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3.02.10: Chowing down post-run
I have always said that I can only really focus on three big things in my life at a time and between running 40 miles a week, maintaining my status as good wife/mother and writing, other things—laundry, cleaning, cooking, financial planning—have always taken a back seat position in my life.
Because of this, we have always applied band-aids. We have a cleaning crew that comes in every other week to keep us from falling into squalor. We have a drawer full of take out menus that we keep in constant rotation. And we live out of four laundry baskets in the basement that contain the clean clothes that somehow never make it into our closets and drawers.
This year we have decided to change all that. Of course between my husband's work commitments and his whole "breadwinner" status, the onus of these changes falls on me. And then I discovered the be-all end-all in meal preparation help.
The Scramble does not do the shopping and make the meals for you, but it does prepare your shopping list and send you a list of five nutritionally balanced meals that are easy to make and always delicious. I do not believe it is dramatic at all to say it has revolutionalized our kitchen.
I am now regularly baking bread and pizza dough. I enjoy finding new recipes (salmon cakes with mango salsa; spicy spinach calzones). I am eating better, my kids are eating better and we are saving money.
What does all this have to do with running? In a word: everything. After all, what is food if not fuel for long runs? The right mix of carbs and protein can mean the difference between nine and eight-minute miles. If I don't get the right vitamins and minerals, I am sure to get sick and have to miss training (or worse, a race). And most importantly, feeding my family well makes me feel less guilty about spending upwards of 10 hours each week engaged in some kind of physical training.
Although I have yet to see any major weight loss benefits, I am hopeful that I am at the very least fueling my body better than I was last fall when I subsisted on pizza, Chinese and burritos will help me improve my recovery, if not my time. The weird thing about running is that I have always found I can basically eat whatever I want—cartons of ice cream, entire boxes of cookies, bags upon bags of Cadbury mini eggs—and not gain (or lose) a pound so long as I am running. Yet, I have also seen runners who eat right and run—even marathons, in some cases—and do not lose much weight. Recent research seems to suggest, though, that it is better to be fit and overweight than the reverse. But it is a strange phenomenon.
At any rate, the trick to being adequately fueled is about filling up the night before, keeping gas in the tank during the run and refueling after the end. Some people say "carbo-loading" (eating mass quantities of pasta or bread or other carbohydrates) pre-race is important, but other research suggests that is hogwash. In the weeks leading up to my marathon, I was mindful of eating more (whole grain) carbohydrates and also ate a banana every day for two weeks. Both seemed to work in my favor so I will be doing the same thing this time around. As for the rest, my favorites include:
Fueling Up:
Prior to a long run, I am mindful of adequate water intake, making sure I drink some Gatorade or similar sports drink on Friday and Saturday and also that I eat a banana (or two or three). I have two favorite breakfasts before a run. One is scrambled egg whites with melted cheese over fresh, sliced tomatoes. The other is slow cooked oatmeal with raisins, cinnamon, walnuts and 1% milk. I also always have coffee and a multivitamin. After a half hour of letting the food settle, I am usually well fueled for my first 90 minutes.
Mid-Run Fuel:
Most runners have their favorites and I am no different. I love caffeinated Gu. Just one little packet is usually enough to fuel a 16-mile run (although I had three during the marathon). I also enjoy Cliff blocks when I run out of Gatorade for my fuel belt and take one or two of those, plus a shot of water every 45 minutes during a run. During yesterday's 16-miler, I had a bottle of water and one block at Mile 4, a full Gu at Mile 8 and another block and bottle of water at Mile 12. That seemed adequate for a training run, but during the half marathon last week, I had a Gu Roctane (a new blend with extra sodium and caffeine to fuel serious, hardworking athletes) at Mile 5 and a Chocolate Outrage Gu with Caffeine (yum, by the way) at Mile 10. In retrospect, I may have performed better if I had three regular blend Gus at Mile 4, 8 and then 12, but the right balance is not always easy to strike.
This is always my arch nemesis in races. I always grab a banana and forgo all the other post-race goodies (pizza, dried fruit, soup, granola, beer, etc) and I always regret it. For some reason I never learn this lesson, although I do hope to figure it out before my next big race. According to some, the most perfect post race recovery food is chocolate milk (sugar, protein, fat). I have never tried it, though. For me, a banana smothered in natural peanut butter, topped with a dab of honey and rolled in a flaxseed tortilla is probably the single most important part of long run recovery. One sandwich and my shaking, aching, quaking legs are back to (almost) normal.
All this talk about food has made me hungry. Mangia, mangia.
Sasha Brown-Worsham is a writer, a mother and an unabashed, unashamed runaholic. Check her progress each week as she trains to qualify for the Boston Marathon.


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Salted, Smoked & Frozen: 10 Tasty Variations on Lemonade
Memorial Day has come and gone, and I think that means it's officially lemonade season! But skip the store-bought stuff — it's so easy to make your own refreshing glass of lemonade at home, and to tailor it to your tastes. Here are 10 classic and creative variations to keep you cool this summer.
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- 1 Classic Lemonade: There's nothing easier than making your own lemonade from scratch! (See linked recipe for more variations.)
- 2 Frozen Lemonade: Like eating a handful of lemon-flavored snow.
- 3 Pink Lemonade: To make pink lemonade, add grenadine.
- 4 Matcha Tea Lemonade: Lemonade with finely milled green tea leaves.
- 5 Sparkling Strawberry Lemonade: Icy, cold, and fruity.
- 6 Smoked Lemonade: Smoking lemons makes them plump and juicy.
- 7 Salted Lemonade: A refreshing interplay of sour, sweet, and salty.
- 8 Roasted Peach Lemonade: A sweet Georgia specialty!
- 9 Sweet Basil Lemonade: A great way to use up that big bunch of basil.
- 10 Arnold Palmer: Half lemonade and half iced tea.
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C just doesn't get the Waldorf Salad. I placed a plate of it before him and I could have been handing him a pair of patent red stilettos judging by the puzzled-but-I-think-I-still-get-it look on his face. "It's a Waldorf Salad," I piped encouragingly (in the same tone that I would say, "Of course I'll wear them!"). Hmmm…"It's interesting," he says – which is C-speak for "I'll eat it but please don't put it in the daily rotation."
Humph. I guess not everyone is as devoted to mayonnaise (and mayonnaise based foods) as I am. Nor is everyone as taken with charmingly retro dishes.
The Waldorf Salad was created in the Waldorf Hotel of New York in 1893, by the maître d'hôtel at that time, Oscar Tschirky. Although some say not. The famous maître d'hôtel is also said to be have put together the first Eggs Benedict. Although this too is contested. Cole Porter includes the Waldorf Salad in his list of Top things. I imagine many a nervous wife of a time before me, trotting this out to her stockbroker husband and friends.
(Could this be why C didn't take to it? Because he isn't a stockbroker and I'm not a nervous trotting wife? Hmmm. Could be…)
Whichever account is true; this is just the sort of glamorous, F. Scott Fitzgerlad-y provenance I love my food to have. So even if apple + celery + mayonnaise + walnuts may elicit a bit of a question mark from some…I'll be lining up for this salad with my silver spoon in hand, high-heels clicking, and Cole Porter in my head.
Spicy Chicken Waldorf Salad
- 1 cup chopped red apples, cored but unpeeled
- 1/2 cup chopped celery
- 1/2 cup roughly chopped walnuts
- 1 cup (approximately) chopped cooked chicken breast (2 chicken breast fillets, pan-fried in olive oil with salt and pepper, then chopped)
- 3-4 tablespoons mayonnaise
- Juice of 1/2 to one whole lemon
- Sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper
- Cayenne pepper (or any spicy chilli you like)
- Lettuce leaves (just enough to line 2-3 plates)
– Toss all the ingredients, using only half the lemon's juice and 3 tablespoons mayonnaise, in a bowl and mix gently until just combined. Taste and adjust – add lemon or mayonnaise as to your taste. Adjust salt and pepper to taste as well.
– Serve chilled on a bed of lettuce.
– Serves 2-3.
