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How to Join The Noisebreaker Club
In a world of virtual communications, competition for attention is fierce, and it's not easy to figure out how to be heard. Fame or notoriety can help, but how do the truly successful communicators get attention and keep it? I call them Noisebreakers because they use critical skills to break through to their audience and distinguish themselves from those whose communications get lost in the noise. A Noisebreaker is either a thought leader, taking the conversation in a novel direction that drives change, or they are an expert, communicating effectively with their provocative wisdom. How do they do it? Here are some of the ways.
Compelling Clarity
If a message can't be conveyed in a sentence, it probably won't get through the noise. While Noisebreakers often have more than one message, each of their points can be stated succinctly, which makes them more likely to be remembered.
Brené Brown has made a name for herself on the issue of vulnerability and shame. Hearing her speak, reading her books or following her social media, we know that vulnerability is not weakness, and it is critical to creating authentic connections. Her stories are relatable, messy, and inspiring. Her latest foray into driving compelling clarity can be found in her podcast Unlocking Us. In her Netflix show, she shared how she almost did not do her TED talk on the power of vulnerability. Thank goodness she did, it clearly resonated with over 50 million views. Her ability to leverage research and storytelling to provide compelling clarity on her message has fundamentally changed how we think about being vulnerable.
Simon Sinek also has a clear message – understand your "why" because people aren't inspired by your "what" they are inspired by your "why." These Noisebreakers have distilled their thinking into clear, concise messages. His TEDxPugetSound talk, How great leaders inspire action, has been seen over 50 million times since 2009.
A Noisebreaker thinks of their communications as a dialogue – engaging with their audience and expecting a response. That response need not be directed at the Noisebreaker. In fact, it may encourage the listener to focus elsewhere. The existence of an actionable take-away in the message creates a relationship of accountability between the Noisebreaker and their audience. "If my words inspire you, then you should act."
Through his manifesto, the Gospel of Wealth, Dale Carnegie exhorted fellow members of the most wealthy elite to give their fortunes away to good causes. His message is emulated today by Warren Buffet and Bill and Melinda Gates in the Giving Pledge. These Noisebreakers shared a philosophy about philanthropy that they underscored with a specific call to action.
Cross-Platform Communication
You would have trouble naming a successful public speaker who hasn't also published a book. Noisebreakers understand that a message works better when it is delivered in multiple media. Brené Brown is not alone in promoting her messages this way.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is another example of a public figure who has mastered multiple forums – she uses social media, her microphone on Capitol Hill, and her public appearances to convey her stance on the political issues of the day. Like her or hate her, she is an indelible part of the contemporary political landscape in part because she makes herself accessible by anyone interested.
Steve Jobs didn't just revolutionize the computer industry's approach to the user experience, he also understood the need to introduce Apple's stylistic philosophy as well as its technological developments in an annual, public unveiling. It simply isn't enough to pick one forum and stick to it. To break through the noise, the message needs to be conveyed in various forms.
All the brilliance and enthusiasm in the world can get lost in translation. Connection requires some points of commonality, which can only happen when the communicator knows their audience and speaks to them. Imagine the brilliance of the performer in Roberta Flack's song "Killing Me Softly," who made her feel as if he'd "read her letters and played each one out loud."
In the real world, Senator Mitch McConnell knows what motivates his base, and he speaks to their interests when he promotes a particular agenda. A Noisebreaker does more than convey their message; they do so in language that engages with their audience by speaking in terms and concepts that appeal to them directly.
Amplify and Elevate
For a thought leader to create impact around their paradigm, they have to reach their followers. For an expert to achieve influence, they have to establish themselves with their audience. The Noisebreaker in both these contexts needs to break out of the pack by raising the level of discourse and using available resources to be heard.
Reese Witherspoon wants to advance women in film. Instead of simply speaking to the issue, she founded a women-backed film company, modeling the behavior, and leveraging her fame to get the message out.
In my own work on having difficult conversations, I break with the common wisdom that difficult topics like politics and religion should be avoided. Instead, I focus on how to have these conversations through multiple case studies that model the approach I am trying to advocate.
As we mourn her death, Ruth Bader Ginsberg stands out as life-long a Noisebreaker. Her messages promoting gender equality and civil rights were articulated in clear, compelling language that she shared through her work as an attorney and Supreme Court Justice, through speaking engagements and in her writing. She had the ability to adapt her tone and her arguments to the men holding power and to the people she fought tirelessly to empower. For example, while an attorney, one of her cases on gender equality before the Supreme Court concerned the rights of a husband to certain government benefits that had been allocated solely to wives. Leading from the front, with a message of change and equity, she garnered the respect of her adversaries and became idolized by many.
This website and this blog will be dedicated to Noisebreakers: who they are, how to become one and more will be discussed. I look forward to your thoughts on the topic, so feel free to reach out with questions or comments.
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Getty Images' language of today
January 24, 2018 / D-Photo
The media will redefine modern masculinity this year — according to Getty Images' 2018 Visual Trends. 'Masculinity Undone' is one of three trends the photo agency has identified as reshaping the visual language consumers will be most responsive to this year, alongside 'Second Renaissance' and 'Conceptual Realism'.
