Rapper Rick Ross suffers 2nd seizure

Rapper Rick Ross reportedly suffered a second medical emergency on a plane Friday while traveling to Memphis to perform at a college basketball kickoff.

The Miami-based artist's private jet to Tennessee was forced to land in Birmingham, Ala., when he suffered a seizure, NBC station WTVJ of Miami reported. It was the second time in six hours a plane carrying the performer diverted due to concerns over his health.

The first incident happened on board a flight from Fort Lauderdale to Memphis, prompting the pilot to return to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Hours later, Ross tweeted "Memphis here I come", and posted a video of himself in apparent okay health on board a private jet, promoting his upcoming album and an appearance at a Wing Stop restaurant.

"There was a private plane that was routed here for medical purposes," a representative of Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Airport confirmed to E! Online.

Rapper Yo Gotti, who was to perform with Ross, went on in his place at Memphis Madness at FedExForum, said the University of Memphis, which was holding its 2011-12 basketball season kickoff.

Rapper has medical scare on flight

Memphis coach Josh Pastner told the crowd on Friday evening that a private jet carrying Ross made an unscheduled landing in Birmingham after the singer had another medical problem.

"On his way to Memphis," Pastner said, "he had to make another emergency landing, in Birmingham. He got really sick again, and they had to rush him to the emergency room."

The rapper's health first made news Friday morning when Delta Airlines flight 1310 reported a medical emergency shortly after its 12:21 p.m. takeoff and returned to the airport, confirmed Broward County Aviation spokesman Greg Meyer.

Broward Fire Rescue officials said an adult male was treated with "advanced life-support care," on scene and was transported to Broward General Medical center.

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Unconfirmed reports suggested the Carol City native ? real name William Leonard Roberts II ? suffered a seizure, but friends shortly took to Twitter to confirm Ross was stable.

"I just talked to Ross," tweeted rapper Wale. "He's 100 percent okay."

"Yo [Rick Ross] is straight," messaged artist Meek Mill, who is signed to Ross' Maybach Music Group label.

Friday morning, Ross tweeted his excitement about the weekend.

"Headed to Memphis," he wrote. "M-Town will be on fire tonight with the Boss and UofM Memphis Madness."

The Miami-based gangsta rapper gained fame with his husky voice and lyrics that spotlighted the grimier side of Miami life. He has become one of rap?s most popular figures in recent years.

He has a new album titled "God Forgives, I Don?t," due out in December.

The rapper's hits include "Aston Martin Music," "B.M.F. (Blowing Money Fast)" and "Hustlin'."

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Builders of Corn Mazes Hope to Lose Visitors, and One Actually Did

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Modern corn mazes are complex systems, but they are meant to be challenging, not panic-inducing, according to maze builders, and getting out should never require a police escort.

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The nation's weather (AP)

Florida will see more heavy rain and strong winds, while the Great Lakes and Midwest experience scattered showers Sunday.

A low pressure area over the northwestern Caribbean and southern Gulf of Mexico continues to trigger heavy rains, strong winds and dangerous surf from the Yucatan Peninsula across Cuba and into Florida and the Bahamas. This system has lingered over the region for a few days, raising the threat of flooding, landslides and mudslides in some areas.

Rainfall totals across Florida are expected to range from 2 to 4 inches on Sunday. This area of low pressure remains under a 20 percent chance of developing into a tropical cyclone.

Meanwhile in the North, a low pressure trough developed as it moved off the northern Rockies and will continue moving eastward, over the Upper Midwest and into the Great Lakes and Midwest on Sunday. This system will trigger scattered showers with a few possible thunderstorms, but severe storms are not anticipated.

To the south of the trough, a ridge of high pressure dominates from the southern and central Rockies and on across the central and southern Plains into the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states. This system ensures another warm and sunny day across the southern U.S.

Temperatures will range 10 to 20 degrees above seasonable for the central Rockies and central Plains, with highs reaching into the 70s and 80s. Temperatures ranged Saturday in the lower 48 states from a morning low of 24 degrees at Gunnison, Colo., to a high of 96 degrees at Phoenix, Ariz.

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Rangers earn 2nd consecutive World Series berth (AP)

ARLINGTON, Texas ? Nelson Cruz and the Texas Rangers are headed to their second straight World Series, finishing off the Detroit Tigers with a huge offensive burst to become the American League's first repeat champion in a decade.

Cruz set a postseason record with his sixth home run of the series, Michael Young hit a pair of two-run doubles in a nine-run third inning, and the Rangers romped to a 15-5 win Saturday night that won the AL pennant in six games.

