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I'm Luz Martinez. As a licensed mental health counselor, I specialize in therapy for couples, families, individuals. I have a private practice in Miami, Florida. I am a 2008 graduate of Florida International University, where I obtained a master of science in psychology. I've helped people across many treatment settings, and worked with a diverse group ranging in age from adolescents to elders.
I use a Person-Centered Approach along with Cognitive Behavior Therapy tailored to each client's circumstances and needs. I understand when people seek therapy, it is because they have experienced or are experiencing an event in their lives.
You don't have to go through it alone. I can partner with you and provide the tools needed to succeed. Hope and support are tantamount in the therapeutic relationship. I will always support you and I will always give you hope, one client at a time.


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A few months back I was scrambling to find something for dinner using only the few ingredients I had on hand. I'm sure what I came up with was inspired just as much by having recently seen Jackie from Vegan Yack Attack's 'n' cheese recipes in VegNews magazine as it was by necessity. Or, I could've just been really lucky with what I had in my cabinets and fridge.
The mac 'n' cheese was a no-brainer, but when I found the Gardein Beefless Tips in the freezer a lightbulb came on. They're one of my favorite products (see: Beefless Beef Stew), so I was happy to use them to elevate this in a fun and tasty way.
I grew up west of Philadelphia and lived in the city for one year. While my preference was the giant slices of pizza at Lorenzo's on South Street, there was no avoiding the city's (probably) official food, cheesesteak. So, armed with an onion and those Gardein Beefless Tips, I set out to create a nod to home.
The recipe has evolved a bit with mushrooms and a more refined cheese sauce, and I think it's finally where it needs to be. So give this one a try and experience comfort food at its best. And remember to let me know how it goes in the comments below!
Philly Cheesesteak Mac 'n' Cheese
- 1 box pasta
- 1 Tbsp. oil
- 1 large onion sliced
- 1 cup mushrooms sliced
- 1 package Gardein Beefless Tips sliced
- 2 Tbsp. vegan butter
- 1 Tbsp. nutritional yeast
- 1½ cups dairy-free milk soy works well because of its thickness
- 1½ cups Daiya Cheddar Shreds
- 1½ cups Daiya Mozzarella Shreds
- ½ cup bread crumbs
- Chopped parsley for garnish
- Heat pasta according to package.
- Heat oil over medium heat in large frying pan. Add onions and cook for
- minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Stir in mushrooms and Beefless Tips and cook for another 5 minutes; set aside.
- Heat butter over low heat in medium saucepan. Once melted, stir in nutritional yeast and whisk in soy milk.
- Add Daiya shreds and whisk until melted, about 5 minutes.
- Stir in pasta, onions and Beefless tips.
- Pour into baking dish and cover with bread crumbs.
- Heat for 15 minutes or until bread crumbs begin to brown. Remove from oven and sprinkle parsley on top. Serve right away.

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This is story about hope for the future in the face of heartbreaking tragedy, when "Making It Right" takes on a new meaning- completing an unresolved renovation and making it possible for a family to finally begin the healing process after the loss o... (more)f a loved one. The connection between the emotional health of a family and condition of their home is a strong one. Mike and the team heal a house left in limbo, and make it a home once more.
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Liquid sunshine. That's what I call Susie's Mango Mandingo, a lusciously sweet and seductively spicy tropical hot sauce from Antigua that's bursting with juicy, ripe mango flavor. This all-natural delicacy is a lovely sunny yellow color, as one would expect from a sauce in which the main ingredient is mango. A secret blend of Caribbean hot peppers adds a touch of fiery heat (about a mild-medium), making Susie's Mango Mandingo an ideal hot sauce for fish and seafood, chicken, rice dishes, steamed or grilled vegetables, and other similar fare. Winner of the 2005 Golden Chile Award for the Best Fruit Hot Sauce, Susie's Mango Mandingo is sure to please anyone who enjoys fruity, spicy flavors. Use this sauce whenever you want to add sunny tropical flair -- it pairs especially well with island cuisine, Caribbean dishes, Asian and Indian foods, and other exotic fare, as well as on mild rice or noodle dishes. Some folks even use Susie's Mango Mandingo as a chip dip, or as a topping for cheesecake, pound cake, and ice cream! Virtually impossible to find outside the Caribbean, you can now get Susie's Mango Mandingo Hot Sauce online from the Carolina Sauce Company.
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The golden dreams of Brazil at the London Olympic Games appear to be labelled with the same surname – Menezes. Mano, the head coach of the football team who aims for the gold medal, the only one major title still missing in the silverware of A Seleção, is just the most remarkable name. Perhaps the other is that of 22-year-old judoka Sarah, two-time bronze medallist at the World Championships. Alongside teammates Mayra Aguiar and Mariana and Rafaela Silva, she might make history for her native country at the next Olympics.
Introduced by the Japanese emigrants who docked in Santos in 1908 to serve as labour in coffee plantations, judo is practised by nearly two million of Brazilians, making it the nation's third most popular sport after football and volleyball.
More importantly, it is the one which has given the country the highest number of Olympic medals and for the first time Brazil will be represented in all the 14 categories.
Hopes are high, as head coach Ney Wilson points out. "Our goal is to win four medals and to qualify for a gold medal final with one female athlete", he states. "We aim so high because numbers suggest us this is an achievable result. Possibly there are pressures around the team, but I can ensure that the athletes are calm and just focused on training."
In order to make their golden dreams come true, the Brazilians have picked Sheffield for the pre-Olympic camp. "It is a quiet place, full of nature", Leandro Guilheiro observes. He has won the bronze medal both in Athens and Beijing and now craves a more precious one. "This is the first time I'm preparing for the Olympics without injuries. Therefore, expectations are great. This generation has gone very far, but there are also other young, gifted athletes."
