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Accessible Image ReplacementDecember 12, 2003
Image replacement is back in the news — Levin Alexanders' 'Graphical Headings' is going around again. (note that Tom Gilder also brought it to our attention around the same time)
Classic FIR has three problems, which I summarized this summer:
- Screenreaders don't read content hidden with
display: none;
- A superfluous
element is introduced
- People browsing with CSS on, but images turned off don't see anything.
Levin's method solves two of these problems, namely 1 and 3, but introduces a new one: transparent GIFs are unusable, due to text beneath showing through the transparent gaps. There are a few ways around this, by setting text colour and size to be all but invisible, but it's still a problem. The code is also far more complicated than it should be.
Gilder/Levin Method
Image Replacement
/* css */
h2 {
width: 329px;
height: 25px;
position: relative;
h2 span {
background: url(sample.gif) no-repeat;
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
Alternatively, there are two other techniques available now that solve problems 1 and 2 but leave 3 dangling. Specifically, Phark Revised (due to a Safari bug) and Radu Darvas' new variation announced in a Web-Graphics post. Both use relatively simple code, and test well across browsers:
Image Replacement
/* css */
#header {
text-indent: -5000px;
background: url(sample.gif) no-repeat;
height: 25px;
Revised Image Replacement
/* css */
#header {
background: url(sample.gif) no-repeat top right;
width: 2329px;
height: 25px;
margin: 0 0 0 -2000px;
So here's where we're at. We haven't managed to knock off all three problems with one unifying method yet. There's a choice, and which pill you choose says a lot about your priorities.
You take the red pill, and you contend with a tangle of code, but you guarantee equal access to everyone. You take the blue pill, and your code remains simple and elegant, but you cut off a tiny percentage of your users who might just, might just be surfing with CSS enabled but no images. It's said to happen more commonly in European countries where dial-up access is metered, but that's all we have for statistics.
Either way, we all know by now that using
display: none; is out. We haven't got this problem totally licked yet, but we're two thirds of the way there. Not bad for a technique that has been in the public eye for only 9 months now.
Reader Comments
Ideally, an :images pseudo-element would be added to CSS, so you can use code such as:
h2#replace {
color: #abc;
h2#replace:images {
background: url(heading.png) no-repeat;
overflow: hidden;
text-indent: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
:content will do that.
But CSS3 isn't even close to being finished. In maybe 10 years once it's done, implemented, and running on a critical mass of browsers, this will be the ultimate replacement.
One aspect of the new techniques that will need some working on is combining them with the rollover-no-waiting technique. http://www.pixy.cz/blogg/clanky/cssnopreloadrollovers/
The problem that I encountered after spending all of about 5 minutes trying this is the issue with "background-position' for the hover state of a link using the Radu and Pixy techniques.
I am using the Pixy technique on a redesign of a site I'm working on. I'll see if I can figure something out.
Discovered something else that caused a problem for me with the Radu technique. Links that are lined up to the left of the header weren't clickable. I have a nav box floated to the left of my right side content and the links directly inline with the headers weren't clickable. I had set the header to a width of 2000+ the width of the image and the margin-left to -2000px. Links below the horizontal line of the headers were clickable.
I just posted about something similar to this involving LIR (which is my image replacement technique of choice so far).
LIR does solve issues 1 and 2, but not 3. One question that I always seem to find myself asking about issue #3 is: How common is it that someone will surf the net with CSS enabled and images disabled? In my seven years of using the net, dealing with the net, dealing with people who are dealing with the net, I've only met one single person who has ever said that he regularly surfs the net with images turned off. And he was a crazy old man who wouldn't part with his Windows 95 box running a 28.8 modem… and this was in 2001.
Now, I understand that accessibility is an important concern, and that the semantic web should make sense. But aren't there more people using Netscape 4.x than there are people surfing the web with no images? In a world where 56k (and upwards) internet speeds are the norm, if not the bottom end, don't you think it's time to stop supporting this outdated technology of slow modems and slow computers? We all dropped Netscape 4.x like a bad habit as soon as we could. Many people are talking about dropping IE5/Win as soon as we can. Why are we still pandering to users who manually disable images in their web browsers?
Now this isn't meant as a put-down to anyone, but as I said earlier, I ask myself this question everytime I read about issue #3 involved in image replacement techniques. And I'm just wondering why?
On a separate note, using text-indent to move text out of the way also moves the background image out of the way as well in IE 5.0 for Windows. IE 5.5 seems to be alright, though. Just thought I'd point it out…
Why is #3 even a concern? There is already a solution for it called alt text. There is another solution, which would be having your site not send CSS to people that don't accept images, but I know that is an evil server side technique. Either way I think its such a rare case, its like saying the whole stadium sucks because there are a few seats with bad views.
(also, why do I have to fill out this form every time, despite always clicking remember me and having all cookies accepted? IE6/WinXP)
Eric: Why is #3 even a concern? There is already a solution for it called alt text.
Images replaced with CSS don't have alt-text (you could use a title-attribute and change the bg-color to indicate that there is something missing)
Ryan: Why are we still pandering to users who manually disable images in their web browsers?
Why not? Why should we give them an unusable page?
And it _is_ a problem:
Eric: There is another solution, which would be having your site not send CSS to people that don?t accept images
This can not be done server-side. You can do it via Java Script:
Or provide an alternate Stylesheet
Personally, I'm using the Leahy/Langridge method. I think it's less "hacky" to use the box model hack to support IE5/Win than to add an extra span that serves no purpose. Also, though it's not a perfect solution to the #3 problem, using a title in that situation is still a fairly acceptable solution. That said, I can't wait for a better technique to come along that meets all three criteria.
Unlike the last two comments, I don't think people who surf with images off should be ignored or punished simply because they choose to surf that way. The difference between these people and those that use Netscape 4.x/IE 5 is that these people are making a conscious decision and likely have a very good reason (sure, bandwidth is available but not always cheaply!) whereas those generally still using Netscape 4.x/IE 5 are doing so out of ignorance or obstinence rather than from an intelligent choice. I guess I just don't see the point in "punishing" someone for deliberately making a choice like that.
Btw, is there anyone who has combined Phark/Radu with CSS3s content-property?
That would be the ultimate solution:
- an image in all popular browsers
- a _printable_ image in all CSS3 browsers (Opera and, probaby, the next release of Safari)
- alt-text in all CSS3 browsers if images are disabled.
- no additional markup needed.
I'd love to see a working example.
Ryan, #3 will become a bigger problem as more third world countries become more hooked up to the net. Shaky lines / slow connections means that they'll quite often have to turn images off, especially with the trend in some areas of web design towards assuming that people have high speed connections. And as there are a lot more people who have yet to access the net, than already do (600 M right now, IIRC), the problem will be an increasing one, I'd imagine.
