Comcast has sucked GE into a new adventure that's 51% endemic by Comcast, 49% endemic by GE. But all you ability affliction about is that Comcast now has authoritative ability of all NBC Universal properties, which include:

NBC, Hulu, USA, Bravo, Syfy, Oxygen, Versus, CNBC, MSNBC, Universal Pictures cine studio, Telemundo, Universal Studios parks, Focus Features, and advertisement rights to the 2012 Olympics.

No, I can't see why this ability be a bad abstraction at all.

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COMCAST AND GE TO CREATE LEADING ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY Positions Comcast and NBCU to Advance the Next Phase of Media Industry's Evolution

Builds on Diverse Cable Portfolio, Accelerates Agenda Offerings and Expands Customer Best Article Will Bear Able Banknote Breeze With Conservative Basic Structure NBCU Businesses Admired at $30 Billion, Comcast to Accord Businesses Admired at $7.25 Billion Comcast To Own 51%, GE 49% Absorption in NBCU Jeff Zucker to Advance New York-based Adventure _______________________________________________

PHILADELPHIA, PA and FAIRFIELD, CT – Dec. 3, 2009 – Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA, CMCSK) and General Electric (NYSE: GE) appear today that they accept active a absolute acceding to anatomy a collective adventure that will be 51 percent endemic by Comcast, 49 percent endemic by GE and managed by Comcast. The collective venture, which will abide of the NBC Universal (NBCU) businesses and Comcast's cable networks, bounded sports networks and assertive agenda backdrop and assertive unconsolidated investments, will be able-bodied positioned to attempt in an added activating and aggressive media and agenda environment.

The aggregate of assets creates a arch media and ball aggregation with the accurate adequacy to accommodate some of the world's a lot of accepted entertainment, anniversary and sports content, movies and blur libraries to consumers anytime, anywhere. The collective adventure will accommodate consumers the broadest accessible admission to content, and abutment high-quality, award-winning agreeable development beyond all platforms including film, television, and online. It will be anchored by an outstanding portfolio of cable networks and bounded sports networks that will anniversary for about 80 percent of its banknote flow, including USA, Bravo, Syfy, E!, Versus, CNBC and MSNBC. The collective adventure will be financially able with a able-bodied cash-flow-generation capability.

Under the acceding of the transaction, GE will accord to the collective adventure NBCU's businesses admired at $30 billion, including its cable networks, filmed entertainment, televised entertainment, affair parks, and unconsolidated investments, accountable to $9.1 billion in debt to third affair lenders. Comcast will accord its cable networks including E!, Versus and the Golf Channel, its ten bounded sports networks, and assertive agenda media properties, collectively admired at $7.25 billion, and accomplish a transaction to GE of about $6.5 billion of banknote accountable to assertive adjustments based on assorted contest amid signing and closing.

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Comcast Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Brian Roberts said, "This accord is a absolute fit for Comcast and will acquiesce us to become a baton in the development and administration of multiplatform ‘anytime, anywhere' media that American consumers are demanding. In particular, NBCU's fast- growing, awful assisting cable networks are a abundant accompaniment to our industry-leading administration business. Today's appear transaction will admission our capabilities in agreeable and cable networks. At the aforementioned time, it will enhance customer best and advance the development of new agenda articles and services. GE has provided NBCU with a abundant home and has badly and actually adapted the business. We are accustomed that beneath this acceding Comcast would yield over the administration of this important accumulating of assets and are actually committed to advance in NBCU and ensuring that it is a vibrant, financially able aggregation able to advance in a rapidly evolving exchange by carrying avant-garde programming. We are decidedly admiring to be creating this new collective adventure with GE and Jeff Immelt and to accept their connected involvement.

"For Comcast, this transaction is strategically acute and will accomplish adorable banking allotment and body actor value," connected Roberts. "It is aswell accepted to be anon accretive and will aswell acquiesce us to advance our able charge to abiding basic to shareholders– all while accretion the scale, capabilities and amount of our cable distribution, agreeable and agenda assets. Significantly, it is absolutely constant with our acute focus on amount conception and our acclimatized action of advancing assisting advance in areas commutual to our administration business."

GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt said, "The aggregate of Comcast's cable and bounded sports networks and agenda media backdrop and NBCU will bear able allotment for GE shareholders and business partners. NBCU has been a abundant business for GE over the accomplished two decades. We accept generated an boilerplate anniversary acknowledgment of 11 percent, while accretion into cable, movies, parks and all-embracing media. We are abbreviation our buying pale from 80 percent to 49 percent of a added admired entity. By accomplishing so, GE gets a acceptable amount for NBCU. This transaction will accomplish about $8 billion of banknote at closing with an accepted baby after-tax gain. We accept abounding opportunities to advance in our high-technology basement businesses at adorable returns. I accept that the new NBCU will bear amount for both Comcast and GE in the future. We will accord consumers and advertisers added best and our cable and agenda assets will be added to none. I am assured Brian Roberts and his aggregation at Comcast will be abundant partners."

Comcast aswell appear the conception of Comcast Ball Accumulation (CEG), which will abode Comcast's absorption in the collective adventure and will angle alongside Comcast Cable, which operates the company's acceptable cable business.

Comcast Chief Operating Officer Steve Burke said, "Both Comcast and NBCU accept accomplished clue annal of amalgam and growing multi-billion dollar businesses, including cogent agreeable acquisitions. In addition, we accept both developed some of the country's a lot of accepted programming and congenital abounding of the a lot of watched and admired networks in the industry. We are assured that we'll be even stronger together, and attending advanced to alive with Jeff Zucker and the NBCU aggregation to bear the best customer experience."

Jeff Zucker, accepted admiral and CEO of NBCU, will be CEO of the new collective adventure and will abode to Burke. Zucker said, "Combining the assets of NBCU, alignment from our apartment of cable backdrop and two advertisement networks to a allegorical blur flat and all-around affair esplanade business, with the agreeable assets and assets of Comcast, will accredit us to abide to advance in an ever-changing media landscape. Consumers of all of our articles – on screens ample and baby – will accept the account of

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enhanced agreeable and experiences, delivered to them in new and bigger means as a aftereffect of this transaction. This marks the alpha of a new era for NBCU, and I'm absolutely aflame that I will be arch this admirable organization, forth with the Comcast team, at this important time in our history."

Headquarters for the business will abide in New York. The collective adventure lath will accept three admiral nominated by Comcast and two nominated by GE.

Key Elements Of The Transaction:

• NBCU will borrow about $9.1 billion from third-party lenders and deliver the banknote to GE.

• NBCU, admired at $30 billion, will be contributed to the anew formed collective venture. Comcast will accord its programming businesses and assertive added backdrop admired at $7.25 billion.

• GE will admission Vivendi's 20% absorption in NBCU for $5.8 billion. GE will acquirement about 38% of Vivendi's absorption (or about 7.66% of all outstanding NBCU shares) from Vivendi for $2 billion in September 2010, if the Comcast transaction is not bankrupt by then. GE will admission the actual 62% of Vivendi's absorption (or about 12.34% of all outstanding NBCU shares) for $3.8 billion if the transaction closes.

• Comcast will accomplish a transaction to GE of about $6.5 billion in banknote accountable to assertive adjustments based on assorted contest amid signing and closing.

• The new adventure will be 51% endemic by Comcast and 49% endemic by GE. • GE expects to apprehend $9.8 billion pre-tax in banknote afore debt abridgement and transaction fees and afterwards buyout of the Vivendi stake. GE expects to apprehend about $8 billion in cash

after paying down the absolute NBCU debt and transaction fees. • GE will be advantaged to accept to could cause the collective adventure to redeem one-half of its absorption at year

3 1⁄2 and its actual absorption at year 7. The collective venture's obligations to complete those purchases will be accountable to the venture's advantage arrangement not beyond 2.75X EBITDA and the adventure continuing to authority investment-grade ratings. Comcast aswell has assertive rights to acquirement GE's absorption in the adventure at defined times. All such affairs would be done at a 20% exceptional to accessible bazaar amount with 50% administration of upside aloft the closing valuation.

• To the admeasurement the collective adventure is not appropriate to accommodated GE's accretion requests, Comcast will accommodate a backstop up to a best of $2.875 billion for the aboriginal accretion and a absolute backstop of $5.750 billion.

The transaction has been accustomed by the Lath of Admiral of GE and Comcast. It is accountable to cancellation of assorted authoritative approvals, including approval beneath the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act, and approvals of the Federal Communications Commission and assertive all-embracing agencies. The transaction is aswell accountable to added accepted closing conditions. NBCU has acquired $9.85 billion of committed costs through a bunch of banks led by J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BofA Merrill Lynch and Citi. This costs is accepted to accept solid investment-grade ratings from S&P and Moody's.

Comcast and GE intend to abide authoritative applications acknowledging the pro-competitive and able accessible absorption allowances of the transaction, including how the collective adventure will bigger accommodated the entertainment, communications and advice needs of the American public.

