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AIG Valic and AUL No Longer Approved
Due to new regulatory compliance requirements and the need to be as efficient as possible in administering Indiana University retirement plans, AIG Valic and AUL will no longer be approved investment companies for the IU Tax Deferred Annuity Plan (TDA Plan) effective June 1, 2009.
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Professional Development Grant Response
by Joe Hren
It was a great pleasure to attend the 2009 PBS Technology Conference. This year was the 32nd anniversary of the premiere professional development conference for traffic, operations and engineering professionals.
The opening remarks illustrated the past year of growth and many challenges. John McCoskey is the PBS Chief Technology Officer. He said, “Our core business has changed in many ways, and technology as been the enabler of nearly every one of those changes. With our new digital infrastructure we now have many opportunities to develop and grow new and exciting ways to reach viewers and users.”
PBS is leading the way in delivering national programs non-real time. Known as the NGIS project, we not only heard about the latest stages of development, we saw the system working during a special demonstration.
We also saw presentations on how PBS is using new technology to deliver our product to more people using mobile TV and websites such as Hulu.
Speaking of product, PBS previewed some key upcoming programs and we heard from the main distributors of other PBS programming and they challenges they face in delivering high quality HD programming to us over limited satellite space.
It was also a time to network with other professionals. I met Erik Costa, a TV engineer from WKYU-TV at Western Kentucky University. He mentioned how popular their radar weather service is on their multi-cast TV channel. I spoke on how we’ve been trying to work with a radar company based out of Bloomington for live radar possibilities on our station. He sent me information on how their station does live radar and the software to do it without costing almost anything at all. It will be something I’ll be looking at very soon.
Besides the presentations, it was nice to hear other stations in big cities such as Las Vegas, having the same issues and challenges we do. We’ve come a long way since last year; it will be exciting to see where we are a year from now.
