One Jump Shot at a Time ? HandsOn Corps

A family brought in a young man 12-13 years of age who was very overweight. They were signing him up for league sports. While the mother was in the office the father took him to the downstairs basketball court to meet by the league coach for his age group. After a few minutes the coach took the young man to the far end of the basketball courts gave him a basketball and begin giving him instructions.? At no time did he direct the young person to shot the ball. Instead he directed the young man to run back and forth the length of the court holding first without the basketball. The second and third time the young man was directed to first hold the ball above his head. The final time he was directed to hold the basketball chest high and run. The coach watched very closely as the young man ran. With each direction the coach demonstrated and explained the reasons for the directions and exercise.? Between each exercise the coach gave the young man time to catch his breath while explaining the next exercise. The mother joined the father at the far end of the court. Both watched as their son listen and followed the directions of the coach, a volunteer coach.

There?s an afterschool program going on at the other end of the building. Both are housed in the Adamsville Recreational Center. The afterschool program is the first stage of Atlanta?s Mayor Reed?s Center of Hope program at Adamsville. The Adamsville and Thomasville Heights Centers are the first two pilot Center of Hope pilots. Under his leadership recreation centers throughout Atlanta were reopened returning to former activities like sports leagues. Each center provides some form of after school academic support. The mayor?s plan is to make all recreational facilities Centers of Hope with each center expanding volunteers to support academic and character enrichment programming for Atlanta?s inner city youth.

Recreation centers have a rich history of volunteer recruitment and involvement without which many sports leagues would fall by the waste side. Indeed, based on my observations here at Hands of Atlanta, volunteerism is the marrow of Georgian?s life.?

Watching that volunteer coach working with one on one with the young soon to be basketball player demonstrated to me the possibilities that lay ahead in my service to bring volunteers to the after school program.? One day I hope to look in a classroom to see one volunteer, among many working one to one with one young person on spelling, or addition, or subtraction or division or reading or life.?

Gail Ortega

HandsOn Corps VISTA: HandsOn Atlanta

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Netflix's monthly video streaming tops 1B hours

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2011 file photo, the exterior of Netflix headquarters is seen in Los Gatos, Calif. Netflix subscribers watched more than 1 billion hours of online video last month, a significant milestone that reflects changes in people's viewing habits in the era of mobile devices. It comes as the company tries to wean customers off a DVD service that is more expensive to operate. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2011 file photo, the exterior of Netflix headquarters is seen in Los Gatos, Calif. Netflix subscribers watched more than 1 billion hours of online video last month, a significant milestone that reflects changes in people's viewing habits in the era of mobile devices. It comes as the company tries to wean customers off a DVD service that is more expensive to operate. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Netflix subscribers watched more than 1 billion hours of online video last month as the advent of high-speed Internet connections and high-powered mobile devices change people's viewing habits.

The milestone announced Tuesday by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings came a day after Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney issued an upbeat report about the company's future. Those factors helped lift Netflix's stock by more than 6 percent in Tuesday's abbreviated trading session.

The stock is still struggling to recover from last fall's sharp increase in U.S. prices, which triggered a backlash among customers and investors alike. Netflix shares gained $4.19 Tuesday to close at $72.04, well off their peak of nearly $305 last July.

The rising usage of Netflix's Internet video service may turn out to be a mixed blessing as the company phases out its DVD-by-mail rental service to focus on its goal of building a lucrative franchise in Internet-streamed video.

Netflix is trying to wean people off DVDs to save on mailing costs and reduce its investment on a format that it expects to become obsolete. Delivering Internet video is quicker and less expensive than discs, but the streaming selection isn't as extensive as what's available on DVDs. To compensate, Netflix has been spending tens of millions of dollars during the past two years to add more compelling titles.

Netflix's increasing popularity indicates that those efforts are resonating with subscribers. That's important because it helps validate a strategy that called for Netflix Inc. to invest heavily in video-licensing fees, even though the spending is expected to saddle the company with an annual loss this year ? the first time that has happened in a decade.

But Netflix's licensing bill could climb even higher, if TV and movie studios interpret the growing streaming viewership as a threat to the revenue they reap from advertising-supported entertainment bundled in cable-television packages.

One of the biggest reasons that Netflix's streaming service is catching on is because it costs just $8 per month to watch an unlimited amount of video without commercial interruptions. The average cable-TV subscription costs about 10 times more, with advertising interspersed with the programming on most channels. Netflix now has 26.5 million worldwide subscribers to its streaming service, more than the 22.3 million TV subscribers at the leading cable provider, Comcast Corp.

Hastings has tried to position Netflix as a supplement to cable-TV subscriptions, but that argument will become more difficult to make as Internet streaming cuts down the amount of time people spend watching traditional TV, Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said.

In the most extreme instances, some households have canceled their cable packages entirely ? a process known as "cutting the cord" ? and relied on a lower-cost alternatives such as Netflix or another service such as Hulu.

