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Anthony Dominick Benedetto
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Tony Bennett
BiographyTony Bennett's career has enjoyed three distinct phases, each of them very successful. In the early '50s, he scored a series of major hits that made him one of the most popular recording artists of the time. In the early '60s, he mounted a comeback as more of an adult-album seller. And from the mid-'80s on, he achieved renewed popularity with generations of listeners who hadn't been born when he first appeared. This, however, defines Bennett more in terms of marketing than music. He would probably say that he has remained largely constant to his goals of singing the best available songs the best way he knows how in each phase of his career. Popular taste may have caused his level of recognition to increase or decrease, but he continued to sing popular standards in a warm, husky tenor, varying his timing and phrasing with a jazz fan's sense of spontaneity to bring out the melodies and lyrics of the songs effectively. By the start of the 21st century, Bennett seemed like the last of a breed, but he remained as popular as ever. . Bennett grew up in the Astoria section of the borough of Queens in New York City under the name Anthony Dominick Benedetto. His father, a grocer, died when he was about ten after a lingering illness that had forced his mother to become a seamstress to support the family of five. By then, he was already starting to attract notice as a singer, performing beside Mayor Fiorello La Guardia at the opening of the Triborough Bridge in 1936. By his teens, Bennett had set his sights on becoming a professional singer. After briefly attending the High School of Industrial Arts (now known as the High School of Art and Design), where he gained training as a painter, he dropped out of school at 16 to earn money to help support his family, meanwhile also performing at amateur shows. Upon his 18th birthday in 1944, he was drafted into the Army, and he saw combat in Europe during World War II. Mustered out in 1946, he went back to trying to make it in music, and he attended the American Theater Wing on the GI Bill. By the end of the '40s, he had acquired a manager and was working regularly around New York. He got a break when Bob Hope saw him performing with Pearl Bailey in Greenwich Village and put him into his stage show, also suggesting a name change to Tony Bennett. In 1950, Columbia Records A&R director Mitch Miller heard his demonstration recording of "The Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and signed him to the label.
Bennett's first hit, "Because of You," topped the charts in September 1951, succeeded at number one by his cover of Hank Williams' "Cold, Cold Heart." Following another five chart entries over the next two years, he returned to number one in November 1953 with "Rags to Riches." Its follow-up, "Stranger in Paradise" from the Broadway musical Kismet, was another chart-topper, and in 1954 Bennett also reached the Top Ten with Williams' "There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight" and "Cinnamon Sinner." The rise of rock & roll in the mid-'50s made it more difficult for Bennett to score big hits, but he continued to place singles in the charts regularly through 1960, and even returned to the Top Ten with "In the Middle of an Island" in 1957. Meanwhile, he was developing a nightclub act that leaned more heavily on standards and was exploring album projects that allowed him to indulge his interest in jazz — notably 1957's The Beat of My Heart, on which he was accompanied mainly by jazz percussionists, and 1959's In Person! With Count Basie and His Orchestra. By the early '60s, although he had faded as a singles artist, he had built a successful career making personal appearances and recording albums of well-known songs in the manner of Frank Sinatra.
In 1962, Bennett introduced "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," a ballad written by two unknown songwriters, George Cory and Douglass Cross, who had pitched it to his pianist, Ralph Sharon. Released as a single, the song took time to catch on, and although it peaked only in the Top 20, it remained on one or the other of the national charts for almost nine months. It became Bennett's signature song and pushed his career to a higher level. The I Left My Heart in San Francisco album reached the Top Five and went gold, and the single won Bennett Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Best Solo Vocal Performance, Male. Bennett's next studio album, 1963's I Wanna Be Around..., also made the Top Five, and its title track was another Top 20 hit, as was his next single, "The Good Life," also featured on the album. For the next three years, his albums consistently placed in the Top 100, along with a series of charting singles that included the Top 40 hits "Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)" (from the Broadway musical The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd) and "If I Ruled the World" (from the Broadway musical Pickwick).
By the late '60s, Bennett's record sales had cooled off as the major record labels turned their attention to the lucrative rock market. Just as Mitch Miller had encouraged Bennett to record novelty songs over his objections in the 1950s, Clive Davis, head of Columbia parent CBS Records, encouraged him to record contemporary pop/rock material. He acquiesced on albums such as Tony Sings the Great Hits of Today!, but his sales did not improve. In 1972, he left Columbia for the Verve division of MGM Records, but by the mid-'70s he was without a label affiliation, and he decided to found his own record company, Improv, to record the way he wanted to. He made several albums for Improv, including one with jazz pianist Bill Evans (following a disc they made for Fantasy Records), but the label eventually foundered. (Concord Records released the box set The Complete Improv Recordings in 2004.)
By the late '70s, however, Bennett did not need hit records to sustain his career, and he worked regularly in concert halls around the world. By the mid-'80s, there was a growing appreciation of traditional pop music, as performers such as Linda Ronstadt recorded albums of standards. In 1986, Bennett re-signed to Columbia and released The Art of Excellence, his first album to reach the pop charts in 14 years. Now managed by his son Danny, Bennett shrewdly found ways to attract the attention of the MTV generation without changing his basic style of singing songs from the Great American Songbook while wearing a tuxedo. By the early '90s, he was as popular as he had ever been. The albums Perfectly Frank (1992, a tribute to Frank Sinatra) and Steppin' Out (1993, a tribute to Fred Astaire) went gold and won Bennett back-to-back Grammys for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance. But his comeback was sealed by 1994's MTV Unplugged, featuring guest stars Elvis Costello and k.d. lang, which went platinum and won the Grammy for Album of the Year as well as another award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance.
Bennett became a Grammy perennial, also taking home Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance awards for Here's to the Ladies (1995) and On Holiday: A Tribute to Billie Holiday (1997). Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool (1999) was another Grammy winner in the retitled Best Traditional Pop Album category, as was Playin' with My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues, an album of duets released in 2001. One year later, Bennett paired off with a single duet partner, recording A Wonderful World with k.d. lang. The Art of Romance followed in 2004. Both albums won the Best Traditional Pop Album Grammy for their respective years. In August 2006, Bennett reached his 80th birthday, and his record label marked the occasion with a series of reissues and compilations. The next month brought Duets: An American Classic, another collection of pairings with other singers on re-recordings of some of Bennett's best-known songs. It reached number three in the Billboard chart, the highest placing for an album in Bennett's career; it also won him another Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Album. A second installment of Duets was released in 2011, and the Latin version (Viva Duets) followed in time for Christmas 2012. That year also saw his fourth book published, Life Is a Gift: The Zen of Bennett, and this coincided with the release of a similarly titled documentary film. In 2014, he returned to the collaborative approach to recording that had proved to be so fruitful for him in the 21st century and released Cheek to Cheek, an album of jazz standards on which he was jointly billed alongside Lady Gaga.
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Veteran singer-writer Jonathan Edwards in Mansfield on Saturday
In the 1970s, tucked between the sounds of Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd and a host of rock bands, Jonathan Edwards was a voice of folk-country-pop clarity. His pulsating rhythm guitar, riveting harmonica playing and crisp and tender vocals, was an escape for a country post-Vietnam, and he offered a dose of originality and simplicity few have brought to the airwaves since.
Edwards, who plays the Rose Garden Coffeehouse in Mansfield, Mass., on Saturday, has not rested on the laurels of his 1971, self-titled gold-record debut. Sure, the songs from that LP remain in high demand, songs like "Sunshine," the pot-loving "Shanty" or the tender "Sometimes." He has since been a part of more than 20 projects, from CDs to DVDs, and thankfully, has continued writing.

