. Write the name of the book on the back.
Here's some books that may be fun to read with this craft:
Amelia Bedelia, Bookworm by Herman Parish
The Very Hungry Caterpiller by Eric Carle
A Worm's Tale by Barbaro Lingren
Toestomper and the Caterpillers by Sharleen Calicott
More bookmark crafts that make storytime fun:
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Logical Fallacies: The Fallacy of the Question-Begging Epithet
At the beginning of the 21st century, it is a wonder that a group of ignorant, bigoted and hateful men (yes, mostly men) can preach against scientific progress and try to take this country and the world a few centuries back.
A tactic often used by liberals and materialists is to try and discredit their opponents, and in this case Creationists, by using emotionally charged language to accuse them of impeding scientific progress. But is this true? Do Creationists wish to impede science? Do they wish to "take this country and the world a few centuries back"? To hear the atheist's side of things, you'd think so.
But let's look at the facts.
When it comes to discussing science what often gets lost in the mix is how terms are used and defined. It's important therefore to define the terms clearly. The true disconnect is between Operations Science and Origins Science.
Operations Science is that science which uses the scientific method to arrive at truth. It does so through observational and repeatable experiments in a controlled environment with the intent of finding recurring behavior in the present. Operations Science is used in a wide variety of areas like studying the spread of disease, observing speciation, or cracking the human genome.
Origins Science, on the other hand, deals with non-repeatable events that happened in the past such as creation science and macroevolution. Because the past cannot be directly observed in a lab using Operations Science, presuppositions very heavily influence this field.
For example, the evolutionary view is that the Grand Canyon was formed gradually over long periods of time by small amounts of water. The Creationist on the other hand suggests that the Grand Canyon was formed very quickly with large amounts of water over a short period of time. There are examples in the modern day that can lend us clues to support a given theory like this one at Canyon Lake in 2002 (link). Creationists believe that the Canyon Lake flood lends credibility to the idea that huge amounts of water over a short period of time cut its way through limestone and rock to form the Grand Canyon: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100620155748.htm
As you can see, there are two very different views; they both can't be right, and neither is provable scientifically. We can only make assumptions about how the Grand Canyon formed based on what we find in the present. We can't go back in time and prove it scientifically.
Can a Creationist then, be a scientist? Indeed he can. Dr. Raymond Damadian is a young-earth creationist who is credited with inventing the MRI scanner. Francis Collins, the man who cracked the human genome, is also a believer as he explains here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article673663.ece ). Other noted Creationists include Sir Francis Bacon, Johann Kepler, Blaise Pascal, Robert Byle, and Sir Isaaac Newton.
It is clear that Creationists aren't "anti-science", but ant-macroevolution (goo-to-you by way of the zoo).
Defending an Absolute negation
It is time to face the truth -- THERE IS NO GOD.
It is impossible to defend an absolute negation. "There is no God" is an absolute negation. In order to know for certain that "there is no God", one would have to be infinite in knowledge. But being infinite in knowledge would make one "God", and that's who Bluemoon is trying to disprove and not prove, so therefore his assertion refutes itself.
In simple terms, "If there were no God, there would be no atheists." – GK Chesterton
I don't begrudge the faith to those who believe -- but I am not out there trying to impose vegetarianism or red uniforms on anyone. So, please, keep your religion out of my face.
Christians don't impose God on anyone. Imposing God on someone would NOT make them a Christian; it would make them an automaton, which would then defeat the purpose of the Christian doctrines of faith and atonement.
But what Christians do exercise is their Constitutional rights as US citizens. That might often mean using the legislative process to fight for the lives of the unborn, defending the sanctity of marriage as defined by God, standing up for the hungry, the poor and the infirm, standing against slavery and human trafficking, and standing as a stop-gap against the immoral actions of predatory groups who seek to undermine the family.
All of this is done within the parameters of our Constitutional rights as citizens as well as our Christians mandate to see moral justice accomplished.
Emotionally Charged Language Misses the Mark
Humanity may have needed to believe in rocks or celestial bodies when we barely could walk upright.
This is another attempt at the Fallacy of the Question-Begging Epithet. This is used when a person attempts to use emotionally charged language to defend their position. It is often extreme in nature and misrepresents the opposing position. I can say for a fact that "believing in rocks" is found nowhere in the Judeo-Christian tradition, nor is the worship of "celestial bodies". We believe in the One, true and eternal God – Jehovah.
