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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Litigation Release No. 18734 / June 3, 2004
Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Release No. 2029 / June 3, 2004
SEC v. Symbol Technologies, Inc., Tomo Razmilovic, Kenneth Jaeggi, Leonard Goldner, Brian Burke, Michael DeGennaro, Frank Borghese, Christopher DeSantis, James Heuschneider, Gregory Mortenson, James Dean and Robert Donlon, CV 04 2276 (LDW)(WDW) (EDNY)
On June 3, 2004, the Commission filed a civil injunctive action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging Symbol Technologies, Inc. ("Symbol"), with securities fraud and related violations. The SEC also charged eleven former Symbol executives in connection with their roles in the fraud. Symbol has agreed to settle the Commission's charges by paying a $37 million penalty and consenting to injunctive relief. The entire amount of the penalty will be distributed to injured investors. One individual defendant, James Dean, has consented to injunctive relief.
The SEC's complaint alleges that from at least 1998 until early 2003, Symbol and the other defendants engaged in numerous fraudulent accounting practices and other misconduct that had a cumulative net impact of over $230 million on Symbol's reported revenue and over $530 million on its pre-tax earnings. Based in Holtsville, New York, Symbol supplies mobile information systems using bar code scanners and related technology and its stock is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
SEC Complaint
Individuals Sued: In addition to Symbol, the Commission's complaint names the following individual defendants who worked at Symbol during the relevant period:
Conduct: The complaint alleges that Symbol and other defendants engaged in a fraudulent scheme to inflate revenue, earnings and other measures of financial performance in order to create the false appearance that Symbol had met or exceeded its financial projections. Razmilovic and others fostered a "numbers driven" corporate culture obsessed with meeting Wall Street estimates.
With no regard for generally accepted accounting principles or their financial reporting obligations, defendants used the following fraudulent schemes to align Symbol's reported financial results with market expectations:
(a) a "Tango sheet" process through which baseless accounting entries were made to conform the raw quarterly results to management's projections;
(b) the fabrication and misuse of restructuring and other non-recurring charges to artificially reduce operating expenses, create "cookie jar" reserves and further manage earnings;
(c) channel stuffing and other revenue recognition schemes, involving both product sales and customer services; and
(d) the manipulation of inventory levels and accounts receivable data to conceal the adverse side effects of the revenue recognition schemes.
Razmilovic, Jaeggi, Burke, DeGennaro and Borghese directed the fraud, while DeSantis, Heuschneider, Mortenson, Dean and Donlon implemented the schemes.
While the accounting fraud was occurring, Goldner manipulated stock option exercise dates to enable select senior executives, including himself, to profit unfairly at the company's expense. Rather than use the actual exercise date as defined by the option plans, Goldner instituted, without board approval or public disclosure, a practice of using a more advantageous date chosen from a 30-day "look-back" period so as to reduce the cost of the exercise to the executive. To create the false appearance that these exercises occurred on the selected dates, Goldner had his staff backdate transactional documents and use the phony exercise dates in the forms on which the executives reported their acquisitions to the Commission and the public.
In addition to committing securities fraud, some of the defendants interfered with two internal investigations into Symbol's accounting practices and delayed the Commission's investigation. After the Commission began its investigation, Jaeggi directed subordinates to discard copies of "Tango sheets" and other incriminating documents. During the same relevant period, DeGennaro rigged the revenue recognition data provided to the forensic accountants involved in the first internal inquiry, instructed subordinates to withhold information from subsequent internal investigators, and directed employees to sanitize key portions of schedules that they provided to the investigators.
Statutory Violations: The Commission's complaint alleges that by engaging in this conduct, the defendants violated antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws, and also violated, or are secondarily liable for Symbol's violations of, numerous reporting, record-keeping, internal control and proxy solicitation provisions. Specifically, the complaint alleges that Symbol violated Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 ("Securities Act") and Sections 10(b), 13(a), 13(b)(2) and 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act") and Rules 10b-5, 12b-20, 13a-1, 13a-13, 14a-3 and 14a-9. Each individual defendant is alleged to have violated Sections 10(b) and 13(b)(5) of the Exchange Act and Rules 10b-5 and 13b2-1. Razmilovic, Jaeggi, Goldner and Burke are also alleged to have violated Section 17(a) of the Securities Act, and Goldner is alleged to have also violated Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act and Rule 16a-3. In addition, the complaint alleges that Razmilovic, Jaeggi, Burke and DeGennaro made, or directed others to make, false statements to Symbol's accountants in violation of Exchange Act Rule 13b2-2.
Relief Sought: The complaint seeks final judgments enjoining violations of these provisions of the federal securities laws; ordering all defendants to pay disgorgement and civil money penalties; and barring defendants Razmilovic, Jaeggi, Goldner, Burke, DeGennaro and Borghese from acting as an officer or director of any public company.
Symbol, without admitting or denying the allegations in the Complaint, has agreed to the following relief:
Dean has also agreed, without admitting or denying the allegations, to the imposition of the injunctive relief sought by the Commission.
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The Commission's claims for disgorgement and civil penalties against Dean, and all of its claims against the other individual defendants, remain pending.
This is the third enforcement action the Commission has brought as a result of its investigation into Symbol's financial reporting. On March 25, 2003, the Commission charged Robert Asti, a former sales executive at Symbol. See LR-18050 (March 25, 2003). On June 19, 2003, the Commission charged Robert Korkuc, a former chief accounting officer at Symbol. See LR-18194 (June 19, 2003). The Commission's investigation is continuing.
The Commission acknowledges the assistance and cooperation of the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in this matter.


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PlayStation 4
The PlayStation 4 is the fourth generation of PlayStation console from Sony, officially announced on 20 February 2013 and was released on 15 November 2013 in North America, 29 November 2013 in Europe, and 22 February 2014 in Japan. The PlayStation 4 is the successor of the PlayStation 3, and has been designed based on the wishes of game developers.
The PS4 comes with a new controller, the DualShock 4, which features a touch pad, a mono speaker, a light bar, and a headphone jack. The controller can be charged by plugging into the console, even when the console is turned off.
Grand Theft Auto V, released on the PS3 and Xbox 360 in September 2013, as well as its online counterpart, Grand Theft Auto Online, will be released on the PS4, Xbox One, and PC in the fall of 2014. This could potentially mitigate issues for Rockstar Games, including preventing loss of sales of DLC due to people having sold their old systems.

