Adafruit's new Internet of Things Printer goes wireless, uses Raspberry Pi (video)

Adafruit's just outed a new Internet of Things Printer kit that's traded in its ethernet connection for WiFi. Instead of using an Arduino Uno like its wired sibling, the new DIY hardware is built with a Raspberry Pi Model B running Raspbian Linux. Programmed in Python, the software on the box wields the Python Imaging Library, which gives folks flexibility when it comes to typography and graphics, and can leverage the language's raft of libraries. If you're not in the mood for coding, however, the contraption brings a few sample applications that'll print out daily weather reports, sudoku puzzles, tweets and images on 2.25-inch wide receipt paper. The project rings up at $189 -- $100 above its predecessor -- but it isn't up for sale quite yet.

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Canada's Comark retail chain up for sale: sources

(Reuters) - Canada's Comark apparel chain, which operates the Ricki's, Bootlegger and cleo stores, is up for sale in a deal that could fetch up to $400 million, according to four sources with knowledge of the process.

The process, which is being run by Oppenheimer, is in the final stages, two of the sources said.

Comark, which is backed by private equity firm Karp Reilly, was established in 1976 and has more than 300 stores in malls across Canada. It has roughly $50 million in annual earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), one of the sources said. Based on multiples of other deals in the retail sector, Comark could be worth $400 million.

Oppenheimer declined to comment. Karp Reilly could not be reached for comment.

Greenwich, Connecticut-based Karp Reilly has been actively looking to exit its portfolio companies.

Last August, the firm sold closeout retailer Ollie's Discount Warehouse to private equity firm CCMP Capital Advisors LLC for around $500 million.

It is also in the process of trying to sell casual dining chain Miller's Ale House, two sources previously told Reuters.

(Reporting By Olivia Oran and Luisa Beltran of PeHUBb; Editing by Peter Galloway)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/canadas-comark-retail-chain-sale-sources-213604259--sector.html

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Canada February auto sales slip; Big Three still robust

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian auto sales dropped a moderate 3.3 percent in February in a third straight monthly decline, according to industry data released on Friday, as a hardy appetite for Detroit's Big Three brands helped offset a setback for Japanese makers.

Chrysler Canada was the top seller last month, pipping Ford of Canada by a few hundred units, although Ford posted a higher overall sales increase at 5 percent, compared with Chrysler's 2 percent.

Carlos Gomes, an auto sector analyst at Scotiabank, said severe winter weather in part may have been responsible for the overall weakness.

"It's not terribly out of line with what we are forecasting for the year as a whole," he said.

Excluding weak sales of Japanese and Korean vehicles, sales have been up nearly 2 percent this year, Gomes said.

Industry sales totaled 103,226 vehicles in February, down from 106,712 a year ago, according to analyst firm DesRosiers Automotive. The drop comes after January sales fell modestly following a sturdy 5.7 percent sales rise in 2012.

"It still remains relatively robust given the slowing economy and drop in consumer confidence that was seen during the month," independent industry analyst Dennis DesRosier said in a research note.

Looking ahead to the rest of 2013, DesRosier said the spring selling season starting in March will provide a better gauge of the industry's direction for this year.

CHRYSLER TOP SELLER

Chrysler sold the most vehicles in any February since 2000 and extended its streak of year-over-year gains to 39 consecutive months.

Chrysler, whose Ram pickup truck is the second best-selling vehicle in Canada, sold 16,832 vehicles in February, up from 16,536 for the same period a year before. Car sales were up 16 percent from February 2012, while trucks were down 0.6 percent.

Chrysler, majority-owned by Fiat SpA , said the Chrysler 200, Dodge Avenger, Fiat 500 and Dodge Dart helped fuel gains in car sales.

Ford Motor Co of Canada's 5 percent rise in February sales marked its best performance for that month in seven years.

Ford sold 16,301 vehicles in February, up from 15,461 for the same period a year ago. Car sales climbed 13 percent, while truck sales were up a little over 3 percent.

Total sales of General Motors of Canada Ltd fell 1.9 percent compared to a year earlier, but were up 2.2 percent when adjusted for selling days. It sold 13,987 vehicles compared with 14,258 in February of last year.

GM, maker of the Cadillac ATS, said car sales rose 8.8 percent, but truck sales fell 6.5 percent.

In the United States, pent-up demand for new cars and trucks boosted monthly auto sales, with February figures showing automakers beat analysts estimates.

Among the Japanese automakers, Toyota Motor Corp's Canadian sales fell nearly 14 percent, while Honda Motor Co Ltd recorded a 13 percent decrease in Canada, excluding their respective luxury brands, Lexus and Acura.

Nissan Motor Co Ltd sales fell 15 percent compared with February 2012, excluding the Infiniti line, which was up 27 percent.

Korean brands Hyundai and Kia were also down nearly 6 percent and 10 percent, respectively.

