Holy smokes! "Batman" nabs suspect for British police

LONDON (Reuters) - A mystery man dressed as Batman demonstrated the same crime-fighting skills as the caped crusader when he handed over a suspect wanted for burglary in Britain.

Closed-circuit television footage showed a portly figure wearing an ill-fitting costume including gloves, cape and mask, bringing a 27-year-old man to a police station in Bradford in northern England.

The suspect was arrested and charged with handling stolen goods and fraud-related offences, said the force. But the costumed crime-fighter disappeared into the night without leaving his name.

"The person who brought the wanted man into the station was dressed in a full Batman outfit," said a spokeswoman for West Yorkshire Police. "His identity, however, remains unknown."

The suspect was handed over in the early hours of February 25, said police who released photos of the footage on Monday.

(Reporting by Michael Holden; Editing by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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A window into Europa's ocean lies right at the surface

Mar. 5, 2013 ? If you could lick the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, you would actually be sampling a bit of the ocean beneath. So says Mike Brown, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Brown -- known as the Pluto killer for discovering a Kuiper-belt object that led to the demotion of Pluto from planetary status -- and Kevin Hand from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have found the strongest evidence yet that salty water from the vast liquid ocean beneath Europa's frozen exterior actually makes its way to the surface.

The finding, based on some of the first data of its kind since NASA's Galileo mission (1989-2003) to study Jupiter and its moons, suggests that there is a chemical exchange between the ocean and surface, making the ocean a richer chemical environment, and implies that learning more about the ocean could be as simple as analyzing the moon's surface. The work is described in a paper that has been accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal.

"We now have evidence that Europa's ocean is not isolated -- that the ocean and the surface talk to each other and exchange chemicals," says Brown, the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor and professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech. "That means that energy might be going into the ocean, which is important in terms of the possibilities for life there. It also means that if you'd like to know what's in the ocean, you can just go to the surface and scrape some off."

"The surface ice is providing us a window into that potentially habitable ocean below," says Hand, deputy chief scientist for solar system exploration at JPL.

Since the days of the Galileo mission, when the spacecraft showed that Europa was covered with an icy shell, scientists have debated the composition of Europa's surface. The infrared spectrometer aboard Galileo was not capable of providing the detail needed to definitively identify some of the materials present on the surface. Now, using current technology on ground-based telescopes, Brown and Hand have identified a spectroscopic feature on Europa's surface that indicates the presence of a magnesium sulfate salt, a mineral called epsomite, that could only originate from the ocean below.

"Magnesium should not be on the surface of Europa unless it's coming from the ocean," Brown says. "So that means ocean water gets onto the surface, and stuff on the surface presumably gets into the ocean water."

Europa's ocean is thought to be 100 kilometers deep and covers the entire globe. The moon remains locked in relation to Jupiter, with the same hemisphere always leading and the other trailing in its orbit. The leading hemisphere has a yellowish appearance, while the trailing hemisphere seems to be splattered and streaked with a red material.

The spectroscopic data from that red side has been a cause of scientific debate for 15 years. It is thought that one of Jupiter's largest moons, Io, spews volcanic sulfur from its atmosphere, and Jupiter's strong magnetic field sends some of that sulfur hurtling toward the trailing hemisphere of Europa, where it sticks. It is also clear from Galileo's data that there is something other than pure water ice on the trailing hemisphere's surface. The debate has focused on what that other something is -- i.e., what has caused the spectroscopic data to deviate from the signature of pure water ice.

"From Galileo's spectra, people knew something was there besides water. They argued for years over what it might be -- sodium sulfate, hydrogen sulfate, sodium hydrogen carbonate, all these things that look more or less similar in this range of the spectrum," says Brown. "But the really difficult thing was that the spectrometer on the Galileo spacecraft was just too coarse."

