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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.1
Version 1.0
Author: Falko Timme
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Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an OpenSUSE 11.1 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.
I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
1 Preliminary Note
In this tutorial I use the hostname server1.example.com with the IP address 192.168.0.100. These settings might differ for you, so you have to replace them where appropriate.
2 Installing MySQL 5.0
First we install MySQL 5.0 like this:
yast2 -i mysql mysql-client
Then we create the system startup links for MySQL (so that MySQL starts automatically whenever the system boots) and start the MySQL server:
chkconfig --add mysql
/etc/init.d/mysql start
To secure the MySQL installation, run:
Now you will be asked several questions:
server1:~ # mysql_secure_installation
NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL MySQL
In order to log into MySQL to secure it, we'll need the current
password for the root user. If you've just installed MySQL, and
you haven't set the root password yet, the password will be blank,
so you should just press enter here.
Enter current password for root (enter for none): <-- ENTER
OK, successfully used password, moving on...
Setting the root password ensures that nobody can log into the MySQL
root user without the proper authorisation.
Set root password? [Y/n] <-- Y
New password: <-- fill in your desired MySQL root password
Re-enter new password: <-- confirm that password
Password updated successfully!
Reloading privilege tables..
... Success!
By default, a MySQL installation has an anonymous user, allowing anyone
to log into MySQL without having to have a user account created for
them. This is intended only for testing, and to make the installation
go a bit smoother. You should remove them before moving into a
production environment.
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] <-- Y
... Success!
Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from 'localhost'. This
ensures that someone cannot guess at the root password from the network.
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] <-- Y
... Success!
By default, MySQL comes with a database named 'test' that anyone can
access. This is also intended only for testing, and should be removed
before moving into a production environment.
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] <-- Y
- Dropping test database...
... Success!
- Removing privileges on test database...
... Success!
Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes made so far
will take effect immediately.
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] <-- Y
... Success!
Cleaning up...
All done! If you've completed all of the above steps, your MySQL
installation should now be secure.
Thanks for using MySQL!
server1:~ #
Now your MySQL setup should be secured.
3 Installing Lighttpd
Lighttpd is available as an OpenSUSE package, therefore we can install it like this:
yast2 -i lighttpd
Then we create the system startup links for Lighttpd (so that Lighttpd starts automatically whenever the system boots) and start it:
chkconfig --add lighttpd
/etc/init.d/lighttpd start
Now direct your browser to http://192.168.0.100, and you should see that Lighttpd delivers a page (well, it's a 404 page because there's no index file in Lighttpd's document root, but at least this means that Lighttpd is working ok):
Lighttpd's default document root is /srv/www/htdocs on OpenSUSE, and the configuration file is /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf.
4 Installing PHP5
We can make PHP5 work in Lighttpd through FastCGI. There's a FastCGI package for PHP5 available on OpenSUSE, php5-fastcgi, which we install like this:
yast2 -i php5-fastcgi


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I've been trapping star-nosed moles for two decades to study their behavior and anatomy, so I am used to the disappointment of finding an empty trap. But one trap I set about twelve years ago disappointed me in another way. I had placed it in a wetland to catch a mole, but found that another small mammal had the nerve to get caught. Recognizing that it was a North American water shrew, I released it at the edge of a nearby stream, wondering just how good it could possibly be at swimming (it doesn't look very different from its landlubber relatives). I was amazed to see it shoot straight down into a deep pool of water, swim across the stream, and disappear into submerged vegetation on the other side. It seemed more like a fish than a mammal. I never forgot the sight. Although my investigations of star-nosed moles continued to occupy me for years, eventually, in collaboration with Kevin L. Campbell and James F. Hare, biologists at the University of Manitoba, I set out to learn more about the North American water shrew, Sorex palustris. It is not only (at little more than half an ounce) the world's smallest mammalian diver, but also a predator with remarkable abilities to sense and capture prey. To be fair, you'll never have to worry about one latching onto your foot and dragging you into a lake. But I have come to think of water shrews as the great white sharks of their diminutive domain.
Shrews are members of the order Insectivora, which also includes moles and hedgehogs. Although they may look somewhat like mice, they are only distantly related to rodents. There are three subfamilies of shrews; the North American water shrew belongs to the Soricinae subfamily, the so called red-toothed shrews. This group gets its name from iron deposits in the animals' teeth that are thought to provide added strength to the enamel (tooth wear is a major problem for shrews, because their teeth don't grow continuously, as those of rodents do).
Water shrews by no means spend their entire lives in water. They live in wetlands and along streams and rivers, but pass much of their time on land, making their nests in dry areas and traveling through tunnels of grass, dirt, and mud. But as anyone who has flipped over a rock in a stream or pond can attest, there are plenty of creatures in the water to eat. Water shrews are well adapted to dive and swim for such prey. Their most obvious specialization is water-repellent fur. When diving, water shrews have a silvery, translucent appearance owing to a layer of air trapped by the fur. This keeps them dry and insulated—a critical ability, considering that they don't hibernate during the winter and so must feed by diving into icy water.
Their feet are also adapted for swimming, but not in the most typical way. Instead of webbing, water shrews have a fringe of broad, stiff hairs along the sides of their feet and toes. These hairs rise up during the downstroke to increase the surface area of the foot, but fold down and out of the way during the upstroke. But perhaps most intriguing is how water shrews can find their food underwater—especially since their peak activity periods are at night, when vision is of limited use. It turns out they are able to use their sense of smell by sniffing air while submerged.
Logically that appears impossible: it is air that transports odorants to the olfactory receptors located in the nasal cavity, and there is no air underwater for a mammal to inhale. Water shrews, however, have evolved a simple and ingenious trick. While foraging underwater, they exhale air bubbles through their nostrils—often directly onto objects or prey they are investigating. They then inhale the same bubbles to collect odorants. This ability had been overlooked because the sniffing occurs so quickly it requires slow-motion video to observe, and not many shrews have been filmed underwater with high-speed cameras. I might have overlooked it, too, if I had not already discovered this trick in the star-nosed mole—another semiaquatic mammal that often forages underwater. That prompted me to test for the same ability in the water shrews, and I found it.

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Scoliosis visualization using transverse process landmarks. (Lasso, A., Schlenger C., Borschneck D. P., Mousavi P., Fichtinger G., & Ungi T., Ed.).15th Annual Imaging Network Ontario Symposium (ImNO). Church2017b.pdf (165.6 KB) Church2017b-poster.pdf (872.64 KB)(2017).
Skull registration for prone patient position using tracked ultrasound. SPIE Medical Imaging 2017. Underwood2017.pdf (1.5 MB)(2017).
Sonographic accuracy as a novel tool for point of care ultrasound competency assessment. Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training. 1, 316-324. Bell2017a-Manuscript.pdf (1.3 MB)(2017).
