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HOUSTON - A teenager's dream to play baseball came true, but his journey to the field wasn't easy.
Dylan Dusek is a junior at Fort Bend Kempner High School. Every swing he takes packs a punch.
"Every step that he takes on the baseball field is a win," coach Mark Jones said.
Dusek battled leukemia between the ages 3 and 6. He spent much of his time at Texas Children's Hospital undergoing chemotherapy.
"I looked around at all the nurses, doctors, all the cords hooked up around me, and I was just like, 'What is this?' I knew it wasn't the normal life because all the other kids were having fun."
Dusek adopted a "will not lose" mentality.
"Every day in the hospital bed or at home, they always came up to me and said, 'You're going to get through this,'" Dusek said. "I always had in my head, 'I will get through this.'"
"Whenever I think of adversity, Dylan Dusek is the kid that comes to the front of my mind because he's had to deal with so much in his life," Jones said.
Dusek became one of the Sunshine Kids, a nonprofit group that brings joy to children with cancer.
Houston Astros star Craig Biggio was a big supporter of the Sunshine Kids, and he and Dusek formed a bond.
"Sunshine Kids are part of my family," Biggio said. "We all know each other, and a lot of those kids I have great relationships with."
Biggio is a hero to many, but more so to Dusek.
"He's a great encouragement," Dusek said. "Every time I see him he'll just be like, 'Hey, how you doing? I remember you.'"
Eleven years have passed since Dusek's days as a Sunshine Kid, but he wears No. 7 for the Fort Bend Kempner Cougars in honor of Biggio. He also reintroduced himself to Biggio when he took on St. Thomas High School, the school that Biggio coaches.
"Before the game, I was like, 'A Sunshine Kid! Alright, good, OK -- let's go out there and beat him,'" Biggio said. "Next thing you know, he threw a shutout, complete game. He had the last laugh. It was all good, so we're happy for him."
Dusek is healthy and thriving on and off the field.
Dusek hasn't forgotten about his days at Texas Children's Hospital. Once a year, on follow-up visits with doctors, he now pays a visit to children there to give them encouragement and prove that everything can be OK.
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The governing body of the State University System will hold the first of two days of public meetings Wednesday at the University of Florida.
Committees of the Board of Governors will meet starting at 1 p.m. at Emerson Alumni Hall, with the facilities committee meeting first.
During the meetings, the board will discuss budget requests for physical campus projects across all universities ranging from deferred maintenance to construction projects. The board will also address performance-based funding for universities and make recommendations to fill vacancies on several boards of trustees, including one at UF.
On Thursday, Board of Governors Chairman Dean Colson will give the state of the system address.
According to the meeting agenda, UF will be asking the board to approve using $20 million from student fees to renovate and expand the Reitz Union and another $13 million to renovate Newell Hall into a study center.
The meeting comes days after former UF Trustee Alan Levine was appointed to the Board of Governors and a week after UF announced that President Bernie Machen would remain at his post at the request of Gov. Rick Scott.
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Editor's note: The 2014 graduates of the cosmetics and fragrance marketing and management master's degree program at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York presented their Capstone presentations at "The Changing Face of the Beauty Consumer," event, sponsored by Unilever U.S., at FIT's Morris W. and Fannie B. Haft Auditorium on Wednesday, June 4, 2014. This year, students presented on a theme that dives into the challenges shaping the way beauty companies operate from economics to gender to ethnicity.
The following white paper, "Engaging the New Beauty Consumer," accompanied the presentation from group leader Roshini Greenwald (L'Oréal) and co-leader Jacquelyne Smerklo (Givaudan), as well as Gayathri Balasundar (IFF), Kimberly Lam (Estée Lauder Companies), Deanna Spence (Bath and Body Works) and Brenna Stone (L'Oréal).
By 2050, "other" will be the largest projected ethnic group in the United States. People aged 65 and older will outnumber the young. The number of gay couples with children, which has already doubled in the past decade, will continue to grow, as will the evolution of new family units as gender roles continue to blur. As communities expand geographically, travel retail will double by 2020 and grow 5.4% annually over the next 10 years, outpacing the global GDP. What may have been considered the "others" of yesterday will be the majority of tomorrow. This is the reality of the future, and of consumers, and it is not so far away (Pascale, D., & Wendlandt, A. 2013) This changing consumer will have emerging beauty demands that the industry has not yet seen. The current segmentation model used for targeting beauty consumers does not reflect shoppers' multi-faceted, multi-ethnic, and diverse backgrounds and lifestyles. This in turn limits customer recruitment and retention opportunities for brands.
By implementing a more dynamic approach to consumer insights, brands and retailers will be able to engage with the evolving beauty consumer in a more relevant and authentic way. The winning companies will be those that create the strongest connection to the consumer and deliver the most relevant content.
This paper will explain the short falls of the current consumer segmentation model and provide a new approach for companies and brands to better understand the growing population of "others." The term "others" is a way to redefine the new beauty consumer. It identifies the marginalized minorities, those who currently might not be clear on which box to check on the census form. "Others" will define tomorrow's trendsetting majority.
Despite vast diversity amongst consumers of today and consumers of the future, there exist common threads for consumer understanding that brands can utilize to remain relevant and authentic.
The current consumer segmentation model used for targeting beauty consumers boxes them into the specific demographics of race, age, sex, and geography. These parameters do not reflect psychographics, the attitudes, values, beliefs, and desires of the evolving beauty consumer. The current model is static and linear. It is imperative for brands to engage in a more fluid approach in order to resonate across the consumer's multi-dimensional value system.
The rising number of "others" in the very near future will have very diverse beauty implications. Demographics alone do not capture a consumer's cultural values, role in the family unit, and so many other considerations that impact the way they purchase beauty products. Looking at today's segmentation model, there is no way to deduce these important drivers.
Brands need to evolve from the current boxed segmentation to find out more about the depth and breadth of a person's true identity. This will provide brands with an opportunity to further explore the layers of a consumer's individuality. Each of the current segmentation drivers of race, age, sex, and geography are merely starting points for a multifaceted spectrum of interpretations. Clearly, consumers are changing, and yet the beauty industry has not changed the lens through which they view them. By rethinking the current traditional segmentation model, the evolution of the current way consumers self-identify in terms of race, origins, and lifestyle can be understood.
The traditional framework does not capture the multi-faceted nature of consumers. Understanding the deeper associations the consumer has allows engagement in a more relevant and authentic way. "Others" are on the rise.
Race will evolve into a cultural spectrum, where people with diverse backgrounds can share common values. Age will evolve into a cross-generational spectrum of shared passions and interests. Sex will become a spectrum of complex gender identities. Geography will evolve into a series of connections intertwined with notions of community. The existing consumer segmentation model "targets," while this new dynamic approach "probes" to understand the evolving consumer.
The consumer population of the future will have a majority of "others," self-identified groups that may look and act nothing like today's consumers. Brands must take serious consideration of a more holistic consumer view. Detailed in this paper are four spectrums, which describe and illustrate with case studies, brands that are moving in the correct direction, that is, alongside the consumer. This new approach is not about creating four new boxes in which to segment consumers. It is about engaging consumers across the more holistic identity drivers of culture, gender, generation, and community.
In order to stay relevant, it is no longer adequate to simply speak to a person's race. Race is a classification system used to identify people according to their physical appearances, geographic ancestry, and inherited characteristics. In order to fully engage with consumers, it is essential to consider their cultural values. A person's culture includes their beliefs, customs, and norms. One race can have multiple cultural values and one culture can span many races. The reality is that a person's association with race and culture is dynamic. "Others" do not define themselves by color alone.
By 2019, the white American child will be a minority (Mintel 2011). This reality is fast approaching. Recently, National Geographic published an article with visuals depicting the changing faces of America. As races continue to blend, recessive traits such as red hair, freckles, and blue eyes will become more unusual (Wolchover, 2014). By 2050, 47% of the U.S. will have pigmented skin (Aquino, 2012). Appearance and identity are most certainly linked when it comes to racial categories, but there is another important ingredient that must be considered: experience. There is no room for that on those official census forms, but when a person picks up a writing instrument to choose which box they check, experience most certainly guides their hand (Norris, 2013).


