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NEW: The newly inaugurated pope already has millions of e-mails to answer, Vatican says
Pope tweets: "True power is service. The Pope must serve all people, especially the poor"
Argentina's president is the first head of state to greet Francis after the Mass
Pope circles St. Peter's Square in an open-top vehicle, not surrounded by bulletproof glass
It was with a call for the protection of the weakest in society that Francis was officially inaugurated Tuesday as the Catholic Church's 266th pontiff, before a crowd of tens of thousands bathed in sunlight.
Giving his homily before the throngs in St. Peter's Square, Francis showed the humility and concern for ordinary people that have been noted since he became the first Latin American to be elected pope six days ago.
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Before he spoke, he was given the official symbols of his papacy: a lamb's wool shawl, to represent his role as "the good shepherd," and the Fisherman's Ring, to represent his role of spreading the gospel.
The ring is not solid gold like that of his predecessors, but made of gold-plated silver – again reflecting his desire for simplicity.
The pope delivered his homily in Italian, rooted in a message of looking after the poor and sick, as well as the natural world.
He reflected first on the symbolism of the date: this is the day that Catholics celebrate the Feast of St. Joseph to honor Jesus' father on Earth, the carpenter Joseph.
Francis spoke of Joseph's role in protecting not only Jesus and Mary, but also the church.
He spoke too of the need to protect "all creation, the beauty of the created world" as instructed by the Bible and shown by St. Francis of Assisi, whose name he took as pope.
This, he said, "means respecting each of God's creatures and respecting the environment in which we live. It means protecting people, showing loving concern for each and every person, especially children, the elderly, those in need, who are often the last we think about."
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He warned of the consequences if people do not look after one another.
"Whenever human beings fail to live up to this responsibility, whenever we fail to care for creation and for our brothers and sisters, the way is opened to destruction and hearts are hardened."
And he urged those in power to live up to their duties, and to all to avoid evil, hatred and pride.
"I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: Let us be 'protectors' of creation, protectors of God's plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment," he said.
Kissing babies
After his homily, 500 priests dispensed communion to the throngs of locals, pilgrims, tourists and dignitaries gathered for the historic occasion.
Between 150,000 and 200,000 people turned out in and around St. Peter's Square, said the Rev. Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman. Police in the area told CNN there were fewer people than expected but declined to give an estimate.
Pope Francis earlier made his way into the square atop an open-top vehicle, spending 17 minutes circling among the crowds in bright sunshine.
He wore the simple iron cross that he's had since he was appointed bishop and that he had on when he first appeared to the world as pope. And he chose black shoes rather than the red ones favored by Benedict XVI.
When the gathered faithful held up babies and young children for him to kiss, he obliged. He also stepped out of his sport utility vehicle to kiss the head of a man with a physical disability.
Even though at least a dozen security officers in suits walked alongside the SUV as he circled the square, his decision to bypass the Popemobile, which his last two predecessors used, was telling.
The Mercedes Benz G-Class SUV afforded him the kind of direct contact with people he has embraced since becoming pope.
Had he been in the Popemobile, he would have been behind bulletproof glass, which was installed in 1981 after an assassination attempt on John Paul II.
Filipino priest and CNN iReporter Joel Camaya, who was among those in St. Peter's Square, was enthralled by the spectacle, and the contrasting humility, of the newly elected pontiff.
"The Pope spoke with such passion and force that the words exuded life and thus, as he spoke, there were instances of spontaneous applause," he said. "In the piazza, people who haven't even known each other exchanged smiles, happy that they belonged to one big family."
Francis called his predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Monday afternoon to wish him well on the day of the Feast of St. Joseph and to thank him again for his service. Benedict, in turn, said he had been following the events since Francis' selection closely and assured his closeness in prayer.
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Style or substance?
The Mass which inaugurated Francis as bishop of Rome and marked the official start of his papacy was short, lasting about two hours. This was in keeping with the spirit of simplicity embraced by the new pontiff, the Vatican said before the occasion.
Francis has already made an impression as a pope of the people who is concerned about the welfare of the poor. But he inherits a church wracked by a decades-old sexual abuse scandal and claims of corruption in the clergy.
Monsignor Kevin Irwin told CNN the Catholic Church probably would not have to wait long before the changes in style already seen under Francis become changes in substance.
"It comes down to personnel," he said. "The personnel changes you make in any corporation make all the difference. Leadership matters – but then who are the other people who help implement his program?"
The Vatican said Saturday that Francis had provisionally confirmed members of the Vatican hierarchy in their positions, but would take time to reflect before any final appointments are confirmed.
Irwin said he believes the key changes are likely to come in the late spring or early summer.
Francis, as a member of the Jesuit order, "gets into things" and is tenacious, he said. "This is a 'take-charge' pope, I would say."
Pope's openness to keep guards on their toes
World figures
Back in St. Peter's Basilica, the newly installed bishop of Rome greeted the dignitaries who had flocked from around the world to attend the inauguration Mass.
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, from Francis' native Argentina, was the first head of state to step up.
Vice President Joe Biden, leading the U.S. presidential delegation, was also among those to meet the 76-year-old pope, as was Zimbabwe's controversial President Robert Mugabe.
Mugabe is subject to a European Union travel ban but allowed to visit the continent for religious events and international conferences.
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone – effectively the Vatican's prime minister – was at the pope's side as, standing, he gave his greetings for close to an hour and a half.
The formal encounters over, Francis then went to the barriers around the sides of the basilica to greet priests, nuns and other well-wishers.
In his first tweet after his inauguration on the @Pontifex account, Pope Francis said: "Let us keep a place for Christ in our lives, let us care for one another and let us be loving custodians of creation."
He then tweeted again: "True power is service. The Pope must serve all people, especially the poor, the weak, the vulnerable."
Argentines watch Mass
Back in Francis' home city, the Argentinian capital, Buenos Aires, the faithful packed the main square to watch the event on large screens set up throughout the Plaza de Mayo.
According to the state-run newspaper Telam, a telephone call Francis had made from the Vatican was played to all present, saying: "Thanks for the prayers."
He added, "Let us be aware of one another, care for life, nature, children and old people," before concluding by asking those present to pray for him.
Groups also gathered in other cities throughout Argentina to watch the early morning Mass, Telam reported.
The event in St. Peter's Square was attended by 132 delegations from around the world, including six reigning sovereigns and 31 heads of state.
Bergoglio's journey to top of the church
Those delegations are among scores from nations and international organizations traveling to the Vatican, led by heads of states and governments.
European Union leaders Jose Manuel Barroso and Herman Van Rompuy were among those present.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi accompanied Biden in the U.S. delegation, the White House said. On Friday, House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, said he would send a separate bipartisan congressional delegation.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, in a letter sent to Francis on Tuesday, offered the "deep affection, prayerful support and sincere pledge of fidelity" of the U.S. bishops and more than 70 million Catholics in the country.
Also at the Vatican were groups from the Americas, including Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Canada, and from European nations such as Italy, Holland, Belgium and Germany.
Representatives from across Christianity – Eastern and Western – were also present, along with members of other religions, including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism.
This is also one of the busiest times of the year on the Christian calendar, which will mean many public appearances for the new pontiff.
Less than a week away is Palm Sunday, the holiday that kicks off Holy Week, which culminates in Easter celebrations.
The Vatican press office said Francis will also have one other task to keep him busy: figuring out "how to answer the millions of e-mail messages that have already been received, despite the fact that he still doesn't have an official address."
Pope Francis breaks with tradition
Hada Messia reported from Rome and Richard Allen Greene from London; Laura Smith-Spark wrote and reported in London. CNN's Ben Wedeman, Ben Brumfield, Marilia Brocchetto, Sarah Brown, Dugald McConnell, Brian Todd, Claudia Rebaza and Jason Hanna also contributed to this report.