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Is it a plant? Or is it a monkey?
It should not be hard to recognize the differences between furry night monkeys and the bright yellow flowers of golden peas. But they have something peculiar in common that leads to some confusion once in while: their name. Both genera are officially known as Aotus.
There are about two million known species on the planet, so it should not come to a surprise that scientists accidentally have given certain species, or groups of species, similar names. For instance, Proboscidea is considered an order of elephants, but it is also the name for the genus of devil's claws. Other examples include Myrmecia pyriformis (insect and green algae), Ficus elegans (mollusc and plant), Ormosia nobilis (insect and plant), and Trigonidium grande (orchid and katydid).


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Briefing: Galaxies
"Making Invisible Galaxies Visible" was the subject of Tuesday afternoon's press conference. Speakers included Jennifer Lotz (Space Telescope Science Institute) on Hubble's new ultradeep Frontier Fields, Garth Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz) on the discovery and characterization of surprisingly luminous galaxy candidates at z ~ 9–10, Anahita Alavi (University of California, Riverside) on ultrafaint ultraviolet galaxies at the epoch of peak star formation, and Carol Christian (Space Telescope Science Institute) on a project that brings Hubble images to life as 3D models. AAS Press Officer Rick Fienberg emceed the briefing.Read More


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Top 5 Songs to Get a Speeding Ticket By
With CES a few days away, and my yearly pilgrimage to that great abomination in the desert (Las Vegas) imminent, I figured it was a good time to compile some excellent driving songs.
The key to a good driving song is not that the song has something to DO with driving, that's lazy and often highly inaccurate. Similar to my article on Pop Music in the Movies, the key is the feel. The key is a fast, *ahem* driving beat.
Of course everyone has their favorite driving songs, and of course there are the quintessential driving songs, like Born to be Wild and maybe Sprit in the Sky. If you've got favs, feel free to add them in the comments below. I guess there are a few songs that are about driving that are also good driving songs, but trite "driving" songs like I Can't Drive 55 are horrible.
So here are my picks for the soundtrack to some, shall we say, exuberant driving.
Fun Fact: I drove around the country a few years ago, and went out of my way to go to La Grange just so I could photograph a shack outside of town. No, not that kind of shack. An actual shack. Here's the photo:
Bonus Fun Fact: This is the first song I ever played in front of an audience on guitar (while singing). Rock'n'Roll!
Pink Floyd - "One of These Days"
Is there a better bass line in rock? No. And if you think so, you're wrong. I've blown out speakers with this song. Gleefully.
David Bowie - "Dead Man Walking"
Fun Fact: I'm the only person on Earth who liked this album, and I love it.
Blue Man Group - "Rods and Cones"
The first time I heard this song I was driving at night through the twisty, canyon-y part of Highway 15 in northern Arizona. An epic night driving song.
Daft Punk, Remixed by Moby - "The Son of Flynn"
Daft Punk's score for Tron: Legacy was brilliant, but it's still a score. The R3CONF1GUR3D album lets a bunch of talented musicians turn the tracks into actual songs. Amazing things happen, so pretty much this whole album, really. This is almost cheating, as any Daft Punk album is good to drive to, especially Alive 2007.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - "Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood"
I can't say for sure this is for everyone, but it's one of my favorite albums of all time (Top 5, easy), and is always played on every road trip. Usually as I crest the final hill to descend into Vegas.


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For the North, the war produced a still greater hero in Abraham Lincoln -- a man eager, above all else, to weld the Union together again, not by force and repression but by warmth and generosity. In 1864 he had been elected for a second term as president, defeating as his Democratic opponent, George McClellan, the general whom Lincoln had dismissed after Antietam.
Lincoln's second inaugural address closed with these words:
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Three weeks later, two days after Lee's surrender, Lincoln delivered his last public address, in which he unfolded a generous reconstruction policy.
On April 14, the president held what was to be his last Cabinet meeting. That evening -- with his wife and a young couple who were his guests -- he attended a performance at Ford's Theater. There, as he sat in the presidential box, he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a Virginia actor embittered by the South's defeat. Booth was killed in a shootout some days later in a barn in the Virginia countryside. His accomplices were captured and later executed.
Lincoln died in a downstairs bedroom of a house across the street from Ford's on the morning of April 15. Wrote poet James Russell
Never before that startled April morning did such multitudes of men shed tears for the death of one they had never seen, as if with him a friendly presence had been taken from their lives, leaving them colder and darker. Never was funeral panegyric so eloquent as the silent look of sympathy which strangers exchanged when, they met that day. Their common manhood had lost a kinsman.
The first great task confronting the victorious North -- now under the leadership of Lincoln's vice president, Andrew Johnson, a Southerner who remained loyal to the Union -- was to determine the status of the states that had seceded. Lincoln had already set the stage. In his view, the people of the Southern states had never legally seceded; they had been misled by some disloyal citizens into a defiance of federal authority. And since the war was the act of individuals, the federal government would have to deal with these individuals and not with the states. Thus, in 1863 Lincoln proclaimed that if in any state 10 percent of the voters of record in 1860 would form a government loyal to the U.S. Constitution and would acknowledge obedience to the laws of the Congress and the proclamations of the president, he would recognize the government so created as the state's legal government.
Congress rejected this plan and challenged Lincoln's right to deal with the matter without consultation. Some members of Congress advocated severe punishment for all the seceded states. Yet even before the war was wholly over, new governments had been set up in Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana.
To deal with one of its major concerns -- the condition of former slaves -- Congress, in March 1865, established the Freedmen's Bureau to act as guardian over African Americans and guide them toward self-support. And in December of that year, Congress ratified the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery.
Throughout the summer of 1865 Johnson proceeded to carry out Lincoln's reconstruction program, with minor modifications. By presidential proclamation he appointed a governor for each of the former Confederate states and freely restored political rights to large numbers of Southern citizens through use of presidential pardons.
In due time conventions were held in each of the former Confederate states to repeal the ordinances of secession, repudiate the war debt, and draft new state constitutions. Eventually a native Unionist became governor in each state with authority to convoke a convention of loyal voters. Johnson called upon each convention to invalidate the secession, abolish slavery, repudiate all debts that went to aid the Confederacy and ratify the 13th Amendment. By the end of 1865, this process, with a few exceptions, was completed.
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It takes a village to make a Hall of Famer
The Culinary Institute of America just announced its new Vintners Hall of Fame inductees, and the names should be familiar to everyone in the California wine industry: Gerald Asher, Jack and Jamie Davies, Jess Jackson (never heard of him), Carole Meredith, Justin Meyer and Warren Winiarski.
Every magazine and every non-profit and for-profit wine organization seems to have an awards or hall of fame-type thing going on these days. I suppose it's possible for someone to win 5 or 6 of these a year, which would require a special wall to put up all the plaques. One of these days, someone — Tom Wark? — is going to have to start a "Best American Wine Awards of the Year" competition. My own magazine, Wine Enthusiast, just announced our own 2008 Wine Star Awards, and they include some formidable names.
It's easy to honor greatness, accomplishment and longevity, but we should also have some recognition of those behind-the-scenes folks who make it all happen every day: the cellar rats and field workers, accountants and secretaries, P.R. folks and salespeople without whom the wine industry would come to a screeching halt. I know that everyone who's ever won an award feels the same way.
Not to be snarky (oh wait, me? never)…your 2008 Wine Star Awards…
"and the #1 brand of any table or sparkling wine in America during the 2007 holiday season. For all these reasons, and more, Wine Enthusiast is pleased to recognize Korbel as the American Winery of the Year."
Using this logic, McDonalds is American Restaurant of the Year. Sysco, American Food Supplier of the Year. Monsanto, GMO Food Supplier of the Year. Congrats to all on creating the best product possible. You've lead the way. Well, the way to Hell.


