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Today's Topics:
1. Student experiences world of low power FM radio (Ken Kopp)
2. Mike Evans, original Lionel Jefferson, dead (Williams, Gregory S.)
3. How Apple could rock wireless (Monty Solomon)
4. An Apple phone is no slam-dunk (Monty Solomon)
5. Will it Blend? - iPod (Monty Solomon)
6. A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
(Monty Solomon)
7. To catch rule-breakers, schools look online (Monty Solomon)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:47:40 -0600
From: "Ken Kopp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Student experiences world of low power FM radio
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By Meghan Dusek, Staff correspondent, River Falls Journal
Published Friday, December 22, 2006
http://www.riverfallsjournal.com/articles/index.cfm?id=80998§ion=collections&forumcomm_check_return&freebie_check&CFID=11651281&CFTOKEN=97439687&jsessionid=88309bc8defe5d4c7b79
A foray into northern Wisconsin involving vintage radio equipment and
a base of a few hundred listeners gave one UW-River Falls student a
little insight to a relatively new radio sub-culture.
Thanks to a gift from UW-RF alumnus Donovan Rasmussen, a mechanical
engineer who retired to his hometown of Dresser, Nick Hassel, a junior
journalism major from St. Paul, completed a paid internship with the
low power FM (LPFM) station WPCA FM 95.7 in Amery.
Lower power FM radio service was created by the FCC in 2000. Stations
are allowed for noncommercial or nonprofit educational broadcast, or
public safety, transportation or government agencies. Current
broadcast licensees with other media interests cannot apply for a
permit, and permit holders can only broadcast at 100 watts in a radius
of 3.5 miles, according to the FCC.
As a LPFM, WPCA reaches the immediate Amery area, and that's about it.
"Once you hit I-94 it turns into a country station," Hassel says.
As current promotions director for the UW-RF Wisconsin Public Radio
affiliate WRFW FM 88.7 and with two years' experience working with the
campus station, Hassel had a substantial background but the internship
? as news director ? called on different skills.
A typical day began with the newscast at 7 a.m. followed by gathering
and writing stories for a later cast and then an afternoon of
interviews or press conferences, depending on the current events.
Hassel said news in a town Amery's size might equate to a new
stoplight, but he recognizes the value of his time in the small town
and having to wear many hats.
"I gained a lot of first-hand experience," Hassel says. "With most
internships, you follow people around and don't really do anything. I
just kind of got thrown into it there."
Despite being one wave of the future, the LPFM station WPCA is working
to recapture the "golden age of radio." Recordings of musical
presentations from the 1940s play on weekends, and Frank Sinatra and
other Rat Packers are staples on the playlist.
Hassel says station owner Bob Zank relies on "Mom and Pop"
underwriters versus commercials for funding. All the equipment at the
station is from the 1950s and visitors are invited to view a newscast
as it might have looked back in the day when radio shows "Life of
Riley" and "The Shadow" and personality Jack Benny were the equivalent
to today's "King of Queens" and "CSI" television shows and media maven
Dane Cook.
Described as a largely rural phenomena as FCC requirements do not
allow LPFM to exist in larger cities with more crowded spectrums, such
community stations are credited with bringing back localism and
diversity to airwaves. With more than 260 currently in existence in
the United States, the stations' platforms range from religious
groups, local neighborhoods, and high schools to "regular" news and
music programming like WPCA's.
"They're a good idea for a smaller town," Hassel says. "Older people
get involved, and it's really about the community and what's going on
there."
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Ken Kopp - KK?HF
ARRL DEC Kansas ARES District 1
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Ham Radio: More than just a hobby!
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:48:01 -0800
From: "Williams, Gregory S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Mike Evans, original Lionel Jefferson, dead
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TWENTYNINE PALMS, California (AP) -- Actor Mike Evans, best known as Lionel
Jefferson in the TV sitcoms "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons," has
died. He was 57.
Evans died of throat cancer December 14 at his mother's home in Twentynine
Palms, said his niece, Chrystal Evans.
Evansexternal link, along with Eric Monte, also created and wrote for "Good
Times," one of the first TV sitcoms that featured a primarily black cast.
Michael Jonas Evans was born November 3, 1949, in Salisbury, North Carolina.
His father, Theodore Evans Sr., was a dentist while his mother, Annie Sue
Evans, was a school teacher.
The family moved to Los Angeles when Evans was a child.
He studied acting at Los Angeles City College before getting the role of
Lionel Jefferson in 1970s situation comedy "All in the Family."
Evans kept the role of Lionel when "The Jeffersons" launched in 1975. The
hit show was a spinoff featuring bigoted Archie Bunker's black neighbors in
Queens who "move on up to the East Side" of Manhattan.
Evans was replaced by Damon Evans (no relation) for four years, then he
returned to the series from 1979 to 1981.
He also acted in the 1976 TV miniseries "Rich Man, Poor Man" and made guest
appearances on the TV series "Love, American Style" and "The Streets of San
Francisco." His last role was in a 2000 episode of "Walker, Texas Ranger."
In recent years he had invested in real estate in Southern California.
Gregory S. Williams
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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:50:49 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] How Apple could rock wireless
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How Apple could rock wireless
Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and LG might be secretly rooting for the
Apple phone to be a (minor) hit.