The Brazilians do not accept any kind of invasion or disturbance during the pre-Games camp. They stay in a peaceful hotel just outside the Steel City and train in the gymnasium based at the Sheffield Hallam University's Collegiate Campus. The Brazilian delegation includes 50 people among coaches, athletes and staff. "We have already dealt with top-class athletes, but we have never hosted such a massive camp", head of sports service Dan Porter says. "It is a big privilege and a burden at the same time. The Brazilians want everything to be perfect and we have to care about every single detail. We have provided a 24-hour transport service and chefs trained to cook their traditional food."
Sheffield has been chosen after a long process. "They first arrived in 2009, following an international competition in Birmingham, and finally decided last autumn", Ben Brailsford, member of the City Council major events department, recalls. "However, it all began two years earlier. Pelé came here for the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the foundation of Sheffield FC, the oldest football club in the world. We gave him a letter to be handled to the Brazilian Olympic Committee, saying we would like to host their athletes. Look where we have arrived five years later."
Sheffield seemed to be the right place for preparing such a historical participation in the Games. "After many visits and checks over the last couple of years, we just realised that Sheffield has everything we needed", Wilson reveals.
The arrival of the Brazilians in the city is not functional only to bring the colours and the joy of South America to this cool, rainy summer. Indeed, their presence has economic implications and not just because 50 people will stay here for almost three weeks. Yorkshire Gold Business Club and UK Trade & Investment, a government department focused on linking British and foreign companies, gave the seminar "Doing business in Brazil". This was meant to encourage forge partnerships between Yorkshire-based firms and this fast growing country, which has overtaken Great Britain as the world's sixth largest economy.
As UKTI deputy consul general Richard Turner shows, the key areas of the Brazilian growth are the shipbuilding programme, gas and oil – state-controlled company Petrobras plans to invest $224bn by 2014 – and, of course, sports, as the country will host the football World Cup and the Olympics within the space of two years. "We are speaking of a country with amazing opportunities and a great vitality", he explains. "However, taxes and bureaucracy could be two big concerns for potential foreign investors."
It is not just oil and gas, though. Sport plays a major role, as Rio de Janeiro will host the next edition of the Olympics. Business specialist Chris Wall underlines this link between the two countries. "The organisers of both the World Cup and the Games came to England to see the design of the venues, the traffic planning and the commercial viability of our stadia. To them, this is a model to export." Infrastructures are a particularly relevant issue, as 12 different cities across the country will host the World Cup. "Geography, alongside lack of transparency and short notice, are certainly the most tackling challenge. But this should not discourage British investors. They should just be aware of their value-add and the importance of 'tropicalising' the product – that is to say, to deliver it according to local needs."
Furthermore, the Brazilian government has launched the "Science without borders" programme, with 10,000 scholarships for studying medicine and engineering in the United Kingdom. "We can also offer courses devoted to sports science and management", Porter says. "As the Brazilians know their judokas have used our facilities, we hope to attract new students."
From this perspective, Brazilian judokas might quote android Rachel in cult film "Blade Runner" ("I'm not part of the business. I'm the business"). Still, Guilheiro mainly sees benefits. "This is a new era for my country. We have always fought to change the situation and solve problems, for instance the infrastructures. This is a big chance."
While waiting for concrete roads to be built, an ideal highway to and from Britain seems to have been just traced.


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Footy uncertainty
The Mid Gippsland Football Netball League has raised concerns about its "uncertain" future in the wake of last week's announcement the AFL Gippsland commission had been disbanded.
It comes as the six Alberton Football Netball League clubs lodged appeals with AFL Gippsland regarding the Ellinbank league's decision to accept none of its clubs for season 2020.
The interim commission, which includes AFL Victoria chief executive Steven Reaper and general manager game development Andrew Dillon, will preside over the appeals.
MGFL publicity officer Rob Popplestone was concerned the commission shake-up would mean the league would be "forced" to take in clubs from the Alberton league.
"There is an expectation now that we're going to be steamrolled into accepting a number of clubs," Popplestone said.
"There is speculation that AFL Victoria is going to send the best Alberton league clubs to Ellinbank and we'll get the rest.
"We won't accept just any clubs. We're open to clubs wanting to join but they have to fit the criteria to make our competition a better one."
The MGFL, which operates under independent administration, last year successfully appealed against an AFL Gippsland proposal it merge with Alberton to form a new league.
After Yarragon accepted a recommendation it join the Ellinbank league the MGFL was left with nine clubs and Popplestone was concerned more would face similar fates if the league was forced to accept some clubs.
"This is the same sort of uncertainty that led to Yarragon leaving the competition and here we are again, eight months later, confronting the same issues," he said.
"Going forward ... have the new commissioners got any connection to Gippsland or any understanding of the local leagues and clubs?
"I would have thought it's going to be hard for any new commission to make an informed decision with conversations with leagues and clubs."
AFL Gippsland has until June 3 to provide a ruling on the fate of the six Alberton league clubs.
AFL Victoria did not respond to questions asked by The Express.
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I don't have a title for this blog, but I want to just write what is on my mind. I made a post on Instagram the other day that said this:
It's okay not to have every thing figured out.
If God gave us the bigger picture, we'd crop him out.
I've given up on seeing the bigger picture. It's hard for me because I consider myself a visionary. I credit myself for being able to connect dots, and seeing things that others may miss. I graduated from University in 2016 and had this luxurious plan for my life. Truth be told, I haven't lived up to my own expectations.
Went back to school shortly after and left graduate school with 6 credits remaining. I plan on finishing, but just needed a break from it all. The one thing I was passionate about, was entrepreneurship, specifically start-ups. I like starting things. I enjoy making something from nothing. It's the artist in me, but I've always had a problem with finishing.
Most of my life I've been known to always finish what I started, but for a while, I've been off my game. It's now my plan to go back and complete a lot of the projects that I started it. It is now that I realize the title of this blog, "The Art of Finishing".
