YouTube Turns Eight As Platform Surpasses More Than 100 Hours Of Video Uploaded Per Minute

YouTube turns eight years old today, reminding each of us in some odd way how young or old we really are. Remember, the company launched back in 2005, the same year that Michael Jackson was found not guilty of child molestation, and Lance Armstrong was winning his seventh Tours De France, and Arrested Development was still on the air. A lot has changed since then, but YouTube's growth remains strong as ever. YouTube announced that its community now uploads more than 100 hours of video to the platform every minute. Minute. That's the equivalent of four days worth of video every sixty seconds.

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Benedict XVI returns to Vatican for first time

RETRANSMISSION OF OSS101 TO PROVIDE DIFFERENT CROP -- In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, left, is welcomed by Pope Francis as he returns at the Vatican from the pontifical summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, 35 km South-Est from Rome, Thursday, May 2, 2013. Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI came home on Thursday to a new house and a new pope, as an unprecedented era begins of a retired pontiff living side-by-side with a reigning one inside the Vatican gardens. In background is archbishop George Gaenswein, prefect of the papal household. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, HO)

RETRANSMISSION OF OSS101 TO PROVIDE DIFFERENT CROP -- In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, left, is welcomed by Pope Francis as he returns at the Vatican from the pontifical summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, 35 km South-Est from Rome, Thursday, May 2, 2013. Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI came home on Thursday to a new house and a new pope, as an unprecedented era begins of a retired pontiff living side-by-side with a reigning one inside the Vatican gardens. In background is archbishop George Gaenswein, prefect of the papal household. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, HO)

RETRANSMISSION OF OSS101 TO PROVIDE DIFFERENT CROP -- In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, left, is welcomed by Pope Francis as he returns at the Vatican from the pontifical summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, 35 km South-Est from Rome, Thursday, May 2, 2013. Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI came home on Thursday to a new house and a new pope, as an unprecedented era begins of a retired pontiff living side-by-side with a reigning one inside the Vatican gardens. In background is archbishop George Gaenswein, prefect of the papal household. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, HO)

FILE- In this March 23, 2013 file photo provided by the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis, right, and Pope emeritus Benedict XVI meet in Castel Gandolfo. Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi said Tuesday April 30, 2013 that retired Pope Benedict XVI is moving into his new retirement home in the Vatican gardens on Thursday. Benedict has been living at the papal residence in Castel Gandolfo, in the hills south of Rome, ever since he resigned on Feb. 28 (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, HO)

FILE - This Feb. 12, 2013 file photo shows a view of the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery inside the Vatican State where Pope Benedict XVI is expected to live after he resigns, on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi said Tuesday April 30, 2013 that retired Pope Benedict XVI is moving into his new retirement home in the Vatican gardens on Thursday. Benedict has been living at the papal residence in Castel Gandolfo, in the hills south of Rome, ever since he resigned on Feb. 28. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)

FILE - Pope Benedict XVI leaves after greeting the faithful from the balcony window of the papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, the scenic town where he will spend his first post-Vatican days and made his last public blessing as pope,Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi said Tuesday April 30, 2013 that retired Pope Benedict XVI is moving into his new retirement home in the Vatican gardens on Thursday. Benedict has been living at the papal residence in Castel Gandolfo, in the hills south of Rome, ever since he resigned on Feb. 28. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)

VATICAN CITY (AP) ? Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI came home to the Vatican on Thursday for the first time since he resigned Feb. 28, beginning an unprecedented era for the Catholic Church of having a retired pontiff living alongside a reigning one.

Pope Francis welcomed Benedict outside his new retirement home ? a converted monastery on the edge of the Vatican gardens ? and the two immediately went into the adjoining chapel to pray together, the Vatican said.

The Vatican said Benedict, 86, was pleased to be back and that he would ? as he himself has said ? "dedicate himself to the service of the church above all with prayer." Francis, the statement said, welcomed him with "brotherly cordiality."

A photo released by the Vatican showed the two men, arms clasped and both smiling, standing inside the doorway of Benedict's new home as Benedict's secretary looks on.

Unlike the live, door-to-door Vatican-provided television coverage that accompanied Benedict's emotional farewell in February, the Vatican provided no television images of his return Thursday.

