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It’s time for Congress to reform the anti-circumvention aspects of the DMCA, set forth in section 1201 of the Act. Chairman Goodlatte is conducting a broad Copyright Act reform effort, considering the section 1201 process among others. Separately, specific bills such as the Unlocking Technology Act of 2015 and the Breaking Down Barriers to Innovation Act of 2015 could help address problems with section 1201.
Freeing resources for more productive work will boost the economy and strengthen individual freedoms that promote the cycle of innovation.
Kept consumers from adapting and refining medical devices in ways important to their health.
Left users exposed to attacks through vulnerabilities in software.
Hindered the industry competition that keeps telecommunications costs more reasonable for edge providers uploading and their consumers downloading media.
Hindered access for the disabled to books, movies and television shows.
In other words, those seeking exemptions ordinarily do not infringe on copyright holders’ rights. Instead, they want to diagnose, repair or improve a work they have purchased for their particular purposes, some of which are important to national security.
Legislators, parties and others have observed that the triennial review process can restrict commerce, innovation and cybersecurity research. In addition, requiring regulatory review, every three years, of the same arguments proving the worth of exemptions is a waste of taxpayer dollars. Freeing resources for more productive work will boost the economy and strengthen individual freedoms that promote the cycle of innovation.
Published: Dec. 16, 2013 at 03:00 a.m.
(:55) K.Cousins pass deep right to F.Davis for 23 yards, TOUCHDOWN.
Published: Dec. 15, 2013 at 01:50 p.m.
The Washington Redskins climb back into the game when quarterback Kirk Cousins finds tight end Fred Davis in the end zone to trim the Atlanta Falcons lead to 14-7.
Published: Dec. 4, 2011 at 02:53 p.m.
(12:46) R.Grossman pass deep left to F.Davis pushed ob at NYJ 14 for 42 yards (A.Cromartie).
Published: Nov. 27, 2011 at 06:37 p.m.
(7:16) R.Grossman pass short left to F.Davis for 2 yards, TOUCHDOWN.
JEWETT CITY - Julia Janca is learning how to be a workhorse pitcher on the fly this season.
Griswold’s junior left-hander pitched effectively but sparingly last year when the ECC champion Wolverines featured All-State lefty Maya Waldron, who led Griswold to the Class M title game. Now with Waldron in college, Janca knows she’s being counted on.
Saturday against hard-hitting Plainfield, Janca took a big step forward to filling Waldron’s cleats. She pitched a one-hitter, allowing just four base-runners in an efficient effort as the Wolverines topped Plainfield, 8-2, to improve to 4-2.
Janca retired the first nine batters in order. After allowing two runs in the fourth, she finished off Plainfield (3-3) by retiring 11 of the last 12 batters while allowing just one walk.
Peters’ triple and Madison Kelley’s RBI groundout made it, 3-2, in the fourth.
The Wolverines busted the game open with four in the fifth against Peters, an All-State player from North Carolina who transferred to Plainfield midway through her junior year recently.
Peters was hampered by a key error, a couple of calls that went against the Panthers and Griswold’s timely hitting in the fifth.
After Kaitlyn Davis’ leadoff walk, Kamryn Gurnee’s soft infield liner was not caught. Peters hit a batter to load the bases and Sarah Aviles followed with an RBI single to make it 4-2.
Peters forced two pop ups and appeared ready to escape without further damage. But she scraped Kaelin Waldron’s hand with a pitch after Waldron said she got hit, drawing the ire of the Plainfield bench, to force in a run. Hailey Hill followed with a hard grounder up the middle. Griswold’s runner appeared to get in the path of shortstop Madison Kelley, who stopped. The ball rolled into center for a two-run single.
Plainfield argued that obstruction should have been called, which would have ended the inning with a 5-2 score. Panther coach Jim Langlois declined to comment, instead crediting Janca for her pitching.
Griswold tacked on a run in the sixth. Davis (2-for-3, three stolen bases, two RBI) singled and stolen second and third. Cheyenne Zvingilas tried bunting her home on a squeeze play, but Peters, who usually plays shortstop, sprang off the mound to field the bunt and tag out Davis at the plate.
Aviles followed with an RBI triple to complete the scoring.
Brian McBride and Erik Nevland struck to haul Fulham out of the Barclays Premier League bottom three with a 2-0 win which leaves Birmingham on the brink of relegation.
Brian McBride and Erik Nevland struck to give Fulham a glimmer of hope in their battle against relegation from the Barclays Premier League with this 2-0 win at Reading.
