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Avant Hoping His Extra Work Pays Off

Vol. V No. Bethlehem - After Saturday's afternoon practice, most of the Eagles jogged back to the locker room. Others met with the media and some chose to spend time signing autographs for the fans. Jason Avant headed straight to the JUGS machine. There, Eagles ballboys used the machine - which is more commonly found in batting cages - to zip dozens of balls in Avant's direction. For about 15 minutes, the sure-handed Avant caught everything that came his way. "You just need to see the ball all the time," Avant said afterwards. "This thing is repetition. Everybody can catch in this league, it's just those who focus the longest." The extra repetition is something that was ingrained in Avant long before he arrived in Philadelphia in 2006. "It's something I always did," he said. "It's just something that you do as a football player." Now in his third NFL season, Avant realizes that he's no longer a star at the University of Michigan. He's officially in a battle just to make th...
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Internet Radio's "Last Stand"

We've been discussing the plight of Internet radio for some time, as the Copyright Royalty Board imposed royalties that industry observers predicted would prove lethal to the nascent industry. We discussed Web radio's day of silence in protest, which won the industry a reprieve, and the futile efforts to find relief in Congress. Now it's looking as if the last act is indeed close. Death Metal Maniac sends along this Washington Post story with extensive quotes from Pandora CEO Tim Westergren, who said: "The moment we think this problem in Washington is not going to get solved, we have to pull the plug because all we're doing is wasting money... We're funded by venture capital. They're not going to chase a company whose business model has been broken." The article estimates that XM Satellite Radio will pay "about 1.6 cents per hour per listener when the new rates are fully adapted in 2010. FlatCatInASlatVat writes "Kurt Hanson's Radio Internet Newsletter has an analysis of the new royal...
Originally from: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/16/1929217

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