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Jennifer Mastroianni: Share wonderfully abundant zucchini
Don't you hate when you think of a really great idea, only to discover someone beat you to the punch?
It happens to me a lot.
Like a few years back when I envisioned cooking my way through an entire Julia Child cookbook, making a recipe each day until I made them all.
Well, guess what. I never got around to it, but an amateur chef named Julie did and chronicled her culinary adventure in a blog. Then her story got made into a movie starring Meryl Streep, which comes out next week. I'll be kicking myself through the entire viewing of "Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen."
Here's another one. Two weeks ago, I headed out to my garden, swept aside the leaves of my zucchini plant, and gasped. There sat a 16-incher that was so comically huge, I had a vision.
That night I swaddled the veggie in a powder-blue baby blanket and propped it in a wicker basket. Under the cover of darkness, my 8-year-old daughter and I crept over to the neighbor's front porch and did a ding-dong-ditch.
Lying on our stomachs behind trees, we watched a shirtless Randy peek out the door, then warily approach the basket and read our note about "Zukey" needing a good home. The look on his face was priceless.
It was one of my better pranks. So good in fact, I thought about turning it into something bigger. Then a few days later, I read about "National Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day."
I kid you not. It takes place Aug. 8.
Burned, once again.
Truth be told, the upcoming zucchini holiday isn't exactly about disguising doorstoppers for disposal. It's more about gardeners sharing their glut of this prolific veggie.
Either way, I'm for it. After all, this time of year zucchini is unstoppable. Fortunately, zucchini recipes are just as abundant.
Here are several, including a simple sauté from Julia Child, and a zucchini bake with a surprise crust made from club crackers. I loved its buttery base, as well as the dish's cheesy topping.
Hey, I just had another "Ah-Ha!" moment! Let's designate today as "Sneak A Homemade Zucchini Dish Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day." Brilliant.
By the way, if this idea goes big, maybe even gets made into a movie, remember you heard it here first.
4 small zucchini, diced (about 3 cups)
2 cups (about 5 1⁄2 ounces) club crackers
2 tablespoons butter
3 eggs
1 small onion, grated
1⁄2 cup 2 percent reduced fat milk
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
1⁄2 teaspoon pepper
1⁄4 cup grated parmesan cheese
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9-inch deep dish pie pan or a 9-inch square baking dish. Bring 4 cups water to a boil in a large saucepan. Add zucchini, reduce heat and simmer, covered, until tender, about 3 minutes. Drain well in a colander.
Press cracker crumbs on bottom of prepared pat to form a crust. Dot with butter. Spoon zucchini on top.
Whisk eggs in medium bowl until fluffy. Stir in onion, milk, 2⁄3 cup Cheddar cheese, salt and pepper. Pour over zucchini and sprinkle with remaining 1⁄3 cup Cheddar and Parmesan. Bake, uncovered, for 25 minutes, or until golden on edges. Serves 6 to 8.
11⁄4 pounds zucchini
Finely grated zest of 1 unwaxed lemon
2 tablespoons chopped fresh mint
Oil, for cooking
Sea salt and freshly ground pepper
Lemon wedges, to serve
2 eggs separated
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 cup lager-style beer
1 cup all-purpose flour
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
To make batter, place egg yolks in bowl, beat well, then slowly beat in oil, followed by beer, then the flour. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Cover and rest for 1 hour.
Meanwhile, grate zucchini coarsely, toss lightly with salt, put in a strainer and let drain for 10 minutes. Rinse well, then pat dry with paper towels. Place in bowl and add lemon zest and mint. Stir well.
Just before cooking, place egg whites and salt and pepper in bowl and beat until firm. Gently fold into batter. Heat oil to 375 degrees in deep-fryer or saucepan with frying basket. Mix grated zucchini with enough batter to bind together.
Working in batches, slide about 6 small spoonfuls at a time into the hot oil and fry for 2-3 minutes until golden and crisp. Drain the fritters on paper towels, sprinkle with salt, and serve hot with lemon wedges.
— Maxine Clark. "Italian Vegetables."
3 medium zucchini (about 11⁄2 pounds), ends trimmed and sliced lengthwise 1⁄8-inch thick
3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
Freshly ground black pepper
6 ounces feta cheese
Pinch of dried oregano (or 1⁄4 teaspoon fresh chopped)
1⁄2 teaspoon dry, crushed red chilies
You should be able to get 10 slices out of each zucchini. A mandolin slicer is perfect for this. Otherwise, use a sharp knife to thinly slice the vegetable.
Place slices in a large bowl and toss with one tablespoon of the olive oil, then sprinkle with a big pinch of salt and a few grindings of black pepper. Grill the zucchini over medium high heat until they're well browned, 4-6 minutes per side. Transfer to a plate.
In a small bowl, crumble feta cheese. Add the remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil, oregano, and crushed red chilies. Mix with a fork until well blended. Spread a scant teaspoon of the feta cheese mixture on each slice, covering only about half of the slice.
Starting with the end where you have spread the cheese, roll up the slice. Stand on end on a plate and serve. Can be made early in the day.
Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve. Bring to room temperature before serving. Makes 25 to 30 servings.
2 pounds zucchini
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
3 tablespoons minced shallots or scallions
Salt and pepper to taste
Grate zucchini and measure. For each two cups of zucchini toss with 1 teaspoon salt. Let squash drain in a colander for 3 to 4 minutes or until you are ready to begin cooking. If it is too salty rinse and drain again. Squeeze in a clean kitchen towel until most liquid is pressed out.
In a skillet, heat butter and oil. Sauté the shallots/scallions briefly. Add zucchini and toss, cooking about 4 minutes or until tender. Serve warm, yields 4 to 6.
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Prism is:
"The Composite Client Application Guidance is designed to help you more easily build modular Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight client applications."
What most people find, once they take the time to dig in to Prism, is that it is MUCH more. Prism has guidance on how to build an app that targets both Silverlight & WPF, has some plumbing that makes MVVM easier in Silverlight apps by providing a basic commanding implementation, etc. However, the learning curve to get proficient with Prism can be a turnoff for some. Even once you "get it," you then realize that there is a fair amount of Visual Studio solution/project setup just to get to the point of being able to start building your parts of the application. The good news is that David Hill has just released some templates for Visual Studio 2008 to make the basic setup for your Prism based apps much easier:
I just went through the walkthrough in the first link. Here is what you get after the "Prism Shell" and "Prism Module" templates:
You get the skeleton of a basic composite application using MVVM. I think this is a big time saver. I will definitely be keeping an eye out as David evolves the templates / quick start kit.
UPDATE: I was so excited to share my discovery of David's work that I forgot to add a few more helpful resources I have found:
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Bulger guilty, but jury returns mixed murder verdicts
Bulger guilty of murder, racketeering, extortion
James "Whitey" Bulger will spend the rest of his life in prison after a federal jury found him guilty of several murder charges, racketeering and extortion Monday.
The jury delivered its verdict to a packed federal courtroom after five days of deliberations following the two-month trial.
Bulger, 83, was convicted in 11 murders during the 1970s and 1980s while he was the leader of the notorious Winter Hill Gang, a crew of mostly Irish-American gangsters. However, his guilt was not proven in eight slayings.
Bulger was also found guilty of extortion, money laundering and a slew of gun charges.
His sentencing was set for Nov. 13. He faces a maximum of life plus 30 years in prison.
Bulger's guilt was proven in the deaths of Paul McGonagle, Edward Connors, Thomas King, Richard Castucci, Roger Wheeler, Brian Halloran, Michael Donahue, John Callahan, Arthur "Bucky" Barrett, John McIntyre and Deborah Hussey.
Images: Bulger murder charges who's who
The jury found the prosecution failed to prove Bulger's guilt in the deaths of Michael Milano, Al Plummer, William O'Brien, James O'Toole, Al Notorangeli, James Sousa and Francis "Buddy" Leonard.
Michael Donahue's son, Tommy, said the families of the victims whose murders were not proved "got robbed."
"My heart goes out to the other families. He should have been found guilty on everything. Everything," he said.
Donahue's widow, Patricia, said she wept as the verdict was read. Prosecutors said Donahue was an innocent victim who was shot and killed while giving a ride to an FBI informant on Bulger's hit list.
"He's guilty of murdering my husband. There's nobody that said that," she said. "It brings out a lot of emotion, and when it finally happens, it's kind of hard."
The jury returned a "no finding" decision in the 1981 death of Debra Davis, the one-time girlfriend of Bulger cohort and government witness Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi.
"I don't believe he hands-on himself killed my sister. But I do know that he was guilty of conspiring or taking part in the whole thing," Davis' brother, Stephen, said after the verdicts.
Davis said the "no finding" is better than a not guilty verdict, and he plans to continue his push for justice for his sister.
"It's not over for me. It's not over until I'm in the ground. I think a lot of you know that about me -- I'm a fighter," he said.
Other families also failed to find closure in Monday's verdict.
"I thought it was a sure thing. We all knew who did it. (The verdict) now was a surprise. This was a shock. We feel sick," said Francis Leonard's daughter, Connie.
Bulger's defense team said he was "pleased" with the verdict and felt the trial highlighted government corruption.
"It was important to him that people see first-hand the deals that the government made with certain people. In that respect, he is very pleased," Bulger's lead defense attorney J.W. Carney said.
Carney said Bulger knew when he was arrested that he would die in prison and the trial was never about "Jim Bulger being set free."
Defense attorney Hank Brennan said for Bulger, the trial was about transparency, trying to find the truth and showing "how the federal government operated during that time and how they operate today."
Bulger's team denied that he was an informant and claimed the government's three main witnesses were pathological liars who blamed Bulger for crimes they committed in exchange for reduced sentences.
Carney said Bulger was surprised to see the jury had come back with some not proven decisions, but still plans to appeal the verdicts.
"You have not heard the last from James Bulger," Brennan said.
"Today is a day many in our city never thought would come. This day of reckoning has been a long time in coming. In fact, too long," said U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz.
Ortiz acknowledged the government's role in enabling Bulger's crime spree and letting him escape.
"It was clear from the beginning. It was horrible. It was unfortunate," Ortiz said, adding the honest work of law enforcement lead to the arrest and subsequent conviction of Bulger.
"We hope that we stand here today to mark the end of an era that was very ugly in Boston's history," Ortiz said.
Bulger's appeal will likely be heard late 2014 or 2015, estimated David Frank of Lawyer's Weekly.
In the 32-count racketeering indictment, Bulger was accused of being a hands-on boss who killed anyone he saw as a potential rival or danger to the gang. He shot or strangled some of the victims himself, prosecutors said.
In other cases, he was accused of ordering the slayings, or participating in some other way.
Bulger was one of the nation's most wanted fugitives after he fled Boston in 1994 ahead of an indictment. During his 16 years on the run, his secret relationship with the FBI as an informant was revealed, embarrassing the FBI and exposing corruption within the bureau.
Bulger was finally captured in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2011, where he had been living in a rent-controlled apartment near the beach with his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Greig.
The jury heard testimony from 72 witnesses during the eight-week trial.