Is Christianity evil?
Religion in general and chirstianity in particular are EVIL.
Someone has been reading Dawkins again. Is Christianity evil? Let's address Bluemoon's assertions and see.
1) **the church tells you that as long as you go to confession and pray to God, all the wrong-doing will be forgiven. Therefore, religion teaches us an inconsiderate, irresponsible behavior to our fellow humans. No, I do not want someone who wronged me to ask forgiveness from God. I want them to come to me, to face me and ask for forgiveness from me, not some abstract and supposedly all-forgiving god.
This isn't true. Forgiveness is something granted by God through Jesus Christ, not by man. Being forgiven by God does NOT absolve us of the consequences of our behavior.
For instance, if a man murders his wife and goes to jail for life, he may indeed have a change of heart in prison and find God in the process, but that does not absolve him from the consequences of his behavior nor of his obligation as a believer to rectify his actions regardless of whether it's received by the ones he has hurt or not.
Forgiveness within God's economy is not a one-sided deal. There is the responsibility of the sinner as well. A sinner is expected to repent. Repentance is not just simply admitting sorrow for a wrongdoing, but it is actively making the effort to change the sinful behavior. Repentance means, "to turn away from". Continuing in sin is a sign of an unrepentant heart. A man may beat his wife and be sorrowful for having done it, but unless he willfully commits to turning away from that sin, he has not repented. Without repentance a person is not saved.
Though we may be forgiven by God and redeemed from our sin, the PROOF of spiritual change is evidenced, in part, by the fact that the "forgiven" seeks forgiveness from those he has wronged and turns from his sin. In God's eyes the evidence that a person is born again is not in what he claims, but what he does. I'm afraid, there are far too many who fail to meet this first proof of redemption.
2) **religion teaches us to abdicate responsibility for our actions with respect to the world. No, everything is NOT in God's hands and does NOT happen to god's plan. It is the inevitable consequence of human action and we better relize this before the planet is damaged irreparably whether through ecological or military catastrophe.
I can't speak to other religions, but within Christianity this is also untrue. I have already spoken to the "responsibility factor" above. But to the point of "God's plan", yes the world does operate according to His plan. What we fail to realize from our vantage point, as God's creation, is that God is eternal and knows the end from the beginning.
Remember the account of Joseph in the Bible? Joseph's brothers sold him into slavery in Egypt. For some 13 years Joseph remained a slave, much of that time spent in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I can imagine that there were many times when he probably questioned God's motive for allowing him to have to endure such brokenness and pain. He sat there in solitude for years wondering if he'd ever see his family again. But one day a famine came to Canaan, and people flocked to Egypt to find food. By this time, Joseph had been elevated to a place of prominence and was given the responsibility of overseeing the distribution of wheat during the famine. It was then that he and his family would once again be reunited.
In the end, and after many years had passed, and though all had seemed lost, Joseph was elevated to a place of prominence where he was not only able to save Egypt, but also his own family. God had foreseen this from the beginning. God knew Joseph's brothers would sell him into slavery. God knew Joseph would have to spend years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. God knew the famine would one day come and drive his family to Egypt for help. And God knew that Joseph would be waiting to feed and provide for them. God had a plan that seemed cruel at first, but what we fail to understand sometimes is that God's plan does not always follow our plans. His ways are not our ways, nor His thoughts are not our thoughts. The Bible says this: "There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the way thereof leads to death." We should be thankful His ways are not our ways.
Relativism leads to three possible outcomes: Stalemate (tolerance), war/conflict, or tyranny
It is time to organize and take legal action against religious intitutions. There are many avenues available to pursue lawsuits against churches and such. It is time to turn up the heat in the media and the blogsphere against this unnecessary and harmful atavism of the past.
I wrote a piece yesterday about how relativism leads to three possible outcomes: 1) a stalemate (tolerance) – where two parties learn to tolerate their differences and live together in relative peace, (though this is impossible because conflict is inevitable with relativism) 2) war/conflict – where the two sides in opposition reach a point where their differences are irreconcilable, (we see the rise of this in America today between Conservatives and liberals) and the matter escalates into war (race war, class war, etc), or lastly, 3) tyranny – when tolerance nor war are viable options forcing the opposition to submit through totalitarian rule will often suffice.