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For my Bronze celebration I would like to tell a lighthearted story of my quitting smoking experience / adventure. I'll let you figure out the analogies. My quitting experience boils down to an internal fight between the Real Me, desperately trying to surface, and the Junky, A.K.A. - my Subconscious, my Executive Assistant, my Prison Guard. The Junky is that little voice in my head, I'm sure you all know the one, that has always come up with all those creative relapse excuses.
The Real Me has been gone so long that he was small and weak and all but forgotten. The Junky has been in charge of the Nicotine Roller Coaster, which meant he ran everything.
For over 40 years, from the moment I woke up, until the time I went to bed, he would tell me what time was mine and what time was his. He always had most of the time, and the schedule was always changing. There were his normal times - upon waking, after meals, working outside, talking on the phone, driving, taking a walk, and before bed. There were also all the unexpected times when he needed to put all my emotions up in smoke. If I was stressed, I had to stop and smoke. If I got angry, tired, hungry, lonely, happy, or sad, I had to stop and smoke. If I drank alcohol or had something to celebrate, I had to stop and smoke.
The Real Me was pushed so far into the background that I could hardly see the light thru the trees. The Junky kept me right where he wanted me, buried in the jungle with lies and use rationalizations. Withdrawal would be too painful, you couldn't live a good life without nicotine, nicotine was a big part of who you are, you would lose yourself without nicotine, you would always have urges to smoke, and you would be miserable. Why punish yourself with trying to quit, just leave things as they are. The list of lies and excuses were never ending.
The Real Me still wanted so badly to surface and be free from the deep, dark, jungle. I tried and tried and even enlisted the help of gums, lozenges, patches, inhalers, E-cigs, and dip. I found myself in worse shape then when I started. Not only was I still buried in the jungle, but now the lozenges were growing vines around my legs, and I could barely move.
I finally decided it was time to take a deep breath, plant my feet, put my head down, and fight for my life. The Junky was also fighting for survival. He liked being in charge, and he would use every trick in the book to remain in power.
The Real Me went on-line and found Why Quit.com. I started to read about Bryan, Noni, Kim, Deborah, Brandon, and Sean. The vines started to loosen their grip. I read Nicotine 101 and the vines fell off of my legs. I started reading the One Puff Files, and leaves started to fall from the trees. I read Never Take Another Puff, and Freedom From Nicotine - The Journey Home, and so many leaves were falling that I could start to see the blue sky thru the trees. All of the Junky lies were now being exposed. I joined Freedom From Nicotine and some of the small trees started to die and fall down.
I heard a noise and looked back, I saw John and Joel both carrying chainsaws. They said, let's start carving a path and get you out of here. They cranked up their chainsaws and started cutting on the two biggest trees standing in front of me. I looked back again and saw Marty, Joanne, O Bob, Joe J. Free, Denny B., Suzie, Kattatonic1, CWZ, Doc24747, Chasnfireflies, and all of the oldbie veterans carrying axes. They said, we've already been through this, we know the way out, just follow us. They walked in front of me and started chopping on several different trees, bushes, and shrubs. Then came Tagsgirl, JimH, Juan Carlos, BSKing, Puffanomore, Sarah, Mary, and Lucie. Behind them were Lisa, Jeffreyrw, Greg, Laura, Kelly, Craig, Wendy, Endura, Lara, Bev, Stella, and a whole lot of others (sorry I couldn't name everyone). They were carrying saws, hatchets, pruning shears, machete's and even large knives. They said, we all would like to get out of here, and we will be happy to help you too. I started to feel overwhelmed with a sense of gratitude and well being; I did exactly as they all said, and worked with them to get out. I felt better and better as each tree was cut down.
There were a few splinters and thorns along the way, I stumbled and tripped a time or two, and a couple of branches would occasionally spring back at me, but I never lost sight of where I was going. Eventually there was a clear path to Freedom laid out in front of me. We all stopped to admire the view.
I could taste the cool air deep in my lungs. This place even smelled better than the jungle, I could smell everything. There was a rainbow painted across the bluest sky, the sight of the crystal clear lake reflecting the distant mountains was breathtaking. The birds were chirping a happy song as we all marched along. John said that with a little help and some hard work all things are do-able. Joel mentioned to always watch out for stumps in the road, and that we would continue to stay out of the jungle as long as we stuck with our original commitment to never take another puff.
YQB Neal (Looking Better in Bronze!!!) Join me in getting out of the Jungle. There is a spot reserved for you on the path to Freedom. NTAP
I Quit living all the lies on 1/9/11
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Police are appealing for information after a large amount of jewellery and silverware was stolen during an overnight burglary in Netheravon between Friday and Saturday, October 26–27.
The burglary took place at a property in Westcourt in Salisbury Road after offenders broke in to steal what police have described as "a high-value amount" of Omani silverware and jewellery. The haul included a traditional Omani dagger and scabbard in silver and gold, anklets and silver bracelets. Some of the anklets contain small stones or seeds inside, which rattle when shaken.
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Look at the following groups, then decide where the word "flood" should go.
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Goldman Sachs offices in Chicago and Salt Lake City were recently awarded LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certifications—the international standard for measuring building sustainability developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (the "Council").
The Council awards Gold certification for buildings that incorporate high standards for water savings, energy-efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality. Last year, our Sunriver office in Bengaluru, India, became our fourth office in the Asia Pacific region to be recognized by the Council.
These certifications are the latest results of our ongoing effort to build sustainable workplaces and reduce our firm's impact on the environment. Goldman Sachs is one of the world's largest owners of LEED-certified commercial real estate, with a portfolio of 4.1 million square feet in countries such as China, India, and Singapore—including our worldwide headquarters in New York City.
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HOUSTON - Harris County Precinct 1 Constable Jack Abercia has been arrested following the return of a 13-count federal indictment, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson said Thursday.
Abercia's Chief Lt. Weldon Kenneth Wiener, 72, and Office Chief Michael Butler, 56, were also indicted.
The indictment charges all three with conspiracy to violate various federal laws, and charges Abercia, 78, and Wiener with unlawfully accessing the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database on multiple occasions for private financial gain. The indictment claims Abercia accepted $9,000 for 11 computer searches that were run in November.
Abercia and Butler are also charged with bribery in connection with the hiring of an otherwise unqualified applicant for a deputy constable position in return for a cash bribe of $5,000.
"I've known Constable Abercia for a long time," said Rusty Hardin, Abercia's attorney. "He's had a very honorable and long service with the county and I look forward to finding out what the government says it thinks he did wrong."
Abercia appeared in court Thursday morning and pleaded not guilty. He was released on $50,000 bond.
"Better get your (expletive) out of the way, I'm telling you," Abercia said as he left jail.
His trial was scheduled for February.
Wiener and Butler were scheduled to be arraigned next week.
If convicted of the conspiracy charge, they face up to five years in prison.
Abercia and Wiener will also face an additional five years in prison for each count of exceeding authorized computer access, while Abercia and Butler could also receive an additional 10 years in prison if convicted of the bribery charge.
All 13 counts also include a possible fine of $250,000 and up to three years of supervised release on each count.
Abercia was expected to retire at the end of January. He has been Precinct 1 constable since 1991.
Abercia has been facing numerous health problems in the past couple of years and is currently battling cancer.
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In its latest listings, Division I College Wrestling (D1CW) ranks Liberty No. 1 amongst the five East Region teams which will battle in the NCAA East Regional Championships on Sunday. Gardner-Webb follows in second place, while Sacred Heart, Millersville and Campbell round out the five-team field.
Each program will try to send individuals to the NCAA Championships by winning their respective weight classes at the East Regionals on Sunday, while also gunning for the team title. Liberty has had a stronghold on the title since its reinstatement, claiming the championship each of its four years competing.
The Flames have sent 20 grapplers to the national tournament in the past four years, with only 23 Division I teams sending more in the same time span.