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Police and code enforcement officers in both East Hampton and Southamption Towns are investigating a Jericho company called Hamptons and Sons for hosting massive after-prom and graduation parties at rented houses whose owners were told their houses would be used for an extended family reunion.
According to law enforcement sources and angry parents, Lee Hnetinka, 25, the company's principal, ran two and three-day parties at the houses, sometimes with as many as 100 teenagers, each of whom paid hundreds of dollars to attend. Hard liquor and beer were allegedly allowed to under-age drinkers at the sites.
Lucy Sachs, whose family owns property on Oceanview Lane in the Devon Colony section of Amagansett, said she was taken in by Mr. Hnetinka. An overnight party with as many as 98 students was held at the family house on June 8.
"This house was built by my great-great-grandfather in 1909," Ms. Sachs said last week. To cover expenses, she said, the family rented the 14-bedroom, chateau-style house to Mr. Hnetinka from May 29 through June 26, for $30,000.
"He told us he was going to have a family reunion here. He's the smoothest-talking guy imaginable," she said.
The parties began right after Mr. Hnetinka's company took over the property, according to Ms. Sachs. She came by the next day to drop off a document, "and there were two bedraggled teenagers in the kitchen. I asked, 'What are you doing here?' They just looked at me. I noticed that there were garbage bags with beer bottles, and the house was a mess."
She was concerned but left without comment. "I believed they were just sloppy people," she said.
A few days later, she drove by and saw a mound of garbage bags piled by the trash bins. She opened a bin to put the bags inside and was surprised to find it full to overflowing. So were the other bins.
"There was nobody in the house, no people. I stuck my head in, thinking the guy was on the up-and-up." By the looks of the kitchen and dining room, Ms. Sachs said, it was apparent there had been a party there.
Still believing in Mr. Hnetinka's "family reunion," she sent him a text message and left the property.
Then, at 5 in the morning on June 8, a neighbor called.
"He said, 'I was awakened at 2:15 when party buses arrived with a disco ball, idling in the driveway. It sounded like the Hampton Jitney had arrived.'"
Ms. Sachs said she called Mr. Hnetinka and asked, " 'What's happening here?' He said, 'My aunt is having a graduation party for her child.' "
A 2012 graduate of Herricks High School who was on one of the three buses that awakened the neighbor said on Monday that Mr. Hnetinka had been at the house to greet them when they arrived.
"We were supposed to be there from Thursday night to Sunday at 1 p.m.," said the teenager, Zach Breit. According to Mr. Breit, the 98 students had each paid $355 for the stay.
The students were met also by a security team. Hamptons and Sons had a how-to manual for the team's use, with step-by-step instructions about alcohol, garbage, sleeping arrangements, and the like. Ms. Sachs obtained a copy of the manual from one of the security guards after Mr. Hnetinka was evicted and gave it to The Star.
When the buses first arrive, says the manual, "Say to the kids: Get off the bus and walk into the house quietly! The neighbors are sleeping and if we wake them up they will call the police to shut down the party. . . . Anything you take off the bus should not be brought into a bedroom. . . . They should just hang out (not drink yet) and wait until everyone gets there and you read the rules."
"Once everyone is inside and in the same room . . . we want to know about any 1. Knives. 2. Guns 3. Hard alcohol and mikes. 4. Beer. 5. Drugs. 6. And prescription drugs . . . the prescription drugs will be given back should the person need them and they have a prescription. The hard alcohol will be given back once we feel you have earned it and you see they are a young adult and can handle it. This may be 5 minutes or 5 hours; it depends on if you guys lie to us."
"Give back only the hard alcohol," the manual instructs the security team, "under your digression [sic]."
"Only give back hard alcohol that is clear," it specifies. "Do not give back any rum, gin or tequila. I do not allow those! Obviously do not give back drugs, knives or guns."
The manual goes on to cover rules about the use of the pool (no diving), the air-conditioners (not to be set below 65), noise (no amplified music outdoors), beer (no stacking it in the fridge; "the shelves will break"), and so forth, but the greatest emphasis by far is on keeping nosy officials away from the premises.
"Do not open front door ever. . . . If you open the front door by accident tell them to hold on and do not let them in. Close the door and get the security guard. . . . Should code enforcement or police come to the property . . . 1. Do not let them inside. . . . Close the door and call a representative from Hamptons and Sons immediately; call us right away — do not speak to them!"
By the time the rules were read out and the searches were complete, Mr. Breit said, it was almost 5 a.m. The students took their air mattresses and sleeping bags upstairs to their pre-assigned rooms.
Mr. Hnetinka drove off in a Porsche.
It was then that Ms. Sachs got the phone call and hurried over to her family's house.
"There were security guards here, I forget how many. Guys in black shirts."
Ms. Sachs stormed into the house. There was food scattered around, she said, and she smelled marijuana smoke. She saw some teenagers eating and drinking, but most were asleep. She went upstairs, where the house has bedroom after bedroom in its three wings.
"It was clear to me at that point that there had to be about 100 18-year-olds in this house. There were air beds in every bedroom."
By 8:30 a.m., several other family members had arrived to assist. Together, they confronted the students, who were now beginning to wake up.
" 'Where are Lee's relatives?' " Ms. Sachs says she asked.
"They looked at me blankly. I said. 'Why are you here? How did you come to be here?' They said, 'The girl who organized it is in the dining room.' "
Jenna Madonna, who did not return phone calls from The Star, said, according to Ms. Sachs, that Mr. Hnetinka had represented himself as the owner of the house, as well as two houses in Sag Harbor, where the party was originally scheduled to take place. He changed the location at the last minute because, Mr. Breit and others said, of "noise complaints" in Sag Harbor.
Ms. Sachs confronted Mr. Hnetinka on the phone. "I said, 'This is ridiculous. You've lied to me. There is no aunt.' "
At that point, Mr. Hnetinka told the guards that the students would have to vacate.
For the students, the next few hours were nightmarish. First, they had to find their way home. The buses were gone. Parents drove out. One family rented two vans from an East Hampton livery company. Ms. Sachs and several members of her family shuttled many of them to the train station.
"Many of the parents had 8 to 10 kids in a car," Mr. Breit said. His own parents drove their son and seven others back to New Hyde Park.
Once home, the familes had to wrestle with a new problem: Where was their money? Mr. Hnetinka had been given well over $30,000.
Sheri Lamagna, the mother of Blake Lamagna, told her daughter, "Blake, the money is gone."
Richard Beau Dietl, a former New York City police detective and father of one of the partygoers, Beau Dietl, said on Saturday that "I'm looking for him to get locked up for fraud and grand larceny," as well as endangering the health of minors. Mr. Dietl, who is now head of Investigations.com, a private firm, paid $355 for his son to attend his graduation party.
"That was the best $355 I ever spent," he said. He has been contacting school districts in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, warning them about Mr. Hnetinka and Hamptons and Sons. "He thinks he can get away. We'll do what we got to do."
The Amagansett party was not Mr. Hnetinka's only one that weekend.
"My son was in a house on Parrish Pond Lane in Southampton with 31 other kids," Judge Richard Kestenbaum of Great Neck said last week. The group paid Mr. Hnetinka $16,000 for the party, "most of which was in cash," said Mr. Kestenbaum. "During the first day there, the code enforcement showed up and asked them to leave."
Mr. Hnetinka, who, said the judge, was there when it happened, told the students they would have to vacate, promising they would receive a refund. But afterward, said Mr.Kestenbaum, an attorney representing Mr. Hnetinka told him there would be no refund coming.
According to Hamptons and Sons' how-to manual, Mr. Hnetinka had at least seven houses at his disposal, including properties on Daniel's Hole Road in Wainscott, Parrish Pond Lane in Southampton, Noyac Path in Noyac, Brick Kiln Road in Sag Harbor, and two on Jeffery Lane in East Quogue, plus the Amagansett house.
Besides its general instructions, the Hamptons and Sons manual lays out details specific to each property. In the case of the Oceanview Lane house, students arriving in their own cars were told to park them at the Amagansett train station. Vehicles belonging to guests at the Noyac Path house were to be left in the parking lot at Bridgehampton Commons.
Mr. Breit said that Ms. Madonna, an organizer of the Amagansett group, was to have had a meeting with Mr. Hnetinka on June 25, at which he would return all the Herricks School checks. The meeting never happened, he said on Monday, and the group is contemplating a lawsuit.
Ms. Sachs and her family said they served Mr. Hnetinka with an eviction notice for violating his lease by renting the house to the student groups, and hired round-the-clock security to guard the property. Twice during the weeks following, she said, he showed up with a locksmith, trying to gain entrance, once with two lawyers and two security guards in tow. Ms. Sachs's sister Joannie Mackall documented the latter visit on a cellphone camera. The police were summoned on both occasions, and Mr. Hnetinka did not gain entrance.
Had he done so, said Chief Edward Ecker Jr. of the East Hampton Town Police, it would have been very difficult to dislodge him.
"You can't just throw him out," the chief said, citing New York State law in regard to tenant rights, until an owner obtains a court order for eviction. The chief declined to comment further on Mr. Hnetinka, other than to say that town police are investigating.
The students in the Oceanview Lane house left behind several water bottles, containing what smelled and tasted like flavored vodkas. Two were labeled in black marker with what was apparently a student's name. Ms. Sachs has put them aside in case the police need them for their investigation.
David Betts, the head of code enforcement in Southampton Town, would not go into specifics but did say that a case involving five different party houses was moving into civil court. He would neither confirm nor deny that Mr. Hnetinka was the target of that investigation.
However, according to the Southampton Town Justice Court calendar, Mr. Hnetinka is to be arraigned on July 13 at 1 p.m. in connection with at least seven violations.
There are many code violations that could be invoked against party houses. There are limitations on the size of a gathering and restrictions on running a business in a residential space. Also, the town code of Southampton prohibits short-term (fewer than 30 days) leases.
"I've communicated with the Town of Southampton," Mr. Kestenbaum said. "If that doesn't work, we'll go after him."
"We've got to push it, because if we don't, there's going to be a tragedy, and as a former law enforcement agent, I don't think we can accept that," Mr. Dietl said.
"I think he should go to jail," Mr. Breit said, adding that he and his friends had worked to save their money for a graduation party.
"Money is money. We'd all like to get it back, but I really hope this guy doesn't do this to anyone else."
Mr. Hnetinka did not respond to calls or text messages requesting comment or an interview. The Hamptons and Sons web site was no longer online as of Monday morning.


