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How To Record Live Broadcasts on YouTube TV
Posted by Jamie on February 15, 2019
One of the highlights of YouTube TV is a generous DVR allowance. It offers more space than any other service at the moment so there is every reason to use it. But how do you record live broadcasts on YouTube TV? How can you access all that DVR goodness? This tutorial will show you how.
YouTube TV is yet another option for cord cutters to move away from overpriced cable subscriptions and shift to streaming. Owned by internet giant Google who also own YouTube, YouTube TV is a very viable alternative to cable and other streaming services. Not the most imaginative name for a streaming service I will admit, but what's on offer competes very well with others.
What's on offer with YouTube TV?
YouTube TV is an alternative to Sling TV, DirecTV and others like it. The service offers over 60 channels depending on where you live and other features too. In return for $40 a month you can access up to six concurrent streams, use a 'limitless' DVR function and watch on almost any device you can think of that is capable of showing a video stream.
Some channels are limited by region but will likely include ABC, Fox, CBS, NBC, AMC, BBC America, Bravo, FS1, E!, ESPN, Fox, FX, MSNBC, National Geographic, StartTV, Sundance TV, SyFy, TNT, USA and YouTube Originals. The full list is available on the web page once you enter your zip code.
YouTube TV is available in most US cities but you should check first. That zip code box on the main page will not only tell you what channels are available but whether the service is available at all. Those living outside the US cannot have YouTube TV just yet but that will be changing.
Recording live broadcasts on YouTube TV
One big selling point of YouTube TV is the unlimited DVR offer. Other services offer up to 50 hours or cloud DVR space but YouTube TV says it's unlimited. It isn't quite unlimited though. If you record a program and it then arrives on-demand, you don't automatically get to watch your recorded version but you may accidentally select the on-demand version instead.
This can be an issue as the on-demand content includes commercial breaks you cannot fast forward through. The DVR recorded version allows you to skip ads.
In the beginning, this was rare and mainly if you recorded something and didn't get around to watching it for a week or so. That time period has steadily shortened to a day or sometimes even a few hours. This is partly down to YouTube TV getting content from live to on-demand much faster and is not necessarily a bad thing.
However, don't buy this service thinking you're getting truly ad free DVR content because you aren't necessarily getting that at all. You can choose which version of your content to watch but it is all too easy to choose the wrong one.
Aside from that limitation, the DVR is very simple to use.
It's all in the library
The DVR is handled from your Library. Whenever you watch a TV show, event or movie, you should see a '+' icon next to it. Select this and you add it to your library. Any future episodes, games or events will automatically be recorded for you and accessed through the Library.
You can use the Live tab to see what's on right now and either watch it there and then or select the '+' icon to record it. You can access the recording from the Library tab.
If you add a TV show to your library, it will automatically be recorded for you and all future episodes too. If you add a specific sport or team to your preferences in the Library, all their games will also be recorded for you. Movies and one-off events will obviously be recorded individually.
You will find all of your recorded shows in the Library and will be able to watch and cancel from there too.
After the initial controversy over DVR and on-demand, you are now presented with a popup where you choose what version of a recording to watch. You can select VOD or DVR and the player will select the version. I have found that if I'm in a hurry and hit to select a show multiple times in the Library, that the VOD version is automatically selected and I have more commercials than usual. That is user error through and if you're more careful than I am, you should have no problems!
Do you like YouTube TV? Prefer it over other streaming services? Have problems with the service? Tell us your thoughts below!
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I do not see the + icon for the DVR. I've gone thru many shows and do not see it. Where is it?
I can't believe no one gave instructions on this…there is no + icon once you are in a playing show. Hope this helps Yolanda…
If you don't know ahead of a show or movie you want to record is on, When in "Live" the guide and scrolling through it, if you see an upcoming (next ½ hour or more) show/movie you want to record, scroll to it and click on it. If you had not set it to your Library already, a pop up comes up with "Back" or "More Info". Arrow up on the Roku remote to "More Info" and in the next screen arrow up to "+ Add to library" and it will be added to your library. Then if you want to you can arrow back down to "Watch Now"…click on it and the show icon after and you are watching and recording. You have added it to your library, so all upcoming and any previous will be there to watch later also.
Great info. Are you able to start recording a TV show that has already started?
Kaybee says:
The plus is below the red progress line when you press "stop" as you are watching a live show.
sorry, when you are watching a live tv show, press "stop" then a red progress line appears on the bottom of the picture. The "plus" sign is there in the bottom left beside "cc".
Is there a way to set record time to run longer in case a game runs long?
I found your article very helpful. I do have one question. Once I add my TV shows to my library will it record only new/current versions of the show or will it record reruns also?
reruns also
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Once again reality has trumped fiction: soon we'll all be sporting Inspector Gadget style smartwatches and chattering into our wrists like FBI agents. But as this new family of tech trickles into the shops, you might be left confused about what smartwatches actually are. Here, the O2 Gurus take a look at Android Wear, the range that uses the same platform as Android phones.
Android Wear is exactly what it sounds like: a version of Android operating system that you wear. We recently filled you in on what Android L is, and Android Wear is the wearable version of that. At the moment it's only found on smartwatches but over the coming years we'll start to see it turn up on other wearable technology, like pendants, clips and maybe even Google Glass.
What can it do?
