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"If I were in a Christian church, I would say we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us," Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. told 10,000 people at the annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner hosted by the Detroit branch of the NAACP.
"… If I were pushing one particular candidate I would say 'Yes, we can,' " Wright said, borrowing a phrase from the Obama campaign. "But since this is a non-partisan gathering and since this is neither a mosque, a synagogue or a sanctuary, just let me say 'We can do it. … We can make a change if we try."
Wright, 66, who will retire next month from Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago's South Side, has gained national notoriety in recent months as controversial sound bites of past sermons, in which he was critical of national policies, began circulating on the Internet.
In North Carolina, the Republican Party is set to air a television advertisement this week featuring a video clip in which Wright declares "God damn America."
"I'm not here for political reasons," he assured the audience in Detroit. "I am not a politician. I know that fact will surprise many of you because many of the corporate-owned media have made it seem like I have announced I am running for the Oval Office. I am not running for the Oval Office. I've been running for Jesus a long, long, long time, and I'm not tired yet."
But the series of public appearances this weekend and still on tap resemble a campaign to quell the controversy that has roiled Obama's presidential bid leading up to the Indiana and North Carolina primaries.
In addition to Detroit, Wright will address the National Press Club on Monday. He granted his first interview to journalist Bill Moyers last week.
Shortly after the sound bites surfaced, Obama delivered a historic speech on race in which he condemned the remarks in question but did not disown his pastor. In the Moyers interview, Wright praised Obama's speech.
But Wright also dismissed the senator's condemnation of his remarks as the language of a politician. In Detroit, he defended his passion in the pulpit.
"I come from a religious tradition that does not divorce the world we are living in with the world we are headed to," he said.
"We give God the glory and the devil the blues. The black religious tradition is different. We do it a different way."
Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit branch of the NAACP, said that is precisely why the organization invited Wright.
"The hottest brother in America right now, besides Barack Obama, is Jeremiah Wright," Anthony said. "It's about speaking truth to power. We must not allow anyone to dictate what can be said from the pulpit of the African-American church or any church."

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People We Love: Bert Sacks
Peace activist Bert Sacks says "We live in a very violent country, and we don't realize it so much." Sacks, a retired engineer, will appear in federal court in September to appeal a $16,000 fine for violating U.S. economic sanctions when he delivered medicine to an Iraqi hospital in 1997.
For more than a decade, the sanctions caused shortages of clean water, medicine, and other necessities for Iraqis. UNICEF reports that the sanctions, combined with Gulf War bombing of infrastructure, caused the deaths of over 500,000 Iraqi children under the age of 5 from 1991 to 1998. Sacks argues that this mass killing was terrorism.
After 15 years as a humanitarian activist and witness to atrocities, Sacks believes unconditional benevolence—as practiced by Gandhi—is the only remedy to personal and global violence. Sacks does not expect to win his case, but says, "It's not a sacrifice. I want to be happy—that's why I'm doing this."
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The patina of glory that surrounds war is wearing off. Is this the beginning of the end of the war mindset?


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Electus International Unveils Unscripted Television Slate for MIPTV 2012 Global Marketplace
NEW YORK, March 27, 2012 -- Ben Silverman's multimedia entertainment studio Electus, an operating business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI), today unveiled highlights of its unscripted television programming slate. These include priority titles from an ever-growing slate that will be brought to market at MIPTV in Cannes, France, which begins on April 1st. This new block of television programming includes successful third party U.S. series that Electus has acquired for international distribution as well as original series created by Electus and its creative partners. Electus International, Electus' global distribution arm will handle sales of the slate.
"We are thrilled to bring to market such wide ranging content from some of the biggest broadcasters in the U.S. including NBC, Discovery, TLC, Spike, TBS, CMT and GSN to name a few," said John Pollak, President of Electus International. "Having the opportunity to bring these series to the international market is a testament to our mandate of putting creative and commercial success at the forefront of our efforts."
Electus has acquired the rights to distribute various successful U.S. formats for international distribution, including:
My Big Redneck Vacation (CMT): From the creators of My Big Redneck Wedding comes a new series chronicling the adventures of one countrified, loud-mouthed family from the swamps of Louisiana as they take over a $4 million house in the Hamptons of New York. Watch as this mud-slidin', four-wheelin', beer-slingin', dixie-whistlin' crew learns how to live the high-life and show them Yankees how the South gets down. From polo lessons to wine-tasting to a truly Hamptons nuptial, this rowdy bunch is in for a summer they'll never forget on My Big Redneck Vacation. The series, which airs on CMT, is on pace to be the network's highest rated original series ever.
Hook, Line & Sisters (TLC): We all know that commercial fishing in Alaska is a deadly job and we also know that it's mostly a man's world. But there are a few brave women working right alongside them! Hook, Line and Sisters is an all new reality series that tackles the dangerous world of commercial fishing in Alaska from a whole new perspective - that of a woman.
Fight Quest (Discovery): Fight Quest is a reality fight series which follows Mixed Martial Artists Jimmy Smith and Doug Anderson as they travel the globe learning different styles of martial arts, and immersing themselves in the native cultures along the way. Each episode chronicles them training with masters of a fighting style before exhibiting what they learned in a final demonstration. Fight Quest crosses the globe with episodes filmed in China, Thailand, France, Korea, India, Japan, Mexico, Indonesia, Israel, Hong Kong, Brazil, USA and the Philippines. This series was produced by Discovery Networks and is owned by CSI Sports (New York) through their FIGHT SPORTS brand.
Xtreme Martial Arts (Discovery): Xtreme Martial Arts is a program that features the extreme and technical fighting talents of martial artists while exploring the biomechanical mysteries of the fighting arts. Cutting edge animation helps reveal the true power involved in martial arts combat! This series was produced by Discovery Networks and is owned by CSI Sports (New York) through their FIGHT SPORTS brand.
Improv-A-Ganza (GSN): On GSN's Improv-A-Ganza, Drew Carey headlines forty lively, unpredictable and hilarious half-hour episodes of improvised sketch comedy. With a familiar cast of improv talent, including Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles, each episode consists of three or four comedy games in front of a live audience, with each segment introduced by a different cast member and involving suggestion and/or participation from the audience.
Majors & Minors (The Hub): In this groundbreaking music competition series, a dozen super-talented kids ages 10-16 get mentored by some of the biggest artists in music! No one is ever "voted off," but one of them will claim a recording deal and the chance to be featured in a nationwide concert tour. The first season mentors included Will.I.Am, Jennifer Hudson, Avril Lavigne, Leona Lewis, Ryan Tedder, Claude Kelly, Adam Lambert, Jordin Sparks, Colbie Caillat, Mike Posner, Sean Kingston, and Brandy.