Aside from the team rankings, D1CW.com also has ranked the top-three grapplers of each weight class. Five active Liberty wrestlers are favored to win individual titles, as they hold down the No. 1 spot of their weight class. Redshirt seniors Chad Porter (165), Aaron Kelley (184) and Josh Pelletier (HWT) are ranked No. 1, while junior T. J. Mitchell (133) and freshman Joel Stafford (125) also have the No. 1 nod.
Gardner-Webb holds the second most No. 1 rankings with three grapplers being placed in the top position of their weight class.
Liberty has Seth Hicks (141), Royal Brettrager II (174) and Aaron Thompson (197) placed at No. 2 in the Feb. 24 rankings, while Julian Colon (157) is No. 3 in what may be one of the most competitive weight classes.
Chad Porter also holds a ranking from the NCAA's final Division I Coaches Panel Ranking, from Feb. 22. The Parkersburg, W. Va., native is No. 30 in the ranking which is used as a tool for part of the NCAA selection process. Porter has won the 165-pound title each of his three times competing in the NCAA East Regional Championship.
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Andrew Getty, an heir to the Getty oil fortune who was found dead this spring in his Hollywood Hills home, had toxic levels of methamphetamine in his body and had been suffering from heart disease, according to a coroner's report obtained Tuesday by the Los Angeles Times.
But officials with the Los Angeles County coroner's office concluded that the 47-year-old's death was ultimately caused by intestinal hemorrhaging from ulcers. There was no evidence of foul play, officials said.
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By: Michael R. Taylor, J.D.
This week, the Fish and Wildlife Service will begin a series of public meetings on the draft plan for the restoration of damage to natural resources resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It is natural that the discussion of this plan would also raise the question of whether Gulf seafood is safe to eat. The answer to that question is, yes. Gulf seafood is as safe to eat now as it was before the spill.
When the Deepwater Horizon spill occurred, there was a great deal of concern over the safety of the region's seafood. Fishing areas were shut down and an extensive sampling program was introduced to ensure the seafood was safe to eat before the fishing areas were re-opened.
When we developed the sampling program, we had to determine which components of the oil were harmful so we could test for their levels in the seafood. Following internationally recognized standards, we tested for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs). They stay in seafood the longest amount of time, and once they are at a safe level any other oil hydrocarbons will be proportionately low, as well.
The FDA, NOAA, EPA, and the Gulf States, discussed and agreed on a level of PAHs that would raise a health concern. If the seafood we tested was below the level of concern, it would be safe to eat. Over 10,000 seafood specimens were tested. In most cases, no PAHs were found, and, when they were, the PAH levels in the seafood were 100 to 1,000 times below the levels which would raise a health concern. The best way to understand how safe Gulf seafood is, is to visualize how much seafood you could eat and still not reach the levels of concern.
Given the low levels of PAHs we found, when we found them at all, someone could eat 63 lbs of peeled shrimp (that's 1,575 jumbo shrimp); or 5 lbs. of oyster meat (that's 130 individual oysters); or 9 lbs. of fish (that's 18 8-ounce fish filets) every day for five years and still not reach the levels of concern. We feel confident that the levels that were set are safe and protect the health of anyone who eats seafood, including children and pregnant women.
It is also important to understand the process we used to sample the seafood. A seafood sample might actually go through multiple chemical tests. The first test was a screening test, and, if the results came within 50% of the levels of concern, a second test was performed that more accurately measured the levels, allowing us to be certain about the safety of the seafood.
This process of double testing is not unlike the screening we go through when entering a court house, for example. We often pass through a metal detector that screens us for metal objects. If the detector goes off, the security guard typically will use a metal detecting wand to find the metal object and determine if it can brought into the building. The seafood screening test would identify something that deserved a second look, and the second, more accurate seafood test would determine just what the PAH level was. When PAHs were found as a result of the second test they were 100 to 1,000 times below the levels of concern.
A great deal of effort was invested after the Gulf spill so that we could provide an answer to one question: Is Gulf seafood safe to eat? Yes, Gulf seafood is safe to eat, and it is safe to eat for everyone.
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Prospects Will Break Your Heart
Chat Accountability 2013
As is customary, I recently returned from a lengthy spring training odyssey and sat down for a lengthy online chat, where hours rolled into hours and the questions flowed forth in a never-ending supply. Aside from the backfield games in March, the post-spring training chat is my favorite part of the process, a detox of sorts from the grind of camp. My latest installment ran a robust eight hours and featured over 300 answers, although at least a quarter of the responses were sententious at best and esoteric to a fault at worst. But when it comes to the baseball opinions, I tried to answer with thought and honesty, and I stand by the statements on their merits, without a hedge or a statesman-like wiggle to avoid accountability in the face of ignorance or mistake.
It's easy to let your fingers do the work of your lips, spouting off rhymes without much reason in an environment where failed prophecies hide in the shadows and successful prognostications get to live on the mantle in the family room for all guests to admire. If you are going to champion your scouting wins, it's equally important to stand next to your scouting loses, and I'd rather present a responsible product that I take ownership of than play politician in order to maintain a high-gloss on an expert badge this particular platform pins to my chest. I don't mind being wrong. I expect to be wrong. But I want to learn from those mistakes and misjudgments, and I don't find much comfort in the binary outcomes of the process.
Let's step back a year, to April 4th 2012, and examine the ups and downs of the annual post-spring training chat. Let's put these answers under the cheap lighting of cheap motel mirrors, and stare into the face of handsome imperfection.
(04/04/2012) Wendy (Madrid): The ETA for Wil Myers is 2012, but Gordon just had a breakout season and the Royals signed Francoeur to an extension. What is the plan for Myers? Would you rather have him or Domonic Brown?
Jason Parks: 2012 is possible, but Myers might not be a full-time contributor until 2013. At that point, you can re-evaluate the outfield situation. The Royals need arms more than bats, so a trade could always clear space.
One-Year-Later: Nostradamus ain't got sh*t on me. Ignore the opening narrative. I'm just going to slap my own back for the next thousand words. This chat is going to set my star into the sky. Cashing checks.
(04/04/2012) Bryant (San Diego): Domoromo, Tate, Rincon - who ends up having the greatest impact on a MLB roster?
Jason Parks: Tate. He's still a game-changer if he reaches his ceiling. That's an impact that can be felt. Domoromo and Rincon might contribute, but any impact would be minimal in scope compared to Tate. I haven't given up on him yet. He was really good when I saw him this ST.
One-Year-Later: Damn. Glory must have a shelf life. I was high on Tate that spring, and he rewarded my renewed faith by having the worst season of his professional career, which included posting sub-.600 OPS in a return trip to the Midwest League. He showed a few signs of life in the California League, but the final tally reads like a Baudelaire poem, with disappointment muting the flash of any game-changing impact. Here's the truth: Tate isn't a game-changer; rather, he's a cautionary tale of what can go wrong when you give millions of dollars to an explosive athlete with limited present baseball skills and questionable makeup. He will always have the raw natural ability to tease, and if you allow yourself to be taken in by the aesthetic beauty of a premium athlete doing premium athletic things on a field, your evaluations will reflect that promise at the expense of the realities of the skill-set. As much as I'd like to say I will never succumb to the allure of a fast-twitch flash, my eyes are programmed to appreciate the grace that accompanies such flash, so I will most likely continue to fall in love with small-sample sizes of promises over the truth of the present. It's something I have to work on.
(04/04/2012) Kyle Dekker (Saint Paul): Eric Hosmer over/under 26 homers this year? I've got a case of Schell's Firebrick Ale riding on it.
Jason Parks: 25 homers in 2012; 30+ homers in 2013
One-Year-Later: Hosmer managed 14 home runs in 2012, after sending 19 out of the yard as a rookie. I owe Kyle Dekker a case of Ale and a warm, mournful embrace. My love for Hosmer could cost me a job before this chat is over.
(04/04/2012) Not JT (Riding): Which young arm in COL has a better season this year? Nicasio or Pomeranz?
Jason Parks: Pomeranz. He's going to be a monster.
One-Year-Later:…and by monster, I mean he's going to battle injuries and consistency throughout the season, spend time back in Triple-A, and not show many monster-like qualities.
(04/04/2012) LoyalRoyal (Kansas): Do you see a significant rebound in Adam Dunn? Best guess at HR and OBP...
