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Police in Lancaster County seek three suspects from Ephrata wanted on retail theft charges. Ephrata Borough Police responded at 2:32 am Thursday to a call at a convenience store in the 500 block of West Main Street. A patron had found the store open but no one was there.
Store management were summoned and with police reviewed store surveillance video. The video revealed the on duty night shift clerk, identified as Brittany Lee Taylor, 23, and two friends, identified as Anthony Joseph D'uva, 25 and Damion Lee Good, 24, removing $12,590 worth of merchandise from the store without paying. The merchandise included cigarettes, smokeless tobacco products, health and beauty products, automotive fluids, and food.
Borough police have arrest warrants charging the three suspects with Retail Theft, Theft by Unlawful Taking and Conspiracy. Family and friends of the suspects are known to live in Ephrata and Manheim Boroughs, Luzerne County and Beachwood, New Jersey. Anyone with information on the whereabouts Taylor, D'uva and Good are asked to contact Ephrata Police at (717) 733-8611.


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The Continuum Fingerboard's metal instruments use a feedback filter to simulate the tonal resonance and acoustical effects of interacting with a metal bar.
Like the other physical modeled instruments in the Continuum Fingerboard, the Metal instruments in the Continuum Fingerboard are not designed to emulate a particular instrument per se, but are created to be an evocative unique musical experience in their own right.
The example below was performed using the Continuum Fingerboard's Metal Bar instrument.
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Are you ready for the perfect gift for a baby or toddler? Check out these too cute knotted-bow headbands. I'm totally gushing over these because as you can see, they are ridiculously cute!!! And because I think that every little girl should wear one, I put together a FREE Pattern and tutorial for you!
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Here are some of the pretty little headbands I made as gifts using the Knot Bow Headband Pattern. Adorbs!
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If you haven't sewn with knits before, I recommend using a walking foot and some stretch thread in the bottom. Adding a stretch stitch and easy as pie! You can check out the tribal knot headband and the strawberry knot headband I made last year to go with Ava's outfits.
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Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish: My Lords, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Simon of Glaisdale, and the noble Earl, Lord Russell, have again proposed this amendment which removes totally the provisions relating to the levying of distress. They are concerned that Section 35 of the 1991 Act
Lord Simon of Glaisdale: My Lords, perhaps the noble Lord will allow me to intervene. I venture to point out that it does no such thing; the power to levy distress remains under the Magistrates' Courts Act.
Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish: Yes, my Lords, but I believe that the noble and learned Lord will agree that it removes the provisions as they apply to the Child Support Agency, giving it a different route to that which I believe the noble and learned Lord would prefer it to have.
Both noble Lords are concerned that Section 35 of the 1991 Act gives the Child Support Agency exceptional powers, and that this section is not neededas the noble and learned Lord pointed out to me in his interventionas there is an existing debt enforcement process in the county court. I should first like to remind the House of the efforts the agency makes to reach an agreement with the absent parent about the repayment of arrears before enforcement action is considered. There are a number of safeguards in place that limit the amount of arrears payable, the amount that the agency will seek to collect and the maximum amount of current maintenance and arrears repayments in cases where the absent parent makes prompt arrangements to meet his liabilities. Enforcement action is the last remedy for the agency in cases where an absent parent persistently seeks to avoid his liability.
For the sake of complete clarity I shall ask noble Lords to bear with me while I explain the stages in the agency's enforcement process in detail, relating them directly to the processes a private individual has to pursue to obtain the remedy of distress. First, the agency needs to establish that a debt has arisen and should be pursued. A magistrates' court must grant a liability order before any enforcement action by way of distress can be carried forward. As I explained in Committee, the court has no jurisdiction over the amount of the weekly maintenance assessment. That is a matter decided by the agency using the maintenance formula. Where a parent disputes the assessment, he or she has a right of appeal to an independent child support appeal tribunal. However, the court must be satisfied that the amount of debt stated on the application for a liability order is in fact owing and has not, for example, been paid in full or in part. All applications are heard in court and the absent parent may give evidence if he so wishes.
Section 35 of the 1991 Act provides for action to be taken to enforce the liability order by way of the levying of distress. This is necessary because all the liability order does is confirm that the debt is due. If Section 35 were taken away, the agency would be unable to use distress as a method of enforcing child support maintenance since, as there is no debt judgment from a county court, it would not be possible to apply to the county court for this action. Without the remedy of distress
Lord Simon of Glaisdale: My Lords, I am so sorry to intervene again. If I may say so, the noble Lord has entirely missed the point. There is no question of a county court order. It is a question of an order of the magistrates' court. I read the section and the provision. It is an order of the magistrates' court which can be enforced by distress. The liability order is an order by the magistrates' court to pay.
Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish: My Lords, I hear what the noble and learned Lord says. However, I understand that an ordinary company, let us say, wanting to levy distress because a debt arises has to go to the county court for a debt judgment. I shall come to why we believe that this is the right procedure in a moment. I am saying that the agency goes to the magistrates' court; and I explained what the magistrates' court may or may not do and how it can establish what it is asked to establish, namely that the debt is owed and that it has not been paid either in whole or in part.
As I was saying, without the remedy of distress it would be much more difficult for the agency to obtain payment of maintenance quickly and effectively in those cases where absent parents refuse to meet their responsibilities to their children and where a deduction from earnings order cannot be used. The provisions in Section 35 give enforcement powers to the Child Support Agency which closely resemble the process in county courts. The decision to use magistrates' courts for liability orders, rather than the county courtsI hope that this helps to answer the noble and learned Lord's pointwas taken with the intention of being helpful to the parents. Magistrates' courts are often more local and therefore easier to attend than county courts.
An individual taking proceedings in the county court must first obtain a debt judgment and the debtor has an opportunity to attend court to defend the application if he wishes. The liability order process that I have described is similar, though taken in the magistrates' courts rather than the county court. If payment is not made following a debt judgment in the county court, the creditor can apply for a warrant of execution. But I should stress that that is, in most cases, an administrative procedure which does not involve the leave of the court. I do not, therefore, accept that the agency has exceptional powers in respect of distress. Creditors enforcing debt through the county court can have distress proceedings initiated on the basis of an administrative decision.
Section 35 of the 1991 Act does, of course, contain important safeguards to ensure that the absent parent is always left with certain essential items, including clothes, bedding, furniture and household equipment; and tools and other work equipment. There is also the right of appeal to the magistrates' court if the absent parent feels that the proceedings are irregular in any way.
I have been asked why it is not a magistrates' court order for distress. That would involve the agency going back to the magistrates' court, which is a two-stage process. The order for distress would normally be issued administratively and the agency has instead been given powers to act on the liability order. This is a simpler and quicker process to deal with the problem. I must say, frankly, that the problem will only come about and the person will only have that visited upon him if he is simply just not prepared to play ball with the agency and is showing no signs of paying the maintenance due to the children of the first marriage.
I hope that I have demonstrated that the distress provisions that the agency may use are the last resort in a well regulated process. The agency does not have exceptional powers. In Section 35 it has the means to use well-established procedures of debt recovery to secure maintenance payments for children whose absent parents are refusing to meet their responsibilities.
Lord Lucas: My Lords, I fear that the debate is getting a little out of order. The House may find it helpful if I remind noble Lords that it is possible to ask the Minister at the end of his speech short questions for elucidation before he sits down. There is no provision for interrupting a Minister in the middle of his speech at Report stage.
Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish: My Lords, I was summing up and was about to say that I do not believe that these amendments are in any way helpful to the cause that at least I and, I suspect, most noble Lords and members of the public are trying to pursue; namely, to make sure that children in these circumstances get the maintenance that they are due from the absent parent. Therefore, I hope that with my detailed explanation, in addition to the letter that I wrote to him, the noble and learned Lord will feel able to withdraw his amendment.
Lord Simon of Glaisdale: My Lords, we are greatly in the noble Lord's debt. He has had an extraordinarily difficult brief to make good and has done it with force and patience. But I must, I hope with all respect, ask him to look again at this matter. He has talked all round the issue but has not faced it.
It is neither here nor there that any of those remediesthe right to intrude, the right to interrogate, the right to infringe Inland Revenue confidentiality and the right to levy distressare only ultimate sanctions. The noble Lord says in effectin fact, I believe that he said it in termsthat the debtor has only to co-operate and he can avoid all those unpleasant consequences. That is neither here nor there.
The question is whether Section 35 gives any additional powers. If it does not, it is unnecessary and the noble Lord can accept the amendment. I can put the matter very briefly again. Under Section 33, the Secretary of State may apply to a magistrates' court for a liability order. That is an order saying that the parent in question is liable to pay a sum. Then under Section 35, the Secretary of State, having obtained a liability order, may levy distress.
But what the noble Lord has not faced at all is that there is power under the Magistrates' Courts Act. I read the passage, as it is very short, and I can read it again:
The only answer to that is to go back to the magistrates' court. Is that really so onerous? Must he really have Section 35 so that the Secretary of State may exceptionally, unlike the ordinary creditor, proceed administratively to distress? If so, so much the worse.
I ask again. Does Section 35 give additional powers? Obviously it gives one additional power because, characteristically, it allows the Secretary of State to make regulations supplementing that sectionthe distress section. There is one other subsection that I notice is discrepant with the Magistrates' Courts Act and that relates to special damages. As it is in different terms, one expects it to have some different meaning. In his letter the noble Lord did not go into that and, as we shall certainly have to return to the matter, I shall not pursue it today. But we are exactly where we started.
A liability order is an order to pay and then distress can be levied under the Magistrates' Courts Act. That is the beginning and the end of the matter. The only difference is whether the Secretary of State, unlike any other creditor, can proceed immediately by administrative action to levy distress or whether he is required to go back and obtain automatically, as I read the law, a warrant for distress.
As I said, we shall certainly have to return to the matter. The noble Lord may be able to find an answer to the question that I put. If so, I should be very grateful for a letter before Third Reading. In the meantime, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
[Amendments Nos. 28 and 29 not moved.]
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Help for GEFS
Single Scan Document Mode
Select Scan Single Document from the Electronic Filing Scan Menu.
Arrange documents to be scanned. Scan documents together that relate to a single deposit. Scan documents for each deposit in the following order: deposit slip, checks, and related documents.
Place a document in the scanner.
Using the radio buttons at the top, left of the screen (1), select the Document Type.
Set Image Size. The scanner will automatically scan for an 8.5" x 11" sized document (default size). To speed scanning, if the document is smaller than the default size (8.5" x 11"), select Custom Size (2) and set a smaller document width and height (3). For example, a standard business sized check may be set at 8 wide by 3 high.
Click on SCAN (4). The image will appear on the screen. If necessary, use Rotate (5) to turn the image. Click onSAVE (6) after each image. If the document being scanned is more than one page, scan the pages in order, selecting the correct Document Type, and saving after each page.
Click on CLOSE (7) when the scanning session is complete.
To Delete a Scanned Document
Until an image of a scanned document is "married" to contribution details by GEFS, it is identified by GEFS as an unattached document. If you scanned an incorrect document, and it will not be married to a contribution item, you can delete by using the Delete Scanned Document(s) function.
CLICK on DELETE SCANNED DOCUMENT(S). When the scanning screen appears, use the down arrow in the right scroll bar to advance to the image you want to delete. Using the mouse, LEFT CLICK to highlight the document to be deleted. The highlighted image appearing on the screen is the image that will be deleted from GEFS. If you have highlighted the wrong document, use CTRL + LEFT CLICK to remove the highlighting. When you have highlighted the correct document to be deleted, CLICK on DELETE.
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Serbian PM falls victim to Basic Instinct X-rated prank
Serbia's prime minister got a little hot under the collar after falling victim to an X-rated prank during a TV interview.
Socialist Party leader Ivica Dačić didn't know where to look after being flashed by a glamorous presenter wearing an ultra-short mini dress.
A dull political discussion on Balkan relations suddenly livened up when the no-knickers interviewer uncrossed her legs in front of a shocked Mr Dačić.
The cheeky stunt involving a model posing as a journalist was set up by a popular candid camera show called Nemoguca Misija or 'Mission Impossible'.
It begins with the show's producers discussing ideas for the show before the presenter is seen removing her underwear as the politician arrives.
The clip, which has been censored, has racked up more than 2.5million hits on video-sharing site YouTube.
The stunt is similar to a famous scene from 1992 film Basic Instinct in which Sharon Stone uncrosses her legs to distract police officers interviewing her.


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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 491072
yumUtils.oldUtils is broken
Last modified: 2014-01-21 01:12:41 EST
yumUtils.oldUtils contains a lot of errors and is completely unusable.
I suggest to review the code and fix it.
I already fixed most annoying errors (see my patch).
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Everything Old Is New Again: Goodbye To The VCR
- Published on Thursday, 20 October 2016 09:36
- Pete Putman
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This past summer, the Funai Corporation of Japan decided to stop manufacturing videocassette recorders (VCRs) after several decades, citing their inability to source parts as the reason.
What's that you say? You didn't even know anyone was STILL making VCRs in 2016?
A reporter for the Washington Post was referred to me by The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) for some pithy quotes about the demise of the VCR, which had its debut in the United States 40 years ago this past summer. Yes, the ½" videocassette format has been around for some time, with the most popular iteration being the VHS format developed by Japan Victor Corporation, better known as JVC.
Sony also had a ½" videocassette format for home use called Betamax, and in many ways, it was a better way to record and watch TVs shows along with movies. But Sony's insistence at keeping Betamax a proprietary format (a la Apple with Mac OS and iOS) eventually doomed it.
In contrast, JVC licensed VHS to a long list of companies: Panasonic. Hitachi, Philips. RCA. Zenith. GE. Sharp. You name the CE company; they probably sold a VHS VCR at some point. And that had a lot to do with the success of the format, which soon migrated to consumer camcorders. There was even a short-lived digital version (D-VHS) for recording HD programs and playing back movies in HD, starting in the late 1990s. Blu-ray soon killed that off, though.
When you think about it, the VCR was really at the top (or bottom) of a family tree that leads directly to today's streaming, on-demand video services. And here's why – the VCR created the concept of time-shifting; recording a TV program so you could watch when you wanted to, not when CBS, ABC, or NBC said you could.
VCRs also gave us the ability to skip through commercials, pause, and rewind to watch a clip over and over again. Or the entire show, for that matter. After Hollywood lost the famous Sony vs. Universal Studios Supreme Court decision in early 1984 – which ruled that making recordings of TV shows for home viewing was considered "fair use" under copyright statutes – the floodgates opened.
Not long after, studios started making movies available on VHS and Betamax cassettes for sale. Enterprising individuals, noting the $90 and $100 price tags for movies on cassette, opened small video rental clubs. For having your credit card on file, you could rent a movie for $5 or $6, making sure to rewind it (or paying an extra fee) and returning it for another movie.
Hollywood studios weren't happy with this turn of events until smarter heads realized the additional revenue stream could add millions to the bottom line. And so companies like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video came into existence, happily raking in the cash as stacks of rental cassettes walked out the door every night.