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Voilà, voilà! It's time for another "Discovering Paris" post. This time it's again about a new park or garden in Paris. I want to tell you about the Promenade des Berges de la Seine, or more precisely about the Iles Flottantes (floating islands that are located there).
In 2013 parts of the Parisian quays were converted into a nice Promenade. Something, that used to be a road producing tons of pollution, as cars were channeled through the city, was converted into a pedestrian paradise. In the book Trapped in Paris by Evelyne Holingue the protagonists experience some rather negative sides of the Seine's quays, that today, have almost become unthinkable.
Even though this promenade has been around for two years now, I have only discovered it last year. And since then I have made sure to come back here and now to enjoy. I think that for many Parisians it has turned into a great place to escape from everyday life, without having to leave the city or ruining oneself financially.
The promenade is 2.3km in length and is packed with activities. Often there are a lot of people, but due to the length of the quais, it is not a problem, you can always find your own space between walkers, skaters, cyclists and parents with strollers. In the warmer months of the year, giant flower pots line the river bank. Inside them you can find fig and apple trees and some quite monstrous looking plants. You can try yourself at playing Usain Bold with a 100m sprint. You, or maybe your kids can go rock-climbing, you have various equipment for exercises.
On the weekend you can find a coach to give you a free coaching session, take a dance lesson. There are restaurants, you have free sparkling water, clean toilets and can reserve a container transformed into a living room. This can be good for a rainy day, a lunch break when it is cold, a small birthday party, or just relaxing away from home. Here and there you can borrow chess and checkers pieces and get to play. There can be art exhibits, or there are projects to educate the passer-by about the environment. Because this promenade is after all a green project.
I always enjoy going down to the Berges de Seine, like I enjoyed going for walks on the quayside in Newcastle. But these quays have something special, they have the Iles Flottantes, when I heard of the project for the first time I actually had a vision of giant plastic desserts floating on the Seine. I had it all wrong. These floating islands are a brilliant way of gaining more land, giving nature some more space without having to deviate the river or doing anything completely questionable from an environmental stand point. A group of metal islands, attached to massive poles are now a nice new park. Richly populated by different types of plants and even animals.
One can sit and relax on one of the islands, being cradled by the coming and going of the waves. There are wooden recliners on one or giant hammocks on another to make you feel at ease. Of course, I suppose for someone who suffers from sea sickness this might not be the best place to be.
The giant hammocks or nets are there so one does not trod on the grass growing beneath them, while fully profiting from the island. On weekends it is likely that the space is rare, as many people will be there enjoying a book. On another island there are apple trees, with tiny little apples. They are not for human consumption but for the pleasure of the animals.
If you are in Paris, or will be going one day, I do recommend that you check out the Promenade des Berges de la Seine.
All photos are hosted on flickr and either taken by S or myself
© Solveig Werner 2015. All rights reserved.


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Mortal and philosophical enemies Gary Bettman and Donald Fehr will sit down together today and announce a pioneering partnership between the NHL, NHLPA, and the You Can Play Project (YCP), the latter a non-profit group formed last year to promote LGBT tolerance in sports.
YCP seminars will hereafter be a part of the NHL's rookie symposium, and the group will provide confidential counseling on sexual orientation matters to teams and players wishing for such advice.
This will mark the first time a major professional sports league has formalized an alliance with a gay organization.
Philadelphia Flyers scout Patrick Burke founded YCP in honor of his brother Brendan, who in 2009 came out as a gay man. (Brendan was killed in a car accident in 2010.) He takes no credit for making this feel-good summit happen.
"One of the mottos of the NHL is 'Hockey is for everyone!'" Patrick Burke says, "and today is proof that they mean it. I didn't bring these guys together. This is [Bettman and Fehr] taking leadership on an important issue."
I asked Fehr if hockey observers would view this partnership with Bettman as a dogs-and-cats-sleeping-together moment. He giggled, saying that the issue overwhelmed whatever animus is left over from the lockout that turned the 2012-2013 season into a sprint.
"Collective bargaining can be, well, unpleasant, and leave scars," he said. "But when you can do something that is good and is the right thing to do, you do it, even if you're aggravated with the person you're doing it with. This is something the players support, and it just seemed like the right time to formalize our relationship. This was the right thing to do."


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The Incas' downfall, interpreted via poop
Though they left few written records and began to disappear in the 15th century, scientists have found an unlikely new way to chart the downfall of the once-mighty Incas: by studying the mites which thrived in their llamas' dung. Turns out the mites, fossilized in mud cores, can reveal details about animal-based societies' size, patterns of movement and -- when the mites disappear suddenly, as they did in once Incan-only areas after Spanish conquistadors arrived in the 1400s -- a society's collapse. Researchers hope to use their new dung-reading skills to learn more about the animal-loving Vikings' occupation of Greenland, among other upcoming projects. (Pictured above: a fossilized mite, courtesy the BBC.)


