Rookie News Anchor -- Fired Instantly for Dropping 'F***ing S***' On the Air

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The anchor’s name is A.J. Clemente — and you have to see the footage, which aired yesterday … his first day on the job. It’s incredible. Not only does he cuss on the air, he also plain sucks.

And A.J.’s superiors didn’t waste any time cutting him loose — he tweeted this morning, saying he’d been canned over the flub. He wrote, “Rookie mistake. I’m a free agent. Can’t help but laugh at myself and stay positive. Wish i didnt trip over my ‘Freaking Shoes’ out of the gate.”

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New Evidence of Climate Change: Earth's Current Warming Not Seen In Last ...

New Evidence of Climate Change: Earth’s Current Warming Not Seen In Last 1,400 Years

By Robert Christie | Apr 22, 2013 02:39 PM EDT

A new study shows further evidence of global warming, according to the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

"Earth’s climate warmed more between 1971 and 2000 than during any other three-decade interval in the last 1,400 years, according to new regional temperature reconstructions covering all seven continents," the press release stated.

The current era of continuing global warming, has allowed a "natural cooling trend" to do a 180. The study, which included the work of over 80 scientists from 24 different nations, was done through research of pollen, tree rings, ice cores, lake and ocean sediments, and historical records from across the globe.

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“This paper tells us what we already knew, except in a better, more comprehensive fashion,” said co-author of the study and tree-ring scientist Edward Cook. Cook works at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,

Scientists focused on the Medival Warm Period, stemming from 950 to 1250, as more proof that global warming is manmade.

The study showed that certain areas in Europe and North America were warm while certain areas in North America remained cold.

“If we went into another Medieval Warm Period again that extra warmth would be added on top of warming from greenhouse gases,” Cook said.

The study also found that tempetures varied more between continents in the same hemisphere than they did between hemispheres,

According to co-author Heinz Wanner of the University of Bern, the Medival Warm Period is not the only era which shows that humans are at fault for global warming.

“Distinctive periods, such as the Medieval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age stand out, but do not show a globally uniform pattern,” Wanner said in the press release.

The study also pointed out the long-term cooling period that occurred within the last 2,000 years. The causes could include changes in land-surface vegetation, slow variations in Earth's orbit, and the upswing in volcanic activity.

When industrialization began in the 19^th century cooling started to disappear. In the 20^th century warming was two times a large in the Northern Hemisphere than the Southern Hemisphere. Compared to the late 20^th century, some regions saw warmer 30-year intervals during other parts of the last 2000 years. To clarify, years between 21 and 80 AD were most likely warmer than years between 1971 and 2000.

The study was published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

More to Saudi Arabia's Connection to Boston Bombings Than Meets the Eye?

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During his Monday evening broadcast, Glenn Beck addressed news surrounding Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, the Saudi national who was at one point considered a "person of interest" by U.S. authorities in the aftermath of the Boston bombings. "Believe me we

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Background points: A Saudi national originally identified as a "person of interest" in the Boston Marathon bombing was set to be deported under section 212 3B — "Security and related grounds" — "Terrorist activities" after the

Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, Wife Of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Wanted By Feds For ...

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But very little has been written about another significant figure in this case: Katherine Russell, the 24-year-old widow of the elder Tsarnaev — and mother to his toddler daughter. What could she know — and is it fair to suspect

MFP seeks to expose those who have betrayed the conservative movement and facilited the decline of our once great republic.

But very little has been written about another significant figure in this case: Katherine Russell, the 24-year-old widow of the elder Tsarnaev — and mother to his toddler daughter. What could she know — and is it fair to suspect

But very little has been written about another significant figure in this case: Katherine Russell, the 24-year-old widow of the elder Tsarnaev — and mother to his toddler daughter. What could she know — and is it fair to suspect

Divinyls Singer Christina Amphlett Dies at Age 53

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Chrissy Amphlett, the frontwoman of '90s band The Divinyls, died at her home in New York City yesterday at the age of 53. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, and her musician husband, Charley Drayton, said in a statement that she "succumbed

Chrissy Amphlett — the sultry lead singer of Australian rockers Divinyls, who released four albums in the '80s before hitting it big with their risque smash single "I Touch Myself" — died in New York on Sunday following a long

The lead singer of the Australian group the Divinyls died at her NYC home on April 21, after battling breast cancer and multiple scleroris.

Chrissy Amphlett, the singer and former frontwoman for the Australian band The Divinyls, died on Sunday afternoon after suffering from cancer and multiple sclerosis. She was 53. Amphlett's husband, Charley Drayton, released a statement in which he said

ACC schools agree to grant TV rights to league - USA Today

Miami’s Durand Scott celebrates his team’s victory in the championship of the ACC men’s basketball tournament March 17. The tournament is scheduled to return to Greensboro, N.C., in 2014, the league announced, though the conference is also branching out into new markets with other events.(Photo: Bob Leverone, AP)

The Atlantic Coast Conference presidents have agreed for the league to retain media rights for a school that leaves the conference.

