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Billions Of Cicadas Sounds Kind Of Pretty To Us (PHOTOS)

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By The Huffington Post News Editors

A new population of pests is on its way to the east coast, and no, it’s not aliens. According to UPI, billions of cicadas will crawl out of the ground and mate some time between mid-April and May.

The good news is that the 17-year cicadas (so named because they only come out to mate every 17 years) are harmless to trees and humans. And, thankfully, the cicadas pose no threat to our homes, only to our eardrums.

Similar to the sounds that one might hear on the Lower East Side on a Saturday night, the male insects will make a very distinctive sound as they look to, well, get it on. “Males produce this species-specific noise with vibrating membranes on their abdomens,” says National Geographic.

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Hotel Of The Day: Peninsula New York

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By Sarah Gleim, Contributor

What: The 23-story Peninsula New York is housed in a 1905 landmark building in the heart of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The hotel’s Beaux-Arts design is noticeable as soon as you walk in the front doorway—the lobby features ornate woodwork and molding, and a grand crystal chandelier suspended from the trompe l’oeil ceiling above the dramatic marble staircase. The Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star hotel includes 185 luxurious guest rooms and 54 suites—each decorated in classic, contemporary furnishings. Sleep comes easy here thanks to the cozy king-sized beds’ fluffy duvet covers and custom-made Frette linens. And the luxurious marble bathrooms—spacious by any city standards but especially in New York—are outfitted with separate showers and deep soaking tubs with flat-screen plasma TVs embedded in the walls. …read more
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Live Blog: BlackBerry 10 Launch

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By Parmy Olson, Forbes Staff The moment has arrived. Executives from Research in Motion have gathered for a six-city, simultaneous launch of BlackBerry 10, a mobile operating system that will power a new series of phones (and who knows what else). In one hour we’ll hear about the all-new BlackBerry 10 platfor, and two new phones, rumored to be called the Z10 and X10. Here in New York, hundreds of analysts, journalists and industry observers are bustling around the blue-tinted environs of Pier 36 in the Lower East Side for the launch which starts at 10am EST (7am Pacific).
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New York City teacher fantasized aloud about stabbing students, investigators say

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An exasperated Manhattan middle-school teacher got so enraged when her students wouldn’t stop talking that she fantasized aloud about stabbing them, schools investigators said.

Former Collaborative Academy of Science Technology and Language Arts teacher Jacqueline Baffoni allegedly made the comments in class toward the end of last school year — around the time she was informed she might be jettisoned as a probationary teacher.

“I feel like stabbing some of these kids — I have a knife here,” the teacher said, a student in the eighth-grade class told probers from the Office of the Special Commissioner of Investigation (SCI).

Another student said the teacher, who kept a blade in her desk for slicing fruit, added, “I have a knife in this room, and I wish I could stab them!”

Baffoni’s remark was allegedly aimed at a group of unruly kids in the back of the Lower East Side classroom.

The alleged outburst came a day after Baffoni’s supervisors warned her in writing that they were considering “whether your services as a probationer be discontinued” at the end of the school year.

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