I don’t know where this last week went …. have you seen it any where? There’s a reward waiting for anyone who can get it back to me.
And the YouTube clause makes it all OK? I don’t think so. But it will make it easier for us to post videos from Jon Stewart and Saturday Night Live.
Comcast-NBC joint venture approval expected Tuesday
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski threw his support behind the deal in late December with a number of conditions. Among them, senior FCC staff said the joint venture would have to commit to assurances that it wouldn’t stifle competition in the fast-evolving online video market.
To that end, sources said the company may also be required to share NBC content with Internet companies, such as YouTube and Roku, if other networks, such as CBS and Walt Disney, are doing so.
Justice is expected to impose conditions that prohibit “anti-retaliatory” moves by the joint venture against competitors and partners. As Justice did in the merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation, the new company couldn’t retaliate against any venue owner that chooses to use another company’s ticketing services or promotional services.
First of all — 35-40 kids taking Advanced Placement macroeconomics …. in high school? What’s that about? And then they make the kids GO to the school to work at a computer lab? Are pajamas allowed in the dress code? Because otherwise it just doesn’t seem fair.
Florida Has Classes Without Teachers
These virtual classrooms, called e-learning labs, were put in place last August as a result of Florida’s Class Size Reduction Amendment, passed in 2002. The amendment limits the number of students allowed in classrooms, but not in virtual labs.
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Under the state’s class-reduction amendment, high school classrooms cannot surpass a 25-student limit in core subjects, like English or math. Fourth- through eighth-grade classrooms can have no more than 22 students, and prekindergarten through third grade can have no more than 18.Alix Braun, 15, a sophomore at Miami Beach High, takes Advanced Placement macroeconomics in an e-learning lab with 35 to 40 other students. There are 445 students enrolled in the online courses at her school, and while Alix chose to be placed in the lab, she said most of her lab mates did not.
“None of them want to be there,” Alix said, “and for virtual education you have to be really self-motivated. This was not something they chose to do, and it’s a really bad situation to be put in because it is not your choice.”
Knowing full well the Republicans have no real intention of changing anything, I can’t wait to see how people feel about this bill if the subsidies are stripped from it. Can you imagine that mandate without any subsidies? How can they guarantee all that sweet, sweet cash to the insurance companies without subsidies? I have to laugh at the thought that they’re seriously planning to cut funding:
Repeal vote just the first step for Republicans on health care
The real work begins immediately afterward, with Republicans using every legislative and political tool at their disposal to wage a two-year campaign against the overhaul. And there won’t be anything subtle about this slow-drip strategy as Republicans aim to erode public confidence in the law and, they hope, make it so politically unpalatable that even some Democrats turn against it.
And it seems that we’ll be substituting “passion” for “overheated” in the future. Don’t forget:
House Set to Launch Health Law Challenge
Both sides, though, may try a little harder to keep the debate from becoming overheated. President Obama and Republicans alike reject claims that political rhetoric contributed to the shooting last Saturday in Arizona. But the president urged Congress to keep the discourse “worthy” of the victims. And in the days following, House Speaker John Boehner has noticeably avoided describing the bill as the “job-killing” health care law.
Instead, Boehner substituted the term “job-destroying” during Republicans’ retreat in Baltimore over the weekend. And in a post on his official House speaker blog Monday, his office referred to the policy as the “job-crushing” heath care law, which contained “job-destroying” taxes and requirements.
That doesn’t mean the name of the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act” will change. Sources say it will not. It doesn’t mean either side will do away with the dire warnings about what’s at stake. But it suggests lawmakers may show a tad more restraint in setting the terms of a debate which is unavoidably passionate.
It looks like Steve Jobs medical fight continues. It’s really bad news, but at least he should be able to pay his bills:
Apple’s Steve Jobs takes medical leave
For the second time in two years, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is taking leave of absence from the company because of a medical condition, according to a letter Jobs sent to Apple employees.
“At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical leave of absence so I can focus on my health. I will continue as CEO and be involved in major strategic decisions for the company,” Jobs says in the letter.
Tim Cook, Apple’s chief operating officer, will take control of the company in Jobs’ absence.
I don’t think this is going to be a surprise to anyone who’s lost a lot of weight all at once. I thought it was from the diet changes but, it doesn’t surprise me that fat cells hide pollutants in addition to fat. They’re already storing fat so we know they have no loyalty to us at all.
Weight loss may send pollutants into bloodstream
Body fat stores certain pollutants, including such pesticides as DDT and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). If a person loses weight and significant amounts of body fat are broken down, these chemical compounds, known as persistent organic pollutants, are released and can lead to disease, said researchers from Kyungpook National University in Daegu, South Korea.
“The strong dogma on weight change is that weight loss is always good while weight gain is always bad,” but that may not always hold up, said study researcher Dr. Duk-Hee Lee, a professor at the university.
Hypertension, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and rheumatoid arthritis have been linked to persistent organic pollutants, Lee said.
