Ivanka Trump Names Baby Son Joseph Frederick Kushner -- See a Picture!

Finally, a name! Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner welcomed their second child, a baby boy, on Monday, Oct. 14, but waited until the following day to reveal his name.

"With love we welcome our son, Joseph Frederick Kushner," she tweeted on Oct. 15, along with a picture of the bundle of joy's birth announcement. "Visit Tumblr to see some pictures!"

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Baby Joseph, born at 9:54 p.m., was named after his paternal great-grandfathers, whom the new mom describes as "master builders of their generation and inspiring patriarchs of their families."

"Jared's grandfather, Joseph, was a rock," the new mom explained on her Tumblr. "His indomitable spirit, his sense of family, and his work ethic are the values we hope to hand down to our son. My grandfather, Frederick, was a builder not just of tens of thousands of homes throughout this city, but of a tight-knit family that honors to this day the traditions he established."

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She continued: "Both men set the standards that have been passed down through the generations and which we hope to impart upon Joseph and Arabella. They created a legacy for our family that inspires our careers as well as our love and respect for one another. We are honored to name our son after these two distinguished men. We feel so blessed with the newest member of the family!"

Trump, 31, and husband Jared Kushner, who wed in 2009, are already parents to daughter Arabella, 2. She announced the birth of their son on Twitter, writing, "We just welcomed a beautiful & healthy son into the world. Jared, Arabella and I couldn't be happier!"

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Her father and proud grandfather, Donald Trump, also tweeted, "My beautiful daughter Ivanka just had a healthy baby boy. Jared and Ivanka are very proud!" The Apprentice boss, 67, later added, "Thanks to all for the wonderful congratulations sent to me on the birth of Ivanka's little boy -- so nice!"

"Arabella is at home with her grandmother practicing her swaddle before her little brother comes home!" Trump captioned this Instagram photo of her daughter.
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On Tuesday, Trump shared an adorable photo of daughter Arabella waiting to greet her baby brother at home. "Arabella is at home with her grandmother practicing her swaddle before her little brother comes home!" she captioned the photo of her little girl holding a baby doll.

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Report: NSA sweeps up contact lists across the globe, including those of Americans

A new document leaked to the Washington Post show that the NSA gathers address books and contact lists from e-mailers and instant messengers as they flow through computer connections. NBC's Pete Williams reports.

By Patricia Zengerle, Reuters

WASHINGTON — The U.S. National Security Agency collects hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal email and instant messaging accounts around the world, including many from Americans, The Washington Post reported.

NSA leaker Edward Snowden emerged into the spotlight after being nominated Andrei Sakharov Prize, which honors figures who stand up to oppressive powers, and is given by members of the European Parliament. NBC's Michael Isikoff has the details.

The collection program intercepts email address books and "buddy lists" from instant messaging services as they move across global data links, the newspaper reported on its website, citing senior intelligence officials and documents it said were provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

The Post said analyzing that data lets the NSA search for connections and map relationships among foreign intelligence targets.

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The data collection takes place outside the United States, but sweeps in the contacts of many Americans, the report said, citing two senior U.S. intelligence officials.

A spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees the NSA, said the agency is focused on discovering and developing intelligence about foreign intelligence targets. "We are not interested in personal information about ordinary Americans," he told the Post.

NSA leaker Edward Snowden says he loves the United States but is adapting to his new life in Russia after he was granted asylum. His lawyer says he's received high-paying job offers to do computer programming there. NBC's Richard Engel reports.

Snowden's revelations about the reach and methods of the NSA, including the monitoring of vast volumes of Internet traffic and phone records, have upset U.S. allies from Germany to Brazil. Admirers call him a human rights champion and critics denounce him as a traitor.

The 30-year-old is now living in a secret location in Russia, beyond the reach of U.S. authorities who want him on espionage charges because he leaked the details of top-secret electronic spying programs to the media.

He traveled to Hong Kong in May and later, under pressure from China, flew to Moscow, where he has been granted a year's asylum.

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'Fun' Teams Out Of Baseball Playoffs

The Red Sox have their beards and the Tigers their bankrupt city, but the Moneyball boys from Oakland and the Pirates, who had their first winning season in 21 years, are eliminated. Host Scott Simon talks to NPR's Tom Goldman about the week's sports news, checking in on the Major League Championship Series and the early weeks of the NFL season.

