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Tustin Pop Warner charges go beyond bounties : Sometimes, to dominate the ultracompetitive world of Junior Pee Wee football, you have to change the game. And many of the changes you can make to get to the Pop Warner Super Bowl in Kissimmee, Florida, have little to do with what happens on the...

MICKADEIT: Football for 35 pounders? : Film Night. That's when this lunacy really hit home to me. I had asked an 11-year-old member of last year's Tustin Red Cobras Pop Warner team when he first heard a coach talk about cash-for-injuries. "At Film Night," he'd said. He became the third...

No wonder nothing ever gets done anymore. ~~~ Note to Gen Y: Job Performance Matters : When they finally join the workforce, it's no wonder members of Gen Y expect a promotion just for being on time to work for six weeks straight.

City Council Approves Construction of NFL Stadium in DTLA : So what if Los Angeles doesn't have a team in the National Football League? And so what if Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) is looking for a new owner ? Dammit: Downtown Los Angeles is getting a big ol' shiny new football stadium. [ more › ]

I Can't Find It Either! :

They should have focused on cameras. ~~~ Kodak Exiting the Consumer Printer Business : The long, sad decline of Eastman Kodak continued on Friday as the company announced it was exiting the consumer printer business. The company, which is in the process of submitting a restructuring plan to Bankruptcy Court, will "wind down sales of consumer inkjet printers" and focus instead on selling ink to its existing install base. "Kodak is making good progress toward emergence from Chapter 11, taking significant actions to reorganize our core ongoing businesses, reduce costs, sell assets, and streamline our organizational structure," said Antonio M. Perez, Kodak chairman and CEO, in a statement . Perez added that halting consumer printer sales "will substantially advance t… Continue reading...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NU7CTPLJ44 Didn't "get off it" fast enough. ~~~ Network apology over TV 'suicide' : US network Fox News apologises for showing live pictures of a man apparently shooting himself in the head after a high-speed chase in Arizona.

Strangeways, Here We Come Turns 25 : The Smiths commenced recording their fourth (and ultimately final) full-length knowing the title of the album and little else. Still, the band possessed such a strong sense of self — with a variegated cosmology that made room for cult film stars and Wilde worship, the Brill Building and monarchic brickbats — that Strangeways, Here We Come would accrue all kinds of meaning. Johnny Marr thought the title, a reference to the familiar name of HM Prison Manchester, was a bit too on Moz’s schnozz, if you will, but at this point he knew the score. Soon enough, the band’s storied partnership split into its own strange ways; three years later, the prison exploded . Twenty-five years on, the legacy of Strangeways is still not fixed. Is it a consciously gloomy swan song? A document of a disintegrating band? The creative culmination of six remarkably productive years? It hasn’t been settled. A few years after its release, Marr told journalist Johnny Rogan

Obama, Romney place dueling calls to Israel’s Netanyahu - The Washington Post :

Tustin. ~~~ Calif. kids' football team hit with bounty scandal : The league president and head coach of a children's football team in Orange County have been suspended amid allegations that players were offered bounties to knock opponents out of games.

Obama blocks China wind farm plan : President Barack Obama has stopped a private Chinese firm from building wind turbines in the US state of Oregon, citing national security concerns.

Tom Cruise and Scientology's David Miscavige: "Most Intense Bromance in History" : The most powerful Scientologist in the world has the movie star under his thumb. How does Miscavige do it? read more

New respiratory virus identified in the Middle East: What you need to know : Coronaviruses are a family of relatively large viruses. The name comes from the fact that, under a microscope, coronaviruses all look like they are surrounded by little halos. Those "coronas" are actually little proteins that cover the surface of the viruses and help them gain access to the cells they invade. Although scientists think that coronaviruses are actually responsible for a significant percentage of the illnesses that we call the "common cold", the most famous coronavirus is SARS, which killed almost 1000 people in 2003. That doesn't sound like many, but comparing deaths to diagnosed cases reveals a fatality rate of 10%. (There's a good chance this number doesn't give you the full picture. It's likely more people contracted SARS than ended up diagnosed with it, simply because, if your illness isn't severe, you don't usually bother to get diagnosed . To p