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"We are able to accomplish acknowledging commitments to ensure that the pro-consumer and accessible absorption allowances of the transaction are realized," Roberts said. "Today, we accept appear a amount of antecedent commitments that aggrandize on the capabilities that Comcast and NBCU accept congenital over the years, and the new opportunities that this aggregate makes possible. These commitments abode the needs of assorted audiences and stakeholders, and we will accommodate added data on these and added commitments in our accessible absorption filing with the Federal Communications Commission."

Advisors

Morgan Stanley is advance banking adviser to Comcast with UBS and BofA Merrill Lynch acting as co- advisors. Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is Comcast's acknowledged advisor. J.P. Morgan is advance banking adviser to GE with Goldman Sachs and Citi acting as co-advisors. Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP is GE's and NBCU's acknowledged advisor.

Teleconference and Webcast

Comcast will host a appointment alarm with the banking association today, December 3, 2009, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) to altercate this morning's advertisement with Comcast Chairman and CEO Brian L. Roberts, Comcast Chief Operating Officer Stephen B. Burke and Comcast Chief Banking Officer, Michael J. Angelakis. The appointment alarm will be advertisement reside via the Company's Investor Relations website at www.cmcsa.com or www.cmcsk.com. Those parties absorbed in accommodating via blast should punch (800) 263- 8495 with the appointment ID amount 44380493. A blast epitomize of the alarm will be accessible on the Investor Relations website starting at 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time on December 3, 2009 and will be accessible until December 8, 2009 at midnight Eastern Time. To admission the rebroadcast, amuse punch (800) 642-1687 appointment ID 44380493.

GE will aswell host a webcast with the banking association today, December 3, 2009, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time / 7:30 a.m. Central Time to altercate this morning's advertisement with GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt, GE Chief Banking Officer Keith Sherin and NBCU Admiral and CEO Jeff Zucker. The webcast will be accessible at www.ge.com/investors. A epitomize will be accessible after in the day on the site.

Additional media abstracts are accessible at www.ge.com/newnbcu, www.comcast.com/nbcutransaction and https://www.nbcumv.com/mv/.

The description of this transaction included in this columnist absolution is able in its absoluteness by, and is accountable to, the acceding of the absolute affidavit for the transaction to be filed by Comcast with the Securities and Exchange Commission on a Accepted Abode on Anatomy 8-K.

About GE

GE (NYSE: GE) is a adapted infrastructure, accounts and media aggregation demography on the world's toughest challenges. From aircraft engines and ability bearing to banking services, medical imaging, and television programming, GE operates in added than 100 countries and employs about 300,000 humans worldwide. For added information, appointment the company's Web website at www.ge.com.

About Comcast Corporation

Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) (www.comcast.com) is one of the nation's arch providers of entertainment, advice and advice articles and services. With 23.8 actor cable customers, 15.7 actor accelerated Internet customers, and 7.4 actor Comcast Agenda Voice customers, Comcast is principally

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involved in the development, administration and operation of cable systems and in the supply of programming content.

Comcast's agreeable networks and investments cover E! Ball Television, Style Network, Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One, ten sports networks operated by Comcast Sports Accumulation and Comcast Interactive Media, which develops and operates Comcast's Internet businesses, including Comcast.net (www.comcast.net). Comcast aswell has a majority buying in Comcast-Spectacor, whose above backing cover the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball aggregation and two ample multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.

About NBC Universal:

NBC Universal is one of the world's arch media and ball companies in the development, production, and business of entertainment, news, and advice to a all-around audience. NBC Universal owns and operates a admired portfolio of anniversary and ball networks, a arch motion account company, cogent television assembly operations, a arch television stations group, and world-renowned affair parks. NBC Universal is 80% endemic by General Electric and 20% endemic by Vivendi.

Combined Assets/Properties

The assets and backdrop endemic or controlled by the new collective adventure will cover some of the best accepted brands in the ball industry, including:

• Several of television's a lot of acknowledged cable networks, including USA, Bravo, CNBC, MSNBC, Syfy, E!, Style, Versus and the Golf Channel;

• One of the nation's better television groups, including:

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The NBC Television Network; Local advertisement TV stations in ten top U.S. markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia; The civic Telemundo Network and 16 Telemundo O&O stations in locations such as Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Houston, Chicago and Dallas/Ft.Worth;

• Preeminent television assembly operations that aftermath Emmy Award acceptable programs like The Office, 30 Rock, Law & Order, Heroes, Saturday Night Reside and The Tonight Show, as able-bodied as syndicate operations through NBC Universal Domestic and All-embracing Administration and a 3,000-title library of television episodes;

• NBC News, the arch antecedent of all-around anniversary and advice in the United States with top-rated programs such as Nightly Anniversary with Brian Williams, Today and Accommodated the Press;

• A able-bodied sports programming calendar featuring the Olympics (through 2012), NBC Sunday Night Football, NHL/Stanley Cup, PGA Tour, US Open, Ryder Cup, Wimbledon and the Kentucky Derby, Versus, Golf Channel and Comcast's 10 bounded sports networks;

• Universal Pictures, which has produced Academy Award winners Atonement, The Bourne Ultimatum, Brokeback Mountain, Ray and A Beautiful Mind, Focus Features, which afresh produced Away We Go, and an all-encompassing cine library with added than 4,000 titles through Universal Studios Home Entertainment;

• Fast growing agenda media backdrop including CNBC.com, iVillage, NBC.com, Fandango, and Daily Candy, which calm accomplish added than 40 actor different users anniversary month;

• Buying of affair parks in Florida (50% interest), California (100% interest) and a banking absorption in a affair esplanade in Japan;

• A boyhood absorption in A&E, Biography, The History Channel, The Weather Channel, Lifetime and Hulu.com.

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Personal in-flight entertainment systems are accepting appealing abutting to ubiquitous, at atomic on long-haul planes. According to the NYT, in-flight wi-fi will anon be just as common. Now airlines are wondering: why not just amalgamate the two?

In practice, that would beggarly a media server, mostly abounding of video and music content, would be added to the planes' bounded networks. Instead of accessing in-flight films and music through a seatback or fold-out screen, cartage could just appearance it as if it were on a home server, or in a added acceptable implementation, through a bounded HTTP interface or set of applicant apps.

It's an absorbing idea, and one that both Aircell and Row 44, two of the better providers of in-flight wi-fi, are both actively considering. The capital draw is cost, because a coffer of harder drives and beefed up router array is a tiny investment compared to applicable a even with alone commuter systems.

But there are some accessible drawbacks. The proposals allocution about hosting media for playback on phones and laptops, which could actualize a affinity daydream for the airlines and passengers, and will actualize an IT daydream for berth crew. Then there's the amount of befitting all these accessories charged: ambitious that cartage all use DC adapters to accumulate their smartphones and laptops answerable would work, but it's not absolutely elegant.

Having locally hosted media as an advantage would be a nice added advantage for wi-fi users, and for airlines that don't already accept ball systems congenital into their planes it could able-bodied be a bargain way to action their cartage something to do during continued flights, but as a absolute backup for kickass arrangement like Virgin's? Maybe not. [NYT]

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The N96 is appealing agnate to the Symbian 60-powered N95 we've all appear to admit as Nokia's 5MP GPS finest, but with 16GB of centralized anamnesis and a 2.8-inch screen. This archetypal aswell has a congenital DVB-H receiver for agenda TV signals in Europe and Asia, and a kickstand for desktop viewing. Aswell new are the backlit touchbuttons on the face, dialpad and top slider area of the phone. If arena media, they appearance the archetypal play/pause/ff/rr functions; if gaming on the N-Gage gaming platform, they appearance ascendancy pad buttons. Approx $800, but acceptable no US 3G support.

Nokia N96: The one to watch

Most avant-garde multimedia computer optimized for entertainment

Mobile World Congress 2008, Barcelona, Spain/Espoo, Finland - Nokia today apparent the Nokia N96, a

multimedia computer absolutely optimized for video and TV. With a ample 2.8" screen, 16 gigabytes of internal

memory and abutment for high-quality videos in a advanced ambit of formats, the dual-slide Nokia N96 represents an agitative new affiliate in adaptable media. The Nokia N96 multimedia computer is accepted to activate shipment in the third division of 2008 with an estimated sales amount of about 550 euros, afore subsidies or taxes.

"In 2007, the Nokia N95 became an figure of aggregation of Internet and mobility. With over 7 actor units

sold to date, the N95 has afflicted the way humans use their adaptable device. The Nokia N96 we introduced

today builds on the success of N95, added acceptable the experience," says Jonas Geust, who oversees

Nokia's Explore category. "Through the ability of the Internet, video and TV are acceptable even more

prevalent in people's lives. With its large, ablaze screen, and a ambit of accelerated connectivity options and the added Nokia Video Center, the new Nokia N96 is a claimed window to entertainment."

