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Samsung 6100 vs 6500 Series
Started by Fastfwd, Jan 29 2013 06:43 AM
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#1 of 21 OFFLINE
Posted January 29 2013 - 06:43 AM
Ok, new question – I see some pretty positive review of the 6100 which is not 'backlit' from what I gather, but rather 'edgelit.' I see you guys here and other sites praising 'backlit' though. I believe the 6500 is 'backlit' but it doesn't have the microdimming of the upper level models. So, I already have the 6100, but the 6500 is only $100 more right now – is it worth the hassle? It also has 3D which really isn't a biggie for me, but it's a feature the other doesn't have. Any opinions?
#2 of 21 ONLINE
Posted January 29 2013 - 07:14 AM
I will never buy an LCD if there is a plasma the same size... However, in the sizes I "have no choice" I avoid "edge-lit" like the plague.
#3 of 21 OFFLINE
Posted January 29 2013 - 07:24 AM
In order (best to worst) 1-Plasma 2-fulll array backlit with local dimming led/lcd 3-ccfl backlit lcd 4-backlit led/lcd without local dimming 5-edge lit led. BTW, the "micro-dimming" on Samsungs with the feature isn't dimming any leds at all, it's marketing hype for a trick that modifies the incoming signal's black information. They make it sound like true local dimming but it's not, just more deceptive hype from the masters of hype at Samsung.
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#4 of 21 ONLINE
Posted January 29 2013 - 07:32 AM
"just more deceptive hype from the masters of hype at Samsung." And the creators of the grief of "Hey all I just bought an LED TV...I want to make it look its best"...:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
#5 of 21 ONLINE
Posted January 29 2013 - 07:37 AM
Want to hear the real "operational mindcrime" when it comes to Samsung? BB "salesclerks" are instructed to not call Samsung an LCD. I have actually heard a "salesclerk" say... "Samsung LED is better cause everybody else is still using LCD panels". I walked up to the guy, said a few choice words...took over the sale and they ended up walking out with an LG THX plasma.
#6 of 21 OFFLINE
Posted January 29 2013 - 08:33 AM
In order (best to worst) 1-Plasma 2-fulll array backlit with local dimming led/lcd 3-ccfl backlit lcd 4-backlit led/lcd without local dimming 5-edge lit led. BTW, the "micro-dimming" on Samsungs with the feature isn't dimming any leds at all, it's marketing hype for a trick that modifies the incoming signal's black information. They make it sound like true local dimming but it's not, just more deceptive hype from the masters of hype at Samsung.What is an example of a "ccfl backlit lcd" on the current market? I know you guys praise plasma and are probably correct, but why are sites like Cnet calling backlit led a game changer vs. plasma? Is it only a very top tier few models that pull it off? I'm referencing over at this site btw – that claims the new set I have even as being pretty decent: http://reviews.lcdtv...un46es6100.html
#7 of 21 ONLINE
Posted January 29 2013 - 08:40 AM
Cnet is the absolute worst place to get a review. They have fired reviewers for giving bad reviews. You can still find relatively new stories about their latest(it was a few years ago) "big" firing. Just Google Cnet reviewer fired LCD win two categories against plasma. Weight Electrical use They lose(by a wider margin than their two "wins") Contrast Motion Control Color Saturation Viewing angle Why are LCD "pushed"? Cause they make more money.
#8 of 21 ONLINE
Posted January 29 2013 - 08:44 AM
Tell you how bad CNet is... One year they did a review of anti-virus software. Every single anti-virus maker(Kasperky, AVG, Norton...and when you get all three of them..."on the same page"...) signed a form letter that went into every single "other" review magazine and website saying "CNet was unprofessional in their test".
#9 of 21 OFFLINE
Posted January 29 2013 - 09:06 AM
I can tell my new LED Flatpanel is on the flimsy side compared to my old set for sure. I don't doubt that they are a cheaper product to produce and more profitable. Unfortunately, I think I'm sticking with an LED and I might be making a bad decision. I do care about picture, but I'm just not sure I'm willing to babysit a plasma like it might need and I leave my television on a lot for no good reason. I would hate for something to get stuck not on a screen saver and burn in, etc. I often fall asleep with it on or leave it on all night on purpose. If I have a more dedicated set for viewing critically at some point I may consider plasmas.
#10 of 21 ONLINE
Posted January 29 2013 - 09:13 AM
It isn't an LED. More Samsung garbledigook.
#11 of 21 OFFLINE
Posted January 29 2013 - 09:16 AM
What? How is it not LED? LED 'Edgelit' LCD?
#12 of 21 ONLINE
Posted January 29 2013 - 09:25 AM
LED(because of Samsung and Vizio) became the catchphrase for LED-lit LCD. Samsung and Vizio are trying to con people into thinking the sets are "the next thing" to upcoming OLED. They aren't. Not even close. OLED display has more in common with plasma(as in "how the picture is created"). Eventually OLED(or Organic OLED) will kill off both LCD and plasma.
#13 of 21 OFFLINE
Posted January 30 2013 - 02:49 AM
It wasn't Cnet btw – it was PC Magazine that I was referencing. I'm really torn now at what to believe: http://www.pcmag.com...,2387377,00.asp
#14 of 21 ONLINE
Posted January 30 2013 - 03:01 AM
You wrote... "Cnet calling LED backlit a gamechanger" I know the review was from PC Mag. PC Mag reviewing for Home Theater is like Car and Driver reviewing a John Deere tractor.
#15 of 21 OFFLINE
Posted January 30 2013 - 03:34 AM
Yeah, I cited the wrong website I guess. What would you consider to be a 'reputable' website to reference? I mean, they clearly state that plasma rules for budget screens on that site even. I just don't know. If I went with a plasma for around $1k what would be the best out there? Panasonic?