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Murder By Craiglist
Hanna Rosin • Atlantic • August 2013
How a serial killer and his teenage accomplice used listings for "the job of a lifetime" to lure their victims, all single men, to the backwoods of Ohio.
"Davis wasn't the only person to answer the Craigslist ad. More than 100 people applied for the caretaker job—a fact that Jack was careful to cite in his e-mails back to the applicants. He wanted to make sure that they knew the position was highly sought-after. Jack had a specific type of candidate in mind: a middle-aged man who had never been married or was recently divorced, and who had no strong family connections. Someone who had a life he could easily walk away from. 'If picked I will need you to start quickly,' he would write in his e-mails.
"Jack painstakingly designed the ad to conjure a very particular male fantasy: the cowboy or rancher, out in the open country, herding cattle, mending fences, hunting game—living a dream that could transform a post-recession drifter into a timeless American icon. From the many discarded drafts of the ad that investigators later found, it was clear that Jack was searching for just the right pitch to catch a certain kind of man's eye. He tinkered with details—the number of acres on the property, the idea of a yearly bonus and paid utilities—before settling on his final language: 'hilly,' 'secluded,' 'job of a lifetime.' If a woman applied for the job, Jack wouldn't bother responding. If a man applied, he would ask for the critical information right off the bat: How old are you? Do you have a criminal record? Are you married?"
Who Pinched My Ride?
Patrick Symmes • Outside • January 2012
Inside the underground economy of stolen bikes.
"Stolen bikes suffer many fates. In the Bay Area, they are often sold at flea markets, particularly in Alameda, just south of Oakland. In Portland, within hours of being taken, a few will appear at pawn shops just outside city limits, where documentation rules are lax. But just as they do in New York City, which shut down most ad hoc bike dealers years ago, the majority end up online, either on eBay or on Craigslist, the black hole of bicycles.
"But how do you tell which ones are stolen? A Brooklyn bike-shop owner whose store had recently been robbed of 22 bikes pointed me toward 'Bobby from Bay Ridge,' one of the most prolific sellers on the site. In a phone conversation, Bobby said he could find a bike in my size within a few days—which sounded almost like a snatch-to-order. But after riding the subway to outer Brooklyn, I found him—he's not really named Bobby, and he does not live in Bay Ridge—to be less than sinister. He was middle-aged and living on a leafy block, with a garage full of used bikes. 'I buy 'em at police auctions,' he said, mostly in New Jersey. I picked out a 1970s ten-speed—a Schwinn Continental, which would become Bike Three. It hardly had a scratch on it, meaning it was no New York City ride.
"I flipped it over to look for a serial number, which is often carved on the bottom of a bike frame. Bobby blanched but recovered quickly. 'It's legal,' he said. 'The police check 'em all before auctioning.'
"Police departments do check all the bikes they recover against databases, but it's a pointless exercise. The vast majority of bike thefts aren't reported or are reported with no serial number. Bobby was just a cog in the machine."
My Roommate, the Diamond Thief
Brian Boucher • New York • January 2006
A New Yorker finds an unlikely house guest on Craigslist.
"In his bed, I discovered a laptop and a bulging manila folder that seemed innocuous enough, though I couldn't help but look inside. There, to my total shock, were scraps of torn-up preapproved credit-card offers I'd received in the mail and tossed in the trash. That wasn't all. On a sheet of notebook paper, he'd scribbled the names, addresses, and phone numbers of my family members; my mother's maiden name; the date my parents had married; and the name and address of a contractor I was working for, apparently copied from a pay stub. He even had the name and number of a woman I'd met at a party. Equally alarming were notes on my credit-card information, along with my sign-in names and passwords to various Websites.
"In an instant, I felt like an idiot, a sucker, the Jersey boy I am. Why had I trusted this stranger? I burned with shame and anger as I pictured him listening for me to leave for work in the morning so he could methodically search my trash and boot up my computer. A ghostwriter? What a moron I'd been. I'd never seen him write a word. But who was he? I searched everything in the room. A letter from JetBlue addressed to a Brandall Platt confirmed a flight to Oakland, California, in November 2003, the time of one of his previous absences. There were photocopies of Social Security cards and California driver's licenses of a Charles Brown and an Andre Holmes and others. From the photocopies, I couldn't tell whether the pictures were of my roommate. I found nothing bearing the name 'Don' had given me: John Williams."
Maureen Orth • Vanity Fair • October 2009
An early investigation of "Craigslist Killer" Philip Markoff.
"He was Andy and she was Morgan. Both were fake names. They never actually spoke to each other; all their communication was by e-mail or text message. He used a disposable Trac phone that would be hard to trace; her friend and employer pretended that she was Morgan when setting up their meeting via cyberspace. He found her listing as a masseuse in the Craigslist Erotic Services section last April 13, a Monday. She said she was visiting Boston for three days—she had a room on the 20th floor of the Boston Marriott Copley Place, an upscale Back Bay hotel. Using the e-mail address firstname.lastname@example.com, he initially answered to the anonymous address provided by Craigslist. Her replies came back from email@example.com.
"At 4:37 p.m., he wrote, 'I myself am visiting Boston and was looking for a 10 pm or later appointment tonight or tomorrow. Unfortunately, I will not be free any earlier.' Later he e-mailed again: 'Morgan, I can still make it tonight but I am thinking tomorrow at ten would be better for me.'
"My Wednesday appointment moved later,' the masseuse, whose real name was Julissa Brisman and who worked part-time in a New York tanning salon, answered. 'I could do it tomorrow night or we can do 10:30 or 11 tonight if you wanted to see me later tonight. Let me know what you prefer. Morgan.'
"At 7:03 p.m., her fate was sealed. 'Hey, Morgan: 10pm tomorrow is best for me. Thank you, Andy.' The next night he used the Trac phone to say that he had arrived early—at 9:41 p.m.
"Mary Beth Simons (not her real name), who owns the tanning salon where Brisman worked and who acted as her screener and intermediary, took the call and texted Brisman that she had told him to come up on the hour.
"A few minutes after 10, all pretense and politesse were dropped. Julissa Brisman was dead.
Heroin.com: Selling Junk Online
David Shapiro, Joe Coscarelli • Village Voice • April 2011
How Craigslist dealers do business.
"Only a man named 'Kai,' however, appears to sell heroin openly on New York's Craigslist pages. And he's not very subtle at all.
"Want to "nod out"? Ride the "H" train,' reads one subject line. The body of that advertisement offered 'H, d@pe, diesel' for purchase 'anywhere in Manhattan public or private.' Sometimes he throws in the term 'Papaver Somniferum L.,' the Latin name of the plant that opium and poppy come from. For good measure, Kai insists in his ads that he's not law enforcement 'and you shouldn't be either.'
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Hmm. never played Sanctum 1, or at least I don't think so but it does sound familiar…
Coffee Stain Studios and Reverb Publishing today launched a new game mode to the PC version of Sanctum 2, the sequel to the world's first tower defense/first person shooter hybrid. "Sandbox Mode" will allow users to access any unlocked levels with the following options:
• Endless waves of enemies
• Customizable resources gained
• Customizable enemy HP
• Enables players to turn the tower cap on or off
"We continually want to improve our game based on feedback we get from our community. Sanctum 2 is our biggest project yet, so we want to make it as great as possible with help from our player base," says Armin Ibrisagic, PR Manager & Game Designer for Coffee Stain Studios. "It's our way of thanking players for supporting us!"
Sanctum 2 is now available for $14.99 on PC and 1200 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live. With more game mode additions and DLC updates coming in the very near future, fans should take advantage of the Sanctum 2 Season Pass which includes all four planned expansion packs for only $11.99.
For the latest news and updates on Sanctum 2, please visit http://www.coffeestainstudios.com


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Freedom New Mexico
Clovis native Michael Dane was named Tuesday as interim city manager of San Angelo, Texas.
Dane became San Angelo's director of finance in August 1998.
Located southeast of Lubbock, San Angelo had a population of 93,200, according to the 2010 Census.
According to city press release:
• He served the city of Lubbock as an accountant, senior accountant and senior auditor from 1993 to 1998.
• He worked for the First National Bank of Clovis from 1987 to 1990.
• He worked for Bender, Burnett and Co. in Clovis from 1990 to 1993.
Dane earned his bachelor's degree in accounting and business administration from Eastern New Mexico University.