The introduction of the DVD format almost 20 years ago (yes, it HAS been that long!) posed an immediate threat to the VHS format. (Betamax had long since folded its tent and left town.) Now, you didn't need to rewind anything, and there was no annoying, blinking "12:00" indicator staring at you the entire time.
Bet of all, you could now jump through chapters of a movie by looking at I-frames. Fast forward, pause, and reverse were still available, but in theory, an optical disc would long outlast a VHS tape. It didn't take long before video rental stores started replacing VHS tapes with DVDs, and by 2005, it was almost impossible to find a movie on VHS.
That was the first year that DVD sales began to decline, although rentals held their own for a few more years. Looming on the horizon were two new HD optical disc formats – HD DVD and Blu-ray – and Hollywood was giddy anticipating wheelbarrows of cash coming in. (True fact: The first Austin Powers movie was largely ignored at the box office and made most of its money through DVD rentals and purchases.)
But there was a fly in the ointment. About 7 years earlier, a company called TiVo unveiled something called the digital video recorder, or DVR. This gadget would let you record analog broadcast and cable TV programs to a hard drive – no tape or disc needed. TiVo sold a subscription program guide service, which is where they made most of their money. I had one of the first Philips-made TiVo units (14-hour capacity) and bought a lifetime subscription for $99 back in 1999, using a dial-up connection to refresh the program guide.
So now we could record a TV program, skip the commercials; fast-forward, pause and rewind, and simply delete the file when we were done. "Did you TiVo Letterman last night?" soon became water cooler talk. Along the way, we had obviated the need for any kind of recording media – tape or disc – in favor of solid-state storage.
A year after DVD sales started their decline, I bought one of TiVo's first HD DVRs. It accepted CableCARDs, so it would work with Comcast. And it had dual DVRs (Wow!) so I could record two programs at once. It was big and noisy, but it served me well for 9 years.
Along the way, companies like Comcast, Time Warner, Charter, Dish Network, Verizon, and DirecTV came out with their own DVRs, some of which could record 4 or more shows at once. Now, you could record movies in high definition and watch them at your pleasure on your brand-new big-screen plasma or LCD TV.
And that brings us to the present day. Hollywood Video is long gone, and Blockbuster is bankrupt; its assets bought by Dish Network. The Blu-ray format, having vanquished HD DVD, isn't the cash cow that Hollywood anticipated as more and more video and movies are watched via ever-faster streaming connections. DVD players – once selling for $1,000 – can be found for $19.99. And Blu-ray players with WiFi are widely available for about $50 – $70.
Netflix has now evolved into a streaming media monster, as has Amazon. YouTube, a pioneer in streaming shared videos, now offers a "red" premium tier, free of commercials. HBO and Showtime, along with ABC and CBS, have started subscription streaming services that can be purchased without a cable or satellite subscription. Episodic TV series are being produced for streaming channels and they're not scrimping on production values.
So we've come full circle. My Comcast Xfinity set-top box is a DVR, but it streams channels from a cloud server, not from an internal hard drive. My contacts at Comcast tell me we're not far from the day when there won't be any set-top (or sidecar) receivers at all – your smart Ultra HDTV with WiFi will do all the heavy lifting. (After all, smart TVs are basically computers with big display screens these days.)
Today, you can go quite happily through life without having to wind a tape or load a disc in order to watch HDTV. And that's exactly the way things were forty years ago. Weird, right? Except you now have hundreds of channels to choose from; all of which can be streamed on-demand depending on the service you subscribe to.
Time-shifting. Commercial skipping. DVDs. Blu-ray. DVRs. Chapter searches. Video streaming. All of these grew directly out of that first VHS VCR that was sold 40 years ago.
And all you need to watch it is a smart TV and a remote. Everything old is indeed new again…
USEFUL GADGETS: Three Antennas and a Preamplifier for Cord-Cutters
- Published on Tuesday, 05 May 2015 12:59
- Pete Putman
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The cord-cutting landscape has changed considerably in the past twelve months, and it's no longer a fad, but a growing trend as more and more consumers decide that they can get by just fine without expensive pay TV channel packages.
In fact, Comcast reported yesterday that they now have more subscribers for broadband service than for pay TV channels, which accords greater importance to Comcast's failure to acquire Time Warner: The combined companies would have controlled broadband distribution to a disproportionate number of U.S. homes.
While Internet service is the key part of cord-cutting, free over-the-air television still pays an important part. Think of the Super Bowl, the NHL Stanley Cup and NBA championships, and the NCAA Final Four championship game.
But there's also a lot of good programming on free TV right now. In recent months, my wife and I have used our Channel Master DVR+ and TiVo HD to time-shift and watch The Blacklist, American Crime, Brooklyn 9-9, The Good Wife, 60 Minutes, American Odyssey, CSI, Blackish, Saturday Night Live, and Mr. Selfridge (plus a host of one-time PBS programs).
Throw in some Netflix streaming (House of Cards) and there's plenty to watch without Big Cable. So a balanced cord-cutting approach should incorporate both broadband and terrestrial broadcast TV.
To get the former, you need a fast Internet connection and a late-model Wi-Fi router. To get the latter, you only need some sort of antenna to connect to your television or receiver/DVR, like the Channel Master box, TiVo's Roamio, Tablo, or Mohu's new Channels product.
Blessed with a few days of nice weather, I decided to excavate my pile of review products and found three antennas patiently waiting for testing. The first was a rather odd-looking design from HD Frequency, called the CC Aerowave ($49 with 12' cable from www.hdfrequency.com). It resembles a small window with a 75-ohm coaxial balun attached to the inner corners of two panes.
The second antenna came all the way from Australia and goes by the name HD Quad ($39.99 from www.hd-quad.com). It's a flexible, transparent antenna with UHF collinear elements, not unlike many other antennas I've tested.
The last antenna is a bit larger and is a six-element VHF/UHF yagi, and comes from Channel Master. The StealthTenna 50 (CM3010HD, $29.00 from www.channelmaster.com) can be mounted indoors or outdoors. It's small enough to sit in a closet or attic space, or even in a room – think of it as functional art.
I also found a new inline signal preamplifier from Antennas Direct. The Juice UHF/VHF Amplifier ($79.99 from www.antennasdirect.com) can be used inside or outside and provides about 18 dB of signal boost with a low noise figure, which is real handy in areas where TV reception can be problematic. (Successful digital TV reception is all about signal-to-noise ratio!)
For this round of testing, I dusted off my tried-and-true UHF bowtie antenna, once available from Radio Shack but largely ignored by retailers today. (Seriously – how many of them want to sell a $5 TV product?)
I set the bowtie up on a folding table in my home office and attached it to a large cardboard box with masking tape. While that part of the test was decidedly low-tech, I then connected the antenna lead into a two-way splitter, with one leg going to a spectrum analyzer and the other going to a Hauppauge Aero-M USB tuner, connected to my Toshiba laptop.
This arrangement allowed me to see the actual waveform and signal strength of each TV station under test. I could then verify successful reception with the Aero-M, and to close the deal, look at the actual MPEG-2 video stream from each station using TS Reader. These three measurements gave me a very concise report on the performance of each antenna.
If you go back to my last round of testing in November of 2014, you'll see that I used the same antenna position (different box, though!) and same test gear. The only possible differences in testing would come from the amount of foliage on nearby trees, as my house is partially blocked from the Philadelphia/Roxborough antenna towers over a20+ mile path. (In other words, an ideal site for indoor TV antenna testing!)
