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The Walking Dead Season 3, Episode 13 recap.
I'm having my issues with this season, but I enjoyed the hell out of last week's episode. It was everything good about The Walking Dead, answering the age-old question "whatever happened to Morgan, anyway", and it proved that the show is at its best when it's on the move. I'm sorry it's more expensive, AMC executives, but The Walking Dead just works better when the characters are on the road. Suck it up.
And now we're back to the prison vs. Woodbury, which is still a thing because Andrea is the worst person since Lori and didn't follow through on killing the Governor in his sleep.
You know on Revenge, how stupid Jack has that zombie dog that has somehow miraculously survived from his childhood until he's like, 30? Well The Walking Dead has cars that run on a magical, never-ending supply of gas. They go on raids for food and weapons, but no one ever mentions gas.
Daryl and Rick are out doing their badass thing.
Herschel has a stump-gun. Gross.
Oh-ho. Rick and the Governor meet face to face. They're going to have a sit-down and hash things out. Somehow, I think this will be much less cool than Raylan Givens' idea of hashing things out.
The Governor's idea of removing his weapon is to actually remove his weapon. Rick's idea of removing his weapon is to put it away. Which is a good idea, because the Governor has a gun taped to the table anyway.
Meanwhile, Andrea shows up with Mengele and some Woodbury folk—they're surprised the Governor is already there.
Aw, Andrea still thinks they can talk this out. She's too stupid to live.
I think it's hilarious when people try to square off with Daryl, especially nerds like Mengele. Rick excepted, Daryl is the toughest dog in this fight.
Merle is all, let's just go kill the Governor now, since we know where he is. Merle continues to have the best ideas out of anyone.
Glenn makes a good point, that a surprise attack would likely get Rick et al killed. But Merle does not like being so far down the food chain. I bet he goes running back to Woodbury.
Rick proposes a boundary line but the Governor is unreasonable. He also casually dismisses Andrea's authority and yet she continues to not change sides. Poor, dumb Andrea.
The Governor and Rick sit down to measure their dicks.
The Governor has that natural politician's streak, but Rick was a cop and he runs their discussion like an interrogation. The Governor throws Judith probably being Shane's baby in Rick's face—GodDAMN it, Andrea, can you not keep your mouth SHUT?—but Rick doesn't react. The Governor thinks Rick is underestimating him, dismissing him as the "town drunk", but I think it's the other way around. He thinks Rick is little more than a rabid dog, but don't forget which one of them has been hacking and chopping his way through hell for the last year while the other sat (relatively) cushy in a town.
How cute—Mengele is writing a history.
Woodbury Guy vs. Daryl in a zombie-kill-off. It's a draw—they're both pretty good at it.
Daryl: [Holds out a cigarette.]
Woodbury Guy: Eh, I prefer menthols.
Daryl: Douchebag.
Woodbury Guy's wife and kids got eaten by zombies. He and Daryl bond over the inevitability that they're going to end up fighting while Herschel and Mengele bond over Herschel's stump. Mengele wants to see it. Herschel's like—no, creepy.
So the Governor doesn't want to negotiate peace because he thinks he'll look weak in front of his townspeople for not avenging Rick's violent foray into Woodbury. Here's my problem with this episode—no matter how good the writing/acting, and they're both solid, we already know all these motivations and points of view. We're just treading water. Sixteen episodes is too many.
The Governor's wife died in an accident and he had a sh-tty job before the zombie apocalypse. This is why he's such a dick now, I suppose.
And yep, there's Merle trying to leave. Glenn fights with him, it turns into a melee. And Luna Lovegood is the one to break it up. Ha!
Somehow, the Governor assaulting Maggie is the straw that breaks Andrea's back. Not him pitting Daryl and Merle against one another in the zombie thunderdome, or siccing zombies on the prison, or him trying to kill Michonne, or ALL THOSE HEADS IN FISH TANKS. Assaulting Maggie, terrible as it was, is like the least f*cked-up thing he's done.
So the Governor is spying on the prison and knows they have guns. No surprise there.
And he wants Michonne, because she put out his eye, and he'll quit persecuting Rick's group. Yeah, right.
This is where the Governor is misunderstanding Rick. He's willing to wage this war and risk Woodbury and everyone in it for a matter of personal revenge, but Rick is fighting for his whole group's survival. Rick is very aware that he and everyone else could (and probably will) die fighting the Governor, but it hasn't even crossed the Governor's mind that he could lose.
Michonne isn't willing to go with Merle and risk Andrea getting caught in the crossfire. Andrea really does not deserve this level of loyalty.
Maggie and Glenn have an unexpectedly sweet moment. Glenn can't make out with her while zombies are "watching". So they sneak off to have sex. Which means no one is on watch.
Oh. My. GOD. Rick and the Governor are STILL TALKING.
Andrea goes back to Woodbury. Because she has no convictions.
Rick has two days to fork over Michonne or it's war. Of course he doesn't mean any of it and intends to kill Rick and whoever else shows up with Michonne.
The Governor: They'll bring Rick, maybe Merle's brother. Take care of the whole crew. Best way to avoid a slaughter.
Mengele: That is a slaughter.
Rick sees through the bullsh*t, anticipates war. And yet still talks to Herschel about handing Michonne over, hoping Herschel can talk him out of it. Jesus, Rick, the fact that you know he'll kill you anyway ought to be reason enough not to do it.
Status check:
Rick – Ready for war.
The Governoer – Lying liar.
Andrea – Still a moron.
Michonne – Doomed?
Merle – Somehow, the sanest person on this show.
Worst thing seen/heard this week: The zombie kill-off.
Zombie kill of the week: Woodbury Guy to the head with a baseball bat.
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LONDON: As cricket followers around the world contemplated the end of Kevin Pietersen's England career two questions kept being asked -- 'why?' and 'why now?'
The 33-year-old's days as an international cricketer came to an end on Tuesday when the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced that it had "unanimously" decided to move forward without him.
It was open to the ECB to say that, at the age of 33 and beset by a longstanding knee injury, now was the time to bid farewell to the South Africa-born shotmaker.
Form and fitness have long been regarded as the two key reasons for dropping players yet, in a curiously-worded statement, the ECB opted for neither explanation.
Instead ECB managing director Paul Downton, following England's 5-0 Ashes thrashing in Australia where Pietersen, for all his struggles was still the team's leading run scorer, talked of a need "to rebuild not only the team but also the team ethic and philosophy".
There then followed a deafening silence from the ECB and the England hierarchy. It was all too much for England great Ian Botham.
"He (Pietersen) is one of the best cricketers this country has ever had - and if his career has been terminated, why not tell us why?," the former England captain told Sky Sports. "Don't give us the one-liner -- 'we're moving on, we're doing this, we're doing that'. He's 33, not 43," Botham added.
Instead their statement carried an overtone from the era of 'gentlemen and players' where being a 'good chap' could matter more in England circles than how good a cricketer you were.
But as former England bowler Matthew Hoggard, an Ashes-winner alongside Pietersen in 2005, pointed out, "you don't have to be friends to play cricket together".
Meanwhile the ECB's refusal to elaborate left a vacuum which social media tried to fill. Pietersen's wife, British pop star Jessica Taylor, took to Twitter to criticise former England bowler Dominic Cork for claiming Pietersen had clashed with captain Alastair Cook during the Australia tour.
"Dominic Cork - there was no 'squaring up' to Alastair Cook or 'off-field antics' in Australia - you are lying, plain & simple," she wrote.