Study into the displacement of tumor localization needle during navigated breast cancer surgery. SPIE Medical Imaging. Yan2017a.pdf (564.16 KB)(2017).
Training with Perk Tutor improves ultrasound-guided in-plane needle insertion skill. SPIE Medical Imaging. 10135, Lia-SPIE2017.pdf (373.32 KB)(2017).
Usability of a real-time tracked augmented reality display system in musculoskeletal injections. SPIE Medical Imaging 2017: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling. Baum2017a.pdf (889.77 KB)(2017).
Validation of breast volume measurement using 3D surface scanner. 15th Annual Imaging Network of Ontario (ImNO). House2017b.pdf (234.11 KB) House2017b-Poster.pdf (549.11 KB)(2017).
Validation Of MRI To US Registration For Focal Hdr Prostate Brachytherapy Treatment. (Boudam, K., Pinter C., Kadoury S., Lasso A., Fichtinger G., & Menard C., Ed.).Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Brachytherapy Society. 16, S56-S57. Poulin2017.pdf (1.17 MB)(2017).
Virtual views controlled by surgical tools for computer assisted interventions. 15th Annual Imaging Network Ontario Symposium (ImNO). Vaughan2017a.pdf (366.19 KB)(2017).
Visualization of scoliotic spine using ultrasound-accessible skeletal landmarks. SPIE Medical Imaging 2017. Church2017a.pdf (814.95 KB)(2017).
Accuracy of lesion boundary tracking in navigated breast tumor excision. SPIE Medical Imaging 2016. 9786, 97860Y-1-6. Heffernan2016-manuscript.pdf (303.45 KB)(2016).
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Breast-Conserving Surgery using NaviKnife Technology: Pilot Study on Non-Palpable Tumors. Canadian Surgery Forum 2016. Gauvin2016a.pdf (66.46 KB)(2016).
Catheter targeting under electromagnetic guidance in breast brachytherapy – a demonstration of concept. 30th International Congress & Exhibition on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS). Int J CARS(11), S60-62.(2016).
Central Venous Catheterization Curriculum Development via Objective Performance Metrics. 14th Annual Imaging Network Ontario Symposium (ImNO). Holden2016a-Abstract.pdf (206.23 KB) Holden2016a-Poster.pptx (1.28 MB)(2016).
Clinical feasibility of pediatric scoliosis monitoring using portable ultrasound. Imaging Network Ontario (IMNO). Tabanfar2016b.pdf (82.18 KB)(2016).
Comparison of portable and conventional ultrasound imaging in spinal curvature measurement. SPIE Medical Imaging. Yan2016a.pdf (410.12 KB)(2016).
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We put a new GE 18 cubic foot refrigerator, a top freezer model, no icemaker, in service on 3/29/2011, so it's been in operation for just over a year. We'd searched for the lowest energy rating product, which was an interesting process in itself. It is rated at 335 kWh/year.
For the first complete year, the consumption was 295 kWh. I'm sure that some of the reason for being under the rating is that our household is only two people. A family would have more door openings, and would also have more food throughput. So perhaps the Energyguide rating is quite close.
I've mentioned before that the refrigerator and the freezer work harder in the warm seasons, as the case gains more heat from the surroundings, and the refrigeration system works harder to reject heat to the warmer surroundings also. Here's what about 13 months of daily data looks like:
Spikes are typically big cooking events, with lots of door openings, and some warm cooked food going into the fridge.


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"For the thousands in attendance and the millions watching around the world…ladies and gentlemen…let's get ready to rumble!"
Now here's a party with the guys in mind (and of course, all of you boxing loving ladies!) As you know, the Mayweather vs. Ortiz fight is right around the corner. This is one of the most highly anticipated events of the year and will be watched by millions around the world. Three world titles are at stake, including, of course–Floyd Mayweather and Victor Ortiz, who will face off in a 12-round fight for Ortiz's WBC Welterweight World Title at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Will you be watching? If you're a Verizon FiOS customer, you're in luck! You can order the Fight through FiOS on MyVerizon.com or on your FiOS remote control. FiOS takes you ringside. It's 100% fiber optics, 100% life-like, 100% Mayweather Ortiz!
But first, get primed for the fight by joining Verizon FiOS , Hispanicize and me at a Twitter party on Wednesday, September 14, from 9 PM to 10:30 PM EST. Let's talk about boxing, the big fight, and make your winner predictions.
Of course, there will be amazing prizes! We'll be giving away FIVE FLAT SCREEN TVS!
Party Details:
What: Verizon FiOS Twitter party
When: Wednesday, September 14, from 9 PM to10:30 PM EST
Where: Twitter
Hashtag: #FiOSboxeo
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Tomorrow in New York City, in Boston and throughout the U.S., Irish-Americans will celebrate St. Patrick's Day and Irish heritage. What few will acknowledge in this day of celebration is the way in which the Irish in American deployed whiteness in order to deflect the racism they encountered in the U.S.
(photo credit: ktylerconk)
Like many immigrant groups in the United States, the Irish were characterized as racial Others when they first arrived in the first half of the 19th century. The Irish had suffered profound injustice in the U.K. at the hands of the British, widely seen as "white negroes." The potato famine that created starvation conditions that cost the lives of millions of Irish and forced the out-migration of millions of surviving ones, was less a natural disaster and more a complex set of social conditions created by British landowners (much like Hurricane Katrina). Forced to flee from their native Ireland and the oppressive British landowners, many Irish came to the U.S.
Once in the U.S., the Irish were to negative stereotyping that was very similar to that of enslaved Africans and African Americans. The comic Irishman – happy, lazy, stupid, with a gift for music and dance – was a stock character in American theater. Drunkenness and criminality were major themes of Irish stereotypes, and the term "paddy wagon" has its etymological roots in the racist term "paddy," a shortening of the name "Patrick," which was used to refer to the Irish. However, this is also a gendered image and refers to Irish men, specifically. The masculine imagery of "paddy" hides the existence of Irish women, but did not protect Irish women from racism as they were often more exposed to such racism through domestic jobs. Women typically played a key role in maintaining Catholic adherence, which resonates closely with Irishness and difference. The "model minority" (if you will) stereotype of Irish-American women is of a "Bridget," recognized for her hard work and contribution to Irish upward class mobility.
Simian, or ape-like caricature of the Irish immigrant was also a common one among the mainstream news publications of the day (much like the recent New York Post cartoon). For example, in 1867 American cartoonist Thomas Nast drew "The Day We Celebrate" a cartoon depicting the Irish on St. Patrick's Day as violent, drunken apes. And, in 1899, Harper's Weekly featrued a drawing of three men's heads in profile: Irish, Anglo-Teutonic and Negro, in order to illustrate the similarity between the Irish and the Negro (and, the supposed superiority of the Anglo-Teutonic). In northern states, blacks and Irish immigrants were forced into overlapping – often integrated – slum neighborhoods. Although leaders of the Irish liberation struggle (in Ireland) saw slavery as an evil, their Irish-American cousins largely aligned with the slaveholders.