This is where atheism and its agent relativism will always inevitably lead.
UPDATE: Please, do not confuse -- accidentally or on purpose -- my position that we need to end ORGANIZED, INSTUTIONALIZED religion with my already stated belief that everyone has the right to believe in the big polka-dotted betentacled glamgrum from Aldebaran if you want. Belief is a personal choice and I am regarding it as such. However, institutions with a vested interest in ignorance whose last check on reality was during Nero's time (if then), have to be fought tooth and nail.
Belief is indeed a personal choice, but not all beliefs are equal. In his brilliant work, "Can Man Live Without God" , Ravi Zacharias frames for us this eternal question:
"The issue, then, is not whether the belief system you espouse – monotheistic, atheistic, pantheistic, or otherwise – is exclusive. The issue is whether the answers to the four basic questions of life pertaining to origin, meaning, morality, and destiny within the context of each of these world-views meet the tests of truth. Are they logically consistent, are they empirically adequate, and are they experientially relevant?...The answers to life's four questions must in each instance correspond to reality, and the sum of the answers must cohere as a system.
"It is absolutely imperative to understand that when an antagonist of the Christian faith poses a question of the Christian, he or she must, in turn, be willing first to justify the question within the context of his or her own presuppositions. Second, he or she must also answer the question on the basis of those presuppositions ...An attitude that says, "you can't answer my question, and therefore I can believe whatever I want to believe," is intellectual hypocrisy."
One may choose to profess a belief in a "big polka-dotted betentacled glamgrum from Aldebaran", but does this belief system provide a cherent set of answers to life's biggest questions? Can this belief answer the questions pertaining to origin, meaning, morality, and destiny – questions all worldviews must answer? And are theses answers logically consistent, empirically adequate, and does this belief system correspond to reality? Belief systems must be qualified before they can be taken seriously. Christianity can answer all of these clearly.
There's reality and then there's a skeptic's reality
I am now convinced the church harbored pedophiles throughout its history. It is in all the books of the past centuries -- read Bocaccio's Decameron, read Mandragola by Macchiavelli... read any honest writer -- the priest is always portrayed as the sexual opportunist, enabler and predator.
Bocaccio's Decameron was an allegorical novel and the other, Mandragola, was a satirical play. This is like comparing Hollywood movies to reality!
Kill them all, and let God sort them out!
It is only because contemporary media finally dared lift the curtain that we have finally gotten a glimpse of the true face of the church -- a criminal, predatory instution that needs to be attacked with lawsuits and any legal means unto death.
The Bible says that judgment first begins at the House of God. In other words, when God's house becomes a house in ill repute He will be the one to cleanse it. God did this at Shiloh (1 Samuel 2). Because Eli the Priest refused to rebuke the sins of his sons who had lightly esteemed the work of God and had committed sin in the House of God, God wrote above the door of that place Ichabod, which means, "The glory of the Lord is departed". God is beginning to cleanse His house of all of those who have practiced their wickedness while pretending to be His. He does not take these acts committed by these rogue priests lightly.
But we must also not throw out the baby with the bath water. Like I've mentioned before, a system is not measured by its abuses but by its essential tenets. Should these priests be defrocked and held accountable for their crimes? A thousand times, yes! But Christianity as a system is not the culprit here but individuals who chose to indulge their baser instincts against the oath they swore to God. If this shows us anything it's that the depravity of man is very real and that a man is not exempt from sin simply because he wraps himself in priestly garb. For "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God."
I wonder too, why those who stand so ardently against the Church for these crimes still defend with as much ardent conviction the homosexual community, which by and large also wishes to see the illegality of pedophilia lifted. When the Church does it, it's a crime; when the homosexual community does it, it's all right.
UPDATE II: Thank you for the responses. It was unexpected. I sometimes wonder how we, as humans, would behave in the absence of religion. Would it be all that intolerable -- the huge empty space of the universe... our own short lives... no other morality but what we devise for ourselves? Would it? Would it be so bad to appreciate the uniqueness and preciousness of every human life ... to know that we have to love our fellow humans NOW, in this very moment, in every second of our waking lives because there is NO second chance... because death is painfully (but also mercifully) final. Would it be so bad -- to look to the heavens and see the real miracle of existance -- not created by someone or something with a purpose.. not predestined.. but here nevertheless... here in all its magnificence of randomness and unpredictability... and us, this world, this tiny precious planet -- not part of a design at all, but an accident really. An accident so unlikely... that I, with a conscious self-awareness am present to write this -- that you are here to read it. No God and no religion can diminish this sense of wonder... if anything this world, our fellow humans are even more precious, more worth protecting...