Let's ignore the fact that lava flows on Earth exhibit the same effects. ~~~ Curiosity adds to evidence that water once flowed on Mars : When a narrow stream, flowing downhill, meets a wide, significantly-flatter valley, you get an alluvial fan — a place where the flow of water spreads out, slows down, and leaves behind all the rocks and sediment it's no longer moving fast enough to carry. At least, that's how it works on Earth. Once upon a time, it may have worked that way on Mars, too. Yesterday, NASA announced that the Curiosity rover had documented geology that looks very much like an alluvial fan and rocky deposits that also look very much like what would be left in an alluvial fan on Earth. You can see the comparison of some of those in the image above. In these Martian geological features — as in an Earth-bound stream bed — you find smooth, rounded pebbles and conglomerates, masses of pebbles cemented together over time. The rocks photographed by Curiosity a

You know, Amazon should buy out Best Buy and use their stores as they really are used, as showrooms for later online purchases. ~~~ Retailers' Growing Retaliation Against Amazon : Retailers' Growing Retaliation Against Amazon

Sure would be nice. ~~~ 6 Habits of Extraordinary Bosses : 6 Habits of Extraordinary Bosses

Why the Swiss Are Fed Up with the U.S.'s Meddling : Switzerland believes its reputation as an independent mountain-fortress and refuge is being eroded -- by American meddling

Democrat congresswomen 'less feminine in appearance' than Republicans : Trick-cyclists discover 'Michele Bachmann effect' Time-rich psychologists in the USA say they have discovered that female Democratic politicians are significantly less feminine in appearance than Republican ones - so much so that it's often possible to tell which party a woman politico belongs to just by looking at her.…

This guy is a strong contender to ousting Merkel. ~~~ Steinbrueck to challenge Merkel in 2013 : BERLIN (Reuters) - Peer Steinbrueck, an abrasive former finance minister, will lead the German Social Democrats' challenge to unseat chancellor Angela Merkel in a parliamentary election a year from now.

Israelis see no Iran war this year after Netanyahu's speech : JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's U.N. speech about Iranian nuclear advances has dampened speculation in Israel that he could order a war this year.

Pricey gasoline hits U.S. consumers, weighs on growth : WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. households stretched to pay for costlier gasoline on meager income growth in August, undercutting spending on other items and pointing to lackluster economic growth.

Police shoot, kill 14-year-old armed with shotgun : SANTA ANA – A 14-year-old boy – who apparently called 911 to say a man was armed with a gun – was fatally shot Thursday night by officers, police said Friday. Officers at about 10:40 p.m. went to East Wisteria Place, just east of Maple Street,...

You can thank party politics for not even wanting to contest this election. ~~~ GOP puts up little-known challenger against Sen. Feinstein : SACRAMENTO – With members of Congress across the country battling anti-incumbent fever, California's three-term U.S. senator, Dianne Feinstein, would seem to be a natural target in her re-election bid. Challenger Elizabeth Emken has presented...

Yep, The TSA Is Definitely Stealing iPads [Tsa] : An ABC investigation has found what you might have suspected all along; if you leave your iPad with airport security, a TSA agent might just keep it for himself. More »

16 Scary Probes That You Don't Want Inside of You [Probes] : The worst part of going to the doctor's is being poked and prodded with any number of terrifying probes and needles, but you probably haven't seen many of the really scary implements that are out there. Here are 16 crazy ones you probably don't want anywhere near you. More »

All without any serious fight against it. ~~~ Support slips for Brown's tax hike : Backing for Prop. 30 drops to 55% amid concerns about the way lawmakers spend money, poll finds. SACRAMENTO — Support for Gov. Jerry Brown's plan for billions of dollars in tax hikes on the November ballot is slipping amid public anxiety about how politicians spend money, but voters still favor the proposal, according to a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll .

3rd ex-Fullerton police officer charged in death of homeless man : Joseph Wolfe, 37, was arraigned on charges of involuntary manslaughter and excessive use of force in the death of Kelly Thomas, a mentally ill homeless man who was beaten by police at a bus depot. A third former Fullerton police officer has been criminally charged in the death of Kelly Thomas, a mentally ill homeless man who died after being beaten by police at a bus depot in downtown Fullerton last year.

