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Google's Project Glass gets some more details
Google's Project Glass has been one of the most anticipated and hyped projects to come out of Google in quite some time. After a rather epic demo the company finally gave us a slightly deeper look at the wearable computer of our (supposed) future. Inside is the usual set of components you'd expect inside any mobile phone. There's a "powerful" CPU and "lots" of RAM (though, there was no mention of specifics) alongside an accelerometer, gyroscope and wireless radios for pulling in data. There's a mic for voice commands, a speaker and a camera, which can also be controlled by the touchpad that lines the side of the wearable device. All of those components sit off to one side, though Google says they're still well-balanced and actually lighter than some pairs of sunglasses. The tiny transparent display doesn't actually sit directly in front of your eye. It's slightly above your line of vision, so that it shouldn't interfere with your normal life.
Sergey Brin had three different prototypes on stage -- a light blue pair, a white pair and a black pair -- indicating that personalization and style were concerns. And that's a good thing since Glass is meant to be worn in public. Ultimately Google hopes that the project will be the next step in its quest to make information quickly and universally accessible. The ability to capture images from the first person perspective seems to be key to the device. In a new demo video, a new mother waxes about how hard it is to capture those perfect moments with her child. She "smiles at faces not devices" which makes sticking a D5 in the baby's face a bad idea.
If you're impatient and lucky enough to have been at IO (and live in the US), you can actually pre-order an Explorer Edition of the wearable computer for $1,500. The dev focused units will be shipping early next year. But, be warned, this is not a mass consumer item and will likely be more than a little rough around the edges.
Check out our full coverage of Google I/O 2012's opening keynote at our event hub!
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Music: {allcanada} Krueger built impressive resume in Europe
Although new Edmonton Oilers head coach Ralph Krueger has a limited body of work in the NHL, the 52-year-old forged the reputation as one of the most astute coaches in European and international hockey prior to serving on Tom Renney's staff in Edmonton the last two seasons. A native of Winnipeg with dual Canadian and German citizenship, Krueger spent two decades playing and coaching in Europe before joining the Oilers in 2010.
Under Krueger, a once directionless Swiss program found a team-wide identity. On a team that boasted little in the way of explosive offensive talent, Krueger instilled an often-airtight defensive system that took advantage of the team's assets: above-average goaltending and numerous smooth-skating and defensively aware players on his roster.
"I think Ralph is a very good coach," current St. Louis Blues head coach Ken Hitchcock told NHL.com in 2010. "You can see it the way he gets his teams prepared to play and the way they play with patience and discipline. That doesn't happen by accident."
During Krueger's long tenure as the head coach of Team Switzerland (1997-98 to 2009-10) he turned the Swiss national team from an afterthought on the international hockey scene into a team capable of pulling upsets against favored teams.
Krueger's first major tournament as Swiss bench boss was the 1998 World Championship, held in Basel and Zurich. To the delight of the home crowds, the underdog host nation tied favored Slovakia (1-1) and stunned Russia with a 4-2 upset in the medal-round qualification phase. Switzerland advanced to the semifinals before ultimately losing to the Czech Republic in the bronze medal game.
The fourth-place finish was the highest in Krueger's international career. However, his most notable coaching successes came in the 2006 and 2010 Olympics. In the Turin Games, the Swiss stunned the hockey world in back-to-back games by defeating the Czech Republic, 3-2, and then shutting out Canada, 2-0. The Swiss finished sixth.
Four years later in Vancouver, the Swiss were highly competitive in the preliminary round. Once again, Krueger's team gave Canada all it could handle, but ultimately lost via shootout to the eventual gold medalists. In the medal round quarterfinals, Team Switzerland battled Team USA hard but was unable to find the net in a 2-0 loss.
While Krueger is a demanding coach, he was also highly respected by his Swiss players. For his part, the coach took pride in their advancement and in the slow but steady growth of the program at all levels from the mid-1990s to the present day.
"These players have come a long way to be able to compete at this level," Krueger told NHL.com following his final game behind the Swiss bench.
Now that he is in charge of the Oilers, Krueger faces a somewhat opposite challenge to the one he tackled in his later years in Switzerland. His Edmonton roster is filled with explosive young offensive talents (No. 1 picks Taylor Hall, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and rookie Nail Yakupov among them), but is need of defensive improvement. However, given that he has spent the last two seasons as an associate coach, Krueger brings instant familiarity with the roster that a candidate hired from the outside might lack.
As a player, Krueger realized from a young age that the NHL would not be in the cards. Unselected in the NHL Draft following a brief but successful WHL stint as a right wing with Calgary Wranglers, a 20-year-old Krueger headed to West Germany to play in the Bundesliga (the forerunner to the current-day DEL).
In a playing career that spanned most of the 1980s, Krueger became a versatile star in the West German league; not only was he a high scoring forward, but he played on the blue line when needed. Twice, Krueger played for Team West Germany at the IIHF World Championship. Over his later years, he served as a playing assistant coach for German minor league team EV Duisburg.
Krueger formally retired as an active player in 1992, accepting his first coaching job as the head coach of Austrian team VEU Feldkirch in what was then known as the Alpenliga (later disbanded and subsequently reorganized several times into the current-day EBEL). He spent six years coaching in Feldkirch, slowly molding the club into a squad that would earn a spot in the European Champions League in 1997-98. The lightly regarded team ended up embarrassing an unmotivated Dynamo Moscow team in the finals to capture the championship.