This has so much to do with productivity. As much as I love starting stuff, I always find fulfillment in finishing things. There are so many parts of our life that are ongoing. Life in itself has no definitive finish line. This is why it's important to set goals and objectives for accomplishing those goals.
"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more
than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."
~ William James
I'm at the point in my life where I realize that my attitude has been positive and my energy high. But in order to win the race, you have to finish strong.
If you're familiar running a marathon, you understand how important the finish is. The finish shows who spent more time in training. It shows who can endure pain and fatigue. It separates the winners from the losers.
Run your race of life with the finish in mind. A lot of people will fall by the wayside. Many people will give up. It doesn't matter if you started your journey late. It doesn't matter if you stumbled out of the blocks. You owe it to yourself to finish with everything you have.
I'm going to be embarking on a new journey this week, and I want everyone to keep me accountable. Watch me finish. Then I'll come back to write another post on the metrics and tools I used to finish. You've heard here first.
See you at the finish line!


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General information about starting school
|Come and have a look at our new and improved Outdoor area!
Finding the right school for your child is a very important step. To help support you in making your decision we offer tours in the Autumn so that you can meet key staff, see our school in action and ask any questions that you may have.
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- Thursday 1st October 1:30-2:30pm
- Friday 2nd October 1:30-2:30pm
- Monday 6th October 1:30-2:30pm
Please contact the school office to book a place (01903 892401) or email@example.com.
If the above dates are not convenient we are happy to arrange a more suitable time and date.
Admissions information on the West Sussex County Council website can be found by clicking here.
Admissions can be contacted by telephone on 0845 075 1007
To help support you and your child in starting school we have strong transition arrangements in place. These include visits to Pre-School/Nursery setting, a home visit so that we can get to know your child better in their own environment, stay and play sessions in July, a book bag, a 'Welcome to St Mary's booklet' full of pictures of their classroom, the key areas in school, the adults that they will be working with and a summer holiday treasure box task.


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As a business owner do you ever wonder where the money is going, who's doing what and when and are the decisions being made the right ones or could we do better.
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This means without asking any of your staff or management whats happening, you can see it all from you mobile/tablet or PC and keep ahead of the curve and in the know.
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We integrate the business activity of your choice and display it in real time.
As the business owner, you will simply be able to login into our secure website and view your business activity in real time.
What was delivered and was it all in order. This is a simple real time update of deliveries to your business.
Staff On/Off Site
A simple 10 second sign on and off the premises which is beneficial for wages etc.
Keeping a list of all clients details in real time will help you know who you spoke to and what was arrange ect.
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The EU-Serbia Stabilisation and Association Council (SA Council) held its third meeting on 13 December 2016
The meeting was chaired by Jadranka Joksimović, Minister without portfolio for EU integration of Serbia. Miroslav Lajčák, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, led the European Union delegation (on behalf of the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini). Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for Enlargement Negotiations and European Neighbourhood Policy, represented the European Commission.
The SA Council meeting provided a timely opportunity to review Serbia's progress in its preparations for accession and to consider priorities for further work within the framework of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement.
The SA Council welcomed the major steps Serbia had taken since its last meeting, with the adoption of its action plans for rule of law chapters 23 and 24 as well as progress in the EU‑facilitated dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, including a commitment to regional cooperation, which allowed the opening of the first negotiating chapters.
The SA Council welcomed the opening of chapters 32 (Financial control) and 35 (Other issues: Item 1 – Normalisation of relations between Serbia and Kosovo*) on 14 December 2015, chapters 23 (Judiciary and fundamental rights) and 24 (Justice, freedom and security) on 18 July 2016, as well as the opening of chapter 5 (Public procurement) and the opening and provisional closure of chapter 25 (Science and research) on 13 December 2016.
The SA Council encouraged Serbia to use the existing momentum to intensify reform efforts and to focus on the effective implementation of reforms in the areas of rule of law, fundamental rights, democratic institutions, public administration, as well as in developing a functioning market economy and improving the business environment. The SA Council stressed the importance for Serbia to meet in a timely manner the commitments taken in its action plans for chapters 23 and 24.
The SA Council took note of the holding of the elections in Serbia on 24 April 2016 and looked forward to continued work towards Serbia's strategic goal of EU membership under the new government. The SA Council noted that, according to the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR), the election process offered voters a variety of choices and was conducted in full respect of fundamental freedoms. The SA Council expressed its expectation for Serbia to address all OSCE/ODIHR recommendations.
As regards the EU-facilitated dialogue, the SA Council welcomed the recent agreements on the implementation of freedom of movement and telecoms. The SA Council noted that progress in the EU-facilitated Dialogue, in particular in implementing the August 2015 agreements, had been slow in the first half of 2016. It called on Serbia to swiftly implement in good faith its part of all past agreements, in particular on energy, and to engage constructively with Kosovo in formulating and implementing future agreements.
The SA Council underlined that, in accordance with the negotiating framework, Serbia needs to progressively align with the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy in the period up to accession. The SA Council welcomed Serbia's contribution to the Common Security and Defence Policy and noted first steps undertaken in the process of renewal of its strategic documents in the field of security and defence.
The SA Council commended Serbia for its efforts and constructive cooperation in addressing the migration crisis. It also recalled the importance of cooperation in the fight against terrorism.
The SA Council recalled that regional cooperation and good neighbourly relations were essential elements of the Enlargement Process and the Stabilisation and Association Process. The SA Council noted with satisfaction Serbia's increasingly constructive engagement in regional cooperation initiatives and encouraged Serbia to continue strengthening good neighbourly relations. The SA Council underlined that outstanding disputes and issues should be solved in line with international law and established principles.
The SA Council looked forward to the next steps in accession negotiations and recalled that Serbia's progress under rule of law chapters 23 and 24 and in the process of normalisation of relations with Kosovo under chapter 35 remained essential for the overall pace of the negotiating process, in line with the negotiating framework.