Each year, the company sets a visual forecast of macro and micro trends for the year ahead based on research by its visual experts on search and image data — including over one billion customer searches and 400 million downloads from its website each year. The forecast, which offers insight into changing perceptions and tastes, acts as a guide for the media, advertisers, brands, and businesses by reflecting on changes in the world, and how they may develop over the coming 12 months. Getty Images' past predictions have pre-empted visual movements across gender, social consciousness, design, technology, travel, and more.
Andy Saunders, Senior Vice President of Creative Content, Getty Images, explains, "When imagery is everywhere, it's sometimes easy to forget how pictures can really move us emotionally and psychologically; how they can expand the limits of our world. It's encouraging then that the visual trends we anticipate being important to brands and businesses in 2018 behold a sense of optimism: a vision of change, of new heroes, and unrelenting creativity. For many people who were previously invisible, whose faces or bodies weren't included in the mainstream media, this is important. These are small steps in making a more culturally rich and interesting world. But small steps can make a big picture."
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Masculinity Undone
While past years have focused on addressing the portrayal of women in advertising and the media, there is a growing awareness that stereotypes representing men are also extremely outdated. In New Zealand, the Advertising Standards Authority takes a stance on this, stating that "Advertisements should not use stereotypes in the portrayal of the role, character and behaviour of groups of people in society which, taking into account generally prevailing community standards, is reasonably likely to cause serious or widespread offence, hostility, contempt, abuse or ridicule."
Demographic and cultural changes are making the common one-dimensional notions of masculinity irrelevant and, in 2018, men will continue to be liberated from long-established visual stereotypes as we see more imagery embracing male emotion, vulnerability, and complexity.
Getty Images' data shows an increase of 53 per cent in customer searches for 'gay dads', 'man meditation' is up 126 per cent, and customer searches for 'single father' have increased by 60 per cent.
Jonas Hafner, EyeEm, Getty Images
Second Renaissance
Driven largely by Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) creators looking for a more positive, culturally rich visual narrative, portraiture has begun to resemble imagery from bygone eras. Artists are subverting classic art techniques and paying homage to Renaissance imagery, with subdued palettes and luxurious fabrics that resemble paintings from the era.
Over the past year, we've seen Solange Knowles' Mona Lisa-inspired A Seat at the Table, and The Last Supper is mirrored in Stormzy's Gangs Signs & Prayer album cover. Pari Dukovic's Art of Beauty shoot for Harper's Bazaar recreates iconic paintings with models Winnie Harlow and Halima Aden.
Demand for this style of work is growing, with searches for 'luxury abstract' up 186 per cent and 'Vintage Portrait' up 94 per cent.
Stephanie Nnamani, Getty Images
Conceptual Realism
A combination of evolving long-term visual trends, new technology, and the public's current scepticism in taking things at face value has spawned a new visual expression: 'conceptual realism'. The emergence of social media has seen a significant rise in the demand for more 'real', or authentic, imagery. But in a trend born in the art and fashion worlds, photographers are beginning to create more conceptual images executed in a realist style.
Attainability and relatability are key components when connecting with today's consumer, but in 2018 we will see creators pushing to explore these themes in increasingly unexpected ways.
Searches for 'unexpected concept' were up 116 per cent, while those for 'reality' were up 176 per cent.
Global issues highlighted in image search data
Searches for 'diversity and inclusion' — terms that transcend Masculinity Undone and Second Renaissance — are up an impressive 917 per cent, and those for 'LGBTQ' are up an equally positive per cent. Brands and businesses are also acknowledging the need for better visual representation of our diverse communities with searches for 'multi-ethnic family' up 385 per cent and 'Cultural Diversity' up 252 per cent.
More worryingly, searches for images depicting stress and anxiety — especially in men — have seen a significant increase. 'Teen suicide' is up by 429 per cent, 'emotional stress' by 263 per cent and 'emotional abuse' by 110 per cent, with 'man stressed' up 105 per cent, 'Depression Man' up 31 per cent and 'man looking worried' up 100 per cent.
Encouragingly, this search data indicates that there is an increased global focus on mental wellness, with those for 'mental health' up by 174 per cent and 'mental health awareness' up by 258 per cent.
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If you've grown weary of the ever-expanding use and interpretation of the word "sustainability," you may want to add the term "resiliency" to your lexicon.
Equally broad and important in its intent; resilient design looks beyond energy modeling (and point-chasing) in favor of what the Resilient Design Institute defines as "the intentional design of buildings, landscapes, communities, and regions in response to vulnerabilities to disaster and disruption of normal life." Rather than react, resilient design may be defined as a mode of design thinking and planning that aims to "anticipate" – for example, to implement design strategies that aim to alleviate the impact of disasters and "stresses" before (and as a result, after) they occur.
Evident in programming such as Mississippi State University's Gulf Coast Community Design Studio (initially created in response to Hurricane Katrina and now focused on what it designing for "long-term recovery") or the recently established Regional Resilience Design Studio at the New Jersey Institute of Technology's Center for Resilient Design in Newark, aspiring architects are being given the valuable opportunity to learn to design with both short and long-term views of the impacts of their design decisions.
Rather than think about an isolated building design, students must weigh their design decisions through the lens of what is important in both everyday experience as well as in rapidly evolving cultures, economies and climates. For example, course offerings at the University of Arkansas Community Design Center emphasize topical areas that are considered "core challenges in the built environment." These "challenges" are identified but not limited to transit-oriented development, watershed urbanism, low-impact development, context-sensitive street design, agricultural urbanism and smart growth urbanism.