The low-key approach followed the remarkable yet somewhat alarming images transmitted on March 23 when Francis went to visit Benedict at the papal retreat in Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, where Benedict was living. In that footage, Benedict appeared visibly more frail and thinner only three weeks after resigning.

Some Vatican officials questioned whether those images should have been released, given how frail Benedict appeared. Thursday's photo showed no obvious signs of further decline.

The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, has acknowledged Benedict's post-retirement decline but has insisted the 86-year-old German isn't suffering from any specific ailment and is just old.

"He is a man who is not young: He is old and his strength is slowly ebbing," Lombardi said this week. "However, there is no special illness. He is an old man who is healthy."

Benedict chose to leave the Vatican immediately after his resignation to physically remove himself from the process of electing his successor and from Pope Francis' first weeks as pontiff.

His absence also gave workers time to finish up renovations on the monastery tucked behind St. Peter's Basilica that until last year housed groups of cloistered nuns who were invited for a few years at a time to live inside the Vatican to pray.

In the compact, four-story building, Benedict will live with his personal secretary, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, and the four consecrated women who look after him, preparing his meals and tending to the household. The building also has a small library, a study and a guest room for when his brother, Monsignor Georg Ratzinger, comes to visit.

"It is certainly small but well-equipped," Lombardi said.

When Benedict announced his intention to resign ? the first pontiff to do so in 600 years ? questions immediately swirled about the implications of having two popes living alongside one another inside the Vatican.

Benedict fueled those concerns when he chose to be called "emeritus pope" and "Your Holiness" rather than "emeritus bishop of Rome." He also raised eyebrows when he chose to continue wearing the white cassock of the papacy.

Given the political intrigues that plague the Vatican, it wasn't much of a stretch of the imagination to wonder if some cardinals, bishops and monsignors ? not to mention ordinary Catholics ? might continue making Benedict their point of reference rather than the new pope.

But Benedict made clear on his final day as pope that he was renouncing the job and pledged his "unconditional reverence and obedience" to his then-unknown successor. It was a pledge he repeated in person on March 23 when Francis went to have lunch with him.

It was during that visit that the world saw how weak Benedict had become: Always a man with a purposeful walk, he shuffled tentatively that day, using his cane.

Francis, for his part, seems utterly unfazed by the novel situation. He has frequently invoked Benedict's name and work and has called him on a half-dozen occasions, making clear he has no intention of ignoring the fact that there's another pope still very much alive and now living on the other side of the garden.

Francis' gestures to Benedict during that March 23 visit were also remarkable: He refused to pray on the special papal kneeler in the small chapel of Castel Gandolfo, preferring to join Benedict on a kneeler in the pews, and referring to his predecessor as his "brother."

Now that they're neighbors, they might bump into one another on walks in the Vatican gardens or at the shrine to the Madonna, which is just a stone's throw from Benedict's new home.

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Membrane remodeling: Where yoga meets cell biology

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Cells ingest proteins and engulf bacteria by a gymnastic, shape-shifting process called endocytosis. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health revealed how a key protein, dynamin, drives the action.

Endocytosis lets cells absorb nutrients, import growth factors, prevent infections and accomplish many other vital tasks. Yet, despite decades of research, scientists don't fully understand this membrane remodeling process. New research reveals, on the real-life scale of nanometers, how individual molecules work together during a single act of endocytosis.

"We've discovered new details about a basic process used in all sorts of ways by every cell in the body," said co-author Joshua Zimmerberg, M.D., Ph.D., head of the Program in Physical Biology at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), where the research was conducted. "It's the culmination of a 30-year journey."

The research was led by Vadim Frolov, Ph.D., a former postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Zimmerberg's lab. It appears in a Science paper co-authored by an international team of researchers in the United States, Spain, Russia and India.

In addition to funding Dr. Zimmerberg, NIH also supported the work through a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to co-author Sandra Schmid, Ph.D. at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Dr. Schmid is an expert on dynamin.

Scientists have known for years that dynamin plays the major role in endocytosis. After other molecules known as coat proteins pinch the cell's membrane to form an inward-puckering sac, dynamin wraps, python-like, around the neck of the sac and squeezes it tightly. A jolt of energy from a molecule called GTP severs the neck, releasing a free-floating bubble, called a vesicle, inside the cell, and sealing the cell's outer membrane shut. All the while, neither the cell nor the vesicle leak any of their contents.