Originally, the Waldorf consisted of only apples, celery, and mayonnaise. Walnuts came later, but are now an essential part of the dish. I've added chicken to mine, as many versions have, to make it more substantial as a meal. I also added some cayenne pepper to make it spicy – because I love all things spicy – though I've probably done Mr. Tschirky and Mr. Porter grave offense. This will serve 2-3, but if your significant other does not appreciate retro-glamour and loses interest after a small plate, keep the extras and have it as a sandwich or a wrap the next day. But don't be too hard on him – we can't all live in This Side of Paradise – give him a kiss and promise him adobo and remember that it's our differences that make life exciting 🙂


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http://muslimwikipedia.com/mw/index.php/Native_Americans_and _Islam
There are numerous accounts of Muslims who were intergrated within Native Indian tribes pre Columbus, of Turkic, Moorish and African Muslims leaving colonies to live amongst the Native Indians. There are also historical letters and colonial advertisments describing the threat to the colonies of African Muslim Slaves fleeing and intergrating with the Native American Indians. There is also the case of Mahomet Weyonomonof the Mohegan tribe, who arrived in Britain in 1736 CE (1148 AH) [1]century to discuss the land grabs by the British.
There are also numerous reports of 'black skinned' Indians. For example in Honduras Columbus reported seeing Black skinned Indians. Giles Cauvet's 'Les Berberes de l'Amerique' reported that a pre-Columbian tribe in Honduras was know as the Almamys a corruption of the Mandinka word for the Arabic Imam.
American Treaties and laws with American Muslims
In South Carolina, colonists became so concerned about the possible threat posed by the mixed African and Indian population that was arising as runaway Africans escapted to the Indians that they passed a new law in 1725 CE (1137 AH). This law stipulated a fine of 200 pounds on anyone who even brought a slave to the frontier regions of the colony. In 1751 CE (1164 AH) the colony of South Carolina found it necessary to issue another law, warning that having Africans in proximity to Indians was deemed detrimental to the security of the colony.
In 1726 CE (1138 AH) the British governor of colonial New York exacted a promise from the Iroquois Indians to return all runaway slaves who had joined up with them. This same promise was extracted from the Huron Indians in 1764 CE (1177 AH) and from the Delaware Indians in 1765 CE (1178 AH). Despite their promises, no esacaped slaves were ever returned by these tribes, who continued to provide a safe and secure home for escaped slaves.
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An HTPC Perspective: Get Excited About CableCARDs and Tuners
An HTPC Perspective on home theater PC technology
We conducted a reader survey a few weeks ago, and one of the tech topics that received a surprising amount of interest in was HTPC coverage. You, our awesome readers, wanted to know more about the hardware and software behind them. I'll admit that I was ardent about the prospects of talking HTPCs with you. As a relatively new entrant to that area of tech myself, I was excited to cover it, and give you more coverage on a topic you wanted to see more of!
Today we won't be talking about home theater PCs in the sense of a computer in the living room AV rack (Ryan covered that earlier this week), but rather a related technology that makes the HTPC possible: the CableCARD-equipped TV tuner.
I will forewarn you that this article is quite a bit more informal than my usual writings, especially if you only follow my PC Perspective postings. In the future, it may not be that way, but I wanted to give some backstory and some personal thoughts on the matter to illustrate how I got into rolling my own DVR and why I'm excited about it (mainly: it saves money and is very flexible).
Despite my previous attempts to "cut the cord" and use only Internet-based services for television, me and my girlfriend slowly but surely made our way back to cable TV. For about a year we survived on Netflix, Hulu, and the various networks' streaming videos on their respective websites but as the delays between a shows airing and web streaming availability increased and Netflix instant Streaming started losing content the price of cable started to look increasingly acceptable.
She was probably the first one to feel the effects of a lack of new content – especially with a newfound love for a rather odd show called True Blood. It was at some point thereafter, once she had caught up with as many seasons offered on Netflix of various shows as possible that she broke down and ordered U-Verse. U-Verse is an interesting setup of television delivery using internet protocol (IPTV). While we did have some issues at first with the Residential Gateway and signal levels, it was eventually sorted out and it was an okay setup. It offered a lot of channels – with many in HD. In the end though, after the promotional period was up, it got very expensive to stay subscribed to. Also, because it was IPTV, it was not as flexible as traditional cable as far as adding extra televisions and the DVR functionality. Further, the image quality for the HD streams, while much better than SD, was not up to par with the cable and satellite feeds I've seen.
Being with Comcast for Internet for about three years now, I've been fairly happy with it. One day I saw a promotion for currently subscribed customers for TV + Blast internet for $80, which was only about $20 more than I was paying each month for its Performance tier.
After a week of hell Therefore, I decided to sign up for it. Only, I did not want to rent a Comcast box, so I went searching for alternatives.
Enter the elusive and never advertised CableCARD
It was during this search that I learned a great deal about CableCARDs and the really cool things that they enabled. Thanks to the FCC, cable television providers in the United States have to give their customers an option other than renting a cable box for a monthly fee – customers have to be able to bring their own equipment if they wish (they can still charge you for the CableCARD but at a reduced rate, and not all cable companies charge a fee for them). But what is a CableCARD? In short, it is a small card that resembles a PCMIA expansion card – a connector that can commonly be found in older laptops (think Windows XP-era). It is to be paired with a CableCARD tuner and acts as the key to decrypt the encrypted television stations in your particular subscriber package. They are added much like a customer-owned modem is, by giving the cable company some numbers on the bottom of the card that act as a unique identifier. The cable company then connects that particular card to your account and sends it a profile of what channels you are allowed to tune into.
There are some drawbacks, however. Mainly that On Demand does not work with most CableCARDS. Do note that this is actually not a CableCARD hardware issue, but a support issue on the cable company side. You could, at least in theory, get a CableCARD and tuner that could tune in On Demand content, but right now that functionality seems to be limited to some Tivos and the rental cable boxes (paradoxically some of those are actually CableCARD-equipped). It's an unfortunate situation, but here's hoping that it is supported in the future. Also, if you do jump into the world of CableCARDs, it is likely that you will find yourself in a situation where you know more about them than the cable installer as cable companies do not advertise them, and only a small number of employees are trained on them. Don't be too hard on the cable tech though, it's primarily because cable companies would rather rent you a (expensive) box, and a very small number of people actually know about and need a tech to support the technology. I was lucky enough to get one of the "CableCARD guys," on my first install, but I've also gotten techs that have never seen one before and it made for an interesting conversation piece as they diagnosed signal levels for the cable modem (heh). Basically, patience is key when activating your CableCARD, and I highly recommend asking around forums like DSLReports for the specific number(s) to call to get to the tier 2 techs that are familiar with CableCARDs for your specific provider when calling to activate it if you opt to do a self-install. Even then, you may run into issues. For example, something went wrong with activation on the server side at Comcast so it took a couple of hours for them to essentially unlock all of my HD channels during my install.
Continue reading to find out why I'm so excited about CableCARDs and home theater PCs!
With that said, and I'll quote the tech here, "once they are up and running, they'll stay that way." In the two or so months that I've had it, I've found that to be the case. Beyond the quirks, I am still excited about CableCARDs. They offer up a lot of possibilities, and enable some really cool stuff beyond the regular cable box, which I aim to get into over the course of HTPC Perspective articles. The fun really starts when you get into the tuners and the computer hardware and software behind them. There are a couple of companies producing CableCARD tuners, and you can find both internal, external, and even networked TV tuners (ex. PCI-E, USB, and Ethernet respectively). In terms of CableCARD tuners, the two largest names are SiliconDust and Ceton. Ceton is popular in the enthusiast community for its internal PCI-E quad tuner card – the InfiniTV 4 PCIe tuner – whereas SiliconDust is known for its network-attached HDHomeRun Prime boxes. Both have their own strengths, and can generally be found for around the same $200 price point, which can make choosing between the two difficult (you could technically use both, if you have the cash). In my case, where I have quite a few devices that I want to be able to use the tuners without leaving my desktop on, I chose the SiliconDust HDHR3-CC HDHomeRun Prime which attaches to the coax line, a power jack, and my home network (LAN).