You need to pair your Android Wear device with a phone or tablet running Android 4.3 or higher to get the most out of it. Once you've done that, the watch can show you calendar reminders, messages, emails and weather info on your wrist. You'll also be able to send basic messages and emails by dictating them, or ask for directions from Google Maps just by saying, "Ok Google" and then telling it what to do.
But that's just the beginning: as with Android on your phone, the idea is that there'll soon be a huge library of apps that you can download to use on the wearable gadgets. There aren't all that many at the moment, but there is a selection ranging from GPS apps for runners, ramblers and golfers to some recipe apps and Duolingo, the popular language-teaching app.
Will Android Wear help me get fit?
That's part of the idea, yes – aside from having apps and Google Maps to help fitness fiends plan running and cycling routes, some Android Wear watches will come with sensors that let you measure speed, distance and your heart-rate.
Google has also introduced a new set of developer tools to help app makers get the most out of the life logging data you can amass using your phone or smartwatch. They'll be able to build more complex apps that use information like the number of steps you've taken, the amount of sleep you get, what you're eating and how much of it, and even things like blood sugar and pressure. This means we'll be seeing a lot more fitness and health apps capable of doing much more advanced things on Android in the near future.
When can I get an Android Wear watch?
You can get an Android Wear device right now: the first two watches to land were the LG G Watch and the Samsung Gear Live. Both of these have gone for a square watch-face, so if you prefer a less boxy look then you might want to pre-order Motorola's upcoming Moto 360.
Considered by many to be the best-looking of the Android Wear watches that have been shown off so far, the 360 has a round face more like a traditional watch and a slimmer strap. There'll be no messing about with wires, either, as the 360 will use wireless charging instead of a USB port.
As for future Android Wear devices, other tech stalwarts HTC and Asus have both said they are making watches – and anyone after something a bit more stylish will be pleased to hear that popular watch brand Fossil is also working on something Wear-flavoured.
It's early days for Android Wear and it certainly hasn't reached its full potential yet. But as developers create more apps and we all get used to talking to our watches, we might end up finding it strange to see Android on our phones instead of our wrists.
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Jack Salt (Virginia), Matt Freeman (Oklahoma) and Sam Timmins (Washington) were all in action on Saturday at the NCAA Tournament and all three progressed to the second round.
Early on in their clash with Gardner-Webb there was a sense of deja vu for Virginia University Cavaliers. Having exited in the first round last year when carrying the No 1 seed tag, they found themselves 14 points down to the Runnin' Bulldogs (30-16).
However, the Cavs trimmed the deficit to six points by half-time and put the defensive clamps on Gardner-Webb in the second half to eventually claim a 71-56 victory. Against smaller opponents Salt was only required to play the opening five minutes.
The win means two Kiwis, in fact two former Westlake and Harbour representatives, will face each other in the second round on Monday as Virginia will face Matt Freeman and Oklahoma University Sooners.
The Sooners, with Freeman recording an assist, a steal and a block waltzed past Mississippi 95-72. The Sooners scored on eight of their first nine positions, led by 17 points at half-time and went on to post their highest score of the season.
Washington University Huskies made a successful return to the NCAA Tournament after eight years, beating Utah State 78-61. Sam Timmins played just a couple of minutes for the Huskies – the Pac-12 regular season champions will face highly fancied North Carolina on Monday.
The seven Kiwis in the Women's NCAA Tournament play on Sunday
Sunday March 24, 6.00am; North Carolina State (Esra McGoldrick) v Maine
Sunday March 24, 6.00am; Fordham (Mary Goulding, Kendell Heremaia & Zara Jillings) v Syracuse
Sunday March 24, 8.30am; BYU (Shalae Salmon, Khaedin Taito & Kaylee Smiler) v Auburn
Men's NCAA second round games to be played on Monday (NZT).
Monday March 25, 12.45pm; Oklahoma v Virginia
Monday March 25, 7.40am: Washington v North Carolina


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Coach's Take: Homestead Interim Head Coach Ahmad Ward
Peter Ariz
I was able to have a conversation with Homestead Interim Head Coach Ahmad Ward tonight and he spoke about the rise to his current position, broke down the state of their program, gave some info on some of their prospects, and talked about what lies ahead.
Q: Talk about your coaching background and how you've gotten to the point you're at now.
Coach Ward: I first got into high school coaching in 2006 at Miami Norland Senior High under coach Nigel Dunn. He taught me basically everything I know about coaching. I spent three seasons with them and when he left to Miami Jackson, I left to Homestead and coached under Bobby McCray for two seasons, and then one season I coached under Pat Burrows at Southridge and then we reunited again at Homestead Senior High last season. He (Burrows) got his promotion to be the assistant principal, so the school awarded me the interim head coach position. I have coached receivers, tight ends, and running backs. Five of the seven years have been with running backs.
Q: When will you know if you will retain the head coaching position?
Ward: Hopefully by June 7th by the time the school year is over. We have a new principal and of course he has to open it up to do the interviewing, but the plan is to keep the coaching staff together. I've already been showing as the interim head coach that the team can function and do well so hopefully we will know by June 7th.
Q: How long have you held the position of Interim Head Coach?
Ward: Unofficially, I've had the position since January since we kinda knew that Patrick Burrows was going to be taking that next step, so he was training me and preparing me for this. I wasn't awarded the position officially until last Thursday.
Q: What is your main philosophy as a coach?
Ward: My main philosophy is to get the kids to always go hard As long as you always go 100%, nine times out of ten you will be successful. Whether it's stretching or running gassers, I want them going 100%.