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Suzi Quatro
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Suzi Quatro was hardly the first Tough Girl in rock & roll, there were plenty of precursors, from Wanda Jackson
and the Shangri-Las to Grace Slick and Janis Joplin, but Quatro codified a type of rock & roll woman who didn't
exist before she took the stage, one who looked as tough as the guys and wasn't merely a singer but also an
instrumentalist, the leader of the band who made the noise right along with the rest of the group. With her
trademark leather jumpsuit and big bass guitar (which seemed even bigger given her diminutive stature of just five
feet), Quatro created a new and potent image for women in rock, one that spoke of both strength and sexiness, and
she became a major international star in the '70s, though it would take a while before she was as readily recognized
in the United States as in the United Kingdom. Quatro's career began in the garage rock era of the '60s with the
band the Pleasure Seekers, but she became a genuine star in 1973 with "Can the Can," a stomping bit of glam rock
that kicked off a series of hit singles in the U.K. and defined the sound of her best-known work. Quatro would
finally break big in the States in 1978 with a more pop-oriented single, "Stumblin' In," but while her future work
would encompass everything from new wave pop to Broadway show tunes, at heart Quatro would never lose her
instincts as a rocker, and she returned to hard rock with 2006's Back to the Drive and 2019's No Control.
Susan Kay Quatro was born in Detroit, Michigan on June 3, 1950. Her father, Art Quatro, played in a local jazz
combo, and as a child Quatro occasionally sat in with the group as a percussionist; she also studied piano and
drums. Art Quatro played bass, and would later present Quatro with one of his instruments, a 1957 Fender
Precision Bass, which she would go on to play on-stage. Quatro got the rock & roll bug early in life when she saw
Elvis Presley perform on television and became an instant fan; in 1964, Quatro and her sister saw the Beatles on
The Ed Sullivan Show, and like millions of other teenagers, they were inspired to form a band of their own. Quatro
and her siblings Patti and Arlene assembled an all-female garage band, the Pleasure Seekers, who played on the
Detroit nightclub circuit and at teen clubs. The group's debut single, "What a Way to Die," would go on to become a
collector's item among garage fans, with Quatro comparing her boyfriend to a bottle of beer, and deciding the beer
was better company. The Pleasure Seekers later scored a deal with Mercury Records, and released a single for the
label before parting ways with Mercury when they wanted to boost the group's sex appeal in a bid to sell more
In 1969, the Pleasure Seekers evolved into a group called Cradle, who played the rock ballroom circuit in the
Midwest. In 1971, noted British record producer Mickie Most was in Detroit with Jeff Beck when he was
persuaded to see Cradle by Michael Quatro, Suzi's brother and Cradle's manager, as well as a promoter and
musician in his own right. Most wasn't bowled over by Cradle, but he was very impressed with Suzi, and offered her
a deal with his RAK Records label as a solo act. Quatro moved to England as she and Most strategized her solo
career; her first single, 1972's "Rolling Stone" b/w "Brain Confusion," which featured Peter Frampton on guitar, was
a flop everywhere but Portugal, but her next 45 was another story altogether. Most recruited Mike Chapman and
Nicky Chinn, who had written and produced hits for the Sweet, Mud, and the Arrows, to work on Quatro's next
disc, and "Can the Can," a stomping, glam-inspired number with silly lyrics but an unstoppable rhythmic tune, was a
number one hit in Britain and Australia. It was the first in a series of hits that Quatro would enjoy in the U.K. and
Australia over the next five years, most from the Chapman & Chinn team and included such glam rock gems as "48
Crash," "Devil Gate Drive," and "The Wild One," but despite periodic touring in her homeland (including one road
trip where her opening act was a scruffy but ambitious New York band called Kiss), Quatro would have to wait until
1978 to finally score a hit in America.
In 1977, she was cast as Leather Tuscadero, a rock & roll singer, on the popular American sitcom Happy Days, and
while the character was originally meant to appear in only two episodes, the viewers' reaction was strong enough
that Quatro would appear on the show seven times in the 1977-1978 season. Quatro's run on Happy Days
coincided with the release of her fifth album, 1978's If You Knew Suzi (her first for RSO Records after Bell Records
failed to break her in the States), and the LP rose to 37 on the U.S. charts (her previous high rank had been 125),
while the single "Stumblin' In," a duet with Chris Norman of Smokie, reached number four on the U.S. singles charts
(curiously, it only went to 41 in the U.K.). Quatro's next album, 1979's Suzi…And Other Four Letter Words, didn't
fare quite as well, but it did spawn "She's in Love with You," which just missed hitting the American Top 40 and rose
to 11 in England. When Mike Chapman founded his own label, Dreamland Records, in 1980, Quatro was one of his
first signings. 1980's Rock Hard turned out to be one of Dreamland's most successful releases, but the label
crashed and burned in 1981, and 1983's Main Attraction, which found Quatro dipping her toes into new wave-
influenced material, was a commercial and critical disappointment; Quatro's days as a hitmaker were over.
Undaunted, Quatro set out to reinvent herself as an actress, and in 1986, she starred in a revival of the celebrated
musical Annie, Get Your Gun on London's West End. The show was a rousing success, and Quatro pursued an
eclectic show biz career, hosting a TV chat show (Gas Street), acting on British television, starring in another West
End musical about the life of Tallulah Bankhead, serving as a disc jockey for BBC radio, presenting a series of music
documentaries for BBC TV, penning her autobiography, and starring in a one-woman show adapted from her
memoirs. In between all this, Quatro continued to periodically release albums that found her defiantly playing the
sort of hard rock that made her name in the '70s, including 2003's What Goes Around, 2006's Back to the Drive,
and 2011's In the Spotlight. In 2014, Quatro, who was still successfully touring the U.K., Australia, and Japan,
celebrated the 50th anniversary of her career in rock & roll with a four-CD box set, The Girl from Detroit City,
which traced her years in music from the first Pleasure Seekers' single to her 21st century recordings. In 2019,
Quatro began speaking out in interviews about her anger that she had not yet been inducted into the Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame, given her history as a pioneering woman in rock. "I was there before anybody else had a twinkle in
their eye, that's a fact of life," she told a reporter in February 2019. As if to show that she was still worthy of the
honor, Quatro would release her toughest album in years, No Control, the following March.
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ATLANTA -- The Atlanta Falcons found their replacement for Michael Turner on Thursday by agreeing to terms with Steven Jackson, considered the top free-agent running back, on a three-year, $12 million deal.
The 29-year-old Jackson had 1,042 yards rushing and four touchdowns with the Rams last season. It was his eighth straight season with more than 1,000 yards rushing.
"I think this is a very big signing for us," Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff told The Associated Press. "It continues to bolster our offensive firepower. It gives us not only strength, power in running ability but also the versatility to catch out of the backfield, which is a very important part of this offense."
In separate posts on his Twitter feed, Jackson referred to Dimitroff and Falcons owner Arthur Blank as he thanked the Falcons for the new deal.
"To the AMAZING Atlanta Falcons Owner, GM & Management team, I SINCERELY THANK EACH OF YOU for making this happen. I EAGERLY anticipate 2013!" Jackson tweeted.
Jackson would have earned $7 million with the Rams in 2013 before he opted out of his contract to become a free agent.
He tweeted his thanks to the Rams "for believing in me & allowing me to be an integral part of this team for so many years."
Jackson's 10,135 yards rushing for his career are the most of any active player. He set career highs with 1,528 yards rushing and 13 touchdowns with St. Louis in 2006.
Turner's average of only 3.6 yards per carry last season set a career low. The Falcons released Turner, defensive end John Abraham and cornerback Dunta Robinson on March 1. He had 800 yards rushing, his low total in his five seasons in Atlanta.
Jackson averaged 4.1 yards per carry with the Rams and gives Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan another receiver to target. Jackson had at least 38 catches in each of his last eight seasons in St. Louis.
"We're hoping he has his best years ahead of him, there's no question about that," Dimitroff said. "We think he still has much fuel in the tank and I know that he believes that."
Turner's modest total of 19 catches last season set a career high. He had his first career touchdown catch.
The deal with Jackson came only two days after the Falcons announced tight end Tony Gonzalez is returning for the 2013 season after saying last year he was 95 percent sure he would retire.
The Falcons also have re-signed strong safety William Moore and right guard Garrett Reynolds.


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Analog Devices Inc., in collaboration with Xilinx® Inc. and MathWorks Inc., is launching a series of design conferences for analog, mixed-signal and embedded systems engineers. Based on the theme "Discuss. Design. Deliver.," the conferences will bring together experts in high-performance analog, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) and modeling tools to present complete signal chain and system-ready solutions for complex design challenges. Engineers attending Design Conference 2013 will leave with practical knowledge and understanding of new products and solutions they can use in their designs. Experts from multiple engineering disciplines will lead the conferences and instruct engineers on advanced techniques of high-performance signal processing, reference designs and systems applications. Design Conference 2013 will take place in the United States, Germany and China. Avnet, Digilent and 4DSP, sponsors of the U.S. conferences, will showcase their industry-leading solutions based on ADI's analog and mixed-signal technologies.
- Watch a video, view technical session descriptions and register for a U.S. design conference: www.analog.com/DC13.
US Conference Dates/Locations
April 25: Greater Boston, MA
April 30: Santa Clara, CA
"More than ever, analog and digital engineers are required to design across the entire signal chain in order to meet today's intense time-to-market pressures," said Raj Seelam, director of Solutions Marketing at Xilinx. "Xilinx and Analog Devices have worked together to co-develop kits and reference designs that combine FPGAs, data converters and high-speed serial interconnects for easier system integration and faster time to market. Educational conferences such as these, extend our collaboration and help designers better meet the demands of multi-channel, data-intensive applications in industrial, healthcare, communications and other markets."
Each day-long conference will include live demonstrations and 16 technical sessions addressing a wide range of technology areas and application solutions in industries such as aerospace and defense, high-speed RF communications, process control, motor control and instrumentation. The conferences are designed to expose attendees to the latest technology and signal processing innovations as well as real-world system level reference applications and tools showing how that technology can be rapidly applied within the broader ecosystem.
"When connecting a high-speed analog module to an FPGA platform, the right design tools are critical for developing systems efficiently," said Ken Karnofsky, senior strategist, Signal Processing, MathWorks. "During the conference, attendees will learn how MATLAB® and Simulink® can be used to develop, model and deploy high-performance signal processing systems."