#16 of 21 ONLINE
Posted January 30 2013 - 03:53 AM
Panasonic and LG are "rock, paper, scissors". Samsung(I've had issue with "Samsung" for ages...in my opinion. They make crap...with a bow on it. I still bought a Samsung HE front load washer/dryer...as it was the only set "not" to have steam dry and all the other stuff I cared not for) is best avoided. My main concern over Samsung is they still haven't corrected their capacitor problem. Yes they settled a multi-Million dollar class action. But, their source for the "bad capacitors" is the same one they use today. It would cost them about 12 cents, per tv, to solve the problem. When I upgrade my phone next month...I know how good the S3 and Note 2 are supposed to be...I'm still buying something else. As far as home theater reviews... Sound and Vision(have to wade through the "sumo class expensive" to get to a relevant to you review...but worth the read) Hometheaterreview.com Hometheater.com For starters.
#17 of 21 OFFLINE
Posted January 30 2013 - 08:53 AM
I have to share this: http://shop.panasoni...odel/TC-P50ST50 'Editor's Choice CNet' LOL Ok, so – what's the verdict on this one: http://www.bestbuy.c...(49-9/10" Diag.)+-+Plasma+-+1080p+-+600Hz+-+Smart+-+3D+-+HDTV/5315331.p?id=1218635272637&skuId=5315331
#18 of 21 ONLINE
Posted January 30 2013 - 12:45 PM
Without getting into the "gee-whiz" of the GT and VT, the ST is tough to beat. You'd practically have to have all three sitting in your living room to know what you are missing... But the ST50 is better than every, EVERY, LCD CCFL, LED edge-lit or LED back-lit, regardless of any backlight dimming the LCD has.
#19 of 21 OFFLINE
Posted January 31 2013 - 01:36 AM
Without getting into the "gee-whiz" of the GT and VT, the ST is tough to beat. You'd practically have to have all three sitting in your living room to know what you are missing... But the ST50 is better than every, EVERY, LCD CCFL, LED edge-lit or LED back-lit, regardless of any backlight dimming the LCD has.Ok, I'm holding you personally responsible for steering me off the Samsungs and that may be a good thing or bad thing LOL. Seriously, I see that Oklahoma County is where the Class Action suite was filed against Samsung over the capacitor ordeal and I'm living in Oklahoma City – I never heard of it. I bet my old set was a part of that group and this new one might not be effected. At any rate, I've been tinkering with the 'smart features' on the new Samsung. They have a super slick interface and plentiful apps, etc. but the execution of them has been a little pokey. I can see why they have the dual processor models for that matter. I select something and it sits there trying to get it together for a few seconds and then it might jump to it or not. Downloads of the apps have been really hit and miss too. Not sure if any of that is my network or the set, but streaming has been impacted from Vudu too. I've come to the decision that despite how slick it is that I already have my Netgear Pro device with WiDi and no matter how bad the Panasonic might be (I bought the wifi adapter for my Panny Bluray Player and the smart features on it SUCK! I wish I had my $80 or whatever back) – anyway, I can always buy a *newer* device and as long as the television has some connectivity it will likely provide the most basic functionality that I might enjoy for that matter. On that note; I am doing this with a prize being placed on picture quality or the hopes that it will be improved. I'm not completely familiar with all of this, but somewhat familiar with calibration generally. I see that my Samsung has the 10 point White Balance vs. the Panny having only 2 Point White Balance. I'm guessing that the hardware itself is going to be so far superior that will more than make up for it? http://reviews.plasm...picturesettings http://reviews.lcdtv...resettings.html I have to say that I setup my Samsung to the settings dictated on that site and watched a Bluray last night and it was BEAUTIFUL! I can imagine it might be that much richer with plasma or even with backlit, but it looked pretty awesome. Television viewing; despite being set exactly the same is not quite as impressive. I also noted seeing an ISP LED/LCD from Panasonic at Sam's last night that looked pretty fantastic. I'm a computer guy and familiar with 'IPS' being a different animal of LCD in terms of quality. I wasn't aware that was an option on television sets though. I'm looking at IPS for a replacement of my computer monitor next time I upgrade it.
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Posted January 31 2013 - 03:49 AM
Yep, IPS is the "LCD you want". Even in Samsung, you don't know which panel you get till you decipher the model code. My oldest plasma is a Hitachi P50X901. When people see it, they are amazed...and Cnet gave it a lousy review... I will admit, Cnet's major issue with the set was cost. I sold this stuff wholesale, and I bought it "at cost". The company I worked for(till a bit over 2 years ago) allowed "2 buys" a year at pure cost from the manufacturer. That is less than the price HH Gregg or BB employees can get...cause we were the suppiers of everything Hitachi. We also sold(of course they still do) LG, Panny Professional, Pio/Elite, Onkyo, Haier, Toshiba, Chief and bunches of other stuff.
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In vitro and animal studies show that resveratrol has anticancer activities. It inhibits proliferation of cancer cells via apoptosis and by exerting anti-estrogenic effects (14) (15) (16) (17). However, contradictory data from other studies showed that it acts as a phytoestrogen and could activate genes that are normally regulated by estrogen (18) or androgen (19).
Trans-resveratrol appears to decrease methylation of the tumor suppressor gene RASSF-1alpha in women at increased breast cancer risk (29). In addition, reductions in breast cancer cell migration and invasion were observed after treatment with resveratrol (30) (31). Resveratrol growth factor heregulin-beta1 (HRG-beta1) mediated matrix metallopeptidase 9 (MMP-9) expressions in human breast cancer cells (30).
Resveratrol may help reduce prostate tumorigenesis through a reduction in the prostatic levels of mTOR complex 1 (mTORC1) activity and increased expression of SIRT1 and (32). Another study demonstrated that resveratrol modulates steroid hormone-dependent pathways to inhibit prostate cancer cell growth. However, resveratrol also increases angiogenesis and inhibition of apoptosis in vivo (19).
