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Monday, October 31, 2011
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Five Favorite Films with Aaron Eckhart
You could set your watch to Aaron Eckhart's handsomely chiseled features -- but do so at your own peril. As he's proved time and again on screen, Eckhart excels at portraying deceptively charming men: be they manipulative executives (his breakout In the Company of Men), big-tobacco spin doctors (Thank You For Smoking), or literally, physically duplicitous district attorneys (The Dark Knight). Which isn't to say he won't play nice, reasonably normal guys, of course, as his excellent (and strangely Oscar-overlooked) performance in last year's Rabbit Hole attests. This week, however, Eckhart's up to his smooth-talking tricks in The Rum Diary, playing against Johnny Depp as the impeccably-dressed but otherwise rather rapacious Sanderson -- an American businessman out to turn postcard-perfect Puerto Rico into a lucrative tourist resort. We spoke with Eckhart recently, where he talked about the film, his thoughts on writer Hunter S. Thompson, and the art of playing the likeable bad guy. But first, he ran through his five favorite films.
My five favorite films? I have no memory, that's my problem. [Laughs] Well one of them would be Apocalypse Now. I mean, you could tell that the movie was made in madness, as madness, and that, to me... someday I want to make a movie like that. Total consumption.
One of them would be... did I say Apocalypse Now? [Laughs] What other films are there? Have there been any other films? I would say Five Easy Pieces. Nicholson was a god. Is a god. Great movie. Fucking great movie.
Then I'll say -- this is so easy, but I'll say The Getaway, with McQueen. Just, you know, just raw power and action.
Bringing Up Baby, with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn -- just because I grew up on those movies.
And then I'm gonna say... What's a modern movie that I've seen? How about... you know a great movie that I saw was... [extremely long pause] Oh, I got a movie -- the one where he goes to the Turkish Prison. Midnight Express. There you go. That movie terrified me. [Laughs] Go to Turkey, but do your hash before.
Next, Eckhart on The Rum Diary, staying sober on set, and playing charming bad guys.
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ECB's Trichet: low inflation for 10 years: report (Reuters)
BERLIN (Reuters) ? European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet was quoted by a German newspaper as saying inflation in the euro zone would be "very low" over the next 10 years.
"In the coming 10 years, the inflation rate will most probably stay very low; current expectations are for around 1.8 percent," he told the mass-selling Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
"This means: in the euro zone we have price stability. This is something we are very proud of, and rightly so."
(Reporting By Sarah Marsh; Editing by Ralph Gowling)
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
Woman guilty of trying to burn husband?
ORLANDO, Fla.?? A Florida woman was convicted of trying to murder her husband by setting the couple's bedroom on fire while he napped, in one of two suspected attempts to kill him, authorities said on Saturday.
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Kimberly Boone, 46, who investigators believe tried twice over four months to kill Robert Boone for his life insurance money, was convicted of attempted murder and arson, a spokesman for the Seminole County Jail booking center said. She is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 5. A jury deliberated four hours on Friday before issuing the verdict.
Prosecutors said Kimberly Boone, a college financial aid manager from Winter Springs, Florida, set the couple's bedroom on fire in December 2008 while Robert Boone slept. She drugged her husband with the anti-anxiety medication Xanax, making it harder for him to escape the fire, they said.
Investigators found search records on her laptop for information on making someone violently ill, poisoning, making a house explode, overdosing on Xanax, and how fire marshals determine the cause of a fire, according to the arrest affidavit.
Kimberly Boone's lawyer argued in court that fire investigators never determined how the fire started, leaving reasonable doubt about what happened.
She was not arrested for the arson and attempted murder until four months later, in April 2009, when Robert Boone was shot in the chest while checking on his wife's concern about noises in the garage.
Robert Boone, who survived both incidents, told investigators Kimberly brought their Ruger .357 into the garage. Kimberly told investigators Robert had the handgun.
Kimberly Boone was acquitted of attempted murder in the shooting case at her first trial in 2010.
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Groupon mulls raising IPO price (Reuters)
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) ? Groupon Inc is considering raising its IPO price range, as underwriters grow more confident about demand after completing the East Coast leg of a two-week roadshow to woo investors.
One of the most closely watched initial public offerings of the year, Groupon had previously filed with regulators to sell 30 million shares at $16 to $18 apiece, scaling back its aspirations amid weak market conditions and uncertainties over its long-term business outlook.
The company is now considering raising the price range and could file an amended IPO prospectus early next week, said a source familiar with the situation. Groupon declined to comment and no other details were immediately available.
Chief Executive Andrew Mason hosted a luncheon on Friday at the St. Regis hotel in Manhattan -- the biggest event on the roadshow, seen as crucial in helping Groupon's bankers decide how to price the shares.
Fund managers who attended the meeting told Reuters they were pleasantly surprised by how charming and composed Mason was, since he has a reputation of being volatile after he blasted Groupon's critics in a leaked staff memo this summer.
Nonetheless, quite a few investors said they were still undecided about buying into the IPO, noting that Groupon faces huge competition in the daily deals business. The company has also had to change its accounting twice under regulatory pressure and has lost two chief operating officers in the past year.
Mason "was a lot more likable, less arrogant in person than I expected," said a money manager at a firm with more than $15 billion under management, who attended the Friday meeting.
"It's intriguing. It's such a massive opportunity if they're the winner, so the question is, 'Do they become the winner?'" he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Despite lingering concerns, investors expect the IPO to be over-subscribed, partly because bankers have limited the float to just 4.7 percent of shares.
One investor who attended the event said the investor's hedge fund firm planned to ask for shares in the offer, but added that it was very unlikely to get an allocation.
The risk is that Groupon may be flipped by some investors on the first day. Later on, early-stage investors might want to cash out through secondary issues, putting downward pressure on the stock.