It does have one less tuner than the Ceton card, but for me the convenience and power savings won out. Since it is network attached, any computer in the house can reach out and access any (or all) of the three tuners without depending on a home server or desktop being on (WoL may be an option there but that's just asking for issues of availability when you're hoping the latest episode of Breaking Bad will record). For the software side of things, I decided to use Windows Media Center as it seems to have the best support for CableCARDs and encrypted cable streams. The various Linux-based software solutions are able to tune into any copy-freely encrypted channels easily enough but there are issues with channels that cable companies flag as copy-once or copy-never (I'll get into copy-protection in the future). Also – and this is a personal preference thing – Windows Media Center just looks nice. It has a pretty good interface that is many times faster/snappier than any cable or satellite box I've ever used. That's another benefit of rolling your own DVR, is that you can say goodbye to the cable companies slow guide and terrible search!
And that is what this all amounts to, CableCARDs enable you to bring your own hardware to the cable TV party and roll your own DVR. That means that you are no longer stuck with the amount of storage space that your cable company believes is plenty, which may only be 500GB if you are lucky and have one of the newer HD boxes. By pairing your CC tuner to your computer(s), you can easily add all the storage you want. As an example, I have 1 TB allocated to recordings on my desktop and Katy has a 2TB external hard drive to backup all her shows (that's a lot of True Blood and Teen mom! heh). My desktop, where I do most of my TV watching – it serves as great background noise while writing – is admittedly extreme-overkill for watching TV, but there is something to be said for having more than enough hardware to do the job rather than being stuck with whatever hardware the cable company has on the truck to give you.
You might be wondering about the big screen though, and how I get the TV to the living room. This is the area where a dedicated HTPC like the one Ryan recently put together and a good remote or wireless keyboard/mouse can really shine, and is an area that I'm interested in diving into in the future. For now, I'm actually using my Xbox 360 of all things. Using the Windows Media Extender functionality, I'm able to bring the WMC interface, the tuners for live TV, any TV recordings, and any music, photos, or videos I have saved over to the living room TV. It is not ideal because it is not as snappy as running WMC natively on a laptop or desktop, but it works well and was essentially free since I already had the Xbox 360.
If you are going the WMC Extender route, I would recommend picking up a used Xbox 360 if you do not have one and do not bother with the other extender devices as they are rather old at this point and the ebay sellers where you can find them charge a pretty penny for them. The 360 is also the best and newest extender that you will be able to find, which is unfortunate but true. Obviously, being just an extender, it does require having one of the networked computers turned on to work though – hence the desire to go full HTPC.
Another feature enabled by WMC and the networked nature of the computers is that you can easily get the multi-room DVR functionality that the television providers love to charge extra for – for free! All of the WMC computers are able to share (or not, it can be restricted if you wish) most recordings and either stream it to other computers or copy the recording over to another computer so that it can be played locally. The exception is in the case of the above-mentioned copy-protection flags. These can be a pain because they can restrict you from copying shows around the network to other computers if the TV network or cable provider has flagged the show as copy-once or copy-never. With the cable company equipment, it can sometimes get around that depending on how they have it set up, say if it pulls from the same DVR recording, but that doesn't always work. At least then though, you can gripe to the provider about not being able to do it on its own equipment (which you are paying them extra to do whole-home DVR for)!
As you can likely gather from this (admittedly lengthy, I apologize) post, there are a lot of nuances, exceptions, and quirks when it comes to rolling your own DVR and TV tuning equipment. It also has a lot of cool benefits as well, if you have the patience and desire to work past the issues.
So, yes I'm really positive about CableCARDs and HTPCs in general. I'm not saying that it is always easy to set-up and there are some real quirks that I wish did not exist, but once it is up and running it's a rather satisfying feeling. There is a lot of research required if you are wanting to jump into the DIY HTPC route, especially in regards to your specific cable provider and how it works with the specific company in regards to hardware support (SDV, for example), and pricing. Unfortunately, I can only speak for my experience with Comcast in Midwest Illinois, and even within the same cable company, local regulations and offices can effect pricing so you will need to do due diligence when figuring out what it will cost (it will almost always be cheaper than renting boxes, but it's impossible to say by how much as it will depend on your area and the provider).
It's nice to be free of Xfinity logos as much as possible
In my opinion, it is totally worth rolling your own hardware and software solution to tune in and record cable TV (and we haven't even touched features like transcoding on the fly for mobile devices or – ahem – commercial skipping). While I am still getting hit with Comcast's "HD Technology Fee" for $10 (even though I have no Comcast-owned equipment… sigh), I get a $2.50 credit for using a CableCARD tuner (they classify it as "customer owned equipment) and do not have to pay the approximate $16 a month for an HD DVR box – a box that would have vastly slower hardware and non-expandable storage space!
Are you excited about CableCARDs and related hardware yet? I know I am. If you cannot yet bear to cut the cord completely, I think this is the next best option!
Now that we've talked (a lot) about the hardware and the interesting things it can do, let's take a visual look at some hardware! On the next page, we'll take a quick visual tour of a CableCARD and the HDHomeRun Prime TV tuner. SiliconDust isn't the only game in town though, there are plenty of other good tuners out there. The HDHR Prime was just the one that worked the best for my specific setup. Which ones do you use in your HTPCs?
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i love this and i wouldn't mind seeing an HTPC build on the leader board. Also have you tried reaching out to different cable providers and their stances on cable cards and will the setup work on their cable systems. id really like to know what companies are all in on the cable card and its forthcoming successor AllVid
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)
Hehe so a cableCARD Decoder like we have for adds... but for cablecards? :) If there's enough interest, I wouldn't be opposed to the idea.. it could be a good resource. The difficult part would be pricing info as that can vary so widely. But as far as what is supported, seven yes/no, and stuff like thatcould probably be done. We'd prolly need user input on how friendly the various companies actually are regarding cable cards as we don't have access to every us provider to test for ourselves :).
Re: Allvid. I'm not too familiar with the it but I've come across a few mentions of it. Will definitely read more about it though asap.
AllVid isn't forthcoming... It's already dead.
This was a great article but ended to short.
i want to learn so much more.
i wish their was benchmarks and reviews, etc.
I love to go more in depth with this topic.
i am very happy that your wrote about this topic and hope it continues.
I would love to see more coverage of HTPCs and HTPC gear.
Over here in Aus our cable (HFC) network is atrocious, there are only a few providers (who mostly just resell Foxtel) and it only covers about 2 - 2.5 million homes, i.e. only a small percentage of our population in a few major cities. Most people watch TV broadcast OTA using a set top box or built in TV tuner in their TVs.
I use HDTV tuner cards in my HTPCs for recording TV. My favorite HDTV tuner cards are from DigitalNow, I have used a few of their DNTV Dual Hybrid (7164) PCIe tuners in a couple of HTPCs I have built and they are awesome. They just work unlike some other HDTV tuner cards I have tried.
I'm getting ready to build my third HTPC in an uber swanky A-Tech fabrication 2800HP case. A-Tech used to build suspension systems and shock absorbers for high performance off-road racing vehicles.
There are plenty of other awesome HTPC case makers (that aren't main stream names like Lian Li, Silverstone, BitFenix etc...) like A-Tech Fabrication, HFX, Streacom, Some Japanese company called ASK-TECH, Moneual, Origen AE (I have used their S16V case for my current HTPC), Wesena and probably others.
Hi there, thanks for the comment.
That's cool that OTA is widespread, though do they offer many channels? It seems like the US is a bit better as far as availability but people here are generally stuck with a single cable provider to "choose" from for TV. There is always satelite or something like U-Verse/FIOS if you are lucky but for the most part it is expensive cable vs expensive satelite unless you live in a very large urban area. Satelite/IPV is much less fun because there is no cablecard equivalent :(. At least with cable you can avoid using their modems and tuners, and the rental fees that go along with them hehe. OTA is another good option for getting really good HD of the major networks if you can get it though, and its free! :D
Nice, four tuners per card, and those do look like some nice HTPC cases :).
Until just recently we only had 6 OTA channels, now we have 19 channels here in Melbourne some states/cities have a few more or less channels. The government is turning off the old analogue TV signal and switching to digital, as part of the switch Freeview was setup (a free digital television service) to deliver more TV channels.
Because digital broadcasting is more efficient broadcasters can broadcast more channels in the same space which means we get more channels for free, YAAY!
I'm going to use that quad tuner card in my new HTPC build because it has DAB+ A.K.A Digital radio which is a fairly new thing here, oh yeah and because it has four tuners :)
You could probably still record Satelite/IPV TV if you used a capture card, something like Avermedia's DarkCrystal HD Capture SDK II or similar. Although it might not be as elegant or easy to get up and running. I dare say there would be some compromises and trade offs that would need to be made.
