Speaking out publicly for the first time since the attacks, Ross also thanked his fans and rap peers including 50 Cent.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Surprise! Hugh Grant Welcomes a Daughter
The longtime bachelor says that even though it wasn't planned, he's thrilled to be a dad! Plus, see more stars who welcomed new bundles of joy
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
Prehistoric greenhouse data from ocean floor could predict earth's future
Thursday, October 27, 2011
New research from the University of Missouri indicates that Atlantic Ocean temperatures during the greenhouse climate of the Late Cretaceous Epoch were influenced by circulation in the deep ocean. These changes in circulation patterns 70 million years ago could help scientists understand the consequences of modern increases in greenhouse gases.
"We are examining ocean conditions from several past greenhouse climate intervals so that we can understand better the interactions among the atmosphere, the oceans, the biosphere, and climate," said Kenneth MacLeod, professor of geological sciences in the College of Arts and Science. "The Late Cretaceous Epoch is a textbook example of a greenhouse climate on earth, and we have evidence that a northern water mass expanded southwards while the climate was cooling. At the same time, a warm, salty water mass that had been present throughout the greenhouse interval disappeared from the tropical Atlantic."
The study found that at the end of the Late Cretaceous greenhouse interval, water sinking around Greenland was replaced by surface water flowing north from the South Atlantic. This change caused the North Atlantic to warm while the rest of the globe cooled. The change started about five million years before the asteroid impact that ended the Cretaceous Period.
To track circulation patterns, the researchers focused on "neodymium," an element that is taken up by fish teeth and bones when a fish dies and falls to the ocean floor. MacLeod said the ratio of two isotopes of neodymium acts as a natural tracking system for water masses. In the area where a water mass forms, the water takes on a neodymium ratio like that in rocks on nearby land. As the water moves through the ocean, though, that ratio changes little. Because the fish take up the neodymium from water at the seafloor, the ratio in the fish fossils reflects the values in the area where the water sank into the deep ocean. Looking at changes through time and at many sites allowed the scientists to track water mass movements.
While high atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide caused Late Cretaceous warmth, MacLeod notes that ocean circulation influenced how that warmth was distributed around the globe. Further, ocean circulation patterns changed significantly as the climate warmed and cooled.
"Understanding the degree to which climate influences circulation and vice versa is important today because carbon dioxide levels are rapidly approaching levels most recently seen during ancient greenhouse times," said MacLeod. "In just a few decades, humans are causing changes in the composition of the atmosphere that are as large as the changes that took millions of years to occur during geological climate cycles."
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5 of fall?s most outrageous and actually useful gadgets (Yahoo! News)
Which over-the-top tech will you fall for?
The web's on fire with weird gadgetry. iPod-charging toilet paper holders, martini-mixing robots, and dog poop vaporizers just to name a few. If you can imagine it, it's probably out there.?And this fall brings yet more outlandish tech gizmos and thingamajigs to the Internet. We'll tell you which ones are the craziest of the crop. Dig in and get your wacky on below. iTree iPhone dock
Price: $15,000
Buy it: iTree iPhone dock by KMKG Studio
Ever had the urge to stash your iPhone in a tree? Well, what are you waiting for? For a cool 15 grand, KMKG Studio will cut down and carve you your very own iPhone-charging iTree.
No, it's not pulp fiction; iTree is the real thing, turning any tree of your choice (cherry, poplar, or spruce, for example) into a one-of-a-kind audio art installation. In fact, if you want,?you can even trek into the forest with KMKG's carpenters to hand-pick just the right one.
Once hollowed out and sanded, your fresh-cut iTree is trimmed with phone charging hardware and top-of-the-line?speakers, hold the leaves.?The final product is an acoustically awesome stump of functional art which you might even be tempted to hug.
iTree isn't the greenest or most practical charging choice, nor is it affordable. Still, its cool factor is undeniable.?Got an iPad? There's an iTree for that, too. ONEDOF Turntable
Price: $150,000
Buy it: ONEDOF Turntable
The ONEDOF, short for One Degree of Freedom, is more than a few degrees overpriced, but worth every penny. (That isn't a typo. It really costs $150,000!) If you're serious about your vinyl collection, and seriously loaded, this luxury precision turntable just might be music to your audiophile ears.
Gilded, gorgeous, and dreamed up by one very talented NASA aerospace engineer, the slick ONEDOF record spinner is certainly dreamy to look at. And it's even dreamier to listen to. It better be, right?
It's the first turntable in the history of the phonograph to feature a self-centering aluminum alloy platter with non-resonant liquid suspension. Translation: It wipes out virtually all acoustic distortion and makes vinyl records sound amazingly crisp and clear. Everything about this 50-pound musical heavyweight sounds (and looks) incredible to us, including the outrageous price tag.
