Video content has become available on an increasingly diverse set of devices and from an ever growing number of sources, creating a vast amount of choice for viewers. At the same time, the varying methods of viewing, interacting with, and sharing content have diverged. This paper introduces neXtream, a new approach to delivering video by integrating multiple devices, content sources, and social networks. This concept is developed following research in social television and converged applications, providing both personalization features and social interaction. NeXtream delivers video by dynamically generating streams of video customized to a viewer, while facilitating a common dialog between users around the content, creating both a user-and community-centric viewing experience. NeXtream integrates smartphones, PCs, and TVs to deliver video content to viewers. The paper presents the system concept, theory, and architecture, and describes the developed prototype.

News content extends well beyond the scope of a single medium: video, audio, text, interactive experiences, and social sharing all contribute to an individual's understanding and experience of content. While some content that exists across media can supplement other forms, such as an interactive feature accompanying a text-based article, other content might replicate information and therefore be redundant to a consumer. This paper introduces Newstream, a novel approach to navigating news-based content across a variety of media sources. Building off of prior work, neXtream, Newstream can craft specialized experiences that both facilitate common dialogs within social networks and allow users to dynamically move across various mediums, controlling levels of depth based on interest while avoiding repetition. Newstream integrates multiple devices and networks to maintain unified back-end knowledge about each user.

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T he April issue of the Journal of Learning Disabilities (JLD) contained several speculative statements and scenarios concerning recent actions of the Board of Trustees of the Division for Children with Learning Disabilities (DCLD). In the interest of DCLDs integrity, it is necessary that the record be set straight. To this end six topics are discussed in this response-five of which have been extracted from the set of articles in JLD. These are: (a) the matter of affiliate status for DCLD, (b) the methods of communication in the Division, (c) the suitability of the name of the organization, (d) the corporate status and location of DCLD, (e) the DCLD election process, and (0 the real and substantive issues to which In the April issue of JLD, a primary concern of the writers focused on the question of affiliate status for DCLD. In this section, the facts regarding affiliation are presented in terms of background information and current status of this question. Background Information DCLD is one of twelve divisions within the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). These divisions are organized around special interest areas, e.g., mental retardation, emotional disturbance, early childhood, career education, gifted, etc. In order to belong to a