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Launch their Soyuz spacecraft is scheduled for 2:42 pm CDT Friday, March 27. Media should pick up credentials by 12:30 p.m. Friday, and must be escorted and in place before NASA TV launch coverage begins at 1:30 p.m. Accredited media wishing must ensure seating to watch the final hour of the countdown by calling the JSC Newsroom at 281-483-5111 before 4 p.m. Thursday, March 26.

Offering one of Mission Controls actual flight control rooms provides a rare opportunity to observe the launch, taking place half a world away at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazhakhstan. Seated in the Blue Flight Control Room, media may watch the countdown and launch from the same seats occupied by flight controllers during early station assembly, and more recently last Decembers first test flight of the Orion spacecraft.

Meanwhile, Space Center Houston, the official visitor center for Johnson Space Center, invites space buffs, NASA employees and media to watch the launch live on the largest giant screen in Texas.Space Center Houstons mission briefing officers will provide background on the launch and one-year crew. Discount tickets are available on-line.

Kelly and Kornienko are leaving Earth on a one-year mission to better understand how the human body reacts and adapts to the harsh environment of space. Obtaining data to determine ways to further reduce the risks during future long-duration missions to an asteroid and eventually Mars. The crew will support several hundred experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science research that impacts life on Earth. Data and samples will be collected throughout the year from a series of studies involving Scott and his twin brother, former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly. The studies will compare data from the genetically-identical brothers to identify any subtle changes caused by spaceflight.

Joining Kelly and Kornienko will be Gennady Padalka, who will spend six months aboard the outpost. During that time he will become the first four-time station commander and world record holder for most cumulative time ever spent in space.

For more information about the International Space Station, visit:http://www.nasa.gov/station

For more information about the One-Year Crew, visit:http://www.nasa.gov/oneyear

For more information about NASA Television, visit:http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about Space Center Houston, visit:http://spacecenter.org

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The media world has undergone a seismic upheaval over the last 20 years, with new tremors shaking the landscape seemingly every week. The latest: TheNew York Times, BuzzFeed, National Geographic and perhaps other well-known publishers are in negotiations that could result in social media giant Facebook hosting news stories and other content they produce directly on its own servers.

The shift, reported by The New York Times itself, would allow Facebook users to see content from those outlets without having to click through to their sites a shift that would represent a sea change in the relationship between Facebook and the news media, and one that could leave publishers even more reliant on the social media service than they are now.

Facebook, with more than a billion users, currently drives a tremendous amount of traffic directly to news sites via links that appear in its users news feeds. The social media giant sent nearly a quarter of the total visits publishers received in December 2014, according to Shareaholic, up 18 percentage points from three years earlier. Yet as Facebooks users increasingly turn to mobile platforms such as phones and tablets, it wants to streamline the browsing experience for users and keep them from clicking away, in the process becoming much more than a place to watch ice bucket challenge videos or keep tabs on friends, family and ex-girlfriends.

If Facebook essentially wants to become the Internet for its users, it knows it still has work to do. Facebook officials have said that the process of opening a news link on a web browser generally takes about eight seconds, an eternity in an era when users have more content choices than they can possibly consume. It also frequently forces the reader to deal with inconvenient pop-up advertisements and other features of news sites that are difficult to navigate, or even just plain dismiss, on a phone screen. If Facebook were able to host the content itself, it argues, it would make for a much smoother user experience, making the reader more likely to actually, well, read the story he or she clicked on.

Its a compelling argument, and if maximizing readership was the sole imperative of news organization, it would be a no-brainer. But its not. News organization in general need advertising revenue to survive, and also value the information they are able to collect by tracking the activity of readers on their sites. To make the idea more appealing to media companies, Facebook is reportedly considering a new revenue-sharing scheme that would pay the content publishers a portion of ad revenue generated.

This would not be the first time that the Internet upended the business model of traditional news media. A decade ago, Craigslist was the bogeyman of newspaper advertising departments, as revenue from classified advertising began to crater with the rise of the free, local message board that gave advertisers control over how and when their ads were displayed. To some extent, its arguable that newspaper still havent really recovered.