"It's very sweet," said Young, the Rangers' longest-tenured player, in his 11th season. "We're happy we're going to the World Series right now. But we have a lot of work to do. Happy, but not satisfied."

They'll open the World Series on Wednesday night at St. Louis or Milwaukee, seeking the first title in the history of a franchise that started play in 1961.

Cruz had 13 RBIs in the series, another postseason record, and was selected MVP.

"He was unbelievable," teammate Adrian Beltre said. "Every moment we needed him, he came through."

Young, who also homered, had five RBIs in the finale, asked for a trade last winter but wound up staying and helped make sure the World Series will again be deep in the heart of Texas. Even the loss of Cliff Lee, who became a free agent and signed with Philadelphia, didn't prevent a Rangers repeat.

Young caught Brandon Inge's game-ending popout in short right field and pumped a right hand into the air signaling "No. 1" while fireworks and confetti filled the sky, then ran toward the middle of the field to celebrate with his teammates.

Cruz threw both hands in the air and briefly knelt to a knee in the outfield before running to the infield for the ginger ale-spraying celebration to come while a banner was unfurled high over center field declaring the Rangers 2011 AL champions

With former President George W. Bush seated in the front row alongside Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan, part of the ownership group that took over the team last year, Rangers manager Ron Washington was at the edge of the dugout wildly waving his arms and shouting encouragement to his players as the big inning unfolded.

All Tigers manager Jim Leyland could do was take off his cap and scratch his head.

A franchise that began as the expansion Washington Senators and moved to Texas in 1972 had failed to reach the World Series in its first 49 seasons. Then the Rangers won their first AL pennant last year only to lose the Series to the San Francisco Giants in five games.

"As soon as the season began, we were hungry, we were hungry to get back," Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus said.

Texas overcame a 2-0 deficit by sending 14 batters to the plate against Detroit starter Max Scherzer (0-1) and three relievers in the highest-scoring postseason inning since 2002.

Alexi Ogando (2-0) pitched two scoreless innings for his second win in the series as the Rangers became the AL's first consecutive pennant winner since the New York Yankees won four in a row from 1998-01.

While Young became only the fourth player in postseason history with two extra-base hits in the same inning ? first a tying double into the left-field corner and then one down the right field line for a 9-2 lead ? every batter in the Texas lineup reached base at least once before the third out of the third. By the time all the fireworks was over, the Rangers scored the most runs ever in a postseason game against the Tigers and the most in any postseason contest since the Yankees routed Boston 19-8 in Game 3 of the 2004 ALCS.

Also among the sellout crowd of 51,508 was Dirk Nowitzki, MVP of the NBA finals won by the Dallas Mavericks in June.

Now the Rangers get another chance to bring another championship to the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and go a step further than last season.

Young, in his 11th season in Texas, had played in 1,508 career regular season games before finally getting into the playoffs last year. He added a huge exclamation point to his already big night when he led off the seventh with a 416-foot homer to straightaway center field.

His five RBIs matched the Rangers postseason record set by Cruz in Game 2.

Last winter, Young had requested a trade after the Rangers signed Beltre and acquired Mike Napoli, moves that led to Young becoming primarily a designated hitter and first baseman, a position he had never played. He had already been a starting second baseman and an All-Star at shortstop and third base.

Young's two two-run doubles came in the highest-scoring inning in a postseason game since the Angels matched a playoff record with 10 runs in the seventh inning of Game 5 during the 2002 ALCS against Minnesota.

Texas' big inning started when Andrus drew a one-out walk and Josh Hamilton blooped an opposite-field single to left. After Young tied it, Beltre hit a go-ahead single under the leg of Scherzer, who was gone after consecutive walks to Mike Napoli and Cruz.

Cruz fought back from an 0-2 count for his walk. On a checked swing on a 2-2 pitch, Scherzer and Leyland both reacted in disbelief when first base umpire Tim Welke signaled no swing. When the next pitch was ball four, Cruz flipped his bat away and quickly clapped his hands.

David Murphy hit a two-run single off Daniel Schlereth, facing his only batter in his only appearance of the series. Game 4 starter Rick Porcello took over and pinch-hitter Craig Gentry reached on a fielder's choice as Murphy beat the throw to second. Ian Kinsler's two-run single made it 7-2, and Young's second double boosted the margin to 9-2.

When Ryan Perry finally induced Beltre to hit an inning-ending flyout, fans roared in anticipation of a World Series berth that wouldn't be official for five more innings. Most wildly waved white rally towels, and another behind the Rangers dugout swayed a Texas state flag back-and-forth high in the air.