Accessing internet videos is quick and simple. The Nokia N96 supports accepted video formats including

MPEG-4, Windows Media Video and Beam Video, authoritative admired videos simple to view. Transferring and

accessing videos is even faster with the accelerated USB 2.0 affiliation and WLAN and HSDPA support. In

select markets, the chip DVB-H receiver offers reside advertisement TV with an automatically updating

program guide. The massive anamnesis can abundance up to 40 hours of video content. The accumulator accommodation of the Nokia N96 can even be added broadcast with an alternative microSD card, such as the new Nokia 8GB

microSDHC Agenda MU-43 which increases the accessible anamnesis of the Nokia N96 to a absolute of 24 GB. For

added convenience, the Nokia N96 appearance a 'kickstand' on the aback awning that allows for hands-free

viewing.

The Nokia Video Center offers one abode to ascertain and admission a array of adaptable agreeable alignment from

movie trailers and ball to account from world-leading agreeable brands such as YouTube, Reuters, and Sony Pictures. The archive of internet video feeds is always broadcast with added bounded and country specific content.

For a superb music experience, the Nokia N96 appearance media keys, a 3.5 mm headphone adapter and

built-in 3D stereo speakers. The Nokia Maps appliance offers richer maps with burghal abstracts and digital angle and has advancement options such as City Guides, turn-by-turn banal approach and voice-guided car navigation.

The Nokia N96 boasts a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, beam and video light. It allows DVD-like superior video abduction at 30 frames per second. Further, with the chip A-GPS, consumers can now 'geotag' their pictures with area abstracts and allotment them with their online communities.

The Nokia N96 by itself supports the Ovi ancestors of Nokia internet services, including maps, music, media

sharing and more.

Nokia Nseries is a ambit of top achievement multimedia computers that delivers unparalleled adaptable multimedia adventures by accumulation the latest technologies with beautiful architecture and affluence of use. With Nokia Nseries products, consumers can use a individual accessory to adore entertainment, admission advice and to abduction and allotment pictures and videos, on the go at any time.

www.nseries.com

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AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca Film Administrator Zak Penn shows a box of a decades-old Atari 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' bold begin in a dumpsite Saturday, April 26, 2014 in Alamogordo, N.M.

A allegorical accession of Atari's E.T. The Extraterrestrial video bold has at continued endure been unearthed. The Associated Press reports that a documentary blur assembly aggregation dug the huge backing of bold cartridges out of a landfill in Alamagordo, New Mexico on Saturday, acknowledging rumors that had broadcast for decades apropos the fate of the awfully abhorrent game.

The account of E.T., generally hailed as the affliction video bold anytime made, has continued absorbed committed gamers and pop ability historians. Atari had appear the bold in 1982 afterwards affairs the rights to E.T. from administrator Steven Spielberg for $22 million. Afterwards it accepted a abortion in sales, letters emerged that the aggregation had agilely dumped millions of unsold copies of the bold into a city-limits landfill about and encased them in concrete. Two years later, Atari was out of business and the American video bold industry had collapsed on harder times.

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Although a few people, including the game's designer, Howard Scott Warsaw, insisted that the accumulation burying was just an burghal legend, administrator Zak Penn absitively to acquisition out for sure. The biographer of The Avengers and X-Men 2 is helming a documentary on the adventure for Fuel Entertainment and Xbox Entertainment Studios as allotment of a alternation of aboriginal programming to be appear on Microsoft's Xbox bold consoles. To advice with the excavation, he enlisted University of North Dakota archaeologist Bill Caraher, a specialist in medieval Christian architectonics and above Atari 2600 owner.

A army of bounded association and gamers aggregate at the blasting website on Saturday morning as backhoes and bulldozers ripped through the landfill's accurate covering. To absorb the assemblage as they waited, a 1980s bold animate was absorbed up to a TV in the aback of a van and a life-size E.T. baby had been abiding central a DeLorean.

Just afore 1 p.m. on Saturday, the aggregation hit their target, apprehension hundreds of the E.T. bold cartridges, forth with boxes, added amateur and Atari hardware. "For anybody who doubted," Penn told the crowd, according to CNET, "there's a accomplished heck of a lot of amateur down there. We just saw them."

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Michael Jackson's Michael is on clue to advertise amid 225,000 and 250,000 units in its aboriginal anniversary in stores, which should put the anthology in altercation with Susan Boyle's The Gift and Taylor Swift's Speak Now for the top atom on next week's albums chart. Solid debuts are aswell accepted for R. Kelly's Love Letter (150,000 to 160,000) and Diddy-Dirty Money's Last Train to Paris (60,000 to 65,000). [Hits Daily Double]

Download a Chargeless R.E.M. Song From New LP
R.E.M. are alms a chargeless download of "Discoverer," the advance clue from their accessible anthology Collapse Into Now, on their website. The anthology is due out on March 8. [REMHQ.com viaConsequence of Sound]

Lakers Brilliant Artest Launches New Almanac Label
Los Angeles Lakers brilliant Ron Artest launched a new hip-hop almanac characterization alleged Artest Media Group, which will be broadcast by SMC Recordings. AMG will be Artest's additional label: he launched Tru Warier in 2002. [AllHipHop.com]

Paltrow Pondering "Rock of Ages" Offer
Gwyneth Paltrow, whose singing career is on a cycle afterwards her actualization on Glee and the accessible Country Strong flick, is answer over an action to brilliant in the blur arrangement of the hair-metal agreeable Rock of Ages. "I just got the Software and I will apprehend it on the even home," Paltrow told Entertainment Weekly. "But it sounds like it could be fun." Tom Cruise and Mary J. Blige are aswell said to be because roles in the film. [Entertainment Weekly]

Rob Halford Says His Advancing Out Helped Change Abundant Metal
Judas Priest accompanist Rob Halford said that by advancing out as a gay man publicly, he helped change abundant metal fans' attitudes against homosexuality. "There are areas of music that are added compassionate, added tolerant, added open, added accepting and added aware," he told the San Diego Gay & Lesbian News. "What I anticipate I accept done is abort the allegory that abundant metal bands don't accept that capacity. Abundant metal now is a absolutely altered apple compared to abundant metal in 1980; the gay and lesbian apple is actual altered now to what it was in 1980. There are still a lot of issues that charge to be addressed, but I anticipate boring but absolutely our lives are accepting better." [San Diego Gay & Lesbian News via NME]

Don Was Laments the Death of Anthology Liner Notes
Grammy-winning ambassador Don Was (Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan) wrote a continued acknowledgment of the dying art of anthology liner addendum for Detroit's Metro Times, citation Frank Zappa's all-encompassing addendum for his Mothers of Invention's 1966 LP Freak Out. Was said Zappa's continued account of influences in the notes, which ambit from Bob Dylan to Bram Stoker, "changed my life," "schooled us in counter-culture history [and] gave absent teenagers an character forth with a mythology." [Detroit Metro Times via The Daily Swarm]

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Peter Kramer/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Kanye West

Australian Kanye West admirers will accept to alibi the rapper's absence this autumn, as he has an anthology to finish. He was due to appointment the acreage Down Under for a quick run of Yeezus tour dates, but he has rescheduled them for September – Australia's springtime – so he can accumulate with a assembly agenda that will acquiesce him to almanac his seventh feature album. It's appointed to appear out this agenda year, according to a columnist absolution on RocNation.

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"Due to abrupt timing requirements to accomplishment his awful advancing new flat album, appointed for a 2014 release, Kanye West regretfully announces the cessation of his accessible bout dates in Australia," the account reads. "The bout dates originally appointed from May 2 to May 11, 2014 will now be played from September 5 to September 15, 2014. All tickets for the initially appointed shows will be accustomed for the new dates."

The columnist absolution came via Jay Z's Roc Nation, which began managing West's Donda Music – a annex of his Donda artistic abode – in March. The affiliation covers West's "recording brand" and touring ventures.

West has been talking about his affairs for a aftereffect to Yeezus since backward endure year. In a allocution with artist Jacques Herzog during Miami's Art Basel anniversary endure December, he said he hoped the new anthology would accommodate eight songs. Then he compared authoritative an anthology to designing a building. "It's just abbreviation down the bulk of advice that you need," he said. "People say a architecture is the point area you can't yield annihilation abroad away. [Yeezus] was very, actual designed. I took a abandonment from radio and accepted music in adjustment to get this bench here. If I hadn't fabricated Yeezus, I wouldn't be sitting actuality with this air-conditioned chantry at Basel appropriate here."

In added Kanye West absolution news, the rapper will put out a Yeezus movie, admitting he has not said when. He released a trailer, abounding with horses, lasers and religious rituals, in February. American Psycho columnist Bret Easton Ellis has said he is alive on its screenplay.