Thereafter, Krueger accepted the job with Team Switzerland. Building the Swiss program remained his sole hockey focus for the next 13 years, apart from a stretch in which he concurrently served as a scouting consultant for the Carolina Hurricanes. When Renney and the Oilers offered Krueger his first full-fledged NHL position two years ago, he jumped at the chance.
Krueger, who founded a motivational speaking company and authored an autobiographical self-help book, has gained the reputation for being a coach who emphasizes can-do thinking to his players and pays great attention to detail at practice. While he was unafraid to delegate responsibilities to assistant coaches, Krueger became known for remaining closely involved in all facets of his team's system.
These qualities ultimately convinced Oilers general manager Steve Tambellini that Krueger was the right man to succeed Renney and try to elevate the young Edmonton team to the next level.
"When I think of Ralph, I think of someone who has immense information, Tambellini told the team's official website. "That's vast experience with regards to professional hockey overseas as well as right here as an associate coach. When I watched that work with our group, knowing we have players from all over the world, I think his ability to communicate and think of tactics that work for different people is incredible. This is a big thing for us. I know Ralph and his family are extremely excited. This is a big step in his career but he deserves it, and we're very excited about it."
The new Edmonton coach's son, Daniel Krueger, has acquired his father's passion for international hockey. Born in Switzerland and a member of Team Germany at the most recent World Championship, Daniel played last season in the AHL for the Charlotte Checkers. A Cornell University graduate, Daniel was drafted by Carolina in the seventh round (No. 213) of the 2006 draft. The defenseman played one season in the Swiss National League for SC Bern and represented both the German junior and senior national teams before returning to North America to play in the AHL.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
8 things to do if you haven't planned for retirement
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Retirees of the future will find their experience much different from their parents' golden years.
By Samuel Weigley, 24/7 Wall St.
??Once people reach their 50s they finally see retirement on the horizon. They start envisioning that time when they can stop going to work and instead spend their days on the golf course, on the beach or with their families. Yet many people have not saved nearly enough for retirement by the time they are 50 years old. A recent survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute found that 60 percent of workers born between 1946 and 1964 have less than $100,000 for retirement. In fact, 40 percent have saved less than $25,000.
24/7 Wall St. interviewed retirement-related experts from brokerage firms, banks, retirement advocacy groups, and independent financial advisers. With their help, 24/7 identified the eight actions you should take if you have not prepared to retire.
Financial advisers generally recommend people begin saving for retirement starting in their 20s to take full advantage of compounding interest. Although the financial advisers who spoke to 24/7 Wall St. say it is very hard to give concrete estimates on how much should be allocated toward equities and fixed-income, they say it is best to cut risk as one approaches their target retirement age.
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Not saving up enough for retirement used to be less of a problem. Workers in previous generations often received pensions from their employers, allowing retirees to know exactly how much money they would get once retired. But employers have increasingly shifted that responsibility onto the employees through 401k and other defined contribution plans.
These days, notes Joe Ready, executive vice president for retirement at Wells Fargo, people get married and have children later in life than previous generations. This means that it is increasingly hard to save for retirement during the 40s and 50s because they still face heavy financial obligations -- they are still paying off their mortgage, sending their children to college and so on.
The fact that many current retirees are living off pensions has conditioned younger generations to think their retirement might be the same, says Lule Demmissie, managing director of retirement for TD Ameritrade. ?Face it,? Demmissie says, ?your retirement isn?t your parents? retirement.?
Demmissie notes that people in retirement today are working until a later age and finding cheaper housing as they no longer can count on that pension that was once provided to employees. She also points out that while many people have never saved enough for retirement, the problem has become worse once the financial crisis took hold.
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By the time you reach age 50, you should have roughly four times your annual income built up in retirement, according to Jean Setzfand, vice president for financial security for AARP. The best way to reach that goal is to start socking away money starting in your 20s. Still, if you are well behind on your goals by the time you reach your 50s, all hope is not lost.
These are the eight things to do if you have not planned for retirement.
1. Reassess life priorities
Part of reassessing priorities is ensuring you have a plan in place. People should have a retirement plan when they are significantly younger than 50, yet EBRI finds that only 42 percent of workers of all ages have a retirement plan.
If, at the age of 50, people find themselves inadequately prepared for their dream retirement, they should start by looking at the future, advises Setzfand. ?The first thing people should do is consider, ?What do I want to do with the rest of my life??? The answer to that question will help decide what actions need to be taken, Setzfand explains. Before moving forward, it is important to ask such questions as ?Do I really need that second house in Florida?? or ?Can I (afford to) start a trust fund for my grandkids??
People need to consider how much they are willing and able to fund their children's college education. Setzfand notes that many parents in their 50s will foot most or all of their children?s college bill to make sure their children don?t end up with debt early in life. However, she cautions people to be careful to make sure they have enough money to build and sustain their own retirement nest egg. After all, you can?t borrow to fund your golden years.
2. Take advantage of increased contribution limits
If you are late saving for retirement, you may need an extra boost to get closer to your goals. Once people reach age 50, the amount of money they can contribute annually to their 401k and their IRA increases from $17,000 to $22,500 and from $5,000 to $6,000, respectively.?Employees should take advantage of these higher contribution limits if possible, since contributions to these plans are tax deductible.