Detroit had already avoided elimination twice this postseason, winning Game 5 of the AL division series at Yankee Stadium and then extending the ALCS with a 7-5 win at home Thursday.

Derek Holland allowed solo homers to Miguel Cabrera in the first and Jhonny Peralta in the second as Detroit, seeking its first Series title since 1984, tried to force a Game 7.

"I don't think I've ever been prouder of a team than I am of this team," Leyland said. "They gave everything they had."

NOTES: Holland, who didn't make it out of the third inning in Game 2, gave up four runs and seven hits in 4 2-3 innings. He left after Austin Jackson's two-run homer in the fifth.

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BMW shows off new generation 3 Series sports sedan

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BMW will introduce a new version of its popular 3 Series sports sedan i that will weigh less but have bigger dimensions, giving rear-seat passengers more space.

The new model, which appears at dealerships in February, is critically important to BMW?s strategy in the United States and for its global sales, said Tim Urquhart, an analyst with IHS Automotive.

?The BMW 3 Series is in many ways the company's keynote model,? Urquhart said. ?It is the bestselling premium passenger car model in the world and has long set the agenda as being symbolic of BMW's wider corporate strategy at any given point.? Bmw2

BMW has sold more than 60,000 of the current model in the U.S. this year, far outpacing other small luxury sedans, including its second most popular rival, the Mercedes-Benz ?C? class, 39,000, as well as offerings from Audi, Infiniti and Lexus.

The automaker, which unveiled the car at an event in Germany, did not provide information about fuel economy or U.S. pricing. The current model starts around $35,000.

The new generation 3 Series will have many of the same styling cues as the current model and one version will come with a version of the sedan with a four-cylinder engine.? And for the first time, BMW also plans to sell a hybrid model of the car.

BMW stopped selling four-cylinder engines in the U.S. more than a decade ago, thinking they didn't fit the profile of its luxury buyers.? But more automakers are shrinking their engines as a way to meet more stringent fuel economy standards. ?

Four-cylinder engines now account for about 65% of all cars built in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, up from 48% five years ago. Six-cylinder vehicle production slipped to 25% from nearly 40%.

BMW, however, doesn?t expect to be giving up any performance in the new car.

The new powerplant will come in the less expensive 328i version of the sedan. It will be a turbocharged four banger that produces up to 240 horsepower. That?s slightly more powerful than the six-cylinder engine in the current 328i. BMW claims the new 328i will accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in just 5.7 seconds.

The more expensive 335i model will come with BMW?s 6-cylinder engine.

BMW also is going to an 8-speed automatic transmission in the new 3 Series, another move that is expected to improve fuel economy. The car also sheds 88 pounds, which should help improve mileage.

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Future forests may soak up more carbon dioxide than previously believed

ScienceDaily (Oct. 13, 2011) ? North American forests appear to have a greater capacity to soak up heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas than researchers had previously anticipated.

As a result, they could help slow the pace of human-caused climate warming more than most scientists had thought, a U-M ecologist and his colleagues have concluded.

The results of a 12-year study at an experimental forest in northeastern Wisconsin challenge several long-held assumptions about how future forests will respond to the rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide blamed for human-caused climate change, said University of Michigan microbial ecologist Donald Zak, lead author of a paper published online this week in Ecology Letters.

"Some of the initial assumptions about ecosystem response are not correct and will have to be revised," said Zak, a professor at the U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

To simulate atmospheric conditions expected in the latter half of this century, Zak and his colleagues continuously pumped extra carbon dioxide into the canopies of trembling aspen, paper birch and sugar maple trees at a 38-acre experimental forest in Rhinelander, Wis., from 1997 to 2008.

Some of the trees were also bathed in elevated levels of ground-level ozone, the primary constituent in smog, to simulate the increasingly polluted air of the future. Both parts of the federally funded experiment -- the carbon dioxide and the ozone treatments -- produced unexpected results.

In addition to trapping heat, carbon dioxide is known to have a fertilizing effect on trees and other plants, making them grow faster than they normally would. Climate researchers and ecosystem modelers assume that in coming decades, carbon dioxide's fertilizing effect will temporarily boost the growth rate of northern temperate forests.

Previous studies have concluded that this growth spurt would be short-lived, grinding to a halt when the trees can no longer extract the essential nutrient nitrogen from the soil.