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It's time now for sports and we have to begin with the sad and tragic story. The two-year-old son of Adrian Peterson, the great running back of the Minnesota Vikings died this week apparently of abuse and allegedly by a boyfriend of the little boy's mother. NPR's Tom Goldman joins us. Good morning, Tom.

TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE: Hi Scott.

SIMON: Hard to know what to say.

GOLDMAN: Yes. South Dakota police did confirm that Adrian Peterson's son died yesterday from injuries after a reported severe beating. It's rare in this context, the story touching one of the biggest stars in pro sports, but it is a reminder, Scott, that this kind of child abuse really isn't rare. The organization Child Help says more than four children die every day as a result of child abuse in this country, about 80 percent of those kids who die are under the age of four.

SIMON: Let's go back to the field.

GOLDMAN: Yes, hard turn. The National League playoffs began last night - I didn't stay up, couldn't, we've got to work - to the end of a 13-inning game. The St. Louis Cardinals won 3 to 2. And what a game Carlos Beltran had.

I did stay up, Scott and I have to work too, but I'll just let that go.

(LAUGHTER)

SIMON: You're tougher than I am, yeah.

GOLDMAN: Yeah, I didn't want to say that. And I got to see Carlos Beltran do what he has done throughout his career. He is an eight-time all-star who has a knack for shining in the post season. It's earned him the nickname "Senor Octobre" in native Puerto Rico. And last night he drove in all three St. Louis runs including the winning run in the bottom of the 13th inning. He also made a key defensive play in the 10th inning, throwing out a Dodger player at the plate from right field.

You know, it was a fitting first game, in that the teams, all four remaining teams in the playoffs actually, including Boston and Detroit in the American League, are so evenly matched. They are power, winning teams. Sports Illustrated calls them baseball blue blood with big payrolls. L.A., Boston, and Detroit rank second, fourth and fifth in salaries. St. Louis a little bit of the outlier with a eleventh, but not that every game is going to be like last night, but expect close series in both these leagues.

And one thing I should add, Scott, one regret some baseball fans have is that Oakland, the Moneyball boys, and Pittsburgh with its great first time in the playoffs since 1992 story are out of the postseason, so no real Davids to play against the Goliaths unfortunately.

SIMON: Oh, well, speaking of David and Goliaths, of course you have the biblical figures that look like the Boston Red Sox with those long beards, but let me - let's hope they don't trip over them on the base pads I want to ask you a question that I hear from people - well, I hear from my wife, but a lot of people, about the Detroit Tigers, OK

How is it the Tigers have become one of the marquee franchises in sports - is there something odd, unbalanced, or admirable about a Detroit team spending millions of dollars to be so good in a city so bankrupt it can't afford streetlights?

GOLDMAN: Ah, but there's always room for sports, Scott. I talked to a couple of sports economists, Andy Zimbalist and Victor Matheson, about this seeming incongruity. They reminded me the Tigers are fortunate to be owned by Mike Illitch of Little Caesar's Pizza fame, a very rich man, and charitable I should mention, with the city of Detroit.

He keeps the Tigers well-funded. Also, the great Detroit metro area still has a fair amount of wealth, people who support the team. The Tigers have a relatively new stadium. Comerica Park is 13 years old, and that still generates good revenue. So. you know, a combination of factors keep this team thriving.

SIMON: Football, now we're at Week 6. There have been some real surprises. I'm thinking of the Cleveland Browns.

(LAUGHTER)

GOLDMAN: Well, before we talk about them, how about the Kansas City Chiefs, 2 and 14 last year...

SIMON: They're undefeated, yeah.

GOLDMAN: And one of the three remaining undefeated teams. Also Scott, how about a New York team that stinks and it's not named the Jets?

(LAUGHTER)

GOLDMAN: That would be the Giants, you know, Super Bowl champs as recently as two seasons ago.

SIMON: Well, they did play the Bears. What do you expect, OK?

GOLDMAN: The Jets, you know, an embarrassment in the last couple of years are actually not bad. But yeah, let's get to the Cleveland Browns and wipe the egg off our faces. You know, remember, we all had them dead and buried a few weeks ago when they traded supposedly their best offensive player, Trent Richardson.

Since then they've won three straight, which reminds us that running backs to not a team make, and an NFL team is made up of 53 men, not one.

SIMON: NPR's Tom Goldman. Thanks so much.

GOLDMAN: You're welcome.

