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Monday, April 15, 2013

Cabrera comes up big again _ but just shy in major

Angel Cabrera, right, reacts with his son Angel Cabrera Jr., who caddies for him, after he almost chipped in for birdie on the first hole of a playoff during the Masters golf tournament, Sunday, April 14, 2013, in Augusta. Cabrera was defeated by Adam Scott in the playoff. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Curtis Compton) MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; WXIA-TV OUT; WGCL-TV OUT

Angel Cabrera tosses his putter in the air after he misses his birdie putt on the second playoff hole on the 10th green to lose the Masters on Saturday, April 13, 2013, in Augusta. Adam Scott then made his birdie putt to win the Masters for his first major victory. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal Constitution, Curtis Compton)

Adam Scott and his caddie Steve Williams reacts to his putt dropping on the second hole of a playoff to win the Masters golf tournament, Sunday, April 14, 2013, in Augusta. Runner-up Angel Cabrera watches in the background. Scott became the first Australian to win the Masters. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Curtis Compton) MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; WXIA-TV OUT; WGCL-TV OUT

Angel Cabrera, right, of Argentina, hugs Adam Scott, of Australia, after Scott made a birdie putt on the second playoff hole to win the Masters golf tournament Sunday, April 14, 2013, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Angel Cabrera, of Argentina, congratulates Adam Scott, of Australia, while being hugged by caddie Steve Williams after his birdie putt on the second playoff hole to win the Masters golf tournament Sunday, April 14, 2013, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) ? Angel Cabrera usually comes up big in these situations.

He did again.

It just wasn't enough to win his second green jacket.

Cabrera forced a playoff with a brilliant 7-iron to 3 feet on the 72nd hole of the Masters, but he lost to Adam Scott on the second hole of a playoff when the Australian rolled in a 12-foot putt.

Cabrera just missed a chip-in from off the front of the green at the first extra hole ? letting out an "Ohhhhh!" as it slid by the edge ? and his 15-footer on the second playoff hole stopped right next to the cup. He flipped his putter in the air and caught it, then tapped in for par.

At that point, all he could do was watch as Scott made his birdie to become the first Aussie to win the Masters.

The 43-year-old Cabrera missed a chance at becoming the second-oldest Masters winner, behind only Jack Nicklaus in 1986.

Still, it was a remarkable accomplishment for a golfer who came in ranked No. 269 in the world, and never seems to play winning golf unless he's in the biggest tournaments of all.

"I like the challenges," Cabrera said through an interpreter. "These tournaments are very, very important for me. So sometimes they bring my best out of me."

Indeed, they do.

Before this Masters, his last win on the PGA or Europeans tours came at the 2009 Masters, where he defeated Chad Campbell and Kenny Perry in a playoff. And before that was The 2007 U.S. Open at Oakmont, where Cabrera outdueled Jim Furyk down the stretch.

The big guy almost did it again ? with his son on the bag, no less ? which would have put him a pretty exclusive club as a three-time major champion.

"The only thing in my head," Cabrera said, "was winning."

Playing in the final group with Brandt Snedeker, Cabrera was by far the most solid player among the leaders as a steadily increasing rain didn't bother a player nicknamed "El Pato" ? The Duck. He cruised through the front side with two birdies and seven pars, making the turn with a two-stroke lead.

But an errant drive into the pine trees at No. 10 was the first big miscue, leading to a bogey. The shot he would really like to have back came at the par-5 13th, where he drove into the pine straw on top of the hill but still decided to go for the green, 203 yards away.

Cabrera chunked it a bit and watched his ball settle in Rae's Creek. He wound up with another bogey and surrendered the lead to Jason Day.

In hindsight, Cabrera still thinks it was a good decision.

"I had a very good angle, and I had a very good lie," he said. "And I was thinking about making a birdie. I told my son that, you know, we could do an eagle, also."