(Reporting by Solarina Ho; editing by Matthew Lewis and Leslie Adler)

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Chad says soldiers in Mali kill al Qaeda's Belmokhtar

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chadian soldiers in Mali have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the al Qaeda commander behind a bloody mass hostage-taking at an Algerian gas plant in January, Chad's military said on Saturday.

His death would be a major blow to Islamist rebels in northern Mali who have been pushed into their mountain strongholds by French and African forces.

"On Saturday, March 2, at noon, Chadian armed forces operating in northern Mali completely destroyed a terrorist base (...) The toll included several dead terrorists, including their leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar," Chadian armed forces spokesman General Zacharia Gobongue said in a statement read on national television.

Belmokhtar claimed responsibility for the seizure of dozens of foreign hostages at the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria in January in which more than 60 people were killed.

The report of his death comes days after Chad's President Idriss Deby said soldiers in Mali had killed another leading al Qaeda commander in the Sahara, Adelhamid Abou Zeid.

French officials said they could not confirm the killing of either Abou Zeid or Belmokhtar.

Chad is among several African nations that have contributed forces to a French-led military intervention in Mali aimed at ridding its vast northern desert of Islamist rebels who seized it nearly a year ago following a coup in the capital.

Western and regional nations are worried that al Qaeda will seek to use the zone as a launchpad for international attacks and strengthen ties with homegrown African Islamist groups like al Shabaab in Somalia and Boko Haram in Nigeria.

In a speech on Friday, French President Francois Hollande said the operation in Mali was in its final stage.

"Terrorist groups have taken refuge and are hiding in an especially difficult zone," he said. "Information is out there. I don't have to confirm it because we must reach the end of the operation."

A U.S. official and a Western diplomat, however, said the reports about Abou Zeid's death appeared to be credible.

(Additional reporting by John Irish in Dakar; Writing by Richard Valdmanis; Editing by Jason Webb)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chad-soldiers-mali-kill-al-qaeda-commander-belmokhtar-200331623.html

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Bollywood film recreates Mumbai attacks of 2008

MUMBAI (Reuters) - A dramatized Bollywood account of the Mumbai attacks of 2008, when 166 people died in a three-day rampage, opened in Indian cinemas on Friday to present an unusually emotive tale told from the perspective of a police officer.

"The Attacks of 26/11" chronicles the events that began on November 26 2008, when 10 gunmen went on a killing spree throughout the coastal city, attacking two luxury hotels, a train station and a Jewish center, among other places.

It is the latest in a recent spate of Bollywood movies taking inspiration from real-life incidents, a practice that used to be unusual. Just over the last few years, there have been films on the gruesome murder of a model and a daring bank heist.

The film's director, Ram Gopal Varma, said he decided to make the film to try and answer questions about how a small handful of attackers was able to lay siege to a vast metropolis the size of Mumbai.

"How can 10 men hold a city of 1.5 crore (15 million) people to siege? That is something everyone should know," Varma told Reuters.

The film focuses on the city police and their response to the attacks, for which India blames the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, with veteran actor Nana Patekar playing a high ranking Mumbai police officer referred to only as "joint police commissioner."

Patekar's character, based on a real policeman, narrates the film, which portrays in graphic detail how the hapless police force, caught completely unawares, struggles to cope with an attack of such enormity.

At one point he frantically tells a government official, "I don't know what to do."

"You need to understand that the police were confused and didn't know what to do," Varma said. "If you were in their shoes, you would react the same way to an incident of this magnitude. It is important to understand their point of view."

Advertising posters show a group of 10 men, the attackers, in a dinghy heading towards the iconic sea-facing Taj Mahal hotel, one of the most recognized buildings in Mumbai - a nod to the powerful shock and emotions the attack still evokes, symbolized by the hotel.

Varma himself has fallen afoul of these still unhealed emotional scars, setting off controversy several times.

The first came just days after the attack, when he was seen at the Taj Mahal hotel with a major politician and accused of insensitivity for visiting the site so soon after the disaster and of gathering material for a film, which he denied.

Last November, a political ally of the government said shooting at the actual locations of the attack "mocked" Mumbai residents.

"Seeing broken glass or grenade dust isn't going to help me make a film," said Varma, who has directed around 40 movies in the past 25 years.

"But after two and a half years, once the investigations were completed and the charge sheet was filed ... that is when I had the time to study it and that is when the idea of making a film came into my mind," he said.

So far, the movie has garnered mixed reviews. While a critic for news channel NDTV said some moments in the film were "gripping enough to touch some raw nerves," a review for mainstream newspaper DNA wasn't as kind.

"'The Attacks of 26/11' ends up being a confused piece of work that has neither the well researched methodology of a documentary nor the dramatics of a feature film," critic Tushar Joshi wrote.

(Editing By Tony Tharakan and Elaine Lies)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bollywood-film-recreates-mumbai-attacks-2008-073441459.html

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The safer sex? For a little-known primate, a new understanding of why females outlive males

The safer sex? For a little-known primate, a new understanding of why females outlive males

Friday, March 1, 2013

Researchers studying aging in an endangered lemur known as the Milne-Edwards' sifaka report that in old age, females are the safer sex.