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Q: Executing Query String in Wordpress without refresh I have found the following code to empty my cart on wordpress/woocommerce.
add_action('init', 'woocommerce_clear_cart_url');
function woocommerce_clear_cart_url() {
    global $woocommerce;
    if( isset($_REQUEST['clear-cart']) ) {
        $woocommerce->cart->empty_cart();
    }
}

To execute this I add ?clear-cart to any URL on my site, I'm a little over my head here.
But I was wondering if there was a way using jQuery or something to execute this function without a page refresh?

A: Assuming the URL for clearing your cart is host/cart/clear
You can access that URL by sending an AJAX POST request to the server:
var request = $.post('host/cart/clear');
If you want to attach event handlers for the sucess and/or failure of the request:
request.done(successHandler);
request.fail(failureHandler);

Where success- and failureHandler are functions.

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Amazing Color Photographs Capture Sun Bathers on the Beach in Cannes, France in 1948
Cannes, resort city of the French Riviera, in Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côtes d'Azur region, southeastern France. It lies southwest of Nice.
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Named for the canes of its once-reedy shore, it was probably settled by Ligurian tribesmen and occupied successively by Phocaeans, Celts (or Gauls), and Romans. In the 4th century it came under the protection of the monks of Lérins, whose abbots were lords of Cannes and who in the 10th century built fortifications under Pointe du Chevalier to guard against Muslim sea raiders.
Napoleon, on the first night of his return from Elba, encamped his small army in the dunes outside the village. The international resort reputation of Cannes originated with Lord Brougham, who, prevented by quarantine measures from entering Nice in 1834, stopped at the fishing village of Cannes; he later built a villa and returned every winter for 34 years.
One of the reasons why Cannes is such a popular city is because of the Cannes film festival, (official name Festival de Cannes), which had its origins back in the 1940s with the sole objective of artistic achievement recognition. Over the years, Cannes festival became an international phenomenon that gathers thousands of artists, producers and tourists every year.
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Q: Regular expression weird result Code
gsub('101', '111', '110101101')
#[1] "111101111"

Would anyone know why the second 0 in the input isn't being substituted into a 1 in the output?
I'm looking for the pattern 101 in string and replace it with string 111. Later on I wish to turn longer sub-sequences into sequences of 1's, such as 10001 to 11111.

