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NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS)-L will be the focus of a media opportunity at 10 a.m. EST Friday, Jan. 3, at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla.

Media will be able to view the TDRS-L spacecraft and interview project and launch program officials from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.; the Launch Services Program at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida; and United Launch Alliance (ULA).

TDRS-L is scheduled to lift off on a ULA Atlas V 401 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Jan. 23 at the opening of a 40-minute launch window that extends from 9:05 to 9:45 p.m.

The TDRS-L spacecraft is the second of three next-generation satellites designed to ensure vital operational continuity for NASA by expanding the lifespan of the fleet, which now consists of eight satellites in geostationary orbit. The spacecraft provide tracking, telemetry, command and high bandwidth data return services for numerous science and human exploration missions orbiting Earth. These include NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station. TDRS-L has a high-performance solar panel designed for more spacecraft power to meet the growing S-band communications requirements.

Full clean room attire must be worn during the media opportunity and will be furnished. Journalists should not wear perfume, cologne or makeup. Long pants and closed-toe shoes must be worn. No shorts or skirts will be permitted. Some camera equipment may be identified by Boeing contamination control specialists as having to be cleaned before being taken into the high bay facility. Alcohol wipes will be provided. All camera equipment must be self-contained, and no portable lights are allowed. Flash photography will not be permitted, however, the facility has adequate metal halide lighting for pictures. Wireless microphones also are not permitted inside the high bay.

On Jan. 3, U.S. media may proceed directly to Astrotech, which is located in the Spaceport Florida Industrial Park, 1515 Chaffee Drive, Titusville. Access will be available starting at 9:45 a.m., and the event will begin at 10 a.m.

Only media who are United States citizens may attend this event, per Astrotech rules. A government-issued photo identification, such as a driver's license or permanently issued NASA media accreditation badge from Kennedy will be acceptable. In addition, proof of U.S. citizenship also is required, such as a passport or birth certificate.

Journalists should call Kennedy's media update phone line at 321-867-2525 on Thursday evening, Jan. 2, to confirm the event still is on schedule.

Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems in El Segundo, Calif., built TDRS-L. NASA's Space Communications and Navigation Program, part of the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, is responsible for the TDRS network. NASA's Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management. United Launch Alliance provides the Atlas V rocket and launch service.

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VLC media player

VLC media player 2.1

VLC media player (commonly known as VLC) is a portable, free and open-source, cross-platform media player and streaming media server written by the VideoLAN project.

VLC media player supports many audio and video compression methods and file formats, including DVD-Video, video CD and streaming protocols. It is able to stream over computer network and to transcode multimedia files.[7]

The default distribution of VLC includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries, avoiding the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. Many of VLC's codecs are provided by the libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project, but it uses mainly its own muxer and demuxers and its own protocols implementations. It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux and OS X by using the libdvdcss DVD decryption library.

The VideoLan project was originally started as an academic project in 1996. VLC used to stand for VideoLAN Client, but since VLC is no longer simply a client, that initialism no longer applies.[8][9] It was intended to consist of a client and server to stream videos across a campus network. VLC was the client for the VideoLAN project. Originally developed by students at the cole Centrale Paris, it is now developed by contributors worldwide and is coordinated by the VideoLAN non-profit organization.

Rewritten from scratch in 1998, it was released under GNU General Public License on 1 February 2001, with authorization from the headmaster of the cole Centrale Paris. The functionality of the server program, VideoLan Server (VLS), has mostly been subsumed into VLC and has been deprecated.[10] The project name has been changed to VLC media player because there is no longer a client/server infrastructure.

The cone icon used in VLC is a reference to the traffic cones collected by cole Centrale's Networking Students' Association.[11] The cone icon design was changed from a hand drawn low resolution icon[12] to a higher resolution CGI-rendered version in 2006, illustrated by Richard iestad.[13]

After 13 years of development, version 1.0.0 of VLC media player was released on July 7, 2009.[14] Version 2.0.0 of VLC media player was released on February 18, 2012.[6][15]

In 2011 and 2012, large parts of VLC were relicensed to the GNU Lesser General Public License.[16][17]

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Over the last few years Ive transitioned from owning a boatload of CDs, DVDs and other media to owning almost none at all, keeping only digital copies of everything. Heres what Ive learned over the last few years about where digital still falls short.

Generally speaking, Im all about going all-digital with my media. Its easier to use, quicker to load, doesnt require driving to a brick-and-mortar store, doesnt need shelf space, and doesnt require a truck to deliver it from one place to another. But digital media has some growing pains, and until we fix some issues, Im going to miss physical media a little. Its not about the smell of paper or the thrill of looking through the liner notes on a new LP. Its about the fact that nobody wants to let me control my digital goods in any way.