"Netflix is starting to cannibalize cable-TV viewership and it could start cannibalizing advertising, too," Pachter said. If that happens, he expects Netflix's licensing fees to rise even higher than the company has been anticipating as studios try to make up for the revenue they lose from cable providers and advertising-supported broadcasters.

The 1 billion hours of online viewing in June works out to a monthly average of about 38 hours per streaming subscriber. That's up from an estimated monthly average of 28 hours in December, based on the 2 billion hours of combined streaming activity that occurred during the final three months of last year. That was the most recent time that Netflix had quantified its streaming usage.

Mahaney's report said that more than one-third of Netflix's streaming subscribers watch about as many TV series as they do movies over the Internet.

That trend also could reinforce the perception that Netflix looms as a threat to the cable-TV industry.

Hastings, though, has insisted that Netflix helps drive more viewers to some series by making it easier for people to catch up on previous seasons. He believes the availability of the first four seasons of "Mad Men" in Netflix's streaming library, for instance, helped increase viewership for new episodes on AMC this past spring.

Internet video appears to be making Netflix less vulnerable to seasonal shifts than it had been when most of its subscribers used the service to rent DVDs. The company used to experience a slowdown during the summer months when many subscribers were on vacation or spending more time outside to take advantage of the longer days.

Breaking through 1 billion streaming hours in June suggests that pattern is changing now that most subscribers can watch a movie or TV show on the service anywhere they want at any time they want, as long as they have a device with an Internet connection.

As of March 31, Netflix had just 2.7 million customers who subscribed only to the DVD rental plan. About 19.1 million are streaming-only customers and the remaining 7.4 million get both.

Mahaney's report estimated that 35 percent of iPad owners watched a Netflix-delivered video in June, up from 30 percent in September. Netflix consistently ranks among the 20 most downloaded applications on the iPad.

As more Netflix subscribers embrace streaming, Mahaney expects the rate of customer cancellations to decline and the positive word-of-mouth to win over more households, especially those that own iPads and other tablet computers. He predicts Netflix's stock could rebound back to $130.

Pachter believes his fears about Netflix having to pay even higher licensing fees will pan out, forcing the company to either raise its prices or shoulder more losses. He expects shares of Netflix, which is based in Los Gatos, Calif., to fall as low as $45.

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Photo tips for a sparkling Fourth of July

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Suzanne Kantra , Techlicious

Heading out with the family for July 4th fireworks celebrations is a time-honored tradition. And, if you're like me, you enjoy capturing those memories in pictures. But photographing fireworks with no camera shake and proper exposure is difficult, unless you know these simple tricks:

1. Use a tripod
When you take picture of fireworks, the camera needs to hold the shutter open long enough to ?see? the fireworks. The longer the shutter is open, the more susceptible your photo is to motion blur. So use a tripod to make sure there?s no movement. For open areas, use a stand-alone model with telescoping legs like the Dolica AX620B100 Proline($38.40). A more mobile option is the Joby GorillaPod($12.30), which can wrap around trees and poles or stand up on the ground.

2. Use the ?fireworks? scene mode
Most point-and-shoot cameras have a button or dial with ?SCN? or ?Scene? on it. Otherwise you?ll find it under the ?menu? button. When you put your camera in scene mode, a list of the available modes will pop up on screen. Select the one that looks like a spray of fireworks and/or says "fireworks."

Most cameras sold today have a "fireworks" mode. Some models I recommend include the GE Smart J1470S (an affordable 14MP camera with a 7x lens, $105.29), Nikon Coolpix AW100 (an extremely rugged 16MP camera, $289.95) and the Canon PowerShot S100 (a 12MP camera with a superfast f/2 lens for great low light photography, $363.95).

You can find all of my recommended cameras in our Digital Camera Buying Guide.

3. If your camera doesn?t have a ?fireworks? scene mode, put it in ?landscape? mode

Your camera automatically tries to find an object on which to focus. And when presented with a black featureless sky, the camera doesn?t know what to do. By putting your camera in ?landscape? mode, you?ll be presetting the focus to infinity and narrowing the lens opening, which keeps both near and far objects?in focus.

4. Turn off the flash
Turning your flash off will let the camera?know that it?only has available light to take a picture. This is important?because the camera will then keep the shutter open long enough to capture the fireworks. The flash button is usually a separate button on the back of the camera. On some cameras, you can?t turn off the flash unless you put it in a scene mode or program mode (P).

5. Turn down the ISO
High ISO will crank up the sensitivity of the camera so it can see details in the dark. However, the fireworks themselves are quite bright. So, to avoid overexposure and reduce film noise, take your camera out of Auto ISO and change the setting to ISO 100 or even lower. The ISO setting is usually found under the main menu. You may have to put your camera in program mode to change this setting.

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