MTN Grants Lifetime Achievement Award To ... - Satellite PR News

The CEO and president of MTN Satellite Communications (MTN), Errol Olivier, granted a Lifetime Achievement Award to Richard Hadsall at the company?s February 22 employee town hall.

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Richard Hadsall, chief technology officer of MTN Government Services, pioneered the first C-band and Ku-band satellite broadband communications (TV, voice and data) at sea in the 1980s. Thanks to Hadsall?s innovation, today MTN delivers critical satellite and terrestrial communications to most of the world?s cruise lines. In addition, hundreds of yachts, commercial oil & gas vessels, and government ships, aircraft, vehicles and facilities around the world benefit from MTN connectivity.

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In 1981, Richard Hadsall founded the company that created what is today MTN?s teleport in Holmdel, N.J. That teleport was a communications center that made it possible for networks such as ABC, NBC, CNN; foreign broadcasters; and heads of the U.S. Government, Military and Embassies to report live events across the world for the first time. The company partnered to build the first maritime antenna operating in Ku-Band to be used on the U.S. Navy?s LPH-2 USS Iwo Jima. This enabled the first tactical full motion Ku-Band satellite video broadcast terminal at sea for surveillance and press pool support in the Persian Gulf.

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Hadsall received a 2011 Emmy Award for Technology & Engineering for creating for NBC an MTN-retrofitted Ford F350 vehicle with live TV and satellite transmission to continuously broadcast reports from Iraq. He enabled the first-ever live broadcast capabilities for ABC?s Good Morning America Whistle Stop Tour from a moving train. And he engineered the first live broadcast from a submarine submerged below the Atlantic Ocean.

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?Richard Hadsall not only created our company, and its spirit of innovation and service excellence, but the entire maritime VSAT (very small aperture terminal) sector in satellite communications,? said Errol Olivier. ?He is known for pioneering new technologies that become long-standing solutions. His passion and dedication set the tone at MTN, and this award gives us a proud moment to celebrate with the broader maritime industry and community.?

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About MTN

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MTN today is the leading global provider of maritime communications, connectivity and content services to remote locations around the world. MTN was the first company to offer a stabilized VSAT satellite solution for ships at sea, which has contributed to the evolution of the satellite industry over the past three decades. Through MTN?s reliable global communications network and expertise, the company continues to deliver solutions across various markets while addressing the unique challenges and needs for each. Today, MTN offers services and solutions to cruise lines, ferries, commercial ships, mobile and fixed oil and gas vessels, mega yachts and government entities. MTN delivers and supports a broad array of integrated turnkey services, including remote access for Internet, VoIP, voice services, remote IT management, global vessel tracking, bandwidth optimization, real-time video capabilities, crew calling and other enterprise solutions. The company has a major development program underway for its next-generation network, MTN Nexus(TM). MTN Nexus will revolutionize the way people communicate at sea by combining a maritime developed network, platform and products. For more information, visit www.mtnsat.com.

Source: http://www.satprnews.com/2013/02/27/mtn-grants-lifetime-achievement-award-to-the-pioneer-of-broadband-communications-at-sea/

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U.S. college fraternity raises money for member's partial sex change

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - A college fraternity in Massachusetts has launched a campaign to raise money for one of its members to undergo partial sex-change surgery, a college official said on Wednesday.

Donnie Collins, 20, a sophomore at Emerson College in Boston, was born female but has been living as a male since he was 17, said Jason Meier, the college's director of student activities.

When Collins, a visual media arts major, pledged the Phi Alpha Tau fraternity earlier this year, he told fraternity brothers his insurance would not cover the cost of surgery to remove his breasts, Meier said.

"The men rallied behind him," Meier said, launching an online campaign to raise about $8,000 (5,274 pounds) to pay for the so-called upper body procedure.

Collins was born with, and still has, female genitalia but identifies as a man, according to Meier. He has not had other sex change-related surgeries, he said.

The campaign has raised more than $17,000, and the fraternity plans to donate additional funds to the Jim Collins Foundation, a group that provides financial assistance for transgender surgeries. There is no relation between Donnie and Jim Collins.

In an interview with WBZ-TV in Boston, Collins said the operation would consist of a double mastectomy.

"I guess I don't think of it as a sex change," he said. "I think of it more as just making my body congruent with how I think of myself."

Collins could not be immediately reached by Reuters.

(Editing by Paul Thomasch and Ellen Wulfhorst)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-college-fraternity-raises-money-members-partial-sex-012036042.html

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Grae Drake followed the yellow brick road all the way to the El Capitan theater in Los Angeles to talk to the enormous cast of Oz the Great and Powerful in theaters March 8th.

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HBT: Minor leaguer talks about PED pressure

While most of you like to call me a steroids apologist, the fact of the matter is that I am not pro-steroids. I am anti-hysteria and distortion. I am also against a baseball writing community that overwhelmingly thinks that the most worrisome and therefore most newsworthy aspect of PEDs in baseball is what it means for the record books and the Hall of Fame when there are far more important implications of PED use.

If you don?t believe me, allow me to quote myself from April 2007 ? the very month I began blogging about baseball on a regular basis. It was around that time ? months before the Mitchell Report came out ? that Kirk Radomski was making news and the names of some marginal players to whom he dealt were coming out. ?I opined then that, once we know more about PEDs in baseball, we?ll see that it?s likely a bigger problem among those marginal players ? the guys trying to crack the bigs or hang on; the 26th man in the organization who feels he need that extra oomph ? than it is among superstars:

I don?t say this in an effort to minimize the steroid problem. Indeed, minor?leaguers?and players who aren?t superstars constitute the vast majority of professional ballplayers. If my theory holds, the problem could be far greater than that which is portrayed by sportswriters who like to caricature only the most prolific sluggers as juicers. If I?m right, our concern over records and the Hall of Fame would seem pretty petty in comparison to the scores of regular?Joes?who are ruining their health as they walk the line between a lifetime of comfort and a?job at a warehouse. Players that the steroid moralizers in the media almost uniformly ignore.

Now, I got a few things wrong back then, of course. I probably underestimated the number of superstars who used PEDs and I hilariously lumped Alex Rodriguez in with the non-users because that?s the best information anyone had back then. But I think the dynamic still holds: it?s a way, way bigger moral problem for a marginal player to feel like he has no choice but to take steroids than it is ?for an already great baseball player to feel like he should take steroids to break some records.

This doesn?t mean that the superstars aren?t cheaters if they take PEDs and it doesn?t mean that they shouldn?t be held to account. What I?m getting at is that, in the great baseball conversation about PEDs, we should not care nearly as much as we do about records and legacies and we should care far more about what PEDs are doing down at the lower levels of baseball. ?We should spill way less ink about who we think ?the real Home Run King? is ? as if that matters ? and think way harder about those frequent minor league suspensions and what they mean to the people who are faced with the choice to take dangerous drugs or wind up out of baseball.

Against that backdrop is this excellent column from Eric Knott. Knott pitched 11 years in the minors and 24 games in the majors. He is the quintessential borderline guy who, if he had an extra couple of miles per hour on his heater, may have stuck. ?But he didn?t get those miles per hour, and he didn?t try PEDs in an effort to do so.

Knott gives a fascinating, clear-eyed and detailed rundown of the environment in baseball during the height of the Steroid Era, as well as what factored into his decisions about whether to use.

It?s an absolute must-read. There?s more useful information in this piece than anything that can be found in the Mitchell Report or the latest bombastic anti-PEDs screen from Johnny Sportswriter.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/26/must-click-link-a-career-minor-leaguer-talks-about-the-ped-pressure-felt-by-the-non-superstars/related/

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