Murray heads to Week 2 with Federer, Nadal gone

Andy Murray of Britain is solicited for autographs after defeating Tommy Robredo of Spain during their Men's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Friday, June 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Andy Murray of Britain is solicited for autographs after defeating Tommy Robredo of Spain during their Men's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Friday, June 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Andy Murray of Britain reacts after defeating Tommy Robredo of Spain during their Men's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Friday, June 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Andy Murray of Britain reacts after defeating Tommy Robredo of Spain during their Men's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Friday, June 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Spectators gathered on 'Murray Mount' react as they watch on a big screen Andy Murray of Britain playTommy Robredo of Spain in a Men's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Friday, June 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Spectators gathered on 'Murray Mount' watch on a big screen as Andy Murray of Britain playsTommy Robredo of Spain in a Men's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Friday, June 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

LONDON (AP) ? Everything is going Andy Murray's way so far at this most surprise-filled of Wimbledons.

First of all, Murray has won all nine sets he's played to reach the fourth round.

Then there's this: The four top-10 men who already departed were all on his half of the field ? No. 3 Roger Federer, No. 5 Rafael Nadal, No. 6 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and No. 10 Marin Cilic. Federer has won seven Wimbledon titles and Nadal two, while Tsonga was a semifinalist in 2011 and 2012.

Entering Saturday, no one seeded higher than 20th was left for No. 2 Murray to possibly face before the final.

Then again, that also adds to the ever-surging expectations that he can become the first British man in 77 years to win the championship at the All England Club.

"There's a lot more pressure on me now, with them being out. I mean, I don't read the papers and stuff. But there are papers in the locker room," Murray said with a chuckle, "so you see some of the headlines and stuff. It's not that helpful."

He put together a strong performance Friday, taking advantage of the zero-wind conditions under Centre Court's retractable roof to compile 40 winners and only 14 unforced errors in a 6-2, 6-4, 7-5 victory over 32nd-seeded Tommy Robredo of Spain.

"You need to be professional enough to not let that stuff bother you and just concentrate on each match," said Murray, who has won 20 of his past 21 contests on grass, including runs to last year's final at Wimbledon (where he lost to Federer) and a London Olympics gold medal (by beating Federer).

"I did a good job of that today," he continued. "I played well. My best match of the tournament."

Murray was on target throughout ? with his serves, his returns, his volleys, his groundstrokes. He won 60 of 80 points on his serve, including 14 of 15 in one stretch. He broke Robredo four straight times, then again in the next-to-last game.

Robredo's no slouch, by the way. He's been ranked as high as No. 5, albeit back in 2006. He's been a major quarterfinalist a half-dozen times. At this year's French Open, he became the first man in 86 years to win three consecutive Grand Slam matches after facing two-set deficits. And he entered Friday with a 2-2 record against Murray in tour-level events.

But they hadn't played in an official tournament since 2009, and they'd never met on grass or at a major, two categories where Murray is excelling lately.

After lingering on court to sign autographs ? one excited boy hugged an oversized tennis ball adorned with his man's signature as if it were the most precious thing he'd ever held ? Murray was asked whether last year's success at the Summer Games and Flushing Meadows alleviated Britain's intense desire for him to win it all at the All England Club.

"Uh, no, from what I've heard," Murray replied. "People are putting even more pressure on me because of the nature of how the draw's worked out. I've just got to try and stay focused, not worry about that stuff. But it's hard."

Nadal's stunning first-round exit, for example, was viewed mainly through the prism of how that result helped Murray, who could have faced the 12-time major champion in the semifinals. "Adios Rafa. Hello Andy. Wimbledon dreams again," read a headline in The Times of London. The Daily Mail's take: "Great start for Andy ? Rafa's out."

On Saturday, the only two men remaining aside from Murray who've won a Grand Slam title, No. 1 Novak Djokovic and No. 8 Juan Martin del Potro, try to join him in Week 2. Djokovic owns six major trophies, including Wimbledon in 2011, and del Potro won the 2009 U.S. Open.

The schedule also included top-seeded and defending champion Serena Williams against 42-year-old Kimiko Date-Krumm, as well as the resumption of suspended matches involving 2011 Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova (who trailed No. 25 Ekaterina Makarova 2-1 in the third set) and 17th-seeded Sloane Stephens (heading into a final set against Petra Cetkovska).

Saturday closes what's been a wild first week. In addition to the four top-10 men who are gone, six top-10 women exited by the end of the second round, too, equaling the worst performance by the highest seeds at any Grand Slam tournament in the 45-year history of the Open era.

Speaking about the anyone-can-beat-anyone feel, 37th-ranked Jurgen Melzer of Austria said: "There has been so much talk about it, you cannot ignore it."

He put a stop to it, though, at least as far as Sergiy Stakhovsky was concerned. Two days after serving-and-volleying his way past 17-time major champion Federer, Stakhovsky played more the way a guy ranked 116th would be expected to, losing 6-2, 2-6, 7-5, 6-3 to Melzer.

"I think," Stakhovsky said, "I just played stupid."

It's a common sight at major tournaments: An unknown player knocks out a big name, then fails to follow it up with another victory.

The same thing happened to 66th-ranked Eugenie Bouchard of Canada, who went from beating 12th-seeded Ana Ivanovic, the 2008 French Open titlist, on Wednesday to losing to No. 19 Carla Suarez Navarro 7-5, 6-2 on Friday. And 131st-ranked qualifier Michelle Larcher de Brito of Portugal, who eliminated four-time major champion Maria Sharapova in the second round, then bowed out 7-5, 6-2 against 104th-ranked Karin Knapp of Italy in the third.