Ah nice, more free channels are always good! :)
Yeah, I bet that you're right. As the poster below mentioned, it is possible to use a capture card and a IR blaster along with some software, but it's not the most elegant solution. Also, you're limited to one tuner and are dependent on being able to get a rented box with component outputs, which are going to get increasingly hard to find–at least in the US.
I was hoping to see an article more geared towards the growing number of people like me, that is those that have ditched cable/satellite tv completely. I really do need to check into making an htpc rather than pay Tivo their high $14 a month fee. Actually, I think it would be a GREAT idea for an article for PCPer. A complete step by step guide including all the hardware and software needed to build a nice HTPC for recording ota tv and running Netflix/Amazon/Hulu on. I think you guys might be amazed the interest there would be in that.
You have my respect, I wasn't able to stay away from cable :). How is Netflix Instant these days as far as content, have they updated the TV catalog in a while? As far as OTA, according to antennaweb I live in a terrible area as far as getting OTA HD. And because I live in an apartment, i don't think I'd be allowed to install the large antenna necessary to pick up many stations ;) hehe.
Anyway, it can definitely be done as far as running some low power hardware to record and playback OTA and web streams smoothly. The HTPC that Ryan built earlier this week would be overkill but in that size of a case you could definitely pack a bunch of storage for DVR'ing :D.
It is an interesting idea for an article, maybe if there is enough interest :).
I got rid of Netflix a while back and I use Amazon Prime now for my movies and tv shows. The selection is better than Netflix on some shows and worse than Netflix on others. They both have their pluses and minuses, but overall I still think Amazon Prime is the better deal.
As far as no cable/sat goes, I really haven't missed it much. I don't watch any sports though so that helps a lot! Any tv shows I used to watch I buy off of Amazon.
Ah okay, I totally blanked on buying TV episodes on Amazon. I was thinking more of the free Prime selection :p. Do you find that buying just the shows you want to watch is much cheaper than paying a monthly cable fee? Just curious as we looked into that but with all the shows Katy watched, it would have cost a lot for all her seasons :P haha.
Excellent article. I have an HTPC with Ceton internal card and I'm very happy with it. We use 3 XBox 360s as extenders and it works great. Since I travel for a living, it's also easy to grab shows to watch on flights.
Since I'm on the road Monday through Friday most weeks, I was a little concerned about reliability (wife and 2 kids who aren't as tech savy) but once set up, the system for me has been bullet proof. My wife is pleased with 2 TB of storage so she can record to her heart's content and the kids now complain if they have to watch commercials. Between adding as much storage as you want and the ability to skip commercials, I'd strongly recommend this approach to anyone that has any technical inclination at all.
Occassionally we need more than 4 tuners so I'm going to be adding a second Ceton card in the near future.
I'm looking forward to more HTPC articles in the future.
Good article.
I jumped on the cablecard bandwagon about a year ago, and bought a Ceton internal 4-tuner card. to use with Windows 7 Media Center. Comcast supplies digital cable input to the cablecard. My experience has been generally posative, but there still remain a few problems. Sometimes a recording will be skipped with an error message "No signal on channel". Also sometimes I get a "subscription required" message on channels that that require no special subscription beyond paying for expanded digital cable. Sometimes the message appears in the middle of a recorded show, or while watching live TV. Letting it run for a few minutes will normally clear up the error condition, and the show will resume.
The bad news seems to be that Microsoft is largely abandoning Media Center. Rumor have appeared on several forums I read, that Media center on Windows 8 is essentially unchanged from that on Windows 7, no improvements or major bug fixes. Another frequent rumor is that Microsoft has dissolved the Media Center Development team, and reassigned employees to other projects.
With this in mind, I would be cautious about sinking much money into a HTPC project until more is known about Microsoft's future intentions.
It's possible they are switching gears on Media Center. The only thing that makes me think otherwise is that they're charging a premium fee for it on Windows 8. If they were just going to close up shop, I see little reason to make it a premium offering. It would make more sense for them to just trot it out as a freebie.
Either way if Microsoft bows out a 3rd likely open option will step up to the plate for HTCP supporters to rally around.
I hope they are just regrouping, but I fear that Microsoft has decided the HTPC market is too small too offer much profit potential.
I have read that the additional cost for Media Center under Windows 8 is mostly for licensing of various codecs necessary to run media center. I believe That Microsoft is just passing those costs through to users, rather than continuing to absorb them as part of Windows. This may enable Microsoft to reduce the cost of Windows 8.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Microsoft is about the only player right now that is able to negotiate the deals to allow encrypted channels to be picked up by a cablecard. Several of the big names in the HTPC space don't have cablecard support and a few of them aren't going to get it because they are no longer in production. Even if you're using WMC you can only stream your recordings to another box, but cannot copy them as they are DRM protected. On top of that, if a provider doesn't want you to be able to record a show, they can use a copy never flag. (Making your tuner card esentially useless)
Everytime I see an article like this I'm hoping that someone has actually found an alternative to WMC that actually works well. The only way to get a real solution working is to record the output from a set top box to your media center.
I've looked but thus far have had little success in finding a viable alternative to WMC :(.
I'm kind of surprised that certain clever people have not found a way to get around the copy protection flags.. especially the stupid copy-never one on a expanded cable channel... not even a premium one like HBO or On Demand... I think it was a movie on FX iirc -.-
I do hope that Microsoft at least keeps WMC around in its current state with bug/security fixes even if they don't continue feature-development. It's the best/pretty much only game in town.
"The only way to get a real solution working is to record the output from a set top box to your media center."
Yeah, it does seem like that while people using utorrent+RSS feeds can do whatever they want with the files :(. Considering -- at least in the US -- it's illegal (afaik) to break the HDCP protection to record the HDMI output and they have closed the "analog loophole" to record HD from component... you may as well just use utorrent and RSS feeds for the TV shows you want to actually watch. Both illegal, so you may as well go for convenience. Yeah, I'm a bit jaded at DRM ;). Note that I'm not actually advising you to break the law here, just being a bit sarcastic / realizing that DRM really sucks for paying customers while people pirating for free have it made. Also, IANAL :)
Last I read as far as recording video under fair use was that people are supposed to set up a camera in front of the television and record it that way. You might be able to make a case for yourself there, and I doubt that MAFIAA would actually take you to court as they woudl be too scared of losing and setting precedent, but that's an awfully cludgy setup to be able to DVR shows your essentially paying for with your monthly cable subscription. Time-shifting should be allowed (not directly covered by fair use doctrine :-( ) You'd also have to not record the entire show for it to be fair use, though there is no set guideline on how much exactly you /could/ record ;).
Options do exist for grabbing analog HD video from component sources, my Hauppauge Colossus capture board works fine with WMC nabbing the analog HD feed from my cable box. The analog hole will only be closed when they stop shipping cable boxes with analog outputs, which I admit may happen eventually but hasn't happened yet.
Ah nice :) you still need a cable box though which does suck. How do you handle channel changing, an IR emitter? Have you found a way to automate recordings? That would be cool to hear about :)
Yes, it comes with an IR blaster that you attach to the front of your box. It works fine, although if you switch boxes a couple of times the adhesive wears off and I'm currently stuck using a bit of tape to hold it on. Clunky for sure, but it gets the job done.
The plugin software Hauppauge provides allows you to mimic a "Digital Cable" connection in WMC which means it works just the same as if you had a Ceton card set up but with only one tuner, and everything it records just happens to be completely unencrypted (it's just stuck in MS's proprietary WTV container, but with the right software you can remux to TS/MP4/MKV/whatever easily enough for editing and archiving).
Unfortunately the WMC plugin software is limited to one such device per computer, so no dumping several into one machine and having a stack of cable boxes to all use in WMC.
That's an interesting workaround :). Yeah, the new WMC format seems to be easily transcoded into more friendly formats with some software. I haven't done that myself yet but it's good to know it's available.
That sucks that you're limited to one tuner but at least you can do whatever you want with the recordings :).
As an HTPC owner the entire purpose of my machine is to eliminate any and all connections to cable subscription providers. While everyone is looking for different things, I personally have no use for cable cards. I do end up losing the ability to watch some sports but the benefit of not exposing myself to the 95% of trash that is 'TV' is well worth the price. The best part of my HTPC for me was cutting the cord.
