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Charter Communications is buying Time Warner Cable for $55.1 billion and Bright House Networks for $10.4 billion, in a major consolidation of the US cable industry. Here are the details: If the deals are approved by regulators, they would combine the second- (TWC), fourth- (Charter), and tenth-largest (Bright House) cable companies in the US, with a combined 23 million customers….
Story highlights Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, is struck by a tornado At least 13 deaths have been reported It is the same storm system causing floods in Texas At least 13 people were killed, including three children, Acuña Mayor Evaristo Lenin Perez said. Another 200 were injured. Photos from the scene, which sits right across the…
Photo Ada Colau, center, a leftist candidate, won a race for mayor of Barcelona, Spain’s second-largest city. Another left-leaning candidate, Manuela Carmena, is poised to become Madrid’s mayor. Credit Josep Lago/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images MADRID — Ada Colau, 41, was not even born when Manuela Carmena, 71, joined Spain’s underground Communist party and started…
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has been tweeting up a storm since Ireland became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage by a national vote. When an Irish fan tweeted to the best-selling children’s book writer with the hope that Ireland’s vote would make wizards like Albus Dumbledore feel more welcome in the country, Rowling…
La Razon, May 25, 2015 “Instability,” reads the Monday headline of conservative Madrid daily La Razon, after the strong showing of two upstart parties in Spain’s local and regional elections threatened the longstanding two-party duel between the Popular and Socialist parties. The conservative Popular party of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy suffered its worst local results in a generation, losing some of its support in Sunday’s voting to…
http://www.redlettermedia.com – As the summer movie season approaches and you see many trailers in the theater. Remember, secretly they are all the same. ▶ All Trailers are the Same!!! – YouTube.
http://www.patreon.com/jimquisition http://www.thejimquisition.com We’ve talked about “stock Unity assets” on this show before, but what does that mean? Well, it’s time to look at the ramifications of asset flipping – buying pre-made characters, objects, and environments from other developers, and re-selling them with no alterations. From whole asset packs resold under new names, to Unreal Engine…
Internet-media mogul Matt Drudge heavily skewered Republican leadership on Twitter Friday night, after the GOP-led Senate approved enhanced trade negotiating authority for President Barack Obama. “Twisted DC: Electing Republicans is guarantee of MORE powers for Obama… of course none of them read ‘secret’ bill!” Drudge tweeted. The Drudge Report founder then set his sights on…
A tease of the black & white version of the film, which George Miller has promised will appear on the Blu-ray… https://twitter.com/russfischer/status/60188… ▶ Mad Max: Fury Road – B&W Trailer – YouTube.
Black and White and Silent This is a big, explosive, colorful, loud movie. Indeed, there was a very definite plan behind making this film as colorful as possible: We spent a lot of time in DI (digital intermediate), and we had a very fine colorist, Eric Whipp. One thing I’ve noticed is that the default…