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Running away and joining the circus is an escape for some, but for Carrie Parry, it was inspiration.
"Each season we traveled from town to town through the English countryside. It's difficult to describe what it's like to wake up surrounded by Russian Cossacks and acrobats, clowns, musicians, and jugglers—and then getting to work with them, and then getting to know them as people and as friends," remembers the Los Angeles-born, New York-based designer.
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It's just one of the many things that influence Parry's timeless-with-a-twist designs for her eponymous label, which launches this fall. Her pieces range from impeccably tailored bow-tied tulip skirts to printed sheath dresses to cuffed pants, with the line citing everything from the 1939 film The Women to Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama to—of course—Parry's time touring with Giffords Circus. "That's exactly what makes fashion interesting: pulling inspiration from really varied sources and reinterpreting it to something totally new and your own," Parry says.
She takes that a step further with her clever spin on Mrs. Montague, a housewife who, in the 1830s, invented the detachable collar. "I was so excited by this idea, as it addresses the sustainability of garments in a new way, and also allows the wearer to become more engaged with their clothing," explains the designer. That translates into shirts, jackets, skirts, and dresses with detachable (and interchangeable) collars, cuffs, and bows. Adds Parry, "The idea for this is to add duality to the clothing, so they can easily be transitioned from day to night, work to play, and of course they are easy to travel with!"
It also points to the eco-consciousness of the label. Parry, who is getting her graduate degree in Socially Responsible and Sustainable Apparel Business while simultaneously starting up her label, sources fabrics from a women-owned cooperative in India and produces the collection in New York City's garment district. It was while she was working with a handful of big names—among them, Jonathan Saunders, Marc by Marc Jacobs, and Norma Kamali—that she realized how important sustainability would be to her eventual solo endeavor. "My work in fashion opened my eyes to the environmental and social impact that the industry can have," says Parry, adding, "It can be a challenge, but it is also so much more rewarding, and I really wouldn't do it any other way."


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Golden Minor Soccer Survey
by Golden Minor Soccer Association, 2018-06-14T08:34:08.000-07:00June 14 2018, at 08:34 AM PDT in GMSA 2018
Thank you for being part of soccer for the 2018 season.
The Minor Soccer Board are already looking towards next season. To help us plan, please take a moment to follow the attached link and complete the survey. All survey responses will be used for planning purposes only.
See you at the fields for our last week of play. Please remember our wind up games!
U5 – Pizza Party and Soccer Night – Wednesday June 20th
U7, U9, U12, U15, U18 – Soccer Jamboree and Barbecue – Saturday June 23rd
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I've been dreaming on writing a manuscript about who are the pollinators for a while, but it looks I'm not going to have the time soon, so here is an early draft of what the main figure should look like:
It's surprisingly difficult to gather quantitative information on which animals are the main pollinators, and on which aspects of pollination they are good at. That figure can cover more aspects, or split the pollinator guilds in finer sub-groups, but this is just a first pass. As expected, bees are the clear winners!
I used guesstimates based on Winfree et al 2011 and the following articles:
Number of species: How many species of a given taxa are described based on different taxonomical resources. But not all species on a given taxa are necessarily good pollinators!
Efficiency: That one will vary a lot among species of the same group, but based on Sahli and Conner 2007, and other few cross taxa studies measuring pollen deposition I gave values from 1 to 10 to the different taxa.
Frequency of visits: This is based on Neff and Simpson 1993 descriptive work. An update to that with recent datasets is really needed! Values from 1 to 10.
Distribution: Some taxa are widespread, while others restricted to some areas, like to the tropics. Ranked from 1 to 10.
Number of plants pollinated: A complete guesstimate. Using Ollerton et al 2011 approach may give us better numbers.
Number of crops pollinated: Based on Klein et al 2007.
And as I know that the R code is what readers really want, here it is as a gist. I used function diamondplot{plotrix}, but I needed to edit the function first in order to scale the axes. The original function scale the groups (pollinators taxa, in my case) instead of the axes (pollination aspects) which was not desirable for my plot.
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For those of you who hadn't found it by yourselves, I've got a new website.
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Thanks to all the people who've continued to read my ramblings for all these years. I assure you the rambling will continue.
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This video is called Excavating Triassic Fossils in Antarctica.
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Ups and downs of biodiversity after mass extinction unveiled
Saturday 22nd December, 2012
Marine animal groups like ammonoids and conodonts already peaked three or four million years earlier, namely still during the Early Triassic, researchers say.
The climate after the largest mass extinction so far 252 million years ago was cool, later very warm and cool again. Thanks to the cooler temperatures, the diversity of marine fauna ballooned, as paleontologists from the University of Zurich have reconstructed.
The warmer climate, coupled with a high CO2 level in the atmosphere, initially gave rise to new, short-lived species. In the longer term, however, this climate change had an adverse effect on biodiversity and caused species to become extinct.
Until now, it was always assumed that it took flora and fauna a long time to recover from the vast mass extinction at the end of the Permian geological period 252 million years ago.
According to the scientific consensus, complex ecological communities only began to reappear in the Middle Triassic, so 247 million years ago.
However, a Swiss team headed by paleontologist Hugo Bucher from the University of Zurich chart the temperature curves, demonstrating that the climate and the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere fluctuated greatly during the Early Triassic and what impact this had on marine biodiversity and terrestrial plants.
For their climate reconstruction, Bucher and his colleagues analyzed the composition of the oxygen isotopes in conodonts, the remains of chordates that once lived in the sea. According to the study, the climate at the beginning of the Triassic 249 million years ago was cool.
This cooler phase was followed by a brief very warm climate phase. At the end of the Early Triassic, namely between 247.9 and 245.9 million years ago, cooler conditions had resumed.
The scientists then examined the impact of the climate on the development of flora and fauna.
"Biodiversity increased most in the cooler phases," Bucher said.
"The subsequent extremely warm phase, however, led to great changes in the marine fauna and a major ecological shift in the flora," he said.
Bucher and his team can reveal that this decline in biodiversity in the warm phases correlates with strong fluctuations in the carbon isotope composition of the atmosphere.
These, in turn, were directly related to carbon dioxide gases, which stemmed from volcanic eruptions in the Siberian Large Igneous Province.
Through the climatic changes, conodont and ammonoid faunae were initially able to recover very quickly during the Early Triassic as unusually short-lived species emerged. However, the removal of excess CO2 by primary producers such as algae and terrestrial plants had adverse effects in the long run: The removal of these vast amounts of organic matter used up the majority of the oxygen in the water. Due to the lack of oxygen in the oceans, many marine species died out.
"Our studies reveal that greater climatic changes can lead to both the emergence and extinction of species. Thus, it is important to consider both extinction rates and the rate at which new species emerged," Bucher added.
The study has been published in Nature Geoscience.
More than 200 million years ago, a massive extinction decimated 76 percent of marine and terrestrial species, marking the end of the Triassic period and the onset of the Jurassic. The event cleared the way for dinosaurs to dominate Earth for the next 135 million years, taking over ecological niches formerly occupied by other marine and terrestrial species: here.
Related articles
- Lethally Hot Temperatures During the Early Triassic Greenhouse (arctic-news.blogspot.com)
- Flying fish fossil discovery (dearkitty1.wordpress.com)
- Tracking Taphonomic Regimes Using Chemical and Mechanical Damage of Pollen and Spores: An Example from the Triassic – Jurassic Mass Extinction (plosone.org)
- Life on Earth has been mostly obliterated at least five times (thestar.com)
- Global Warming Caused Mass Extinction, Researchers Say (greenerideal.com)