This is where Bluemoon reveals the real crutch of the matter. Of everything he's written thus far, this is really what is at the heart of everything else. First, Bluemoon asks, "Would it be so intolerable (to believe that no other) morality (exists) but what we devise for ourselves?" Yes, Bluemoon it would!
If the material is all that there is, and there is no God, then morality becomes relative to the situation. If, then, a priest decides to molest a child, he is well within his right to do so, because according to you, he is adhering to a morality he has devised himself – one that allows him to satisfy his baser instincts. We can't say the priest is wrong, because he is doing that which is right for him.
Bluemoon then goes on to address the "uniqueness and preciousness" of every human life. Yet, earlier in the piece while Bluemoon rebukes Dr Tiller's murderer he says nothing of the babies Mr Tiller had himself murdered. Were their lives not equally as precious and unique?
Furthermore, and more importantly, if the material is all that there is, and there is no God and no absolute moral law, then there is no intrinsic uniqueness to human beings. According to evolutionary theory, we are all just products of time plus chance – a collocation of random atoms. We're all here by accident. We have no more value or purpose than a slug or a rock. We are all just part of a grand cosmic accident trying to survive by hook or by crook.
Bluemoon then explains that we are to "love our fellow humans NOW, in this very moment." But love in a godless universe is an abstract concept. The feeling of love is just the reaction of chemicals within the brain and nothing more. It is ultimately meaningless.
What strikes me as odd, too, is that Bluemoon begins this rant by denouncing God and moral absolutes, but then here in this last paragraph we find him using moral absolutes at his own leisure. According to Bluemoon, there is no God to define morality, but then Bluemoon decides to do it himself by telling us that we must "love our fellow humans NOW…" But what makes this moral assertion any less absolute than God saying: "Love your neighbor as yourself," or "Love your enemies; do good to those who persecute you"? What gives Bluemoon the authority to posit an absolute when God cannot? Again, if we're all just making this up as we go along, then why should anyone care what Bluemoon says over and above anyone else? On what authority does he make these assertions? And who has given him that authority?
Next, Bluemoon dreams of a universe devoid of purpose. This is odd considering the fact that Bluemoon expects us to find purpose in his "rant". If there is no purpose to life, if the material is all that there is, then why should we bother about pedophiles or love or much less what Bluemoon thinks?
As you can see, the world of atheism is a world of endless contradiction. He is forever trying to find meaning in a meaningless world. He makes the claim that there is neither purpose nor meaning in life but then we're expected to believe that his assertions should hold special purpose and meaning.
It's clear that Bluemoon is placing the blame for the ills of the world at the feet of God and the Church, but fails to admit his own contribution, or even humanity's contribution to the state of affairs the world finds itself in.
Let me end this with a quote from Malcolm Muggeridge the famed English Journalist:
We look back upon history, and what do we see? Empires rising and falling. Revolutions and Counterrevolutions. Wealth accumulated and wealth disbursed. Shakespeare has written of the rise and fall of great ones, that ebb and flow with the moon. I look back upon my own fellow countrymen, once upon a time dominating a quarter of the world, most of them convinced, in the words of what is still a popular song, that the God who made them mighty, shall make them mightier yet.
I've heard a crazed, cracked Austrian announce to the world the establishment of a Reich that would last a thousand years. I have seen an Italian clown say he was going to stop and restart the calendar with his own ascension to power. I've heard a murderous Georgian brigand in the Kremlin, acclaimed by the intellectual elite of the world as wiser than Solomon, more humane than Marcus Aurelius, more enlightened than Ashoka.
I have seen America, wealthier and in terms of military weaponry, more powerful than the rest of the world put together, so that had the American people so desired, they could have outdone a Caesar, or an Alexander in the range and scale of their conquests.
All in one lifetime, all in one lifetime, all gone. Gone with the wind. England part of a tiny island off the coast of Europe, threatened with dismemberment and even bankruptcy. Hitler and Mussolini dead, remembered only in infamy. Stalin a forbidden name in the regime he helped found and dominate for some three decades. America haunted by fears of running out of those precious fluids that keeps their motorways roaring, and the smog settling, with troubled memories of a disastrous campaign in Vietnam, and the victories of the Don Quixotes of the media as they charged the windmills of Watergate. All in one lifetime, all in one lifetime, all gone. Gone with the wind.
