Jumat, 08 Juli 2011

End of July, PlayBook Available in Indonesia

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Kompas.com web page at Blackberry Playbook Tablet launch event at the Ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton, Pacific Place, Jakarta, Thursday (07/07/2011).

JAKARTA, One more tablet devices that will enliven the Indonesia market, Playbook BlackBerry from Research In Motion (RIM). Tablet, which was launched in Jakarta on Thursday (07/07/2011), it will be available starting in July 2011.

BlackBerry Playbook will be available in three types, each with a capacity of 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB with the price of 499 dollars, 599 dollars and 699 U.S. dollars.
- Hastings Singh

"BlackBerry Playbook will be available in three types each with a capacity of 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB with the price of 499, 599, and 699 U.S. dollars," Hastings said Singh, Director of Distribution for Asia Pacific Research In Motion, in the Ritz Ballroom Carlton Pacific Place, Jakarta.

Planned, PlayBook available starting July 16, 2011.He said very excited to bring BlackBerry Playbook in Indonesia. It could not be separated from the popular BlackBerry device in Indonesia today. Not only to meet the needs of communication, its presence is also to encourage the growth of creative economy in Indonesia. One of them through the development of a variety of local applications.

"I am very pleased with the progress developer in Indonesia," Hastings said Singh. Along with the availability of the BlackBerry Playbook, there had been a readily accessible local applications, among others, two applications of the compass, each Compass Editors' Choice for BlackBerry Playbook and Kompas.com for BlackBerry Playbook.

Selasa, 05 Juli 2011

Samsung accusations which Tracing Apple

WASHINGTON, KOMPAS.com - Samsung Electronics Co. rebluffing Apple Inc. related charges of patent infringement. Appleaccused of plagiarizing from Samsung's technological innovationsused in Apple's peripheral products such as iPhone and iPad.Previously, Samsung also bring an action against Apple in the U.S.International Trade Commission in Washington on June 28, 2011related to the same problem.

"Apple has a lot of innovation plagiarized Samsung for their devices," said a lawyer from Suwon, corporate attorney based inSouth Korea in the registration of a case in federal court inDelaware.

Samsung also supplied memory chips to Apple, had sued Apple in Seoul, Tokyo, San Francisco, Mannheim, and Germany. Applealso has a pending legal case in South Korea.

Apple also reply to these claims by protesting to the Samsung thatthe Galaxy had plagiarized Samsung's iPhone and iPad. Touch screen, zooming, scrolling and selecting menu on the Samsungwas accused of copying Apple.

"They seem to have a lot of talks to resolve the issue. They mustget a license agreement on this issue," said Seo Won Seokanalyst at NH Investment & Securities Co.. in Seoul.

Patent feud in the mobile device industry is not a rare thing.Previously Nokia and Apple have agreed to end all feuds about thepatent and Apple are willing to pay for licensing the technology-dominated Nokia in their products. (Cash / Rizki Caturini)

9 Reasons to Switch from Facebook Google Plus

KOMPAS.com - Can Google + (Plus Google) steals a user of Facebook? Yes. There are several good reasons to switch from Facebook to Google +, ranging from the easy to use data privacy.

The question "Can Google + beat Facebook?". The real question may not be too precise. This is not about one site against another site. Google + bigger than that. The reason why Google calls "Google Project +" + is that Google will become a central part of Google's overall identity. It will reshape the company.

So the more appropriate question is "Can Google beat Facebook?" If it is placed like that, the contest appears to be much more balanced.

Of course Facebook has a great beginning, but there are some good reasons for people to seriously leave Facebook for Google +. There are at least nine reasons as cited kompasianer, Oscar, from PCWorld.

1. Integration with Google services

Owned the largest portion of Google to attract people use Google + is integration. This means that Google will build Google + features and equipment to almost all its online services ranging from documents to video search. + Google already integrated into almost all Google products.

This allows you to monitor all events Google + (message, updates, etc.) when sharing content with friends without leaving the Google service you're using. Millions of people use the free Google services (Gmail, Documents, Search, etc..), And the attachment of these services with Google + might be easy for someone to leave Facebook.