But the ECB showed no sign Wednesday of being anything like as forthright -- legal risks were cited as one explanation - with regard to Pietersen, whose 13,797 international runs make him England's all-time leading scorer across all formats of the game.
Instead they faced accusations of wanting a quiet life not a winning one, and an inability to handle a "maverick", in the word used by Pietersen's first England captain, Michael Vaughan. Pietersen's exit is the latest chapter in the damaging fall-out from the Australia tour for England, after head coach Andy Flower resigned, spinner Graeme Swann retired,while batsman Jonathan Trott had to leave the squad with a stress-related illness.
Yet Pietersen's departure remains shrouded in more mystery than any of them, with those outside the England 'bubble' asking what exactly it was that made Cook, once one of his strongest supporters, decide he could do without him?
The ECB's stance has ensured that both the new coach's first press conferences and indeed the next one given by Cook, should he remain England captain, will be dominated by questions about Pietersen.
Indeed the issue could become a running sore should England's top-order collapse at home to Sri Lanka and India later this year -- a situation that could undermine Cook's 'defence' off the field almost as much as Australia's bowlers did on it.


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Secret Spy Court Authorizes 100% of US Government Requests
A secret federal court last year did not deny a single request to search or electronically spy on people within the United States "for foreign intelligence purposes," according to a Justice Department report this week.
The report (pdf), which was released Tuesday to Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), states that during 2012, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (the "FISC") approved every single one of the 1,856 applications made by the government for authority to conduct electronic surveillance and/or physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes.
This past year saw 5 percent more applications than 2011, though no requests were denied in either. Besides the numbers provided, no other information regarding the court and the court's decisions are made public.
As Wired's David Kravets explains:
The secret court, which came to life in the wake of the Watergate scandal under the President Richard M. Nixon administration, now gets the bulk of its authority under the FISA Amendments Act, which Congress reauthorized for another five years days before it would have expired last year.
The act allows the government to electronically eavesdrop on Americans' phone calls and e-mails without a probable-cause warrant so long as one of the parties to the communication is believed outside the United States.
Previous to its 2012 reauthorization, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said during a debate on amending the FISA Act, "The public has absolutely no idea what the court is actually saying. What it means is the country is in fact developing a secret body of law so Americans have no way of finding out how their laws and Constitution are being interpreted."
Putting the FISC in context, Kevin Gosztola at FireDogLake writes, "America has a court that reviews surveillance requests in secret and makes rulings in secret that are kept secret."
He goes on to cite a 2008 Harvard Law Review, which critiqued the unique arrangement of the secret court system, to explain why the court's 100 percent acceptance rate may be unsurprising:
One of the most striking elements of the FISA system is the total absence of adversariality.
[t]he judge is forced not only to act as an arm of the prosecution in weighing the prosecution's arguments about whether disclosure would or would not compromise national security, but also to act as a defense lawyer in determining whether the information is useful to the defendant." Similarly, in reviewing a FISA application, the FISC must attempt the difficult, if not impossible, task of simultaneously occupying the roles of advocate and neutral arbiter — all without the authority or ability to investigate facts or the time to conduct legal research. The judge lacks, a skeptical advocate to vet the government's legal arguments, which is of crucial significance when the government is always able to claim the weight of national security expertise for its position. It is questionable whether courts can play this role effectively, and, more importantly, whether they should. [emphasis added]
"Though depicted as some kind of check on Executive Branch behavior," Glenn Greenwaldwrites, the entire process "is virtually designed to do the opposite: ensure the Government's surveillance desires are unimpeded."
He adds that the lack of oversight is significant because of recent calls to create a 'drone court' under the same model, providing a similar process through which the president can target for execution people who have been charged with no crime.
He continues:
But like the Fisa court, such a "drone court" would be far worse than merely harmless. Just imagine how creepy and tyrannical it is to codify a system where federal judges – in total secrecy and with only government lawyers present – issue execution warrants that allow the president to kill someone who has never been charged with a crime. It's true that the president is already doing this, and is doing it without any external oversight. But a fake, illusory judicial process lends a perceived legitimacy to his execution powers that is not warranted by the reality of this process.
The Justice Department report also noted that the government issued 15,229 National Security Letters last year. The letters, issued by the FBI compelling "internet service providers, credit companies, financial institutions and others to hand over confidential records about their customers," were declared unconstitutional in March. However, the decision was stayed 90 days pending the White House's expected appeal.
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Temperature control cables, or temperature probes, are used to determine the temperature of surfaces, liquids physical objects or change in voltage resistance of circuits. These cables have sensor junctions adjacent to metal or plastic casings.
The casings of temperature control cables are in contact with the object or surface being measured to calibrate and determine its temperature.
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Temperature control cables are used to determine soil and water temperature in industries like oceanic and geological research.
Temperature probes are common in sterile application usage, for instance, the food and medical industries for quality control and safety purposes.
Temperature control cables are also found in the industrial sector such as manufacturing and production plants where temperatures of equipment and machinery need to be monitored.
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Beginning Sunday, April 1, waste haulers will collect grass and leaves separately from household trash. State law requires grass and leaves be separated from household trash from April 1 until December 1. Residents who subscribe to separate yard waste collection must begin to separate grass and leaves from their household trash after their last waste collection in March.
The separate collection of grass and leaves is provided by local waste haulers for a fee. Those who do not subscribe to the special collection have three options - haul grass and leaves to the 48th Street Transfer Station; hire a lawn service; or mulch and compost grass clippings and leaves. The Lancaster County Extension Office will provide composting workshops in April, May and June. More information is available at lancaster.unl.edu.
This is the 19th year of the City's yard waste composting program. Since fall 1992, the City estimates that more than 255,844 tons of grass and leaves and 110,874 tons of tree trimmings have been diverted to the landfill. The composting program and wood recycling operation have added more than two years to the life of the landfill. This represents more than 1.3 million cubic yards of landfill space with a current value of $11.2 million.
Brian Kurtzer, President of the Lincoln Solid Waste Management Association, said yard wastes must be placed in approved containers: paper yard waste bags available from retailers; 32-gallon containers with tight-fitting lids; or 90-gallon containers provided by waste haulers. City policy does not allow yard waste in plastic bags at the compost facility because the bags do not decompose and cause litter problems. Kurtzer said some waste haulers will empty plastic bags, so residents wanting to use plastic should contact their haulers. The City inspects incoming loads at the Bluff Road Landfill and composting site. If trash is found mixed with yard waste, the City can assess the haulers a $50 fine. Kurtzer said waste haulers may leave containers at the curb if they contain trash mixed with grass and leaves.
More information on the City's composting program or the availability of compost is available at 402-441-8215, recycle.lincoln.ne.gov or facebook.com/LincolnRecycles.


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The list of new features includes Phrase Completion so that the Code Completion function suggests not only separate keywords and object names, but entire code phrases.
There is an Enhanced Command-Line Interface so that a user can automate different routine tasks. There is also improved Data Export and Import so that functionalities are now "considerably reworked" and boosted in accordance with feedback.
There are more options to customize data comparison and sync. An update comes with new options for customizing data comparison and synchronization up to the user's needs.
"dbForge Studio for MySQL is the universal MySQL and MariaDB client for database management, administration, and development. The GUI tool provides utilities to compare, synchronize, and backup MySQL databases with scheduling, and gives possibility to analyze and report MySQL tables data," said Devart.


