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PEER-TO-PEER REVIEW ON PSM VALUES

The following report assesses the management practices and content quality of Yle – Yleisradio Oy, the Finnish national free-to-air public media service company – according to the public service values defined by the EBU in Strasbourg in 2012. The report is based on a combination of a self-assessment by Yle and the on-site visit in Helsinki by an international group of peers on 14–16 January 2015. The objectives of the report are to: 1. Provide Yle with a statement on its current situation, including highlights on best practices and suggestions for improvement; 2. Give other media organizations comparative tools to improve their internal processes, develop best practices, and improve their own understanding of public service values. Yle is the second EBU Member to undertake the public service values review. This report reflects the peers’ observations, opinions and suggestions af

Who Owns Soccer? - The New York Times

Who Owns Soccer? - The New York Times : To reform the way world soccer is run, we’re going to need a much more radical solution than whatever post-Blatter changes end up happening. FIFA can claim to be a democratic organization, in the sense that the voices of poor and insignificant soccer countries count equally with those of powers like Germany and Argentina. But the problem is that national federations, and therefore FIFA, are not accountable to the people of their respective countries — that is, the fans whose ticket and jersey purchases and television viewing make global soccer a multibillion-dollar franchise. The current system treats these people as customers. To fix the system, we should think of them more like constituents. CONTINUE READING THE MAIN STORY 4 COMMENTS Making FIFA truly “responsible, accountable, transparent and focused solely on the best interests of the game,” as Gulati called for in a statement last month, would require ensuring that those federations act

Twitter's Dick Costolo Discusses His Leadership Legacy - Fortune

Twitter's Dick Costolo Discusses His Leadership Legacy - Fortune : “I’ve accomplished, you know, an extraordinary amount, and despite all that there are still way more items on my list of hopes and dreams and potential for the company,” he told the publication. “It’s never gonna be — and for no great leader it should ever be — completely the case that you have more accomplishments than you have hopes and dreams for the company.”

The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals In Photos And Videos — Backchannel — Medium

https://medium.com/backchannel/the-darpa-robotics-challenge-finals-in-photos-and-videos-dcce7aa3c9ac Robots have taken over the Pomona fairgrounds in southern California for the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, an event dreamed up four years ago after the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster. The robots are built to have many abilities, meaning in a future emergency they could descend into areas too dangerous for any human to enter and clear rubble, turn off pipes or cut through walls.

IOC Social Media Blogging and Internet Guidelines

IOC Social Media Blogging and Internet Guidelines The IOC encourages Participants and Other Accredited Persons to post comments on social media platforms or websites and tweet during the Olympic Games, and it is entirely acceptable for any Participant or Other Accredited Person to do a personal posting, blog or tweet. However, any such postings, blogs or tweets must be in a first-person, diary-type format. Participants and Other Accredited Persons must not assume the role of a journalist, reporter or any other media capacity, or disclose any information which is confidential or private in relation to any other person or organisation.  Postings, blogs and tweets should at all times conform to the Olympic spirit and fundamental principles of Olympism as contained in the Olympic Charter, be dignified and in good taste, and should not be discriminatory, offensive, hateful, defamatory or otherwise illegal and shall not contain vulgar or obscene words or images. Participants and Other Accr

NEWS ACCESS RULES APPLICABLE FOR THE BROADCAST OF THE SOCHI 2014 OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES, 7-23 FEBRUARY 2014

TELEVISION NEWS ACCESS RULES All use of Olympic Material is strictly subject to the following restrictions: 1. Use in News Programs only: The broadcast of Olympic Material may be used only as a part of regularly scheduled television daily news programs of which the actual news element constitutes the main feature (“News Programs”). News Programs shall not be positioned or promoted as Olympic or Games programs and Olympic Material © Copyright IOC 2013 All Rights Reserved IOC News Access Rules - Sochi 2014 cannot be used in any promotion for any News Program or any other program whatsoever. Six Minutes Per Day: Non-Rights Holders may use a maximum of six (6) minutes of Olympic Material per day, in accordance with all other provisions of these News Access Rules. 

2014 FIFA World CupTM - News Access Policy for Television, Internet and Mobile broadcasters

Pan-regional and International News Access Pan-regional and International News channels may gain access to materials by signing a News Access agreement directly with FIFA. To qualify for such a license, a channel must be legally permitted to broadcast a simultaneous, linear transmission in more than two territories. Non-rightsholder News Access Using the FIFA News Access Contact List as a reference, non-rightsholders should in the first instance contact the Broadcaster listed against their territory to obtain footage for use in the relevant territory. Non- rightsholders may thus gain News Access to the 2014 FIFA World CupTM matches via the following methods. The conditions attached to the use of the footage are subject to the terms and conditions of local customary news access laws and customs in the territory of use. In the absence of any such laws or customary terms in the relevant territory, the fo

�INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE. NEWS, COMMENTARY & INSIGHT

�INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE. NEWS, COMMENTARY & INSIGHT : Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590" � Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In U.S. War And Occupation Of Iraq 4,801 Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,487 Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan $1,619,146,464,728

Panels | Drupal.org

Panels | Drupal.org : In a Panel, you can create contexts, which represent the objects being displayed. For example, when displaying the node view, NID argument on the page is converted into a context through the 'arguments' system. You can then create a relationship from that node to, say, the node author, or if you have a node reference from CCK, a related node [as of CCK 2.3]. Once the contexts are in place, content specifically about those contexts can be placed. For the node context you can add CCK fields, the node body, attached files and a host of other information that can be provided by plugins. For the user context you can display things like the user picture or profile. Note that CCK 2.3 and later only has support for Panels 3.

Caitlyn Jenner, Formerly Bruce, Introduces Herself in Vanity Fair - NYTimes.com

Caitlyn Jenner, Formerly Bruce, Introduces Herself in Vanity Fair - NYTimes.com Photograph by Annie Leibovitz. To get special early access to the revealing story and stunning photographs now before the issue hits newsstands on June 9,  subscribe to  Vanity Fair ’s digital edition on the iPhone or iPad.  Vanity Fair ’s 22-page cover story features stunning Annie Leibovitz photos of Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce, along with revealing new details. Here’s a preview of the story. BY  VANITY FAIR PHOTOGRAPHS BY  ANNIE LEIBOVITZ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW YORK, N.Y.—Speaking publicly for the first time since completing gender transition, Caitlyn Jenner compares her emotional two-day photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz for the July cover of  Vanity Fair  to winning the gold medal for the decathlon at the 1976 Olympics. She tells Pulitzer Prize–winning  V.F. contributing editor and author of  Friday Night Lights  Buzz Bissinger, “That was a good day, but the last couple of days were be