Q: What kind of progression did you see from the team this Spring?
Ward: Last season we had a taste of almost making the playoffs, so that has pushed the returning kids to go even harder. Last spring and summer they worked hard, but there were some obstacles along the way. This year, they worked hard all the way. Our quarterback Maurice Alexander goes to the park with Ermon Lane and some of the other receivers to work on timing routes without even being asked.
Q: Was there something in particular that you focused on with them this Spring that you saw as a weakness last season?
Ward: Our conditioning. The season kind of wore on us last year since we had a small team as far as number of players and it looks like we will have about 35 again this season. Some players will have to play both ways, so we focused more on conditioning and getting stronger. In the two games this spring, I've seen a big difference.
Q: Talk about the offensive scheme change that you guys are making for this season and how do you think it will benefit this group of players?
Ward: It benefits a lot because Maurice Alexander (2016 QB) and Antonio Calloway (2015 ATH), we call him 'AD', they played for the Florida City Razorbacks and their offensive coordinator when they played there is our coordinator now. Last year we were a Wing-T, so it was something different for them. We had some success out of it and Ermon Lane had success, but it was just something different from what they were used to. Lane was apart of a spread offense his first two years. It's a pro-style type of spread and they're just more comfortable with it.
Q: Your team will be coming into the season with high expectations, so what is your coaching staff doing to make sure they stay level-headed?
Ward: That's one thing we talk about. We try to be humble. Every year, the coaches try to come up with a motto for the team and this year we're going with 'first class and family'. In a family, one person can't think they're better than another. We're not putting any pressure on them because they know the goal is to get to the state championship.
Q: Antonio Calloway (2015) is a player who has stepped up for you guys this Spring and impressed. Where was he last season and how has he emerged?
Ward: He's kind of had a chip on his shoulder since 9th grade because he was working out here, but he was supposed to move and stopped coming to workouts, but the move did not happen and he came back in the summer. He missed some workouts, had to put him on J.V. but he didn't cry about it and worked hard, didn't miss any workouts. He came in this spring saying 'I shouldn't have been on J.V.' and has worked real hard. He hasn't missed a workout. UF came to our practice two and a half weeks ago and they wanted to see somebody competitive go up against Ermon Lane so he stepped up at corner and UF was really surprised by him. They asked us what he played and we told them receiver and a little running, but that we were thinking about playing him some at DB and UF said 'That kid's a DB.' He's our backup quarterback, kick returner; he does a little bit of everything for us. He's that kind of athlete.
Q: Everybody knows about Ermon Lane's ability, size, speed, and all of that, but as someone who is around him everyday how would you describe him?
Ward: I have been around some kids that have performed well at the high school level, even someone like Xavier Rhodes that was just drafted in the first round. I compare Ermon to Xavier. Both had high school success and had a little bit of swag to them. Ermon is very quiet if he doesn't know you. For someone with all that hoopla around him, he's very quiet and humble. When were together and out, he's not the type of kid that says 'I'm Ermon Lane. I'm number one, hook me up.' He always talks about his mom and grandma, that's the type of kid he is.
Q: What kind of improvements have you seen from him?
Ward: He sees room for improvement in himself. He's been working on the little things like coming out of his stance, breaking out of his pattern. He listens. At first it was tough for him, but he's worked on it and he realizes he needs to continue to improve if he wants to be able to play at the next level.
Q: With recruiting, does he have some schools sticking out right now?
Ward: The schools that he talks about around me, and I can't lie to you because I really have no clue where his head is at, but he talks about four schools around me. Of course he talks about UM because that's his hometown school and he grew up loving them. He talks about Alabama because they were the first SEC school to offer him and everybody likes a winner and he's also very close to Amari Cooper. He loves UF. He took a visit there and came back very impressed. I don't know what they did to him, but he's very impressed by them. USC is also in the picture. Coach Tee Martin came by and spoke to him and he's going out there on an unofficial visit and camp on June 24th. So those are the ones he really talks about around me.
Q: I know you guys have a nationally televised game against University School this season, but are there any other games you are looking forward to in particular?
Ward: Our district is very tough with games against Norland, Central, Northwestern, and Carol City. Our main goal is to go undefeated there. Our rival since 1979 is South Dade even though they're not in our district. A lot of those kids from South Dade grew up and went to elementary school with our kids and some of them stay by each other. That's a game that people always circle, but at the end of the day, the playoff game is the most important one.
Q: Having worked up at Norland and also down south, do you see any differences between the types of kids that come out of each school?
Ward: From my experience at Norland and also Southridge and Homestead, I don't see much of a difference from the type of kids we have. I see the same hunger, the same goals. The only difference is that the kids at Homestead are a little bigger naturally, but another difference to is coaching. It's tougher to get good coaching down south. When I was at Norland, we had 15 coaches on staff, but when I got to Homestead, we barely had six so that is a little hindrance.
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zoso493
I assume this was a good article, but I can do no more than assume since all I did was CTRL+F Ermon Lane.
zoso493 said:
I know most will do this, and that's fine, but I also know that there are big fans of South Florida football who are interested in what he has to say about the team and program. I try to cater to what everyone wants.
TallyCane
That's gonna be a tough district to make it out of
Good article. Gonna be tough goin to work against guys in that district with 35 guys. Interested to see the new offense.
IHATETHISPLACE
Great job Pete I would love to read interviews from every head coach in that district
UMcanesfan420
Great job Pete. I love interviews like this. No other site goes in depth with the coaches down there. At least as far as I know.