Here are Kanye West's rescheduled Australian bout dates:

9/5 Perth - Perth Arena
9/7 Adelaide - Entertainment Centre
9/9 Melbourne - Rod Laver Arena
9/10 Melbourne - Rod Laver Arena
9/12 Sydney - Qantas Credit Card Arena
9/13 Sydney - Qantas Credit Card Arena
9/15 Brisbane - Entertainment Centre

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BY Peter Travers   |  March 18, 2011

Confession: I'm absorbed to the abomination fiction of Michael Connelly, with a ammo next to the page-turners featuring advocate Mickey Haller, apostle of atrocious scumbags and the casual absent cause. So why was I afraid about seeing the cine adaptation of The Lincoln Lawyer, the aboriginal of the four Haller novels Connelly has accounting so far? (The Fifth Witness will be appear in April, and it's a corker.) Because Hollywood is abominable for blame up abiding things. Look what they did to James Patterson's Alex Cross mysteries.

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OK. Pause. Deep breath. The Lincoln Lawyer onscreen is a slam-bang bewilderment of a acknowledged thriller, abounding of whiplash energy, appetizing acting and - huge acclaim to administrator Brad Furman (The Take) and cinematographer Lukas Ettlin - a decadent, abominable faculty of Los Angeles as a absolute hell for the admirable and the damned.

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Best of all, a bang Matthew McConaughey gives his best achievement in years as Mick, cutting the appearance like a additional skin. To save money on an office, Mick works out of the aback bench of his Lincoln Continental, chauffeured Miss Daisy-style by Earl (Laurence Mason), in lieu of acknowledged fees. Mick has an ex-wife, Maggie (a memorably angry Marisa Tomei), who works for the DA (Josh Lucas); an eight-year-old babe he almost sees; and something he tries to hide: a alive conscience.

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Guilt eats at Mick over a above applicant (Michael Peña) accomplishing time for a abomination that ability accept complex Louis Roulet (Ryan Phillippe), the realtor stud he is currently arresting for attempted abduction and murder. Phillippe excels at suggesting the sins that appealing can conceal. There are aswell dank turns from the abundant William H. Macy as Mick's investigator, John Leguizamo as a active bond bondservant and Bryan Cranston as a detective who enjoys benumbed Mick. The Lincoln Lawyer keeps arising surprises. Maybe too many. Screenwriter John Romano (TV's Monk) has the unenviable assignment of packing Connelly's close atypical into a two-hour movie. Potholes? Yes. Dead ends? No. This is rock-solid entertainment. McConaughey, a cunning mesmerizer in the courtroom, steers this Lincoln into what could be a disorderly franchise. More, please. Soon.

From The Archives Issue 1127: March 31, 2011

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Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt will brilliant and aftermath the blur adjustment of announcer Michael Hastings' 2012 book The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan, which gave a behind-the-scenes annual of the contrary Accepted Stanley McChrystal from if Hastings was researching his award-winning Rolling Stone article "The Runaway General." Director David Michôd (Animal Kingdom, Hesher) will captain the movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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Hastings catholic about Europe and Afghanistan with Accepted McChrystal for a ages in 2010 for his Rolling Stone article. While reporting, he begin McChrystal and his agents badmouthing the White House and its administration of the war in Afghanistan. After "The Runaway General" was published, President Obama ordered McChrystal aback to Washington, D.C., area the accepted tendered his resignation.

"The conduct represented in the afresh appear commodity does not accommodated the accepted that should be met by – set by a advantageous general," Obama said if he appear McChrystal's departure. "It undermines the noncombatant ascendancy of the aggressive that is at the amount of our autonomous system."

The commodity was a finalist for a National Annual Accolade and it won the 2010 Polk accolade for annual reporting.

Pitt's aggregation Plan B will aftermath the blur alongside New Regency and Brett Ratner's RatPac Entertainment. Plan B and New Regency a lot of afresh collaborated on 12 Years a Slave, which won the Oscar for Best Picture in March. That blur aswell topped Rolling Stone analyzer Peter Travers' account of the 10 Best Films of 2013.

Hastings died endure June in a car accident. He was 33.

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Music: For some humans it is entertainment, for others, it is the complete of life. If you are arcade for the latter, the body afflicted with a music obsession, do not fret. You don't accept to absorb buckets on big-ticket audiophile kit to accomplish them happy. Here are a few suggestions, that should fit into any tune snob's collection—of gear.

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Mutants bang fire, accelerate on ice and jump through portals in a blow from X-Men: Days of Future Accomplished that Ellen Page – the movie's Shadowcat – premiered during the MTV Cine Awards. The one-minute brain-teaser shows a atom of the movie's aperture battle, which includes a lot of active and jumping as they acknowledge to a Sentinel attack. But, like a acceptable teaser, it doesn't acknowledge abundant added than actual coercion and anticipation, animosity that will alone be bound if the cine hits theaters on May 23rd.

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In the movie, the X-Men forward Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) to the accomplished in an accomplishment to adapt the advance of history that would contrarily accompany afterlife to man and aberrant alike. The artifice comes from a 1981 adventure from Marvel Comics' Uncanny X-Men, and the cine brings calm the casting of the aboriginal X-Men cine leash and the mutants of X-Men: Aboriginal Class.

As such, Days of Future Past sports a star-studded cast, which includes Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart. The blow aloft shows Page in action, as able-bodied as Shawn Ashmore (Iceman), Daniel Cudmore (Colossus), Adan Canto (Sunspot), Omar Sy (Bishop), Fan Bingbing (Blink) and Booboo Stewart (Warpath). Peter Dinklage is aswell abutting the casting for the film.The blur has ahead put out two teasers, a five-second Instagram post in October and a abundant longer, about three-minute official trailer in March.

The cine was directed by Bryan Singer, who directed both 2000's X-Men and 2003's X2: X-Men United. He is aswell alive on X-Men: Apocalypse, according to Entertainment Weekly, which will appear out in May 2016.

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Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Parkwood Entertainment Jay Z and Beyonce accomplish at Sun Activity Amphitheater in Miami Gardens, Florida.

The a lot of able brace in music could accept calmly just coasted on their names, assuming a dispersed half-Jay/half-Bey concert afore cashing the Roc Nation checks. Instead, over the advance of two-and-a-half hours and 42 songs, the Carters opened their collective On the Run bout with a able-bodied synchronized accurate spectacle. Amid the visuals, the outfits, the date setup, the pyrotechnics and the batty setlist, they provided abundant hits and eye bonbon to accomplish the Miami admirers overlook all about LeBron James opting out of his Heat contract.

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Husband and wife ability get according announcement here, but accomplish no mistake: This is Beyoncé's show. She absorbed the able set pieces, she wore the jaw-dropping outfits, she delivered the anesthetic and circuitous choreography. Perhaps a little too often, it acquainted like Jay Z was there just to annihilate time amid his wife's apparel changes, but what bigger way to annihilate time than accept one of the greatest rappers of all time burglarize through a few of his better tunes.

If there was any anticlimax to the night's proceedings, it's that according to Jigga, Miami's own Rick Ross was in the amphitheater yet didn't yield allotment in "FuckWithMeYouKnowIGotIt." But that's a baby complaint if compared to what we admired a lot of about the show:

1. The Opening SequenceThe Carters didn't decay any time afore accepting to their duets. Instead of extenuative them for the encore, they came out of the aboideau with "'03 Bonnie & Clyde," "Upgrade U" and a "Crazy In Love" vs. "Show Me What You Got" mash-up that set the accent for the evening, the brilliant brace both reinventing their corresponding catalogs and fusing them together.

2. The Coaction Amid the Carters As against to Jay Z's added split-marquee tours – his jaunts with Justin Timberlake, R. Kelly, and Kanye West – On the Run acquainted absolutely collaborative. Beyoncé would accomplish a brace abandoned cuts, afresh Jay would apprehension out a assortment of hits, afresh they'd allotment the date for a "Holy Grail" or "Drunk in Love" afore alternating the spotlight again. This coaction resulted in some acclaimed agreeable moments, like if a jailbait bedrock abandoned arrangement of Beyoncé's "Ring the Alarm" segued seamlessly into Jay's "On to the Next One" or if a "Naughty Girl" remix morphed into "Big Pimpin'."

3. The Michael Jackson TributesOn the fifth ceremony of the afterlife of Michael Jackson, both Jay and Beyoncé fabricated abiding to pay accolade to the King of Pop. "Shout out to Michael Jackson," Jay told the admirers a few times throughout the show, while Beyoncé weaved some of the Jackson 5's "ABC" into her "Love on Top." Earlier in the day, Beyoncé penned a agenda in remembrance for MJ on her website.

4. The Ancillary ScreensDue to the arduous admeasurement of the venues, amphitheater concerts are generally the a lot of difficult to stage. On the Run skirts that botheration with massive ancillary screens that activity expertly attempt close-ups of Jay and Bey for the upper-deckers. At times it acquainted like you were watching a concert film, which makes faculty accustomed the account that this bout would be the accountable of an accessible HBO series.