Brown and Hand decided that the latest spectrometers on ground-based telescopes could improve the data pertaining to Europa, even from a distance of about 400 million miles. Using the Keck II telescope on Mauna Kea -- which is outfitted with adaptive optics to adjust for the blurring effect of Earth's atmosphere -- and its OH-Suppressing Infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (OSIRIS), they first mapped the distribution of pure water ice versus anything else on the moon. The spectra showed that even Europa's leading hemisphere contains significant amounts of nonwater ice. Then, at low latitudes on the trailing hemisphere -- the area with the greatest concentration of the nonwater ice material -- they found a tiny dip in the spectrum that had never been detected before.

"We now have the best spectrum of this thing in the world," Brown says. "Nobody knew there was this little dip in the spectrum because no one had the resolution to zoom in on it before."

The two researchers racked their brains to come up with materials that might explain the new spectroscopic feature, and then tested everything from sodium chloride to Drano in Hand's lab at JPL, where he tries to simulate the environments found on various icy worlds. "We tried to think outside the box to consider all sorts of other possibilities, but at the end of the day, the magnesium sulfate persisted," Hand says.

Some scientists had long suspected that magnesium sulfate was on the surface of Europa. But, Brown says, "the interesting twist is that it doesn't look like the magnesium sulfate is coming from the ocean." Since the mineral he and Hand found is only on the trailing side, where the moon is being bombarded with sulfur from Io, they believe that there is a magnesium-bearing mineral everywhere on Europa that produces magnesium sulfate in combination with sulfur. The pervasive magnesium-bearing mineral might also be what makes up the nonwater ice detected on the leading hemisphere's surface.

Brown and Hand believe that this mystery magnesium-bearing mineral is magnesium chloride. But magnesium is not the only unexpected element on the surface of Europa. Fifteen years ago, Brown showed that Europa is surrounded by an atmosphere of atomic sodium and potassium, presumably originating from the surface. The researchers reason that the sodium and potassium chlorides are actually the dominant salts on the surface of Europa, but that they are not detectable because they have no clear spectral features.

The scientists combined this information with the fact that Europa's ocean can only be one of two types -- either sulfate-rich or chlorine-rich. Having ruled out the sulfate-rich version since magnesium sulfate was found only on the trailing side, Brown and Hand hypothesize that the ocean is chlorine-rich and that the sodium and potassium must be present as chlorides.

Therefore, Brown says, they believe the composition of Europa's sea closely resembles the salty ocean of Earth. "If you could go swim down in the ocean of Europa and taste it, it would just taste like normal old salt," he says.

Hand emphasizes that, from an astrobiology standpoint, Europa is considered a premier target in the search for life beyond Earth; a NASA-funded study team led by JPL and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory have been working with the scientific community to identify options to explore Europa further. "If we've learned anything about life on Earth, it's that where there's liquid water, there's generally life," Hand says. "And of course our ocean is a nice salty ocean. Perhaps Europa's salty ocean is also a wonderful place for life."

The Astronomical Journal paper is titled "Salts and radiation products on the surface of Europa." The work was supported, in part, by the NASA Astrobiology Institute through the Astrobiology of Icy Worlds node at JPL.

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Judge rejects Bulger's future immunity claim

BOSTON (AP) ? Gangster James "Whitey" Bulger cannot present evidence to a jury about his claim that he was given immunity for future crimes, including murder, a federal judge ruled Monday, calling Bulger's contention that he had a license to kill "beyond the pale."

U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns found that an immunity agreement "cannot as a matter of public policy license future criminal conduct."

"The court concludes that any grant of prospective immunity to commit murder was without authorization and is hence unenforceable under any circumstance," Stearns wrote.

He also wrote, "A license to kill is even further beyond the pale and one unknown even in the earliest formulations of the common law."

Stearns, however, did not immediately rule on Bulger's claim that he received immunity for past crimes.

"Without knowledge of the date of the alleged agreement, however, the court is unable to say whether this determination nullifies defendant's claim of immunity in its entirety (again, assuming proof of its existence)," he wrote.

Stearns gave lawyers additional time to submit written arguments and indicated he will hold a pretrial hearing on Bulger's claim of immunity for past crimes.