It's a long recruiting year. It can't always be all about the star players like Ermon Lane. There just isn't always news on these kids. Especially this time of year. Besides, there was some info on Lane in there.
As nice as this dude sounds, I'd love to see Donnell Bennett get that gig. IDK what the chances of that are but I'd like to see a Cane back coaching in Dade. He's already Golden for sending us Coley. If he can get that gig and help get Lane here too, he deserves a statue.
pcitycane
Really good stuff, Pete.
Dwinstitles
UMcanesfan420 said:
hell yes
I know its a long ways to go but I got this strange feeling about Bama and Lane, hopefully Cooper has a terrible season and the tide.
I read the whole thing Peter !
Lane is leaving S FL as of right now IMO. If your anus isnt prepared, it should be.
AaronRodgersJewBeard
Pete...that was actually pretty good.
And you should classify this as high praise, because I really, really don't like you.
Thread Killa said:
Well "as of right now" it's still May. Alot of questions recruits have about The U should be cleared up by signing day.
Lane obviously likes Bama. That's because they're winning and Cooper is there balling out. I think it's more about the success though. If Cooper wasn't there, he would still be interested.
Winning cures alot of things and IMO, this would be one of them.
I wish I could sat the NCAA crap will be cleared up by then, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's not cleared up by 2017. The recruiting this staff is doing with this monkey on their backs is nothing short of spectacular. Winning big can also put this in the back of recruits minds. Losing just compounds the issue.
TheMatador
Why do you think the kids at Homestead are bigger than at the other schools he's mentioned?
Maybe big farmboys?
lol was going to post this
BroncoNation21
Yes sirrrrr.... #BroncoNation
AHURT12
good read, I like Homestead seems there staff likes us too
A BCS bowl would be the closest thing to locking up Lane and other prospects would take a serious look such as Cook and believe or not Michel.
UMiami24
Would be a nice matchup, but the Suns & Broncos don't play one another next season, anyway, Homestead has alot of nice talent, and it will be tough in that gauntlet district.
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David is the bass soloist in Emmanuel Music's first-ever performance of Bach's Easter Oratorio.
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David sings the role of Aeneas in Handel and Haydn's semi-staged production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. This performance is in Jordan Hall, Boston.
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David sings the role of Aeneas in Handel and Haydn's semi-staged production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. This performance is in the Temple of Dendur in the Met Museum, New York City.
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David rejoins the Henry Purcell Society of Boston in an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, with music by Purcell and his contemporaries and a newly written dramatic narration.
Brahms Requiem with Mount Holyoke and Cornell Glee Clubs
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The Rape of Lucretia with Boston Lyric Opera
David sings the role of Junius in Benjamin Britten's haunting chamber opera.
The Lost Music of Canterbury with Blue Heron
Continuing on from Blue Heron's recently completed 5-CD recording project, this program explores more polyphonic music from the the 16th-century Peterhouse Partbooks, which were missing for centuries before being restored by English musicologist Nick Sandon. In Corpus Christi Church, New York City.
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Continuing on from Blue Heron's recently completed 5-CD recording project, this program explores more polyphonic music from the the 16th-century Peterhouse Partbooks, which were missing for centuries before being restored by English musicologist Nick Sandon. This concert is part of Blue Heron's subscription series in First Church, Cambridge.
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Continuing on from Blue Heron's recently completed 5-CD recording project, this program explores more polyphonic music from the the 16th-century Peterhouse Partbooks, which were missing for centuries before being restored by English musicologist Nick Sandon. This concert is in All Saint's Church, Ashmont.
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David is the baritone soloist in The Christmas Story, part of the Boston Pops' Holiday Pops program in Symphony Hall-a Boston tradition!
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December 7: 4 & 8pm
December 8: 3 & 7:30pm
December 13: 8pm
December 15: 3 & 7:30pm
December 19: 4 & 8pm
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David makes his debut with Boston Early Music Festival as Neptune in Francesca Caccini's 1625 opera La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina–the oldest known opera written by a woman. This performance is at the Morgan Library in New York City.
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Apple Pay goes live in Belgium and Kazakhstan
By Luke Dormehl • 2:45 am, November 28, 2018
Belgium will be the 30th market to get Apple Pay.
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Apple Pay has gone live in Belgium. It is supported by BNP Paribas, Belgium's most popular major bank, and its brands Fintro and Hello Bank. Online services and apps such as Deliveroo, Taxi.eu and Booking.com also accept Apple Pay.
Apple's contactless payment system has also apparently gone live in Kazakhstan. The two countries are the 30th and 31st to offer Apple Pay.
Belgium already has widespread usage of contactless payments. Residents have been using Android Pay since early 2017.
The country has a population of around 11.35 million people, the equivalent to the state of Ohio. Despite its relatively diminutive size, however, it has significance on the world stage thanks to its capital city Brussels, where the European Union is headquartered.
Apple's first retail store in Brussels opened back in 2015..
Apple Pay's global expansion
Apple Pay first went live in the U.S. on October 20, 2014. Since then, it has expanded to multiple other countries, with Belgium likely to be the 30th market to receive the service.
While Tim Cook has admitted that mobile payments have taken off slower than he expected, Europe has a big advantage over the United States. That's because contactless technology is far more established, particularly in places like Belgium.
According to a report published at the start of this year, Apple Pay currently has an estimated active user base in excess of 127 million people. This number has likely grown significantly since then. Apple Pay is also set to arrive in Germany and Saudi Arabia in the near future.