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Under the deal, LIN stations WTNH and WCTX will broadcast a minimum of 12 basketball games in each of the next three seasons. The stations also have agreed to carry ESPN Regional's Big East men's basketball game of the week and the Big East football game of the week, both of which could include additional UConn games.
ESPN Regional has the rights to all Big East men's basketball games, conference and non-conference, which are not televised by CBS or one of the ESPN national networks.
"The University of Connecticut and its athletic program represent the best of the best in the United States," said Jon Hitchcock, Vice President and General Manager of WTNH and WCTX. "UConn alumni and students represent a passionate fan base, and we are excited to be the primary destination for UConn men's basketball and football."
If you don’t use APIs in 2017, your media business will die.
Now that the over-dramatic opening is out the way, here’s what I think is going to be a significant shift in the use of platforms in 2017: the opening up of APIs, everywhere.
An API (application programming interface) is essentially a set of building blocks given to you by a platform (e.g. by a messaging app or social media company) to enable you to build your own functionality on top of what is offered by the platform as standard. Depending on what building blocks are made available, you can create your own services or user experiences.
A lot of the tools currently used in the industry — Dataminr, Chartbeat, SocialFlow, and Crowdtangle, among others — all take advantage of APIs offered by Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram to deliver deeper data, analytics, alerts, or publishing mechanisms.
APIs aren’t new — they’ve been around a long time. What will be so significant about 2017 is just how widespread they will become — meaning news organizations will have the potential to distribute content and engage with audiences at a greater scale than ever before.
Want to develop an app for a Google, Tesla, or Apple self-driving car? That could soon be possible because of APIs. Want to pull in insights data from YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter into your own in-house analytics tool? APIs mean you can now. Want to connect your TV production systems into Facebook Live? An API will sort it for you. How about developing bespoke automated accounts or content that are more likely to be picked up with AI assistants like Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana, Apple’s Siri, or Google’s Assistant? All of these AI assistants are likely to offer sophisticated APIs in 2017.
Among the other big platforms likely to release some sort of API in 2017 are Snapchat and WhatsApp — opening up potential access to hundreds of millions of millennial users and over a billion users in emerging markets.
Now more than ever, you will need to have access to developers who can focus on experimenting with APIs and develop uses that will work regardless of the size of your media company and reach the audiences you want on the platforms they are on. If you don’t have developers already embedded in your newsroom, make sure you at least have processes to enable your editorial teams to work closely with them.
So far, all the API-momentum is coming from the platforms, as they try and make it easier for third parties to engage more deeply with them. But two can play at that game. 2017 will also the see the rise in APIs being offered by news organizations.
The BBC News Labs team (among a number of other news organizations who also do this) already works with coders during hack days where they get access to an API that pulls in BBC News content that then allows it to be adapted for a range of different digital tools and platforms. By offering greater API access, news organizations can also experiment with becoming capable of being platforms themselves. APIs, if developed and deployed effectively, have the potential to release your content and make it more discoverable, distributable, and recognized as your brand than ever before.
Trushar Barot is mobile editor for BBC World Service.
Dec. 14, 2016, 10:26 a.m.
BRECKENRIDGE — After three of five Olympic qualifiers, six U.S. halfpipe skiers have now notched one podium, yet none have found a second. Two podium finishes is the minimum criteria for making the team.
The race is as interesting as it is exciting, mainly for the number of different scenarios that can play out. The favorites are David Wise, Torin Yater-Wallace and Alex Ferreira, who have all had wins at Olympic qualifiers.
But those athletes could still get edged out by the other three athletes who have found second and third place finishes at Olympic qualifiers — Aaron Blunck, Gus Kenworthy and Avon local Taylor Seaton.
For Seaton, Kenworthy and Blunck, the best hope for Pyongchang is to grab another podium finish at one of the final two qualifiers, coming up in January. In the instance that they should get that podium at the next event, then even if another American leads all other Americans at the final qualifier, but does not make the podium himself, the Olympic spots would defer to the athletes who have two podiums.
With two qualifiers left, we may well see four Americans notch podiums and clinch their Olympic berths. However, the Americans have been competing against the best athletes in the world from several other nations at these events, therefor it’s just as likely that less than four Americans make the podium, as well. In this case coaches will defer to a scoring system, where Seaton currently finds himself in sixth. But the margins are thin — only 40 points currently separates sixth and second. The two best finishes at any two Olympic qualifiers determines your score, Seaton has a score of 92 after finishing third in one qualifier and eighth in another.