Behind the debris of these solemn supermen, and self-styled imperial diplomatists, there stands the gigantic figure of one, because of whom, by whom, in whom and through whom alone, mankind may still have peace: The person of Jesus Christ. I present him as the way, the truth, and the life.


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Zombie's Prophet's TUF: SMASHES Episode Reminder..... TUF Smashes will debut tonight on ESPN in the UK at Midnight BST and on FX in Australia at 12:30pm Sydney time. For those outside of the UK, it will start at 7pm EST / 4PM PST. My guess is that UFC.com will be streaming it like they did with Brazil but at this point that's anyone's guess. The Australian team will be coached by George Sotiropoulos and the UK coach will be Ross Pearson. Both coaches and the finalists will meet at UFC on FX 6 on Dec. 15 in Australia (Dec. 14 in the U.S.). Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images
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The air-raid siren went off early and often in Morgantown Saturday as the West Virginia Mountaineers stormed by the Marshall Thundering Herd, 69-35, thanks to a mammoth performance by quarterback Geno Smith, who had five combined touchdowns.
Smith misfired on just four passes in 36 attempts, threw for four scores and ran for another, proving he's every bit the dark horse Heisman Trophy candidate they're calling him in Morgantown. He was helped by running back Shawn Alston, who ran 16 times for 123 yards and two touchdowns as well.
Marshall kept it close early — they were down just 13-7 in the beginning of the second quarter — but once Smith found his rhythm, it was over. He found Stedman Bailey for a beautiful touchdown to open the scoring, and was precise and efficient the rest of the way. Bailey led all receivers with nine receptions for 104 yards and two touchdowns. Tavon Austin showcased his all-around athleticism as well, running for 67 yards, piling up 10 receptions for 53 yards and had 54 combined return yards.
Box Score Hero: Geno Smith was battling Tavon Austin for this after the first half, but ran away with it in the second half. He finished with a bananas line: 32-36, 323 passing yards, four passing touchdowns, eight rushes, 64 yards and a touchdown.
Rankings Ramifications: West Virginia was the No. 11 team in the AP poll entering the season, and with the resounding win, there's no way they lose a spot. In fact, it's likely they gain at least one slot after the primetime game between No. 8 Michigan and No. 2 Alabama Saturday night, with the loser likely slipping out of the top 10.
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The number of TV, movie, and video productions increased in Alabama last year.
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---- — A traffic stop involving two men driving a car with Massachusetts license plates touched off a scare in the Falls after police officers spotted suspicious-looking packages.
After a lengthy investigation and response from several law enforcement agencies, the car and it's occupants were declared not to be a threat by police at a 1 p.m. press conference at the City Market.
The incident began around 8:30 a.m. Friday when an Air National Guard member driving on the I-190 noticed the black Nissan and thought the car's occupants looked suspicious, according to Niagara Falls Police Superintendent Bryan DalPorto.
The car was eventually pulled over by Falls police on Elmwood Avenue, between 18th and 19th streets, for a pair of traffic infractions.
While conducting the traffic stop, DalPorto said the officers spotted some suspicious-looking packages in the car. The two men were taken in to custody and the New York State Police Bomb Squad was called in.
By 9 a.m., the block of Elmwood Avenue was closed off as an investigation began.
Early erroneous reports by a local TV station said the men were Russian nationals but police quickly reported that was not the case.
DalPorto noted that the car belonged to the father of one of the occupants and he was called by police to ask for permission to search the vehicle.
State Police used their bomb-detecting robotic device to examine the car. It removed several packages that police had deemed to be suspicious.
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The Missouri Highway Patrol was on the scene of a crash in Bollinger County Friday evening.
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According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, 24-year-old Ralph R. Carnahan was driving a 1997 Oldsmobile Bravada on Missouri Highway H around 6:00pm Friday evening.
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A mother in Arcadia claims surveillance video shows a high school football coach violently pushing her son during a fight between students.
The video, from DeSoto High School, shows one of Ozelle Whitlock's sons – 18-year-old Harry Akins - fighting with another student in the parking.