France to raise taxes on wealthy : France unveils its budget for 2013, avoiding large austerity spending cuts in favour of higher taxes on the wealthy and big businesses.

Can US jobs be brought home from China? : How to bring American jobs back from China

Recommended people to use Bing or Google?  Steve Jobs must be spinning in his grave. ~~~ Apple CEO: We are 'extremely sorry' for Maps flap : Tim Cook says Apple fell short on its commitment to its customers, acknowledges their frustration, and even suggests using alternatives.

Comic for September 28, 2012 :

Maybe I'll start watching channel 11 in the morning again now. ~~~ Jillian Barberie Tweets She's No Longer On 'Good Day L.A.' [UPDATED] : Jillian Barberie, longtime co-anchor of local Fox affiliate's morning show "Good Day L.A." made a startling announcement this morning via her personal Twitter account: She was fired. [ more › ]

Ralph Nader: President Obama’s a ‘war criminal’ - Patrick Gavin - POLITICO.com :

Quantitative Easing Did Not Work For The Weimar Republic Either : Did printing vast quantities of money work for the Weimar Republic?  Nope.  And it won't work for us either.  If printing money was the secret to economic success, we could just print up a trillion dollars for every American and be done with it.  The truth is that making everyone in America a trillionaire would not mean that we would all suddenly be wealthy.  There would be the same amount of "real wealth" in our economy as before.  But what it would do is render our currency meaningless and totally destroy faith in our financial system.  Sadly, we have not learned the lessons that history has tried to teach us.  Back in April 1919, it took 12 German marks to get 1 U.S. dollar.  By December 1923, it took approximately 4 trillion German marks to get 1 U.S. dollar.  So was the Weimar Republic better off after all of the "quantitative easing" that they did or worse off?  Of course they were worse of

On FICO’s Dubious Explanation of Why it Treats Short Sales the Same as Foreclosures : April Charney sent me a link to a post which had a condescending explanation of a recent piece by FICO that warrants further discussion. The FICO article attempted to justify its position that someone who enters into a short sale gets his credit score dinged as badly as for a foreclosure. Yes, you read that correctly. One of the reasons many borrowers go to the effort to arrange a short sale, as opposed to the faster and easier process of “jingle mail” is that they assume that the damage to their credit score will be lower. Here is the rationale, per FICO’s Banking Analytics blog (emphasis theirs): One of the questions we get asked most often is whether it remains appropriate for the scoring model to treat a short sale in a manner similar to a foreclosure…. …we conducted a study isolating more recent occurrences of mortgage stress events. By studying the subsequent performance of these borrower

LOL!!!!!! ~~~ Worst movie death scene ever? More like BEST movie death scene ever. (video) : [ Video Link ] Apparently, a clip from the Turkish movie "Kareteci Kız 1973." HT: Joe Sabia .

Morrissey - The Extended Interview - news.com.au : Morrissey: the extended interview - News.com.au MORRISSEY'S light hasn't gone out, writes Cameron Adams.

Morrissey interview in The Phoenix / Boston : "At first you acknowledge that the artist's view is wider than your own, otherwise you would not be entranced by them. The second stage is normal despondency because they haven't actually noticed you on a personal level. The third stage is assassination. It all amounts to a particularly poor form of love." From the mind of Morrissey: on celebrity worship, his new book, and Boston - The Phoenix By LUKE O'NEIL ​

May be the funniest thing he's ever said in his life besides calling himself a serious actor. ~~~ Two Lovely Lesbians :

NHL cancels remainder of preseason schedule : The NHL on Thursday announced the cancellation of the remainder of its 2012 preseason schedule due to the lockout of its players.

Drilling for Hoffa : Tomorrow, police will drill through a concrete slab at a Detroit home where Jimmy Hoffa may be buried. They are responding to what they say is a "credible" tip from a man who claims he saw a burial take place at the home in 1975 around when Hoffa vanished. " We don't believe it's Jimmy Hoffa," said Police Chief Jim Berlin, quoted in the Macomb Daily . "I am very skeptical," Dan Moldea, author of " The Hoffa Wars " who also heard from the same tipster, told CNN . Once police have a core sample, it'll be tested for human remains. If the sample tests positive, they'll start digging.

