#legacy issues

[thecorruption-thespiralsversion]

Imbalance

We hear Norris, Chester, and Augustus with great imbalance...

Could there be a 4th voice?

[thecorruption-thespiralsversion]

WAIT

I thought throwing Sam into The Rift solved Celia's "work emergencies"

[thecorruption-thespiralsversion]

I can't tell if this is Fr3-d1's way of telling Gwenn to stay ignorant or that they are keeping her is the dark by design.

[thecorruption-thespiralsversion]

I can't help but feel that This episode's Case File explained to Gwen what happened/became of Ink5oul.

Also, drills in that ignorance doesn't prevent sh1t!

[newsbites]

Settlement Reached: Government to Purchase 32 Schools from RC Church

A settlement has been reached that will see 32 public schools on the Avalon and Burin peninsulas continue to o...

A settlement has been reached that will see 32 public schools on the Avalon and Burin peninsulas continue to operate as usual.

There was no guarantee that would be the case until the past couple of weeks as bankruptcy proceedings involving the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of St. John’s continued.

The Church has been selling off properties to settle sex abuse claims, and the schools, which they still own, could’ve been sold off too, if government hadn’t stepped in to formally acquire them for an estimated $13 million.

School board lawyer Rob Zdebiak confirmed the schools are now safe for the foreseeable future.

“We’re glad it’s all resolved and the schools will continue as they’ve always been,” he said. “I think everyone was confident that at the end of the day it would work out for all the students and citizens of Newfoundland and Labrador.”

[kenyatta]

NPR decides it won’t promote its podcasts or NPR One on air

The public radio giant is letting its present impose a strategy tax on its future.

In other words, NPR can’t promote NPR One — the lauded, loved app that is basically the future of NPR — to what is literally the group of people that would be most interested in it, NPR radio listeners. NPR is investing substantially in developing podcasts — but it isn’t allowed to tell radio listeners where to find them or how they can listen to them.

This seems dumb to a lot of people, both inside and outside public media.

[…]

Stations hate the idea of listeners trading in their local loyalty for a direct-from-NPR experience. Of those 900 or so member stations, there are maybe a few dozen who generate really significant local content. Most are just vectors for the distribution of Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Car Talk, This American Life, and so on. (This conflict is why “NPR CEO” is one of the hardest jobs in media and has been for a decade or so now.) NPR One goes out of its way to encourage localization and bring in local station content and branding.

The most optimistic way to look at this is that a radio listener is more valuable to NPR on average than a digital listener, and NPR does not want to encourage anyone to convert from Group A to Group B. This calculus is no doubt true, today, in 2016.

The less optimistic way to look at this — and what I suspect is the correct way — is that it’s just that station dynamic playing out again.

The classic example is Steve Ballmer-era Microsoft, where lots of unusual product decisions were made because Nothing Could Be Done That Might Weaken Microsoft Windows.

The platforms that are pretty clearly NPR’s future — NPR One and podcasts — are in conflict with NPR’s present — broadcast distribution and local station structure. NPR is letting the present act as a strategy tax on the future.

Huh.

[panduhhhplumbob]

omg I just realized i hate Maya’s house and I don’t want to post pics of it because I’m just a terrible builder omg i need a HOUSE! 

[sim-another-day]

So I decided to get Into the Future. Not installing it until I either finish my giant legacy house, or finish my 'hood makeover/plant my simself legacy into it. Got Portal 2 as well 'cause it was cheap. And an second controller so I can try to get Zach to play games on my xbox with me :3 (he's a ps fanboy so this may be harder than originally thought...)