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Monday, July 29, 2013

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Schumaker's HR off Arroyo helps Dodgers beat Reds

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Skip Schumaker's first career home run at Dodger Stadium couldn't have come at a more opportune time, especially now that he's playing for the home team.

Schumaker hit a tiebreaking two-run shot off longtime NL West rival Bronson Arroyo while filling in for the ailing Carl Crawford, Hyun-Jin Ryu gave up two hits over seven innings and retired his last 13 batters, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Cincinnati Reds 4-1 Saturday night.

"I grew up in L.A. going to Dodger games, so I've always thought about hitting a home run in Dodger Stadium ? and actually doing it is pretty incredible," Schumaker said. "It's kind of a surreal feeling. I get lucky every now and then. Every 200 at-bats or so, I run into one."

Ryu (9-3) had nine strikeouts, all in a span of 13 batters. The first came against Joey Votto, who took a called third strike after Chris Heisey hit his first triple of the season with two out in the third. Cincinnati's run came on a homer by Jay Bruce in the second.

The Dodgers increased their NL West lead to 1 1/2 games over Arizona.

Ryu faced South Korean countryman Shin-Soo Choo for the first time in the major leagues. The Reds' center fielder walked, grounded out to first base and struck out.

"I'm sure Choo was on his mind," catcher A.J. Ellis said. "I mean, it's a big deal. Choo is one of his best friends and one of his baseball idols. So with him facing him in America in an atmosphere like this, and also playing in front of a huge TV audience back in Korea, it's pretty neat to know you're a part of that. It was really cool to see those guys match up. You could hear the crowd on every pitch and every swing."

Kenley Jansen got the last three outs for his 14th save.

Crawford, who singled his first three times up in the Dodgers' 2-1 victory Friday night and then made a brief visit to an emergency room on Saturday to get checked on for a high temperature and fever, was held out of the lineup. Manager Don Mattingly replaced him with Schumaker, who came in with more plate appearances (53) and hits (18) against Reds starter Bronson Arroyo than anyone else on Los Angeles' roster.

"It's a good feeling when you have a situation like today where Carl wasn't able to play and Skip can step in and be a more than capable guy," Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez said. "He's a great veteran who battles every at-bat. That's what this team is built upon ? experience on the bench, experience on the field. And hopefully we'll take that all the way through."

Schumaker came through in the fifth, driving Arroyo's 1-0 pitch to center field for his second home run of the season and a 3-1 Dodgers lead after a leadoff single by Mark Ellis.

"If you look at the numbers, it says I have some hits off him. But a lot of those were bloop hits, lucky hits, and not too many were squared up," said Schumaker, who also doubled in the seventh inning and scored the Dodgers' fourth run on a two-out single by Gonzalez.

It was the 300th home run given up Arroyo (9-8), including a career-high and major league-worst 46 in 2011. The 14-year veteran right-hander was charged with three runs and eight hits in 5 1-3 innings, after going 4-0 with a 2.30 ERA in his previous six starts against Los Angeles. He was coming off a complete-game 11-0 victory at San Francisco on Monday.

The Dodgers got a run in the first on a two-out double by Hanley Ramirez after Yasiel Puig walked, advanced on a flyout and stole third without a throw. But the Reds tied it in the second when Bruce drove Ryu's 2-0 pitch into the right field pavilion for his 22nd home run. Since the start of the 2010 season, Bruce leads all left-handed batters with 42 homer against lefty pitchers ? including eight this season.

"I think it's helped him being around Joey Votto, and seeing how Joey hits lefties," manager Dusty Baker said. "Most guys, I think, have trouble with lefties because they don't see them (enough). I mean, it's hard enough to find a right-handed batting practice pitcher that can throw strikes ? and it's almost impossible to find a lefty to do it. But we've got two of them ? Mark Berry and Ronnie Ortegon. And we always travel with one, so I think that helps a lot.

"That's something that Barry Bonds always did in San Francisco," added Baker, who watched Bonds homer 125 times against lefties during the 10 seasons he managed baseball's career home run leader. "We always had a left-hander throwing to Barry in batting practice. So I took a page out of Barry's book, and I'd like to give Barry credit for that."

Bruce, the Reds' right fielder, also threw out Puig at first base in the fifth after the overaggressive rookie made a wide turn on his single toward the line. The play immediately followed Schumaker's homer. It was the hustle by catcher Devin Mesoraco that made it possible, because he ran up the line and took the throw.

In Thursday night's series opener, Puig made a similar wide turn around first on a single to center and ended up at third base after Choo threw the ball past first baseman Votto and the ball ended up in the stands for a two-base error.

