VIDEO: Queen Latifah Re-enacts Mob Wives Skit ? ?The Wendy Williams Show?

Acclaimed actress/rapper?Queen Latifah?appeared on?“The Wendy Williams Show” today and dished about wanting to be a mom someday and re-enacted a scene from “Mob Wives” with host Wendy Williams during a special segment of “Hairpiece Theatre.”?(See below for video links) PHOTO CREDIT:?Rahav Segev/”The Wendy Williams Show” “The Wendy Williams Show” is syndicated weekdays on Fox and [...]

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The Samsung Galaxy Note vs. the iPhone (And the iPad) (ContributorNetwork)

The Samsung Galaxy Note is officially headed to AT&T, as revealed at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. And Daryl Deino of The Examiner reports it might show up on Sprint and Verizon as well, possibly as the Samsung Galaxy Journal.

At any rate, the Galaxy Note is somewhere between a smartphone and a tablet, with a design inspired by a traditional paper notebook (or Palm Pilot). Deino describes it as "a high-powered mini-tablet that uses a stylus", and which "can also be used as a phone."

So how does it compare to the world's most popular tablet and smartphone?

The first difference: Size

Tablets like the Nook Color and Amazon's Kindle Fire, with 7-inch screens, are roughly half the size of Apple's iPad. Meanwhile, the iPhone is towards the smaller end of smartphone screen sizes at 3.5 inches across, and Android "superphones" tend to be 4 inches across or larger.

The Galaxy Note, with its 5.3-inch screen, is somewhere in between a superphone and a 7-inch tablet. According to Samsung, it's designed to fill both niches, and to replace every gadget that you'd usually carry with you: Smartphone, tablet, game console, and paper notebook. (That last part is because of the Nintendo DS-esque stylus that comes with it.)

Whether or not it actually can will depend partly on how comfortable you are talking into a mini-tablet like a smartphone and partly on whether you consider it the best or the worst of all worlds.

The second difference: Operating systems

That's the software that powers the tablet or smartphone. In Apple devices' case, that's iOS. Most people consider it to be extremely well-designed, and its App Store to have the best selection of pay-for apps. And the latest version of the iPhone, the iPhone 4S, also has Siri, a "personal assistant" that you can ask in plain English to do things like set alarms or look things up on the Web.

The Galaxy Note is powered by Android, Google's open-source operating system that's found on most other smartphones and tablets. Currently, it uses the Gingerbread version of Android, but it will be upgraded to the Ice Cream Sandwich version -- which introduces a number of major improvements and a significantly more polished design -- in the first quarter of 2012.

The Galaxy Note's screen may be too small to run tablet versions of apps even after the Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade. There are very few tablet apps available for Android to begin with, though, compared to the tens of thousands for Apple's iPad. Smartphone apps should run properly, although some buttons may appear small compared to the screen size.

The third difference: Hardware

Apple doesn't reveal too much about what goes into the iPad and iPhone. The biggest hardware features the Note has that they don't are its vibrant Super AMOLED display, its 4G LTE wireless radio, and its stylus. The iPhone, meanwhile, has a Retina Display, with pixels too small to be seen by the unaided eye.

Stylus accessories are available for the iPhone and iPad as well, but do not incorporate the Galaxy Note's pressure sensitivity. There are few, if any, third-party Android apps that make use of it, however.

Jared Spurbeck is an open-source software enthusiast, who uses an Android phone and an Ubuntu laptop PC. He has been writing about technology and electronics since 2008.

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Russian military says spacecraft debris falls in ocean

MOSCOW | Sun Jan 15, 2012 4:26pm EST

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(Reuters) - Pieces of a failed Russian Mars probe plummeted into the Pacific Ocean far off the Chilean coast Sunday, Russian news agencies cited a military official as saying.

Debris from the Phobos-Grunt craft fell into the sea some 1,250 km (775 miles) west of the coastal island of Wellington, state-run RIA and Itar-Tass cited Aerospace Defense Forces spokesman Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin as saying.

The spacecraft never made it out of Earth's orbit after its November launch on a rare interplanetary mission for Russia's struggling space program.

It was not immediately clear whether all the parts of the craft that did not burn up in the atmosphere had fallen in the same area.

