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If you are a small business owner then chances are you know how challenging it is to be profitable and how, at any moment, disaster could strike leaving you financially devastated if not properly protected by quality business insurance coverage.
The basic coverage for a small business would protect the entrepreneur from the risks inherent in running a business, anything from the injury of employee on the job, to a severe weather event or some other kind of natural disaster or other potential loss that can eliminate the profitability of a company. A company not enjoying the protection of good insurance business can be faced with any of these circumstances and find that there are insufficient resources to cover loss. The good news is that those who are fortunate enough to purchase and to put into effect a business insurance policy will rest assured that the risks mentioned are passed on to the insurance provider.
Should you be the proprietor of a small business operation, you would be wise in considering this kind of specialized insurance protection. Though it is obviously another added cost to the operation of your business, it well worth the expense should some sort of accident or detrimental event occur. Take a moment to ponder how it would feel to lose your livelihood as a result of being too stubborn to put out the reasonable funds to acquire proper coverage. This is what business owners expose themselves to when they choose to ignore obtaining the insurance coverage they need in order to avoid paying premiums.
There are several kinds of insurance that are considered as business coverage. For instance, one may opt for general liability coverage that protects them from exposure to litigation from, say, an employee or customer injury. Beyond that there are other kinds of coverage categories one is well advised to investigate in order to be fully protected from other risks inherent in the operation of a small business.
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Sending an angry tweet to your boss but can't let him know it's you? If you are in any such situation where you really want to say something but do not want to be associated with it, sending an anonymous tweet is the best way. A long-winded way to achieve that is by signing for a new Twitter account, following that person and sending him the tweet.
Another, more easier way is to use anonymous tweeting service ShhTwitter. ShhTwitter lets you send anonymous tweets without signing up for an account. Simply enter the tweet and click enter to send it out in the Twitter space. If you want o address your tweet to somebody specific, feel free to add @username in front of your tweet.
The message would appear in that person's twitter coming from TweetShh1 or TweetShh2.
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RSA 2010: Security in the cloud is everyone's responsibility
David Spark here reporting for Tripwire at the 2010 RSA Conference in San Francisco.
RSA conference officially launched on Tuesday morning with a full band playing "Let's Get Some Encryption" to the Bangles' tune of "Walk like an Egyptian." Following and acknowledging the hype in an industry for which he was a founder, Whitfield Diffie, father of public-key cryptography, graciously received the lifetime achievement award at the RSA conference.
Then Arthur Coviello, Jr. , Executive Vice President, EMC Corporation and President, RSA, The Security Division of EMC took the stage to discuss security in the cloud. Playing to the obvious economics benefits of cloud computing, Coviello mentioned that security issues were holding many people back. Coviello quoted CIO Magazine saying that 51% of CIOs claimed that security was the number one concern with a cloud computing deployment.
How do you trust the cloud if you literally and figuratively can't see it? How can we make it secure, compliant, and governed? Coviello's presentation was a call out to the community that cloud security will require everyone's involvement. Since the cloud is a shared resource, we're all going to have to be concerned about its security.
He suggested a series of ways to do this which combined the best of both worlds: getting the scalability and efficiency of the cloud while also identifying your organization's hardware. That way you know where your data is and direct competitors aren't physically on the same machine.
Check out more of Tripwire's coverage from the 2010 RSA Conference in San Francisco.


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The Finer Reception for the SEO Blogs
If you are a frequent Internet user, then you use various gadgets and computers every day. Help with finding the right information always comes up with search engines like Wikipedia. At the same time, the owners of sites with the necessary information make a lot of efforts to maintain a place in the top ten "answers" to your request.
- For the site to be always in the top among other sites, you need to know and put into practice the basics of optimizing and promoting the site. SEO optimization will help you with this.
This concept includes a number of activities in which the site occupies a high position when requested in a search engine. As a result, the popularity of your service or product will increase many times on the Internet. With the SEO Blogs and Websites there are the best interests.
With the help of SEO-site optimization can be achieved profitability. Often, users visit a site with a high rating for the specific purpose of purchasing or using this service or product. Typically, such sites inspire customer confidence, which in turn has a good effect on your reputation. The use of SEO-optimization and constant promotion of your site affects the construction of long-term relationships with customers. The most important advantage of website optimization is still a long-term result without the high costs of using additional advertising.
Creating and promoting websites is a serious and complicated procedure. You need to be a real master to cope with this task. On the website you can find out all the necessary information on this topic, as well as compare price categories for different orders.
Main advantages of SEO promotion, which cannot be achieved without its use.
Increase brand confidence and build customer loyalty
According to the research of WebProfiters, the traffic received from free search as a result of search promotion is superior in quality to traffic received from contextual advertising.
Most Internet users are more confident in the organic results of search results than in advertising. People are increasingly tired of annoying ads, which do not always meet their expectations. But when they are looking for something and find the answer to their question, it is a completely different matter. Having received this answer on the page of your site, they are imbued with trust in the company and form a positive experience of interaction with it. And if the answer turned out to be on the very first search page, and even not for one question, but for dozens, hundreds, thousands of problems, this increases the visibility of your site and, accordingly, of the company's brand.
A high percentage of the probability of increasing the coverage of potential customers
As a rule, when searching for the necessary information, product, service, other things, the user is not ready to thumb through a bunch of pages with the results that the search engine shows him. Most likely, the first 10 – 17 sites will be awarded his attention, with the necessary information, which he will then begin to analyze. If your site is not among these favorites, then even having a better and cheaper product, you will lose to competitors in reaching potential buyers.
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Impact cratering and volcanism are two fundamental processes that alter the surfaces of the terrestrial planets. Though well studied through laboratory experiments and terrestrial analogs, many questions remain regarding how these processes operate across the Solar System. Little is known about the formation of large impact basins (>300 km in diameter) and the degree to which they modify planetary surfaces. On the Moon, large impact basins dominate the terrain and are relatively well preserved. Because the lunar geologic timescale is largely derived from basin stratigraphic relations, it is crucial that we are able to identify and characterize materials emplaced as …
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Hurricane action greatest in a thousand a long time?
Question by Dawei: Hurricane exercise highest in a thousand years?
No 1 else posted this so I figured I would.
http://reports.bbc.co.united kingdom/2/hello/science/character/8197191.stm
"The final decade has observed an common of 17 hurricanes and tropical storms in the Atlantic – previously in the century, 50 percent that range have been recorded.
But current levels were matched and maybe exceeded in the course of the Medieval Environment Anomaly (also acknowledged as the Medieval Warm Period of time) about 1,000 years in the past."
"Then [1000 many years back], he states, an extended time period of La Nina circumstances in the Pacific – which help hurricane formation – co-incided with relatively warm circumstances in the Atlantic.
Now, the large range is simply pushed by warming waters in the Atlantic – which is projected to enhance in the coming many years"
What do you assume about Mann's conclusions? And do you think sediment records can be an exact proxy for hurricane action?
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The proper answer: they don't know, nor could they possibly have the foggiest notion.
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Here's a great column oddly co-authored by Gillermo del Toro, the director of several stunning films including "Pan's Labryinth."
The authors observe that vampire tales seem to never dull in their popularity (e.g., the current obsession with "Twilight.") Why? Here's the last four graphs, but you should read the whole thing:
Part of the reason for the great success of his "Dracula" is generally acknowledged to be its appearance at a time of great technological revolution. The narrative is full of new gadgets (telegraphs, typing machines), various forms of communication (diaries, ship logs), and cutting-edge science (blood transfusions) — a mash-up of ancient myth in conflict with the world of the present.
Today as well, we stand at the rich uncertain dawn of a new level of scientific innovation. The wireless technology we carry in our pockets today was the stuff of the science fiction in our youth. Our technological arrogance mirrors more and more the Wellsian dystopia of dissatisfaction, while allowing us to feel safe and connected at all times. We can call, see or hear almost anything and anyone no matter where we are. For most people then, the only remote place remains within. "Know thyself" we do not.
Despite our obsessive harnessing of information, we are still ultimately vulnerable to our fates and our nightmares. We enthrone the deadly virus in the very same way that "Dracula" allowed the British public to believe in monsters: through science. Science becomes the modern man's superstition. It allows him to experience fear and awe again, and to believe in the things he cannot see.