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They talk of British miserablism, but the Australians have a nice line in it themselves, as shown by this film from director Glendyn Ivin. In the middle of the outback, the boy Chook (Tom Russell) drives and drives with his father Kev (Hugo Weaving) across magnificent scenery — and both are largely indifferent to it, because they are on the run.
Chook is quiet cowed, and so neglected he can't read. Kev is violently moody, apt to leave the boy in a storeroom while he goes out to get hammered and beaten up.
Russell makes Chook arrestingly real, down to how, in the way of all children, he will try to make a toy out of anything. Weaving has the harder part, a man who teaches his son to swim by throwing the kid into a deep pond.
After one terrifying beating, all you can do is pray that Chook escapes with a bit of humanity still in him, and indeed, "Last Ride" is very concerned with how a child's spirit can survive abuse. Both Weaving and the movie itself do manage to show that this violent, hopelessly damaged man yearns to be a father, but will never know how. The trouble is that the film also wants to make Kev at least partly sympathetic, despite his monstrous treatment of his son, and nothing we learn about him ever does, or could, accomplish that.


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The Human Rights Campaign the nations largest LGBT advocacy group has come out with their eight annual Corporate Equality Index. The guide ranks corporations and provides analysis on their policies and practices that are pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees.
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Kanoodle Portable Puzzle Game
Over 100 brainteasing puzzles!
Watch video for: Kanoodle Portable Puzzle Game
Kanoodle Portable Puzzle Game — Standard
Kanoodle Portable Puzzle Game — Genius
Kanoodle is a mind-twisting solitaire puzzle game that is easy to understand, but difficult to solve.
Begin with the "easier" 2-D puzzles which challenge you to completely fill the puzzle board using the Tetris-like pieces. If you can master the 2-D noodlers, move on to the brain-twisting 3-D puzzles where you need to create five-tiered pyramids using the same set of puzzle pieces. Call us if you ever solve them all. But don't be surprised if we declare shenanigans.
Multiple levels of difficulty will make you wish you studied harder in school. Comes with a sturdy carrying case for travel or on-the-go play.
Choose from Standard and Genius editions.
Features & specs
- Dimensions: 5.5" x 3" x 0.75"
- Standard: 101 puzzles, Genius: 202 puzzles
- 2-D and 3-D puzzles
- Multiple levels of difficulty
- Sturdy carrying case
- Perfect size for travel or on-the-go play
- Kanoodle Standard: Ages 7+
- Kanoodle Genius: Ages 8+
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Tease your brain with 2-D and 3-D puzzles. It's good for you.
Kanoodle is a simple, yet challenging solitaire game. Comprised of just twelve pieces (only seven in the "Genius" edition), you may think it's child's play. And you would be right if your child was related to Einstein.
Kanoodle can be played two ways: 2-D or 3-D.
- In the 2-D mode (pictured below, on the left), you are given a starting arrangement. Your goal is to fill the entire board with the remaining pieces.
- In the 3-D version (pictured below, on the right), you are also given a starting arrangement. However, your goal is to complete a multi-level pyramid using the remaining pieces. It's dang hard!
Step 1: Choose from 100+ brainteasing puzzles
The Kanoodle case, which is also the game board, houses a booklet full of puzzles. To start Kanoodling (playing the game, not making out awkwardly), simply select a puzzle from the booklet.
The puzzle diagram illustrates how you should arrange the pieces to start the game. The higher the difficulty, the fewer starting pieces you'll be given. Note: Solutions are not included in the booklet.
Step 2: Arrange the pieces according to the booklet
After you've chosen the puzzle, arrange the pieces on your board as shown in the booklet. The leftover pieces must then be placed on the board to completely fill it. This is when you start using your brain. Don't hurt yourself.
Step 3: Fill the board using the remaining pieces
As you can see in the picture below, we rocked a level 2 Kanoodle. If we had chosen a much more difficult puzzle, we'd probably still be working on it.
Multi-level game will challenge (and haunt) you for years
Each edition of Kanoodle features multiple levels of difficulty in both the 2-D and 3-D modes of gameplay. They also include bonus levels for you true puzzling sadists. Solve them all and you can crown yourself a Kanoodle champion.
Both editions of Kanoodle can be played in 2-D and 3-D mode.
Conquer the 2-D puzzles, then move on to the 3-D pyramids
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Similarly to 2-D mode, you begin 3-D mode by choosing a puzzle. Next, arrange the puzzle pieces as described in the puzzle booklet. Depending on the level of difficulty, you will be given fewer and fewer starting locations. Your goal is to use the remaining pieces to create a five-tier pyramid.
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With the Kanoodle Genius, the 2D puzzles must be assembled on an octagon-like playing surface while the three dimensional varieties take place on a triangular board. Start at the challenging super-pro level and work your way up to becoming a Kanoodle genius!
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The US government shutdown has claimed some more casualties. President Barack Obama's visits to Malaysia and the Philippines next week will be called off because the logistics staff who precede the massive presidential entourage aren't in place. Secretary of State John Kerry will go instead.
That might not be a big deal if Xi Jinping, currently in Indonesia on his first Southeast Asian tour since taking office as China's president in March, weren't just about to visit Malaysia too. It's part of a charm offensive that includes a pair of giant pandas and Xiamen University's decision to open its first overseas campus in Malaysia.
And the reason that's a big deal is that the US is trying to bring several major countries—including Malaysia—into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a big free-trade pact linking Asia to the Americas. Besides probably being worth billions of dollars in US exports and thousands of US jobs, that agreement is a rival to the Asia-only free-trade agreement, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). While the TPP is a way for the US to have a bigger footprint in Asia, some see the RCEP is a potential lever for Chinese influence.
Malaysia is important to the current TPP negotiations for several reasons. First is its geopolitical significance in relation to China; along with Vietnam, Malaysia is the only negotiating Southeast Asian country slated to join.
The TPP would help give the US more favorable trade terms with Malaysia. Malaysia is also growing faster than almost any other potential TPP member, posting 5-7% growth in every year of the last decade except 2009. But Malaysia has among the highest barriers to trade of prospective TPP members, with average import tariffs of around 6.5%.
The TPP would slash that, helping the US's growing trade deficit with Malaysia, which hit $13.1 billion in 2012.