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Samsung ST150F 16mp, LCD 3.0", 5x Optical Zoom with WIFI (Black)
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Picture Perfect Sharing Every Time
Share your best pictures in style with the ST150. Instantly email or upload high quality photos to your social networks, right from your camera.
Your Best Photos Instantly Shared
Instantly send quality photos to social networks like Facebook or email them to a small group of people-directly from the camera. The dedicated DIRECT LINK hot key helps you quickly connect to Wi-Fi networks. Access your uploaded content on supported connected devices. Plus, you can store cool images and video directly from the camera to Microsoft SkyDrive.
Instantly Save Photos to Your Camera and Phone
Simultaneously send every picture you take to your mobile phone via Wi-Fi connection-to make backing up and sharing your high-quality photos easy. Setup AutoShare once and the camera saves it as the default setting. AutoShare also GPS tags your photos with your Smart Phone.
Camera, Smartphones and Tablets Image Sharing
Now you can select and send an image or album directly to an Android smartphone, iPhone or tablet with the Samsung MobileLink. You don't even have to send the image as a text message or as an email. With MobileLink, you can control the album on your phone and the changes will be saved to your camera, too.
Control your Camera from your Smartphone
Control your camera by using your smartphone as the viewfinder. Remote Viewfinder lets you preview images, adjust the camera settings, zoom in and out and frame each scene- all from your phone, wirelessly. This feature is available for select smartphones.
Connect to your Camera Faster
Download the Samsung SMART App. which features- Remote Viewfinder, AutoShare, and MobileLink - without having to download each app individually. Rather than launching the apps one at a time on your smartphone, you can open all three apps at once, with the touch of a finger.
Seamless Sharing Across All Devices
AllShare Play lets you connect to all devices that support AllShare Play. You can wirelessly stream photos and videos from your camera to nearby devices to share with friends and family at once, or simply upload to Web Storage instantly for easy management. Enjoy the freedom of sharing with AllShare Play!
The 3.0-inch LCD screen on the back of the Camera provides a perfect, glare-free way to review your photos. The wide and bright screen reproduces the images so they look as they truly appear-even in direct sunlight.
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You can instantly email or post must-see images and videos to your favorite social networks. Just select and upload wherever you have a Wi-Fi connection, and then add tags and comments. Share with your Blogger followers, or post to Facebook, Picasa or YouTube - and many more social networks.
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Wirelessly transfer photos and movies to your PC or Mac. Simply choose AutoBackup and you're all set. All your photos and videos are transferred wirelessly and safely stored on to your computer. Feel free to delete photos from your camera knowing there's a duplicate set on your computer.
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When a firmware update is available for our Samsung Wi-Fi connected SMART Camera, the Software Upgrade notification window will pop up on the camera's screen. Connect your camera to your PC for the upgrade, and start using the latest features without delay.
customize and Edit your Photos
Even if you're not ready for your close-up, you can still create the perfect social network profile picture. Beauty Palette lets you choose from seven different makeup looks that help you change photos instantly.
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When you're taking pictures at a concert or play, make every seat the best seat in the house. The 5x optical zoom gives you great close-ups, even from the back row. The 25mm wide-angle lens captures all the action on stage. And the combination of 16.1 megapixels and F2.5 lens give you high quality images - even in dim lights.
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With Motion Photo, you can freeze time around a moving subject to create enchanting images. Capture a friend dancing while everyone else around him is still as a statue-just like in a Hollywood blockbuster. Simply shoot the footage, and then rub the area on the display where you want action. The photo around it will freeze-it's that easy.
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Make a portrait look like an antique, or put your face on the moon - Magic Frame's 12 background templates offer lots of picture-taking enjoyment. You can also put images on a 1950's TV set or a movie. There are so many possibilities for fun - especially when you share the poster-quality results!
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Boost creative fun with the Smart Filter 3.0 -right on the display! Cartoon filter makes any photo look like an animated film scene while Cross Filter makes light sources appear to have several points of light, like stars. There's also Ink Painting, Half-tone Dot and more ways for you to express your creative side.
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Smart Auto 2.0 (Still & Movie) instantly analyzes key elements of your composition then automatically adjusts to capture the perfect shot with multitude of different photo modes and movie modes.
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With Live Panorama, you can capture every peak of a sprawling mountain range or every skyscraper in a magnificent city skyline to create astounding 180º panoramic images. And you can preview the image on the LCD before you even snap it. Just hold the shutter button, sweep across the scene and see what you're going to get before you get it.


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IP: Play.pokegeared.com
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-Pokemon Prop Hunt! (Think of Gary's Mod) Only PokeGeared offers this!!!!!!!!!
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-Trivia Plugin
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-A discord to chat with the friendly community and staff
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text: On 8/1/07, Manu Abraham <abraham.manu at gmail.com> wrote: > Though it is feeding the troll, i will bite this bait: > > > On 8/1/07, Markus Rechberger <mrechberger at gmail.com> wrote: > > > It's the internal problems this project has which reflects to the outside world. > > You, I and several others are also part of that problem, and at least > > to me it seems to be unsolvable the way it is at the moment. > > > Why should you care about the project's internal problem, when you > aren't part of it. > I don't think so. > > > > remember the words you've written a few weeks ago that you'll never > > ask Mauro to pull your code, but you fight for your code which you > > have committed earlier to the v4l-dvb project and don't accept patches > > which have been written by others (eg. Trent). > > > Oh, BTW: I take in patches that are sensible from the device POV, not > just something that is written from a patch POV. > > > > Either you're overloaded with what you're doing or just try to take > > care that everything you ever touched belongs to you and noone has > > access to it .. I don't know. > > > I don't care how you interpret what i am doing. > > So, Feel free to make your own assumptions, it's not possible within > my capabilities, to clear the cloud in your head. > > NOTE: Also, feel free to feed the trolls, as your best buddy's are the > trolls. My comments were to the normal users, having no clouds in > their heads. > I wouldn't have assumed something friendlier from your side. Markus


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Mustang MonthlyNews & Views
Heading Towards Midlife at Warp Speed - Hoof Beats
Apparently midlife has snuck up on me while I wasn't paying attention. No, I didn't purchase a Corvette. Instead, midlife reared its ugly head recently while I was sitting in the Optometrist's office getting an eye exam for new glasses. I turned 45 last November and shortly after the New Year I found myself constantly lifting my eye glasses above my eyes to see small text up close (serial numbers on electronics, etc.) that I used to be able to see clearly through my glasses. The Optometrist confirmed my worst fear. "Welcome to midlife, you need bifocals!" Thanks doc…
Now I've been wearing eye glasses since I was in grade school and I've seen and worn all sorts of eye wear over the last 35 years. From the thick brown plastic frames of the '70s to rounded gold metal frames of the '80s all the way up to today's "chic" eyewear brought to you by all of the latest designer labels. After my eye exam and those wonderful eye drops that make you look like a zombie, I staggered out into the brightness of the store's showroom to look at said frames. I had Dawn with me of course, because let's face it, if it was left up to me I'd probably pick out those hideous brown plastic frames again from the '70s. She has to look at me the most so she has to like the glasses stuck on my face—probably more so than if I like them—but that's what makes She Who Must Be Obeyed (SWMBO) happy right?
So there we are perusing the rack of frames. All the big names were on the wall; DKNY, Oakley, Armani, Ralph Lauren, Burberry, Ray-Ban, and more. Admittedly there was some nice looking eyewear, but the one frame I really wanted alluded my wide-eyed search—Mustang frames! Yes, I want a set of eye glasses with a Mustang theme to them. As a Mustang fanatic wouldn't you rather wear some officially licensed Mustang eyewear and show your pride of ownership and enthusiasm for the hobby versus some other frame?
I know for a fact each and every person reading this editorial right now has at least one (if not a dozen) Mustang T-shirts, polo shirts, club or event shirts, hats, belts and/or buckles, and more. Heck, I have pajama pants with Mustangs all over them. (I know TMI. I'll try to keep that to a minimum in my columns, I promise). Mustangs are part of our daily wear and even jewelry, so why not eye glasses? Wouldn't it be great to be able to pick out a pair of eye glass frames with a small chrome running horse on the temple, or perhaps a coiled Cobra snake? Maybe a rocker stripe motif with the word Mustang in it? I know I would prefer such a "fashion statement" to wear daily. While I did eventually pick out a pretty sporty looking pair of black Ray-Bans with silver-gray carbon fiber for the temples, I couldn't help but think how much cooler these glasses would be with some sort of Mustang logo, emblem, etc. on them.
I know some people are adverse to wearing logos/branding. I too find it hard to spend $40 on a shirt and walk around with the brand's name plastered all over it (insert Gen-X Abercrombie comment here), but somehow when it comes to Mustang we feel differently don't we? I find it nearly impossible to walk by anything with a Boss 302 on it and not purchase that shirt or hat. I'll most likely be in line with the rest of the free world attending one of the 50th events to purchase the latest Mustang graphic "camp shirt" and I won't leave until I get one of Vaughn Gittin's new Formula Drift team shirts (hopefully signed as well!). When Cracker Barrel offered a slew of 50th anniversary Mustang merch last fall I stocked up with a new polo shirt, two t-shirts, a coffee mug and of course their Boss 302 playing cards. Heaven help me if Dawn finds out what I spent! Come on Ford licensing, we want some cool Mustang eyewear to show our love of the brand!


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I hope you all had a wonderful Fathers Day weekend…especially the men of the hour, those stalwart fellows we call papa whose broad shoulders and strong arms keep the monsters at bay and whose wild tales water our imaginations. It was a full weekend for us. Not of the jetting off to some fantastic locale full, but that of the Saturday night sleepover with the little one type full. Delicious in its own way, particularly if you, like me, have a weakness for little feeties first thing in the morning.
So, as much as I wanted to post the winner for my Frugally Delicious giveaway over the weekend, that just had to wait. And now with the load of Monday's work spilling out and sneaking into every nook and cranny I have only just enough time to announce the winner, as I don't want to keep you waiting any longer. Without further delay, the winner of one copy of the Frugally Delicious cookbook is…Eileen of Ham Pie Sandwiches!
If you want to know more about the cookbook, or perhaps even purchase your own copy, you can check here. I am so thrilled to be a part of it, to have my recipe in an actual book, and to be among a great group of contributors.
This will be a short post, due to aforementioned busy-ness, but I promise you that I will have a recipe for you very soon…and it is an absolute keeper (get children of all ages to do your bidding type keeper)! Meanwhile, I hope I can tide you over with another breakfast. This one is for the rainy season that is upon us over here: warm oatmeal (old fashioned if you please) + chunks of apple + pitted cherries + walnuts + wheatgerm + brown sugar. What better to start a Monday with?
The photo above is care of Instagram and if you'd like to see what other random bits and breakfasts I share, feel free to follow me at @chichajo 🙂
Congratulations Eileen! I hope you enjoy the cookbook!


