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In a recent Minneapolis Star Tribune column I profiled Burning Brothers Brewing, Minnesota's first and only gluten-free brewery. For the column I did an extended interview with co-founder and head brewer Dane Breimhorst. We talked in-depth about what it means to live with Celiac disease, how gluten-free beers differ from other beers, and the challenges of crafting gluten-free brews that actually taste like beer. What follows is the nearly-full content of that interview.
Let's start with your background. What's the path you took to get here?
I grew up in a small town. And I actually grew up hating beer. In this small town the only beers were a lot of the larger brand beers, and I just didn't care for them that much. I thought that's how beer tasted. I thought that was it. I drank it on the farm all the time because after a hot day there is nothing like an ice cold lager. But what I did like to do was make wine. So I started off at eighteen making country wines. If it rotted I made wine with it. Then somebody had this beer kit at a garage sale. It was one of those Mr. Brews or something like that.
Add water and stir?
Add water and stir, ferment it and wait. And it tastes horrible. But I was curious to see if I could make it taste better, because I was also really into cooking. I used to run a little gourmet club when I was in high school and I would ferment anything that fermented.
So it seems like fermentation has been a theme in your life.
Yup. If it rots you can ferment it. I didn't care if it was grain or if it was dandelions or gooseberries. I didn't care whatever the heck it was. I'd go to the grocery store and walk through the produce section going, "Wow, there's a lot of wine in here." I'm making everything into wine.
But so when I turned 21, I had a Red Hook Extra Special Bitter. I was hooked. All of a sudden I got something different and I started diving into it. Kölsch? I was like, "What is that?" There wasn't a lot of literature on it and the internet wasn't huge, so I just started dabbling and anything that looked weird I'd buy. At one point in time I became a stout fanatic to the point where we used to go see an Irish band play every Tuesday night and I would order a pitcher of Guinness and I would dunk my Oreos® in it all night long. And I got other people ordering pitchers of Guinness. All of a sudden you'd see people going into this Irish bar with Double Stuffed Oreos®. I mean people were sitting there listening to the band and dunking Oreos® in Guinness and drinking. It was a new fad in this particular pub. It lasted at least a month or two.
So from there I just started exploring brewing a little bit more. And then my friend Thom and I, we've been friends since we were nineteen, we both started thinking that we had enough knowledge of it on a small system, like a little 15-gallon, half-barrel, 20-gallon system, that we could make a brew on premises work. I think it's a fantastic idea and if it's marketed right I think that the Twin Cities could use another one. And I thought that if we opened one up in Northeast or over in that area that it would rock. So we wrote up a full business plan on it. We continued to brew. We started brewing together to see where we were both at. We priced it all out and had the business plan written, and we were about to execute it when we got slammed by a brick wall. I was diagnosed with Celiac and that was the end of that. Right away we looked at the business plan and said there's just not the market for a gluten-free brew on premises and there's no way that I could run a regular brew on premises without killing myself.
What exactly is Celiac disease?
Alright. So Celiac is an autoimmune disorder. Meaning that when my body ingests a certain amino acid protein strain found in a variety of grass that is the wheat family it triggers a self-attack. Wheat, barley, rye, spelt, all of those grasses are related to each other and they all contain gluten. Well, all grain contains a gluten protein, and that gluten is just a protective amino strain that protects the grain. This particular strain of gluten from that particular grass family affects some of us to where our bodies ingest it and it triggers a self-attack. So my body will actually attack itself and it will do so mostly in my small intestine. It destroys the small hairs that uptake nutrients and you actually become malnourished. So after I was tested, we actually had to go through a full test to see what my vitamin levels were and I was practically third-world country. We had to bump everything way back up again. And when I get sick I can tell because all of my nutrients go down and for the next couple of months I'm prone to any kind of illness because it's an immune reaction. So for me it feels like the flu times ten, about 48 hours of nasty. Then about a week or two of recovery.
I know there are degrees of Celiac. Some people it's fairly mild, some people it's intense. You're on the intense end of that spectrum.
This is what they're trying to figure out. It doesn't seem like it's so much the severity of the actual disease itself, but the severity of the reaction, the outward reaction. Some people get nothing but a little bit of heartburn. That becomes chronic and of course it's bad for the esophagus. But the problem is that they are still doing the same damage on the inside. So yeah, my symptoms are pretty severe. There are people out there that are much more severe than I am. My aunt has Celiac and she'll actually break out in hives all over. I don't. I just puke out of every orifice. And sit around in the fetal position for a while wishing I was dead. Then after that it's alright.
So I notice that you were wearing rubber gloves at Winterfest.
I learned a lesson at Hops for Hunger. I was pouring beer all night at Hops for Hunger and I was drinking my beer as well. But as soon as you hand someone your glass, a lot of times they are going to rinse out that previous beer. The glass is soaking in beer. It's all over everything. So it was all over my hands. So every single time I was drinking my beer I was rubbing more gluten onto my cup and into my mouth. It usually takes about 24 hours for the symptoms to really kick in. I was so bad. I hadn't had that kind of reaction in a while. Unfortunately brew day doesn't care about that. I think I did a 16 or 17-hour double brew run that day. It was just running back and forth from the bathroom to the brew floor just wanting to die. I mean, everybody helped. We all kind of chipped in. It was Thom and I for the most part and we just rocked it out. Then I went home, tried to get some sleep, and came right back in the next morning. Welcome to owning your own business. So now when I'm pouring we bring a box of gloves for me to wear.
Sticky hands are just part of a beer fest. You end up with beer all over everything.
I know. Actually, people were kind of whispering about it. "Oh my god, does he hate beer that much? Why is he wearing gloves?" I'm Burning Brothers. I have celiac. It will kill me.
So to get back, you had this business plan and you had to throw it out.