Jason Parks: I did. I saw bat speed; he pulled inside velocity (94+) on several occasions without cheating. I think he's going to hit for power again. OBP has never been an issue. He could hit 30+ bombs.
One-Year-Later: After an incredibly disappointing 2011 season that saw Dunn hit a career low .159 and slug a career low .277, he rebounded in 2012 to hit a more robust .204. However, the power did return and the bat speed I saw in camp wasn't a spring illusion, as he belted 41 home runs, the second highest single-season total of his career. My glass of chat-based redemption is chilled and delicious.
(04/04/2012) Or Moyal (Denton): The Rangers' starting outfield next year is...
Jason Parks: Ian Kinsler, Leonys Martin, and Nelson Cruz
One-Year-Later: No. Just no.
(04/04/2012) Mike (Utica, NY): Do you think Harper can hit 20 HR's this year I have a 20-1 bet that he will and I would get 400 if he does?
Jason Parks: I don't think so. I don't think he will get enough opportunities.
One-Year-Later: Harper hit 22 home runs in 2012, playing in 139 games at the major-league level. Mike from Utica is $400 richer and I have the complexion of a meth addict under these lights.
(04/04/2012) Behemoth (Scotland): Tell me someone obscure who you think has a chance to be really, really good.
Jason Parks: Brewers infielder Orlando Arcia
One-Year-Later: Arcia broke his ankle early in the season and never made it onto the field. I'm quite the luck dragon, Atreyu. I'm still high on Arcia, and I was able to watch his skills in action this spring. I like the potential quite a bit.
(04/04/2012) thebeej21 (Houston): Barring injuries, who has the better career, Trout or Hosmer?
Jason Parks: Great question. Hosmer, but it's going to be close. Trout is going to bring big defense, big speed, and lots of hits. Hosmer is going to hit for average and power. Both should be perennial MVP candidates
One-Year-Later: Wow. While I can't be certain, I'm pretty sure my marriage dissolved because of the ridiculousness of this answer. The Dear John arrived soon after Trout got the call-up in late April. Coincidence? Trout emerged as the best player on the planet and Hosmer fully embraced the sophomore slump, producing an OPS of .663 from a premium offensive position. The story is far from over, and Hosmer is likely to rebound and develop into a first-division talent, but Trout has a chance to be a generational superstar in the mold of a Mickey Mantle or a Willie Mays, and I'm just a fool following Hosmer around asking him to wear my promise ring. Good call. Sharp mind.
(04/04/2012) jaymoff (Salem, OR): Most impressive prospect no one is/was talking about prior to Spring Training but will be soon enough?
Jason Parks: Cubs infielder Javier Baez. The bat could be special.
One-Year-Later: I'm back, baby! Baez crushed the Midwest League and shot up prospect lists all season long. Of course, he was the ninth overall pick in the 2011 draft and a well known amateur prospect with a lot of hype, so it's not a wizard prognostication on my end. That said, I need all the love I can get right now and my body is bronzing in the prospect glory.
(04/04/2012) stevenpsu78 (York pa): What are you hearing about Oscar Taveras? Potential stud or lack of #want?
Jason Parks: Potential stud. His swing is going to bother scouts up the chain, and he's also going to hit all the way up the chain. It's not always pretty, and he swings the bat like he's trying to kill someone breaking into his home, but it works.
One-Year-Later: Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bathing on the roof. Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you. She tied you to a kitchen chair. She broke your throne, and she cut your hair. And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Hallelujah
(04/04/2012) Dennis (LA): You are an animal! Do you think Chris Sale can become a successful starting pitcher? If so, what is his upside?
Jason Parks: I prefer him in the 'pen because of his delivery and his arsenal. He has tremendous upside because he has very good stuff, but as I said, I don't see it staying consistent in a rotation over the course of a full-season.
One-Year-Later: His delivery, his arsenal and his consistency made him one of the better starting pitchers in the majors in 2012. Rick Hahn named a goldfish after me and then forgot to feed it.
(04/04/2012) Hip2Hops (Seattle): How long before Teheran lands in ATL rotation for good? How bad was his spring?
Jason Parks: I don't think it was that bad. I think Teheran lands in ATL to stay at some point in the summer, and he makes all the bandwagon jumpers look like fools come 2013. It's easy to forget how young he is and how much development he still requires. I urge people to stay with this kid. He has the stuff to make a difference in a major league rotation.
One-Year-Later: I'm not giving up the fight for Teheran's honor. If he can build on his winter ball and spring training performances, he should take a big step forward in 2013. He needs to find comfort in a go-to breaking ball and the command needs a grade jump, but with more movement on the fastball and the plus changeup, he has the arsenal to compete against major-league hitters. I'm hoping he makes all the bandwagon jumpers look like fools, but at this stage of the game I'd settle for positive development at the major-league level.
(04/04/2012) carp1626 (MO): Hosmer and Harper enter the Thunderdome, who leaves?
Jason Parks: Hosmer. He's Koveian tough
One-Year-Later: I might need a Hosmer intervention or some counseling for Hosmer-related addiction. Everybody knows that Harper would emerge from the Thunderdome. Hosmer would be preoccupied with trying to hit balls on the inner-third or rolling over off-speed stuff, while Harper would be focused on the harsh realities of the dystopian landscape and the base pursuit of survival. Also, he's just a better warrior.
Jason Parks is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @ProfessorParks
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Chat accountability may be my new favorite thing (or as the Professor would call it, my new "Hosmer"). Always great to go back and see what went right and wrong from a season.
Apr 10, 2013 05:31 AM
Great work as always, Professor! Will toast your #honesty with an Manhattan tonight after work as I share the intro to the Twins chapter in BP 2013 with my friend (she's a Rand disciple, I'm a reformed Marxist) at dinner.
Apr 10, 2013 05:54 AM
Comp for Ayn Rand: Donovan Tate.
Apr 10, 2013 06:04 AM
Dan W.
Not sure I'm buying it. Rand was loved by 17 year-olds, dismissed once they matured. Tate was loved as a 17 year-old, has been dismissed now that he's matured.
Apr 10, 2013 07:55 AM
To quote Nick Bakay: "Push"
Apr 10, 2013 09:55 AM
Tim Carvin
"I'm pretty sure my marriage dissolved because of the ridiculousness of this answer" is one of my favorite column sentences in a while...
Apr 10, 2013 06:31 AM
Didn't you give Kyle the right advice? 25 is the under. He owes you a beer.
Apr 10, 2013 06:48 AM
It's obvious you had LOTS of fun writing this, and that's really what makes this site great.
Apr 10, 2013 07:19 AM
A great Batting (fringe) Average is only getting a hit 1/3 of the time. Baseball is a talking sport, so keep it up, we're behind you great Professor.
Apr 10, 2013 09:15 AM
Tanana Republic
Wise men say only fools rush in, but I can't help falling in love with Hosmer.
Apr 10, 2013 09:20 AM
So 2013's Hosmer is?
Apr 10, 2013 10:26 AM
Jason Parks
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Hosmer seems to hit a lot of line-drives right at people. I think his luck eventually changes, and if he can put better wood on breaking balls and return to an all-fields approach, I think he will help that luck along.
Apr 10, 2013 16:16 PM
Karl Hungus
I am hoping it is a Leonard Cohen quote as channeled by the vocals of Jeff Buckley. Great article. I have a friend who lives and breathes Dan Vogelbach currently in Kane County. I hope he is right but I have a feeling he is so wrong he will need counseling. At least you were let down by a real contender. If it weren't for Hosmer's, Harper's would not be as special.
Apr 10, 2013 11:44 AM
Dave Holgado
Just plain outstanding. I laughed, I cried. And I vividly remember that "breaking into his home" Taveras answer as being the reason why I plucked him in a keeper league. So I'll gladly take care of any Hosmer-related beer debt you may have.
Apr 10, 2013 11:51 AM
Could you please send Keith Law a sliver of your incredible humble pie so that he can be readable. Kudos for the willingness to judge yourself with honesty, humor and clarity.
Apr 10, 2013 12:04 PM
Domoromo, Tate, Rincon - who ends up having the greatest impact on a MLB roster?