In an animal model, resveratrol down-regulated p21 and up-regulated cyclin E leading to S-phase accumulation and apoptosis in neuroblastoma cells (14). Resveratrol also inhibited the enzymes CYP1A1, CYP1A2, and CYP1B1 in tumor cells. This may be one of the mechanisms by which it exerts antitumor effects as some of these enzymes are known to be involved in the activation of procarcinogens and toxins (22) (23).
The protective effect of resveratrol against doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity is due to up-regulation of SIRT1-mediated p53 deacetylation. (20). It also protects against cisplatin-induced cardiotoxicity through the suppression of oxidative stress (19).
Because resveratrol exhibits estrogen-like properties and activates transcription by both the estrogen and androgen receptors that lead to stimulation of cancer cell proliferation, patients with hormone-sensitive cancers should use caution (18).
- Antiplatelet drugs: Because resveratrol inhibits platelet aggregation, concurrent use of other antiplatelet drugs may increase the risk of bleeding.
- Cytochrome P450 substrates: Resveratrol inhibits CYP3A4, CYP2D6, CYP2C9, and induces CYP1A2, thereby affecting the levels of drugs that are metabolized by these enzymes (39).
- Carbamazepine: Polygonum cuspidatum, a herbal supplement rich in resveratrol, can increase carbamazepine blood level due to the inhibition of CYP3A and multidrug resistance-associated protein 2 (MRP 2) (40).


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Bitcoin miners do not have to register as money transfer services: ruling
Bitcoin miner Milly Bitcoin has done a little citizen letter-writing, and the results should make virtual currency miners breathe a sigh of relief. Milly Bitcoin's mining company Atlantic City Bitcoin last June wrote to the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) requesting an official administrative ruling on whether ACB must register as a money transfer service. FinCEN has now replied, and the answer is no.


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Hotel information
Hotel facilities
- Reception (lobby)
- Elevator
- Public Internet terminal
- Executive/business floor
- WLAN with Internet access in lobby
Room facilities
- WLAN with Internet access in rooms
- Cable TV
- Satellite TV
- Pay-TV
- TV remote control
In-house services
- Restaurant(s) 2, open from 12:30 PM.00 until 2:30 PM.00 and from 7:30 PM until 10:30 PM.00, Closed
- Hotel bar
- Café/bistro
- Breakfast from 7:30 AM o'clock to 10:30 AM o'clock
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The Il Patriarca near Chiusi is a charming country hotel set in an enchanting historic villa. Its rooms feature an appealing mix of charming nostalgia and tasteful elegance and impress with luxurious furnishings. In the restaurant, guests may enjoy a wide range of regional and international specialties. Moreover, the beautiful park of the Il Patriarca invites to relax and unwind.
Special features of the hotel
Villa Il Patriarca offers to all its Guests the peaceful atmosphere of a noble Villa surrounded by a large cypress park and luxurious swimming pool.We are 500m from the A1 Autostrada(exit Chiusi-Chianciano Terme)so we are in a favorable position for all types of journey The tourism tax rate is euro 1,50 per person per night,and it is not applied to children(up to 12 years old)
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Hotel built in: 1814, Last complete renovation: 1999, Last partial renovation: 2008, Number of floors: 2, Total number of rooms: 23, Number of single rooms: 0, Number of double rooms: 23, of which have 2 separate beds: 8, of which have a double bed: 15, of which are suitable as three-bed rooms: 3, of which are suitable as four-bed rooms: 2, Rooms with connecting door: 2, Number of suites (separate rooms): 2, Number of junior suites: 2, Number of rooms with air conditioning: 23, No-smoking room: 0, 4 Family rooms available, Children's beds/cots: 2,
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What does it take to win a WPC Award? What level of innovation do you need to show for your entry to be recognised?
We decided to ask this year's WPC 2013 UK Award Winners to share the detail in respect to their winning entries and provide some context around them. Hopefully you'll agree, it's refreshing to see the level of innovation on show and particularly how partners are succeeding with ground breaking solutions and services:
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Is there such a thing? Yup, and no, I am not drunk. The picture above doesn't even look real; to me it looks like someone with mad computer skills had a few minutes to spare one day and decided to mess with our heads. I assure you they are very real and are commonplace in Japan. Currently, they are selling for 10,000 Yen or 82 bucks EACH over there! Ouch…
This new fangled watermelon was invented about 10 years ago by farmers in Zentsuji, Japan who wanted to make their watermelon business greener by helping to reduce carbon footprints of their company and their customers, at the same time. According to my cousin (a.k.a. Steve) only the Western apartments in Japan have normal sized appliances. Since the Japanese have smaller refrigerators, they have to be efficient when it comes to space hence: the square watermelon. Brilliant! Transportation costs are said to be cut almost in half just because they can now be stacked. It's a win-win situation, unless you like playing Greased Watermelon like Frank Reynolds (Danny DeVito) does on the TV show "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
As with everything, there are people that love the novelty of the square melon and there is the naysayer that says that once it is cut, you really can't tell what shape it was. I personally think is a neat and novel idea, maybe it's because growing square watermelons wouldn't be all that hard and I'd be the only one around with them. Supply and demand would dictate the price but, there is no way in hell I could get $82 for one, but boy if I could….
According to everything that I have read and the different videos that I have watched on the subject, all you have to do is, when the melon first appears on the plant put it in the square form or some other shape that your little ol heart desires. Give it sunlight, food, water, time and presto, you've got yourself a conversation piece, until it rots anyway.