"It will probably be like LinkedIn, a huge moonshot," said a hedge fund manager with $500 million under management, who attended Friday's presentation.
"There hasn't been an IPO in a long time and everyone will clamor for it," he said, but added that he does not view Groupon as a long-term investment.
Fidelity Investments, Capital Group and T Rowe Price already own Groupon stock from private investment rounds and are planning on buying more shares in the IPO, according to two underwriting sources.
The three asset managers all declined to comment so it was not certain if they would follow through. Institutional investors typically do not show their hand until a day or two before the final pricing and stock market debut.
AHEAD OF AMAZON
Groupon scaled back its IPO to raise up to $540 million, from a previous target of up to $750 million, amid Wall Street concerns that the Chicago-based company faced well-funded rivals such as Google Inc and Amazon.com Inc. They have billions of dollars to put in play, while Groupon expects to have about $723 million in cash and equivalents after the IPO.
A private equity investor who attended the presentation on Friday said he thinks Groupon is big enough that it is here to stay, but he was still not sure how much the company is worth.
"People are questioning Groupon's business model but I think that's misplaced," said the investor, whose firm has more than $10 billion under management. "I don't know if it's worth $11 billion or $5 billion or $20 billion -- that's where the debate comes in -- but it's a real business."
Groupon, which is approaching three years old, stressed to potential investors on Friday that its financials compared favorably to those of Amazon in its early days.
Mason said Groupon is currently generating about $190 in gross billings per customer per year on average, compared with Amazon's $130 when it was at a comparable stage of development, according to a person who attended the presentation. Amazon now generates about $290 in gross billings per customer per year, Mason was quoted as saying.
"Given the past mistakes management has made, they sounded credible," Scott Sweet of research firm IPO Boutique said.
The one-hour presentation took place at a room atop the St. Regis, a luxury hotel off Fifth Avenue that sports red carpet stairways leading up from the sidewalk and staff in fancy overcoats and top hats.
Security was tight and investors who were not pre-registered and who tried to walk in were turned away. Those investors who made it inside were offered chicken salad, bread, chocolate chip cookies, and tea or coffee.
There were half a dozen questions after the presentation, of which two focused on one slide that showed Groupon spending roughly $14 to acquire each customer and generating a return on that investment, according to one investor.
Another question focused on Groupon's efforts to reduce marketing spending and how that will effect subscriber growth.
Executives and bankers are scheduled to meet with investors in San Francisco, Denver and Chicago next week.
Underwriters on the Groupon IPO are being lead by Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs & Co and Credit Suisse. The shares are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq on November 4 under the ticker symbol "GRPN."
(Reporting by Clare Baldwin in New York and Alistair Barr in San Francisco; Additional reporting by Anthony Hughes in New York; Editing by Tiffany Wu, Gary Hill)
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
Kico Kids Launches Capsule Collection at Anthropolgie
The chic kids brand debuts a whimsical, boho-worthy collection for girls at Anthropologie.
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Defense witness: Michael Jackson caused own death
Dr. Paul White, an anesthesiologist and Propofol expert, holds a bottle of Propofol during Dr. Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical licenses if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (AP Photo/Paul Buck, Pool)
Dr. Paul White, an anesthesiologist and Propofol expert, holds a bottle of Propofol during Dr. Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical licenses if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (AP Photo/Paul Buck, Pool)
Dr. Conrad Murray listens as defense attorney J. Michael Flanagan (not pictured) questions witness Dr. Paul White, during Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical licenses if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (AP Photo/Paul Buck, Pool)
Dr. Conrad Murray listens as defense attorney J. Michael Flanagan (not pictured) questions witness Dr. Paul White, during Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical licenses if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (AP Photo/Paul Buck, Pool)
Dr. Paul White, an anesthesiologist and Propofol expert, holds up an IV drip during Dr. Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical licenses if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (AP Photo/Paul Buck, Pool)
Dr. Paul White, right, an anesthesiologist and Propofol expert, demonstrates an IV drip with the assistance of defense attorney J. Michael Flanagan during Dr. Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical licenses if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (AP Photo/Paul Buck, Pool)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Attorneys for Michael Jackson's doctor dropped the bombshell Friday they've been hinting at for months ? an expert opinion accusing the legendary singer of causing his own death.
Dr. Paul White, the defense team's star scientific witness, said Jackson injected himself with a dose of propofol after an initial dose by Dr. Conrad Murray wore off. He also calculated that Jackson gave himself another sedative, lorazepam, by taking pills after an infusion of that drug and others by Murray failed to put him to sleep.
That combination of drugs could have had "lethal consequences," the researcher said.
White showed jurors a series of charts and simulations he created in the past two days to support the defense theory. He also did a courtroom demonstration of how the milky white anesthetic propofol could have entered Jackson's veins in the small dose that Murray claimed he gave the insomniac star.
White said he accepted Murray's statement to police that he administered only 25 milligrams of propofol after a night-long struggle to get Jackson to sleep with infusions of other sedatives.
"How long would that (propofol) have had an effect on Mr. Jackson?" asked defense attorney J. Michael Flanagan.
"If you're talking effect on the central nervous system, 10 to 15 minutes max," White said.
He then said Jackson could have injected himself with another 25 milligrams during the time Murray has said he left the singer's room.
"So you think it was self-injected propofol between 11:30 and 12?" asked Flanagan.
"In my opinion, yes," White said.
The witness, one of the early researchers of the anesthetic, contradicted testimony by Dr. Steven Shafer, his longtime colleague and collaborator. Shafer earlier testified Jackson would have been groggy from all the medications he was administered during the night and could not have given himself the drug in the two minutes Murray said he was gone.