And through awe, we once again regain spiritual humility. The current vampire pandemic serves to remind us that we have no true jurisdiction over our bodies, our climate or our very souls. Monsters will always provide the possibility of mystery in our mundane "reality show" lives, hinting at a larger spiritual world; for if there are demons in our midst, there surely must be angels lurking nearby as well. In the vampire we find Eros and Thanatos fused together in archetypal embrace, spiraling through the ages, undying.
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The Dutch state-owned rail company Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) is deploying a real-time remote diagnostics monitoring system. As a core component of NS' overall real-time monitoring solution, the system allows railway operators to streamline maintenance costs and provide efficiencies across their fleet by automating manual tasks. NS in the Netherlands will join a growing number of large rail operators that have implemented GNSS solutions, in this case the Trimble R2M system. Others using R2M include South West Trains in the United Kingdom, Irish Rail, SNCF in France, SBB in Switzerland and VR in Finland.
R2M processes diagnostic data from rail vehicles in real time. It provides a comprehensive view of the overall fleet's status including specific vehicle faults. The system also identifies potential faults that may arise while analyzing and detecting anomalies in on-vehicle component behavior to identify component issues and the possible impact this behavior may have on the vehicle and overall fleet.
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Raisin Weekend dates far back into St Andrews' history, so called because children traditionally gave their academic parents a pound of raisins to thank them for welcoming them to St Andrews. These days your parents would probably prefer a bottle of wine, but feel free to stay traditional!
The St Andrews academic family is unique. Other universities pair up students with their academic parents but here the tradition has always been passed down from student to student. However, this also means we all have a responsibility, as we are the only custodians of this tradition. So have a fantastic time but remember that this weekend is about much more than just drinking, it's about making the friends you could keep for life and taking part in one of the traditions that makes St Andrews entirely unique. Please make sure that everyone involved in your Raisin can look back on the weekend fondly - let's protect the tradition for years to come.
For more information about the history of Raisin have a look at Raisin Weekend on visitstandrews.com.
Look after each other and if you are not feeling well, remember that you are not in it alone! Don't be afraid to ask your friends and academic family for help. You can also call your Wardens if you live in halls (make sure to save their duty phone number to your mobile beforehand), or call the ASC on (01334 46) 2020 between noon and midnight. Nightline (an anonymous and confidential listening and information service) is open as usual 8pm-7am on (01334 46) 2266.
It is traditional for academic fathers to present their academic children with Raisin Receipts to take to the Quad for the foam fight. They were traditionally written on parchment. Whatever object the receipt is, it should have the following Latin phrase written on it:
Ego civis (name of parent), tertianus/a (if you're a third year) or magistrandus/a (fourth year) huius celeberrimae universitatis Sancti Andreae, qui (father's degree subject) studeo, a te (child's name), meo/a bejanto/ina carissimo/a qui (child's degree subject) studeat, unam libram uvarum siccarum accepisse affirmo pro qua multas gratias tibi ago.
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- Charlotte Jacobs begins her interviews by discussing her happy childhood in a large family in Tennessee, and the pressure she felt being a young girl in the 1950s with dreams of being a doctor. She goes on to detail the influence of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine trials, of which she was a part, and several other important milestones that empowered her to follow her dreams into medicine. She describes her journey from pre-med undergrad at the University of Rochester to post-doctoral fellow in oncology at Stanford University, under the supervision of Saul Rosenberg. She credits much of her success to this esteemed oncologist, under whom she could achieve her goal of succeeding in clinical research and patient care. Jacobs paints a vivid picture of her career from start to finish. She broke the mold as an acting assistant professor at Stanford, teaching second year medical students and designing and leading the new Oncology Day Care Center. She also led pioneering work into the "organ preservation approach" with mentors and colleagues Willard Fee and Dan Goffinet, changing forever the paradigm of head and neck cancer. In the meantime, she achieved a true balance between a fulfilling family life and a high-flying medical career. Jacobs continues to detail the trajectory of her career, including her rise from acting assistant professor to senior associate dean. Despite it taking Jacobs almost two decades to reach tenure, she was named the "Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Professor of Medicine," and was given total academic freedom to continue accomplishing her professional goals. Jacobs then discusses her innovative teaching at the university, the awards she received, and the students whom she inspired and who inspired her. She tells at length of her rewarding role in revamping the education of Stanford's medical students as Senior Associate Dean of Education and Student Affairs, which began a wonderful part of her career working with David Korn and Robert Cutler, as well as continuing her work as a general oncologist. Following this, she led the creation of a new multidisciplinary cancer center at Stanford. Jacobs then became the director of the Clinical Cancer Program for UCSF Stanford Health Care as part of the two universities' merging efforts. Jacobs depicts how this merger caused much friction as well as success. Jacobs then tells of opening the clinical cancer center after which she returned to clinical research and patient care. She discusses her building of the sarcoma and lung cancer programs, mentoring young faculty and women professionals, and her choice to take early retirement so she could divide her time between treating veterans with cancer and writing. Jacobs then details finding the time to finish her book on Henry Kaplan, a biography–the genre she most loved reading as a child–that she had spent years on already. She goes into great detail about learning the craft and how writing her first and second books (a biography of Jonas Salk) has helped her as a doctor and medical professional. She also discusses the importance of the theatre, particularly musical theatre, in her life, both as a young woman and throughout her time as a mother, doctor, and professor. She credits these passions with helping her profoundly as a physician, allowing her to better understand the needs and anxieties of patients, and to better deal with the complexities of being a doctor. Jacobs, throughout the interviews, draws on the importance of patients in her life and work, and she describes those who have inspired her and fascinated her, and imagines what her memoir might look like if she ever completes it. She outlines her keys to success in the scientific sphere, and specifically the skills and attributes she believes make a wonderful, caring doctor. She credits her work-life balance and her constant wish to care for those in need as her main focuses throughout her stellar career. Finally, Jacobs considers what could be seen as her legacy: her pioneering work in the field of head and neck cancer, the clinical cancer center at Stanford, her pride in her students at the university and those whom she taught and for whom she became a role model, and mostly, the patients whom she cured or helped to face the prospect of death. She explains that patients are what drove her career from the very beginning, and still do, and that she hopes she has made life better for all of them.
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For those of us with access to that invaluable super highway linking us to the oft-forgotten (by the Miley Cyrus-obsessed youth of today, at least) golden ages of film, it comes with great satisfaction each and every time we come across something contemporary and new that is "retro" to the modern-day cretins that fill the seats in every theater but that finds us with that ecstatic grin across our faces and that glow in our eyes, because we know that the allegedly unique film is really an homage to those golden ages of cinema; to those of us that get the references, that have heard of the legends, and have seen the masterpieces, finding these rare gems in today's dehydrated culture is a feeling akin to a disciple of Christ watching him walk among the living after being left to die on the cross - we realize suddenly that what we thought we could only enjoy by studying the fossils of classic film, we can now find among contemporary filmmakers as well, and we find our brethren in a world we thought we hated. For those of us at Ungovernable Films, we found that we don't have to wait around and hold our breaths while we keep our laps vacant hoping that into them will fall these resurrections of great film, because we can create it ourselves.
Starting small and modest with Moonsmilers, a tale of bloodthirsty mental patients triggered by a lunar eclipse, then moving onto the next phase with the acid-horror No Thanks, a social commentary screaming "Kill Whitey!" from the bloodcurdling war cries of Native Americans, and taking the great leap to feature film production with Honky Holocaust and testing our audience's limits with the hyper-saturated torture-western short film 12 Rounds For The Loaded, Ungovernable Films is at the stage now where it is ready to see if the rest of the world is ready for us. Rather than seek out those rare scenes in mainstream film where something real or raw actually happens, we aim to create the films we really want to see, the ones that acknowledge and bow down to our heroes, the Roger Cormans, Lloyd Kaufmans, Sergio Leones, John Carpenters, Jack Hills, Dario Argentos, Joe Dantes, Alex Coxes, Wes Cravens, Jesus Francos, Mario Bavas, Jean Rollins, George Romeros, Larry Cohens, Ruggero Deodato, Sergio Corbucci, Frank Henenlotter, Tobe Hooper, John Waters, and many others, and never look back. If you are among the many out there itching to actually have fun while watching a film, you've found your new favorite film production company in Ungovernable Films!