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YouTube on Thursday launched a new service for video content makers that lets them charge users to subscribe to their channels.
What Google calls just a "pilot program" for the time being, lets video makers charge users a monthly fee for access to their videos. The subscription plans start at 99 cents a month, but can be set higher. All paid channels offer a 14-day free trial and can be sold at a discount if users subscribe a year at a time, YouTube said in a post announcing the program.
The service is launching with 53 paid channels including content from HDNet, UFC and the PGA Digital Golf Academy. Some of those channels are beginning as high as $9.99 a month, which is $2 more than Netflix charges for its monthly streaming service in the U.S.
The program is just the latest way YouTube is trying to woo content makers to its platform beyond offering built-in advertising. Smaller competitors, including Vimeo, have been targeting content makers with paid, on-demand videos as a means to control distribution and pull in revenue.
Plans for the service were detailed earlier this week by The Financial Times, though hints that it was arriving showed up in strings of code as far back as February.
YouTube says the pilot program will expand to other "qualifying partners" in the next few weeks. In the meantime, it's set up a form for content makers to sign up to build paid channels.


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When is a six-core PC processor not a six-core PC processor? When it's AMD's new FX 6100 Black Edition.
Long before AMD released its fancy new FX chips, we had a feeling a fisticuffs was brewing over the definition of what constitutes a processor core.
Now the FX has arrived and the gloves are off.
It all comes down to the radical new approach to simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) taken by AMD with the new Bulldozer architecture.
Intel's been doing SMT for a bit in the form of Hyper-Threading and fair to say Chipzilla's take can be called SMT lite.
It hasn't spent a lot of transistors in enabling each of its processors cores tow run two software threads in parallel. So a multi-threading performance boost of around 15 to 20 per cent is a pretty decent outcome.
AMD reckoned it could do better and verily cooked up the Bulldozer module. This little techno-beasty packs a pair of execution units. But much of what you'd normally consider a processor core is shared.
So has that Bulldozer module got enough power to give this six core processor a chance?