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CAIRO (AP) -- Police have fired tear gas to stop protesters from approaching the presidential palace in Cairo as tens of thousands take to the streets to demonstrate against the assumption of nearly absolute powers by the nation's Islamist leader.
The violence erupted when protesters pushed aside a barricade topped with barbed wire several hundred yards from the palace walls. Police fired tear gas, and then retreated. There were no immediate reports on casualties.
Tuesday's march comes amid rising anger over a hurriedly adopted draft constitution by President Mohammed Morsi's allies and decrees giving him sweeping powers. Morsi called for a referendum on the draft constitution on Dec. 15.


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America's Baby Bust
The nation's falling fertility rate is the root cause of many of our problems. And it's only getting worse.
For more than three decades, Chinese women have been subjected to their country's brutal one-child policy. Those who try to have more children have been subjected to fines and forced abortions. Their houses have been razed and their husbands fired from their jobs. As a result, Chinese women have a fertility rate of 1.54. Here in America, white, college-educated women—a good proxy for the middle class—have a fertility rate of 1.6. America has its very own one-child policy. And we have chosen it for ourselves.
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MONTREAL – Bertram Earl Jones was sentenced to 11 years in prison yesterday and the one thing his brother wanted on this day was denied.
"I couldn't get a look at his face; I just wanted to see him," Bevan Jones said.
"If I was allowed, I would have run up to him to look in his eyes," he said of the sibling who robbed him of his life savings.
Earl Jones made no eye contact at all when he entered Room 3.06 at the Palais de Justice, hunched over and looking the worse for wear.
His hair was long and looked greasy. He wore baggy jeans, boat shoes and a greyish T-shirt under his plaid shirt. His florid complexion hinted at the high blood pressure from which he is apparently suffering.
With his wrists cuffed, he sat bent over almost double in the prisoner's dock and kept his hands up on either side of his face, occasionally wiping at his eyes.
Judge Hélène Morin handed down her sentence a month after both the Crown and the defence recommended 11 years for Jones. With good behaviour he could be out by autumn of 2011.
On Jan. 15, the disgraced money man pleaded guilty to defrauding 158 clients of $50 million in a Ponzi scheme he operated for more than two decades.
The courtroom that Jones appeared in was full to bursting, with all 56 seats taken. Cheri Beluse, the daughter of a victim, gave up her seat when she realized that Bevan Jones would not get a chance to see his baby brother on the day of judgment.
Another courtroom with a video hookup was filled to capacity with more victims, many of whom came to the courthouse in a school bus from Pointe Claire and the Cavendish Mall. That still left two dozen victims without even an image of the disgraced money man.
Victim Ginny Nelles had prepared a statement that she had been told by the Crown prosecutor she could read prior to Morin's sentencing, but it was not permitted.
When the judge was reading her lengthy sentencing statement, Bevan Jones stared straight ahead. Other victims in the room strained for a view of the man who stole their retirement plans and legacies.
Kevin Curran, a member of the victims' organizing committee that has rallied the troops for seven months, held his face in his hands and looked at the floor.
In her sentencing, Morin took many of the comments from 117 victims' impact statements into consideration when she addressed Jones.
"All victims now suffer from insomnia," the judge read. "Almost all have seen their health suddenly deteriorate with symptoms never experienced before. Two have seen recurrence in the cancer they are suffering from. Some who took pride in never having taken medication are now living on antidepressants. Some even experienced suicidal thoughts."
When the judge remarked on a statement from Jones's niece that her uncle "is a disgrace to the Jones good name" and she was relieved her grandmother is not alive to see this, he buried his face in his hands.
"He deserves more than what he's getting," Bevan Jones said after his brother left the room. "I definitely don't think he got enough of a sentence in this Mickey Mouse system.
"He ruins 100 lives and he'll be out on the street."
"I feel stunned," victim Wendy Nelles said. "I'm still numb, and the justice system is incomprehensible. That man is a thief."


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26 December 2012 | Opinion | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Mr Paul Wright, CEO, Universal Biosensors
I think there will be continuing of existing trends in 2013 as well. We expect to see ongoing growth in the point-of-care-diagnostics (POCD) market. I also expect continued integration of diagnostics tools with IT. We have already seen some POCD products offering wireless connectivity, or the use of mobile phones to analyse data or communicate information to healthcare professionals. These are all part of better empowerment of patients and improved compliance in the industry
A different trend that I expect is more interest in diagnostics from companies that have not historically ventured into the diagnostics segment. Pharma companies, for example, wanting to get involved in personalized medicine or have control over both treatment and monitoring.
Everything we do is new. What we want to do is extend portfolio of testing capabilities. Next year we will be adding the three new coagulation tests. In the background, we also continue to develop the immunoassay testing and molecular testing (DNA Testing). These are the things at early stages but the market for these tests is attractive and worth pursuing.
At the moment our priority remains the US, European and Japanese markets, as these are large and established diagnostics markets. There are interesting opportunities in emerging economies as well. If you look at China and India, there is a very big market in terms of population and healthcare needs. But when you get out into regional areas of China, taking samples from patients and moving them to central laboratories is not ideal. The idea of having low cost easy to use tools for local diagnostics of patients is appealing. So I see good opportunities in POCD in these sorts of markets in the future.


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Garza touts Navarro as run-stopper, mentor
MESA, Ariz. -- When asked what the Cubs needed on the roster, Matt Garza suggested a veteran backup catcher to help Welington Castillo. Garza didn't know the Cubs would get one of his favorites, Dioner Navarro.
"He provides a force back there," Garza said of his former Rays teammate. "He's known to stop a running game, and people don't run on him. ... Teams that rely on speed or the small game, a guy like Navarro behind the plate, he'll shut it down. That's a huge thing for a pitcher."
Castillo, who took over the starting job after Geovany Soto was dealt, can also tap into Navarro's experience.
"Having a guy like Navy as a backup will be a huge help, and not only for the rotation but the learning curve to get Castillo there quicker," Garza said.
"It's tough to go to a rookie, because a rookie is having a hard time feeling comfortable," Garza said. "Other pitchers could go, 'Hey, can you help Welly with this? Can you do this?' [Navarro] has been in the same predicament as Welly has. I've seen it -- Navy is a great guy to have around."
Garza said he wasn't going to request being matched up with Navarro in games.
"I don't care," he said. "I trust them both. Navy knows me well enough to know I don't care."


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Search underway for missing sailor off Mallacoota
A merchant ship carrying a giraffe tried to join the search for a Russian sailor missing off eastern Victoria this morning.
The sailor activated his emergency distress beacon 120 nautical miles south of Mallacoota, in eastern Victoria, around 1:30am today.
The solo yachtsman left Portsea on Sunday en route to Auckland, New Zealand, as part of an around-the-world journey.
He spoke to his family before activating the emergency beacon and told them he was encountering rough conditions.
But search and rescue authorities have not been able to contact him.
The merchant ship, which is transporting the giraffe from New Zealand to the Werribee Zoo, south-west of Melbourne, headed to the area.
But it was forced to turn back because of rough weather conditions.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is co-ordinating the search for the sailor.
The HMAS Melbourne has been diverted to the area because rough conditions are hampering the search and smaller vessels and aircraft are not able to reach the search zone.
"They are experiencing about 45 knot winds and four metre swells, which are significantly hampering our search and rescue effort to date," AMSA's Jo Meehan said.