The scoring system can get confusing — if it defers to points when four athletes meet the minimum two-podium requirement, yet it still defers to points if less than four athletes notch two podiums, why have the podium requirement at all?
The answer is one which we could see play out. Torin Yater-Wallace, for example, currently leads with 150 points after finishing first for 100 points and fourth for 50 points. If Kenworthy, who has a second place finish of 80 points already to his credit, obtains a third place finish for 60 points, then he will have less points than Wallace, yet will have objectively qualified and will be guaranteed a spot ahead of Wallace despite trailing him by 10 points in the points race. Seaton could lose the points race by as much as 30 points and still clench an Olympic berth.
Competing against the field we’ve been seeing at Olympic qualifiers, Seaton’s recent podiums have come as a bit of a surprise to him and others, who see a sport focused on a trick called the double cork, which Seaton avoids in his run. The double off-axis flip can be seen in some winning runs being performed three or four times in a single run.
Instead of the double cork, Seaton has been on a mission to showcase a variety of different spins in his latest runs, in an effort to bring something fresh to the competition.
“If you think about a spin trick in the halfpipe, there’s eight different ways you can spin — left and right facing forward, and left and right facing backwards, off each wall,” Seaton explains. “They have eight different looks, or variations.
Seaton’s new signature run is a reflection of his concern for the sport of halfpipe skiing in the larger picture. He wants it to be relatable.
The run starts switch, Seaton speeds down the halfpipe facing backward spins right (counter clockwise) off the left wall of the halfpipe, 900 degrees landing switch. Next up, on the right wall, he spins left 720 degrees, landing forward. He then performs every variation of the 900-degree spin facing forward, going right off the left wall, left off the right wall, left off the left wall, and right off the right wall. In between the two 900s, if there’s room, he’ll add a seventh trick, a 540 with a different, more inverted look called a flat spin.
Seaton debuted the run at the Mammoth Grand Prix in February, the first Olympic qualifier, where it scored a 90 and finished third on the day.
Later that season, in the final World Cup of the year, it scored an 89.4 and landed him in second place.
In Breckenridge this weekend, the same run scored a 79.33 and placed Seaton in eighth, but he was nevertheless excited to have landed it and admitted he didn’t execute it as cleanly as he could have.
Before the 2016-17 season, Seaton was a regular in the top 10 with runs that contained double-cork 1260s. At the 2016 X Games, he soared more than 21 feet out of the pipe on a right-spinning variation of the double cork 1260, and at the 2015 Dew Tour, he ended his qualifying run with a left-spinning version of the trick. But the runs never notched him higher than a sixth place finish, and after not getting an invite to the 2017 X Games, Seaton was fed up.
When the judges saw all four variations of the forward-facing 900 landed in a competition the week after X Games in Mammoth, they rewarded it with the top score of the heat, which would go on to score Seaton third overall after finals were canceled.
Now nearly a year later, Seaton is thinking he may have to once again come up with something fresh now that the competition for the Olympics is so close.
For nearly 20 years, the San Antonio Spurs have been a model franchise. They have won 50 or more games in 18 straight seasons and piled up five NBA titles since the 1998-99 season.
Even in the time of Golden State's recent run of success, San Antonio is the most respected organization because of its consistency.
Now the formidable Spurs are showing some cracks. They have lost five of their last six games and need to go 15-8 in their last 23 to reach 50 wins again.
The push starts Friday night when San Antonio (35-24) faces surging Denver. The Nuggets (32-26) have won nine of their last 12, including a couple impressive wins before the All-Star break. The first of those was a eight-point victory over San Antonio 10 days ago, the Spurs' last game before the All-Star break.
The Nuggets took advantage of the absence of LaMarcus Aldridge and Kawhi Leonard that night, and while Aldridge is expected to return for Friday's game, San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich -- the one constant in the franchise's two decades of success -- said he would be surprised if Leonard plays again this season.
Leonard has been limited to nine games with a right quad tendinopathy injury, and although he has been medically cleared to return, he hasn't indicated he will return. He has gotten a second opinion outside the organization, and reports say returning is a matter of managing the level of pain.
"We only have X number of games left in the season, and he's still not ready to go," Popovich told reporters in San Antonio on Wednesday. "If by some chance he is, it's going to be pretty late into the season, and it's going to be a pretty tough decision -- how late to bring somebody back. So that's why I'm just trying to be honest and logical. I'll be surprised if he gets back this year."
While the Spurs are dealing with tough news on the injury front, Denver is getting healthier. Forwards Mason Plumlee (right calf strain) and Paul Millsap (left wrist surgery) returned to practice Wednesday. Plumlee is expected to play Friday and Millsap, out since mid-November, will likely return in early March.