Plus, many employers match contributions up to a certain amount, meaning that employees are forgoing free money if they do not contribute the maximum contribution amount. ?If you have access to a 401k, jump into it with two feet,? Ready says.
3. Downsize
Advisers also recommend downsizing. While the level of downsizing for some could mean simply cutting down on small expenses such as eating out and shopping, for others, more drastic measures may be necessary.
?Downsizing often isn?t something that can be done on the peripheral,? Demmissie says. For some, it may even mean downsizing the house, especially if there is a lot of equity on the property.
Those eyeing retirement can even plan to move in with their adult children. Demmissie notes there has been an increase in multiple generations living under one roof. While living with children is not necessarily part of most people?s dream retirement, it can help make sure retirees do not outlive their money by cutting out housing costs and even some home-care costs. Moving to places with lower tax rates and costs of living, Demmissie notes, may also help people live their more ideal retirement at a lower cost.
4. Keep working
With people living longer than generations past, the traditional retirement age of 65 is generally increasing and will continue to do so. About 40 percent of current American employees plan to continue working until at least age 70, according to a 2011 study by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies.
Working until a later age, whether full-time or part-time, gives people more time to build their nest egg while also reducing the likelihood that they will run out of money during their golden years. Plus, if someone truly enjoys his or her job, continuing to work in some capacity is not necessarily a bad thing. ?I always believed retirement was fictional,? says John Sestina, founder of John E. Sestina and Company in Columbus, Ohio. ?Why does someone have to quit working if they are productive, and what are they going to do to replace that in their life? You can only play so many rounds of golf.?
People still need to take into consideration that their employment status could change due to circumstances such as a layoff or deteriorating health, says George Middleton, an adviser with Limoges Investment Management in Portland, Ore. ?A lot of my clients say they will just keep working,? he says. ?I always tell them ?but what if you can?t???
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5. Factor in health care costs
Another burden facing retirees in the relatively near future is rapidly growing health care costs. A 65-year old couple who retires in 2012 should plan for $240,000 for medical costs, according to a study by Fidelity, provided the couple does not receive employer-sponsored health coverage. This figure, on average, has risen 6 percent annually since 2002.
Diane Pearson, a financial adviser at Legend Financial Advisors in Pittsburgh, says higher health care costs in recent years have changed the way she has counseled clients on retirement. She used to try to get her clients? nest eggs to accrue 2 percent more than inflation each year, but now that number is close to 6 percent due to rising health costs.
?People generally underestimate the amount of money they?ll need in retirement,? Pearson says, noting that health care predictions play a major role in that underestimation. ?The rule of thumb has been spending 75 percent to 85 percent in retirement of what you were spending while you were working full-time. I think that?s absolutely false.? Pearson says the amount spent in retirement likely will be about the same spent in your working years.
6. Don?t play catch up
If someone has failed to save enough for retirement by their 50s, it may be tempting to build a portfolio full of stocks to play catch-up. The financial experts interviewed by 24/7 Wall St. generally advise against this move. While some stocks are still important in a portfolio to help manage inflation, a bad stretch in the stock market can completely devastate a person?s financial goals. ?That?s financial suicide,? Sestina calls such a move. ?They can?t afford the risk with so little time.?
Middleton says he counsels his clients to take on as little risk as possible in order to reach their retirement goals. Someone who has not saved anything for retirement by age 50 would need to take more, but not excessively more, risk than someone who saved since they were in their 20s. ?I just warn (clients) that the plan might not work,? Middleton says.
7. Beware of financial scams
When people have not saved enough for retirement, they feel overwhelmed and are willing to take drastic measures to try to reach their retirement goals, including falling for financial scams such as the ?get rich quick? and ?work from home? schemes. Those ages 60 and older lost at least $2.9 billion due to these scams in 2010, according to a recent joint study from Metlife Mature Market Institute, the National Committee for Prevention of Elder Abuse and Virginia Tech University.
Setzfand says that when people are approached about financial products, they need to do research to make sure the product really can help achieve their financial goals. She also recommends people do some research on the broker trying to sell the product to make sure no sanctions have been levied on the broker. ?If something looks too good to be true, it?s too good to be true,? Setzfand says.
8. Do not skimp on insurance
While socking a higher portion of your income in your 50s may help build up a dream retirement fund, it is important to keep up with insurance payments in order to prepare for the unexpected. Such plans as life insurance and long-term care insurance can ensure a person?s spouse or children aren?t financially devastated in case of unfortunate events.
Since life insurance is relatively affordable, Middleton says he has not noticed many people going without it. However, he is concerned many are forgoing long-term care insurance due to its high cost. Middleton says not having long-term care insurance can ?completely destroy an estate? if a spouse happens to need that level of care in the future.