Electus' block of original unscripted programming for international distribution includes:
King of the Nerds (TBS): King of the Nerds, hosted by two of the stars of the movie blockbuster Revenge of the Nerds, Robert Carradine and Curtis Armstrong, is primed to become television's ultimate nerd-off. The show invites competitors spanning the full nerd spectrum to come together to face challenges that will test their intellect, ingenuity, skills and pop-culture prowess. The nerds will first compete as teams before moving on to individual challenges, all with the goal of being named the quintessential master of all things nerdy. TBS has ordered eight episodes of King of the Nerds which is slated to premiere on TBS in early 2013. The series is executive-produced by Electus (Ben Silverman, Jimmy Fox) and 5x5 Media (Rick Ringbakk, Tod Mesirow, Craig Armstrong) as well as Carradine and Armstrong.
Car Lot Cowboy (Spike TV): Car Lot Cowboy, slated to air on Spike TV, showcases renowned auto dealership 'doctor' Tom Stuker, whose innovative and brazen methods for selling cars has made him a venerable legend in the industry. Stuker has traversed the globe, logging over 10 million air miles, visiting over 1,500 auto dealerships in desperate need of his guidance. In each episode, Stuker, along with his car-savvy team, travel to a different dealership in financial straits. With his signature black cowboy hat and boots, Stuker's larger-than-life persona is instrumental in galvanizing the attention and respect of the dealership employees. His blunt talk may rub some of the salespeople the wrong way, but his tough-love approach and keen sense of the business ultimately delivers unmatchable success. The series is created and developed by Vem Miller in association with Vem's Sweatshop Media and executive produced by Electus (Ben Silverman) and 5x5 Media (Rick Ringbakk, Craig Armstrong, Tod Mesirow).
Fashion Star (NBC): Fashion Star, hosted and executive produced by successful entrepreneur and supermodel Elle Macpherson, gives 14 unknown designers a life-changing opportunity to win a multi-million dollar contract to launch their clothing lines in Macy's, H&M and Saks Fifth Avenue - three of the largest retailers in the U.S. Contestants are put to the test to see how they react in a variety of real-world scenarios to determine who has the vision and desire to build a fashion empire. With top experts Jessica Simpson, Nicole Richie and John Varvatos as their guides and mentors throughout the process, competing designers have to be as adept in the business of fashion as they are in their creativity. Each episode kicks off with an exhilarating fashion show featuring musical performances, dancers, and models in front of a live studio audience. Every fashion show is built around a weekly challenge that is designed to further develop each designer's brand. The buyers serve as judges, making on-the-spot decisions each week as they bid against each other to purchase the work of these up-and-coming designers. The night following each episode, the winning designs are available online and in retail stores in the U.S. In the end, the designer who most successfully combines fashion and business will become the next "Fashion Star" and receive the prize of a lifetime - an exclusive capsule line in each of the three retailers. The show is executive-produced by Elle Macpherson, Electus (Ben Silverman), The Magical Elves (Jane Lipsitz, Dan Cutforth), 5x5 Media (Rick Ringbakk) and EJD Productions (EJ Johnston, James Deutch) Fashion Star airs Tuesday nights 10-11 PM on NBC.
Mob Wives Seasons One & Two (VH1): Mob Wives, currently airing its second season in the U.S. on VH1, follows the lives of six women having to carry on while their husbands or fathers are in prison for "alleged" Mob-related activities. They are struggling with their identities, their own families and their futures as they try to do what's best for themselves and their children. As they now attempt to pursue their own ambitions, the women find comfort among those who understand their stories most: each other. Created and produced by Jennifer Graziano of JustJenn Productions, Mob Wives is produced by The Weinstein Company (Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Meryl Poster), Electus (Ben Silverman, Jimmy Fox) and Left/Right (Banks Tarver, Ken Druckerman and Nina Diaz).
About Electus
Electus is the first integrated multimedia entertainment studio to unite producers, creators, advertisers and distributors under one roof and produce all forms of content for distribution across a variety of platforms around the world. Headed by Ben Silverman in partnership with IAC [NASDAQ: IACI], the company connects advertisers, distributors and content creators early on in the development process, enabling marketers and advertisers to be a true partner in campaigns and content creation. Electus International, the global distribution arm of Electus, is responsible for all international sales and distribution for Electus' programming and its studio partners as well as programs and formats from other well-known 3rd party providers. For more information on Electus, visit www.electus.com.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
A video workshop for elementary school teachers; 8 one-hour video programs plus Classroom Demonstration Materials video, workshop guide, and Web site; graduate credit availableNow on DVD
Workshop 1. What Is Art?
The Learner Teams and students explore the nature of theatre, music, dance, and visual art as they consider their own definitions for each art form. They watch an excerpt from Quidam, a surrealistic performance piece that combines the four art forms in unusual ways, and begin to explore connections between fantasy and reality. Go to this unit.
Workshop 2. Responding to the Arts
Learner Team members and students compare two multi-arts performance pieces from different eras, Quidam (1996) and Parade (1917). They discover how our perception of a work of art is influenced by what we know about the time and place it was created. They also explore how music can establish a mood, create their own vaudeville acts, and learn a process of critical evaluation. Go to this unit.
Workshop 3. Historical References in the Arts
Learner Team members and students examine costume designs for Parade, focusing on how the designs help convey character. They interpret works by painter René Magritte and choreographer Alwin Nikolais, discovering influences on the creators of Quidam. They also conduct research into the history of street performance and report their findings, in the role of art historian. Go to this unit.
Workshop 4. Creating a Multi-Arts Performance Piece
Learner Team members and students examine the elements of the classic journey as identified by Joseph Campbell. They then create a multi-arts performance piece that represents a journey story. They apply what they have learned in previous lessons in order to rehearse, critique, revise, and perform their work. Go to this unit.
Workshop 5. Designing a Multi-Arts Curriculum Unit
Learner Team members are introduced to a curriculum design process that asks teachers and students to focus on why rather than what — sometimes called backwards design. The teams begin to construct their own arts-based units of study, identifying enduring ideas and constructing essential questions that lead to carefully planned unit objectives and performance tasks. Go to this unit.
Workshop 6. The Role of Assessment in Curriculum Design
As the Learner Teams continue working on their own units, they examine strategies for determining how well students meet unit objectives. By revisiting the lessons in the first four programs, they discover how to build formative and summative assessments into the units that they are developing. Go to this unit.
Workshop 7. Three Schools, Three Approaches
Documentary segments filmed during the next school year show the Learner Teams planning and teaching arts-based lessons that grew out of work in the first six programs. Discussions at the end of the school year, facilitated by one of the workshop leaders, give the Learner Team members a chance to reflect on some of the developments in their teaching practice. Go to this unit.
Workshop 8. Building on New Ideas
More documentary segments show further work by the team members with their students, among themselves, and with colleagues. The end-of-year discussions continue, with team members reflecting on how their new initiatives in the arts have affected them and their schools, and offering advice for other teachers who want to bring the arts into their own classrooms. Go to this unit.
Classroom Demonstration Materials for Workshop 1
Segments include: What Is Theatre?, What Is Music?, What Is Dance?, What Is Visual Art?, and Combining Art Forms.
Classroom Demonstration Materials for Workshop 2
Segments include: Quidam music, Parade music, Vaudeville and Critic School.
Classroom Demonstration Materials for Workshop 3
Segments include: Dances for Magritte and Nikolas, and Historian Role Play.
