Rangers' Josh Hamilton joins select club with 4-homer game vs. Orioles (+video)

The Texas Rangers outfielder drove in eight runs with four swings of the bat Tuesday night.

Not even Babe Ruth was able to do what Josh Hamilton of the Rangers did Tuesday night against the Orioles in Baltimore - hit four home runs in a single game - as Texas beat the O's, 10-3.

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Hamilton hit three of the blasts to center field and one to left off three different Oriole pitchers at Camden Yards. All the home runs were two-run shots. He ended up going five-for-five at the plate, adding a fifth-inning double.

The Rangers center fielder enjoyed how his teammates reacted as much as hitting the home runs, ESPN.com reported.

"I was saying after I hit two that I had never hit three in a game before. What a blessing that was," Hamilton said. "And then to hit four, it was just an awesome feeling to see how excited my teammates got.

"It reminds you of when you're in Little League and a little kid, and just the excitement and why we play the game. Things like that. You never know what can happen. It was just an absolute blessing."

The 'Big League Stew' Yahoo! Sports blog points out that Hamilton is the 16th major leaguer to accomplish the feat. Hamilton joins such greats as Lou Gehrig, Willie Mays, and Mike Schmidt in the select four-homer game club.

Afterwards, Hamilton, a early AL M.V.P. candidate, put his career night in perspective, according to MLB.com.

"Obviously, other than the World Series, it's the highlight of my big league career," Hamilton said.

Hamilton leads the major leagues in hitting with a .406 average, 14 home runs and 36 RBIs. The Rangers currently lead the American League West Division with a 20-10 record.

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Must See HDTV (May 14th - 20th)

This week we're completely overrun by season finales -- if there's a winter show that you watch that is still airing, it's a safe bet that it will be wrapping up its run this week. Check after the break break for the dates and times on those as well as NBA and NHL playoffs action plus Blu-ray and videogame releases (we couldn't ignore Diablo 3), but there's just one finale we're highlighting this week.

Community
Even with the good news that NBC has ordered up (at least) 13 more episodes for next season, we'll be sad to see Greendale's study group leave for the summer. Season three wraps up Thursday night with an oddly disjointed three episode finale broken up by 30 Rock in the middle. While the only thing we know for sure is that they're never doing paintball again, it seems certain the finale will include healthy amounts of Officer Chang, a doppleDeaner, the appearance of Evil Troy, Jeff and Abed, and possibly a return trip to the Dreamatorium.
(May 17th, 8, 9 & 9:30PM, NBC)

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Summit canceled as Ukraine isolation deepens over treatment of Tymoshenko

Ukraine was slated to host a summit this week, but with a dozen European leaders boycotting in protest of Kiev's treatment of Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine opted to cancel it instead.

In a stinging humiliation that underscores Ukraine's increasing isolation, President Viktor Yanukovych today bowed to a boycott by a dozen European leaders angry over treatment of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, indefinitely postponing a prestigious summit meeting it was to have hosted this week in the Crimean resort of Yalta.

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"Due to the fact that a number of European heads of states are unable to attend the summit of presidents of the Central European Countries in Yalta, Ukraine found it reasonable to postpone it until a later date," Alexander Dykusarov, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said in a terse statement.

The event was meant to showcase Ukraine's growing integration into the European community, and to set the stage for Ukraine's co-hosting, along with Poland, of the Euro 2012 soccer championships ? a huge event in the life of all Europeans ? next month.

Instead, the growing impression is that Ukraine is falling out of the European orbit and drifting back into Moscow's embrace.

Leaders of Germany, Estonia, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, and others have refused to attend the annual regional meeting in an escalating row over the alleged mistreatment of Ms. Tymoshenko,?who was sentenced to seven years in prison last October for "abuse of office" while she was prime minister. She also faces a fresh trial on charges of alleged tax evasion, which is scheduled to open in a Kharkov court later this month.

Tymoshenko, who says all the charges are politically motivated, is currently on a hunger strike and alleges that she has been beaten in prison. She also says she is suffering from severe chronic back pain brought on by her ordeal, and has criticized her treatment by state doctors in a Kharkov clinic. Her family wants her to go to Germany for treatment, but she refuses to leave Ukraine. In any case, there seems little chance the Yanukovych government would let her leave.

She was scheduled to be seen by German doctors at a Kharkov clinic today.

"She has not abandoned her hunger strike and she will not abandon it until the question of her situation has been resolved," Tymoshenko's lawyer, Olexandr Plakhotnyuk, told journalists today. "She is drinking only water. What will take place next will be decided after she meets doctors today."

Tymoshenko was narrowly defeated in presidential elections by Yanukovych two years ago, and was rapidly removed from all her official positions shortly afterward.

She remains Ukraine's top opposition leader, and her prosecutions by the Yanukovych government are widely suspected of being a means of removing her from the political stage in advance of parliamentary elections slated for later this year. Ukraine's next presidential polls will be held in 2015.