After observing these animals for more than two decades in the wild in Madagascar, co-author Patricia Wright of Stony Brook University had a hunch that females were living longer than their male counterparts.

Females tend to outlive males in many animals, including humans. But in the Milne-Edwards' sifaka ? a rainforest-dweller with orange-red eyes, a black face and woolly dark brown fur ? the sexes didn't seem to differ in any of the ways thought to give females a survival advantage in other animals.

Sex differences in aggression, hormones, or appearance drive males of many species to an earlier grave. But in the Milne-Edwards' sifaka, males and females have similar levels of testosterone, and are equally likely to pick fights.

Both sexes occasionally stray from the safety of their social groups, explained lead author Stacey Tecot of the University of Arizona. They also grow at similar rates and reach roughly the same size, have similar coloration, and are equally likely to be spotted by predators.

For the study, Tecot, Wright and colleagues analyzed detailed records of births, deaths, and dispersal behavior for more than 70 individual lemurs living in Ranomafana National Park in southeastern Madagascar ? a data set spanning 23 years from 1986 to 2009.

According to the data, most males died by their late teens. But females lived, on average, into their early 30s.

What could explain the gender gap? By taking a closer look at dispersal behavior across the lifespan, the researchers think they have a clue.

In Milne-Edwards' sifaka society, both sexes are known to leave the groups where they were born in search of a new group to call their own ? sometimes dispersing repeatedly throughout their lives.

The data suggest that on average, males and females disperse equally frequently, and wander just as far. But when the researchers broke down dispersal across the lifespan, from infancy to old age, they found that males and females differed in their timing.

The differences didn't start to emerge until later in life. Females generally stopped dispersing after a certain age, typically when they reached 11 years old. But males continued to roam their entire lives.

Researchers don't know why females eventually settle down, whereas males continue to strike off on their own to find new groups. But dispersing at older ages could carry greater costs, especially if older animals aren't as agile or quick to heal from injury.

"When you're a social animal and you go off on your own into unfamiliar territory, finding food can be more of a challenge. Plus you don't have the extra protection of other group members who can help look out for predators. Even when you find a new group to join, you may have to fight your way in and there's a chance of getting injured in a fight," said co-author Jennifer Verdolin of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham, North Carolina.

The study doesn't help explain why women tend to outlive men in humans, the authors caution. But it does suggest that fine-scale studies of risk-taking behavior at different ages could reveal age-specific mortality risk factors that researchers hadn't considered.

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Tecot, S., B. Gerber, et al. (2013). "Risky business: Sex differences in mortality and dispersal in a polygynous, monomorphic lemur." Behavioral Ecology.

National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent): http://www.nescent.org

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Woman's Death Last Week Ruled Homicide From Bullet Shot in ...

The death of a Pennsylvania woman last week?has been ruled a homicide after the coroner decided it resulted from complications associated with gunshot wounds. Although such a ruling might seem pretty straightforward, it gets a little more complicated when you learn the bullet was shot three decades ago.

Linda Knauss at a younger age. Knauss was shot in 1982 and died nearly 31 years later from what the coroner ruled was complications from this wound. (Photo: The Morning Call, File)

According to Leigh Valley?s the Morning Call,?Linda Knauss, 65, was killed by the gunshot wound she received to the neck during a robbery while she shopped in?Harrisburg. But her death didn?t come until nearly 31 years later. The April 12, 1982, attack left her partially paralyzed.

The Morning Call reported the coroner saying Knauss was admitted to the hospital for respiratory issues and died Feb. 18, 2013.

The man who shot Knauss and the boutique shop owner?Isaac Mishkin, who still owns the store, was not caught at the time. ?The Morning Call reported records describing him as in his 20s.

?I just remember him saying, ?I?m going to blow you away,?? the now 76-year-old Mishkin told the Morning Call.

Mishkin, who still has a bullet from the incident inside him near his liver, also noted that Knauss continued to shop at his story in the years that followed:

?She was friendly,? he said. ?We were on the phone with her all the time. Up until a few weeks ago, she was still a customer of ours.

?We would mail clothes to her and she would mail back what she didn?t want.?

The Patriot News reported?Dauphin County?District Attorney Ed Marsico saying if they could find the perpetrator, he could still potentially be prosecuted for his crime as there is?no statute of limitations when it comes to murder.?But Marisco did note that even with the coroner?s homicide ruling it could still be difficult to prove Knauss did in fact die from complications relating to her being shot.

The Morning Call reported Mishkin expressing skepticism for the gunshot wounds being related to Knauss? cause of death.

?I have a bullet in me,? he said to the Morning Call. ?Would they be able to say if I could?ve lived longer if it wasn?t there? I don?t know why they are stirring something up.?

Read more details about the 1982 attack on the boutique and its patrons in the Morning Call here.

(H/T: GeekOSystem)

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