Yup. We were pretty bummed out about it. We weren't quite in the position that we thought to open an actual package brewery. So I went out and bought pretty much every gluten-free beer that was on the market. Back then that was only three or four. I didn't like them. They just weren't my thing. I'll never cut them down. I'll never cut down any beer out there. It's up to personal preference. But it wasn't my thing. I didn't like it and I was determined to make my own. I obviously know how to brew beer and so does Thom. So Thom was like, "Yeah, let's do it. Let's see if we can brew a gluten-free beer." We spent years trying. We threw the kitchen at it. We were trying different spice combinations, anything just to mask that sorghum flavor.
So my take on gluten-free beers, most of them, is that you can't approach it thinking that it's going to taste like beer. If you accept that and judge it on its own merits, then some of them aren't so bad. But you have to rid yourself of that expectation.
We kind of approached it that way at first, but I said why not raise our standards up and say this should taste like beer. I want to make it as close to beer as possible. And not just beer, but I want to make it a well-balanced beer, as balanced as I can possibly make it. That was my thing. I missed beer
So what do you have to do to make a gluten-free beer? What's different than regular barley beer?
You cannot use barley, wheat, rye, spelt, all the main ingredients in beer as we know it today.
So what do you use instead?
I use an ancient grain, which some of the first records of beer out of Northern Africa were thought to be made out of, a grain called sorghum. It's the primary grain in our flagship beer. That's a 100% sorghum beer. I also use malted buckwheat and malted millet. I'm trying to experiment a little bit with teff, which is kind of a nutty grass. Wild rice as well. I'm not big on the rice, however. I've had a couple of companies ask me if I could sample their malted brown rice. But I always get a piece of paper with it that says "Please don't feed this to people with celiac because there is gluten in it." It's malted on the same malting floor as barley. It's stored in the same warehouse. I'm like, well then it's full of it. Are you kidding me? I almost yelled at a couple of suppliers for bringing it into my brewery, because this is s gluten-free facility. We don't allow it in the facility in any way. So now I'm taking some of that and very carefully packaging it and sending it out to my maltstress in Colorado and saying, "can you give me 20 or 30 pounds of this? I just want to try it to see what the flavor profile is." That's the big thing with gluten-free. You're using different grains, but yet you want to try and get a lot of the same flavors as you would from barley.
So is the brewing process the same with those grains? Will they convert their own starch to sugar or do you have to use enzymes?
They convert. I have to use no enzymes whatsoever. They actually convert very easily, so they're a little bit more forgiving. Sorghum isn't. Sorghum is a pain. Sorghum is an absolute pain. That's why most places will just extract the sugar by adding enzymes instead of using the malting procedure. They just grind it, add enzymes and pull out the sugars that way. But millet and buckwheat are easy. And quinoa as well, which if the price ever goes down on it we'll run a batch. If I do end up running it, then we'll do small, one-barrel batches of a tripel, because that's my Everest. I'm pretty sure I have a recipe down that I can do it, but that will be quinoa, buckwheat, and millet all together with no sorghum in it.
So sorghum to me does have a particular flavor when it's made into beer. It's kind of all at once oddly almond/floral and then cider – like green apple cider. But your beers do not have that. There is a little bit of that floral/almond in there, but not as intense as in a lot of sorghum beers. And I don't get any of that cider character. If this beer is 100% sorghum, why don't I get that?
So when we were trying to do gluten-free beers at first, we were failing miserably. We just couldn't do it. We stopped and took a step back and thought, "We're starting to prove that Einstein's theory is correct. We're just doing the same thing over and over again. We're adding spices. We're adding this and that. We're adding as many adjuncts as we can to try to mask flavors. Instead of trying to mask flavors, why don't we tear it apart?"
You know, I used to be a fine-dining cook. I'm very good at pulling flavors apart palate-wise, at least for food. So I had to start training myself. I'm always trying to look at beer in that sense. With beer and with wine I'm always trying to pull the palate apart and taste it that way. But I kind of stepped back from the beer thing and I went more for cooking. The flavor profiles that I'm looking for are this, this, this, and this. These are the flavor profiles that are good about straight sorghum and these are the ones that are not. So how do we get rid of the ones that are bad? Then I tried to figure out what I had. As much as I liked brewing and fermenting, I was no yeast expert. I knew that different kinds of yeast do different things and give different flavors and different reactions, but I didn't know why. I didn't know what happens if you push a yeast here or there. I knew about steam beers, but why does that action happen? Why does it change the flavor so profusely? I started playing around with yeast at that point. I started playing around with hops, completely throwing the books out, throwing out the guidelines and asking, okay so how do I change this profile? I have to add this profile to it and that will neutralize it and make it inert. You know, I add a bitter to a sweet. I add a spice to a sweet.
So working kind of like I would do with food pairings, looking for interactions that will tone down certain things and bring out others.
Exactly. It took a while to really wrap my head around it and start walking down that edge. Now I'm so specific that I've kilned my own grains and malted my own grains. It comes to me already malted now, but it's the exact same thing, so I already know what it's going to taste like. I can actually send my maltster a sample of my particular roast and she will match it. So we started playing with that. I started pushing yeast a little bit too, trying to get some flavors that might be considered off in other beers. We actually look for them, because they contradict some of the flavors in the sorghum that we want gone. So clever use of hops and yeast is the biggest thing. Fermentation temperatures. How fast I cycle through a fermenter.
So that kind of gets to something you said to me earlier, that yeast is your best friend. Is that primarily the reason?
I've always been fascinated by fungus. When I was younger I used to grow mushrooms. Not the hallucinogenic ones. I loved growing edible, culinary mushrooms. It's hard to find hedgehog mushrooms. It's hard to find black chanterelle mushrooms up here. And there's no way I'm going to pay that much for portabellas or creminis. I realized that I could get free spore prints from universities. Growing mushrooms was one of the most difficult things I ever learned how to do. You almost have to do it in a lab. I actually have a glove box and I'm taking spore prints and I'm inoculating plates. It's like working with yeast. I feel very comfortable with it.
Is there really a big enough market for a totally gluten-free brewery?
