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Oprah Winfrey’s Chicago Apartment for Rent

The lastest we hear is that the popular Oprah Winfrey’s 4,607-square-foot Chicago co-op apartment in a 1913 Beaux Arts building is now available to rent for $15,000 a month. It has a fantastic view of Lake Michigan, from the library and master bedroom, for one thing.
Thats one reason and the master bedroom is a whopping 1,200 square feet in size, and includes a his-and-her bath. There are also two other bedrooms, 3.2 baths, a solarium, a gourmet custom kitchen, a butler’s pantry, a wine room, and a two-car garage.

Oprah Winfrey bought the sixth-floor property for $5.6 million in 2006, but never moved in. It was reported in Chicago Magazine that she was afraid of nosy neighbors peeping in. She tried selling it for $6 million beginning in June 2008, and withdrew the property from the market in January 2009.

This co-op is but a small part of Oprah’s real estate collection. Winfrey also owns residences nearby in Chicago’s Water Tower Place, and in Elmwood Park, as well as in Merrillville, Ind., Montecito, Calif., an estate in Maui, Hawaii, to name a few and the list still goes on

Miami May Lose $200M From NBA Lockout

LeBron James might disappear in the fourth quarter of playoff games, but should the NBA regular season vanish, a big chunk of the South Florida economy may go up in smoke.

Economists tell CBS Miami that South Florida may suffer $200 million in losses if there is no pro basketball this year. Need an example of the shortfall? CBS reports parking near the American Airlines Arena is now going for three bucks.

And the lockout will do major damage to other cities, too.

In Cleveland, WOIO reports up to 35 percent of downtown restaurants’ annual revenue comes from NBA games.

Portland says no Blazers games translates to a $59 million hit, Oklahoma City claims it will lose $60 million if Kevin Durant doesn’t play, and Tony Parker’s Spurs are worth an astonishing $90 million to the businesses of San Antonio.

Though Miami will feel it the worst, some believe the whole reason for the lockout itself is the Heat’s ability to add James and Chris Bosh last year during free agency. Small market owners want to make sure that never happens again.

Of course, it’s not just local cities that will need a major league stimulus plan. Bloomberg reports that Tuesday is the day pro basketball players were supposed to get their first paychecks of the 2011-12 NBA season.
With the games on hold, the NBA’s players are missing out on an average game check of $425,000.

As a whole, the National Basketball Association has an annual revenue of about $4.3 billion, with more than $1.1 billion of that figure coming from gate receipts last season.

Junior high app developer is a pre-teen tycoon in training

He might not be ready to submit a college application, but Thomas Suarez of Manhattan Beach, California is already releasing apps for iOS devices. The sixth grader recently gave a talk at TEDxManhattanBeach in which he discussed his love of computers (he got into them in kindergarten), his plans for the future, and the inspiration he got from the late Steve Jobs.
Suarez has released several apps on the Apple App Store since launching his first, a fortune-telling title called Earth Fortune, in late 2010. His most popular app has been Bustin Jieber, a Whack-a-Mole style game where players squish the disembodied head of Justin Bieber. “I created it because a lot of people at school disliked Justin Bieber a little bit,” he told the TEDx crowd.
After teaching himself programming basics in Python, C, and Java, Suarez says he took up Apple’s SDK and Xcode. “I’ve gotten a lot of inspiration from Steve Jobs,” he says. Inspired, he started an App Club at his school, because “not many kids know where to go to find out how to make a program.” As he sees it, “for soccer, you could go to a soccer team, and for violin, you could get a lesson from a violinist.” But even parents might not be a resource, since as he rightly points out, “not many of them have written apps.”
The club is working with its teacher sponsor to create iPad apps for education, which will eventually be distributed to local school districts free of charge, and sold to others. Oh, and he’s even created his own company, CarrotCorp. It sounds like Suarez picked up a little entrepreneurial spirit from Jobs, as well.