Star Trek Enterprise baby sppon
Price: $24.99
Buy it:?Star Trek Enterprise Light Up Feeding System
Boldly go where no liquified carrot has gone before! Helping your new life form transition to solid food can feel like the final frontier...not to mention a very messy one that you and your wee geekling can traverse together with a little help from Star Trek Enterprise Light-Up Feeding System.
Dinnertime distraction be darned. If you've passed along your love of Star Trek like a good Trekkie, your baby won't be able to resist the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 replica spoon. Gently dock it in your babe's adorable face station and you'll successfully one-up the tired "open sesame" feeding trick.
The set's durable bib stands up to baby drool and flying food debris, but how are its flashy embedded LED flashing lights activated? By engaging the lightweight, dishwasher-safe spoon Enterprise spaceship, of course.
Resistance is futile.?Your oatmeal will be assimilated.
Flashy Dr. Dre headphones
Price: approximately $882.00
Buy it: Dr. Dre Beats Studio Headphones Swarovski Light Rose Limited Edition
It's time once again for Dr. Dre to make his presence felt. Trust us, you've never been on a ride like this before. The West Coat rapper-producer's latest blinged-out Beats Studio headphones rock 43,000 precision-cut Swarovski crystals, and each and every one sparkles in all its pink lemonade-colored glory.
And they're just as fancy on this inside. They bring the noise with high-definition powered amplification and exterior noise cancellation. Fill your ears with the same caliber music The Doc himself demands, and wants you to hear it in. That is, if you're willing to shell out the big bucks. (If not, Dr. Dre's Diddybeats Monster Earbud Headphones should break you off for a lot less paper; they cost about $149 or so.)
Pink's not your color? No worries. These insane headphones come in white, black, and red Swarovski crystals, too. Plug the included 4-foot-long Monster Cable into your iPhone or BlackBerry (or dozens of other audio devices) and sit back, relax, and strap on your seat belt, just like the good Doc says.
Canon's calculator/mouse combo
Price: $59.99
Buy it: Canon X Mark I Mouse Slim
Canon's X Mark I Mouse Slim is a 3-in-1 overachiever with a beautiful identity crisis. It's a wireless mouse, a calculator, and keypad, all rolled into one hot mess. Sure, this featherweight (3.47-ounce) trybrid is innovative, but we can't imagine anyone lusting over one, except for laptop-toting traveling accountants and other professionals who regularly crunch numbers.
Warning: This nifty mouse-u-lator only gets along with laptops and computers tricked out with Bluetooth v2.0 technology, so be sure yours has the goods. The ambitious X Mark I Mouse Slim is available in black or white, and comes with a soft travel pouch.
Outrageous is the new black
What do you think? Would you open your wallet for any of these oddball, overachieving gizmos? We would definitely go for that geekalicious Star Trek bib and spoon duo, and some staffers miss having a discrete number pad when they're using a laptop, so the Canon X Mark I has some appeal.
And none of us can resist iTree... it's big, it's heavy, it's wood.
This article was written by Kim Lachance Shandrow and originally appeared on Tecca
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Former manager sues Melissa Joan Hart (Reuters)
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? Looks like former "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" star Melissa Joan Hart might have to counsel up some legal assistance.
Hart's former manager, Kieran Maguire, filed suit against Hart in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday, claiming breach of oral contract, fraud and unjust enrichment, among other alleged infractions.
"Melissa Joan Hart has no heart, as evidenced by this action," the suit begins, rather fancifully.
According to the suit, Maguire became Hart's manager in August 2006 and quickly revived Hart's career from its post-"Sabrina" doldrums.
"Indeed, Maguire's advice and counsel was integral in thrusting Hart back into the Hollywood spotlight to once again be advertised as 'America's Sweetheart,'" the suit claims.
Maguire claims to have played a key role in numerous deals for Hart, including commercial gigs, her appearance on "Dancing With the Stars" and the ABC Family sitcom "Melissa & Joey." But in March 2010, the suit says, Hart abruptly canned Maguire, without explanation, in "what can only be described as 'being cheap,'" the suit asserts.
Since the canning, the suit says, Hart has failed to fork over Maguire's 10 percent commission on "Melissa & Joey," as their agreement allegedly calls for. And that really peeves Maguire -- especially since, he claims, the actress got a pay raise for the fall 2011 season of "Melissa & Joey."
The suit also claims that, in 2008, Hart briefly stopped paying her manager commissions, and "admitted to Maguire that she owed him the commissions and that she was 'just being cheap.'"