The league said Monday each of the current and future schools has signed the deal, which is effective immediately.

The grant of rights means any school that leaves would also have to leave its TV rights behind. Those rights would stay with the ACC, meaning the departing school wouldn’t bring any added TV value to a new league’s broadcast package.

It would essentially lock schools in through the existing TV deal, including eventual arrivals Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Notre Dame and Louisville.

The ACC is the fourth major conference to approve a grant of TV rights, joining the Big 12, Big Ten and Pac-12.

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NASA Discovers Three Potentially Earth-like Worlds

NASA And MIT Mission Will Search For Habitable Planets

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NASA Finds Multiple Planets Circling Binary Star System

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Kepler 69-c orbits a star like our own Sun and might be habitable. (Credit: Image credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech)

NASA's Kepler mission, which seeks out planets outside of our solar system, has just discovered five new planets around two stars – and three of them have the potential to be habitable.

The two stars that the Kepler mission has found planets around are currently designated Kepler-62 and Kepler-69. Kepler-62 is about 1,200 light years from Earth, and contains five planets. Of those five, two of them are in the "habitable zone" of the star – meaning that they're in a distance where liquid water could potentially exist on the surface. Having liquid water on the surface is generally considered to be necessary for life.

Kepler-62 is a K2-type star, meaning that it's cooler than our star. If you were to stand on the surface of one of its planets, it would appear to be orange. The star itself has about 69% of the mass of our Sun and has about 64% of the Sun's radius.

The two planets within Kepler-62?s habitable zone are Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f. They are the outermost planets of the star system – the other three lie even closer to the Sun. Kepler-62e has about 60% more mass than the Earth. Kepler-62f appears to have a rocky composition (like our own planet) and is only about 40% bigger than the Earth. That means that Kepler-62f is the smallest known planet to lie in the habitable zone of another star.

Kepler-69, which is about 2,700 light years from Earth, is even more interesting than Kepler-62. That's because Kepler-69 is a G-type Star – just like our own Sun, although it's somewhat less massive. There are two planets around Kepler-69. Kepler-69b is extremely close to the star's surface – it completes its orbit every 13 days. Kepler-69c is more interesting, however. It's only about 70% more massive than the Earth and lies within a similar orbit to Venus.

The researchers investigating Kepler-69c don't yet have enough data to say for certain what its like. It may be a rocky planet like Earth. However, in the paper where they present their results, the researchers noted that it's also possible that it "may be a water world and quite unlike any planet in our Solar System." Most likely, however, the planet appears to be much cooler than Venus, which has an extremely high surface temperature thanks to its thick carbon dioxide atmosphere. If that's true, it's possible that life could develop there whether its a rocky world or an oceanic one.

The discovery of Kepler-69c, the researchers continue, is "a progressive step on the road to detecting the first truly Earth-like planet orbiting a star like our Sun."

"The Kepler spacecraft has certainly turned out to be a rock star of science," said NASA's John Grunsfeld in a press release. "The discovery of these rocky planets in the habitable zone brings us a bit closer to finding a place like home. It is only a matter of time before we know if the galaxy is home to a multitude of planets like Earth, or if we are a rarity."

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Hubble spies a nursery in a nebula - Sydney Morning Herald

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The Hubble Space Telescope: The planet’s eye into the distant wonders of the universe. Photo: NASA/AP

Astonishing new images from the Hubble Space Telescope have pierced through a nebula of gas and dust 1500 light years from Earth, to reveal a nursery of newborn stars.

The Horsehead Nebula, a vast plume that forms part of the constellation Orion, is a favourite of astronomers because of its distinctive dark shape, which is set against a background of glowing hydrogen gas.

Using infrared cameras, which capture more wavelengths of light than the human eye, the telescope was able to peer within the Horsehead.

Dust to dust: A New Hubble image of the Horsehead Nebula in the Orion constellation. Photo: NASA/AFP

The nebula, first recorded by astronomers in 1888, is known as a stellar nursery because new stars form there as gases interact with gravity and magnetism.

”In infrared light, we can pierce right through some the bulky plumes of dusty material which usually mask and obscure the inner regions of the horsehead,” said Joe Liske, astronomer at the European Southern Observatory in Germany.

”The result is this rather fragile-looking structure, made of delicate wispy folds of gas, very different from the nebula’s appearance [to the naked eye].”

New images were released to celebrate the 23rd anniversary of the Hubble’s launch. They were taken with a new infrared camera installed by space-walking astronauts in 2009.

Hubble has made more than 1 million observations since its launch in 1990 but it is ageing.

It is to be replaced by the James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled to blast into orbit in 2018.

A sharp eye

• Observations have refined the rate at which the universe is thought to be expanding
• Recorded the collision of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter in 1994
• Recorded evidence of other plants, and disc-like ”proto planets”, orbiting other stars
• Showed black holes are probably at the centre of all galaxies
• Found a fifth moon orbiting Pluto

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