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VERGENNES — The Vergennes Union High School board on Monday settled on an $8.97 million budget proposal to put before Addison Northwest Supervisory Union voters in March. The plan would increase spending at VUHS by a little less than 2 percent — essentially back to the school's 2007-2008 level.
Monday's action followed a Jan. 3 meeting at which the VUHS board asked administrators to cut back their recommendation of a 2.47-percent hike to less than 2 percent.
MIDDLEBURY — For the next few weeks most Middlebury College students won't be studying typical academic subjects like biochemistry or economics. Instead, they will learn about topics ranging from adventure writing to Motown.
EAST MIDDLEBURY — A group of federal, state and Middlebury representatives met on Tuesday to discuss the future of the East Middlebury stretch of the Middlebury River.
The meeting came in the wake of last August's Tropical Storm Irene, after which the town of Middlebury put earthmoving equipment in the river and started dredging to repair damage and guard against future damage.
MIDDLEBURY — The UD-3 board on Tuesday agreed to present voters with a 2012-2013 budget of about $16.1 million, representing a 3.18-percent spending increase compared to this year.
While school officials are awaiting firmer state aid information from Montpelier, they are estimating the budget would require a homestead education property tax rate of $1.506 per $100 in property value, representing a 1.4-percent increase compared to this year's rate of $1.503.
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MIDDLEBURY — Addison Central Supervisory Union (ACSU) voters on March 6 will be asked to approve a 20-year, $1,012,491 bond to replace the Middlebury Union Middle School roof.
The UD-3 board on Tuesday unanimously agreed to place the bond issue on the Town Meeting Day ballots of the seven ACSU-member towns after bids had been opened for the job. Rutland-based Quinn Company submitted the lowest bid for a new metal roofing system for MUMS.
MIDDLEBURY — Addison Central Supervisory Union (ACSU) Business Manager Paula VanMinos resigned on Wednesday after having been missing from the job for more than two weeks.
Her resignation can at the same time that ACSU leaders had been poised to dismiss her in view of having not responded to her supervisors' e-mails and phone calls since Dec. 22.
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- For more than two decades, David Ranta has been behind bars for the killing of a Brooklyn rabbi during a botched diamond heist.
In the years since his 1991 conviction, another man's widow has identified her husband as the killer; a onetime jail inmate has said he made up statements about Ranta to boost his own fortunes; and a now-grown boy who once picked him out of a lineup has come forward to say he was coached by a detective.
Now, Brooklyn prosecutors have recommended that Ranta go free -- and if a judge agrees, he could walk out of court as early as Thursday.
"There was never a doubt in my mind that he was innocent," said Michael Baum, the lawyer who represented Ranta at his 1991 trial.
The rabbi, Chaskel Werzberger, died four days after being shot, a victim of the attempted holdup of a diamond courier. The courier escaped, but the would-be robber shot Werzberger through the window of his parked car, hauled him out of the vehicle and drove off, according to the Brooklyn district attorney's office.
Louis Scarcella, one of the detectives who investigated the case, told CNN that Ranta admitted his involvement in the heist attempt and that he stands by the arrest. As for claims that police coached a witness, he said, "No way that happened."
But the now-retired Scarcella added, "If they release him tomorrow, I say, God bless him. I have nothing personal involved in this, and I was just doing my job. "
Ranta, now 58, was arrested six months after Werzberger's February 1990 killing. He was picked up after two men facing trial on their own robbery charges gave his name to police, prosecutors recounted in asking that his second-degree murder conviction be tossed out and the charges dismissed.
One of them, Alan Bloom, identified Ranta as the gunman. Another acquaintance -- a woman who had brought charges against Ranta in a "prior altercation" -- told police that Ranta had confided in her about the planned jewelry robbery and the murder of the rabbi, prosecutors wrote.
In an initial lineup, only one witness recognized Ranta, and that was after a lengthy conversation with a Yiddish interpreter, they noted. In the second lineup, three youths identified him and repeated that identification in court. One witness who didn't identify him was the courier, the intended target of the holdup.
When questioned by detectives, Ranta initially denied any involvement in the killing. Then he acknowledged knowing Bloom, according to prosecutors. Then he admitted he had been near the scene and knowing his friends had planned a holdup. Then he admitted he had been involved in planning the diamond heist, acted as the lookout and had seen Bloom and the second jailed witness, Dmitry Drikman, with a gun.
"Two witnesses testified implicating him," Baum told CNN. "The police had an alleged confession from him, but there was no physical evidence. The jewelry courier, he testified for the defense, saying that Ranta wasn't the guy. A woman came forward saying Ranta was innocent, that her husband was the one who did it," said Baum.
Despite that testimony for the defense, the jury found Ranta guilty. He was sentenced to 37 ½ years to life in prison.
Four years later, Theresa Astin came forward to say that her husband, Joseph -- who died in a 1990 car accident -- had been the killer. He'd been named as a possible suspect before, and Scarcella had brought the courier to the morgue in hopes that he would identify Astin's body as the gunman. He didn't.
Baum sought a new trial for his client based on Astin's testimony, but a judge refused to grant one. Then in 2011, he said, one of the kids who picked Ranta out of a lineup got in touch with him.
"I got a call saying, 'I've lived with this for 20 years. The detective told me who to pick out,' " Baum said.
The call was from Menachem Lieberman, who later told investigators he identified Ranta after being told by a detective to "Pick the guy with the big nose."
"It was on his conscience for all these years," Baum said. "He was 13 years old at the time. He was just a kid. He was just doing what they told him to do."
The Brooklyn district attorney's office had recently started a Conviction Integrity Unit to look into claims like Ranta's. Baum told them about Lieberman's call, and the unit began to dig into Ranta's case.
Bloom is now dead. But Drikman admitted he had fabricated earlier statements he made about Ranta, hoping that his cooperation would help his own criminal case. Drikman's girlfriend at the time confessed that her account was manufactured to assist him. Astin reiterated her previous testimony.
Scarcella said the case against Ranta was "very simple."
"We had eyewitnesses who said they saw him shoot him," he said. "We had statements that he made to other people, implicating himself, who have since died. We have the confession he gave to me."
And he sharply disputes Lieberman's account of being coached, telling CNN, "As far as I'm concerned, it's fiction."
"No way that happened," he said, noting that dozens of prosecutors and police were watching the lineup.
"They're saying that I framed it," Scarcella said. "I want to go on record saying this: I never framed anyone in my life, and you would have to be a low, low devil to do something like that. I slept very good for the last 22 years."
But eventually, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes recommended that the case be thrown out. Sandy Silverstein, a spokesman for Hynes, told CNN that Ranta will be brought back to Brooklyn from a prison upstate on Thursday. There, he'll await the judge's decision on his fate.
CNN's calls to Pierre Sussman, Ranta's current lawyer, were not immediately returned.
Although Baum had been working with district attorney's investigators for months, he wasn't sure of what Hynes had decided until he read about it.
"I actually didn't know the end result. I prayed and prayed when I read it in the paper this morning. There were tears coming out of my eyes," he said.


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Japanese researchers have reportedly filmed a giant squid for the first time in its natural habitat, far beneath the ocean\'s surface.
Broadcaster NHK aired video of the animal, taken from a submersible.
The squid was spotted several hundred meters under the surface of the ocean, southeast of Japan\'s main islands.
The animal was reportedly about three meters in length.
Rarely seen giant squids are thought to be the origin of many sea monster stories.
They\'re also a source for Matt Taibbi\'s 2009 description of Investment Bank Goldman Sachs .
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text: It's been a while since we last looked at the work of Belgian Illustrator Brecht Vandenbroucke. Imbued with awesome pop culture and comics flavors, his work never disappoints. There's so much going on in these paintings that I can't always tell the difference between references to Adventure Time, and social commentary. But who says the two don't mix?


