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Tim Tebow spoke with media at George M. Steinbrenner Field on Thursday night, before his team, the St. Lucie Mets, played the Tampa Yankees. Here is how it went.

Q: Have you ever played in Tampa, in any sport? Isn't your mom from Tampa?

Tebow: "Yes, Plant (High). And my grandma lived here until she passed away. I know I played here in a lot of baseball tournaments when I was young. But we didn't play in any state championships (here). Never played in the Bucs stadium."

Q: Do you enjoy meeting the fans you're drawing to games?

Tebow: "It's always nice to have support from fans or fans come out here and try to get entertained in a ballgame. But it's honestly not something that I really try to worry about or pay much attention to. I just try to stay focused on playing the game, having fun, and then if you get an opportunity to see the fans and say thanks, that's good as well."

Q: Is it an added bonus that you're playing in the Florida State League, in the state where you were raised?

Tebow: "Florida is home for me. I get to see family a lot more. I get to see friends a lot more. Just knowing people all over the state, it's nice to be able to catch up, so that's pretty cool."

Q: How committed are you to pursuing baseball until the end of the season, given your responsibilities to ESPN and the SEC Network?

Tebow: "I feel if you look at my actions and what I've been doing, I feel pretty committed."

Q: Will you play next season?

Tebow: "Yes, sir."

Q: Talk about the minor league grind.

Tebow: "The minor league grind, it isn't as much of a grind in this league as the last one, because of the traveling. But it's really not much of a grind if you really enjoy what you're doing every day. I try to have the mindset of remembering why I play the game and how fun it is every day, enjoy every moment and not just think about 'we're just going through the motions' or 'it's another BP,' or it's another long-toss session, but actually remember why I'm doing it and have fun. I think that takes away the edge of it being a grind and being a daily routine and just lets you have fun."

Q: You've been struggling at the plate lately. Have you hit a wall?

Tebow: "I just think facing good pitchers and also some days it just doesn't go through for you, too. I don't think I ever want to get comfortable to where I feel I'm in a rhythm, because this is the ultimate goal, you want to keep continuing to improve. I'm continually changing things, too, in my swing and rhythm and my timing in things, so sometimes when you're working on things, you might have to take a step back to a couple of steps forward when you get it done."

Q: What do you think about your critics, those who want you to fail?

Tebow: "I don't spend a lot of time thinking about it. If people want you to fail, then there are probably other things that are the root issue of that, and it's not me. I want to be someone who's a believer. A believer, first and foremost, in my God. A believer in my teammates, my abilities, why I'm here. A believer in people. I want to bring the best out of people, bring the most out of people, whether it's in relationships with my family, friends, everybody.

"You want to be someone who uplifts people. I want people's lives to be better because I'm in their life. I don't want their lives to be worse because I'm in it. That's something I take into every relationship, everything that I do. It doesn't matter that I'm talking to you right now. Hopefully, your day is better because of how I answered your questions. Hopefully, my teammates are better because of the way I'm going to go out and stretch with them for a minute. Everything you do, you have a chance for influence, which is one of the greatest things we can do in life, have influence over other people."

Q: Who was your biggest influence in convincing you to try baseball?

Tebow: "My dad. No question. He's probably the biggest influence on my life from when I was a little boy. He has the most passion and courage. He's the bravest person I ever met. He has given his life to helping people every single day. He just got back from Southeast Asia two nights ago. He's the man."

Q: You're about to turn 30. Do you feel 30?

Tebow: "I feel very young. I feel like a kid because I'm playing a kid's game."

Q: Did you see Michael Jordan play baseball in Jacksonville when you were young? Do you think you have something in common with him?

Tebow: "No. I would've loved to have seen him play. I don't know if we have something in common. We have a competitive itch that you have, and there's also a drive, that you don't want to live with the regret of why you didn't do something because of the thought of failure. I think that's something that hampers a lot of people, and it holds people back because they're afraid of the unknown, they're afraid of tomorrow, they're afraid of what people are going to say, they're afraid of what you all are going to say.

"And because of that, a lot of people won't strive for something. Striving and failing is not the worst thing. But one day, when you're looking back and you're 50 and you're thinking, 'Man, I wish I would have tried this and this,' in my opinion, that would be a pretty big regret."

Q: What do you want to say to your doubters?