Ungovernable Films is the brainchild of Paul M McAlarney, founded in 2013 during the post-production phase of his first feature film, Honky Holocaust. The relevant history of Ungovernable Films dates back to 2011, when Paul and Nick Norrman worked together on the web-series Super-Townie. Shortly after filming the first two episodes, Nick approached Paul about directing a short B-Horror film he wanted to produce, using a script he had acquired. Paul conceded and together they created Moonsmilers.
After another round of filming Super-Townie, Paul and Nick decided it was time to produce their first feature film and opted to stick to the Exploitation and B-Movie genre that had influenced Moonsmilers. Within minutes of agreeing to do a feature film next, Paul had come up with the general plot for Honky Holocaust. To produce Honky Holocaust, Nick and Paul opted to create a new film production company with the same producers behind a short film they had done for the 2012 Boston 48 Hour Film Festival, No Thanks, and Bloody Hammer Films was born with members Paul, Nick, Thomas Delcarpio, and Mike Collari.
In the pre-production phase of Honky Holocaust, Paul, Nick, Thomas, and Mike opted to recruit two more executive producers for Bloody Hammer Films and Honky Holocaust, Nick Caliendo and Lucas Fleming, both of whom had been involved in No Thanks and Super-Townie. Production on the feature film began and an enormous team of unpaid yet enthusiastic actors, crew members, and filmmakers soon became integral to the production and Bloody Hammer Films as a whole. However, the strict democratic nature of Bloody Hammer Films made for a tricky paradigm, particular when personalities clashed, and the company was doomed almost from the start. Principal photography on Honky Holocaust wrapped and the often chaotic production saw the removal of Mike Collari and Nick Caliendo from the company but the addition of Krisoula Varoudakis and Alex E Edwards, both actors in Honky Holocaust in their places.
While post-production of Honky Holocaust began, Bloody Hammer Films chose to produce Thomas Delcarpio's feature film, Nursing Home of Death as its next project. Dave Sullivan, who had played a minor role in Honky Holocaust, became a major player on the Nursing Home of Death production crew as well as a support actor, while Paul, Alex, and Krisoula played the three lead roles, and Nick Norrman filled the role again of Director of Photography. The production was the unfortunate victim of tension and personal strain leftover from the hectic Honky Holocaust production and gradually slowed to a halt, concluding with Thomas' return to his home state of Louisiana and the inevitable hiatus of Bloody Hammer Films operations and production.
Exhausted and disillusioned by the tumultuous state of affairs at Bloody Hammer Films, Paul wanted to start a new production company for his future films and founded Ungovernable Films, borrowing the name from the phrase "the ungovernable force" oft used by the British anarcho-punk band Conflict. Intent on staying true to the initial goals of Bloody Hammer Films, Paul invited Nick Norrman, Alex E Edwards, and Dave Sullivan from Bloody Hammer Films to be a part of Ungovernable Films.
Paul M McAlarney aka "The Mad Scientist" has been a staunch fanatic of all things controversial since birth - possessing, practicing, and celebrating the belief that anything taboo or controversial should be magnified and displayed in an effort to desensitize and liberate society in order to pave the way for necessary social change. Taking a violently Nietzschean offensive against the notion that there are "sacred" elements or icons of culture and society, Paul uses writing, film, and other forms of media to convey his beliefs and attitudes and aims to make the world a more socialist-minded and altruistic global community through his art, an ultimate goal that might shock anybody who has actually seen or read his art. Paul was nicknamed "The Mad Scientist" by Ungovernable Films co-owner Dave Sullivan due to his unflinching ability to create and maintain offensive, twisted brilliance in almost any art or communicable form.
Born and raised in Melrose, MA, Paul has spent his entire life living in New England, primarily in Eastern Massachusetts. Writing has, since birth, been his absolute passion, and he has developed his unique voice since then, always augmenting and adjusting it upon the introduction of any and all new influences. After realizing that a college degree in architecture would be too expensive and being rejected from the music school at UMASS Lowell, Paul scrambled to find an enticing college he could afford and wound up at UMASS Amherst, where he began by studying business, then sociology, then psychology and sociology, and was then suspended after a series of criminal charges and infractions resulting from a worsening drug and alcohol problem.
Paul picked himself up by the bootstraps, got sober, moved to Brookline, then Allston, then relapsed, then moved to Somerville, then had a nervous breakdown, then pulled himself together more seriously, got into filmmaking by co-creating, co-writing, and directing the web-series Super-Townie with hetero-life-partner Greg LaVoie. After graduating from UMASS Boston with a degree in Sociology, Paul moved back to the north shore and continued work on Super-Townie and writing several self-published novels, but gradually made the transition to writing and directing primarily exploitation films. Today, Paul co-owns Bloody Hammer Films and Ungovernable Films, as well as Baby Drip Productions and Super-Townie, moderates and writes for the Boston Independent Film Review, is a regular panelist on and co-founder of Ignorant Radio, and is currently co-founding a software patenting company, all while working full-time at a mental health clubhouse south of Boston.
Super-Townie - Official Super-Townie Website
Bloody Hammer Films - Official Bloody Hammer Films Website
Boston Independent Film Review - Official Boston Independent Film Review Website
Ignorant Radio - Official Ignorant Radio Website
Nick Norrman is the coolest motherfucker ever to grace the planet's surface with the soles of his boots. A true artistic genius with a keen eye for raw, sincere imagery, Nick has brought an enormous portion of the thematic aesthetic to every production with which he has been involved. Pursuing filmmaking and videography as a career seemed not only natural but also practical for Nick: he just gets it and needs no rulebook or guidelines to have his work understood and universally appreciated. Still, he opted to augment his natural talents with a more professional and technical approach by seeking a degree in film from the New England Institute of Art in Brookline, MA, and has put the film and video equipment that the school makes available to the students to better use than just about anybody who has approached the video equipment rental counter.
Originally from Easton, MA, Nick quickly found himself to be a natural magnet for other artistically-inclined individuals, but was set apart from the faux-poets and hipster-elites by his oft-silent knack for eliminating the phonies in the underground music and film crowd. And when they don't get the hint, they have the bottom of Nick's boot to deal with. Nick's typical position behind the camera has made all of the productions whose sets he attends come to life, with little to no effort. What could have been a shitty student film with poor lighting and boring camera angles is suddenly a Spagetti Western classic or a well-done homage to Terrence Malick's finest work.
When Nick isn't on set, editing, or huffing glue, he can be found playing with one of his punk/oi bands: Male Nurses, Combat Zone, Lude Boys, or whichever other quartets he feels like playing with that week. Nick operates his own videography business, New Age Videography, which specializes in freelance camerawork and editing, including but not limited to producing music videos, wedding videos, commercials, web-series, and anything else clients are willing to have Nick capture on his camera in return for paying his rent or feeding him fast food and beer. Nick uses a variety of cameras and camera equipment.
Nick Norrman - Cinematographer - Official Nick Norrman - Cinematography Website
New Age Videography - Official New Age Videography Website
Bloody Hammer Films - Official Bloody Hammer Films Website
Male Nurses - Male Nurses - Deranged Records Page
Combat Zone - Combat Zone - Bandcamp Page
Lude Boys - Lude Boys - Demo on YouTube
Alex E Edwards initially worked for five years in the banking industry where he held a variety of management positions and accumulated many accomplishments. One of his major accomplishments was developing a strategic plan to increase the quantity of customers for the Bank of America branch in Brookline, MA. Alex always had an interest in real estate since he purchased his first house at age 20. He later in 2009 received his Massachusetts Real Estate license to concentrate on Real Estate and very quickly became one of Massachusetts most trusted Real Estate agents. In 2008, Alex entered into the music and entertainment industry by establishing DAJTUMIR MUSIC. DAJTUMIR's goals are "never to be forgotten" and to stay relevant by maintaining an established organization to motivate positive growth in the music and entertainment industry. Currently, Alex after becoming a certified T.V. producer and director in 2010, now has his own show titled "THE Alex E. Edwards Show" where he discussed community issues.
After answering a casting call for Paul's feature film Honky Holocaust, Alex quickly became involved in the production and Bloody Hammer Films as a whole. Before long, he was elected to join as a co-owner of the production company and proved to be an ambitious, creative, and practical member of the team, injecting his unique blend of business sense and artistic drive to the company and its projects. When Bloody Hammer Films effectively folded as a production company, Alex stayed on board with Nick and Paul as well as Dave Sullivan, and went on to join Ungovernable Films.