CAUGHT ON TAPE: Democrat Congressional Candidate Tussles with Cameraman & Takes Camera : In the world of politics, trackers have become a part of campaign life. Sometimes they are professionals and sometimes they are concerned citizens who are simply filming and happen to catch something on camera. YouTube has become the stomping grounds for pushing video out that reveals sides of politicians that they’d rather the public didn’t see. Yet, amazingly enough, these candidates never seem to accept | Read More »

Can High-Speed Trading Be Slowed Down? : The U.S. dithers on high-frequency trading while Europe moves toward placing speed traps.

Egypt's Morsi warns Israel over 'law of the jungle' threats : United Nations (AFP) Sept 26, 2012 Egypt's new president on Wednesday hit out at Israel over its veiled threats to attack Iran's nuclear facilities and the deadlock in the Middle East peace process. President Mohamed Morsi received a rousing ovation for his first speech to the 193-member UN General Assembly since becoming Egypt's first civilian, democratically elected leader in June. Without specifically mentioning Israel

U.S. Ranks Second in Internet Freedom, Behind Estonia : The United States has the second highest degree of Internet freedom in the world, according to a new study from Freedom House. What country's ahead of America? Estonia, a country of 1.29 million in northeast Europe. Estonia Why does Estonia top the list? According to Freedom House, it "ranks among the most wired and technologically advanced countries in the world." "With a high internet penetration rate and widespread e-commerce and e-government services embedded into the daily lives of individuals and organizations, Estonia has become a model for free internet access as a development engine for society," reads the report. Estonia's commitment to technological innovation in g… Continue reading...

Apple's Split with Google Over iOS Maps Driven by Turn-by-Turn Navigation Dispute : Reports about the high-profile split between Apple and Google that saw Apple replace its Google-powered Maps app for iOS with its own solution have continued to trickle out, with AllThingsD now reporting that the lack of turn-by-turn directions on Google's Maps app for iOS was the key motivator for Apple. [M]ultiple sources familiar with Apple’s thinking say the company felt it had no choice but to replace Google maps with its own because of a disagreement over a key feature: Voice-guided turn-by-turn driving directions. Spoken turn-by-turn navigation has been a free service offered through Google’s Android mobile OS for a few years now. But it was never part of the deal that brought Google’s maps to iOS. And Apple very much wanted it to be. Requiring iPhone users to look directly at handsets for directions and manually move through each step while Android users enjoyed native voice-gui

The Navy Wants to Use Seawater For Fuel [Navy] : Driving around in unfamiliar territory, searching for a gas station while your gauge hovers just above E is maddening and stressful. But imagine experiencing that same feeling while manning a giant aircraft carrier through foreign—and sometimes hostile—seas. To make fuel easier to come by, the Navy is working on a way to produce it from ocean water . More »

First Peek Inside 'Noah' Ark Reveals Lots and Lots of Snakes : Due in theaters in March 2014, the Darren Aronofsky movie is an epic retelling of the Great Flood story. read more

Slide to Hell ~~~ FAIL Nation: Playground FAIL :

WIN!: Drumming With All Your Heart WIN :

How records are made : Gorgeous black and white photos from 1954 and 1962 of vinyl records being made, including scans of an album jacket with a description of the process. " How records are made " (Voices of East Anglia, via @chris_carter_ )

UC Davis students reach $1 million settlement with UC Davis over pepper-spray incident : Photo: Brian Nguyen/ The Aggie From the ACLU of Northern California, this just in : Attorneys for 21 UC Davis students and recent alumni have just announced the details of a million-dollar settlement in the federal class-action lawsuit filed against UC Davis over the widely-reported incident in which campus police "repeatedly doused seated, non-violent student demonstrators with military grade pepper spray at close range." That act violated state and federal constitutional protections, including the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, according to the lawsuit. "The UC Regents approved the settlement in a September 13 meeting, and the settlement documents were filed with the court today. A federal court judge must approve the settlement before it is finalized." Details, from the ACLU announcement: Terms of the Settlement The settlement was filed today wit

That's one way to stop hiccups. ~~~ Guy trying to cure friend's hiccups accidentally kills him : On Sunday evening, US Army private first class Isaac Lawrence Young, 22, was drinking and watching football with his buddies when he got the hiccups. His pal Pfc. Patrick Edward Myers, 27, pulled out a gun to scare him and cure the hiccups, but he accidentally shot Young in the face and killed him. Myers has been charged with manslaughter. ( CNN )

'Pink Panther' actor Herbert Lom dead at 95 : LONDON (AP) -- Herbert Lom, the durable Czech-born actor best known as Inspector Clouseau's long-suffering boss in the comic "Pink Panther" movies, died Thursday, his son said. He was 95....