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Why Facebook Is Folding On Credits And Doubling Down On Payments
In a surprising move this week, with just a short post on their Developer Blog, Facebook has ended their three-year experiment with the virtual currency of Facebook Credits. Credits will be phased out by the end of the year and users will simply have a Facebook account with a balance measured in Dollars in the U.S., or whatever currency is native to a country. Facebook?s new member accounts will function similarly to an iTunes account: a user adds a credit card to their account, digital goods can be purchased and immediately charged to the card on file, or can be drawn from stored value in that account. ?If you are given a Facebook gift card, in card or digital form, you would add that reward code to your account and that value would be stored until you use it ? just like an iTunes gift card is added to your account and stored until spent.match day nene dark shadows trailer nate mcmillan clooney arrested southern miss rod blagojevich
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Rio+20 Summit Sustains Little More Than Sentiment
Enlarge Andre Penner/AP U.N. General Assembly President Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's Secretary of the Conference Luis Figueiredo Machado and Rio+20 Secretary General Sha Zukang attend the closing ceremony of the Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro on Friday.
Andre Penner/APU.N. General Assembly President Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's Secretary of the Conference Luis Figueiredo Machado and Rio+20 Secretary General Sha Zukang attend the closing ceremony of the Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro on Friday.
The Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development was the biggest United Nations conference ever, but it may be one of the biggest duds. It produced no major agreements ? just a vaguely worded declaration that has been widely derided.
More than 45,000 people registered for the event in Rio de Janeiro, but diplomats couldn't even agree about the meeting's objective until 2:45 a.m. on Tuesday, just before heads of state and other high-level delegates started arriving in Rio.
They finally agreed to a long-winded declaration about alleviating poverty and leaving the planet livable for future generations. It was more platitudes than anything else, which sparked anger and disappointment.
Friday, on the final day of the conference, former Costa Rican president Jose Maria Figueres didn't even try to hide his contempt as he addressed the conference's secretary general, Sha Zukang, at a news conference.
"One thousand five hundred CEOs from 60 nations, global NGOs from all over the world, have come to your conference and committed to action," he said. "Those who have failed you, Mr. Sha, are the governments. Those are the ones that have failed you, sir."
Actually, conference organizer Sha replied, he did not intend to defend the conclusions. There were simply too many competing interests. It's not his job to make people happy.
"My job was to make everybody equally unhappy. If one party's happy ... then others are not happy. ... So equally unhappy means equally happy," he said.
Obviously, there is no consensus about what path the world needs to take to pull billions of people out of poverty in a manner that will sustain the environment and leave resources for future generations.
Sha, who is about to retire from his career at the U.N., then asked, what good are big promises, anyway? He pointed specifically to the ambitious pledges made at the big U.N. climate meeting in Copenhagen two years ago.
"Nobody forced you to make commitments. By why comply with the commitments? It's voluntary, but you're voluntarily lying to the people because you're not honoring them," Sha said.
Clearly, the meeting in Rio has raised some existential questions for the United Nations. Achim Steiner, who heads the UN Environment Program, pins lot of the difficulty on a new political landscape.
"Here in Rio 2012, despite, in a sense, the impression that this is still a debate between North and South, between rich and poor, between those who have natural resources and those who don't ? in fact, the world is much more complex," he said.
There's the economic turmoil in Europe and the political divide in the United States. But also, emerging economies like China and India are suddenly big players still trying to balance economic development, the environment and social issues.
So did any good come from Rio+20? Manish Bapna, acting president of the World Resources Institute, says at least the world has agreed to work on a new set of goals to promote sustainable development.
"The next two, three years will be quite a bit of work in trying to define what they are, what they mean, how they can be achieved," he says. "But I think that could be an important outcome that emerges from Rio+20."
While that may sound like more just talk, the reality is that collective goals ? like combating climate change, preserving the oceans and alleviating hunger and poverty ? do require collective action and therefore consensus. The problem, of course, is that talk doesn't keep pace with the rapidly changing conditions on our planet.
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Trout caps Angels' comeback with go-ahead homer
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) ? Rookie sensation Mike Trout has given the Los Angeles Angels everything they could have asked from a 20-year-old phenom ? and more.
Trout hit a go-ahead homer and scored from first base on a single as the Angels rallied from an early five-run deficit against Chad Billingsley to beat the Dodgers 8-5 Friday night in the opener of the season's second Freeway Series.
"I wouldn't say we've come to expect it, but I'm definitely not surprised by it, personally," teammate Mark Trumbo said. "He's the total package. I've never seen anything like it. I've never played with anybody who's anywhere near as advanced as he is at this age. He's a big part of the reason why we've been playing a lot better."
Dan Haren (5-7) allowed five runs, nine hits and three walks over five innings with five strikeouts. Ernesto Frieri, the fifth Angels pitcher, worked a hitless ninth for his eighth save in eight chances.
"I left some balls up and out over the plate, and there's just no excuse for it," Haren said. "I've done it a couple of times now, and I've got to get better than that. Obviously, I think everyone knows I can throw the ball better than I have. But it was nice for the team to pick me up, and hopefully I can pick them up next time."
Bobby Abreu hit a three-run homer on the first pitch he saw in his return to Angel Stadium with the Dodgers. But it wasn't enough for Billingsley (4-6), who gave up six runs and 10 hits in five innings.
The right-hander is 1-5 with a 5.36 ERA in seven career starts against the Angels, who had hit only two homers off him in 42 1-3 career innings prior to Trout's clout. This was the fourth time in the last five regular-season meetings between the Dodgers and Angels that the game turned on a tiebreaking home run.
The Dodgers totaled four runs over their previous four games, including a three-game sweep by Oakland. But Abreu gave Billingsley a great head start in the first inning with a towering drive far back into the elevated seats in right field after singles by Jerry Hairston Jr. and Andre Ethier.