She claims that after the fight, volunteer football coach Bradley Hatch aggressively pushed her son.
She says it was not the one involved the fight, but 17-year-old Kionte Whitlock, who was there to pick up his brother.
"I'm trying to figure out why he pushed my child that's all I want to know and don't say it's because he was trying to jump in no fight because that is a lie," said Whitlock.
"Now whether or not they nudged or pushed, I cannot adhere to that I cannot attest to it again I was not here and by viewing the video I cannot say that anyone was clearly nudged," said DeSoto County High School Assistant Principal Paul Curtis.
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After a five year manhunt for the elusive Dr. Goldfire, the search has ended. The trail has led Blake to the planet Selon, and to the abandoned STAR Institute Training Complex. If the reports are correct, then Dr. Goldfire is alive and has once again created a fiendish army of evil mutants. Blake is going to need all his wits, skill, and the best firepower money can buy to put an end to Goldfire's plans. He must use all his resources to destroy the good Doctor before he can unleash his new army on the universe.
Once again, British Intelligence agent Blake Stone will find himself in a life or death struggle to determine humanity's future. Up against absurd odds and the largest assortment of hideous creatures and armed guards ever amassed, Blake embarks upon his most dangerous mission ever, classified: Planet Strike!
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In my review of Blake Stone Aliens of Gold, I incorrectly mentioned that it was released shortly, Doom II. A forum member pointed out correctly that Aliens of Gold had been released exactly one week after Doom I came out. Thanks for your correction. Probably i got the dates of Aliens of Gold and its expansion pack Planet Strike flipped. In any case, the expansion pack to Aliensread more of Gold, Planet strike did come out shortly after Doom II, about 2 weeks after. By that time, Doom II was the hot killer app to push the graphical power of everyone's 486 computers, and by then Blake Stone with its grid-like maze levels was already a year old and mostly long forgotten by the players. Pity that back then too, brand new graphical effects were the main driving reason to buy games too.
Planet Strike brought additional action-filled, puzzle solving levels to the original game. As many have pointed out, in this expansion you actually get to fight Dr. Goldfire. Many of the features of the original game are still here, like the awesome menu-driven map selector, which allows you to go back and forth between levels, backtracking on some if necessary (something Doom II was not capable of doing). The friendly and not so friendly NPCs are there too, some providing you useful items like food tokens that can be used to buy food to regain your health at food stations, sort of like the medic stations in Half life. Some visual effects like fog were added too, as well as moving pillars which acted like doors.
Some may say by now that I dont like Doom II for taking the spotlight away from Blake Stone. I like Doom II. It was an awesome action game. It did that very well. But Blake Stone is an action game too, and more. It provided the blueprint which Rogue and Valve used to draft their classic games Strife and Half life respectively. With updated technology of course. Thats the entire point of this review.
As an extra commentary and info related to this game, there was a remake of the original Blake Stone levels made for Rise of the Triad released some time back, as some sort of tribute to this underappreciated classic game. It was included in one of the ROTT packs released as freeware. Like most old era games, it's so light in the bytesize area, that you might want to take your GOG version of Blake Stone with you when traveling. This week, john carmack re-released Wolfenstein 3D, the game whose engine powers Blake Stone, for mobile platforms. One can hope that Apogee might do the same for Blake Stone. In the meantime, theres the very cool mobile platform dosbox ports.
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Posted on 2009-03-22 16:04:37 bytxksport:
If you liked Blake Stone : Aliens of Gold ... you're certain to enjoy this sequel. This version is much more strategic than Aliens offering different levels and more interaction. For those of you who insist on comparing the Blake series to Doom - give up! No it isn't Doom, it was never meant to be! This shooter has a real plot and a fun puzzle-like strategy. Blake is like aread more space-aged James Bond and my kids love it - they think it's fun and they play it all the time!
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Posted on 2009-03-19 08:49:18 byjamessnee1:
If you refer to my previous review on Blake Stone Aliens of Gold, you will find that was my first FPS game I ever played. This one was remarkably different, but keeping the same style as the first Blake Stone game. It had a lot of new improvements, such as adding new weapons, instead of getting a red keycard to exit the level you had to blow up the power conduit that would openread more the gate. The atmosphere had also dramatically changed, adding a sort of fog-like effect to the aging Wolf3D engine. A must buy if you loved the first Blake Stone, and also Wolf3D!
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