"He can't give himself an injection if he's asleep," Shafer told jurors last week. He called the defense theory of self-administration "crazy."
White's testimony belied no animosity between the two experts, who have worked together for 30 years. Although White was called out by the judge one day for making derogatory comments to a TV reporter about the prosecution case, White was respectful and soft spoken on the witness stand.
When Flanagan made a mistake and called him "Dr. Shafer" a few times, White said, "I'm honored."
The prosecution asked for more time to study the computer program White used before cross-examining him. Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor granted the request, saying he too was baffled by the complicated simulations of Jackson's fatal dose. He recessed court early and gave prosecutors the weekend to catch up before questioning White on Monday.
The surprise disclosure of White's new theory caused a disruption of the court schedule, and the judge had worried aloud that jurors, who expected the trial to be over this week, were being inconvenienced. But the seven men and five women appeared engaged in the testimony and offered no complaints when the judge apologized for the delay.
Prosecutors could call Shafer back during their rebuttal case to answer White's assertions.
Among the key issues is how White calculated that a large residue of propofol in Jackson's body could have come from the small dose that Murray says he administered. Shafer assumed Murray had lied, and he estimated Jackson actually was given 1,000 milligrams of the drug by Murray, who he said left the bottle running into an IV tube under the pull of gravity. White disputed that, saying an extra 25 milligrams self-administered by Jackson would be enough to reach the levels found in his blood and urine.
White also said a minuscule residue of the sedative lorazepam in Jackson's stomach convinced him the singer took some pills from a prescription bottle found in his room. He suggested the combination of lorazepam, another sedative, midazolam, plus the propofol could have killed Jackson.
"It potentially could have lethal consequences," said White. "... I think the combination effect would be very, very profound."
White's testimony was expected to end Murray's defense case after 16 witnesses. It likely will be vigorously challenged by prosecutors, who spent four weeks laying out their case that Murray is a greedy, inept and reckless doctor who was giving Jackson propofol as a sleep aid in the singer's bedroom. Experts including Shafer have said propofol is not intended to treat insomnia and should not be given in a home.
White's theory was based on urine and blood levels in Jackson's autopsy, evidence found in Jackson's bedroom and Murray's long interview with police detectives two days after Jackson died while in his care.
While accepting Murray's account of drugs he gave Jackson, the expert's calculations hinged on the invisible quotient: Jackson's possible movements while his doctor was out of the room. With no witnesses and contradictory physical evidence, that has become the key question hanging over the case.
Those who knew the entertainer in his final days offered a portrait of a man gripped by fear that he would not live up to big plans for his comeback concert and worried about his ability to perform if he didn't get sleep. He was plagued by insomnia, and other medical professionals told of his quest for the one drug he believed could help him. He called it his "milk," and it was propofol.
Jurors have now seen it up close as both Shafer and White demonstrated its potential use as an IV infusion.
With White's testimony, the defense sought to answer strong scientific evidence by the prosecution. But they did not address other questions such as allegations that Murray was negligent and acting below the standard of care for a physician.
Flanagan, the defense attorney, produced a certificate from Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas showing Murray was certified to administer moderate anesthesia, referred to as "conscious sedation." However, the document showed several requirements including that the physician "monitor the patient carefully" and "provide adequate oxygenation and ventilation for a patient that stops breathing."
Medical witnesses noted that Murray left his patient alone under anesthesia and did not have adequate equipment to revive him when he found him not breathing.
The coroner attributed Jackson's June 25, 2009, death to "acute propofol intoxication" complicated by other sedatives.
Murray, who had been hired as the singer's personal physician for his "This Is It" tour, has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Lawmaker calls for kicking UN Iranians out of US (AP)
WASHINGTON ? New York Congressman Peter King says the U.S. should kick out Iranian officials at the U.N. in New York and in Washington because many of them are spies.
Speaking at a hearing Wednesday, the Republican says such a move would send a clear signal after the recent alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington.
The U.S. and Iran have no diplomatic relations and thus there are no Iranian diplomats in the U.S. except those attached to the U.N. mission in New York. Iran maintains a fulltime U.N. ambassador and a staff there. Although those diplomats are allowed to live in the U.S. for that purpose, the U.N. is an independent international body and the U.S. cannot simply kick out diplomats accredited there en masse.
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Paraguay dentist says Aerosmith's Tyler doing fine
FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2009 file photo, Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler speaks during a news conference in Deadwood, S.D. Organizers say on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, an Aerosmith concert in Paraguay will be postponed one day after singer Steven Tyler fell in his hotel bathroom, hitting his face and losing two teeth. (AP Photo/Steve McEnroe, file)
FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2009 file photo, Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler speaks during a news conference in Deadwood, S.D. Organizers say on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, an Aerosmith concert in Paraguay will be postponed one day after singer Steven Tyler fell in his hotel bathroom, hitting his face and losing two teeth. (AP Photo/Steve McEnroe, file)
ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) ? The Paraguayan dentist who treated Steven Tyler says the Aerosmith singer is "doing splendidly."
Dr. Maria Bastos also says Tyler was "friendly and humble" as he received two dental implants. She told the Monumental radio station on Wednesday that Tyler "surprised me with his cheerfulness."
Officials of the Garzia Group that is organizing the concert say the 63-year-old singer apparently became dizzy due to gastrointestinal problems and fell in his hotel bathroom. He suffered cuts and broke two teeth, forcing a one-day delay in a concert in the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion. It's now scheduled for Wednesday night.
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11 charged in possible $1 billion rail pension probe
NEW YORK?? Eleven people, including two orthopedists and a former union official, are facing federal charges over an alleged $1 billion fraud in the pension system used by Long Island Rail Road employees, authorities said Thursday.