RIA cited an unnamed source in a separate Russian military branch as saying ballistics experts calculated that debris could have fallen anywhere in a broad area centred on Brazil.

Russia's space agency Roskosmos had said debris from its doomed 14-ton craft, which included 11 tons of toxic rocket fuel, might fall in the Atlantic Ocean about midway between Brazil and West Africa.

Roskosmos and the military could not be reached for comment.

Due to constant changes in the upper atmosphere, which is strongly influenced by solar activity, the exact time and place of the probe's return had been unknown.

The $165-million spacecraft, designed to retrieve soil samples from the Martian moon Phobos, was meant to be Russia's first successful interplanetary mission in over two decades.

But it became stuck in orbit after a botched launch on November 9, and had since been slowly losing altitude due to gravity's pull.

SPACE JUNK

Experts said the falling space junk posed little risk, with the probe's aluminium fuel tank expected to burn up high in the atmosphere.

"If anyone gets to see it, it will be a fabulous show. I don't think there has been an explosion of such a large volume of fuel in space history," Igor Marinin, editor of a space journal published by Roskosmos, said earlier Sunday.

Some 20 to 30 small pieces of debris with a total weight of 200 kg (440 lb) could hit Earth, Roskosmos said, adding that a tiny radioactive cargo of Cobalt-57 was too small to cause harm.

One component likely to survive re-entry was a small return capsule specifically designed to crash-land back on Earth in 2014, mission scientist Alexander Zakharov said.

"This is the capsule that was meant to bring back samples from Phobos, it's disappointing," Zakharov said. "We're hoping Roskosmos will approve a new craft to accomplish this mission."

Phobos-Grunt was one of five botched launches last year that marred celebrations of the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering first human space flight and hurt Moscow's pride.

In an apparent attempt to deflect blame, Russia's space agency chief hinted last week that foreign sabotage might be the reason.

"I don't want to blame anyone, but there are very powerful means to interfere with spacecraft today whose use cannot be ruled out," Vladimir Popovkin told the daily Izvestia.

Stargazers watching for reentry included the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordinating Committee, an offshoot of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

Under a U.N. space convention, Russia could be liable to pay compensation for any harm caused by bits of falling spacecraft.

In 1981, the Soviet Union paid Canada $3 million for the cost of cleaning up radioactive debris scattered in the crash of a Soviet nuclear-powered reconnaissance satellite, Kosmos 954.

When NASA's defunct Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite fell out of orbit in September, it showered debris into the Pacific Ocean. Germany's Rosat X-ray telescope re-entered a month later over the Bay of Bengal.

(Additional reporting by Steve Gutterman; editing by Philippa Fletcher)

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24 million customer accounts hacked at Amazon's Zappos (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? Online shoe retailer Zappos told customers this weekend that it has been the victim of a cyber attack affecting more than 24 million customer accounts in its database.

The popular retailer, which is owned by Amazon.com, said customers' names, email addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of credit cards numbers and scrambled passwords were stolen.

But it said the hackers had not been able to access servers that held customers critical credit card and other payment data.

"We were recently the victim of a cyber attack by a criminal who gained access to parts of our internal network and systems through one of our servers in Kentucky," Zappos chief executive Tony Hsieh said in an email to staff which was posted on the company's blog on Sunday.

"We are cooperating with law enforcement to undergo an exhaustive investigation," he added.

Zappos said it was recommending that customers change their passwords including on any other website where they use the same or similar password.

The company, which is well known for its customer service, said due to the high volume of customer calls it is expecting it will temporarily switch off its phones and direct customers to contact via email.

(Reporting By Yinka Adegoke)

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Steven Van Zandt: The Best Movie of the Year

Like most people, I've always felt using words like "best" when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.

Other than that, let's face it, it's just stupid.

It implies a scientific certainty, which admittedly we all crave in this increasingly uncertain universe, but as much as the modern world would like to think otherwise, art will always be a matter of opinion and may the artist with the best taste win!

So, Godfather aside (which everyone knows is obviously the greatest movie ever made), we're better off sticking with "favorite" movie of the year, or something not quite as committal.

For example, my four favorite movies of the year are The Artist, Rum Diary, Snow Flower And The Secret Fan, and In The Land Of Blood And Honey.