But in the Rhinelander study, the trees bathed in elevated carbon dioxide continued to grow at an accelerated rate throughout the 12-year experiment. In the final three years of the study, the CO2-soaked trees grew 26 percent more than those exposed to normal levels of carbon dioxide.

It appears that the extra carbon dioxide allowed trees to grow more small roots and "forage" more successfully for nitrogen in the soil, Zak said. At the same time, the rate at which microorganisms released nitrogen back to the soil, as fallen leaves and branches decayed, increased.

"The greater growth has been sustained by an acceleration, rather than a slowing down, of soil nitrogen cycling," Zak said. "Under elevated carbon dioxide, the trees did a better job of getting nitrogen out of the soil, and there was more of it for plants to use."

Zak stressed that growth-enhancing effects of CO2 in forests will eventually "hit the wall" and come to a halt. The trees' roots will eventually "fully exploit" the soil's nitrogen resources. No one knows how long it will take to reach that limit, he said.

The ozone portion of the 12-year experiment also held surprises.

Ground-level ozone is known to damage plant tissues and interfere with photosynthesis. Conventional wisdom has held that in the future, increasing levels of ozone would constrain the degree to which rising levels of carbon dioxide would promote tree growth, canceling out some of a forest's ability to buffer projected climate warming.

In the first few years of the Rhinelander experiment, that's exactly what was observed. Trees exposed to elevated levels of ozone did not grow as fast as other trees. But by the end of study, ozone had no effect at all on forest productivity.

"What happened is that ozone-tolerant species and genotypes in our experiment more or less took up the slack left behind by those who were negatively affected, and that's called compensatory growth," Zak said. The same thing happened with growth under elevated carbon dioxide, under which some genotypes and species fared better than others.

"The interesting take home point with this is that aspects of biological diversity -- like genetic diversity and plant species compositions -- are important components of an ecosystem's response to climate change," he said. "Biodiversity matters, in this regard."

Co-authors of the Ecology Letters paper were Kurt Pregitzer of the University of Idaho, Mark Kubiske of the U.S. Forest Service and Andrew Burton of Michigan Technological University. The work was funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Forest Service.

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Casey Anthony: True Hollywood Story to Air Next Week


After a lengthy and controversial murder trial surrounding the death of her young daughter, Caylee, Casey Anthony was found not guilty and is a free woman.

That much you know. But just who is Casey Anthony?

To this day, the media frenzy surrounding her continues, and despite her disappearance from view, she remains one of the most recognizable faces in the country.

In a brand new E! True Hollywood Story, her former boyfriends, attorneys, journalists and other speak out about the woman at the center of this infamous case.

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E!'s special on the Floridian airs next Wednesday, October 19. Some of the quotes from Casey Anthony and those associated with her in her True Hollywood Story:

"If you wanted to hang out [or] go party she was always down.” - Brandon Snow, Casey Anthony’s ex-boyfriend

“Casey was very smart and very popular. She was someone that everyone pretty much kind of knew.” - Angel Rivera, a former classmate of Anthony’s

"You follow someone around, let’s say 24/7, then you only play 1-2 hours of their most difficult time, that does not define that individual. That was an unfair portrayal of her.” - Dorothy Clay Sims, Casey's defense attorney

"She didn’t take off any clothes; she wasn’t up on the stage stripping or anything. It was just her you know, standing around and dancing in a blue dress" - Clint House, her old friend, re: Casey Anthony pictures in a “hot body contest”

"It started going down like, ‘you’re a baby killer, you killed that baby.’ They were going to kidnap my daughters and see how I like [it] and then they started saying that they [were] going to kill them and they [were] going to send them to me in pieces in a box to my house and yeah... I hate that part." - Zenaida Gonzalez, a.k.a. Zanny the Nanny, on the reaction of the public when they believed she was involved.

“I think the priority should be figuring out what really happened because that’s the only way that Caylee will ever get justice. It’s not seeing [Casey] behind bars and it’s not seeing her out of jail. It’s knowing what happened and the truth.” - Michelle Bart, former George and Cindy Anthony spokeswoman

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New CNOOC oil leak found in China's Bohai Bay (AP)

BEIJING ? Chinese offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC Ltd. says it has suspended operation of an oil platform after finding a leak in one of its oil fields in the Bohai Bay.

It is the latest in a series of offshore spills in the Bohai Bay that have raised an outcry among fishermen and environmentalists.

CNOOC said in a statement on its website Saturday that an oil slick was discovered Friday near the Jinzhou 9-3 West oil field.

It says investigations show that a ship doing construction work damaged an oil pipeline at the bottom of the sea. CNOOC estimated that about 0.38 cubic meters (13.4 cubic feet) of oil was leaked.