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The Duplass brothers are adding HBO to their extended family.
Sibling "Jeff, Who Lives at Home" collaborators Mark and Jay Duplass have landed a comedy pilot with HBO, a spokeswoman for the network told TheWrap on Thursday.
Also read: Jason Blum Buys Duplass Brothers' Found Footage Horror Movie
The half-hour pilot, "Togetherness," revolves round two couples living under the same roof who struggle to keep their relationships alive while pursuing their individual dreams. The Duplass brothers will write, executive produce and direct the pilot.
Stephanie Langhoff of Duplass Brothers Productions will serve as co-executive producer.
Last month, HBO ordered a pilot for the comedy "People in New Jersey," about an adult brother and sister who puzzle through the mysteries of life's big and small mysteries while living in the Garden State.
Also read: Duplass Brothers on Why They're Cool With "Do-Deca-Pentathlon"s' Early VOD Release
That project will be written by Bruce Eric Kaplan, a co-executive producer and writer on HBO's "Girls," with "Up in the Air" director Jason Reitman directing. "Saturday Night Live" boss Lorne Michaels will executive produce, alongside Kaplan, Reitman and others.


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Live @ Your Library Reading Stage
In the Exhibition Hall on Saturday, Sunday and Monday from noon to 4 p.m., take a break from a day of meetings and programs and stop by the LIVE! @ your library Reading Stage. Enjoy readings from new and favorite authors, learn how to develop author programs for your library, and find new recommendations for your patrons.
This year's LIVE! Stage will feature a special focus on poetry, with readings by many popular and up-and-coming poets. In the past, readers featured on the stage have included Nick Hornby, Dinaw Mengestu, Elizabeth Berg, Mary Doty, Leif Enger, Susan Power, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Naomi Shihab Nye, U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, and Lisa See. After each reading, LIVE! authors will be available to sign copies of their work for conference attendees. Visit www.ala.org/publicprograms for a schedule updates.
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The Big Generation Gap at the Polls Is Echoed in Attitudes on Budget Tradeoffs
The record generation gap that played out at the voting booth in the last two presidential elections is echoed by large differences by age in attitudes about the tradeoff between reducing the federal deficit and preserving entitlements for older adults, according to a new nationwide Pew Research Center survey. Older adults by a lopsided […]
Record Shares of Young Adults Have Finished Both High School and College
Record shares of young adults are completing high school, going to college and finishing college, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly available census data. In 2012, for the first time ever, one-third of the nation's 25- to 29-year-olds have completed at least a bachelor's degree. These across-the-board increases have occurred despite dramatic […]
The Boomerang Generation
If there's supposed to be a stigma attached to living with mom and dad through one's late twenties or early thirties, today's "boomerang generation" didn't get that memo.
Young, Underemployed and Optimistic
Young adults hit hard by the recession. A plurality of the public believes young adults, rather than middle-aged or older adults, are having the toughest time in today's economy.


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Nick Baker threw eight shutout innings and Blake Gibbs drove in three runs, two with a home run, and the No. 3 Chico State baseball team defeated Cal State Monterey Bay 6-0 on Friday to open its series against the Otters in Seaside.
Gibbs' homer, his fifth in six games, preceded a two-run double from Pierson Jeremiah in a three-run ninth inning that locked things away for the Wildcats (12-1, 5-0 California Collegiate Athletic Association). It was more than enough for Baker (3-0), who ran his scoreless innings streak to 21, allowing five hits and one walk while striking out nine.
Sutter 7, Chico 2
Chico 7, Bear River 3 (6)
The Panthers (3-3) split their two games in the Oroville Tournament, getting doubles in each from Ryan Barnett and two-hit games from Clayton Schuler and Jacob Christianson. With split locations, the tournament continues on today as the Panthers play Enterprise at 12:30 p.m. at Chico High. Pleasant Valley plays Foothill in the second semifinal at 1:30 p.m. at Mitchell Field in Oroville. The winner plays the winner of Sutter-Central Valley, the 11:15 a.m. semifinal, in the 6 p.m. final, also at Mitchell Field.
Pleasant Valley 1, Davis 0
Pleasant Valley 13, St. Patrick-St. Vincent 6 (5)
Pleasant Valley 7, Nevada Union 3 (6)
It was a good first day of the Vikings' own tournament as they won all three of their contests in the round-robin event.
Pitcher True Park picked up three wins that included a three-hitter against Davis in the first game. Park got the win in the second game after coming in relief.
Dominique Jackson was the big hitter for PV (3-0). The sophomore was 4 for 4 with two triples and four RBIs against St. Patrick-St. Vincent. She then was 2 for 2 with a solo home run and drove in two runs against Nevada Union. Amy Sandoval was 3 for 3 with a triple in the second game, and had two more hits in the finale. Allison Taylor totaled five hits, including a double, in the last two contests. Jessica Gallaway was 2 for 4 with two RBIs vs. St. Patrick-St. Vincent. Kelly Mitchum had two hits as well. Katie Dahl and Kaylie Hull each doubled against Davis.
Pleasant Valley has three more games today, all at Hooker Oak Park. The Vikings play Corning at 9 a.m., Shasta at 10:45 a.m. and Folsom at 12:30 p.m.
Chico 2, Foothill 1
Chico 7, Oroville 4
Chico 16, Las Plumas 6
Jade Smith earned two wins on the mound as the Panthers swept their first days' worth of games in the Pleasant Valley tournament. Smith threw a complete game and struck out seven in the first game.
In the second game, Amanda Manning and Kirrin Bereznak each had two hits and a double, and Smith crushed a homerun over the left field fence to lead Chico (3-0).
In the final game of the day Chico was led by inside-the-park home runs from Manning, Brook Barney, and Monica Deadmond.
Chico will continue play in the tournament today with games at 2:15 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Hamilton 9, Durham 1 (5)
Winters 8, Hamilton 7 (5)
Lassen 8, Hamilton 2
Hamilton went 1-2 on the day in the Colusa tournament, beating Durham in five innings before dropping an 8-7 game to Winters in five innings and falling to Lassen 8-2.
Raegan Avrit was 3 for 3 and held Durham to one hit in five innings in the victory. Vicy Torrez, Nicole Gordon and Jessica Lohse each had two hits. Against Winters, Rylee Deitz was 2 for 3 with a triple. Against Lassen, Justine McCorkle was 2 for 2 and Lohse tripled.
Chico State 6, CS Stanislaus 5
Chico State 10, CS Stanislaus 6
Desiree' Gonzalez banged out five hits, including three for extra bases, and drove in seven runs in a doubleheader sweep for the Wildcats (11-8, 9-5 California Collegiate Athletic Association) in Turlock.
Emily McEnaney had four RBIs in the second game, and Alli Cook and Alex Molina each had three hits on the day. The Wildcats used a four-run, seventh-inning rally in the first game before their 12-hit effort backed Molina's complete game in the second game.