'Today' producer angry about Lauer stories : NEW YORK (AP) -- The "Today" show's top producer on Wednesday defended Matt Lauer against stories that have portrayed the anchor as difficult to deal with during the show's slide in the ratings....

Currency War Sends Dow Higher :

Freetard-idol rock star Trent Reznor gives up, signs to major label : Hey, man, The Man has his good points When Nine Inch Nails rock star Trent Reznor decided to go into DIY music publishing in 2008, he became a freetard poster child overnight. For the project, Reznor bypassed The Man to release a long instrumental album under the NIN banner in a variety of formats: some tracks were given away for free, $5 bought you a compressed digital version, while vinyl options ranged from $10 to $300.…

Appeals Court Caves to TSA Over Nude Body Scanners : A federal appeals court on Tuesday said it was giving the Transportation Security Administration until the end of March to comport with an already 14-month-old order to "promptly" hold public hearings and take public comment concerning the so-called nude body scanners installed in U.S. airport security checkpoints. The public comments and the agency's answers to them are reviewable by a court, which opens up a new avenue for a legal challenge to the agency's decision to deploy the scanners. Critics maintain the scanners, which use radiation to peer through clothes, are threats to Americans' privacy and health, which the TSA denies.

U.S. CEO confidence tumbles to 3-year low: Roundtable : (Reuters) - U.S. chief executives' view of the economy deteriorated sharply in the third quarter and is now as bleak as it was in the immediate aftermath of the last recession, with more planning to cut jobs over the next six months, according to a survey released by the Business Roundtable on Wednesday.

No, I didn't click into the story.  Grossed out enough from just the headline. ~~~ Woman Grows a New Ear on Her Arm, Has It Attached to Her Head (Warning: Graphic) [Science] : Yep, this happened. Doctors at Johns Hopkins have attached a new ear to a patient that was grown on her own forearm. It's a medical first, and a heartwarming-if-a-little-yucky story. More »

Scientists Discover Iron Man Found by Nazis Is of Extraterrestrial Origin [Space] : No, it isn't the plot for the next Indiana Jones movie: According to a research paper published on the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science , scientists have discovered that an Iron Man sculpture found by a Nazi expedition in Tibet is of extraterrestrial origin. More »

Why We Get Motion Sickness [Video] : I'm incredibly jealous of people who can read a book while riding in a car or hang out on a boat in choppy waters or act completely normal on a plane without getting motion sickness. Those bastards. So why is it that the rest of us get motion sickness? It's an eyes and ears thing, apparently. Watch it. [ ASAP Science via Geekosystem ] More »

Is This the Most Stunning Shuttle Flyover Ever? [Image Cache] : I don't know if it's the most stunning or not—NYC was pretty awesome—but Endeavour looks absolutely magnificent flying over Los Angeles en route to LAX. The sense of scale is absolutely fantastic. What a beautiful shot. Click to see the ultra-HD version. [ APOD ] More »

Kiss Of Death : I don’t know how I missed this. Via the New York Post : Henry KISSINGER. Former secretary of state. Current savant of the state of the world. Do not argue with Mr. Kissinger’s know-how. He already knows how. Middle East horror. Democratic party dissing Jerusalem. DC’s anti-Israel mentality. Obama, busy raising re-election funds, no time for beleaguered Netanyahu. The Oval Office attitude versus the Red Line. Iran’s oath to destroy our only friend in that part of the world. Reported to me, Henry Kissinger has stated — and I quote the statement word for word: “In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.” I repeat: “In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.” My money’s on there being an Israel in 10 years time. And no Kissinger. Update : The denial .