The Philadelphia TV market is unique in that it has two high-power, low-band VHF TV stations – KJWP (IND) on channel 2, and WPVI (ABC) on channel 6. There are only 40 or so low-band DTVs in operation nowadays as that part of the RF spectrum is susceptible to impulse noise and strange propagation enhancement. Antennas that work well from channels 2 through 6 (about 54 to 88 MHz) are also very large – a half-wavelength dipole for channel 6 needs to be about 68 inches long!
There's also one high-band VHF operation on channel 12, WHYY (PBS). The rest of the Philly DTV stations are active on the UHF band, starting at channel 17 (WPHL) and ending at channel 42 (WTXF (FOX)). In addition, I can easily pick up three DTV stations from the Allentown area: WBPH-9, WLVT-39 (PBS), and WFMZ-46 (IND). There's even a repeater for WTXF on channel 38 that shows up on my home antenna array, plus WNJT-43 in Trenton.
I picked a handful of stations to verify reception: WPVI-6, WBPH-9, WHYY-12, WPHL-17, KYW-26 (CBS), WUVP-29 (UNI), WCAU-34 (NBC), WYBE-35 (IND), WLVT-39, WTXF-42, and WFMZ-46. Any of these antennas would be doing an outstanding job if they grabbed all of these stations, as their signal levels vary widely and there's about 113 degrees directional offset between the Roxborough and Allentown antenna towers.
The first measurements were made with the bowtie, but unamplified and with the Juice amplifier connected. I then repeated these measurements with the HD Quad, CC Aerowave, and StealthTenna 50; again, unamplified and amplified. (I'll have separate comments at the end of this article on the performance of the Juice amplifier.)
Perhaps the toughest signal to pull in is WPVI on channel 6. Two of the review antennas aren't really designed for low-band VHF reception, but WPVI runs quite a bit of power and manages to get picked up by brute force on many antennas. (None of the test antennas could pull in KJWP-2 reliably). The rest of the stations aren't quite as challenging to pull in.
Table 1 shows the results of my tests. Amplifiers do make a big difference, and helped the lowly bowtie antenna and StealthTenna 50 capture first place with 9 out of 11 stations received reliably (i.e. no drop-outs for at least a full minute). To be fair, the StealthTenna 50 is a much larger, directional antenna than the CC Aerowave and HD Quad, both of which should behave like dipoles with classic figure-8 patterns.
Table 2 ranks the antennas by performance. The bowtie by itself wound up in a three-way tie for second place with the amplified HD Quad and bare-bones StealthTenna 50, grabbing 8 out of 11 signals. Following behind was the amplified CC Aerowave, having received 7 out of 11 stations successfully and the bare-bones HD Quad with 6 out of 11 stations.
The Aerowave was a puzzler. By itself, it only received one station – WFMZ on channel 46. I experimented with laying it flat and orienting it at right-angles to the Roxborough antenna farm to try and improve reception, and oddly enough, both of these alignments were more successful than simply positioning the antenna with its face in the correct compass heading. Lying flat, it picked up 4 of 11 stations successfully, while angled at 90 degrees, it grabbed 6 of 11.
The literature supplied with the Aerowave says you can "position the antenna in any desired location," but based on my results, you may be futzing with it for a while to get the best reception – something I didn't have any problems with when using the Mohu Leaf, Ultimate, and Winegard FlatWave antennas last November.
Antenna Direct's Juice amplifier worked much better than expected. Its specifications call for 17.5 dB of gain on VHF channels and 19 dB of gain on UHF channels. (10 dB = 10 times the signal strength, with each 3 dB in gain doubling the previous signal level.) The amplifier's noise figure was specified as below 2 dB in the VHF bands and below 3 dB in the UHF bands.
In my tests, the Juice boosted WPVI's signal on channel 6 by about 15 dB and raised the noise floor from about -87 dBm to -85 dBm – or 2 dB, as the specifications claim. All amplifiers generate noise, and a good design will keep that to a minimum to avoid spurious signals and interference to desired signals. (Cheap amplifiers won't!) Performance was comparable on channels 9, 12, and even 17, where I saw signal levels increase by about 18 dB.
At the high end of the UHF band, I saw an improvement of 20 dB with an increase in noise figure of about 2.5 dB, using WFMZ's powerful signal on channel 46 for testing. That's excellent performance for a UHF amplifier and rivals that of the Channel Master Titan-series mast-mounted amplifiers I've been using for years. (Titan 2 VHF/UHF 16 dB $65.00, Titan 2 VHF/UHF 30 dB $69, both available from www.channelmaster.com)
I don't have any data on the Juice's resistance to intermodulation signal distortion (or overloading from very strong in-band and adjacent-band signals), other than to say that the dozens of very strong FM radio carriers that also broadcast from Roxborough didn't create any reception issues for me with channel 6 when the amplifier was inline.
It is amazing how little antenna you need to achieve indoor TV reception. My location is sub-optimal in this regard, given my distance to Roxborough and the number of obstructions in my path.
Yet, with just a $5 bowtie antenna, I was able to receive eight TV stations reliably (5 from Philadelphia and 3 from Allentown), including all major networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, and PBS). Adding the Juice amplifier brought in one more station, and probably fiddling with the bowtie position would have captured the remaining two on my list.
Channel Master's StealthTenna 50 isn't exactly small, but you can put it in tight locations indoors for reception, such as a townhouse attic. You can even install it on top of a shelf, or in a closet, and with an amplifier, it will do an excellent job – just use one of the many TV reception Web sites (TVFool.com is the best) to determine the compass heading and where to aim your antenna.
The HD Quad behaves like many other collinear antenna designs I've tested. It's transparent, so you can hang it in a window, and it is a better performer on UHF channels than on VHF. Add an amplifier to it and you may grab a few more channels. One bonus – you can roll it up and take it with you on trips, as I often do. Hook it up to a USB tuner stick and you can watch local HDTV on your computer in hotel rooms.
The CC Aerowave was, to put it mildly, a disappointment. I even tried moving it to different locations, using the spectrum analyzer to peak the signal and see if I could improve those reception numbers. No dice! Some signals that wouldn't come in at all were now just intermittent with frequent dropouts and frozen images. Adding the Juice amplifier didn't help much, so I can't recommend this antenna.
Finally, Antennas Direct's Juice amplifier is a solid performer and delivers the goods. A noise figure approaching 2 dB in the UHF TV band is excellent performance for the price. There is a puzzler, though – although this amplifier is obviously weatherized, it doesn't come with a mounting bracket for installation on a mast, which is the best place to out it to overcome signal loss and noise in the antenna downlead. Something for the AD folks to figure out…
Antennas, Antennas, On The Wall…Who Has The Best Reception Of Them All?
- Published on Wednesday, 05 November 2014 19:53
- Pete Putman
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It's been a L-O-N-G time since I conducted tests of indoor TV antennas. More than a year and a half, to be exact. Yet during that time, various samples have been showing up at my door to be added to the "eventually get around to it" pile in my lab.
Well, I eventually DID get around to it. Some downtime this week gave me the motivation to haul out all of those production samples, set up my spectrum analyzer, and also give Channel Master's new DVR+ ATSC receiver/DVR a workout.
Unlike my past tests, which took place mostly in northern New Jersey, I opted to stay at home this time and give each of the contenders a shakeout in my upstairs office. Indoor DTV reception at my house is by no means easy – my location is over 20 miles from the Philadelphia (Roxborough) TV towers, and according to TVFool.com, I have a 2-Edge path, meaning there are some hills in the way.