Are you a loyal Apple Pay customer? Let us know in the comments below.
Note: This post was originally published on Nov. 27. It has been updated to include details about the Apple Pay launch in Belgium and Kazakhstan.
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California inmate thanks jailers for 'not tasing him'
Minimum-security inmate wrestled with another inmate trying to escape
Updated: 9:14 AM EST Nov 28, 2016
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Placer County Sheriff's Office SOURCE: Placer County Sheriff's Office
It's not what the Placer County jail normally receives -- a thank you note from a former inmate. The note was written by a minimum-security inmate, who was working in the booking area at the jail in Auburn. According to the Placer County Sheriff's Office's Facebook page, a female officer acted quickly to try to subdue another inmate who was trying to escape. When the minimum-security inmate saw her struggling with that inmate, he jumped in to help. He wrestled with the inmate until other officers arrived and resolved the incident. When the minimum-security inmate finished serving his time, he did not have a way to get home to Missouri, so jail staff members bought him a ticket. He left a note behind for those who helped him: "I wanted to thank all of you for the kindness you have showed me. You made me feel like a good person when I needed it most! Working in booking has been entertaining to say the least! I know it's not all fun and games in there at all and in fact can get quiet hairy. Thanks for not tasing me..."
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It's not what the Placer County jail normally receives -- a thank you note from a former inmate.
The note was written by a minimum-security inmate, who was working in the booking area at the jail in Auburn.
According to the Placer County Sheriff's Office's Facebook page, a female officer acted quickly to try to subdue another inmate who was trying to escape.
When the minimum-security inmate saw her struggling with that inmate, he jumped in to help.
He wrestled with the inmate until other officers arrived and resolved the incident.
When the minimum-security inmate finished serving his time, he did not have a way to get home to Missouri, so jail staff members bought him a ticket.
He left a note behind for those who helped him:
"I wanted to thank all of you for the kindness you have showed me. You made me feel like a good person when I needed it most! Working in booking has been entertaining to say the least! I know it's not all fun and games in there at all and in fact can get quiet hairy. Thanks for not tasing me..."


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By Crystal Jones on November 2, 2019
Dense connectome from the mouse cerebral cortex, the largest connectome to date. Neurons in the cortex, densely reconstructed from 3-D electron microscopy data. Credit: Reprinted with permission from A Motta et al., Science DOI:http://science.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.aay3134 (2019)
Researchers use 3-dimensional electron microscopy to map the local connectome in the cerebral cortex.
Mammalian brains, with their unmatched number of nerve cells and density of communication between them, are the most complex networks known. While methods to analyze neuronal networks sparsely, accessing about one in every ten-thousandth nerve cell has been available for decades, the dense mapping of neuronal circuits by imaging each and every synapse and all neuronal wires in a given piece of brain tissue has been a major challenge. In an article published today in Science, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany, report that they succeeded in the dense connectomic mapping of about half a million cubic micrometers of brain tissue from the mouse cerebral cortex using 3-dimensional electron microscopy and AI-based image analysis.
Unlike any other organ, our brains contain extremely densely packed networks of membranous cables that are used by our about 86 billion nerve cells for communication amongst each other. Since each nerve cell in the main part of mammalian brains, the so-called cerebral cortex, communicates with about 1,000 other nerve cells via synapses placed along these cables over long distances, one expects a total of about 5 million kilometers of wires packed into our skulls – more than 10 times longer than all highways on our planet, in each of our brains. The cables we find in our (and other mammalian) brains are as thin as 50 to 100 nanometers in diameter, about 1000th the diameter of our hairs. The resulting cable convolute is of such density and magnitude, that for more than 100 years, researchers have been able to only map connectivity between a minuscule fraction of neurons in a given piece of brain.
Only the development of faster electron microscopic techniques ("3D EM") and of more efficient image analysis routines has made the dense mapping of neuronal networks possible. The novel field of "connectomics" has been pursuing the dense mapping of ever larger circuits in several species and brain regions.
In the work published today in Science, a team around Max Planck Director Moritz Helmstaedter imaged and analyzed a piece of tissue from the cerebral cortex of a 4-week old mouse, obtained via biopsy from the somatosensory cortex, a part of the cortex occupied with the representation and processing of touch. Here, the researchers applied optimized AI-based image processing and efficient human-machine interaction to analyze all of the about 400,000 synapses and about 2.7 meters of neuronal cable in the volume. With this, they produced a connectome between about 7,000 axons and about 3,700 postsynaptic neurites, yielding a connectome about 26 times larger than the one obtained from the mouse retina more than half a decade ago. Importantly, this reconstruction was at the same time larger and about 33-times more efficient than the one applied to the retina, setting a new benchmark for dense connectomic reconstruction in the mammalian brain.
Fueled by this this methodological breakthrough in connectomics, the researchers analyzed the connectome for the patterns of circuitry present. In particular, they asked what fraction of the circuit showed properties that were consistent with the growth of synapses, mechanisms known to contribute to circuit formation and "learning." Alessandro Motta, first author of the study and an electrical engineer by training, used particular configurations of synapse pairs to study the degree to which they were in agreement with activity-related learning processes ("LTP"). "Because some models of synaptic plasticity make concrete predictions about the increase in synaptic weight when learning, say, to identify a tree or a cat, we were able to extract the imprint of such potential processes even from a static snapshot of the circuit," explains Motta. Since the mouse had had a normal laboratory life until the brain biopsy at 4 weeks of age, the scientists argue that the degree to which circuits are shaped by learning in "normal" sensory states can be mapped using their approach.