Tebow: "I don't really have a message, because I don't have to let those people control me. They don't control my actions, what I get to do or how I treat people. I'm so thankful for that. That I get to pursue my dreams and my passions, to live out my life. You don't have to let other people control you."

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The third class of recipients of the AAFP Tobacco and Nicotine Prevention and Control Chapter/Family Medicine Residency Program Mini-grants -- like their predecessors -- created novel approaches to controlling tobacco use at the state and local levels.

The Academy awarded $10,000 each to the five 2016-17 mini-grant recipients whose innovative programs addressed tobacco and nicotine prevention and control by focusing on clinical practice, social factors or public policy.

Supported in part by a grant from the AAFP Foundation, this will be the mini-grants program's final year; after careful consideration, the AAFP has decided to reallocate this funding to support its new Center for Diversity and Health Equity.

"We were very happy with the mini-grant funding model and hope to use that model in the future with other projects and programs, where appropriate," said Ashley Poole, global population health specialist in the AAFP Health of the Public and Science Division.

The Kansas AFP partnered with Tobacco Free Wichita(118 KB PDF) to test strategies for engaging physicians and other health care professionals in health messaging and advocacy on tobacco control initiatives. Specifically, the groups developed traditional media and social media training opportunities for physicians seeking to become tobacco-control advocates.

The partners offered a half-day training session with a local media firm on conducting quality media interviews. Each participant recorded an on-camera interview addressing tobacco issues and received feedback from the media firm representative.

According to the chapter, this training helped potential tobacco-control advocates communicate their stances and ideas about the importance of tobacco control more clearly and gave them insight on what journalists look for when reporting stories.

The Kansas AFP also provided training with a local oncology nurse and social media expert on using social media networks to expand reach and impact. These trainings were provided both in-person and virtually, and covered the basics of using Facebook and Twitter.

After completing the training, some participants used their established social media networks to promote Tobacco Free Wichita's social media accounts, which increased that group's following by 500 percent.

Tobacco Free Wichita also developed a hashtag -- #KSHealth -- to use when sharing health-related news statewide. The hashtag is now being widely used by organizations across the state.

As fortune would have it, the New Jersey and Delaware AFPs(271 KB PDF) had just teamed up to launch a quality improvement education project(www.njafp.org) in which they sought to address the ABCS of treating type 2 diabetes (A1c, blood pressure, cholesterol and smoking). So, when the AAFP's tobacco mini-grants came available, it made sense for the two groups to add a special focus on tobacco cessation to complement their broader project.

Here's how the groups explained it in their mini-grant project report: "We supplemented our curriculum with additional tobacco cessation education and added a partnership with the local American Lung Association (ALA) to provide additional resources. We reinforced that learning with data collection on cessation-related practice changes and tobacco counseling data from the practice (electronic health record systems)."

The groups trained practices to use a brief, evidence-based intervention and linked them to cessation resources such as the ALA's Lung HelpLine & Tobacco QuitLine, 1-800-LUNGUSA. A trainer from the ALA conducted the intervention training, which used the Ask, Advise and Refer model. Encouragingly, 95 percent of training participants said they intended to implement a new cessation strategy in their practices.

In April 2016, the Minnesota AFP House of Delegates passed a resolution asking the chapter to organize support for legislation in local cities and counties to ban nicotine sales to those younger than 21. The tobacco mini-grant the Minnesota AFP received enabled it to help lead the state's Tobacco 21 initiative(tobacco21.org).

Among the many activities the chapter listed in its project report(107 KB PDF) was recruiting members to act as Tobacco 21 champions, who used grassroots advocacy efforts to reach out to local legislators and media outlets and presented educational programs throughout the state.

The chapter also partnered with the Twin Cities Medical Society and other local public health organizations to host an education program for health care professionals to discuss both e-cigarettes and the Tobacco 21 initiative.

And when the community of Edina showed interest in Tobacco 21, the Minnesota AFP encouraged members living or practicing in the area to engage government officials and urge them to pass the legislation.

Those efforts paid off when on May 2, Edina became the first city in Minnesota to pass Tobacco 21 legislation.

Aultman Family Medicine Residency Outpatient Clinic in Canton, Ohio, caters to urban poor, Medicaid and Medicare patients, as well as some patients who are uninsured and some who have commercial insurance.

Before receiving the tobacco mini-grant, 22 percent of patients treated were smokers, and most of them had co-existing mental illness such as anxiety, depression or bipolar disorder. Additional comorbidities included heart disease, stroke, cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Not surprisingly, hospitalizations and readmissions were higher among these patients.