If adding a couple of tags is going to mean that some users aren't caused any confusion, then it's kinder to do so. But I have a feeling that if someone in the U.S. or Canada did use the second method, he'd be more likely to get a note from a fellow author saying:
"I notice you're using Phark, John. But I like to browse …"
than he would be to get email from the Vacluse or County Cork or Dorset saying:
"Dear Mr Smith, I enjoyed your site, but I wondered why you hadn't used any headings."
If the first guy was on Windows, then he would obviously be using IE, because you can toggle CSS on and off in Mozilla or Opera very easily. The first guy would also know that just as writers like Flaubert and Kipling felt compelled to revise and pare down their prose, so some HTML authors seem to feel a similiar pull. So he would be asking for a lot.
It's just my feeling that that would be the more likely scenario. But if it's at all likely that the second type of guy exists, then it's good help him.
Maybe this is a pointless post of mine, because it doesn't address the coding problem.
Back in '98 I often browsed with images off because my ISP capped bandwidth at 120MB p/month!
I was using IE4 at the time so I would have fitted the 'Images off, CSS' on profile. Let me tell you that it made the web very hard to use because not many sites used ALT text correctly, if at all, but at least IE would draw an outline of where an image would be so you could get an idea of the site's intended layout. Also, for ALTless image links, I would have to guess the destination based on the url that comes up in the status bar.
#3 (CSS on / images off) happens to emails than contain HTML, when the email reader is Thunderbird (Mozilla too? others?) and the option "block loading of remote images in mail messages" is checked.
FYI this very nice option prevents a spamming technique that confirms your email address by sending a custom "image" request to the spammer's server.
This is probably a small audience so far, but it will surely grow.
Problem solved: (for any CSS2.1 browser):
Submitted this right now to CSS-D. Enjoy!
M. (not a graphic artist)
A follow-up:
CSS3 may be far off, but CSS2.1 is just around the corner! This technique may be combined with the CSS3 method, as the latter takes precedence, and also with the "multiple backgrounds for one element" technique.
#12 "not many sites used ALT text correctly"
Yes, that's bad, isn't it?
Here in the UK, telephone connections legally had only to be good enough for voice not data. That has now changed:
Theoretically, bandwidth should not now be a problem for any UK user - specially if authors consider page-weight. Practically speaking, I'm not sure that the UK PSTN is up to the data transfer rate set by Oftel.
My preference is to make things easy for users, so I think I would use the spans. But I did think that there were some further hidden assumptions there that it might be worth making explicit.
My thought is that for the Phark IR method to cause me problems, I need to know enough about my computer's settings to switch images off, but not enough to know that it might be worth checking how a page looks without CSS.
Plenty of users won't know about IR methods, but certainly some will have discovered that toggling off CSS sometimes helps them to read a page. For example, sometimes stuff you know must be there (and that would probably show up on a CRT but not a TFT screen) doesn't show up because of low contrast.
MSIE doesn't allow me to go in-and-out of CSS easily. That's not a fault to be sure, but it's certainly a lack of functionality in that browser.
At any rate, Opera deserves a plaudit for putting a icon that lets users do that kind of thing in a prominent position at the top left of the screen. And, I guess, another because Moose's method apparently works in it.
I'm glad some people find the negative text-indent trick to be helpful ;)
I can't wait until we can use the content property to fill-in/add-on information to our page. Unfortunately, "that browser we all know that has an 80%+ market segment" will not support CSS3 until at least 2005/6 when Longhorn comes out. Am I holding my breath for full CSS3 implementation? Yeah right.
Re: Moose :: Problem solved: (for any CSS 2.1 browser)
positioning of generated content is still an issue. your sample looks problematic in firebird on a small screen… h1 badly overlapping p.
greetings to the northpole…
The fact that H1 overlaps P for screens smaller than my palm has nothing to do with image replacement, but everything to do with fixed positioning of P and the palm size.
Is this REALY a job for CSS? Especially with the problems already mentioned?
What's so wrong with using:

Text readers (or browsers with images switched off) usually display the alt tag.
Appoligies Eric, I must have got HTML word blindness and skipped your comments :-/
I apologize for a silly comment, I don't know what I was thinking since the solution is supposed to have text in text and not use images unless CSS and images are on.
As far as detecting if images are off, can't you just check the Accept header to see if they are accepting images? I don't know if this is reliable enough to work.
I agree with Richard. I see no reason why one shouldn't use
The only reason I was provided at one of the message boards was "because PDAs don't support 700px wide images".
So the main question that you haven't yet answered is:
How EXACTLY is FIR more accessible than ?
Richard and Nicket: I came to the same conclusion at one point, but then I thought, "Wait! What if I want to use the same markup but switch out the CSS file for an alternate design?"
Therein lies the problem. The IMG tag should only be used for content-related images, stuff that won't change with a redesign, such as graphs and photographs. Decorative, style-related images should be in the CSS. Separation of design and content.
Dris, now wouldn't that be using one technology (CSS) to hide the shortcomings of the other (XHTML).
The shortcoming being that "Shelley Allegro" font (quoted from the StopDesign FIR article) may not be available to the user, needing you to use a background image instead.
If thats the case, doesn't the image become the content itself? FIR is "REPLACEMENT", so it has to do with CONTENT not STYLE. So, wouldn't a JIR (javascript image replacement) be more appropriate here?
I agree that FIR is a good tool. We should treat is just as that - A tool. FIR is a wrench, we are spending way too much time thinking about the wrench, when our nuts and bolts themselves are not optimally designed.
I guess I am just thinking aloud here.
And yes, although I say this, I still use FIR on my own website.
Hey, this is great! *applause*
It works in Opera 7.23 and Firebird.
And the markup is clean enough for me.
Does not work in Konqueror 3.1.3 (Text is in front of the image)

Image Replacement

/* CSS (sorry, not tested on every browser yet [works on IE/Win and Mozilla]) */
h2 {
background: url(image.gif) no-repeat;
width: 200;
height: 80;
h2 span {
position: relative;
z-index: -1;
Works with existing FIR markup
Text visible if image doesn't load
Fairly clean CSS
Still needs  tags
Won't work with transparent images
I've been trying to solve the problem by "faking" generated content with list-style. Unfortunately, it doesn't work in IE (which defeats the purpose of doing it, since other browsers support "real" generated content). Here's the code anyway, in case someone can get something similar working:
h2 {
display: list-item;
list-style: url(image.gif) none inside;
overflow: hidden;
width: 200; height: 80;
I'm sorry for breaking the URI I posted before. Cool URIs don't change… Things tend to happen though, and facing a difficult choice, I made an equally difficult decision. So here is the description, which contains the link to the experiment:
mea culpa,
p.s. Herr Levin updated his superb grid: http://levin.grundeis.net/files/20031203/ir.html
I am a Canadian living and working in Germany. I am a screen designer/content manager. I have never seen any German surfing with the graphics options switched off. I have travelled abroad and have never witnessed this. The Germans view the design elements as an important factor.