DAJTUMIR Records - Official DAJTUMIR Records Website
Bloody Hammer Films - Official Bloody Hammer Films Website
The Alex E. Edwards Show - Official Alex E. Edwards Show Website
Home Malone Recovery Sober Home - Official Home Malone Website
Dave "Hollywood Ballz" Sullivan is a complete psychopath juggernaut that has chosen to use his skills as an intense, insanely enthusiastic, and blood-driven artist to help create films and other projects that push people to their ultimate limit and hopefully even further. While Dave has touched upon and pursued a limitless spectrum of artistic outlets, filmmaking and all its elements makes him feel "whole as an artist and as an individual", as it fulfills a personal constant urge to express himself, particularly in front of the immortalizing camera. Even at a young age, Dave was obsessed with film and acting and everything that came along with films and filmmaking. An old Bruce Lee interview had a strong impact on Dave, where the Kung Fu Film legend encouraged and celebrated the notion of honest self-expression, and Dave has since made it a point to be as honest and sincere in his self-expression as possible, whether he is walking down the street, acting, fighting, or doing just about anything else. Dave has a very manic personality that mixes well with the many aspects of filmmaking and he feels the they compliment one another well: his performances are that much more intense, and the expressive yet structured nature of filmmaking keeps him focused. In addition to filmmaking being a natural endeavor for him, the reward for being involved in producing films is the privilege of bringing the ideas in his head and others' to life and making them as real as possible. With little to no formal training in filmmaking, Dave brings his natural and exceptional acting skills as well as his tireless loyalty, resourcefulness, and self-sacrificing die hard mentality on all productions.
Born in Boston and raised in the Winter Hill section of Somerville, Dave's youth is what he believes shaped him into the hard working and stubbornly determined individual he is today, thanks to his lower-class (economically-speaking) upbringing and the tough love environment of Winter Hill. Dave got into acting serendipitously after suffering a bad reaction to some antidepressant medication while working three jobs that landed him in the psychiatric ward for a week. At the recommendation of a doctor, Dave revamped his lifestyle in order to remain physically and psychologically healthy and suddenly realized that he had a lot of free time. Always the ambitious, active, and manic go-getter, Dave hopped on Craigslist and began auditioning for roles in films like the madman that he was and is.
In addition to acting and film production, Dave has a seemingly endless list of hobbies and interests, never leaving a moment dull or wasted. After high school he worked and played music with friends while being heavily involved in the hardcore/punk rock scene in Boston. Dave married and had a son, then started pursuing his many dreams; Dave trained and practiced to be a magician, a pro-wrestler, a stand-up comedian, a Strongman competitor, boxer, and everything else that sounded fun. And, quite naturally, along the way Dave pursued acting.
The acting gigs came rolling in quickly, first with The Ransom (short film), then Bloody Knuckles (student film), Boys And Girls (short film), Hanging Chad (lead role, student film), and others. Dave auditioned for Paul McAlarney's film Honky Holocaust and Dave was enthused by Bloody Hammer Films' raw, cutting edge material. Dave believed that working with Bloody Hammer would be perfect to push himself as an artist and found himself cast as a henchman, but wound up having surgery and was sidelined for a while and bowed out shortly before production on Honky Holocaust began. After the surgery, Dave contacted Paul to see if he still needed extras for his film, which was against everything Dave stood for: he refused to ever do work as an "extra"; Paul responded and offered Dave his original role as a henchman. Dave quickly found that filling a non-speaking role in a Paul McAlarney film is as good as a lead role. Paul treated Dave and the other non-speaking roles as if they were the superstars and Dave felt like one.
Dave formed some of the best friendships through that film and was cast in Bloody Hammer Films' next project, 12 Rounds For The Loaded. In Dave's own words, as he describes the evolution of his nickname "Hollywood Ballz"... I got that name because of a role I got in Paul's film for The 24hr Film Festival. I called him up and said "Hey what's the theme of the film?" Paul said, "It's a Western. Do you have any cowboy clothes?" I said "Let me see what I can wrangle up (pun intended)." Paul says, "Do you mind being naked?". I said, "No". Paul says, "Then don't bring anything." The film was the first of it's kind we felt. It ended up being a torture Western that involved me being bound naked and having my nipples and electrocuted by the amazing Aurora Grabill, while I puked up oatmeal, which then made Paul puke watching me puke." Dave was then cast in and recruited for crew work for the next Bloody Hammer Films project, Thomas Delcarpio's Nursing Home of Death, a traditional yet original horror film.
Dave is married to his wife Tracy and together they have a 10yr old son Jack. Tracy has her own gourmet cookie business, while Dave makes a living as a magic teacher /performer and a boxing/muay thai coach, in addition to all his other unique and broad endeavors, some of which he is paid for and some of which he is not.
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Last weekend at the cottage I made this hearty quiche with a double filling; parmesan, chanterelles and herbs with potato crust. We picked mushrooms during our morning walk in the woods and all the veggies comes from the garden. Of course this dish is all gluten and lactose-free.
Our very own potatoes, a mandoline gives me perfect slices to make the crust. Put in the oven with some oil, salt and pepper. Bake for 15 minutes, 200 Celsius. Fry chanterelles with oregano, thyme, spring onions and mangold. Or whatever that is in season. Add the filling into the crust followed with the egg mixture: 4 eggs, parmesan, ruccola, sugar snaps, parsley, mint and more oregano. Top with even more cheese. Bake until firm. Serve warm or cold. Enjoy with a glass of wine. Or two.


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Is this a medical endorsement Doc? There are lots of vague words like 'suggest', 'could', 'tend', 'unclear', 'probably'.
The main advice of the article is "The good news is that your coffee addiction probably is not bad for you (apart from the impact on your wallet) - but it falls a long way short of being a health drink."


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An undercover TSA agent was allegedly able to pass through security at Dallas Fort-Worth International Airport several times with a gun concealed in her underpants, reports NBC Dallas Fort-Worth.
An anonymous TSA source told NBCDFW, "the undercover agent carried a pistol in her undergarments when she put the body scanners to the test. The officer successfully made it through the airport's body scanners every time she tried." The source added that "none of the TSA agents who failed to spot the gun were disciplined, and that they continue to work the body scanners today."
The TSA provided the following statement:
Our security officers are one of the most heavily tested federal workforces in the nation. We regularly test our officers in a variety of ways to ensure the effectiveness of our technology, security measures and the overall layered system. For security reasons, we do not publicize or comment on the results of covert tests, however advanced imaging technology is an effective tool to detect both metallic and nonmetallic items hidden on passengers.
Stories like this are not new. Anyone who saw the TSA exposé Please Remove Your Shoes will remember the story of a covert investigator, like the one here, who placed a water bottle in a duffel bag containing bomb-making materials, then watched in horror as a TSA screener removed the bottle, but ignored the bomb.
It's exactly these kinds of incidents that destroy the credibility of the TSA and its policies. Instead of looking for bombs and guns, screeners are looking for water bottles and other far less dangerous items. In the case of the DFW incident, well, it's hard to know what the screeners were looking for—guns and other concealed weapons are precisely what screeners should be catching. Perhaps the agent also had a plastic knife in her pocket? Or a tube of toothpaste?
Readers, I usually like to end my posts with a question, but I hardly know what to ask. How seriously do you take these anonymous insider reports?
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Tory revolt on prisoner votes
A REVOLT against giving prisoners the vote put ministers under growing pressure from Tory MPs last night.
The controversial measure demanded by a European court faces a crucial Commons debate next week.
Two backbenchers yesterday called for the Government to ignore rulings from Strasbourg that denying inmates the right to take part in elections breaches their human rights. Rising Tory star Dominic Raab, MP for Esher and Walton, insisted that the European court did not have the power to order Britain to give the vote to prisoners.
And Anne Main, MP for St Albans, urged the Government to refuse to pay any compensation.
Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke has argued that the Government has to overhaul the voting rules or risk paying out millions.
But in an article, Mr Raab wrote: "It is time Britain drew a line in the sand. We can pay due deference to the European Court of Human Rights by having the Parliamentary debate it called for. But if Parliament then votes to maintain the current ban and MPs have been given a free vote Strasbourg will have to respect it."


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An angelic voice from last evening's service. Took my breath away. Brought tears to my eyes. Enjoy this bit of heaven on earth as we reach the midway point of Holy Week.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
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Thank you.
