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"Hornets means nothing." - Tom Benson
Dude, I would take Arc Angels before Knights!
Arc Angels is terrible.
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"Anthony, how does it feel to be a Arc Angel? Well Dan, I am very excited about being a Arc Angel."
What? BTW, are we talking about Arc Angels or ARCH Angels? And how long until we just become the "New Orleans Angels?" Nah uh. Do you just want to be referred to as the Angels? I surely don't.
and yes UP, Knights is terrible as well.
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I really don't like Brass or Krewe. I'm ok with them, but I would rather take something generic as Knights over them. ArcAngels is clearly better than those names, but its too epic for most people here.
My team name can beat up all your names!
We can resume rebrand and name change talk here.
Well, VooDoo would be the 2nd best choice after Jazz. Its a great name being wasted on sandlot football.
Arcangels is freaking epic. And this is the spelling I'm gonna use from now on even though it would be ARCANGELS on a jersey or logo.
Knights is my safe and generic choice that would be solid.
Buccaneers is fine too. Can't lose with that.
The media would without a doubt cut out the Arc and just call us the Angels at times.
Just like they do/did with the Buccaneers, Trailblazers, Super Sonics, Redskins, Blue Jays, Devil Rays, and so on.
It may be epic to you, but unfortunately the majority of posters are against it. I also don't get some peoples fascination that a logo must be intimidating
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I knew all about the older Bitter models but I had no idea that Erich Bitter was still in the business until that drove past me at Wörthersee.
One of my coworkers owns something of a unicorn, a white Corrado G60, but I don't think it's ENOUGH of a unicorn to qualify for this thread. My grandfather owns a pair of Studebakers, but I've whored those out enough on these boards... I'm trying to think if any of my other friends has a real unicorn, but aside from a couple of vintage trucks that I don't have pictures of on my computer I can't think of any. A friend of my grandfather's has a very nice, custom bodied American LaFrance RV based off an 50s firetruck, but I don't have any pics of it... If I find pics online though I may repost them.
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this car pulled up to the grocery store i worked at in high school, here she is at the greenwich concourse. only 45 in the world.
Maybe Larry or Barry can correct me on this, because I'm sure I'm not 100% accurate, but my quick research tells me that this is a 1950 Buick Super Model 56C...12,259 produced but surely much less than that survive, even fewer in this condition (spotted outside St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton last year):
Studebaker Hawk...not sure what year, or if it's a Silver Hawk, Golden Hawk, or just a Hawk, or what the production numbers were, but, like the Buick, there can't be many left in this condition (spotted outside my doctors office last year):
That Studebaker is either a Silver Hawk or a Golden Hawk. The Flight Hawk and Power Hawk had the fin-less rear fenders of the older Commander. I'm going to err on the side of it being a Silver Hawk because other than one all-Gold Golden Hawk I've never seen a Golden Hawk with the fins body colored.
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How does a rotary work? This one's easy: the magic triangle spins in the peanut and then apex seals come out.
Saw an Enzo today on the open road in NJ while on bike ride.
Original owner since May 1st, 1999, 187K miles
My Nissan Pulsar GTiR is sorta rare...about 10k were build. most have been wrapped around a trees in rally lol. but only a few in the US
saw two yesterday, at lime rock raceway.
first one is one of one. second one less rare I guess, but much older.
I'm a certified vw/mazda dealer tech and I run a modification shop on the side.
02 beetle tdi,00 jetta 2x4, 92 miata,,30 pontiac.
2nd unicorn in 2 days?
whats the take on this one? is it considered a unicorn?
i dont know enough about LOTUS,
quick search, and it shows it was the latest model of ESPRIT to be produced 2000-2004??
LOTUS esprit V8 it looked really nice
saw this Honda S600 on the freeway a few months back. sorry for the failed attempt at taking a cell phone pic.
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I read the link Dave provided in the revised wikipedia page to his blog. I had no idea the engine in that Fisker was that mental! 660+ horsepower from the V10! Very cool indeed.
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saw at the DMV one day
me and my friend hadent a clue what it was but a little research and its a true unicorn.
337 produced
You must be even younger than me to not know the 959, or you just weren't into cars in the 80s. The 959 was the daddy, the car that redefined hi-po Porsches, particularly the AWD models and the turbo models that followed.
I've never seen a 959 road car, but I did see the Dakar car at Lime Rock recently.
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Here's a unicorn. Not a great photo, but I posted i as a 'name this car' and it was identified in less than two minutes.
No, no the Porsche, wise guy, the white car behind it.
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noun mis·trust \ˌmis-ˈtrəst\
: lack of trust or confidence : a feeling that someone is not honest and cannot be trusted
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|Nov 28, 2012, 11:29 AM
My favorite part is that they categorize the shows by character image genius!!
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|Nov 28, 2012, 12:22 PM
What do you prefer Hauppauge or HDHomeRun and why?
I was looking at Hauppauge, but recently purchased a HDHomerun on woot.
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In my case, I cut Dish Network and cut AT&T DSL, and became a new customer of TWC for broadband. So TWC benefited outright, and Dish and AT&T lost out.
If I had been a TWC customer all along, and then decided to discontinue TV service from TWC (say, at least $30 less per month) but boost my broadband service with TWC from the low the next lowest tier (say an additional $15 per month), the company still would have be getting less money from me. So much depends on just how much bigger the profit margin is on broadband than on TV service. There's a quantitative answer to that somewhere. . . do you know it?
Anyway, I don't think the telco companies are actually benefiting in general from cord-cutting. For one, they are making efforts to replicate the watch-on-demand and streaming experience through their TV set-top boxes. My mom has ATT Uverse, which comes with video-on-demand for most popular shows. Basically simulates the experience of hooking Hulu up to your TV. So the Telco companies are at least taking steps to keep their TV customers. Can't be too beneficial for them to have everyone cut the TV cord.