The problem for the US is that Malaysia's prime minister, Najib Razak, has been dragging his feet on the negotiations and threatening to water down the TPP terms. The treaty, he worries, could threaten state control of certain industries, as well as its labor programs favoring ethnic Malays. Facing mounting political pressure to take a stand against any less-than-beneficial TPP terms, or to back out of the negotiations altogether, Najib has been stalling. If skittish countries like Malaysia dilute the TPP—or if Najib ditches the talks—the US loses clout in countering the RCEP's influence.
That's put Obama in a tough position, says Bridget Welsh, a political science professor at Singapore Management University. "The fact is that Obama's visit would have been an endorsement for Najib," she says, "when domestically he has been sending all the wrong signals."
However, Najib relies heavily on foreign policy legitimacy to bolster his support. And in that, the US is no longer the biggest player; it also must contend with China.
"[Malaysia] is on the frontline in the US-China contestation. This is why China is similarly wooing Malaysia extensively," Welsh tells Quartz, noting that the country is exploiting the competition. "Malaysia wants the best of two worlds. They enjoy being 'fought over' and are taking advantage in multiple-track engagement."
The US and the TPP won't necessarily come up in Xi's special chats with Najib. But anything negative Xi has to say will fall to Kerry to counter. Thanks to Republicans in the House of Representatives in Washington, Obama won't have that chance.


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Disclaimer for male readers: this post may make you feel weird inside, almost like being molested. I apologize in advance for alienating you. Please don't go away.
Uterus, f**k you. Where do you get off? (And why is it so hard to insult you without making some sort of sexual innuendo?)
Every month, you waste my hard-earned bodily resources to build a fitting environment for the godda**ed baby you are so sure we are going to be having.
Every month, you end up having to clean house and start over because, guess what? WE ARE NOT HAVING A F**KING BABY!!! POSSIBLY NOT EVER IF YOU KEEP UP YOUR STUPID SHENNANEGANS!!!
You seem to have figured out that I will not allow you to make a baby and are therefore continuing your obnoxious behavior just to spite me.
Let me be very clear, uterus: If you keep on making my life a living hell every month when you don't get your way, I will forgo motherhood just to piss you off. I will see to it that you do not come into contact with so much as a single drop of semen for the rest of your natural life. Do you understand?
And being overly dramatic will not solve anything.
Am I supposed to feel sorry for you when you are lying around bleeding like that? That's my f**king blood you are wasting! Have you ever stopped to consider how your childish tantrums affect my life?
You see, uterus, you are attached to my other organs and when you thrash around in anger, they become quite upset. Your little hissy fits prevent me from doing anything that cannot be accomplished while in the fetal position.
You see, when you carry on like this, it makes me think that there is something wrong with you – that maybe you wouldn't be able to construct a fetus properly.
A major step in the right direction would be for you to grasp the concept of punctuality.


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Instagram Live lets you broadcast video to your followers in real-time as part of Instagram Stories — a feature that launched in August and is now used by 100 million people every day.
One key difference between Instagram Live video and existing live broadcasting products like Facebook live and Periscope is that Instagram Live video is completely ephemeral: as soon as the broadcast ends, the video disappears. No replays.
Alongside live video, Instagram has also launched another ephemeral Snapchat-like feature in its direct messages, enabling users to send disappearing videos and photos to individuals and groups within Instagram Direct.
Live video will be rolling out globally over the next few weeks and disappearing messages in Instagram Direct will be live across the globe today. Let's dive in and show you how you can use Instagram's newest features.
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Getting to know Live Video on Instagram Stories
Live video on Instagram Stories helps you connect with your friends and followers right now, in the moment.
Going live takes just a couple of steps from the Instagram stories camera, and when you're done broadcasting, your video will disappear as soon as the stream stops, which could encourage more Instagrammers to jump on and feel more comfortable sharing live content. On the other hand, the fact that the content will no longer be viewable once the stream ends also creates a state of urgency for viewers to ensure that they don't miss out.
How to share live video
Going live on Instagram is pretty straightforward — just swipe right from the feed to open the camera, select "Live" and tap the "Start Live Video" button to start sharing:
Live videos on Instagram can last for up to an hour, and followers may get a notification when you go live so they can tune in and interact with you during the broadcast.
While you're live, you can pin a comment for everyone to see or turn comments off altogether. Pinned comments could be a great way to frame the video and let everyone know what's going on — a pinned comment could also be a great way to encourage interaction and responses from your audience.
Update: You can now start a live video with another person, which is perfect for interviews and collaborations. To invite someone to your live video, tap on the icon with two smiley faces and tap on his or her name. (You can only invite someone who is viewing your live video.) To join someone else's live video, tap "Request" and then "Send Request". Have fun!
How to tell when other Instagrammers are live
Since Instagram live videos disappear as soon as the broadcast ends, discovering the best live streams and the streams of Instagrammers you follow is incredibly important. When someone you follow starts a live video story on Instagram, you'll see "Live" under their profile photo in the stories bar (and you may also get a notification):
Instagram's Explore tab will also feature current live stories and there will also be an option to tap "Top Live" to see what videos are trending in that moment based on number of viewers, location and engagement. You'll be able to skip around the trending live videos by swiping right and left, making it incredibly easy to jump between live stories.
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5 ways brands could use Instagram live video
1. Office hours / Q&A sessions
Live video is a great way to answer questions from your audience in an engaging way. It's a perfect way to invite your audience to interact with some of your team and to show the people behind your brand. By opening up to questions in real time, you can use live video to build strong relationships with your audience.
2. Launches and announcements
Social media is a two-way street, and it works best when you're listening to your audience as well as sharing content with them. Live video provides the opportunity to do both.
With a live video to celebrate a product launch or big announcement, you can let the world know about your big news and also interact with your audience at the same time. For an example of this, Nissan live streamed the launch of one if its latest models at the New York auto show.
3. Take people behind-the-scenes
Many brands have used Instagram stories to take users behind-the-scenes in a myriad of situations, from what's going on in the office to the set of their latest advert. Live video adds another element to what is already some of the most engaging content shared to Instagram stories.
With Instagram live video, we'll likely see more brands, influencers, and celebrities taking users behind-the-scenes and sharing a transparent look into their world.
4. Interviews, collaborations and takeovers
When Airbnb partnered with Disney as part of their Live There marketing campaign, they turned to Facebook live as a way to stream interviews from the red carpet at the Jungle Book premiere.
Not all of us have the ability share interviews with famous movies stars from the red carpet, but we could create interesting interviews with influencers from our niche or even other members of our team. For example, you could interview a designer about how they designed your latest feature or link up with a well-known blogger in your niche and run a live interview.
Takeovers have also been extremely popular on Instagram stories, with brands teaming up to create content for each other's stories and we'll likely see this tactic transition to Instagram live video as well.
5. Experimental content
One of the most famous examples of live video online is when Buzzfeed took to Facebook live and stretched rubber bands over a watermelon until it eventually burst. This video had the perfect mix of weirdness and unpredictability and kept users engaged.