The criminal complaint says a retired engineering manager often played tennis and golf while collecting about $105,000 yearly in combined pension and disability payments.
LIRR President Helena Williams has said the federal agency acted as a rubber stamp without consulting the railroad.
In 2009, an investigative arm of Congress found that the system approved nearly 100 percent of claims filed by retired LIRR workers ? a higher rate than other commuter railroads.
A 2008 New York Times investigation prompted criminal investigations.
NBC New York reported that an orthopedist from Rockville Centre, Peter Ajemian, was among those charged.
It said he had been accused of helping 700 LIRR retirees get disability benefits from 1998 through 2008.
Peter Lesniewski, another orthopedist, allegedly helped more than 200 LIRR workers get benefits, NBC New York said.
Former union president Joseph Rutigliano and Marie Baran, who were also charged, worked as consultants to help workers "game" the system, officials told NBC New York.
LIRR workers Gregory Noone, Regina Walsh, Sharon Falloon, Gary Satin, Steven Gagliano and Richard Ehrlinger are accused of lying to get disability benefits.
Officials said 86 percent of all LIRR disability cases went through doctors Ajemian, Lesniewski and a third doctor who has since passed away. The doctors are accused of conducting unnecessary tests and grossly exaggerating conditions. Many of the worker were still doing their jobs when the disability findings that they were too sick or disabled to work were offered. The doctors were often paid $1200 in addition to thousands billed to insurance companies.
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Prosecutors said Lesniewski made more than $750,000 while disability payments to his patients have already totaled more than $31 million and could receive $64 million more. Dr. Ajemian made over $2 million and his patients have already collected $90 million with expectations they will get $210 million more.
Gregory Noone collects an annual combined retirement and disability pension of $105,000 every year. In 2008, investigators said the disabled Noone signed in to play golf at an area club on 140 different days.
Early morning arrests
The Times reported Thursday that the defendants faced a prison sentence of up to 20 years if they are found guilty.
The paper said the FBI arrested most of those charged in the early morning hours at their homes.
It added that the charges were expected to be announced at a news conference Thursday by Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, and Janice K. Fedarcyk, head of the New York FBI office.
The paper said that its previous articles reported that "virtually every career employee of the railroad was applying for and receiving disability payments, giving the Long Island Rail Road a disability rate of three to four times that of the average railroad."
The Times investigation also found that retired railroad workers played golf regularly at a state-owned course for free, another benefit of claiming disability.
Jonathan Deinst of NBC New York and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Quantum computer components 'coalesce' to 'converse'
ScienceDaily (Oct. 26, 2011) ? If quantum computers are ever to be realized, they likely will be made of different types of parts that will need to share information with one another, just like the memory and logic circuits in today's computers do. However, prospects for achieving this kind of communication seemed distant -- until now. A team of physicists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has shown for the first time how these parts might communicate effectively.
The goal to develop quantum computers -- a long-awaited type of computer that could solve otherwise intractable problems, such as breaking complex encryption codes -- has inspired scientists the world over to invent new devices that could become the brains and memory of these machines. Many of these tiny devices use particles of light, or photons, to carry the bits of information that a quantum computer will use.
But while each of these pieces of hardware can do some jobs well, none are likely to accomplish all of the functions necessary to build a quantum computer. This implies that several different types of quantum devices will need to work together for the computer or network to function. The trouble is that these tiny devices frequently create photons of such different character that they cannot transfer the quantum bits of information between one another. Transmuting two vastly different photons into two similar ones would be a first step toward permitting quantum information components to communicate with one another over large distances, but until now this goal has remained elusive.
However, the team has demonstrated that it is possible to take photons from two disparate sources and render these particles partially indistinguishable. That photons can be made to "coalesce" and become indistinguishable without losing their essential quantum properties suggests in principle that they can connect various types of hardware devices into a single quantum information network. The team's achievement also demonstrates for the first time that a "hybrid" quantum computer might be assembled from different hardware types.
The team connected single photons from a "quantum dot," which could be useful in logic circuits, with a second single-photon source that uses "parametric down conversion," which might be used to connect different parts of the computer. These two sources typically produce photons that differ so dramatically in spectrum that they would be unusable in a quantum network. But with a deft choice of filters and other devices that alter the photons' spectral shapes and other properties, the team was able to make the photons virtually identical.
"We manipulate the photons to be as indistinguishable as possible in terms of spectra, location and polarization -- the details you need to describe a photon. We attribute the remaining distinguishability to properties of the quantum dot," says Glenn Solomon, of NIST's Quantum Measurement Division. "No conceivable measurement can tell indistinguishable photons apart. The results prove in principle that a hybrid quantum network is possible and can be scaled up for use in a quantum network."
The research team includes scientists from the NIST/University of Maryland Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) and Georgetown University. The NSF Physics Frontier Center at JQI provided partial funding.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Hang Up and Listen: The Worst Great Quarterback Edition
In this week?s episode of Slate?s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the tight World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers. They also talk about Tim Tebow?s big comeback for the Denver Broncos and his prospects as a pro quarterback. And Sally Jenkins joins the show to explain her proposal to allow college athletes to major in sports.
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TechCrunch Ad Hoc Meet-Up In Hong Kong And Shenzhen
As you probably know, Disrupt Beijing is happening next week and I'll be heading south from Beijing after the event. I would love to hang out with folks in Shenzhen and Hong Kong. As it stands, I think we can put together a meet-up in Hong Kong on Wednesday Night (November 2nd) and another meet-up in Shenzhen on Friday night (November 4). I welcome recommendations for spots and I'd love to talk to start-ups and gadget folks in those cities.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Bu_IXxuuEDg/
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Nokia proclaims new dawn with Windows phones (Reuters)
LONDON (Reuters) ? Nokia unveiled two sleek new Microsoft Windows phones on Wednesday, a first step in the ailing cellphone maker's fightback against Apple and Google.