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LAGUNA BEACH — The day before a big nonleague match against Laguna Beach High, Newport Harbor senior girls' water polo player Carolyn Smith wanted to talk to Coach Bill Barnett.
Smith asked for more playing time. Barnett listened.
"Throughout the season I've only been playing two quarters, and I've been trying really hard in practice," Smith said. "I wanted to know why I wasn't playing and he didn't really have an answer. He was like, 'OK, we'll try it out.'"
Both player and coach looked smart after the Sailors beat the Breakers on Friday afternoon at Laguna Beach High.
Smith scored a career-high five goals as Newport Harbor won the surprisingly lopsided game, 10-4.
"She stepped up," Barnett said. "She told me she wanted to play more, and now she's got her chance."
Chances abound for the Sailors (14-4), ranked No. 3 in CIF Southern Section Division 1. They are currently playing without senior co-captain Carly Christian, who suffered a concussion last week in practice. Barnett said Christian will likely miss about another week, leaving her status for next weekend's Irvine Southern California Championships up in the air.
"I don't know what her status is at this point," Barnett said. "She has to get tested again next week."
But minus their fastest player and leading goal-scorer, others did step up for Newport Harbor. The Sailors were able to pull away from the Breakers (13-7), No. 6 in Division 1, in the second quarter.
Newport scored four unanswered goals to take a 6-1 halftime lead. First it was junior Christina O'Beck on a close lob from the right, then Smith struck from about five meters. She scored again on a counterattack lob, after senior Avery Peterson fed her with a cross pass.
Then Smith struck again, when O'Beck quickly played the ball to her after a foul. Smith's fourth goal, with 21 seconds left in the half, put Laguna Beach on its heels.
"It really did [feel nice]," Smith said. "I didn't know I was going to have it in me, but it was like an adrenaline rush. They were leaving me open, and I was taking advantage of it ... I think we really played well as a team. We were passing the ball, moving well."
Senior Elissia Schilling (two field blocks), junior Heidi Fults and sophomores Rachel Whitelegge and Kate Pipkin also scored for Newport Harbor, and Peterson dished out three assists. It was the first varsity game for Pipkin, who has been playing on the Sailors' stellar junior varsity team this year.
Defensively, Newport Harbor was able to shut Laguna Beach down, holding the Breakers to a season-low four goals.
Sophomore standout Makenzie Fischer led the Breakers, scoring twice and drawing four exclusions. But Laguna Beach was able to go just two for six on the power play (both goals scored by Fischer). Newport Harbor converted its only six-on-five chance in one of its most complete games of the season.
"I was very pleased with the way they stepped up, especially the defense," Barnett said.
At least three times in the first half, Fischer had open looks in front of the cage, but she was thwarted each time by Sailors junior goalie Cleo Harrington (six saves). Sophomore goalie Carlee Kapana made seven saves in the second half for Newport Harbor.
"I thought that was a big turning point in the game," Laguna Beach Coach Ethan Damato said of Harrington's stops. "In the first half, we were getting a lot of good looks, and we didn't put any of them away. Obviously, you've got to put your chances away against Newport. You don't get a lot of them."
Newport Harbor built its lead to 10-3 early in the fourth quarter, on Pipkin's goal from the outside. The Sailors, who went 4-0 against Laguna Beach last year, were on their way to another win. The teams could meet again in the Division 1 quarterfinals as well, if the rankings hold up.
Newport Harbor plays at Santa Margarita in another tough nonleague game Saturday at about 1:45 p.m. Santa Margarita is the top-ranked team in Division 2, but the Sailors have beaten the Eagles twice already this season.
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When Hugh Freeze took the podium at SEC Media Days just four years ago before the 2012 season, the expectations regarding the program were nearly as low as they could go. Freeze said during that press conference the goal of the season was competing for 60 minutes in each game and getting the program out of the "wilderness".
I grew up an Ole Miss fan during some pretty bleak years over the past decade. As a kid, the first whiff of football season every year was when the preseason magazines hit the shelves. Nearly every year was the same process to the point it was essentially a tradition for me. Look at the win-loss projection the magazine provided and figure out how Ole Miss was going to win six games and make a bowl. That would constitute a successful season, and I would be happy with it.
Flash forward four years, a "new normal" has been established in Oxford due to four straight bowl berths, back-to-back New Year's Six appearances, and back-to-back wins against the college football gold-standard Alabama.
Hugh Freeze has changed that mindset and upped the expectations each season. Ole Miss returns the best QB in the SEC and one of the best in the nation in Chad Kelly along with a the talented core that already checked off the Sugar Bowl from Freeze and nearly every Ole Miss fan's bucket lists.
Ole Miss' schedule is far from easy, as it includes the programs that have accounted for six of the last seven national championships in Alabama, Auburn and Florida State to go along already difficult SEC slate.
"I like to call it pretty much a gauntlet," Evan Engram said. "We want to be the team to take the cake this year, so we accept the challenge week in and week out."
All Eyes on Kelly
Part of life as a quarterback in the @SEC ... pic.twitter.com/4d2BaVVrXC-- Ole Miss Football (@OleMissFB) July 14, 2016
While addressing the media, Hugh Freeze mentioned in particular Kelly's playing over the final seven games of the year. Over that span, Kelly tossed 17 TDs and averaged 311 yards per game in the air.
"I've been asked all morning about what he needs to do to improve," Freeze said. "I don't know that I can look at a lot of things and say, man, you're doing this really poorly, or -- he did everything for those last seven games pretty solidly."
Ole Miss has talent all over the field on both sides of the ball, but the 2016 season will go as No. 10 goes. He's every bit talented enough for Ole Miss to once again be in the championship picture again as the calendar turns to November.
It helps that most of the SEC is in a much less stable position at QB. Last season, Kelly threw 31 TDs. There are nine SEC West QBs still on rosters that played last season. They threw a combined 35 TDs.
Defensive Line Still a Strength
.@OleMissFB DT DJ Jones joins Full Ride LIVE from @SEC Media Days in Hoover! #SECMD16 pic.twitter.com/FHmSy6ddee-- SXM College Sports (@SiriusXMCollege) July 14, 2016
Losing a first-round talent in Robert Nkemdiche and still feeling very optimistic about the ability of the defensive line gives a good indicator in the quality of the program.
"If you were to start to build a football team to compete in the Southeastern Conference, you would start with quarterbacks first and defensive line next," Freeze said. "We wish we had a little more depth (at defensive line), but we believe we're really, really talented there."
Jones along with Breeland Speaks, Marquis Haynes and Fadol Brown will no longer have the luxury of Nkemdiche being the focal point of offenses upfront and drawing so many double teams.
"I think we are a faster defensive line," Jones said. "We are a little more powerful. So I think as a unit we will get better."
Ole Miss also gets one more season of Issac Gross in opponent's backfields after he missed nearly all of last season with an injury. Adding in impact freshman Benito Jones, Ole Miss has nice depth upfront. Freeze said he would like to have more of it, but defensive line depth is a lot like money. You always want more of it.
"Bo kneeled. I blinked. And the field was flooded." @evanengram on @OleMissFB win over Bama in 2014. pic.twitter.com/ybpLTArrKZ
-- Adam Zucker (@AdamZuckerCBS) July 14, 2016
.@CoachHughFreeze speaking in the main media room here at #SECMD16 pic.twitter.com/RMJLBEd0cK-- OleMissPix (@OleMissPix) July 14, 2016
When you finish up @SEC #Media Day and your parents show up! #Surprise pic.twitter.com/UVVJci6aE5
-- Ole Miss Football (@OleMissFB) July 14, 2016
Chad Kelly making his @SportsCenter appearance here at SEC Media Days pic.twitter.com/eED1kr8kdM-- Jeff Barker (@JeffBarker_) July 14, 2016
#SECMD16 continues as @EvanEngram meets @LauraMRutledge pic.twitter.com/FdCzIiS9MO-- Ole Miss Football (@OleMissFB) July 14, 2016


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Head coach Hugh Freeze discusses what he expects with new Texas defensive coordinator Greg Robinson, who replaced Manny Diaz after their loss to BYU, 40-21, in Provo, Utah. Robinson was a co-defensive coordinator for the Longhorns in 2004, which ended with an 11-1 record and the Longhorns' first BCS Bowl and Rose Bowl win over Michigan.
That season, Texas held its opponents to 320.1 yards per game (23rd in the nation) and 17.9 points per game (18th in the national). He most recently served as the defensive coordinator at Michigan from 2009-10 after four years as the head coach at Syracuse from 2005-08.
Wallace 'Overwhelmed' Last Year Against Texas
Through two games, junior Bo Wallace has completed 39 of 62 passes for 471 yards with two touchdown and no interceptions. Last Saturday against SEMO, Ole Miss scored on all four of Wallace's drives -- three touchdowns and a field goal -- before he rested the rest of the game.
"I don't think we're at all where we need to be," Wallace said. "This week is a huge test for us. We're focused in. Everybody is excited about it, especially being in the rankings. We have a huge test, so we have a lot of work to do this week."
This week, the test is Texas, coming off a 40-21 loss to BYU, and Wallace said Texas probably feels like their backs are against the wall with the media scrutiny surrounding the team.
"It's frustrating," Wallace said of the change in defensive coordinator. "We were in meetings when we found out yesterday. We talked about it then, and the coaches are going to get a plan together of what they want me to look at and things like that."
In last year's 66-31 loss to Texas, Wallace completed 13 of 24 passes for 178 yards with a touchdown and three interceptions, and he described the feeling as "overwhelming."
"It was my first game against a big-time college football team," Wallace said. "I have played in big games now, and I know what to expect. I'm excited about it."
After last Saturday's win over SEMO, offensive coordinator Dan Werner said Wallace is light years ahead of where he was entering last year's game against Texas. On Monday, Wallace and Freeze said more of the same.
"I am way more prepared, and I have been in big games," Wallace said. "I have played against the great athletes like we're going to play against Saturday. I feel much more comfortable with it."
"Bo has played in some pretty big games at good places in this league in the year and a half since Texas last year, so all that experience has got to better prepare him for Saturday at Texas," Freeze said. "And that's the same for the rest of our team. I feel confident that we're better prepared. Does that mean the results will follow? I don't know. I'm confident we're better prepared mentally and physically."
Added Motivation For Both Teams
On the Ole Miss side, it's the motivation from last year's 66-31 loss to Texas.
"It was quite embarrassing to be honest," junior defensive end C.J. Johnson said. "They pretty much came in and beat us like a drum. We had a lot of missed assignments. We weren't as physical, and we didn't play real well in the first half. It was just a bad game. We played a bad game."
"It's a huge motivator, just like playing Vanderbilt, who we lost by one to last year, and we really wanted to beat them," senior offensive tackle Pierce Burton said. "Now, we have turned our focus to Texas. Any team that we lost to last year, we have a real chip on our shoulder when we play them this year."
For Texas, it's last week's 40-21 loss to BYU. Defensively, Texas allowed 550 rushing yards on 72 attempts, a 7.6 yards per carry average, and four rushing touchdowns. On the other side of the ball, the Texas offense converted just 5 of 17 third-down attempts and 0 of 3 fourth-down attempts.
"We know we're going into a hostile environment, and those guys are going to be playing with a chip on their shoulder to play better from last week, so we have to be prepared," Johnson said.
"I expect them to be very emotional in front of their home crowd," Freeze said. "They will raise their game, and I expect to see the best that they can be. It won't be hard to get our guys up. They understand. We challenge them after the game the other night, and they will be anxious to get ready for this game and give them their best shot."
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Defensively against SEMO, Ole Miss allowed 13 points and 252 yards. Freeze was generally pleased with the defense, and the game plan entering Saturday's game against Texas centers on not allowing easy scores and stopping the run.
"We've got to quit allowing the easy scores. We allowed two that resonate on my mind. We had one of those the other night. Hopefully we can stop the run, that'll be our goal going in. We were not able to do that last year against them. We've got to be able to stop the run and not give up the easy score. They have some weapons and a lot of speed. They can also certainly throw it over the top of you any time. Hopefully we get a couple turnovers and we don't give up the easy play."
Sophomore Mike Hilton moved from Huskie to boundary corner, where he started last week against SEMO. This week, he is again listed as the starter there, opposite junior Senquez Golson at field corner.
"Hilton played a good game the other night except for one play," Freeze said. "His eyes got bad, and he didn't get a read route on a kid, but he practiced at corner all of about three days. He had a solid game other than that one play."
Sophomore running back I'Tavius Mathers returned from an ankle injury last week against SEMO, and he rushed for 56 yards on four carries, including a 10-yard touchdown run.
"He gives us more of a physical back," Freeze said. "He made some good runs the other night. He's still not healthy. You can see that, when he tried to really make a cut. He's still not 100 percent, but hopefully he will be better this Saturday night than he was this past Saturday night. Certainly, we like his style. It's a little different and more physical. He's tough to bring down. He's a good complement to Jeff (Scott) and Jaylen (Walton)."