"That was a huge win for me," Larcher de Brito said. "But it was tough for me to hang in there today."

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The Pontifical Canadian College: A small piece of Canada in the heart of Rome

June 29, 2013. (Romereports.com) 2013 marks 125 years since the Pontifical Canadian College was founded in Rome. The idea of having that College in the first place, came from? English Cardinal Edward Henry Howard. He decided to ask the Sulpician Order for help, since one of its main missions is the formation of priests.? Since 1888, the College has changed its headquarters twice, but it has always been a strong point of reference for Canadian Catholic priests in Rome, as a cultural center and residence. About 3,000 student priests have lived there since it opened its doors.

FR. ?RIC SYLVESTRE
Rector, Pontifical Canadian College
?It's a formation house. It's very important to understand that. The Canadian College is not a hotel, it's a formation house. So the priests who come here, they live in a community, for two to four or five years. We celebrate the liturgy together and we also have some cultural and spiritual activities, for instance some conferences or retreats during the year. So it's a place of permanent formation. That's something very important.?

?ric Sylvestre, a Sulpician?priest himself, has been Rector of the Canadian College for the past five years. He has also been in charge of organizing the celebrations for the Institution's 125 anniversary. The events on schedule started back in April with an inaugural concert. The events will run until June 2014. A very important day for staff and students will be a solemn Mass on November 21st.

FR. ?RIC SYLVESTRE
Rector, Pontifical Canadian College
?It will be Cardinal Collins from Toronto, who will preside over our celebration. We will finish the Jubilee year on June 24th with the Primate of Canada, the Archbishop of Quebec, monsignor Lacroix. So two liturgies, also a concert and cultural activities in general.?

Currently, the Pontifical Canadian College accommodates about 30 guests. The number of residents has been constantly growing in recent years, and the Fr. Sylvestre says the future looks bright.

FR. ?RIC SYLVESTRE
Rector, Pontifical Canadian College?
?Remembering the past is to 'orientate' the future. I am very positive about the future of the College, because more and more I think it is a meeting place for Catholic people in Canada. I say Catholics, but I could also say Christian people in general.? The Pontifical Canadian College is located right in the center of Rome on via Crescenzio, only a 10 minute walk from the Vatican.

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Northern Food: Devonshire Arms, Baslow, Derbyshire

I've been pretty underwhelmed with the dining options since moving to a small town in Derbyshire. This wasn't entirely unexpected, the more rural areas of the country just can't match the offer of the cities at the budget end of the market, the end where my eating out firmly rests at the moment.?

The big northern city combo of bargain Asian restaurants and a highly competitive casual drinking and dining market mean that it's easy to eat well for under twenty quid, all in, including a drink or two. Down here there are plenty of good options in the high end pub category, but when the average main course is upwards of fifteen quid alone, you're no longer in the cheap and cheerful range.

It would be daft, of course, to criticise the Peak District for not being Sheffield or Manchester. I'm not expecting to get Vietnamese food, but what has so far been disappointing is the pub food. There are loads of non-chain pubs in the vicinity, but sadly a lot of them aren't really serving anything better than a chain, and in some cases are dishing up something far worse. Rule of thumb: if the only chicken you have is in the freezer, and it's been there for god knows how long and has gone all grey and fibrous looking, then maybe take it off the menu. Just a suggestion.

So Sunday lunch at the Devonshire Arms in Baslow came as something of a surprise. Very nice food, served by some nice people who actually seemed to give a shit. Well done them.

The Sunday roast wasn't perfect, because they never are in pubs, but it was a good effort. Thick slices of pink beef rump, good gravy, a Yorkshire pudding that was fresh and pliable rather than ancient and fractured, and accurately cooked veggies. Only the roasts were a bit of a let down, being almost devoid of roasty brown goodness.

Pudding actually was perfect, at least it was as far as I'm concerned. Lemon posset, lemon sorbet and ginger biscuits. I thought the double lemon approach might have been citrus overkill, but it wasn't, it was divine, rich and creamy offset wonderfully by sweet and sharp. And anything can be improved by the addition of ginger biscuits.

Including service we paid exactly twenty quid each for two courses and a drink or two, great value for the quality and locale. I liked it here, but I'll still have to dock them half a point for the lacklustre roast potatoes.

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Obama recasts chase for Snowden as unexceptional

U.S. President Barack Obama gestures during a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the German Chancellery on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, in Berlin. Obama will renew his call to reduce the world's nuclear stockpiles, including a proposed one-third reduction in U.S. and Russian arsenals, a senior administration official said. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

U.S. President Barack Obama gestures during a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the German Chancellery on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, in Berlin. Obama will renew his call to reduce the world's nuclear stockpiles, including a proposed one-third reduction in U.S. and Russian arsenals, a senior administration official said. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The last thing President Barack Obama wants to do is turn Edward Snowden into a grand enemy of the state or a Daniel Ellsberg-type hero who speaks truth to power.

In the shifting narrative of the Obama administration, the man whose leaks of top-secret material about government surveillance programs have tied the national security apparatus in knots and brought charges under the Espionage Act has now been demoted to a common fugitive unworthy of international intrigue or extraordinary pursuit by the U.S. government.