Still, there's enough RF coming into the room to make this test worthwhile. And my timing couldn't be better, as numerous research reports and news stories show that, slowly but surely, an increasing number of homes are "cutting the cord" and using a combination of free, over-the-air TV with Internet streaming to get their daily fix of video.
A recent report by The Diffusion Group shows that 14% of all broadband homes don't subscribe to pay TV, up from 9% in 2011. The report states that about 75% of U.S. households now have broadband service, so that means 13 million homes are doing just fine without the likes of DirecTV and Comcast.
Significantly, 2013 was the first year that pay TV companies saw a net loss of subscribers, even though it was only several tens of thousands. But that result flew in the face of experienced analysts who predicted only a few years earlier that consumers would never give up on cable and satellite television subscriptions.
Funny thing about that: At some point, the monthly cost of pay TV channel packages got so high that people reached their breaking point and said, "Enough!" It's no surprise that Netflix has more subscribers than Comcast, Time-Warner, or any other MSO (50 million and growing in the U.S.). And it's even less of a surprise that HBO and CBS announced video streaming services last month to reach cord-cutters: They've clearly read the writing on the wall.
While those stories are compelling, they're beyond the scope of this review. So let's refocus on the task at hand, which is to determine how well each of the test antennas performed with the DVR+.
Mohu, who has developed some pretty clever antenna designs, sent along their Leaf Metro ($24.99) several months ago. This compact package bears a remarkable resemblance to the trusty UHF bow-tie antenna that decorated so many old tube TVs back in the day, and which was eventually dropped from most product lines because (a) it was too inexpensive, and (b) it didn't look cool enough.
Mohu's Leaf Ultimate ($69.99, now called the Leaf 50) has also been sitting on the shelf for a while, and I did hook it up for one of my previous antenna tests. Unlike the Metro, the Leaf 50 is an amplified design and uses an external preamp cartridge that installs in-line and uses either USB power from your TV or a supplied wall transformer.
Rounding out the Mohu triumvirate is the Curve 30 ($49.99), another rectangular-shaped flat antenna that sits on a shelf with a supporting bracket. It doesn't use an amplifier and is intended for close-in (30 miles or less) operation.
From Antennas Direct, we have the ClearStream Eclipse ($59.99) with inline amplifier. It's not much more than a tapered loop, but what's unique about this design is the adhesive attached to the front of the loop: Simply peel off the protective backing and stick it on a window. Or wall. (Or an annoying relative who's fallen asleep on the couch.)
From Winegard, we have the FlatWave Amped ($64.99), a flexible multi-band antenna with preamplifier embedded in the housing, right where the mini coax attaches. Like the Leaf 50, the FlatWave Amped can be attached to just about any non-metallic surface or just hung on a wall.
Finally, just for fun, I threw in an RCA ANT1050 ($12.99) that I had replaced with a Mohu Leaf earlier this year for a friend's sports collectibles store. This is a strange-looking design, but is basically a pair of folded dipoles in a flexible plastic housing that you can attach to just about any surface.
And for even more fun, I dug up one of my trusty UHF bowtie antennas to use as a "control" for all of my tests. When Radio Shack used to sell these, they cost all of $3.99 a pop. And therein lies the problem – there's just no money to be made selling these anymore; not when you can get ten times that amount of money for a flexible antenna design.
For this test, I went with a simple but reliable methodology: I set up the bow tie antenna on a small table, in a spot where my spectrum analyzer indicated good signal levels on VHF and UHF. The feed from the bow tie went to a two-way splitter, and two identical 10' lengths of RG-6 connected from there to the DVR+ and to my analyzer.
After running a channel scan on the CM DVR+, I "looked" at each received channel with the analyzer (and captured numerous screens as JPEGs for reference). Then, I switched the antenna feed over from the analyzer to my Hauppauge Aero-M receiver (plugged into my laptop) and used TS Reader to look at the MPEG stream from each station that was successfully received. If I saw nothing but green bars and a low bit error rate (BER), the station was logged under the "Yes" column. If I saw tiling or signal break-up, it was logged as "Int" for intermittent. And if the station didn't come in at all, or only briefly, it was pushed to the "No" column.
After testing the bow tie, I repeated this procedure for each review antenna. The Curve antenna used its own support in the same test location, but all other antennas were attached with masking tape to a cardboard box to hold them in place in the "sweet spot." Not elegant, but effective. (I didn't remove the adhesive from the ClearStream Eclipse.)
This was about as fair as I could make the test. No antenna was positioned in a more favorable location than any other antenna – I just picked a spot, attached or stood up each antenna, connected it, and tried to watch TV stations, just like the average person would at home. Except they wouldn't have had the advantage of an analyzer to find the best place to set up.
After logging plenty of transport streams, switching through channels, and grabbing analyzer screens, I came up with the results shown in Table 1. Depending on where you live in the metro Philadelphia area, there are 16 to 18 separate digital TV stations that can be received indoors. Three of them are in the Allentown/Bethlehem area, and one (WNJT) is in Trenton, NJ.
Amazingly, I found 11 stations that were consistently strong with most models – not all – and decided to use those for my test: WPVI-6 (in the no-man's land of low-band VHF), WBPH-9 and WHYY-12, WPHL-17, KYW-26, WUVP-29, WCAU-34, WYBE-35, WLVT-39, WTXF-42, and WFMZ-46. WBPH-9, WLVT-39, and WFMZ-46 are all up in Allentown, and the rest of the signals come off the Roxborough towers. (Note that the channel numbers given are for each station's physical (RF) channel, NOT their virtual channel. For example, KYW uses channel 3, while WTXF uses channel 29 and WFMZ uses channel 69. )
A few other stations popped up briefly during scans, but none of the antennas could pull any of these in consistently. I left them out of the test. Even the DVR+ was able to read and capture some elementary PSIP information for these stations, like their virtual channel table (VCT) and call sign. But capturing basic PSIP information doesn't mean reception was successful.
The most surprising thing I learned from this round of tests was that the cheapest antenna – the bow tie – was also the most reliable. This design was really intended for reception of UHF stations and was intended to clip on to an extended rabbit ear. Yet, it pulled in ten of the eleven test stations without a hitch, having trouble only with WPVI on channel 6. That's not a surprise at all, given how inefficient a bow tie would be at 86 MHz! (And it was only $3.99!)
There was a two-way tie for 2nd place between the Leaf 50 and FlatWave Amped. Again, not a surprise – both of these antennas have fundamentally good designs based on collinear elements, and their built-in preamplifiers raised signal levels sufficiently to provide a strong signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio. That's critical for DTV reception, especially with multipath! The Achilles Heel for both antennas was VHF reception; specifically, WPVI-6 and WBPH-9. Channel 12 locked up beautifully as did all of the UHF stations.
The Leaf Metro, which physically resembles a bow tie, came in third with eight stations received successfully and three intermittently. Oddly, those three stations were WBPH-9, WUVP-29, and WTXF-42; it wasn't an either/or VHF/UHF thing. Maybe some more futzing around with antenna placement would have cleaned things up. But you can't complain for $30 with this model.
The ClearStream Eclipse and the RCA ANT1050 were both disappointments. Each antenna only pulled in seven solid signals, all in the UHF band. Channel 6 was a no-show on the ANT1050 and troublesome on the Eclipse, and vice-versa for channel 9. The Eclipse, even with an amplifier, couldn't handle channel 12, but the ANT1050 was happy with it. However, the ANT1050 couldn't lock up WCAU's NBC signal on channel 34 (ironic, considering what was once RCA used to own what was once NBC!).