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Powell, Motown Records' chief of charm, dies at 98

DETROIT (AP) — Maxine Powell, who was responsible for developing the charm, grace and style of Motown Records' artists during the Detroit label's 1960s heyday, died Monday at age 98.

Motown Historical Museum CEO Allen Rawls said Powell died of natural causes at a hospital in Southfield, Mich.

She didn't sing or write songs, but those associated with Motown say Powell was as essential to the label's operations as any performer or producer.

She directed the label's Artists Development Department, also known as "Motown's Finishing School." Through it, she emphasized to many artists — including Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Jackson Five and the Supremes — how they should carry themselves, treat people and dress.

Motown founder Berry Gordy said the training school was the only one of its kind offered at any record label.

"She brought something to Motown that no other record company had," Gordy said in a statement Monday. "She was a star in her own right — an original. She will always be remembered for her style and class, and she instilled that into the Motown artists by teaching them how to walk, talk and even think with class."

Powell's passing comes less than two months after she was honored at the museum by Robinson and others.

"She was such an important, integral part of what we were doing here at Motown," Robinson said at the Aug. 26 event held at the famed Hitsville, U.S.A, building.

"It didn't matter who you became during the course of your career — how many hits you had, how well your name was known around the world," he said. "Two days a week when you were back in Detroit you had to go to artists' development. It was mandatory."

Gordy paid tribute to Powell via videotape during the celebration, joking that he still remembered many of Powell's sayings, such as "Do not protrude the buttocks," and "Do not confuse me with your parents — they're stuck with you. I'm not."

Born in Texarkana, Texas, Powell was raised in Chicago, where she began her career as an actress. Powell later moved to Detroit. There, she opened the Maxine Powell Finishing School, where she trained African-American models. One of those models was Gordy's sister, Gwen, who was responsible for bringing Powell to Motown.

Once at Hitsville, she focused on polishing the young artists for their lives in the spotlight.

Some of the training included teaching Marvin Gaye to sing with his eyes open and having others balance books on their heads to improve posture. She also instructed artists on how to properly exit limousines.

Powell said in August that she would "teach until there's no breath left in my body."

"I love all the Motown artists," she said. "This has been a blessing. I thank God for allowing me to be here."

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Associated Press writer Jeff Karoub contributed to this report.

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Neptune Shines in Night Sky This Week

Neptune is much too faint to be seen with the unaided eye, but right now you can see the blue planet shine just by using binoculars.

Neptune lies an average distance of 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion km) from the sun. With the demotion of Pluto to dwarf planet status, Neptune is now the farthest of the "classical" planets in the solar system. It is slightly smaller than Uranus, with a diameter of 30,775 miles (49,528 km).

Currently at magnitude +7.8, it's more than six times dimmer than Uranus. Nonetheless, if you have access to a dark, clear sky and carefully examine a good star map, y ou should have no trouble in finding it with binoculars.  Neptune can be found among the stars of Aquarius which is about one-third of the way up from the southeast horizon to the point directly overhead (called the zenith) as darkness falls. [Photos of Neptune, The Mysterious Blue Planet]

With a telescope, trying to resolve Neptune into a disk will be more difficult than it is with Uranus.  You're going to need at least a 4 inch (10 centimeters) telescope with a magnification of no less than 200-power, just to turn Neptune into a tiny blue dot of light.

A turbulent ringed world

Voyager 2 passed Neptune in 1989, revealing a deep-blue atmosphere with rapidly moving wisps of white clouds.

Also evident was a Great Dark Spot, rather similar to Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, the original Dark Spot seen by Voyager 2 has dissipated; yet apparently was replaced by another.

Neptune's atmosphere is composed chiefly of hydrocarbon compounds. Voyager 2 also revealed the existence of at least three rings of very fine particles around Neptune. 

At last count, Neptune plays host to 14 moons, one of which, Triton has a tenuous atmosphere of nitrogen and is larger than Pluto at nearly 1,700 miles (2,736 km) in diameter. Because Neptune moves in a retrograde (backward) orbit, some scientists have suggested that Neptune may actually have captured Triton in the distant past. Those who have access to a telescope of 12 inches (30 cm) or more might even be able to get a glimpse of Triton, very close to Neptune itself. 

The race to find Neptune

Neptune's was discovered after long-term observations of Uranus. Astronomers theorized that some unknown body was somehow perturbing Uranus' orbit.