NOTES: Ryu is 5-1 with a 1.83 ERA in 10 home starts. The Dodgers have won each of his last six outings, including three no-decisions. ... Arroyo has given up a franchise-record 238 home runs since joining the Reds in a March 2006 trade from Boston for Wily Mo Pena. ... Reds RHP Jonathan Broxton, on the disabled list since June 15 with an elbow strain, threw 20 pitches during early batting practice. Baker was noncommittal when asked about the best-case scenario for the former Dodger closer's return. ... Los Angeles pitching coach Rick Honeycutt rejoined the club after missing four games because of the death of his mother-in-law. ... Votto's consecutive game on-base streak ended at 38 after he went 0 for 3. That left Ramirez with the longest active streak in the majors at 35.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/schumakers-hr-off-arroyo-helps-dodgers-beat-reds-040517965.html

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Sunday, July 28, 2013

Tough Copyright Laws Chill Innovation, Tech Companies Warn ...

Tough Copyright Laws Chill Innovation, Tech Companies Warn Lawmakers

In a brief submitted to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, the tech industry warns that tougher copyright legislation may stifle innovation. The CCIA, which includes Google, Facebook and Microsoft as members, further points out that the devastating piracy numbers reported by the copyright industry often lack objectivity, and sometimes deserve the label ?fiction.?

msfacebook Since the SOPA and PIPA revolt last year, the copyright industry and the major tech companies have been living at odds.

Both sides often stress their interdependence, but also their differences in opinion. A new letter sent to lawmakers by the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) is an example of the latter.

On Thursday the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet organized a hearing on the role of copyright as a driver of innovation in the United States.

For copyright holders this was a good opportunity to remind lawmakers why they need strong copyright protections. On the other side, however, other voices tried to balance the debate by arguing that more copyright protections are no guarantee of more innovation.

The CCIA, which includes members such as Google, Microsoft and Facebook, submitted a statement debunking what they see as copyright industry propaganda. The tech industry association explains that tougher copyright can actually hinder innovation.

?Arguments that ever stronger regulation incentivizes innovation overlook the ways in which excessive protection can inhibit innovation,? the CCIA writes.

?Every year that a work is covered by a copyright is a year that subsequent users cannot build on that work. While incremental protection may provide additional reward to the author, society pays for this reward by being deprived of follow-on use, while the author and his or her heirs accumulate profits.?

?For this reason, protection exceeding the amount necessary to incentivize innovation represents a dead weight loss to the economy?

The tech companies provide many examples of how more enforcement can be detrimental to innovation. In addition, they stress that under current copyright law this is already taking place. Among other things, CCIA mentions that with statutory damages of up to $150,000 per copyright infringement, copyright holders can put enormous legal pressure on small tech companies.

?The threat of enormous damages encourages rights-holders to assert aggressive theories in the hope of coercing quick settlements, and also causes technology companies to withhold new products and services from the market. Effort to quantify the amount of innovation caused by IP must also account for the amount of innovation inhibited by remedies of this nature.?

The tech companies further note that copyright trolls are abusing high statutory damages to force individuals into paying settlements, such as in the numerous mass-BitTorrent piracy lawsuits that are currently ongoing.

?The feature of the copyright system that most incentivizes aggressive litigation postures, encourages trolls, and thereby chills innovation, is the availability of statutory damages in copyright infringement cases. Under [copyright law], a plaintiff can obtain up to $30,000 in damages for each work infringed, regardless of the actual injury it suffered.?

Finally, the tech companies say that the copyright lobby often uses subjective statistics to back up their requests for tougher copyright laws.

?For years, advocacy for stricter copyright has relied on rights-holder supplied data, some of which has been openly questioned by governments and intergovernmental organizations,? CCIA writes in its letter.

Among other examples they cite the Government Accountability Office report which found that there is no solid evidence that piracy leads to massive losses. The tech companies also cite several journalistic investigations, some of which describe the industry-funded reports as ?fiction.?

?Media investigations into the source of such industry-driven statistics have found little or no basis for these numbers, dismissing them as ?fiction.? Objective analyses indicate that rights-holder-funded research has drastically overestimated counterfeiting and copyright infringement costs,? CCIA writes.

The above are just a few highlights of the letter, which is available in full below. The document makes it crystal clear that on some topics the tech and copyright industry have certainly not settled their differences.

This makes Government plans to realign copyright law with the present times a tough project. Both sides are expected to crank up lobbying machines to make sure that their voices are heard.

CCIA?s statement

Since the SOPA and PIPA revolt last year, the copyright industry and the major tech companies have been living at odds. Both sides often stress their interdependence, but also their...