Apr 10, 2013 13:52 PM
Man, that's just good writing! This site could be about Peruvian tuber dishes and I'd read a columnist that's that entertaining.
Apr 12, 2013 10:41 AM
Jason, your special Q-rub of narcissism and knowledgitude is my favorite thing on this site. And the Chat Accountability is my favorite version of said rub. Now if Ihadn't just bid the farm for Eric Hosmer in my dynasty league.
Apr 13, 2013 09:30 AM
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THE HEAD of Thornbury in Bloom has taken the chains of office as the town's new mayor.
Former deputy mayor Cllr Guy Rawlinson was voted in by fellow leaders on Tuesday, May 6.
Bob Griffin, who is already involved with many of the council's committees, took up the deputy position.
Thornbury's new mayor said he had enjoyed his first official engagement at Thornbury Arts Festival, marking the 25th anniversary of the Thornbury Eisteddfod.
"It's just about sunk in," he said. "I'm beginning to get into the swing of it.
"I've been a councillor now for seven years, so I am entering the last year of service of my second term.
"Becoming mayor is a nice way to mark that."
He said he was looking forward to chairing the council and leading the town's green agenda, which he has a special interest in as chairman of Thornbury in Bloom.
He took up this leading role last year after sitting on the In Bloom committee for six years.
Mr Rawlinson also previously chaired the town's environment committee for two years, where he was instrumental in resolving the shortage of public loos in Thornbury by introducing a community toilet project.
He also helped the town save energy by campaigning to roll out a part-night lighting scheme and worked with the local authority to produce a map of Thornbury's dropped kerbs.
He replaces outgoing mayor Pam Shipp, who took over from Phyllida Parsloe in 2013 after serving as deputy mayor.
She said she had very much enjoyed her service over the past year.
"I had lots of outings and met lots of nice people, most of whom were volunteers," she told the Gazette. "I never thought I'd do anything like this in my life.
"Thanks to everyone for giving me the opportunity."
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HOUSTON - Hundreds of Houstonians marked Good Friday by participating in the Way of the Cross.
Good Friday is observed as the day Jesus was crucified and is the precursor for Easter.
"It is a really good way to remember what Jesus did for us," said Kristen Grammas.
"In Jerusalem, there is a very famous way the 'Via Dolorosa,' which is the Way of the Cross, so we thought we would start from here and march down to the co-Cathedral," said University of St. Thomas President Dr. Robert Ivany.
The Stations of the Cross are synonymous with Lent, Holy Week and especially, Good Friday. The group will stop for prayer at five religious stations through town, ending at Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart on San Jacinto.
"We do five stations and there are readings from the gospels and some beautiful poems," said Kristina Leyden. "There is a perspective of Mary looking sorrowful and looking at her child dying for our sins."
It commemorates 14 key events on the day of Christ's crucifixion. The walk commemorates his final walk through the streets of Jerusalem, carrying the Cross.
"To be apart of something so beautiful and bigger than ourselves is something you can't even explain," said Leyden.
A final blessing will be given by at the end of the procession. The event is organized and sponsored by the University of St. Thomas Campus Ministry Office and Communion and Liberation.
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Replacing my HTPC with a mini ITX Systemby Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/24/2012 1:44 PM EST
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AFQ - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkAwesome theatre you got there man. Do a tour of your studio too plzzz! Reply
CeriseCogburn - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkThe added on blue touch around the starlight night sky ceiling looks great in the one pic.
Hopefully that settles anyone with claustrophobic tendencies.
On another note I could help laugh, shake my head, and exclaim aloud "What a nutball" - when I read the disappointment with the 23 watts pulled on the under clocked Intel system.
I see hundreds of watts of lighting and I suspect the projector is sucking down 300W to maybe 1200W playing a movie. ( I don't remember from reading the old build thread so long ago).
So that's what bothered me. I just don't get it. It appears people are feeling guilty nowadays using electricity for extravagance, so besides the electric bill (obviously moved very little as the theatre doesn't run all day and night), they need some outlet to massage their tender "I'm destroying the earth" propaganda that has been fed into their heads.
So saving 20 watts on some under clocked cpu while cooking 2000W otherwise on the rest of the show, is the key, so it seems. Reply
sprockkets - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkI think he underclocked it just to save on noise, not power or energy. Projectors do this to - most have a lower setting to save on energy and fan noise. Reply
JNo - Friday, May 25, 2012 - linkTrue. But building an itsy bitsy mini ITX case when you could build a full size desktop as your HTPC running super cool and quiet with plenty of room for passive heatsinks and large slow fans if you need them seems a little daft to me. I mean, you have built an ENTIRE ROOM for your home theatre; it's not like a large PC tucket away somewhere is going to fill it.... Reply
Death666Angel - Saturday, May 26, 2012 - linkDid you read the article? He clearly mentions that he doesn't want something big anymore since he moves the HTPC around a lot and doesn't need the space either. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Saturday, May 26, 2012 - linkRight, but in my other estimation to factor in it just shows the enthusiast geek that cannot get enough of the whole tweaking thing.
I have a few close friends like this - where it's a hobby one could say and the endless parts and combos and predictions and tests and "disappointments" or pleasing results are what they go on about as well. Reply
mnasub - Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - linkRecomiendo teléfono inteligente muy barato! Sólo necesita el euro 58.79 euros! Otro párrafo Parejas 3,2 Pulgadas Android2.2 WIFI dos Cámaras Bluetooth! Realmente genial! Usted puede mirar en: http://me2.do/IFP5KCm Reply
Purpose - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkI've been looking for a good case. The only one that I think might be better than the isk is the the Habey EMC 800 line.
However, optimally I think an HTPC should be about the size of a receiver. All the HTPC cases that size are haphazardly arranged and waste a ton of space. Reply
Metaluna - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkI'd love to see more cases that are designed like slim A/V components. I have an Antec NSK 2480, which is a big bulky beast compared to most mITX cases. But, I can stack any other component, like my Bluray player, neatly on top of it. Furthermore, front-to-back depth is kind of irrelevant in an A/V rack, so other than being about twice as tall as I'd like, (and kind of fugly) the extra size doesn't really reduce my useable space all that much.
Contrast that with these shoebox-style mITX cases that are so common. The form factor is kind of oddball. You can't stack much on them, and often there are vents in inconvenient places that make finding a place to put them difficult. Reply
Khato - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkCan't help but be curious as to what might have brought you to Folsom? I'm assuming that it'd be the Intel campus here, but that seems somewhat odd as I'd have expected that all those sort a meetings would be at Santa Clara. I guess we do have better representation of certain groups here, especially on the graphics side. Did they keep you isolated to the nice and pretty FM3 that the rest of us in our drab grey cubicles are jealous of? Reply
Parhel - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkWhat brought Anand to Folsom? He shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. Reply
kkwst2 - Friday, May 25, 2012 - linkThat's the nicest prison I've ever seen...but there is lots of blues. Reply
wrkingclass_hero - Friday, May 25, 2012 - linkI wish I could uprank you. Reply
Aikouka - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkAnand, I noticed your comment on HTPC cases, and I always had a bit of trouble finding a good case too. Well, that was until I saw a thread on the AT forums awhile ago about HTPC cases, and someone linked to a site with some nice brushed aluminum cases from Wesena.
Here's the link in question:
and the thread:
I'm a fan of the HTPC-ITX5 myself. I'm considering replacing my older Core i3-540-based HTPC with an Ivy Bridge-based system once Intel releases the low wattage parts. I use a Core i3-2100t in another system. The nice part about the t-series processors is that they are pretty much what you want (low clocks, low wattage, etc.). Reply
Chapbass - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkHaha, funny you found that thread Aikouka, I just came on here to post the exact same thing. Wesena cases seem pretty slick for the money. I ended up building my HTPC case on the extreme cheap (as in, 130 dollars for basically the whole thing, minus a couple parts I already had), but I've been eyeballing a newer wesena case for a while. Reply
pseudo7 - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkXBMC - nice choice! Reply
Aikouka - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkXBMC has one large annoyance with it that I just cannot figure out. If I leave XBMC open for days, any video played will stutter. It's a very slight stutter, but it is definitely noticeable. If I close XBMC and reopen it, it will return to normal... for a couple of days. Reply
Pirks - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkXBMC is crap written by fat pimply opensource penguin fellating dorks in moms basements. I installed it yesterday, switched to different account in Windows 7 - shit, the stupid POS forgot all its settings. No language, no plugins, nothing. I have to run the idiotic thing under admin account all the time. I switch to my original account - it runs well. I switch to second (limited) account - it requires admin password again to run, if I want to get my settings/plugins back.