2. Management better friendships

Google's true that the concept of "circles" or Circle more in line with the way we are friends in real life. We have many kind friends, and we interact and communicate with them in different ways.Facebook Groups feature allows you to form a special group of friends, but compared to that done on Google +, it seems impractical. Besides, Facebook is still a new feature groups (additional), while the Circle is the cornerstone of Google's platform +.

3. Better mobile applications

If you are a user of Android, you can tell that get content from your phone to a social platform easier, cleaner, more functionality with Google's mobile + applications. These applications had been steady, but Google will still seek and find ways to make the Android you become a member of the body of your + Google social platform. Google hopes to use its Android user base as large as a part against Facebook, that its mobile application though looks pretty but a bit clunky to use.

4. Easier to find things to be divided

Spark features Google + is one more important thing that distinguishes it from Facebook. Spark is where Google leverage its search engine to do something that can not be done is to give Facebook users an instant flow of information relevant to share with friends. Because Facebook does not have a search engine, users must leave the site looking for data that can be divided or waiting for their friends to share it with them. The question "how do I look for something to be shared" directly answered by Spark.

5. You can retrieve your data

Facebook is known less reliable handling personal data. Suppose you were forced to make certain parts of your personal data appear to the public, and it is very difficult to permanently delete your Facebook profile. On the other hand, Google makes it possible for you to retrieve all the data you place on Google + and left. This is done through the Google + called "Data Liberation".With just a few clicks you can download data from your Picasa Web Albums, Google Profile, Google + stream, Buzz and contacts.

6. Label better photographs

When viewing images on Google + you can label the name of the people in it like on Facebook. You make a small square around their faces, then type in their name in the box below or choose one of the guessed name Google +. But there is a big difference in where Google takes the privacy aspects of the label image. When you label someone, there will be a record like this "Adding a label it should tell people that you label it. They can be related photos and albums". On the other hand, Facebook does not make an effort to warn people that they have been labeled (perhaps only in a photograph that is not good) and give them a direct opportunity to remove (remove) label.

Google has also decided to slightly embarrassed to use facial recognition software, which now use Facebook to automatically identify people in photos are uploaded to the album the user.

7. Features a solid group chat

Google + has a feature that beat up in the affairs of the chat. Easy to create a special group video chat using the Google + Hangouts features, and create a special group for the chat seems to be something natural and fun to do in social networking. A similar case was conducted by Huddle mobile application that allows users Android launch group text chat. Facebook does not offer this device.

8. Dividing the content more secure

Prompts privacy has long been asking the social networking site to allow the user to specify the level of privacy of any content that is shared, rather than using a list of initial settings that determine all the shared content. Google seems to hear the request, and build these capabilities into Google +. For example, if I share an article or upload images from camera, Google + gives me the option circle of friends where I want to share content. + it is Google's advantage.

9. Google better care of your personal data

Running a social networking, it's all about responsibility to take care of users' personal information. Facebook is a fast moving young company that has been proven cavalier in its movement, is less concerned about the privacy of user data, and easily accessible to others. On the other hand, Google is a much more mature company that looks much more reliable than Facebook.The most part, Google has been operating under the slogan "Do not Be Evil".

Nancy Grace says 'the devil is dancing' at Casey Anthony verdict

source :http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/07/nancy-grace-says-the-devil-is-dancing-at-casey-anthony-verdict.html


Nancy Grace has never hidden her feelings about the Caylee Anthony murder case, and the HLN host didn't hold back Tuesday when the 2-year-old's mother was acquitted of her murder.

Grace, a trained lawyer who'd derisively dubbed the defendant, Casey Anthony, "tot mom," said Caylee's "death has gone unavenged" and that "tot mom's lies seem to have worked."

Grace, via her prime-time talk show, has been covering the case extensively for the past three years, since the toddler was initially reported missing in summer 2008. Her attention helped take it from a local case to a national spectacle, and Grace became somewhat of an expert on the investigation, appearing on other HLN shows, sister network CNN and sparring with legal analysts like Dan Abrams on ABC News.

The network, with Grace leading the charge, kept expanding its coverage of the murder investigation, the arrest of Casey Anthony and the trial, which just ended its five-week run. It was practically all-Casey-all-the-time for the last month, with record-breaking ratings as a result.