Calls are now mounting for a boycott of Ukrainian venues for the Euro 2012 soccer matches which, if it happens, will strike hard at Yanukovych's personal prestige and the sensitivities of all Ukrainians.

The foreign ministry in Kiev warned last week that any targeting of the soccer championship to punish Yanukovych would "damage the interests of millions of ordinary Ukrainians that vote for various political parties or who are not interested in politics at all."

Ukraine has at least one reliable friend in freshly inaugurated Russian president Vladimir Putin, who has dismissed any suggestion that Moscow might join such a boycott, saying "you can't mix politics, business, and other issues with sport."

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Gillmor Gang: Tomorrow Never Knows

The Gillmor Gang ? John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor ? turned off their minds, relaxed, and floated downstream on the push notification inbox of tomorrow. Borrowing a page from the Tibetan Book of Windows, the Gang debated the impossibility of multitasking, the existence of a new uber operating system, and the overall impact of surrendering to the void. Revolver marked the exact center of the Beatles arc; everything before was prologue, everything after continues to expand as the media is transformed. A quarter of a million may seem like a lot of dollars for playing one song once on a TV show, just as we await the size of the Facebook IPO. Recorded first and sequenced last, Tomorrow Never Knows is the end of the beginning.

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Samsung SCX-4835FR

The Samsung SCX-4835FR ($450 street) is the sort of unexciting monochrome laser MFP that does its job well enough, but without offering anything to make it stand out from the crowd. Like some other Samsung MFPs I've reviewed recently, including, for example, the Samsung SCX-4729FD ($250 street, 3 stars), it's slower than you'd expect from the engine rating, which is 33 pages per minute (ppm) in this case. However, it offers all the features most offices need. As long as you're not overly concerned with speed, that's enough to make it worth considering.

Aimed at the range from micro to mid-size offices, but most appropriate for micro to small offices or workgroups because of its slow speed, the SCX-4835FR ?is too big to share a desk with comfortably, at 17.6 by 18.5 by 17.2 (HWD) inches. On the other hand, it's small enough to find room for easily even in a micro office, and its Ethernet connection makes it easy to share on a network.

As you would probably expect for an office MFP, the SCX-4835FR can print and fax from, as well as scan to a PC, even over a network, and it works as a standalone copier and fax machine. In addition, it can both scan to and print from a USB memory key, and it includes a 50-page automatic document feeder (ADF) to complement the letter size flatbed, and let you scan legal-size pages. The ADF also duplexes (scans one side of the page, then turns it over to scan the other) making it easy to scan stacks of paper printed on both sides of the page.

The printer's paper handling is good enough to count as a plus, with a 250-sheet paper tray, a 50-sheet multipurpose tray for easy printing on different types of paper, and a built-in duplexer for printing on both sides of the page. For most micro and small offices this should translate to both ample capacity and welcome flexibility. For those who need more, Samsung sells an optional 520-sheet tray ($200 street) to boost the paper capacity to a total of 820 sheets.

Setup and Speed
For my tests, I installed the SCX-4835FR driver and software on a Windows Vista system, and connected the printer directly to the network. Installation was standard fare.

The printer was a lot slower than you'd expect from the 33 ppm engine speed?which should be close to the speed you'll see when printing a text file without any graphics or photos. I timed it on our business applications suite (using QualityLogic's hardware and software for timing) at an effective 3.3 ppm.

For comparison, the SCX-4729FD , rated at 29 ppm, came in at 8.2 ppm, and the Editors' Choice Brother MFC-8480DN ($400 street, 4 stars), rated at 32 ppm, managed an effective 10.6 ppm. That makes the SCX-4835FR slow for the price and slow for the engine rating.

Output Quality
I wish I could report that the printer makes up for its slow speed with dazzling output quality. Unfortunately, however, the quality is a bit below par across the board. The good news is that even below-par text for a mono laser is more than good enough for most business needs. It's not suitable for serious desktop publishing, but for anything less demanding than that, you shouldn't have a problem with it unless you have an unusual need for small fonts.

Graphics and photo quality are both at the bottom of a tight range where the vast majority of mono laser MFPs fall. Graphics are easily good enough for any internal business need. Depending on your level of perfectionism, you may or may not consider them good enough for PowerPoint handouts or other material going to potential clients or customers. Photo quality is good enough to print recognizable photos from Web pages or the like. Whether you?d consider them suitable for, say, a client newsletter, will depend on how critical an eye you have.

All told, the Samsung SCX-4835FR offers the right set of features for most small offices, including such conveniences as the ADF and the ability to scan to and print from a USB key. It's slow, but not intolerably slow, and although the output quality isn't stellar, it's good enough for most business use. The only real issue is that it costs a lot for what it delivers. The Brother MFC-8480DN , or even Samsung's own SCX-4729FD offer better value?aka more bang per buck. But if you don't mind the price, or can find the Samsung SCX-4835FR for a sufficiently low price, it's otherwise a perfectly reasonably choice.

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