Yes. Absolutely. Right now the gluten-free industry in the United States is a 3.8 billion dollar industry. So it's huge. And the number of cases is increasing yearly. The reason why is not because the number of people who have the genetic code for celiac are increasing, it's that people are more aware of it and the tests are getting easier. The blood tests are actually pretty decent now. When I first went in, the blood tests were crap. You pretty much had to do an endoscopy and that scares people away from getting tested.
In some states you can be certified that you have celiac. I don't know what that means to be certified celiac. "Wow! I have a sucky disease and I'm certified that I have a sucky disease! I can't eat your food anymore! This sucks! Yay me!" But now more and more people are getting tested. That's one of the things they are testing kids for now. It's part of the allergen test.
That's one of the reasons that we want to come out with the beers that we want to come out with. We want to come out with an American pale ale because to me when you're trying to get into beers and you're really exploring, there are beers that are better to start off with than others. And I think that the drinkability of American pale ale, especially with the citrus, it makes it a really easy summer beer to drink and it's a beer that you can drink all year round. And it's easier for those who aren't hugely into craft beers. I mean, I have an American premium lager recipe. I've brewed it. It tastes like an American premium lager. It's a pain to do, but I don't mind doing it. But at the same time I'm like, "Do I want to put out an American premium lager? Do I want to do it?" I might eventually. I don't know. As I got older I found a place for the American lager – before I got diagnosed. I actually really liked it when I went out fishing. That's why I want to put it out. I want to put out a fisherman's eight-pack. Just in cans. An eight-pack kind of thing.
You wouldn't be the only one. A lot of craft brewers now are starting to put out American style lagers. Town Hall has one.
You can have fun with them. You don't have to rip out everything with rice solids. I want to see how straw-colored I can make mine. I want to make it as clear as possible, as straw-colored as possible. It's a challenge to make. It's a hard beer to make. It's a stupid-hard beer to make gluten-free because there is so much in the flavor that you have to hold back.
There's not a lot to mask the sorghum flavor.
The other really difficult one is one that Thom my business partner has challenged me to do, and I'm not sure how I'm going to do it, but he wants me to do an English mild session beer. Trying to get a sorghum beer down in the 2% range, low 3% range – I have a hard time keeping it as low as I do now just because your first instinct is to rip out as much of the sugar from the sorghum as possible. That's how you're going to get alcohol from doing that. But to actually try to keep it low and still keep the balance. I'm thinking it's not going to be a sorghum beer, that's for sure. It might be just straight buckwheat, and I'll use a bit of millet just as a pale malt in there.
What about roasted grains?
It gives you a real biscuity flavor if you just use it straight without malting it. If you malt it first you get a lot more of the malt tones in there. It's still hard to pull that malt flavor out. But when you just roast it there's no backbone, but a lot of biscuit. You can almost taste the burnt toast in there. It's good in certain beers.
I was playing around with different stout recipes. I still want to create different stouts, because as I said before, when I was younger I fell in love with stout. I'd like to get back and do a really nice porter and a really nice stout and dive into some of the darker beers, the meatier beers like that. I use roasted buckwheat in one of the stouts that I was working on. It came out pretty good. The best stout I did was with quinoa, but I can't figure out how to brew it on a large scale and have people afford it. That would be a 750 ml for 30 bucks almost. I know there are people with celiac who would pay that, but at the same time, I just don't want them to have to. So it will take some time. Right now I'm working on something that's just as good but doesn't have quinoa in it.
That would be a hard sell. At 30 bucks you're in the range of something like Deus Brut des Flandres.
I'm not up to that. I can only strive.
Talking to you it's clear how your cooking and culinary background translates into brewing. But how do you see the connection?
Well…my attitude on the brew floor. My assistants hate it. I go right back into the kitchen mentality. One of them, thank God, has spent half his life in a kitchen, so he knows what it's like to be yelled at. There's a separating line between the brew floor and out here. Out here it didn't happen. Just forget about it. We made beer. But I get pretty ornery back there. It's funny, because I revert right back to that. If somebody misses something that's really, really small it's the most irritating thing in the world. To me as a cook that's huge. On the hot side it's not as bad because you're not really as worried about contamination and all that, but I'm still, "I didn't say that lever! Grab that butterfly and God damnit open it now! Jesus fucking Christ, let me do it!" I'm whipping down from the platform and I'm like, "Okay, I'm going to go over here and CIP something." Actually, I'm trying to work on it.
Having worked for ten years in restaurants, that sounds very familiar.
Exactly. And I want to do everything at once, too. Just like in a restaurant. When they walk into the cooler and grab one thing and come out, I'm like, "what the hell are you doing? You've got stronger arms than that, pile it on there. You can take three boxes of hops out of there at a time, for God's sake. It's under a hundred pounds. You can do it. You're wasting time." Even though it's not affecting the brew time whatsoever. You're waiting for water to boil. Nothing is going on besides cleaning the brewery and prepping things out there. It's not a big rush. But I get that cook mentality where it's a rush and get it on. When that door opens, this place better be pristine and you're mise en place better be set out perfectly. And you better be ready to cook some real food. Everything is done to order, baby.
But I also do that with the recipes too. I have my own wait staff that comes by to try recipes that I think are getting to the point that they are good. They come by and grab a growler and tear this apart. Tear it apart. My family, I'll go to them for compliments all day long. But I want some constructive criticism, damnit. Tear it apart. That's the reason we entered our beer into so many competitions while we still could. We entered the competitions just to get the feedback from the judges. We never told them it was gluten-free. I don't want it compared to other gluten free beers. I feel like I have a product that can stand up against other gluten free beers on the market. I more want a product that can stand up to or at least hold its own weight against some of the craft beers. There is no way that I can top some of them, but I'm going to keep trying.


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At Lion Fight Promotions Friday, the InvictaFC MMA featherweight champion woman-handled last minute replacement Jennifer Columb (10-1) in a Muay Thai battle, giving the French fighter her first loss as a pro.
Cyborg (now 2-0 in Muay Thai) has a tough cut during the week, but had weighed in at 145 pounds. Columb, who was the only woman brave enough to take the fight on short notice, had to gain weight in order to make 141 pounds limit for the fight.