- April 11, 2012 at 11:36 AM
- Laura Wilson said...
Thank you so much for sharing this!
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Daikin UK has appointed Iain Bevan as Commercial Director for Heating and Renewables, with responsibility for growing the company's domestic heating business.
He joined Daikin in 2010 as National Sales Manager for Renewable Heating and was responsible for delivering the UK sales strategy. Managing the company's sales team and customer queries, Iain has extensive knowledge of the renewable and domestic heating market. He previously spent 12 years at heating manufacturer Vaillant as Divisional Sales Manager before overseeing his own company, GLT Services.
He said: "Now is the ideal time to discover renewable heating technology as product innovation continues to develop increasingly energy efficient and sustainable solutions.
"Directing Daikin UK's established and technically knowledgeable sales team, I'm looking forward to expanding the company's specification and installer network, to ensure that as the heating sector evolves Daikin's range of Altherma heat pumps are at the forefront of the industry."
Daikin heating and renewables role
New account manager at Stiebel Eltron UK
You are going to see her in the journal, website and e-newsletters helping to point out events, competitions and opportunities for readers.
Major Heat is a lady on a mission!!!
You will know she hates inefficiency and poor standards. However, she loves helping tough, hard-working heating engineers and installers.
Let the Heat Pumps Today Journal team know your ideas about how she can help, she's not just be a strong voice and character for the industry. With her colleague, Captain Cooling from the ACR Journal, this pair are a force to be reckoned with!
Find out more at the National ACR & Heat Pump Awards 2017.
Mr Thomson began his career in 1972 as a technician apprentice with Sadia Airofreeze, studying at Willesden College of Technology. Following completion of his training, he installed and serviced supermarket display cabinets and cold rooms for BOC Linde – later joining Subcool, which specialised in commissioning large centrifugal and absorption chillers, where he rose to the position of director.
Spirotech UK has appointed a new Area Sales Manager for the West Midlands to help drive awareness of its market leading products with merchants, specifiers and installers.
Dave Goodyer joins the fast-growing team and is well placed to drive sales with over three decades of industry experience. Prior to joining Spirotech, Dave held a key account manager role with Wolseley and during his 22 years with the leading distributor of heating and plumbing products, built up an extensive network of contacts as well as invaluable industry knowledge.
Technical Director for CIPHE
Paul Harmer IEng MEI MIET FCIPHE has joined the Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering (CIPHE) as a Technical Director. He will be working on some exciting new initiatives to support the technical development of the Institute.
Since Paul's career began 22 years ago as a heating apprentice, he has worked around the world on various high value engineering projects within the heating, cooling and plumbing industry. Through this, he has gained a wealth of experience covering development and innovation of software, product design, building services design and manufacturing.
Paul has worked in Germany, in conjunction with various European manufacturers, on the innovation and development of renewable technologies. Following on from this, he worked for Reliance Worldwide in the UK, Canada and Australia, setting up the technical infrastructure for their warm water underfloor heating range of products.
ADEY Announces New Chairman
Duncan Cooper has been appointed as the new Chairman of ADEY Professional Heating Solutions.
Europe's largest water treatment manufacturer serving the domestic and commercial heating sector, in a role set to further strengthen the firm's expansion in the UK and international markets.
Cooper joins the fast-growing business after almost 20 years with the Grundfos Group, most recently as Americas Managing Director and Group Senior Vice President, based in Chicago, USA, with responsibility for ten companies across the Americas, including four in the United States.
Underpinning its ongoing commitment to provide superior quality products and complete customer satisfaction, Calorex continues to strengthen its in-house team.
Newly appointed a new Purchasing Manager, two new Buyers and an internal transfer from their Production Planning department.
Hitachi Air Conditioning Europe SAS has appointed Enrique Flórez as Vice President and General Manager Europe with effect from 1st June 2016.
As part of his new role, Flórez, will define Hitachi's 'go-to-market' strategies and will lead its planned growth in Europe, taking responsibility for developing and maximising the synergies between the joint venture of Johnson Controls and Hitachi Air Conditioning Europe to exceed customers' expectations.
Ben Hampton has started in his role as the Regional Specification Sales Manager for the Central Region. His role will concentrate on developing key contractor and merchant relationships across the Midlands, East Anglia and Central Wales. Ben boasts a wealth of technical knowledge within the HVAC fittings industry thanks to his time working within controls at Sauter Automation and Western Automation.
Ben said: "I joined Conex Bänninger because it is a prestigious brand. The qualities of the products speak for themselves. The opportunity to work within a group the size of IBP was one I could not turn down"
With over 15 years' experience within the heating and hot water industry, Shaun Mansbridge has been appointed the new Business Development Director for Bosch Commercial and Industrial, following the retirement of Geoff Hobbs earlier this year.
Swedish heat pump manufacturer, NIBE, has appointed Robin Adderley as its new UK sales and marketing director.
Robin has been the UK company's national sales manager for the last three years, and has over years' experience in the plumbing and heating industry. He joined NINE in 2009 as technical sales engineer, and will now be in charge of building NIBE sales of ground and air source heat pumps, as well as its raneg of biomass boilers and solar thermal collectors.
NIBE managing director Phil Hurley said:
"Robin's knowledge and passion for the industry – matched with his strong background in sales and marketing, and the fact that he knows the NIBE business inside out – means there couldn't be a better person for this role."
Fernox Expands Technical Project Team
Jody Lees to Leave LG
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Once More, Back to the – Window??
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Since I launched this Web site ten years ago, I've conducted numerous tests of outdoor and indoor TV antennas to see which ones really performed, and which ones were just "aluminum snake oil." The problem with these tests is that, as soon as I complete one and write it up, I hear from yet another company who missed the boat and wants their time in the sun.
That's the motivation for this round of tests, which included some previously-tested models and a few newcomers. It's taken me a few months to schedule this test and round up all of the review models, but the good news is that every one of these antennas is currently offered for sale; some from multiple online retail outlets.
If you subscribe to pay TV services (as I do), you've surely noticed two things. (1) The monthly cost of your channel services has gone up over the past decade at a rate far in excess of ordinary inflation, and (2) you probably don't watch more than 10 to 15 channels anyway on a regular basis.
Now, couple those observations with the expanding universe of Web-based ("over the top") video channels, including the ever-popular YouTube, Hulu and Hulu Plus, Netflix, Vudu, Amazon Prime, and assorted network-based streaming sites. Add a Roku box, Apple TV, Boxee, or any of a number of OTT receiving solutions; drop the TV channel bundle from your pay TV subscription, and you've probably cut your monthly cost by 50%. (This assumes you're keeping broadband service.)
All well and good, except that streaming video services are very much dependent on available bandwidth. Watching Modern Family or The Avengers at 2 PM when Internet traffic is light is a completely different experience at 10 PM, when it seems that everyone and their brother is hogging bandwidth.
While there's not much you or I can do about that problem (except perhaps subscribe to FiOS), you can watch HD broadcast network channels for free all over the U.S.A. And if you live near an urban area, you may have multiple channels you can pull in, using that little "F" connector on the back of your LCD or plasma flat screen.
All you need to watch these channels is some sort of antenna. While outdoor antennas always work best, you may live in an apartment or condo where going that route is problematic for cosmetic or legal reasons (even though you do have the right to install an outdoor antenna on property that is yours exclusively, but I won't get into that now).
The fact is; indoor TV reception has actually gotten easier and better. Yes, I remember the early days of digital TV reception, which involved more luck and prayer than anything else. But we've come way past those trial-and-error exercises, and it's now much easier to pull in local digital TV signals indoors.
All you need is a TV antenna that meets the following criteria: It is resonant or close to resonant at the desired frequencies of reception; can be installed easily on a wall, window, or some other surface suitable for mounting, and is a true plug-and-play design. You just screw on the antenna cable to your TV, go into the appropriate set-up and channel menus, and scan for active channels.
If you haven't tried indoor TV reception yet, you may be surprised just how many channels you can pull in. For many folks living in the Los Angeles basin who have a clear shot toward Mt. Wilson, that could mean as many as 27 major DTV channels with over 130 total sub-channels of programming. Heck, that's a mini cable system into itself!