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Report: Marines deaths in Northern Nevada caused by training misstep
A military investigation has concluded an accidental explosion that killed seven Camp Lejeune Marines during a nighttime training exercise in Northern Nevada was the result of human error and insufficient training.
Marine spokesman Lt. Adam Flores said Wednesday that the investigation found the deadly March 18 explosion was triggered when a Marine dropped a second round into an already loaded mortar tube during a live-fire exercise at Hawthorne Army Depot in Northern Nevada.
Two officers and a noncommissioned officer were relieved of command following the explosion.
The investigation determined that the 60 mm mortar functioned properly and that the weapon system is safe when used as designed by properly trained Marines.
Those killed ranged in age from 19 to 26. Seven additional Marines and a Navy sailor were also wounded in the blast.


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On CBS' Blue Bloods, a gritty police drama starring Tom Selleck, newcomer Will Estes plays Selleck's youngest son Jamie, a Harvard law grad turned beat cop whose rookie cuteness gives us a new reason to stay in on Friday nights. Here, 32-year-old Estes chats with ELLE about bulletproof vests, G.I. Joes, and braving NYC winters.
ELLE: This isn't the first time you've played a cop—you're an Ohio police officer in the upcoming film Magic Valley—so how was the Blue Bloods prep different?
WE: I'm one of the only people on the show who wears the vest under the uniform. When we started it was really hot, and people were going, "Are you sure you want to wear that? You're crazy, that thing is really uncomfortable." But I like it because you can see it underneath the shirt, and it does change your posture. It makes the uniform look even more like the real thing.
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ELLE: How do you relate to your character, Jamie?
WE: Ultimately, he's a guy that grew up around the family dinner table with his dad and older brothers telling cop stories, and he's someone who had the courage to follow his convictions and become a police officer like his dad and grandfather. He's a beat cop now, but I'm sure that's not his goal. I'm sure he'd love to make detective and he'd love to work on bigger and more high profile crimes. I think as a guy, a lot of us can sort of identify. I definitely played with G.I. Joe figures when I was kid, and the idea of being a cop isn't that far off from that.
ELLE: What's it been like working with Mr. Magnum P.I.?
WE: Exciting! I saw Magnum, P.I. when I was younger so, of course, I know Tom Selleck from some of his great work.
ELLE: You're from L.A., but the show films in NYC. How have you been adjusting to winter?
WE: It's been tough, but I feel like I've climatized. I hacked out a parking space for myself today, there was a bunch of ice, and people were looking at me like I was crazy, but it only took me like three or four minutes and then I had a parking space that no one else was willing to deal with. I'm taking things into my own hands out here.


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Family and Friends,
This years train cars represent the final editions of our New Yorker and Standard train sets. On behalf on my father, I want to thank all of you for your patronage over the past 39 years. One of the great pleasures of his life was attending craft shows and meeting new people. He always looked forward to visits at the shop and phone calls from customers both near and far. He enjoyed hearing about the children who received his toys as youngsters and their accomplishments as they grew up and continued collecting into adulthood. Many of you became friends and would be discussed at our dinner table in the evenings. In the 10 years since his passing, I have discovered the same joy. I hope you and your family have enjoyed our toys as much as my family has enjoyed bringing them to you. Thank you again for being such a special part of our lives.
Warm Regards,Jason Rounds


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Mobile devices serve as own mice with optical sensing (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The same inexpensive, but high-quality optical sensors employed in the common computer mouse can enable small mobile phones and digital music players to be used as their own pointing and gestural input devices, say researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII).
By installing a pair of optical sensors on the back of a mobile phone or mp3 player, the researchers found that the entire device could have many of the same benefits as that of a computer mouse when the device was placed against a surface, a piece of clothing or the palm of a hand. This new input method, called Minput, responds to up-down, and side-to-side motions, like a computer mouse, but also to twisting and flicking motions.
"Minput turns out to be a fairly intuitive way to navigate through menus or photo galleries on a device's display without fumbling with tiny buttons or obscuring a small touchscreen with your fingers," said Chris Harrison, a third-year Ph.D. student who developed the method with his faculty adviser, HCII Professor Scott Hudson. "Because we use a pair of sensors, it can respond to a wide range of gestural commands, much like an iPhone or other multi-touch device."
Twisting a Minput-equipped device — a gesture that proved particularly popular with beta testers — might allow a user to zoom in or out of a photo or document, while flicking the device against a surface enables the user, for instance, to switch between photos or between photo galleries. But Minput also permits high-precision positioning — such as selecting a sentence of text from a paragraph — that would be difficult to perform on a small touchscreen or with other types of gestural input, where the size of the finger might occupy a majority of the screen.
Harrison presented a paper on Minput earlier this month at CHI 2010, the Association for Computing Machinery's annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Atlanta.
Minput didn't require developing any new sensor technology, Harrison said. "The hard part was done for us; optical sensors are already fantastically well-engineered. And at about a dollar apiece, they wouldn't add much to the cost of a mobile phone or music player," he noted. "We just use these sensors in a new and clever way."
For their prototype, Harrison and Hudson mounted two optical sensors on the back of a wristwatch-size television with a 1.5-inch-diagonal display. Computer processing is performed off-board by a laptop computer. But Harrison said the Minput sensors and processors could be readily miniaturized to fit inside small mobile devices.
More information: Project page: www.chrisharrison.net/projects/minput/
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The Hardscaping Trend: Upgrade Your Outdoor Areas
Home sales are still recovering, but business is brisk when it comes to homeowners upgrading their outdoor spaces. Landscapes and lawns will always require maintenance, but more people are investing bigger dollars in adding outdoor kitchens, fire pits and seating areas.
Creating a more comfortable outdoor space enhances your quality of living and also helps add resale value.
Installing decks and pavers are popular spring projects that pay immediate dividends and—if you can get it finished in time for a Memorial Day BBQ—you'll likely have the most popular house on the block this summer!
Before you dive into your hardscaping project, make sure you have a long-term plan that realistically fits your budget. Outdoor kitchens are difficult to move once installed; with fire pit locations, be aware of where gas and water lines are located on your property.
If you aren't ready to commit to a hardscape plan, then start slowly and get that grill you've been wanting and that portable fire pit that you can try out in different spots around your yard.
For more on outdoor living, consider the following Bob Vila articles and slideshows:
Landscaping Made Easy
Outdoor Kitchens: High Style and State-of-the-Art Features
7 Reasons to Consider the New "Grass" Alternative


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By the CNN Wire Staff
Los Angeles (CNN) - Rodney King, whose beating by Los Angeles police in 1991 was caught on camera and sparked riots after the acquittal of the four officers involved, was found dead in his swimming pool Sunday, authorities and his fiancee said. He was 47.
Police in Rialto, California, received a 911 call from King's fiancee, Cynthia Kelly, about 5:25 a.m., said Capt. Randy DeAnda. Responding officers found King at the bottom of the pool, removed him and attempted to revive him. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital, DeAnda said.
There were no preliminary signs of foul play, he said, and no obvious injuries on King's body. Police are conducting a drowning investigation, DeAnda said, and King's body would be autopsied.
"His fiancee heard him in the rear yard," he said, and found King in the pool when she went outside.
Kelly was a juror in King's lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles in 1994.
King's beating after a high-speed car chase and its aftermath forever changed Los Angeles, its police department and the dialogue on race in America.