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Carsen Chubak and the Atlantic Hockey Weekend That WasSunday, November 11th, 2012
Coming into the season, Dave Burkholder and Niagara had no clue who was going to be the No.1 goalie. Well, there is no doubt who's No. 1 now. Carsen Chubak continued his torrid run this week, posting his third straight shutout on Friday before finally letting in a goal with 5:30 left in the third period Saturday. Chubak played 247:59 between goals. Throw in the shutout of Clarkson on Oct. 26 and Chubak has played 307:59, surrendering just two goals. He has clearly cemented himself as the No.1 in net for the Purple Eagles. He leads the nation in both save percentage (.966) and goals against (1.09). With Chubak in net, the Purple Eagles are a perfect 5-0 in conference play and are the only team not to lose an Atlantic Hockey game this year. (more…)


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7) Curious about Counselling Centers for Missionaries
Most missions strategists agree that member care is a significant part of missions and ministry health. This past week, we heard from a guy with a growing vision for starting a small business to provide a place for restoration, spiritual retreat and marriage and personal counselling opportunities for those working in Northern Africa and along the Mediterranean. He's wondering if anyone would be willing to send him any current organizations or businesses operating retreat and/or counselling centres for missionaries (anywhere in the world) that he could use to investigate in his research.


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I am looking for a source that will provide CNC work on a small run basis. I am aware of SKGrimes (and pleased with the work I have seen from them) but I'm curious if there are other options. Any ideas?
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Hi All,
I am looking for a source that will provide CNC work on a small run basis. I am aware of SKGrimes (and pleased with the work I have seen from them) but I'm curious if there are other options. Any ideas?
What kind of quantities are you looking for and material(s) machined?
Probably you have a local machine shop that can do this for you. There are also a bunch of hobbiest people who could probably do this on their home built CNC machines. Try a search for DIY cnc machine, or other things like that and I bet you might be able to find someone that could do the work for cheap.
If price isn't an issue, try the Seitz brothers.
I am aware of Seitz. I'm sure if their work is good enough for Alpa it would exceed my demands. I wonder though if they would not be averse to making tiny runs for the same reasons you advanced. Have you had any dealings with them?
In my experience price is always a design concern. There are very few people who can blithely operate by Vanderbilt's dictum. However, it is one concern among many. In this case my main concern was to determine if there were resources available to me that I was unaware of. I suppose that if I found half a dozen vendors I would bid out my job. This did not (and still doesn't) seem a likely outcome. Perhaps I should have asked the question more broadly. CNC is not the central issue. Is anyone aware of a machinist that is happy to take on short run jobs for photographers (in addition to those already mentioned in this thread)?
I have a CNC drill/router at work which was originally intended for printed circuit boards.
I have made a few camera parts on it for myself from 1/8" thick laminated material.
Most of the parts for this were cut with it: http://www.geocities.com/steve.smith...et.com/cam.jpg
Unfortunately, I can't cut aluminium with it... yet. I need to find a way to slow it down. You end up with a molten mess at the cut edges.
I am going to try brass soon as I think I may have more success with it.
Der Celac,
I've been to the Seitz factory and met the brothers. I'm sure they'll do very small runs -- Alpa isn't exactly a mass production item, and in fact, nothing they make is mass produced. Thomas and Ursula (owners of Alpa) are non-engineers, but the Seitz brothers translated quite vague ideas into gorgeous cameras. I'd certainly recommend that you contact them, but as I say, it won't be cheap.


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Rated 2 / 5 stars
One of the options is missing on puzzle 7 so the game can't be beaten.
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This game is absolutely amazing and was completely worth the hour or two I spent playing it. I was surprised at how well I was able to figure out the puzzles, considering I only had to "use my brain" on puzzles 8 and 10, and 10 just stated the things I already knew. This is a fantastic game, and everything, the music, the gameplay, the plot, fit together extremely well.
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This was spectacular. It was hard, and at times I found myself not being able to keep my mind on track because I was thinking so hard, but it's entirely solvable and not in the least impossible. I wish we were taught things like this in school, using a puzzle system such as this game, to learn problem solving skills.
Gawwwwsh I loved this game. Thanks, mate. It was a pleasure.
Rated 2 / 5 stars
Seriously, I fucked my mind up to solve the 7th puzzle! There isn't the correct option: "Australia is wrong...". Why? I had to find a walkthrough in order to solve the puzzle and discover that the Australia option is not in this version of the game! Jeez.
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
I love the concept, but the drop down menus are terrible, the puzzles often didn't accept perfectly logical arguments that differ slightly from your template.
Also the dialog kinda felt a little condescending by patting you on the back for every frankly, pretty easy logical puzzle you solve.
I'd like to see a more polished version of this with harder puzzles and a better input method. (possibly fields to type in freely using variables predetermined by you?)


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July 1, 2013 5:00 am
Notes on Miguel Almonte, Addison Russell, and eight other players who will represent their teams on the USA and World rosters at Citi Field.
Miguel Almonte, RHP, Royals (Low-A Lexington)
I've been on the Almonte bandwagon since his easy delivery first caught my eye during a fall instructional league game on the backfields in Arizona. I'm a sucker for an easy delivery and an effortless release, and Almonte won my heart that day by pumping a low-90s fastball for strikes and flashing a changeup that was already a near-plus offering. Fast-forward to his full-season debut, and the bandwagon is starting to look like a bus depot, as the 20-year-old continues to take steps forward with the arsenal and the production, working a fastball in the 92-97 range, flashing multiple breaking-ball looks including a bat-missing curve, and throwing a nasty changeup. Almonte's inclusion on the Futures Game roster was a win for the young Dominican arm, a win for the Royals' amateur scouting and player development teams, and a win for every wannabe scout that finds arousal in easy arm action and heavily pronated changeups. —Jason Parks
July 20, 2012 5:00 am
Doug wraps up his mechanical analysis of the Futures Game rosters with a look at the World Team.
The international stars of the World Team lacked the draft-day pedigrees and household names of their U.S. counterparts, but the group was anything but lacking in terms of stuff, including multiple arms that reached for triple digits. The final result may have been a blowout, but the box score is hardly reflective of the collective talent on the World Team, and much of the damage was concentrated in the middle innings.