The emergence of Trout, Trumbo (26) and Peter Bourjos (25) made the Angels' outfield too crowded for the 38-year-old Abreu to play a regular role, despite Vernon Wells' long-term thumb injury. He was released on April 30, and the Dodgers signed him as a free agent four days later. Since then, he is hitting .297 with 13 RBIs in 41 games. But his slow home run trot wasn't aimed at the Angels.
"Not really. It's nothing personal," Abreu said. "To me it was just another team that we face and another team that we have to beat. I was just happy to hit a homer right there. It felt good that I did something to help the team and give us a few runs in the first inning."
The Dodgers extended the margin to 5-0 in the second with RBI singles from Hairston and Juan Rivera. But Billingsley couldn't hold it, and the Angels fought back with three runs in the bottom half on Alberto Callaspo's RBI double, Howie Kendrick's sacrifice fly and Erick Aybar's RBI groundout.
"I think our recent success has given us more confidence to come back," Trumbo said. "I mean, when you're down early like that, it's not the end of the world. There are still nine chances to come back and get the job done. It was fortunate that we were able to answer them quickly and get some of the momentum back on our side."
Callaspo led off the fourth with a single and scored on Aybar's triple. Bobby Wilson followed with a suicide squeeze that eventually scored Aybar, who slid past the plate while catcher A.J. Ellis missed the tag. Umpire Dale Scott remained an interested spectator until Aybar casually walked back and stepped on the dish, then gave the "safe" sign.
Trout, who entered second in the AL with a .338 average, drove Billingsley's next pitch to left-center for his seventh homer and a 6-5 Angels lead.
"I was just trying to be aggressive," Trout said. "I got a pitch I could hit and I put a good swing on it. We were all having big at-bats. Bobby coming up with that squeeze was big, and Aybar getting that triple. Dan had a rough first two innings, but after that he settled in and gave us a chance. So getting those runs for him was big."
It could have been worse for Billingsley, but Ethier displayed his Gold Glove form in the fifth by robbing Kendrick of a two-run double with a leaping catch against the 18-foot wall for the third out. Torii Hunter drove in the Angels' final two runs against Jamey Wright, with Trout winging it all the way from first behind Wilson after Hunter singled to right field on a 3-2 pitch with two outs.
"Trout is like my little brother. He's my best friend, so I'm really excited that he did that for me ? giving me that extra RBI ? and I'm going to take him to McDonald's," Hunter said.
NOTES: Billingsley hasn't gone longer than seven innings since his season debut, when he allowed three hits over 8 1-3 innings in a 6-0 win at San Diego. He has completed seven innings in only three of his 14 starts since then. ... Haren walked more than two batters for only the second time in his last 39 starts ? including May 14 against Oakland, when he issued four and hit his only batter of the season in a 5-0 loss. Last year, he finished with fewer walks (33) than starts (34). ... Only two of Abreu's last 28 home runs have come with more than one runner on base. The other was a tying, three-run shot off Clayton Kershaw in the Angels' 6-3 win over the Dodgers on June 22, 2010, at Anaheim.
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No easy way out for Assange holed up in embassy
LONDON (Reuters) - Wikileaks founder Julian Assange risks being thrown into a cell the moment he leaves the Ecuadorean Embassy in London after breaching bail to avoid extradition to Sweden.
The Australian former computer hacker, who enraged Washington in 2010 when his WikiLeaks website published secret U.S. diplomatic cables, is wanted for questioning in Sweden about sex crime allegations. He says he fears he could be sent to the United States where his life would be at risk.
News crews and a dozen supporters bearing "Free Assange" placards gathered outside the embassy, a five-storey red-brick building in the upmarket district of Knightsbridge where Assange sought refuge on Tuesday.
There was no sighting of Assange, whose distinctive white-blond hair has helped make him instantly recognisable around the world. A reporter from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a non-profit organisation based at London's City University, was permitted inside to see Assange and said he was in good spirits.
Ecuador said Assange had expressed fears that if sent to Sweden he would be extradited to the United States where he believes he could face criminal charges punishable by death.
"I genuinely believe, and I know him well, that he fears for his life," said Vaughan Smith, who hosted Assange at his country mansion for 13 months after the Australian was freed on bail in December 2010.
Leftist Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said his government is analyzing whether there are enough grounds to grant political asylum to Assange.
"Our constitution does not permit the death penalty. The right to due process is guaranteed," Correa told Venezuela's Telesur television network. "We have to analyze if these rights have been infringed, if a request for the death penalty exists."
Correa said Ecuadorean officials will take "as long as they need to" before making a decision.
"Meanwhile, Mr. Assange will stay in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, under the protection of the Ecuadorean state," he said.
By diplomatic convention, British police cannot enter the embassy without authorisation from Ecuador. But even if Quito granted him asylum, he has no way of travelling to Ecuador without passing through London and exposing himself to arrest.
"He has breached one of his bail conditions which was to be at his bail address between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. every day ... He is subject to arrest under the Bail Act," said a spokesman for London's Metropolitan Police.
CENSORSHIP
Legal experts said it was unclear what would happen to a 240,000-pound ($377,000) deposit provided by Assange's supporters, including a number of celebrities, to secure his bail.