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Cleveland, city, seat (1810) of Cuyahoga county, northeastern Ohio, U.S. It is a major St. Lawrence Seaway port on the southern shore of Lake Erie, at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. Greater Cleveland sprawls along the lake for about 100 miles (160 km) and runs more than 40 miles (65 km) inland, encompassing Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga, and Medina counties and more than 70 suburban communities, including Lakewood, Parma, Shaker Heights, Cleveland Heights, East Cleveland, Euclid, Garfield Heights, and Rocky River.
Most of the city lies on a plain that rises 60 to 80 feet (18 to 25 metres) above the lake and is divided by the narrow valley of the Cuyahoga, locally known as the Flats. Lake Erie moderates the city's climate, keeping temperatures generally cooler in summer and warmer in winter and occasionally causing heavy "lake effect" winter snows. Inc. city, 1836. Area city, 82 square miles (212 square km). Pop. (2000) 478,403; Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor Metro Area, 2,148,143; (2010) 396,815; Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor Metro Area, 2,077,240.
Erie Indians in the region were driven out by the Iroquois in the 17th century. The French established a trading post in the vicinity in the mid-18th century. In 1786, three years after the American Revolution, when the Ohio country was opened for settlement, Connecticut laid claim to a vast area of land (the Western Reserve) in northeastern Ohio. Moses Cleaveland, from the Connecticut Land Company, arrived with surveyors at the mouth of the Cuyahoga in July 1796 to map the area. He founded and laid out the town of Cleaveland. (In 1832 an a in Cleaveland was dropped to shorten a newspaper's masthead.)
The city's growth was slow until 1832, when the Ohio and Erie Canal (begun in 1825 to connect Lake Erie and the Ohio River) was completed. In the 1850s railroads increased the community's commercial and industrial activity. When St. Marys Falls Canal (Soo Canal) between Lakes Superior and Huron was opened in 1855, Cleveland became Lake Erie's transshipment point for lumber, copper and iron ore, and rail shipments of coal and farm produce. The American Civil War provided the initial stimulus for iron and steel processing, metals fabrication, oil refining (John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil there), and chemical manufacturing. Suburban trains were developed at the end of the 19th century. By the 1930s Cleveland had the appearance of a modern metropolis, with main roads converging on its Public Square, which was dominated by the 708-foot (216-metre) Terminal Tower. Rapid-transit lines now extend to Shaker Heights and East Cleveland (east) and to the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (southwest).
Cleveland's economy, hard hit by the Great Depression of the 1930s, experienced renewed growth during World War II. However, the city's industrial mainstays subsequently declined, a decline matched by a precipitous drop in population; in 2000 Cleveland's population was only about half of what it had been in the peak year of 1950, when it reached 915,000. Tens of thousands (mainly those of European ancestry) moved to the suburbs, but many others left the area as jobs disappeared. Economic hardship especially affected the city's large and less-mobile African American community, which by 2000 constituted more than half of the city's population. In 1966 Cleveland's Hough district was the scene of violent racial disorders. Municipal government faced mounting budgetary problems, capped by default on bank loans in the late 1970s. In addition, environmental pollution became severe, a condition infamously highlighted by a June 1969 fire on the Cuyahoga River caused by floating chemical wastes.
In 1967 Carl Stokes was elected mayor of Cleveland, the first African American to win such office in a major U.S. city. Under Stokes and his successors (white and black), the city undertook a long revitalization process. Beginning in the 1960s, much of the downtown area was rebuilt, and since the 1980s steps have been taken to improve the city's environment. Notable effort has been directed at cleaning up the Cuyahoga. The downtown skyline, long dominated by Terminal Tower (1930), was dramatically altered by the addition of BP Tower (1985) and the 63-story Key Tower (1991), at the time of its completion the tallest building between New York City and Chicago.
The contemporary city
Heavy industry remains important to the city's economy. Manufactures are highly diversified and include primary steel, steel products, motor vehicles, automotive parts, medical products, greeting cards, processed foods, chemicals, and electronic equipment. Services (including health care, banking and finance, insurance, and government) account for the major proportion of the economy. Cleveland's port is one of the largest on the Great Lakes, and the city has extensive rail and highway connections. Scores of medical and industrial research centres are headquartered in the area, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's John H. Glenn Research Center and the Cleveland Clinic, renowned for cardiac care.
University Circle, with Case Western Reserve University (1967; a federation of Case Institute of Technology [1880] and Western Reserve University [1826]) as its locus, is the city's cultural centre. Among its more than 35 medical, educational, cultural, and religious institutions are the Cleveland Institute of Art (1882), the Cleveland Institute of Music (1920), the Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance Hall (home of the Cleveland Orchestra), the Western Reserve Historical Society, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, HealthSpace Cleveland, and Cleveland Botanical Garden. Other educational institutions in the city include Cuyahoga Community College (1963) and Cleveland State University (1964). Suburban schools include three Roman Catholic institutions—John Carroll University (1886) in University Heights, Notre Dame College (1923) in South Euclid, and Ursuline College (1871) in Pepper Pike—and Baldwin-Wallace College (1845) in Berea.
City, county, and federal office buildings, the Cleveland Public Library (with one of the largest holdings of any city library in the country), and the Cleveland Convention Center are downtown, near the lakefront. Lakeside attractions include the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (1995), designed by architect I.M. Pei and one of the city's major tourist attractions; the Great Lakes Science Center, which opened in 1996; and Cleveland Browns Stadium (1999), home of the Browns, the city's professional gridiron football team. The southern downtown area includes the Gateway Complex, comprising two sports venues that opened in 1994: Jacobs Field, which is built in the style of early 20th-century ballparks, for the Cleveland Indians professional baseball team; and Gund Arena, home of the Cavaliers professional basketball team. Playhouse Square Center, southeast of downtown, contains several historic theatres and is home to the Great Lakes Theater Festival, the Cleveland Opera, and the Ohio Ballet. The centre of Cleveland nightlife is in the Flats, at the mouth of the Cuyahoga, where both banks are lined with restaurants, bars, and nightclubs.
The park system, which encircles the city and is known as the "Emerald Necklace," includes the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and several parks in University Circle. Cleveland Lakefront State Park comprises six separate areas spread out along the lakeshore. Lake View Cemetery, on the city's eastern edge, contains the tomb and monument of President James A. Garfield and the graves of John D. Rockefeller and crime fighter Eliot Ness. Nearby attractions include Holden Arboretum (one of the largest in the country) in Kirtland, 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Cleveland, and a large amusement park in Aurora (southeast). Cuyahoga Valley National Park, established as a national recreation area in 1974 and redesignated in 2000, stretches southward along the Cuyahoga River from Cleveland to Akron.
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The Federal Reserve's debate over U.S. monetary policy could begin to shift away from the prospect of reducing stimulus toward a discussion about doing more, given the signs of economic weakness and slowing inflation.
But policymakers are not there yet.
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At a two-day meeting that wraps up on Wednesday, the Fed is widely expected to maintain its monthly purchases of $85 billion in bonds to support an economic recovery that is nearly four years old but still too weak for the job market to truly heal.
With the central bank's favored inflation gauge slipping and employment growth faltering, Fed officials could again find themselves in the uncomfortable position of having to shift from talk of curbing stimulus to the possibility of doing more.
Currently, analysts see the Fed buying a total $1 trillion in Treasury and mortgage-backed securities during the ongoing third round of quantitative easing, known as QE3. Until recently, analysts had believed the Fed would start taking the foot off the accelerator in the second half of the year.
Now, things are looking a bit more shaky.
The housing market continues to show signs of strength, with home prices posting their biggest yearly gain since 2006, the year the market began a historic slide that snowballed into a global financial crisis.
However, the industrial sector is not quite as perky. Durable goods orders posted their largest drop in seven months in March, while an index of Midwest manufacturing showed an unexpected contraction in the sector for April.
Economic growth did rebound in the first quarter after a dismal end to 2012, but the 2.5 percent annual rate of expansion fell short of economists' estimates, and economists are already penciling in a weaker second quarter.
At the same time, inflation has steadily been coming down. The Fed's preferred measure of core inflation, which excludes more volatile food and energy costs, rose just 1.1 percent in the year to March. Overall inflation was up just 1 percent, the smallest gain in 3-1/2 years.
The Fed targets inflation of 2 percent.
Despite the economy's softer tone, a wait-and-see attitude seems the most likely approach for now. The Fed is expected to nod to the economy's disappointing performance when it announces its decision at 2 p.m. (1800 GMT), even as it maintains its course.
But if the economy's fortunes do not improve, the U.S. central bank may well look for fresh ways to boost its support to the economy -- increasing the amount of assets it is buying is just one option.
The Fed could announce an intent to hold the bonds it has bought until maturity instead of selling them when the time comes to tighten monetary policy. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has already raised this as a possibility.
U.S. central bankers could also set a lower unemployment threshold to signal when the time might be ripe to finally raise overnight interest rates, which they have held near zero since December 2008. Currently, the threshold stands at 6.5 percent, provided inflation does not threaten to breach 2.5 percent.
Research suggests such "forward guidance" about the future path of interest rates can have a strong impact on current borrowing costs, and one Fed official -- Narayana Kocherlakota, president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank -- has already suggested lowering the threshold to give the economy a boost.
"Forward guidance would be perceived as having lower costs (than bond purchases) by most, I think, and for that reason I think it could be the preferred avenue, especially if more stimulus was projected to be needed for a long period of time," said Roberto Perli, a partner at Cornerstone Macro in Washington and a former Fed economist.
Analysts generally agree that is a debate for the future, if the Fed even gets there at all.
Victor Li, a former regional Fed economist who teaches at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, said employment growth would have to be consistently below the 100,000 jobs per month pace in combination with core inflation of around 1 percent for the Fed to consider a greater easing of monetary policy.
"There is just no evidence that this is going to happen."
Others are less sanguine. Justin Wolfers, an economics professor at the University of Michigan's Gerald Ford School of Public Policy, said the risk that prices will drop persistently, causing further economic damage, cannot be ruled out.
"What's more relevant than the current inflation trend is what this means for forecast inflation," Wolfers said. "And I think even more relevant than the Fed's official point estimate for inflation is the probability that deflation looms as a real threat. Inflation rates lower than 1 percent certainly raise a greater risk of deflation."