A: You could use a lookahead ?=
The way this works is q(?=u) matches a q that is followed by a u, without making the u part of the match.
Example:
gsub('10(?=1)', '11', '110101101', perl=TRUE);
// Output: 111111111

Edit: you need to use gsub in perl mode to use lookaheads

A: Its because it doesnt work in a recursive way
gsub('101', '111', '110101101') divides the third string as it finds the matches. So it finds the first 101 and its left with 01101. Think about it. If it would replace "recursively", something like gsub('11', '111', '11'), would return an infinite string of '1' and break. It doesn't check in the already "replaced" text.

A: It is because when R first detected 110101101, it treat the next 0 as in 011 in 110101101.
It seems that you only want to replace '0' by '1'. Then you can just use gsub('0', '1', '110101101')

A:
Later on I wish to turn longer sub-sequences into sequences of 1's, such as 10001 to 11111.

Hopefully, R provides a means to generate the replacement string based on the matched substring. (This is a common feature.)
If so, search for 10+, and have the replacement string generator create a string consisting of a number of 1 characters equal to the length of the match. (e.g. If 100 is matched, replace with 111. If 1000 is matched, replace with 1111. etc.)
I don't know R in the least. Here's how it's done in some other languages in case that helps:
Perl:
$s =~ s{10+}{ "1" x length($&) }ger

Python:
re.sub(r'10+', lambda match: '1' * len(match.group()), s)

JavaScript:
s.replace(/10+/g, function(match) { return '1'.repeat(match.length) })

JavaScript (ES6):
s.replace(/10+/g, match => '1'.repeat(match.length))

A: According to the OP

Later on I wish to turn longer sub-sequences into sequences of 1's,
  such as 10001 to 11111.

If I understand correctly, the final goal is to replace any sub-sequence of consecutive 0 into the same number of 1 if they are surrounded by a 1 on both sides.
In R, this can be achieved by the str_replace_all() function from the stringr package. For demonstration and testing, the input vector contains some edge cases where substrings of 0 are not surrounded by 1.
input <- c("110101101",
         "11010110001",
         "110-01101",
         "11010110000",
         "00010110001")

library(stringr)
str_replace_all(input, "(?<=1)0+(?=1)", function(x) str_dup("1", str_length(x)))

[1] "111111111"   "11111111111" "110-01111"   "11111110000" "00011111111"

The regex "(?<=1)0+(?=1)" uses look behind (?<=1) as well as look ahead (?=1) to ensure that the subsequence 0+ to replace is surrounded by 1. Thus, leading and trailing subsequences of 0 are not replaced.
The replacement is computed by a functions which returns a subsequence of 1 of the same length as the subsequence of 0 to replace.