It says the platform shutdown will reduce CNOOC's output by 1,600 barrels of oil a day.

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How Solyndra's Failure May Help the Future of Solar Power

solyndra-rooftopSUN ROOF: Solyndra's cylindrical solar modules, pictured here in Fremont, Calif., helped maximize power output from flat roofs but struggled to compete with the low price of silicon photovoltaics. Image: Courtesy of Solyndra

Entrepreneur is just a fancy French word for a salesman, and a sales pitch isn't necessarily constrained by the laws of physics or economics. These folks don't so much have a business as an argument?or a business proposition as the clich? goes. Chris Gronet, the founder of Gronet Industries which became Solyndra and, more recently, defunct, was one such entrepreneur who visited the offices of Scientific American in the fall of 2008.

Much as Gronet's business alma mater Applied Materials has learned to perfect technological processes such as thermal processing at high speed, this entrepreneur had learned to perfect his rapid patter?and to leave nothing out of place, whether the perfectly parted hair that remained undisturbed by the palpable downdraft of the ventilation system or the thank you e-mail sent the day after the meeting. Like most good, green entrepreneurs, he took a dash of optimism about the bright, clean future for solar energy and paired it with a dose of reality about continuing high prices for the purified silicon at the core of a photovoltaic (PV) device.

Interactive by Krista Fuentes. Photo of photovoltaic array at Oberlin College courtesy of Robb Williamson

He also had a slogan?"the new shape of solar"?that encapsulated the idea, much as a cylinder of glass encapsulated the thin-film semiconducting material that made Gronet's solar tubes work. The shape even fed into the name?Solyndra?as well as promising half the installation cost in one third of the time, enabling "grid parity" (that is, a price competitive with electricity from fossil fuel?fired power plants) at some imminent date for the first time in the history of solar power. In the meantime, with feed-in tariffs in Germany and Spain as high as 44 euro cents per kilowatt-hour, "we do great," Gronet said.

But wait, there's more. On roofs that didn't line up with the sun's path across the sky, the cylindrical nature of the solar module allowed owners to get more power off the roof by capturing diffuse or reflected light. The panels did not require heavy racks that anchored deep in the roof for support but rather lay flat and spaced out to allow wind to flow through them, allowing them to withstand gusts up to 210 kilometers per hour as demonstrated during a test installation in Florida that survived a tropical storm. That also allowed more of the panels to fit on any given roof. "By covering the 30 billion square feet of large, flat roofs in the U.S. alone, Solyndra's new design has the ability to meaningfully impact the world's energy needs," Gronet wrote in that thank-you email. "Conventional flat PV solar panels are not optimized for large commercial rooftops."

German photovoltaic installers such as Munich-based Phoenix Solar AG loved the cylindrical devices, committing $615 million to purchase some of them. "We simply do not need any supporting structures or ballasts or roof penetrations," Phoenix's chief technology officer, Manfred Bachler, explained in 2008. "We see significant cost-savings."

But Solyndra was always a dicey technology proposition: Take a temperamental semiconducting film that must be perfectly applied at high speed and pair it with a shape that is both hard to manufacture and ship. Voil?: a cylindrical solar cell that could either be a game-changer or a money-loser. "Some claims do not sound true," said environmental engineer Vasilis Fthenakis, a senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory's National Photovoltaics Environmental Research Center, in 2008.

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Google announces Q3 earnings: $9.72 billion in revenue, $2.73 billion net income, 40 million Google users

Google's just announced its third quarter earnings and, as expected, the company's numbers are continuing on the upswing (even beating expectations). That includes $9.72 billion in revenue, which represents a 33 percent jump compared to the third quarter of 2010, along with $2.73 billion in net income, which is up from $2.17 billion a year ago. Somewhat notably, Google also choose to lead off its press release announcing the financial results (included after the break) with the news that Google+ has just passed the 40 million user mark -- the company further notes that "people are flocking into Google+ at an incredible rate." There's not a ton of surprises to be found in the results otherwise, although Larry Page and co. sure seem to be busy hiring new folks -- they've brought on 10 percent more employees in the span of three months (for a total of 31,353 full-time employees as of September 30th). The company's earnings call is coming up shortly -- we'll bring you any additional details as they're made available.

Update: During the company's earnings call, CEO Larry Page confirmed that there's now 190 million Android phones activated around the world, and 200 million users of the Chrome web browser (although it's not clear how many of those are active users). Page also took a moment to post his remarks to Google+ during the call.

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