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Equality Matters has a history lesson for all those hysterical conservatives at CPAC who think being gay and a conservative is something new under the sun. Twenty four gay conservatives are featured:
A number of prominent conservatives and right-wing groups are boycotting this year's Conservative Political Action Conference because GOProud — a group that describes itself as representing gay conservatives and their allies – is listed as a participating organization. These boycotters are in serious need of a history lesson: The conservative movement has included several prominent gay members, as well as conservatives who found themselves embroiled in gay scandals, long before GOProud joined CPAC. In light of this, Equality Matters takes a look at some of these conservatives. Their stories vary wildly: some championed LGBT equality; others attempted to avoid discussions of their sexual orientation altogether; and some chose to add their voices to the chorus of anti-gay bigotry on the right.
Maybe CPAC chairman, Al Cardenes, should familiarize himself with the list? I don't know how anyone can be conservative and gay, but I respect their tenacity and value the ones who don't compromise but are willing to fight within the belly of the beast.


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Author Notes: Sometimes in my kitchen, mistakes lead to creative inspiration. Case in point, this cookie, which started out as my usual all-time favorite NY Times chocolate chip cookie recipe. On one of the snow days last winter, Sconeboy had a couple of his buddies over. So I, being the bestest mom in the world, decided to make cookies for the boys. Seeing as the first batch was quickly being scarfed down, I moved on to batch #2 and somehow got mixed up with how many cups of flour I had added – I think after one of the boys came in to ask for another glass of milk. I hedged my bets and added what I thought was the last cup of flour, but turned out really to be an extra cup of flour. Anyways, since the "mistake", I've been tweaking this fat-cookie recipe and have decided it's really good and worth sharing with you all. Oh, and here's the link to the original NY Times recipe. http://nyti.ms/11UTUOA —mrslarkin
Makes: about 20 cookies, depending on how much cookie dough you eat
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 18 min
sticks unsalted butter (1 cup), softened to room temp.
cup granulated sugar
cup packed DARK brown sugar
tablespoon molasses (optional)
tablespoon vanilla extract
large eggs
cups all-purpose flour (1 1b. 2 oz., or 509 g.) Weigh the flour!
**It's important to weigh the flour for proper chewiness,
or if spooning flour into measuring cups, remove about a tablespoon of flour from each cup**
2 3/4
teaspoons Diamond Crystal kosher salt (be advised, some other kosher salt brands are saltier)
teaspoon baking soda
3 to 4
cups semisweet chocolate chips
flaky sea salt, like Maldon, for topping the cookies
a cold glass of milk
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 4 heavy-duty cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Cream together butter, sugars and molasses in mixer bowl fitted with paddle attachment.
- Add vanilla and beat for a minute or two.
- Add eggs one at a time, and beat until combined.
- Add flour, salt and baking soda to the egg mixture, and pulse until flour is just incorporated, then beat on medium speed for a minute or two. Stop the mixer, and using a spatula or plastic bowl scraper, check for pockets of flour underneath, and mix in.
- Add chocolate chips and mix on medium-low speed until combined. Cookie dough will be very thick and stiff, and will try to escape if you've got a small Kitchenaid mixer. Push it back down into the bowl if it does that.
- Using a large cookie scoop, place balls of dough about 2 1/2 inches apart. My balls of dough are about 3 ounces each. Smaller than a tennis ball, but bigger than a ping pong ball.
- Roll balls gently to smooth out the edges, if you'd like a neat cookie. Press balls gently with the back of a fork, or your fingers, or the bottom of a glass, or whatever, to ever so slightly flatten. (OK, I've recently started baking the cookies WITHOUT PRESSING THEM. And I think I like them better this way. You decide.)_
- At this point, cookies can be frozen and baked off at a later time. Place them in one layer on a parchment-lined sheet pan and stash in the freezer overnight, or for several hours. I prefer this freezing method, and I'm convinced it produces a chewier cookie, but I could also just be imagining it all. In any event, proceed with the freezing. You won't be sorry.
- Sprinkle tops with flaky sea salt (this is totally optional, but so so yummy.) Bake for 16 to 18 minutes (depending on if you like super chewy cookies or well done cookies), rotating back-to-front and top-to-bottom at mid-point. Don't over-bake, or you'll lose the chewiness.
- Cookies will be pale and won't brown very much on top, but will be lightly golden brown underneath. Slide entire parchment onto a cooling rack. You want your cookies to bend as you are sliding the parchment to the cooling rack - this is where those attractive grooves and cracks happen.
- Get your cold glass of milk. Taste a warm cookie. Mmmm...Isn't it good?
- Store cookies in an air-tight cookie jar or sealed plastic bag. Cookies reheat nicely in the microwave for about 15 seconds.
- Alternatively, for a small cookie, roll dough into 1" balls. Place on parchment-lined sheet pan about 1" apart. Slightly flatten balls. Bake for 10 - 12 minutes. Makes about 5 dozen small cookies. Small unbaked cookies can also be frozen and baked off at a later time.
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Walt Disney Studios will no longer release movies from its partner DreamWorks Studios around the world.
The two companies have renegotiated their longstanding agreement. Going forward, Disney will only release movies produced by DreamWorks, the independent studio led by Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider behind "War Horse" and "The Help," in the U.S. and Canada and a handful of foreign countries.
DreamWorks has instead signed a deal with Mister Smith Entertainment, a new company headed by Summitt Entertainment co-founder David Garrett, to handle sales in most overseas markets.
Mister Smith (whose name was inspired by the Frank Capra classic "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington") will pre-sell foreign distribution rights to upcoming DreamWorks productions such as "Need for Speed," based on the car racing video game, and an untitled comedy from French-Canadian filmmaker and comedian Ken Scott, to local distributors in each foreign country.
-- Ben Fritz, Los Angeles Times


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Apartments, suites, and cottages added on to a main home as additional living space are nothing new. They can be created from attics, basements, garages, additions, existing space in the home, or as freestanding structures. Many call them in-laws, since they often house an elderly parent; if they're for renters (or illegally built), they're called outlaws; and those ever-colorful bureaucrats call them ADUs (accessory dwelling units).
In these post-recessional times, however, the in-law suite has taken on a new appeal for families who are downsizing, simplifying, or who want to earn extra income with a rental apartment. Some homeowners even rent out the main house while living in their lower-maintenance in-law housing. In another sign of the times, they're also being used for adult children who return home after college until they can find employment and get on their feet.
A Coldwell Banker survey of agents found that a third of homebuyers want properties with potential to house multiple generations. As accessible housing close to care-giving family members is so desirable for older Americans, the AARP and APA have been active in easing zoning regulations to help more of these secondary living spaces get built. A survey by the AARP indicated 36 percent of Baby Boomers would add an ADU if they needed one as they aged.
Michael Lichtfield, founding editor of Fine Homebuilding magazine, wrote the book "In-Laws, Outlaws, and Granny Flats: Your Guide to Turning One House Into Two Homes," which features case studies of many innovative secondary living spaces.
Litchfield lives in an in-law himself, on a former dairy farm in the greater San Francisco area. He says it's what he wants at this stage: to live more simply, enjoy life, get more exercise in a seashore area he calls one of the most beautiful places on earth. Click ahead to see clever examples of what happens when homeowners turn "this old house" into two homes.
By Colleen Kane
Posted 7 April 2011


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What Celebrity Should Run for President? — Survey of the Day
Before his political career, Ronald Reagan was a well-known actor. But besides the Gipper, there really hasn't been a president who was a traditional, entertainment-industry celebrity before ascending to the highest office in the land.
Parade Magazine recently polled 56,000 readers on what current celebrity they thought would be best to follow in Reagan's footsteps and make run for the presidency.
George Clooney got 36 percent of the vote, beating Oprah Winfrey (27 percent) for the top spot. Next was Matt Damon with 12 percent, then Elisabeth Hasselbeck (10 percent), Ben Affleck (9 percent) and Alec Baldwin (6 percent).