The size advantage took a heavy toll throughout the fight, with Cyborg out powering Columb. Cyborg did show some technique, landing leg kicks; and then knees in the clinch. She was also able to throw a spinning hook kick during the fight.
With the exception of Columb throw some spinning back fists, she was perplexed how to stop Cyborg through the first two rounds of the fight. Cyborg landed two hard shots to the body in the third, which prompted the referee to stop the contest at 0:54 in.
Cyborg stated she would continue in Muay Thai, but is expecting to return to Invicta in December.
In the other female bout on the card, Angela Hill got her first pro win with a unanimous decision over Monique Travis. Both fighters were debuting as pros in the bout, with Hill (14-0 ammy) and Travis (15-0 ammy) both undefeated as amateurs. Hill's huge reach advantage proved a factor at times, but it was Hill's work in the clinch, using knees and elbows, that gave her the decision win.
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While executing a go-around at an uncontrolled airport, a Cessna T210R airplane collided with a Cessna 172K airplane that was performing a touch and go landing to the same runway. The 9,100-hour pilot of the 172K reported that while preparing for takeoff on the touch and go he heard the T210R announce that he was going around. The 172K pilot then advised the T210R pilot again that he was performing a touch and go. While climbing out at approximately 50 feet above the runway the 172K pilot felt what he thought was a large bird strike. The 1,440-hour pilot of the T210R reported that, on short final, he realized he was going to overtake the 172K that had landed on the runway, and initiated a go-around at the approach end of the runway. Upon announcing his go-around on UNICOM he subsequently heard the 172K pilot state "touch and go" on the same frequency. At the same instant, the T210R pilot saw the 172K rise from below and fill up his windshield. He attempted an evasive maneuver to avoid a collision but contacted the tail section of the 172K. A witness on the ground confirmed these events, stating that the T210R rapidly gained speed on the 172K and climbed into him. The T210R impacted the 172K from the rear while climbing. The Cessna 172K sustained structural damage, while the damage to the T210R was limited to the propeller blades. None of the occupants on either aircraft was injured. The visibility at the time of the collision was reported as 10 statute miles.
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In the mural at the new Martin Luther King Fair Housing Exhibit Center, which will host a soft opening on Monday in North Lawndale, King peers out at visitors in intense contemplation.
Behind him in the painting by renowned artist Paul Collins is the three-story building where the civil rights leader and his family lived in 1966. Picketers wave "End Slums" signs on the street below, as King, his wife, Coretta Scott, and their children lean out of a top-floor apartment.
U.S. Rep. Danny K. Davis, then in his 20s and teaching at a nearby alternative school for troubled youth, remembers well the scene captured in the mural commissioned by the nonprofit Lawndale Christian Development Corp., which is spearheading the new center.
"A fellow teacher's parents lived not far from there. We'd often go by his father's house to eat, and any chance we got, we'd go by Dr. King's apartment," Davis recalled. "Sometimes there would be a crowd outside, other times a few people, looking up. Dr. King and his family were like royalty, in a sense. There was such a feeling of appreciation by people that 'Hey, they're drawing attention to our community.' "
The new center, at 1558 S. Hamlin, won't officially open to the public until Jan. 26 — 48 years to the day King's family moved into the West Side community. It's a neighborhood that today still bears scars from the rioting that occurred in wake of King's assassination on April 4, 1968.
Destruction from rioting was compounded by decades of disinvestment that earned North Lawndale its dubious ranking among the nation's most impoverished neighborhoods — and more recently, among its most dangerous. But public, private and nonprofit efforts in the last decade are bringing increased rebuilding.
"In 2003, Lawndale community residents shared a dream that their community would be recognized for its rich history. It became the commitment of Lawndale Christian DevCorp to ensure it happened," said Executive Director Kimberlie Jackson. "The cool thing is the Fair Housing Act of '68 was passed because of Dr. King's presence here, an impact that has changed the world and the way African-Americans live in it."
The center is part of a 4-acre MLK Memorial District honoring King's Chicago Freedom Movement of '65 to '66 — the fight against deplorable conditions that blacks were forced to live in because of housing segregation — which helped bring about the Fair Housing Act .
The historic district includes the Dr. King Legacy Apartments, 45 units of modern, affordable rental housing at 1515 S. Hamlin, which opened in 2011 on the site of the building — long-ago torn down — that the King family had called home. It was the only place in the North that King ever lived.
His son, Martin Luther King III — just 8 when his family moved to Chicago for that long hot summer —attended the ribbon-cutting, calling the project "a tribute to what my Dad envisioned, what he had hoped to see."
The district includes a campus park in partnership with nearby Penn Elementary School and a job training center, the Cornerstone Chicago Center for Arts & Technology, and there are plans for a new library.
"I've been working on this mural close to a year," said Collins, one-time board member of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, and close friend of the late Coretta Scott King, who commissioned him to design the famed Martin Luther King Peace Prize Medal.
"This project offers an intimate look into Martin's life in Chicago, while providing a positive example for our children, who need to be reminded that people lost their lives for us so we could sit in the front of the bus, live in a decent neighborhood, go to decent schools," Collins said. "It's never been about race. It's always been about justice and injustice."
Collins, the first African-American commissioned to paint a sitting U.S. president, Gerald Ford, will attend the private opening where the mural will be unveiled. Rep. Danny Davis and two other Chicagoans — Jane Ramsey, longtime executive director of the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs and Dennis Deer, founder of Deer Rehabilitation Services, a North Lawndale mental health center — will be honored for their social justice efforts.
The center's project manager, Todd Wolcott, and its designer, Vernon Lockhart of Art on the Loose, Inc., walked a reporter and photographer through the vibrant exhibit space last week.
It's filled with floor-to-ceiling historic photos. Particularly grabbing is a replica of the King family's apartment, against a photo of King and Coretta Scott on their couch; a 1930s redlining map depicting African-American communities where banks refused to lend; and Wolcott's story of resurrecting the "End Slums" symbol.