The SA Council also held an exchange of views on developments in the Western Balkans.
* This designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with UNSCR 1244/99 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.


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Someone has been leaving a few comments here or there that I and I am sure other members of this blog don't appreciate...........
Your not welcome here..........
well said Chookyblue - there are some weird people stalking blogs at the moment - sad, sad people.
I guess when it gets cold outside spammers have nothing better to do with their lives. I usually got one or two spams on my blog a week, no biggy, they didn't get posted, just went to the spam folder. But lately I have been getting 20-30 a day in that folder, so I added word verification to my comments, which I did NOT want to do.
really? get a life!
how sad that people don't have anything better to do than be a nuisance to others!!
ditto Caths comments!
Im am not sure what is being said but I am sorry someone is being inappropriate -
there are crazies everywhere


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In 1998, when Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. bought the Los Angeles Dodgers, the storied franchise was worth $380 million. News Corp. sold the team in 2003 for $430 million. After winning the ability to negotiate a new multi-billion sports TV contract this fall, they sold earlier this year for $2 billion, blowing the lid off sports property values.
In 1994, the San Diego Padres were worth $80 million. After recently signing a 20-year deal with Fox Sports for $1.2 billion, they sold (pending league approval) for $800 million.
Meanwhile, in 2000, the Los Angeles Times was worth at least $1.5 billion when it was sold as part of Times Mirror to Tribune Company. Today, as it is newly readied for market out of the Tribune bankruptcy, it would go for something less than $250 million. The San Diego Union-Tribune, once valued near a billion dollars, sold for about $35 million in 2009 and about $110 million in 2011.
It's a reversal of fortune: Newspaper franchises that once outvalued baseball teams by 3-1 or 5-1 or 10-1 now see the inverse of that ratio. Why?
Two letters: TV.
Those numbers tell us a lot about the continuing power of television, in worth, in value creation, and in the news business itself. If we look just at recent events in the ongoing transformation of broadcast and cable to digital, we now see multiple breakthroughs on their path to digital. They give us indications of what the news business, video and text, will look like in the coming years. While we can argue endlessly about the relative virtues and vices of print and TV news, we must acknowledge the relative ascendance of TV and think about what that means for the news business overall.
TV's revenues are holding up far better than newspaper companies', and TV is better positioned to survive the great digital disruption.
TV has continued to have great audience. Nearly three in four Americans tune in to local TV news at least weekly, surpassing newspaper penetration, even as Pew Research points out they mainly do it for three topics: breaking news, weather, and traffic. Further, it retains great ad strength — 42 percent of national ad spending, matching the actual number of minutes Americans spend with the medium and making it the only medium still ahead of digital spending as digital has surpassed print (newspapers + magazines this year, both in the U.S. and globally). Yes, TV remains a gorilla. While Netflix won headlines when it announced it had streamed one billion hours of TV and movies in a single month, that huge number compared to about 43 billion hours of U.S. TV consumption, according to Nielsen's 4Q 2011 Cross-Platform report.
In a nutshell, that's the difference between TV and video, circa 2012. Video is the next wave — incorporating TV perhaps, but still the very young kid on the block.
Today, TV is no longer a box. Sure, even with all the Rokus, Boxees, and Apple TVs, it seems like TV isn't yet an out-of-the-box experience. But with Hulu, Netflix, and Comcast's Xfinity, it's emerging quickly, escaping our fixed idea of what it once was — the boob tube in the living room. If it's not just a box anymore, it's a platform. From that platform, we see both the disruptors and the incumbents doubling down their bets. As in most things digital, few of these launches will be huge winners — but some will drive big breakthroughs. Some of the iconic legacy companies we've long known will be absorbed in the woodwork as new brands supplant them. Consider the spate of recent innovation, as we quickly assess the newsonomics going forward:
That's a short list. We could easily add HuffPo's streaming initiative and The Wall Street Journal's wider video embrace. Or Les Moonves' digital moves at CBS. And Fox's new MundoFox, Spanish-language TV network, taking on Telemundo and Impremedia. The new network, at birth, offers a strong digital component, working at launch with advertisers along those lines. Let's note some quick takeaways here, all of which we'll be talking about in 2013:
The all-access, news-anywhere, entertainment-everywhere era has created a new massive business competition. Which brands will be top of mind? Who will consumers pay? How valuable is news itself in this contest?
Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon, AT&T — pipes companies — are in one corner. CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, HBO, Showtime, and other known-to-consumer brands in another. Aggregators like Netflix and Hulu over there. Media marketers like Amazon and Apple holding court. Google. The local broadcasters fighting for their place in this digital ring. This new battle of brands, in and around "TV," is now joined.
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs
1. Man sentenced to one year in federal prison for uploading X-Men movie (Deadline)
2. New York Times Co. negotiating to sell regional newspapers (Media Decoder)
3. Should computer science be required in K-12? (MindShift)
4. E-books as a digital news business strategy (Nieman Reports)
5. Winners and losers from the death of AT&T's T-Mobile deal (paidContent)
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Welcome to the second episode of "The Mediatwits," the new revamped longer form weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift's Mark Glaser along with PaidContent founder Rafat Ali. This week's show looks at the repercussions of the $39 billion buyout of T-Mobile USA by AT&T. Rafat has had both services and will stick by AT&T, but Mark is making the move from AT&T to Verizon. Plus, Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns, the authors of the book Tweets from Tahrir, were special guests on the show, explaining how they got their book to print so fast. Finally, MediaShift poll results showed that nearly 90% of respondents would not pay for NYTimes.com content at the current high prices.
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Intro and outro music by 3 Feet Up; mid-podcast music by Autumn Eyes via Mevio's Music Alley. "iPhone Blues" by The Temps.
