Ryan Murphy, Shawn Ryan Toast FX at Paley Center Honors

The Paley Center for Media honored FX Networks on Wednesday with a star-studded event that showcased the cable network's critically acclaimed catalog of hits including The Shield, Sons of Anarchy and American Horror Story.

The evening -- during which FX was awarded the Paley prize for Innovation & Excellence -- drew high-profile News Corp. names, such as Rupert Murdoch, Chase Carey, Peter Rice, Dana Walden and Gary Newman, among others. Joining them was an impressive collection of FX talent, with the casts of The League, Archer, American Horror Story: Coven and Justified mingling with that of The Shield, the Shawn Ryan cop drama that put FX on the map. (Louie and The Americans were both in production in New York, while much of Kurt Sutter's Sons of Anarchy talent was busy shooting.)

Aisha Tyler (Archer), Paul Scheer (The League), Kathy Bates (Coven) and Walter Goggins (Justified) took turns at the dias to honor their boss, John Landgraf, CEO of FX Networks, which added FXX to the portfolio in September. Bates, who with co-star Angela Bassett flew out from the New Orleans set of Coven for the event, used the platform to highlight the quality of the actors as well as the writers lured to the network group, which has garnered 64 Emmy and Golden Globe nominations and 14 wins.

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"John Landgraf is the unique television executive who believes the creative drives the business rather than the reverse. I don't know of anyone who in his position who is more supportive of artists, who respects them, demands of them their best work and then gives them every resource they need to achieve it than John does," Ryan said in introducing the executive. "There is a trust with him because he possesses something that can occasionally be hard to find in this town: honestly. I know many people suspect John is the smartest guy in TV but I know without question he is the most honest guy in the business."

He continued: "FX, under his leadership doesn't just have a brain, it has a heart and soul and for that reason he is my nominee to be the first-ever mayor of television. I hope you get that job one day." In touting Landgraf's strengths, Ryan pointed out a mix of critical and commercial triumphs, including leading the network to new heights in viewership, creating FX Productions and more than tripling the network's original programming output. He wrapped up his time on stage by joking that a notes call with Landgraf can last as long 45 minutes, with references often laced throughout that will span from The Rockford Files to King Lear.

The evening included a two-song performance by Sons star Katey Sagal and her band, the Forest Rangers, as well as opening remarks by Coven co-creator Ryan Murphy, who recently was honored with the Paley Center's Icon Award. Murphy noted that FX Networks is donating complete scenes of many of its original programming to form a special FX Legacy Collection within the Paley Center's archive. The hour-long program featured clips from several shows currently on FX's schedule as well as in the network's library, including Terriers and Damages. The outdoor event space on 20th Century FX lot was adorned with posters from many of the series as well.

Said Landgraf of the Paley honor: "Through the power of story, we're each able to move beyond the myopic limits of our individual lives and to touch the entire breadth of the viewing experience. While most of us don't love every image that enters our homes through the medium of television, all of us love and have been profoundly touched by many things that TV has had to offer."

The honor comes as Landraf approaches his decade mark with the network group, which added comedy net FXX in September. He joined the News Corp.-owned cable network as president of entertainment in early 2004, when Shield and Murphy's Nip/Tuck were early in their collective runs. He brought with him experience as a producer (as president of Jersey Television with Danny DeVito) and, before that, as a network executive at NBC during The West Wing and Friends era. In the nine years since, Landgraf, a known risk-taker who has risen to the role of CEO, has lorded over an expansive portfolio that ranges from gritty drama Sons to raw comedy Louie.

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Don’t Call It a Shutdown: How the Crisis Could Still Come Back to Bite Democrats (Atlantic Politics Channel)

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Obama to speak on Thursday about path ahead on fiscal issues

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will deliver a statement on Thursday at 10:35 a.m. (1435 GMT) about the need for Democrats and Republicans to work together on fiscal issues following the 11th hour deal in Congress that ended a 16-day government shutdown and averted a debt default.