Bulger, the former leader of the Winter Hill Gang, is accused of participating in 19 killings. His trial is scheduled to begin June 6.

The ruling was a blow to Bulger's lawyers, who want to use the claim of immunity as their defense during his trial.

They blasted the ruling and said Bulger's right to a fair trial "is at stake by this decision."

Attorneys J.W. Carney Jr. and Hank Brennan said the federal government "has done everything in its power over the past 25 years to cover up the relationship between James Bulger and Federal law enforcement officials."

"The Federal government, including attorneys who worked for the D.O.J. during this period, desperately want to conceal this sordid history from the jury, the victims, and the public," they said in a statement. "Today's decision is another step toward that goal."

Bulger, now 83, was a fugitive for 16 years after fleeing Boston in late 1994 just before he was indicted. He was captured in Santa Monica, Calif., in June 2011.

Bulger, who authorities say worked as an FBI informant while he was committing crimes, claims he received immunity from federal prosecutor Jeremiah O'Sullivan, who died in 2009.

Bulger's lawyers have asked a federal appeals court to remove Stearns from the case.

Carney argues that Stearns has a conflict of interest because he worked as a prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Boston at the same time as O'Sullivan. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has not indicated when it will rule on the request.

In his ruling, Stearns agreed with prosecutors that he should rule on Bulger's immunity claim before trial.

"Resolution of defendant's immunity claim requires an inquiry only into the existence, scope, and validity of the alleged agreement he made with New England Organized Crime Strike Force Chief Jeremiah O'Sullivan," Stearns wrote.

"It does not require the presentation of evidence regarding the commission of any of the nineteen murders or other crimes with which defendant is charged. The government's motion is thus not only appropriately raised, but calls for pretrial resolution."

Stearns noted that Bulger has the right to testify in his own defense at trial, regardless of the court's ruling on his immunity claim. But he also noted that testifying in one's own defense can be limited by rules relating to "materiality and perjury."

Stearns said there has been a "paucity of information" provided by Bulger's defense regarding his claim of immunity. Bulger's lawyers have said only that O'Sullivan ? some time before December 1984 ? promised Bulger immunity from prosecution for all past and future crimes, up to and including murder.

A spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz declined to comment on the ruling.

Bulger's lawyers have argued that if the judge prevents Bulger from presenting a defense based on his immunity claim, it will deprive Bulger of his right to a fair trial.

"Whether or not the defendant was granted immunity is at the core of this case," the defense wrote in a court filing Friday.

Carney recently stunned prosecutors when he said Bulger was never an FBI informant. In documents filed in court Friday, prosecutors said the claim that Bulger was not an FBI informant, but still had immunity is "both strange and unsubstantiated."

In their statement Monday, Bulger's lawyers said Bulger is prepared to testify "how and why he received immunity" from O'Sullivan "for past and ongoing crimes."

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If you agree to a late return date under MPLA, extend employees ...

The Minnesota Parental Leave Act (MPLA) provides up to six weeks of leave for childbirth and recovery or adoption. Employees who take leave are entitled to reinstatement.

It also includes a provision for extending parental leave, stating that leave ?may not exceed six weeks, unless agreed to by the employer.? Until now, it remained up in the air what should happen to the reinstatement right if the employer agreed to a longer leave.

According to a recent decision, if the employer agrees to a specific return date, that not only extends the leave, but also the right to reinstatement.

Recent case: Anastasia was working for Old Dominion Freight Lines when she became pregnant and requested MPLA leave. Because her doctor recommended she take eight weeks to recover, she emailed her manager and asked to ?come back to work on the 9th as long as that works with you.?

He responded, ?Nov. 9 will work.? That meant Anastasia?s leave would last about a week longer than the six weeks specified in the MPLA.

Anastasia never returned to work because she was fired a few days be??fore she was set to come back. She sued, alleging failure to reinstate under the MPLA.

Old Dominion argued that it had merely extended her leave, but that Anastasia lost the right to return to her job after six weeks had passed.

