European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 stars and stripes wednesday March 21 2007 Day quote of the Day you Hove to be careful what you say to the press maybe in finally learning but probably not Sandra Bullock on being taken too seriously by the Media when she joked that she would Stop making romantic comedies see Story on Page 12 list top itunes songs March 13 1 this is Why in hot Mims 2 glamorous Fergie 3 this aint a scene its an arms race fall out boy 4 dont matter Akon 5 Girlfriend Avril Lavigne 6 cupids choke hold gym class heroes 7 glamorous explicit Fergie act coming soon scene on sunday Adam Sander stars in reign Over me today in stripes Abby 20 american Roundup 1617 classified2124 comics1820 crossword19 faces12 horoscope18 letters14 opinion 15 sports2432 weather13 your money11 kiss cheap electronics goodbye plug in Jonathan Tamuff dont want to spend More than a Benjamin on a new to or player to use with your Cable or satellite to service if so youd better run not walk to the nearest Bigboy store and Hope its inventory of cheap video goods Hast already been decimated on a recent visit to target i found Only one product in Stock that Al most fit the Bill a 20inch Magna Vox to priced at when replacement combination models Start to show up next month  be significantly More expensive say to what gives we can thank the Bush White House and the Federal communications commission in cahoots with broadcasters and hardware makers for taking away our cheap electronics As of March 1 an acc mandate went into effect requiring that All tvs Vars and did recorders shipped interstate with an old style analog a tsp to tuner must also have an ats tuner on Board to Nab the new generation of broadcast digital to signals that will reign supreme in a couple of years an ats tuner adds to to the re Tail Price so these updated models must be at least that much More expensive manufacturers sold off noncompliant goods Well ahead of the cutoff Date but retailers with warehoused inventory can continue to sell it until the shelves go Bare equipment makers can Dodge the ats tuner mandate Only by building video players arid to monitors lacking any tuner whatsoever this is an improvement the irony of course is that 85 percent of americans get to signals through a Cable or satellite Box their old school analog to gear will continue to cooperate just Fine with those tuner boxes even after feb 17 2009 that s when broadcasters Are required by Law to switch off their analog transmitters return vacated frequencies to the government for resale and operate with just their digital broadcasting gear currently digital broadcasts run parallel to analog transmissions so the Only people who really need a new generation video product with a digital tuner Are the 15 percent of viewers who pull in Ove Theair signals via a rooftop or Rab Odd Story of the Day stomping on them must be out of the question Kuala Bumpur Malaysia Buddhist monks bound by Faith in nonviolence Are grappling with How to rid a malaysian Temple of a severe ant infestation without killing the insects a Temple Devo tee said monday stinging red ants have plagued the Hong Hock see Temple in Northern Penang state for a year causing one worshipper to be bit ten so badly last month that he had to receive treatment in a hos Pital said Elma Lin a Temple Volunteer worker sons ants before freeing them in a near by Forest but the method failed to purge the insects Lin said we Haven found a solution so far Lin said nothing has worked the temples chief Monk Boon Keng was quoted As saying by the Star newspaper the monks had to respect other living things in the Temple when an ant drops on you you must not flick it away or blow on it he told the news 2005 probably  use a Fly swatter paper if you do it will bite to hold on you just have to shake it off the newspaper published a photograph of Boon Keng standing beside a sign at the tem ple that read beware poisonous ants do not sit under the tree the decade sold Temple has More than 10 monks living there and hundreds of Devo tees Lin said a act Panasonic dmrez17 biter Antenna wait for tomorrow if you fit into the latter group and still love your current to set buying a new combi or a Standal one did recorder with an ats tuner will be a Good Way to stay in the Loop Panasonic marketing manager Alberto Reg Giani touts that his new line of did and comb recorders with acc tune an tuners will future proof analog television owners the Bottom line first to hit stores next month will be the Panasonic dmrez17 did recorder priced at and the brands dmrez37v combi recorder priced at a month later the line will expand with variations dmrez27 and dmrez47v respectively that Cost More and add 1080p video signal up conversion email Jonathan Takiff at  puzzles by Papp com i j i i 51 1 1 i i difficulty very easy yesterdays solution fill in the boxes so that each Row column and 3by3 Square 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