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Expert's Rating
- East to use
- Handy LCD Screen
- Screwless design
- Pricey
Our Verdict
Like its name implies, the ToughTech Duo RAID from Cru-Dataport looks sturdy and feels like it can take a pounding. With its quad interface connectivity, easy-to-use LCD menu system, and screwless hard drive trays, the ToughTech Duo is a two drive portable RAID array that's simple to set up and use.
The ToughTech Duo's aluminum housing looks right at home when paired with a MacBook Pro or Mac desktop computer, and at 6.3-by-3.5-by-1.3 inches, the array resembles a small paperback book in size. Cru-Dataport touts the ToughTech Duo's portability as one of its selling points (especially to audio/video enthusiasts), though the device feels very heavy when held in one hand—at 1.75 pounds, you'll definitely feel the additional weight when traveling.
The ToughTech Duo features two 2.5-inch screwless hard drive trays, and very little effort is required to add or remove a hard drive. To remove or replace a hard drive, you simply push a black latch, press a gray ejector that pops the tray out, and pull the tray out. You then press a drive release button on the back of the tray, and slide your drive in or out.
The ToughTech Duo has two FireWire800 ports and is backwards compatible with FireWire 400 with the proper adapter, which is included. The drive also has a single eSATA /USB 2.0 combo port that can accommodate either connection.
The two-line LCD display has four buttons used to navigate through the menus. Pressing the Up or Down buttons on the menu pad, you can check the RAID, hard drive, and temperature status, as well as change the RAID mode. Our unit came preconfigured as HFS+ and RAID 1 Mirrored, but were able to change the RAID setting quickly. In just ten seconds, we'd changed it from a RAID 1 arrangement to a RAID 0 Striped alignment.
The ToughTech Duo ships with all the necessary cables, a power adapter with interchangeable plugs for international use, a Quick Start Guide, and stand. Our unit had two 2.5-inch Hitachi 500GB 7200-rpm drives inside the array, but you can order it in various configurations.
In our USB 2.0 testing, using a RAID 1 configuration and power adapter, the array's speeds were in line with standard external portable hard drives. The ToughTech Duo scored 31.2MBps and 36.5MBps in our 2GB folder write and read tests, respectively. The results showed a slight improvement in our 2GB file test, writing to the drive at 33.2MBps, and copying the file back to our test bed at 37.2MBps. The array then completed our Photoshop test in 74 seconds,which was 4 seconds slower than the Iomega eGo BlackBelt ( ) and 8 seconds slower than the G-Drive Slim ( ). The AJA System test results from the ToughTech Duo exhibited 32.0MBps write and 36.9MBps read speeds. We also tested the array in a RAID 0 configuration as well, but the results showed little speed difference between the two setups.
Our Firewire 800 test results, on the other hand, were mixed. In a RAID 1 configuration, the ToughTech Duo wrote our 2GB folder at 55.0MBps, slower than both the Iomega eGo () and G-Drive Mobile ( ), but read the folder at 73.5MBps, faster than the aforementioned drives. It then wrote our 2GB folder at 59.3MBps, speedier than the Iomega, but slower than the G-Drive, while reading the folder at 80.6MBps, this time quicker then the G-Drive, but slower than the Iomega. The array went on to finish our Photoshop test in 54 seconds, and post AJA scores of 58.4MBps and 76.5MBps in writing and reading in that order. RAID 0 results were, again, very similar.
Macworld's buying advice
When it comes to price, the ToughTech Duo is rather expensive—it's priced more than twice as high as other similarly configured drives. That being said, it's very easy to use and manage, operates very quietly, and makes hard drive swapping child's play. If you don't mind paying premium prices, the ToughTech Duo is a good choice for your needs.


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In my last post I examined a normalised vs a denormalised model in PowerPivot. In some cases, though, users will invariably avoid this de/normalisation "stuff" and import a single table in PowerPivot. After all, PowerPivot targets Excel users, and Excel users are used to using large workbooks – in most cases a large extract provided by their friendly DBA or database developers. This is why the scenario where PowerPivot becomes a tool to overcome the 1 million rows limitation in Excel will be quite common. But how does it perform, is it wise to do this and when? I will try to answer some of the questions in this post.
To test performance I mashed up the data in my PTest environment and put it in a single table. Of course, comparing the space on disk between the normalised, denormalised and the single table approaches there was a massive difference with the single table being by far the largest, followed by the denormalised model and the normalised being the smallest. This is what we would expect and is one of the reasons for normalising at the first place.
In a database the single table would be very inefficient since it will lead to lots of IO in many scenarios. However, when imported in PowerPivot the sizes compare like this (variation from denormalised given in brackets):
5.5 Gb RAM
3.5 Gb File
5.2 Gb RAM (-0.3Gb)
3.3 Gb File (-0.2Gb)
4.3 Gb RAM (-1.2Gb)
2.8 Gb File (-0.7Gb)
Obviously the elimination of many distinct keys leads to significant space savings. In fact, the single table approach is by far the most efficient when comparing memory utilisation and disk space (when saving the Excel file).
After I did my standard slicer testing, I got extremely good performance out of my single table. No relationships whatsoever seem to be a fast approach to PowerPivot. So, if there were no considerations we could jump into a conclusion that a single table is the best possible option for PowerPivot. Well, the next few section of this post will show why this is actually not the case.
Let's quickly add another hypothetical table to our model. What if we need to add some more data and we decide to ask our friendly DBA to give us another extract with more of the same? Now we have two massive tables and we want to analyse the data from both of them. We hit a serious problem – slicing by a slicer built from one of the tables does not work with the other one. This is an obvious scenario for SSAS developers. We need to have a relationship between the tables we use for slicing. In other words, if we want to slice both tables by Date, we need to have a common table which we base the slicer on. Our model should look like the following diagram:
We do not have this relationship and trying to add one directly between the two big tables fails because we do not have a column with distinct values. This is the most obvious showstopper when considering using a single large table I can see.
When we have one table memory utilisation seems very good. However, when we have more than one of these behemoths in memory, we can reasonably expect that due to duplication of attribute data (e.g. we have to store our Products and Customer Names a number of times in memory), we will have a problem – unnecessary duplication of the same data. This is especially true for high-cardinality attributes – that is where we have many distinct values, like in my sample Order Number attribute (20+ million distinct values). In such cases separating these in their own "dimension table" would save memory and disk space.
How these models compare when building DAX calculations is a topic on its own and I will soon show some comparisons which should answer two questions – which is the most convenient and intuitive model to work with and which one is the fastest. For now it would suffice to say that always working over a large set of values in different tables could be expected to be the slowest (however, I have not done sufficient testing to confirm this yet).
In conclusion, when doing ad-hoc analytics over some extracts which would definitely not need to be mixed up with others, the single table approach works very well with PowerPivot. It certainly extends the functionality Excel offers natively. However, if we are building extensible models, which are to be shared, enhanced and would form the heart of our Team BI, we should avoid the single table because of the other considerations listed above.


