![]() ![]() AL JAZEERA ENGLISH LIVESTATION FREEApril came and went, the shut off never happened and it was assumed that Al Jazeera’s English stream would remain a free offering for American viewers. ![]() The move was likely a strategy to shift American attention off its international service and on to its domestic offering. In January, the Wall Street Journal reported Al Jazeera would temporarily shut off its stream in April while plans for Al Jazeera America were in the works. The campaign failed to move the needle with many cable and satellite companies in the United States, leaving the internet as the only viable way to view the channel. A news service that was once ostracized by American journalists and politicians was now praised for its tenacious coverage of events in the Middle East.Ī campaign was launched to bring Al Jazeera English into more American homes (currently, it can be seen on cable systems in New York, Washington and Toledo, Ohio). Al Jazeera found an audience in the United States who tuned in to the channel on LiveStation and on YouTube. In early 2012, the network was able to reverse its negative image when it began covering the Arab Spring protests around the clock. cable and satellite companies by broadcasting its signal direct to viewers on the internet, and was one of the first international broadcasters to do so. cable and satellite systems for years after it launched in 2006.Īl Jazeera English circumvented normal carriage negotiations with U.S. Despite little evidence to the assertion, the perception that the Qatar-based news organization had an anti-American mission kept Al Jazeera English off U.S. troops (during the war, the United States bombed Al Jazeera’s Baghdad office, killing journalist Tariq Ayoub). government officials during the start of the Iraq war for airing video depicting the deaths of several U.S. The channel also received criticism from U.S. (Photo: The Desk)Īl Jazeera America confirmed via a spokesperson on Friday that the online stream for its English-language international service will be blocked in the United States upon the launch of the company’s domestic news channel.įor years, the American perspective of Al Jazeera was skewed, with many assuming the channel was sympathetic of terrorists when it ran videos of Osama bin Laden that it had obtained from al Qaeda. The live feed of Al Jazeera English playing on a laptop computer. ![]()
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![]() Proof #8: Replacements for Predated Chickens Only Count as ½ Chicken Practical / Situational Application of Proof 7: “Yes sweetie I hear all three of them crowing in unison at 4am but I’m sure one of them will be eaten sooner or later.” (Note: after delivering this statement roll over in bed and go back to sleep, the message will be burnt into your partner’s subconscious and should not be an issue going forward). Additionally, my findings show that Roosters are cycled much more often than hens, so it only makes sense that this third position is a revolving door of sorts, and thus the third Rooster does not count towards flock totals. It’s hard to give them all away and sometimes there’s one that just has the most interesting little attitude that you can’t part with (at least not yet). However, during incubation periods we know that roughly half of all eggs are male, and thus we get a lot of extra cockerels. Both of these Roosters count towards flock count. Most free-ranging flocks will be accompanied by a Rooster, possibly a second as a back-up depending on the flock size. Proof #5: Gifted and Rescued Chickens Do Not Count Practical / Situational Application of Proof 4: “Sweetheart, I understand we have 3 goats, 2 dogs and a llama, but those animals are irrelevant when determining my flock size and I really do need another Silkie.” (Note: you could attempt to further negotiate by explaining how a silkie is also only half a chicken as proven earlier, but use this tactic at your discretion). ![]() PS- Goats just eat and don’t lay eggs = kinda worthless anyway. Keep this in mind as you consider that “super cute baby goat”. On a scholastic note, the larger the overall animal-count becomes though the more difficult justification for additional chickens becomes. This proof includes (but is not limited to): dogs, cats, goats, horses, donkeys, sheep, cows, pigs, llamas, rabbits, small and large humans. It is regularly observed that non-chickens are included in flock calculations, sometimes even incorporating small humans in the counts this approach is proved false by the calculation above. ![]() ![]() Though rudimentary, it is important to note that non-Chicken animals do not count towards the flock size. ![]() Proof #3: Bantams and Silkies Count as ½ Chicken (Note: historically this discussion is better received by the non-chicken-math-side of the family if the two breeds in question look much different… think Black Australorp vs Columbian Wyandotte). Practical, Situational Application of Proof 2: “Honestly my love, the differences in a Rhode Island Red and a Golden Comet are so stark that I could hardly count that new hen against my total flock size”. An important note here is that breed is not mutually exclusive to egg color meaning if you have two Brown Egg Layers of the same Breed, this still counts as 1 Chicken (not 0 because these chickens are mathematically identical and one chicken counts for both the breed and the egg color) however, if you have two brown egg layers from two different breeds, this does indeed count as 0 additional chickens towards the flock count. It did not take long to realize that like egg color: the first of each kind of chicken breed was also not applicable towards flock size. Given the egg-color findings as outlined above, it occurred to me that there was likely correlation but not necessarily causation in the variation of the chicken breeds on flock size. ![]() |
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