I will say though that it's funny to think this could possibly end up as a zero sum gain:
1. We all say "I don't want to pay for TV service! I'll just use the internet!"
2. We all cut our TV service, subscribe to Netflix (monthly fee), Hulu Plus (monthly fee) and increase broadband usage (higher monthly fee)
3. We end up paying about as much as we did before.
|Nov 29, 2012, 03:50 PM
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|Nov 29, 2012, 04:21 PM
I want to cut mine so bad, we hardly watch it except for sports and HBO. We always use netflix and iTunes for everything. We got a decent size movie library.
|Nov 29, 2012, 04:38 PM
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|Nov 30, 2012, 07:14 AM
The higher tier residential broadband services (100 Mbps- 1 Gbps) probably have much higher margins than slower services. That's because the operators offering those services say that most customers who buy the faster tiers don't really consume much more data over the course of a month. Typically they use those speeds only in bursts, such as to load up the buffer on an HD movie stream or to download a game. The rest of the time, they use data at the same rate as everyone else.
That's why a business broadband service always costs a lot more than a residential service with the same speed: The operator knows that business customers will consistently max out that pipe, so they have to spend accordingly to put in the infrastructure necessary to deliver the advertised speed 24/7.
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|Dec 3, 2012, 06:58 AM
I like the idea of "cutting the cable cord" but I still haven't figured out the value of my Apple TV. I love it for streaming movies from my MacBook's iTunes library to the big flat screen in the living room but that's about it. Each time I log on I see that I have to pay $1.99 and up to watch anything on it. I'd rather use my MacBook and go out to a network's website and watch the video for free (IE...The Daily Show on Comedy Central)
I've tried paying for Netflix but they seem slow about putting up new releases...at least that has been my experience.
Heck, I even like the thought of getting an HD antenna for the house and then using the internet to fill in the gaps. However, I love having a DVR and I am unaware of a good DVR setup for an HD antenna. (Definitely open to suggestions here!!!!)
In the end my wife and I are spoiled by the HD service with DirectTV, including the whole house DVR setup. We don't pay for any of the movie channels or sport packages and yet our bill comes in just over $100 a month. That part sucks!!!
|Dec 3, 2012, 11:06 AM
Also, are you using a NAS drive for the recordings?
|Dec 3, 2012, 11:40 AM
The answer, I found, is that there are very few DVR boxes out there that you can buy outright (at least in the U.S.A.). The reason is that DVR's cost several hundred dollars each, and since one can "rent" them from one's cable provider for $6/month, it's nearly impossible for the solo-DVR sellers to compete, and they often go out of business if they dare to try. Tivo is the best known example of a non-cable/sat-company-tied DVR. The cheapest Tivo model now is $150 (back when I was looking into this, the one you'd actually want to buy was at least $200 I think, so maybe Tivo is finding ways to bring the price down). Also, you'd need to buy a Tivo for every TV in your house, so just multiply that $150+ by the TVs and there's your argument for sticking with cable/sat right there. Add in the $15/month Tivo service fee (per unit), and it meant that, instead of paying $6/month to rent a DishDVR (which outputted to two TVs), I'd have to pay $30/month just for the service on two Tivo's, in addition to the $400 up front cost. No way. Still the Tivo company manages to survive by maintaining a brand of user-friendliness and a cult-like following.
The only other mainstream DVR brand I found when I was looking into this two years ago was Moxi. They had a lower monthly service fee than Tivo, but the device itself also had fewer features, as I recall, and couldn't be used with OTA antennas (ie: you'd just buy it to work with your existing cable service). How have they fared? Just checked their website right now: they sold their business/brand to another company and you can no longer buy a standalone Moxi DVR without buying the Arris "whole home solution", which seems to be aimed at corporate customers, not consumers. http://www.moxi.com/us/
I wanted a DVR-like solution that would not cost $15/month to maintain and could be used without a cable/satellite subscription. And I found one. I've already described it in earlier posts in this thread (as others have already described their DVR-like solutions). But, to give you the overview:
The setup:
I use an OTA antenna to get HD broadcasts from the major networks and PBS. That feeds into a dual tuner HD Homerun device (~$90), which sends the broadcasts to my Mac running the EyeTV software ($80), which basically lets the mac serve as a DVR. That software lets you schedule recordings on your mac using a program guide. After finishing a recording, it auto-exports the program to iTunes, at which point it is accessible to any Apple TV in your house.
The use experience:
Since the recordings can be set in advance for a full season of shows, and the export to iTunes can be set to happen automatically, the end user experience is that you come home from work, turn on your Apple TV, go into Computers --> TV Shows, and you have a list of unwatched programs that just "magically" appeared. You can start watching the shows any time, pause, rewind, fast forward through commercials. And the only monthly fee is $1.67/month ($20/year for the TV Guide program information in the EyeTV software). Show scheduling and deleting is done at your computer in EyeTV and iTunes, but actual watching/enjoying can all be managed from your couch. (I use the "mark as watched" option to check a show off my list. Just hold the Apple TV "select" button on the show to bring up the "mark as watched" option, which removes it from the "unwatched" list. Sort of like deleting on your DVR, but you still have to actually delete the program in iTunes and EyeTV on your mac.
Cable shows:
-For cable shows (including the Daily Show) I use my jailbroken Apple TV 2's. I have XBMC installed with the Hulu and Free Cable plugins. Hulu gives my ATV2 access to the free version of Hulu (which is officially only available on computers), and Free Cable streams any show that has been posted on the cable networks' websites for watching in a browser, but Free Cable pipes that stream straight to your Apple TV. Between these two, you can watch any show that you could watch on your computer's browser on your Apple TV.
