Enhanced Live Streams on FEI TV Now Available for Mac Users

Very exciting news for all equestrian enthusiasts from FEI TV, the official video website of the Fédération Equestre Internationale launched earlier this year!

Your video viewing experience on www.feitv.org has just got better with the introduction today of flash technology. This exciting improvement enables horsesport fans using Mac software to get access to all the live broadcasts on the platform starting now. The many hours of highlights as well as the extensive video on demand archive from the world's most prestigious equestrian competitions will also be available in flash in the coming days. This switch will also significantly enhance the video quality for all viewers for both live and on demand streaming.

All FEI TV users will have the opportunity to enjoy the new service level this week as www.feitv.org will be covering the entire Alltech FEI European Jumping and Dressage Championships LIVE (geo-restrictions may apply for selected territories on certain days).

The live broadcast schedule of FEI TV for the event in Windsor from this Wednesday onwards is as follows:

Wednesday, 26 August 2009 (no geo-restrictions apply)
Dressage: FEI Grand Prix (Team & Individual): 10:30 - 13:10 CEST (08:30 - 11:10 GMT)
Dressage: FEI Grand Prix (Team & Individual): 14:15 - 18:00 CEST (12:15 - 16:00 GMT)
Jumping: Individual Competition: 21:00 - 00:30 CEST(19:00 - 22:30 GMT)

Thursday, 27 August 2009 (no geo-restrictions apply)
Dressage: FEI Grand Prix Special (Individual): 10:30 - 13:10 CEST (08:30 - 11:10 GMT)
Dressage: FEI Grand Prix Special (Individual): 14:15 - 16:55 CEST (12:15 - 14:55 GMT)
Dressage: FEI Grand Prix Special (Individual): 17:15 - 18:00 CEST (15:15 - 16:00 GMT)

Friday, 28 August 2009 (no geo-restrictions apply)
Jumping: Team & Individual Competition: 09:30 - 13:15 CEST (07:30 - 11:15 GMT)
Jumping: Team & Individual Competition: 14:00 - 14:45 CEST (12:00 - 12:45 GMT)
Jumping: Team & Individual Competition: 15:15 - 16:50 CEST (13:15 - 14:50 GMT)
Jumping: Team & Individual Competition: 17:15 - 18:00 CEST (15:15 - 16:00 GMT)

Saturday, 29 August 2009 (geo-restrictions may apply, details on www.feitv.org once confirmed)
Dressage: FEI Grand Prix Freestyle: 20:45 - 24:00 CEST (18:45 - 22:00 GMT)

Sunday, 30 August 2009 (geo-restrictions may apply, details on www.feitv.org once confirmed)
Jumping: Individual Final: 15:00 - 16:15 CEST (13:00 - 14:15 GMT)
Jumping: Individual Final: 17:10 - 19:00 CEST (15:10 - 17:00 GMT)

In addition to the live broadcasts, FEI TV will offer its users an extensive range of features such as interviews, press conferences, highlights, and behind the scenes footage.

Join www.feitv.org now and feel the excitement!

Web TV network after 100,000 viewers

Web 2.0

A new venture, described as the new Zealand's first internet TV network, is aiming to attract 100,000 regular viewers a month to its portfolio of specialist local and international channels.

Ziln, the brainchild of two local technology companies specialising in online broadcasting - e-cast and NetsideTV - is starting today with a lineup of seven New Zealand channels playing scheduled and "video on demand" programming, plus 14 international news and business channels streaming live.

TelstraClear, the country's second largest telecommunications company, is backing the venture, which it will promote through its Clearnet customer website.

Ziln marketing director Phil O'Reilly said the network had been developed "to give New Zealanders the opportunity to tailor their viewing interests and to provide another outlet for local content providers".

O'Reilly said the local channels would feature New Zealand-made content not currently provided by mainstream television - covering home design, travel, shopping, real estate, history, science and extreme sport.

The international programming includes the popular Al Jazeera news channel and business news channel Bloomberg.
They, and the other international channels will be streamed live over the site, meaning Ziln viewers will see programmes at the same time they are shown around the world through satellite and terrestrial TV broadcasts.

Ziln plans to add more channels and aims to become the country's largest online video content platform.

According to Neilson Media Research's Panorama survey, 330,000 New Zealanders watched TV online last year, up from 194,000 in 2006.