"We were surprised how much information and precision is found even in a still relatively small piece of cortex," says Helmstaedter, and adds "Especially the extraction of the likely learned circuit fraction was a major eye-opener for us."
The reported methods may have substantial implications for the transfer of insights about biological intelligence to what today is called "artificial intelligence." "The goal of mapping neuronal networks in the cerebral cortex is a major scientific adventure, also because we hope to be able to extract information about how the brain is such an efficient computer, unlike today's AI," states Helmstaedter. And describes a research field with major players including Google and the research program of the intelligence agencies in the US (IARPA): "The ambition to learn from biological neuronal networks about the future of artificial neuronal networks is shared by major initiatives world-wide. We are very proud of having achieved the first milestone, a dense local cortical connectome, using exclusively public funding from the Max Planck Society."
After almost a decade of work, the researchers are enthusiastic about their achievements. "Being able to take a piece of cortex, process it diligently, and then obtain the entire communication map from that beautiful network is what we have been working for over the last decade," describes Helmstaedter.
The researchers conclude: "We think that our methods, applied over a large range of cortical tissues from different brain areas, cortical layers, developmental time points, and species will tell us how evolution has designed these networks, and what impact experience has on shaping their fine-grained structure."
"Moreover, the connectomic screening will allow the description of circuit phenotypes of psychiatric and related disorders – and tell us to what degree some important brain disorders are in fact connectopathies, circuit diseases."
Motta, Berning, Boergens, Staffler, Beining, Loomba, Hennig, Wissler, Helmstaedter. Dense connectomic reconstruction in layer 4 of the somatosensory cortex.
This paper is published online by the journal Science on 24 October, 2019. DOI:http://science.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.aay3134. Cite as: Motta et al., Science 2019. DOI: 10.1126/science.aay3134
Source: SciTechDaily
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From the Bible:
Four great animals came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who shall arise out of the earth. They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in God 's Kingdom.
"I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name," says Yahweh. "Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry; and I will multiply them and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them and they shall not be small.
"They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
"They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and your offspring – forever."
Let them praise Yahweh's name, for he commanded, and they were created. As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel. They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.
They had breast-plates which seemed to be made of steel; and the noise caused by their wings was like that of a vast number of horses and chariots hurrying into battle.
The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.
They are joined to one another. They stick together, so that they can't be pulled apart. Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went; they didn't turn when they went.
And all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed. They change the night into day, saying "The light is near" in the presence of darkness.
This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. For three things the earth tremble, and under four, it can't bear up
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So, Brian Epstein was Yahweh and the Fab Four are the four kings? Maybe we should make this into a new religion. I could get behind that....LOL
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Way back in the summer of 2013, I created (under my previous handle, "Funny Paper") a topic here based on this strange book that's out there (also a website) that has some interesting, albeit weird, exegesis of Beatles songs -- and of the Beatles as a cultural phenomenon -- as a kind of spiritual force, or divine revelation (and the Beatles themselves as "Messengers" of it):
https://www.beatlesbible.com/f.....dd/#p78069
I still find that strange book's thesis interesting and through-provoking. There is a sense where the Beatles almost "exploded" and morphed so radically into a cultural force (with messages of love and soon thereafter, through John's and George's evolution particularly, more esoteric spirituality of sorts); and it often almost seems like individual Beatles didn't fully realize what was happening to them, and through them...
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JPM-Fangirl said
We have a bible. I guess we need to have a schedule we adhere to for reading it cover-to-cover each year.
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Wasn't it the Manson Family who made the comparison to the four kings?
"This Beatles talk bores me to death." —John Lennon
meanmistermustard
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The Book of Revelation has been studied and interpreted a quadzillion different ways since it was first voted to be a part of the Biblical canon. The Beatles are just one but considering most consider the author to be John maybe it was really was John and is about the Beatles.
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btls65 said
Anyone who takes this stuff seriously gives me the collywobbles …….
All I can say is John Chapter 11 verse 35.
Starr Shine?
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That makes me think. What directions did the Beatles come from in Liverpool?
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I found http://www.thetruthcontest.com to be interesting as well. Especially the chapter on the Beatles as prophets, of course. http://www.whollyscripture.com kind of takes this idea and expands upon it. That is where the Bible verses that I quoted come from.
"The Beatles were a kind of a religion." – John Lennon
"We [The Beatles] just happened to become leaders of whatever cosmic thing was going on. We came to symbolize the start of a whole new way of thinking."
– Paul McCartney
"The more I go into this spiritual thing, the more I realize that we- the Beatles- aren't doing it, but that something else is doing it." – George Harrison
"We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write - we all wrote - about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love." – Ringo Starr
@btls65, your link to thetruthcontest goes to a site that is dead.
Annadog40 said
North!
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meanmistermustard said
Oops. http://www.truthcontest.com
I know I have contributed to the derailment of this thread so I am telling all of us to
This thread is only for discussing the religions, if any, the members of The Beatles followed, not if people believe the group was "part" of a religion or if we should make a religion out of them (even in jest).
I will discuss with the other mods a better, more reflective of the topic, title for this thread so we can keep it on track.
The religious beliefs of the Beatles?
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Did any of the Beatles pass on their religion to their kids?