The Mohu Curve, bringing up the rear, was to be truthful kind of a flop. It only snagged five stations successfully – two on VHF and three on UHF – while passing on some easy, strong channels like WPHL-17 and WCAU-34. It also had trouble with WPVI's broadcast on channel 6.
Again, it might take some futzing around to improve reception with this model, which is probably better used within a 10-to-15-mile-radius around the TV towers and not 15+ miles away. This isn't the first time I've tested a decorative or camouflaged antenna – RCA had a curved picture frame model about ten years ago – and they usually come up short for some odd reason.
OK, everyone can stop nagging me now. I tested every antenna I could find, save for an Australian model that must have come in some time ago and had a PAL-type RF connector for which I had no appropriate adapter. Most of these antennas deliver the goods: I've always been a big fan of the basic Mohu Leaf design, despite its lack of gain at VHF frequencies. It's unobtrusive and works very well.
Winegard's FlatWave, the answer to the Leaf, also pulls its weight. Both it and the Leaf scored highly in my last test of indoor antennas in March of 2013. (Wow, was it REALLY that long ago?) And things only got better with the amplified versions of each model. I didn't see a significant degradation of the noise floor here when they were switched on (< 2 dB) and they made a difference on the weaker signals. Use either of these if you are 15 – 30 miles out from the TV transmitters and have a reasonably clear reception path, i.e. maybe a small hill or some buildings in the way.
The Metro has everything – good performance in a small, inexpensive package. I'd recommend this one for city dwellers, and you shouldn't need any additional amplification. Closer to the transmitter, it should pick up low-band VHF stations nicely, but since there are only about 45 of them in the entire country, that's not a big issue for the average user.
I can't recommend any of the last three models, given how many strong stations they couldn't pull in. The Curve is best used by city dwellers or close-in suburbs, but only if you want to make a fashion statement. Otherwise, go with the Metro and stick it on the wall or in a window. The ANT1050 is certainly cheap, but missed too many easy stations. And the Eclipse is clearly challenged with low-band and high-band VHF reception.
Still, isn't it amazing how well the bow tie antenna worked? If you can't find one at a flea market or surplus store, you can make your own easily enough – there are several Web sites that show you how to do it. And your cash outlay will be minimal. Gosh, $3.99 won't even buy you a tall coffee at Starbucks these days…
This product isn't getting as much attention as it should. The super-flat DVR+ (not much thicker than a Leaf or FlatWave) has a full ATSC receiver and dual DVRs. It uses the program guide transmitted by each digital TV station to show you what's on and to set up recordings.
Two accessory USB ports are provided for a Wi-Fi adapter and external storage (internal storage of 16 GB amounts to only about 2 hours of recording). There's also an RJ-45 port for wired Ethernet connections, helpful when your box does a software update. The connection to your TV is through HDMI with embedded audio, and a separate optical port is provided for AV receivers.
The DVR+ isn't nearly as fast at scanning for channels as the LG 47" TV I have in the same room, but it eventually finds them all. The receiver locks up quickly on clean VSB signals, making it a perfect receiver for my antenna tests. CM has also included direct connections to Vudu and Pandora through their program guide (powered by Rovi!), although Netflix probably would have been a wise addition considering their streaming video market dominance.
I've used the DVR+ to record blocks of CBS programs whose schedules are thrown out of whack by late-starting Sunday NFL games that end somewhere in the vicinity of 8 PM EST, and its multi-speed fast-forward/reverse search works quite well, even if it doesn't have the tactile feedback of a TiVo DVR. Of course, the DVR+ is a LOT cheaper at $250 and there's no monthly fee for program guide information, as it comes automatically from each TV station.
Given the paucity of conventional set-top boxes for off-air reception, this is one of your better choices and sure beats watching HDTV on your phone, tablet, or computer. Let's face it; Tom Brady's Patriots vs. Payton Manning's Broncos is a lot more compelling on a big screen TV than an iPad!
See you next time I get a pile of antennas…
Editor's note: Channel Master also offers a 1 TB version of the DVR+ for $399.
Aereo And The Law Of Unintended Consequences
- Published on Friday, 07 March 2014 11:25
- Pete Putman
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For readers who aren't up to speed, Aereo is a new service that receives terrestrial digital TV broadcasts in major markets and re-transmits them over the Internet, using AVC coding with IP headers. The concept is to provide local reception for those who can't pick up these signals for one reason or another on their regular TV.
Now, the devil in the details: Ever since Aereo launched a couple of years ago, it has been in court, fighting off challenges by the major broadcast networks who are crying "foul!" and saying that Aereo's retransmission is a violation of copyright laws. They also claim that Aereo owes them retransmission fees.
Aereo's rebuttal and defense centers around a flimsy (to me) technical argument: Each subscriber gains access to an individual antenna about the size of a dime, which then is connected to an individual receiver, decoder, DVR, and encoder. It's as if the subscriber built his or her own TV antenna system, which is certainly within their rights.
I remain skeptical because the cost of actually setting up thousands of individual antennas, terrestrial receivers, video decoders, and video encoders would be prohibitively expensive and never be recovered by the $8 monthly subscriber fee (for 20 hours of recording time, $12 for 40 hours).
And anyone who has ever taken a modicum of courses in electrical physics and RF theory knows that (a) the tiny antennas Aereo assigns to each subscriber can't possibly have enough gain to work for high band VHF reception, let along UHF reception, and (b) the close spacing of those antennas – as seen from earlier PR photos released by the service – means they interact with each other to form a larger array, based on the principles of inductive and capacitive coupling. That, in essence, is a master antenna TV system – delivering TV channels to many viewers, not one.
Thanks to a sub-par presentation by expert witnesses called by broadcasters at the first hearing, the 2nd Circuit Court (New York City) ruled 2-1 that Aereo didn't infringe on copyrights and cited the earlier Cablevision "cloud" DVR decision as precedent. Aereo's right to operate was subsequently upheld in the 1st Circuit (Boston). Service is active in both cities now.
However; two weeks ago, Aereo was rebuffed by a 10th Circuit judge in Salt Lake City, who unequivocally stated that "The plain language of the 1976 Copyright Act supports the plaintiffs' position. Aereo's retransmission of plaintiffs' copyrighted programs is indistinguishable from a cable company." As a result, Aereo had to shut down its service in Salt Lake City and Denver for the time being.
While this case winds its way on to the Supreme Court, another twist in the story has surfaced. Apparently subscribers in New York City had massive problems with the Aereo stream of the Oscars telecast on WABC-TV a week ago Sunday. Consequently, the company's Twitter feed was lit up with complaints about "buffering" and "locked-up pictures."
Here are some of the dozens of tweets I found: "Awful service, bad image quality & not recording scheduled shows but it sad you treat ORIGINAL customers the way you do." "It goes out now and then requiring me to select Oscars all over again. Common? I have it on auto quality." "Thanks for doing work on the site tonight. It's not like I wanted to watch the Oscars. No big deal." (Gotta LOVE that sarcasm!)
And more: "C'mon Aereo. Get your s–t together." "Anyone else watching the Oscars using Aereo like me? S–t keeps buffering every 30 seconds. Frustrating the hell out of me." "Hmm is Aereo down for anyone else? Is it just an East Village or Roku thing? #CordCutting fail during the Oscars" "@Aereo Support I keep getting the message "The Oscars has ended." A total of 8 seconds recorded. Worst. Oscars. Ever."
This one was my personal favorite: "@Aereo I don't have time to run to Best Buy and buy some rabbit ears right now." Well, maybe that would have been the best thing to do.