U.S.: Assange and WikiLeaks Enemies of the State [REPORT] : The U.S. military has declared Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as enemies of the United States, the National Times reports. Legally, that's the same category the al-Qaeda terrorist network and the Taliban insurgency are listed in. What does this mean? According to the Times , military personnel who contact WikiLeaks or its supporters could be at risk of being charged with "communicating with the enemy" -- a harsh military crime that carries a maximum sentence of death. This information, the Times says, comes from declassified U.S. Air Force documents that recorded a probe of a cyber systems analyst, based in Britain, who allegedly attended pro-WikiLeaks demonstrations in London.… Continue reading...

'Sons of Anarchy' actor found dead, is murder suspect : A 28-year-old man who apparently fell to his death after allegedly fatally attacking an 81-year-old woman in a Los Feliz home was an actor who appeared in the TV show "Sons of Anarchy," sources confir

I believe the bill's name was "Giving Perennially Crappy Schools A Break". ~~~ California limits role of student tests in API scores : A new law broadens how the Academic Performance Index will be calculated. Test results will now account for just 60% of a high school's API score. California's key measure of public school quality will be redefined to lessen the impact of standardized test scores under a bill signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Jerry Brown.

And I'm sure on Sunday even these refs will make a questionable call. ~~~ NFL, officials reach agreement to end lockout : The NFL and the referees' union reached a tentative contract agreement at midnight ET Thursday, ending an impasse that began in June when the league locked out the officials and used replacements instead.

Gagne says '80 percent' of Dodgers used HGH : Former Cy Young closer Eric Gagne alleges in his new biography that 80 percent of his Los Angeles Dodgers teammates were using performance-enhancing drugs.

What? ~~~ German court upholds Catholic tax : Germany's Roman Catholics cannot remain in the Church unless they pay a membership tax, a court has ruled, siding with a new bishops' decree.

Maybe the anarchists didn't realize they were police because that first guy has his riot shield upside down. ~~~ Clashes erupt at Greece protest : Greek police fire tear gas to disperse anarchists throwing petrol bombs near Athens' parliament during a day-long strike against austerity measures.

TDW Geek: Starfleet's Least Favorite Cable Provider of the Day :

Way to Be Insensitive! :

If that's true, then Google is asleep at the controls. ~~~ Apple's maps app 'sent Google scrambling,' report claims : Google was not expecting Apple to produce its own version of a maps application so quickly, a new report claims.

Wonder if this will have any effect with Samsung's appeals. ~~~ Apple loses bid for music app icon trademark : The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office says Apple cannot have a trademark for one of its app icons, saying long-defunct iLike got there first.

US economy weaker than thought : The worst drought for 50 years is partly blamed for the downward revision to US economic growth between April and June.

Cameron first UK PM on Letterman : David Cameron is quizzed on British history and culture as he becomes the first serving UK PM to appear on the Late Show with David Letterman.

Singer Andy Williams dies aged 84 : Moon River singer Andy Williams dies at his home in Branson, Missouri, a year after being diagnosed with bladder cancer.

Microsoft Pollutes To Avoid Fines : An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's Quincy data center, physical home of Bing and Hotmail, was fined $210,000 last year because the data center used too little electricity. To avoid similar penalties for 'underconsumption of electricity' this year, the data center burned through $70,000 worth of electricity in three days." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Ford to axe 'hundreds' of jobs : US car giant Ford says it will cut several hundred jobs in Europe because of declining demand, including in the UK and Germany.

Definitely different. ~~~ Robert Smith – “Witchcraft” : Tim Burton’s 3D, stop-motion animated Frankenweenie comes out next Friday, 10/5, but one of the more intriguing elements of the film is its companion album, Frankenweenie Unleashed! , a 14-track compilation of music from and inspired by the film, which is available as of today. Among the artists included on Unleashed are Karen O, Passion Pit, and Burton muse Winona Ryder (?). Most exciting of all, though, is the Cure’s Robert Smith, another Burton muse, who does a slow, lounge-y, ultra-dramatic version of the Sinatra standard “Witchcraft.” Check it out here. Full Frankenweenie Unleashed tracklist below. Read More...

I think by then they could have their own deals for their library. ~~~ Analyst: Disney Could Be Next Big Subscription VOD Provider : Sanford C. Bernstein's Todd Juenger says the conglomerate could re-imagine its "sleepy SVOD service" once its Starz output deal ends in 2015 to unlock a "hidden treasure." read more