If we were to indulge in the "best" thing, just to pretend we're normal, we would have to attach the characteristic of "important" to "best" to help justify the value judgment, right?

Considering that criteria, the "best" movie of the year is an easy choice. It has to be In The Land Of Blood And Honey. I have no stake in it, I don't know anybody involved, but I bring it up because it's a small indie-type art flick and it's something you might have missed. What's bugging me is I haven't seen it on many "ten best" lists and I'm thinking maybe they missed it too because the film is terrific.

There's nothing more exciting than greatness being born and this film is the evidence.
Tremendous but nicely controlled acting; ugly-as-the-subject cinematography; production design, art direction, editing, music, wardrobe, all perfect; the uncompromising subject choice; the very wise decision to keep it in the local language with subtitles; and an amazing script, all directed by a surprisingly sure hand.

Surprising because it's a first time director who has an amazing new career ahead of her that the entire industry should be encouraging.

Again, regarding all the "ten best" lists, I hope it's a timing thing and not prejudice against the writer/director who happens to be a successful actor, or prejudice against the victims in the film who happen to be Muslims, because this film actually meets the requirements of a "best."

We'll see what the Oscars voters think, but put Steven Spielberg's name on this movie and it wins Best Picture. Okay maybe he would have had a little bigger budget, but all the more impressive the accomplishment, no?

I knew a bit about the Bosnia/Herzegovina conflict and genocide, but I still learned a lot while being emotionally engaged in the engrossing story the author shared with us. Isn't that what "best" is all about? An important subject, great craft, and emotional engagement?

There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them -- Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.

This impressive first film puts Angelina Jolie in that very elite group.

I'm hoping the Oscars do the right thing here but, if not, let's hope somebody that matters (Mr. Spielberg are you listening?) encourages her to do this more often.

Steven Van Zandt is an Actor, (Sopranos), and Musician (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band). His latest project is "Lilyhammer," the first original programming from Netflix, debuting February 6, for which he is the Star, Co-Writer, and Executive Producer.

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Murdoch Slams Obama For "Supporting Online Piracy"—Calls Google "Piracy Leader" [Sopa]

Rupert Murdoch's latest tweets accuse President Obama of supporting Google—the "piracy leader"—and the rest of his "Silicon Valley paymasters." The accusations follow a White House blog that expressed doubts about the Stop Online Piracy Act. More »


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Summary Box: Corn plunges on supply forecast (AP)

CORN PLUNGE: Corn prices dropped 6.1 percent after a government supply estimate was higher than anticipated. The Agriculture Department forecast would leave both domestic and global supplies at fairly tight levels by summer's end, but investors had expected a smaller number because of weather-related damage to Argentina's crop and last summer's U.S. crop.

METAL GAINS: Metals were mostly higher after strong bond auctions in Spain and Italy. Investors were more optimistic that demand will improve if Europe can gain control of its financial problems.

UNDER PRESSURE: Wheat, soybeans and energy products fell.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: Who misquoted King so monumentally?

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says a key quote on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial must be changed. Poet Maya Angelou had said it makes the civil rights leader sound ?like an arrogant twit.?

As America gets ready to take Monday off in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., the creators of the new MLK Monument in Washington will be thinking about how to fix what some have called a monumental misquote on the granite edifice.

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At issue is a prominent quote on the side of the memorial that now states, ?I was a drum major for justice, peace, and righteousness.? The problem, as MLK's son pointed out in a CNN interview, is, ?That's not what Dad said.?

While the quote comes off as a boast, the actual line uttered by MLK in a speech a month before his April 4, 1968, assassination in Memphis had a different tone.

?If you want to say I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace?,? King said, putting a less self-congratulatory spin on it.

The mistake not only makes King sound like ?an arrogant twit,? as the poet Maya Angelou said last year, but undermines King's point in the so-called ?Drum-Major Instinct? sermon, which was about the ?folly? of wanting ?to be great without doing any great, difficult things.?

?As many have since pointed out, the 'if' and the 'you'?entirely change the meaning,? writes the Washington Post's Rachel Manteuffel, whose editorial on the mistake started the correction process churning. ?To King, being a self-aggrandizing drum major was not a good thing; if you wanted to call him that, he said, at least say it was in the service of good causes.?