Whether publishers embrace Facebooks new scheme remains to be seen. Content producers large and small have reason to be wary of ceding too much control over their fates to the social media giant but publishers desperate to reverse rapidly declining revenues might be willing to give up some control for the right amount of money, and Facebook might be able to offer key players enough blandishments to make the program worth their while. It is also possible that Facebook-hosted content could receive enough traffic to make advertising revenue sharing more popular for some smaller sites than hosting content on their own had been.

In any case, should a deal with Facebook be struck, it could fundamentally change the news and media worlds once again. What else is new?

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Globecast Launches Media Centre in Los Angeles

A facility to create and playout video content to any distribution platform.

LOS ANGELESGlobecast announced the launch of its Los Angeles Media Centre, offering broadcasters and content providers a converged workflow to prepare, deliver and playout content to any kind of distribution platform. The new Media Centre adds to the company's facilities in London and Singapore, providing a one-stop-shop for media management, playout, satellite and OTT distribution.

The new facility, which has been upgraded to include Globecasts Media Factory for content logistics and converged workflow, brings broadcast and OTT solutions together under one roof, making it more efficient to handle both linear broadcast and on-demand services.

Globecasts Media Factory replaces multiple operations with a single, process that handles everything from VoD preparation and content formatting to creative services, quality control and compliance. The Media Factory approach allows Globecast to pass on economies of scale to customers who also benefit from the greater flexibility and the ability to scale up and down as required. The LA Media Centre features state-of-the art technology from leading providers to create an integrated broadcast facility.

Globecasts managing director in the U.S., Eddie Ferraro, said, In this constantly shifting media landscape, cost-efficiency and time-to-market are key to a successful business model. Broadcasters today have to cover traditional linear playout as well as VoD and catch-up services across multiple platforms in order to reach their viewers. Our new Media Centre enables them to do exactly this from right here in the heart of LA.

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- If you want to know whymedia companies are wary ofApple (AAPL - Get Report) getting into the television business, youneed only to look at what happened to the music industry after it introducediTunes: Music companies lost much of their clout and reach.

The maker of the iPad and iPhone is expected to unveil a 25-channel Internet-based television service later this year, according to areportlast week in The Wall Street Journal, deepeningits competition with Amazon (AMZN) and Google (GOOG)as well as streamingservices from Roku, Sony (SNE) and DISH (DISH).

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For media companies that spend billions of dollars developing programming, Applerepresents an opportunity and a risk. The opportunity is the chance to gather insights into the viewing habits of Apple's customers, a high-income demographic active in social media, and to better reach the roughly 10 million U.S. households that have a high-speed Internet connection but choose not to subscribe to a pay-TV service.

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In this Sept. 19, 2014 file photo, Vince Neil and girlfriend Rain Andreani arrive at the iHeart Radio Music Festival, at The MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.(AP)

Rock 'n' roller Vince Neil is taking a fight over his Internet persona to state court in Las Vegas, with a lawsuit accusing a social media consultant of refusing to give him control of his Facebook and LinkedIn accounts.

The consultant, Kristy Sinsara of Bend, Oregon, said Thursday that she believes the lawsuit stems from a misunderstanding.

Sinsara said that in February she gave the Motley Crue lead singer's manager the Facebook passwords and email contact information sought by the civil complaint.

"I don't want to be saying bad things about my client," Sinsara told The Associated Press. "I love and respect Vince. I have evidence that I sent them to his personal manager."

Neil's attorney, James Kohl, declined to comment beyond the civil lawsuit filed March 13 in Clark County District Court.

"Even though Sinsara agreed to relinquish control over the accounts on Dec. 26, 2014, and again on March 1, 2015, she has and continues to maintain control," the complaint said.

It accuses Sinsara of making unauthorized posts that Neil's fans believe to be from him.

Sinsara's lawyer, Isaac Warren of Choctaw, Oklahoma, said he hadn't seen the complaint but also believed it was caused by a misunderstanding.

The lawsuit alleges breach of contract and unjust enrichment. It seeks unspecified damages greater than $20,000, and it asks for an injunction to force Sinsara to turn over access and administrative control of the accounts to Neil.

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