Grace said Tuesday that "there's no way this is a verdict that speaks the truth," appearing stunned moments after the jury decision. "But this is our jury system."

As she's done all along, Grace tugged at heartstrings by reminding viewers that an angelic child had been murdered, with her body found "15 houses from where tot mom put her head on a pillow each night... Little Caylee, thrown away like she was trash."

She criticized the defense celebrations and said "the devil is dancing" at the case's conclusion.

In televised comments shortly after the verdict, one of the defense attorneys slammed what he called the media's rush to judgment, not naming Grace but pointedly saying some anchors and talking heads crossed a line and convicted Casey Anthony long before trial. He said he hoped they learned a lesson from the acquittal. (Casey Anthony was convicted of four misdemeanors for lying to police during the investigation.)

Bryce Nelson, journalism professor at USC's Annenberg School, said there is a difference between talk show hosts and news professionals, though viewers may not always make the distinction.

TV personalities like Grace, who clearly pick sides, have "a lot to answer for" when the verdict goes the opposite way, he said. Will they learn from it, as Casey Anthony's defense lawyer said?

"It might cause more people to think about how they report the news, or we can at least hope so," Nelson said. "But unfortunately it won't last for long. The rewards for sensationalism are all too great."

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Minggu, 26 Juni 2011

'True Blood' season 4 premiere recap: Something Wiccan this way comes

When last we saw Sookie Stackhouse, the heartbroken part-fairy telepathic waitress and "True Blood" heroine had disappeared into a ball of light, and although Alan Ball didn't want reviewers saying where she ended up, is anyone surprised when she and Claudine touch down in Fairyland? It's a softly-lit courtyard with trees heavy with glowing fruit -- it borrows heavily from Maxfield Parrish-- and looks around. Some are remarkably attractive and dressed like Claudine in gauzy dresses and white linen, and others are dressed in everyday clothes like Sookie, many eating the glowing fruit, and presumably part-fairy like Sookie. Claudine introduces herself to Sookie as her fairy godmother. Sookie is blunt: "If your job is to look after me, can I just say, you suck?" "You're still alive," aren't you," Claudine answers, a little testy.

Sookie spots Barry, the telepathic bellhop from Dallas, who's thrilled to pieces to be here -- "the one place in the universe we're not freaks!" -- and happily accepts a lumiere, or light fruit. "This is like biting into pure happiness," he says. Sookie is not so sure. Getting suspicious, she watches her fellow part-fae feasting on the fruit, but then spots a guy in a flannel shirt across the courtyard. It's her grandfather Earl, but when she introduces herself to him, he doesn't believe it's her -- he just saw her last week at her birthday party. No, she tells him gently, that was 20 years ago. That's how long ago he disappeared. He asks about her grandmother and her parents and can't believe they're all gone. He feels like he's been there only a few hours .... ah, the lotus-eaters.

Suddenly Sookie, the only one who hasn't eaten the fruit, hears screeching, sees some very bad CGI goo seep through the stone walls, and spots a gremlin-type creature stalking the room. Her lumiere is covered with maggots. Sookie asks her granddaddy telepathically if he can hear her. He can. And yes, Sookie, so can everyone else. They hear her tell her grandfather that this place is a trap. Everyone goes quiet and turns toward them, and one elegantly dressed woman emerges from the crowd. "The trap is the world you left behind," says the woman, who introduces herself as Mab. Mab insists that Sookie eat the fruit, but Sookie won't, tossing it to the ground, where it turns into moldy mush. Mab's face flits from ethereal fairy to pointed-eared, dagger-toothed gremlin as she berates Sookie for letting a vampire breach their world by drinking her blood. Vampires nearly drank fairies into distinction in the "old world," which is whey they are "harvesting" the part-fairy from the human plane. The other fairies hold Sookie down and try to force-feed her the lumiere, but she uses her power-hand-thingy to throw Mab off. She crashes into a tree and suddenly, they're in a desert wasteland and all the fairies have turned into rag-dressed gremlins. "Do not let the girl escape!" screams Mab, and the fairies all start throwing light bombs from their hands. Sookie and Earl run, and meet up with two more gremlins who claim they can help. One gets hit by the light bomb and disintegrates. As the two bands of gremlins battle it out, the head rebel gremlin leads Sookie and her grandfather to a yawning chasm and tells them to jump. That will take them back to their world. Sookie wants to know why she should believe him. He says that his sister is the one who abducted her -- so this would be Claudine's brother? -- and that Mab wants to seal off the fairy world, but some feel they have the right to travel back and forth. He tells Earl that he can't return because he ate the lumiere, but when Mab starts to dissolve the portal, Earl grabs Sookie, and they both jump.

