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CEO Jared Cahill of On Your Way of Dallas, a rewards-based web program that helps credit unions attract, engage, educate and retain Generation Y members, discusses financial challenges facing young adults (ages 18-32) in a recent interview with Shama Kabani, host of CW33-TV's "Socially Sound with Shama." Cahill discusses services of On Your Way and partner MoneyU's programs in helping GenY become more savvy about handling money.

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In a Feb. 25 TV interview Cahill and Shama Kabani discussed GenYs financial skills. (http://www.the33tv.com/videogallery/68381782/News/02/25/12-on-your-way#pl-64047371) Kabani is a leading voice on social media and technology trends, who hosts Socially Sound with Shama on CW33-TV, serving the Dallas-Fort Worth market.

Every day, I'm asked for my recommendations on the best tech products out there, says the TV commentator, who has won numerous accolades and awards in the tech and business industries.

The program focused on the online education of less-than-financially savvy young adults by On Your Way, a company that is doing well by doing good, Kabani said.

Kabani (in photo), who has been labeled Dallas Digital Dynamo, travels the world talking about social and technology trends. Only 26 years old, the University of Texas graduate is CEO of The Marketing Zen Group of Dallas and author of The Zen of Social Media Marketing, an area in which many credit unions are eager to gain traction.

Unfortunately, GenY also has become known as Gen Debt, Cahill told the TV host. Step into a financial hole when you are young, and its hard to get out.

Asked by Kabani to distinguish credit unions from banks, Cahill responded: They have distinct advantages. Credit Unions are a cooperative, not for profit, so rates are better, and theyre focused on customer service and relationships.

On Your Way partnered in January with MoneyU of Rockville, MD, an award-winning financial game, to help improve the financial skills and well-being of credit unions GenY members.

Credit unions can now cost-effectively offer the online, game-based MoneyU course to their GenY members and member-prospects in a variety of packages available through On Your Way.

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day's glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: ABC's marriage show hits a new low, Bear Grylls is out of a job, and the return of Tempestt Bledsoe.

Last night's depressing finale of what was apparently a pretty lackluster season of Das Bachelor earned the lowest ratings for any Bachelor finale ever. So it's probably completely rational and not at all reactionary to declare Der Bachelor once and for all over and done with forever and ever amen. Chris Harrison has been sealed inside Trista and Ryan's tomb, Jake Pavelka has finally been bagged, tagged, and put in a wooden crate and stored in the warehouse from Raiders of the Lost Ark, and, of course, Bob Guiney has been humanely put down. No more The Bachelor, no more Bachelorette, goodbye After the Final Rose, see you in hell, Bachelor Pad. It's over. We're done. This is the real most dramatic rose ceremony ever, because we are not picking you, The Bachelor. We're sorry. We are instead proposing to the sweet embrace of nothing, of a TV turned off, of an apartment ticking away in the evening, the empty space waiting in vain to be filled once again with cold plastic romance, but to now and forevermore go unsatisfied. Phew. [Entertainment Weekly]

Also gone (and, like, actually gone) is Bear Grylls. Oh, no no no, ha oh god no, he didn't like freeze to death in Idaho after eating some poison moose berries or anything, ha ha, god no, no. He's fine, I'm sure. He's just gone from the Discovery Channel. Yeah the network, which has been airing his Man vs. Wild for a number of years now, has parted ways with Grylls because he refused to do two specials that he was contracted to do. So, that's it. No more. Too bad for Bear. If you need him for any reason in the next little while, he'll beat a hotel. [The Hollywood Reporter]

Um, buried way down at the bottom of this post about some actresses getting gigs on TV pilots is this huge, incredible news: Tempestt Bledsoe, aka TV's Vanessa Huxtable, has landed a role on a show. Yuppp. Bledsoe, who once had her own talk show for a hot second many moons ago, will be playing Anthony Anderson's wife on a show about three doofus friends being doofuses but really being good guys, and good dads, at heart. So, it's just some boring wife part, but whatever! It's Vanessa! On a TV show! Dabnis must be so proud. But Deadline? No one is proud of you. Why is this all the way down at the bottom? What is wrong with you? For shame, for shame. [Deadline]

Suck on this, Bachelor (ew): HBO's Game Change was the network's highest rated original movie in almost eight years. So boom, some people are getting watched. Not you, Bachelor, but some people. Some people are still popular, oh yeah. People like... Sarah Palin. Oh. Hm. Ugh. Never mind. This is its own kind of bad news, isn't it. [Entertainment Weekly]