Now if google would roll out internet in my area I could cut off all ties to the terrible telecoms in my area altogether :P
I kinda think MS would rather you have an xbox attached to your TV instead of a WMC.
im not sure why media center PCs never took off... media center is slick, i use it everyday.
Probably :P They should improve the performance of WMC on the Xbox then :). Disabling transistions helps but it's still not nearly as fast as a PC running WMC is, not sure if it's because of the Xbox's hardware or the software though.. I'm guessing the former.
From some of the extender forums:
1. Reduce the number of channels in the guide to improve performance... and putting the guide on an SSD (on the WMC pc) helps too..
2. Channel tuning performance is tied to the HD Homerun.. can't do much about that.. that I've heard.
I have this exact setup at home for recording the Olympics...
Working very well.. Some tips.
1. Harmony remotes can be setup to emulate xbox 360 remotes.. and work very well to control both TV and Xbox.
2. I was getting bit-rate problems from my WMC pc to the Xbox's until I got hard-wired GB ports directly to them. I Tried for the dual-nic setup with streams coming from the HD-Home run on one and outputs to the xbox's on the other, but that didn't seem to be necessary. 10/100 switch with a shared uplink was not good enough though.
3. You don't need an xbox live gold account for using the wmc extender functionality, but you do need it for Netflix.
I'm going to try to move the WMC setup to a dedicated Zotac box to reduce my power requirements and get it off my main pc. Not sure it's going to be powerful enough though as it appears the extenders use a glorified RDP session to display the video.
ewww.. just move the box to your TV and save yourself the pain.
Ah, a fellow CableCard/HDHomerun Prime user.
I mostly ended up choosing the HDHomerun due to cost. At the time I set up mine there was two choices: the $250 HDHomerun and the $400 InfiniTV card.
Sort of a no-brainer there but I still spent almost as much for the tuner as I did for the computer. Computer == Inexpensive AMD Socket FM1 setup. Works great, use a cheap rosewill branded media center remote as the interface.
Anyway, yeah.. using a 320Gig laptop HDD (price: "Free" as it was a leftover from a laptop that died) as the recording drive.
But yeah.. the thing I love the most is that I can throw most recording into VideoRedo to strip the commercials out before re-compressing it as h.264 for the shows I want to save. a ~4-6Gig 1 hour 1080i show becomes a 1.2Gig 720p h.264 mkv. I keep the original 5.1 track rater than re-encode it as stereo.
Does it strip out the commercials automatically? That does sound like a good option for storing as many recordings as possible, the HD WMC recordings can get pretty large :).
It's kinda half automatic under ideal conditions. It does a commercial scan that does a decent job but on some channels (like Syfy) it'll miss some commercial content so you've got to go in and do a bit of manual correcting.
It can operate in automatic mode though if you so choose.
If you don't mind the AC3 (5.1 audio) track being squashed down to stereo it'll even do the h.264 encoding itself. (pure CPU, it'll take a bit)
I use either DVDFab ($$, GPU accelerated, randomly fails) or Handbrake (free, pure CPU based) to do the encodes myself.
does the HDHomrun Prime act as a dynamic tuner pool for networked PC's? I am an early owner of the Ceton InfiniTV4 (yes I waited on line and paid $400+!). One nice feature is the ability to allocate tuners to multiple PC's over the network, but its not dynamic. I have to set a certain number of tuners to certain PC's and if i'd like to use more than the allocated number I can't do it dynamically.
Yes. The way it works is that you hook it up to the network, and then install a small bit of software onto any computers on that same network that you want to have access to the tuners. Then, in WMC you can either assign specific tuners to each machiner or select all tuners (the default), and each computer will attemp to use the first available tuner when tuning into a channel. When one computer is watching or recording a channel, it will lock one of the tuners, making only two available for the other computer(s) to choose from, and so on.
EDIT: and when a channel is no longer being tuned by a computer, that tuner goes back to being available to any of the other computers to use.
Ah thats much more convenient than the Ceton. I currently have 3 out of 4 tuners allocated to my HTPC, but it only has a small SSD. For long-term recording storage it offloads the recordings to my WHSv2 box. I'm worried about running into a storage wall trying to record multiple channels of Olympic Games and it would probably be easier to have my main PC do the recording on to one of my many large drives. I really wish Ceton would add a dynamic tuner allocation feature since it would make the extra tuner (vs the HDHomerun) a lot more useful than it currently is.
ah well, thats what you get for being an "early" adopter.. its still better than my old single tuner ATI CableCard tuner!
I'm in the middle of kicking my Comcast DVR out the door, I have two ATI tuners that I was going to use.....but I was inspired with your article, so I bought the Ceton tuner last night. I can't wait! I jumped on it because the Ceton was about $100 more expensive 6-8 months ago, so with the drop in price, I was able to justify it. Thanks for the great article.
Very cool :).
If you do opt for a self install, the number to call should be: 1-877-405-2298. Best of luck dealing with Comcast :).
Let me know if you like that Ceton card, I've heard good things and have been considering adding it so that I could have more tuners in addition to the three dynamic ones in the HDHR :).
I've found that a ton of RAM and a SSD helps greatly on my HTPC. I'm just building a new one with a 120GB Intel 320 SSD and 16GB of RAM. It runs sooo smooth. I'm also running two Ceton InfiniTV4's and two Hauppauge 2250's for 12 tuners total. The video card makes a big difference too on guide performance because it uses an overlay. Make sure that your drivers are up to date.
One person mentioned having errors saying subscription needed or SDV errors. I've found that those are all due to low signal. Put in a 12dB bidirectional 1GHz amplifier (that amplifies the feed and the return), and your error will most likely go away.
One thing that I like about Ceton is that they let you make a certain number of tuners in to network tuners. Kind of like how Silicon Dust does things.
The other thing that I'm trying on my build is using a 32GB flash drive for the live TV buffer. I'm interested to see how much more responsive that it is and how long that it takes to burn out the thumbdrive. hack7MC has a bunch of good info on redirecting your live buffer directory and increasing the buffer size.
BTW, TunerSalad lets you run up to 12 tuners for each type of tuner. You could run 12 cable card and 12 QAM.
Nice article. About a year ago, I built a HTPC to handle my TV DVR and viewing. I have the 2 tuner HD Homerun to handle OTA broadcast and the 3 tuner CableCard HD Homerun Prime for my cable tv. The only roadblocks that I ran into with the CableCard device was that the HD Homerun Prime is a one direction device so SDV channels would not work with it out of the box and their support/technicians are not as trained on the technology. Time Warner Cable provided me a tuning adapter/resolver for free to help with the SDV channels. As for the tech support, it is a little better but still lacking.
I have not experienced many issues with WMC performance. The OS is on a SSD drive so it is very fluid. The recordings go onto a 2 TB drive. Will you be trying add-ins?
WMC performance on my desktop isn't a problem. But on the Xbox 360 using WMC Extender the interface is very sluggish.
What plug-ins did you have in mind?
My OS (and WMC) is on an Intel X-25M gen 2 SSD and my recordings go on a 2TB Samsung Spinpoint so it seems like we have similar setups, though Comcast doesn't use SDV in my area yet.
Got my Ceton infintv4 today, Comcast slipped me a single stream cableCard. Had to go back for the M-card when WMC told me to (happy they let me install it though). Digital Cable Advisor balked on my fanless AMD 5450. Ran Windows Experience Index (3.7 from 3.1)and DCA passed it after that.
I'm running a cheap Foxconn board, AMD 4200+, 2GB of DDR2-800 because it was laying around. Not very responsive, but not much worse than my 8yr old Comcast DVR. At least I have control over it, and can have DVD, Netflix, home video, recorded TV on one device. Of course they warned me that they were changing format in January and my cableCard might not support my cable package. May need a cablebox, which would screw up my intentions in the first place!
Any thoughts on using Blu-Ray for a WMC HTPC?
Hmm strange.. I have not heard anything regarding Comcast changing formats. What cable package do you have right now? Maybe they are moving to SDV in your area... hmm..