The court disagreed. It said that if an employee can prove she asked for more time off and got a specific return date approved, that approval also extends reinstatement rights. Otherwise, employees who rely on their employer?s agreement to extend leave would lose the very thing they were seeking?a longer break before returning to a guaranteed job. (Kersten v. Old Dominion Freight Lines, No. 11-1036, DC MN, 2012)

Final note: In addition to deciding whether the right to reinstatement can be extended by agreement, the court also considered another important aspect of the MPLA: Whether someone on MPLA leave can be refused reinstatement if she would have lost her job anyway due to ?the good faith operation of a bona fide layoff and recall system.?

In this case, Old Dominion ex??plained that while Anastasia was recovering from childbirth, the company?s financial condition changed, necessitating a layoff. Anastasia was picked for termination because she was the least senior full-time em??ployee. The railroad claimed it had a ?standard operating procedure? requiring the least senior employees to go when the budget got tight.

Unfortunately for Old Dominion, that wasn?t a written policy. Plus, when questioned, a company representative testified that employees who were terminated never got a chance to return.

In his words, ?[W]e terminate. We don?t lay off. We don?t leave that possibility that they may come back.?

The court reasoned that the informal, unwritten policy couldn?t be a bona fide layoff and recall system since no recall was possible. That meant Anastasia?s termination violated the MPLA. That?s in sharp contrast to the FMLA, which allows termination if the employer can show it would have dismissed the employee for reasons unrelated to the FMLA.

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Papal vote preparations begin in earnest at Vatican

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Roman Catholic cardinals filed into the Vatican on Monday for preliminary meetings to sketch an identikit for the next pope and ponder who among them might be best to lead a church beset by crises.

They arrived by private car, taxi and minibus at the gates of the Vatican for gatherings known as general congregations, closed-door meetings in which they will get to know each other and decide when to start a conclave to choose a man to lead the 1.2 billion member Church.

The Vatican appears to be aiming to have a new pope elected next week and officially installed several days later so he can preside over the Holy Week ceremonies starting with Palm Sunday on March 24 and culminating in Easter the following Sunday.

Pope Benedict left the Church in a state of shock when he announced last month that he would be the first pontiff in 600 years to resign instead of ruling for life. He formally stepped down on Thursday, leaving the papacy vacant.

High on the agenda at the general congregations will be the daunting challenges that will face the next pontiff, including the sexual abuse crisis that has rocked the Church and last year's "Vatileaks" scandal which exposed corruption and rivalries in the Vatican's bureaucracy.

"We need a man of governance, by that I mean a man who is able with the people he chooses to help him in an intimate way to govern the Church," Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the former Archbishop of Westminster in London, told BBC radio.

"Among the things we will be talking about out here are precisely the need in looking for a new pope for these failings that have happened again to be treated, to be faced strongly."

The cardinals, numbering about 150, are expected to hold one or two meetings a day. The Vatican seems keen to have only a week of preliminary talks so the 115 "cardinal electors" aged under 80 can enter the Sistine Chapel for the conclave next week. The exact date for its start has not been decided.

"We have meetings all this week to get to know each other better and consider the situations that we face," said Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois of Paris as he entered. He said he could not say at this stage "who will be the best one to respond to them".

Cardinals expect to be briefed on a secret report to the pope on the problems highlighted by the Vatileaks scandal, when documents which alleged corruption in the Vatican and infighting over the running of its bank were leaked to the media.

SHADOW OF ABUSE CRISIS

The crisis involving sexual abuse of children by priests and inappropriate behavior among adult clerics continues to haunt the Church and has rarely been out of the headlines.

One elector - Cardinal Keith O'Brien - quit as Edinburgh archbishop last week and pulled out of attending the conclave because of accusations that he behaved inappropriately with priests and seminarians in the past.

O'Brien initially denied the allegations but issued a statement late on Sunday apologizing because "my sexual conduct has fallen below the standards expected of me as a priest, archbishop and cardinal".

"The church has a particular responsibility to set a moral standard and that's what it tries to do and if sometimes it doesn't, if it fails with certain individuals occasionally it's going to repent and carry on," said Murphy-O'Connor, who will not take part in the conclave as he is aged over 80.