Here are some highlighted topics from the show:
AT&T buys T-Mobile
2:20: Mark sings the "iPhone Blues"
3:40: Rafat compares T-Mobile in L.A. to AT&T in NYC
5:50: Media companies will lose a big cell phone advertiser
7:20: Google makes deal to supply Sprint with Google Voice
10:20: Rafat will stick with AT&T
"Tweets from Tahrir"
13:10: Nadia Idle talks about her trip to Tahrir Square
17:45: Alex Nunns says they got permission from all tweeters to use their tweets in book
21:15: What's up with the @HosniMubarak feed?
24:30: Nadia will return to Egypt in May with books in hand
26:00: Mark and Rafat discuss print-on-demand aspect of the book
NYTimes.com pay wall
29:50: NY Times execs pooh-pooh people hacking the wall
33:50: MediaShift poll results on people paying for access to NYTimes.com
35:45: Rafat happy that companies are trying revenue models
What does AT&T's T-Mobile merger mean to you? at News.com
Lawmaker: Make Net Neutrality A Condition Of AT&T/T-Mobile Merger at MediaPost
AT&T's Pitch for Free Mobile at WSJ
"Tweets from Tahrir" book from ORBooks.com
'Tweets From Tahrir' Collects Egypt Posts in a Book at NY Times Media Decoder
New York Times Paywall Breached With Four Lines of Code at PC Mag
A Note to Our Readers on the Times Pay Model and the Economics of Reporting at NY Times
Be sure to vote in the MediaShift poll about the AT&T/T-Mobile buyout:
AT&T + T-Mobile = _________?online survey
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The iPhone is coming, the iPhone is coming, the iPhone is coming... to Verizon. After an endless string of complaints from users about dropped calls on the AT&T iPhone, Verizon finally is offering relief with its own iPhone, due out next month. The downsides of the new Verizon iPhone include that it's on the CDMA network, and not a new 4G network, and doesn't do global voice roaming. I talked with CNET's Nicole Lee about the pluses and minuses of the new Verizon iPhone.
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Here are some links to related sites and stories for the podcast:
Consumer Reports offers scathing critique on Verizon iPhone 4 at Consumer Reports
With Verizon's iPhone, a rare example of customers getting what they crave at the Washington Post
Verizon iPhone is 'Ultimate Threat' to Android, Report Says at PC Mag
Is Verizon IPhone Too Late For Apple? at MediaPost
A Few Points to Think About Before You Grab a Verizon iPhone at Huffington Post
Amazon Says No Plans to Carry Verizon iPhone at PC Mag
The Verizon iPhone 4: Promising, but likely to be short-lived at Consumer Reports blog
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In the good old days (of three months ago) you could surf the web on your iPhone with abandon. Do I want to watch this video? Sure! Do I want to download this huge attachment? Why not? Data plans were unlimited; there was no need to think twice, at least not about cost. And that offered news organizations hope, especially when the iPad came along. Maybe slick smart phones and tablet devices would usher in a new advertising revenue stream more akin to print advertising rates than the standard, abysmal web rates.
But now AT&T has nixed the all-you-can-eat data plans for users of the new iPhone 4 and the iPad. (Some lucky folks have been grandfathered in.) And rumor has it that Verizon will soon follow suit with their smartphone plans. It sounds like the Internet's trajectory from dial-up pay-by-the-minute plans to unlimited — only in reverse. I can picture my mother now: It's 1995 and she's waiving the AOL bill frantically, exasperated. What are you spending all this time online doing? Back then, the Internet was like the worst big box store you can imagine: get in, get what you need, and get out. Quickly. When the billing structure for Internet usage went unlimited, Internet use exploded in our house — and everywhere. It's a version of Chris Anderson's "mental transaction costs" — even "very cheap" forces a thought process that "free" does not.
So what happens when we move back to a world where data is scarce? Will we act like I did in the days of my 300-minute cell phone plan? (Wherearewemeeting? OKbye!) With consumers facing an extra $15 per extra 200 MB used (depending on your plan), will news sites — particularly those heavy on video — suffer from user indecision? This New York Times video on New Orleans bounce weighs in at 32.9 MB; our latest video is 216 MB. Mobile versions are smaller when available, but even then, a few videos can send users of the cheapest iPhone plan down the toll road. (AT&T estimates that someone on that plan could watch only 20 minutes of streaming video a month before hitting the cap.)
I spoke with Jeff Whatcott, senior vice president of marketing for the online video platform Brightcove, which provides the video back end for lots of news sites. He said that while the shift may cause some changes in user behavior at the margins, he doesn't predict a shift away from mobile video. If anything, he says, Brightcove has seen the opposite: The iPad has triggered immense interest among advertisers, who want to get rich media like video ready for mobile.
Whatcott suspects that AT&T wouldn't set prices in such a way that they'd "kill the golden goose." If users started seeing their monthly bill skyrocket, they might abandon their devices. But going over, say, ten bucks a month? Abandonment seems less likely. "The people that are buying [mobile devices] have disposable income and unless the cost of these new data plans are just exorbitant, where people are getting bills for hundreds or thousands of dollars, I think the costs are going to be in that reasonable range." No one likes paying the cable bill, he points out, but most of us do anyway.
But what about just the threat of a higher bill? Could fear water down use? Whatcott says he can imagine that sentiment, it being somewhat like using a costly international data plan, which he does traveling. "I think it's a real world concern," he says, "but it hasn't been an acute thing that has bubbled up to us as a crisis."
I also reached out to Adobe, which helped Wired build its successful iPad app, which weighs in at a whopping 500 MB. Dave Dickson, product marketing manager for digital publishing at Adobe, said he didn't think the move away from unlimited data would have a big impact on apps like Wired's. AT&T already limits the downloading of large (over 20 MB) apps to wifi or desktop connections only, and downloading an entire magazine issue at once eliminates the slow dribble of data that its web equivalent would involve.
Indeed, a shift to wifi is a common prediction for how consumers would react to capped data plans. AT&T has in the past pushed iPhone owners to shift to wifi whenever possible.