Okay, that was kind of silly.

They land in the Bon Temps cemetery -- we flash to Eric and Bill registering her return in their hidey-holes -- and it's clear immediately that Earl is in a bad way, sort of flashing on and off and looking 30 years older, sunken-eyed and gray. She helps him over to her grandmother's grave, and he gives her his pocket watch to give to Jason, then turns to dust. Sookie cries, but in a refreshing change of pace, does not scream.

She walks home, and sees that workers have done some sprucing up at her house. In fact, someone is still working on the outside, and tries to stop Sookie when she walks inside. He tells her he's going to call the cops. Soon we see Jason, now sporting a little goatee and wearing a Renard Parish deputy uniform, enter the house. He's shocked to see her. She's surprised to see him in uniform. He explains that they thought she was dead and tells her she's been gone for more than a year. She's less concerned about this than the fact that Jason sold her house in her absence. She says it felt like she was gone for 10 or 15 minutes, that time works differently in the fairy world. Jason doesn't really believe her, and warns that no one else will, but when she gives him their grandfather's watch he seems to come around. It's 6:35 p.m., so Sookie knows what that means. Bill speed-vamps over, immediately begging her forgiveness for thinking her gone. Eric then coolly saunters up, saying he never believed she was dead. Bill turns on Eric, masterfully ordering him back to Fangtasia -- there's a switch -- and Eric accedes a little grumpily. "Apparently I have to go, but understand this: Everyone who claims to love you -- your friends, your brother, even Bill Compton -- they all gave up on you. I never did."

Sheriff Andy Bellefleur shows up -- oh, William Sanderson, I miss ye -- and is pissed. Bill explains that they thought he killed her all this time, but no one could prove it. Andy tells Sookie to show up at the station tomorrow and he'll take her statement; maybe they'll find the person who kidnapped her. When Sookie explains that no one kidnapped her, Andy goes ballistic. Bill steps in, explaining that Sookie had been working for him on some top-secret vamp business and apologizes for misleading him for a year. "You owe me a Safe Streets plaque," Andy grumps and turns to leave. Back in the patrol car, Jason accuses Andy of using again. It become clear that Andy has become a V addict.

Sookie tells Bill that she feels like she's been gone only an hour or so, so it feels like he just broke her heart. (Because Eric told her that Bill came to Bon Temps to "procure" her for Sophie-Anne, giving him an ulterior motive for their romance.) He's just happy she's okay and wishes her goodnight.

true-blood-season-4-episode-1-fiona-shaw.jpgMarnie (Fiona Shaw) has big ambitions for her little Wiccan circle.

Over in (presumably) Shreveport, Jesus has dragged Lafayette (sporting a fierce mohawk) to the Moon Goddess Emporium for a Wiccan group meeting. Lafayette's appears tired of Jesus trying to interest him in his supernatural experimentation. "Five minutes," Lafayette says. "Ten if they got dranks." One woman in glasses -- I didn't catch her name -- welcomes them, and Holly, the blond waitress from Merlotte's, brings them into the circle, where Marnie, the head Wiccan, is muttering to herself. Suddenly she looks over at Lafayette and motions him. She appears to be hocking up a hairball or in the middle of a particularly troublesome bowel movement, but in reality, she's communing with the spirit of Lafayette's dead trick Eddie, the one who traded sex for V. Suddenly Eddie takes over -- in a thick, nearly indecipherable accent, she/he tells Lafayette that he was worth it, and when he mentions the merlot Lafayette used to drink, Lafayette gets freaked out and backs away. Marnie comes out of her trance and appears in real life to be an apologetic, timid sort. Looks can be deceiving. Lafayette accuses Jesus of telling Marnie about Eddie to lure him in to the group, and storms out.