I might be in the minority on this one, but one of my biggest problems with the bulk of digital media is that I cant organise most of it. I have to search through downloads, deal with an apps singular organisation method, or cross my fingers that Ill be able to find something after I download it.

For me, the worst offender is streaming video. My Netflix and Amazon Prime queues are a mess and its impossible to actually use it to find a movie to watch. Similar, minor annoyances exist across media. With Steam, once you download a game its in your library forever and you cant really get rid of it. The Xbox 360 hides games beneath three layers of menus. The Kindle keeps nonfiction and fiction on the same shelf. The only way to save an album on Spotify is to star it or create a playlist, neither of which work particularly well. Having digital stores automatically organise things alphabetically is nice, but I miss the ability to manually sort my shelves exactly as I wish the way I can with physical media.

Aimless browsing isnt really possible in online stores. Even with Amazons advanced algorithms telling you what other products you might be interested in, theres no analogue for walking into a book store on a Sunday afternoon with a gift card and a couple of hours to waste.

Its sometimes claimed that the traditional bookstore ruins discovery, but thats only partially true. Id argue its more about the thrill of discovery. Thats a slightly different thing.

Discovering something previously unknown to you in a store was as simple as walking into a store, looking for something with a cool cover, and then trying that thing out. That might be listening to an album, flipping through a book, or renting some weird old VHS tape at the local video store. Those discoveries felt like your own because they werent just about the media they were about the story that led to the discovery. Telling your friend about how youd found an album buried in the bargain bin, or a book hidden on the back corner shelf, has bigger impact then saying that some stranger recommended it on Twitter.

Thats not to say theres anything wrong with the new modes of discovery there isnt. In fact, theyre a lot better and smarter. Im consistently impressed with what Netflix recommends, what Spotify wants me to listen to next, and what books Amazon thinks Ill enjoy. But none of those things add value to products. If Amazon recommends a book I end up liking, I just continue along with my day. If I find a book completely on my own, hidden in the depths of a store, I feel like that book is mine and mine alone. I found one of my favourite books of all time > misfiled on a shelf at the bookstore, and have since then never seen it anywhere else. Thats just not a story we get with an ebook.

Im not the type to buy into conspiracy theories about media companies trying to take away ownership of everything, but its clear that they control how and when we get access to media. Usually, thats fine, but every once in a while it really seems to screw with you.

For example, when The Hobbit was originally released, it was easy to rent it from any digital store. You could grab it on your PS3, from Amazon, iTunes, or wherever else. But the other day I decided to watch it again before the new movie came out, only to find that the rental version had been pulled from all digital stores. If I wanted to watch it again, I had to buy it, and I have absolutely no interest in spending that amount of money on that movie.

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Where Digital Fails: The Pitfalls Of Ditching Your Physical Media

Configuring Relays in the Media Control Panel (Centova v3)
How to setup a relay in the Stream101 Media Control Panel (powered by Centova v3).

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Early this year I wrote that a series of pieces about people who had worked in the local sports media business over the last quarter century but have faded from the public eye would appear in this space throughout 2013. The plan was to tie that to the 25th anniversary of the Media Views column.

But because of an unprecedented year of breaking news in the business of covering St. Louis sports, only one of those columns ran a look at St. Louis jock-talk radio pioneers Jon Sloane and Mark Eissman.

The year, as usual, had a significant amount of personnel moves including the ouster of Bob Ramsey and Zach McCrite at WXOS (101.1 FM), the move of Kevin Wheeler from KMOX (1120 AM) into their old slot and the decision of Post-Dispatch sports columnist Bernie Miklasz to stop doing sports radio in order to expand his role with the newspaper and its website, STLtoday.com.

There was the first change of sports directors in the market in nine years, as Maurice Drummond moved from a secondary role at KTVI (Channel 2) into the lead role at KMOV (Channel 4) after Steve Savard became a news anchor. Drummond became the first new TV sports director in town since Rene Knott took over at KSDK (Channel 5) after Mike Bush moved to a news anchoring position.

There was a key positive development, as the main local TV stations finally found an acceptable way to strike a balance in televising live sporting events and providing updates simultaneous on severe weather.

There was the absence of Mike Shannon from the Cardinals broadcast booth for about a month and a half because of heart surgery, but he returned in late September and is expected back next year.

Plus the Cards played in the World Series and Mizzous football team was in the Southeastern Conference title game, drawing big ratings.

In some years, any of those could have been the top St. Louis sports media story. But this wasnt a normal year. Blockbuster stories not only broke often, they seemed to keep trying to upstage each another, with the Jack Clark-Albert Pujols controversy trumping all.

Well try to get to more of the "whatever happened to ..." stories in 2014. But now its time to look back on the wildest year in the quarter century of Media Views.

THE MARSHALL PLAN

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Media Views: The wildest year in St. Louis sports media