Asked by Twitter by Britain's Guardian newspaper whether she was on the hook, socialite Jemima Khan tweeted back: "Yes. I had expected him to face the allegations. I am as surprised as anyone by this." Khan declined to say how much she had paid.
Assange, whose unpredictable behaviour and love of the limelight have cost him the support of some former friends and colleagues, lost a long-running legal battle last week to avoid extradition from Britain to Sweden.
His 11th-hour decision to seek refuge in the embassy was more reminiscent of Cold War espionage dramas than the British legal process. The dramatic move drew widespread criticism.
"He is asking for protection of freedom of expression for journalists, but he is asking for asylum in a country that is basically censoring newspapers," Frank La Rue, U.N. special investigator for freedom of expression, told Reuters.
Correa has clashed with journalists since he took office in 2007, accusing a "media dictatorship" of undermining his rule. Opponents accuse him of seeking to silence dissenting voices.
Assange expressed sympathy with Correa's war on media while interviewing him on Russia Today, an English language TV channel sponsored by the Kremlin that employs Assange.
"Let's get rid of these false stereotypes depicting wicked governments persecuting saint-like and courageous journalists and news outlets. Often, Julian, it's the other way round," Correa said during the interview.
"President Correa, I agree with your market description of the media. We have seen this again and again, that big media organisations that we have worked with ... have censored our material against our agreement," Assange said in response.
"CLUB OF THE PERSECUTED"
WikiLeaks made a huge impact in 2010 by working with prestigious newspapers in several countries that published some of the material it had obtained, but later fell out with them.
Assange has been criticised for agreeing to host his own chat show on Russia Today, given the Russian authorities' own dubious record on freedom of speech.
After disregarding diplomatic protocol by publishing cables that were supposed to be confidential, Assange is now relying on diplomatic convention to shield himself from a legal extradition process. Critics pointed to the irony.
"Getting too enamoured of the idea that Julian Assange is a whistleblower misses the reality that confidentiality on the part of governments is not all bad," U.S. human rights ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe told reporters in Geneva.
Assange's decision to appeal to Ecuador, which briefly offered Assange residency at the height of the WikiLeaks furore in November 2010 before backing off, follows his Russia Today interview with Correa, posted on YouTube on May 22.
"Cheer up. Welcome to the club of the persecuted," Correa told Assange at the end of the 25-minute interview, during which the pair traded flattering comments and jokes.
Assange praised Correa for getting more done for his country than President Barack Obama was achieving for the United States.
Neither U.S. nor Swedish authorities have charged Assange with anything. Swedish prosecutors want to question him about allegations of rape and sexual assault made by two women, former WikiLeaks volunteers, in 2010. Assange says he had consensual sex with the women.
Having exhausted all possible avenues offered by the British courts, Assange's only option to keep fighting extradition would be an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.
($1 = 0.6364 British pounds)
(Additional reporting by Avril Ormsby and Stephen Addison in London, Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva and Eduardo Garcia in Quito; Writing by Estelle Shirbon; Editing by Peter Graff and Bill Trott)
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Study released on library e-book borrowing
FILE-- In a Jan. 7, 2003 file photo Sari Feldman, deputy director of the Cleveland Public Library, holds a PDA containing Michael Crichton's book "Prey," at the downtown Cleveland branch, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2003. E-book readers have been relatively slow to borrow digital works from the library, frustrated by a limited selection and by not even knowing if their local branch offers e-releases, according to a new study published Friday June 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, file)
FILE-- In a Jan. 7, 2003 file photo Sari Feldman, deputy director of the Cleveland Public Library, holds a PDA containing Michael Crichton's book "Prey," at the downtown Cleveland branch, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2003. E-book readers have been relatively slow to borrow digital works from the library, frustrated by a limited selection and by not even knowing if their local branch offers e-releases, according to a new study published Friday June 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, file)
NEW YORK (AP) ? E-book readers have been relatively slow to borrow digital works from the library, frustrated by a limited selection and by not even knowing if their local branch offers e-releases, according to a new study.
The Pew Research Center published a survey Friday that reports around 12 percent of e-book users 16 years and older downloaded a text from the library over the past year. Earlier in 2012, Pew issued a study showing that around 20 percent of adults had read an e-book recently.
Simon & Schuster, the Hachette Book Group and other major publishers have limited e-book offerings to libraries or refused to make any available, citing concerns that the ease of free downloads would hurt sales. Lack of awareness may be another factor. Around 60 percent of those 16 and older couldn't say whether their libraries had e-books.
Pew's Internet & American Life Project study, conducted with nearly 3,000 respondents between Nov. 16 and Dec. 11, 2011, suggests that library patrons trying to borrow digital texts have been deterred by the selection and by not having the right e-book device. Just over half of respondents said their library did not have the book they were looking for and nearly 20 percent found that the device they owned could not receive a given title.
Nearly half of those who have not borrowed an e-book said they would be "very" or "somewhat" interested if they were lent an e-reading device with a book already downloaded.
Officials from the American Library Association have been meeting with publishers in an effort to work out a system that would satisfy both sides. On Thursday, Penguin Group (USA) announced a pilot program with the New York and Brooklyn library systems that will make e-books available six months after they first go on sale. Penguin had suspended its e-book program with libraries last year.
"I applaud Penguin's decision today to re-start e-book sales to libraries so that we may again meet our mutual goals of connecting authors and readers," library association president Molly Raphael said in a statement.