While we're at it, let's catch up with our pals from Bon Temps:

Arlene comes home and sees her baby (from now-dead serial killer boyfriend Rene) on the floor surrounded by decapitated Barbies. She calls for Terry and freaks out. "What the hell kind of baby does that???" Terry tries to reassure her -- "When I was a kid, I used to put a squirrel head on a lizard body and invent animals" -- but Arlene is not buying it. She's convinced the baby is evil. She picks him and looks him in the eye: "Mommy loves you very, very much but you have to understand, killing is wrong."

Suddenly we're on Bourbon Street, and we pan down a side street to a ... cage-fighting match? It's Tara, beating the heck out of a brunette beauty and having a blast doing so. Later, we see the brunette catch up with Tara outside; turns out they're an item. A drunk passer-by propositions them, but Tara, showing a newly calm side, tells the guy she's just sad for him, and plucks the $10 out of his hands. "That's for me not reporting you for solicitation." She and her girlfriend -- who calls her Tara -- walk off.

Hoyt comes home to Jessica, and he's in a bad mood, which worsens when he sees that there's no food in the fridge and no dinner on the table. He wants to know if maybe she could scramble an egg for him every once in a while. She says that food is disgusting to her, that going to the Piggly Wiggly is like going to the morgue for Hoyt. "You think bleeding out into your mouth wasn't gross for me at first?" Hoyt tells her. "You get used to it!" Jessica starts throwing eggs in a pan, shells and all, then pours the mess onto a plate. Hoyt starts eating it, crowing about how delicious it is. Jessica starts to see the humor in the situation and laughs, telling him he'll get sick if he keeps eating it. He starts to laugh too.

At Fangtasia, Pam, proper in a Chanel suit, is filming a PSA about how vampires aren't really that evil, but is utterly unconvincing. Nan Flanagan, the face of the American Vampire League, expositions that in this post-Russell Edgington world, they have to win back the human public, one smile at a time. Eric turns up, takes over for Pam, and turns up the charm. "I'm a taxpaying American and small business owner in the great state of Louisiana. I also happen to be a vampire ... We were humans. We ask to be treated as such. We welcome you into our wrold as well. We're always more than happy to serve humans here at Fangtasia. And I don't mean for dinner." Eric's PSA is intercut with Bill cutting the ribbon on the new senior citizen center named for his Confederate-era wife. We get a glimpse of Portia Bellefleur, Andy's sister, and kind of technically Bill's descendant, right? Keep that in mind.

Sookie returns to Merlotte's, where she gets big hugs from Arlene and Terry, a nice welcome from Lafayette and a prickly one from Sam, who tells her she can return part-time, because Arlene and Holly have kids and need the shifts. Back in the kitchen, Jesus shows up. Lafayette is still angry about the Wiccan meeting and thinks Jesus set him up, but Jesus tells him that Lafayette is trying to run away from what makes him special. Andy shows up and orders Jesus out, then hits up Lafayette for some V. He starts roughing him up when Lafayette tells him he's no longer in the business, but Jason shows up and defuses Andy, then tells Lafayette that this never happened.

Maxine Fortenberry shows up at Merlotte's with Tommy, who's sporting a leg brace. Guess Sam did shoot him at the end of last season. Tommy seems to have turned over a new leaf. He's clean-cut, and leads a prayer before the meal. Sam all but rolls his eyes and asks Tommy how the physical therapy he's paying for is working out. Tommy says he may need a couple of more months, and wants to know how Sam's anger management is coming along. Sam says he might need some more therapy as well.

Sam's anger management turns out to be a support group of fellow shapeshifters ... and plenty of alcohol. There's a guy, Emory, and a couple of attractive girls, one of whom is named Luna. After sharing some stories, they're ready to move on from wine ... into horses. They go cantering off into the night.

Tara and her girlfriend are in bed when Tara gets a text from Lafayette telling her Sookie is back. Tara lies and says it's from her father, who informed her that her grandmother died. The girlfriend is suitably concerned and asks "Toni" if she needs to go home. Tara says she'll probably just send flowers.