If you don't have an Apple TV 2 (the Apple TV 3's haven't been jailbroken yet, and might never be, so the Apple TV 2's are only available used and typically sell for $150+), you can still replicate this cable-show watching experience simply by airplaying your mac's screen to the Apple TV using either Mountain Lion's Airplay Mirroring or the AirParrot software. So just start the show on your mac, airplay, and enjoy. Or you could just pay $8/month for Hulu Plus on your Apple TV 3.
After all this, there are only a couple shows that we want to keep up-to-date with that we actually purchase on iTunes. Breaking Bad is one. For everything else, I just wait for it to come out on either Netflix streaming or Netflix discs.
The overall result:
If you spend some time to look how others have done it (feel free to ask specifici questions), you can have the DVR experience without the $100/month cable bill. Up to you to pull the trigger. I set up my system and we used it in tandem with our Dish subscription for several months before my wife became convinced she could give up Dish. We've been Dish-free for over a year now, and both of us are glad we did it. The minor occasional inconveniences of how to watch a particular show are minuscule compared to how good we feel to have complete control over our entertainment and not be overpaying for something we don't use.
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|Dec 3, 2012, 12:52 PM
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-The graphical "icon" for that particular show episode is not the show's "poster art", but the first frame of the EyeTV recording (which may be an ad, so it is not necessarily indicative of what is in the show). But EyeTV thought of this, which is why the icon also has a horizontal gray band at the top and bottom of the icon square. On the top band is the title of the show ("Star Trek: The Next Generation"), and at the bottom is the "EyeTV" logo, indicating that the show came from an EyeTV. So just looking at the icon, you can still tell what show it is, even though the photo might be misleading.
That's pretty much it: the icon is different. Otherwise it's just like any other show you have in iTunes.
Well, it has commercials unlike an iTunes-purchased show, but you can skip through those on the apple TV or in iTunes when you watch. There is actually an EyeTV applescript called "ETVComSkip" (google it) which allows EyeTV to mark the beginning and ends of commercials while it is recording. Then, when it exports to iTunes, EyeTV omits the commercials so your exported show in iTunes has no commercials to skip at all! I have this working (it involves downloading ETVComSkip, saving it to your EyeTV "scripts" directory, and possibly changing some directory names in the Applescript document), but I've found that it only works for certain networks. IE: I typically get no commercials for NBC shows, but I do get them for ABC shows. Maybe whatever signal the two networks use to mark the beginning/end of a commercial break is different, and ETVComSkip only detects one of them. *shrug* I haven't bothered hacking around to make it work with more networks. (How much effort does one want to devote just to enable more laziness? Hitting "skip ahead 30 seconds" a couple times to skip a commercial is easy enough.)
Remember, that TV Guide info is the $20/year fee you are paying for: it gets you the ability to browse and schedule using a program guide, and provides metadata for your recordings. (It's actually free the first year and then $20/year after that.)
(What follows below is a detailed and perhaps scary explanation of how I customized my storage for my particular needs. Please don't let it scare you away from using EyeTV. The default settings are probably fine for most people.)
I should clarify:
If you're using EyeTV to auto-export to iTunes like we are talking about, there will be two versions for each individual recording.
1. The EyeTV recording in an uncompressed format (2-7 GB for a one hour show, depending on SD vs. HD). This is the file that would play if you watch the show in the EyeTV program.
2. The compressed show that is exported to iTunes in a .m4v format (usually 1-3 GB for an hour, depending on SD vs. HD). This is what you can see via Homesharing on your Apple TV.
#1 is stored in your "EyeTV Recordings" folder, which you can set in EyeTV's preferences to be wherever you want, on whatever drive you want (internal or external). Mine are stored on the external.
#2 is a bit harder to control, and I found it to be a bit unintuitive. By default, EyeTV dumps the exported show into the iTunes Media folder on your mac's internal hard drive. This works fine, requires no extra setup from you, and may be your best option if you have plenty of room on your internal drive.
The only down side is that you will tend to have less available storage space on your internal hard drive. You can only delete the .m4v file from iTunes on your Mac, or manually in the Finder. You can't delete it from your Apple TV. So if you are like me, you'll finish watching a show on your couch or in bed, and then you don't want to get up and walk over to the computer to delete the show right that moment. (I just hold the select button on my Apple TV remote, select "Mark as watched", and watch as the show is removed from the "unwatched" list on the screen. So I "check it off" that way.) But then you end up having to delete a bunch of shows every week or however often you need to get your many GBs of internal storage back on your mac. It's not a big deal to have a "deleting session" like this once every while.
But I didn't have all that much free space on my internal drive (it's a macbook pro), so I was having to delete the shows from iTunes every couple of days. So I wanted to store the exported .m4vs on my external drive, and just have them visible to iTunes without actually being copied into the iTunes media folder. (The equivalent of option+dragging the files into iTunes, which lets you "import" them without "copying" them.) This would mean I could wait longer between "deleting sessions", since my external drive had lots of free space and I wouldn't be taking up valuable internal drive space. This is where I hit a snag, and ended up with a convoluted workaround.
the snag:
EyeTV always puts a copy of the exported file on your internal drive IF you are using the "Apple TV" or "iPad" settings selected in the "export" pulldown menu for a scheduled recording. There is no built-in option to tell EyeTV that you want the exported .m4v file stored in a particular place other than the iTunes Media folder. You simply tell it to export the recording or not (as an "Apple TV" or "iPad" or "iPhone" setting), and it does the rest. So I tried to trick EyeTV by moving my iTunes Media folder to the external drive. I figured EyeTV would notice that the iTunes Media folder was on an external drive, and put the exported show in there. Instead, once the iTunes Media Folder was no longer on my internal drive, EyeTV put its exported recordings in the "Movies" directory in my user home directory (/Users/dgalvan/Movies). If I wanted the file to actually get recognized by iTunes, I had to check the "copy imported media files to iTunes Media Folder" in iTunes' preferences, and the show in my Movies directory would get auto-imported to iTunes and copied into the iTunes Media Folder as well. But then I'd have two copies of the .m4v: one on my internal drive in the Movies directory AND one on the external drive in the iTunes Media folder! So moving my iTunes Media folder to my external drive didn't solve my storage problem.