A "29-year-old hacker," in the words of Obama; fodder for a made-for-TV movie, perhaps, but not much more.

"This is not exceptional from a legal perspective," the president said Thursday of Snowden's efforts to avoid capture by hopscotching from Hawaii to Hong Kong to Russia.

"I'm not going to have one case of a suspect who we're trying to extradite suddenly being elevated to the point where I've got to start doing wheeling and dealing and trading on a whole host of other issues simply to get a guy extradited," the president told reporters in Senegal.

It was the second time in a week that the administration had toned down its rhetoric as Snowden remained out of reach and first China and then Russia refused to send him back.

Just Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry was talking tough against China and calling Snowden a traitor whose actions are "despicable and beyond description." By Tuesday, Kerry was calling for "calm and reasonableness" on the matter, and adding, "We're not looking for a confrontation. We are not ordering anybody."

There are plenty of reasons for Obama to pull back, beyond his professed desire to avoid international horse-trading for the leaker.

The president, in his own words, has "a whole lot of business to do with China and Russia." Why increase tensions in an already uneasy relationship when Obama is looking for Russia's cooperation in finding a path to peace in Syria, for example?

In addition, less-heated dialogue could make it easier to broker Snowden's return because, despite the latest shrugs, U.S. officials very much want him.

"There's a lot of signaling going on," said Steve Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy for the Federation of American Scientists. "If the White House were issuing ultimatums, then Russia might feel obliged not to cooperate. But if it's merely one request among many others, that might make it easier to advance to a resolution."

The president also may have a U.S. audience in mind for his comments.

Obama's Democratic base includes plenty of defenders of civil liberties who are sympathetic to Snowden's professed goal of making government more transparent.

Benjamin Pauker, managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine, said the president was loath to elevate Snowden to a state enemy or "an Ellsberg-type truth-teller," referring to the 1971 leaker of the Pentagon Papers, which showed the U.S. government had misled the public about the war in Vietnam.

Ellsberg himself recently called Snowden's revelations the most significant disclosures in the nation's history.

The administration, though, would rather marginalize Snowden, a former National Security Agency systems analyst who is thought to have custody of more classified documents.

"Calling him a hacker, as opposed to a government contractor or an NSA employee, brings him down a notch to someone who's an irritant, as opposed to someone who has access to integral intelligence files," Pauker said. "To externalize him and brand him with a black-hat hacker tag distances him from the government."

The disdainful talk isn't just coming from the White House.

Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, called Snowden "a high school dropout who had a whole series of both academic troubles and employment troubles" after a recent closed hearing on the leaks. The committee's top Democrat, C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger from Maryland, called Snowden "a legend in his own mind" for claiming to be able to use NSA systems to access any email or phone call anywhere ? something the NSA's director has said can't be done.

There may also be face-saving benefits for Obama in cutting down Snowden, who turned 30 last week. An unsuccessful full-court press for Snowden's return would only show the limitations of Obama's international influence.

It's not the first time a president has tried to reset expectations by first elevating and then playing down the importance of an international fugitive who eluded capture, at least for a time.

President George W. Bush went from putting out a "dead-or-alive" ultimatum for 9-11 terror mastermind Osama bin Laden to dismissing him as "a person who's now been marginalized."

"I just don't spend that much time on him," Bush said in March 2002.

Candidate Barack Obama pledged during the 2008 presidential campaign: "We will kill bin Laden, we will crush al-Qaida. That has to be our biggest national security priority."

By January 2009, just days before his inauguration, Obama was saying: "My preference, obviously would be to capture or kill him. But if we have so tightened the noose that he's in a cave somewhere and can't even communicate with his operatives, then we would meet our goal of protecting America."

As it turned out, he got him.

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AP Intelligence Writer Kimberly Dozier contributed to this report.

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Huawei MediaPad 7 Youth tablet reaches the FCC

Huawei must know that not everyone is keen to make phone calls on a tablet -- that would explain why an unannounced WiFi-only slate, the MediaPad 7 Youth, has appeared at the FCC. The filing doesn't reveal much by itself, although it shows that the Youth isn't just a rehash of the MediaPad 7 Lite or other recent models. Besides the different antenna window layout, there's no camera on the back; this is clearly a budget machine. We're not expecting miracles from the Youth's hardware, then, but those curious about Huawei's next low-cost tablet can get an early look at the source link.

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Did a bird bring down F-16?

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) ? The pilots flying an F-16 fighter jet that went down near Luke Air Force Base in suburban Phoenix reported hitting a bird shortly after takeoff, the Air Force general who commands their base said Thursday.

The two pilots, who were practicing landings and takeoffs at the base Wednesday evening, ejected safely and the fighter crashed in a farm field near the base.

"Shortly before the accident the pilot reported a bird strike," Brig. Gen. Mike Rothstein told reporters at the base 15 miles west of Phoenix.

The plane had just taken off when the pilots reported hitting a bird and the engine in the plane malfunctioned, 56th Operations Group commander Col. John Hanna said. They had little time to react.

"It sounds like they did a good job, the airplane didn't hit anybody or anything and they both survived with what I know is no injuries," Hanna told The Associated Press. "It's about as good as it gets when you have any kind of accident where you destroy an airplane."

Base spokeswoman Lt. Candice Dillitte said there's nothing to indicate a fleet-wide problem with the jets, but the Air Force will investigate the cause. The Air Force has more than 1,000 of the single-engine fighters.