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Pure Nightclub welcomed reality TV sweetheart Kendra Wilkinson-Baskett as she celebrated her birthday and launch of her new show "Kendra On Top," which aired earlier this month on WE TV.
Joined by husband Hank Baskett, the mesmerizing couple arrived on the red carpet at Caesars Palace around midnight and wowed photographers with their stunning good looks. Wilkinson-Baskett, was a sight to see as she dawned a gorgeous blue and red, sequenced, strapless dress with black heels, which when asked who they were by she stated, "These things, I wear them every day!"
The down-to-earth duo made their way through the packed mega-club where hundreds of admirers shouted, "Kendra, Kendra, Kendra" as they passed by. Shaking hands with their fans and giving out high-fives, the couple finally arrived at their VIP booth where they were joined by their friends and family including brother Colin Wilkinson.
The blond bombshell and her other half immediately got the celebration started as she ran onto the main stage and began dancing for all their fans. The energy in the nightclub soared as devoted fans watched the flirtatious twosome while they showed off their moves.
Shortly after their arrival, the birthday girl was surprised with the nightclub's bottle presentation as she was surrounded by the beautiful model staff and special guest, Iron Man. Wilkinson-Baskett, loving the production danced and posed for pictures with the superhero.
Later in the evening, Wilkinson-Baskett was presented with an eye-catching, four-tiered, blue and orange cake decorated with blue bows and topped with a shimmery "K" from Gimme Some Sugar. Confetti flew through the air as the whole club came together and wished the bubbly starlet a happy birthday.
Wilkinson-Baskett was glowing with excitement the entire evening as she was surrounded by loved ones, dedicated followers and her beloved husband. The power couple did not stray far from one another as they spent their night dancing and drinking, and taking their time to meet their cherished fans.
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text: Roasted Beet Ravioli with Nettle Puree Serves 4 1\/4 cup butter 32 beet ravioli (see recipe) 1\/2 cup stinging nettle puree (see recipe) 1\/2 cup caramelized walnuts (see recipe) 4 ounces aged Capricious goat cheese, shaved Heat butter slowly in a small sauce pan until it begins to brown. Remove from heat. Cook beet ravioli in salted boiling water until done, about 2 minutes; drain. Toss hot ravioli with browned butter. Serve topped with nettle puree, caramelized walnuts and goat cheese. Beet Ravioli 3-1\/2 cups all-purpose flour Salt 5 eggs 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 12 ounces red beets 3 ounces ricotta cheese 1-1\/2 tablespoons breadcrumbs 1 tablespoons chopped Italian parsley Egg wash: 1 egg beaten with 1 teaspoon water 1. Put flour and 1 teaspoon salt in the bowl of a food processor. With machine running, add eggs one at a time. Add oil. Process just until dough comes together, 10 seconds. Add a few drops cool water if dough is too dry. 2. Transfer dough to a floured board; knead 5 minutes. Divide into 4 balls; let rest at least 30 minutes, covered, at room temperature. 3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Wrap beets in foil; roast until tender, then peel. 4. Grate cooled beets with a box grater. Combine with ricotta, breadcrumbs, parsley and 1 1\/2 teaspoons salt. 5. Roll out pasta using thinnest setting on roller. Cut using 2 3\/4-inch fluted cookie cutter. Brush each circle with egg wash. Place a heaping mound of beet mixture in the center of each; fold in half, squeezing out excess air, to make half moons. Beet should be visible through pasta. Place on a floured surface under damp paper towels until ready to cook. Nettle Puree Makes 1 cup 3-1\/2 ounces cleaned stinging nettles 1\/4 teaspoon kosher salt 1 cup extra virgin olive oil Blanch nettles in boiling water until bright green, approximately 30 seconds. Shock in ice water, drain and squeeze dry. Puree all ingredients in blender until smooth. Caramelized Walnuts 1\/2 cup boiling water 1\/2 cup granulated sugar 2 teaspoons honey 1\/2 cup walnut halves Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine sugar and boiling water, stirring until dissolved. Add honey. Add nuts; stir to coat. Drain excess liquid. Bake nuts on a parchment-lined baking sheet until golden. Using a fork, spread nuts apart before they cool. -- Taste Catering, San Francisco


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I'm reluctant to refer to this full-length debut as a novel, even as a novel-in-stories. It's more a tour, a guided circuit of a ruined world. And it's less post-apocalyptic than it is contemporary, less aftermath and more in the heat and squelch of a horrid, horrifying end. "I let my baby witness the swan dive of our destruction . . . the way the world had come to rash . . . and how the ground would split apart . . . the pastures of dead cattle already rotten . . . the mayonnaise on the sandwich no one would ever eat and the babies with their hair tongues like my baby here like mine." The people in this world, regular folks, moms and dads and kids, can't do much amid the chaos except let it unfold around them and do their best to stay afloat or uncut or breathing.
The sky is, throughout, an enemy — it rains soil and gravel and glass. "Above, the sky made bubble, blurred with humid grog." A sentence like that might come as surprise in other books. Not here. Scorch Atlas doesn't make its point with narrative arc or character development or paragraphs or even the lovely, terrible sentences. Instead, it's the heaping of words — mauled bubbled clods knotted clogged rot foam mold growth cragged bugged curdle boils lumps ooze gunk stung and on and on — that press on you, as if you were being buried, drowned, dissolved, as if you were about to swallow your tongue.
In "Television Milk," three untamed sons make their mother a captive. They tie her down and suck her breasts. "Tum — awkward and fumbly, just near an age he might have begun to dream of women — he took my nipple in his mouth with his arms crossed over his chest, eyes anywhere but on me." In "The Ruined Child," a mother and father drown their baby because "where once he'd had the father's features, his skin expunged a short white rind." The baby comes back, though, and grows to monstrous size, inhabiting the attic and prognosticating with a "runny mouth."
Although the characters have memories of a better time, hope does not spring eternal. Or at all. In "Caterpillar," one of the 13 shorts that precede each story, "wriggling ropes of segmented flesh" infest the world. Even the transformation into butterflies proves a horror: "In the end, the great unveiling: ten billion butterflies humming in the sun, fluttering so loud you couldn't think." Butler's integrity is patent; you never get the sense of gross-out for the sake of gross-out. (His vow that he'll eat his book, one page at a time, for you to watch on-line is another story: he pours ketchup and hot sauce onto a shredded page two and forks it into his mouth.)
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For someone born in my time it is just hard to fathom how segregated the country was just a few years ago. In fact 64 years ago today Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball. I just have a lot of trouble believing how he was even treated. A couple of years ago I read a great book called Opening Day about how Jackie broke into the majors. It is unbelievable some of the things that he put was forced to contend with just to play baseball. We still aren't where we need to be 64 years later, but the gap is closing. Every year Major League Baseball does a great job remembering Jackie. This year they started a site called iam42.com to have anyone who wants honor Jackie. This is just my little way of honoring what Jackie did for the country and baseball.
In 1997 Major League Baseball retired Jackie's number 42 across the board. Nobody will every where that number again for the season after Mariano Rivera retires. I really wanted to go to the Sox game tonight to see the players honor Jackie, but the weather forced me to reconsider. Maybe next season. For now I put together some photos showing how I have seen Jackie honored across baseball.


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NEW: 14-year-old Rimsha released on bail, sees father
She was detained over accusations of burning pages containing Quran verses
A neighborhood cleric has been accused of planting evidence against her
Human rights activists say Pakistan must change its blasphemy laws
Pakistani authorities on Saturday released a teenage Christian girl detained over accusations of blasphemy in a case that has stoked religious tensions.
Her face concealed with a green scarf, Rimsha was ferried from Rawalpindi jail first by an armored personnel carrier and then by helicopter to an undisclosed location after a judge granted bail the day before.
The chopper's force at one point blew away the 14-year-old's covering. She appeared sad and scared.
A family representative, Basharat Khokhar, accompanied Rimsha's father to the jail. The girl had not seen her father, a house painter, since her arrest last month.
A frightened Rimsha hugged him and began crying, Khokar said.
"What's happening to me and why?" she asked.
Khokhar said several nations – including Canada, Italy and the United States – have offered refuge to Rimsha and her family, but they wanted to remain in Pakistan.
Judge Muhammad Azam Khan ordered Rimsha's release after hearing lengthy arguments from both sides.
Her lawyer, Pervez Khan, argued she should be freed on the grounds that she was an innocent girl whose intelligence level was low for her age, according to a medical report.
Khan said the girl was framed by a Muslim cleric who planted evidence against her.
The cleric's lawyer said Rimsha burned pages of the Quran and that she should be punished no matter her age. Blasphemy is punishable by death in Pakistan.
Rimsha's family fled their home on the outskirts of Islamabad from fear of retribution. Amnesty International said hundreds of Christians have left Rimsha's neighborhood after she was accused.
Police: Muslim cleric framed girl in Pakistan blasphemy case
In recent years, Pakistan's religious minorities have come under violent attack and human rights groups have documented cases of people accused of blasphemy who have been killed by members of the public.
Authorities arrested Rimsha and her mother in mid-August after a neighbor accused her of burning pages containing texts from the Muslim holy book and angry mobs gathered at their house in Islamabad.
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Amnesty International called Rimsha's release encouraging, but said the Pakistani government must urgently reform its blasphemy laws to prevent similar cases in the future.
"Rimsha, her family, and her Christian community in Islamabad remain under serious danger despite her being granted bail and even if she is eventually found innocent," the group said.
Rimsha's case, Amnesty said, "highlights the profound danger to communal harmony and rule of law caused by Pakistan's blasphemy laws."
Opinion: Muslims in Pakistan, show compassion and justice
CNN's Moni Basu contributed to this report.


