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With the advent of social media and blogs, personal storytelling is becoming part of the American conversation with an audience of thousands willing and eager to follow the lives of once unknown authors. Today, Cygnus Business Media’s Public Safety group launched Responder Media at Firehouse World, a targeted publishing imprint created specifically to serve the First Responder community. The company plans to roll out Responder Media to its entire public safety audience which includes law enforcement, EMS, security and the fire service industries.

“Self-publishing is a great way to produce a book, because it allows the author more creative control,” says James Capo, director of digital development for Cygnus’ Public Safety group. “Partnering with Author Solutions gives authors access to experts who can not only help to guide the process, but also provide access to distribution channels.”

Several opportunities are available for public safety professionals interested in self-publishing through the Responder Media imprint at special negotiated rates. Packages include:

Personal Histories - Responder Media’s Tribute Book and Video offerings are the best way to memorialize the life of an individual. Responder Media offers interview, editorial and production services to create a timeless keepsake that can be cherished by family and friends. Group Histories – With Responder Media’s group interview options, it’s easy to capture the legacy, traditions and camaraderie of an entire unit or department. DVDs and collectors books make great private memoirs or fundraising tools. Book-2-Screen Development Services – Responder Media can assist in developing a treatment to present to various studios. This service also includes guidance on submission for film or TV development consideration.

To begin publishing your manuscript or to schedule an interview with a Responder Media consultant, visit http://www.respondermedia.com.

About Responder Media

Responder Media is a strategic self-publishing alliance between Cygnus Business Media’s Public Safety group, and indie publishing world leader, Author Solutions, Inc. (ASI). Through this partnership, authors in the public safety field benefit from direct access to Cygnus’ targeted audience of millions of readers and the speed-to-market advantages of the ASI self-publishing model. For more information about Responder Media, please visit respondermedia.com. For the latest news, follow us @respondermedia on Twitter or “Like” us on Facebook.

About Author Solutions, Inc.

Author Solutions, Inc. (ASI) is owned by Bertram Capital and is the world leader in indie book publishing. ASI’s leading self-publishing imprints—AuthorHouse, AuthorHouse UK, iUniverse, Palibrio, Trafford Publishing and Xlibris—have helped more than 140,000 authors self-publish, promote and bring to market more than 175,000 new titles. Through strategic alliances with leading trade publishers, ASI is making it possible to develop new literary talent efficiently and provide authors with a platform for bringing their books to market. Headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana, ASI’s global reach includes imprints developed specifically for authors in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit http://www.authorsolutions.com, and follow @authorsolutions on Twitter for the latest news.

About Cygnus Business Media

Cygnus Business Media’s Public Safety group reaches more than one million professionals each month through Officer.com, Firehouse.com, SecurityInfoWatch.com, EMSWORLD.com, Law Enforcement Technology, Law Enforcement Product News, EMS WORLD, Security Dealer & Integrator and Security Technology Executive. As one of America’s top business-to-business media companies, Cygnus is leading the way in providing targeted content to top decision-makers and organizations. The company’s corporate initiatives and organizational architecture are built with one goal: fully engaging audiences in aviation, building & construction, public safety & security, and agriculture vertical markets, as well as diversified industries such as transportation, printing, accounting, and vending.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia (Reuters) - A former University of Virginia lacrosse player accused of murdering his girlfriend wrote a letter to her shortly before she died saying that he could not control his behavior and apologizing for choking her, a prosecution lawyer said on Saturday.

During closing arguments in the murder trial of George Huguely V, a prosecutor said investigators found the letter from Huguely to Yeardley Love when they arrived at the scene where she was found dead in May, 2010 from blunt force trauma to the head.

"I cannot control the way I behave," Huguely, 24, was quoted by prosecutor Dave Chapman as saying in the letter written in February, 2010. "Alcohol is ruining my life," Huguely wrote, according to the prosecution.

Chapman said that Huguely did not keep his vow in the letter to never hurt the 22-year-old Love again. The letter had been mentioned earlier in the trial but exact quotes were read to the jury for the first time during the final arguments.

The prosecutor said a drunk Huguely walked into the 22-year-old's apartment while she was asleep, kicked in her bedroom door and slammed her head against the wall.

"He left her face down on her bed with her arms at her side, palms face up," said Chapman.

Prosecution expert witnesses have said Love, from Cockeysville, Maryland, died about two hours later from blunt force trauma to the head.

The trial has attracted national media attention to the quiet college town of Charlottesville, Virginia. Jurors are scheduled to begin deliberating Wednesday, the next available court date.

Huguely, of Chevy Chase, Maryland, has pleaded not guilty to charges including first-degree murder, robbery, burglary at night, breaking and entering, grand larceny and murder during a robbery.

In closing arguments, Defense Attorney Francis Lawrence said the prosecution team has been "over-zealous" in charging Huguely with first-degree murder.

"Where's the intent to kill?" Lawrence asked jurors.

The defense lawyer acknowledged that Huguely "played a role" in Love's death and was intoxicated, loud and clumsy the night of her death but had no intention of killing her.

Lawrence said Huguely's reaction to police, who arrested and interrogated him the morning following Love's death, showed that Huguely was "a young man who has no clue" that Love had died.

Huguely told police that Love bloodied herself by banging her own head against the wall. Both were lacrosse players for Virginia's nationally-ranked lacrosse teams.

(Editing by Greg McCune)

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Rick Santorum’s main complaint about the press used to be that he wasn’t getting enough of it. But now that he’s surged to the top of the national polls, the former senator’s campaign is growing increasingly perturbed by a wave of coverage of his views on birth control, abortion, and religion.