The base, 15 miles west of Phoenix in Glendale, is the world's largest F-16 pilot training base and had 138 F-16s before Wednesday's crash. An instructor and a student were flying the jet that crashed.

The base is getting ready to transition to the military's new F-35 fighter. The Air Force announced Thursday it would receive three additional squadrons, bringing the total to 144 within about 10 years. The first plane is set to arrive next spring.

Witnesses said they heard the jet's engine sputtering and popping just before the plane went down. Photos posted on Twitter showed civilians helping two male pilots alongside a freshly plowed field.

Rothstein said the fact that the jet came down in farmland wasn't an accident. Glendale and other nearly cities have worked with the state to maintain open space around the base despite the rapid urbanization of the area.

Any engine problem shortly after takeoff is extremely dangerous and the pilots needed to react quickly, Hanna said.

"Certainly low altitude ejections are some of the more harrowing things that can happen, because you're close to the ground and a lot of things have to happen in a hurry in order for all of the ejection process to occur successfully," Hanna said. "You end up on the ground, able to stand, gather your gear and walk to the nearest pickup truck that's got some water sitting in it. So this worked out pretty well."

Bird strikes can severely damage jet engines. US Airways Flight 1549 lost both engines shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport after hitting birds in January 2009 but landed safely on the Hudson River.

An inspector general's audit last year criticized the Federal Aviation Administration for not doing enough to stop bird strikes. The report cited a five-fold increase in bird strikes over the last two decades, from 1,770 reported in 1990 to 9,840 reported in 2011, due in part to growing bird populations. The strikes have led to at least 24 deaths and 235 injuries in the United States since 1988.

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Boomerang Android app tames Gmail inboxes with reminders

The previously web-only Boomerang app for Gmail is now in open beta on Android. Just another mail app, right? Not quite -- Boomerang's hook is that it can bring unanswered messages back to your inbox. More than a clever reminder system, the app uses gesture controls (swipe right to archive, left for snooze and other options) and can schedule outgoing emails, too. According to TechCrunch, developer Baydin is also working on support for non-Gmail services and a tablet-optimized app. Jump to the Google Play link below to get your hands dirty for free.

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Impact of iPad? on radiology residents' daily clinical duties is limited, study suggests

Public release date: 26-Jun-2013
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While the iPad is being used for intraoperative procedure guidance, percutaneous procedure planning, and mobile interpretation of some imaging examinations, the majority of radiology residents are using it primarily as an educational tool, according to a study published online in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

"Some sectors of the medical community consider the iPad to be a revolutionary tool in health care delivery, with many use scenarios focused on medical imaging. The purpose of our study was to assess residents' use patterns and opinions of the iPad as a tool for radiology education and clinical practice at an academic medical center," said Justin W. Kung, M.D., co-author of the study.

A total of 38 radiology residents in the radiology program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston were provided with iPad 2 tablets and subscriptions to e-Anatomy and STATdx. After six months of device use, residents were surveyed to assess their opinions regarding the technology as a tool for education and clinical practice.

A total of 36 residents completed the survey. Eighty-six percent reported daily iPad use. Radiology-specific applications, particularly e-Anatomy, were used weekly or daily by 88 percent of respondents. Most preferred to read journal articles on the iPad, but the number of respondents preferring to read textbooks on the iPad compared with the traditional bound form was evenly divided. Residents were also divided on the clinical utility of the iPad. Most had not used the iPad to view radiologic examinations. Fewer than half used their iPads during readout. Finally, only 12 percent had used the iPad to sign dictated reports.

"The impact of the iPad on the daily clinical duties of radiology residents in our study was limited, but residents at our institution have adopted the iPad to view electronic journals and use radiology-specific applications. The full impact of this device on resident education will depend on the development of applications that harness the unique ability of this medium for training the next generation of radiologists," said Kung.

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American College of Radiology

While the iPad is being used for intraoperative procedure guidance, percutaneous procedure planning, and mobile interpretation of some imaging examinations, the majority of radiology residents are using it primarily as an educational tool, according to a study published online in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

"Some sectors of the medical community consider the iPad to be a revolutionary tool in health care delivery, with many use scenarios focused on medical imaging. The purpose of our study was to assess residents' use patterns and opinions of the iPad as a tool for radiology education and clinical practice at an academic medical center," said Justin W. Kung, M.D., co-author of the study.

A total of 38 radiology residents in the radiology program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston were provided with iPad 2 tablets and subscriptions to e-Anatomy and STATdx. After six months of device use, residents were surveyed to assess their opinions regarding the technology as a tool for education and clinical practice.

A total of 36 residents completed the survey. Eighty-six percent reported daily iPad use. Radiology-specific applications, particularly e-Anatomy, were used weekly or daily by 88 percent of respondents. Most preferred to read journal articles on the iPad, but the number of respondents preferring to read textbooks on the iPad compared with the traditional bound form was evenly divided. Residents were also divided on the clinical utility of the iPad. Most had not used the iPad to view radiologic examinations. Fewer than half used their iPads during readout. Finally, only 12 percent had used the iPad to sign dictated reports.

"The impact of the iPad on the daily clinical duties of radiology residents in our study was limited, but residents at our institution have adopted the iPad to view electronic journals and use radiology-specific applications. The full impact of this device on resident education will depend on the development of applications that harness the unique ability of this medium for training the next generation of radiologists," said Kung.

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Brian Shaw Agrees To Be Denver Nuggets' New Head Coach: Report

DENVER -- At long last, Brian Shaw is getting his first chance to coach an NBA team.