Yordano Ventura (Royals-A)
July 17, 2012 5:00 am
After tackling the World players last week, Jason returns with notes on the US players from this year's Futures Game.
After hitting the World players last week, here are a few notes on the US players who happened to force my pen to hit the pages of my roster sheet during the 2012 Futures Game. As usual, the notes are presented with minimal narrative interference.
SS Billy Hamilton: Slight frame, but improved strength; impressive in cage; hit opposite field home run (RH/LF); loose swing; excellent coverage; shows a knack for contact; can sting live pitching; can catch up to velocity; a little noisy in the box; premature swing trigger; could run into trouble against good secondary stuff/sequence; was impressed with actual swing; continues to take steps forward; hit tool should be plus; shows pop, but raw power is below average; speed is clearly best attribute; best singular tool in baseball; elite; base running is loose, but quickness/speed disguises minor footwork/awareness issues; not a fan of defensive skill set at shortstop; arm is average; accuracy is below; actions are fringy; athleticism makes it look better; profile could improve through repetition; impact player at major league level thanks to elite speed, contact ability; needs to continue to add strength and improve approach at the plate; first-division player; must-see talent.
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July 13, 2012 5:00 am
Evaluating the mechanics of the US pitchers in last Sunday's Futures Game.
The pitching staff for the U.S. team was stacked for last Sunday's Futures Game, setting up a showcase of former first-round draft picks to satiate the All-Star appetite. The pitching rotations were pre-set on both sides, with starters Jake Odorizzi and Yordano Ventura representing the hometown Royals in a first-frame showdown. Three of the top four picks of the pitcher-heavy 2011 draft were on the U.S. roster, with Trevor Bauer's recent big-league promotion the only thing preventing a clean sweep of the historical top four, and the crew was joined by the top arm of the 2010 draft, Jameson Taillon. The aces-in-training put on a spectacular show, and I was extremely impressed by the mechanical profiles that Team America had on display.
Jake Odorizzi (Royals-AAA)
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July 12, 2012 3:00 am
Jason saw the future...s game.
A few notes on a few players who happened to force my pen to hit the pages of my roster sheet during the 2012 Futures Game. As usual, the notes are presented with minimal narrative interference.
2B Jean Segura: One of his legs is shorter than the other; struggles with physical health; quick swing; big/strong hands; good pop; uses opposite field well; actions for shortstop; better fit for second base; major league profile; depends on health/consistent reps; second-division type; role 5; should spell his name Gene or Jeans.
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July 11, 2012 9:25 am
MLB lets everything go dark for two whole days after the All-Star break. That's a mistake.
I got back into town last night just before the first pitch of the All-Star Game, after spending a week at a cabin in the Internetless north woods of these United States. As such, my last seven days has been much more of this:
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July 11, 2012 8:42 am
With the 2012 Futures Game behind us, Kevin wonders about the roster of the future Futures Game.
This year's Futures Game featured the best roster in years. Limitations make it a daunting task, and it forces several top players to stay at home. With those restrictions in mind, I was challenged to take my best guess at the 2013 Futures Game rosters. It's more difficult when it looks when you think about it. First off, every team needs to be represented, but the Futures Games feature standard 25-man rosters, not that of the bloated All-Star variety. And then there is the limit of two players per organization (three for the host team), so if you are a fan of a team and you are upset with this list, chances are good that you can't say Player X should be there without taking another one of your team's prospects off the rosters, which often creates a series of roster construction issues that would make Mandelbrot proud. In addition, there is some consideration to make the World team as diverse as possible, and not just stuff it with players from the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. So with those limitations, and an eye on which players might not be available due to a big league presence, here are your 2013 Futures Game rosters.
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June 21, 2012 6:19 pm
The U.S. and World rosters for this year's Futures Game have been announced.
The rosters for this year's SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game, taking place on July 8th in Kansas City, were announced today. Complete rosters and current-season statistics for all 50 players named to the U.S. and World teams can be found right over here, and the game will be televised live via ESPN2 and MLB.TV.
July 12, 2011 9:00 am
The Futures Game allows fans the chance to dream of the best up-and-coming prospects, but it's also a time when a scout can picture his own future.
I've been in Arizona for a week, and my eyes have been privileged enough to witness a remarkable amount of questionable baseball; sometimes calling it baseball is too generous, as the refinement level of the talent often leaves a lot to be desired. Of course, I will continue to refer to the experience as a privilege because, let's face it, being at the back fields of a complex league park is better (for me) than being in a cubicle watching the countdown to closing time, and most people aren't fortunate enough to get to participate in their passion on a daily basis. This is going somewhere, I promise.
My days have been spent standing in triple-digit heat, starting with the afternoon workouts, where the sun rains showers of pure hell, and concluding in the evening, when I find myself standing behind a back-field fence for three-plus hours at a clip, saved from the intense vengeance of the sun, but still subject to the oven-like temperatures that pack a punch deep into the night. By the time I return to my hotel, I feel like a slice of leftover pizza, something edible that was once fresh but gets exposed to the elements and reheated to the point that it loses its molecular identity, transforming the overall appeal from appetizing to agonizing. I'm inedible by the time July 10 rolls around. Arizona failed to offer the necessary chill to keep my structure established, and my texture isn't pleasant to the senses.
April 4, 2011 9:00 am
In celebration of the Royals having a packed farm system, here's an expanded slate of information from their Futures Game last Saturday.
To be clear, I had every intention of getting to spring training this year, but for a variety of reasons and other commitments, it just didn't happen. My first game of the year was lined up to be Kane County's home opener on April 11, but then the Royals announced this weekend's team-specific Futures Game to be held on Saturday. With the best minor-league system in recent memory, the chance to see this much talent on the same field was like a once-a-year opportunity, with one scout in attendance arguing that a compilation of the Double-A Northwest Arkansas and Triple-A Omaha rosters would compete against any MLB-wide Futures Game roster assembled for the All-Star weekend.