Butte 4, Siskiyous 1
Siskiyous 13, Butte 5
The Roadrunners (1-15) got their first win of the season, a positive start to the Golden Valley Conference schedule as they split a doubleheader with Siskiyous at home thanks to a first-game gem from Morgan Weaver and Cassie Thomas' late two-run single.
Butte had opportunities in the second game, as Michelle Gregorio, Andshea Ray, Melissa Roach and Thomas all had two hits apiece — Emma Dawson had three — but the Roadrunners left 12 on base, including eight in scoring position.
Rio Linda 3, Pleasant Valley 0
Ben Sanders had 32 assists, but the Vikings lost three straight sets by scores of 26-24, 25-23, and 26-24. Jason Williams had 11 kills, Brandon Biermann had eight kills and 18 digs and Juan Santos had 19 digs for Pleasant Valley (3-4).
Roy Crabtree Pirate Classic
Justin Smith placed second in the varsity 800m and the 3200 with times of 2:13.62 and 11:00 respectively as Orland competed in the 15-school invite.
The boys varsity 4x4relay team of Joseph Glover, Fabio Villcana, John Macedonio, and Reggie Olney placed second with a time of 3:51.5. Aldrick Rosas placed third in the triple jump, jumping 36.8 feet.
On the girls side, the 4×400 team of Judith Ochoa, Gelsey Quiroz, Sarah Bilich, and Sierra Walker placed third with a time of 4:35.9. The 4×100 team of Cindy Keounepane, Mariah Lopez, Gelsey Quiroz, and Yanet Munioz took first with a time of 52.35 seconds.
Bilich took third in the 400m with a time of 1:07.6. Munioz was second in the 100m with 13.43 seconds. And Quiroz finished third in the 100m in 13.50 seconds.
Late Thursday:
CNISSF State Championships
Chico's Aidan Wallace placed 22nd out of 91 in the boys ski slalom at Mt. Shasta, teammate Jasper Travers came in 23rd, and Pleasant Valley's Chloe Egan finished 23rd in girls ski slalom at of 60 competitors.
Chico's boys took eighth in slalom and 12th in giant slalom out of 30 teams, and PV's boys were 17th and 20th, respectively. PV's girls were 10th in GS and 13th in slalom, and Chico's girls finished 13th in slalom and 17th in GS.


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Piney Woods bucks on the move with cooler weather
Nothing perks up bow hunting for deer like an October cold front. This week's blast of cold air is exactly what bow hunters in East Texas needed to jumpstart the rut in the Piney Woods. Timely rainfall across much of the state that began during winter 2011 and continued through the first half of this year generated much needed habitat recovery, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department biologists. Those important food sources resulted in increased deer antler growth, improved body conditions and higher fawn production and survival.
With that good news, archers have hit the woods in record numbers. According to the TPWD, archery hunting stamp sales are up substantially this year.
"Archery endorsements are up 15.2 percent at 13,231," said TPWD's Steve Lightfoot. "The endorsement is required of anyone hunting during the archery-only season. The endorsement is included in the department's Super Combo hunting and fishing license package, sales of which are also up 11.75 percent at 292,670."
Wildlife officials point to rebounding range conditions this year that helped bolster deer populations as a contributing factor in the jump in hunting participation this fall
"Most of the state has received much needed rain to boost forage resources needed for antler development and fawn rearing," said Alan Cain, TPWD deer program leader. "Far West Texas, primarily mule deer country, is still dry. I expect this to be an average to slightly above average season for antlers. South Texas, known for trophy bucks, should be in good shape as we've had rain this summer. The Texas Hill Country, known for higher deer populations, has also received good rains this summer, so hunters should expect decent antler quality and good body weights for this region."
The general gun deer season in Texas opens Nov. 3 statewide, preceded by a youth-only deer season the weekend of Oct. 27-28.
"A bright outlook for deer season may not be the only reason more archers are taking to the woods," said Lightfoot. "TPWD is taking steps to introduce archery to potential new hunters through the National Archery in the Schools Program, now in its eighth year in Texas. NASP is being offered in all 50 states and six countries. To date, worldwide more than 9.5 million school children from more than 10,300 schools in grades 4-12 have received archery instruction from their NASP teachers."
California artist wins 2012 federal duck stamp contest
Robert Steiner, an artist from San Francisco, Calif., is the winner of the 2012 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest. This is Steiner's second Federal Duck Stamp Contest win. His art previously appeared on the 1998-99 Federal Duck Stamp.
Steiner's acrylic painting of a common goldeneye will be made into the 2013-14 Federal Duck Stamp, which will go on sale in late June 2013. The service produces the Federal Duck Stamp, which sells for $15 and raises about $25 million each year to provide critical funds to conserve and protect wetland habitats in the National Wildlife Refuge system.
Of 192 entries in this year's two-day competition, 17 entries made it through to the final round of judging. Paul Bridgeford of Des Moines, Iowa, placed second with his acrylic painting of a pair of northern shovelers. Gerald Mobley of Claremore, Okla., took third place with his acrylic painting of a pair of northern shovelers. Mobley's art appeared on the 1985-86 Federal Duck Stamp.
"Whether you buy a Duck Stamp to hunt waterfowl, add to your stamp collection, admire in a frame, or contribute to conservation, you are buying a piece of history," said Jerome Ford, the service's assistant director for migratory birds. "For nearly 80 years, hunters, wildlife watchers, and millions of other people who purchase Federal Duck Stamps have made a direct contribution to wildlife conservation through the protection of wetland habitats."
Waterfowl hunters age 16 and older are required to purchase and carry the current Migratory Bird Conservation and Hunting Stamp – commonly known as the Duck Stamp. Conservationists, stamp collectors and others may also purchase the stamp in support of habitat conservation. A current Duck Stamp can also be used for free admission to any national wildlife refuge open to the public. Refuges offer unparalleled recreational opportunities, including hunting, fishing, bird watching, and photography.
Ninety-eight percent of the proceeds from sale of the $15 Federal Duck Stamp go to the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund, which supports the purchase of migratory bird habitat for inclusion into the National Wildlife Refuge System. Since 1934, Federal Duck Stamp sales have raised more than $850 million, helping the service purchase or lease 6 million acres of wildlife habitat on hundreds of refuges in nearly every state. There are 560 National Wildlife Refuges spread across the 50 states and U.S. territories.
Robert Sloan can be reached by e-mail at sloan288 [at] aol [dot] com.


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In the news today were reports of a "doctored" document, by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), which was used to deny over $7 million in funding to KAIROS, an organization dedicated to "respect for the earth and justice for its people". Yes, this is a faith-based organization. Many international aid agencies have a basis in religious faith. There are a number of things which I find troubling about this document. The document, as originally printed, allows the signees to approve federal funding over four years for KAIROS. There is however, an undated, and un-initialed amendment, adding the word "NOT" to the recommendation. I don't know about anyone else, but when I was signing back and forth on offers on my home, we had to initial any amendments to the purchase agreement made by both parties. That was for just little things, like "window coverings in the master bedroom are not included in the sale" kind of thing. Not anything worth $7 million.