Another wild shot at the par-5 15th, a hole that gave up birdies to nearly all the contenders, left Cabrera to settle for par. At that point, it looked like he was done, facing a two-shot deficit as he headed to No. 16.

But this duck wasn't going to away that easy.

Cabrera hit a brilliant tee shot over the water at the par-3 hole and sank a 15-footer for birdie to close the gap. Turns out, it was Day who faded away, making bogeys at 16 and 17. But that other Aussie took control, and Cabrera could only watch from the middle of the 18th fairway as Scott celebrated up on the green, having claimed the lead with a 20-footer for birdie.

While Scott went off to sign his scorecard, Cabrera knew what he had to do ? hit an even better shot.

Boy, did he ever.

From 163 yards away, Cabrera sent his ball soaring toward the green. It rolled to a stop 3 feet from the cup. When Cabrera made the gimme of a putt, he hugged Angel Jr. and headed to the playoff.

Cabrera nearly won it on the first extra hole, a repeat of No. 18. Chipping over Scott's ball, which also had rolled off the front of the green, Cabrera flipped a shot that landed right where he wanted and looked like it was going in. He settled for par, as did Scott, and the two headed off to No. 10.

In the fading light, especially around the green shaded by towering pine trees, Cabrera putted first and just missed. Scott did not. Game over.

"That's golf," Cabrera said. "Golf gives and takes. Sometimes you make those putts, sometimes you just miss them. "

As Scott celebrated, Cabrera walked up with his right hand outstretched. Despite the language barrier, the two have become good friends, from their time as teammates in the Presidents Cup to frequent encounters out on the various world tours. They walked off the green arm in arm, both patting each other on the back. As Cabrera started to pull away, Scott yanked him close and said a few words.

No interpreter was needed.

"Angel is a great man," Scott said. "He's a gentleman."

The winner was especially touched by Cabrera's gesture in the middle of the 10th fairway, before they headed down toward the final green of a long day. After watching Scott's ball roll to a stop, Cabrera gave him a thumbs-up.

"For him to do that at that point," Scott said, "was very nice."

Cabrera didn't look at this as an opportunity missed. Chances are, you won't hear much out of him, at least in the United States, for the next few months,

But when the U.S. Open rolls around in June, he might just be one of the guys in the mix.

That's a pretty big tournament, after all.

"I have a lot of confidence in myself," Cabrera said. "I'm going to keep on going."

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Associated Press

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Investment Firm Expects AWS Will Hit $20 Billion In Revenues By 2020

Bernstein Research has issued a research report saying it expects AWS will have an estimated $20 billion in revenues by the end of the decade. In a separate report, RW Baird & Co.?projects $10 billion in revenue for AWS by 2016 and up to $40 billion in losses from the traditional IT market. The estimates reflect Wall Street’s growing confidence in cloud services and the need that analysts see in letting their customers know that a shift is underway that will lead to continued flat revenues or even losses for enterprise companies and systems integrators. In times of disruption, something like AWS may actually exceed investment analyst projections. Conversely, AWS success is not a certainty. Technologies may advance that will flatten AWS advantages or Amazon can’t scale the group’s services fast enough to keep its edge. These are the factors that investment research houses consider when making corporate financial projections. Overall, Baird and Bernstein cite a number of reasons that account for why AWS will do so well. The reasoning is sound but not without weaknesses, such as why AWS success will be harder to come by with large enterprises. A Turning Point The public cloud reached a turning point last year. As Baird states in its report, the top 10 cloud providers grew 37 percent while more traditional technology companies grew by 2 percent. AWS does not break out its revenues. Bernstein, based on its own research, estimates that AWS grew 100 percent year-over-year. Bernstein estimates AWS is worth $24 billion, 13 times its approximate $1.8 billion in revenue (Amazon does not break out revenues for AWS). ?In contrast, Bernstein reports that Rackspace, as of April 1, trades at about 5.3 times 2012 revenue. Its revenue grew 28 percent compared year-over-year. Its public cloud service revenues of $309 million account for 23 percent of total revenues. Rackspace, it should be noted, has aggressive expansion plans of its own and has been one of the founders of OpenStack, the open cloud effort. Developer interest has grown consistently in OpenStack since its unveiling. Google is a more concerning foe with Google Compute Engine and Google Apps. And Microsoft’s Windows Azure puts the company in position to compete in the cloud space. How The Market Breaks Down Enterprise Software: Baird Analyst Steve Ashley, quoted in the AWS report, “views client/server vendors like… SAP and BMC as most likely disintermediated, and SaaS companies