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Clara Grau was born on 6 December 1859 in Rastenburg (now Kętrzyn, Poland) near Königsberg. She and her sister Margarethe, who died in 1928, worked for many years as teachers at the Vogelsche Schule girls' seminary in Berlin. During this period, Clara and Margarethe lived in Marchstraße and were friendly with the Ebeling family of bankers. In 1936, aged 77, Clara Grau registered as a housekeeper to the Magud family who lived at Waldschulallee 7. In view of her age and her previous occupation, it is likely that this arrangement was made to ensure Clara had a legal place of residence. In 1940, Mr and Mrs Magud were expropriated and forced to move into a "Jews' apartment". Clara was most probably forced to move with them. In any case, in March 1942, she was registered as living with Mr and Mrs Magud in a "Jews' apartment" at Rosenheimerstr. 27 in Berlin-Schöneberg. Later she lived in the apartment of her nephew Walter Grau, a lawyer, at Wilhelm-Gustloff-Straße 51 (now Dernburgstraße), at the lake Lietzensee in Charlottenburg. Clara was due to be deported, aged 82, on 28 September 1942. But the day before, Clara and Walter Grau committed suicide. Another nephew of Clara's, Richard Grau (later Richard Graw), survived the Shoah in exile in the United States.
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Environment Ministry aims to increase dugong numbers by 50% in 10 years
(Photo) Tender, loving care: Mariam being cared for at the Phuket Marine Biological Centre on Libong island, Trang province/AFP
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment aims to increase the population of dugong in Thailand's waters by 50%, from approximately 250, in the next ten years, said Mr. Pinsak Suraswadi, deputy director-general of the Marine and Coastal Resources Department, on Monday.
The effort will be applied to areas other than Libong Island in the southern province of Trang, which is home to most of the dugongs, such as Phra Thong Island in Phang-nga province, Si Boya Island in Krabi province, Lidee and Sarai Islands in Satun province, Kood, Mark and Kradan Islands in the eastern province of Trat, Kung Krabane bay in Chanthaburi, the Prasae estuary in Rayong province, Sattahip bay in Rayong and Pattani bay in Pattani province.
Mr. Pinsak said that the efforts to increase the population of dugongs would be jointly undertaken by officials and communities, with a plan to ban the use of fishing gear which poses a threat to endangered marine animals, including dugongs, in order to reduce the fatality rates from such fishing gear. They also plan to preserve sea grass, the main source of food for dugongs.
Mr. Pinsak chaired the first meeting of a working committee to protect rare marine species today to discuss measures to protect the remaining dugong, and other endangered marine animals, from plastic waste and dangerous fishing gear following last week's tragic death of Mariam, after she had been cared for by officials of the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources for the past four months.
Mrs. Nanthrika Chansue, director of the Veterinary Medical Aquatic Animals Research Centre at Chulalongkorn University, said at the meeting that plastic waste in the feeding grounds of the dugongs must be removed before they pose an even greater threat to the rare animals.
Dr. Thon Thamrongnawasawat, vice dean of the Fisheries Faculty at Kasetsart University, said that trash in the seas was the main cause of the death of many endangered marine species, adding that about 80% of the trash in seas around Thailand originated from the mainland and has been washed into the sea in rivers.
A summary report of the death of endangered marine species during the past ten months shows 738 animals were found beached, including 250 whales and dolphins of which 238 were dead, 488 sea turtles which were all dead and 18 dugongs, including Mariam.
Dr. Thon also said that the working committee will try to push for the designation of August 17 of every year as National Dugong Day and for a fund to be set up for research into and conservation of dugongs.
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Q: dhclient lease renewal occasionally breaks DNS resolution I have a set of ec2 instances (ubuntu trusty 14.04) that I have never done any special dhcp configuration with. It's on a VPC with the default dhcp options.
For some reason, roughly ever 25 minutes, I see this in my logs
(IP's and xid are scrubbed)
DHCPREQUEST of 172.16.1.111 on eth0 to 172.16.0.1 port 67 (xid=0x0000000c)
DHCPACK of 172.16.1.111 from 172.16.0.1
bound to 172.16.1.111 -- renewal in 1693 seconds.

(The exact number of seconds changes between 1300 and 1700.)
Occasionally, like once every 10 days, this renewal will break DNS, and my running application will start giving errors like getaddrinfo: Name or service not known. Once the renewal runs again in about 25 minutes, the problem is resolved. I have tested this by waiting for a failure and manually renewing the dhclient lease (sudo dhclient -v -r eth0 then sudo dhclient -v eth0), and seeing that fix the issue instantly.
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*Why is the renewal time this strange ~25 minute number? I know that I can set this through a conf file, but this seems like it's a strange default.

*Why does it sometimes break DNS resolution? This is the main issue here. My other sets of ec2 instances also have this short DHCP renewal time, but only this one set of instances has the issue where, occasionally, DNS breaks when DHCP is renewed.

A: My guess is you're receiving a DHCP renewal with a bad DNS server IP - have you checked the contents of /etc/resolv.conf during the outage and compared it to the contents when things are working?
But it's better not to guess at all when you can gather a little more data to see exactly what's happening. Try capturing your DHCP traffic with:
tcpdump -c 10000 -w /var/tmp/dhcpdump.tcp -i INTERFACE port bootpc or port bootps

Where "INTERFACE" is eth0 or whatever your primary interface is named. This will capture DHCP traffic on the server (automatically exiting after 10k packets so it won't fill up your disk if you forget about the running task). After you've experienced the problem again, review the sniff file with "tcpdump -v -r FILE" or Wireshark. That should show you what's different about the DHCP renewals that cause the problem.
If you can see a definite pattern with the DHCP renewals that cause the problem, contact Amazon support, and send them the sniff file or the decoded output showing a good and bad renewal.
Regarding the lease time, there's nothing unusual about it. The folks managing the DHCP service decided they wanted short leases. Perhaps other customers are creating and destroying instances every 15 minutes so they want to recover the IP for another customer if it is no longer in use.