The flagship Lumia 800 and more basic Lumia 710 will go on sale in key European markets by the Christmas holiday season.
Examining the first fruits of Chief Executive Stephen Elop's big bet on Microsoft software that spooked investors earlier this year, some analysts were impressed, but others said the pairing remains well short of finding an iPhone killer.
"It's a new dawn for Nokia," Elop told about 3,000 customers, partners, developers, analysts and journalists gathered in London for the much-anticipated launch at the company's annual conference.
He said the new phones' minimalist design and superior navigation features would make them stand out among rival Windows phones, some of which have been faster to market with Microsoft's new mobile platform.
The Lumia 800, with vivid colours and a curved, black display, features live icons on the home screen that automatically update news, weather or Facebook feeds. It also boasts free navigation and Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 9 browser.
It will sell for about 420 euros ($584) excluding taxes and subsidies, putting it in the same bracket as Apple's new iPhone and Samsung's top-end Galaxy phones.
The Lumia 710 will sell for about 270 euros.
"These devices are a good start but the reality is that they are pretty much plain vanilla Windows Phone products," said Ben Wood, director of research at UK-based telecoms analysis firm CCS Insight.
"The real fruits of Nokia's and Microsoft's labours will come next year... but it remains a Herculean task to recapture this lucrative market from Apple and Android."
Others said that Microsoft's marketing muscle and Nokia's still-strong relationships with mobile phone operators should help push the new phones into the hands of consumers through prominence in stores and attractive package deals.
"The Lumia phones do have some strong selling points in their own right... and they offer a look and feel that's radically different from anything seen previously on a Nokia device," said John Delaney, research director at technology research firm IDC.
"These devices are strong contenders."
Nokia shares were sharply up before Wednesday morning's announcement but gave up most of their gains to trade up 1.5 percent by 1029 GMT, still outperforming a flat wider market.
The phones will go on sale in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Britain in November, with 31 operators and retailers providing marketing support, and in Hong Kong, India, Russia, Singapore and Taiwan before the end of the year.
Nokia said it would address the crucial U.S. market, where it has always struggled, early next year, and mainland China in the first half of 2012.
Nokia also unveiled four new basic phones for emerging markets, where it still holds a leading position.
Nokia's market value has halved since February as investors are unsure whether it can ever regain its once-commanding market share.
Its third-quarter results beat low expectations, sparking hopes that the company can survive a painful revamp, but smartphone sales still dropped 38 percent from a year ago.
The annual Nokia World media and industry event in London where the launch took place on Wednesday includes speakers from the world's largest carriers: China Mobile, Vodafone, Orange and MTN. ($1 = 0.719 Euros)
(Additional reporting by Terhi Kinnunen in Helsinki; Editing by Erica Billingham and Andrew Callus)
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Guatemala sentences 2 in US adoption case
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) ? A Guatemalan court sentenced two women to 16 and 21 years in prison on Monday for trafficking a stolen baby who was given for adoption to a U.S. family.
Special prosecutor Lorena Maldonado said the sentences handed down to a lawyer and the legal representative of an adoption agency will reinforce the birth mother's bid to get her daughter returned from the United States.
"Even though the criminal proceedings are separate from the adoption process, these sentences help, and confirm the argument of the mother, Loyda Rodriguez, that this girl is her daughter and was stolen from in front of her house, and that there is a criminal structure in Guatemala that steals children," said Maldonado.
The Eighth Penal Tribunal sentenced lawyer Beatriz Valle Flores to 21 years in prison for human trafficking, criminal association and using false documents. She signed papers in the adoption.
A 16-year sentence went to the legal representative of the adoption agency, Enriqueta Noriega Cano, where the girl spent a year before being adopted. The girl left the country on Dec. 9, 2008.
Both women were also ordered to pay 100,000 quetzales ($25,600) apiece to the mother for damages.
Rodriguez, the mother, obtained a Guatemalan court order in July for the return of the seven-year-old, but it is unclear if it can be enforced.
The girl, Anyeli Liseth Hernandez Rodriguez was born Oct. 1, 2004, the second child of Rodriguez, a housewife, and her bricklayer husband, Dayner Orlando Hernandez. The girl disappeared Nov. 3, 2006, as Rodriguez was distracted while opening the door to their house in a working class suburb, San Miguel Petapa. She turned to see a woman whisk the girl, then two, away in a taxi.
If U.S. authorities intervene to return the child as the Guatemalan court has asked, it would be a first for any international adoption case, experts say.
In August, a construction-paper sign taped to the door of the girl's U.S. address, a two-story suburban Kansas City home, read: "Please respect our families (sic) privacy during this difficult and confusing time. We ask that you not trespass on our property for the sake of our children. Thank you."
Guatemala's quick adoptions once made this Central American nation of 13 million people a top source of children for the U.S., leading or ranking second only to China with about 4,000 adoptions a year. But the Guatemalan government suspended adoptions in late 2007 after widespread cases of fraud, including falsified paperwork, fake birth certificates and charges of baby theft ? though they still allowed many already in process.
The International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala, a U.N.-created agency prosecuting organized crime cases in Guatemala, has reviewed more than 3,000 adoptions completed or in process and found nearly 100 grave irregularities.
The U.S. still does not allow adoptions from Guatemala, though the State Department is currently assisting with 397 children whose adoptions were in process at the time of the ban.