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What is CVV?
Also known as the Cardholder Verification Value (CVV) or Customer Identification Number (CID/4DBC), these three or four digit numbers help ensure that the physical card is in the cardholder's possession while donating or shopping online helping to prevent unauthorized or fraudulent use.
Where can I find it?
Visa, Mastercard, Discover
The 3-digit code is located on the back of your card, inside the signature area. Typically the signature panel will have a series of numbers, but only the last three digits make up the CVV code.
The CID/4DBC is ALWAYS located ABOVE the embossed (raised) account number on the face of the card. In some instances, the CID/4DBC is located on the left side of the card, but is always above the account number. Some cards have a four-digit number embossed below the account number, but this is not the CID/4DBC.
What does it do?
It's actually more about what it prevents. When donating or shopping online, the 3 or 4 digit code helps organizations ensure that the card is in the right hands. Organizations will request the CVV at checkout from the cardholder, and the information is sent electronically to the card-issuing bank to verify its validity. Within seconds the CVV results are returned with authorization. If it's returned invalid, merchants have the right to stop the transaction.


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The 'Dean of Real Estate' Passes On
It was with heartfelt sadness that I learned today of the death of my friend, mentor, and fellow real estate agent, Don Pennington.
Don was respectfully referred to as the 'Dean of Real Estate' although I always teased him and called him the 'Duke' or the 'Dean Martin' of Real Estate.
Don was a true rock-star legend in the local Kitsap County WA real estate market. While many people get their license and attempt to practice real estate, Don was a highly respected and knowledgeable professional and staunch advocate for his clients.
When I made my return to real estate, it was Don Pennington who took me under his wing, and showed me the ropes of Buying and Selling Homes in Kitsap County. He was my faithful navigator as we embarked on home tour every week, making sure that we never took the same route twice, so I could learn every alley, backstreet, and shortcut. And all along the way, he would point out all the homes he had listed or sold (which were quite a few, many of them two or three times!). I learned more about real estate in a 5 minute conversation with Don than I ever did sitting through hours of classroom sessions. He was never too busy to offer up sage, practical advice to anyone who asked for help.
As a fellow Bubblehead (Submarine sailor) we shared many similar memories, attitudes, and convictions – the kind of things that usually went unsaid, but you both knew and understood. The last time I saw Don was just a week or so ago, and we talked about getting together for lunch to get caught up.
To this day, whenever I am showing homes to clients, and I open the door, I still hear Don say "Realtor in the House!"
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KANE v. NEW JERSEY(1916)
[242 U.S. 160, 161] Messrs. John W. Griggs and Charles Thaddeus Terry for plaintiff in error.
[242 U.S. 160, 164] Messrs. Herbert Boggs and John W. Wescott, Attorney General of New Jersey, for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice Brandeis delivered the opinion of the court:
The New Jersey Automobile Law of 1908 (P. L. 1908, p. 613) provides in substance that no person, whether a resident or nonresident of the state, shall drive an automobile upon a public highway unless he shall have been licensed so to do and the automobile shall have been registered under the statute; and also that a nonresident owner shall appoint the secretary of state his attorney upon whom process may be served 'in any action or legal proceeding caused by the operation of his registered motor vehicle within this state against such owner.' The statute fixes the driver's license fee for cars of less than thirty horse power at $2, and more than thirty horse power at $4. It fixes the registration fee at $3 for cars of not more than ten horse power; $5 for those from eleven to twenty-nine horse power; and $10 for those of thirty or greater horse power. Both license fees and registration fees, whensoever issued, expire at the close of the calendar year. The moneys received from license and registration fees in excess of the amount required for the maintenance of the motor vehicle department are to be applied to the maintenance of the improved highways. Penalties are prescribed for using the public highways [242 U.S. 160, 165] without complying with the requirements of the act. The material portions of the statute are copied in the margin. 1
Kane, a resident of New York, was arrested while driving his automobile on the public highways of New Jersey, [242 U.S. 160, 166] and tried in the recorder's court. The following facts were stipulated: Kane had been duly licensed as a driver under the laws of both New York and New Jersey. He had registered his car in New York, but not in New Jersey. He had not filed with the secretary of state of New Jersey the prescribed instrument appointing that official his attorney upon whom process might be served. When arrested he was on his way from New York to Pennsylvania. The aggregate receipts from license and registration fees for the year exceeded the amount required to defray the expenses of the motor vehicle department, so that a large sum became available for maintenance of the improved roads of the state. Kane contended that the statute was invalid as to him, a nonresident, because it violated the Constitution and laws of the United States regulating interstate commerce, and also because it violated [242 U.S. 160, 167] the 14th Amendment. These contentions were overruled, and he was fined $5. The conviction was duly reviewed both in the supreme court and by the court of errors and appeals. The contentions were repeated in both of those courts; and both courts affirmed the conviction. Kane v. State, 81 N. J. L. 594, L.R.A. 1917B, 553, 80 Atl. 453, Ann. Cas. 1912D, 237. The case was brought here by writ of error.
The power of a state to regulate the use of motor vehicles on its highways has been recently considered by this court and broadly sustained. It extends to nonresidents as well as to residents. It includes the right to exact reasonable compensation for special facilities afforded as well as reasonable provisions to insure safety. And it is properly exercised in imposing a license fee graduated according to the horse power of the engine. Hendrick v. Maryland, 235 U.S. 610 , 59 L. ed. 385, 35 Sup. Ct. Rep. 140. Several reasons are urged why that case should not be deemed controlling:
1. The Maryland law did not require the nonresident to appoint an agent within the state upon whom process may be served. But it was recognized in discussing it, that 'the movement of motor vehicles over the highways is attended by constant and serious dangers to the public.' (p. 622.) We know that ability to enforce criminal and civil penalties for transgression is an aid to securing observance of laws. And in view of the speed of the automobile and the habits of men, we cannot say that the legislature of New Jersey was unreasonable in believing that ability to establish, by legal proceedings within the state, any financial liability of nonresident owners, was essential to public safety. There is nothing to show that the requirement is unduly burdensome in practice. It is not a discrimination against nonresidents, denying them equal protection of the law. On the contrary, it puts nonresident owners upon an equality with resident owners.
2. The Maryland law contained a reciprocal provision by which nonresidents whose cars are duly registered in [242 U.S. 160, 168] their home state are given, for a limited period, free use of the highways in return for similar privileges granted to residents of Maryland. Such a provision promotes the convenience of owners and prevents the relative hardship of having to pay the full registration fee for a brief use of the highways. It has become common in state legislation; and New Jersey has embodied it in her law since the trial of this case in the lower court. But it is not an essential of valid regulation. Absence of it does not involve discrimination against nonresidents; for any resident similarly situated would be subjected to the same imposition. A resident desiring to use the highways only a single day would also have to pay the full annual fee. The amount of the fee is not so large as to be unreasonable; and it is clearly within the discretion of the state to determine whether the compensation for the use of its highways by automobiles shall be determined by way of a fee, payable annually or semiannually, or by a toll based on mileage or otherwise. Our decision sustaining the Maryland law was not dependent upon the existence of the reciprocal provision. Indeed, the plaintiff in error there was not in a position to avail himself of the reciprocal clause; and it was referred to only because of the contention that the law discriminated between nonresidents; that is, that Maryland extended to residents of other states privileges it denied to residents of the District.
3. In Hendrick v. Maryland, it appeared only that the nonresident drove his automobile into the state. In this case it is admitted that he was driving through the state. The distinction is of no significance. As we there said (622): 'In the absence of national legislation covering the subject, a state may rightfully prescribe uniform regulations necessary for public safety and order in respect to the operation upon its highways of all motor vehicles-those moving in interstate commerce as well as others.'
4. In the Hendrick Case it did not appear, as here, that [242 U.S. 160, 169] the fees collected under the Motor Vehicle Law exceeded the amount required to defray the expense of maintaining the regulation and inspection department. But the Maryland statute, like that of New Jersey, contemplated that there would be such excess, and provided that it should be applied to the maintenance of improved roads. And it was expressly recognized that the purpose of the Maryland law 'was to secure some compensation for the use of facilities provided at great cost from the class for whose needs they are essential and whose operations over them are peculiarly injurious.'
The judgment should be affirmed.
Mr. Justice Pitney took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.
[ Footnote 1 ] 'Part IV.-The Operation of Motor Vehicles.
state according to the mileage of improved roads in each county, the share apportioned each county to be used for the repair of improved roads in that county under the direction of the commissioner of public roads or his authorized representatives, and to be paid in the same manner as state funds are now paid for the improvement of public roads. The term 'improved roads' as used in this section shall not include streets paved with cobblestones, Belgium block or asphalt.'