The former guard for the Los Angeles Lakers and Phil Jackson pupil has agreed to succeed George Karl as coach of the Denver Nuggets, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.

The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Monday night because the deal hadn't been officially announced.

Still, it was the buzz of the basketball world.

"I think the Nuggets are going to benefit from his tenure," Jackson tweeted.

"So great to see Brian Shaw rewarded with this long overdue opportunity," Pacers coach Frank Vogel told The AP in a text. "Congrats to Brian and the Nuggets. Denver just got one of the best head coaches this league will see for years to come."

The Denver Post first announced the agreement with Shaw, the Indiana Pacers assistant who told the newspaper he's been "prepared by the best of the best" for his first NBA head coaching job, adding "I feel like I've waited and paid my dues."

Shaw is a longtime assistant who has interviewed about a dozen times for head coaching positions but kept coming up short until Monday.

He beat out Lionel Hollins, the former Memphis Grizzlies coach.

The Nuggets called a news conference for Tuesday afternoon, where team president Josh Kroenke and newly hired general manager Tim Connelly will introduce their new coach.

Shaw replaces Karl, who was ousted June 6 just weeks after winning the league's Coach of the Year award.

Shaw inherits a young team loaded with talent that won a franchise-record 57 games but lost Danilo Gallinari to a knee injury down the stretch and bowed out in the first round of the playoffs for the ninth time in 10 years.

Gallinari recently underwent surgery and is expected back in December.

The Nuggets have been a state of flux all summer after they were knocked off by the Golden State Warriors in six games in the first round of the playoffs.

First, Masai Ujiri, who engineered the win-win trade of Carmelo Anthony to the New York Knicks, left the Nuggets' front office for the GM job in Toronto. Ujiri was the league's Executive of the Year.

Less than a week later, Kroenke fired Karl.

Ujiri's right-hand man, Pete D'Allesandro, then took the Sacramento Kings' GM job and took Denver executive Mike Bratz with him.

Also, the Nuggets' top perimeter defender, Andre Iguodala, decided to opt out of the final year of his contract to become an unrestricted free agent, although he could return to Denver on a five-year deal while the most he could get elsewhere is a four-year contract.

Shaw, 47, owns five NBA championship rings as a player and assistant coach. A first-round draft pick by the Boston Celtics in 1988, Shaw played for eight teams in his 14 NBA seasons.

As Vogel's top assistant, Shaw drew praise for his work with rising star Paul George last season. The Pacers forward was an All-Star and helped lead Indiana to the Eastern Conference finals, where they took the eventual champion Miami Heat to seven games.

Although he has deep roots with the triangle offense that Jackson featured with the Chicago Bulls and the Lakers, Shaw told the Denver Post he won't use that system with the Nuggets, who thrived in a fast-paced, free-flowing system under Karl.

Shaw played at St. Mary's and UC Santa Barbara before an NBA career that lasted from 1988 to 2003. He was a member of the Lakers' three championship teams in the early 2000s and Jackson hired him as an assistant after he retired.

He won two more titles with L.A. as an assistant coach and when Jackson retired from the Lakers in 2011, Kobe Bryant voiced his support for Shaw becoming Jackson's successor, but he was passed over for that promotion.

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AP Sports Writer Michael Marot contributed.

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First Person: Obesity's Classified as a Disease, but Losing Weight Is on Me

The American Medical Association last week declared obesity a disease. That's a step, doctors say, that will help medical professionals better treat a condition that affects 78 million adults and 12 million children. Yahoo News invited Americans who qualify as obese -- those with a BMI above 30 -- to share their story and perspective on the news. Here's one.

FIRST PERSON| I wasn't always fat. In fact, I used to boast a 23-inch waist without any effort at all. I never dieted, but I was active. As my 20s faded into my 30s, my weight slowly inched up. But it wasn't until I became pregnant at 39 that my weight became a serious issue and began to interfere with my everyday life.

After my daughter Stella's birth in September 2009, the pain subsided, but remained a problem. As the years have progressed, my weight inched up to an all-time high of 240 pounds. On my 5-foot-3-inch frame, that's a lot of weight to carry around. That's a body mass index of 42.5, which the American Medical Association classifies as obese, not just overweight.

The AMA decision last week to classify obesity as a disease should help people like me get the help they need to get their weight under control. I attribute my weight gain mostly due to psychological issues, but also to my pre-existing back problem. I was bored and depressed and ate to pass the time away. We lived near Dallas, and in the summer, it was just too hot to ride my bike and, in winter, I couldn't drum up the motivation to ride. We were unhappy living in Texas, so in early May we decided to sell everything and go on a long-term camping trip.

Before we left, I could barely reach down to tie my shoes. My face became red from exertion from bending down to pick up a toy. Walking across a parking lot winded me. I wanted nothing more than to sit all day in front of the computer.

I became more physically active by virtue of necessity. We are tent camping, so it's a challenge for my back problem, but nearly two months into it, I am starting to feel better about my health. In fact, my weight dropped nearly 20 pounds in two months, reducing my BMI to 39.3. I'm still obese, but it's a start.

My husband has also lost some weight, and has had to take in his belt two notches, so this tent camping trip is doing us some good, both physically and psychologically.

We have planned meals, and because we are on a strict financial budget, we don't splurge on fast food except for once a month. Our diet includes brown rice, oatmeal, potatoes, canned fruits and vegetables, wheat bread, fresh produce and pasta. We eat meat once or twice a week, and almost never red meat. When we do eat fast food, I usually eat a salad, yogurt, or another healthy option.