the workaround:
Luckily, EyeTV plays well with Applescripts. If there's not a clear way to do something in the EyeTV GUI, you can probably do it with an Applescript. So I cobbled together a script (mostly from what others had posted online, with some minimal changes from me related to the actual directory paths) that I placed in the EyeTV --> scripts --> triggered directory. The way this script works is as follows: Any time an EyeTV recording is finished, the script is triggered. (since it is in the "triggered" directory). Once triggered, the script immediately starts transcoding the Eye TV recording (#1 above) and producing a .m4V (#2) recording. At this point in the script, you can specify where that #2 recording is stored, and I have it set to store in a directory on my external drive. Then in the applescript you can issue a command to "send to iTunes", which basically just sends iTunes the link to the file without copying the file into the iTunes Media Folder.
So, my setup now works so that both the #1 and #2 recordings are stored on an external drive (one in an "EyeTV Recordings" folder, the other in a "EyeTV Exports" folder), with no recordings saved to my internal drive. It was a bit unintuitive to setup, but it works fine. And since it is a triggered script, the recording exports whether or not I have selected the "export" option in the EyeTV GUI, so I no longer have to remember to do that when I set up a recording in EyeTV.
If anyone is interested, I can post my applescript.
|Dec 3, 2012, 01:20 PM
BUT I'll point out: Depending on your main home computer's specs and your use of it, you may not need to dedicate a computer for this purpose.
When I was first looking into this, I was expecting that I'd need to buy a computer to be my Home Theater PC (HTPC), just dedicated to being my DVR. I wanted a Mac Mini for this, but that added enough to the cost that it kept me from pulling the trigger. (a Mac Mini at $600 or $700 is comparable to the cost of a Tivo with lifetime subscription, arguably)
But then I decided to just try using the EyeTV setup with my existing desktop computer, a MacBook Pro 17" mid-2009, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz. This is our main home computer, which my wife and I use primarily for web browsing, e-mail, iPhoto, and iMovie. We basically use it as a desktop computer, with no need to move it from the desk since we got our iphones and an ipad.
I expected that the performance impact of running EyeTV in the background, especially with the transcoding exports, would be too much of an annoyance during our regular use of the machine and would convince me I that I did indeed need a separate HTPC. But I figured I'd try, so I bought an EyeTV One tuner and the software used on Ebay. I figured if it didn't work out I'd just resell the tuner/software on ebay.
To my pleasant surprise, I found that the transcoding, while creating a noticeable increase in CPU cycles and usually triggering the computer's cooling fan, didn't actually impede our use of the computer significantly. We could still use iPhoto and iMovie happily while a transcode (EyeTV --> iTunes) was taking place. Sure it would cause a momentary (several second) hang once in a long while, but it always resolved fairly quickly. Enough that my wife didn't think it was worth complaining about.
This meant I wouldn't have to buy a HTPC at all: I could just use the computer I already had.
I have been running the system in this way for the last year and a half: The 3.5 year old machine is always on (sleeping when it can), EyeTV is always on recording and transcoding shows, and iTunes is always running to serve my Apple TVs. We just sit down and start using the computer for regular home tasks whenever we like, whether a transcode is going on or not, and it has not been a problem.
Your results will depend on your own machine's specs. But I can tell you that dedicating a computer to just be your HTPC is probably not necessary if you have a mac from the past 3 years or so.
|Dec 3, 2012, 04:38 PM
dgalvan123, thanks so much for the indepth info. Much appreciated!
Just curious as to the advantage of using the Homerun device vs just the Elgato EyeTV device (USB Unit) on your setup?
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|Dec 3, 2012, 04:46 PM
|Dec 3, 2012, 05:24 PM
Since the topic of this thread is "cutting the cable cord", I think you're talking about the EyeTV Hybrid stick, since that's the only one that accepts OTA or clearQAM input. (The Eye TV HD unit requires a cable/satellite subscription since it doesn't have a tuner and only accepts component input, not co-axial.)
The advantages of HD Homerun over the EyeTV Hybrid stick are as follows:
1. HD Homerun has two tuners, so it can record two shows at the same time. EyeTV Hybrid has one, so it can't.
2.The HD Homerun plugs into an ethernet port on your router, whereas the EyeTV Hybrid plugs into USB on your computer. This is an advantage for three reasons, the first of which:
HD Homerun doesn't take up a USB port (valuable for me since I only have 3 USB ports on my mac and several peripherals and external hard drives), EyeTV Hybrid does.
3. HD Homerun's two tuners are available to any computer on your home network running either EyeTV or Windows Home Media Center, so you could have multiple computers serving as recorders / TV watching stations. You could also split your coaxial feed and have multiple HD Homerun units (each with two tuners), and that multiplies the number of tuners available to ALL computers on your network. So, say, for example, you had 3 computers in your household, each running EyeTV or Windows Home Media Center. With two HD Homeruns connected to your router, all 3 computers would each have access to your 4-tuners. So it is very scalable and flexible.
Whereas the EyeTV Hybrid only serves one tuner to a single computer.
4. HD Homerun just needs to be physically positioned near your co-axial source (Antenna or clearQAM) and your router (via ethernet. . . though theoretically an airport express bridge may work instead of a direct ethernet connection, though I haven't tried it). Your computer itself can be anywhere in the house, connected to your network through EITHER ethernet OR Wifi. This adds convenience if you are using a laptop or if your router and/or antenna simply aren't near your computer.
The EyeTV Hybrid requires a direct physical connection between your antenna and your computer, requiring they be somewhat near each other, or at least that you will likely need to do some cable routing.