Opensource is usually pretty lowly POS and google's crapdroid and other pengion fellating abominations prove it again and again. Opensource == low quality stuff. But FREE! Woohoo! FREEE CRAAAP! EVERYONE REJOICE! It's crap but it's FREE crap. It must make me fucking happy about it, yeaaa Reply
l3bowsk1 - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkTell us how you really feel...
"I have to run the idiotic thing under admin account all the time."
Things are incapable of idiocy. People on the other hand...
XBMC doesn't meet your misguided expectations, and you complain that its a flaw in XBMC? It's acting like *any other application* would in a multi-user Win7 envorinment. Don't like it? Run it under only one user ID. Problem solved. Personally, I like that it stores separate user preferences, since I can set up different source settings and skins depending on who's logged in.
And your attitudes around open source are poorly informed and frankly, not even worth the effort to try to correct. I could talk about how a majority of top-tier multi-billion $ products and services are built in some way around open source projects (Mac OS X and iOS, Facebook, PS3's system software, Salesforce.com, the list goes on). Or I could talk about how modern concepts of agile development - that make possible Microsoft's quick fix turnarounds on Patch Tuesdays, Firefox and Chrome's rapid version releases, etc. - draw directly from development frameworks and processes developed in the open source community.
I could talk about a lot of stuff, but you wouldn't listen, because you're a moron, with a piss-poor understanding of how technology works, which you've so deftly illustrated by confirming that you don't even know how Windows User accounts work. So sit down, and STFU. Reply
Pirks - Friday, May 25, 2012 - linkYou shut up, idiot. You're trying to lie to me that "It's acting like any other application would in a multi-user Win7 envorinment."? Really? Then try to run a NORMAL closed source app liek uTorrent or something under different accounts and you'll notice how it is smart in keeping separate use profiles in appropriate \users\<username> folders. If you don't know how normal apps (not opensource crap) work under multiple accounts your better shut your dirty hole. Reply
jwcalla - Friday, May 25, 2012 - linkThat's how XBMC works. I thought that was your complaint in the first place, that different user profiles had different settings?
Sounds like user error to me. Reply
Denithor - Friday, May 25, 2012 - linkGuys - quit feeding the troll.
Pirks is a well-known idiot flamer from Daily Tech.
Just ignore him. Reply
mcnabney - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkNot a big fan of XBMC.
I have been using Media Browser through WMC and it provides the right mix of functionality, usability, and customization. I should I also point out that my HTPC is in a well ventilated and silenced Norco case and sports a 560ti for my gaming pleasure.
Now when will the RED 4K projectors arrive.... Reply
ltfields - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkThanks for the update Anand, I loves me some Home Theatre pr0n... Reply
vision33r - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkThe latest gen Mac Mini or the upcoming ones with Ivy bridge is better. These ITX solutions aren't cheap and they're so ugly.
A Mac Mini has zero AC/DC power bricks. A Core i5 model is about $500 refurb and it is pretty quick and you can install Windows 7 on it and the only thing it lacks is USB3 or ESATA but it's got bluetooth and Wifi standard and it runs so much cooler than these 90watt desktop CPUs. Reply
zaccun - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkGood thing Anand isn't using a 90w CPU then, huh? He even posted that his system uses 23w while watching a movie. Reply
Assimilator87 - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkWhat steered you away from Llano? Reply
Taft12 - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkThere's almost no ITX Llano motherboards on the market. Certainly not with mSATA. Reply
amdwilliam1985 - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkI remember reading somewhere about having ~$75 thumb drive size htpc that runs with ICS, I think it'll work well especially with Andriod apps that lets you stream the media from the web. Will like to see more $50 to $100 thumb drive size htpc :)
also, I used to have a HTPC, can't find a nice small case for it, it eventually became my main desktop. And then I use an old core2duo laptop as the htpc instead. It's running 24/7, and draws about 12 watts on idle, and 20 watts playing movie. A great usage for an old laptop. Reply
jwcalla - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkMaybe Cotton Candy? Though I think that one's more like $200.
But yeah, ARM devices should soon fill in the HTPC market fairly easily. Unless one has super fancy requirements. Reply
Alexvrb - Sunday, May 27, 2012 - linkDoes the ability to work with WHS (for backup/restore purposes, primarily) count as "super fancy"? I'm hoping Windows RT (ARM) will, but seeing as how mobile devices are its primary target, there's no guarantee. Reply
Full Ctrl - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkHow did you connect to the Pegasus R6? Doesn't it only have thunderbolt connections? Reply
l3bowsk1 - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkI have a Pentium G850 in my HTPC, and it is perfect - low power envelope/heat/fan noise, but gets the job done for playing anything from Netflix and Hulu to HD rips and DVD ISOs. It's also no slouch in the gaming dept. either - mine is in a full height Silverstone case (http://goo.gl/am51j) so I could put in a GTX 560 in order to game and the G850 pushes enough frames that I can't complain. The whole system stays very cool and quiet.
I've considered scaling down to a Mini-ITX, but I like the look of full-sized components - my Apple TV 1.0 and PS3 stick out like a sore thumb. Reply
XZerg - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkEither they cost too much or leave a lot to be desired. All other parts are there but yet HTPC cases cost either too much or are too bulky. Seriously a nettop style case can't cost as much as many of these HTPC cases do. Reply
l3bowsk1 - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkDefine too much - if I'm putting something under my desk or on my server shelf, I might not want to spend more than $50 on the case, but if I'm putting it front and center in my living room for all to see, a little bit more $ goes a long way.
The case I linked to above for instance can usually be found for around $85 - to be fair, since I had to add a PSU, lets call the whole mess around $150, since a nettop case usually has a DC/DC PSU included.
For that money (about $100-120 more than the average entry-level nettop case), I've got a case that seamlessly blends in with my stereo equipment, is built like a brick house so has zero flex when I move it around, and is laid out so meticulously that it is only 12.5" deep and fits fine on my shelf, but still has room for several hard drives and a full-size video card. You can't say that about most cheap nettop cases.
Of course - I've got my fair share of cheap cases around the house, but they're not sitting in my entertainment center. Reply
XZerg - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkThat $150 exactly... a nettop can be had for $300-400 fully loaded with cpu, hdd, memory, motherboard and pre-loaded os. For HTPC, one does not really need a powerful system, just a decent cpu and gpu that can decode most media formats at a respectable fps and quality. Reply
XZerg - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkI meant to add that many of the nettops are the same size as most cable boxes and so they don't occupy much room either. Reply
A5 - Friday, May 25, 2012 - linkThose nettops also all run Atom or AMD's equally slow E-series CPUs.
They're not really up to HTPC tasks and you can build a SB Pentium system for like $30 more that will handle everything just fine and not use that much more power. Reply
Cygni - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkWould love to see an updated HTPC round-up using the Ceton Cablecard.
I've been using an old Dual Core Phenom and 785G with a Ceton and it's been pretty fantastic, but I'm always on the lookout for ways to upgrade the experience. Reply
somedude1234 - Friday, May 25, 2012 - linkAfter reaching my frustration limit with PS3mediaserver + the PS3 as a front end I finally bit the bullet and built a dedicated HTPC for the living room.
I chose the prior generation mITX Intel board (DH67CF) and paired it with a Pentium G630 (in hindsight I may end up wishing I spent a bit more on the CPU but so far no complaints and I can always upgrade to an Ivy Bridge proc if needed).
Windows 7 boots off of a Crucial C300 64GB SSD that I already had available, I put in a single stick of 4GB DDR3 and don't anticipate I'll need to upgrade this but I can easily double it if needed.
I have auto-login and XBMC set to auto-start.