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legal_t5_small_trans_fr_cs model
Model on translating legal text from French to Cszech. It was first released in this repository. This model is trained on three parallel corpus from jrc-acquis, europarl and dcep.
Model description
legal_t5_small_trans_fr_cs is based on the
t5-small model and was trained on a large corpus of parallel text. This is a smaller model, which scales the baseline model of t5 down by using
dmodel = 512,
dff = 2,048, 8-headed attention, and only 6 layers each in the encoder and decoder. This variant has about 60 million parameters.
Intended uses & limitations
The model could be used for translation of legal texts from French to Cszech.
How to use
Here is how to use this model to translate legal text from French to Cszech in PyTorch:
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelWithLMHead, TranslationPipeline
pipeline = TranslationPipeline(
tokenizer=AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(pretrained_model_name_or_path = "SEBIS/legal_t5_small_trans_fr_cs", do_lower_case=False,
fr_text = "Hannes Swoboda , au nom du groupe PSE,"
pipeline([fr_text], max_length=512)
Training data
The legal_t5_small_trans_fr_cs model was trained on JRC-ACQUIS, EUROPARL, and DCEP dataset consisting of 5 Million parallel texts.
Training procedure
The model was trained on a single TPU Pod V3-8 for 250K steps in total, using sequence length 512 (batch size 4096). It has a total of approximately 220M parameters and was trained using the encoder-decoder architecture. The optimizer used is AdaFactor with inverse square root learning rate schedule for pre-training.
An unigram model trained with 88M lines of text from the parallel corpus (of all possible language pairs) to get the vocabulary (with byte pair encoding), which is used with this model.
Evaluation results
When the model is used for translation test dataset, achieves the following results:
Test results :
|BLEU score
BibTeX entry and citation info
Created by Ahmed Elnaggar/@Elnaggar_AI | LinkedIn
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A teacher confronts a student who posted obscene insults on Twitter
A viral online video shows the classroom confrontation
Official: The teacher has been temporarily pulled from the classroom
After a student made obscene comments about her on Twitter, a high school teacher in northern Mexico taught a lesson with an online post of her own: a video showing her confronting the girl in class.
Now the teacher is on administrative leave. The student has been suspended. The video has gone viral, with hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. And there are now copies floating around.
The eight-minute video gives a glimpse of a lesson that students at the science and technology high school in Mexico's Tamaulipas state aren't likely to forget.
At first, it looks like a typical classroom scene, with students attentively listening as human resources teacher Idalia Hernandez Ramos presents the day's lesson.
For several minutes, Hernandez asks one student to stand up read a statement about social media out loud, then peppers her with questions about how harmful it can be and how people can be prosecuted for what they've posted.
The student mentions possible problems with cyberbullying.
"And the destruction of the image of another person?" Hernandez asks.
The student nods vigorously.
That's when Hernandez confronts her.
"Knowing that, could you tell me why you wrote this?" she says, handing the student a phone.
A long, tense silence follows. The student then admits being the author of the tweet, saying that she was "upset."
Growing visibly emotional, Hernandez tells the student that she's also "very upset." She then points to several other students recording the incident on cell phone cameras and tablets and demands an apology.
"My family saw it (the tweet) and now you're going to apologize in front of these cameras," Hernandez says.
"I made a mistake," the student says in a barely audible voice. "The teacher didn't deserve being called those things."
A fellow student who apparently shared the comments is also chastised by the teacher, who calls them both "cowards" in front of the whole classroom. Hernandez then repeated the words used against her – b*tch and whore – in front of the shocked group of students.
"Listen to me well: I will not allow anyone to call me that, especially a young brat like you and you," Hernandez says.
An official at the CBTis 103 science and technology high school told CNN that Hernandez has been temporarily taken out of the classroom while the August incident is investigated.
The 17-year-old student was suspended for two weeks but is back in school, the official said. CNN is not disclosing the student's name because she's a minor.
Debate has surged on social media over the video, with some praising the teacher and others criticizing her for humiliating the student.
The school official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that "most of the teacher's colleagues are siding with her."
The official also said federal education authorities in Mexico City are reviewing the case.
"It may take up to four months to make a final determination on whether the teacher is fired or not," she said.


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JUPITER, Fla. – Jupiter Medical Center (JMC) and Miami Children's Hospital (MCH) today announced a partnership to make Miami Children's Hospital the pediatric partner for Jupiter Medical Center. The partnership will take shape in two phases over the next two years. By working together, Jupiter Medical Center and Miami Children's Hospital are enhancing the world-class pediatric clinical services and programs currently offered to the community at the Miami Children's Hospital Nicklaus Outpatient Center in Palm Beach Gardens and in the private pediatric practices throughout the county.
"Miami Children's Hospital is pleased to partner with Jupiter Medical Center as part of our commitment to be where the children are in South Florida. This new affiliation with Jupiter Medical Center – a leader in adult healthcare quality and service excellence – builds on the vision of the Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation to expand access for children and families in need of specialized care and assessment," said M. Narendra Kini, MD, MHA, President and CEO of Miami Children's Hospital.
"Jupiter Medical Center and Miami Children's Hospital are very similar institutions – we have similar cultures, similar values and beliefs, and a similar dedication to provide world-class quality and excellent patient care," said John Couris, President and CEO of Jupiter Medical Center. "Together, through our partnership with Miami Children's Hospital, we can bridge the gap from world-class adult healthcare, to world-class pediatric healthcare, where our entire community benefits."
"Jupiter Medical Center and Miami Children's Hospital are very similar institutions – we have similar cultures, similar values and beliefs, and a similar dedication to provide world-class quality and excellent patient care," said John Couris, President and CEO of Jupiter Medical Center. "Together, through our partnership with Miami Children's Hospital, we can bridge the gap from world-class adult healthcare, to world-class pediatric healthcare, where our entire community benefits."
The first phase of the partnership, which will be implemented over the next six months, includes implementing telehealth technology in Jupiter Medical Center's Emergency Department. Telehealth will allow Miami Children's Hospital physicians to interact with Jupiter Medical Center's physicians and patients remotely, giving them the ability to review images, lab results, and capture vital assessment information in real time. Future plans include the addition of a rotation of Miami Children's Hospital Pediatric Emergency Physicians onsite in Jupiter Medical Center's Emergency Room, as well.
In addition to telehealth, plans include partnering on Jupiter Medical Center's Urgent Care Center, offering adult and pediatric care urgent care at JMC's Jupiter facility. The organizations will combine their pediatric therapy programs, housing the program at the MCH Nicklaus Outpatient Center. The organizations will also partner on pediatric imaging services, as well as outpatient surgical procedures in ENT and urology.
The second phase of the partnership will focus on implementing a Level 2 NICU and an inpatient pediatric wing at Jupiter Medical Center.
A not-for-profit 283-bed regional medical center consisting of 163 private acute care hospital beds and 120 long-term care, sub-acute rehabilitation and Hospice beds, Jupiter Medical Center provides a broad range of services with specialty concentrations in oncology, imaging, orthopedics & spine, digestive health, emergency services, lung & thoracic, women's health, weight management and men's health. Founded in 1979, the Medical Center has approximately 1,500 team members, 520 physicians and 700 volunteers. Jupiter Medical Center is the recipient of the HealthGrades 'America's 50 Best' Award™ for three years in a row (2011-2013) and the Distinguished Hospital Award - Clinical Excellence™ for nine years in a row (2005-2013). For more information on Jupiter Medical Center, please call (561) 263-2234 or visit www.jupitermed.com.
The Nicklaus family founded the Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation in 2004 for a simple reason: to help kids in the community where the family has lived and worked for decades. The Foundation has grown from a vision to reality, providing charitable services for children's health care. The Foundation's mission is to provide access to world-class health care for all children and support innovative programs focused on diagnosis, treatment and prevention of childhood illness. In 2010, the Miami Children's Hospital Nicklaus Care Center opened in Loxahatchee offering an array of sub-specialty services for children with special needs. The Foundation's most recent project was the opening of the Miami Children's Hospital Nicklaus Outpatient Center in Palm Beach Gardens which provides pediatric rehabilitative services, diagnostics, imaging, sub-specialty physician services and after-hours urgent care.
Founded in 1950 by Variety Clubs International, Nicklaus Children's Hospital is South Florida's only licensed specialty hospital exclusively for children, with approximately 800 attending physicians, including more than 500 pediatric subspecialists. The 309-bed hospital, known as Miami Children's Hospital from 1983 through 2014, is renowned for excellence in all aspects of pediatric medicine with many specialty programs routinely ranked among the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report since 2008. In the 2022-2023 U.S. News ranking, the hospital tied with two other hospitals as the number one children's hospital in Florida. The hospital is also home to the largest pediatric teaching program in the southeastern United States and since 2003 has been designated an American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet facility, the nursing profession's most prestigious institutional honor. For more information, please visit www.nicklauschildrens.org.


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Generic Name: trimethobenzamide (Intramuscular route)
trye-meth-oh-BENZ-a-mideCommonly used brand name(s)
In the U.S.Arrestin Benzacot Stemetic Ticon Tigan Tribenzagan
Available Dosage Forms:Solution
Therapeutic Class: Antiemetic
Pharmacologic Class: AnticholinergicUses For Stemetic
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This section provides information on the proper use of a number of products that contain trimethobenzamide. It may not be specific to Stemetic. Please read with care.
Trimethobenzamide is only used to relieve or prevent nausea and vomiting. A nurse or other trained health professional will give you this medicine. This medicine is given as a shot into one of your muscles .
Your doctor may only give you a few doses of this medicine until your condition improves, and then may switch you to an oral medicine that works the same way. If you have any concerns about this, talk to your doctor .Precautions While Using Stemetic
Trimethobenzamide will add to the effects of alcohol and other CNS depressants (medicines that make you drowsy or less alert). Some examples of CNS depressants are antihistamines or medicines for hay fever, other allergies, or colds; sedatives, tranquilizers, or sleeping medicines; prescription pain medicines or narcotics; barbiturates; medicine for seizures; muscle relaxants; or anesthetics, including some dental anesthetics. Check with your doctor before taking any of these medicines while you are using trimethobenzamide .
This medicine may cause some people to become dizzy, lightheaded, drowsy, or less alert than they are normally. Make sure you know how you react to this medicine before you drive, use machines, or do anything else that could be dangerous if you are dizzy or not alert .Stemetic Side Effects
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