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Born 80 years ago, college football on TV was limited by the NCAA's grip until stopped by the Supreme Court
On September 29, 1951, NBC ran Duke-Pitt coast-to-coast. Twelve years earlier, on September 30, 1939, the first ever telecast was carried in NY
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Next Saturday, October 5th, Duke will host its ACC home opener against Pitt.
But little did the recent schedule makers know that when the two teams played 68 years ago today, September 29, 1951, it was the first coast-to-coast telecast of a college football game or for that matter, any sporting event at all. Duke won 19-14, advancing to 2-0. The following week, the Dukies fell to Tennessee, the eventual AP and Coaches Poll national champs.
That September 29th was a busy day for the historical Gods. In Philadelphia, a football game between the University of California and the University of Pennsylvania, was televised in experimental color or whatever first generation color looked like then. There were only a precious few sets able to receive the color signal and the telecast was picked up only in a few test markets.
These two events go down in the annals as firsts but in 1950, a year earlier, only 9% of American homes had television sets. The medium of course erupted through the decades. By 1955, 64% of the country had sets and by 1960, it was 87%. Television in the 1950s was what SmartPhones and mobile devices are today. Novel to many.
A dozen years earlier, on September 30, 1939, Fordham University played Waynesburg College at Triborough Stadium in New York and it was on W2XBS (the forerunner to WNBC TV). It was hardly a sophisticated production. Just one camera and one announcer, Bill Stern. He and Ted Husing were the two most famous sportscasters of the time. For years, Stern was associated with NBC and Husing with CBS. It was a showcase telecast for the attendees of the New York's World Fair, eager to get a glimpse of the future.
While the war years were hardly progressive ones for television, football telecasts began to mushroom somewhat in the late 1940s. There was no NCAA governance and some schools toyed with independent telecasts, albeit there was just a paucity of television sets and not many to watch.
Remember the first World Series was on television in 1947 and only in limited markets. The first Series that aired through much of America was in 1951 and the first in color was in 1955. There weren't many color sets then and those who had it, didn't experience anything near HD quality. The first NFL championship game was in 1951 on the now defunct Dumont Network.
By 1950, Dumont picked up Notre Dame and Penn games, triggering concern from NCAA members that television would hurt attendance.
So in 1951, the governing body stepped in to police the practice. Quoting from a study by John J. Siegfried and Molly Gardner Burba of Vanderbilt University, sternly titled, The college football association television broadcast cartel, "At its 1951 convention, the NCAA revoked its then existing policy allowing each individual institution complete control over the marketing of its athletic events, a first step toward prohibiting broadcasts into areas where another Association member was hosting a game."
According to the Vanderbilt report, the University of Pennsylvania then challenged the NCAA's television authority. The NCAA responded by calling Penn, a "member in bad standing." But Penn learned quickly that it's tough to fight City Hall. After the Quakers' first four visiting opponents cancelled their 1951 games at Penn, the school threw in the towel.
At that point, the NCAA essentially reigned supreme. For the next 32 years of regular season college football (1952-83), the NCAA controlled major rights to the telecasts. Through the mid 1950s, Americans viewed just one national game a week. At that point forward until the 1980s, the NCAA allowed regional telecasts in specified weeks.
The rights were awarded as follows:
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1962-63 CBS
1982-83 ABC/CBS/Turner
In 1952, NBC paid $1, 444,000 for the rights. By 1983, the NCAA collected $64,000,00 per year.
On January 1, 1952, NBC televised the Rose Bowl coast-to-coast for the first time. The announcers were Mel Allen and Jack Brickhouse.
The 1954 Rose Bowl had the first color television "colorcast." It was viewable on 200 sets across the United States. Mel Allen and Tom Harmon were the announcers. (Harmon was a gridiron star, military pilot, actor and sportscaster. He was born 100 years ago yesterday, September 18, 1919. He died in 1990. Tom also called UCLA football.)
NBC's football announcers in their early years included Allen, Chick Hearn, Lindsey Nelson, Jim Simpson (1957) and Bill Flemming.
At ABC, beginning in 1966, Chris Schenkel and Bud Wilkinson were the number one broadcast team. Keith Jackson took over as the lead commentator in 1974. He remained as such through the 1999 Fiesta Bowl and then continued in a more limited announcing role through the 2006 Rose Bowl.
A humorous story of sorts occurred in the 1950s when the popular Giants baseball announcer Russ Hodges was assigned NBC's college football. The broadcasts were sponsored exclusively by General Motors. In those years, the sponsors had a powerful say in hiring announcers. According to Lindsey Nelson, GM called NBC after the first telecast and demanded that Hodges be removed. Apparently, GM's management felt that Hodges bore a facial resemblance to UAW leader Walter Reuther. (Hodges is in the photo on the left and Reuther is on the right.)
During the restricted television years, Notre Dame games were often syndicated for airing on Saturday nights and the telecast was condensed to a one hour show. Nelson did many of those games. It was essentially highlights +. Uneventful action was cut out of the truncated version. So Lindsay was often heard saying, "As we pick up the action in the 3d quarter….."
in 1981, the NCAA was sued by the both the University of Georgia and Oklahoma, alleging anti-trust violations and demanding the ability to cut individual deals and not be beholden to the governing body. In 1982, the NCAA added deals with three networks, expanding the number of broadcasts. But it wasn't enough.
On June 27, 1984, the college television world was turned upside down. The United States Supreme Court ruled that the NCAA telecasts violated Sherman Anti-Trust laws. Teams and conferences were allowed to go about their own merry way with television. The next season, there were some 200 games on the air. Remember that the schools had a buyer. ESPN was born five years earlier in 1979 and had a big appetite for play-by-play.
This weekend alone there were over 60 college telecasts and that doesn't include games that are video streamed.
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I know Halby has read Lindsey's marvelous autobiography, so he also can tell the story of Hodges renting a Hudson to go to a sponsors meeting and Lindsey's line that it was too much: Walter Reuther pulling up in a Hudson to meet with executives at General Motors! ABC took a bath on that 1954 contract, and thus NBC got it back–and then ABC was able to sneak in and swipe the rights in 1960, and that led to Roone Arledge producing the games and rising to the top, and the great crew of Curt Gowdy and Paul Christman doing… Read more »