Hmm, I think I remember reading that there is software that will plugin to WMC to allow you to play back blu-rays in WMC, but I'm not sure how good it is as I have not tried it myself. You might ask Robert Heron of HD Nation (@robertheron) as I believe he's tested it before. I just can't for the life of me rememeber the program he recommended :P
That AMD card should be plenty of horsepower for the HTPC, congrats on the Ceton card, yay for four tuners! :)
I can't say that the rep was exactly in the know, she had a hard time understanding that I was putting my card in a PC. She did say that come January it would not be possible to "plug the cable directly into any TV" I asked about QAM tuners, and she said, "you will not be able to use anything unless a Comcast box is attached...we're going all digital.....I don't even know if you're cablecard will work." Of course Comcast went 'all digital' a couple of years ago, so I don't know.
Right now I have the digital starter package, I used to pay $120 a month for TV and Internet for the last 6 years. I added the phone 9 months ago, after the 6 month bundle discount ran out, I went up to $190 a month due to rate hikes. I downgraded to the digital economy package and ditched the phone, HD, and the DVR. Once I turn in the DVR I'll be down to $85...of course we'll have to see if I can live without HD. The rep even said she wasn't sure my economy package would work with cablecard once I turn in my DVR and my service is downgraded.
The bummer is Comcast lets me pay $10/month for the cablecard, vs the $17 they charge for the DVR (email campaign anyone?).
(not being verbose to engage in conversation, but when I was searching for hiccups in my setup, I was pointed to this article. So I thought I'd document a few things completely in case someone runs across it in the furtur.)
Thanks for the tips!
The rep's warning makes me wonder if Comcast is going to lock down HD for those getting HD channels with their QAM tuners, and only paying for an economy package.....wouldn't surprise me.
EDIT: Just finished a chat session with a Comcast rep. She assured me the first cableCARD is free, not the $10/month the rep in my local office told me I would be paying. I almost felt the wrath of my wife BEFORE the bill even came.
Yes, the first CableCARD should be free. You may even get a $2.50/mo customer owned equipment credit if you are lucky :)
From what I can tell from what you reported of your conversation with Comcast, you should not have to worry about your CableCARD not working. In my area (and I want to say all over in the US but not sure ont hat), Comcast went all digital for every channel earlier this summer. CableCARDs and accompanying tuners are compatible with digital delivery, so you should be okay there. Going digital just means that its no longer an analog TV signal going through the coax cables, it's a digital signal and allows Comcast to pack more channels into the same cable and/or free up more bandwidth for other uses. Unfortunately, it also allows them to lock stuff down even more and it's not compatible with older TVs. If you ever had a TV just hooked up the coax and not to a Set Top Box, it was likely being fed an analog cable TV signal. Once Comcast goes digital in your area, you will need a DTA (digital-to-analog) converter box from Comcast for the TV to continue tuning channels without a STB or CableCARD. There are a few TVs that have digital tuners in them, but for the most part you are looking at getting a DTA.
At least in my area, the first two DTAs are free, after that there is a fee for additional TVs. I think the economy package confusion relates to... if I'm remembering this correctly.... Comcast is locking down the DTA boxes to only be able to tune up to a certain package of channels. Basically, they are pushing you to upgrade to a more expensive STB ;). If you are just running an all CableCARD home, then you shouldn't have anything to worry about with the digital transition. On the other hand, if you have older TVs in the house currently without boxes, you'll need to get converter boxes for them to unscramble the digital TV singals.
Hope this helps clarify things :). It's nice to know that my article is getting recommended :)
Hmmm...Comcast gave me my first cablecard for free. Second cablecard costs $2.99 a month. Comcast offers a customer owned equipment credit $2.50 a month. I get a monthly credit of $5.00 off my bill. They won't tell you about this credit if you don't ask and a lot of the reps will try to tell you there is no such credit. Don't believe them.
Awesome article.
Im too cheap to get a full cable package and so I only get the major networks over clear QAM with my htpc.
There is an awesome remote that goes for about $15 on amazon. I think everyone who does windows media center should try it out. I love mine.
The programs that you record will be DRM-protected. You will be able to play them back only on the computer that recorded them, and if you have to reinstall Windows, you will not be able to play them back even on the computer that recorded them.
Well, not everything is flagged as copy-once :)
I have a question about the Ceton/Hauppauge/HomeRun systems. Do they only tune the signals for watching TV on a computer through the WMC system?
What brought me to this article was just looking for a simple way around using the DTA boxes to watch basic cable on secondary TV's around the house. I have a brand new flat TV for the bedroom that I just simply want to watch basic TV on without paying the $2 a month for DTA box and mount the TV straight to the wall. I want to use the TV remote only to flip through unscrambled channels coming directly from a coax line I have mounted in-wall in a box. Going for clean and simple look here. I would add whatever cableCard tuner ect in the basement where the source comes in.
Can one of these CableCard systems be put in place further down the line (where the cable comes in at my basement for example), unscramble the signal, and sent to the TV for regular use. Like the "good old days" when you had a analog signal with all the channels being broadcast into your house.
I know this article seems to be for a lot of DVR discussion, but I can't imagine I'm the only person in the world who wants to simply have all their TV's in the house have 1 cable line in and no DTA box (especially now that all are $2 a month per TV through Comcast).
Thanks in advance for any input.
Nice Topic, I have been running 2 home built HTPC's runing xp MCE for over 5 years, I am still in the analog era due to the digital cable encryption not having any packages in the clear, so far the analog is still on in my rural area of Ontario Canada but the time will come when the will shut it down as they did with analog radio stations this last fall.
I stick with XP MCE because my good Aver Media A169 dual analog tuner is not supported under Vista, 7 of 8
as well a couple of deal breakers were introduced in vista & have remained thru 7
they are dual audio @ the same time under xp you can output analog audio to your TV speakers & digital to a HTR, with vista & up you can only have one or the other not both, the other deal breaker is the shut down options, with xp in the advanced screen saver options you can set the PC to prompt you with a options menu when you push the power button on the remote, with vista & up it just goes into standby, you can not choose to close media center, shut down the PC or reboot the pc from the remote power button as you can with XP MCE
as for copying & archiving files I am using the older ms dvr format & I have no problems playing recorded programs back on other PC'S running XP MCE but if I copy to a PC running vista, 7 or 8 files which were flagged as "non protected" in xp have now become "protected" and will not play.
so I simply convert any recorded content with "video Redo" to mpg 2 for SD files this also removes any protection flags that I have encountered, I do this anyway for editing & archiving any content I wish to keep.
the TV decryption card either with a tuner or to work with digital tuners installed in a media center is what is needed to give us access to cable HD TV as I refuse to buy or rent PVR's & cable boxes for each TV & have them control the content I pay for.
whats is needed is information on any cable card tuners that are compatible with windows media center & linux as well as which brands or scrambling systems these cable card slots support this will help those of us looking to make the jump from analog to digital with their HTPC as well those looking for options to the cable company set top box.
> There are some drawbacks, however. Mainly that On Demand does not work ...
A big advantage for the people I know. They make the "On-Demand Button" extra big, and with a softer spring, on the Cable Company Remote Controls provided in my area.
When On-Demand is activated it takes you to Channel 1. In order to exit you must wait for it to startup, to register you and load the Channel selections, finally you must navigate through the Menu to the "Exit" choice. Then when you choose to exit it confirms that you really want to ... all the while you are missing your show.
We really would like to see a few newer Articles on obtaining a reasonable substitution for Cable TV at a better price. Fancy Antennas or Internet Hardware we don't care, as long as it's not over $40 / month.
I cut a few of my Cable Channels since I found I could watch the Station online and avoid a paying an extra $10 / month for just one Channel.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The U.S. dollar slumped against other major currencies on Friday as investors showed a growing appetite for stocks, reducing the safe-haven appeal of the greenback.
The ICE dollar index DXY, +0.40% which measures the U.S. currency against a basket of six major rivals, fell 0.9% at 80.190 on Friday afternoon.
"It's a softer dollar environment, because you've seen equities in general up five days in a row, and it's a positive risk environment. Within that space, the euro has done better than most," said Simon Smith, chief economist at FxPro.
The dollar is generally seen as a haven currency, which tends to decline when investors feel more optimistic and are more willing to buy riskier assets. That was the case on Friday, as European stocks posted their best weekly performance in nearly a year and U.S. stocks also rallied in a shortened trading session. Read: U.S. stocks rally on positive global data.