To complement Aultman Hospital's in-house tobacco cessation program, Aultman Give It Up!, which is run by certified treatment specialists and includes six weeks of multi-session tobacco cessation classes, the group created the AultQuit app(1 MB PDF). Program participants use the app to receive messages during their classes with tips for quitting and reminders about classes. The app also allows for better data collection and retrieval and has greatly streamlined the program's sign-up process.

The mini-grant has also permitted the Give It Up! program to incentivize potential participants with prizes and to enhance the mental health aspects of the existing classes, particularly the cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness components.

Related AAFP News Coverage CDC MMWR Teen Tobacco Use Dropped Significantly From 2015 to 2016 (6/22/2017)

Leader Voices Blog: Not Blowing Smoke: FPs Can Make a Difference on Tobacco(4/4/2017)

AAFP Tobacco Control Mini-grant Recipients Get Creative Again (7/13/2016)

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The folks at The Big Lead Sports decided to poll members of the sports media to see just how far left they are, and the results are about what you would expect.

The Big Lead polled 51 members of the sports media, allowing their answers to remain anonymous, to encourage the media to fill out the survey without fear of being outed as liberals. The site also polled 312 readers as a control group to see if the media was more, less, or the same politically as the sites readers.

The poll revealed that most considered themselves Democrats or independents, with 58 percent calling themselves Democrats and 37 percent claiming to be independents. As to the GOP, well, only three respondents (a measly 6 percent) said they were Republican.

The Big Lead points out that a recent Gallop poll said the breakdown above is far out of whack compared to the general population which sees 31 percent each claiming to be Democrat or Republican and 37 percent claiming to be independent.

However, party affiliation was the least of the sites poll finding, when asked if they were socially liberal, 76.5 percent said they were extremely liberal.

When the question turned to how they cast their vote in 2016, a whopping 80.4 percent said they voted for 2016 loser Hillary Clinton. While only a few said they cast their ballot for Donald Trump. In fact, more sports reporters said they didnt vote at all (9.8 percent) than said they voted for Trump.

For its control group, the sites readers voted for Clinton at 50.3 percent, while Trump and a third party candidate each got 20 percent.

The sports reporters also favored abortion (86.3 percent) while the general readers were closer to the middle (55.8 percent). In addition, 88.2 percent called themselves firm believers in global warming, while the readers only accepted climate change at 48 percent.

Gun ownership was also rejected by the sports reporters at a number far higherthan that of regular Americans. Of all the reporters asked, only three polled said they owned a gun. Meanwhile, national average fro gun ownership in America is 36 percent.

The reporters also self-identified as leftists in other ways. All but one chose left-wing news sources as their main sources of news, 78.4 percent agreed that sports media should be very liberal, and 76.5 percent wanted to see pot legalized.

In its conclusion, The Big Lead makes a point that has been echoed by other members of the sports media recently not that this conclusion helps the matter.

The sports media clearly leans left. But, it may be a stretch to say that alienates a significant portion of the audience, Ty Duffy wrote. The sports media is clustered in major cities and along the coasts because thats where much of its audience is.

This makes sense, most sports writers work for big media outfits in places like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

However, this also means that a relatively small community of liberal sports writers in liberal enclaves, are writing for a massive percentage of the country. Which, according to the numbers in this poll, do not hold the same values or opinions. While that has probably always been true in media, to some extent, given that media has always been coastal and liberal. However, one wonders if 50 years ago the ideological gap between scribe and fan was quite this stark.

In any event, this is a large part of the reason why outlets like ESPN have lost viewers. No one is serving half the number of sports fans in the country, and many of those fans are simply walking away from their once fervent love of sports because of it.

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The Splinternet

BothThe EconomistandWIREDare worried about the splinternet. The UK research organisation NESTAthinks it couldbreak up the world wide web as we know it.

What is this awkwardly named idea? Its the concept that someones experience of the internet in Turkey, for example, is increasingly different from their experience of the internet in Australia.

Travellers to China, in particular, will be familiar with this phenomenon. Thanks to the governments tight control, they have to use Baidu rather than Google as their search engine, and are unable to access Facebook or news sites like The Economist and the New York Times.

We have a growing splinternet because of regional content blocking and the need for companies to comply with diverse, often conflicting national policies, regulations and court decisions.