"I'll have more to say about this tomorrow, and I've got some thoughts about how we can move forward in the remainder of the year, stay focused on the job at hand," Obama said on Wednesday, after the Senate approved the deal.

(Reporting by Roberta Rampton; editing by Jackie Frank)

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The Captain Hall of Fame: Phillips, Kirk, Sparrow and More

2:44 PM PDT 10/16/2013 by Shawn Kotzen, Chris Godley

Whether it be on an ocean-cutting schooner, a galaxy-traveling spaceship, or, most recently, a hijacked merchant vessel, pop culture has always been enamored with these heroic figures. Here's a gallery of brave commanders with wind on their backs and eyes fixed on the next port of call.

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  Captain Phillips

  
  

  Back in April 2009, Richard Philips was the captain of the Merchant Vessel Maersk Alabama when it was attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia. The ship was boarded by four machine gun-carrying hijackers, but the crew somehow managed to fight them off, forcing them to leave the ship empty-handed. However, it turned out to be a Pyrrhic victory, as Captain Phillips was captured by the pirates as they fled and held hostage on a lifeboat. Three days later, Phillips was freed and four years after that his harrowing ordeal was adapted into a thinking person's action film, directed by Paul Greengrass (United 93, The Bourne Ultimatum and The Bourne Supremacy) and starring Tom Hanks.

  
  
  
  


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  Captain Kirk

  
  

  James Tiberius Kirk is the captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise – a starship in the fictional Starfleet, which exists in Gene Rodenberry’s Star Trek universe. Kirk was born in Iowa in the year 2233 and led the Enterprise and their beloved crew on countless expeditions and adventures -- “boldly going where no man has gone before.” Unforgettably portrayed by William Shatner in the original Star Trek television show, as well as seven Star Trek films and numerous other endeavors, the character was most recently played by Chris Pine in J.J. Abrams’ 2009 Star Trek reboot, as well as this year’s sequel Star Trek Into Darkness.

  
  
  
  


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  Captain America

  
  

  This Marvel superhero was created in the World War II era by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby and has taken on everyone from Adolf Hitler to the Red Skull to Saddam Hussein. Recently thrust back into the Hollywood limelight, courtesy of a pair of films starring Chris Evans – 2010’s Captain America: The First Avenger and the upcoming Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Cap can also be seen in 2012’s Marvel's The Avengers and the upcoming The Avengers: Age of Ultron.

  
  
  
  


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  Captain Han Solo

  
  

  This vest-wearing, Greedo-blasting, Wookiee-lovin’ Corellian rebel is one of the most beloved and well-known science fiction characters, ranked number 14 on the American Film Institutes’ list of “Greatest Film Heroes” and number 4 on the list of “Greatest Movie Character of All Time” by Empire magazine. Created by George Lucas and brought to life by Harrison Ford, Solo traveled the Star Wars universe in the Millennium Falcon and was also responsible for making the “Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs,” lest you forget.

  
  
  
  


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  Captain Hook

  
  

  The nasty leader of a boat full of dirty pirates, Jim Hook likes to spend his days sailing around the seas of the fictional Neverland realm, searching for his nemesis Peter Pan and his wily group of Lost Boy buds. Possessing the prophetic surname of Hook, he saw his greatest fears come to fruition after Peter lopped off his hand and fed it to a crocodile, who has had a taste for Jim and followed him around ever since. This epic literary character has been immortalized by Hollywood in countless projects – including Disney’s 1953 animated classic Peter Pan and played by Dustin Hoffman in 1991’s Hook and Jason Isaacs in 2003’s live action version.