The Canadian I know- they are bad for this. I could never understand this.
Andrew, it seems a good idea. To make it work, replace overflow by text-indent: -99px, depending
on the width of the text, not the image.
thus you have:
h1 {
display: list-item;
list-style: url(image.gif) none inside;
text-indent: -200px;
width: 200; height: 80;
This works in IE6, but not in Opera 6. If this works it should solve all 3 of the major problems. Unfortunately, when I turned images off in Opera and IE, the image still loads. Apparently, these browsers do not recognise list-item images as images.
Lastly, as a user of Opera, I find it handy to turn off images when the download is slow. All it requires is a simple press of the 'g' key. Thus there are occasions when I browse with images off.
sorry, the width of the image will do as well.
I don't think this is a job for alt="…" particularly, or for CSS. I'd have thought that would be more appropriate, from a standardisation viewpoint.
Well, it still seems like there is no solution. Which method should we use for now? Here is my opinion:
Here's a new method I thought of (based on Gilder/Levin). I call it the "double-span" method:
Revised Image Replacement
/* css */
#header {
width: 329px;
height: 25px;
position: relative;
#header span {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
position: absolute;
background: url(page-background.gif) repeat;
#header span span {
background: url(sample-opaque.gif) no-repeat;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
The background should match the page background. This could be a 1px solid color image, or a pattern that has been offset to match the bakground. That will get rid of the transparency problem, but does add another span element :(.
I hit a snag testing the Radu method in Safari. It does not play well with floats. That is, even with a margin-left of -10000000 pixels the h1 text will still end up along the right edge of a left floated element. For example I have a 200px wide navigation menu floated left with the content on the right. In Safari the text is not pushed off the left side of the screen but rather is 200px from the edge of the window.
Phark also has a problem with ie 5 in that the negative text indent is applied not only to the text but also to the background image, in effect making it invisible and completely inaccessible.
One could use media="screen" or @media screen {} or @import "screen.css" screen for an image replacement using display:none, screenreaders should ignore it …
"One could use media=��screen�� or @media screen {} or @import "screen.css�� screen for an image replacement using display:none, screenreaders should ignore it …"
Screenreaders work by reading right off the screen, so they wouldn't ignore the rule.
I couldn't find any references to this method after some (quick) searching, but I'm sure it can't be original:
;font-size: 0
;text-indent: -9999px
;width: 300px
;height: 100px
;background-image: url("image.png")
The arbitrarily large negative text-indent moves the text several metres off the left edge of the screen. Simply indenting the text leaves an underline in Mozilla if the text is a link; the zero font-size hides the text in Mozilla (it merely reduces it in IE6 and Opera).
I've only tested this in IE6, Mozilla and Opera 7.5; according to a post above, the background image won't be shown in IE5; the method may well also fail in KHTML. Frankly, IE users are lucky they're seeing any style at all.
Benefits: no extraneous XHTML required; display:none isn't used so screenreaders should be fairly happy; pretty lightweight CSS.
Drawbacks: blankness with images off, css on; allegedly fails in IE5.
In summary, which do we think is the best method?
I personally have an issue with any negative text-indent option as this may cause issues with a manual edit at google. Moving text off the screen could be seen as an alternative to white text on a white background hidden text.
I want to make the code as clean and as accessible as possible but cannot risk the threat of a google ban in doing so.


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Hi, Just got a new laptop this week and since it doesn't have extremely high-end specs(Intel Pentium CPU, 4g RAM, Integrated GPU) I wanted to install linux onto it. At first I had linux mint 13 but I grew tired of the Cinnamon DE and since I'm somewhat familiar with linux I decided to go with Arch. Anyway, when I was trying to install I cannot for the life of me set up my wireless connection. It either states no device available or it's not set up(even after running iwconfig wlan0 up multiple times) I have even removed and started my wireless module a few times. The wireless card I have is a Realtek 8188CE and it's using the RTL8192CE firmware in arch.
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Good luck with that card... its a nighmare to use. Is the card being hard or soft blocked? Check with rfkill.
no and no
Im really loving using linux as my laptop OS but I had a lot of problems with the wireless on Mint too and I'm really going to hate if it I have to switch back to w7. But I got it for school purposes and whatnot so having internet is a MUST.
What kind of laptop is it? I would recommend getting a new card, as the card you have is pretty crappy at its very very best. In the short term though, you may want to set ips=0 and fwlps=0. See the man page for modprobe.d
Toshiba Satellite C855-S5231
I don't think that you should ahve an issue then. You can get a new wifi card off the internets (ie ebay, amazon, etc) for pretty cheap. I got an Intel Centrino 6235 Advanced-N for $30, and that is like the lastes and greatest that also has bluetooth 4.0. You can get a very good card for ~$20. Intel card are very well supported, as are Atheros. There are others, but I have used both of those brands with much success.
Edit: The reason I asked about your machine is because there are a couple brands that whitelist their own wifi cards in the bios. My Thinkpad is one of these machines, this only Lenovo cards are supposed to work. But I was able to reflash the same bios with the whitelist removed onto my hardware and am now able to run whatever I want. So you may want to do a quick google search to make sure that your computer is not one of the ones that do this. I am fairly certain Toshiba doesn't, but I am not 100% sure.
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Alright It should be fine, Im looking into how to replace the card exactly now. There is no PciE panel underneath it to do so, only one that exposes the HDD and RAM
I have seen some machines where the wifi card is below the hard drive. Typically it is something for which access is provided, but of course this varies from manufacturer to manufacturer. Like Apple is pretty sh*tty about this.
Not sure what model this is, but this video indicateds you need to remove the keyboard to access the wifi card. It doesn't look tooo hard though.
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I honestly cannot find this adapter to save my life... and I have found NO guides whatsoever regarding this laptop.
See my above post, I just edited it.
Edit: BTW, you probably want to have a more descriptive title than you do. Something that generic probably won't get much attention. I actually only ended up in your thread beause I use dwb with keyboard hints for links, and my left hand was not on the home row.
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You could just buy a USB wifi dongle and use that instead of replacing the internal wifi card. You don't even need to remove the card.