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^ Dhani is very Eastern-belief centered. His office and studio have 'OM' symbols and statues of deities. He's also been to India a good few times and tries to meditate everyday.
Don't know about the rest of them but some part of George's beliefs definitely rubbed off on Dhani.
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I have a book called the Gospel According to The Beatles, which is all about their religious views. I might read it next when I finish my current book.
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Challenge Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting To An Open Debate On MCA's Support For The New National Agenda (NNA) To Include The New Economic Policy's(NEP) Especially The Objective Of Ensuring 30% Corporate Equity Ownership
(Petaling Jaya, Tuesday): I wish to challenge MCA President Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting to an open debate on MCA's support for the New National Agenda to include the NEP, especially the objective of ensuring 30% corporate equity ownership. Two days ago, Ong had stressed that he refused to accept the invitation by his challenger for the MCA Presidency, Datuk Chua Jui Meng, to debate on the impending party elections next month not because he was afraid to debate. But because "it is inappropriate for a a party leader to be involved in a debate concerning party election".
Since Ong had said that he was not afraid to debate provided it dos not involve MCA elections, then there should be no problem why he should not participate in a debate on MCA's support for the NEP to be revived and included in the NNA and 9 Malaysian Plan. Even though Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had given assurance that the NNA and Ninth Malaysia Plan would give fair treatment to all races in the country, BN component parties had also agreed to revive the spirit of the New Economic Policy (NEP) to ensure Malays achieved 30 per cent equity participation in the nation's economy.
Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak even said: "They expressed their views...I observed the goal of 30 per cent equity participation of Bumiputeras was accepted and not disputed." Najib's statement follows an earlier pledge by BN Youth, including MCA Youth, MIC Youth and Gerakan Youth, supporting the revival of the NEP. By breaking their promises and assurances in the Chinese papers opposing the NEP, MCA is practicing double-faced politics of saying one thing to the Chinese community but doing completely the opposite in BN.
An open debate on MCA's support for the NEP is important to let the people express their views why the NEP has become a source of disunity amongst the people, corruption, economic inefficiency and social injustice. DAP opposes the NEP because it wrongly identifies race as the criterion when a needs basis is the correct and equitable choice. By lumping all bumis as poor and non-bumis as rich has created a distortion in economic policy and confusion in planning until rich bumis get scholarships and discounts for multi-million ringgit homes whilst poor non-bumis, especially the Indians, get nothing.
DAP regrets that both MCA and Gerakan despite talking big in the newspapers failed to say that the NEP 30% equity target was actually achieved by 1990. The 30% target was unrealized because bumis given such preferential shares sold off their shares for short-term capital gains. Why should rich bumis continue to be given shares and preferential treatment at the expense of the poor? So long as the shares can be sold, the NEP can be extended 10 times for 100 years, the 30% equity target will still not be achieved. Further where is social justice when only a few bumis get shares or APs but not the majority of poor bumis including those from Sabah and Sarawak.
Before the NEP was introduced in 1970, Malaysia with its abundant natural resources of tin, rubber, oil palm and petroleum had one of the highest standards of living and GNP per capita, better than Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Principally because of the NEP, Malaysia is now worse off than Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.
If the NEP was re-introduced and revived in 2005, Malaysia would not only be unable to catch up with Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea but may even lose out to Thailand. The government should learn that as far as allocative efficiency is concerned, competition and merit rather than ownership is the crucial issue in ensuring wealth creation and a fair distribution of wealth.


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After the Revenue Committee meeting in Thermopolis, it is clear that our legislative leadership is still going to push for tax increases. In the face of growing resistance from taxpayers, there are rumors that the legislative leadership is working on a plan to facilitate the passage of higher taxes. I have a good idea of what those measures would be, but for now I will keep that piece of information tight to the chest.
What is more important right now is the fact that the more time our lawmakers spend trying to raise our taxes, the less time they spend solving important problems.
That is bad, because it means that they leave our public school system unreformed, bu they also leave us vulnerable on other accounts.
One example is the mess that Republicans in Congress have created with their pathological inability to repeal/reform/replace Obamacare. That inability can come back and hurt us here in Wyoming. There is a way to prevent it, but so long as our legislative leadership's attention is on tax hikes, they will not see this one coming.
Here is the problem. Back in June, I warned that we may be on a path to socialized health care here in Wyoming. This would not happen through deliberate legislation, but by means of a process akin to "death by a thousand blows". The longer our legislature ignores the burden that government places on the private sector in our state, the weaker that private sector will become.
One of the more difficult parts of the health care industry is the dichotomy between one market for production and sale of the service, and one market for means of payment, i.e., health insurance. We can have a "free" system for health care production and sale, but a government monopoly on insurance, and many people would still not classify it as a single-payer, universal health care system (which it is).
The problem for Wyoming is that we are stumbling into a situation where both markets are effectively socialized - and again not through legislation deliberately pursuing socialized medicine, but as a consequence of legislative clumsiness. Inadequate attention to the private health care sector's conditions has led to a drift toward government dominance; the monumental Obamacare mistake by Congress has de facto given one health insurance provider a monopoly in our state.
By means of its repeal/reform/replace debacle, Congress has paved the way for further expansion of government-provided health insurance, a.k.a., Medicaid. With more and more people falling to the wayside under the crumbling of Obamacare, more and more people will try to get on the expanded form of Medicaid.