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Judah Joseph: Review of Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto
It's been three grueling years since Coldplay's Viva La Vida was released, but Coldplay has certainly not lost its punch. Mylo Xyloto (pronounced MY-loe ZY-letoe) is a dance-trance alien thrust into our iTunes libraries. Certainly a new sound from Coldplay, Mylo Xyloto manages to simultaneously draw in a new crowd and not alienate Coldplay's loyal fans. As a band formed in 1996, Coldplay was perhaps setting itself up for failure with Mylo Xyloto. How could a band that has been together for 15 years release relevant, catchy, and inspirational music after tapping into its creative pool for over a decade? Also, with a three-year albumless vacuum under its belt, Coldplay had starving fans impatiently waiting for new music. By keeping some songs similar to those of previous albums (i.e. Mylo Xyloto's "Hurts Like Heaven" and "Glass of Water" from Prospekt's March), Coldplay keeps its stronghold over fans that miss the albums of yesteryear. However, the best things in life are ripened with age, and Coldplay's fifth studio album is testament to that. From masterfully cutting musical interludes from club-bangers and making them into their own tracks to toying with no-gap playback (to have songs feed directly into one another seamlessly), Coldplay has risen to the challenge of surpassing your previous album's success.
Coldplay, perhaps foolishly, released its singles to not include some of Mylo Xyloto's best songs, like "Charlie Brown." "Charlie Brown" is a rebellious song with a soaring, far-out ambient sound, promising that "we'll be glowing in the dark" after running away from a mystery unknown. "Charlie Brown" is but one example of Coldplay's migration from being piano-heavy to guitar-focused in its music. Brian Eno's famous knack for producing ambient sound comes into play for "Charlie Brown," whose introduction blends two distinct music tracks together perfectly. Chris Martin's vocals separate bouts of euphoric beats and lyrical genius. The guitar wails are more resonating and solos more elaborate and emphasized. During the Mylo Xyloto tour that will surely be planned, "Charlie Brown" will absolutely be a song that has every audience member jumping up and down with his or her hands flailing wildly overhead. Previously underrated Jonny Buckland and Guy Berryman will, through their guitar and bass instrumentals throughout Mylo Xyloto, receive the glory that they have deserved for years.
The composition of "Us Against the World" screams of Brian Eno's involvement in producing this album. The twinkling trance intro morphs into an acoustic guitar campfire song from Chris Martin with an unknown variable that oozes Irish influence. The second released song in Coldplay's catalogue to feature the vocals of percussionist Will Champion, "Us Against the World" weaves in and out of psychedelic-chill track and Irish folk song of misunderstood love. But five tracks away is the Coldplay-Rihanna collaborative monster, "Princess of China." I predict that this track will be rereleased as a single to gain airplay. It is simply too good. I dare you to listen to "Princess of China" and not tap your feet to the almost overwhelming beat. When Coldplay released Mylo Xyloto's track list and said there would be a track featuring Rihanna, I was so excited. After Prospekt's March's "Lost+" with Jay-Z in 2008, Coldplay proved to us that it could seamlessly write music to accommodate hip-hop artists. Rihanna's wailing during the hook and between choruses compliment her own music style while also channeling Chris Martin's famous calls in "Viva La Vida." The best way to describe the composition behind "Princess of China" is to compare it to an old-school Zelda Gameboy game's sound effects -- but in the best way. The song is epic, Asia-influenced, and it exemplifies the adventurous vibe that comes from an alternative-hip-hop combination. The novel concept behind "Princess of China" is its ability to connect Rihanna and Chris Martin's vocals together. In this sense, the track is a true collaboration between two artists. "Don't Let It Break Your Heart" sounds like an epic U2 song that caters to entire football stadiums full of people. Upbeat and fast-paced, "Don't Let It Break Your Heart" is the perfect soundtrack for a car ride in New York City at night -- full of life and prospect. The song is an optimistic dream in song form.
How can one define the best album of the year? It certainly is not easy. Martin, Buckland, Berryman, and Champion have managed to harness the remaining positive energy in the world and burn it onto CDs. The great motivator? Maybe it was doing what music does best: letting go of reservations and making art. According to Chris Martin, the album is "Quite colorful. I don't know if they're good colors or bad colors, but they're definitely different colors in places." Mylo Xyloto, simply put, does not disappoint in the least.
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Prototype passenger spaceship poised for launch (Reuters)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) ? A prototype passenger spaceship developed by privately owned Space Exploration Technologies arrived in Florida on Sunday for launch on a practice cargo run to the International Space Station, officials said on Monday.
Liftoff of the Dragon capsule aboard the company's Falcon 9 rocket is targeted for as early as December 19, although the final launch date will be set by NASA, which is sponsoring the flight, said Bobby Block, vice president for communications for Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX.
The mission will mark the third flight of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and the second for a Dragon capsule, which is designed to fly first cargo and later crew to the space station, among other missions.
With the retirement of the space shuttles this summer, NASA is dependent on partner countries to deliver cargo and to ferry astronauts to the orbital outpost, a $100 billion project of 16 nations that orbits about 225 miles above the planet.
SpaceX, founded, owned and operated by Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk and based in Hawthorne, California, is one of two companies hired by NASA to deliver cargo to the station. Orbital Sciences Corp plans to debut its Taurus 2 rocket and Cygnus space station cargo capsule on a test flight next year.
SpaceX, along with Boeing Co, privately held Sierra Nevada Corp. and Blue Origin, also hold NASA contracts to develop spaceships that can carry people.
RUSSIAN SOYUZ CAPSULES
Flying astronauts on Russian Soyuz capsules -- currently the only vehicles taking crews to the space station -- costs the U.S. space agency more than $50 million per person.
For its trial run to the station, SpaceX plans to put Dragon into orbit to test its maneuvering, communications and other systems as part of its $278 million contract with NASA.
If all goes well, the capsule would be cleared to approach the station, where astronauts would use the station's robotic crane to pluck Dragon from orbit and attach it to a berthing port on the station.