  
  
  
  


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  Captain Jack Sparrow

  
  

  In a lifetime of memorable cinematic achievements, Captain Jack Sparrow might be Johnny Depp’s most famous film role. Stealing the show in all four movies in the Pirates of the Caribbean quadrilogy (soon to return in Part 5), this dreadlock-sporting scurvy dog with a gold tooth and Keith Richards accent managed to get eaten by a mythical sea beast, escape Davy Jones’ Locker AND find the Fountain of Youth ... without spilling a drop of rum. This character and Depp’s likeness will forever be immortalized, as they now bid buccaneers farewell on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney parks.

  
  
  
  


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  Captain Kangaroo

  
  

  The title character of a weekday morning children’s show, which aired from 1955 to 1984, the Captain (who was played and conceived by Bob Keeshan) was a pioneer in the creation of kids-themed morning television shows and a certified pop culture icon. He wore a signature red coat with big pockets – hence the name Captain Kangaroo. After a short hiatus, the show was reformatted in 1985 and ran again until 1993, giving the Captain and company 38 seasons of quality children’s television programming. Keeshan passed away in 2004 at age 76.

  
  
  
  


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  Captain Nemo

  
  

  Nemo is the brilliant yet misunderstood villain from Jules Verne’s timeless sci-fi novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. He's also the captain of the menacing and monstrous-looking submarine the Nautilus, and the son of an Indian Raja who roamed the seas looking for blood and vengeance on the British Empire. But much like Ahab, he found some ornery sea life instead, in the form of a giant squid. Portrayed by a myriad of actors (James Mason, Michael Caine and Ben Cross – just to name a few) in countless remakes of Verne’s classic tale, the character was even immortalized in Alan Moore’s comic book (and the 2003 film adaptation) series, The League of Extraordinary Gentleman.

  
  
  
  


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  Captain Caveman

  
  

  This furry little club-wielding cartoon character from the 1970s and '80s was created by Hanna-Barbera and was originally paired with a trio of crime-solving girls called the Teen Angels. Voiced by the one-of-a-kind Mel Blanc, “Cavey” was known for uttering the nonsensical phrase “unga bunga,” speaking in “caveman talk” and yelling his name at the top of his lungs when he was ready for action. Everybody: “CAPTAIN ... CAAAAVEMAAAAN!!!!”

  
  
  
  


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  Captain Ahab

  
  

  The crazed seafarer from Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick, whose obsession with a big white whale ended up costing him more than his leg in the end. Melville’s tale of revenge and madness has been adapted into countless movies, made-for-TV movies and even a musical over the years, with William Hurt’s portrayal in Encore’s $25-million cable television miniseries in 2011 the most recent.

  
  
  
  


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  Captain Jean-Luc Picard

  
  

  Born in France in 2305, Jean-Luc Picard was Captain Kirk’s predecessor as head of the Starship U.S.S. Enterprise. Famously portrayed by English thespian Patrick Stewart in his breakout performance, Picard led the Enterprise and her crew through seven seasons of interstellar adventure (from 1987 to 1994) on Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as four films and an appearance on the pilot episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

  
  
  
  


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  Captain Planet

  
  

  “By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet!” An eco-friendly superhero who had his own cartoon in the 1990s called Captain Planet and the Planeteers, this blue-skinned, green mullet-sporting, ancient champion of justice would travel around modern-day Earth, with his five ring-wearing Planeteers, and fight pollution, toxic waste, smog, etc... There aren’t too many “powers” he doesn’t possess, of which include shape-shifting, flying (even through space!) and telepathy. In June of this year, Sony Pictures announced that a live-action Captain Planet movie was in the works. The power is yours, moviegoers.

  
  
  
  


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  Captain Spaulding

  
  

  Initially made famous by Groucho Marx in the 1930 film Animal Crackers, where Marx played Captain Jeffery T. Spaulding – the famous explorer and adventurer. The name was later used by filmmaker Rob Zombie as a character in both 2003’s House of 1000 Corpses and 2005’s The Devil’s Rejects, where James Cutter (deliciously played by Sid Haig) is the deranged, psychopathic patriarch of the murderous Firefly family. That is, when he’s not calling himself Captain Spaulding, wearing clown makeup, and slinging fried chicken and tickets to his infamous “Murder Ride.”