There are two things that I absolutely LOVE about the Intel Media Series motherboards:
1. Quick boot: Skips all of the unnecessary scans during POST
2. Consumer IR (CIR): I can power the system on and off via an IR remote
For a case, I chose the Wesena ITX7 in black, which looks fantastic with the rest of the AV kit. It's a little taller than it needs to be (supports a slot loading ODD that I haven't yet installed and probably won't), but does allow installation of a half-height PCIe card. I selected this case as a hedge against being disappointed in the Sandy Bridge HD2000 graphics that I get with the Pentium G630. So far I've been completely happy so no need to add a separate GPU.
With quick boot and a lean Win7 install running off of a 6 Gbps SATA SSD I can go from pressing the power button on my IR remote to the XBMC main screen in well under 10 seconds. I can be watching a movie WAY faster with this HTPC than I could with my PS3.
Finally, I'm using a 120W "pico" style PSU, at idle the system draws 15W and with 2 instances of CPUburn + FurMark I can barely crack 50W of power draw.
The total system was a bit pricey but it's blazing fast and expandable.
Couldn't be happier. Reply
SlyNine - Friday, May 25, 2012 - linkWhat remote do you use. What skin do you use for XBMC. My biggest problem is making my media center easy to use for everyone else.
I'd be interested in the "other" user experience that your media center offers. Do you turn it on by hand every time you start it or do you somehow boot it up via remote? Reply
azimut - Friday, May 25, 2012 - linkI would love to built a such small htpc based on intel but I was I little worried about the 24p bug in Intel gpu.
The good thing is that VERY nice solution are coming the artict cooling MC101 Barebone looks very nice! Reply
owan - Friday, May 25, 2012 - linkI too built a mini-ITX HTPC, hoping to downsize from my capable but unwieldy mATX rig in an Antec Fusion Remote case. I wound up building an AMD E-350 rig, which easily handles my rather straightforward BD rips (in mkv) plus a handful of lower bitrate re-encodes. Unfortunately, I ran into a major problem pretty quickly. For whatever reason, the Realtek 8111E implementation for GbE had major issues streaming content over LAN. This would have been a simple fix in a mATX build, just throw in one of the spare intel NICs I had lying around, but in a mini ITX build, the single expansion slot was already slated to hold my InfiniTV4. Ultimately I had to host the CableCard tuner in my main rig and bridge the tuners over the network (thank god Ceton finally released that software) just so I could put a decent NIC in there.
Takeaway message:
1) lack of expandability can hurt sometimes
2) its hard finding an ITX board with a decent ethernet chip (aka NOT 8111E) Reply
Taft12 - Friday, May 25, 2012 - linkRealtek NIC chipsets indeed suck, but head to realtek.com and get the driver straight from the source. For me that's worked better than using the driver off the motherboard CD or Windows update. Reply
Soulkeeper - Friday, May 25, 2012 - linkUsed AMD memory in an intel system funny. Reply
MadAd - Saturday, May 26, 2012 - linkI welcome more threads like this, to evolve the desktop PC needs to shrink right now, not next year, or in 5 years time, now.
The current motherboard format is too big, PSU companies are just as much to blame. Intel tried to supersede ATX with BTX at one point but the market just ignored it, it was the same size and it didnt help us upgrading from ATX, it was a perfect format back then. With the invasion of tablets laptops and mobile devices there is less of a need to keep a behemoth ATX format machine at home and im sure many of those that do have more space than hardware inside, the format really needs to shrink now to turn PCs into the appliance they are destined to be - but how?
I like ITX, I built a car computer with one many years ago but for a desktop its a couple of inches too small to load a decent amount of hardware on it, corners have to be cut yet mATX still has that bulkyness about it that comes with the ATX format but the only alternative if we want 1x16 + 1x4 + 1xPCI, 4xRam, 6xSATA.
Seems like no one in the PC industry wants to take the reins of the decline and modernise the format properly so small gaming systems and large desktops alike dont have to be constrained by this dinosaur of a case standard.
Last comment, My friend bought an old pc to me to make into something for his daughter - since we built it around 2002 absolutely everything in it was junk by todays standards so when he said 'i guess theres nothing we can reuse if we upgrade it' I had to say 'actually the case is still fine', which just shows how long the standard has been with us.
Its time for a change? Reply
kappa7 - Saturday, May 26, 2012 - linkNice report!
Do you have measured the idle power consumption of the system?
I'm curious to know if the DH77DF is good as the old DH67CF(one of the most power efficient mini-itx board for socket 1155) regarding the idle power consumptions.
Thanks Reply
tipoo - Monday, May 28, 2012 - linkWouldn't the processor use its lower speeds if it's being underused anyways?
Also I use Throttlestop on my processor to set the voltages, I have it so that the highest multiplier uses the same voltage as the lowest and it's perfectly stable, your mileage may vary but that might be worthwhile. Reply
mcquade181 - Monday, May 28, 2012 - linkThe big problem I have with Mini-ITX boards is that generally there are no PCI-e expansion slots, which means to add tuners to your HTPC you need to rely on either USB or ethernet based tuners. My experience with USB tuners has not been good.
I'm a big user of HTPCs, not just for myself but also friends and relatives. Most that I have built use Micro ATX motherboards, generally the Antec Minuet 350 case, and one or two dual channel DVB-T tuner cards. Reply
WT - Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - linkI am currently using a 780G for my HTPC, the unique MSI 7411 Diva AM2 mATX board with a 5.1 amp as a discrete audio card.
I love this board so much that when it died on me about 2 months ago, I briefly looked for another board to replace it, but ended up buying a refurbed Diva board off of Ebay (it had its bad caps replaced - the same thing that did in my board.
So far so good on the 'new' board, and I'm back to watching my DVD library. I know HTPC enthusiasts will scoff at the notion of using WMC, but under my circumstances it works very well for how I view my content. Reply
kvnobrien - Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - linkI recently put together a Intel base ITX system for my boss for his home computer. I thought how great it would be for a HTPC but my current one is finally setup the way I want it. I used an old P4 Biostar board I had and a GTX7900 that was collecting dust. I just got suspend working with the IR remote and it takes about 3 seconds to come out of S3. The network card takes a few seconds more to wake up and find the NAS. It's amazing how much entertainment you can get out of using spare parts and put together something cool.
Thanks for this article I love the site. Great theater room too! Reply
ezridah - Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - linkI don't know where to request such things, but since this is about a mini ITX build I figured I'd throw it in here. To make it relevant to the article I'll say maybe this case will be a worthwhile candidate for others in the future. The Bitfenix Prodigy!
I was wondering if you guys will be reviewing it? That case looks really cool and you guys are the best reviewers around :) Reply
Burticus - Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - linkNice little ITX board! I wish I could find one like that in AM3+ for my HTPC that was affordable. They all run $100+ when my micro ATX one cost $20. Reply
Motoxmuseum - Sunday, June 03, 2012 - linkIn Win has announced and will show at Computex 2012 Nangang Hall 1F, J0212. The K1-HTPC is based on the new thin Mini-ITX form factor and is designed to specifically support the Intel DH61AG with Sandy or Ivy Bridge CPUs. The K1-HTPC is approx the same size as a Sony Blu-ray player and features internal W-Fi Antennas, support for internal USB based tuners, HDMI-CEC, RC6 IR remote and a USB Ver 1.2 Charging port featuring always on operation. Reply
StardogChampion - Tuesday, June 05, 2012 - linkThis site has some nice mini-ITX HTPC cases: http://www.ecosmartpc.com. Reply
davos555 - Thursday, August 23, 2012 - linkThe antec fusion is a pretty cool looking case (albeit a bit hifi)
Havent bought it but the images look good. (Uk based store but you can probably get it in the US!)
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/antec-fusion-remote... Reply


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Celebrity wedding and Hollywood engagement updates.
Lady Gaga's birthday marriage?