One statistic reported by Pew should please publishers and librarians: Those who borrow e-books from libraries tend to read more ? 29 books a year ? than readers who don't use the library (23 books). But library card holders also are more likely to borrow, as opposed to buy, a book compared to those without library cards.
Overall, around half of those surveyed said they had bought their most recent book. Around 15 percent said they had borrowed a copy from the library.
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
Sony Exec: PS4 Won't Come Until Big Hardware Leaps Can Be Taken
Sony Exec: PS4 Won?t Come Until Big Hardware Leaps Can Be Taken
by David Sanchez on June 20, 2012 @ 2:49 pm
Sony has continuously shot down rumors that a new PlayStation console is in the works. Past arguments the company has made include a 10-year life cycle for the PlayStation 3 and the fact that new hardware isn?t exactly necessary at this point. It looks like the PlayStation manufacturer is sticking to its guns, as Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Andrew House recently told MCV that there were currently no plans for a PlayStation 4.
According to House, the best time to create and unveil new hardware is when that technology can actually provide worthwhile and notable enhancements among the current crop of video game consoles. ?The right time to talk about new advances in hardware is when you can demonstrate a significant leap on the current experience, and something that is going to be attractive.,? said the SCE boss. ?That remains our philosophy. Beyond that we have nothing to say at this point.?
I totally agree with House on this one. Developers such as id Software have stated that they don?t see the next wave of gaming platforms offering too much of a graphical leap, and when you think about it, it would be kind of stupid to release new platforms that don?t offer much of an advancement from the consoles we have now. Sony will reveal a new home platform when it feels that the PlayStation 3 has run its course. Right now, it doesn?t seem like that?s happened just yet.
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Sprint warns it's a 'little behind' on Samsung Galaxy S III, T-Mobile staggers its launch
That delayed Canadian Galaxy S III launch may have been a harbinger of US delays to come: Sprint has let Engadget know that it's running a "little behind" on shipments. The company still hopes to get all pre-orders of the 16GB model to customers by the official June 21st release, but warns that orders might slip by one or two days. We also hope 32GB customers weren't planning their schedules around the 21st -- the higher capacity won't ship until the following week. Sprint is citing both "overwhelming demand and limited supply" as the root causes, although it hasn't quantified just how whelmed those sales are.
T-Mobile, meanwhile, is telling Galaxy S III buyers in some areas to sit tight. We've directly confirmed through a spokesperson an earlier leak from TmoNews that claimed Magenta will only focus June 21st retail sales on the "top 29 markets," most of them major cities. If you fall outside of those areas, you'll have to wait until shortly afterwards to pick one up, the provider tells us. As it stands, AT&T, US Cellular and Verizon still haven't committed to exact release dates and are currently off the hook.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
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'Rock of Ages,' 'That's My Boy' flop at box office
By Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter
Comedy took a beating at the domestic box office over Father's Day weekend as 1980s jukebox musical "Rock of Ages" and Adam Sandler's R-rated "That's My Boy" did dismal business in their debuts.
Instead, it was holdovers "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted" and "Prometheus" that continued to top the chart, staying at No. 1 and No. 2 respectively with $35.5 million and $20.2 million.
"Rock of Ages" topped out at $15.1 million to place third; "That's My Boy" grossed $13 million to come in No. 5 after being bested by holdover "Snow White and the Huntsman" ($13.8 million).
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"Madagascar 3," from DreamWorks Animation and Paramount, fell less than 42 percent from its opening weekend and has earned $120.5 million in its first 10 days of play domestically and a resounding $277.5 million worldwide (the toon also won the international race in grossing $53 million for the weekend).
Twentieth Century Fox's "Prometheus," falling 60 percent, has now earned $88.9 million domestically.
The soft performances of Adam Shankman's musical "Rock of Ages" -- with an all-star ensemble cast including Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand -- and "That's My Boy" are major disappointments for their respective studios and stars, and particularly Sandler.
"Rock of Ages," from New Line and Warner Bros., received a so-so B CinemaScore. The movie came in far behind Shankman and New Line's 2007 "Hairspray"?and Universal's 2008 "Mamma Mia!" Both of those movies -- likewise based on hit Broadway films -- opened just north fo $25 million.
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One issue for?"Rock of Ages" was that it failed to rally younger moviegoers, despite leads Julianne Hough and Diego Boneta. Nearly 75 percent of the audience was over the age of 25, the demo that most relates to the film's music. Females made up the majority of those buying tickets, or 62 percent.
"The numbers aren't great. It's hard to fathom since the movie plays so well," Warner Bros. president of domestic distribution Dan Fellman said. "I'm still optimistic we can overperform during the week because of women."
Both?"Rock of Ages" and "That's My Boy" cost just under $70 million to produce.
Sony's "That's My Boy," earning a B- CinemaScore, marks Sandler's lowest debut for a comedy since "Spanglish" in 2004 ($8.8 million). The film, pairing Sandler with Andy Samberg, is the actor's first R-rated comedy since "Funny People," which opened to $22.7 million in July 2007.
"Sure we had hoped for more. It is a crazy, off-the-wall raunchy R-rated comedy that audiences laugh like crazy at. Kudos to Adam for mixing it up," Sony president of worldwide distribution Rory Bruer said. "We love being in the Adam Sandler business."