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The Pentagon's current crop of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are insanely powerful—the "Hellfire" is so named for a reason—but also fairly imprecise, often killing innocent, nearby civilians. The DoD's new UAVs hope to cut down on such casualties.
In a recent briefing, the Department of Defense laid out its new plans: Smaller and far more precise UAVs with badass names like "Suburb Warrior" and "Sniper" that will hunt in groups, rather than just blowing suspected hideouts to pieces with Hellfire missiles. The Suburb Warrior, for example, is designed to fire volleys of mini-missiles in tight formation, which makes a nice change from previous missiles that often demolished entire city blocks.
Unfortunately, these new UAVs should see production in about five years, by which time who knows what kind of battles we'll need to fight—or who'll be leading the Pentagon. But it's a step in the right direction, that's for sure. [Esquire]


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In his new book "Duty," former Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticizes President Obama's handling of Afghanistan and says Vice President Biden has been wrong on every major foreign policy issue of the last 40 years. CNN's Jim Sciutto reports.
You can never trust a Republican especially a Bush and Cheney one at that. Obama should have taken my advise years ago when I told him that he should clean house of all the 'Republican Scum', instead he played footsies and our vehicle for change peters out for five years. His campaign promise of ending Scooter Libby Justice evaporates in thin air and is never even spoken of again by President Obama, while he has done na da,zilch , absolutely nothing going after
WAR Criminal, and White Collar Crime. I will say this however he was very right in not trusting the War Machine, after all the most powerful Military in world unable to win a war with 2 third world countries in a decade. Simple logic tell anyone that they are fleecing the tax payers in this country beyond comprehension. Neither Iraq or Afghanistan ever sent up one plane, sailed one ship or submarine. It's time to clean house President Obama !
Nice how this fool slams Pres Obama after he leaves office, to make money on his book? Hope he loses ALL of his money and he has to live on the streets~ What a disgrace!
Wolf, please address this issue....It is a shame that we have people in power that willfully and purposely stab people in the back. These people are not role models in my opinion. It is also a shame that we have so few in power that do not do all they can to make life better for everyone and act selflessly for the good of OUR country like the soldiers do when they give their lives. I truly believe that holding a powerful position in our government should be reserved only for those that will act selflessly for the people of this country. Anything less is a disgrace and a criminal offense to me. We can do much better than we have done for many decades now. We need to get the influence of money out of OUR government and those that continue to accept money for favors are committing treason against the people of this great country. People like this in power dishonor all of the soldiers that have died and appear to me that they do not value life over their own selfish desires. These people can act as though they care about our soldiers dying, but it is just an act and they are really good at acting like they are doing a good job when they clearly are not. This goes for all people in power. Do they really understand what death is until they face it themselves?
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Bruins' win streak ends in shootout loss to Canadiens
Patrice Bergeron ties game late in third period, but Boston falls 2-1
Alex Galchenyuk scored the only shootout goal, and the Montreal Canadiens stopped the Boston Bruins' 12-game winning streak with a 2-1 victory Monday night.
The Bruins fell one game short of their longest winning streak since 1970-71 and two shy of the club record set in 1929-30. But their one point from the shootout loss moved them ahead of Western Conference-leading St. Louis for the most in the NHL with 104.
Boston tied it at 1 with just two seconds left on its sixth power play of the game. Dougie Hamilton's slap shot from the center of the blue line deflected off Patrice Bergeron and past goalie Peter Budaj with 5:26 left in the third period. It was Bergeron's 23rd goal of the season.
Montreal grabbed the lead on Alexei Emelin's third goal of the season at 6:39 of the first. Emelin's shot from the blue line deflected off Bruins forward Chris Kelly about 30 feet from the net and rose over the glove of goalie Tuukka Rask.
The win moved Montreal ahead of Tampa Bay and into third place in the Eastern Conference.
In the shootout, Bergeron, Jarome Iginla, Brad Marchand and David Krejci missed for Boston while Thomas Vanek, David Desharnais and Daniel Briere failed for Montreal. Then Galchenyuk went in close to put the puck between Rask's stick and the post to the right of the goaltender.
The Bruins had three power plays in the first 11 minutes of the third period but were outshot 5-1 as the Canadiens picked off errant passes and cleared the puck from their zone. The Bruins kept the pressure on during their next power play until Bergeron scored.
Montreal had an excellent opportunity with a two-man advantage for 44 seconds late in the second period when Johnny Boychuk was called for roughing P.K. Subban and joined Iginla in the penalty box. The Canadiens took four shots on goal before Iginla's penalty ended and none during the rest of the power play.
Budaj came up with a big glove save when he stopped Zdeno Chara's slap shot from the blue line with 5 seconds left in the second period.
It was Boston's first loss since March 1 against Washington.
NOTES: Montreal C Lars Eller missed the game with a lower-body injury. He has played in 71 of his team's 73 games. ... Canadiens left wing Travis Moen did not return after being helped off the ice on his first shift after a fight early in the first period with defenseman Kevin Miller. It was sparked when Miller cross-checked right wing Dale Weise into the boards. Weise also missed the rest of the game. ... Former Bruins defenseman Ray Bourque dropped the ceremonial first puck.