A couple of observations are in order. First, I don't know how exactly Aereo has its front end configured, but if they've actually tried to keep every single subscriber's hardware separate by various technical tricks to pass legal review, then they might have run out of server capacity and brought this service failure on themselves. (Apparently this also happened during the Golden Globes, according to a story on the Quartz Web site.)
There is a reason why cable and satellite companies use a single receiver for each broadcast and premium channel they carry, and multiplex (copy and repeat) those channels on their outgoing RF and IP channels: It's WAY more cost-effective and less troublesome! So they have to pay a retransmission fee: Big deal! What will the cost be now to Aereo in dropped subscriptions, not to mention bad publicity from these service problems?
Second, I'll bet that more than a few Aereo subscribers could actually pick up the HD broadcasts from New York City stations if they tried. Over the years, I've tested numerous indoor TV antennas and there have been some real winners out there like the Mohu Leaf Ultimate series and Winegard's amplified FlatWave antenna.
Both are reasonably priced and perform adequately on VHF channels and very well on UHF channels, which in New York City means you can also use them to watch WNBC, WCBS, and WNYW among the major networks. (By the way, those are the three networks that carry NFL games in the New York City metro area.)
Third; if you can pick up local TV broadcasts with one of the aforementioned antennas, there are terrestrial DVR products that will let you record those channels, like Channel Master's new DVR+. It has dual tuners, built-in capacity for about 2 hours of HD recording (expandable with any external hard drives or solid state drives through USB ports), plus Wi-Fi connectivity and support for Internet video services like Vudu.
Or you can pick up one of Hauppauge's WinTV receivers that plug directly into a USB port on your computer and provide terrestrial digital TV reception, letting you use your hard drive as a DVR. I carry around a few of the Hauppauge Aero-M stick receivers and a Mohu Leaf for reception on the road, and they work great.
We'll never know the actual reason for Aereo's system failures during the Golden Globes and Oscars, but it's entirely possible that the company was too clever for its own good by engineering and building a system that was designed to neatly parse and side-step copyright laws.
It's funny how the law of unintended consequences works, isn't it?
Nothing Lasts Forever
- Published on Friday, 09 December 2011 12:31
- Pete Putman
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Earlier this week at an investor conference sponsored by UBS in New York City, the chief executive of Liberty Media decried the rising cost of sports programming on pay television. And he may have inadvertently lifted the cover on Pandora's Box by doing so.
Greg Maffei was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying that the average $4.69 per household subscription fee for ESPN and all of its affiliated networks amounted to "a tax on every American household" and asked, "what happens to the bundle of cable if you keep pushing [the price] higher and higher?"
He's not alone in wondering if Americans are reaching the breaking point with ever-escalating costs of pay television. There is no question that a small segment of the population is disconnecting from pay TV services and opting instead to keep broadband connections only. This movement is 100% driven by cost – the average tab for a digital TV package of channels, voice over IP, and broadband now exceeds $150 on many cable systems. That's $1,800 a year!
To put things in perspective, the average subscription (retransmission) fee for cable networks is about what it costs you to park for an hour at a meter – 26 cents.
Viacom's CEO Philippe Dauman also put the spotlight directly on ESPN for driving pay TV costs through the roof. He stated that ESPN by itself in many systems costs twice as much as of all their own networks combined.
The problem with rising costs for ESPN is that it usually comes as part of a bundle. Yet, many American viewers have little or no interest in sports programming, at least not to the extent that they need a 24/7 'fix' of scores, talk shows, and specials.
Those rising charges are driven mostly by deals that ESPN has negotiated directly with major sports leagues. For example, the Bristol, CT-based network has also managed to get exclusive broadcast rights to the major college football bowl games (the Bowl Championship Series), taking them away from their traditional homes on free broadcast networks.
More than one pay TV system operator has speculated out loud that sports channels could soon migrate to premium tiers instead of being bundled with basic or extended digital channel packages. That would in turn allow pay TV MSOs to lower prices on TV channel packages, which are increasingly seen by futurists as 'obsolete' with the increased penetration of high-speed Internet access, the use of DVRs, and the growth in streaming services like Netflix.
Until the past year or so, cable and satellite TV executives were mum on the issue of ever-escalating monthly service charges. Now, one of the culprits has been called out, and it will be interesting to see if MSOs will make noise about moving ESPN and other costly sports networks like Fox to add-on tiers where HBO and Showtime currently reside.
In the meantime, you can still watch plenty of sports for free over the air, including (but not limited to) NFL games on CBS, Fox, and NBC, major league baseball on Fox and local stations, the NBA finals on ABC, college football on CBS, NBC, and ABC, golf and tennis on all the major channels, the NCAA basketball men's and women's tournaments and selected games on CBS and ABC, and of course next year's Olympics on NBC.
Enjoy them while you still can…


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Originally posted by logical7
well if in the event of a muslim army of 1400-1600 laying siege to a fortress with more than army of 10,000 the muslims still seem the agressors to you then so be it.
You said it ... the 'muslim army layed siege'. And they won. So yes, they are the aggressors. The number of people on either side doesn't matter. The fact is that the muslims layed siege when they could have just 'lived and let live'.
Muhammad was the guy at the top directing all this.
He made himself a legitimate military target.
Vatican Hill sits across the Tiber River from ancient Rome, and was a crucifixion site (where Peter was crucified upside down). It was not made part of the city of Rome until the 9thCentury, well after John wrote the book of Revelation. And since we know that 5 of the 7 kings have already fallen in John's time, and the other 2 must remain "a little while", the city had to exist in John's time, 1rst Century AD. This is all confirmed by Revelation 1:1, which says:
"The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants what must soon take place; and he made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, "
"Soon" would NOT be 8 centuries later, for sure.
So this means that the Whore of Babylon is a great city that had to have existed in the first century. Which city might that be?
The 6th head which "is" much be understood from John's perspective at the time of writing.
5 of the kings have already fallen:
[1st]- Egypt was the world power and oppressed Israel
[2nd]- Assyria was responsible for destroying the northern kingdom of Israel and scattering the 10 tribes throughout the Middle-East
[3rd]- Babylon destroyed Jerusalem and took the people of Judah into the exile
[4th]- Medo-Persia in the days of Queen Esther almost annihilated the Jews
[5th]- Greece through Antiochus Epipanes oppressed the Jewish people and tried to destroy their religion
The kingdom that ruled the world and oppressed the church during the time of John was Imperial Rome. The seventh kingdom to come from John's perspective referred to medieval ecclesiastical Christianity represented in the sea beast that was mortally wounded in Revelation 13:1-10.
Revelation of Jesus Christ: commentary on the Book of Revelation 2nd edition, Ranko Stefanovic, p.521
Revelation 17:11, "And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition."
So this means that the Whore of Babylon is a great city that had to have existed in the first century. Which city might that be? Revelation 11:8 gives us the answer:
"and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which is allegorically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified."
Revelation 17:16 says that the ten horns (symbolizing the rulers of pagan Rome) will destroy the whore by fire, which is exactly what the Romans did to Jerusalem in 70 AD.