"While researching, I kept seeing this symbol come up and didn't know what it meant. Finally, we came across a woman who was 22 years old at the time and worked for Dr. King, Al Raby and James Bevel," he said.
"She was able to identify it for us as the 'End Slums' symbol. The circle stands for unity. The V stands for victory and the line stands for the slums. King and others wanted a symbol that would represent the Chicago Freedom Movement, and two interns came up with it. We will rebirth it in efforts to rebuild North Lawndale and communities like it."
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New Delhi, March 23: Opening batsman Murali Vijay crossed the 1000-run mark here Saturday during his knock of 57 in India's first innings on the second day of the fourth Test against Australia.
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The timing was right when Tim asked if I wanted to compare a couple of inexpensive home multimedia players. For the last several years, I've been using a hacked first-generation Apple TV that has fit my needs well. But, it's four years old now and I know it won't last forever.
My Apple TV handles most standard-def content I throw at it and it has a great user-interface with full IMDB-based metadata support for my movie collection. But it doesn't do so hot with online content and its ability to handle HD content is non-existent. If I want to start using HD and access online content, I need to start looking for a replacement.
In this article, I'll try out two well-reviewed boxes that can stream full high-definition content from the Internet, play local content and retail for around $100. Which one is the better box? Let's dig in.
Box number one in my comparison is the latest version of the WD TV Live that I last looked at in February of 2010. Box number two is the Roku 2 XS, the latest generation of Tim's go-to Netflix and HuluPlus player. Both players can play an array of online services including Netflix, HuluPlus, YouTube and more. And if you'd rather use your own media, they can play that too.
This article won't be a complete review of these products, as we've covered them before and the basic features haven't changed much. Instead, I'll give a just a brief overview and then focus on how they do with respect to handling video content using their latest software builds. I also can't cover all the online services that these products support since both have a very large set. So I'll just concentrate on the most popular content providers for movies.
WD TV Live
The first box up is the WD TV Live. WD recently released an updated version of its entry-level streaming media player. The company has also trimmed the product line down to just the Live and its diskful sibling, the WD TV Live Hub.
The new TV Live has a more up-to-date squared-off look vs. looking like a WD MyBook NAS lying on its side. Figure 1 shows the back panel where you can see the connectors you'll use to hook it up.
Figure 1 : WD TV Live Back Panel
Along with the power, there's optical audio out, Ethernet, HDMI, USB 2.0 and a jack for composite AV. You'll find no vent, as the box runs silently without a fan and draws a paltry 5 W in use and 4 W when idle. An additional USB 2.0 port is located on the front panel. If you're looking to use one of the USB ports, supported disk formats include FAT32, NTFS and non-journaled HFS+.
If you're not prepared to use Ethernet for getting online, the box also has built-in 802.11b/g/n (2.4 GHz only). But, as usual for HD streaming, I'd recommend using the Ethernet connection. Contrary to this advice, I ran a quick wireless test that had no problems playing 720p content from the Internet. But that's because 720p from the Internet is coded so that it has a much lower bitrate.
Figure 2 shows the 38-button(!) remote used for the WD TV Live.
Figure 2: WD TV Live Remote
As far as supported services, check out the product page for the complete list. But in general, you'll find music, movies, and photo services along with weather and Facebook support. For access to local content, the Live is DLNA certified, allowing you to stream videos, photos and music from local servers on your network.
Roku 2 XS
Next up is the Roku 2 XS. Figure 3 shows the connectors available on the back panel of the Roku 2 XS.
Figure 3: Roku 2 XS Back Panel
There's a bit of a difference here between the Roku and the WD TV Live. For starters, the Roku only has a single USB 2.0 port and it's located on the side instead of on the back. But similarly to the WD TV Live, there's HDMI, Ethernet and composite AV jacks.
Also like the WD TV Live, the Roku runs fanless and has internal 802.11b/g/n support for those who don't have Ethernet handy at their entertainment center. I didn't do extensive testing with wireless use, but a quick test showed a few Netflix buffering pauses when displaying HD content vs. none seen when using Ethernet.
A unique feature on the Roku is a slot for a micro SD card, which can be used to expand the internal channel/app storage. But unlike drives plugged into the USB port, you can't play content from the card.
As far as power draw, I initially suspected that I was measuring wrong as my Kill-a-Watt meter was showing only 1 W both active and idle. But a Google search turned up others reporting the same draw, so this box is efficient!
One oddity that struck me with the Roku is boot time. I originally thought that something was broken because after it was powered on, it took nearly 2 1/2 minutes before it was usable. Luckily, since it draws so little power, you'll likely just leave it on all the time. If you're going to plug in an external USB drive, FAT, FAT32, NTFS, and HFS+ disk formats are all supported.
For content support on the Roku, check out the product page where you'll find a more extensive set of channels than the WD TV Live. Along with content channels, games such as Angry Birds are also available. The remote for the Roku 2 XS (Figure 4) even has gyroscopic capabilities for game playing.
Figure 4: Roku 2 XS Remote
One big upcoming channel announced recently for the Roku is HBO Go. But you have to be an HBO subscriber on your cable or satellite service to get it. Unlike the WD TV Live, the Roku doesn't support DLNA, so you won't be streaming content on your local LAN.
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I bought the unit refurbished from E-Bay. The first time I tried to use it it required a software update and using the wireless connection with my linksys It would fail and show a code 011 or 014. I found the only way I could do a software update was to connect to my Modem direct and then the update took fine . I then returned to the wireless setting and everything work as expected. once I got past the start up problem the unit works very well and I am very satisfied with the Roku 2xs.
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i had the roku and you just need to install Plex server on your computer and Plex client on roku, you can watch what you want and where you want with this setup.
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Just a comment on the menus (do you want to quit) and " You get the feeling that each source is its own little island and you have to mentally change gears to move from source to source."