  
  
  
  


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  Captain Steve Zissou

  
  

  Created by director Wes Anderson, along with screenwriter Noah Baumbach, and brought to life by a surprisingly melancholy Bill Murray, this oceanographer- documentarian, from 2004's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, is a moody mixture of Captain Ahab, Jacques Cousteau, Captain Nemo, Ernest Hemingway and Quint from Jaws ... with a little bit of Murray's sarcastic wit thrown in. Captain of a research vessel called the Belafonte, Zissou and his eccentric crew members encounter everything from pirates, familial issues and the choppy seas of love while on their quest to capture the deadly and enigmatic "Jaguar shark."

  
  
  
  


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  Captain Stubing

  
  

  He was known as "Your Captain” on Aaron Spelling’s ode to the cruise ship crowd – the hour-long TV comedy, The Love Boat. Played by Gavin McLeod, Merrill Stubing served as the ship’s Captain for all ten seasons on ABC, in addition to three made-for-TV movies, from 1976 to 1986. At this exact moment, you’re probably just getting into that addictive opening theme song. No? Well, you are now. Climb aboard...

  
  
  
  


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  The Sea Captain

  
  

  Yarr! Sporting a peg leg, a corncob pipe and a glass eye (possibly even two!), this recurring character on Fox’s The Simpsons is a stereotypical pirate and owns one of Springfield’s most popular seafood restaurants, The Frying Dutchman. Despite his nickname, Horatio McCallister is not an official sea captain and has attempted numerous business ventures in the past, such as releasing an album full of sea shanties and starting up a school for pet lobsters. Voiced by Hank Azaria, who provides the voice for many of Springfield’s citizens.

  
  
  
  


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Netflix, Disney Strike Netherlands Deal for Films in Pay TV Window

"The Avengers" is among the Disney titles Netflix will have exclusively for the Dutch pay-TV market.

COLOGNE, Germany – Netflix has signed a deal with Walt Disney Studios that gives the online VOD service exclusive pay-TV rights in the Netherlands for all animated and live action films Disney releases in the territory.

The multi-year deal, which kicks off in early 2014, includes both new and library product and features titles from all of Disney's studios.

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Highlights include Marvel's The Avengers, Pixar's Monsters University and Disney's The Lone Ranger, as well as back-catalogue titles including The Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Wall-E and Ratatouille. ABC television productions, including episodes of Lost, are also part of the Dutch deal.

The deal is a boost to Netflix's nascent Dutch operations, which launched last month, and a blow to the two major Dutch pay-TV broadcasters, Chellomedia’s Film1 and HBO. It is the first time Disney has picked an online provider over an established pay-TV broadcaster in the territory.

If successful, the agreement could signal a major shift in Europe, where the rollout of VOD services, such as Netflix, has lagged behind that of the United States.

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Funds for iOS lets you get a glimpse of where your money goes, tracks what you're saving

Funds for iOS is a minimalist budget app that allows you to input how much you earn and how much you spend. From there, you can see a simple breakdown of what percentage of your income goes to different expenses as well as how much you're saving each month.

There isn't anything complicated or advanced about Funds but it does effectively provide an overall picture of your financial situation. Once you've told Funds how much you make and what your fixed expenses each month are, you're given an idea as to how you're doing. The color scheme will even change given how much you've got left to budget for the rest of the month.

Sliding to the right over any expense or income item will delete it from Funds. Slide to the left and you can quickly view what percentage of your overall income is being allocated to that type of expense. Tapping the menu button in the bottom right will show you a graph view of the same data.

Funds isn't over complicated by any means but what it can do is give a good overall snapshot of your current financial situation. That means you can make some educated decisions moving forward about what you should and can cut back on to save more money. If you're having issues saving money or can't quite pinpoint where your money is going, Funds can help you figure that out.

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