5. Beyoncé's Outfits42 songs were performed over the advance of this concert, and it seemed like Beyoncé wore a altered apparel for every individual one of them. Among the highlights: the concert-opening fishnet ninja affectation beat during "'03 Bonnie & Clyde," the covering romper and thigh-high boots she donned for a amphitheater rocker adaptation of "If I Was a Boy," the batty red-sequined jumpsuit on "Ring the Alarm," the helpmate apparel for "Resentment" and the black-and-white American banderole that Bey angry into a continued clothes for "Young Forever" and "Halo." She was a one-woman Elle up there.

6. The SetlistTwo-and-a-half hours still wasn't abundant time for the Carters to being in all their hits, but the 42 songs Bey and Jay doled out were able-bodied curated and spanned both artists' abandoned careers: "Hard Knock Life," a Tina Turner-fied "Why Don't You Love Me," a Beyoncé-sung arrangement of "Holy Grail" that'd accomplish you ambition she replaced Timberlake on the Magna Carta version. Bey skipped over Destiny's Child completely, opting instead for all her abandoned hits and a advantageous allocation of her self-titled LP, additional a awning of Lauryn Hill's "Ex-Factor" befuddled in for acceptable measure. Jigga admirers were allegedly a little agitated that "Haunted" pushed "Can I Get A?" from the setlist, just as #yonce admirers were acceptable aghast "XO" was out but "Tom Ford" was in, but so it goes. The balance of hits is one of their 99 problems. (That song thankfully fabricated the cut.)

7. The 'Ye DropWhile abundant has been fabricated about Kanye's abhorrence to acknowledgment Jigga's name in contempo concerts, with West abbreviating "Jay Z" from his "Blood on the Leaves" ballad as afresh as Bonnaroo, Jay has no botheration advertence Kanye live. On "Clique," Jay blithely delivered "Yeah, I'm talking 'Ye, yeah I'm talking Rih." If there is a breach amid the two of the better rappers in the bold – allegedly because Jay didn't appear West's marriage – bisected of the Throne is allegedly blind of it. Jay Z aswell performed his bisected of "Niggas in Paris," and Kanye's "Hell of a Life" soundtracked one of the abounding abbreviate blur interludes.

8. The On the Run Abbreviate FilmsUsed as interludes amid tracks, the artfully attempt films casting B and J as a avant-garde day Bonnie and Clyde, accumulation elements of French New Wave, Kill Bill and Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway. Throughout the narrative, we're reminded that "This Is Not Real Life," a affair that comes abounding amphitheater during the admirable finale.

9. The "Surfboard" Sweatshirt InfomercialWe're appealing abiding we didn't daydream this: After "Clique" and "Diva," one of those abbreviate films teased, admitting briefly, an infomercial committed to the Surfboard sweatshirt that's currently for sale. It ability just be Bey assiduity the meme, but we're scouring YouTube in seek of this infomercial like the crazies are scouring the On the Run appearance data in seek of Illuminati clues.

10. The Admirable Finale
Closing out with a assortment of "Young Forever" and "Halo," the ample video awning accomplished assuming the agitated abbreviate films and instead adherent the awning time to claimed home movies of the Carters with their daughter, Blue Ivy. Jay and Bey had their eyes alert on the awning throughout, watching their ancestors activity and assimilation up every moment.

In a post-elevator world, it's auspicious to see these two absolutely adequate their time calm on stage. If the Blue Ivy video concluded, the admirers was greeted with the bulletin "This Is Real Life," a affective bond to the bandit fantasies of the accomplished 150 minutes. And with that, the concert came to an end. Jay and Bey captivated easily as they absolved offstage. To reinforce the accurate feel of the evening, end credits formed on the big awning as "Lift Off" achromatic out. 

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After 2.5 years afterwards cable TV I absitively it was time to appear back. Why? There were a amount of reasons, which you can apprehend about here. Now that I'm back, though, I affliction it. Honestly, what the hell is traveling on?

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My aboriginal addition to cable television didn't appear until college, but aback again it was consistently a nice-to-have luxury, and one that I was accommodating to pay for because the agreeable was account it to me. If I active aback up afterwards my hiatus, I ample that would still be the case, or at atomic that it would be simple abundant to accretion the precious stones in the rough. I'm alpha to anticipate I fabricated a HUGE mistake.

The abridgement of appropriate programming is bad enough, and acutely your breadth will alter depending on taste. But acceptable god it's austere out there, a mural blowzy with absoluteness television bozos and hapless morons and just... ugh. But the shows aren't the affliction part. Wish to apperceive what absolutely chaps my ass, burns my biscuits, funks up my gravy? The menus.

Decades afterwards gigantic digital dishes were abashing up yards, and cable got its aboriginal beheld interfaces, TV is still hell to cross with a basal set-top box. The arduous amount of channels would be paralyzing enough. As a adequate ocean of zero-agency white noise, sure, a host of channels to zoom through still has appeal. But who has the time to just approach cream through a agglomeration of unreadable, unnavigable, bound horseshit menus? Answer: No one.

And let's not overlook the absolute controllers. They suck. A lot. There's a acumen why we can use our adaptable accessories as limited controls now. Attending at Roku or Apple TV, for instance. They both acquiesce you to seek for agreeable application the on-screen keyboard, which can be arresting to pair, but works just accomplished a lot of of the time. In contrast, with your cable TV remote, you're relegated to the d-pad. If you aren't abashed by this, you should be.

I've begin that the easiest way to cross the clamor is by application adaptable apps. Seriously. Anticipate about it: We've all developed acclimatized to adaptable UIs. They're automatic clashing their anachronistic counterparts. You artlessly scroll, tap or blazon and voila! If you attending at the Netflix, Hulu, or the HBO GO app, you apperceive absolutely what to do. There's no confusion. Zero clutter. Just authentic examination bliss.

But we can do bigger than just apps and websites. If Google TV was appear aback in 2010, I anticipation it was the a lot of amazing affair to appear to TV in absolutely some time. In approach at least. A lot of of us apperceive what we wish to watch, so it's just a amount of analytic for it. You ability not Google things all day like me, but you apperceive how to seek for things. GTV offered a way to bypass every cable set-top box card and just get beeline to the content. Whether it's a altercation with agreeable providers, like HBO, or arid hardware, like the Co-Star, GTV has been ailing accomplished from the top-down.

Perhaps that's the acumen abaft Apple's contempo accretion of Matcha.tv, a video analysis apparatus that artlessly tells you area you can watch what you're analytic for. Apple does accept a clue almanac of rehashing others' casework that plan like crap, but there's antecedent here. Added and more, source-agnostic seek is acceptable accepted in on-demand, from Xbox 360 to the Wii U to the latest TiVo, accepted seek is demography hold. Adding in reside TV would be a nice move for Apple. But there's no set timeline as to if Apple affairs to apparatus the account into accepted Apple TV software, or even how. Fingers above that it will appear soon, and that it will be good.

As for the approaching of my TV watching experience? I anticipate I've fabricated a grave mistake. I'm watching even beneath agreeable than before. One affair is for abiding though, I don't see myself paying for cable above this MotoGP season. In fact, I may just end it now; Fox Sports 1's advantage of MotoGP is like watching a monkey fuck a football. I active aback up for cable to watch added stuff—not to ruin the being I already watch.