We've camped in several locations so far in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado. And in the next month, we plan to settle in a small town in New Mexico that is known for skiing, bicycling, and hiking. My husband and I plan to purchase two used bicycles for transportation during the warmer months. I know this method for weight loss is extreme, but it's worked for us. I no longer feel lost and hopeless, and I feel better about myself every day.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/first-person-obesitys-classified-disease-losing-weight-182000450.html

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New approach to mobile video fuses streaming and downloading to ...

It's the bane of streaming media?the endlessly spinning cursor on a dark screen, or the final minutes of a favorite show freezing to a halt when the wireless signal weakens. A new technology developed by researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) may make spotty streaming and data-hogging downloads a thing of the past.

The patent-pending technique, called streamloading, in the simplest terms makes use of a video format that splits the video into two layers?a base layer, which contains a coarse representation of the video, and an enhancement layer, which completes the image quality and includes the fine-grain details. Traditional streaming involves downloading 30 to 60 seconds of video ahead of time, with the video quality and speed varying depending on wireless signal strength. Streamloading allows users to pre-download the enhancement layer onto their devices in a location where wireless signal is strong?at home, for example?and stream only the base layer at the time of viewing.

Shivendra S. Panwar, professor of electrical and computer engineering at NYU-Poly and the lead developer of streamloading, estimates that the technique could remove as much as 75 percent of the streaming content from increasingly overloaded cellular wireless networks, while at the same time reducing high data usage charges for consumers. Panwar explains that "in the best-case scenario, we'll at the same time relieve some of the bandwidth crunch for wireless carriers and significantly improve the speed and quality of streaming video, making it easier and less expensive to access content this way."

Panwar, along with a team of students at NYU-Poly who have been working on the prototype technology, designed streamloading to be compatible with current digital rights management (DRM) protocols. Although users will technically be downloading and saving content on their devices?something that's prohibited by streaming content services like Netflix? Panwar explains that "what's being stored is just one layer of content. It would be useless and impossible to watch without the base layer, which is streamed at the time of viewing."

Panwar and his team plan to continue testing and refining the technology this summer and have already initiated conversations with wireless carriers. Their research is supported by the National Science Foundation and the Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT) at NYU-Poly.

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Gamewright Games: Summer Fun for the Entire Family {Giveaway ...

I was so glad to receive a box of Gamewright games in the mail to review this month, since?my family has been cooped up inside for much of it.? Between many rainy days, a sodden yard, and two different sickness sweeping through the family we just?couldn?t win!? I hate resorting to constant television and electronics during rough weeks like this, and Gamewright certainly came to the rescue!

One thing I love about every Gamewright game we?ve tried is the packaging.? The games are pretty compact in size and the boxes are very sturdy.? Our game shelf often becomes a disaster area and I?ve found that any game in flimsy packaging soon falls apart and I end up throwing the game away when the pieces get torn up or lost.? The compact size of Gamewright?s games lend themselves perfectly?to throwing into a suitcase or backpack when packing for vacation.? I never leave for vacation without at least one great game that both children and adults can enjoy.? When stuck in the hotel on a rainy day or the car breaks down, a great game can save the day.? For our family, that game has most often been Gamewright?s Rat-a-Tat-Cat.? I?m glad that we now have 4 other great options for vacation games on our shelf from Gamewright- let me tell you about them!

Mermaid Beach, appropriate for ages 6+,?was the favorite game of my mermaid loving 8-year-old daughter.? During the game players try to?collect as many shell cards as possible with the help of beautifully illustrated mermaid cards.? This game has a lot of rules to learn, but after playing a few times my children could sit down?for a game and play without my help.??Mostly a game of luck, rather than strategy, it is a great game to play with multiple ages since the younger players aren?t at a disadvantage.

Castle Keep, appropriate for ages 8+, is exactly the kind of game I love to play with my older children.? In fact,?I got so caught up playing with my?two daughters that?supper was an hour late!? The rules are simple and easy to learn, yet the game requires thought and strategy.? Players race to be the first to complete their castle and must choose each turn whether to build their own castle or attack an opponents castle.? I really love this game, in fact I think it can be enjoyed by grownups even after the kids go to bed, so it will probably be the one in my suitcase on our next vacation!

Sleeping Queens?is the game my 9-year-old?asks to play most often.? While it is marked for ages 8 and up, my 6-year-old?caught on very quickly and enjoys playing with us.? In this game players try to be the first to wake five sleeping queens.? My kids love the fairy tale aspects of this adorable game.? Though it has?many?rules concerning what each card does, we found it to be easy to remember since?each card?s action makes sense.? Knights try to steal opponents queens, but players can battle back with a dragon card.? Or, you can put an opponents queen back to sleep with a sleeping potion card- unless the opponent has a magic wand to ward off the spell.? Also, I?ve found it to be a quick game, so it is a great one to choose when the kids beg to play a game right before bedtime.

???? The Scrambled States of America Game- Deluxe Edition, for ages 8 and up, is a sneaky game and I love it!? While kids don?t need to know facts about the states to play, they quickly learn those facts?during game play.? I?m a homeschooling mom, so anytime I can sneak in some educational value to my kids play I am on board!? Players exercise quick reflexes and observational skills and learn the names, capitals, nicknames, shapes and positions of the states while playing the game.? My children find this game quite funny and love to race to win their states.