A commercial jet was in the area this morning but has been unable to find the yacht.
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The Simpsons (1989)
Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.
- Matt Groening
Episode 1 - The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her HomerRelease Date: 2006-09-10
At school, Lisa befriends a boy named Michael, who happens to be the son of mob boss, Fat Tony. Fat Tony is put out of commission by a rival family, and Homer and Bart get involved with the mob, when Michael, who is nothing like his father, is not interested in the "family business."
Episode 2 - Jazzy and the PussycatsRelease Date: 2006-09-17
When Bart has problems with acting out, Marge and Homer take him to a child psychiatrist, who suggests that Bart should taking up drumming. Bart turns out to be a natural with the drums and much to the chagrin of Lisa; Bart is approached by jazz musicians, who want him in their band. Meanwhile, Lisa turns to rescuing animals as a way to deal with her jealousy and depression, over not being a member of a jazz band herself.
Episode 3 - Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'EmRelease Date: 2006-09-24
After buying Homer a collection of handyman's books, Marge becomes a handywoman, but uses Homer since no one in town is thrilled over the idea of a female carpenter. Meanwhile, Bart finds out that Principal Skinner has a peanut allergy and uses a peanut on a stick to torture Skinner, but the joke is on Bart when Skinner discovers that Bart is allergic to shrimp.
Episode 4 - Treehouse of Horror XVIIRelease Date: 2006-11-05
Three more scary tales are offered up in this 17th edition of the Treehouse of Horror.Married to the Blob: After eating mysterious green goo from a meteorite, Homer grows to massive proportions while he eats everything in sight.You Gotta Know When to Golem: Bart takes control of Golem of Jewish folklore, and forces the ancient statue to do his bidding by writing instructions on scrolls and placing them into the Golem's mouth.The Day the Earth Looked Stupid: Taking place in 1938 Springfield, the townspeople react to Orson Welles' famous War of the Worlds radio broadcast. However, they pay no attention when Kang and Kodos actually do invade the town.
Episode 5 - G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)Release Date: 2006-11-12
Bart pre-enlists in the Army and when Homer goes to the Recruitment Center to clear up the mess, he is tricked into enlisting in the Army himself. Upon completion of basic training, Homer is assigned to lead some troops against a disgruntled Army Colonel in a war games simulation.
Episode 6 - Moe'N'a LisaRelease Date: 2006-11-19
Lisa aides Moe in discovering his inner-poet and he gains swift popularity and recognition from a group of successful American authors, when Lisa helps to get his poetry published. However, Lisa is crushed, when Moe enjoys his newfound success with literary giants and fails to credit Lisa for her assistance in his poetry.
Episode 7 - Ice Cream of Margie (With the Light Blue Hair)Release Date: 2006-11-26
After Homer is fired from the power plant, he buys an ice-cream truck and sells ice-cream. His successful business yields an abundance of discarded popsicle sticks and Marge finds another calling in life, as she uses the leftover sticks to create popular life-size statues of various citizens from Springfield.
Episode 8 - The Haw-Hawed CoupleRelease Date: 2006-12-10
After being forced to attend Nelson's birthday party, Bart becomes best friends with the schoolyard bully. Meanwhile, Homer develops a big interest with one of Lisa's fantasy books.
Episode 9 - Kill Gil, Volumes I & IIRelease Date: 2006-12-17
At Christmas time, Marge opens up her home to the jobless Gil. But problems arise when Gil overstays his welcome and Marge can't bring herself to kick Gil out of the house.
Episode 10 - The Wife AquaticRelease Date: 2007-01-07
Homer surprises Marge with a visit to her favorite childhood vacation spot: an island called Barnacle Bay. But when the family arrives, they are shocked to discover Barnacle Bay's tourism and economy has been decimated by the disappearance of the local delicacy, the "Yum-Yum" fish. After causing some major damage to the boardwalk, Homer is forced to join a fishing crew to work off his debt and a parody of The Perfect Storm ensues.
Episode 11 - Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three TimesRelease Date: 2007-01-28
In an effort to stop Homer from taking revenge on the Rich Texan for cutting him off on the highway, Marge, Lisa and Bart offer up three cautionary tales of revenge. The Count of Monte Fatso: A parody of the book and film The Count of Monte Cristo, in which Homer is cast as the Count. Revenge of the Geeks: Using a futuristic device called the "Get-back-inator," Milhouse takes revenge on the Springfield Elementary bullies. Bartman Begins: A parody of the Batman origin story, in which Bart is cast in the title role.
Episode 12 - Little Big GirlRelease Date: 2007-02-11
After saving Springfield from burning down in city-wide fire, Mayor Quimby awards Bart with a driver's license. During Bart's travels to a nearby town, he develops a serious relationship with a teenage girl. Meanwhile, during a presentation at school, Lisa lies about her Native American heritage and when everyone believes her, the lies result in some escalating problems for her.
Episode 13 - Springfield UpRelease Date: 2007-02-18
Eccentric documentary filmmaker Declan Desmond returns with his new film "Growing up Springfield" in which various characters in The Simpsons are interviewed. Homer and family pretend to be rich on the documentary, until Mr. Burns catches them in his summer home.
Episode 14 - Yokel ChordsRelease Date: 2007-03-04
Principal Skinner decides to allow Lisa to tutor Cletus's kids instead of them enrolling into Springfield Elementary, but they end up on Krusty's show as a Musical Act; Bart sees a psychiatrist after pretending that he's possessed by a ghost in an an attempt get free food from the cafeteria.
Episode 15 - Rome-Old and Juli-EhRelease Date: 2007-03-11
When Homer accidentally declares bankruptcy, Grandpa ends up leaving the Springfield Retirement Castle and falls in love with Selma; Bart and Lisa con a delivery man out of cardboard boxes.
Episode 16 - HomerazziRelease Date: 2007-03-25
When the fireproof safe (which was bought after one too many house fires) explodes, Homer and Marge try to recreate the photos, but when one of them uncovers a scandal in the background, Homer decides to join the world of paparazzi - forgetting what happened the last time he had a job that dealt in revealing other people's flaws to the public (in "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?")
Episode 17 - Marge GamerRelease Date: 2007-04-22
Marge becomes a spectacle during a PTA meeting for not having an e-mail address, and she decides to take a chance on using the Internet. Amazed and delighted by all the Internet has to offer, Marge decides to join a popular role-playing fantasy game named "Earthland Realms." To Marge's dismay, the game has her interacting with practically the whole town of Springfield, including Bart, who happens to be the game's most feared and destructive player. Meanwhile, Homer saves Lisa's soccer game from cancellation after he volunteers to take the place of a referee who recently quit. However, Homer's refereeing skills only exasperate Lisa, and her competitive streak gets the best of her.
Episode 18 - The Boys of BummerRelease Date: 2007-04-29
Bart becomes a hometown hero when he makes the game-winning catch at his Little League game, sending the Springfield Isotots to the championship for the very first time. Meanwhile, Homer runs into some luck, when a customer misunderstands Homer's excuses for a sales pitch after falling asleep in a department store's display bed. The impressed store owner hires Homer as a salesman.