This tension is particularly apparent when it comes to the likes of Google, Facebook and Twitter. These platform companies have users in almost every country, and governments are increasingly insisting that they comply with local laws and cultural norms when it comes to access and content.

The idea of the internet as an independent, global and unregulated platform has always been something of a fiction. Even at the height oftechno-futurist rhetoricabout its potential to transcend national boundaries in the late 1990s, there were always exceptions.

The Chinese Communist Party understood from the start that the internet was simply a new form of media, and media control was central to national sovereignty and its authority.

But the splinternet refers to a broader tendency to use laws and regulatory powers within territorial jurisdictions to set limits on digital activities.

A threshold moment was Edward Snowdens revelations in 2013. The documents he shared suggested that the US National Security Agency, through itsPRISM program, had been collecting information from global users of Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo.

In countries suchBrazil, whose leaders had had their communications intercepted, this accelerated moves towards developing national internet control.

BrazilsMarco Civil da Internetlaw, for instance, now requires global companies to comply with Brazilian laws around data protection.

Until now, much of the appeal of the internet has been that its driven by user content and preferences, and not by governments.

But people are paying more attention to hate speech, targeted online abuse, extremism, fake news and other toxic aspects of online culture. Women, people of colour and members of certain religions are disproportionately targeted online.

Academics such asTarleton Gillespieand public figures such asStephen Fryare part of a growing rejection of the typical response of platform providers: that they are just technology companies intermediaries and cannot involve themselves in regulating speech.

AUK House of Commons reportinto hate crime and its violent consequences noted that:

there is a great deal of evidence that these platforms are being used to spread hate, abuse and extremism. That trend continues to grow at an alarming rate but it remains unchecked and, even where it is illegal, largely unpoliced.

If we say online hate speech should be policed, two obvious questions arise: who would do it and on what grounds?

At present, content on the major platforms is largely managed by the companies themselves. The GuardiansFacebook Filesrevealed both the extent and limitations of such moderation.

We may see governments become increasingly willing to step in, further fragmenting the user experience.

There are other concerns at play in the splinternet. One is the question of equity between technology companies and traditional media.

Brands like Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Netflix and Amazon areeclipsingtraditional media giants. Yet film, television, newspapers and magazines are still subject to considerably greater levels of country-specific regulation and public scrutiny.

For example, Australian commercial television networks must comply with locally produced material and childrens contentregulations. These mostly do not apply to YouTube or Netflix despite audiences and advertisers migrating to these providers.

It is increasingly apparent tomedia policy makersthat existing regulations arent meaningful unless they extend into the online space.

In Australia, the 2012Convergence Reviewsought to address this. It recommended that media regulations should apply to Content Service Enterprises that met a particular size threshold, rather than basing the rules on the platform that carries the content.

We may be heading towards a splinternet unless new global rules can be set. They must combine the benefits of openness with the desire to ensure that online platforms operate in the public interest.

Yet if platform providers are forced to navigate a complex network of national laws and regulations, we risk losing the seamless interconnectedness of online communication.

The burden of finding a solution rests not only on governments and regulators, but on the platforms themselves.

Their legitimacy in the eyes of users is tied up with what Bank of England chair Mark Carney has termed for markets is a social licence to operate.

Although Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and others operate globally, they need to be aware that the public expects them to be a force for social good locally.

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The Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) has unwittingly unleashed a wave of debate about the amount of control employers have and should have over what their workforce posts on social media.

It released a statement updating its Code of Conduct around the usage of social media, and major media outlets were quick to publicise the apparent point that employees could be held liable for comments that other people write on their social pages.

Doing nothing about objectionable material that someone else has posted on your page can reasonably be seen in some circumstances as your endorsement of that material, the statement read.

If someone does post material of this kind, it may be sensible to delete it or make it plain that you dont agree with it or support it. Any breach of the code would not come from the person making the post. It would come from how you reacted to it.

The statement also says that posting negative comments about a current employer or member of Parliament is also generally a no-no, and that including a statement saying that such views are solely your own wont always protect you from a finding that you have breached the code.

It comes after a Brisbane law firm warned that social media posts are increasingly being used as part of compensation and employment matters.

Trent Johnson and Michael Coates of Bennett & Philp Lawyers identified a number of areas where social media is now being recognised, including the disclosure of sensitive business information, defamation, harassment and even false or misleading advertising, if social media posts are contradictory to what is claimed elsewhere.

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