Now that Comcast has started delivering its video on-demand to TiVo Premieres, the company has now revealed the second area where access will be turned on is Boston, starting Monday. The news was announced in a tweet from Head of Corporate Communications Steve Wymer, and as Gizmo Lovers notes, was likely held back as Comcast announced its own X1 platform would launch soon in Boston as well. We're now more than a year past the original announcement, hopefully this is just the start of the rollout as it picks up the pace, if the two companies work well together maybe Comcast could be on the list for that six-tuner Pace box at some point.
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That?s a painstaking and expensive process that limits the amount of information that can feasibly be collected. So since 1850, the bureau has, in one way or another, conducted a separate, related, longer survey that includes more questions and gives the government more detailed information. The ACS, which as of 2005 replaced the old long-form census, is a questionnaire sent to a random sample of the American population. Combined with some follow-up interviews, the ACS allows the government to paint a statistical portrait of American life. Thanks to the ACS, curious journalists can offer facts on a wide variety of subjects. Many Americans, for example, are concerned about the English-language acquisition of immigrant families and might be interested to learn that while only 55 percent of U.S. residents who speak Spanish at home say they know English, fully 77 percent of the under-18 population in such households speak English. Younger generations, in other words, are learning English, just as the children of immigrants always have.?
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When Anderson Cooper launched his daytime talk show eight and a half months ago, he knew that many of his interview subjects would be less…dignified types than the ones he questioned on his news show, Anderson Cooper 360. But on Tuesday's episode of Anderson, he was so disgusted by his guest that he actually stopped the interview. Watch the awkward moment here:
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A variation of a theme??
For the past several years I?ve held the opinion?that folks writing television and film scripts are pretty much ?Out of Ideas?.? I would normally say that these card-carrying-union screenwriters?are ?Devoid of original thought?, but this would not be in keeping with today?s post.?
More on this in a moment.??
Hollywood?s best and brightest (yes, these ?real??writers)?re-hash?frayed plot lines, release?films based upon Hasboro Toys (from when I was a?kid), and resurrect for the ?Big Screen??television shows from the 1980?s with reckless abandon.? The main difference here,?of course, is that the resurrected ?R-Rated? big-screen version of the original 1970 ? 1980?s era television show sports more profanity than Bob Beckel does on??Hannity?.? ?
So what do Hollywood, New York, profanity, writers, and re-hashing of plots have to do with today?s post?? Well, not much, other than the fact that these literary hacks, and current Progressives fall back on the same formula time after time. ? ?
Please?allow me a moment to elucidate my thoughts here,?so that your?thinking?will be translucent, transparent, and transformed?? Like mine [evil laugh]
[This is your?final warning - if you do NOT want to think as I do, stop reading this post NOW!]
THE ORIGINAL THEME:? As illustrated?by the Newsweek cover above, the Media asks the question:? ?Why are Obama?s Critics So Dumb????
YESTERDAY?S?VARIATION OF THE THEME:? ?Is Congress Getting Dumber??
Yes, this headline?appeared online yesterday on news sites across the nation.?
And no, I?m not making it up.
Let?s go there, shall we?
?Let the sun shine, let the sun shine in the sun??
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As reported, NPR, May 21, 2012:
Sophomoric? Members Of Congress Talk Like 10th-Graders, Analysis Shows
Every word members of Congress say on the floor of the House or Senate is documented in the Congressional Record. The Sunlight Foundation took the entire Congressional Record dating back to the 1990s and plugged it into a searchable database.
Lee Drutman, a political scientist at Sunlight, took all those speeches and ran them through an algorithm to determine the grade level of congressional discourse.
?We just kind of did it for fun, and I was kind of shocked when I plotted that data and I saw that, oh my God, there?s been a real drop-off in the last several years,? he says.
In 2005, Congress spoke at an 11.5 grade level on the Flesch-Kincaid scale. Now, it?s 10.6. In other words, Congress dropped from talking like juniors to talking like sophomores.