Gamewright games are the perfect choice for family game?time this summer.? Whether cooped up indoors to beat the heat, or to avoid a summer storm, Gamewright games will help pass the time.? Don?t forget to throw one or two in your suitcase when packing for vacation, you?ll be glad you did!

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You Can Finally Buy This Magical iPhone Waterproofing Spray

We first heard about Rust-Oleum's liquid-repelling product, NeverWet almost two years ago. It looked absolutely magical, and now you can finally buy it.

Home Depot is carrying NeverWet for $20 a can. Spray the silicon-based coating on electronics, clothing, or almost any surface and it'll become almost completely impervious to moisture. Of course, we're skeptical until we try it out ourselves. But in the convincing demo you see liquid hit a surface and immediately scurry away without leaving any damage. Spill mustard on your white shoes? Don't worry about it. Drop your iPhone in the toilet? It will survive. We've all had accidents with our expensive gadgets, so a $20 waterproofing solution is hard to disagree with. Just, you know, try not to inhale it. [NeverWet via LancasterOnline]

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Supermoon Photos: Year's Biggest Full Moon Wows Stargazers Worldwide

If you happened to catch the full moon over the weekend, you may have noticed a slightly bigger and brighter display than usual ??a lunar view that captivated skywatchers around the world. Dubbed the "supermoon," Sunday's full moon on June 23 was the largest moon of the year, because the moon's full phase coincided with its arrival at perigee, its closest distance from Earth.

In spots with good weather Sunday night, the moon offered an awesome sight.

"Because of the haze, the rising moon exhibited a vivid reddish orange color, similar to that of a deep total lunar eclipse," photographer Edwin Aguirre, who snapped photos of the supermoon from Boston, told SPACE.com in an email. "Others thought?it looked like the red planet Mars. The sky cooperated so everyone had a great time." [Photos: Dazzling Supermoon Views for June 2013]

"Dozens of people, young and old, gathered well before dark where we were ? at Robbins Farm Park in Arlington, which overlooks the city skyline," Aguirre wrote. "They brought blankets and lawn chairs ??and their dogs ??to enjoy not only the spectacular view, but also the nice, cool evening breeze, which was a welcome relief from the heat and humidity earlier in the day."In many places, moon watching over the weekend was a big event.

Some celebrated the supermoon in style.

"Took the kids out to see the supermoon near Las Vegas," wrote Tyler S. Leavitt, whose children dressed in capes and spandex for the occasion. "They had so much fun running around as superheroes as the moon rose."

The?supermoon occurs because the moon's orbit around our planet is not perfectly circular, so sometimes it swings closer than others. When the moon is also full at the time, it creates a vision that's about 12 percent larger in the sky than other full moons.

In addition, when the moon is sighted low on the horizon, behind trees and buildings, the contrast can create an optical illusion that makes the moon seem even bigger.

"The total personal experience is surely wonderful!!" Giuseppe Petricca from Pisa, Italy wrote in an email. "And the 'horizon illusion' makes you really think that the moon is way bigger that the reality."

If you missed this supermoon, your next chance to observe an especially large full moon is more than a year away, on Aug. 10, 2014.

Follow Clara Moskowitz on?Twitter?and?Google+. Follow us?@Spacedotcom,?Facebook?and?Google+. Original article on?SPACE.com.

Copyright 2013 SPACE.com, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Hong Kong: Snowden has left for third country (cbsnews)

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Facebook admits year-long data breach exposed 6 million users

By Gerry Shih

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc has inadvertently exposed 6 million users' phone numbers and email addresses to unauthorized viewers over the past year, the world's largest social networking company disclosed late Friday.

Facebook blamed the data leaks, which began in 2012, on a technical glitch in its massive archive of contact information collected from its 1.1 billion users worldwide. As a result of the glitch, Facebook users who downloaded contact data for their list of friends obtained additional information that they were not supposed to have.

Facebook's security team was alerted to the bug last week and fixed it within 24 hours. But Facebook did not publicly acknowledge the bug until Friday afternoon, when it published an "important message" on its blog explaining the issue.

A Facebook spokesman said the delay was due to company procedure stipulating that regulators and affected users be notified before making a public announcement.

"We currently have no evidence that this bug has been exploited maliciously and we have not received complaints from users or seen anomalous behavior on the tool or site to suggest wrongdoing," Facebook said on its blog.

While the privacy breach was limited, "it's still something we're upset and embarrassed by, and we'll work doubly hard to make sure nothing like this happens again," it added.

The breach follows recent disclosures that several consumer Internet companies turned over troves of user data to a large-scale electronic surveillance program run by U.S. intelligence.

The companies include Facebook, Google Inc, Microsoft Corp, Apple Inc and Yahoo Inc.

The companies, led by Facebook, successfully negotiated with the U.S. government last week to reveal the approximate number of user information requests that each company had received, including secret national security orders.