“It creates a picture that is dramatically incomplete, in our minds,” says John Brabender, Santorum’s top strategist. “It’s such a small part of what he’s done…To overconcentrate on social areas is doing him a disservice.”

Perhaps, but Santorum keeps feeding the media beast. On Face the Nation Sunday, he defended his slam that President Obama has a “phony theology” not “based on the Bible,” criticized prenatal testing as leading to more abortions, and said the president “has a very bad record on the issue of abortion and on children who are disabled in the womb.” He can hardly fault Bob Schieffer for devoting most of the interview to his divisive words.

The Pennsylvania Republican can turn testy at times. Santorum hasn’t engaged in much Newt-style media bashing, but the other day he ripped Charlie Rose for pressing him about a contraception joke told by his biggest financial backer.

Foster Freiss, the man financing Santorum’s super PAC, had told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that in his day, women practiced birth control by putting an aspirin between their knees. To say this didn’t go over too well would be an understatement, so Santorum had to know he’d be playing defense.

But when Rose—not exactly a prosecutorial interviewer—popped the question on CBS This Morning, Santorum accused him of playing “gotcha.” The anchor denied that, saying he was trying to understand how Santorum’s views differed from Friess’s.

“So now I’m gonna have to respond to when every supporter says something,” the candidate shot back. “Look, this is what you guys do. You don’t do this with President Obama. In fact, with President Obama, you went out and defended him from someone he sat in a church for 20 years and defended him with, ‘Oh, he can’t possibly believe what he listened to for 20 years.’ This is a double standard, it’s what you’re pulling off, and I’m gonna call you on it.”

Leaving aside the fact that the media gave candidate Obama a very hard time about Jeremiah Wright after ABC broke the story, does Santorum have a legitimate beef?

“Conservatives in general are held to a different standard than Obama would be held to,” Brabender told me. He shied away from the term liberal bias, saying that journalists are instead echoing attacks against Santorum from the left. “It’s an effort by liberals to discredit him by using distortions,” Brabender says.

The Santorum camp has a point, but it’s a point that only goes so far.

Journalists do have a particular fascination with such issues as abortion and gay marriage when covering Republicans. It’s not just that media types tend to lean left on these social issues, but that these are hot-button wedge issues that divide the country. As Brabender puts it, “visceral issues just make better news.”

But while journalists are more interested in Santorum’s verbiage on these matters than, say, his plan to abolish taxes on manufacturing firms, it is also true that Santorum’s uncompromising stance on social issues helps him appeal to evangelical Christians. And he’s not shy about preaching the virtues of home schooling, another topic that came up with Schieffer, when he wants to narrowcast a conservative message. In that sense, he may be trying to have it both ways.

Santorum said in a 2006 interview that birth control is “harmful to women” and “harmful to society”—positions that hardly place him smack in the American mainstream. Still, he says today that while he opposes contraception as a Catholic, he would do nothing to restrict its use.

Similarly, his opposition to abortion—even in cases of rape—may alienate some voters, especially in a general election. “As horrible as the way that that son or daughter and son was created, it still is her child,” Santorum told CNN’s Piers Morgan last month. The right approach, he said, is to “accept what God has given to you…I can’t think of anything more horrible, but nevertheless, we have to make the best out of a bad situation.”

What’s happening here is that Santorum is being aggressively frisked by the media for the first time in this campaign. All but ignored until he eked out a win in Iowa, all but written off when he tanked in the next four GOP contests, Santorum has surged since his hat trick of winning Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri. The press, and the Obama campaign, are now having to confront the possibility that he might win the nomination. So everything he’s ever said or written is being exhumed for inspection in a very compressed time frame.

The candidate, naturally, doesn’t like it. “This is just crap,” he told National Review, referring to the Friess incident (for which the financier apologized).

The dilemma for Santorum is that he now has to defend on a national stage the kind of red-meat rhetoric that worked for him as a conservative lawmaker. In his 2006 book It Takes a Family, Santorum wrote that “the radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness,” the kind of swipe that might seem to denigrate working women. Indeed, as Politico notes, a CNN poll shows Santorum winning 37 percent of men and 29 percent of women, a striking gender gap.

The Santorum team believes some in the press are wrenching their man’s words out of context—highlighting his praise for women who stay at home, for instance, while omitting his comments that mothers have a valid choice in pursuing careers. But as Mitt Romney has learned with such remarks as “I’m not concerned with the very poor,” it’s awfully hard to explain away dumb utterances, no matter the context.

In an interesting twist, Brabender contends that journalists are going easy on the former Massachusetts governor, especially since he was supporting abortion and gay rights nearly two decades ago.

“It’s amazing how few questions Romney gets from his 1994 campaign,” he says. “Those are devastating in a Republican primary, but no one seems to want to write about those things,” while Santorum is “being held accountable for everything he’s said since kindergarten.”

Actually, Romney’s evolution from his days as a Massachusetts moderate is at the heart of the media’s skeptical narrative about him. If news outlets aren’t reporting much on his liberal sound bites from the 1990s, that’s because they did it so often over the last year, and when Romney first ran in 2008. Santorum is what investigative reporters crave, a fresh target.

It may seem unfair for the press to pile on one candidate and relentlessly vet his views about women and religion. But no one becomes president without going through this kind of media gauntlet. And if Santorum finds that painful, perhaps he should ask Foster Freiss for an aspirin.

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