Still, smartphones are designed to be mobile devices, and it's not realistic to expect users to have wifi available anywhere they'd like to consume content. "Should smartphones emerge as the device class of choice," Dickson emailed, "publishers may need to tailor their content package to the capabilities of the device (for example, streaming video instead of embedding it) so that users can more easily download and view content applications under bandwidth-restricted conditions."
Mobile Marketer Daily explored this topic when the new data plans were announced, and analysts for the mobile ad industry agreed that the new structure is unlikely to reverse a trend toward an explosion in mobile devices. "I don't think this move by AT&T will slow the adoption of smartphones and connected devices like the iPad, as enough consumers have experienced first-hand the benefits of how these devices enrich their daily life," Paul Kultgen, director of mobile media and advertising at Nielsen Online, Chicago told Mobile Marketer Daily.
In any event, we'll find out in the coming months whether there's any real impact for mobile video. If you're on a newly tiered plan and watching your KBs the way you once watched your minutes, has it affected how you surf the web?
[Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.]
I know. You say, who could ever replace Larry King? But I remind you that Larry's six ex-wives have already confronted that question.
Most of the speculation about a replacement has focused on a range of usual suspects, personalities from Katie Couric to Ryan Seacrest to Joy Behar to Piers Morgan — all around the question of who will be able to command a better audience than King, whose ratings have seen a steady decline. Indeed, his successor, who will take over the show in November, will probably come from that list, a month after the network plucked Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker to fill Campbell Brown's spot.
Yet the changing economics of CNN's basic business model prompt lots of questions about ways CNN could go — as well as offering print- and broadcast-based news companies some pointers on their own business model development.
Let's recall that CNN is a tale of two modern stories. Its flagship cable news station has been flagging badly, having fallen to a #4 position in cable news behind Fox, MSNBC, and its own Headline News Network (HLN), tabloid TV without tabloid wit. CNN is cool and confused in an age of hot and pointed.
Online, though, CNN has built a formidable business. It ranks at or near the top of the top news sites, excels at user-gen news content and offers one of the few paid news apps.
It's a tale of two business units going opposite directions.
Look at the revenue pie for CNN, and you discover more nuance. One-half of CNN's roughly $500 million in revenue comes from what it calls business subscription fees — what cable companies pay it for carriage. Ten percent of its revenue is now coming from prime-time advertising; the same percentage from its digital businesses. Advertising outside prime time, international, and some syndication round out the revenue picture.
We can certainly see that CNN's revenue model is much more diverse than newspaper or broadcast companies. That payment from cable systems for carriage — averaging about 50 cents per subscriber per month, according to recent accounts — makes a huge difference in a time of great advertising change.
We can also see that CNN is becoming more and more of a content company. It gets paid that half dollar a month from cable companies because its inclusion helps drive subscribers. Recently dropping the Associated Press, it's moving increasingly into syndication, both video and text, and there the quality and breadth of content counts. As one of the first news companies to embrace multi-platform publishing (cable + desktop + mobile, long before others got that notion), it moved quickly to price its product for the iPhone, charging $1.99 and now ranking as the #2 news app in the iTunes store.
So content creation — and content creation that rebounds in digital waves, even if it starts from a cablecast — is more important to CNN every day. If it could come up with more programming that provided digital multipliers — smartphone and tablet users willing to pay for access, and advertisers joining them — then the Larry King replacement might be not just good TV, but good strategy.
What might that mean?
For instance, how could could CNN better leverage its substantial iReport operation, a user-generated innovation that is the gold standard for TV news. Viral user-gen video is a mainstay of the digital world. Or maybe it could create an America's Best News Videos (is Bob Saget available?), riffing on the montages that Jon Stewart has made almost mainstream. Maybe it could go The View-like, aggregating characters whose comments and rants might generate great two-three minute digital products. Or, most likely, it could find a bolt-out-of-the-blue digital age personality, like Rachel Maddow, who may well front MSNBC's first iPad app. As MSNBC's Mark Marvel told AllThingsD's Peter Kafka about its coming app, it will allow users to "engage with the host of that show." Engagement with Rachel, yes; with Larry, no. With Katie, maybe.
Can CNN find a digital upgrade to the analog King?
The goals here would be to produce great digital content, not just ratings. Sure, TV has seen some pick-up of memorable interviews — think CBS' Katie Couric and Sarah Palin, or more recently the half-million pageviews after-market that Maddow generated with her Rand Paul interview. That aftermarket, though, has been more of an afterthought. If revenue growth is in the digital content business, CNN, broadcasters, and all news producers must increasingly think at least digital rebound, if not digital first. As Stephen Covey legendarily said, "Begin with the end in mind." A good habit for highly effective media companies to adopt.
What else might print news companies learn from the CNN model?
First, syndication. While the Chicago News Cooperative and Bay Citizen pioneer innovative content syndication models, both with the New York Times, and Financial Times' direct licensing model breaks new ground, most newspaper companies have failed to find other new, lucrative markets for their content. Yes, they've made some money from enterprise and education licensing, but if their content is really that valuable, they should be able to find other companies (Comcast, NYT, regional businesses, and more) to pay them for it.
Second, the pay-per-subscriber model that has insulated CNN from the ravages of ad change is one news companies should ponder. CNN made itself an indispensable part of the cable mix. Is local/regional news content indispensable to any aggregators — AT&T, Verizon, Apple, Nokia, for instance — as they bundle technology and content? What would it take — in the kind and breadth of content (video?) produced — to get a monthly payment, especially in the mobile digital world to come?
In this week's 4MR podcast I consider the new iPhone 4 announced by Apple, with a sleeker design, longer battery life, "retina display" and a front-facing camera for video calls. How will the iPhone stack up against popular Android phones such as the new 4G HTC Evo and the Motorola Droid? I talked with CNET associate editor Nicole Lee to discuss the pros and cons of the new iPhone.