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Tesla gains legal ground in New York dealer fight

Tesla Motors gained a legal victory in its continuing efforts to expand sales across the US now that New York Supreme Court Justice Raymond J. Elliott III decided that local dealers will not be allowed to cite the Franchised Dealer Act as a reason to sue competitors, Automotive News reports.

Tesla has been embroiled in a legal tussle in the Empire State (and others) since last October, when New York dealers sued Tesla in an effort to get the California-based company to shutter the state's company-owned stores. Tesla operates three stores and two service centers in New York.

Tesla has long argued that it should be allowed to operate its own stores because of the different nature of cars like its Model S and the fact that servicing those vehicles is simply different than working on conventional vehicles. Traditional laws dictate that car sellers be franchises that are independent from automakers.

Tesla chief Elon Musk was in Texas this week lobbying for a law that would allow electric vehicle companies to sell their cars directly to the public. He hinted Tesla could build a factory in Texas, the state with the second-highest number of publicly accessible charging stations to (after California), at some point in the future.

Source: http://green.autoblog.com/2013/04/13/tesla-gains-legal-ground-in-new-york-dealer-fight/

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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Reactivating memories during sleep

Apr. 12, 2013 ? Why do some memories last a lifetime while others disappear quickly? A new study suggests that memories rehearsed, during either sleep or waking, can have an impact on memory consolidation and on what is remembered later.

The new Northwestern University study shows that when the information that makes up a memory has a high value (associated with, for example, making more money), the memory is more likely to be rehearsed and consolidated during sleep and, thus, be remembered later.

Also, through the use of a direct manipulation of sleep, the research demonstrated a way to encourage the reactivation of low-value memories so they too were remembered later.

Delphine Oudiette, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of psychology at Northwestern and lead author of the study, designed the experiment to study how participants remembered locations of objects on a computer screen. A value assigned to each object informed participants how much money they could make if they remembered it later on the test.

"The pay-off was much higher for some of the objects than for others," explained Ken Paller, professor of psychology at Northwestern and co-author of the study. "In other words, we manipulated the value of the memories -- some were valuable memories and others not so much, just as the things we experience each day vary in the extent to which we'd like to be able to remember them later."

When each object was shown, it was accompanied by a characteristic sound. For example, a tea kettle would appear with a whistling sound. During both states of wakefulness and sleep, some of the sounds were played alone, quite softly, essentially reminding participants of the low-value items.

Participants remembered the low-value associations better when the sound presentations occurred during sleep.

"We think that what's happening during sleep is basically the reactivation of that information," Oudiette said. "We can provoke the reactivation by presenting those sounds, therefore energizing the low-value memories so they get stored better."

The research poses provocative implications about the role memory reactivation during sleep could play in improving memory storage," said Paller, director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Program at Northwestern. "Whatever makes you rehearse during sleep is going to determine what you remember later, and conversely, what you're going to forget."

Many memories that are stored during the day are not remembered.

"We think one of the reasons for that is that we have to rehearse memories in order to keep them. When you practice and rehearse, you increase the likelihood of later remembering," Oudiette said. "And a lot of our rehearsal happens when we don't even realize it -- while we're asleep."

Paller said selectivity of memory consolidation is not well understood. Most efforts in memory research have focused on what happens when you first form a memory and on what happens when you retrieve a memory.