The video has now amassed over 11 million views on Facebook and at its peak had over 800,000 people watching live. When it comes to live video, don't be afraid to try something experimental and think a little outside the box.
Disappearing photos and videos in Instagram Direct
The second feature Instagram have debuted today is disappearing photos and videos within Instagram Direct. In a move that again edges Instagram ever closer to Snapchat, Instagrammers will be able to send disappearing photos and videos directly to groups and individual friends.
Since Instagram made improvements to the way to their direct messaging system worked last year, the number of people who use Instagram Direct each month has grown from 80 million to 300 million — with many of these users turning to group threads every day to stay in touch with their closest friends and family.
How to send a disappearing message on Instagram
To send an ephemeral photo or video simply swipe right into the camera to take a photo or video, then tap the arrow to send it privately:
After clicking on the arrow to send the message you can choose a pre-existing group to send it to or create a new one in just a few taps — and you can also send to individual friends at the same time. These messages disappear from the recipient's inboxes once they have viewed them once. And you'll also see if they replayed it or took a screenshot.
It's also worth noting that, whether your account is set to public or private, you can only send disappearing photos and videos to people who follow you.
Viewing messages in Instagram Direct
Once this update is live for you, you'll notice a new paper airplane icon at the top right corner of your feed – this will take you directly to your inbox – alternatively, you can also swipe right to get to your inbox. Disappearing photos and videos in a bar at the top, similar to the way stories are displayed in the main Instagram feed.
Within the bar, blue rings will indicate new disappearing messages. Instagram Direct will remember your groups. So if you send an Instagram story to three people, Instagram saves that group in your Direct inbox so you can keep the thread going easily, rather than replying to each person in the group individually.
Another great group messaging feature is that in a group message, you can see everyone's responses — and who else has seen them — in a slideshow format. Then when you're done, just tap their faded profile photo to send a quick response.
Over to you
What are your thoughts on Instagram's latest features? Are you excited to test out live video on Instagram? Will disappearing messages threaten Snapchat at all? Share your thoughts in the comments and I'd be excited to join the conversation.
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DAY SEVEN WITHOUT POWER. THIRD NIGHT IN A HOTEL. I write this from a hotel room for the third night in a row after losing electricity like a million other people in last Friday night's storm. Some of you have been waiting to hear from me for one reason or another (contracts, proposals, grades!) and I had every intention of getting it all to you until my 114 year-old house was slammed head-on by high winds and rain. I'm still waiting on the power company to restore my electricity, the insurance adjuster to come and tell me what I already know (You have a mess to clean up here,) and the tree removal fellow to spend about six hours to chop, drop, and chip ALOT of trees from my yard. We have fence, roof, gutter, trees, and power damage. A piece of slate roof was hurled downward so fast it's impaled on the prongs of our antique iron fence. No one was hurt, but we are pretty bothered by it all. And apparently this many trees hitting the ground all at once has unleased a boat-load of pollen. I can hardly breathe or see through my red, itchy eyes.
But I found out in the last six days that what I thought was my idea of hell (no utilities, no cash, no gas in either car, one day of cat food, no ice, very little technology) was more empowering than over whelming. Yeah, I'm exhausted, and I'm pretty tired of playing "pioneer woman" with the candles and oil lamps, but I discovered a resourse I was unaware of. I'm coping and working with what I have instead of grabbing for what I don't have. It took a couple of days but food, water, and ice trickled in, and while I waited I journaled and journarled and journaled. It obviously has kept me calm and rational and given me a record of what's been going on.
Everybody is fine. It hasn't been a picnic by any stretch of the imagination, and many people are dealing with worse than what my husband and I experienced. But I'll be damned if I don't own a gi-normous generator by this weekend. Keeping the wine cold was near impossible without any ice.
Be well, write well.


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Wizards 113, Bobcats 85
James Singleton and Cartier Martin were playing in China the last time the Washington Wizards played the Charlotte Bobcats.
This time around they played a huge role in helping the Wizards complete a three-game sweep of their division foe.
Singleton and Martin, both working under 10-day contracts, combined for 37 points and 18 rebounds as the Wizards routed the Bobcats 113-85 in a matchup of the NBA's two worst teams. Singleton scored 18 points and grabbed 12 rebounds while Martin had 19 points and six boards.
Just last week Singleton was playing in the Chinese Basketball Association finals for the Guangdong Southern Tigers. He had no clue at the time just how bad the Bobcats were until he looked at the NBA standings on the chalkboard before the game.
''I looked up and I saw 7-47 and I said, `really?''' Singleton said.
Washington, playing without starters Nene and Rashard Lewis, got 67 points from its reserves.
Jordan Crawford led the Wizards with 20 points despite playing just 21 minutes. Jan Vesely had his first career double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds and John Wall scored just two points but had 12 assists.
It may have been a new low in Bobcats history losing by 28 points at home to the second-worst team in the league while getting blistered by a pair of guys on 10-day contracts.
Martin said playing on a 10-day contract is ''stressful,'' but something he can't worry about.
''You feel like you have a lot of pressure on you at times, but when you're on the floor you don't think about being on a 10-day,'' Martin said. ''You just go out there and play basketball. Basketball is a game of instincts, so you just have to go out and play.''
Added Singleton: ''If you're here for 10 days or two days, just go out and have fun.''
Both said they're still learning the team's plays.
''Maybe we shouldn't even have practice with the way those two guys played tonight,'' coach Randy Wittman joked after the game.
Martin had a brief stint with the Bobcats in 2008-09 as part of a separate 10-day contract but was never offered a full deal.
''I definitely added a little bit to my game since then, being able to put the ball on the floor and trying to create my own shots,'' Martin said. ''I just come in and do what they ask me to do.''
Corey Maggette scored 23 points for the Bobcats, who lost their 12th straight. Charlotte has to win three of its final 11 games to reach the 10-win plateau.
On the positive side, the Bobcats took a step closer to securing the worst record in the league and the best chance at the No. 1 pick in NBA draft lottery on May 30. Any combination of six Washington wins or Bobcats losses would assure Charlotte the best shot at the top pick.
However, having the worst record doesn't guarantee the Bobcats the No. 1 selection. In eight of the last 10 years the team with the worst record has failed to secure the top pick despite having the best odds.
This one was over almost as soon as it began as the Wizards jumped out to an 8-0 lead, hitting their first four shots from the field and prompting Charlotte's Stephen Silas - substituting again for his father Paul as head coach - to call an early timeout to regroup.
However, it did little to stop the momentum as the Wizards extended the lead to 23 points in the second quarter after two 3-pointers from Martin. Washington led 60-40 at halftime and opened a 32-point lead in the fourth quarter, scoring frequently on fast-break layups.