"My intention was to come right back after the all-star break and get into it, but we have to be smart about it," Millsap said after Wednesday's practice. "This was my first practice today, full contact, and I have to be smart about my wrist and my body."
Having Plumlee back gives the Nuggets some needed depth in the frontcourt, especially with Aldridge expected to play Friday. Plumlee is one of Denver's best low-post defenders and that will allow center Nikola Jokic to not have to be on Aldridge.
Friday's game gives the Nuggets an opportunity to finish the season with a split of the four games with the Spurs. San Antonio won both games at home and Denver wants to hold serve on its court.
A win is also important in the tight Western Conference playoff race. The Nuggets are 2 1/2 games behind the Spurs for the third seed but sit only one game ahead of the Los Angeles Clippers for ninth and two games ahead of 10th-place Utah.
The Nuggets have been able to stay in the thick of the race despite the absence of the two big men, and their return could be the boost needed for the stretch.
"It's just great to have those guys back," Nuggets coach Michael Malone told reporters. "We'll figure out who plays and when they play, but being healthy with 24 games to go (is) a good thing to be."
So this is what the Dolphins think.
They’re sure they are better now than they were a year ago.
“I feel really good and confident about the plan we have, the people we’re working with every day, and the direction we’re heading,” executive vice president Mike Tannenbaum said.
This is good tidings stuff. This is glass-half-full. This is rose-colored glasses stuff. This is optimism after a vigorous offseason weight training program.
Is everything the Dolphins are selling — and at a pretty successful rate, by the way, because season ticket sales are ahead of last year according to president and CEO Tom Garfinkel — seriously worth buying?
Before I answer, I remind you this isn’t the first time we’ve heard this kind of talk. Without getting into the gory details, this team has promised big and delivered small dozens of times before. So keep that in mind because past performance is absolutely a predictor of future success.
And keeping that in mind, is what the Dolphins are saying about themselves possibly accurate? Is there a chance we’ll be saying they were absolutely right when we look back at the 2016 season sometime in January of 2017?
But I have to tell you, just about everything they’re planning on happening has to happen just as they expect for it to be so.
That’s because this team has no margin for error. So many things the franchise is counting on to happen must happen that if this were poker, they’d be banking on completing an inside straight.
▪ The Dolphins are banking on Gase being a genius. Ross spent several minutes Tuesday discussing how much of Miami’s problems last year (and probably for several years) were directly tied to coaching.
And so Gase must somehow turn quarterback Ryan Tannehill into 2008 Chad Pennington. He must hide the flaws of an offensive line whose guard play so far promises to be in the hands of the same players who mishandled it last year.
Gase, with the help of friend and defensive coordinator Vance Joseph, must also get the defense right after four consecutive years of steady and disappointing decline.
Adam Gase, in short, better be some kind of Bill Belichick nightmare.
▪ Next the Dolphins have to get great play from players who failed to deliver even good play a year ago. The team added Byron Maxwell, Kiko Alonso, Mario Williams, and Jermon Bushrod earlier this offseason, and all came with bad 2015 seasons on their résumés.
All had better years during their careers, and now, what must happen for the Dolphins to be better is for each of those men to play up to his past heights and not his recent lows.
▪ The Dolphins also have to have one of the best drafts since the early 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers. The team needs not one, but possibly two corners in the draft, including a starter out of the first round.
Gase says the first rounder, whatever position he occupies, will be a starter. I remind that is not a law. Sometimes stuff happens and players don’t start right away. Yet, the Dolphins plan has no room for such a misstep.
▪ The team also needs to find a defensive end. The team also needs to find a starting running back because re-signing Lamar Miller didn’t happen, signing C.J. Anderson didn’t happen and signing Chris Johnson didn’t happen.
So having failed at Plan A, B, and C, the Dolphins need to hit it out of the park with Plan D because Jay Ajayi, while intriguing to the coaching staff, will not be carrying the football 400 times in 2016.
The Dolphins are asking much of a lot of people, and one or two failures would cause the entire plan to collapse on itself. But the Dolphins don’t think that will happen.
Ballet and the other performing arts are privileged fields, but the scene additionally continues to orientalize and diminish marginalized communities in its work.
In a recent Ottawa production of The Nutcracker, dancers – a majority of them white – wore fans on their heads and alternated between jokingly pointing their fingers up and putting their hands together in prayer position, as a portrayal of a “Chinese” dance. The ballet also featured “Russian” and “Arabian” dances, with similarly problematic depictions.