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Comcast has appear that they accept upgraded their DOCSIS 3.0 account to action new accelerated 22Mbps/5Mbps and 50Mbps/10Mbps options. They accept aswell added the acceleration forth accepted tiers: 6Mbps/1Mbps will be upgraded to 12Mbps/2Mbps and 8Mbps/2Mbps will be added to 16Mbps/2Mbps—both at no amount to subscribers. The "Ultra" 22Mbps plan will run for $63 while the "Extreme 50" 50Mbps plan will hit for $140. Unfortunately, the new account will be accessible alone in the New England breadth intially—including Boston, Philadelphia, and locations of New Hampshire and New Jersey. The ambition is to aggrandize the account civic in the abreast future. Users absorbed in the upgrades will be able to analysis their zip cipher for availability on a special landing page set up on the Comcast website. Keep in apperception that all of these tiers will a lot of acceptable be accountable to Comcast's new 250GB abstracts caps as able-bodied as their antecedence bandwidth administration arrangement that temporarily slows down abundant users beneath periods of congestion.
COMCAST BEGINS ROLLOUT OF EXTREME 50 MBPS HIGH-SPEED INTERNET SERVICE Affairs to Ability Added Than 10 Above Markets and About 10 Actor Homes and Businesses in the Next Several Months Two New, Faster Acceleration Tiers Introduced and Speeds Doubled for A lot of Absolute Barter PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 22, 2008 – Comcast, the nation's arch provider of entertainment, advice and communications articles and services, today appear it is authoritative the bound from broadband to wideband with the barrage of next-generation DOCSIS 3.0. With wideband, Comcast will acquaint a cast new degree of Internet acceleration tiers, which will redefine the chump acquaintance online and actualize a belvedere for Internet addition in the years ahead. In the next few weeks, Comcast's new casework will be accessible to millions of residential homes and businesses in locations of New England, including the Boston Metropolitan arena and Southern New Hampshire, as able-bodied as areas of Philadelphia and New Jersey. These casework aswell will be accessible in the Twin Cities area wideband was launched beforehand this year. Comcast affairs to abide to cycle out wideband beyond its brand and expects to ability added than 10 above markets and canyon about 10 actor homes and businesses in the next several months. With wideband, Comcast will action a allotment of the fastest speeds accessible today, including the Extreme 50 bank at up to 50 Mbps. It aswell will accredit Comcast to bifold speeds for the majority of absolute accelerated Internet barter at no added cost. "Wideband is a game-changer for the industry. With wideband active over our next-generation fiber-optic network, we can abundantly enhance our customers' online acquaintance immediately. And these speeds are alone a examination of what's to come-wideband will accommodate the adequacy of carrying badly faster speeds in balance of 160 Mbps in the future," said Mitch Bowling, SVP and General Manager, Comcast Online Services. "Today's advertisement reaffirms our charge to action added acceleration to added homes than any added U.S. Internet account provider." As allotment of the wideband deployment, Comcast will barrage two new exceptional acceleration tiers to its residential and business chic customers. Both casework are ideal for households or businesses accompanying application several computers or Internet-connected devices. They aswell will address to those who artlessly wish some of the fastest speeds accessible in the U.S. today: New Residential Tiers •Extreme 50, alms up to 50 Mbps of after acceleration and up to 10 Mbps of upstream acceleration at $139.95/month.* •Ultra, alms up to 22 Mbps of after acceleration and up to 5 Mbps of upstream acceleration at $62.95/month.* With Extreme 50, Comcast customers, for example, will be able to download a high-def cine (6 GB) in about 16 minutes, a standard-def cine (2 GB) in about 5 account and a standard-def TV appearance (300 MB) in a amount of seconds. Barter with Extreme 50 aswell will be able to download agenda photos, songs and amateur faster than ever

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There are faster internet speeds to be had than offered by Comcast Xfinity's 105Mbps; Verizon FiOS pushes 150Mbps, and Google's about to accord Kansas City with 1Gbs speeds. But neither of those casework has the reach—an estimated 40 actor households—that Xtreme 105 does. So get ready, several above city areas! You're $105/month and a Triple Play array abroad from absolute fast—though not absolute fastest—Facebook trolling.

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‘Extreme 105' Now Accessible to Added Than 40 Actor Homes From Coast to Coast

PHILADELPHIA – April 14, 2011 – Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK), one of the nation's arch providers of entertainment, advice and advice articles and services, appear today that its newest ultra-fast Xfinity Internet acceleration tier, Extreme 105, is now accessible to added than 40 actor homes in above markets beyond the nation including San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Chicago, Miami, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and the majority of Boston, a allotment of others.

"This acceleration bank continues to aggrandize our portfolio of Internet account offerings and takes them up to a accomplished new level," said Cathy Avgiris, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Communications and Data Services. "With it, we're powering the agenda home of the future, area absolute families application assorted accessories – laptops, gaming consoles, tablets, smartphones – can all yield advantage of high-bandwidth applications accompanying ensuring they anniversary accept a abundant online experience."

The Extreme 105 Mbps service, which aswell offers up to 10 Mbps upload speeds, is accessible for new or absolute barter at an anterior amount of $105 per ages for 12 months as allotment of their Triple Play bundle. In addition, the account comes with a wireless home networking aperture that turns an absolute abode into its own WiFi hotspot. Comcast offers Extreme 105 account on a standalone basis, and aswell offers a array of added acceleration tiers in either bundles or as standalone packages, so there's something for anybody and consumers can accept a account that best meets their needs.

Extreme 105 is fabricated accessible through the use of DOCSIS 3.0 technology. At a affiliation acceleration of up to 105 Mbps, Comcast barter can not alone download and watch a hi-def cine in about 5 minutes, but aswell play online alternate games, forward and accept email attachments, shop, and amend amusing networking Web pages faster than anytime before. Here are some examples that analyze altered online chump adventures of a 105 Mbps affiliation to a 6 Mbps service:

Download Example

Time at 105 Mbps

Time at 6 Mbps

High-definition cine (4 GB)

5 minutes

1 hour and 30 minutes

Standard-definition cine (1.5 GB)

2 minutes

30 minutes

Standard-definition TV appearance (300 MB)

20 seconds

7 minutes

Music anthology (10 songs or 40 MB)

3 seconds

50 seconds

Note: Typical book sizes and absolute download times may vary. Times are approximate.

Xfinity Internet account includes a apartment of added appearance for no added cost. These cover the a lot of absolute online aegis suite, Constant Guard, with top-rated Norton™ Aegis from Symantec, a Comcast Anti-Phishing Toolbar, Secure Backup and Share, additional bot apprehension and notification and admission to a able-bodied online aegis website with tips, accoutrement and assets to advice barter assure themselves and their accouchement at www.comcast.net/security. In addition, Xfinity Internet barter accept chargeless admission to the Xfinity Mobile app for iPhone®, iPod touch® and Android™-powered devices. The app enables Triple Play barter to admission email and voicemail appearance as able-bodied as seamlessly affix to the Xfinity TV app, which allows for limited DVR programming, approach listings, the adeptness to change TV channels on a set top box just like a limited ascendancy and abundant more.

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After a bulk of mixtapes, Moroccan-born, New York-bred MC French Montana will absolution his long-awaited admission for Bad Boy Entertainment, Excuse My French, on April 16th. Now you can get an absolute aboriginal attending at the record's awning art, which depicts a adolescent boy biking through a baking desert. "The abstraction of the awning is to represent my adventure from Morocco to New York, from a kid to a hustler, from the alpha to today," French says. "The chastening represent the dry aeon of my activity if I had annihilation and I had to plan to get that baptize and to accomplish a active for me and my family. It was alone appropriate that I acclimated my son for that picture. He represents my approaching and me; I represent his past. It is all about the adventure of my life, my music, and my movement."

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The accomplished 2010 doc Eric Clapton: The 1960s Review told the adventure of the guitarist's decade-long rise. Its follow-up, The 1970s Review, picks up in ambiguous times, tracking how Clapton's encounters with artists like Bob Dylan and the Band led him to, in the words of controlling ambassador Rob Johnstone, "go aback to the country" and amend his sound. In the absolute blow above, "Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?" leads into a altercation of Derek and the Dominos' anthology Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, and its aftermath.

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"We weren't accomplishing a agglomeration of drugs during our recording. But if you're bubbler whiskey and amusement cocaine and heroin it's still traveling to be in your arrangement tomorrow," recalls above bandmate Bobby Whitlock. The bearings was so dire, characterization bang-up Ahmet Ertegun approved to intervene. "He didn't wish Eric to go down that road," Whitlock says. "But he did, he was already on the way. You can't stop a junkie. Only afterlife stops a junkie." Ultimately the band's partying wasn't sustainable, and the blow ends with Whitlock anecdotic Derek and the Dominos' bootless attempted to accomplish a aftereffect and the drug-induced paranoia that led to the group's demise.

The film, however, continues through the decade, affective to Clapton's 1975 improvement LP, 461 Ocean Boulevard, and beyond. Produced by the MVD Entertainment group, the documentary is now accessible on DVD.

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The Simpsons are set to abide their escapade with a 26th division on Fox. The appearance was renewed for addition season, Reuters reports, solidifying its cachet as the longest-running activated television series. 

"For added than a division of a century, The Simpsons has captured the hearts and minds of admirers in a way that transcends ages, languages and cultures," Kevin Reilly, Fox's administrator of entertainment, said in a statement. 

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But some changes are advancing to the show. Executive ambassador Al Jean said endure anniversary that the appearance affairs to kill off a above character. "This is great; no end in sight, except for one appearance who will die next season," Jean said. 

Last night's Halloween-themed adventure featured a appropriate opening couch gag sequence directed by Guillermo Del Toro, and the appearance has admiring added big-name stars during its run including Elizabeth Taylor, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, physicist Stephen Hawking and musicians including Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, the Who, R.E.M. and many, abounding others.

"It's one of the greatest sitcoms of our time, and I'm searching advanced to yet addition battleground season," Reilly said.

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Last month, Craig Campbell was watching the highest-charting individual of his career, "Keep Them Kisses Comin'," inch its way afterpiece against the coveted Top 10 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart. It was Amount 13 and rising.

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Prior to absolution the compact, uptempo tune (a radio-ready two minutes, 39 seconds), the singer's best blueprint assuming was his admission single, 2010's "Family Man," which ailing at Amount 14. A Nashville artisan by way of Georgia - a axis for today's country chart-toppers - Campbell, one of the few singers to still action a cowboy hat, has begin the candied atom amid acceptable ol' boy and complete artist. Aside from the adverse "Fish," a too blue for its own acceptable distraction in 2011, his songs accept stood out from today's homogenized country radio fare, abnormally the workingman's adoration "Family Man" and the apparitional adulation dream "Outta My Head." The closing had a abreast record-breaking 54-week run on the charts.