Sookie is meeting with a rather uppity Portia about getting her house back from the mystery concern who bought it. Portia says she'll try to chase down the owners, but they've put a good $50,000 into it and will want to be repaid. Sookie says the house has a lifetime of memories in it -- and here Sookie listens in to Portia, who's thinking, yeah, a lifetime of misery, of murder, and of banging Bill Compton, who hardly mentions Sookie at all. Hmm, are Portia and Bill an item? Sookie looks distressed.

At Fangtasia, Jessica is dancing while Hoyt gets a drink. A cute guy spots her and hits on her, but she says she's here with her boyfriend. He goes off, disappointed, but she gives him the eye while dancing with Hoyt. Pam looks on knowingly. When Jessica escapes to the bathroom, Pam confronts her in her signature snarky way. "We've been worried sick about you," she tells Jessica. As Jessica responds eaglery, "Really?" Pam simultaneously says "Not a bit." Ha. Jessica tells her she and Hoyt are having a date night. "The way you're eye-(bleeping) fangbangers from across the room is especially romantic," Pam drawls. What is Jessica doing, tying herself down to Hoyt? She's a hunter! Pam starts laughing because Jessica so ridiculous. But Jessica says that regardless of what Pam thinks she saw, she loves Hoyt and she'll be going home with him.

Sigh. Back in Hot Shot. My lease favorite subplot. Jason pulls into town, his car loaded up with food. Apparently Felton and Crystal's departure made him the provider around here. One of the kids tells Jason that they're having trouble with the ice box. Jason, who looks like he's had it up to here with these folks, checks it out. While he's poking around inside it, someone -- not the kid -- pushes him in and locks the ice box.

Back at the coven, Marnie tells the group she wants to help guide her dead bird Minerva into the spirit world. Lafayette's sitting off to the side. She starts the ritual, talking about guiding Minerva to her new realm, but then switches course, asking to restore Minerva's spirit to life. Uhhh, Marnie?, the rest of the coven asks. "You!" she orders Lafayette. "Join!" He reluctantly comes in, and the second he completes the circle, a jolt of psychic electricity passes through the group. Marnie continues the ritual, chanting Latin or somesort, and then the the bird takes flight. Everyone is startled, and when Lafayette drops the hands on either side of him, the bird falls to the ground, dead. Lafayette apologizes, but Marnie appears pleased with the effort.

The bespectacled woman from the Wiccan group, apparently a vampire spy, reports to Bill, who has given his crumbling mansion a sleek makeover. She kneels before him. Bill is now the King of Louisiana. Interesting. Guess Sophie-Anne lost.

Back at her house, Sookie is getting changed. She tosses her shirt over her shoulder, and it doesn't hit the floor. She turns around, and Eric is clutching her shirt. She covers herself up. "Mmmmm. Such a strange sensation when the reality matches what you're pictured in your mind so precisely," Eric says. Sookie tells him she's rescinded his invitation, but Eric tells her now he owns the house, holding up her key. "I always knew you were alive," he tells her. "If I owned the house, well, then I would own you. Sookie, you are mine." He flashes his fangs. And Sookie, again to her credit, does not scream.

Jumat, 24 Juni 2011

Avalanche selects forward Gabriel Landeskog with No. 2 pick in NHL draft

ST. PAUL, MINN. — The Avalanche tonight chose left wing Gabriel Landeskog with the No. 2 pick in the NHL draft.

A rugged, 6-foot-1, 207-pound left wing who played for the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League, Landeskog is considered a blue-chip power forward prospect.

The native of Stockholm, Sweden, is considered one of the most "NHL-ready" players in the draft, with a body more filled out than most 18-year-olds.

"I'm just so excited," Landeskog said. "So excited to go to a team that had my idol, Peter Forsberg, and also guys like Joe Sakic and Patrick Roy."

Sakic, the Avs' executive adviser, was on the podium here to hand Landeskog his new jersey.

With the 11th overall pick in the

Post Poll - Avs' Draft Pick

The Avalanche chose left wing Gabriel Landeskog with the No. 2 pick in the NHL draft. He's a rugged, 6-foot-1, 207-pound left wing who played for the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League. How would you rate the Avs selection?