In a manner of speaking, Congressional Republicans have turned Medicaid into a mechanism for creeping health care socialization. It is fueled by bone-crushing increases in insurance premiums and outright punitive deductibles.
As the implosion of Obamacare dumps more and more people into Medicaid, especially its expansion, welfare-statist Republicans can sit around and wait for the health care "issue" to solve itself. Once Medicaid has grown to a certain size, it will surpass the private sector as the prime provider of health insurance. At that point, passing a single-payer law will be a minor inconvenience to Congress.
Democrats - who will take the House in 2018 thanks to the GOP's political suicide - have no reason to wish for another "final solution". They will not even have to throw around the stigmatized term "single-payer health care"; all they have to do is follow the Republican roadmap to a government health insurance monopoly.
But what does all this have to do with Wyoming? The connection runs through the many states that chose to expand Medicaid. This expansion, it turns out, was not a very good idea from a fiscal viewpoint. (And we are all very surprised.) In fact, as the Daily Signal reports, Medicaid expansion is giving Americans the very first taste of what a single-payer health care system will look like:
in expansion states, where far more low-income Americans enrolled in Medicaid than policymakers expected, services that traditionally went to the disabled and needy are being diverted to pay for the additional costs of the expansion population.
And then, the Signal continues, there is the rationing of health care:
[Galen Institute senior fellow Doug] Badger ... noted that as the Medicaid population has grown, the number of providers accepting Medicaid patients hasn't changed. "We had a surge in the people on Medicaid, but we didn't have a surge in the doctors accepting Medicaid patients or other institutions to care for them," he told The Daily Signal. "You add 12 million people to Medicaid, but where's everyone going to go?"
Why has the number of providers not increased? Because reimbursement rates in Medicaid remain the same. As a general rule, there is about 40-50 percent more revenue in providing health care to a patient on private insurance than to a patient on Medicaid. The Daily Signal again (emphasis added):
Studies have suggested that Medicaid patients have had trouble finding providers, and have worse outcomes than those without insurance. A study from the University of Virginia examining major surgical operations that occurred between 2003 and 2007 found that for eight different procedures, Medicaid patients were more likely to die in the hospital or suffer complications than the uninsured and privately insured.
Even though Wyoming did not adopt Medicaid expansion, we are still under severe threat of a cost explosion. It is driven partly by the economic crisis in our state, partly by the "evolution" of the private insurance market under Obamacare. Furthermore, if Congress chooses to let Medicaid expansion become the mission-creep avant garde of socialized medicine, there will be renewed pressure on our state to accept the expansion part.
We can take proactive measures to avoid this. To see why and how, let us listen for a moment to Natalia Castro, contributing editor at Americans for Limited Government, as she elaborates on the Medicaid expansion experience:
States that have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act are quickly realizing they cannot afford the cost they chose to bare, and are eagerly attempting the reverse their decision. States are not completely to blame for accepting the economically crippling Medicaid expansion. Like many other false promises of Obamacare, states like Illinois did not expect their costs to skyrocket as much as they have.
Weren't we told that health insurance was going to get cheaper? Since the opposite has happened, and insurance costs have skyrocketed under Obamacare, the effect has been a shift of people from private insurance into Medicaid. Using Illinois as an example, Castro explains the consequences:
Democratic Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly promised taxpayers the expansion would cost no more than $4.6 billion, under the guise the federal government would pick up most of the tab. Now, the Illinois Policy Center finds, between 2014 and 2016, Illinois taxpayers shelled out $9.2 billion for Illinois Obamacare expansion.
She then quotes the Illinois Policy Center's report on the effects of Medicaid expansion:
"Nearly 20,000 children and adults with autism, epilepsy, developmental disabilities and other critical conditions are currently languishing on a Medicaid waiting list for needed home and community-based services. Nearly 70 percent of those individuals have reported an emergency or critical need for services. Many will die before ever getting the services they so desperately need."
This experience can be used as a basis for positive reforms, even here in Wyoming.
What reforms? And how? Hang in there. First, a few more words from Natalia Castro, who explains that the situation in Medicaid expansion states is now so desperate - and Congress so gridlocked over health reform - that
the Governor of Maine is taking matters into his own hands. The state submitted a waiver request to President Trump that would allow the state legislature to reform the Medicaid program without Congress. Maine's proposal included instituting work requirements for Medicaid recipients, as well as a lockout for failure to pay monthly premiums.
And herein lies the key to a proactive health care policy here in Wyoming. Other states trying desperately to reform away Medicaid expansion, or just reform standard Medicaid, include Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky and Wisconsin.
If we had a forward-looking legislative leadership, Wyoming would join these states and work hard to build a coalition of free-market health care states. We could restore private providers as a reliable go-to for health insurance, and we could secure a market big enough, across state lines, that competition would provide a superior balance between access to quality health care and reasonable premiums.
All this is possible if our legislative leadership decides that this is what they want for our state. That, of course, would require them to cease the pursuit of tax increases.
With the right choice, our legislators can begin the turnaround of our state. With the wrong choice, on the other hand, our state legislature will slowly but inevitably bring us all to the edge of fiscal sanity. Or, in the words of Natalia Castro:
States inability to fund Medicaid is not only a fiscal crisis, it also endangers the lives of Americans in need of health care rather than the false sense of security that arises from inadequate health insurance.
Well said. Now the question is: what is the highest priority of our state legislators?
Labels: Government Size, Health Care Reform, Health Care Sector, Illinois, Interstate Comparison, Maine, Medicaid Choice