That video helped me get the keyboard off, but instead of my pci slot being exposed like his, its covered by another layer of plastic that seem to not have any screws or latches.
How terribly frusturating. I am sorry to hear that. I am sure that there has to be some kind of manual to indicate how to get to what you want. 2ManyDogs is certainly right, that a usb dongle would do just fine, but personally I just like having what I need within my machine. Though I would certainly recommend considering it. If for nothing else, as a stopgap measure.
Did you try using the modprobe options? It certainly doesn't fix the issues, but for me it made it so that I could at least connect. The latency was still pretty terrible, but if I just pinged the gateway constantly, it would get a bit better.
I found it finally. I had to remove the entire bottom frame and it was right in in front of me. Will be ordering that card now, Thanks!
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Film Review - Horrible Bosses
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"Horrible Bosses" is a missed opportunity. Handed a darkly comic premise of revenge, and the producers turn the proceedings into a clumsy "SNL" skit. Following in the wake of the rancid "Bad Teacher," "Horrible Bosses" also seeks approval by establishing a sloppy routine of shock and improvisation, slapping viewers with pedestrian acts of misbehavior when something far more macabre was in order. Unless you happen to find Indian call centers, the act of spilling cocaine, and Jennifer Aniston being self-consciously filthy hilarious. If so, boy do I have a film for you.
"Horrible Bosses" seems like such a wicked good time -- a crass, amoral comedy that plays into sinister acts of wish fulfillment; a drunken fairy tale for anyone stuck under a controlling, demanding supervisor. It's a shame the film doesn't show a little more invention in the comedy department, courageously offering an audacious screenplay that takes the premise semi-seriously, while preserving the outlandishness of the plan. Instead, "Horrible Bosses" resembles most comedies these days, distended with improvisation and crude acts of shock value. In place of genuine moviemaking danger there's Colin Farrell bombing around with a pronounced comb over (a shoddy make-up appliance), Jennifer Aniston trying on an ill-fitting potty mouth, and Kevin Spacey reviving his Buddy Ackerman character from "Swimming with Sharks."
The rest of the jokes are left to Day, Sudeikis, and Bateman, who form a Three Stooges squad of sorts, fumbling around on the hunt for a perfect way to dispatch their enemies. The banter is unfocused and predictable, chaotically pieced together by director Seth Gordon ("Four Christmases"), who relies too heavily on the riffing, losing control of the film's identity. There's no snowballing plot to follow here, the movie is more about episodic encounters where the gang infiltrates the living spaces of their supervisors, leading Dale to spill a box of cocaine (cue the dustbuster gag), while Kurt take time to shove various oral hygiene products up his rear end. Did I mention the scene where the guys attempt to hire a hitman online, only to welcome a professional specializing in golden showers into their hotel room? The script is filled with gems like that, arranging lazy gross-out encounters and uninspired numbskullery.
"Horrible Bosses" doesn't have the gumption to take its premise to a logical conclusion, refusing to darken the film outside of a few gunshots. The titular domineering types are also a bit of an afterthought, with Farrell and Aniston contributing more cameo appearances than supporting roles, leaving Spacey to do all of the heavy lifting. With the rest of the actors off incessantly trying to verbally one-up one another, Spacey's steely professionalism is actually quite welcome.
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Last year, revelations that the U.S. had tapped German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone soured relations between the two allies. In Europe, President Obama's recommendations to reign in the NSA when it comes to listening to foreign leaders was met with a lukewarm reaction. NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson reports that Germans are especially skeptical that the changes will mean an end to American eavesdropping.
SORAYA SARHADDI NELSON, BYLINE: The spokesman for Angela Merkel says her government welcomed Mr. Obama's efforts to reign in surveillance, but added that German law must be followed on German soil. He was alluding to the allegations the U.S. violated German laws with its phone and email monitoring. In an interview dubbed in German and broadcast by the ZDF television network last night, President Obama tried reassuring Germans that the U.S. will respect their privacy.
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NELSON: He said America will take into account the rights of citizens, regardless of their nationality, and use very clear criteria when engaging in bulk collection of data.
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OBAMA: ...establish a relationship of friendship...
NELSON: The president also spoke of his friendship with Chancellor Merkel and said U.S. monitoring of her phone would not happen again.
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OBAMA: ...to harm that relationship.
NELSON: But German politicians say Mr. Obama's assurances aren't enough.
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NELSON: It's not OK when allies spy on each other, says Niels Annen of the Social Democrats, who are Chancellor Merkel's main coalition partner. He told the ZDF network, we need a binding agreement because while the U.S. president is working toward trust, control is better. Germany's justice minister told the Sunday edition of the Bild newspaper that trust between his country and the U.S. won't be restored until there is a legally binding arrangement between the countries to protect Germans' privacy. Politicians here are pressuring Chancellor Merkel to convey that demand when she meets with Mr. Obama in Washington in the coming months. The Germans want tough data privacy measures included in any free trade pact signed between Europe and the United States. Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, NPR News, Berlin.
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PANAMA CITY� The Bay County Commission doesn�t want a local hospital�s pension to go up in smoke, so it�s requesting it be fully funded, immediately.
PANAMA CITY� The Bay County Commission doesn�t want a local hospital�s pension to go up in smoke, so it�s requesting it be fully funded, immediately.
But the board charged with safeguarding the fund says those fears are unfounded and the pension is safe and secure.
After Bay Medical Center went private last year � becoming Bay Medical Center Sacred Heart Health System � its board of trustees � now called the Bay Health Foundation � assumed responsibility for the old hospital pension.
But the County Commission is concerned the pension will run out of money, and the county will be on the hook to pay for it and may need to raise taxes to do so.
But Andy Stein, who chairs the foundation�s Pension Committee, says there�s no reason to worry. He�ll address these concerns at Monday�s foundation meeting, along with the consulting firm that helps manage the fund, but he said it�s �very safe.�
�There is absolutely no validity in the claim or the requirement or the concern expressed by the County Commission about the pension fund. � To alarm people in any way shape or form needlessly causes me a great deal of concern. I think they�ve made a mistake by creating this as an issue,� he said.
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Lewis, Longman & Walker, a law firm the county hired, released its findings, which said the most recent actuarial report was done Jan. 1, 2012 and showed the pension �had assets of $84.8 million (actuarial value) and actuarial accrued liabilities of $100.2 million.�
That gap worries the commission, particularly because the pension�s only source of revenue is investments, which include stocks and bonds � less safe than cash investments like certificates of deposit.
Additionally, the foundation could fully fund the pension. It already has invested an extra $33.4 million for charity grants to health-care organizations in the area.
Commissioner Mike Thomas said pension funds and retirement plans are susceptible to stock market fluctuations or changes in the overall economy.