Episode 19 - Crook and LadderRelease Date: 2007-05-06
Maggie goes on a path of destruction in the Simpsons home after Marge follows advice in a parenting magazine and throws away her pacifier. Marge finally gives in and sends Homer to get Maggie a new pacifier, but when he cant find the right brand, Maggie comes up with her own substitute an especially squeaky dog toy. Homer cant sleep through the toys incessant squeaking and is driven to take sleeping pills, which turn him into a sleepwalker with a penchant for mischief. When one of Homers sleepwalking schemes leaves the entire Springfield Fire Department debilitated in the hospital, Homer and some of his fellow Springfieldians become volunteer firefighters. They extinguish several fires and are rewarded with gifts, but when the gifts stop coming, they seek other forms of compensation for their heroic acts.
Episode 20 - Stop! Or My Dog Will Shoot!Release Date: 2007-05-13
Homer unwittingly drags the family into a cornfield maze after attempting to leave a boring Harvest fest that Marge brought them to. When everyone except Homer escapes, Santa's Little Helper rescues him and becomes the town hero. So the Simpsons enroll him in Police Dog Academy where he's teamed with Lou.
Episode 21 - 24 MinutesRelease Date: 2007-05-20
When finding out Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney plan on sabotaging Springfield Elementary School's annual bake sale by releasing the "ultimate stinkbomb" (a rotten yogurt cup from Springfield's Nuclear Power Plant), Bart and Lisa enlist the help of Jack Bauer and Chloe O'Brian. Meanwhile, Marge attempts to make the perfect cake, so she can win the bake sale.
Episode 22 - You Kent Always Say What You WantRelease Date: 2007-05-20
When Homer buys the 1,000,000th ice-cream cone at a local shop, he ends up on Kent Brockman's news program. When Brockman swears on live TV after coffee is spilled in his lap, Ned Flanders leads a crusade to clean up Springfield's airwaves, starting with getting Brockman fired. Then Homer once again saves the day.


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What Are Comparative And Superlative Adjectives?
Most adjectives have three different forms, the positive, the comparative, and the superlative:
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The comparative form is used for comparing two people or things:
He is taller than me.
This puzzle is easier than the last one.
The book was more interesting than the film.
The superlative is used for comparing one person or thing with every other member of their group:
He was the tallest boy in the class.
This puzzle is the easiest in the whole book.
It's the most interesting book I've ever read.
As you can see, some adjectives change their spelling when forming their comparative and superlative forms. For more information about this, see Spelling rules and tips.
You'll find that most dictionaries will show you the spellings of adjectives that change their form. For example, if you look up 'happy' in Oxford Dictionaries, you'll see that the comparative and superlative forms are given in brackets directly after the part of speech:
happy ? adjective (happier, happiest)
Always look up an adjective if you are unsure about how to spell its comparative or superlative form.
Read more about adjectives:
Attributive and predicative adjectives
Gradable and non-gradable adjectives
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Today, Microsoft announced the acquisition of Perspective Pixel, a leader in research, development and production of large-scale, multi-touch display solutions. The announcement came at the end of the Vision Keynote at the 2012 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Network Conference.
At the keynote, Steve Ballmer introduced Jeff Han, a multi-touch researcher and co-founder of Perspective Pixel Inc., who demonstrated Windows 8 running on an incredible 82" touch screen. The awe-inspiring demo also featured the note-taking app, OneNote, and an ad-hoc collaboration called Storyboard. While the terms of the deal weren't disclosed, Perceptive Pixel's large-scale, multi-touch hardware and software technology will help Microsoft to enable and showcase interesting collaboration and productivity scenarios with Windows and Office.
The display unit during the demo is world's largest projected capacitive, optically bonded multi-touch display and supports both touch and pen based input. Microsoft has also been working on table-sized multitouch tables, formerly called Surface, but now known as PixelSense.
Perspective Pixel was founded in 2006, and its technology gained widespread recognition in 2008 as CNN and other broadcasters covered the U.S. Presedential elections aided by large displays in their studios. The company also won the National Design Award in the inaugural category of Interaction Design at the Smithsonian awards in 2009. Perceptive Pixel's patented technology is used in broadcast, government, defense, energy, higher education, engineering, and product design.


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Movement affecting Morgan Stanley (MS) advisors is still heating up this summer, with Raymond James (RJF) and an LPL Financial-hybrid affiliate (LPLA) attracting three teams from the firm on Tuesday. Still, Morgan Stanley is recruiting from rivals as well, and it picked up a Wells Fargo (WFC) team on June 5.
Raymond James' employee channel says it successfully recruited Robert D. Powell, Walter M. Urban and Tyler Mercer, who recently formed Alpha Capital Partners in Mount Laurel, N.J. The ex-Morgan Stanley Smith Barney team had previously managed $187 million in client assets and had annual fees and commissions of $1.45 million.
"We are thrilled to welcome such an accomplished team to Raymond James," said Ira Federer, the Eastern Division director of Raymond James & Associates, in a press release. "They are extremely talented, with a proven track record, and bring extensive experience to our firm. We could not ask for a stronger group to open the first RJ&A office in Mount Laurel."
"Our team was committed to moving our practice to a smaller, more responsive firm that was not Wall Street-based," said Urban, in a statement. "We wanted a firm free of the incessant negative headline risk that plagued broker-dealers owned by the larger, multinational banks. Our search identified Raymond James as being a firm with a high level of integrity and a reputation for doing things, 'right' for their clients."
Urban, a former captain in the U.S. Navy and Navy Reserve, started his advisory work with Legg Mason in Philadelphia.
A senior vice president of investments, Powell has more than 40 years of experience in the industry, having begun his career with Janney Montgomery Scott. He spent 17 years with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and its predecessor firms.
Mercer began his career with American Express, later joining Legg Mason Wood Walker and ultimately Morgan Stanley.
Powell, Urban and Mercer specialize in providing their clients with trend-analysis portfolio management, which combines technical research with fundamental analysis to create core model portfolios.
"We also had the opportunity to 'anchor' a brand-new branch in a geographic area of our choosing. When we added all these factors together, our choice to move to Raymond James was an easy one," Urban said.
For its part, Morgan Stanley says it is able to draw advisors from rival firms, including a Wells Fargo team that joined it on June 5 and previously had nearly $1.5 million in yearly production: William Schick and Paul Derrick joined MSSB in Syracuse, N.Y., and now report to complex manager Dean Wallace.
New LPL-Affiliated Advisors
Also on Tuesday, Stratos Wealth Partners, a hybrid registered investment advisor affiliated with LPL Financial, said a team had joined it from Morgan Stanley in to open an office in Ogden, Utah. The team includes Craig P. Adams and Steve Beierlein and expands the network of Stratos Wealth Partners to more than 125 affiliated reps with more than $4 billion in client assets under management.
The Ogden office of Stratos Wealth Partners will maintain about $250 million in client assets through the transition to an independent business model and has more than 70 years of combined experience in the industry.
"As the investment world changes, it's important for us to broaden our abilities to better serve the financial needs of clients who place their trust in us. An independent client-centered business model allows us to act as our clients advocate first and foremost," said Craig P. Adams, a certified financial planner, in a press release.
"Being backed by the nation's leading independent broker-dealer in LPL Financial allows us to focus on our number one priority, the concerns of our clients, without bias or conflict," said Steve Beierlein, partner and branch manager, in a statement.
For its part, LPL says it is "delighted that Craig P. Adams and Steve Beierlein have chosen to join forces with Stratos Wealth Partners, one of our leading independent branches," said Bill Morrissey, executive vice president of business development at LPL Financial, in a press release. "This transition reflects both the flexibility and choice we provide to independent advisors that want to affiliate directly or indirectly with LPL Financial, as well as our continued success in attracting advisory practices from all channels to our platform."