Source: http://torrentfreak.com/tough-copyright-laws-chill-innovation-tech-companies-warn-lawmakers-130727/

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Researchers Reveal How Great White Sharks Store Energy

New findings provide novel insights into the biology of these ocean predators.

Written by Rob Jordan

Great white sharks are not exactly known as picky eaters, so it might seem obvious that these voracious predators would dine often and well on their migrations across the Pacific Ocean. But not so, according to new research by scientists at Stanford University and the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

The researchers' findings, published July 17 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, reveal previously unknown details of how great white sharks power themselves and stay buoyant on non-stop trips of more than 2,500 miles. The discoveries have potentially broad implications for conservation and management of coastal waters.

"We have a glimpse now of how white sharks come in from nutrient-poor areas offshore, feed where elephant seal populations are expanding ? much like going to an Outback Steakhouse ? and store the energy in their livers so they can move offshore again," said researcher Barbara Block, a professor of marine sciences and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. "It helps us understand how important their near-shore habitats are as fueling stations for their entire life history."

Just as bears put on fat to keep them going through long months of hibernation, ocean-going mammals such as whales and sea lions build up blubber to burn on their long migrations. Until now, little was known about how sharks, which carry fat in their massive livers rather than external blubber, make similar voyages.

In a study initiated by a summer project of Stanford undergraduate student Gen Del Raye, researchers first looked at a well-fed juvenile great white shark at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. They documented over time a steady increase in buoyancy as the shark's body mass increased, presumably due to the addition of stored oils in its liver.

The researchers then turned to detailed data records from electronically tagged white sharks free-swimming in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Using these data, which include location, depth and water temperature, the scientists identified periods of "drift diving," a common behavior of marine animals in which they passively descend while momentum carries them forward like underwater hang gliders.

By measuring the rate at which sharks sink during drift dives, the researchers were able to estimate the amount of oil in the animals' livers, which accounts for up to a quarter of their body weight. A quicker descent meant less oil was present to provide buoyancy. A slower descent equated with more oil.

"Sharks face an interesting dilemma," said Sal Jorgensen, a research scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. "They carry a huge store of energy in the form of oil in their massive livers, but they also depend on that volume of oil for buoyancy. So, if they draw on those reserves, they become heavier and heavier."

Buoyancy consistently decreased over the course of each studied shark's migration, indicating a gradual but steady depletion of oil in the liver. In other words, they were primarily running on energy stored up before they embarked on their journeys.

"The most difficult thing about this research was finding a way to bring all of the different sources of data together into a coherent and robust story," said Del Raye.

Part of that story is the importance of calorie-stocked coastal feeding grounds, not just for mammals such as whales, but also for sharks readying for long-distance migrations. Could the same be true for other ocean animals such as sea turtles and a variety of fish? The study may help answer that question too through a novel technological approach that can be applied to ongoing studies of other large marine animals.

Rob Jordan is the communications writer for the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.?

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Futures up as US earnings season ramps up

NEW YORK (AP) ? Stock futures rose Monday as the corporate earnings season kicked into high gear and the government reported that retail sales increased last month.

Citigroup easily topped most expectations for the second quarter and its shares rose 2 percent before the opening bell.

Dow Jones industrial futures rose 37 points to 15,406. S&P futures added 3.9 points to 1,674.20. Nasdaq futures rose 6.75 points to 3,068.75.

While retail sales are up, much of that increase was driven by higher gas prices and volatile auto sales. Core retail sales rose just 0.15 percent, the weakest showing since January.

The report from the Commerce Department showed some weakness at retail stores, particularly department stores.

The government report is the first look each month at the mood of consumers, who have proven surprisingly resilient given higher taxes and a stubbornly high unemployment rate.

Markets are still being buoyed by comments from the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve last week. Chairman Ben Bernanke said the government remains committed to stimulus efforts and would not ease up on a bond-buying program that has infused global markets with cash.

Bernanke begins two days of testimony on Capitol Hill Wednesday, one of two addresses the Fed provides to Congress regarding monetary policy.

Earnings reports on tap this week include Coca-Cola, Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, Bank of America, Google and Microsoft. General Electric caps off the week Friday.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/futures-us-earnings-season-ramps-114902176.html

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Miley Cyrus Joins Liam Hemsworth In Canada (Photos)

Miley Cyrus & Liam Hemsworth in Canada Miley Cyrus, who hasn’t been spotted publicly with her fiance Liam Hemsworth for quite some time, has actually joined the Aussie actor on a little break in Canada. The “We Can’t Stop” singer, 20, checked into the Jasper Park Lodge in Alberta, Canada with Liam on Sunday, even taking a moment to pose with a ...