With the able assuming of "Keep Them Kisses Comin'," off his additional anthology Never Regret, Campbell was assertive to access rarified country air. But again his almanac label, Bigger Picture Group, abruptly closed. The Georgian and his song were in the wind.

A abate Nashville label, Bigger Picture nonetheless had its allotment of success. The accumulation collaborated on business and promotional efforts for Zac Brown Band aboriginal in the country jammers' career, and provided artisan casework for Kid Rock and Uncle Kracker. Its agenda a lot of afresh included Chris Janson, Blackjack Billy and Rachel Bradshaw. Campbell says he was alerted to Bigger Picture's banking problems appropriate if "Keep Them Kisses Comin'" was authoritative its run.

"I was accepting a chat with one of our ally at Bigger Picture, and he affectionate of alluded to the abstraction that we were broke," Campbell tells Rolling Stone Country. "I was thinking, 'What does that beggarly for me?' And abiding enough, two canicule afterwards I got a alarm from our admiral adage that we were closing. It was affectionate of a shock - abnormally the actuality that we were on the heels of a Top 10 song. Even worse than that, it was the accomplished charting song I anytime had. I was actual deflated."

Bigger Picture's shuttering, however, didn't spell curtains for "Kisses." The song connected its ascent, breaking the Top 10.

Independent artists accept had some abstinent blueprint success in the past, but "Keep Them Kisses Comin'" is the attenuate instance of a song entering that bank afterwards an alive almanac characterization abaft it. It's important to point out, though, that Bigger Picture is wholly responsibly for active the train, announcement the individual for the aggregate of its blueprint life. The Top 10 breakthrough, however, was accomplished afterwards the characterization had accomplished operations.

"When all this happened, I was at 13, and I went to Amount Eight endure week," says Campbell. "For me to be able to move 5 spots like that afterwards the advice of a almanac label, that's appealing cool."

The drive is the aftereffect of a amount of factors, from the song's full-blooded (written by Amount One songwriters Dallas Davidson and Ben Hayslip, it had a arch alpha out of the gate) to fan support. But Campbell's accord with advance agents and radio affairs admiral has accurate to be the a lot of beneficial… as able-bodied as the a lot of surprising.

The country music singles bold can be abundantly competitive, and admitting all the "Kumbaya, brother" platitudes that are spouted throughout Nashville, every artist, label, administrator and promotions guy wants to be Amount One. If an artisan from one characterization is accident beef on the charts, a battling label's advance arm can burden a radio PD to cull the individual in favor of their artist's song.

"When you get to a assertive atom on the chart, again it absolutely does become…

I don't like application 'cutthroat,'" Campbell says with a pause, "but it's actual competitive. If there's a song on the blueprint that appears to not be accomplishing well, again they're traveling to bang down on that song: 'Hey, go advanced and get that song out of here. You all apperceive that isn't traveling to work.' It's added of a apperception game, and acrimonious on the anemic link."

"Country music is added aggressive than ever, and frequently if a almanac shows weakness, it goes abroad appealing quickly," says Justin Cole, administrator of country programming for Premiere Networks/Clear Channel Media + Entertainment. "But this song didn't appearance weakness in any of the accustomed metrics. Added than the characterization folding, there was no issue. Our admirers still capital to apprehend the song, so we kept arena it and gave it the adventitious to grow."

Cole cites an email from his bang-up Clay Hunnicutt, controlling VP and accepted administrator of civic programming platforms at Clear Channel, persuading the company's country programmers to circuit Campbell's song.

"Just because there's not a characterization to advance it doesn't beggarly music shouldn't be heard," says Hunnicutt. "If it's a abundant song, it's a abundant song - period."

Campbell begin himself ashamed by the support, abnormally from staffers at added labels.

"I had added radio promo humans from added almanac labels, saying, 'Hey, even admitting this is not my song, I'm traveling to try to advice you out as abundant as I can,'" he reports.

"While it is a actual aggressive business, no one brand to see humans displaced from their jobs if a aggregation shuts its doors. I in fact accustomed several emails from added almanac labels praising our accommodation to abide arena Craig's song afterwards Bigger Picture folded," confirms Cole. "These guys all apperceive what it takes to get as far as Craig had gotten, and to watch a acceptable song abatement afar because of an adverse business bearings would be painful.

"I accept to be accomplishing something appropriate on the radio side, as far as the relationships," Campbell says. "If I was an asshole, I don't anticipate I'd accept the support. They would accept backed off on the song a lot sooner."

Even so, Campbell admits he needs his own committed aggregation to plan "Kisses" and, ultimately, addition label. He's currently in negotiations with Bigger Picture to acquirement his contract, including a new anthology he already has completed, and is optimistic about area he'll acreage next. But for now, he's focused on befitting his a lot of acknowledged individual yet on the charts, even if that agency basement the bill himself.

"All this radio being I'm accomplishing lately, I'm accomplishing it on my own and accepting to pay for it out of my own pocket," says Campbell, who, like added artists, fosters radio acceptable will by assuming at station-sponsored concerts. "Whenever you accomplish to accomplishing radio shows or acoustic guitar pulls, that's something that the almanac characterization pays for out of the advance budget. But now that I don't accept a almanac label, nor do I accept a advance budget, I'm accepting to pay for that out of my touring expenses."

Instead, he's traveling lean, guitar in hand. "I don't accept any almanac reps with me, I'm just assuming up myself and anniversary my commitments."

He's aswell touring relentlessly, all while befitting an eye on area "Keep Them Kisses Comin'" resides on the Billboard charts.

"It was at Amount Eight, and went to Amount Nine this week, because we got jumped by Chris Young. But if the Miranda song and the Luke song abatement fast enough, we should be Amount Seven next week," Campbell says, alive the assorted scenarios through in his head. "But I'd adulation to see it go Amount One. Afterwards a label, how crazy would that be?"

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As you accept apparently ample out by now, if you managed to about-face on a television set or analysis Twitter during the endure week, above Hey Monday frontwoman Cassadee Pope won The Voice Division 3, and country accompanist Tate Stevens won The X Factor Division 2. Congrats to them both. But I'll be straight-up: As accomplished as both of those singers are, neither were my aboriginal picks for their corresponding shows. Particularly on "The Voice," it's a massive attestation to the aptitude on that appearance that so abounding abundantly able singers didn't accomplish it to the top three – or even accomplish it accomplished the Action and Knockout Rounds. On other talent shows, some of this season's Voice also-rans could accept gone all the way. And speaking of added shows, there were a few contestants on The X Factor Division 2 that I actually anticipate could accept been $5 actor acts, if they'd alone been accustomed the chance. So afterwards added ado, actuality is my account of the a lot of beggared contestants of both shows' a lot of contempo seasons.

The 10 A lot of Beggared Contestants of The Voice Division 3:

10) Alexis Marceaux - This New Orleans indie-rocker wowed me with her Blind Audience of Fleetwood Mac's "Go Your Own Way" – and she seemed to wow Cee Lo Green, too, if he spun his armchair for her and purred, "Rocker breed about-face me on!" If the classically accomplished Alexis went up adjoin unpolished Division 2 adios Daniel Rosa in the action rounds, I anticipation for abiding that she had the edge, but for some acumen the proudly "not classically trained" Cee Lo affiliated added with Daniel, acrimonious him instead. Cee Lo fabricated some actual acceptable decisions this season, but this was not one of them.

9) Michaela Paige - This assuming Internet DJ with the Flock Of Seagulls fauxhawk and analgesic bedrock chops went further on The Voice than I'd initially accepted – she'd accustomed little screentime aboriginal in the season, and in the top 20 anniversary it was a abruptness if her coach, Blake Shelton, best her to be his final aggregation affiliate over added accessible best Liz Davis. But alas, Michaela didn't go far enough, as she was one of the aboriginal contestants to be voted out of the top 12.

8) Melanie Martinez - The alone two affidavit Melanie, my admired changeable adversary of this season, didn't accomplish it college on this account are a) she went appealing far, all the way to the top six, and b) she was voted off in a anniversary if she gave one of her weaker performances and about seemed like she wanted to leave. But I accept absent her aback she exited the show. From her altered attending (love that Hello Kitty hair bow, those tambourine-rattling feet, that Cruella hair), to her absorbing song choices, to her abstracted rasp, Melanie was clashing any adversary I'd anytime apparent on The Voice – or on any singing show, for that matter. Someone accord this babe a almanac accord (if the rumor that Adam Levine's 222 Records has active her isn't true) and her own photo-printed accouterment line, quick.

7) Joe Kirkland - This Artist Vs. Poet frontman afflicted me with his aboriginal audience of the All-American Rejects' "Gives You Hell," and I anticipation he had a ablaze approaching advanced if he abutting the aggregation of adolescent bedrock frontman Adam Levine. And if he went up adjoin Bryan Keith in the Knockout Circuit – accomplishing a rawkin' and altogether alarming awning of Taylor Swift's "Mean," while Bryan did a somewhat banal arrangement of the Robin Hood sapfest "Everything I Do, I Do It For You" that even Adam accepted was a disappointment – I anticipation he was a affirmation for the top 20. But I anticipation wrong. Adam best Bryan anyway. Talk about getting mean, Adam!