A second team partnering with Stratos in Logan, Utah, has over 35 years of combined industry experience and about $100 million in assets under management.
"It is exciting to create a private firm specially designed to combine exceptional planning capabilities and a selection of optimal investments unbiased by a single proprietary platform," said S. Craig Adams, CFP and managing director of Adams Wealth Advisors. "Our decision to become an independent hybrid RIA firm not only opens a new door for us, but also expands the opportunities where we can truly be aligned with our number one priority – our clients."
And, of course, LPL executives are pleased another group is coming on board as an affiliate. "We are delighted that Adams Wealth Advisors has chosen to join forces with Stratos Wealth Partners, one of our leading independent branches," said Morrissey, in a separate press release.
"This transition reflects both the flexibility and choice we provide to independent advisors that want to affiliate directly or indirectly with LPL Financial, as well as our continued success in attracting advisory practices from all channels to our platform," he explained. "We look forward to utilizing our industry-leading resources, scale and services to help drive the ongoing growth of both Stratos Wealth Partners and Adams Wealth Advisors."


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Surely you've heard by now but we'll pat our aching, aging backs one more time because we're just so elated — America is NOT IN A RECESSION! The American Gross Domestic Product actually grew last quarter, which was a huge disappointment to the whining Marxist doomsayers so intent on making Americans forget they are living in the greatest civilization that ever danced with the stars. Well, we've seen the data, Americans. We've scanned the fine print and scoured the blogosphere so you wouldn't have to, and we are here to tell you: it's true. The American economy grew last quarter, and we know exactly why. So don't listen to the haters! In lieu of the usual evening news roundup, Jezebel is here to bring you the seven reasons this great nation is still on the upswing.
Because America is not part of Europe. You know what would happen if we joined the European Union? Let's "mark to market" our economic figures to Euros for a second. (This is not a particularly meaningful exercise, but when the Gross Domestic Product is passing for the ultimate barometer of economic health I feel entitled to dabble in the absurd.) In the same amount of time that our economy cracked the $14 trillion mark, it would have shrunk 10% to 9 trillion Euros. In other words, no one would be lining up to buy cheap American exports. Of course, not that that much stuff is made in America anymore, which is why our 13% increase in exports of goods only contributed 0.2% in the way of GDP growth. But 0.2% can make all the difference!
Because The Rest Of The World Is Starving Thanks to land and pork barrel politics, agriculture remains a thriving (if small) sector of the American economy, and thanks to those same pork barrel politics we decided to drive food prices higher than oil prices would have already rendered them by paying people to use perfectly good corn to run cars or somesuch. Well, we make corn in America! And soybeans, and lots of other things that will make you fat if you aren't living on $3 a day in Nairobi.
Because The Rest Of The World Is Still Coming Here (And Fewer Than Ever Are Sending Their Money Home) America's growing population helps our GDP numbers sound good even when everything is actually getting harder for the average person! Between 2003 and 2007, for instance, our per-capita GDP grew less than 1.9% a year on average; Japan's per-capita GDP grew 2.1%! But thanks to our swelling immigrant class (and possibly, the celebrity baby boom) we have a growing populace that pumps that number up to nearly 3% annualized growth when we pool our funds together!
Because Everyone Is Sick, And Getting Sicker Health care a very important sector of the American economy — in fact, it's the only sector that's created any jobs since the nineties — and the costs — hey, every cost has a "benefit," hah! — just keep rising! That means lots of profits for all the companies working hard to remind us how bad heartburn can make you feel. And all the accountants and managers and lawyers responsible for figuring out how hospitals can add treatments and procedures to routine hospital stays so the insurance companies actually pay them; they are drivers of economic activity too! In this most recent quarter, medical care might have been the single brightest spot of a very unhappy chart: costs rose 12.1% over the quarter.
Because banks control all the money. The financial sector might seem like it's a mess right now, but they didn't get to represent more than a fifth of the whole GDP by being unclever. After getting the government to set up a special body giving them "immunity" from failure in the wake of that touching Jimmy Stewart movie, bankers quickly set about figuring out how to control all the money in the universe and take a big a cut possible each year in fear someone would figure out what they were up to and shut the whole thing down. Over time, of course, they realized that they controlled too much money for the government to ever shut any of it down, so at that point they just overpaid themselves because that's what they did last year, and because that's what everyone else was doing, and because if they didn't do it they were the greater fool. By 2005 the average finance worker earned 50% more than the comparable worker in any other field — and a lot of them made a lot more than that. But it's hard to blame them — absurdly profitable ideas like $3 ATM fees and selling repurposed mortgages to old people literally on a "fixed income" are all in a day's work for these guys.
Because "information processing equipment and software" sales increased 10.3%. And they haven't even released the new iPhone!
Because They Hate Us. These are serious times, Americans! We have a beautiful country to defend, and defense spending was perhaps the brightest spot on the latest GDP report of all. The Pentagon spent nearly $700 billion defending our freedoms last year, a 7.5% increase from last. And we haven't even started bombing Iran!
Image grabbed from Refacing Government Tender via Metafilter
BEA Press Release: Gross Domestic Product [Bureau of Economic Analysis]
Economists React: Recession "Still Likely" [WSJ]
Food Firms Profit As Demand Soars [WSJ]
Grossly Distorted Picture [Economist]
FDIC Seeks Hires, Braces For Trouble [WSJ]
Gross Domestic Product By Industry, Winners & Losers [Visualizing Economics]
What's Really Propping Up The Economy [BusinessWeek]
One Guy Who's Seen It All Doesn't Like What He Sees [WSJ]


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[James and Hance already commented on this issue, but here's my take on the FCC opening another front in its ongoing "war on cable" … ]
Despite steadily increasing video competition and consumer programming choices, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)–or at least current Chairman Kevin Martin–seems to be pursuing what many journalists and market analysts have described as a "war on cable." As Craig Moffett, a senior analyst with Sanford Bernstein & Co, says, "Over the past year, the Chairman has adopted an almost uniformly anti-cable stance on issues ranging from set-top boxes (CableCards), digital must carry requirements, cable ownership caps, video franchising rules, and the abrogation of exclusive service contracts with [apartment owners]."
And Moffett is only summarizing the economic regulation that Martin's FCC is currently pursuing against cable. Chairman Martin has also proposed the unprecedented step of imposing content controls on pay TV providers. He wants to extend broadcast industry "indecency" regulations to cable and satellite operators, even though the constitutionality of those rules is being questioned in court. And Chairman Martin has also suggested that "excessively violent" programming on pay TV should be regulated in some fashion. Finally, he has strong-armed cable operators into offering "family-friendly tiers" of programming even though there was no demand for them and consumers have shown little interest in them now that they have been offered.
And more cable regulation appears to be in the works. According to recent press reports, Chairman Martin is considering breathing new life into a little-known provision of the Cable Communications Act of 1984 known as the "70/70 rule." Under the 70/70 rule, if the Commission finds that cable service is available to 70% of households and 70% of those homes subscribe, then the FCC can "promulgate any additional rule necessary to provide diversity of information sources."
Chairman Martin apparently believes that cable has crossed both 70/70 thresholds and that comprehensive regulation of the cable industry is now warranted. What that means in practice remains to be seen, but it could include common carriage-like price controls on cable systems. The Wall Street Journal reports that a significant reduction (perhaps 75%) in the rates cable operators charge programmers for leased access might be the end result. In the long run, an FCC declaration that the 70/70 rule has been triggered could also lead to the imposition of some of the other regulatory proposals mentioned above.