I don't find this as a problem at all. Each content source IS essentially it's own little island, and while it would be cool to have all your content mashed up into one simple interface, that's not something I really expect as long as the content is being offered via different companies. White kind of company would want to forgo all of their branding, and give up control of how their content is served to their customers (not just the content, but their ability to serve ads or anything else for that matter). There's just no way that's going to happen, and that makes complete sense to me. When I leave their service to go back to my Roku menu, the idea that I'm 'quitting' also makes sense... This is pretty much how it is on every device I've ever seen that lets you use these services (roku, wd tv, ps3 etc).
I can concede that maybe those concepts are more intuitive to people who are more 'techie', and maybe not to the mainstream consumer, but until we have one service to rule them all I think that's something people are going to have to get used to... not really a fault of the devices themselves as they have no control over that.
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I have both of these players and just want to correct a few things in this article:
-Games ARE supported on WD TV Live. Also, The Roku HD/XD both support games if you buy the gaming remote for an additional cost, not just the XD and aside from that, there are games that don't utilize the gaming remote. The Roku's gaming remote is a neat idea, but the Bluetooth connection runs through batteries very quickly, even when just using it for streaming videos.
-On the WD TV Live, it will pull cover art, backdrops, and movie information for your local video files if they are named appropriately. Plex is a free app for Roku that will transcode and stream video files to your Roku, it even pulls movie covers and information for them just like the WD TV Live does. It doesn't play everything, but greatly broadens file support and opens enables network streaming.
-You can fast-forward and rewind just fine. It doesn't jump to different scenes. You use the ARROW buttons for small steps and the FF/RW buttons for large jumps in video. Maybe this is what you meant and your wording was confusing.
-This article goes into detail about the UI of streaming services, but doesn't even mention the actual system menus and doesn't show any screenshots of the actual user interface of either product. I personally think this is pretty important and personally prefer the WD TV Live UI, as I find the Roku's too static and simple, lacking the animation, theming, weather widget, etc.


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Facebook is used by more than a billion people worldwide to socialize and because of this; it is deemed as one of the most successful social media in the world. It involves making friends and knowing their whereabouts every now and then. The question that lingers in the minds of many is that, "Is Facebook Adequately Protecting Your Privacy?"
The answer to this can only be retrieved from the privacy and protection rights on Facebook. Facebook is designed in such a way that you as a user can choose to add or ignore a friend. In addition to that, there are settings on your profile that ensure that you limit a number of people from viewing your profile information.


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2 cups (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
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Toppings: assorted sprinkles, flaked coconut and ground walnuts
In a microwave, melt chocolate chips and oil. Stir until smooth.
Thread two marshmallows onto each wooden stick. Roll marshmallows in
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Chill until firm. Yield: 20 servings.
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Glenn Close is returning to theater after more than 15 years – and it won't be in a musical.
I am planning a play in the fall, Close said in an interview Monday at the Sundance Film Festival, where she's promoting the film Low Down.
The 66-year-old actress wouldn't say what play she's joining in advance of the official announcement.
I'm not sure what the producer's plan is. I think he might want more of a cast before, Close said.
Raising money
The most interesting man in the world is helping a Vermont-based company raise money to fight cancer in dogs.
Jonathan Goldsmith is a Manchester resident made famous by his role in the Dos Equis beer commercials. But he's also a dog lover hoping to raise funds for the Denver-based Morris Animal Foundation, which promotes veterinary research for companion animals, horses and wildlife.
Lohan plans film
Lindsay Lohan is attending her first Sundance Film Festival.
The 27-year-old came to the independent cinema showcase Monday to announce that she will produce and star in a film called Inconceivable that is set to start shooting in March.
She described the film as a psychological thriller about a woman trying to reclaim something she lost. No director or co-stars has been announced.
A crew from OWN, which is airing a reality series about Lohan, filmed the actress's news conference. Reporters were told that if they asked personal questions, they would be escorted out.
Riding high
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1. Ride Along, $48.6 million
2. Lone Survivor, $25.9 million
3. The Nut Job, $25.7 million
4. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, $18 million
5. Frozen, $16.1 million
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Among celebrity birthdays today: Actress Piper Laurie is 82. Actor Seymour Cassel is 79. Actor John Hurt is 74. Singer Steve Perry is 65. Actress Linda Blair is 55. Actress Diane Lane is 49. Country singer Regina Nicks is 49. Rap DJ-actor Jazzy Jeff is 49. Actor Balthazar Getty is 39. Singer Willa Ford is 33. Actress Beverley Mitchell is 33. Actress-singer Phoebe Strole is 21.


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Harry Osborn (James Franco) the mogul son of deceased billionaire Norman Osborn aka Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe), is harboring a deep vendetta against Spiderman over the death of his father. His anger is directed at Peter due to the latter's unwillingness to divulge any information about Spidey. Mixed into this already stuffed narrative is the sad tale of Doctor Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina), a scientist working in the field of fusion energy who becomes horrifically altered after an experiment goes awry.
Spiderman 2 is an excellent piece of blockbuster filmmaking, it has rousing set-pieces, dialogue that rings true and special effects that hold up today. I must once again cast my complaint against the scenery chewing over-the-top acting from veteran thespian Rosemary Harris as May Parker. She is so mannered and theatrical in her line delivery that it becomes a sort of lounge act. Regardless of this minor quibble, Spiderman 2 ranks amongst the best superhero sequels of all time.
Director: Sam Raimi
Stars: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco
At the time Spider-Man 2 was released, I believed it to be the best superhero film ever made. While others may have come along to knock it from the top of my personal list, it's undeniably still a classic deserving of being in the conversation as one of the best.