I live in the Philadelphia metro market, and can consistently receive 15 major DTV channels with over 30 sub-channels of programming. That's using a modest dual-band yagi mounted at the base of my chimney, along with a similar antenna installed in my attic. And my dual-band UHF/VHF yagi antennas that sit atop a rotor and 5' of mast on my roof can pull in another 8-10 DTV stations from New York City, which is about 65 miles distant.
These antenna systems supplement my Comcast cable service, which was cut off during Hurricane Sandy for the better part of a week by a 100-year-old oak tree that chopped the cable and telephone lines in half. Using an inverter (since replaced by a generator), I could still watch local news and weather from all of the locations just mentioned.
I'm a little too far away from the Philly TV towers in Roxborough to depend on indoor antennas, which is why I went the rooftop/attic route. But your location may be closer; in which case one of the models tested in this review could be right for you.
As a general rule of thumb, homes and apartments as far away as ten miles from a TV station should be able to pull in the signal with an unamplified antenna. If the TV tower is located at a high altitude, as is the case in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Portland (mountains) and New York City and Chicago (skyscrapers), that indoor reception distance can increase by 50% or more.
However, there are locations where indoor DTV reception is borderline reliable or problematic. In those cases, an amplified antenna may be a better choice, as digital signals require a minimum threshold above background noise to be received correctly. For the ATSC system used in this country, the "laboratory" threshold is about 15 dB. In real life with signal echoes and fading, it's more like 20 dB.
There are caveats with amplified antennas. First, not all amplifiers are created equal! Your particular amplifier may have lots of gain, but strong, nearby out-of-band signals can overload it and create more problems than it is fixing.
Second, amplifiers are noisy, and some more noisy than others. It does you no good to add an amplifier if it increases background noise (or as some call it, the noise floor) along with the signal. So a poorly-designed amplifier can actually make difficult TV reception worse.
I selected nine different antennas for this latest round. Five were unamplified, and four had some sort of internal or external amplification. One of the amplified antennas (Mohu's Sky) is actually intended for outdoor use, but I figured I'd see just how well it performed by a window anyway. (The Sky will be part of an outdoor antenna test soon.)
To kick things off, I needed a reference indoor antenna. What better choice than the classic UHF bow tie, which Radio Shack used to sell for all of $4.00? Although The Shack has since dropped this antenna from its catalog, you can still find them online. Summit Source has one made by Steren for all of $2.49.
Next up is the NorthVu NV20 Pro, a VHF/UHF panel antenna that claims to use a fractal-based design to improve resonance and performance. NorthVu is a Canadian company and its Web site promotes the use of free digital TV to cut costs of cable. A number of retailers carry it (including Amazon) and it will set you back about $60, plus shipping.
Batting in the #3 spot is the WallTenna, which I've tested previously. This flexible, super-flat antenna is intended for UHF reception only, although it might pull in VHF stations if the transmitter is close by. At present, WallTenna is sold direct through the company's Web site for $35.
Winegard's FlatWave flexible panel antenna was another solid performer from previous tests, so it deserved another go-around. You can find it at numerous online sites and also in Costco, but prices are all over the place, ranging from $20 to $36. Shop carefully!
No test of indoor antennas would be complete without Greenwave Scientific's Mohu Leaf, a strong performer in previous antenna tests. You can find it at numerous online and brick-and-mortar retailers (Sears, B&H, Amazon, Sam's Club, J&R) for$40. You can also buy it direct from Greenwave.
Four more antennas rounded out the test, and all of them use active electronics to boost signal levels. NorthVu sent along the NV20 Pro Amplified, which looks exactly like the NV20 Pro except that it has a built-in power supply with AC cord. It's currently selling for about $90, and Amazon has it.
Antennas Direct's ClearStream Micron XG antenna is a panel design that comes in several flavors – (1) bare bones, (2) with a variable multi-step inline amplifier, (3) with a separate reflector panel, and (4) with both options together. Figure $80 for the basic panel with amplifier and $130 for the loaded system (which I tested). Oddly, the AT Web site currently lists a lower price for the basic panel antenna and amplifier ($79.99) than for the antenna alone ($89.99)!
The Mohu Leaf Ultimate is basically a Leaf antenna with an outboard preamplifier. Otherwise, it looks identical to the passive Leaf antennas, and you can find it at the same retail outlets for $90. (Sam's Club had it for $55 at the time I wrote this.)
Finally, Mohu's Leaf Sky antenna isn't really an indoor design, but it's small enough that I thought it would be fun to include it in this test. You may recall some of the bar-style VHF/UHF antennas that were popular a number of years back at the start of the digital TV transition: These could be installed on a roof or mounted on inside or outside walls. I figured it was worth seeing how well the Sky did on a very large window with minimal amounts of metal nearby to de-tune its pattern.
For consistency, I decided to head back to the scene of my early DTV converter box and antenna tests – Turner Engineering, in Mountain Lakes, NJ. The Turner building is located on a bit of a rise with a decent view to the east, northeast, and southeast; good enough to pull in numerous DTV stations from the Empire State Building in New York City, as well as various DTV stations in northern New Jersey.
John Turner, president of the company and a life-long "tinkerer," has always been a willing and eager accomplice in these tests, so we set up an area in his front office where we could attach each antenna to a window using copious amounts of masking tape (non-inductive!).
I was also able to find some space to set up the test gear, which included an AVCOM PSA-2500C spectrum analyzer, my Toshiba laptop, Hauppauge's Aero-M USB stick DTV receiver, and Turner's in-house DTV receiver system (a Samsung DTB-H260F ATSC set-top box, no longer available, and the legendary Princeton AF3.0HD 28-inch HD CRT monitor that was quite popular in the late 1990s.
The test was simple. After each antenna was attached to the window (not an easy task with some of the heavier models), I recorded the spectral views of various DTV channels from 7 (WABC-DT) through 51 (WNJM-DT). I also recorded wide views of the UHF TV spectrum from channels 14 through 51, and selected views of other high-band VHF DTV stations.
The final part of the test involved verifying reception without any dropouts or "hits" for at least 30 a minute. I also recorded MPEG transport streams from various stations to verify the bit error rate (BER) was indeed low.
If I didn't see any hits and recorded a clean MPEG stream, the test antenna was rated OK for that channel. If the signal locked up even briefly or I saw too many dropped bits in the MPEG stream, it received an INT grade. If the station's PSIP (Program and System Information Protocol) was detected by the Samsung and Hauppauge receivers, but the receiver couldn't tune it in, the antenna received a NO grade for that channel.
Table 1 shows how each antenna fared for 11 different channels. One (WNJB) was on channel 8 in the Warren Hills of New Jersey, while the remaining ten channels were all UHF and came from Empire and selected locations in New Jersey. The two strongest were WMBC-18 (Montclair NJ) and WNJM-51 (also Montclair), less than 11 miles away.
In addition to the channels listed, I also scanned for WABC-7 (previously received in tests at this location), WPIX-11, WNET-13, WNYE-25, and WNJU-36. However, none of the antennas were able to successfully pull in these stations aside from an intermittent signal here and there, so I dropped them from the test results.
The "No Amplifier" tests were surprisingly competitive, although I didn't expect the cheapest antenna to be the best performer. But that's how it played out as the UHF bow tie earned nine YES scores, one INT, and one NO. It was the only antenna to pull in WNYW's signal on channel 44, a notoriously tough catch at this indoor location.
The WallTenna, Winegard's FlatWave, and the Mohu Leaf all tied for second place with seven YES tallies, but the WallTenna and Leaf edged ahead by pulling in WNBC's signal on channel 28 somewhat cleanly whereas the FlatWave couldn't lock it up.
NorthVu's NV20 Pro was the biggest disappointment in this test. It only garnered four YES scores against seven NO tallies. I would have expected a lot better, based on the preliminary specifications and information I received from NorthVu's product management folks.
Intriguingly, the NV20 Pro is also about the same size as the late, lamented Kowatec CS102; one of the best indoor UHF antennas I've ever tested. (Hey, antenna manufacturers! Maybe one of you can scoop up the rights to the CS-102 and resurrect it?)
Things were a bit more exciting in the amplified antenna competition. Mohu clearly had the upper hand here with their Leaf Ultimate product, as it gathered up ten solid YES scores and a solitary INT (for WNYW, of course!) The new Sky product acquitted itself well as an indoor antenna, also bagging ten YES scores and a single NO (from guess who?).