But the FCC's math in this case appears fuzzy. The first part of the 70/70 test is obviously satisfied since cable service has been available to almost all households for years. The second half of the test is trickier, however, and subject to competing interpretations and computations. By most accounts, including the FCC's last formal review of the matter, the cable industry is well below the 70% threshold in terms of overall subscribership. Indeed, it seems that the only way the FCC could conclude that the industry is over the 70% mark is by including telecom providers in the count, since they now also provide wireline video services. But if the FCC did so, it would completely undercut the logic of the rule since the agency would be counting new competitors against cable in order to regulate them! Increased competition should lead to decreased regulation, not more. Moreover, in recent months, press and industry reports have been filled with news of declining cable subscribership as they lose customers to satellite and telco operators. For these reasons and others, it's highly unlikely that the cable industry has crossed the second 70% threshold.
Importantly, even without taking those new competitors into account, consumer video programming choices have been increasing steadily over time. When the 70/70 rule was put on the books in 1984, those few consumers lucky enough to have cable service in their homes had a few dozen channels at most and could only dream of a "500-channel" future. Today, that dream is a reality. When the FCC last surveyed the state of the multichannel video marketplace in 2005, the agency found that an astonishing 531 networks were available, up from 388 in a 2004 survey. In 1990, by contrast, the FCC counted only 70 networks. Thus, the quantity of service provided cannot serve as a justification for regulation since it has expanded greatly.
Nor can vertical integration fears be cited in defense of regulation. Ownership of TV networks by cable operators has fallen relative to independently owned networks over the past two decades. According to FCC surveys, in 1990, cable operators owned 50% of the video networks they offered on their systems. By 2005, less than 22% of all video networks were owned by cable distributors. And the majority of the top 20 most popular networks on pay TV today (Discovery Channel, ESPN, MTV, Nickelodeon, USA, etc.) are not owned by a cable distributor.
Moreover, the argument that today's multichannel pay TV universe lacks program diversity simply doesn't pass the laugh test. The exhibit below illustrates the diversity of programming available currently on cable, satellite or telco-provided video networks.
The Expanding Video Programming Marketplace on Cable and Satellite TV
News : CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, C-Span, C-Span 2, C-Span 3, BBC America
Sports : ESPN, ESPN News, ESPN Classics, Fox Sports, TNT, NBA TV, NFL Network, Golf Channel, Tennis Channel, Speed Channel, Outdoor Life Network, Fuel
Weather : The Weather Channel, Weatherscan
Home Renovation: Home & Garden Television, The Learning Channel, DIY
Educational: The History Channel, The Biography Channel (A&E), The Learning Channel, Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, Animal Planet
Travel : The Travel Channel, National Geographic Channel
Financial: CNNfn, CNBC, Bloomberg Television
Shopping: The Shopping Channel, Home Shopping Network, QVC
Female-oriented : WE, Oxygen, Lifetime Television, Lifetime Real Women, Showtime Women
Family / Children-oriented: Animal Planet, Anime Network, ABC Family, Black Family Channel, Boomerang, Cartoon Network, Discovery Kids, Disney Channel, Familyland Television Network, FUNimation, Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movie Channel, HBO Family, KTV – Kids and Teens Television, Nickelodeon, Nick 2, Nick Toons, Noggin (2-5 years), The N Channel (9-14 years), PBS Kids Sprout, Showtime Family Zone, Starz! Kids & Family, Toon Disney, Varsity TV, WAM (movies for 8-16-year-olds)
African-American: BET, Black Starz! Black Family Channel
Foreign / Foreign Language : Telemundo (Spanish), Univision (Spanish), Deutsche Welle (German), BBC America (British), AIT: African Independent Television, TV Asia, ZEE-TV Asia (South Asia) ART: Arab Radio and Television, CCTV-4: China Central Television, The Filipino Channel (Philippines), Saigon Broadcasting Network (Vietnam), Channel One Russian Worldwide Network, The International Channel, HBO Latino, History Channel en Espanol
Religious: Trinity Broadcasting Network, The Church Channel (TBN), World Harvest Television, Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), National Jewish Television, Worship Network
Music: MTV, MTV 2, MTV Jams, MTV Hits, VH1, VH1 Classic, VH1 Megahits, VH1 Soul, VH1 Country, Fuse, Country Music Television, Great American Country, Gospel Music Television Network
Movies: HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, Starz, Encore, The Movie Channel, Turner Classic Movies, AMC, IFC, Flix, Sundance, Bravo (Action, Westerns, Mystery, Love Stories, etc.)
Other or General Interest Programming: TBS, USA Network, TNT, FX, SciFi Channel, Spike TV
Source: Federal Communications Commission, various Annual Video Competition Reports
Clearly, the evidence suggests that plenty of independent voices and video programmers have access to existing cable platforms. As the FCC concluded in its 2003 Media Ownership Proceeding: "We are moving to a system served by literally hundreds of networks serving all conceivable interests." And any cable operator foolish enough to refuse desirable new programming options will likely lose more customers to satellite or telco providers that will be happy to offer those channels.
But what about cable rates? Complaints about rising prices seem to be driving much of the push for regulation. But computing cable prices is also a tricky endeavor. While nominal rates have risen, it's the "quality-adjusted price" of video programming that really counts. As shown above, in terms of program diversity and quality, consumers are getting a lot more for their viewing dollar today than they did in the past. If one takes quality factors into account, then overall cable rates are actually quite reasonable considering that per-channel programming costs have gone up over time.
Regardless, it's unclear that 70/70 regulation would really have any effect on the pay TV pricing equation. A la carte regulation might (at least in the short term) reduce rates by abrogating the bundled contracts that likely drive up overall tiered rates. But the long-term costs of a la carte could be significant in terms of diminished quality and diversity (namely, lost programming options) and it might be the case that per-channel prices would simply go back up over the long haul anyway.
It's important not to lose sight of the big picture. Chairman Martin's crusade against cable represents a complete rejection of free markets, property rights, and pricing flexibility as the core engines of economic growth and technological innovation. The costs for the cable industry and its consumers could be significant. As media analyst Paul Gallant of the Stanford Group notes, "If adopted, the new leased access rules could strain cable's bandwidth, particularly as cable looks to add HD channels to keep pace with satellite operators."
Chairman Martin's regulatory agenda in this case is also at odds with the generally deregulatory approach he has advocated for communications and broadband services. Why is he pursuing common carrier-like obligations for the video side of the cable business while rejecting similar rules (namely, net neutrality mandates) for the broadband portion of the business? There is no logical consistency to those positions.
Regardless, if the FCC ultimately adopts Chairman Martin's preferred regulatory approach in this matter, it seems highly likely that the cable industry will litigate the rules, possibly on Fifth Amendment grounds. Cable will have a very good case. If the FCC significantly devalues cable networks through access regulation and rate controls, government would clearly be "taking" a significant property right away from cable owners by undermining the overall value of their distribution systems.
As always, the better way for the agency to achieve its goals of promoting more innovation and diversity is by encouraging more facilities-based competition, not more innovation-killing (and likely unconstitutional) forced access regulation.