When you're dealing with money like that, if there really and truly was a misprint, you shouldn't just be adding stuff in by hand. Get a new copy printed, with the proper amendments. If it's another day or so until the signatures happen, so be it. After all, the signatures on the paper already span over a month apart.
This only adds to the concern that the Conservative government is cutting off aid from groups which it does not agree with. KAIROS has been vocal about Israel's treatment of Palestine, while the Conservative government has been unwavering in their support for Israel.
There are indications that this decision was based on policy. In 2009, the Toronto Star reported Immigration Minister Jason Kenney told some Israelis that KAIROS was cut off due to KAIROS' "leadership role in the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign" against Israel. In their response, KAIROS executive director Mary Corkery said that "If any group that criticizes an action by the government of Israel is called anti-Semitic by the government of Canada, that's very serious."
Bev Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, said at the time that the defunding was due to changing priorities of the agency, and that KAIROS no longer matched their priorities. With the release of this document, the appearance is that senior officials approved funding, before someone else amended the document to change the meaning.
What I find particularly troubling is that Minister Oda did not answer questions about who altered the document. I'm sorry, but it matters a great deal to know who altered it, and what their motivations were. Was this something done by a senior civil servant, or by an elected official? Who determined that this was what should be done? Did this come down from the Prime Minister's Office? After reading Harperland, I wouldn't be surprised if the answer was yes.


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22. Kisses from children.
23. Warm babies against skin and nestled under a chin
24. Being able to sell my laptop. It was in rough shape. I pulled it out of my bag and the buyer began to laugh. Ouch. It did have some stains/dirt on the cover. The guy asked, "Where did you take this? Iraq?" "Um...No...Haiti." He chuckled then proceeded to laugh some more as it booted up- he wanted to make sure the internet worked on it. It booted up veerrry slowly then a webpage took about 5 minutes to load. Then froze. He apologized then said he couldn't give me as much as I was asking for it. He gave me a price and I took it. At least I got something for it and I wanted it gone. If only he knew that the top used to lie completely flat after I dropped the laptop years ago. For months, before being able to get it fixed as I was living in Haiti, I used a large can of tomatoes behind it to keep it up.
25. Cars. Mine is having some problems but it brought me safely home from California.
26. A good friend of mine has been working on her adoption and foster license for years. Last week two children were placed with them for foster care. I am excited to meet them tomorrow. Praising God He picked these wonderful people to love these kids!
27. Soup
28. Books
29. Hoodie sweatshirts
30. Cameras and pictures
31. Sleep
32. Chocolate
33. Music
34. Rockband and a friend to rock out with.
Grace and Forgiveness
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Functional Safety
For safety-related applications HEIDENHAIN offers rotary encoders, angle encoders and linear encoders with EnDat 2.2 interface. These encoders operate as single-encoder systems with purely serial data transmission via EnDat 2.2. Reliable transmission of the position is based on two independently generated absolute position values and on error bits, which are then provided to the safe control. In order to be able to use these encoders in safety-related applications, a control is required for the appropriate evaluation and processing of the encoder data.
Basically, two different implementation solutions for EnDat 2.2 are possible:
- EnDat Master Safe (EnDat master with monitoring functions)
The EnDat-Master Safe takes over parts of the safety functions, prepares encoder data and makes them available to the control. Preprocessing the data relieves the burden on the control. In this constellation, the EnDat master is integrated into the security chain. For this solution, HEIDENHAIN offers a tested safe EnDat master for use in FPGAs/ASICs.
- EnDat Master Basic
In this version, the EnDat master can be considered a black channel. It passes the encoder data unchanged to the control and is not integrated into the safety chain. The transfer of all safety functions to the subsequent control results in higher demands on the performance of the safety module. For example, safety-related data must be processed in the control cycle because, in contrast to an EnDat Master Safe, they are not buffered.
Depending on the safety strategy or the control architecture, the solution can be better suited with an EnDat Master Safe or with an EnDat Master Basic. This has to be decided on the basis of the application.
The requirements for implementation are described in detail in a separately available documentation from HEIDENHAIN. This includes, for example, the monitoring functions, specifications on the evaluation and processing of position values and error bits, and information about the electrical connection. Please request this documentation if necessary.


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CLEVELAND: A former information technology director has been charged in the theft of $3.4 million from a northeast Ohio school district.
A state audit of the Cuyahoga Heights district found Joseph Palazzo, of Independence, authorized millions of dollars in payments to seven vendors run by relatives and friends, and the schools didn�t get anything in return.
Palazzo resigned in February 2011 as officials moved to fire him.
The U.S. Attorney�s office in Cleveland says the 31-year-old Palazzo is charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering and mail fraud.
The charge was filed Wednesday as a criminal information, which usually signals a pending plea deal. Palazzo�s attorney, James Marniella, declined comment Thursday.
The district is pursuing a civil lawsuit to help recover the missing funds.


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BACKGROUND IMAGE: iSTOCK/GETTY IMAGES
- FeatureIs Low-Cost Fibre Channel Finally Here?
- FeatureBackup On a Shoestring
- FeatureEasier RAID Upgrades In View
- FeatureThe pitfalls of smart switches
- FeatureHot technologies in 2004
- FeatureReeling in a bigger salary
- Ask the ExpertInformation lifecycle management (ILM) data storage in an Oracle environment
- FeatureE-mail Archiving: A Storage Problem After All
- FeatureData Recovery Mantra: Know Thyself
- FeatureStarting the ILM process
- FeatureSunny Day for Storage Consolidation
- FeatureIs there a need for more speed?
- FeatureInformation lifecycle management
- FeatureEMC and NetApp still think they're competitors
- FeatureTiered storage: Heterogeneous vs. homogeneous
- FeatureBooting from the SAN
- FeatureSnapshot: Single initiator zoning
- FeatureHow to manage your data storage growth
- FeatureWhat a difference a year makes
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Hot technologies in 2004
In 2004, flexible, affordable new technologies are beginning to emerge that will open the door for smaller companies and allow them to sample some advanced storage strategies.
For the last few years, enterprise storage has been a game that only the big boys could really play effectively. Only they had the resources to build storage area networks (SANs), mirror massive amounts of data and replicate data over long distances. In 2004, new technologies will dramatically lower the price of networked storage, opening the door for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to finally get their chance to try out advanced storage strategies for themselves.
|Storage management standards
And what are the technologies they will be able to seriously play with? Storage networking has been brought within their reach by iSCSI, affordable data replication using IP and tons of flexible, low-cost storage capacity courtesy of serial ATA (SATA).
"2004 will see major [storage] infrastructure changes for midsize companies," says Arun Taneja, consulting analyst at the Taneja Group, Hopkinton, MA. The march to networked storage by large companies that started four years ago as they began adopting Fibre Channel (FC) SANs will likely accelerate in 2004, as midsize companies start using iSCSI.
There will be many factors driving the storage industry in 2004. Companies will continue to consolidate storage, moving from direct-attached storage (DAS) to networked storage. The benefits are compelling: increased management efficiency and utilization levels as high as 85% to 90%, resulting in lower TCO and higher ROI.