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July 9, 2010 4:43 pm
Can the All-Star Game fulfill any element of its proposition to a serious skeptic?
I'll admit, I've been an All-Star skeptic for a long, long, long time. When I was blessed with the absolute certainty of youth, I would derisively laugh off the All-Star Game as merely a baseball-flavored entertainment. I haven't watched any portion of an All-Star Game since seeing Bo Jackson turn Rick Reuschel into the All-Star Game's answer to Craig Ehlo back in 1989*, usually treating the break as just that, a time to relax and review, what had happened and what could be coming, both before and after the launch of Baseball Prospectus for 1996.
That didn't change even now that the contest "counts," a product of Czarist pique and union tractability after the embarrassment of the tie of 2002. It's not a worse idea than the previous method of letting World Series home-field advantage be alternated annually, but as someone who figures that home-field advantage should simply belong to the team with the best record—especially if we're going to have interleague play—it isn't exactly the sort of thing that makes you settle into your seat, intent on the outcome because of what's at stake.
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June 24, 2010 9:00 am
Some major-league clubs better not look back because the U.S. Futures Game team might be gaining on them.
I don't remember much about my baseball card-collecting days, but my overtaxed neurons still cling to a few isolated remnants. The way I divided the cards according to All-Star status, believing that an appearance in the Midsummer Classic conferred some indefinable air of greatness upon the likes of John Hudek, or signified that Scott Cooper was bound for Cooperstown. The times I toted around huge binders on family trips, bringing offerings of cardboard to an oracular cousin in Virginia (who, in retrospect, may well have been a false prophet) to be deemed worthy or unworthy of prominent display. And one particularly memorable series of cards, affixed with the tagline "The Future is Now," composed of 15 players age 25 or under who represented the promise of innumerable productive seasons to come. Those cards rest not 10 feet from me as I write this—no, my mom never threw them out—but it would take me hours of flipping, sorting, and page turning to track them down. Fortunately, through the kindness of the strangers populating the internet, I don't have to. After a Boolean search or two, I've located my quarry.
As it turns out, that group of 15 contained several Hall-worthy names, but it also included a number of players whose best work was already behind them (Steve Avery, Carlos Baerga, Rod Beck, Jason Bere, Aaron Sele) by the time the cards were placed into packs. That a third of Upper Deck's picks failed (to varying degrees) to pan out, despite the fact that all of them had reached their mid-20s as established major leaguers before being featured, drives home the difficulty of forecasting performance. With that, I'll conclude my detour into the domain of Josh Wilker—and to think, if I hadn't wasted my youth in card collection, I could've spent my time on Rec.sport.baseball, working toward becoming the youngest founding member of BP.
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Hosting some superb routes in a fabulous position, this wall is located 90m off the deck on Tibro's East face (on 'Clemency' Terrace). It can be reached various ways, such as via the first three pitches of 'Clemency' or Lancelot (trad), The Twisticle Connection (three pitch mixed) or 'Aphelion' (four pitch sport). As you walk up to the base of the wall from Clemency's third pitch belay and rap anchor you'll see a 1m roof at head height. This is a landmark for locating routes.
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The central cave containing 'Trojan', Beast from the East and In Between Dreams. Access is via the Caves Route, but instead of topping out on the summit via the crack pitch, trend left through the scrub and end up on a little grassy ledge. From here most routes for the area can be approached. Be careful as any rocks thrown from the summit tend to get channeled to this ledge.
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NOTE: Remains Of The Day has nesting peregrines on it. Please stay off this route from August through to November 2011. For further info, contact QPWS Glass House Mtns: 54943983 or follow the thread on www.qurank.com under "Access Issues".
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|Desperation Wall
Access as for 'Carborundum Wall' sector (east face track), then follow the rock apron down and right.
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From the climber's car park, follow the right hand branch of the trail around the base of the mountain. Follow the trail for about 15 minutes. You will pass a set of benches at a lookout and then walk up a set of stairs. At the top of the stairs there's a path leading up to the left. Follow this path for 50 meters or so and arrive at the base of the cliff at Candy Mountain. The NEB routes start 20m to the right.
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Blessed with afternoon shade, 'Celestial Wall' offers multipitch sport climbing in an amazing, exposed position. Standing in the carpark, Celestial is obvious as the gobsmacking bright orange swathe of steep blocky rock on Tibro's SE corner. Even though it's sporty, don't forget where you are - take helmets, prussiks, and a healthy dose of caution! As for gear, all routes in this sector are bolted with fixed hangers, so 12 quickdraws will do it, along with the usual slings and screwgates. It's possible to get away with only one 60m rope, although you'll have to carefully plan your abseils to avoid getting stranded. Two ropes allow you to get down from any rap station (via multiple abseils). Always tie stopper knots and carry prussiks when abseiling here!
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Queenslands own mountaineering-style classic that has introduced the climbing experience to many a gibbering bumbly. This has always been the traditional easy route up to The Scrub (below the summit overhangs). With the recent addition of two rap stations, it provides an easy, safer E-face descent than scrambling. Most of the rock on the route is quite worn making route-finding easy. Many parties rope up for three pitches, interspersed with unroped scrambling. To start, scramble up vegetated ledges following worn track to below wall with gully on L side. Up the gully to top and TB. Start: 20m R of where the E face walking track meets the rock. Marked CR. 1. 20m (4) Traverse out R and up rock steps with surprising exposure to ledge and mouth of Cave 1. Belay off rap station. Scramble into Cave 1 and up into the big Cave 2. Walk to far L side of this. 2. 30m (4) Traverse carefully out L side of cave until possible to move up to ledge. Up steep wall above with little pro to ledge and rap station on R. 3. 100m (-) From the ledge follow the worn track through the scrub for 100m or so until you hit rock again. 4. 150m (4) Easy option (avoiding chimney). Scamper up L to 'Trojan', then walk R under Big Empty to scramble (easy but quite exposed) to the summit ridge. This is the true line, but a tree that helped climbers climb the chimney is no longer there. It's now a stern crank (perhaps 15 or so) to get established in the chimney. If you want to do this pitch, walk R along cliff base to below obvious easy chimney on south facing wall. A hard start gets you in the chimney which is easily climbed to top. Follow the ridge W to summit of Tibro.