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Ascent of Mount Tamalpais-East Peak on 1992-08-23
Greg Slayden
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Solo Ascent
Sunday, August 23, 1992
Ascent Type:
Successful Summit Attained
Motorized Transport to Trailhead:
Mount Tamalpais-East Peak
2572 ft / 783 m
Ascent Trip Report
Therefore I went back to the U.S. 101 freeway area and parked at a upscale semi-outdoor shopping mall in Corte Madera, CA, and found a bookstore where I browsed through a couple trail guides and bought a detailed street map of Marin. Thus armed, I drove into exclusive Mill Valley, CA, and, after getting totally confused in this labyrinthine mess of a town, even with a map, I found Summit Avenue, a very steep and narrow road lined with nice houses clinging tenuously to the hillside that took me up and up until dead-ending at a gate. I turned around and parked on a wide dirt shoulder, and, taking only my water bottle and my map, set off up the dirt road, intent on climbing Tamalpais. My map wasn't a trail map, but I knew I was as close and as high as I could get to the summit by road on the east side of the mountain.
I followed the road a bit through the forest, past a huge, shady, fenced estate, and when it seemed to me that the road was just contouring I struck off up a very faint trail leading steeply up a densely overgrown ravine, following a trickle of a brook. This brought me up to another road, which I followed to my right, where views of the Bay Area below me through breaks in the trees were starting to open up. I struck off up uphill on another faint path, but this one dead-ended in a thicket, so I had to retreat.
I returned to where I had emerged on this upper road and continued up the faint path in the brook valley, which after more steep uphill in mossy ravine faded into a more level and distinct trail that contoured to my right to yet another trail that led uphill. There were awesome views to the Bay below me as I attacked this trail, which I later found out was called the Tempela Trail. At every chance I took the steeper fork, and as I neared the top I heard voices and could see a house and observation platforms. Near the top the steeper forks of the trail were essentially cliffs, but I had fun scaling the rocks, since the rock was good and holds plentiful.
I scaled one last cliff to find myself up at a paved, flat trail, where I climbed over the railing, surprising the tourists with my sudden appearance. I followed this flat path to my right as it contoured almost all the way around the summit cone. I was perplexed by a bunch of guys running around with walkie-talkies acting like commandos, their chatter loud from even on the trail below. The paved path took me to the end of the auto road up the East Peak of Mt. Tamalpais, where there was a refreshment stand where I bought a trail map of the mountain, a coke, and some candy--sometimes roads up mountains are a good thing. After my snack I climbed up the rough path to the mountain's summit.
The view from Mt. Tamalpias was perhaps the best I had ever seen from anywhere at anytime. It was a perfectly clear day, and the entire San Francisco Bay Area was laid out at my feet: the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges, the skyscrapers of the city, the East Bay hills, the Pacific Ocean, and, closer, the houses, stores, and roads of Marin. There were a bunch of us sitting on the rocks under the weather observation tower just sitting silently, awed at the spectacle in the late afternoon light.
The only problem was the guys with the walkie-talkies. Apparently they were a group of rock climbers illegally climbing in the State Park, and they used their radios to communicate about the whereabouts of rangers so they could avoid them. It was completely ridiculous, since they seemed to be having more fun pretending to be commandos with their radios than they did rock climbing. A woman on a rock near me was the command center for the operation, directing the operations of others with her walkie-talkie, and I overheard their chatter: "The Ranger's coming on the path! Better head for that rock over there. . .Roger, I think I'm clear. . .I don't see him. . .Do you think it's OK over by the big outcrop?" The most hilarious part was when ham radio hobbyists and airline pilots started coming in on their frequency, upset at these pirates, threatening them with huge fines for FCC and FAA violations unless they got off.
After over half an hour of the awesome view and inane radio nonsense I reluctantly headed down, since it was getting late and I didn't want to hike down in the dark. Armed with a trail map, I hiked down the steep Fern Creek Trail to the Old Railroad Grade Fire Trail, which wound down switchbacks to my car on Summit Avenue. I saw many mountain bikers on these trails, Marin being the birthplace of the sport. I had heard they even had rangers with radar enforcing the 15 mph speed limit on these trails.
Summary Total Data
Total Elevation Gain:
1702 ft / 518 m
Total Elevation Loss:
1702 ft / 518 m
Round-Trip Distance:
5.4 mi / 8.7 km
4 (on a subjective 1-10 scale)
Route Conditions:
Road Hike, Maintained Trail, Unmaintained Trail, Bushwhack
Pleasant, Breezy, Clear
Ascent Statistics
Gain on way in:
1702 ft / 518 m
Gain Breakdown:
Net: 1592 ft / 485 m; Extra: 110 ft / 33m
Loss on way in:
110 ft / 33 m
2.5 mi / 4 km
Tempela Tr, etc.
Start Trailhead:
Fern Canyon Rd 980 ft / 298 m
Descent Statistics
Loss on way out:
1592 ft / 485 m
2.9 mi / 4.7 km
Fern Creek Tr, etc.
End Trailhead:
Fern Canyon Rd 980 ft / 298 m
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Interbus is a private shuttle service in Costa Rica and they pretty much fucked us OVER. bitches.
Interbus has rules and regulations and I understand that. I also don't believe D'Angelo and myself deserve any special treatment because of what we do, although, often times people do seem to go out of their way to make sure things go well for us. We can't do anything about that and to be honest, sometimes it's nice to have a perk or two thrown our way.
We booked Interbus to take us from La Fortuna to Puerto Viejo and back again. We've used them many times in the past and accept for breaking down once, they've always been reliable.
We did not know they had a 'no pets' policy. Technically, Pincho is a dog but if ferrets had big pointy ears, he could pass. But, he is a dog and I get it. If we were attempting to be sneaky or purposely break the rules, I would totally understand why Interbus did what they did but alas, that wasn't the case.
D'Angelo and I were the only ones on the Interbus van for the first 3 1/2 hours of our trip. We did not hide the fact we had a dog, but he was in a small type of duffel bag/dog carrier thingy and I can understand how the driver may have missed him. He also didn't hear him for 3 1/2 hours BUT he did see him when we stopped for a 45 minute break and waited for our connection van which would take us the rest of the way. During the break, Pincho was on a leash, sniffing and peeing on bushes while the driver was talking to D'Angelo about random nothings. The driver didn't even MENTION the Interbus pet policy.... pussy.
We switched vans and drivers and this second Interbus van was full, about 9 people I think. Not one realized we had a dog with us, nor did the driver.
We learned about the 'pet policy' after we checked in at our hotel. Apparently the first driver phoned the 'powers that be' and informed them of the infraction. I'm thinking he called at about the same time Pincho was peeing on the wheel of the Interbus van. To bad Pincho wasn't a big ass elephant... chihuahua pee just doesn't have the same effect.
Rules are rules and I'm not looking to be the exception but I am expecting a little discretion, judgment, options, compromise or responsibility... SOMETHING.
Our friends at Gecko Trail Adventures were trying to help us out since they booked it in the first place. Nothing worked. Rules are rules DAMN IT! Interbus took ZERO responsibility and offered NOTHING, not even to help us find alternative transportation. "Welcome to Puerto Viejo and fuck you very much...oh, good luck getting back home."
I only know this- Interbus is a private company, they had... and have flexibility and could have exercised a little discretion. They chose NEITHER.
So Interbus, your mom's visiting Russia and something similar happens to her and the transportation company leaves your dear old mother stranded. Do you find this lack of problem solving as an acceptable behavior from a company that deals with tourists and various issues on a daily basis.....? One WORD for you Interbus, well maybe THREE- "GRAY LINE motherfucker."
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