Revelation 17:12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
And then Revelation 17:14 says that the Lamb will conquer them both. This happened in the 4th Century, when Constantine became the first Christian emperor of Rome, who stopped all of the religious persecutions of Christians
And so what or who is 666? In numerology, each letter is assigned a value. In Greek, the name Caesar Nero
"The letters inscribed in the Pope's miter are these 'VICARIUS FILII DEI'. which is the Latin for 'VICAR OF THE SON OF GOD.' Catholics hold that the church, which is a visible society, must have a visible head...., as head of the church, was given the title, 'VICAR OF CHRIST'." Our Sunday Visitor, (Catholic Weekly) "Bureau of information," Huntington, Ind., April 18, 1915. evidenced again
"Vicar of Christ . . . Title used almost exclusively of the Bishop of Rome as successor of Peter and, therefore, the one in the Church who particularly takes the place of Christ; but used also of bishops in general and even of priests. First used by the Roman Synod of A.D. 495 to refer to Pope Gelasius; more commonly in Roman curial usage to refer to the Bishop of Rome during the pontificate of Pope Eugene III (1145-1153). Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) asserted explicitly that the Pope is the Vicar of Christ; further defined at the Council of Florence in the Decree for the Greeks (1439) and Vatican Council I in Pastor Aerternus (1870). The Second Vatican Council, in Lumen Gentium , n.27, calls bishops in general "vicars and legates of Christ." All bishops are vicars of Christ for their local churches in their ministerial functions as priest, prophet, and king, as the Pope is for the universal church; the title further denotes they exercise their authority in the Church not by delegation from any other person, but from Christ Himself."
Source: Catholic Dictionary, Peter M.J. Stravinskas, Editor, published by Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., Huntington, 1993, pp. 484-485.
Now we all have to ask ourselves if the Vatican has any dominion over any Kings of the earth today.
Dude .. nothing you posted came from that source.
The Catholic order's place in Australian politics should not be overlooked. During the three-way Liberal leadership contest between Malcolm Turnbull, Joe Hockey and Tony Abbott, all three men consulted with Jesuit priests, said the report.
Originally posted by logical7
why dint america 'lived and let live' in case of taliban/afghanistan?
1600 muslim men and their wives,kids and old folks in Medina from a constant hanging threat from khaibar's superior army
And my point was easily and emphatically proven and I laid out from Biblical analysis of the text that it was referring to literal colours of garmets which has forced you to change the meaning of what you put in your initial post about that descriptor
I said 'The colour blue stuffs up the clear link '
You speculate that it is Jerusalem
but don't wish to address the 6 clear descriptors that show it isn't (that I gave I believe on p.1) by saying it must be some time in the future....that is speculation and interpretation.
It doesn't say prophets, it is referring to people who expressly follow the Christian faith and are killed for not renouncing their belief in Jesus. Your link is not even a link, it is just plainly wrong.
You have 1 factor out of 25 odd correct. I have 25 out of 25,
Originally posted by JesuitGarlic
So every Pope is the 666 man because the title is passed on continually.
Originally posted by JesuitGarlic
You frame the argument that it is not about proving 'any' dominion that I have to prove that they have totally taken over the world. You are re-framing the argument deceptively to a hurdle I didn't need to reach.
Originally posted by JesuitGarlic
sorry if this was too difficult for you to work out. Or did you just make up the excuse so you didn't have to answer against those claims.
Did the 'superior army' of Khaibar ever actually attack anyone?
And my point was easily and emphatically proven and I laid out from Biblical analysis of the text that it was referring to literal colours of garmets which has forced you to change the meaning of what you put in your initial post about that descriptor
... wasnt it a standard way of execution?
Their priesthood literally were adorned in gold, scarlet and purple
On it stood the general; in earlier times his body was dyed with vermilion [Pliny, N. H. xxxiii 111]. His head was wreathed with bay, and he wore the garb of the Capitoline Jupiter, furnished him from the treasury of the Capitoline temple; viz. a purple tunic embroidered with golden palm-shoots
In any case, the title you wrote for the thread is false. The Bible doesn't identify the Whore of Babylon as Jerusalem, you do. The Bible doesn't identify her, period.
Proceeding with the debunking of the Catholic argument:
The problem with the Rome argument is that Rome has not been accused of being the killers of prophets and saints and holy men. Some anti-Catholics make that claim because of the RCCs atrocities in the past. But its a speculation.... without biblical backing.
You denying it doesn't make it false.
At the time John is writing, Rome had very much become a killer of prophets, saints, holy men and holy women.
Quite so, the title is misleading and false regardless of whether or not someone points that out. What's your point?
The author was clearly using language which has previously been associated with Jerusalem (whore, blood of holy men, scarlet gold etc)
Just because it was written during Roman persecution, does not mean all the references to Jerusalem automatically becomes references to Rome. These ideas are your own speculations and it lacks any kind of biblical backing.
The title will appear "misleading" to you when you toss out all the scriptural references I provided.
You are just arbitrarily saying its Rome, just because you think it is. Like as if you just know exactly what John was thinking and what his intentions are. You, are just expressing your own opinion and guesswork.
John wrote veiled references to Rome, and veiled references to Rome they are. There is no reason to expect "biblical backing" for anything written when "the Bible" didn't exist yet.
No, the title is false because the Bible does not identify the Whore of Babylon as Jerusalem.
Fortunately, the question posed by the thread isn't "What city was John referring to?" but rather "Did John, or any other canonical writer, identify which city?" The answer is no, John didn't. That is a fact, not my opinion. You need only read the text, and as you point out, and so we agree about this, there is no other place in the Bible that discusses John's intention, either.
As I have said repeatedly, all the features you pick out are equally features of Rome and Jerusalem.
Yes, it is my opinion.
Originally posted by sk0rpi0n
People who say "Rome" are using their imagination to fill in the blanks either because they refuse to see the parallels in scripture between the whore and Jerusalem... or because they don't want it to be Jerusalem.


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EVANSTON — Andy Rooney is delightful when he is poking fun at our human foibles, as seen on the CBS program ``60 Minutes.`` But he is surely out of his depth when he tries to be serious.
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August 18, 2005 08:30 ET
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(CCNMatthews - Aug. 18, 2005) - Running Fox Resource Corp. (TSX VENTURE:RUN)
Wayne Waters, on behalf of the Board of Directors reports:
High Impact Alberta Natural Gas Down-Spacing Horizontal Well Proceeding
As previously announced, the Company had elected to participate as to a 30% gross interest in the first Section of its Pincher Creek Gas Field Leasehold., with Choice Resources (TSXV - CZE) of Calgary, Alberta as the operator. After payout, the interest converts to a 15% net interest.
The first well in the program at 1-5-3 of 28 is a horizontal well currently drilling at 2,212 metres, with Precision Drilling Rig #645. Total well depth is 4,579 metres, including the horizontal leg.
The well is a down-spacing exploitation well, with a potential resource base between 30 billion cubic feet and 80 billion cubic feet. Possible production rates are targeted to be between 10 and 35 Mmcf/day plus btu-rich liquid condensates.
A comparable well located just north at 6 -19 has produced almost 75 billion cubic feet to date and continues at 1.2 Mmcf approx. per day.
All equipment, separators, and facilities are in place and as this is a down-spacing well, the gas pipeline is currently operational and within 50 metres of the drill rig. Natural gas is currently $9.68 per mbtu spot price, and slightly lower for September delivery.
The Pincher Creek Gas Field Leasehold Option covers 27 additional sections and encompasses numerous development and exploration targets, in addition to the existing Section being earned by participating in the down-spacing exploitation well.
Further information on this Project and the Company' other projects are available at the Company's website: www.foxgold.ca
Private Placement Completed
The Company has completed its recently announced non-brokered private placement to raise $2,175,000. All securities issued under the private placement are restricted until December 3, 2005.
On behalf of the Board of Directors, Wayne Waters, Director.
The Company relies on legislation applicable to forward looking statements We seek safe harbour.
Shares issued 20,925,724
16/08/05 close $0.26
Running Fox Resource Corp.Wayne WatersDirector(604) 725-8868Website: www.foxgold.ca
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