�I was concerned with this one already starting out not being fully funded. If they have stock (market) problems later on, it could create a problem, and I just wanted to make sure it was just as secure as it could be,� he said.
Thomas said he didn�t think the county would be financially responsible to cover the pension if it runs out of money, but he said the county is �morally� responsible to keep it safe. So he wants it fully funded � now.
�I�d just like to make sure it�s taken care of. � I don�t want the county to be responsible for something and people in the public not thinking we�re doing all we can to watch it,� he said.
But Stein said it�s �irresponsible� to fully fund the pension because, once transferred, the money is locked into the fund until the last person receiving benefits dies. He said that could be 50 years from now.
Stein said if the foundation put $15 million in the fund now, but ultimately only needs $5 million, then $10 million has been tied up unnecessarily for decades.
That�s the reason why most pension funds aren�t fully funded, Stein said.
The foundation has also taken special precautions to make sure the pension is protected. It�s earmarked an extra $20 million on its balance sheet for the pension, in case its investments go south, Stein said.
�I can assure you that if it ever came to the point where it was a question of funding the pension plan or providing grants for the community, that we�d fund the pension plan, which is the paramount concern,� he said.
He added, �I can�t stress enough this is such a well-funded, conservatively run pension plan.�
The County Commission also wants a voting seat on the nine-member foundation board, so it has a front-row seat to monitor the pension. The commission has repeatedly made that known and requested its appointee, Chairman Don Connor, vacate his seat to let one of the commissioners fill it. The request has been a source of acrimony between the boards and right now it is holding up an appointee to the foundation.
But Connor�s not leaving. Asked if he�d had a change of heart since the commission asked he leave, he said, �No, not hardly.�
�Why would I resign when I�ve got a whole board that has begged me to stay in this position? They just re-elected me in December for a second term as chairman,� he said.
The foundation meets at 9 a.m. Monday at Bay Med inside the Walsingham Community Board Room.


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From BMC's news release:
Under the terms of the agreement, affiliates of the Investor Group will acquire all outstanding BMC common stock for $46.25 per share in cash, or approximately $6.9 billion, representing an attractive premium to the Company's unaffected stock price. The agreement was approved by unanimous vote of those directors present.
"After a thorough review of strategic alternatives, the BMC board of directors is pleased to reach this agreement, which provides shareholders with immediate and substantial cash value, as well as a premium to our unaffected share price," said Bob Beauchamp, chairman and chief executive officer at BMC. "BMC believes the opportunity to become a private company will provide additional flexibility and position us to invest more strategically to drive powerful innovation and deliver cutting edge customer solutions. We look forward to working closely with all parties to complete this transaction and enter into our next chapter of growth and industry leadership."
The acquisition is expected to close later this year.
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Houston-based BMC Software, which develops enterprise management and cloud computing solutions, is about to be acquired by a private equity group in a deal reportedly worth about $6.55 billion.
The group is comprised of Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital Corp., according to a Reuters story, and has negotiated a price of around $46 a share for BMC's stock.
An announcement on the sale could come as early as today, Reuters reported. BMC is scheduled to release its quarterly earnings on Tuesday. The company had annual 2012 revenues of about $2.2 billion.
BMC has been under increasing competitive pressure, Reuters writer Greg Roumeliotis reports:
Houston, Texas-based BMC Software shares ended trading at $45.42 on Friday. It competes with Oracle Corp, SAP AG , CA Inc and Compuware Corp, and has been under pressure from Paul Singer's activist hedge fund Elliott Associates LP to sell itself since last year.
BMC currently trades in line with its peers at around 11.5 times projected earnings, according to Thomson Reuters data. At an offer price of $46 per share, it would be slightly above the average at 11.6 times projected earnings.
Elliott, a seasoned investor in the software sector, has a 9.7-percent stake in the company and has argued that BMC's management was neglecting a huge opportunity to expand into Internet-based business software, a market dominated by the likes of Salesforce.com Inc.
The world's largest providers of software for enterprises, including Oracle, SAP and Microsoft Corp, have already begun investing heavily in that market. Since Elliott first announced an activist stake in BMC last May, the software company's shares have jumped over eight percent from $42 a share.
BMC has not responded to requests for comment, Reuters said.
The company was founded in 1980 by Scott Boulette, John Jay Moores and Dan Cloer – the initials of their last names being used for the BMC's name. Moores was BMC's first CEO, and the company went public in 1988. Moores' name is on the School of Music at the University of Houston, and until last year he was the owner of the San Diego Padres professional baseball team.


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I first caught "Dallas" on the old black-and-white TV in my University of Pennsylvania dorm room when it premiered in the 1977-1978 TV season. It was the TV sensation of the year and set the stage for a decade of melodramas about the raunchy rich.
JR Ewing was an international sensation and Dallas, after 15 years, was known worldwide for something other than the Kennedy assassination.
Less than a year later, I was working down the road from South Fork at the Dallas Times Herald. "Dallas" was not only the talk of Big D but the Middle East, too. Even Yassir Arafat, the notorious terrorist turned TV viewer, asked my Dallas Times Herald colleague Bill Barrett the cliffhanger question of the summer: "Who shot JR?"
I discovered who shot JR as I was covering a high school football game at Mesquite Memorial Stadium. (No DVRs then.) That early September eve, the public address announcer was reciting a list of halftime scores from other Friday night games when he slipped this score in: "Kristin 1, JR 0."
The show Dallas lasted until 1991 and expired just a few months before my newspaper, the Times Herald. But I'm back in Texas journalism at the Houston Chronicle, and JR is back, this time on TNT.
How's the new show? This report was written by our colleague David Wiegand of the San Francisco Chronicle.
★ ★ ★
TNT's new take on "Dallas" is so calculating, it's almost worthy of JR Ewing himself, and I mean that in the most complimentary way.
Resist if you want to, but whether you were a fan of the original series, or still in utero when it went off the air in 1991, TNT's "Dallas" will wear you down and pull you in with its mix of sex, intrigue, backstabbing, dirty dealing, blackmail and family secrets. The Ewing clan still makes the Medicis look like the Waltons, and there are even more of them 21 years later.
For those who remember the show that virtually defined nighttime soap opera for 14 seasons, the new "Dallas" brings back several major cast members, including Patrick Duffy as Bobby Ewing, Linda Gray as Sue Ellen and the great Larry Hagman as JR — older now but as giddily manipulative as ever.
For younger viewers, there's a whole passel of pretty actors including Josh Henderson as JR's son, John Ross, Jesse Metcalfe as Bobby's adopted son, Christopher, Jordana Brewster as Elena, Christopher's former fiancée and now John Ross' girlfriend, and Julie Gonzalo as Rebecca Sutter, Christopher's current fiancée.