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Here are some links to related sites and stories mentioned in the podcast:
iPhone 4 vs. HTC Evo vs. Droid Incredible at Mashable
Sprint CFO - HTC EVO can take on iPhone 4 at News.com
Dialed In - iPhone 4 versus HTC Evo 4G at News.com
4 carriers and 4 super smartphones - which is your favorite? at ZDNet
HTC EVO 4G for Sprint Review at MobileCrunch
iPhone 4's 'Retina' Display Claims Are False Marketing at Wired News
iPhone 4 multitasking will disappoint at Computerworld
Apple previews iPhone OS 4, adds multitasking at Computerworld
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iPhone or Android?survey software
Mark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and Idea Lab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit.
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[Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.]
Are you ready to receive? That's the question news company should be asking themselves this month, as the second half of the year — with its unexpected flow in mobile ad dollars — beckons.
The numbers are mostly anecdotal at this point, though as some of us forecast, tablets promise a new, significant source of revenue for the companies that are ready to play the tablet game, and play it well.
Among the early evidence, reported by AP's Andrew Vanacore, are:
Add to that the July 1 launch of Apple's iAds, which will introduce ads within iPhone and iPod Touch (but not yet iPad) apps, and which will begin with $60 million in sales, with such companies as Disney, AT&T, and Best Buy participating. You can bet that when the program launches on the iPad, a vastly superior ad medium given the screen size, it will do well. Even just on the "phone" side of the business, the iAds launch should give Apple — and, importantly, apps — almost half of the mobile ad spend in the U.S.
Want a little flavor to understand advertiser enthusiasm? Check out this Steve Henn Marketplace report featuring a VP for The Gap. She's near-ecstatic in describing her enthusiasm for the iPad/tablet as a way of selling stuff and gaining customer knowledge.
So, yes, maybe the iPad ad euphoria should come with a few grains of salt. But, still, the "multi-touch" immersive future, painted by Steve Jobs and talked up by the big digital ad agencies (themselves looking for new reasons to be in the supply chain) is upon us.
So, are publishers ready?
I had a conversation recently with someone who runs a digital division for a major newspaper group — smart guy, a pioneer in the field. I asked: "So are you working on an iPad app?" Answer: "We've looked at our logs, and we're seeing increasing traffic from the Kindle, but not much yet from the iPad, so we'll wait awhile."
I felt a rant coming up, but suppressed it then and will channel it now: If not now, then when?
We can look at each of the major revolutions in digital news and commerce, and see how news companies responded.
Search. Late.
Paid search. Way too late.
Video. Late.
Social. Too late.
Mobile. Largely too late.
News companies have used old yardsticks to measure new technologies, and the results have been, predictably and disastrously, too little, too late.
Now with the iPad, the advent of tablets generally, and the invention of the app metaphor as a way of navigating the digital life, news companies have another chance. The newsonomics of tablet ad revenue are uncertain — will iAds simply flood the ad market with more low-cost ads, as developers happy to get any ad revenue price their ads low? — but the tablet offers the biggest do-over potential for engaging readers anew and re-engaging advertisers, at rates somewhere between the laughably low of the web and the near-impossible-to-sustain-long-term highs of print.
The digital division head told me that the logs told him that there was insufficient customer demand to justify investment in an iPad app. This, I think, is like managing by rearview mirror.
The whole metaphor of the iPad is the app; ask anyone who uses it, and they'll tell you they are surprised how little they use the browser and use search. So if you are counting browser views of your website coming through the iPad browser, you have no idea how a reader might use your product if it were built to take full advantage of the tablet's abilities. In addition, consider that the sale of iAds require an app — not a browser-available site.
If this sentiment were uncommon, fine, but I fear it's too commonly held. Wait and see. Wait — until it's too late. That's what I generally see happening among regional and local newspaper companies. They talk about early adopters and the high cost of a state-of-the-art iPad app, and most are waiting.
The big guys — what I've called the Digital Dozen — aren't waiting. The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Thomson Reuters, The Guardian, BBC, and AP are in the game — some with better apps than others — and all planning the next generation of products. We're seeing impressive sales in the thousands for the WSJ paid app and can wonder about the applicability of Wired's impressive sales of 73,000 (which are on a trajectory to beat print newsstand sales) to news and newspaper companies.
We've already seen a great separation in product development, audience engagement, and ad revenues between the nation's and world's biggest news companies — each with struggles of its own — and the other guys. Yet as they struggle, they've gotten most of the ad revenue smartphones have so far generated, as local news media has failed to get any revenue of scale. At this point, the iPad era looks like it the opening of an even greater divide among the largest media — and the rest.
[Ken will be on vacation the next few weeks, but back in July. —Josh]
The Forbes.com Firewall blog looks at the media treatment of a big tech story from this week, the breach of iPad buyer information.
The source of the AT&T story claims he approached mainstream media titles before he gave the exclusive to Gawker…
Asked if Gawker paid for the scoop, Weev said the publication did not provide remuneration. "we did a benefit analysis and decided they could take our story viral the fastest," he writes in an email.
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As SXSW Interactive comes to a close and SXSW Music kicks off, it's worth taking a look at the ideas, trends, discussions, and issues that dominated the four-day technology summit. Here are the five areas that stood out the most to me.
Every year there is a product or two that monopolizes most of the buzz -- for example, you couldn't go ten feet in 2008 without hearing a discussion about Twitter. For 2010, the buzzed-about phrase was without a doubt location-based services. Although the start of this discussion was in 2009, these mash-ups of geography and social technology really hit their stride this year.
Foursquare and Gowalla are the clear leaders in this space, as evidenced by the major presence enjoyed by both at the conference. Foursquare had a record 347,000 check-ins in one day this week, and the use of the service will certainly continue as the music crowd floods Austin.