Regarding Cost:
The HD Homerun can be found for $90 without software, so if you purchase both it and EyeTV software for $80, you'd pay $170 total (plus tax/shipping).
The EyeTV Hybrid can be purchased with EyeTV software for $150. (You may be able to find it used on ebay without the software for less.) From this perspective I'd say the extra $20 for the HD Homerun are definitely worth it for increased flexibility and the extra tuner. And if you have a PC and are using Windows Home Media Center, the HD Homerun is a no-brainer since you can get it without EyeTV for $60 less than the EyeTV Hybrid /software combo.
I'll also note I haven't used the EyeTV Hybrid stick. I do own an EyeTV One USB stick, which is similar in form factor but only accepts OTA antenna as an input (no clear QAM cable). And it works just fine for the testing I used it for. But once you know how you want to configure your household I can't think of a better device than the HD Homerun.
Finally, one disadvantage: HD Homerun is dependent on your router and home network, which adds complexity to your system compared to the EyeTVHybrid. So if you don't have/need a home network, EyeTVHybrid is probably the better bet.
|Dec 3, 2012, 07:25 PM
We've been cable free for about 6 months now and we would never go back to paying for cable. There's just so much content readily available that we can't see paying Comcast/DirectTV for more.
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"It's pretty nice to get a win in the tournament again," McKenzie said. "I thought Steven Spinell and Joe Hartman have done a good job trying to lead the team. I think everyone else did a great job as well. We have a lot of young guys in our lineup and a lot of energy going on, so I think we held our emotions pretty well and it's great to get that first win."
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Both squads battled in the opening period, but neither was able to capitalize on its scoring chances despite several power play opportunities. Minnesota State finished 0-for-4 with the man-advantage, while Miami was 0-for-1, with the lone power play a five-minute major.
"The game could have gone either way (after the first)," MU coach Enrico Blasi said. "Ryan made some nice saves in the first, they hit a couple of posts."
The RedHawks opened the scoring with 8:56 left in the second on a 3-on-1 breakout. Czarnik took the puck up the right side and dished it to freshman forward Riley Barber, who had just stepped out of the penalty box. Barber quickly went back to Czarnik, who found McKenzie trailing near the far post. The Golden, B.C. native beat MSU goalie Stephon Williams on a top-shelf backhand shot, which was his 11th goal of the season.
"I look up and Czarnik's taking off, Barber's coming out of the box, so I just tried to get on my horse," McKenzie said. "Czarnik gave me a nice pass right at my skate, and somehow I got it up over the goalie."
Miami improved to 21-2-1 this season when scoring first this season with the win.
Coleman helped put the 'Hawks up 2-0 2:30 into the third period, as he beat two Maverick defenseman and found Hagel for a one-timer at the far post after a feed through the crease. The Hamilton, Ont. native has six goals on the year, while Murphy also earned an assist on the play.
The RedHawks padded their lead midway through the final frame, scoring one of their three third-period goals. After several hacks at the puck, which was lingering in front of the net, Murphy netted his 11th score of the season chipping it over a sprawled out Williams.
Miami then sealed the win with 58 seconds to go, as Cook scored on the empty net. The goal was the Frankfort, Ill. native's fourth of the season.
With the win, the RedHawks advance to the Midwest Regional Final where they will face St. Cloud State on Sunday at 4 p.m. The Huskies defeated Notre Dame, 5-1, in Saturday's early semifinal. The game will be televised on ESPNU.
"They're the WCHA regular-season champion, that's all I need to say about St. Cloud," Blasi said. "They played great against Notre Dame. I got the chance to watch the second and third periods and they dominated. I thought Notre Dame tried to push there at the end, but they just kept coming."
Miami has moved on to the second round of the NCAA Tournament five times in program history now with its last trip coming in 2010.


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August 14th, 1959 is a very important date in professional football history.
For years up to that point, the NFL and its 12 franchises dominated the world of professional football in America. On that fateful night, however, a group of men met to change the course of America's premier football league forever. It was on that night that the American Football League (AFL) was born.
The AFL, which would kick off its inaugural season in 1960, was founded by a group of eight men (including Hall of Famer Lamar Hunt, Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams, and Buffalo Bills owner/Hall of Famer Ralph Wilson Jr.) who each agreed to develop their own brand of professional football. The first eight teams for the fledgling league were the Boston Patriots, Buffalo Bills, Dallas Texans, Denver Broncos, Houston Oilers, Los Angeles Chargers, New York Titans, and the Oakland Raiders (do those teams sound familiar?). These eight teams would play their own schedule, declare their own champion, and would attempt to compete in the market with the NFL's well-established franchises like Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Green Bay.
When the AFL was created no one paid much attention, and even fewer took the league seriously. In fact, many people felt the idea was so ridiculous that the eight founders of the league became known as the "Foolish Club."
It was the "Foolish Club" that had the last laugh, though, as the AFL would soon develop into a very successful rival league and earn not only the respect of the NFL, but eventually earn equal status.
In 1966, just six short years after the creation of this league, the AFL merged with the NFL, and the Super Bowl era was born. The two separate leagues, which have since been renamed as the AFC and NFC, respectively, would each declare a separate champion. Those two champions would then play in the Super Bowl matchup to determine a world champion annually.
In 2009, the NFL is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the AFL. As fate would have it, history may be on the verge of repeating itself.
Last year, a group of like-minded people got together – just like the AFL founders of 50 years prior – and decided it was time for a new rival league, which has since been named the United Football League (UFL). This league will have many of the same rules of the NFL, and will be targeted primarily to markets that are "underserved" by the NFL. The league will feature four teams, over the course of a six-game season, and the four teams are the Las Vegas Locomotives, California Redwoods, Florida Tuskers, and New York Sentinels.