Maguire figures he's owed $56,250, plus whatever extra might be due to him from Hart's alleged pay raise. The suit also seeks interest and costs.
Hart's representative did not immediately respond to TheWrap's request for comment.
(Pamela Chelin contributed to this report)
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Iraq war will cost more than World War II
Iraq war, now winding down with US troop exit by December, has cost more than $800 billion so far. But ongoing medical treatment, replacement vehicles, etc., will push costs to $4 trillion or more.
Anyone curious about the cost of America?s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan can look it up on costofwar.com, up to the latest fraction of a second. Last weekend, the Iraq war had cost more than $800 billion since 2001; the Afghan war, $467 billion plus.
Skip to next paragraphFor the 8-1/2-year conflict in Iraq alone, that works out to nearly $3,000 a second.
So President Obama?s announcement that all US troops will be out of Iraq by year end should mean some drop in ongoing military spending. But the budget relief probably won?t be as much as you might expect.
Tragically, beside the financial cost, there is the human toll. The war in Iraq has resulted in some 4,480 US troops killed and more than 32,000 wounded. (The Iraqis have suffered far more fatalities, about 654,965, according to the British medical journal The Lancet.) Thus, ongoing medical and disability claims and treatment of US veterans will boost the costs of the Iraq war even more.
Throw in the replacement of vehicles, weapons, equipment, etc., and the eventual tab for the United States could reach $4 trillion to $6 trillion, according to University of Columbia economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard University budget expert Linda Bilmes. Those are big numbers.
They would be on par with the $4.6 trillion the US spent on the recent financial bailouts, according to Barry Ritholtz, CEO of Wall Street research firm Fusion IQ and author of the popular blog The Big Picture. (Another estimate puts the bailout cost at $8.7 trillion.) The sum spent on the Iraq war could pay for a good chunk of Obamacare, professor Bilnes estimates. It?s more than the $3.6 trillion the US spent to fight World War II, even after adjusting for inflation, Mr. Ritholtz estimates.
Modern warfare is just plain expensive. The military has found ways to reduce the human toll of war (compared with Iraq, fatalities in World War II were far higher: 17 million combatants from some 70 nations, 19 million Soviet civilians, 10 million Chinese, 6 million European Jews, and so on). But political leaders always seem to underestimate the financial costs.
When President George W. Bush launched the war, charging incorrectly that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, the Pentagon estimated its cost at $50 billion to $60 billion. Economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey got in hot water at the White House when he guessed in public the war could cost as much as $200 billion.
One oddity of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is that even as military preparations were under way, Congress cut taxes in 2001 and again in 2003. These Bush tax cuts meant in effect that the wars were financed by adding to federal debt, rather than paid for from revenues. US outstanding debt zoomed from $5.7 trillion when Mr. Bush took office to $10.6 trillion when he left. And all but $700 billion of that debt was accumulated before the Wall Street bailouts began under the Troubled Asset Relief Program in October 2008.
Another interesting note: It is estimated Al Qaeda spent roughly half a million dollars to destroy the World Trade Center and damage the Pentagon.
Mr. Obama aims to end the US combat mission in Afghanistan by the end of 2014, more than three years away and after many more billions of dollars will have been spent.
After the end of the Cold War, real US defense spending dropped by 40 percent during the 1990s. The savings were in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
It?s to be hoped that similar savings could be made with the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama and Congress could then presumably afford to spend more federal money at home rather than abroad ?? and create more jobs for Americans.
? David R. Francis is a former business editor of The Christian Science Monitor.
Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/tF-f4-N4RkI/Iraq-war-will-cost-more-than-World-War-II
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Steve Jobs book may be Amazon's 2011 top seller (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? The new biography of deceased Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs may be Amazon.com Inc's top-selling book of 2011, a spokeswoman at the largest Internet retailer said on Monday.
The biography "Steve Jobs," by Walter Isaacson, hit bookstores on Monday but was released earlier than expected on Apple's iBooks online store and Amazon's Kindle late Sunday.
The book is the best-selling book on Amazon.com and is also listed as the top-selling electronic book on the company's Kindle eBook store.
"The way things are trending, it could very likely be our top-selling book of the year," Amazon spokeswoman Brittany Turner said in a statement.
Turner did not say whether eBook versions of the biography are out-selling physical versions.
However, James McQuivey, an analyst at Forrester Research, said that on average 50 percent of best seller books are digital and in some cases that can go as high as 70 percent.
"It's very likely for the next six months this book will outperform the physical version," he said.
(Reporting by Alistair Barr and Jennifer Saba; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)
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