Second, the economy is improving and companies are saying they'll buy more storage. In a recent Storage magazine survey of 500 managers, 58% plan to increase spending in 2004. (See "Surviving and thriving: facing recession and growth".) Of those planning increases, 46% plan increases of 5% or greater.
Hard-strapped IT departments working at recession-level staffing, however, can expect little relief in terms of hiring or significant pay increases, despite increased IT spending. For example, although a large number of Storage survey respondents intend to increase spending on storage management, more than half of them are doing so with the primary objective to manage more storage with the same or fewer staff.
Third, government regulatory compliance is forcing companies to spend more money on their storage infrastructure. HIPAA regulations, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Patriot Act and various financial industry edicts mandate that companies store more data and protect it, often by replicating it to distant locations.
Yet what's not a factor is the technology itself. None of the analysts, consultants or managers interviewed for this report expect any major storage technology breakthroughs. At best, they expect modest technology enhancements and continued price/performance improvements for the technologies they are deploying.
Here are Storage's picks of technologies that will be hot in 2004:
- SAN/NAS gateways: permit NAS/SAN integration
- iSCSI: provides the foundation for IP-based storage
- SATA: enables organizations to capitalize on inexpensive disk capacity to drive down costs
- Storage resource management (SRM): ushers in a new generation of storage management capabilities
|Eagerly anticipated
SAN/NAS gateways
Networked storage remains the No. 1 hot trend and a fundamental building block of storage going forward. Networked storage has been steadily gaining ground. International Data Corp. (IDC), Framingham, MA, expects it to represent 75% of enterprise storage within a few more years. Already, it's a well-established fact--at least for large companies--that they need to consolidate their DAS. What will be popular in 2004 are new ways to network storage and the opportunities they offer to SMEs. Put it another way: It won't be just Fibre Channel (FC) anymore.
SAN/NAS gateways, which ranked high among technologies to be implemented in the Storage survey, will play an essential role in 2004 as companies attempt to simplify their networked storage environments by combining SAN, NAS and content-addressable storage (CAS) on a single network fabric. The gateways typically feature Ethernet connections on one side and FC connections on the other. Some leading vendors such as Hitachi Data Systems Inc. (HDS), IBM Corp. and Network Appliance Inc. (NetApp) introduced such gateways in 2003. Analysts expect the technology to be widespread in 2004 because it addresses a clear and immediate need as it simplifies the storage environment.
IDC and other research firms began predicting a growth market for iSCSI in 2003. By 2004, iSCSI will have moved beyond the early adopters and into the mainstream, where it will be used with FC in large storage environments to bring storage networking into SMEs for the first time. The adoption of iSCSI by SMEs will begin in 2004, but won't become widespread until 2006.
iSCSI allows for block-level storage over common IP networks. The appeal of iSCSI comes from its ability to take advantage of the existing IP network infrastructure and IP skill sets. From switches to adapter cards to even the storage devices themselves, IP storage will save the organization money. Early adopters report saving 30%, 50% or more over the cost of the equivalent amount of FC storage. SMEs will find iSCSI especially attractive for this reason.
The publication of the iSCSI standard in 2003 triggered a flood of new iSCSI-compliant products. 2004 will see the introduction of iSCSI-compatible components from most vendors, says Robert Gray, research director, IDC. Even some of the major FC storage product vendors, such as EMC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and IBM, either already have iSCSI-enabled products or will in 2004. Rather than replace FC, iSCSI will coexist with FC in large data centers.
As the foundation for IP-based storage, iSCSI creates many opportunities. In addition to enabling companies to create affordable SANs using their existing IP infrastructure and skills, it allows companies to leverage existing TCP/IP network links to move large volumes of block-level stored data over long distances. TCP/IP lowers the cost of asynchronous mirroring and replication, putting it in reach of more companies and making it feasible for more uses.
Companies can use IP-based remote snapshot/replication to maintain concurrent or nearly concurrent data at remote sites for purposes of balancing workloads between multiple data centers, application development and testing or business continuity and disaster recovery. The last "will be very important in our post-Sept. 11 world," says David Hill, Aberdeen Group VP of storage research.
Storage survey respondents ranked snapshot/replication alongside SAN/NAS gateways at the top of their implementation interests. Snap/replication, when combined with inexpensive disk drives, creates even more possibilities in how organizations can handle their storage needs.
iSCSI isn't perfect, especially at this still-early stage in its evolution. For example, users must contend with considerable IP overhead. The solution is to move the IP processing into a TCP/IP offload engine (TOE), which can be built as a chip and integrated into iSCSI cards and devices. Expect more chip-level TOEs to come in 2004.
|Not yet their time
ATA drives, formerly known as IDE drives, are the low-cost, high-capacity drives used with desktop PCs. They're now being loaded into storage cabinets to create large, inexpensive pools of storage, which can take the form of JBOD or RAID. SATA drew nearly as much interest in terms of implementation and evaluation as SAN/NAS gateways and snapshot replication in the Storage survey.
SATA specifies a new serial interface to the standard ATA drive, featuring a parallel interface connected with a short, wide-ribbon cable. SATA also uses the serial interface, which connects to a slim, round, flexible cable that allows for distances up to one meter--double the distance for an ATA drive. SATA drives use the same internal components as ATA drives, but they support hot-swapping of drives, and ATA doesn't.
Disk subsystem vendors--especially midrange vendors--are using ATA drives to build large, inexpensive disk arrays. Some vendors, such as EMC, are combining ATA and conventional server-class SCSI drives in the same storage system. The industry, led by Dell Computer Corp., is expected to make the widespread transition to SATA in 2004.
SATA will mean flexible, robust arrays of low-cost disk with such enterprise capabilities as hot swapping. The SATA disk arrays will be used for enterprise storage characterized by light-duty cycles vs. heavy-duty production transaction applications demanding nearly continuous reading and writing. Lightweight duty situations include bulk storage, nonproduction applications, backup, archiving, content serving and decision support applications.
"To me, it is just cheap disk," says Steve Gray, IT systems manager at Phoenix Newspapers Inc., Phoenix, AZ, which already makes extensive use of ATA drives in its data center. Arrays of SATA drives will become key to a variety of data backup and fast recovery techniques. Instead of backing up directly to tape, storage admins can now backup from costly SCSI disk to affordable SATA disks, and then to tape for archival purposes. SATA will enable an entirely new class of storage, dubbed midline or nearline storage. The combination of snapshot/replication and SATA will allow organizations to move less-critical data from expensive enterprise storage systems to low-cost midline storage.
Server-class SCSI disk drives, however, will continue to be used for heavy-duty enterprise applications. Organizations will mix SATA and SCSI in their enterprise storage as they establish tiers of storage consisting of first-line primary production storage, midline secondary storage and storage for archiving and backup. SATA arrays will also prove useful, analysts say, for protecting data by offering low-cost mirroring of primary storage.