"The in-between time is what we want to learn more about, because a fascinating aspect of memory storage is that it is not static," Paller said. "Memories in our brain are changing all of the time. Sometimes you improve memory storage by rehearsing all the details, so maybe later you remember better -- or maybe worse if you've embellished too much.

"The fact that this critical memory reactivation transpires during sleep has mostly been hidden from us, from humanity, because we don't realize so much of what's happening while we're asleep," he said.

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D. Oudiette, J. W. Antony, J. D. Creery, K. A. Paller. The Role of Memory Reactivation during Wakefulness and Sleep in Determining Which Memories Endure. Journal of Neuroscience, 2013; 33 (15): 6672 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5497-12.2013

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APNewsBreak: Upper-income seniors' Medicare hike

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 12, 2013, before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on President Barack Obama's budget proposal for fiscal year 2014, and the HHS. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, holds a copy of President Barack Obama's fiscal 2014 budget proposal book as he questions Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 12, 2013, as Sebelius testified before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the HHS fiscal 2014 budget request. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama's plan to raise Medicare premiums for upper-income seniors would create five new income brackets to squeeze more revenue for the government from the top tiers of retirees, the administration revealed Friday.

First details of the plan emerged after Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testified to Congress on the president's budget. As released two days earlier, the budget included only a vague description of a controversial proposal that has grown more ambitious since Obama last floated it.

"Means testing" has been part of Medicare since the George W. Bush administration, but ramping it up is bound to stir controversy. Republicans are intrigued, but most Democrats don't like the idea.

The plan itself is complicated. The bottom line is not: more money for the government.

Obama's new budget calls for raising $50 billion over 10 years by increasing monthly "income-related" premiums for outpatient and prescription drug coverage. The comparable number last year was $28 billion over the decade.

Currently, single beneficiaries making more than $85,000 a year and couples earning more than $170,000 pay higher premiums. Obama's plan would raise the premiums themselves and also freeze adjustments for inflation until 1 in 4 Medicare recipients were paying the higher charges. Right now, the higher monthly charges hit only about 1 in 20 Medicare recipients.

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., asked Sebelius about the new proposal on Friday, noting that it would raise significantly more revenue. Part of the reason for the additional federal revenue is that Obama's 2014 budget projects an additional year of money from the proposals. The rest of the answer has to do with the administration's new brackets.

Starting in 2017, there would be nine income brackets on which the higher premiums would be charged. There are only four now.

If the proposal were in effect today, a retiree making $85,000 would pay about $168 a month for outpatient coverage, compared to $146.90 currently.

Under current law, the next bump up doesn't come until an individual makes more than $107,000. Under Obama's plan, it would come when that person crosses the line at $92,333. If the plan were in effect today, the beneficiary would pay about $195 a month for outpatient coverage under Medicare's Part B, rather than $146.90.

The top income step ? currently more than $214,000 ? would be lowered to $196,000. And individuals in the new top tier would pay 90 percent of the cost of their outpatient coverage, compared to 80 percent currently.

The administration did not provide a comparable table for the effects on married couples.

The impact on monthly premiums for prescription drug coverage is hard to calculate, since different plans on the market charge varying premiums.

Sebelius told lawmakers the Medicare proposals in the budget are intended to strike a balance between cutting health care spending to reduce the deficit and maintaining services for people who depend on them.

"This proposal would improve Medicare's long-term financial stability by reducing the federal subsidy for people who can afford to pay more for their coverage," said Medicare spokesman Brian Cook.

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The 'Glee' School Shooting: Too Soon After Newtown?

Leave it to Glee creator Ryan Murphy to creatively weigh in on the current gun control debate. The guy hasn't met a controversial topic he didn't love. Homophobia? Check. Teen pregnancy? Check. Class discrimination? Check. Trying to pass Gwyneth Paltow off as some weird substitute teacher? Check.

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Catching Fire: First Photo Unveiled!

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