He said about O'Brien: "I think that's clearly very sad and the person involved has in fact apologized and is now going to leave, as it were, public life as a priest, as a bishop."

The preliminary meetings also give cardinals the chance to size up potential candidates by watching them closely in the debates and checking discreetly with other cardinals about their qualifications or any skeletons in their closets.

Cardinals never reveal publicly who they prefer but drop hints in interviews by discussing the identikit for their ideal candidate. The most frequently mentioned quality here is an ability to communicate the Catholic faith convincingly.

Most cardinals say the new pope could come from outside Europe, but it is not clear if the conclave, which has a slight majority of European cardinals, will break the long-standing tradition of choosing men only from the continent.

No front-runner stands out but leading candidates include Peter Turkson of Ghana, Leonardo Sandri of Argentina, Austrian Christoph Schoenborn, Brazil's Odilo Scherer, Canadian Marc Ouellet and Angelo Scola, from Italy.

In an interview with Reuters, Cardinal Sandri, 69, said the next pope should not be chosen according to a geographic area but must be a "saintly man" who was "best qualified".

Sandri said one of the greatest problems facing the Church was "the loss of faith" among many who had "turned their back on God" and need to be brought back into the life of the church.

He also said the Church must open itself up to women in the next pontificate, giving them more decision-making positions in the Vatican and beyond.

(Additional reporting by Tom Heneghan and Cristiano Corvino in Rome, and Michael Holden in London; Editing by Pravin Char)

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How Halfbrick Studios Develops Games Like Fruit Ninja, Age Of Zombies And Jetpack Joyride

?This is the original concept shot for Fruit Ninja which was pitched to the company during Halfbrick Fridays. This is literally the very first piece of Fruit Ninja imagery ever created, so it?s historically significant,” Halfbrick Studio‘s Chief Marketing Officer Phil Larsen said in an email to me last week after I interviewed him and his colleague Richard McKinney, the company’s Chief Technology Officer, about how the company develops its games. Halfbrick Fridays is one of the ways the Brisbane, Australia-based company comes up with new ideas for its games. Fruit Ninja – its greatest hit to date – came out of this. Halfbrick Fridays About five to seven times a year, the company organizes these Halfbrick Fridays, they told me, where the whole company (about 70 people at this point), breaks into groups of around five people to brainstorm new ideas. The cool thing here is that it’s not just the game designers and developers who participate, but anybody who works for the company – be that in accounting or quality assurance – participates in these sessions. Age of Zombies, for example, is the result of this process (though Larsen and McKinney told me the final version looked very different from the prototype). So is Monster Dash. These events either last for about a week or are spread out to one day during a period of about five to seven weeks. Once the idea for Fruit Ninja was born, it only took a few months to make, but some game ideas, the team told me, have been floating around for years and have yet to become reality. From Idea To Game What’s interesting about how Halfbrick turns its game ideas into actual products is that virtually all of its games use one underlying engine (written almost exclusively in C++). The core engine team consists of six “hardcore programmers,” as McKinney told me, and they ensure that those teams that work on the individual games have a stable architecture that they can then write their own code for. One of Halfbrick’s larger teams, by the way, is now the cloud service team that provides the back-end technology to connect games together across platforms. Halfbrick uses Amazon’s EC2 platform for this and recently switched to a NoSQL database for better scalability. The point of the core engine, the team stressed, is to be able to publish apps across platforms as easily

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A Typical Computer Buying Experience : Computer and Technology ...

Husband: Wife!! Children!! Get in the car. We're gonna buy a computer.

Children: Yaaaayy!!

Wife: But Husband, we don't know anything about computers. Shouldn't we at least buy a magazine or something?? Maybe learn something before we spend our money??

Husband: Nonsense Wife. Nothing I can't handle. Just let me do the talking.

Cut to the "Mass Market Computer Store"

Entry Level Clerk: Hello, how can I help you?

Husband: We want a computer. (Picks one at random) Tell me about this one??