The ClearStream Micron XG (without the reflector, which no other antenna offered or used) came in behind these two with seven YES and three NO tallies, plus a single INT from our friends on channel 44. Once again, NorthVu brought up the rear with their NV20 Pro Amplified, which fared only slightly better than the basic NV20. It scored five YES, three INT, and three NO tallies.
It says a lot that the least-expensive and simplest unamplified antenna design took on all comers and won. It also implies that the particular location where the antennas were mounted just seemed to favor the bow tie this time around (we didn't test it with an amplifier). These tests were conducted in March with no foliage on nearby trees, whereas my last test was in late July of last year with trees fully leafed out. Even so, the bow tie did pull in WNYW-44 solid as a rock for as long as we chose to watch, something no other passive or amplified antenna could do.
All of the antennas performed equally well at the low end of the UHF band (channel 18) as they did at the high end (channel 51). Five of them were able to haul in channel 8 (about 180 MHz) reliably, which is an impressive feat for such small antennas that expect to work a lot better at UHF frequencies.
Ironically, only two amplified antennas could pull in WWOR on channel 38, something the bow tie did with relative ease. On channel 30 (WFUT), the NorthVu NV20 Pro was the only antenna that couldn't hook up to the signal. A similar situation occurred with ION-31, not receivable on any of the passive antennas, but plenty strong with the Leaf Sky, Leaf Ultimate, and ClearStream Micron XG. Once again, the NV20 Pro Amplified just couldn't pull it off.
I should mention that the ClearStream Micron XG's preamplifier was set to a maximum of 15. Any higher, and the noise floor was degraded, something I could easily see on the spectrum analyzer. In general, I like to keep amplifiers at about 10 dB maximum to guard against this problem – too much gain creates all kinds of reception issues, and you only need to boost the signals up high enough to maintain the required carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR) for reliable digital TV reception.
The separate preamp supplied with Leaf's Sky and Ultimate antennas is a good design, adding minimal noise while providing sufficient gain to pull signals out of the mud. I can't say anything about the quality of the NV20 Pro's amplifier as it is mounted internally, but in my tests it did not appear to add much noise to any of the received signals.
Based on these and previous tests, I'd give the WallTenna, FlatWave, and Leaf a thumbs-up. If you can find one, the bow tie is cheap enough to play around with and may fit the bill. (Hey, Starbucks coffee costs more and the thrill doesn't last as long). I can't recommend the NV20 Pro, though.
In the amplified crowd, the Leaf Ultimate and Sky both deliver solid performance. It is a testament to the design of the Sky that it worked so well indoors, but if you opt to use it this way, make sure you have a large window and keep it at least 2-3 feet away from any metal objects.
Antenna Direct's ClearStream Micron XG is a decent performer, but expensive. I can tell you from a previous test that the reflector made little difference, but if that's your cup of tea, position the antenna on a non-metallic surface (bookshelf, window ledge, etc.), aim it towards the TV transmitters when using the reflector assembly, and don't run the preamp higher than the '15' setting.
Most importantly, keep in mind that you don't need to spend a lot of money to get reliable indoor TV reception. My best performers in the passive category were all under $50, and some were under $40. Check TV reception sites first (TVFool.com is one of the best) to get an idea of how strong signals may be at your location before you buy.


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A Scottish mother visits her son in his Miami flat.
Mother: So Charlie, How do you find the American people?
Charlie: They are the noisiest people I have met in my entire life. The neighbour in the flat on the left won't stop banging his head against the wall and the neighbour in the flat on the right, just screams and screams all night long.
Mother: Oh, Charlie! How do you manage to put up with them?
Charlie: What can I do? I just lie in the bed quietly, playing my bagpipes.


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Jeremy Dean, the education czar for Rap Genius, writes about the platform, which lets users read and write line-by-line annotations for their favorite rap songs, great works of literature and historical documents. Classic scientific works like Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" have been added to the site's interactive archive, as have more recent National Institutes of Health reports. The Rap Genius team is working with less accessible texts to engage students and the broader public with scientific research.
The biosynthesis of cholesterol is a complex process with more than 20 steps. One of the first enzymes is 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase, also known as HMGCR, the main target of statins. In this article, contributor Swathi Parasuraman writes about a recent minireview in The Journal of Biological Chemistry that describes multiple ways various enzymes other than HMGCR are implicated in the modulation of cholesterol synthesis.
Contributor Natalie Osayande writes about a recent paper in The Journal of Biological Chemistry, in which researchers reported the crystal structure of the most potent antifreeze protein known, RiAFP, found in a longhorned beetle.
Contributor Joseph P. Tiano gives us a peek at James Darnell's Journal of Biological Chemistry "Reflections" article, which provides a brief history of the discovery of RNA and its role in transcription — plus a bit of career advice.
Contributor Dinu Valantin Bălănescu writes about the latest findings on the structure and function of γ-secretase and the signal peptide peptidase, which were highlighted in a recent minireview in The Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Mary L. Chang, publications manager for the Journal of Lipid Research, writes about the launch of a thematic series on fat-soluble vitamins.
Science writer Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay writes about a recent editorial in the journal Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, which says that the time has come to let the protein-quantification data generated by mass spectrometry stand on their own.
In this Career Insights column, Carl Peters, an applications scientist at BMG LABTECH, a developer and manufacturer of microplate reader instrumentation, writes about how he became an educator outside of academia.
For more than a generation, formal, federally supported programs have been in place to identify and recruit underrepresented students to biomedical-research training programs. Students in these programs typically are offered support addressing their economic needs and educational preparation. However, interventions designed to help these students have shown mixed success, and the author of this article argue that this is largely because efforts to date have failed to take a holistic view, including both the academic and social needs of students and trainees.
Robert Leonardi and Suzanne Jackowski write about coenzyme A, an essential, universally distributed, thiol-containing cofactor that works as the major acyl group carrier in all cells. This molecule is involved in hundreds of reactions and is required for the metabolism of fatty acids, carbohydrates, amino acids and ketone bodies.
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"Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him." John 13:31
"With the dismissal of Judas the die was cast. Not as if there had ever been any uncertainty with respect to the divine plan that Jesus was to die for his people. God's eternal decree is absolutely unchangeable and is sure to be realized. But now, with the dismissal of Judas, the realization of this plan in history has reached another decisive stage. When Jesus dismissed Judas with the words, "What you are doing, do it faster," he thereby again decisively manifested his willingness to enter the deep waters and the dark night of eternal death for his own. The Lord knew that it was with a purpose in mind that Judas had left the room, namely, to reveal to the rulers the whereabouts of Jesus and to show them how they might seize him. In the full knowledge of this fact, the Master had just now told this hardened sinner to go ahead and to do more quickly what he was in the process of doing. This shows that the Son desired to be obedient to the will of the Father, and that he desired to make manifest his glorious love to the elect by suffering and dying for them.
By means of this obedience and love Jesus, as the Son of man . . . was glorified. He was glorified just now, in speaking these words to the traitor, and the glory was still upon him. He had seen the coming of the storm but instead of avoiding it he walked right into it. Like a hen which, being in the act of spreading its wings protectingly over its chicks, thereby permitting the rain to come down upon its own back in torrents, while its brood is perfectly safe, elicits expression of admiration from the lips of those who have been watching, so also, and far more so, the Lord, in the act of dismissing Judas, reflects glory on himself; for in doing this he allows the storm, not of rain but of wrath, to descend upon himself, while he shelters his own. This was his glory."William Hendrickson, John


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A card I made for Mother's Day. It's a Finnish Lapp Hund; for obvious reason (called Chico) this breed is very dear for both my Mom and me. I really like this technique, but I don't think I'll be cutting any more Lapp Hunds very soon. The fur is too complicated to cut with my lousy scissors.
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Onpa se kaunis! Ihana ja inspiroiva idea. :) Tuollaisesta kortista ilahtuisi varmasti kuka tahansa, vaikkei edes pitäisikään kyseisistä koirista! ^_^VastaaPoistaVastaukset
Kiitos! Ja eihän kukaan nyt ~voi~ olla pitämättä suomenlapinkoirista, niin ihana ja lutuinen karvahanurirotu kun vaan olla ja voi. <3 :DPoista
That looks really amazing! Those would probably also make nice little decorations around the house or set out as placemarkers at a tea party.VastaaPoistaVastaukset
Thank you! Yes, they probably would, but it was quite troublesome to cut all the "fur", lots of fine details... so I would most likely be too lazy to do these for a teaparty. Maybe it would be easier if I had better, finer scissors... :PPoista
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Vernon Philander did not even finish the final over of the match. The moment it became impossible to win the final Test, Graeme Smith shook hands with the umpires and batsmen and led his team from the field.