Flesch-Kincaid equates higher grade levels with longer sentences and words with more syllables.
For example, just one sentence from the member of Congress with the highest grade ranking, Rep. Dan Lungren, a Republican from California, goes on for 62 words. (That sentence: ?This Justice Department, in my judgment, based on the experience I?ve had here in this Congress, 18 years, my years as the chief legal officer of the state of California and 35 or 40 years as a practicing attorney tells me that this administration has fundamentally failed in its obligation to attempt to faithfully carry out the laws of the United States.?)
Lungren?s grade level during this session of Congress: 20. Overall since 1996: 16.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Georgia Republican Rep. Rob Woodall registers the second-lowest grade level: 8.01.
An example of Woodall?s speech: ?What do they say about socialism, Mr. Speaker? It?s a great plan until you run out of other people?s money. Guess what? We?ve run out of other people?s money. I just want to show you a chart.?
That?s five sentences, an average of about 7.5 words per sentence.
?My mother will probably be embarrassed to hear this news,? Woodall says, ?but I?m glad to know I?m not obfuscating our challenges with words that are too complicated.?
Woodall is part of the large freshman class that came into Congress in 2010 ? many of them backed by the Tea Party movement. Sunlight?s Drutman says this infusion of new members looks to be part of the reason for the overall grade-level decline.
?Particularly among the newest members of Congress, as you move out from the center and toward either end of the political spectrum, the grade level goes down, and that pattern is particularly pronounced on the right,? he says.
Of the 10 members speaking at the lowest grade level, all but two are freshmen, and every one is a Republican. For the record, though, Drutman isn?t passing judgment about whether speaking at a lower grade level is a good thing or a bad thing?
According to this NPR Article, Freshmen Republicans are idiots, rubes, and they have a tendency to speak ?at the lowest grade level? of any who have ever had ?Congressman?, or ?Senator? title preceding their names, right?
The funny thing is that this report appearing in the NPR article included a chart.? I copied this chart and added two lines.??
The first line, the BLUE line indicates when Congress first became 100% under control of the Democrats.??
The second line, the RED line, indicates when the Republicans were sworn in following the 2010 elections.?
Please note the direction of each line as it pertains to these two date-specific?events:
Blue line = Democrat Rule = Continued lowering of grade-level of speech
Red line = Republican Rule (House only) = Increases in the grade-level of speech
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If we take this chart at face value, we can say that according to the ?Flesch-Kincaid algorithm? (was this designed by ?Al Gore? by any chance?) that the Grade Level of ?speech? began its descent in 2005 under Republican rule of the House and Senate.?
This ?fall? continued until 2011,?led by?100% leadership?between the years?2007 ? 2010 by??
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However, as noted above, the chart appears to indicate a rise is ?adult grade speech? once the Republicans took over the House again in early 2011.
But, hey, wait a second, isn?t this almost the EXACT OPPOSITE of what the?NPR author is attempting to convey to us their narrative?
I?ll end the post with an excerpt from the actual report from the ?Sunshine Foundation?:
Does it matter??
Earlier this year, the University of Minnesota?s Smart Politics noted that Obama?s 2012 State of the Union address clocked in at an eighth-grade level for the third year in a row, and that Obama?s average grade level of 8.4 was well below the average of 10.7 for the previous 67 addresses. Fox News ran the story alongside the image of a child in a dunce cap, and right-wing blogs mocked the President?s intelligence.
?[Moos Note:? See, it does NOT seem to?matter, if it's the President speaking out loud, in public...]
Others pointed out that maybe speaking clearly was a good thing. After all, the SOTU speech was pretty much right at the level of the average American?s reading level. And writing gurus like George Orwell (?If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out?) and Strunk & White (?omit needless words?) famously advise simplicity.
[Moos Note:? It STILL does NOT matter, in fact, it's a GOOD thing to speak to Americans whose educational system has given them an average,?'dumbed down', reading level!]