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Today is Lady Gaga's 30th birthday. I know, right? I always have a hard time remembering she's the same age as Lindsay Lohan. Anyway, there was a party over the weekend at the No Name club. By Hollywood standards then, just like a regular party with a lot of famous people hanging out – Taylor Swift, Lorde, Kate Hudson, etc. Full Story
George Clooney's 25 minute proposal
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George Clooney broadcast his Venice wedding to Amal Clooney in Vanity Fair, PEOPLE, Hello!, and VOGUE. So, like, not exactly private. Now he's telling us via Ellen DeGeneres about how he proposed to Amal. It was 25 minutes long. At one point he uses the word "horrible". And at the end, because it took her so long to process that he was actually asking her to marry him, he had to tell her that he's 52 years old with a bad back and could she please answer? Normally when someone goes on a talk show, like, oh, say, Channing Tatum, and gives you all kinds of romantic details about his wife, by the end of the story, all the women in the audience are freaking out and crying and throwing themselves on the ground from all the longing. Full Story
Mimi debuts her rock monster
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It's been a week since Mimi and James Packer got engaged. Last night she accompanied him to the G'Day Los Angeles Gala for their first official appearance since he put that monster of a rock on her finger. Look at all that happiness on her face. That's a glow only money can buy. Full Story
Oh Festive Day!
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The butterfly who's been a constant festive light in our lives for so many years has many reasons to be festive today. More specifically, 35 CARATS worth of reasons… There is no bleak in the sky… And there are definitely no clouds in her stone… Because James Packer knows better than to propose to our Mimi with anything but the best. Full Story
Marriage & Cigarettes
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Mary-Kate Olsen married Olivier Sarkozy. It happened in New York, in a penthouse, only 50 guests. No photos, obviously. That's not MK's style. What is her style is smoking. This my favourite detail from the wedding. That the main design feature was the "bowls and bowls filled with cigarettes". Full Story
Leonardo DiCaprio: family weekend with the bonafide
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OK! Magazine reported last week that Leonardo DiCaprio proposed to his current bonafide, Kelly Rohrbach, over dinner in New York on September 26. According to the magazine's sources, it was a spontaneous thing. Like he was enjoying his steak so much that he decided to ask her to marry him. Full Story
Tom Cruise is moving
Apparently Tom Cruise is getting out of LA. He's selling his $59 million home in Beverly Hills and, according to US Weekly, he wants to move to Florida because "he thinks all the people in Hollywood are fake". So he's relocating like John Travolta, a guy who is TOTALLY LIVING HIS TRUE LIFE, to be closer to Scientology headquarters. Full Story
Justin talks about his wedding
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Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston got married last month. Guess what? He's doing press now for season 2 of The Leftovers, premiering on HBO and HBO Canada on October 4. Convenient! As expected, he's being asked about the wedding and the honeymoon and their friends joining them in Bora Bora. Full Story
Jennifer Aniston's married jumpsuit
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Jennifer Aniston made her first post-wedding appearance last night at the premiere of She's Funny That Way. I've attached shots of her wedding band below. The wedding dress remains a mystery. Earlier this week people were freaking out about it being this: Full Story
Justin's ring and Jen's dress
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Justin Theroux was papped at LAX yesterday, first shots of him after the honeymoon. As you know, he and Jennifer Aniston spent it with friends in Bora Bora. They came back a few days ago and he's now off again for work wearing his new ring and a ballin' gold watch. Under some light it actually looks rose-gold, at least to me. Full Story
"The way you dismiss me will turn into missing me"
FKA twigs released her third EP yesterday called M3LL155X along with a short film that includes four of the five songs. It's 17 mesmerising minutes that don't feel like a commitment at all because, well, she's not James Franco. twigs directed the film herself to illustrate what she calls "process of feeling pregnant with pain, birthing creativity and liberation". Full Story


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- PyYAML 3000 is the most promising implementation, but it is still very young. PyYAML 3000 is a pure Python YAML 1.1 parser supporting all the features of YAML including Unicode. It does not yet include a YAML emitter. Use PyYAML 3000 if you need a YAML parser and do not need a YAML emitter. For example, PyYAML 3000 is excellent for configuration files.
- PySyck is a Python binding to the C library Syck. Syck supports YAML 1.0 (w/o Unicode) and provides both parser and emitter. Use PySyck if you really need a YAML emitter. For instance, PySyck may be used as a pickle replacement.
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With the new year almost upon us, for what it's worth, here are ten films that really impressed me, all released in 2012, in no particular order:
This Is Not A Film by Jafar Panahi
The Queen of Versailles by Lauren Greenfield
Bernie by Richard Linklater
A Late Quartet by Yaron Zilberman
Tabu by Miguel Gomes
How to Survive a Plague by David France
The Invisible War by Kirby Dick
Wild Bill by Dexter Fletcher
Side by Side by Christopher Kenneally
Farewell, My Queen by Benoît Jacquot
There are lots of other excellent films, of course, and all "top ten" lists are inherently ridiculous, since there's so much out there that never gets even a VOD release, so this is just a very small slice of a much larger pie. There were a lot of excellent documentaries this year, as well as last year, and all of these films certainly had their moments.
I found myself drifting back though, to Lars von Trier's Melancholia or J.C. Chandor's Margin Call (both 2011), as films that, for me, were really transcendent experiences, and none of these films, with the possible exception of the mesmeric Tabu, really came up to that level. That said, This Is Not A Film signals a new era in do-it-yourself cinema, smuggled out of Iran on a flash drive hidden in a birthday cake, proving that you don't need much in the way of physical materials to make a compelling film; all it requires in genius, and a talent for improvisation under pressure. A Late Quartet is perhaps the most conventional film here, but it still packs a punch, and Side by Side, though also veering towards the quotidian, nevertheless addresses the most central issue facing cinema today; film or digital. Really, it isn't a contest any more; digital has won. Film is gone.
In Fall 2012, I projected a DCP (Digital Cinema Package) of one film in my film history class, which looked sharp, hard, and glossy; and then after that, a 35mm print of another film, which seemed, in comparison, warm, romantic, and inviting. What can I say; film looks better. But there's no use bemoaning the death of film, though; it's an accomplished fact. Christopher Nolan is still carrying the torch for celluloid, but it won't be long before 35mm vanishes completely – something I predicted as far back as 2000 in a lecture in Stockholm, when one theatre in New York switched, even back then, to all digital projection. The Jazz Singer (1927) opened in one theater, as well; within two years, silent films were gone.
It's taken digital longer to gain market dominance, but when one looks at the cost savings for the studios in shipping, storage, and print costs, as well as the level of control DCPs give the majors. Digital Cinema Packages must be unlocked by KDMs (Key Delivery Messages) for each screening, so studios always know where and when their films are being screened – the shift was ultimately inevitable. I've blogged about this before in detail. The shift was ultimately inevitable. So it's a digital world, and film – as we knew it – is no longer part of the landscape.
That's the major story for 2012, and a host of aesthetic and pictorial values vanish with the switch. But sheer economics drive the process, and film is above all a very costly medium, so with distribution and advertising costs rising, to say nothing of above-the-line budgets, mainstream fare will continue to rule the multiplex, while most of the films listed here played "selected theaters," and never reached the general public.
That's another problem, and for that, there seems no solution in sight.


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Booby Traps Series: Let's give thanks for this year's Booby Trap-busting developments
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Last revised on 11/19/2012
Last revised on 11/19/2012


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Pubs will come together to raise money for a military charity with a day of jazz and military displays.
People are invited to listen to music and watch displays at the three pubs, all close to Church End, in Hendon, to raise money for Help for Heroes on July 12.
The day is being organised by The Chequers, The Claddagh Ring and The Greyhound pub and will include music from students at Middlesex University, displays from cadets and soldiers in army vehicles.
Events will run from noon to 8pm. For more information, call 020 8203 5658.


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Abbiamo soggiornato nell'appartamento 4 posti letto nel tardo Agosto con i nostri 4 figli.Maria(la proprietaria)
If you're looking for peace and quiet, this is the place for you. The property is beautiful but a little difficult to access - 20 minute walk to Massa, 10 minute walk + 15 miunute bus to Sorrento. If you have a car, make sure it's small enough to fit between the stone walls on the "streets" that lead to the property! Otherwise Giovanni will pick you up and leave you at the train station.
Cigana Patrick


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12I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she is to keep silent.
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