For many organizations, storage management consists mainly of automating tape backup. The long-term storage management trend, however, is toward increasingly broad management, automation and provisioning. SRM--which addresses storage inventory and reporting--has emerged as the baseline for advanced storage management and will become widely adapted in 2004, according to Bill North, IDC's senior storage software analyst. But SRM is just the building block upon which more capabilities must be added if companies hope to control increasingly complex physical and logical storage environments. "Companies need management and automation to deal with all this complexity," he says.
Provisioning is the first function to build on SRM and will pick up steam in 2004. Fully automated provisioning, policy-based storage automation and heterogeneous storage management, however, are further out, adds North. This was confirmed in Storage's survey in which automated provisioning ranked low in terms of current implementation interest.
These building-block technologies will work their way into the storage environment. They're being built into the products of leading storage vendors and are appearing as appliances and devices provided by third parties.
All organizations don't evolve their storage at the same pace. "Many companies only just now are seeing the value of SAN," says Steve Kenniston, analyst, Enterprise Storage Group. Those companies will find iSCSI or SAN/NAS gateways to be exactly the building blocks they need to start networking their storage. Others are awaiting SMI-S management tools to begin deploying sophisticated, automated enterprise management. Wherever your organization is today and regardless of its size, some combination of these technology building blocks will likely play an important role in 2004.


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San Jose Earthquakes 1, DC United 2 | MLS Match Recap
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – D.C. United extended their lead atop the Eastern Conference, while the San Jose Earthquakes dug their hole even deeper at the bottom of the West.
Eddie Johnson scored from the penalty spot and Luis Silva added another from open play in the first half as United overcame Chris Wondolowski's sixth goal of the season for a 2-1 victory Friday night.
D.C. United (9-5-4) extended their road winning streak to three consecutive matches while widening the gap over second-place Sporting KC to five points. San Jose (4-8-4) dropped their fourth overall, including three straight home games, despite breaking a scoreless streak that had dated to May 31.
The visitors went up in the 12th minute with a little inadvertent help from one of their former members. Quakes right back Brandon Barklage – who broke into MLS with D.C. from 2009 to 2011 – deflected Chris Rolfe's shot from the edge of San Jose's penalty area. He did so with an extended left arm, however, drawing an immediate whistle from referee Jair Marrufo.
Johnson took command – despite the presence of Silva, who had D.C.'s only successful PK conversion this year – and sent a well-placed shot to his right, eluding the dive of San Jose goalkeeper Jon Busch, who guessed correctly to no avail.
Silva would create his own chance in the 25th minute, making a sharp near-post run as Rolfe rolled a cross in from the left wing. Silva beat US international Clarence Goodson to the ball, and his sliding touch at the edge of the six-yard box left Busch no chance at the far post.
D.C. almost went up 3-0 in the 36th when some fine passing found Rolfe open in the heart of San Jose's area. But Busch came up with the critical reaction save from 13 yards, keeping things close until the 39th, when Wondolowski ended the Quakes' drought at 354 minutes, the second-longest such streak in MLS this season.
Wondolowski, playing his first competitive match since his disappointing miss for the US against Belgium in the World Cup, used two touches to set up a left-footed drive from 21 yards. A deflection off a D.C. United defender left goalkeeper Bill Hamid wrong-footed and Wondolowski had his first goal since May 3.
Desperate to avoid falling below .500 at home on the season, the Quakes pushed forward from all areas in the second half, but Hamid proved up to the task, making five of his seven saves after intermission. He batted aside Wondolowski's tightly angled attempt in the 58th minute, then scrambled in the 66th to parry Atiba Harris' shot, which was about to sneak inside the near post from wide on the right wing.
Sam Cronin was denied by Hamid after he hammered a left-footed try in the 77th. And Alan Gordon, on late as San Jose's final throw of the dice, was turned back twice in the waning minutes, including a wide-open header at point-blank range in the 91st minute.
Both teams are back in action next weekend, with the Quakes facing a cross-country road trip to the New York Red Bulls on Saturday, while D.C. host Chivas USA at home on Sunday.
MLSsoccer.com Men of the Match
|What We Saw
|Bill Hamid
|A huge performance in the later stages of the game, with none of his five second-half saves better than his stoppage-time denial of Gordon
|Chris Rolfe
|A quiet second half hurt his case, but Rolfe shined in the first half and helped draw the PK for D.C.'s first and setup their second
|Davy Arnaud
|An active performance from the longtime vet, and helped frustrate San Jose centrally at every turn, even when Perry Kitchen was having a less-disciplined night than normal


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Announcing Transforming Hollywood: The Futures Of Television/
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
USC School of Cinematic Arts
Transforming Hollywood: The Futures of Television, April 4, 2014, UCLA
Denise Mann, UCLA
Henry Jenkins, USC
Presented by the Andrew J. Kuehn Jr. Foundation
Media Sponsor: Variety
Friday April 4 2014
James Bridges Theater, UCLA
Conference overview: This year, the fifth installment of Transmedia, Hollywood has been given a new name—Transforming Hollywood: The Future of Television—to reflect our desire to engage more fully with the radical changes taking place in the American television industry for creators, distributors, and audiences. When future generations of historians write their accounts of the evolution of the American television industry, they will almost certainly point to the 2010s as a moment of dramatic change: we've seen the entry of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and YouTube as major players shaping the production of original programming, gaining critical praise, courting industry awards, and perhaps, most dramatically, starting to compete in terms of number of subscriptions to the top cable networks. We've seen Kickstarter emerge as an alternative means for "crowdfunding" television content, allowing fans to exert a greater role in shaping the future of their favorite series. We've seen a continued growth in the number of independent producers creating and distributing their content through the web. And with these other changes, we are seeing the industry and academia struggle to develop new insights into what it means to consume television content in this connected and yet dispersed marketplace. This conference will bring together key creative and corporate decision-makers who are shaping these changes and academics who have been trying to place these shifts in their larger historical and cultural contexts. What does all of this mean for those of us who are making or watching television?
For more information, see: http://www.liquid-bass.com/conference/
For conference Registration, see : https://transforminghollywood5.eventbrite.com
Panel one: "Virtual Entrepreneurs—Creators Who are Reinventing TV for the Digital Future."
9-9:10 Opening Remarks
Henry Jenkins, USC and Denise Mann, UCLA
Moderator: Denise Mann, UCLA
In the fall of 2011, Google announced plans to invest a hundred million dollars to forge talent partnerships with a number of talented YouTube creator in order to enhance the production value of their work and their value to brands. This panel gives voice to two new types of virtual entrepreneur: individual web-creators who are reinventing entertainment for the digital age, and the CEO of a new type of web-based multi-channel network (MCNs), which is forging deals with individual web-creators in exchange for providing them with infrastructural support in the form of sound stages, green screens, higher quality cameras and editing equipment, enhanced social media marketing tools, and brand alliances. Early entrepreneurs in this newly commercial, digital economy include Felicia Day and Sheri Bryant (Geek and Sundry), Freddie Wong (Video High School), and Dane Boetlinger (Annoying Orange), each of whom has catapulted his or herself into the top tier of web-celebs based on huge fan followings. Many of these entrepreneurial web-creators have sought out deals with MCNS, such as Maker, Fullscreen, Maker, Machinima, and The Collective, in order to expand their budding entertainment enterprises. However, other creators are chafing inside these long-term contracts with the MCNs, frustrated by what they see as onerous terms—the split of advertising revenues and intellectual property rights. Today's panel debates the viability of these new creative and business models, asking whether they represent a radical rethinking of entertainment that puts power back into the hands of creators or are they transitional systems that will eventually be absorbed by Hollywood's big media groups.