The Bobcats trailed by double digits for the last 32:53 of the game.
''We just started bad from the get-go and it stayed that way throughout the game,'' said Bobcats guard Kemba Walker. ''It was just a bad one overall.''
Washington shot 48 percent from the field and outrebounded the lifeless Bobcats 48-39.
''We knew it was going to be an effort game,'' Stephen Silas said. ''Throughout the game I told the guys that if we were going to win this game we were going to have to do all of the things we practiced and all of the things we work on every day. We didn't do those things and as a result we lost. It's something we have to learn from.''
NOTES: Together the two teams had seven players out due to injuries. The Wizards were without Nene, Andray Blatche, Trevor Booker and Rashard Lewis, while the Bobcats were without D.J. Augustin, Eduardo Najera and Reggie Williams. ... If you combine the teams' 20 wins this season they're still fewer than 24 NBA teams. ... It's the 16th time this season Crawford has scored 20 points in a game.


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And so it is, we gather again,
The feast of our dead to begin.
Our Ancients, our Ancestors we invite, Come!
And follow the setting of the sun.
Whom do we call? We call them by name.
The Ancients have come! Here with us stand
Where ever the country, where ever the land
They leave us not, to travel alone;
Flesh of our flesh, bone of our bone!
Grandmothers, Grandfathers, Great be their Power!
Past ones and present-at this very hour!
Welcome within are the dead who are kin,
Feast here with us and rest here within
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Glyphs: Everything I have is now a major glyph, which isn't the problem. However there is something odd about minor glyphs now: the category doesn't make sense. Bladed Judgement is an icon change. Falling Avenger adds slow fall to avenging wrath. The first is a pretty benefit while the second is potentially useful. Focused Wrath makes holy wrath a single-target ability, which isn't merely visual or a slight buff, but a total change to how the spell works. It might ahve looked odd having three categories of glyphs, but maybe it made sense. Minor glyphs could do the truly minor things of appearance and reductions in the mana costs of 30 minute buffs. Major glyphs could do something significant. Prime glyphs even more so. Maybe separate those and make one category "improvement" glyphs and the other "tradeoff" glyphs, since there are clear trends of some glyphs simply buffing an ability and others having an upside and downside.
Spellbook: "What has changed" barely scratches the surface. In fact, all it really confirmed was that the seals on my aura bar weren't a bug. Also, "holy power is generated faster" isn't quite right: it's still generated by player actions, but the phrasing makes it sound like it's rogue-style energy that automatically fills up. Even worse, it appears that the space needed for this worthless tab was freed up by dumping guild perks into the general spell book, creating a nice big mess.
Why does Seal of Truth say "replaces seal of command"? We've not had seal of command in a long time. Now I'm just plain confused.
The new spellbook is overwhelming and confusing. It is good that I can find all my abilities in one tab rather than needing to go through three. However, why have a huge list of the spells for other specializations? Tie that into the specialization tool. While we're on the subject of bad sorting, why are the spells alphabetical? If I can't find a spell, am I really looking for "A... A... avenger's shield!" or am I looking for that one ability that throws the shield and hits multiple things in which case I'd be better off with the abilities being sorted by effect: damage, healing, buffs, etc. Furthermore, the information on what other specializations have is scattered too much, with the spec tab giving only the faintest overview and requiring major digging into the pages-deep spellbook to figure out what is different.
"Core abilities" for protection does not include hammer of the righteous, yet somehow finds space to tell us to use holy wrath when no other ability is available.
To end on a high note, Blizzard did finally find a use for that valuable real estate freed up by removing the key ring: moving mounts and pets to their own book.
Cancel that, low note: Reset the damn talent points when you upend the entire system!
Maybe I'll have good things to say later. Actually, since I'm not having much luck, I'll get to them now: Or not. I had one, I swear I did, but I forgot it too soon. And the world server is down so I can't easily look. Oh here, the "core abilities" thing, that seems nice. Way to go with that.


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Becoming a Successful Principal Investigator
It is not enough to have a good idea. Your good idea must also be well positioned, or review panels for grant agencies are unlikely to approve it. A year ago, I wrote a column about how to best position your research idea to attract a grant. Now I'd like to turn the focus on you, the investigator.
Grant writing is the end of a process, not the beginning. Long before you make the decision to write a grant proposal for your research, you should be taking concrete steps to raise your profile in the eyes of reviewers.
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It is not enough to have a good idea. Your good idea must also be well positioned, or review panels for grant agencies are unlikely to approve it. A year ago, I wrote a column about how to best position your research idea to attract a grant. Now I'd like to turn the focus on you, the investigator.
Grant writing is the end of a process, not the beginning. Long before you make the decision to write a grant proposal for your research, you should be taking concrete steps to raise your profile in the eyes of reviewers.
What does that mean? Most basically, it means preparing yourself as a scholar, a researcher, and a grant writer in ways that will strengthen the ideas behind your proposal, demonstrate that you have the wherewithal to carry out your project, and enhance your ability to communicate what reviewers are looking for.
Positioning yourself as a scholar. From the perspective of grant reviewers, disciplines are literatures, and the people best positioned to advance those literatures are those who publish regularly in the prominent journals and at the cutting edge of the evidence or the debate. It is rare for someone to parachute into a discipline in which they haven't already published and nonetheless obtain grant money.
Wherever you are in regard to the literature—just your dissertation, one or two pieces as a third author while you were in graduate school, one or two publications as lead author, a long history of publishing in other areas but little in your new chosen topic—it is important to be seen as moving up this ladder as your new idea is gestating.
First author is better than second, co-author is better than no-author. The point is to be viewed as an active part of the conversation in your discipline. That process gets you and your work read and known by both readers and reviewers. The process of peer review itself introduces you to senior people in the field and helps strengthen your ideas and sharpen your presentation.
Remember: Papers are a great source of raw material, and sometimes polished gems, for your grant proposal. At the end of the day, your proposal is being evaluated for its ability to advance the literature.
Positioning yourself in the field—which is broader than just making your name in the literature—means actively contributing to your disciplinary community. The obvious way to do that is by presenting papers at local, regional, and national conferences. Presentations get you seen and known, offer opportunities for feedback on your work, serve as the basis for published papers, and expose you to competing ideas and approaches.
Beyond presentations, you can get involved in professional societies in any number of ways, including holding office, reviewing proposed presentations and papers, and chairing sessions. An excellent way to enhance your position in the field—and your own skills as a grant writer—is to serve on a grant-review panel. All of those activities improve your position in the field.
A long-term strategy for establishing yourself as a scholar is to ensure from the beginning that you integrate your research, publishing, and teaching. If you schedule your days and weeks as a zero-sum game, playing off time for writing, time for class preparation, and time in the lab or the field, you will likely come to resent the competing demands of all three.