Just as the AFL struggled for respect early in its existence, the UFL has been laughed off as a joke that will likely go the way of the World Football League, NFL Europe, and the XFL. The one advantage that the UFL has that those other leagues did not, is that there are NFL caliber players and coaches who have "defected" into the UFL. From the executive ranks down to the players, the UFL is heavily staffed with people who bring a wealth of successful experience drawn from time spent in the NFL.
League commissioner, Michael Huyghue, left a 20-year career in the NFL to take on the role as UFL Commissioner. As for the four head coaches – Jim Fassel, Jim Haslett, Dennis Green, and Ted Cottrell – they bring more than 50 years of NFL coaching experience into the UFL.
The talent on the field is also full of NFL-caliber names. A few of those players are:
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There are no guarantees that the UFL will reach the same heights that the AFL managed to 50 years ago, but the founders of the league have done everything in their power to give the UFL the best possible opportunity for success, and this week the UFL will finally get the opportunity to prove its worth!
The UFL will officially kick-off with its inaugural game on October 8th, with a matchup between the Las Vegas Locomotives and the California Redwoods. If you are laughing at the seemingly ridiculous nature of that matchup, remember that is exactly what NFL fans said 50 years ago about a matchup between the Denver Broncos and the Boston Patriots. It might have been a joke then, but 50 years later… can you imagine an NFL WITHOUT the Broncos or Patriots?
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JON CARDINELLI writes that Pat Lambie must be granted an extended starting opportunity this November if Heyneke Meyer hopes to obtain conclusive answers to the flyhalf question.
Lambie will start this Saturday, but it shouldn't be a case of do or die in Dublin. He must be given an extended opportunity to prove why he is a strong flyhalf option for next season as well as the 2015 World Cup in England.
Meyer has made it clear that Johan Goosen is his preferred pivot. Goosen's season-ending injury has, however, forced the Bok coach to consider other options for this tour.
According to Meyer, it's been a difficult decision to make. But now that Lambie's been backed to start in Dublin, it should follow that he starts in Edinburgh and London too.
To chop and change in subsequent Tests against Scotland and England would be counterproductive. Give Lambie an extended opportunity. Allow him the chance to settle into the position.
Once the tour has finished, consider what he offers as a game manager in testing northern hemisphere conditions, and make the call on whether it's worth persisting with him in that all-important position.
But don't make a career-defining call based on one or two starts.
The 22-year-old Lambie has 17 Test caps to name, but has only started on seven occasions. This Saturday's match will mark just the second time he has started a Test at flyhalf.
Meyer's predecessor, Peter de Villiers, liked the idea of Lambie as No 10, although he used Lambie there just five times (once as a starter against the All Blacks in 2011, and then four times as a substitute).
Meyer needs to give Lambie more game time in that channel if he hopes to return from this tour with conclusive answers to the flyhalf question.
There isn't a lot that Meyer can learn from the De Villiers era, but it is worth reflecting on how De Villiers approached the flyhalf problem ahead of the 2008 tour to the United Kingdom.
De Villiers surprised all and sundry by declaring that Ruan Pienaar would start at flyhalf. It was clear that Pienaar was going to be backed for the duration of the tour and that any assessment or decision regarding Pienaar's future in the position would be made after the third Test.
Pienaar blew hot and cold in the tour-opener in Cardiff, and was rescued on more than one occasion by the tactically peerless Fourie du Preez. The Boks then struggled in the next match against Scotland, and it was only a late try by Jaque Fourie that saw them avoiding an embarrassing defeat.
But the Boks, and Pienaar, saved their most complete performance for that final tour fixture at Twickenham. South Africa smashed England 42-6, with Pienaar producing one of his most clinical and confident displays in a Bok shirt.
It was enough to win Pienaar the position for the 2009 British & Irish Lion series, where he played an important role in the first two Tests. Most will remember substitute flyhalf Morné Steyn's contributions in the second Test as series-clinching, but Pienaar's influence cannot be discounted.
I'm not saying that Lambie will spearhead another 40-point massacre at Twickenham on 24 November. What I am suggesting is that Lambie and this Bok side should be at their most settled when they arrive in London for the last match of the tour.
Lambie must be allowed to settle in the coming matches against Ireland and Scotland. He shouldn't be judged too harshly if he makes mistakes. The Test against England will be the toughest of the three, and it is here that the biggest statement could be made.
Meyer told Lambie earlier this year that he needed to improve his tactical kicking if he was going to be considered as a Test flyhalf option. This Saturday, the pressure will be significantly greater than it was during the Currie Cup play-offs, where Lambie excelled as game manager, and Meyer will be watching closely to see how Lambie responds.
But Dublin should been viewed as the start of Lambie's assessment, not a one-off examination. It's taken a long time for Meyer to come to a decision that Lambie should start at all. It's only fair that he now gives Lambie enough game time to state his case.


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Traditionally, dungeons in WoW were in the hidden corners of the world. Players would get several quests leading them further and further until they finally uncovered the entrance. Deadmines is the classic example of this. This method was pretty good, reinforcing the idea of dungeons being in uncovered areas, while providing a storyline leading up to it. A consequence of this design was that players knew how to get to the dungeon.
With the new Dungeon Finder, this is no longer true. Now, if people die and respawn, they may have no idea where the dungeon is located. Then they have to use the Spirit Healer to respawn, and end up stuck in the middle of nowhere. Alliance has this problem very early, as the first dungeon is Ragefire Chasm, in the middle of Orgrimmar. A lot of people who haven't played Horde have no idea where RFC is.
Imagine trying to find Blackrock Depths if you've never been there before.
Not being able to find your way back to the dungeon is very frustrating. In Cataclysm, word is that Blizzard plans to address this problem by making the player "discover" the dungeon before they can access it through the Dungeon Finder. While this is a reasonable plan, it will cut down on the number of people who can enter a given dungeon at any time, making it harder to find groups.