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I'm implementing a simple 2D platformer with a constant speed update of the game logic, but with the rendering done as fast as the machine can handle. I interpolate positions between actual game updates by just using the position and velocity of objects at the last update. This makes things look really smooth in general, but when something hits a wall/floor, it appears to go through the wall for a moment before being positioned correctly. This is because the interpolator is not taking walls into account, so it guesses the position into walls until the actual game update fixes it. Are there any particularly elegant solutions for this?
Simply increasing the update rate seems like a band-aid solution, and I'm trying to avoid increasing the system reqs. I could also check for collisions in the actual interpolator, but that seems like heavy overhead, and then I'm no longer dividing the drawing and the game updating.


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A Cure for Healthcare Costs
So a left-of-center president delivered a left-of-center inaugural address–how shocking is that? Barack Obama is a winner, and he acted like one on Monday; he can be a liberal now. He is, after all, entering into a select club within a select club: assuming that all goes well for him, he will be just the 14th American president to serve two full terms in office.
But when the panegyrics have died down, Obama will confront the problem that every president re-elected since the passage of the 22nd Amendment is also a lame-duck president. And in spite of years of negotiations in his first term alone, no one, least of all Obama, has solved the looming problem of healthcare—which is the root of our spending and entitlement troubles.
Medicare and Medicaid together cost more than $800 billion a year, and that total is rising fast. An aging population requires even more costly healthcare, no matter who pays for it. No simple compromise between the parties will make the problem go away.
On the basic issue of the size of government, conservatives still have an edge. A Fox News poll taken earlier this month found that 83 percent of Americans think that "government spending is out of control." And that's up from 78 percent who said so in 2010 and 62 percent in 2009. Today, a mere 11 percent of Americans think spending is being managed carefully.
To be sure, huge majorities of Americans also support entitlement programs. So Republicans and Democrats will continue to fight for the right issue-frame: for Republicans, attacks on "big government" à la Andrew Jackson; for Democrats, FDR-ish defenses of popular benefit programs.
In his Second Inaugural, the president put himself in an interesting position. "The commitments we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, these things do not sap our initiative, they strengthen us," he said, continuing, lest anyone wonder what he really thinks of Romney, "They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great."
Is the president thus ruling out changes in Medicare along the lines suggested by legislators like Paul Ryan, such as "premium support"? Maybe, but in the same speech, he also said that we are going to have to make "hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit." Every "deficit hawk"—including those within the Obama administration—has a prescription for shrinking the increase. The problem is that voters don't much like those "curve-bending" prescriptions. And neither do most Democrats.
Plenty of waste exists within the public health system, but voters tend to be suspicious of cost-saving reforms because they long ago concluded long ago that Washington, D.C. is more interested in saving money on these health programs, especially those for the elderly and the poor, than it is in improving and saving lives through better care.
And that rampant mistrust can be toxic to even the best intentioned of entitlement reformers. As the late Jack Kemp said, "They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." If entitlement reformers regard healthcare programs simply as targets for savings, then the beneficiaries will naturally seek to defend themselves. That makes entitlement reform next to impossible.
So is there another way out—a way to save money that doesn't risk ballot-box backlash?
Inside the expenses of our healthcare system is an item that dwarfs the others in magnitude. Alzheimer's Disease currently costs the US economy some $200 billion a year, mostly in direct outlays from Medicare and Medicaid. That number is rising toward $1 trillion a year by mid-century.
While it's easy in 2013 to reach a deal that calls for saving money on Alzheimer's costs in decades hence, such a deal will likely be unenforceable in the far future, when the reality of 24/7 care year-round for tens of millions of dementia patients is upon us. If that many people are so sick, the U.S. will either move toward some sort of euthanasia system or else shoulder the ruinous costs. Surely there's a better way.
And that better way could be a cure: to do to Alzheimer's what we did to polio—make it disappear.
There's no guarantee that an attempt to cure Alzheimer's will succeed. But the history of focused medical research efforts—not just the March of Dimes campaign that led to the polio vaccine, but the development of antibiotics, the worldwide eradication of smallpox, and the enormous progress made against HIV/AIDS—argues strongly that significant gains are possible in a relatively short time, provided there's enough leadership and scientific and financial effort.
Policymakers, looking ahead and seeing that "silver tsunami" of Alzheimer's sufferers roaring toward them, should be actively strategizing about how to thwart the illness: that is, strategizing the way the Pentagon strategizes about acquiring a new airplane or ship.
The 2012 elections settled one question: national health insurance, in one form or another, is here to stay. Uncle Sam is ultimately going to be responsible for the nation's healthcare.
But that answer has given rise to new questions: How can we make healthcare as affordable as possible without sacrificing quality—and dignity? How can we use medical research and technology to make actual improvements in people's wellbeing, as opposed to mere maintenance? Unless we address those questions, and soon, we will never find a politically or morally satisfactory answer to the problem of rising healthcare costs.
The need to fend off such a bleak prospect ought to bring leaders of both parties back to the bargaining table, for their sake as well as ours. A cure for Alzheimer's and other costly diseases won't be found in D.C., but if the Beltway is oblivious to the need to help foster medical research and development, then the lifesaving cure as well as cost-savings might never be found.
James P. Pinkerton is a contributor to the Fox News Channel and a TAC contributing editor. Follow him on Twitter.