Wherever possible, align your work so that research and publishing activities feed into one another (as noted, papers can provide usable text for grant proposals), and into your lectures. Likewise, find ways of having your course preparation support your research and publishing efforts. Teaching in one area and doing research in another, at least in the long term, is unlikely to lead to success in either.
Positioning yourself as a researcher. I see a distinction between the terms "scholar" and "researcher." A good scholar is someone who has cutting-edge ideas and gets those ideas published in the right places. A good researcher is someone who demonstrates the skills to actually get the research done.
The first step in positioning yourself as a researcher is to establish a long-term scholarly agenda. It gives context to your current work and a trajectory to your plans. It provides a road map from this study, to the next, and to the ones that will need to follow.
Grant agencies and foundations are seeking transformative ideas and the building of an evidence base for practice and intervention. They want grantees who have identified important, long-term research goals and who are working toward them, individually and as a community. Staying on a research path that is aligned with a given grant agency's mission is the best way to ensure it will continue to support your work.
The second step is to develop solid working relationships with the populations or partners that your research requires. Both field and laboratory-based research are difficult, and grant agencies are risk-averse. Whether the resource you need to do your research is a lab, a piece of scientific equipment, a population, a community agency, or a school, find a way to get experience with it long before you seek grant money. Researchers who wait to establish those connections until they are in the process of writing a grant proposal invariably lose out to those who can show continuing access and a strong history of collaboration.
There are many aspects to establishing a track record. Reviewers want to know that you have done research in the area—even having been a lab assistant or a graduate research assistant helps, as does having served as a consultant or co-investigator on someone else's project. Beyond that, the role of principal investigator involves elements of fiscal and personnel management, supervision, and time management, as well as scientific expertise. Serving as a co-investigator or as a key player in a senior scholar's lab may allow you to demonstrate your experience in those areas firsthand.
In addition, reviewers expect to see some amount of data (qualitative or quantitative), even if it is only from a pilot project, that suggests that the research you are proposing to carry out has some merit based in evidence. The more data that you have, and the closer the nature of that data is to the project you are proposing, the better. That does not mean that you have to have a grant to get a grant. Most reviewers seek to be supportive of young researchers who are new to a field. But you have to give them something to work with.
Finally, in positioning yourself as a researcher, it is important to know your competition. If you have positioned yourself well as a scholar, you know your literature and your field, so you should already know the players. But you still need to know who is likely to be competing for this money from this agency at this time.
Networking helps. The process of searching for potential collaborators can lead you to discover who among the key players is available and who is not. Most of the federal financing agencies also publish lists of past recipients, and it is often helpful to see who is just coming off a grant and how they might be trying to follow up. Knowing your competition can help you craft your project and your proposals in ways that stand out. It can also give you a better sense of where the cutting edge is and how to make sure you're on it.
Positioning yourself as a grant writer. The first step in successful proposal development is to craft an effective literature review. You can do that now because you both know the literature and are an important part of it.
An effective literature review locates the problem at hand within the extant literature and frames a case for advancing the literature in some way. Often that's done by identifying a gap that needs to be filled. Or you can suggest ways in which the conventional wisdom about a topic is based on a flawed premise, shaky theory, or dubious evidence, and then propose another approach. In either case, the goal of a literature review is to lead the reader to the inescapable conclusion that your grant proposal asks the next necessary question in the field.
Next you need to assemble the right players. Review panels want to see the projects they support succeed. To ensure that happens, they rely, in large part, on the quality and makeup of the research team. All the appropriate roles must be represented—subject experts, statisticians, technical experts—and each player should have a strong track record. Beyond that, you need a management plan to guide and coordinate everyone's work. In some cases, you might consider developing an advisory committee comprised of senior scholars who could guide the project during both the formative stage and the dissemination phase.
The next essential step as a grant writer is understanding what the agency or foundation wants. Grant agencies, like scholars, have research agendas—large problems they are trying to deal with by supporting incremental steps toward solutions. Documentation of an agency's agenda is almost always available and should be read in tandem with the call for proposals. Solicitations often, in fact, include citations to documents the agency wants you to read in order to better understand what it is looking for.
Your university's sponsored-programs office may be another source of guidance on how to understand the grantor's agenda. Staff members in those offices have read hundreds of grant proposals and spent countless hours talking to agencies and foundations, and so tend to be fairly good interpreters of their jargon and intentions.
Finally, to be a competitive grant writer you need to have a solid understanding of the rules of the game—i.e., the specific agency guidelines that accompany a call for proposals. Those guidelines run the gamut from things like font size and margins to rules about subcontracting and publication rights. Fail to conform to the rules, and your proposal doesn't stand a chance.
Again, your university's sponsored-programs office is the place to look for guidance on this. You might also contact a program officer at the grant agency for further clarification.
The grant-writing process has always been a competitive venture, and being well positioned has always helped. But as the competition grows ever more acute, and as agencies find themselves under increasing pressure to demonstrate results from every dollar spent, strong positioning is more important than ever. The steps outlined here are just that—steps. They can be taken slowly or quickly, they can be big or small, as time and energy permit. But if you intend to walk the walk of a successful principal investigator, you need to start putting one foot in front of the other.


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(CNN) -- There was more than a brotherly bond between Paul and Keith Caneiro. They shared a business, vacationed together and settled about 11 miles from each other in the suburbs of New Jersey.
But two days before Thanksgiving, a horrific chain of events would forever tear them apart. Even more horrific is the identity of the alleged perpetrator of those events.
Paul Caneiro, 51, is accused of killing his younger brother, his sister-in-law and their children in their modern Colts Neck Township mansion in the early morning darkness on November 20 and then setting their home on fire -- an attempt, authorities say, to cover up the crimes.
He then allegedly set his own home on fire -- with his wife and daughters inside -- to try to make it look as if the whole family was being targeted. His family got out of the home safely, officials said.
The slayings have shocked the community and several twists in the case have rattled law enforcement. In just a few days, the odd coincidence -- two fires on the same day in the homes of two brothers -- revealed what prosecutors said was one of the most brutal crimes they'd ever seen.
Friends and relatives will give Keith Caneiro and his family a final farewell on Sunday, as Paul Caneiro, who maintains his innocence, sits in a Monmouth County jail, awaiting trial.
Family of four was killed before sunrise
Sometime between midnight and 5 a.m., authorities said, Paul Caneiro was walking around his brother's $1.5 million Colts Neck home armed with a knife and a gun.
The brothers had been in front of the white mansion when a deadly confrontation unfolded. Paul fired multiple shots, striking Keith, officials say.
It's unclear if they exchanged words or had a fight, but the sound of the gunshots apparently went unnoticed in this upscale town of about 10,000 people around 50 miles south of New York.