My solution would be to change how death is handled in dungeons. When you die, the Release Spirit button should be disabled until the group is out of combat. Then if you hit Release, you respawn at the start of the instance. This is a simple mechanism that prevents graveyard-zerging, but removes a lot of the frustration from the run back. As well, it would train people to not release immediately, making it much easier to resurrect them after the fight, instead of having to hunt pixels to find their body.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Death with the Dungeon Finder
Traditionally, dungeons in WoW were in the hidden corners of the world. Players would get several quests leading them further and further until they finally uncovered the entrance. Deadmines is the classic example of this. This method was pretty good, reinforcing the idea of dungeons being in uncovered areas, while providing a storyline leading up to it. A consequence of this design was that players knew how to get to the dungeon.
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- Analogue said...
I've thought the same thing. Nothing like agreeing to rez that one lost person, only to get back and not be able to find the corpse anywhere... additionally, Blizzard really needs to add maps to older dungeons so we can find lost party members.
- 7:57 AM, May 19, 2010
- Anonymous said...
Generally a pretty good idea, but still wouldn't catch the situation were everyone who can rez dies.
- 8:06 AM, May 19, 2010
- Kazim said...
My son plays in dungeons. He is eight. He is perfectly competent when it comes to dealing damage, staying behind the tank, buffing everyone, and pulling. The big problem he has is that if he can't find his way back to the dungeon, he gets frustrated and quits.
This is no problem if I am playing with him, but he would like to be able to run on his own once in a while, and I usually can't allow it because I'm concerned about the etiquette of him disappearing for no good reason. I definitely think that hunting for the dungeon entrance is an unnecessary waste of time and added stress.
- 8:21 AM, May 19, 2010
- Rhii said...
Your solution is much better. I wish someone had suggested it before they decided to make it discovery based.
Think of very low level alliance... they won't be able to use dungeon finder for several levels beyond where horde can, because the only instance it queues you for at 15 is RFC. Are level 15 alliance going to be discovering RFC? I don't think so...
- 8:45 AM, May 19, 2010
- Redbeard said...
Alliance has this problem very early, as the first dungeon is Ragefire Chasm, in the middle of Orgrimmar. A lot of people who haven't played Horde have no idea where RFC is.
Stockades is the same way for Horde; I've created an Alliance character just to putz around Stormwind and figure out the quickest path to the Stockade for my L80 Pally.
In Cataclysm, word is that Blizzard plans to address this problem by making the player "discover" the dungeon before they can access it through the Dungeon Finder.
With the BC instances of Caverns of Time, WoW already has this. CoS is the exception there, but the other ones apparently require you to go through the intro quests to the place before you can queue them in the LFD tool.
- 9:41 AM, May 19, 2010
- Phelps said...
BTW, Blizz has said that in Cata, you won't have dungeons available until you have discovered the entrance.
- 12:07 PM, May 19, 2010
- jeffo said...
"Imagine trying to find Blackrock Depths if you've never been there before"
Hehe, my first experience in BRD I got summoned to the stone. When I died for the first of many times I was completely, totally lost. First I had to figure out where I was in relation to the mountain, then I had to figure out where the entrance was. Running down the chain was not exactly intuitive.
- 12:28 PM, May 19, 2010
- Anonymous said...
only problem I see with this is they'd have to make the dungeons very linear (without multiple wings) or else people will just die on purpose to get ported back to the starting area instead of walking back. Imagine if you could do this in Nexus.
And I don't like this whole discovery idea...with all the alts I have it's gonna be a major pain in the butt.
- 12:50 PM, May 19, 2010
- Kring said...
One of the most annoying bugs for me in WoW is the "you never get out of combat in dungeons" bug. It was very bad in TBC and in the beginning of WotLK.
I don't like your idea as I think this bug will be back in Cataclysm when the server load climbs again.
- 12:52 PM, May 19, 2010
- Cap'n John said...
Part of the problem with people not wanting to Release is old school players knowing if you Release before the Boss is killed you lose the right to roll on Loot. Sure, you can now trade BoP Drops between Eligible Players but there's that qualifier "Eligible". And if you Release before the Boss dies you are NOT eligible for the Loot. (Not verified with respect to Trading BoPs).
I was recently in a Heroic ToC where I got dismounted and died. I didn't want to miss out on the chance at any Loot (even if I had died and thus "not earned it") so I didn't Release. I was chastised PDQ and told to run back so I did and I was amazed at how close the Spirit Healer is to the ToC entrance. By contrast, the Deadmines and BRD Spirit Runs are just horrible.
- 1:44 PM, May 19, 2010
- Shintar said...
With regards to the Cataclysm changes, I figured that those were only a temporary measure intended to prevent people from just jumping straight into the new dungeons without actually setting foot into the brave new world. I'm guessing that they won't make discovery of the instance entrance a requirement for all the older dungeons.
- 3:57 PM, May 19, 2010
- Anonymous said...
A bit of a side-track but, the issue with difficulties to resurrect a player who releases is really just something that they should deal with on its own terms regardless of what they decide to with graveyard running. If anything, that just feels like one of them age-old bugs which should have been ironed out a long time ago (along with pets randomly putting abilities on auto-cast).
- 5:32 PM, May 19, 2010
- Redbeard said...
@Cap'n John:
Don't forget you can play "spot the noob" on HoR by the people who release and fly back only to discover the doors are shut, barring your entry.
Everybody I play with has done that exactly once. Except me, who did it twice. (No, I don't know what I was thinking that second time.)
- 8:12 PM, May 19, 2010
- pugnaciouspriest.com said...
if not for my experience as Alliance then the few runs Ive had to do on my lobie dungeons would have caused me to need rescuing. Eg Stockades, and Deadmines - the zones are not discovered by my Tauren toon
- 8:28 PM, May 19, 2010
- Pazi said...