The country's two major free-to-air television broadcasters, TVNZ and MediaWorks, have been investing heavily in the screening rights, technology and promotion of online video broadcast.

Ziln is chasing the advertising opportunities associated with internet TV. It says it can offer advertisers a mix of traditional video commercials plus website banner ads and links, as well as more "interactive" ad formats such as downloadable vouchers and redeemable offers linked to the content of the channel viewers are watching.

Ziln says within six months it expects to draw in 10 per cent of New Zealand's one million broadband customers, giving it a regular audience of 100,000 viewers a month.

It plans to expand its service to include video delivery via set-top boxes and media centres, allowing viewers to watch internet TV through their television sets.

Ziln also intends to extend the service to users of iPhones and other mobile devices.

For TelstraClear, the venture is a chance to promote the use of its broadband services and showcase the potential of its super-fast hybrid fibre coaxial networks in Wellington and Christchurch.

THE ZILN LINE-UP

Live streaming channels:
Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, BVN (Holland), CCTV 9 (China), Channel News Asia (Singapore), DWTV (Germany) Euronews, RTPi (Portugal), Russia Today, TV5 Monde (France), TVE (Spain), VOA (USA), Zee News (India).

Video on Demand channels
AirsideTV, NZ Archives, Pacific TV, The Outdoors Channel, The Travel Channel, The Shopping Club, TrendsTV.

www.ziln.co.nz

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Obama to Discuss Health Reform With Faith Community By Conference call

The debate over health reform has divided Christians, who have launched campaigns both denouncing and championing the controversial legislation.
Tomorrow President Obama is expected to participate in a conference call to address the faith community's concerns about health reform. Organized by Faith in Public Life, the call is to include such leaders as Florida megachurch pastor Joel Hunter, Sojourners President Jim Wallis and Atlanta pastor Cynthia Hale.

The address, which is open to the public and will be streamed live online, comes as part of the "40 Days for Health Reform" campaign that includes a series of prayer rallies and a National Healthcare Sermon Weekend Aug. 28-30.

The effort, led by a coalition of more than 30 religious denominations and organizations, launched last week with a national television ad featuring evangelical, Catholic and mainline pastors calling for health reform. (See video at end of article.)

Meanwhile, a coalition of more than 40 pro-life leaders has released a video that claims all the pro-life gains of the last 35 years will be in jeopardy if the president's health reform plan is implemented. Although the bill does not explicitly state whether abortion would be mandated coverage under a government health system, pro-life leaders say the bill's ambiguity on the issue would eventually lead to taxpayer-funded abortion and the largest expansion of the practice since Roe v. Wade. (Click here to watch the pro-life video.)

"Without an explicit exclusion of abortion in any health care reform bill, abortion will be included," said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List in the video produced by Stop the Abortion Mandate.

Comprised of a cross-section of pro-life groups--including Focus on the Family, Concerned Women for America, TheCall and the Traditional Values Coalition--Stop the Abortion Mandate is calling on Christians to lobby their congressional representatives to oppose the legislation.

Family Research Council and Focus on the Family Action also have launched grass-roots lobbying campaigns against the bill. Since the beginning of August, tens of thousands of letters have been sent to Congress through efforts led by the American Center for Law and Justice and the Susan B. Anthony List.

Christians on both sides of the debate argue that health reform is a moral issue. Reform supporters say thousands of uninsured Americans delay care for serious illnesses or are saddled with exorbitant bills for health care.

"As pastor of an urban-core church within walking distance of major hospitals, it seemed like some people in our congregation might as well have lived 1,000 miles away from those shining institutions," said John Hay Jr., pastor of West Morris Street Free Methodist Church in Indianapolis. "They often put off a serious health problem until it reaches chronic stages and then make an emergency run. This is no way for the most blessed country in the world to treat its most vulnerable citizens."

Bill opponents argue that reforming health insurance does not have to include a government takeover of health care. In a series of commentaries opposing the "health scare" reform legislation, prophetic minister Rick Joyner said the proposed health system would lead to euthanasia and an alarming move toward socialism.

"I see doom for many people ... because this thing will end up in rationing very fast, if not immediately," said Joyner, founder of MorningStar Ministries. "Then you've got to choose, who's going to receive the health care? Who's going to receive what may save their lives? ... This is about a whole lot more than health care; it's about control."

To listen to tomorrow's call with Obama, which begins at 5 p.m. Eastern, log on to faithforhealth.org or call 347-996-5501.

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