Great choice. He'll contribute right away and help lead Colorado back to the playoffs.
Makes no sense. Avs need help on defense and in goal.
We'll have to wait and see, but if he's half as good as a previous Swedish Avalanche player (Peter Forsberg) I'll be satisfied.
first round, the Avs selected 6-foot-3, 197-pound defenseman Duncan Siemens of Saskatoon of the Western Hockey League. Siemens was a teammate of Avs defensive up-and-comer Stefan Elliott, and plays a rugged, physical game.

Landeskog, a personable, likable captain of his junior team is expected to compete right away for a top-6 forward spot with the Avs this coming season.

"My goal is to make the National Hockey League next season," he said. "I'm going to work as hard as I possibly can to make that happen."

Landeskog scored 36 goals and 66 points for Kitchener last season, and was the first European captain of the Rangers in their history.

"I kind of had a little feeling that Colorado might be interested in me during the interviews. I came away with a good feeling, and I think they did too. That was a meeting that was highlighted on my schedule, but at the same time I tried not to get too excited and ahead of myself. When it came time for the No. 2 pick to be called, my heart started beating harder and the palms got sweatier."

Landeskog seems more emotionally mature than your typical teenager too.

"He's a physical player in terms of confrontation," Avalanche chief scout Rick Pracey said

of Landeskog on Thursday. "He initiates the contact, but he's also a player who plays the full length of the ice. He's diligent. There's lots to like here in terms of his overall package."

Despite growing up in Stockholm, he speaks perfect English and has no traces of a Swedish accent. He sounds Canadian actually, and scouts say his game is more North American than your usual European. Landeskog decided to play junior in Canada and learned English mostly from watching TV there.

Landeskog likes to crash and bang in the corners and around the net, but he has skill too. As captain of the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League, he scored 36 goals and 66 points in 53 games.

Forsberg was Landeskog's favorite player as a kid.

"He was my guy, just the way he could dominate the game physically, but also with his skill," Landeskog said.

Of the possibility of joining the Avalanche, Landeskog said Thursday, "I've only heard great things about Denver and Colorado, and obviously they've got a great future there. I had a pretty good feeling walking out of there (after meeting with Avs scouts), and I had an extra long chat with them afterwards. I think they showed a little bit of interest."

Said NHL Central Scouting's Peter Sullivan: "Gabriel does remind me of former Kitchener Ranger Mike Richards. He sticks up for his teammates and is as strong at both ends of the rink as any player in the draft this year. He competes as hard if not harder than anybody. He's got all the assets that you need to be a team leader and, for a potential No. 1 overall, that's what you would want."

Edmonton selected Red Deer center Ryan Nugent-Hopkins with the first pick.

Siemens, the Avs' pick at No. 11, is known as a two-way defender. He has a solid build and is a physical defenseman.

Hockey Canada's head scout Al Murray toldhockeywilderness.comthat Siemens is "a big, punishing defenseman who can really skate."

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Kamis, 23 Juni 2011

NBA Draft 2011: Sacramento Kings Select Jimmer Fredette With No. 10 Pick

The Sacramento Kings picked Jimmer Fredette of BYU with the No. 10 pick in the 2011 NBA Draft. Jimmer is ridiculously popular just about eveywhere, and figures to play in a three-guard rotation with Tyreke Evans andMarcus Thornton.

Both Brandon Knight and Kemba Walker lasted to the No. 7 pick, but went back-to-back at No. 8 (Detroit Pistons) and No. 9 (Charlotte Bobcats), leaving Jimmer to Sacramento. Knight ended a run of five straight international players running from No. 3 (Enes Kanter) to No. 7 (Bismack Biyombo).

Earlier on Thursday, the Kings traded their No. 7 pick to the Milwaukee Bucks along with Beno Udrih in exchange for No. 10 and good ol' John Salmons. Salmons is due $25 million over the next three seasons. Udrih was due $14 million over two years. The No. 10 is also typically less valuable than the No. 7 pick.

The Kings next pick at No. 35. That pick should come down around 7:30 Pacific.

 
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