So what if you don't know RFC/Deadmines/Stockades/.. because you didn't discovered them and can't enter these through LFD? Nothing changes - you wouldn't go to RFC as alliance and you wouldn't go to Stockades as Horde. There's is nothing for Horde in Stockades except woolcloth anyway. The dedicated Horde would visit Deadmines and the dedicated Alliance would go to SFK/WC.
I'm sorry but I don't want the feature you suggested because it would only cause players to be even more dumb/shortminded. The kind of player that enters heroic nexus, doing 745 dps on Anomalus as a mage, gets lost after dying (seriously, you are 80 and can't find the entrance to nexus from the GY???).
I myself feel it. I visited SFK/WC/SM/BFD and RK on my little lvl31 dwarf priest but I couldn't even force myself to take the tunnel from loch modan to the wetlands or anything north of it nor did I took the boat to Auberdine from Stormwind. I'm lvl31 and I only have 5 flightpoints, by now I should have visited a least 15.
I agree that some GYs and the way back to the dungeon are very annoying (BRD, BFD, Mara) and Blizzard should finally fix that, maybe the way you suggested (although my cheater-sense is tingeling i.e. smells abusable) but I'm all for having to explore a dungeon first (maybe with a quest too like CoT) before you can enter it.
- 12:58 AM, May 20, 2010
- Anonymous said...
I had an embarrassing time not being able to find HoR in LFD.
But it just hit we how *wonderful* this is.
I would never, ever have discovered Occulus. So LFD could never send me there. What a great system!!!
- 7:25 AM, May 20, 2010
- Anonymous said...
How about they just give the shammy "pop" spell (forget the name) to all healers? Could even make it not usable in combat.
- 12:43 PM, May 20, 2010
- Tesh said...
Aw, but then I'd have had to find Kargath the long way, instead of just walking there from the graveyard when an Uldaman run went bad and everyone just quit.
...Yes, I didn't always know where the entrance was, Deadmines being a great example when I played a Forsaken Warrior for the first time a couple months ago. I didn't mind, it just meant more exploration. The minimap pointer (yer corpse is thataway) did a good job of letting me know where to go. It wasn't rocket science to go find the dungeon... but I'd at least like the *option* of what you suggest here. That way, if I don't want to do the spirit run, I can just bypass it.
- 8:34 AM, May 26, 2010
- Anonymous said...
Sorry for the late post on this, but I'm pretty sure the new feature where you will have to have 'found' the instance before you can enter it in LFD will only apply to the newer instances introduced for Cataclysm. So Alliance will still be able to queue for RFC and Horde for Deadmines without any problems.
- 8:21 PM, May 26, 2010


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Congratulations to Courtney Tamplin, RN who is the September 2012 Daisy Award recipient. Courtney is an RN in the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU). The DAISY Award is presented monthly to an All Children's Hospital Nurse who has provided extraordinary service to our patients.
I recently had the privilege to work side by side with Courtney while taking care of a critically ill patient in the CVICU. The patient was in the unit for about a month and required a tremendous amount of physical and emotional support during her entire stay. Courtney became one of her primary nurses, taking care of her almost every scheduled shift, and picking up extra making sure her care stayed consistent. I was very impressed with the care Courtney provided day in and day out. No matter how physically and emotionally exhausted she was, she never showed it. Courtney even made sure she had time during her chaotic shifts to provide this patient with "spa" time. She washed the patient's hair, painted her nails and made sure she was taken care of. Not only did Courtney take impeccable care of her patient, she made sure that she took time to talk to the family, discussing plans for the shift and orders that went with it. Courtney showed levels of clinical skills, high quality care, concern, compassion and sympathy that each of us should strive for every day. The CVICU is extremely lucky to have Courtney as a member of its team and I feel just as lucky to work side by side with her and see the dedication that she displays with her nursing care. Courtney's work ethic is the example that we as nurses should want to replicate. Courtney deserves to be recognized for the incredible care she provided, not just to this patient, but also to her family!
"Courtney has been a vital part of the CVICU for a year and a half," said Chris Snyder, RN, Heart Center Business Manager on behalf of the Heart Center Team. "During this time she has become co-chair of our adult congenital heart education committee. She has organized several fundraising opportunities within our unit, including the handmade ID badges and the beautiful heart center shirts. The Heart Center Team has received numerous comments from families stating how much they enjoy having her as their nurse and have remarked on her caring and calm demeanor when dealing with very difficult situations. Courtney is a team player and welcomes new challenges when caring for our sickest of patients. Her positive attitude and bright smile always make her a joy to work with."
Thank you Courtney, for your service excellence to All Children's Hospital and your continued passion to pursue perfection.


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Peter J Ellis MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)
Departments & Organizations
Yale Medical Group
Medical Education Staff
Office of Student ResearchInternal Medicine: General Internal Medicine: Internal Medicine Associates (YIMA)
Research Interests
Patient navigation; Health services research; Student run free clinics
- B.S., Princeton University, 1983
- M.D., UMDNJ - Robert Woods Johnson, 1987
- M.P.H., Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1995
Selected Publications
- Green ML, Ellis PJ. An evidence-based medicine curriculum utilizing residents' patients: lessons from adult learning theory. Journal of General Internal Medicine 1997; 12(12): 742-50. Ellis PJ, Green ML, Kernan W. An evidence-based medicine curriculum for medical students: the art of asking focused clinical questions. Academic Medicine 2000; 75(5):528. Green ML, Ciampi MA, Ellis PJ. Residents' Medical Informational Needs in Clinic: Are They Being Met? American Journal of Medicine 2000;109:218-223. Barrere CB, Ellis PJ. Changing Attitudes Among Nurses and Physicians: A Step Towards Collaboration. Journal for Healthcare Quality 2002; 24(3): 9-17. Butala N, Murk W, Horwitz L, Graber L, Bridger L, Ellis P. What is the Quality of Preventive Care Provided in a Student-Run Free Clinic? Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 23(2012): 414-424.


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