The euro EURUSD, +0.0890% rallied 0.9% to $1.2983, buoyed by an upbeat business-sentiment index out of Germany. The Ifo index rose to 101.4 in November from 100 in October.
"Companies expressed slightly greater satisfaction with their current business situation," said Hans-Werner Sinn, president of the Ifo Institute. "They were also far less pessimistic about future business developments. The German economy is holding up in the face of the euro crisis."
The British pound GBPUSD, +0.0848% rose 0.6% to $1.6040, while the dollar was 0.1% higher against the Japanese yen at 82.35 yen.
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text: (I presume a single job announcement in all these years is tolerable). ----- Forwarded message from Win Treese <treese at acm.org> ----- [snip] Last fall I joined a startup called SiCortex, where we're building a new Linux cluster computer. We're ramping up the software team, so if you know anyone who is really good and looking for something new, let me know. Here's the short blurb and some job descriptions; feel free to get in touch with me for more details. You can pass this along (minus headers, of course). - Win SiCortex is a new computer company developing a line of Linux cluster computers for demanding scientific and technical applications. The company is based in Maynard, Massachusetts. Senior Software Developers Software developers to work on designing, porting, and qualifying a Linux-based software stack for technical computing clusters. Responsibilities include: * Analyzing one or more sub-projects * Recommending overall approach (buy, port, build) for sub-project(s) * Preparing design and/or implementation plans and schedules for sub-project(s) * Executing implementation plan for sub-project(s) * Executing test and verification strategy for sub-project(s) Areas of expertise being sought include: * Linux porting, drivers, network stack * Parallel file systems * Cluster middleware (job scheduling, single system image) * Compilers and tools * Math and communications libraries * Firmware, diagnostics, and system bring-up * Technical application analysis and tuning Desired skills and experience: * 5+ years industry experience in software development * Deep knowledge of Linux (preferred) or general Unix * Exposure to technical computing * Expertise in multiple areas of software development * Track record of successful results in small teams Software Director Team leader for group of 8-10 software developers designing, porting, and qualifying a Linux-based software stack for technical computing clusters. Responsibilities include: * Analyzing required work and resources * Recruiting and managing team members * Qualifying, recommending, and managing potential third-party vendors (companies and/or consultants) * Preparing and monitoring team schedules * Reviewing and managing team results * Interfacing with potential and actual customers * Technical design and implementation in selected areas Software design task encompasses: * Linux operating system, including kernel, drivers, and networking * Parallel file systems * Cluster middleware * Compilers and tools * Libraries * Applications analysis * Firmware, diagnostics, and other hardware-related software Desired skills and experience: * 10+ years software development, with strong background in Linux (preferred) or Unix * Broad exposure rather than specialist experience in software development * Prior experience in software team leadership or management * Track record of successful results with constrained resources Ideal candidate will have prior exposure to startup environments, pragmatic approach to make vs buy decisions, good understanding of Open Source environments, and excellent people and leadership skills. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl leitl ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20050214/1b68ef97/attachment.sig>


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Mobster Al Capone once said of the 1929 stock-market crash: \"I deny absolutely that I am responsible.\" Today, many strategists find themselves fighting off suggestions of a looming repeat of that long-ago market rout.
Rising to the surface again recently is the so-called \"scary\" 1929 crash chart that maps out market performance from mid-2012 to the present for the Dow industrials and compares it to 1928 and 1929.
The 1929 chart grabbed lots of attention in November. At the end of January, market timer Tom DeMark stirred the retro pot again by telling CNBC that stocks could \"unravel quickly\" in days and have reached an inflection point that resembles the period before 1929. Then Seabreeze Partners\' Doug Kass (the man who has taken on Warren Buffett in another context) piped up in support.
MarketWatch\'s Mark Hulbert addressed the matter this week with this headline: \"Scary 1929 chart gains traction.\" Readers haven\'t stopped coming for the chart and staying for the scare.
Hulbert dutifully analyzed the whole thesis. He took issue with the skeptics\' argument that it\'s just a retrofitted chart and that the differences in scale between the two moves makes it a ridiculous comparison. (Critics say the chart takes prices from a historic boom and bust, and compares them to a much smaller boom.) His conclusion: Many were laughing last November but far fewer are laughing now.
And maybe Kass, DeMark and a few others are sticking to their guns, but some strategists are just doing the eye roll.
Downtown Josh Brown took the fascination with the 1929 comparisons to task a couple of days after DeMark let loose and retweeted his message after Hulbert\'s column appeared this week. \"There\'s nothing constructive about suggesting that price patterns indicate the coming of the next Great Depression,\" concluded Brown in the blog post.
Here\'s one more look at the chart and a different way of slicing the material, courtesy of Bespoke Investment Group. The left is a copy of the one that\'s been going around. Note that the left Y axis, which represents the current rally, is at a vastly different scale than the right Y axis, which reflects the 1920s rally. Those divergent scales, say critics like Bespoke and Brown, give the perception that the market has been charting the same nose-bleed climb as it did in the 1920s. But if you normalize the two runs, graphing them as percent changes that both start at 0%, that similarity fades.
\"The difference is the percentage advance in 1929, where it clearly went parabolic. The current rally from 2009, while mature, is much less extreme,\" wrote Brown.
More than laughter, there is downright annoyance among some analysts over this chart\'s rebirth. Here\'s what Raymond James\'s Jeffrey Saut said in his note on Thursday:
\"I have been in this business for over 42 years, yet I do not ever recall getting as slammed with the same email as many times as I have about the attendant 1929 comparison chart. With the S&P 500 now off a mere 1.7% from its all-time high… investors seem exceptionally frightened by this 1929 \'scary chart\' comparison. Forget about the policy, structural, etc. mistakes that fundamentally caused the Great Depression, which are not present currently, the emotions stirred up by this chart have been amazing to me.\"
Saut harped on about scale and the apples-to-oranges comparison, and said he\'d \"seen this act before. The time period was the 1980s – 1990s when \'they\' were trying to scale Japan\'s Nikkei Index to that of the D-J (Industrial).\' All these kinds of chart shenanigans prove is that, \'Where you stand is a function of where you sit, or that you can make numbers do anything.\' \"
Alpari U.K.\'s Craig Erlam said he\'s no chartist, but nothing he\'s seeing now justifies a selloff of the magnitude of 1929. Japan is still injecting plenty of cash into the market and an asset selloff, which played a big part in the rally last year, in response to tapering would be way overdone. A bigger correction than what\'s been seen so far? Sure, but other than that, he expects the correlation between these charts to break off pretty soon.
The view of technical analyst Andrew Thrasher is that maybe that stock prices could head lower if the same type of chart pattern that led to the 1929 crash developed now, but it won\'t be because we\'re mimicking what happened 85 years ago:
\"In 1928, the Fed began to aggressively raise interest rates to combat, what was believed to be, overvalued stock prices. While you could argue that by the Fed tapering the QE stimulus it is in fact tightening monetary policy — the Fed is still far from discussing raising benchmark rates.\"
Thrasher said he\'s got his eye on other potential dangers, such as any signs that margin debt is beginning to fall while stock prices are going up. He said that would be a signal that excessive bullishness is wearing thin and diverging from the equity uptrend, something seen when the market hit highs in both 2000 and 2007. Another concern is midterm election years — this is one — because they historically have produced bear-market bottoms in the second half of the year. And if the S&P 500 makes it back to 1,850 and divergences from breadth and momentum start to pop up, he will start to get nervous.
@sarge986\'s Stephen Guilfoyle said he considers the whole 1929 chart thing \"entertaining,\" but is not buying any apples-to-apples comparisons. Another important point is that back in 1929, the DJIA was referred to as \"The Market\" and was the cornerstone of the investing universe:
\"I don\'t think anyone considers that index to be as important in the modern era. Nowadays, when traders mention the market being up or down so many points in a day, they are referring to the S&P 500. The DJIA is really just an afterthought for most traders at this point,\" said Guilfoyle.
BTIG\'s Dan Greenhaus acknowledged in his note to clients late Thursday that he\'s once again being peppered by questions about the 1929 chart. The chart he discussed was an overlay of the 1928-29 chart and the S&P 500, but it\'s the same sort of thing:
\"To repeat what we said in our 11.22.13 Bedtime with BTIG, this is a very lazy analysis. It\'s just too easy. Ignoring the fact that the scales are off, the fact remains that there is no statistical validity whatsoever to the chart. No predictive power, no insightful takeaways. None. It\'s a guessing game.\"
This isn\'t to say that people aren\'t talking about a correction out there, as our own Wallace Witkowski found that many stock-market skeptics have been talking about one for so long that maybe that doomsday scenario gives them something to talk about.