Hillary pitches for India model in Africa

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has hailed India as a model of democracy for the developing world as she campaigned in Africa for better governance.

Clinton was speaking to students in Kenya, where politics remain tense after a hotly disputed election triggered street violence until a power-sharing deal was reached in February 2008.

She told the students that India’s billion plus people also had strong political differences.

“But they have figured out how to run an election where the results can be surprising and unpredicted but accepted,” she said at the University of Nairobi.

“I said only half-jokingly after our problems with our 2000 election, and then our 2004 elections in some of our constituencies, that we should outsource our elections to India,” she said.

Clinton visited India last month where she called for greater cooperation between the world’s two largest democracies on a range of global issues.

What is the prevention and treatment for swine flu?

There are antiviral medicines one can take to prevent or treat swine flu. There is no vaccine available right now to protect against swine flu. The spread of the viruses that cause respiratory illnesses like influenza can be prevented by:

• Covering your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
• Washing your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. You can also use alcohol-based hand cleaners.
• Avoiding touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way.
• Trying to avoid close contact with sick people.
• Staying home from work or school if you are sick.

Antiviral drugs for seasonal influenza are available in some countries and effectively prevent and treat the illness. Most of the previously reported swine influenza cases recovered fully from the disease without requiring medical attention and without antiviral medicines. Some influenza viruses develop resistance to the antiviral medicines, limiting the effectiveness of chemoprophylaxis and treatment. The viruses obtained from the recent human cases with swine influenza in the United States were sensitive to oselatmivir and zanamivir but resistant to amantadine and remantadine.

San Diego menaced by jumbo squid

Squid have come to the California coast before, like this one in 2005

Scuba divers off the Californian city of San Diego are being menaced by large numbers of jumbo squid.

The beaked Humboldt squid, which grow up to 5ft (1.5 metres) long, arrived off the city’s shores last week.

Divers have reported unnerving encounters with the creatures, which are carnivorous and can be aggressive.

One diver described how one of the rust-coloured creatures ripped the buoyancy aid and light from her chest, and grabbed her with its tentacles.

“I just kicked like crazy,” diver Shanda Magill told the Associated Press news agency.

“The first thing you think of is: ‘Oh my gosh, I don’t know if I’m going to survive this.’ If that squid wanted to hurt me, it would have.”

Shanda Magill holds the buoyancy aid and light that the squid ripped from her

The creatures – also known as jumbo flying squid – do not affect swimmers because they remain deeper in the water.

But dozens have been washing up on beaches in the area.

“The ones that we are getting right now have a big beak on them, like a large parrot beak,” San Diego’s Union-Tribune quoted John Hyde of the National Marine Fisheries Service as saying earlier in the week.

“They could take a chunk of flesh off you.”

‘Ram you’

Diver and amateur underwater cameraman Roger Uzun said he swam with a group of squid for about 20 minutes.

They seemed curious about him, he said, and appeared to be touching him and his wetsuit with their tentacles to see if he was edible.

“As soon as we went underwater and turned on the video lights, there they were. They would ram into you, they kept hitting the back of my head,” he told AP.

It is not the first time the squid, which can weigh up to 45kg (7 stone), have taken up residence off California’s coast.

In January 2005 hundreds of them washed up off the coast of Orange County, to the north, and in 2002 a similar invasion was reported near San Diego.

Scientists say they do not know why the squid – which usually live in deep waters further south off Mexico and Central America – have come so close in.

But one expert, Nigella Hillgarth of the San Diego-based Scripps Institution of Oceanography, told AP it was possible that the squid had established a year-round population off California.

Madonna stage deaths investigated

Prosecutors have opened a manslaughter investigation after a stage being built for a Madonna concert collapsed killing two people, a French official has said.

Eight other people were seriously injured in Thursday’s accident at the Velodrome stadium in Marseille.

Assistant prosecutor Marc Cimamonti said an investigation for manslaughter and involuntary injuries in a work-related accident has been opened.