Paul then walked inside the home and found Keith's wife, Jennifer. He shot and stabbed her and also stabbed their children, Jesse, 11, and Sophia, 8, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni said.
He then took some documents and set a fire in the basement, officials said.
Suspect set his own home on fire
When Paul left his brother's house that morning, he went to his home in Ocean Township, still under the cover of darkness. He poured gasoline outside his two-story home while his family slept inside and ignited it, a criminal complaint alleges.
By 5 a.m., firefighters and police were on their way to Paul's home. Someone had called 911, saying they'd seen smoke.
When first responders arrived, Paul, his wife and their daughters were already outside. They were unharmed.
A fire was burning behind the residence and a smaller fire was located near the garage door.
Paul Caneiro put his family in danger, Gramiccioni said, when he tried to destroy the evidence he brought with him from his brother's home and tried to make it seem like both families were being targeted.
Paul's attorney, Robert A. Honecker, said Paul helped his family evacuate after a fire broke out at their home and waited with them until police and firefighters arrived.
Hours later, the family went to the town's police headquarters, where all of them were questioned. Paul would remain there for the next 12 hours until he was arrested around midnight.
Killings were hidden by flames
Back at the Colts Neck mansion, a fire was growing hotter and hotter, scorching the rooms of the more than 5,700-square-foot home.
It was a normal day on quiet Willow Brook Road, where Keith's mansion stood out from the others because of its modern architecture. As the sun rose, children took off on buses for the last full day of classes before Thanksgiving, and adults began commuting to work.
Just after 12:30 p.m., more than six hours after the fire at Paul Caneiro's home, dozens of firefighters responded to the 1-acre property. A neighbor's groundskeeper had smelled smoke coming from the home and his boss called 911, the Asbury Park Press reported.
When firefighters arrived, they made a gruesome discovery. Keith was dead in front of the home, while the bodies of the rest of the family were severely burned inside.
Plumes of smoke poured out of the home as fire crews saturated the structure and the lawn around it. They wouldn't put down the fire until about a day later, and they wouldn't let investigators inside, fearing -- among other safety concerns -- that the roof could cave in.
Within hours, investigators announced the family had been targeted and were victims of homicide.
Paul Caneiro sat in jail, accused of setting his own home on fire. And suspicions were increasing that he was involved in the deaths of his brother and his family.
More than a week later, Paul was accused of the killings. He now faces four counts of murder, two counts of aggravated arson and two firearm violations, records show.
If convicted, he could be sentenced to life in prison.
Prosecutors have said he acted alone and have no reason to believe that organized crime was involved.
Money broke their 'best friends' relationship
The troubles between the Caneiro brothers may have involved money.
They worked together for three decades, after Keith founded a technology consulting company and brought Paul on as his first employee.
The company appeared to be very successful, adding Wall Street names such as Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase to their clients list through the years.
"By the time the internet bubble was about to burst in 2001, their technology business had grown to $4.5 million in annual sales and 26 employees," the Asbury Park Press newspaperreported.
Another sign of their partnership was the company's name, Jay-Martin Consulting, which combined the brothers' middle names. Later, they would rename the firm Square One.
Before the killings, the Caneiros had been operating the tech firm alongside a pest control company out of a brick building on a main road in Asbury Park, according to the city's public records.
The motive in the killings was financial, prosecutors say, and stemmed from the brothers' joint business ventures. Authorities have not discussed any more details about the motive but have said investigators have launched an investigation into the Caneiro's business dealings.
Paul Caneiro's attorneys, Robert Honecker and Mitchell Ansell, said their client was wrongfully accused and that he "had absolutely nothing to do with these horrific crimes."
"Paul's family means more to him than anything else in the world," they said in a statement.
"There is absolutely no reason in the world for Paul Caneiro to have committed the crimes he is alleged to have committed. He would never hurt any member of his family. The process today can begin for a search for the truth and who committed these horrendous acts."
The brothers not only worked together, the attorneys said, they considered themselves best friends and were each other's best man at their weddings.
A loving family led by a tech businessman
Candles, photos and flowers have slowly filled the steps of the Colts Neck Town Hall to mourn a loving family who enjoyed traveling to Greece and exercising together.
Keith wanted to keep developing his career and had just earned a master's degree in technology management from Columbia University in New York.
In his thesis, he focused on technology that could "solve world hunger by matching excess foods with hungry people," he wrote in his LinkedIn profile.
He was committed to exercising and was a regular at a local gym, according to his obituary. His trainer, Brian Bott, wrote on Facebook that Keith, who was initially introverted, made jokes, took over the radio and overall made other people felt like they belonged there.
"If you trained in the morning here you knew Keith. He had that way about him. Keith was an 'idea' guy and I think it's why him and I got along so well," Bott wrote. "We'd talk about business, music, movies, or anything really, but I sincerely enjoyed my conversations with him and the way they would challenge me intellectually."
A video posted on the gym's Facebook page shows Caneiro doing push-ups while his young daughter helps out, providing a little extra weight on his back.
Keith was also an avid reader, reading multiple books in a week, and loved sports.
Like her husband, Jennifer Caneiro enjoyed exercising, going to the beach and traveling with the family to their home in Greece, her obituary says.
She was a graduate of the University of Albany and a member of the parent-teacher organization at her children's school. She enjoyed hosting family parties "for every holiday at her home."
The couple's daughter, Sophia, was a third-grader and a Girl Scout who loved Ninja classes. She enjoyed baking cookies, ice skating, gymnastics and the New York Yankees.
"Sophia was a vibrant, enthusiastic and precocious girl, who enjoyed the arts. Her positive energy was contagious," according to her obituary.
Son Jesse was a fifth-grader with an impressive knowledge of world events. He knew everything about the two World Wars and could engage anyone in conversations about current world events. He loved to play the blockbuster video game "Fortnite," and build Lego structures, his obituary says.
More than a week after the family was found dead, their home was boarded up and children's drawings with smiley faces and rainbows hung on a wire fence placed outside.
"Forever in our hearts," a child wrote in a tribute for them.
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The Homer Theatre will show the last two debates between presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Both debates will be shown live starting at 5 p.m. Oct. 16 and Oct. 22.
"Admission is free for all to experience the debates in an open, respectful, non-partisan environment," the theater said in a press release. "This is an opportunity for community members to enjoy the debates on the big screen and hear what the two nominees for our nation's leadership have to say, such that we can all make the most educated, informed decision when it is time to vote on Nov. 6."
The Oct. 16 debate is a town meeting format on foreign and domestic policy in which citizens ask questions. The debate is held at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., and moderated by CNN chief political correspondent Candy Crowley.
The second debate on Oct. 22 is on foreign policy and held at Lynn University, Boca Raton, Fla., and moderated by Bob Schieffer, host of Face the Nation on CBS.