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| Caves Route VF
This is the alternative to the original Caves Route's Chimney if you want to reach the north-east shoulder to climb to the summit. Starting where the track meets the rock at the half-way scrub scramble the small gully and then traverse right, passing the start of "The Big Empty" until you are on the shoulder. The traverse is easy but needs to be completed on an exposed 45° slab.
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| Escape from NEB
A traverse that deserves a description. First used by FA party of North-east buttress to escape the route before the aided crux section. 1. 30m (14) crux. From the "Crazy Crack" gully climb just above the DBB up the left wall (tree belay or DBB), avoiding the nasty loose block on the arete. Up and around the buttress with marginal protection and suspicious holds in a very airy and unstable scenario. Downclimb into a small vegatated gully with schrub (must not fall) and keep traversing left, on better rock, passing a bolt of the Ross Miller Route and reaching a second small gully. Break the traverse and belay from a small tree to avoid further rope drag. 2. 35m (13) Continue traversing left past 2 bomber placements (medium to small cam) and reach the broken pillar on top of cave 4 enjoying the massive exposure and unbelievable views. Place gear to direct rope and avoid running it through the death blocks. Carefully downclimb the lower part of pitch 1 of Prometheus 2 to the sign into the cave (tricky).
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Move over, Manu Ginobli...
Step aside, Mickael Pietrus...
Andres Nocioni is coming.
After a few good playoff showings this past week or so, I guarentee everybody will be on this kid's balls next season. Nocioni (who shared small forward minutes this season with Chicago's Luol Deng) is perhaps the finest example of a perimeter player exploiting Miami's bad perimeter defense. With Shaquille O'Neal seemingly always in foul trouble this series, players like Nocioni, Ben Gordon, and Kirk Hinrich have been putting up huge numbers against the Heat. In fact, this weakness is so apparent, the series has been tied up (2-2).
Here's why I think this kid's props need to be zapped away from him: during the regular season, Nocioni averaged 13 & 6 in 27 minutes a night (far from the 22 & 10 he's running on James Posey and Antoine Walker right now). The guy's stats are inflated for one, single series and I know everyone's gonna pretend he's the next big thing... but here's the truth: he can't succeed against competent outside defenses. His biggest games (this season) have come against teams like the Cav's, the Knicks, and the non-Artest Pacers! Take this list, for an example:
- San Antonio held him to 10 & 5 in 25 minutes.
- Ron Artest raped him, forcing 1 of 10 shooting, and resulting in 2 points in 22 minutes
- He went 3 of 10 against Josh Smith and the Hawks in 31 minutes of play
- Detroit had him go 3 for 11, while holding him to only 2 rebounds in 23 minutes
And so on and so forth. My big problem with guys like Nocioni is that they get undeserved credit for simply showing up 4 games in the playoffs. Hell, Manu Ginobli was elected to be an all-star PURELY on his playoff performances. That's a joke to me.
Nocioni is a decent player, I'll give him that, who'll probably blossom out into a 15 and 8 player in 30 minutes a game... but lets not blow it out of proportion here. Before ALLLLL the BS comes rolling in from people who love trying to call "the next big thing"... please, do your research before slobbering all over Andres' nuts. Thank you.
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i appreciate nocinoi's hustle.
he's the kind of player you'd love to have on your team. i personally hate matching up against bulldogs like himself because they box you out even on layups. i hope this series gives him confidence that will carry over into next season. scott skiles is like monty in a way - you cant tell what his lineup will be from night to night. granted they have two good SF's in deng and nocinoi, so i guess thats a great problem to have. regardless, its a good call #32, people will be on this dude's nuts. but i like watching the young bulls play, so hopefully he proves you wrong. =P
i think the list of pervious playoff studs - regular season busts should include another spur. nazr mohummad. i ****ing drafted you in the 20th round for rebounds. ugh.
deng has a great future. when it comes to puke university, the greatest recent players are in this order....
elton brand
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defense is exactly why i'm high on deng. he's extremely long and athletic. like ike but without the bulk. battier could quite possibly do extremely well on offense but he plays for the grizz who are a half-court team and run everything through gasol.
migya, i initially did put a 20 line gap in between the strippers and dunleavy, but then i thought to myself, 'no one wants to scroll down through that stuff,' so i figured everyone would already know dunleavy is only second to spoiled milk.
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Cory should be after EB, slightly ahead of Shane. Once upon a time Hill was the head of the class. Nocioni looks good, but I'd rather have Deng. The Bulls have a bright future...Wow... Tyrus or LaMarcus will look pretty darn good wit em ---***030***---
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By Pamela Burke
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Sunday, May 28, 2006
Memorial Day offers time to remember U.S. casualties in Iraq and note that this war involves a historic number of women. Once home, many female survivors fight a second war against post-traumatic stress disorder. The VA is studying ways to help.
Although strides are being made within the VA to treat PTSD, Duckworth says veterans and citizens must keep the pressure on.
"Parades are nice but if that person can't get help for her PTSD, you've not honored her sacrifice."
Ann, a former supply sergeant in the National Guard, found a way to cope with her PTSD earlier this year. Although she's not ready for the public to know her real name, Ann believes in herself again after a long, uphill battle with the legacy of her time on the frontlines in Iraq.
She told Women's eNews that she lived through daily mortar attacks on her compound; duty at Abu Ghraib Prison when it was under constant fire; and the anxiety of avoiding roadside bombs while driving a five-ton truck to deliver food and equipment to troops in and outside Baghdad.