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HANG TIME, Texas — There's no reason to think the Boys and Girls Club of Greenwich has been reserved for a certain night in July 2014. Or that Jim Gray is waiting in the wings fixing his makeup.
There is a reason why The Decision, Part Deux should come with far less Hollywood frippery — though no less high anxiety — than the original.
Deux of them, actually.
When LeBron James announced that he was taking his talents to South Beach on July 8, 2010, he was still, in so many different ways, a young man full of questions and doubt.
Now he is a two-time champion and those rings on his fingers are the answers and the validation that should be able to shut down any of the peripheral noise.
James is, of course, the biggest star who'll be able to become a free agent next summer, leading a pack that will include Kobe Bryant and Carmelo Anthony, as well as his Heat teammates Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. And while the four-time MVP says that his first inclination is to continue hanging out and chasing titles in Miami, James admitted to ESPN's Chris Broussard that nothing is certain.
"I have absolutely no idea," James recently told ESPN.com. "I would love to spend the rest of my career in Miami with this great team and great organization as we continue to compete for championships. That's ideal. But we don't know what may happen from now to the end of the season. That's the nature of the business. It's the nature of not knowing what tomorrow brings.
"I mean, as a kid, I never thought the Bulls would break up. Never. If you'd of told me as a kid that [Michael] Jordan and [Scottie] Pippen wouldn't play together for the rest of their lives, I'd have looked at you crazy. And Phil Jackson wouldn't be the coach? I'd have looked at you crazy. But sometimes the nature of the business doesn't allow things to happen like you would want them to. But we'll see."
The question then becomes whether LeBronmania 2 can grow into the Melodrama and Dwightmare scenarios that nearly consumed Anthony and Dwight Howard and even himself over the past several years?
On the surface, the difference is age and maturity. But the truth is that it's those championships that set him apart. Before he jumped to the Heat, it was insecurity that drove James to fuel the gossip mill. While he had the numbers and the individual accolades, he could never be sure of himself as a champion until he'd done it. The past two seasons have seen him raise his game and his teammates onto his back and lift the cloud of self-doubt.
Now when James looks ahead to the next chapter, it will only be about setting higher goals and where he wants to chase them:
Miami — If Wade can get through another long playoff run reasonably healthy, the Heat will have to be consider the odds-on favorites to keep James. Wade would still be a quite capable second banana. Assuming that Bosh won't give up the $42 million left on his contract to become a free agent, it could be time for team president Pat Riley to make the kind of deal that infuses the roster with younger, deeper talent that could make James' task less Herculean.
Cleveland — If Kyrie Irving continues on track to becoming a perennial All-Star point guard, if No. 1 draft pick Anthony Bennett lives up to his billing, if coach Mike Brown's return puts the bite back into the Cavaliers' defense, it would not be so very, very far-fetched for LeBron to return. It would be the biggest sports homecoming ever. He would still be in his prime and could heal so many of the old scars left behind.
L.A. Lakers — If King James is really looking to put the ultimate jewel in his crown, what could be a more lofty goal than to pick up the NBA's most glamorous franchise and put it back on track? Having won MVPs in Cleveland and championships in Miami, he could even get an extra special kick out of being the one who "helps" teammate Kobe get his sixth championship ring to tie Jordan.
But those are all fantasies for next summer and, as he told Broussard, he can avoid fanning the flames of the rumor mill:
"I owe it to myself, I owe it my teammates and I owe it to the Miami Heat to stay focused," he said. "As a leader, I'm not even going to let that side of the business get me unfocused on what I'm trying to do and that's trying to win another championship.
"I'm going to try to [stop the discussion about free agency], but you always have reporters who are going to always bring it up. They're going to change the question and make it sound like something else. But it will get to a point, if I continue to hear it, where I will say, 'Hey guys, I've answered the question and out of respect, let's talk about this after the season.' "
This time there doesn't have to be a prime time TV show. It doesn't have to be so crazy, so out of control.
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Biostar Launches Mini-ITX A68I-350 Deluxe Motherboard
Subject: Motherboards | September 10, 2012 - 09:29 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: mini-itx, htpc, fusion, biostar, APU, amd, a68i-350 deluxe, a68
While Intel has gotten a lot of Mini-ITX love lately, AMD is not out of the game yet. Motherboard manufacturer Biostar recently launched an AMD Fusion APU powered Mini-ITX motherboard that would make for a nice little HTPC. The A68I-350 Deluxe is based around some of the latest technologies including support for DDR3, PCI-E 3.0, and USB 3.0 standards.
The A68I-350 Deluxe motherboard measures 17 cm x 17 cm and comes with a bundled dual core AMD Fusion 350D APU. A heatsink and passive cooling for the south bridge are also provided in the package. The graphics card, memory, storage and other accessories are up to you, however. The Mini-ITX board features two DDR3 DIMM slots that support a maximum of 16 GB. Located in the lower right-hand corner are three SATA 3 6Gbps ports. Below that is a single PCI-E 3.0 x16 slot for a graphics card or other peripheral. Additional internal IO includes:
- 1 x printer header
- 2 x USB 2.0 header
- 1 X front panel audio
- 1 X front panel header (hdd, power, reset, ect)
- 1 x S/PDIF-OUT header
- 1 x CPU fan header
- 1 x system fan header
- 1 x serial header
According to Biostar, the motherboard also uses all solid capacitors to improve longevity.
Rear IO on the board is not quite as extensive as some of the other offerings available, but is still fairly good for the price. It features two PS/2 ports for keyboard and mouse, one HDMI out, one VGA output, two USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, one Ethernet port (Realtek RTL8111F Gigabit controller), and three audio output jacks (Realtek ALC662 6-channel HD audio).
The AMD APU that comes with the A68I-350 Deluxe features Radeon 6310 graphics, which are not the fastest but will still provide plenty of oomph for watching videos on the big screen. While it has not yet shown up at online retailers like Amazon and Newegg yet, it is reportedly already shipping and will have an MSRP of € 66 (euros) or approximately $84 USD. Considering the Intel options that have recently surfaced are going for $100+ easily, this Biostar motherboard should provide a nice budget option for your next HTPC or small form factor PC build!
You can find more information on the A68I-350 Deluxe over at the Biostar website.
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Why are they still including PS/2 ports?
Because lots of OS still have USB peripheral problems (especially on boot) and adding more USB ports just for these devices puts more of a load on the southbridge. More power draw, too, when these devices are in use.
Also when trying to cut the price for a whole system, PS2 ported mouse and keyboard is still substantially cheaper - like under $5 for a very high resolution optical mouse whereas USB ported devices can be $10 or more.
Finally if you want a mouseless keyboardless system, it's a lot easier to just not install drivers for USB mice and keyboards than it is to prevent them from being installed (and plugging and playing) at run time. This is more secure. Attaching a PS2 device after startup will usually crash the box - it will not generally be recognized. So it's just that much harder to get unauthorized mouse or keyboard access for display or HTPC applications in uncontrolled spaces if the only supported mouse and keyboard are PS2 not USB.
That said, it sure would be nice to see a Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) port, even at 100megabit, either to power the device or to power a chained device (wireless AP, security camera or webcam, VoIP phone). Also to see the power supplies for these include IEEE 1901 powerline (HomePlug) out of the box. Either PoE or 1901 could as much as double the network capacity from one gigabit to two under IEEE 1905.1 home networking, and make the whole connection much more reliable. With both, power and network could fall back to one of two different power or wired data sources, which is muy reliability.
Also these protocols are increasingly used for rackmount devices where mini-ITX is really going to sell a lot of boards longer term.
So when they ditch the PS2 connectors I'd like to see that extra RJ45 or two (one input, one output), and 1901 supported on board.
Indeed, Power over Ethernet is cool, though I'm not sure it would be enough if you added a GPU. Going with internal graphics though... maybe. One option would be to get one of those splitters (hmm actually I think injector is the right term?) to add power to the Ethernet line and then just before it hits the box have a spitter that takes the power into a DC power supply and the Ethenet networking stuff to the RJ45 port. Kinda clunky, but might work. I was looking into taking the Cat5e cables the house uses for phone line and using it for networking but realized there is no power outlet near the junction box where all the Cat5e cables from all the rooms comes back to.. and switches with PoE built in are expensive so I was looking at injector+splitter solution and it seems to be cheaper, if a bit clunkier (if that's even a word heh).