2."The Programmers of the Future: Video Streaming on Demand."
Moderator: Andrew Wallenstein, Editor-in-Chief, Digital, Variety
Overview: As consumers spend more of their free time online, viewing and sharing content on social networks such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Vimeo, Tumblir, and Vine, what does this mean for the future of television? Cord-cutters and cord-nevers represent a very real threat to the current big dogs of digital distribution—the multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs), also known as the subscription cable systems (Comcast, Time-Warner, Comcast), the satellite carriers (Direct TV), the telcos (AT&T U-verse), and the wireless companies (Verizon FiOS). At the same time, the MVPDs have been waging too many public battles with the Hollywood broadcasters over their high re-transmission fees, resorting to theatrics by pulling favorite sporting events and sit-coms--behavior that alienates consumers and tests the patience of government policy-makers. At the same time, these policy-makers are making little effort to curb the reckless deal-making taking place in the video streaming on demand (VSOD) space as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu Plus, and new players, such as Microsoft X-box, make aggressive moves to expand globally while freeing themselves from their dependency on Hollywood licensing deals. By creating their own libraries of critically-acclaimed original programming—House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, Betas—the VSOD services are creating legions of new, loyal consumers, paving the way for a future that may or may not include Hollywood's premium content licensing deals going forward. Furthermore, the VSOD services are attracting A-level talent by offering greater creative autonomy than their micro-managing counterparts at the studios and networks. Do these new programming and streaming options foretell the end of an era in Hollywood or the beginning of a revised set of practices for creators and additional viewing options for binging viewers? Only time will tell?
3. "Second Screens, Connected Viewing, Crowd-funding, and Social Media: Re-imagining Television Consumption."
Moderator: Henry Jenkins, USC
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Moderator: Aymar Jean Christian, Northwestern University
Overview: The Internet broke the network bottleneck. Through platforms like YouTube and Vimeo, creators release series directly to fans, who follow shows and share them with friends. Web-content creators can write stories in whatever length, style, and genre they choose, on their own schedule, and with actors of their choosing. The result is a truly open television ecosystem, where creators, talent and fans work together to realize stories they want to see. Each of the producers who appear on this panel has contributed to this new vision of television, producing series that are developed for the Internet but are also being shaped for traditional TV as well (several of these series are being developed on HBO). Issa Rae developed The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl with a small team and expanded the show using a successful crowdfunding campaign; she went on to produce a number of series with other creators,including Amy Rubin's Little Horribles. Released by her own Barnacle Studios, Rubin's sitcom became a hit with fans and critics at Variety, LA Weekly and Splitsider, among many others. Dennis Dortch and Numa Perrier launched the Black & Sexy TV network to showcase indie comedy, releasing their own hit series, The Couple, and many others from emerging Hollywood talent. Jay Bushman helped The Lizzie Bennet Diaries grow into a deeply engaging transmedia phenomenon, where viewers of the Jane Austen-inspired series followed characters from YouTube to Twitter and Pinterest. As these examples convey, the internet has become an incubator for talented, next-generation web-creators and web-celebs, who, in combination with their fan followers, are reinventing television for the digital age.
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Dominic Basulto: Apple, Amazon have a dangerous obsession with the tech gadget du jour
Apple has a new smartwatch coming in the fall and Amazon has a new Fire smartphone coming in July. That should be good news for consumer technology fans, but the reality is that both products are "me-too" plays that should be setting off all kinds of warning bells for Silicon Valley watchers. Instead of launching truly innovative new products and opening up entirely new markets, the best and brightest companies are seemingly content to make a more conservative play for market share and rely on incremental innovations to win over customers.
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Or, for example, consider the new Amazon Fire phone. Do we really need another smartphone that helps us buy more products? Amazon's decision to roll out a new smartphone when the entire smartphone industry is nearing its saturation point seems a lot like a lot of reactive strategy. In short, a big company reacts to what's going on around it rather than really mapping out a strategy for the future. Yes, there are some features that sound innovative — but the bigger picture is that an Amazon smartphone sounds a lot like a Facebook smartphone, and we all know how that did.
Not that there aren't some big ideas out there in Silicon Valley.
You have Google launching Internet balloons, building a fleet of driverless cars and developing quantum computers. But, oh, by the way, Google's Nest plans to acquire Dropcam for more than half a billion dollars. A company that promises to change the world ends up buying a webcam company.
Amazon wowed the world with its delivery drones last year, but followed that up with tepid adventures in innovation such as Fire TV and the Fire phone. No word yet if the Fire smartwatch is next.
Facebook has its share of innovative concepts in the works — like a plan to use satellite drones to provide Internet access to the world — but on a day-to-day basis, Facebook seems more interested in carrying out little tweaks to its algorithms. Meanwhile the company rolls out ever more apps that seem like "me-too" plays in an effort to keep up with innovators around it. The latest is Slingshot, which sounds a lot like Snapchat.
Apple has a futuristic new headquarters in the works and a vision to change the way we think about digital health. But it follows that up with the so-called iWatch — a smartwatch that reportedly comes in a variety of screen sizes and colors along with sensors for tracking health.
The problem, quite simply, is that the recent moves by the likes of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google actually make too much sense. From a purely business and analytical perspective, the moves are designed to maximize market share, increase user engagement, and hit any of the various other metrics designed to measure their performance. Wall Street analysts, even if they're not in love with the moves, have to respect them. If the Amazon Fire phone succeeds in signing more people up for Amazon Prime and selling an incremental number of products on Amazon, does it really matter that the phone never acquires the market cachet of an iPhone?
Follow the arc of the rise and fall of any industry leader, however, and that's exactly how smaller companies with inferior technologies begin to chip away at the market leaders. As Clayton Christensen has pointed out in The Innovator's Dilemma — still one of the classic innovation reads — what makes true innovation so hard is that the business case for "business as usual" just makes so much sense once you're the market leader. It becomes a matter of continual improvements and tweaks to "what works," while ceding the ground to upstarts when it comes to new technologies.
So here's why the infatuation with the latest product du jour is so dangerous — in the pursuit of incremental gains to quarterly financial numbers, America's most innovative companies risk ceding more and more ground to upstarts who are coming up with disruptive products. It almost seems impossible to think of a company more innovative than Google or Apple these days — but the same was once surely true of great American companies such as IBM or Kodak. When the best and brightest in Silicon Valley are buying the likes of Nest or Beats, one wonders if they are doing so because they are one step ahead of the curve — or one step behind.
(Disclosure: Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
Basulto is a futurist and blogger based in New York City.


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