Entry Level Clerk: That's a really, really, REALLY good one.

Husband: How many RAMS does it have??

Entry Level Clerk: Well,...ummm...(reading from box) It has 128 MEGS OF RAM!!!

Husband: That's good, right?

Entry Level Clerk: Of course. Think about it. It's TWICE as good as 64 megs.

Husband: Wow - Good point. Does it have the Internet in it??

Entry Level Clerk: Oh yes. The whole Internet is right inside there.

Husband: Boy, you really know your stuff. I'll take it.

Our hero, the clerk: (Muttering under his breath) Whew!!! Dodged another one.

Wife: What about tech support? (hubby growls) Not that we'll need it (Nice recovery).

Mr. Entry Level: Oh, Tech Support is included. If you ever have any trouble, just call them and they will solve all of your problems. Tech Support will help you recover from any disaster, even the ones you cause. Tech support means never having to worry about learning how to use this machine. If people are mean to you, Tech Support will kill them*. Tech support is every persons dream come true.

*Note - I'm exaggerating. We only hurt them very badly.

The Computer comes home

So, the computer makes it home, and father gets right to it. I will now switch gears, and present the rest of the story in chronological order:

2:00pm Father tears open the box, and promptly crumples up the paper that says "Read me first". He throws it away. He finds the owners manual. It gets put in the bottom drawer, never to see daylight again.

2:12pm He reaches into the garbage pail, realizing that paper tells him where to put "all those wires".

2:27pm Wonders why a "stupid warehouse person" included a phone cord in the box.

2:47pm After three re-wires, the computer comes to life.

3:37pm After pressing "delete" at startup 12 times (the screen said to), he gets to windows 98 with only minimal damage to his configurations.

3:39pm Clicks "American Online" icon - is greeted with "no dialtone".

3:40pm Calls tech Support

3:42pm Hangs up after holding for "over 15 minutes".

3:43pm Redials - Holds for "well over 30 minutes". Hangs up just before I answer.

3:48pm Redials - back to the end of the line. Puts it on speakerphone.

3:52pm I answer. Father screams at me, saying he's been on hold for "over an hour". I look for a hard surface to bang my head against. I'll probably be needing it.

4:03pm After listening to the tirade, and how he paid "two thousand dollars" (MSRP $1,200) for this machine, I get him to tell me what his problem is. I ask him to click on start. He replies "oh, the computer has to be on?"

4:05pm Computer finishes booting back up.

4:06pm I ask him if the modem is plugged in. He says it is - there's stuff on the screen.

4:10pm He finally understands that the modem is INSIDE the computer. Insists it's plugged in.

4:10pm I ask him to "right click" on the my computer icon

4:11pm Asks me "how the hell am I supposed to WRITE the word "click" on YOUR computer." The wall of the cubicle will have to do.

4:22pm Finally in device manager. All settings seem ok. I ask him to double check the phone cord he insisted was plugged in. "What phone cord", he says. I mute and sob.

4:29pm Insists it didn't come with a phone cord or owners manual. And for "twenty five hundred dollars" (MSRP $1,200) it damn well should have.

4:38pm Finds the phone cord. Two feet short for his setup. Insists he cannot move the desk.

4:40pm Screams that for "three thousand dollars" (MSRP $1,200), it should come with a longer cord.

4:41pm Insists I "send someone out" to hook this "phone thing up"

4:49pm Moves the desk two feet. Surprisingly, the house doesn't tilt.

4:55pm He dials on "American Online" before I tell him to, thankfully cutting us off.

5:05pm Calls back. Why should he have to put his credit card # in. After all he's already paid "Thirty five hundred dollars" (MSRP $1,200).

5:15pm After explaining free enterprise to him, he asks me to recommend a book on computers. I tell him the owners manual is rather informative. I also convince him that there really is a book entitled "Windows for complete and utter morons".

?NEVER LOOK BACK?if Cinderella went back to pick up her shoe..she wouldn't have become a princess..?

Source: http://www.fropki.com/typical-computer-buying-experience-vt52608.html

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