Lionsgate has cut seven seconds out of The Hunger Games to secure the UK equivalent of a PG-13 rating. There were apparently some bits that were just too violent for the British censors, so they've been excised. Of course they'll still show in America, where as long as we don't see a disgusting private part, it's basically G-rated. Violence is just not a problem here, so we're not worried about it. (Not to sarcastically imply that we're advocating censorship or anything, it's just funny that you can say all manner of bad words and show nudity on British television but that The Hunger Games, which is about teens murdering each other, is too violent for movie theaters. It's basically opposite standards from here, is what's funny. Probably ultimately better standards, but opposite from ours. So, there it is.) [Entertainment Weekly]

Here is a new trailer for the early Oscar-contender Battleship. In this reel we see more of the spinny, glowy, bad alien robot things that cut buildings in half, plus Taylor Kitsch screaming more lines. Also Rihanna says "Boom" at one point, though she might have said "Boom" in another trailer too, who can't remember. The important thing is that this movie is going to be so coherent and wonderful and subtle and wise and warm and good and true. This is going to be this year's Trip to Bountiful, only perhaps a little slower paced. Slower paced than The Trip to Bountiful, that's right. (When I was a kid my dad brought that movie home from the library at the college where he worked and holy sweet Taylor Kitsch in heaven was that the slowest, most boring movie I think I'd ever seen in my life, it's become synonymous in my house with boring movies. The Trip to Bountiful. I'm sure it's a particularly fine film, just a nice story about an old lady going home, but to a kid it is worst than seventeen dentist appointments mixed with twenty haircuts. Awful, just awful. I hate you forever, The Trip to Bountiful.Anyway.)

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We realize there's only so much time one can spend in a day watching new trailers, viral video clips, and shaky cell phone footage of people arguing on live television. This is why every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today: Glenn Beck wonders why HBO is still picking on Sarah Palin, a look at how your TV news covered the purported spike in Tide thefts, and a newly rediscovered Robert Altman primer on how football is played.

HBO's Game Change adaptation, which the bulk of people we talked to seemed to think was "pretty OK, I guess," was not at all OK with Glenn Beck. Not because it lacked historical accuracy, which Beck likes to think he is a stickler for, though that was part of the problem: Beck's main issue is that HBO would have spent millions of dollars on a movie that didn't portray Sarah Palin in a balanced light. In effect, Palin is over, and that her critics should move on to bigger game. [GBTV]

If we learned one thing from monitoring this news cycle, it's that today's modern thief -- for reasons that are unclear and might not even exist -- love stealing Tide detergent almost as much as television news producers love segments about the thieves who inexplicably love to steal Tide detergent. Which, based on the number of news segments (locally and nationally) devoted to the purported detergent-swiping uptick, means they love stealing Tide very, very much. [My Fox DC and ABC News and KNBCand My Fox Phoenix]

Police Cracking Down on Tide Detergent Thieves: MyFoxDC.com

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Sudsy Crime Spree Sweeps Nation: Stealing Tide: MyFoxPHOENIX.com

We don't say this lightly, but when starling flocks wing us when we are sitting outside just trying to read the paper like a regular person and threaten to fly through our windshield on the way home from work at least twice a week, we tend to see them as a nuisance, rather than "fine feathered colleagues," as Troy McClure put it. But as it turns out, we can't blame the starlings at all for their ritualistic dive-bombing. Science says they can't help it, the same way metals can't help being magnetized. So wing away, starling. Wing away. [Wired Science]

Finally: a Kansas City filmmaker named Gary Huggins unearthed what's believed to be director Robert Altman's first film -- an industrial short about the rules of modern football, circa 1951 -- for $10 at a flea market in Missouri. (You can spot Altman himself ducking into the frame at the 2:37 mark.) There's none of the overlapping dialogue and sprawling ensemble casts that go on to become the director's trademark in films like MASH, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and The Player, but it's a good reminder that everyone starts somewhere, and that that place sometimes has no clue regarding basic football protocol. [Via Filmdrunk via Movieline]

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We're just about a week away from the spring NASCAR race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Rent My Vacation Home dot com is at the Bristol Motor Speedway .The group needs Vacation Homes for the 160,000 anticipated guests.

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Bristol, Virginia resident Jane Akowski is picking up her tickets, "I want to get them early before the crowds. It's a week away and my brother is coming in from out of town and I promised him I'd get race tickets."Akowski is one of the thousands of fans who will fill the stands at Bristol Motor Speedway March 16, 17 and 18.As those dates approach, work at Bristol Motor Speedway is picking up.

"Preparations are underway, tickets are available and we're excited. We're celebrating Food City's 20th anniversary. It's going to be a wonderful event," says Jerry Caldwell, General Manager at Bristol Motor Speedway.

In the next few weeks Bristol Motor Speedway is working on cosmetic changes, including new signs, but they're also reaching out to fans outside of the Bristol area.They're running TV and radio ads in places like Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan.