Drs. Zimmerberg, Schmid and colleagues discovered how the cell overcomes a seemingly insurmountable energy barrier to accomplish this feat. It's not a matter of brute force, as previously suspected, but something much more zen-like?molecular cooperation.

Neck severing starts when dynamin dips slightly into the pliable cell membrane. Lipids (oily molecules) in the membrane move aside, shifting their tails to accommodate the protein. This molecular crowding stresses the membrane, further constricting the neck of the developing vesicle.

Then GTP finishes the job. But not, as you might expect, with a fatal tug of the dynamin noose. Rather the opposite: Like a yoga instructor, GTP encourages the membrane to relax, despite its extreme stress. In the middle of this state of relaxation, the vesicle suddenly pinches off.

In trying to understand this counterintuitive move, the researchers speculate that GTP melts the inside of dynamin a bit, turning the protein into a flexible scaffold that stabilizes the membrane while the lipids rearrange themselves.

"We see no other way to lower the energy barrier to remodeling without having any leaks," states Dr. Frolov, who formulated the idea.

The researchers also found that, without access to GTP, dynamin will keep growing, twisting three or four times around the neck of the sac. When GTP is present (as is the case in living organisms), it only lets dynamin coil once or twice before it snaps off the vesicle.

All of this information helps scientists better understand a process critical to life.

Genetic defects in endocytosis?and the reverse process, exocytosis?are linked to a host of human diseases, including muscular dystrophy, Alzheimer's disease, leukemia and many others. In addition, some parasites and other pathogens can hijack endocytosis, commandeering the process to enter and infect human cells.

Dr. Zimmerberg is bringing his basic research findings to the clinic. He is studying changes in muscle cell membranes in people who have an adult-onset form of muscular dystrophy. In the disease, the membrane around muscle cells weakens and tears. Eventually, cells with damaged membranes die, leaking a number of enzymes into the bloodstream. Dr. Zimmerberg hopes to identify changes in blood chemistry that shed light on the disease process and point to possible new treatments. The study soon will begin recruiting patients as volunteers.

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This week in celebrity anniversaries | Love ... - Wedding Dreams

Wedding anniversaries from May 5-12

May 5, 2000: Actors Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie, Las Vegas. Following in the footsteps of other celebrities, Thorton and Jolie were married in The Little Church of The West Wedding Chapel in a ceremony that only cost 9. The bride wore faded blue jeans and a sleeveless top which revealed the "Billy Bob" tattoo on her upper arm and walked down the aisle holding a bouquet of white roses. The groom wore blue jeans, a long sleeve black shirt decorated with a multi-colored print and a black trucker hat. They separated in June 2002 and divorced the following year.

May 5, 1978: Singer Donny Osmond and model Debra Glenn in Salt Lake City, Utah. Osmond married Glenn in a religious wedding ceremony at the Church of Latter Day Saints Temple. The couple has five children together, Donald, Jeremy, Brandon, Christopher, and Joshua.

May 6, 1997: "X-Files" actor David Duchovny and actress Tea Leoni in New York City. Duchovny and Leoni were married in a 20-minute garden ceremony at the Grace Church School. The ceremony was officiated by an Episcopal minister and the couples' family members were the only guests in attendance. The groom wore a beige Armani suit and the bride wore a pale pink floral gown by Lily et Cie. The couple divorced in November 2011.

May 7, 2006: Actors Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott in Wakaya Island, Fiji. The two married at a secret ceremony on the beach with no friends or family present. Spelling wore a white Dolce & Gabbana dress with a pink sash. McDermott also wore Dolce and Gabbana. They later held a reception with their loved ones once they returned to Los Angeles. They have four children together.

May 8, 1981: Author John Grisham and actress Renee Jones in Oxford, England. Grisham and Jones had a small, private wedding in the office of Dr. Lewis Sewell, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Oxford. The couple has two children together, Shea and Ty Grisham.

May 9, 2004: Actress Kate Beckinsale and film director Len Wiseman in Los Angeles. The couple was married at the Hotel Bel-Air in front of 50 guests. They said their vows in a garden under a rose covered gazebo with hanging votive candles. Beckinsale wore a strapless Vera Wang gown paired with a Neil Lane diamond tiara. Her bridesmaids wore Vera Wang dresses in pale pink.