There was plenty of back-slapping and hand-shaking among themselves, too, as they headed for the change room.
Initially it seemed peculiar, even wrong, that there was so little regret among the team, certainly among the senior players, that such an obviously deserved victory had eluded them on the fifth day.
Dropped catches contributed greatly to New Zealand's final day escape and third umpire Billy Doctrove's decision to disallow Alviro Petersen's catch when Kane Williamson was on seven seemed plainly wrong. At the very least, it illustrated the inconsistencies inherent in the current formatting of television adjudication. There seems very little point in having so much expensive technology if decisions are still going to be made on gut feel.
"The third umpire ruled on a few catches in the series and, where there was doubt, the decision has gone with the word of the fielder. But it didn't on this occasion," a phlegmatic Smith said afterwards. Clearly the frustration and disappointment of many at home was not shared by the captain or his players. There is a new, karmic aura surrounding the national team and a new approach to touring. Much of it comes from the coach.
For three years in charge of India, Gary Kirsten and his coaching partner, Paddy Upton, refused to use any speech or observations that could be construed by the players as negative criticism.
They spoke only of the good, positive things players had done, or tried to do, and they celebrated any progress or achievement. Failures or disappointments were never dwelt upon, blame was positively frowned upon and there was never a sense of regret.
It was hard to be certain which came first, this philosophy or MS Dhoni embracing it. For Kirsten and Upton it was geared towards one very specific goal, but for the Indian captain it was more a way of life. Once the goal had been achieved, many of the younger Indian players found themselves directionless, albeit with a World Cup winners' medal and more cash and adulation than they had before. It largely explains the embarrassing crash the Indian team suffered in the wake of the tournament and the South African duo's departure.
Their outlook on life and cricket remains largely the same, but with refinements and wider-ranging, longer-lasting goals. So any sentiment that might have suggested what the team had failed to achieve on the final day of what had otherwise been an almost completely successful tour would not have "landed" with the coach.
Pavlovian predictability
Two phrases that were repeated with Pavlovian predictability by the players throughout the tour were "concentrating on our processes" and "not being results-driven".
Oh really? Not being results-driven? Of course it is misleading—Kirsten measured the tour by the win-loss ratio of 6:1. But for the players in the heat of battle, the finish line must never be contemplated, never mind glimpsed. In more common clichéd parlance, play the game one ball at a time.
So, when Philander says he has "just been concentrating on my processes" during his romp to 51 wickets in seven Tests, he has been thinking of nothing more than the batsman in front of him.
It is hard to believe or imagine, but it is a good philosophy designed to steer athletes away from the distraction of the result or "taking their eye off the ball".
Few things are more important to Kirsten, the man, than family, and as the coach, the players' mental health and freshness. It is the reason Allan Donald left the tour before the final Test to spend 10 days of quality time at home before taking up his position as Pune Warriors bowling coach alongside Upton. Kirsten had no time whatsoever for those who suggested that Donald's absence had a material effect on the team's inability to bowl New Zealand out on the last day.
"Stupid and ridiculous. Unless AD could have stopped it raining for 120 overs on the first two days then we wouldn't have had any effect at all. Some people give coaches a helluva lot more credit than we deserve. We can't score runs and we can't take wickets, but having Allan fresh and in a strong frame of mind later in the year when we go to England and Australia will be very important," Kirsten said.
Friday's bizarrely manufactured and wholly gratuitous T20 against India was the last thing Kirsten was about to start stressing about: "We'll keep it all a bit light-hearted, I think—if we can stay awake. It's nothing to get too worked up about."
There is also, of course, the unavoidable conclusion that that is the last and unfortunate legacy of a discredited regime.
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Despite growing up in a convent and coming very close to taking religious vows as a nun, Catalina de Erauso wound up living a life of danger and adventure. A lot of today's episode falls into the general category of "exploits."
Here's the Rejected Princess Catalina de Erauso.
Tracy's Research:
- Aresti, Nerea. "The Gendered Identities of the 'Lieutenant Nun': Rethinking the Story of a Female Warrior in Early Modern Spain." Gender & History, Vol.19 No.3 November 2007, pp. 401–418. http://library.pcw.gov.ph/sites/default/files/gendered%20identities%20of%20the%20lieutenant%20nun.pdf
- Canivell, Maria Odette. "Catalina de Erauso Basque Transvestite: Translating Gender." Human Affairs, issue 2. 2006. Via academia.edu. http://www.academia.edu/10995859/Catalina_de_Erauso_Basque_Transvestite_Translating_Gender
- de Erauso, Catalina, "The Nun Ensign." Translated by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly. Via Archive.org. 1908. https://archive.org/details/nunensign01montgoog
- de Erauso, Catalina. "The Autobiography of doña Catalina de Erauso." Original Source: Ferrer, Joaquín María de. Madrid: Tipo Renovación, 1918. Translation and annotations by Dan Harvey Pedrick. http://eada.lib.umd.edu/text-entries/the-autobiography-of-dona-catalina-de-erauso/
- Hernandez, Isabel. "From Spain to the Americas, from the convent to the front: Catalina de Erauso's shifting identities." Eurozine. First published in L'Homme 1/2011. 9/16/2011. http://www.eurozine.com/from-spain-to-the-americas-from-the-convent-to-the-front-catalina-de-erausos-shifting-identities/
- Smith, Theresa Ann. "The Woman Question." From "The Emerging Female Citizen: Gender and Enlightenment in Spain." University of California Press. https://content.ucpress.edu/chapters/10493.ch01.pdf
- Stepto, Michele and Gabriel Stepto. "Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World." Beacon Press. 1996.
Topics in this Podcast: LGBTQ history, outlaws, South American history, Spanish history, Spanish Golden Age, Catholicism, LGBTQIA history, 17th century, 16th century


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U.S. farmland values this year dropped for only the second time since a 1980s farm crisis prompted a wave of foreclosures, drawing warnings of harder times ahead.
Farmland values in the lower 48 states, including land used for crops and for livestock, declined $10 to $3,010 an acre, the first drop since 2009, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday in a report. Cropland declined 1 percent to $4,090 an acre, while pastureland was unchanged at $1,330 an acre.
Farm income has slumped since 2013, but land values had so far held out even as crop prices tumbled. Now, the trend in land prices is likely to be similar to the 1980s, when values fell for three years, said Brent Gloy, an agricultural economist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and a farmer in southwest Nebraska. While the current skid may not match the magnitude of that slump, the decline probably will continue, he said.
"It's going to be soft for another year, at least," he said in a telephone interview. "We haven't worked through the magnitude of the drop in commodity prices."
Corn Belt
Losses were highest in the Northern Plains. The biggest drop was in Kansas, down 7.4 percent to $1,880 an acre. The Corn Belt remained the most-expensive region, even as prices fell 0.9 percent to $6,290 an acre. Rhode Island is the costliest state to own farmland, at $13,800 an acre, while New Mexico is cheapest, at $520 an acre.
Declines have been mostly "measured," said Randy Dickhut, senior vice president for real estate at Farmers National Company in Omaha, Nebraska, which manages more than 5,000 farms and ranches in 26 states.
"Demand is lower, but supply is also lower," which is keeping prices from falling more dramatically, he said. Higher-yielding land is tending to hold prices better than lower-quality land put into production during the crop boom, he added.
Still, farmers and investors have largely come to grips that the days of steep price runups are over, he said. "Sellers have to be more realistic about what they'll get for their land," he said.
Corn and soybeans, the two most-valuable U.S. crops, have dropped from records in 2012. As of Friday, the grain fell 61 percent to $3.3425 a bushel from the all-time high of $8.49, while the oilseed declined 45 percent.
In February, the USDA said declining commodity prices will push farm income down 2.8 percent to $54.8 billion this year, less than half the 2013 record.
The next forecast on income is set for Aug. 30.
Benefits Of Diversity In Perennial Pastures For Soil Health And Forage Production
Rain Headed for Northern Plains, Midwest Midweek