"60% of our race fans are coming from six or more hours away, so these folks really travel well," adds Caldwell. Vacation homes and lodging are a priority for many fans so we called around and learned there are almost no hotel rooms available in the Tri-Cities. If you're looking for a bargain, we've learned there are Vacation Homes in Gaitlinburg offering discounts. Bristol Motor Speedway says there's even a shuttle to get fans to and from the races. It's all part of the 'Bristol Experience'.

Something Jane Akowski says keeps her coming back year after year, "Hopefully it will be good weather. It's cool and crisp and just a good time to be outside."Wednesday afternoon, Bristol Motor Speedway announced they're teaming up with Ford for the Saturday Nationwide Race. This year it's being called the Ford EcoBoost 300.

Directions:

If you're lucky enough to be catching a race at Bristol Motor Speedway, there are some things you need to know:

From the North: Take Va. Exit 17 off I-81 and turn left on Hwy. 75. At the Tennessee border, the road changes to Hwy. 44. Continue on this route until the stop sign at U.S. 421. Turn right on 421 and stay on it until the traffic light at Hwy. 394. Turn left and proceed to Bristol Motor Speedway and Dragway.

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Its hard to believe were not stuck in some strange time warp, as its beginning to feel (again) like TV is the next hot thing. Well, really, web TV. For one, The Wall Street Journal today reported that Intel is rumored to be developing a web-based, pay-TV service and reportedly has been pitching media companies on creating a virtual cable operator that would offer TV channels to U.S. consumers in a bundle similar to subscriptions sold by cable and satellite TV operators. According to these reports, Intel will be offering its own set-top box to carry the service.

Regardless of the fact that the chip company has struggled with consumer-facing (and set-top) offerings, Intels purported service would join GoogleTV, AppleTV, and a host of other companies already offering set-top boxes like Roku and Boxee. Of course, as much as everyone ever many want a disruption of the current pay-TV model, Alex Cocotas chart shows that current cord-cutting attempts arent really having the desired effect.

Aereo, the New York-based startup backed by $20 million+ from IAC recently entered the fray with big plans to actually make a dent in this problem with a cloud-based service that streams over-the-air channels for just $12 a month. (You can read more background on the service here.) Of course, just like so many that have come before it, Aereo seems inherently subject to having to change its DVR-in-the-cloud model or to fighting it out with the networks in court. And now its countersuing.

Last week, a group of broadcasters, which includes Fox, Univision, and PBS filed two separate lawsuits against Aereo (with those two groups collectively representing most of the major media outlets in New York City), as well as an injunction based on the grounds of Copyright Act infringements, which if granted, would prevent Aereo from releasing its product on the market.

Shortly thereafter, Aereo released a statement saying, in short, that the broadcasters case did not have any merit. (Statement and more background here.) The interest in this case also prompted me to take a lengthy look at whether or not Aereo actually has any shot at winning this case. Despite many indications otherwise, I was hopeful.

Speaking at SXSW this weekend, Barry Diller, the Chairman and CEO of IAC (the principal investor in Aereo), made it clear that both he and Aereo expected the broadcast networks to resist, and that the issue would likely be resolved in court. (Obviously it would have been a huge mistake not to prepare for this end.) As reported by CNET, Diller said, This is not some evil thing This is absolutely predictable. Media companies have hegemony over broadcast TV and they want to protect it.

Diller and Aereo are both of the mind that what theyre doing is completely legal and not only that they shouldnt have to pay retransmission fees either. (Under their conception, this is because each customer would own their own antenna and thus have rights to free, publicly transmitted broadcasts of network TV.) Diller said that hed recently met with reps from the networks in New York and told them:

I said to the broadcasters, One thing that might happen is youll get more audience. They said, Thats fine. Now pay us retransmission money. I said, When you get Radio Shack to pay you some slice of their profit when they sell an aerial, well pay you anything you like, but were not transmitting anything.

Given the trajectory of this back-and-forth with the networks, the news today that Aereo has officially countersued is expected, but its further evidence that neither Diller nor Aereo will be backing down from the battle anytime soon. And given Dillers penchant for mixing it up with traditional media, and his own cloud as a long-time media exec himself, there arent a whole lot of people better suited for this battle.

After all, with the growing interest among big tech companies (and the public) in this issue, it was either Aereo or someone else. Hey, maybe it could be Ora.tv and Larry King! (Probably not.) After writing this post, we heard from Carlos Nicholas Fernandes, the CEO of RecordTV.com, which launched a similar service in Singapore back in 2007. They were taken to court, lost at first, but eventually won against the state-owned broadcaster, MediaCorp in a landmark ruling.

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