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The delivery included medicine, ventilators and disinfectant, the Emirates Red Crescent said. WAM
A medical aid aircraft dispatched by the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) arrived in Damascus, in coordination with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, to help reduce the spread of the coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic and support the Syrian medical sector.
Dr Mohammed Ateeq Al Falahi, Secretary-General of the ERC, said that the aircraft transported significant quantities of medicines and medical supplies and equipment that will benefit thousands of healthcare workers while pointing out that the aid is part of the ERC's related initiatives, upon the directives of the UAE's leadership and under the monitoring of Sheikh Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler's Representative in Al Dhafra Region and Chairman of the ERC.
The UAE is exerting significant efforts to help friendly countries overcome the current health crisis and support them in reinforcing their health capacities, Al Falahi added, noting that the ERC dispatched the shipment in coordination with its Syrian counterpart, under the framework of their joint cooperation.
The medical aid includes basic supplies used to maintain the precautionary and preventive measures aimed at confronting the coronavirus pandemic, assist front-line medical staff and support their efforts to contain the virus in Syria, he further added.
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UAE provides COVID-19 aid and PPE to 1m medical professionals worldwide
"The clear vision of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan; His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai; and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, was not clouded when this pandemic hit the world
UAE sends medical supplies to Jordan in fight against COVID-19
As part of efforts to strengthen the capacity of the health sector in various countries to overcome the COVID-19 crisis, the United Arab Emirates today sent an aid plane containing 12.4 metric tons of medical supplies to Jordan.
UAE helps 119 countries in fight against coronavirus
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation confirmed that the UAE seeks to provide various possible support in such situations to affirm solidarity with all brotherly and friendly countries in crises that require concerted efforts to mitigate their effects.
UAE, Saudi Arabia send 540,000 tonnes of wheat to Sudan
The food shipment falls within the framework of the $3 billion (Dhs11 billion) Saudi Arabia-UAE joint aid package to support Sudan's economic and financial stability, announced in April 2019.


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