It takes a little longer for us to start caring at all about the youngsters, but even when we do, we remain primarily fascinated by Hagman's JR. We first see JR sitting in front of a window, staring straight ahead, not seeming to recognize anything or anyone around him. Later in the first episode, the old jackal rouses himself and starts to speak to John Ross, and it is nothing less than a gooseflesh moment — but the fun is only beginning. Hagman is magnificent, an Olympian presence who dominates the show even when he's not onscreen.
In the earlier series, JR was "only" magnificently unrepentant, but now he becomes almost heroic simply because he is much older: He hasn't much time left, but he isn't about to go gently into the Texas night.
TNT doesn't want critics to reveal many of the plot twists in the first seven of the 10 episodes of the season, but, truth to tell, things happen so quickly and often out of left field with minimal foundation, it would be impossible to detail the story line in even a single episode.
But the heart of the series — if "heart" is even the right word — is that the Ewings are still feuding over ownership of Southfork, the family ranch, with JR on one side and Bobby on the other as kings on the chessboard, and John Ross and Christopher as their knights, or perhaps their pawns. Bobby has remarried, finding in Annie (Brenda Strong) the kind of steadying love and support he needs to fight JR.
While TNT's "Dallas" wisely builds on some fundamental aspects of the original show, it also modernizes the story, characters and values because it has to. The Ewings all use cell phones and debate alternative energy, for example. But the differences between the two series are more subtle and, at the same time, more profound than that.
The first "Dallas" was a miniseries created in 1978 for CBS by Lorimar, the production company that had scored its first big success six years earlier with another family drama, the aforementioned "The Waltons."
By the time "The Waltons'" run ended in 1981, "Dallas" had already asserted itself as a defining show for the new decade. It may be a facile comparison, but a show about a large, loving rural family in Virginia that ended each episode with everyone saying good-night to each other seemed out of sync with the acquisitiveness of the 1980s. It's not coincidental that "Dallas" was soon joined by other shows about the rich and famous, including "Dynasty," "Falcon Crest" and, well, "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous."
There was something delicious about rich people scrapping with each other back then. These were people who had it all and not only wanted more, but wanted to keep others from getting more as well. Obviously, the Ewings are still greedy, and still judging who among them is a true Ewing and who isn't — not just in terms of biology, in Christopher's case, but in terms of who best adheres to the values of past generations of Ewings. Bobby wants Southfork to remain what family matriarch Miss Ellie intended, while JR says, at least, that he's doing what his Daddy wanted (in fact, JR does what he wants and would no matter what Jock Ewing did or didn't want to happen to the ranch).
Life — and certainly the economy — are more tentative in the 21st century and the world is smaller. Our values are different, and TV is different as well. The availability of literally hundreds of channels reflects the multiplicity of information sources that define communication and entertainment these days. That's one of the reasons you'll find that the new "Dallas" throws curve ball after curve ball into plot and character, often with little regard to credibility or logic.
Of course, this kind of thing has always defined soap operas, regardless of whether they aired in the afternoon or in prime time. But show runners know that there's a lot of competition out there for viewers' attention and if you don't keep them mesmerized with constantly shifting "bright shiny objects," you can lose them.
True, there are more than a few moments when the absence of logic strains credibility in "Dallas." And soon enough, you start anticipating the next unlikely plot development moments before it actually happens. Why? Either because it's a cliché or it makes no sense. And on "Dallas," if it makes no sense, it's bound to happen.
Except for Hagman, the performances are adequate without ever standing out, which may be one of the reasons it does take so long to care much about the younger Ewings, or, as I came to think of them over the seven episodes sent to critics, the "Ewlings." It's not entirely the fault of the actors, though: As the script is written, there's very little time for any real character development. If a Ewling does a bad thing one second, he'll do a good thing two seconds later.
The female characters are especially elusive and underwritten, with the exception of Brenda Strong's Annie, who has her own secrets to hide. Linda Gray still can't act but seems to be relying on her raccoon-eyed makeup to ground her character. She's wearing so much eye shadow, you half expect her head to pop out of a garbage can somewhere along the way.
Can't wait for the Halloween episode.
David Wiegand is The San Francisco Chronicle's TV critic. Follow him on Twitter @WaitWhat_TV.


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A severe Indiana winter during 1872-73 prompted a group of friends from Indianapolis to form an investment group with the purpose of moving to the warmer climate of Southern California. Sent to scout the area, D. M. Berry recommended purchasing a portion of the Rancho San Pasqual, which later became Pasadena.
One of the main reasons Pasadena was incorporated in 1886 was to abolish saloons and the sale of alcohol in the area. In February 1887, an ordinance was passed that banned liquor in Pasadena.
The word Pasadena literally means "valley" in the Ojibwa (Chippewa) Indian language, but it has been interpreted to mean "Crown of the Valley" and "Key of the Valley," hence the adoption of both the crown and the key in the official city seal.
Pasadena, Texas was named after Pasadena, California because some thought that the areas resembled each other.
An asteroid was given the name Pasadena in 1980, in part because it is a middle-sized "suburban" asteroid eight miles (13 kilometers) in diameter.
The USS Pasadena SSN-752, a nuclear submarine, is the third Navy vessel and first submarine to carry the name of Pasadena. Commissioned in 1989, the submarine has been deployed several times, including the Persian Gulf in 1993. Currently based in Pearl Harbor, the football field sized sub is known for its speed and stealth, as well as, its advanced sonar capabilities and weaponry systems. The USS Pasadena was awarded the Submarine Squadron Seven Battle "E" Efficiency award for 1998. The submarine's insignia was originally designed by Walt Disney for the USS Pasadena (CL-65),a light cruiser that earned six battle stars during WW2, represented by the boxing turtle. The red rose ties the ship to the City of Pasadena. More information about the USS Pasadena can be found on the Navy's Web site or the USS Pasadena Foundation.
The rose (no particular variety) was adopted as Pasadena's official flower on September 22, 1961.
Naturalized parrots are frequently seen and heard around Pasadena. According to local legend, many were released during a 1959 fire which destroyed Simpson's Gardenland and Bird Farm in Pasadena. Some of the parrots were probably pets that escaped or were set free. Some may have been released by smugglers attempting to avoid arrest. One common breed is the Red-crowned parrot.
The Rose Bowl was constructed in 1922 on the site of a dump in the Arroyo Seco. It originally had a seating capacity of 57,000 and currently seats 100,184 people. The rim circumference is 2,430 feet (741 meters); 880 feet (268 meters) from the north to the south rim and 79,156 square feet (7,354 sq. meters) with a circumference of 1,350 feet (411 meters). The Rose Bowl is home for the UCLA Bruins Football team.