She returned home in 2004 after a one-year tour of duty. The following year she was given an unexpected assignment. Her unit was sent to New Orleans, where, with no bullet-proof gear, she was threatened and shot at while patrolling streets.
"I had been struggling since I got back from the war," Ann remembers. "After the Katrina deployment, that tremendous fear for my life came back and it was the final straw."
Following a lengthy and frustrating search for psychiatric help both in and outside of the VA, she finally was referred to the Women's Trauma Recovery Program in Menlo Park, Calif., a tiny, 60-day, 10-bed program hidden inside the VA's vast health care system.
The program, which is included in the VA's Women's Mental Health Center and is part of the VA's National Center for PTSD, leads and explores cutting edge treatment for female veterans. It aims to boost women onto a recovery path and refer them to local healthcare providers to ensure continuity of treatment.
Trauma survivors typically think that others can't possibly understand what they have experienced. They fear that if they share their deepest thoughts they will be rejected.
Many veterans, especially those like Ann with children, survived in Iraq by blocking their feelings to get from day to day. Back in civilian life those defenses can cause them to suffer a sense of isolation from normal society. The recovery program addresses this by having patients relive their traumatic military experiences and discuss it with others trying to make the same transition. Vets who aren't ready to talk about their trauma concentrate on developing their interpersonal skills.
"These women are trying to reconcile the trauma they've seen in Iraq with our society which puts so much importance on where people get their hair cut," says Dr. Darrah Westrup, program director of the Women's Mental Health Center and the attending psychologist of the facility where Ann recovered. "They have been irrevocably changed and we have to help them believe that they still have a life here."
As part of her recovery, Ann worked on a quilt. She stitched the phrase "Every day in every way I'm getting better" around a rainbow.
She recently finished her treatment and is now one of almost 400 veterans from several wars to graduate from the Menlo Park program.
She returned home to an office job with the military until she receives her discharge papers and to care for her two young children.
"It was hard on them for me to come to the center," she says. "I reminded them that it would make mommy better because I was sleeping 16-18 hours a day. I couldn't function. I thought it would be easier now that I'm home, but I'm taking it one day at a time."
Pamela Burke is a freelance writer and producer living in Los Angeles.
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By Bob Cusack - 04/16/12 02:27 PM EDT
Mitt Romney and Republican leaders in Congress have a surprising number of policy differences, ranging from energy to term limits to immigration.
The policy daylight is significant because Romney is attempting to unify the party in the wake of his bruising primary. The fact that Romney and Republicans in Congress have different approaches on high-profile issues could hamper that effort.
But there are an array of other policy areas where Republicans and Romney are at odds and/or have dealt with the same issue differently. Perhaps not coincidentally, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) was tapped earlier this month to develop a joint agenda with congressional Republicans and the GOP presidential nominee.
In a front-page story Monday, The New York Times deemed the situation between Romney and GOP legislators a "delicate tango."
Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul told The Hill in an e-mail, "Mitt Romney is in this race to turn the economy around and get Americans back to work, and he will need the help of Congress to do that. Under President Obama, more people have lost their jobs than at any time since the Great Depression, and all the president does is blame others and avert responsibility. Gov. Romney will welcome the help of Congress to enact his agenda and get the country back on track."
The following are examples of policy differences between Romney and congressional Republicans:
Yucca Mountain
Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) and other GOP legislators have been outspoken in their support of storing the nation's nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Obama, however, have thwarted the initiative.
Romney's position is closer to Reid and Obama's than congressional Republicans'. At an October debate in Nevada, Romney said, "If Nevada says, 'Look, we don't want it,' then let other states make bids and say, 'Hey, look, we will take, here is a geological site that we have evaluated, here is the compensation we want for taking it.' "
China currency
Romney has accused China of currency manipulation, claiming he would be more aggressive on the issue than Obama.
The Senate has passed China currency legislation, which was strongly backed by 16 Republicans in the upper chamber. House Democrats have called for the bill to be brought up, but GOP leaders have not heeded that call. Boehner has dubbed the Senate measure "dangerous."
Congressional term limits
In January, Romney endorsed term limits for members of Congress. He said at the time, "I would love to see term limits for congressmen and senators. We have one for the president. It's a good idea."
Romney has not detailed the lengths of the term limits he supports.
The 1994 GOP "Contract With America" included terms limits, but the House Republicans' 2010 "Pledge to America" does not.
Romney strongly supports E-verify legislation, which would mandate that employers check their employees' legal work status. But the bill has attracted criticism from Democrats and some Republicans. Not one senior House Republican leader has co-sponsored the measure, and the measure is not expected to hit the lower chamber floor before the election.
Romney and his GOP rivals for the White House have regularly called for the repeal of Dodd-Frank. But it is not a talking point for House and Senate Republican leaders.
Bills on the issue have stalled in the Republican-led House. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is a formal co-sponsor of repealing the Wall Street reform bill, but he has not made repeal of the legislation a top priority.
Meanwhile, the new House Republican budget crafted by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) does not call for the eradication of Dodd-Frank.
Romney proposes eliminating the capital gains tax for only those with less than $200,000 in taxable income. That has been criticized in GOP circles as timid. Other Republican White House hopefuls, meanwhile, called for striking the entire tax. The Ryan budget does not include Romney's $200,000 provision.
Republican lawmakers, including Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), last year criticized Romney's troop withdrawal plans for Afghanistan, which have been vague. He has said his plans on the war will be based on conditions on the ground, but also indicated he might want to remove combat troops before 2014.
Other issues
Romney has embraced a permanent ban on earmarks, which is backed by Boehner and McConnell. However, 13 Senate Republicans voted against such a measure earlier this year.
Romney has also previously embraced raising the minimum wage, suggesting it should be indexed to inflation. His campaign in March walked back those comments, saying Romney does not currently support an increase to the minimum wage.
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