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In Response to Re: TONIGHT WILL BE A THOMAS-BLOWHARD LOSS!: [QUOTE]In Response to Re: TONIGHT WILL BE A THOMAS-BLOWHARD LOSS! : Not to worry, Red. Mine as well was deleted. Posted by Ronstar8[/QUOTE] more »
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I think claude will get it right also loved the in game adjustments he made changing up the lines to me this is where he has improved the most as a coach. Also I thought we got ripped off on the pena more »
Posted 04/17/2012 01:24:27 EDT
In Response to Re: CANUCKS-LA series thread: [QUOTE]In Response to Re: CANUCKS-LA series thread : Not by me. If you'd hit me with the truth serum, I'd have said "Blues vs. Rangers" (though my heart wa more »
Posted 04/07/2012 10:54:21 EDT
Lucic is a target of the refs I would be spouting off if other players were allowed to do stuff to me but when I did something not as bad on another player i am always getting in the box. more »
Posted 03/30/2012 12:58:01 EDT
When has ryan miller ever played well in the playoffs? more »
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Posted 03/14/2012 05:33:38 EDT
That is my stanleycuptothebruins prediction. Its time for a new voice the players are clearly tunning him out and after this 3 month slump ends in april and the team has another horrid october look fo more »
Posted 03/14/2012 05:21:46 EDT
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Posted 03/14/2012 05:08:59 EDT
Count me as a doubter nothing leads me to beleive this team is just going to wake up for the playoffs they have been horrid for over 2 months this is who they are not the team in november. They are re more »
Posted 03/14/2012 04:54:51 EDT
I said that thomas was the main reason even though it was clear to anyone who wasn't blind the pink hats on here cried when I mentioned this. Some times the truth hurts it wasn't claude it wasn't the more »
Posted 02/24/2012 12:39:47 EST
T.N.B thats all thats needs to be said about mister suban. more »
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Just seeing if anyone can see this ? a simpled y or n thanks more »
Posted 02/16/2012 02:42:36 EST
In Response to Re: Another player out....Rich Peverley..: [QUOTE]How about PC calls up one of the juniors to see what the NHL grind is like for a couple of games? Posted by dezaruchi[/QUOTE] What the more »
Posted 02/14/2012 08:17:17 EST
I am convinced they got my account suspended so i am sure they are reporting you cactus more »
Posted 02/14/2012 08:07:38 EST
Interesting how do you feel about this incident with your favorite team the habs? more »
Posted 02/14/2012 08:04:22 EST
Cactus are you in any bubble hockey leagues? I thought it was you who was looking for one last season. more »
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Posted 02/11/2012 06:29:36 EST
Worked fine for me on direct tv. I hate when they keep cutting to the camera angles behind the net for close ups wish they would just keep the regular view at all times.
Posted 02/11/2012 06:02:07 EST
Chara has a bomb of a shot but I think his accuracy is horrid. Whats the good of getting him one timers on the power play if the shot isn't on net alot of the time? more »
Posted 02/11/2012 05:40:50 EST
Seriously man? The picture of Price? more »
Posted 02/11/2012 04:28:02 EST
This is what I expected as well as him being a pest to the oponents. The bruins will get much more than there moneys worth on this contract. I think don't think the krejci contract will be worth it bu more »
Posted 02/11/2012 01:00:59 EST
On the bright side if he ends up going down the savy path its even more money we could use that wouldnt count on the cap. more »
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You really have to love Twins manager Ron Gardenhire. If a team is going to take on the character and personality of its leader, a Minnesota baseball fan could hardly ask for a better guy in the manager's office than Gardenhire, a genuinely pleasant man who actually seems to enjoy his time at the ballpark, as well as his time away from it. Most days he even appears to relish the daily give-and-take with the media and the fans. All year he has dutifully acknowledged his respect for former manager Tom Kelly, even as he has spent the season skirting Kelly's long and very dark shadow and doing things exactly his own way. Yet if you place any stock in the dozens of emails I've received over the last six months, and the usual boneheaded free-for-all on the various team forums on the Internet, there are legions of fans that actually believe that the Twins managed to win this year despite Gardenhire, rather than because of any moves he did or didn't make. Right up to the end of September I was hearing from people every week who were still willing to believe that the Twins would have won the Central Division by 30 or more games if Kelly were still at the helm. This team, more than one reader suggested, would have easily surpassed 100 victories if it weren't for the egregious blunders of the rookie manager. There were even fans who insisted that the team's rash of injuries were somehow the fault of Gardenhire and his staff. Even first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz--in a much publicized article in the Washington Post--pooh-poohed Gardenhire's role in the team's success. Characteristically, Mientkiewicz later reversed his opinion when he told the Pioneer Press's Tom Powers, "I don't think [Gardenhire] gets as much credit as he deserves. Everybody on the team went down at one point or another. He kept us together." Which only proves that Mientkiewicz is right about half of the time--it's too bad he can't hit as well as he can waffle.
I've certainly quibbled with Gardenhire's decisions from time to time, but all of that stuff looks like so much nonsense in the light of the Twins' division series victory over the heavily favored Oakland Athletics. You can go ahead and consider Gardenhire the luckiest man in the world, but how then do you account for the fact that he rode a hobbled horse to a 94-win season and a spot in the American League Championship Series?
As gripping, and to be honest, as unexpected as the Twins victory over the A's in the Divisional Series was, the real story beyond all the tangled plot lines and excruciating drama was Gardenhire's performance in the biggest games of his life. His decision to start Brad Radke in game one was heavily scrutinized and widely derided; conventional wisdom said that Rick Reed, the team's best and most consistent starter down the stretch, deserved the nod. Radke, of course, proceeded to pitch the team through the abysmal opening innings of game one (during which the Twins coughed up four unearned runs behind him) and gutted out five innings to get the win. That game was merely prelude to the veteran's spectacular performance in the pivotal fifth game, in which he dueled Oakland lefty Mark Mulder and held the A's to one run in six and-two-thirds innings. For the series he was 2-0 with a 1.54 ERA.
Gardenhire is not a guy who gets terribly uptight; watching him chuckle in the dugout as his team played like beer league yahoos in the first couple innings of that first game was one of the most encouraging signs in the series. All season, the Twins have followed their manager's lead, and game one was a classic example, as they settled down and once again fought their way back to scratch out a victory on Oakland's turf.