The capsule will carry food, water and other station supplies. Unlike other cargo vessels, which incinerate in the atmosphere after leaving the station, Dragon returns via parachute and splashes down in the ocean so it can return cargo from the station as well.
Pending NASA's approval, SpaceX plans to bring Dragon back to Earth 22 days after launch.
"It's important that we're successful and we're doing a lot of work with our NASA partners to make sure that we've done all the necessary cross checks, verify all the requirements to make sure this vehicle is ready to go," SpaceX Vice President Ken Bowersox said at the Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight in New Mexico last week.
Initially, SpaceX's contract called for three test flights before the company would start delivering cargo to the station under a separate $1.6 billion contract. Following Dragon's successful debut mission in December 2010, SpaceX petitioned NASA to combine the objectives of the next two flights.
The final decision about whether to let Dragon dock at the station, however, will not come until the flight is under way.
"We'll be prepared to go all the way to the station," Block told reporters on Monday at the company's Cape Canaveral launch site, where Dragon is being prepared for flight.
SpaceX has spent about $800 million developing Falcon 9 and Dragon. A similar system developed under traditional government contracts would have been between $2.4 billion and $7.2 billion, Bowersox said.
"It was very useful for both NASA and SpaceX to have this relationship," he said.
(Editing by Jane Sutton and Will Dunham)
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Eight NY policemen charged in gun smuggling ring (Reuters)
NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Eight New York City policemen were charged Tuesday with helping run a gun-smuggling ring in a city where Mayor Michael Bloomberg is leading a national campaign against illegal guns.
The District Attorney's Office said the men "exploited their experience and credentials to assist in a variety of schemes involving the illegal interstate transportation of goods," which included guns, slot machines, cigarettes and counterfeit goods.
Five officers still are on active duty and two were active-duty officers for part of the time they are accused of involvement in the smuggling schemes. One suspect was retired. All worked in the city borough of Brooklyn, most of them in the same precinct.
"The defendants participated in schemes involving the illegal interstate transportation of goods carrying a street value in excess of one million dollars," according to the complaint. The schemes were carried out in the past year.
Also charged were a former officer with the New York City Department of Sanitation Police, a New Jersey corrections officer, and two other men.
"The defendants transported 20 firearms, including three M-16 rifles, one shotgun and 16 handguns, the majority of which had obliterated or altered serial numbers, across state lines from New Jersey to New York," according to the complaint.
The New York City police department and one of its employee unions declined to comment on the charges.
Bloomberg, who is co-chairman of the national coalition of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, was not immediately available for comment. He helped found the group in 2006 in a bid to make cities safer by cracking down on illegal guns.
More than 500 mayors from more than 40 states are now members of Bloomberg's coalition of Mayors Against Illegal Guns. The group says that 30,000 Americans are killed every year by gun violence.
(Reporting by Aman Ali; Writing by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Jerry Norton)
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Iraq's Government, Not Obama, Called Time on the U.S. Troop Presence (Time.com)
President Barack Obama's announcement on Friday that all 40,000 U.S. troops still in Iraq will leave the country by New Year's Eve will, inevitably, draw howls of derision from GOP presidential hopefuls ? this is, after all, early election season. But the decision to leave Iraq by that date was not actually taken by President Obama ? it was taken by President George W. Bush, and by the Iraqi government.
In one of his final acts in office, President Bush in December of 2008 had signed a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the Iraqi government that set the clock ticking on ending the war he'd launched in March of 2003. The SOFA provided a legal basis for the presence of U.S. forces in Iraq after the United Nations Security Council mandate for the occupation mission expired at the end of 2008. But it required that all U.S. forces be gone from Iraq by January 1, 2012, unless the Iraqi government was willing to negotiate a new agreement that would extend their mandate. And as Middle East historian Juan Cole has noted, "Bush had to sign what the [Iraqi] parliament gave him or face the prospect that U.S. troops would have to leave by 31 December, 2008, something that would have been interpreted as a defeat... Bush and his generals clearly expected, however, that over time Washington would be able to wriggle out of the treaty and would find a way to keep a division or so in Iraq past that deadline." (See TIME's photoessay, "Going Home from Iraq.")
But ending the U.S. troop presence in Iraq was an overwhelmingly popular demand among Iraqis, and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki appears to have been unwilling to take the political risk of extending it. While he was inclined to see a small number of American soldiers stay behind to continue mentoring Iraqi forces, the likes of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, on whose support Maliki's ruling coalition depends, were having none of it. Even the Obama Administration's plan to keep some 3,000 trainers behind failed because the Iraqis were unwilling to grant them the legal immunity from local prosecution that is common to SOF agreements in most countries where U.S. forces are based.
So, while U.S. commanders would have liked to have kept a division or more behind in Iraq to face any contingencies ? and, increasingly, Administration figures had begun citing the challenge of Iran, next door ? it was Iraqi democracy that put the kibosh on that goal. The Bush Administration had agreed in 2004 to restore Iraqi sovereignty, and in 2005 put the country's elected government in charge of shaping its destiny. But President Bush hadn't anticipated that Iraqi democracy would see pro-U.S. parties sidelined and would, instead, consistently return governments closer to Tehran than they are to Washington. Contra expectations, a democratic Iraq has turned out to be at odds with much of U.S. regional strategy ? first and foremost its campaign to isolate Iran.
The Iraq that U.S. forces will leave behind is far from stable, and the mounting tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia could well see a renewed flare-up of Iraq's disastrous sectarian civil war. A jihadist Sunni insurgency has reasserted itself in recent months with a steady uptick in terror attacks, and it could become a vehicle for Saudi proxy warfare against Iran, which backs the Maliki government and various Shi'ite political and military formations, including Sadr's. Kurdish-Arab tensions are growing in the north, where the fate of such contested cities as Kirkuk remains unresolved and a source of mounting security danger. Iraq's political future, also, remains contested, with sectarian and ethnic rivalries reflected in the continued failure to pass a low regulating the sharing of oil revenues, and mounting anxiety over the increasingly authoritarian approach of Prime Minister Maliki. (See photos of President Obama in Iraq.)