?But whether you see it as plain speak or you see it as a dumbing down, the data are clear: The overall complexity of speech in the Congressional Record has dropped almost a full grade level since 2005. And those on the political extremes, especially those on the far right, tend to be associated with the most simple speech patterns.
[Moos Note:? Oops, if you're a Conservative Republican it DOES matter, because, well, because you're a Conservative Republican!? How do YOU PEOPLE feed yourselves without biting off your own tongues?]
Yes, just another reason why YOU PEOPLE should never be in control of anything.? You?d probably spoof prior photos of the President and run covers like this:
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You are bad people.? You must be controlled.
You do not understand good things even when they happen to you.??
You are disloyal.? You are racist.? You are uneducated.? You are what 100 years of Progressive?policies intended you to be.? Unworthy of an opinion and full of hate.
Have a nice day.??
No, wait, I take that back.??
Have another mediocre day in Year 3 of the Reign of Obama.?
Lastly, before I forget, I scored this post on the ?Flesch-Kincaid? algorithm.??
When I included the entire article (the above ?as is?) it scored an 8.96 grade level result. ?
When I removed the NPR and Sunshine Foundation excerpts above, this post?s score rose to 9.57.??
One may ?infer? that I write at a higher level than the folks writing for either NPR or Sunshine Foundation.? I?m not saying that this actually MATTERS, but I find it interesting.
Have an interesting day yourself ? see you around the blogyard!? ? ? ?
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How species diversity is maintained is a fundamental question in biology. In a new study, a team of Indiana University biologists has shown for the first time that diversity is influenced on a spatial scale of unparalleled scope, in part, by how well tree seedlings survive under their own parents.
Scientists have long considered conspecific negative density dependence (CNDD), a process where the mortality of a species rises in coincidence with its increasing abundance, to be a key mechanism maintaining diversity at the local scale. In new research to be published Friday in the journal Science, the IU researchers show that this mechanism is driving diversity from the boreal forests to sub-tropical forests.
The report, "Conspecific negative density dependence and forest diversity," is authored by Daniel Johnson, a doctoral student in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Biology. Co-authors are Wesley T. Beaulieu, also a doctoral student in the Department of Biology, and biology professors James D. Bever and Keith Clay, Johnson's major advisor.
Their work analyzed data on forest composition from over 200,000 plots containing more than 1.3 million trees and from paired plots containing over 1.7 million seedlings of 151 different tree species. The plots were located from the Canadian border south to Florida and from the Atlantic coast to the 100th meridian and covered over 1.5 million square miles. The U.S. Forest Service spends about $62 million each year to gather the publicly available forest inventory data used in the IU study.
"We are now able to provide robust evidence that CNDD is pervasive in forest communities from boreal to sub-tropical regions and that it can significantly affect the relative abundance and richness of species with and between forests," Johnson said. "And we now see that the ability to which one tree species can sustain itself in the same area has profound impacts on the diversity of species at a spatial scale that has not been attainable previously. This is the first time it's been shown to be happening not just at a local spatial scale but over the entire eastern US."
The concept of CNDD is based on the well-known Janzen-Connell hypothesis, which proposes that the close proximity of adults reduces seedling survival of that species through increased attack by host-specific pests and pathogens.
Studies of CNDD in the past have mostly focused on forest communities at single sites or of a single species, with the most recent work showing that in tree species, composition and abundance can be influenced by CNDD at the scale of individual trees.
"Local interactions have previously been considered to affect species diversity at a local scale, but our findings indicate that local interactions feed back to species richness and abundance over much larger geographical scale, spanning most of eastern North America," Johnson said.
Evidence that local interactions underlie regional species richness is in contrast to the current understanding that patterns of forest diversity are primarily driven by temperature, precipitation and other physical aspects of the environment. This discovery has implications for how forest modeling is conducted and conservation and management decisions are made.
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