6) De'Borah - This androgynous minister's daughter, who I acquiescently nicknamed "Gurkel," was one of Division 3's a lot of altered and amorous performers. It still boggles my apperception that if her coach, Christina Aguilera, had to aces a final assistant to accompany to the top 12 rounds, Christina went with cookie-cutter pop accompanist Adriana Louise instead. Adriana was voted off the actual next week; I anticipate De'Borah apparently would accept lasted longer. Letting De'Borah go was just one of abounding bad decisions that Christina – who eventually absent her absolute team, three weeks afore the afterpiece – fabricated this season.

5) Caitlin Michele - This was addition one of my admired arbitrary girls who larboard the appearance way too early. Poor Caitlin never actually had a abutment arrangement on The Voice – her aboriginal coach, Adam, ditched her in the Action Circuit for Melanie Martinez, and afresh the drillmaster that blanket her away, Cee Lo, ditched her for Diego Val in the Knockout Rounds. I don't feel like this assertive anytime got a adventitious to actually appearance her accurate power.

4) Amanda Brown - Amanda got to the top six, so I can't say she was totally robbed . . . but man, she actually should accept fabricated it all the way to the top three. A bad-ass rocker that sometimes came beyond like the New Tina Turner, she was one of the best choir in the top 20 (maybe even THE best), and her "Dream On" bout de force still stands as the finest achievement of the absolute season. Someone amuse assurance her, because she can't go aback to getting a advancement singer. Amanda Brown deserves to be centerstage.

3) MacKenzie Bourg - The aboriginal time I saw Mac, with his beautiful face and beautiful hair and beautiful articulation and beautiful guitar, audience with "Pumped Up Kicks," I predicted that he would win the absolute show. And if this had been American Idol, on which beautiful WGWGs consistently administration supreme, I would accept been correct. I still can't accept this kid didn't get abundant votes to accomplish it into the top 12. I achievement Mac auditions for "The Glee Project 3" next. He's too ambrosial – and too accomplished – to break off TV for good.

2) Cody Belew - Cody was the able entertainer, switching things up amidst the alluringly antic (his "Crazy in Love" leatherman spectacle) to just apparent abstract (his admirable vocals on "Jolene" and "One Added Try"). America never seemed to actually "get" Cody, but even his detractors accept to accept by now that there was a lot beneath bam-bam on The Voice afterwards this season's a lot of absorbing showman exited during top eight week.

1) Suzanna Choffel - This Austin music abecedary was one of my admired contestants of the season. How appear I never had agents this air-conditioned if I was a kid? My music agents accomplished my chic how to play "Hot Cross Buns" on the recorder; Suzanna, on the added hand, auditioned with an aerial awning of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide," one of my best admired ballads, and in actuality did it justice. Her Knockout Circuit achievement was aswell superb – she came out in a Studio 54 onesie searching like Alison Goldfrapp (i.e., like a goddess) and caked her affection into Bob Marley's "Could You Be Loved." But of course, she was alone by Blake in favor of Chosen One (and approaching winner) Cassadee Pope. I'm still a tiny bit affronted about this, and I still anticipate it should accept been Suzanna in the afterpiece instead.

The 10 A lot of Beggared Contestants Of The X Factor Division 2:

10) Daryl Black - I anticipation this bland body crooner, one of the show's purest voices, was a affirmation to accomplish L.A. Reid's Over-25s team. He seemed to accept all the adequacy of a champion: he was charismatic, original, a acceptable guy (a affiliated ancestor of five!), and he could really, actually sing. Simon even compared him to Nat King Cole. But I accept Daryl was added the blazon who goes far on The Voice, not The X Factor. L.A., in the aboriginal of his abounding bad decisions of Division 2, acutely alone Daryl during the Judges' Houses rounds.

9) Jeffrey Gutt - This 36-year-old single-dad-with-a-dream had aggregate traveling for him, as far as shows like this are concerned. Handsome rocker-dude looks? Check. Relatable backstory? Check. Ambrosial four-year-old son? Check. Fantastic voice? Spectacular audience of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"? Double-check. I was abashed if Jeffrey was cut in Boot Camp, and so was he. "It's their loss; I could accept won the show," Jeffrey grumbled. He had a point.

8) Beatrice Miller - Beatrice was my admired Teens aggregation adversary traveling into the reside shows. But she never had a adventitious of artifice from the basal rungs of the leaderboard with a "mentor" like Britney Spears, who gave her arid man-ballads by Jason Mraz and the Goo Goo Dolls and dressed her in hobo rags that looked like accouterment from Emblem3's Huntington Beach barn sale. What fabricated Beatrice's abolishment even sadder was the actuality that it took abode on THANKSGIVING, which will now be consistently accepted to the Miller ancestors as "Black Thursday." Happy holidays, everyone.

7) Vino Alan - Until top eight week, Vino was one of the show's frontrunners, consistently agreement in the top three. But that all afflicted if his "mentor" L.A. inexplicably switched his song at the endure minute; gave him a song that actually did not clothing him, and afresh sat by while Vino floundered onstage and the added board tore him to shreds. Vino after plummeted to the basal of the rankings, and he was cut from the show. Seriously, Vino was so befuddled beneath the bus that week, he may as able-bodied boom some annoy marks on his face now.

6) Panda Ross - During Division 2's X Factor auditions, this adorable adult with the marquee-worthy name captured America's hearts – and acutely the affection of her longtime crush, Simon – with her huge personality and huge voice. "You complete like a legend," Simon told Panda, afore he and his adolescent board absolutely absitively to beforehand her to the Boot Camp rounds. And afresh . . . Panda was never heard nor apparent on TV again. Panda's "Fandas" never got addition adventitious to see Panda perform, and they never begin out why she didn't accomplish it to the top 24. Panda, it is time to acquisition yourself addition boo!

5) David Correy - David, the youngest of the Over-25 contestants (at age 26) and apparently the hippest, seemed to accept added bartering abeyant than anyone abroad on L.A.'s aggregation besides country-crooning everyman Tate Stevens. His haunting, slowed-to-a-crawl, near-a cappella adaptation of Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" on the aboriginal reside adventure was FANTASTIC, and I was abashed that L.A. let him go. I anticipate beneath altered circumstances, David could accept been one of the top three contestants aggressive in this season's finale.

4) Jillian Jensen - Jillian was the blowing victim/Demi Lovato fangirl with the "Stay Strong" boom who sobbed throughout her affecting audience of Jessie J's empowerment canticle "Who You Are" –the a lot of memorable audience of The X Factor's Division 2 premiere, and apparently the a lot of memorable (and absolutely the most-tweeted-about) audience of the accomplished season. Aback then, a bawl Demi rushed onstage to embrace Jillian, while even Simon empiric the arena through uncharacteristically bleary eyes. But after on, Demi and Jillian were arrant for a actual altered reason, if Jillian was cut at the Judges' Houses. And sadly, due to a baseball-related scheduling snafu, actual few admirers even saw Jillian's final goodbye.

3) Jason Brock - Jason – an out-and-proud adversary who had been nicknamed "Mr. Entertainment," had performed on the appearance amidst beam explosions, and had even dared to compression hunky host Mario Lopez's rear end on one reside broadcas – -was the aboriginal adversary to be voted off the appearance by America. But he went out in his accepted aces style, as alone he could, memorably and triumphantly declaring, "I did it for the gays and Japan!" (a byword that he actually needs to book on T-shirts and advertise on the X Factor website). He's been absent anytime since.

2) Jennel Garcia - I am still abashed that this bang rocker-girl-next-door, one of the best choir and a lot of active performers of Division 2 and one of the contestants with the a lot of raw promise, went home in 11th place. ELEVENTH!!! And the actuality that three of the board (everyone except, it should be noted, Jennel's own coach, Demi) voted to forward her home instead of Paige Thomas makes me ambition to accomplish a Britney stankface like THIS. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

1) Lyric 145 - Remember the horrible night on American Idol Division 9 if Alex Lambert, Lilly Scott, Katelyn Epperly, and Todrick Hall all went home? Well, I got flashbacks to those disgusting animosity if Lyric 145 and Jennel were cut on the aforementioned night of The X Factor. Hip-hop leash Lyric 145 consistently brought amphitheater and authentic show(wo)manship to the X Factor stage, and their alluringly camp "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" bout de force on Movie Night charcoal my admired achievement of the absolute season. I alone ambition there'd been added moments like that in Division 2, but Lyric 145 were beggared of that adventitious – and X Factor admirers were beggared of a lot of alarming entertainment.

Which aptitude shows contestants do you anticipate got beggared this fall? Let me know.

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