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This article is about the customizing of television. Many cable companies buy content in packages. For example MTV comes with VH1, BET, and spike so if you are only wanting to watch one of those programs, your also paying for the 3 other programs that aren’t even being used at all. TV shows travel through pipes that belong to the telcos and cable providers. Those companies can institute bandwidth caps that seriously screw with traffic. Despite the industry roadblocks, TV will continue to become more customizable.

The article that we were given to read in class was very interesting. It talked about how BP is putting forth a lot of effort to clean up the massive oil spill that happend in the Gulf of Mexico. The company's profit for the latest quarter more than doubled to 6.1 billion dollars from a year earlier, on the back of higher oil prices and better operational performance. Replacement cost profit, which strips out gains realted to rises in the value of inventories, was 5.6 billion dollars, up from 2.39 billion dollars a year earlier. This realtes to the group project we did because it talks about how oil prices will raise now after this oil spill.