On Friday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, whose department oversees the National Mall, gave the King Memorial Foundation 30 days to come up with an alternative excerpt for the north side of the 30-foot-tall statue. ?This is important because Dr. King and his presence on the Mall is a forever presence for the United States of America, and we have to make sure that we get it right,? Salazar told the Post.

Salazar also addressed the issue during a Monitor breakfast before the Oct. 16, 2011 dedication of the sculpture. ?I looked at the quote," he said. "I looked at all the other quotes. It is a wonderful memorial. But there are some issues that we will resolve and we will work on them ..."

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Protein changes identified in early-onset Alzheimer's

ScienceDaily (Jan. 10, 2012) ? With a lack of effective treatments for Alzheimer's, most of us would think long and hard about whether we wanted to know years in advance if we were genetically predisposed to develop the disease. For researchers, however, such knowledge is a window into Alzheimer's disease's evolution.

Understanding the biological changes that occur during the clinically "silent" stage -- the years before symptoms appear -- provides clues about the causes of the disease and may offer potential targets for drugs that will stop it from progressing.

In a new study, researchers at UCLA have identified chemical changes taking place in the brains of people destined to develop familial Alzheimer's disease at least 10 years before symptoms or diagnoses occur. Reporting in the current online edition of the journal Archives of Neurology, John Ringman, a UCLA associate professor of neurology, and colleagues identified changes in 56 proteins, including increases in the amyloid protein long associated with Alzheimer's, inflammatory markers and other proteins related to the brain's synapses, the connections between neurons through which these brain cells communicate with each other.

Familial Alzheimer's and sporadic, late-onset Alzheimer's are distinct forms of what many consider a single disease. The majority of Alzheimer's cases are sporadic and late-onset, developing after age 65; the causes of this disease type are not completely understood but are at least partly genetic. Familial Alzheimer's (FAD), a rare form of the disease caused by certain gene mutations, affects less than 2 percent of patients. It is typically early-onset, developing before age 65, and it is inherited -- all offspring in the same generation have a 50-50 chance of developing FAD if one of their parents had it.

For this study, researchers developed protein profiles drawn from the cerebrospinal fluid of 14 FAD mutation carriers and compared them with five related non-carriers. In all, they identified 56 proteins that showed significant differences between carriers and non-carriers. Fourteen of these proteins had been reported in prior studies on late-onset Alzheimer's (including APP, transferrin and other inflammatory markers), but many others were unique to this study, including calsyntenin 3, AMPA 4 glutamate receptor and osteopontin. Normally, these proteins are thought to play a role in the growth and remodeling of synapses, and their alteration in pre-symptomatic Alzheimer's may represent an early manifestation of the loss of these critical structures.

"Unfortunately, we do not yet have effective medications to stop the progression of Alzheimer's," said Ringman, who works at UCLA's Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research. "In this study, we've identified chemical changes occurring in the brains of persons destined to develop Alzheimer's disease 10 years or more prior to the expression of symptoms. By studying the cerebrospinal fluid of persons developing Alzheimer's disease at a relatively young age with cutting-edge protein chemical techniques, we found changes in markers reflecting inflammation as well as the breakdown of synapses.

"This provides potential new targets for drug interventions, and it helps elucidate the degree to which FAD and late-onset Alzheimer's are similar and to what degree they are distinct. Such knowledge may ultimately allow us to tailor our treatments to individuals, depending on the 'type' of Alzheimer's they have."

The study, funded in part by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc., a grant from the state of California and other sources, was performed at UCLA's Easton Center, one of 10 centers currently receiving funding from the state. State funding helps these centers provide specialized care for patients with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia and their families, and it enables the centers to provide training for those engaged in the diagnosis and care of patients with dementia in California.

Additional study authors included Gregory Cole, Sophie Sokolow, Karen Gylys, Daniel H. Geschwind, Jeffrey L. Cummings and Hong I. Wan from UCLA; Howard Schulman, Chris Becker and Ted Jones from Caprion Proteomics U.S.; and Yuchen Bai and Fred Immermann from Pfizer Inc.

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