The discussion I had with most people centered around the question, "What next?" As in: Now that these services are gaining momentum and adoption, where is the business model? Other than high-level brand partnerships and individual locations offering incentives for customers to check-in, few other monetization and call-to-action results have been seen. I see plenty of value in getting 10 percent off my order if I am the Foursquare mayor of a restaurant, or in allocating a big ad spend for a custom promotion, but where is the middle ground for everyone else?
But apart from that, you know you're hitting some level of critical mass when CNN chimes in on how to use Foursquare to be cool (or at least not uncool).
In my 2009 wrap-up piece, I stated that 2010 would be the year of analytics. The data has been available for ages, but the tools to turn raw data into information -- and better yet, knowledge -- have finally found a strong value proposition. More and more products are emerging to monitor and analyze Twitter activity, social media trends, community management results, and overall impact and impressions.
Google Analytics is still a strong contender in the space, with almost everyone mentioning this as a core piece of the puzzle. Platform-specific tools such as Twitter Counter and bigger-picture services such as Radian6 were discussed at great length and examples were provided of their functionality.
The current Holy Grail of analytics (and I bet a buzz-topic at SXSW in 2011) is sentiment analysis -- not only knowing who is saying what how often, but getting a feel for the tone and meaning of what they are saying. Be on the lookout for more discussion and tools as time goes on. (MediaShift's Nick Mendoza looked at sentiment analysis related to the Oscars recently.)
There is no lack of articles on the multiple disappointments around this year's panels and keynotes (start here and here). Spotify's Daniel Ek and Twitter's Evan Williams both brought in packed houses, but by the end of their talks the attendance was sparse and the content was thin.
As someone who speaks at and attends many tech and music conferences, I've seen my fair share of highly informative panels, and have had plenty of my time wasted. I wish I could report that SXSWi had a non-stop stream of amazing takeaways, but unfortunately it didn't go that way.
It's not for lack of relevant, forward-thinking topics. And it's certainly not for lack of amazing speakers who are getting big things done. In my experience, it comes down to two things: Having to cater to a very wide audience with varying skill levels, and only having a short time to address a long list of topics. The solution? Keep the panels focused on the core topic -- I'm talking to you, moderators -- and keep in mind that the audience can read theory on any blog; what they need are actionable takeaways.
The reason I left most panels disappointed was that I felt it was a missed opportunity. With such brilliant and accomplished panelists, I should have walked out of the room with a few action items I could implement immediately. This was very rare.
The attendance at this year's conference says something positive about the state of the tech industry. Last year's attendance was approximately 10,000; this year, there were over 15,000 badge holders. The feeling is very reminiscent of the mid-'90s in Seattle, when a new wave of technology and investment quickly expanded the marketplace.
What seems great for the industry -- a glut of big thinkers and tech geniuses -- is not as ideal for the conference itself. Getting into panels meant waiting in long lines and, often, only getting in when someone else left. The same thing happened at most industry parties, where the RSVPs far exceeded room capacity. It was a constant feeling up "hurry up and wait."
Fortunately, AT&T thought ahead and brought in an extra cell tower, providing massive bandwidth for what seemed to be the biggest concentration of iPhones on the planet. I can honestly say it was the best 3G coverage I've ever had.
Something I noticed this year that I hadn't seen near as much in prior years was a number of parallel conferences, both perceived and actual. Depending on your interests and network, the conference experience tends to vary widely. In a single night you can find yourself in the middle of a raging party with young (and wealthy) tech entrepreneurs, a serious business dinner with corporate executives, and in a development workshop with programmers (that's their own unique type of party).
In addition, there were a number of side conferences, including fully off-site panels that almost felt like secret societies. Celebrity bloggers hosted workshops, independent organizations hosted roundtable discussions, and trade organizations fostered discussions focused on their interests. There was certainly something for everyone.
SXSW Music has now begun, and the tone of the conference has dramatically changed. Stay tuned for a report back on that experience...
Photo of Foursquare app by dpstyles via Flickr. Photo of attendee with Mr. Spam by Randy Stewart via Flickr. Photo of SXSW closing party logo by Fellowship of the Rich via Flickr
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Whether you like his clients or not… Jaffer '94 follow up …
At this earlier post Whitney Wilson says It would be great if Andrew had the time to post some of the details of the discussion, which I'm sure many EphBlog readers (including me) would find very interesting.
Indeed Andrew Wang '08 has and his follow up may be read here and on the previous post.
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Just wanted to fill you all in on some of the details of the talk I attended with Jaffer. The discussion focused on the degree to which the Obama administration has continued the national security policies of the Bush administration, and more specifically whether the practice of targeted killings via Predator drones in places like Pakistan or Yemen is legal under the Constitution or the laws of war.
One of the major disputes between Jaffer and the other panelist (a former major DOJ attorney who defended the Bush policies) was whether the "full incidents of the laws of war" attach to the "War on Terror." The other panelist was of the opinion that virtually all of the incidents of war that apply to traditional wars (e.g. detention of enemy combatants for the full duration of the war, the power to kill enemy combatants without prior judicial approval, etc.) apply here as well. His position took a fairly bright-line approach, starting from the premise that a conflict is falls either within the "war" category or the "law enforcement" category.
Jaffer, on the other hand, pointed out the various nuances of the war against terrorist organizations that differentiate it from traditional wars. In his mind, though some of the incidents of war apply to the conflict (as affirmed by the Supreme Court in cases such as Hamdi v. Rumsfeld), the other panelist's paradigm was problematic for a number of both legal and practical reasons.
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Carolyn A. Reinders, 87, of Burlington, formerly of Lakeside Park, passed away Saturday, April 6, 2019 at Carmel Manor in Fort Thomas.
She was a member of St. Henry Church in Elsmere and retired as a medical assistant for Dr. Hoffman in Fort Mitchell.
Carolyn was preceded in death by her parents, Harry and Mary Holzman Reinders.
Survivors include many nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews and great - great nieces and nephews.
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