The Tournament of Roses annual parade of flower covered floats has been held in Pasadena since January 1, 1890. It was patterned after a European festival of roses and was meant to show off Pasadena's natural beauty and sunny climate while most of the nation lay buried beneath snow. Today, the 5.5 mile (8.8 kilometers) Tournament of Roses parade has magnificent floral floats, marching bands, equestrian units and public officials. Floats must be completely covered with flowers, greenery, or other natural material, with an average float requiring up to 100,000 blossoms. It is estimated that more than one half million roses in vials are used in each parade. The average cost of a finished float is between $75,000 and $250,000 depending on the size and mechanics of the float. About 1,000,000 people come to Pasadena to watch the Tournament of Roses.


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Spurs sweep Grizzlies to reach NBA Finals
Memphis, TN – The San Antonio Spurs have waited six years for another chance to compete in the NBA title game.
After capping a grinding Western Conference run with their second sweep of the postseason, they're going to get that opportunity.
Tony Parker was the driving force behind a series clinching 93-86 victory, as San Antonio punched its ticket to the NBA Finals by ousting the Memphis Grizzlies in the Western Conference title set in four games.
Parker was sensational, pouring in a game-high 37 points while also handing out six assists to get San Antonio back in the championship for the fifth time in 15 years.
Tim Duncan checked in with 15 points, eight boards and four blocks and Manu Ginobili registered six points, six boards and six assists to position the Spurs four wins away from the franchise's fifth championship.
"I promised to him (Duncan) that we would go back to the finals," said Parker. "That we'd get an opportunity to win the whole thing. I tried to do my best, be aggressive every night. I think everybody on the team really wanted to do it for him."
The veteran nucleus of Duncan, Parker and Ginobili have been the mainstays of San Antonio's dominance over the last decade, which has seen the club reach at least the conference finals eight times.
Duncan and coach Gregg Popovich have been a part of all five of the championship runs and will seek a fifth ring together, while Parker and Ginobili will chase their fourth rings.
Memphis, the first team to be swept in a conference final in 10 years, played from behind nearly the entire game in shooting 37 percent for the contest.
Quincy Pondexter kept the Grizzlies within striking distance by posting 18 of his 22 points in the second half, while Marc Gasol tallied 14 points, five boards and three blocks.
Zach Randolph was just 4-for-13 from the field in posting another disappointing effort. He scored 13 as Memphis was swept in a postseason set for the first time since 2006.
The Grizzlies didn't make it easy for San Antonio, however, continuing to show resiliency despite never leading after the opening minutes. They cut the margin to three points four times over the last 13 minutes of play, but one thing kept them from pulling any closer.
They had no answer for Parker.
Tony Allen got a putback to bring Memphis within 76-73 in the fourth, but Parker nailed a triple at the other end, then found Duncan for a dunk on the next possession.
Allen got Memphis within six by fighting for an offensive board, yet Parker responded with a step-back jumper to keep the team's eight points apart.
Then, after Gasol's jumper with under a minute left got the Grizzlies within three to give them one last hope, Parker knifed through the lane with a series of crossovers to draw a foul.
He calmly sank both free throws with 29.7 seconds left, and the end result was never in doubt from there.
"He was outstanding the whole series," said Memphis coach Lionel Hollins. "He controlled the whole series with his penetration, his made shots, he made plays. One game he has 18 assists, today he has 37 points."
Tayshaun Prince scored the first two baskets of the game, but the Grizzlies then misfired on 13 of their last 17 shots in the quarter. The Spurs surged ahead with a quick 8-0 run, Parker followed with six straight points and they took a 24-14 edge into the second.
Memphis pulled within six, 44-38, at the break thanks to a pair of late 3- pointers from Jerryd Bayless, but things began to look bleak again in the third.
Parker connected on a 16-footer, a tough fadeaway and a driving score in succession for San Antonio to re-open a double-digit edge at 65-54 with 4 1/2 minutes left in the period. Pondexter, though, helped keep them alive.
He hit two three's and scored nine of his 12 third quarter points during a 12-4 run for Memphis. Randolph, fouled away from the ball on Pondexter's second triple, hit the bonus free throw and added a runner in the lane to get the Grizzlies within 69-66.
However, he missed a layup and two free throws in the closing minute which could have brought Memphis closer. A triple from Kawhi Leonard late in the session gave San Antonio a six-point edge heading into the fourth.
Game Notes
San Antonio will make its first NBA Finals appearance since 2007, when the team defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers. It will await the winner of the Eastern Conference final set between the Miami Heat and the Indiana Pacers ... Leonard totaled 11 points, six rebounds and five steals ... The Spurs shot 51 percent from the field ... Memphis had 16 offensive rebounds, but only totaled 16 second chance points.


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First, let me point out that this idea was brought up to me by the Merc's Dan Brown, who is writing several major stories in the build-up to the 49ers-Green Bay playoff game and yet had the wherewithal to think of several others that could've been...
Which got my attention, and got me typing.
–Actually, let me point out that I figure many 49ers fans will dislike this item, possibly intensely. They will say it's irrelevant, that I'm dumb for bringing it up, and then it will collapse into the normal Alex-vs.-Colin-vs.everybody-vs.-me screeching that is occurring on a regular basis these days when any 49ers topic is raised.
–But I'm just tossing something else out there because sometimes it's interesting to spin reality just a few degrees and take a look at the things and events that just missed happening. That helps clarify our current view of things, maybe.
Anyway… Alex Smith has been one of the constants of the Bay Area sports landscape since his arrival more than 7 years ago, and he's surely the most news-making figure over that period. That's not arguable.
His up-down-down-down-up-purgatorial 49ers career has crashed against a lot of interesting issues and foils, and, as luck would have it, several of those foils are sitting there in the playoff field currently.
But Smith is no longer the 49ers' starting QB, of course. The QB is Colin Kaepernick and this is now his 49ers QB story, not anybody else's.
Yes, Kaepernick is immensely fascinating in his own right, but without the history and the foils and intrigue of Smith's novel-like career. Hey, if there's an injury, Smith still could be the guy facing all these familiar antagonists, but I never project injuries.
We're going through the Looking Glass into the Alex-Alternate-Universe. Here's what could've been..
* This week in the divisional round, the 49ers play Green Bay and Aaron Rodgers–whom the 49ers passed on to select Smith No. 1 overall in 2005 and then Rodgers fell to Green Bay's No. 24 slot–is, of course, Green Bay's MVP- and Super Bowl-winning QB.