Iraq could yet fail as a state. But it's not as if the presence of 40,000 U.S. troops has been all that's holding it together: Those forces no longer patrol Iraq's cities, and are mostly involved in mentoring Iraqi units, although they have played a major role in mediating Arab-Kurdish conflicts in the north.
Given the unresolved political conflicts that continue to plague the country even after its transition to democratic government ? and in light of the rising levels of regional tension ? chances are high that the U.S. withdrawal will be preceded and followed by a sharp uptick in violence. Shi'ite insurgent groups are likely to escalate attacks on U.S. forces, hoping to claim credit for driving out the Americans ? and, no doubt, to please their Iranian backers. Sunni insurgent groups are likely to raise their own game, in order to challenge the Shi'ite dominated government and demonstrate its inability to ensure security ? an exercise that will suit the agenda of their own backers.
The key to ensuring security after a U.S. withdrawal has always been achieving a regional consensus on Iraq that could set the terms for political compromise inside Iraq ? or, at least, limit the likelihood of renewed violence. Unfortunately, instead, that withdrawal coincides with a sharp escalation in the Saudi-Iranian cold war, and that will spell trouble for Iraq. (See photographer Robert Nickelsberg's Iraq diary.)
Not that the U.S. will be out of the picture, by any stretch of the imagination. As things stand, the U.S. embassy in Iraq will have 17,000 employees ? including at least 5,000 "security contractors", i.e. non-uniformed military personnel. It's not hard to imagine that future training needs of the Iraqi military will be undertaken by privateers rather than under the auspices of the Pentagon. And that the CIA ? now under the command of Gen. David Petraeus, former U.S. commander in Iraq ? will play a more active role in pursuing U.S. objectives on the ground and in the neighborhood.
But as of December 31, no more American soldiers will be doing tours of duty in Iraq. The war that ousted Saddam Hussein, unleashing an insurgency that left 4,500 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead, and which will cost the U.S. upwards of $1 trillion, is finally over. Historians will note that the U.S. invasion of Iraq precipitated dramatic changes across the Middle East political landscape in the ensuing decade. But many of those changes were hardly the ones the war's authors had in mind.
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Netflix Shareholder Whopper: Earnings Will Dip Into The Red In 2012
Netflix third quarter earnings are out, and along with it the quarterly shareholder letter from CEO Reed Hastings and CFO David Wells. ?In the letter (embedded below), Netflix talks about the impact of recent pricing changes and its now-retracted strategy to divide the streaming and DVD services into two businesses. The price changes in particular "hurt our hard?earned reputation, and stalled our domestic growth." Netflix expects the impact to lower both revenues and profits in the fourth quarter. And in the first quarter of next year, the company expects to lose money as it invests heavily to launch in the UK and Ireland. It expects to continue to be in the red "for a few quarters." Below is an excerpt of the the beginning of the letter, followed by the entire embedded document.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/QxSx24NVTXE/
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Monday, October 24, 2011
Danso lifts Timbers to draw with Real Salt Lake
updated 12:08 a.m. ET Oct. 23, 2011
SANDY, Utah - More than 90 minutes of good soccer for Real Salt Lake was wiped away with a split-second defensive lapse.
Futty Danso scored in stoppage time to lift the Portland Timbers to a 1-1 draw with Salt Lake on Saturday night. Danso slipped behind the defense and tapped the ball into an open net.
His late goal helped the Timbers (11-14-9) finish the season on a positive note after barely missing out on a playoff berth. It also left Salt Lake head coach Jason Kreis feeling disappointed at seeing his team throw away two points in the waning moments.
"It's that time of year where it comes down to split-second decisions," Kreis said. "We had a little bit of a lapse of focus there at the end and we don't get the result that we wanted. Perhaps that will be a good lesson for us going into the playoffs."
Alvaro Saborio scored in the 45th minute for Salt Lake (15-11-8), which clinched a playoff berth for the fourth consecutive season a month ago and could have wrapped up third place in the Western Conference with a win.
Saborio got his 11th goal in MLS play this season when he beat Portland goalkeeper Troy Perkins as he charged toward him and chipped the ball over Perkins' head. The ball took a high bounce and bounded into the net to give Salt Lake the lead moments before halftime.
The goal from Saborio snapped a 270-minute scoreless streak for Salt Lake, going back to a 2-1 loss to Los Angeles on Oct. 1.
Salt Lake failed to build on the lead because it struggled to possess the ball in the second half after doing a good job of controlling play before halftime.
"In the second half, we didn't get the ball," Salt Lake midfielder Javier Morales said. "When this team doesn't have the ball, it's hard for us."
Portland had a chance to tie the score in the 56th minute when Jack Jewsbury lined up for a penalty kick following a handball infraction by Salt Lake. However, Jewsbury hit the ball off the crossbar.
Danso made up for the miss when he slipped behind the Salt Lake defense for his late goal. His late game heroics symbolized perfectly the roller coaster season that Salt Lake has experienced up to this point. Salt Lake has looked like one of the league's best teams some weeks and one of its worst teams other weeks.
Salt Lake goalkeeper Nick Rimando said it is time for the team to put those ups and downs behind them with playoff games to prepare for starting next week.
"All these streaks and everything go away once the playoffs start," Rimando said. "The records go away. If you show up that day and continue to (win) through the playoffs, you have a good shot at winning the cup."
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