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Sandler has been one of Hollywood's most consistent stars in terms of box office performance, although last year's summer comedy"Jack and Jill" underperformed domestically, cuming roughly $74 million.
"That's My Boy" played fairly evenly among males (54 percent) and females (46 percent), even though the picture had been tracking best among younger males. The comedy did succeed in luring younger moviegoers, with 52 percent of the audience under the age of 25.
Elsewhere at the box office, Sony's "Men in Black 3" grew its worldwide gross to $544.3 million, while specialty titles "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" and "Moonrise Kingdom" continued to land on the top 10 chart domestically.
From Fox Searchlight and directed by John Madden, "Marigold Hotel" came in No. 8 with $2.2 million from 1,184 theaters for a North American cume of $35.1 million. Focus Features' "Moonrise," from director Wes Anderson, continued to expand nicely, grossing $2.1 million from 178 theaters for a cume of $6.8 million.
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Monday, June 18, 2012
Video: Kate Middleton steps out
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Romney predicts he'll win Wisconsin
JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) ? Mitt Romney sought Monday to capitalize on Republican Gov. Scott Walker's victory in a contentious recall election and predicted that momentum from that race will help him win the state come November and, with it, the White House.
Wisconsin hasn't voted for a Republican for president since 1984, and President Barack Obama won big here in 2008. But Republicans sense an opportunity after Walker survived a Democratic push to oust him after he took on public sector unions. So does Romney, who had Walker at his side Monday.
"I think President Obama had just put this in his column," Romney told cheering supporters inside a textile company as his six-state bus tour brought him to Janesville, about 75 miles southwest of Milwaukee. "He just assumed from the very beginning that Wisconsin was going to be his. But you know what? We're going to win Wisconsin and we're going to get in the White House."
Romney also was joined by Rep. Paul Ryan, the architect of the House Republican budget that would restructure federal entitlement programs. Ryan's hometown of Janesville was hit hard by the recession; a General Motors plant that once employed thousands closed in 2009.
The stop opened the fourth day of a five-day bus tour that already has taken Romney from New Hampshire to Pennsylvania and Ohio. Monday's itinerary also includes stops in Iowa ? for a boat tour in Dubuque and a rally in Davenport. He planned to campaign in Michigan on Tuesday, the final day of the campaign swing.
Ryan is one of several potential vice presidential picks to campaign with Romney during the tour. The likely presidential nominee also has appeared with New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Ohio Sen. Rob Portman.
Daniel Sinykin, the textile company's president, gave Romney an opportunity to announce his decision.
"Gov. Romney, we're in Congressman Ryan's hometown. He's right here if you have an announcement to make," Sinykin said as the crowd burst into applause. Romney ignored the topic during his remarks.
Heavy with both factories and farms, Ryan's district in southern Wisconsin is typically carried by Democratic presidential candidates. Obama carried the state by 14 points in 2008 ? an unusual margin, given that Democrats John Kerry in 2004 and Al Gore in 2000 each won Wisconsin by less than a single percentage point.
During the 2008 campaign, Obama delivered a speech in Janesville. But the state has shifted decidedly to the right since then.
Walker and Republicans swept into power in 2010, turning the entire state Legislature to their side and knocking Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold from office.
Obama's campaign is clearly nervous, and has moved the state from trending toward the president to undecided.
"We are not really a red state or a blue state. We really aren't," said state Sen. Tim Cullen, a moderate Democrat from Janesville who previously worked as a cabinet secretary for former Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson. "People in this state split their ticket in huge numbers, so it's not at all unusual to have people vote for Gov. Walker and President Obama."
Walker introduced Romney and said Wisconsin's unemployment rate is at its lowest point since 2008. He credited the state's Republican legislators ? not Obama's policies.
"It is my honor to still be the 45th governor of the great state of Wisconsin. And it's my honor to be on the stage with the man I hope is the 45th president of these United States," Walker said. "We've turned things around in Wisconsin. It's time to elect a leader who can turn things around for America."
Unemployment in Wisconsin fell to 6.7 percent in April, well below the national average. But Janesville, a city of about 60,000, has lagged.
The city's unemployment rate spiked to almost 16 percent in the months after the GM plant closed before gradually falling to 9 percent in April. That is still the seventh-highest rate for any Wisconsin city.
An Associated Press exit poll of voters in the Walker recall on June 5 showed a majority said they would vote for Obama in November.
Still, Republicans are confident after Walker's 7-point win in the recall election. Republicans here point to an energized ground organization they built to keep Walker in office, and Romney inherits a party infrastructure that made 4.5 million voter contacts in recent months and has 26 field offices across the state.
"That is the organizational strength we're going to take to November," Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said after the election. "We crushed the Democrats on the ground. We beat them at their own game."
The Obama campaign has been on the ground organizing in Wisconsin but hasn't spent money on advertising for months. Neither Obama nor Romney has run TV ads in the state.
Obama steered clear of Wisconsin during the recall race and did not campaign for the Democratic candidate. Obama's last visit to Wisconsin was in February, at a Master Lock plant in Milwaukee.
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Bauer reported from Madison, Wis. Associated Press writers Brian Bakst and Steve Peoples contributed to this report.
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Sunday, June 17, 2012
12 Reasons Why the USSR Never Got to the Moon [Video]
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