Gardenhire's choice of rookie Michael Cuddyer as his right field starter in the series also raised plenty of eyebrows, including mine. Cuddyer spent most of the season in AAA Edmonton, and hit only .259 in 112 at bats with the Twins. Switch hitter Bobby Kielty's on base percentage alone was almost 100 points higher than Cuddyer's, and he hit .291 for the season.
Cuddyer, of course, rewarded Gardenhire's vote of confidence by going 2-3 with a run, an RBI, and a walk in the first game, and the rookie was 5-13 with three walks in the series.
In the fifth game, with the Twins season on the line, and the left handed Mulder on the hill for Oakland, Gardenhire shook things up for the first time in the postseason, starting switch-hitter Denny Hocking at second base for Luis Rivas, and right-handed Matthew LeCroy for David Ortiz at designated hitter. Both moves paid off immediately, as LeCroy singled and later scored the first run on a two-out single by Hocking in the second inning. In the third LeCroy singled home Cristian Guzman for the Twins second run. For the game Hocking and LeCroy were a combined 4-7 with two RBIs and a run scored. The addition of those two right-handed bats in the line-up for the Twins was huge. It also wasn't a particularly characteristic move by Gardenhire. As they have all year, Minnesota's left-handed hitters struggled against the A's lefthander, going 0-14 in the game five victory. The right-handed bats in the line-up, however, battered Mulder for nine hits in fourteen at bats. And the Twins lefties finally got their shot when Oakland manager Art Howe brought on his closer, the right-handed Billy Koch, to try to keep the game close in the ninth. Koch walked Dustan Mohr, who swings from the right side, and a batch of lefthanders gave the Twins all the insurance runs they would need: A.J. Pierzynski hit a two-run homer, and then, with two out, Guzman reached on an infield single, Corey Koskie walked, and David Ortiz (brought on as a pinch hitter for LeCroy in the eighth) doubled home Guzman for the fifth and ultimately decisive run.


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Walter Rosenbaum will be among the first Florida condominium board members to comply with a new law that steers volunteer directors toward enrolling in a state-approved course on state condo law – an effort that for him means going back to school.
Rosenbaum, who will take a state-approved course for certification to serve on a condo board this week, is leading the way for other board members of condo associations. As of July 1, newly-elected or appointed directors must complete an educational course certified by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation or sign a statement that they have read Florida Statute 718 and all of their community's governing documents.


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Dungeon Prospector is old-school dungeon crawler/roguelike. You're in infinity dungeons (in length and width) full of monsters and treasures. How far can you go and how long can you survive? In game implemented: dungeon generation, leveling, permadeath and other.
Right now game in alpha stage, it receives updates with new features and content (about one-two per month).
Dev Update #17
Prebeta. Bosses, new dungeon theme, new mobs, new item system and even more.Mar 23, 2014 News
Dungeons 'n' Computers Bundle
We in the bundle yay!Nov 27, 2013 News
Dev Update #16
New items, weapons, combinations, library block.Jun 17, 2013 News
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Weapons, items, levels, stats.May 12, 2013 News
Dev Update #14
Bug fixes and more fixes.Apr 23, 2013 News
Did they ever implement an option to invert the Y axisis?
Please you can get updated without the client Desura but rather on the site thank you
Still working on this I hope? I've liked it since I first played it, gave had great hopes for you and this proggie. Fulfill your destiny! Make this game the BEST you can!
Anuvva update. It's almost like you haven't given up on the game :) VERY glad to see- I've had lubs for the game ever since I discovered it. TOP ON MATE! Super glad to see it!
Why does this look almost exactly like Delver...
The look a lot alike, but play very differently.
Gameplay is definitely faster here, you can combine items to make new ones, and changes in lighting are a bit more dramatic. I still like the 'feel' of DP better, it's just more smooth.
I'd have no problems recommending both games - if you like dungeon crawlers, you're gonna like 'em both.
Maybe because Dungeon Crawler plus Retro Graphics doesn't allow too much differences^^
Hokey Smokes! An UPDATE?? Awesima! Good to see! I'm gonna try it all out as soon as it finishes updating. I've been waiting so long for this- afraid you had quit. Which would have been horrible, since this game has a FLUCKING SHITE-TON of potential!!!
Not too long from now it'll be June again, and then it'll have been a year since the last update :(
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Maximizing Philanthropic Impact: An Interview with Jim Canales
How does the Foundation think about "risk" in the context of its grantmaking strategies?
What is the proper role of government in social innovation?
In an interview last week on the Social Velocity blog, Irvine President and CEO Jim Canales discussed these and other questions with Social Velocity President Nell Edgington. The interview is one in a series of monthly discussions that Edgington conducts with leaders in the nonprofit sector. The interview is reprinted here:
Nell: One of the four grantmaking principles of the Irvine Foundation is "Invest in Organizations," meaning that you are committed to providing grants to build nonprofit organizations (evaluation, operating support, infrastructure). This is a pretty radical idea for most foundations. What do you think holds other foundations back from this kind of investment and what will it take to get more of them to embrace the idea of organization building as opposed to just supporting direct programs?
Jim: This question of general operating support versus project support has been an ongoing debate in the nonprofit sector, and I'd like to suggest that we may be creating for ourselves a false dichotomy that may not be helpful. I'd suggest we focus on the end goal, not the means. Let's start by asking the question: How can we maximize impact toward the shared goals of a foundation and its grantees? By asking the question in that way, we naturally have to explore whether we are investing sufficient resources, in the right ways, so that our grantee can have the impact we both seek.Read more >>


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What should we tell ourselves in order to handle rejection best ?
Rejection is what Jesus is all about. I think this Methodist article describes it pretty well.
I really like this Catholic youtube video of "Blessed are they".
Imagining being the pope and getting shot and forgiving the shooter.
I'm not at all there yet. I hope to get to a point where I know the message to speak to myself when I feel rejected to be thankful for the opportunity to be forgiving - really is that it ??? What should we be saying to ourselves? There is also the not being a doormat thing in meek. So, set expectations correctly up front, right?


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