While some people were shocked I thought Ricky Gervais was the best thing about the Golden Globe ceremony the other night:
Globes host Ricky Gervais explains ceremony absence
In the latter part of the show, having been off stage for a lengthy period of time, a more subdued Gervais appeared, prompting speculation he had been told to tone down his act.
But Gervais insisted: “I was allowed to choose who I would introduce in advance. I obviously chose presenters who I had the best jokes for, and who I knew had a good sense of humour.
“Everyone took it well and the atmosphere backstage and at the after show was great.”
US critics appeared divided, with The Los Angeles Times saying his jokes set “a corrosive tone” for the night.
Jon Stewart ‘Offended’ by Rickey Gervais’s Golden Globes Comedy
On the other hand:
Last night, Jon Stewart weighed in on the debate over whether or not Ricky Gervais blew it at the Golden Globes, admitting that he was “offended that a comedian could be that funny at an awards show.”
So, I think we’ve settled THAT.
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The Confluence 
Does that mean liposuction is better than dieting?
Just wondering…
Btw, I have no idea where last week went either. I Blame … never mind. 🙂
I think it’s another reason for sloooow weight loss. Limit how much of that crap hits you at once.
I can’t really imagine that surgery would be better. But, then I’ve got a serious fear of surgery. So, take my opinions with a grain of salt. (every 4 hours)
I was saying earlier, my lipo comment was snarky. A lot of people have died from botched lipos.
Good point about slow weight loss!
I would also add that drinking a lot of water flushes out the toxins so they don’t have chance to hang around.
I imagine taking anti-oxidants while dieting might also help.
If anyone is interested, here is my view of what is going on
http://www.correntewire.com/primary_wars_have_begun
Violet’s site is down. I hope it’s just from too many hits and not a dos attack or hack.
Heheheh! I found Ricky Gervais wicked! And funny … and wicked funny!
And those trying to shame him with some sort of “come-back”, came off as both petty and humourless.
Loved the way Robert de Niro totally cracked up. He looked so fun loving and human. 🙂
Gervais reminded me of Stephen Colbert at the Correspondent’s dinner.
The live audience hated him but people at home were ROFL
He was great. And funny. Funny and great.
And he is also second to none in the category “cringeworthy embarrassing”, lol!
I thought he was great! Even Johnny Depp showed total delight in the joke made at his expense. It would be a shame to have anyone take offense at a Ricky Gervais joke and miss the humor.
Absolutely agree. When I saw Johnny Depp’s reaction he rose substantially in my estimation. 🙂
Via Uppity, the leading contender for the 2010 Darwin Award:
omg. 😯
{spit take}
is that for real???
Don Kirshner dies at age 76:
Lieberman calls it quits ~
http://www.nytimes.com/
And Sargent Shriver dies (on same page of your link).
Sargent Shriver passed away today, too.
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“Vatican warned Irish bishops not to report abuse”
“DUBLIN – A 1997 letter from the Vatican warned Ireland’s Catholic bishops not to report all suspected child-abuse cases to police — a disclosure that victims’ groups described as “the smoking gun” needed to show that the church enforced a worldwide culture of covering up crimes by pedophile priests.
The newly revealed letter, obtained by Irish broadcasters RTE and provided to The Associated Press, documents the Vatican’s rejection of a 1996 Irish church initiative to begin helping police identify pedophile priests following Ireland’s first wave of publicly disclosed lawsuits.
The letter undermines persistent Vatican claims, particularly when seeking to defend itself in U.S. lawsuits, that Rome never instructed local bishops to withhold evidence or suspicion of crimes from police. It instead emphasizes the church’s right to handle all child-abuse allegations and determine punishments in house rather than give that power to civil authorities.”
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To this day, the Vatican has not endorsed any of the Irish church’s three major policy documents since 1996 on safeguarding children from clerical abuse. Irish taxpayers, rather than the church, have paid most of the euro1.5 billion ($2 billion) to more than 14,000 abuse claimants dating back to the 1940s..
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110118/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ireland_catholic_abuse
But wait! Didn’t the church beatify John Paul II yesterday? How could such a saintly man approve of this policy? Oh, wait, I forgot that it only took 400 years for the guys in red beanies to apologize to Galileo about the heliocentric theory.
So much for the churches claims of infallibility.
So funny about the fat cells having no loyalty for us. Best line I’ve read all day.
Sounds like fat cells are holding us hostage.
” Eat the twinkie or I release the toxins.”
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Holed up in the house hoping they find the person who gunned down a man just up the road from me. The killer waited for the man to get home then stepped out of the woods and shot him and the woman who was with him. The man died at the scene and the woman escaped into the woods with a cell phone and called the police. The woman was found and Life Flighted to the hospital. The killer then fled the scene in the mans truck and abandoned it at a lake close to my house. They are still looking for the suspect. I probably won’t sleep well tonight.
For the record I don’t think S.P. had anything to do with this.
Yeesh. That’s scary. Be safe, native1.
Thanks I’ll try. To make matters worse it is a full moon and clear sky so critters are moving around outside making the dog bark non stop. Yep I’ll be awake all night.
Please tell me you have at least one gun and know how to use it.