By Stephanie Mehta, Fortune senior writer
December 18 2006: 2:12 PM EST
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- If Steve Jobs' Apple decides to build a
wireless phone, as widely rumored, the company has the chance to
shake up not just the wireless device business - an industry
dominated by the likes of Motorola and Nokia - it also could upend
the entire wireless distribution model in the United States.
We know very little about the Apple's plans for a cell phone. Apple
(Charts) isn't talking ("We don't comment on rumor and speculation,"
a spokesman told me) but we do know that wireless represents a huge
opportunity - and threat - for Apple, and every other consumer
electronics and computer maker.
Wireless phone makers increasingly are adding MP3 players to their
devices, with the capability to download songs over the air. It
certainly makes sense for Apple to want a piece of this action.
How Apple makes this happen is a topic of great swirl in tech and
telecom circles. UBS telecom analyst John Hodulik recently published
a report positing that Apple would seek to become a virtual phone
company, buying airtime wholesale from Cingular and reselling
wireless service, along with its new phone, sometime in the first
quarter of 2007.
Other rumors have Apple building a phone with built-in Wi-Fi service
that would allow customers to make calls and download data and music
from the free or cheap Wi-Fi networks proliferating in urban and
suburban settings, bypassing traditional cellular networks. Both
scenarios underscore Jobs' aversion to ceding control to telcos such
as Cingular, Verizon (Charts), T-Mobile and Sprint (Charts), which
exercise huge control over the entire wireless food chain in the U.S.
...
http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/15/technology/pluggedin_mehta_iphone.fortune/
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:09:01 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] An Apple phone is no slam-dunk
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An Apple phone is no slam-dunk
The wireless world can be a harsh place. Just ask Sony, says
Fortune's Stephanie Mehta.
By Stephanie N. Mehta, Fortune senior writer
December 22 2006: 11:31 AM EST
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- A well-regarded computer and
consumer-electronics maker plunges into the competitive wireless
market with a combination music player/cell phone. The company's
loyal users can barely wait to try the new gadget, and analysts
predict the device will deliver on the long-promised marriage of
music and mobility.
We're describing, of course, a phone Sony made for Japan's
NTT DoCoMo, circa 2000. But you'd be forgiven for thinking we were
talking about Apple's rumored wireless phone, which could be launched
as early as next month.
It turns out that Sony's wireless experience is a cautionary tale for
any consumer electronics maker - including Apple - trying to make the
move into the cell phone business. Sony stumbled badly with its music
player/phone, and in May 2001 DoCoMo recalled 40,000 of the handsets
due to software glitches. (One phone reportedly shut down if the user
was listening to music when the phone rang.)
Then, another Japanese operator recalled more than 500,000 Sony
Internet-capable handsets. A few months later, Sony entered a joint
venture with established telecom player Ericsson, in part, executives
of the venture say, to gain much-needed wireless expertise. The
alliance, Sony Ericsson, today is the No. 4 maker of wireless phones,
after Nokia, Motorola and Samsung.
...
http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/22/technology/pluggedin_mehta_apple_phone.fortune/
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:59:39 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Will it Blend? - iPod
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=B8H29jU8Wrs
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:42:36 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content
Protection
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A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
===================================================
Peter Gutmann, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
Last updated 22 December 2006
Executive Summary
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Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in
order to provide content protection for so-called "premium content",
typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this
protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance,
system stability, technical support overhead, and hardware and
software cost. These issues affect not only users of Vista but the
entire PC industry, since the effects of the protection measures
extend to cover all hardware and software that will ever come into
contact with Vista, even if it's not used directly with Vista (for
example hardware in a Macintosh computer or on a Linux server). This
document analyses the cost involved in Vista's content protection,
and the collateral damage that this incurs throughout the computer
industry.
...
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:45:30 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] To catch rule-breakers, schools look online
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To catch rule-breakers, schools look online
Photos show athletes using alcohol, drugs
By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff | December 22, 2006
High schools across Massachusetts are threatening to punish athletes
if they are spotted drinking alcohol or using drugs in photos or
videos posted on MySpace , YouTube , or other online sites.
School officials say they are enforcing existing bans on smoking or
drinking, and turning to online sites to catch the rule-breakers. In
at least 20 high schools across the state, principals are warning
athletes that they will punish them for behavior caught online ,
according to the state's secondary school principals group and
athletic association. The two groups estimate that dozens of schools
are using this tactic. Several schools have suspended students from
games.
Woburn High School suspended a handful of athletes from two practices
and one game last spring after police recognized the athletes holding
cans of beer in photographs posted on MySpace. This year, Newton
South High School notified athletes they could be suspended if
captured breaking the rules in photographs or video online.
Schools generally do not punish nonathletes for behavior outside
school, but the 175,000 student athletes in Massachusetts must follow
a code of conduct that bans drug and alcohol use during the season.
The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association , which
governs school sports, requires schools to, at a minimum, suspend
first offenders for 25 percent of the games and subsequent offenders
for 60 percent. Individual schools can set tougher rules, including
removing students from teams or enforcing the rules year-round.
Schools already have been warning students to be careful about what
they post online, but punishing athletes for misdeeds online is a
more aggressive approach.
...
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/12/22/to_catch_rule_breakers_schools_look_online/
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