Rodgers, you might have heard a time or 20,000, was not pleased by the 49ers' choice, and he was correct to be displeased. He's doing great where he is and has been doing great for a while, but still…
Smith and Rodgers are forever grouped together by their 2005 fates–Rodgers was the cocky Cal product the local team didn't want, Smith was the young, nice San Diego kid out of Utah who was thrown to the wolves as the No. 1 pick–yet they've never played a significant (playoff or crucial playoff-berth-deciding) game against each other as starting QBs.
And still won't.
After beating Rodgers in Week 1 at Lambeau this year–pre-Smith benching–what would a victory over Rodgers in a playoff game do for Smith's permanent credibility here and around the league? You know what, you absolutely know.
* If the 49ers win Saturday they would move to the NFC championship game where they could possibly face Atlanta and Mike Nolan, who drafted Smith No. 1 overall as his first huge personnel move upon taking over the 49ers, is now the much-lauded defensive coordinator of the Atlanta Falcons.
Nolan took Smith because he liked his attitude, then a few years, many losses and one bad shoulder injury into their relationship, Nolan soured on Smith–and when Nolan soured, it all went to hell.
Smith told me last year that he and Nolan are fine now–that they understand things got out of hand due to the pressures of all the losing but they still basically like and understand each other.
But in a playoff situation, think Nolan would want to come up with some blitz schemes against Smith, who got rattled so often when he was Nolan's QB?
Think Smith would like to step into a few deep balls and beat a Nolan defense and prove that Nolan's knowledge of QB play was slightly less than ideal?
But… no.
* If the 49ers win and Seattle beats Atlanta, the 49ers would face Seattle and personnel exec Scot McCloughan, who was Nolan's top personnel man in 2005 and defended Smith through much of his struggles under Nolan and Mike Singletary.
McCloughan is a Smith supporter, not a foil, so this one wouldn't have the frission of the other alternate-match-ups. But it'd be interesting.
* And if the 49ers got to the Super Bowl, they could very well face Denver and QB Peyton Manning, whom the 49ers pursued (or
"evaluated," in Jim Harbaugh's goofy explanation) last off-season to potentially supplant Smith.
In the Alt-Alex Universe, Smith has backed up his great year last year with another great all year (maybe something like a 70% completion rate?), won two playoff games, and moved the 49ers to the Big Game, where he faces Manning, the guy his team wanted ahead of him the previous summer.
That would've been quite a Super story-line. But the 49ers went another direction–their call, and as I've said, I can absolutely understand why Kaepernick is the QB now.
Yes, Kaepernick has his own story line. We'll be writing about it a lot.


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The above chart details national carriage agreements with the top television service providers in the United States for all presently available or announced non-exclusive HD channels. Providers listed include the two major DBS carriers and the top terrestrial providers, including Verizon and AT&T's fiber services. Other providers have been excluded because their footprint is simply too small.
A tip of the hat to all the AVS members who have contributed to the spreadsheet over the years, and a special thanks to CycloneGT, nataraj, sansri88, and Ken H for their prior work keeping this thread and chart alive.
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This chart also tracks subscription sports packages with HD coverage. All cable providers marked above and Verizon FiOS offer their sports packages through iNDEMAND's three HD channels; Team HD, Game HD, and Game 2 HD. As such, they offer a limited amount (one to five games) of HD coverage on any given night with their package. DirecTV broadcasts significantly more HD coverage to its subscribers, typically all the HD games available in each package.
iNDEMAND began offering nine total HD feeds for its subscription sports packages on September 16, 2011. Carriage of these additional feeds varies by provider and market. For more information, see here.
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This chart does not presently track carriage of RSNs.
East & West feeds
Where a "West" feed is marked, that means the provider offers two separate feeds of the same channel, one on a three-hour delay from the other. A reader on the West coast should probably swap the words "East" and "West" on this chart, and assume that if a provider does not carry a secondary feed of a given channel, the feed missing is the East coast feed. Yes, like most sports coverage, this chart too has an East coast bias.
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As always, please update us as channels go from limited availability to wide availability on the cable operators. Since cable operators roll out channels on a market-by-market basis, my default selection is "limited availability" unless a press release or someone here indicates otherwise.
I'll keep a list here of everyone's reports for the next update
BBC World News HD
Jewelry TV HD
Military Channel HD
beIN Sport Espanol HD
EWTN Espanol HD
TV Japan HD
Not Available
Ovation HD
Time Warner Cable
beIN Sport Espanol HD
BBC World News HD
Fight Now HD
Military Channel HD
One World Sports HD
Outside Television HD
Universal Sports Net HD
Not Available
Ovation HD
Announced To Not Available
CatholicTV HD
The Big Ten Network is BTN.
Thanks for clarifying - I completely read over BTN. And yes, Dish does have PAC 12 network live and in HD, but the HD feed is only turned on when live games are on.
Because the guy(s) here doing the chart consider it a local, broadcast network like ABC, CBS, etc. - regardless of the fact that it's "national" feed is also carried by various satellite (& cable) carriers as well.
Already been down this road with the (national) HD feeds of Univision, Telefutura, etc...
I can't help but wonder if it wouldn't be easier to have channels listed as "Yes," "N/A," or "Limited" versus having the color codes. It must certainly be nice for those that have access to a color printer, but those of us using B&W have a hard time distinguishing between the colors.
Never mind, I didn't realize there were #'s in the cells that format to the colors and help with the counting.
Easy enough to manipulate once I figured it out. Again, thanks for maintaining this information.....seems that the providers want to make it impossible to easily compare their offerings.
Announced for Time Warner Cable Rochester NY on Dec 27.
Announced for TWC KC Dec 12
Fight Now HD
One World Sports HD
Outside Television HD
Universal Sports Net HD
Outstanding job on the latest update and newer updates as they come in. I took a month off from AVS FORUM on behalf of SUPERSTORM SANDY. I lost all my power for eleven days and am still strugling to recover. I have been havin a hardtime wth my internet and have had a hard time typing my latest post. Gotta go now I'm stil strugling.
I just got a email with a Special Offer if you can't get HRTV on your television!
in in it say AND, you can Watch HRTV.com in HD quality Anywhere!
So if there web feed is in HD will the TV feed soon be going HD as well?
Hallmark Channel HD
Hub HD
Sportsman Channel HD
And the following will be limited for Charter.
CBS Sports Network HD
Disney Junior HD
GMC HD (Bresnan and Cablevision never carried it)
National Geographic Wild HD
MLB Extra Innings HD
MLS Direct Kick HD
NBA League Pass HD
NHL Center Ice HD
Nothing is confirmed yet. So stay tuned!
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