In 1846, two astronomers, Urbain J.J. Leverrier (1811-1877) of France and John Couch Adams (1819-1892) of England independently were working on this problem. Neither knew what the other was doing, but ultimately, both men had figured out the probable path of the supposed object that was disturbing the orbit of Uranus.

Both believed that the unseen body was then in the constellation of Aquarius, the Water Bearer.  Adams was a student at Cambridge University, England and he sent his results to Sir George Airy (1801-1892), the Astronomer Royal, with specific instructions on where to look for it.

For some unknown reason Airy delayed a year before starting the search. In the meantime, Leverrier wrote to the Berlin Observatory requesting that they search in the place his directed. Johann Galle and Heinrich d'Arrest at Berlin did exactly as instructed and found the new planet in less than an hour. 

In July 2011 Neptune completed one full trip around the sun since its discovery in 1846.

Galileo almost found it

Neptune was very nearly discovered by none other than the renowned Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei with his crude telescope more than 2.5 centuries earlier. Galileo unknowingly recorded Neptune as an eighth magnitude star while observing Jupiter and its system of four large satellites on December 28, 1612.

Just over one month later, on January 27, 1613, Galileo recorded two stars in his telescope field, one of which was Neptune. The next night when he looked again, he noted that the two stars seemed further apart.  If he had only continued to keep watch in the following nights he would have almost certainly would have realized that one of the "stars" was indeed moving.

Like Galileo, later observers stumbled across Neptune without realizing its true nature.  Among them was the skilled French astronomer, Lalande (1795); the English astronomer, John Herschel (1830); and the Scottish astronomer, Von Lamont, just days before Neptune was actually discovered in 1846. All thought it was nothing more than an ordinary star. 

Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for Natural History magazine, the Farmer's Almanac and other publications, and he is also an on-camera meteorologist for News 12 Westchester, N.Y. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on SPACE.com.

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'Walking Dead' Season Four Primer: Relive The Dead

Before AMC's zombie apocalypse returns on Sunday, here's your refresher on all the good and bad times of the past three seasons.


By Josh Wigler

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Busan Film Fest's Asian Project Market Presents Awards to Top Filmmakers

BUSAN — The Busan International Film Festival’s nine Asian Project Market prizes went to big names in the Asian industry on Thursday evening.                                                                                                  

South Korean helmer Kim Jee-woon claimed the top Busan Award for Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade, which is expected to be fully backed by CJ Entertainment. Kim is known for the kimchi Western The Good, The Bad, The Weird and noir thriller I Saw the Devil. He recently made his Hollywood debut with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s comeback piece The Last Stand.

The rest of the award recipients were mostly Korean, with three of the remaining eight prizes going to local projects. A fourth, the KOCCA Award, went to an English-language remake of a Korean drama, End of Animal, which will be helmed by Australia’s Eron Sheean.

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Wayne Wang won the Creative Director Award for the Japan-U.S. joint venture While the Women Are Sleeping, while Wang Wei-ming took home the Technicolor Asia Award for the $2 million Taiwan-Hong Kong collaboration Sex Appeal. The latter, however, is set to shoot next week and observers raised questions about the practical meaning of the project funding award.

Market organizers said the Asian Film Market, which the Asian Project Market is part of, made a 16 percent leap from last year. They claimed an estimated 150 deals were made from some 10,000 meetings that were held Oct. 7-10.

A total 733 companies and 1,272 market badge holders took part, compared to 690 firms and 1,098 badge holders from 2012. There were 92 booths from 198 companies representing 32 countries including the BIFCOM locations market.

Market screenings also increased, with 100 screenings of 87 titles, including 60 market premieres, compared to last year’s 71 films.

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2013 Winners of Asian Project Market Awards:

Busan Award: Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade (South Korea) by Kim Jee-woon

CJ Entertainment Award: Samuel Over the Rainbow (Philippines) by Benito Bautista

Lotte Award: OTS Virus Project (South Korea) by Kang Yi-kwan

PanStar Cruise Award: Have a Nice Trip! (South Korea, China) by Lee Seo

KOCCA Award: End of Animal (Australia) by Eron Sheean

Technicolor Asia Award: Sex Appeal (Taiwan, Hong Kong) by Wang Wei-ming

ARTE International Prize: Exotic Pictures (Indonesia, Netherlands, Germany) by Edwin

Funding 21 Award: Gyeongju (South Korea) by Zhang Lu

Creative Director Award: While the Women Are Sleeping (Japan, U.S.) by Wayne Wang

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