(Reporting by Gerry Shih; Editing by Richard Chang)

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No word from Hong Kong on Snowden's return

The front cover of a local magazine shows Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, in Hong Kong Saturday, June 22, 2013. Hong Kong was silent Saturday on whether the former National Security Agency contractor should be extradited to the United States now that he has been charged with espionage, but some legislators said the decision should be up to the Chinese government. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

The front cover of a local magazine shows Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, in Hong Kong Saturday, June 22, 2013. Hong Kong was silent Saturday on whether the former National Security Agency contractor should be extradited to the United States now that he has been charged with espionage, but some legislators said the decision should be up to the Chinese government. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, in Hong Kong, Sunday, June 9, 2013. The man who told the world about the U.S. government?s gigantic data grab also talked a lot about himself. Mostly through his own words, a picture of Edward Snowden is emerging: fresh-faced computer whiz, high school and Army dropout, independent thinker, trustee of official secrets. And leaker on the lam. (AP Photo/The Guardian) MANDATORY CREDIT

A security guard stands in front of the Police headquarters in Hong Kong Saturday, June 22, 2013. Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, believed to be holed up in Hong Kong, has admitted providing information to the news media about two highly classified NSA surveillance programs. It is not known if the U.S. government has made a formal extradition request to Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong government had no immediate reaction to the charges against Snowden. Police Commissioner Andy Tsang, when was asked about the development, told reporters only that the case would be dealt with according to the law. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

David Medine, chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, is seen in front of the White House in Washington, Friday, June 21, 2013. President Barack Obama held his first meeting Friday with the board in the White House Situation Room. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Edward Snowden, the former government contractor who says he revealed that the National Security Agency collects Americans' phone records and Internet data from U.S. communication companies, now faces charges of espionage and theft of government property.

Snowden is believed to be in Hong Kong, which could complicate efforts to bring him to a U.S. federal court to answer charges that he engaged in unauthorized communication of national defense information and willful communication of classified communications intelligence information.

In addition to those charges, both brought under the Espionage Act, the government charged Snowden with theft of government property. Each crime carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

Hong Kong was silent Saturday on whether Snowden should be extradited to the United States now that he has been charged, but some of Hong Kong's legislators said the decision should be up to the Chinese government.

The one-page criminal complaint against Snowden was unsealed Friday in federal court in Alexandria, Va., part of the Eastern District of Virginia where his former employer, government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, is headquartered, in McLean.

The complaint is dated June 14, five days after Snowden's name first surfaced as the person who had leaked to the news media that the NSA, in two highly classified surveillance programs, gathered telephone and Internet records to ferret out terror plots.

It was unclear Friday whether the U.S. had yet to begin an effort to extradite Snowden from Hong Kong. He could contest extradition on grounds of political persecution. In general, the extradition agreement between the U.S. and Hong Kong excepts political offenses from the obligation to turn over a person. Hong Kong could consider the charges under the Espionage Act political crimes.

Hong Kong had no immediate reaction to word of the charges against Snowden.

The Obama administration has now used the Espionage Act in seven criminal cases in an unprecedented effort to stem leaks. In one of them, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning acknowledged he sent more than 700,000 battlefield reports, diplomatic cables and other materials to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. His military trial is underway.

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, welcomed the charges against Snowden.

"I've always thought this was a treasonous act," he said in a statement. "I hope Hong Kong's government will take him into custody and extradite him to the U.S."

But the Government Accountability Project, a whistle-blower advocacy group, said Snowden should be shielded from prosecution by whistle-blower protection laws.

"He disclosed information about a secret program that he reasonably believed to be illegal, and his actions alone brought about the long-overdue national debate about the proper balance between privacy and civil liberties, on the one hand, and national security on the other," the group said in a statement.

Michael di Pretoro, a retired 30-year veteran with the FBI who served from 1990 to 1994 as the legal liaison officer at the American consulate in Hong Kong, said "relations between U.S. and Hong Kong law enforcement personnel are historically quite good."

"In my time, I felt the degree of cooperation was outstanding to the extent that I almost felt I was in an FBI field office," di Pretoro said.

The U.S. and Hong Kong have a standing agreement on the surrender of fugitives. However, Snowden's appeal rights could drag out any extradition proceeding.

The success or failure of any extradition proceeding depends on what the suspect is charged with under U.S. law and how it corresponds to Hong Kong law under the treaty. In order for Hong Kong officials to honor the extradition request, they have to have some applicable statute under their law that corresponds with a violation of U.S. law.

Hong Kong lawmakers said Saturday that the Chinese government should make the final decision on whether Snowden should be extradited to the United States.

Outspoken legislator Leung Kwok-hung said Beijing should instruct Hong Kong to protect Snowden from extradition before his case gets dragged through the court system.

Leung urged the people of Hong Kong to "take to the streets to protect Snowden."

In Iceland, a business executive said Friday that a private plane was on standby to transport Snowden from Hong Kong to Iceland, although Iceland's government says it has not received an asylum request from Snowden.

Business executive Olafur Vignir Sigurvinsson said he has been in contact with someone representing Snowden and has not spoken to the American himself. Private donations are being collected to pay for the flight, he said.

"There are a number of people that are interested in freedom of speech and recognize the importance of knowing who is spying on us," Sigurvinsson said. "We are people that care about privacy."

Disclosure of the criminal complaint came as President Barack Obama held his first meeting with a privacy and civil liberties board and as his intelligence chief sought ways to help Americans understand more about sweeping government surveillance efforts exposed by Snowden.

The five members of the little-known Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board met with Obama for an hour in the White House Situation Room, questioning the president on the two NSA programs that have stoked controversy.

One program collects billions of U.S. phone records. The second gathers audio, video, email, photographic and Internet search usage of foreign nationals overseas, and probably some Americans in the process, who use major Internet service providers, such as Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Yahoo.

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Associated Press writer Jenna Gottlieb in Reykjavik, Iceland, contributed to this report.

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