May 10, 2008: Former First Daughter Jenna Bush and Henry Hager in Crawford, Texas. Jenna Bush and Henry Hager got married at former President George Bush II's Crawford, Texas ranch. The two met during the 2004 Presidential election. Their relationship became public when the two appeared together at a White House dinner for The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall in November 2005. The couple had their first child, daughter Mila, on April 13, 2013

May 11, 2001: Actress Suzanne Pleshette and Actor Tom Poston in New York City. Pleshette and Poston first met while on Broadway where they co-starred in "The Golden Fleece." The couple was married 42 years after their first date in a no-frills ceremony. Poston died in 2007 and Pleshette died in 2008.

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Samsung outs $650 NX2000 camera with 20.3MP sensor, NFC, WiFi and touchscreen

If you've been torn between Samsung's NX300 and NX1000 mirrorless cameras, you should know the company has officially split the difference with its new NX2000. While it likely won't sway NEX-3N lovers away from Sony, the $650 NX2000 is only a Benjamin more than Sammy's lower-end NX1000 and packs the same 3D-capable DRIMe IV processor and NFC functionality as the pricier NX300. Of course, you still get the 20.3-megapixel APS-C sensor seen across the line. The differentiating factor from its siblings is the Galaxy Camera-like 3.7-inch, 1,152k-dot touchscreen (fixed) on the back, rather than the usual assortment of rear buttons. The 100 to 25,600 ISO range and maximum JPG burst rate of 8 fps is just like the 300's, though this is only capable of recording 1080p video at 60 fps. Unfortunately, the autofocus is only contrast-detection, but Samsung claims that it's one of the fastest to the draw.

As you'd expect, this shooter features WiFi (single band) for connecting through AllShare or the Smart Camera app, plus there's a microSD slot for transferring files physically. Sure, it's not the most exciting update to Samsung's camera line, but it's clearly a big leap up from the NX1000 -- on paper, anyway. The NX2000 will be available soon in your choice of white, black or pink, and it comes bundled with Adobe Lightroom 4, a 20-50mm lens and a hotshoe-powered flash. Grab more looks in the gallery below and hit the press release after the break for all the technical details.

Gallery: Samsung NX2000 (press images)

Edgar Alvarez contributed to this report.

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When we're in danger, remember it's our police officers who come to help | Mayor Denis Law

I was proud to see several of our police officers participating this weekend in the Seahawks 12K Run. Dressed in uniform and carrying more than 30 pounds of gear, officers Chris Greenwade, Tanuj Soni, Chris Nielsen and Cassidy Steed, along with his K-9 partner Fedor, ran the 7.25 miles in honor of those who were killed or injured during the Boston Marathon last week.

Most of us have been captivated with around-the-clock news coming out of Boston. This was another attack of terrorism on U.S. soil that claimed the lives of three people, including a young boy, and severely injured 175 innocent children, moms and dads, and citizens out to support Boston Marathon runners.

I couldn?t help but feel pride for the hundreds of police officers who swarmed into the community in search of the killers. These were not fleeing burglars or drug peddlers but heavily armed terrorists who had bombs and other explosive devices in addition to high-powered rifles and handguns. While the public was understandably scrambling away from the area, police officers were racing into the danger zone, going door to door in search of these killers.

It?s hard to truly comprehend the risk these officers put themselves in as they searched for individuals committed to killing anyone they encounter and willing to ultimately die on behalf of their cause. MIT Officer Sean Collier was executed by these killers and another police officer was critically wounded.

It?s a risk that comes with the job.

So it was heartwarming to see the level of respect and appreciation these officers received from Boston residents after both suspects had been captured. Cheering crowds lined the streets to thank them for risking their lives on behalf of the public. The police officers were honored as heroes.

Acts of terrorism are on the rise, but fortunately it?s still rare in our country. We still need to remember that police officers are at risk every day protecting society. Nearly 40 officers have died in the line of duty in our country already this year.

And we need to remember who it is we call and depend on when we need help. The residents of Boston know very well and will likely view police officers a little differently from now on.

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Renton Mayor Denis Law can be reached at dlaw@rentonwa.gov.

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