Madonna has said she is “devastated” by the news of the deaths.

‘Tragic news’

Her concert, planned for Sunday, has been cancelled.

Charles Criscenzo, a 53-year-old French worker, was killed outright in the accident and Charles Prow, a 23-year-old from Headingley in Leeds, died in hospital.

Technicians had been setting up the stage at the city’s Velodrome stadium when the partially-built roof fell in on Thursday, bringing down a crane.

The 60,000-seater Velodrome is France’s second-biggest sports arena and home to the Olympique de Marseille football club.

The planned concert was part of Madonna’s Sticky and Sweet tour

About 50 people from a range of nationalities were working to set up the structure, city sports official Richard Miron said.

The roof “started shaking and collapsing” gradually, said Marseille city councillor Maurice Di Nocera.

“Since it did not collapse right away that allowed several people to get out,” he said.

Madonna, who is performing on her Sticky and Sweet tour, was in Udine, Italy, when told of the incident.

“I am devastated to have just received this tragic news,” she said in a statement released by Live Nation, the organisers of the concert.

“My prayers go out to those who were injured and their families, along with my deepest sympathy to all those affected by this heartbreaking news.”

Madonna paid tribute to the technicians at her concert in Italy on Thursday.

“I just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge and pay tribute to two people who lost their lives today,” she told fans at the Fruili Stadium in Udine.

“It’s a great tragedy to me,” she continued, choking back tears. “I feel so devastated to be in any way associated with anyone’s suffering.

“Let’s all just take a moment to say a prayer for Charles Criscenzo and Charlie Prow. Our hearts go out to their family and loved ones.”

British hostage bodies identified

The bodies of two British hostages handed over in Iraq have been identified, the BBC has learned.

The families have been told, and are being given time to inform their relatives, the BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner said.

The names of the two hostages are expected to be released later today.

IT consultant Peter Moore, from Lincoln, and four security guards were captured by armed militants at the Ministry of Finance in Baghdad in 2007.

Videos of captives

The Foreign Office said it had “grave concerns” over the safety of the three other men still thought to be held by the kidnappers, our correspondent said.

“This is incredibly tough for the families because there really was so much optimism,” he added. “This was a blow out of nowhere.”

It’s possible the handover of the bodies could be seen as a trade-off for the release of a militant, Laith al-Khazali, on 6 June.

His freedom had been a stipulation for the hostages being freed, Frank Gardner said.

The remains of the two dead men were handed over to Iraqi authorities on Friday night, and were then passed on to the British Embassy in Iraq.

Little is known about the identities of the men because of a media blackout during a large period of their captivity.

Contractors

The blackout originally came on the instruction of the hostage-takers who said they did not want publicity.

Mr Moore had been working for American management consultancy Bearingpoint when he was kidnapped, while the other men were contractors employed to guard him.

The names of the four security guards are understood to be Jason, Alan, Jason and Alec.

Little else is known about them, other than that the guard Alan is from Dumbarton in Scotland and at least one other is from South Wales.

Air France jet broke into two parts before it hit water: Report

Reports say that the Air France Jet split in two at high altitude before it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean.

After the discovery of two trails of bodies which was found 80 km apart from each other, investigators have concluded that the plane split into two parts before plunged into the sea.

They also say it lost control in bad weather and turbulence during its flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on June 1.

According to a report in The Sunday Times, Examination of bodies discovered off the northeastern Brazilian coast indicated that they were dead by the time they hit the water.

They were stripped of clothes, apparently in the rush of air as they fell from as high as 35,000 ft. multiple fractures were most likely to have been caused by hitting the water at about 120mph.

Reports also say that, the absence of any traces of an explosion, such as burn marks or inhaled smoke, supports the view that the disaster was caused by a combination of factors, possibly beginning with the blockage of speed sensors. The sensors, called pitot tubes, are prone to get clogged with ice and insects.