But as for 1929? To paraphrase the words of Capone, many strategists absolutely deny a connection.
— Barbara Kollmeyer writes for MarketWatch. Follow her on @bkollmeyer
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March 27, 2013
The spending bill (called a Continuing Resolution or CR) which was passed by Congress on March 21 does not include funding needed to continue providing HIV medications to almost 8,000 people with HIV/AIDS, despite the efforts of The AIDS Institute, AIDS United, and other HIV/AIDS organizations. The bill now goes to the president for his signature.
The CR will fund the federal government through the end of September, but both the House and the Senate failed to continue the $50 million in emergency funding that President Obama announced on World AIDS Day in December 2011 -- $35 million for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) and $15 million for clinical medical care provided through Part C of the Ryan White CARE Act.
In testimony before Congress, Carl Schmid, Deputy Director of The AIDS Institute, warned that under the Continuing Resolution, together with sequestration, states will likely have to remove patients from the ADAP program.
Donna Crews, Director of Government Affairs at AIDS United, noted that this is one of the things that make this different from past funding crises. "Before, we had waiting lists for new applicants, but these would be people who have already been getting their medications through ADAP," she explained.
|This map shows how ADAP will be affected by the sequestration cuts. The cut from the CR will be in addition to the sequestration.
Antiretroviral drugs must be taken every day without interruption or an HIV-positive person's viral load and the risk of opportunistic infections can increase, CD4 T-cell count can decrease, and the possibility of developing resistance to medications can occur, even with a single missed dose, potentially leading to serious health complications and higher health costs. Without the $35 million continuation in ADAP funding, states such as Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Nebraska, Tennessee, and several others will likely have to stop providing medications to many ADAP clients.
Schmid also advocated for the entire Ryan White Program, including the Part C programs that would be affected, saying, "With this increased demand for medications comes a corresponding increase in medical care and support services provided by all other parts of the program."
Iowa's Tom Harkin, Senate Labor, HHS, Education and Selected Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman, attempted to address the ADAP funding cut with an amendment that would have resolved the issue, but it was defeated in a 55-44 party-line vote in the Senate, failing to get the required 60 votes.
There is still a small chance the funding could be restored before the bill is finalized and sent to the President. But even if it is restored, Crews pointed out that the previous cuts from the debt deal and the sequestration would occur on top of the loss of the $50 million to the Ryan White Program. Without the money, ADAP would be funded at the 2012 level before the $35 million was added, a level that demand had far outreached back in 2012.
Schmid commented, "We hope that before the bill is finalized and sent to the President, Congress will see fit to find a way to continue this funding to avoid any interruptions in lifesaving care and treatment. With sequestration and discussion of further budget cuts, continuation of this funding is an absolute necessity."
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Hernandez associate ordered held on $500K bail on accessory charge; witness changes account
FALL RIVER, Mass. – A judge says a defendant alleged to be the "right-hand man" of former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez should continue to be jailed on $500,000 bail.
A bail hearing for Ernest Wallace was held Thursday in Fall River. His attorney had sought $10,000 bail.
Wallace pleaded not guilty last week to a charge of being an accessory to murder after the fact in Odin Lloyd's fatal shooting.
Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in Lloyd's death.
Prosecutors are also revealing that a key witness in their case changed his story about the night Lloyd was killed. Carlos Ortiz had repeatedly said Wallace and Hernandez got out of the car they were in with Lloyd before he heard shots ring out. Ortiz now says only Hernandez did.


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Board of Trustees Appoint Shearer to Position at June 28 Meeting
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CA—The Capistrano Unified School District Board of Trustees appointed Brad Shearer to Assistant Superintendent, Curriculum and Instruction Preschool-Grade 5, effective July 1, 2017.
Throughout his 26 years in education, Shearer's experience spans all facets: classroom teacher, assistant principal, elementary principal, and coordinator of instructional services. Currently Shearer is the Director of Elementary Education with the Riverside Unified School District, a role he has held since 2014.
"I have heard amazing things about Capistrano Unified School District," Shearer said. "I have a passion for primary education and I am excited to partner with a dynamic and forward-thinking District."
The Assistant Superintendent, Curriculum and Instruction Preschool-Grade 5 oversees all primary education programs in the District. The position develops, selects, implements and refines the District's Preschool through grade 5 academic program, curricula, and assessment system in order to accelerate and enhance student achievement for all students to be college and career ready.


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The King wants his crown back: Fast-food chain Burger King is continuing its reinvention by planning to go public – again.
Within the next three months, the hamburger giant said it will re-list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange. The last time Burger King traded publicly was from 2006 to 2010, when investment firm 3G Capital took it over for a whopping $3.3 billion and turned it private.
In a bit of a convoluted deal, 3G said late Tuesday that it is selling a 29% stake in the Miami-based restaurant to London-based acquisition company Justice Holdings.
The $1.4-billion deal will cause Justice's shares to switch from the London Stock Exchange to New York, where Justice will emerge as Burger King Worldwide Inc. 3G will remain the combined company's largest shareholder, with a 71% stake.
"Burger King stood out as a unique global player in the expanding international quick-service restaurant industry with a strong heritage and an aggressive transformation underway in its North America business unit," said Justice co-founder Nicolas Berggruen in a statement.
Billionaire William A. Ackman, who runs hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, is also a Justice co-founder.
"2011 was a pivotal year for the Burger King brand," said Chief Executive Bernardo Hees in a statement.
No kidding. This week, the company revealed its largest menu shake-up ever, with McDonald's-esque garden salads, snack wraps, real fruit smoothies and frappés. Burger King also signed as spokespeople a selection of Tinseltown's biggest names, including David Beckham, Jay Leno, Salma Hayek and Steven Tyler.
The company is rolling out a remodeling effort through its more than 12,500 stores around the world. Earlier this year, the chain kicked out its king mascot for a broader marketing strategy.
Even Hees is relatively new – the onetime Latin American railroad executive was brought on board as Burger King's boss in 2010.
But the company continues to get burned, losing its second-place spot in the U.S. burger wars to Wendy's earlier this month and watching a steady exodus of customers to fast-casual competitors such as Five Guys. For the fiscal year ended Dec. 31, revenue dipped 3% to $2.3 billion from $2.4 billion.
Here's hoping its public reemergence helps matters. As part of the deal with Justice, two new members will join Burger King's board: Alan Parker, one of Justice's independent directors and a former restaurant and hotel executive, and Martin Franklin, executive chairman of consumer products company Jarden.
Both Justice and 3G's boards approved the agreement, which is not subject to shareholder approval but does need to pass muster with antitrust authorities and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Five Guys, In-N-Out beat out McDonald's, Burger King in poll
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Turkish Taffy, Astro Pops, Mary Janes, fireballs, and Fun Dip. Welcome to Robin's Candy Shop, a modern-day version of an old-fashioned penny candy store that doubles as a trip down memory lane. "We're not a children's candy store," says owner Robin Helfand. Her goodies appeal more to "the kid in a grown-up." The nine-month-old Newbury Street shop is the entrepreneur's second; the first opened in 2008 in Great Barrington.
Every generation will find something to love. Fine chocolates, fudge, over 60 varieties of licorice (Helfand's mother's and grandmother's favorite), party favors, knickknacks, including Silly Putty, slinkies, bagel yo-yos, and Mexican piñatas are in this spot. War Heads and Toxic Waste (uber-sour) and candied bugs (real ones) will appeal to teenage boys; a 2-pound marshmallow ($39) doubles as a birthday cake; a 27-pound gummy bear ($189) will feed the entire dorm; and candy pizza ($25 to $38) might be a treat for the office. For Easter, build your own basket ($15 to $150) with Peeps, Spanish nougat, Cadbury Creme Eggs, chocolate bunnies, and more. "It's a happy business," says Helfand. Every purchase comes with a mini toothbrush that reads, "Keep that sweet tooth healthy!"
Robin's Candy Shop, 253 Newbury St., Boston,
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