Lost Giant chunks of ice in the Arctic Ocean

A chunk of ice the size of almost half of Jakarta floating in the Arctic Ocean at the North Pole after a split from a glacier in Greenland.
Two facilities that may be on a path that will pass through the giant iceberg of this is oil refineries and shipping lines. Caused damage that could be seen. In a worst-case scenario, this icy waters to reach dense traffic areas where other icebergs from Greenland has sunk the Titanic in 1912.
"This very large iceberg that we can not get him to stop drifting and drifting," said Jon-Ove Hagen Methlie, an expert on glaciers from the University of Oslo.
Teams of scientists are busy estimating trajectory floating icebergs that are currently moving toward the Strait of nares. Nares strait separates the waters of northwestern Greenland with Ellsemere Island in Canada.
Some pictures show the ice shelf the size of 260 square kilometers. Chunks of it apart from the Greenland glacier, the source of fresh water that if melted would raise global sea levels by six meters.
Lately there have been some disasters are by scientists associated with global warming, such as heat waves and forest fires in Russia and the flood disaster in Asia.

Lady Gaga Reaches Facebook Plateau

Lady Gaga, the self-proclaimed Fame Monster, is gaining more notoriety by the day. On July 2, she reached 10 million fans on Facebook, making her the first living person to achieve this honor, Us Magazine reported.

President Barack Obama, who has 9.5 million fans, had the most followers for a living person on the leading social networking site until Lady Gaga surpassed him.
Gaga ranks sixth overall for most Facebook fans. According to USA Today, Facebook, the Family Guy, Michael Jackson, Texas Hold ‘Em Poke, and Mafia Wars are the only other entities with more Facebook fans than the pop singer.
Despite her popularity and success, Lady Gaga recently told Rolling Stone that she keeps herself grounded. "When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl," she said. "Then I say, ' ... You're Lady Gaga you get up and walk the walk today."
Lady Gaga is one of five musicians in Famecount.com's Top 10 Living Facebook Stars list. The other figurers in the top 10 are Vin Diesel, Barack Obama, Megan Fox, Dr. House (Hugh Laurie), Linkin Park, Lil Wayne, Cristiano Ronaldo, Justin Bieber, and Taylor Swift.
Famecount.com tracks social networks to show key trends.
The site also reports that Lady Gaga is the "fastest growing star on Facebook, adding 1.9 (million) fans last month alone and finding over 140,000 new fans each day." Even amid all the World Cup coverage, Lady Gaga still managed to beat soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo.
Lady Gaga isn't the only musician with good numbers. On Wednesday, Eminem's sixth album, Recovery, debuted at #1, selling more than 740,000 copies. This week was bittersweet for Chris Brown. The embattled 21-year-old singer has been accused of faking his tears during his tribute to Michael Jackson at Sunday's BET Awards.

'Genius grant' helps Carter fulfill musical dreams

Classically trained jazz violinist Regina Carter wanted to go beyond the boundaries of Western music, but couldn't find a record label willing to partner up on the adventure.
Then came along the MacArthur Foundation, which bestowed on her its prestigious $500,000 fellowship, known as the "genius grant." Carter spent some of the money taking an introductory course on music therapy, and then spent some following her intuition.
The unrestricted grant allowed her to spend three years independently researching and recording African folk songs, combining instruments and melodies she only had a feeling might coalesce into something substantive.I took a chance putting these instruments together for this project, not knowing if it was going to work," says Carter of the resulting 12 tracks on her recently released CD, "Reverse Threads."
Carter talked recently about the album, which features violin, accordion and the traditional West African 21-stringed kora.

The Associated Press: It sounds like there are all kinds of musical influences on this African-influenced CD.
Carter: It's a huge continent first of all, Africa is, and so there's so many different cultures and so many different styles of music. Sometimes I would hear something and say, "Oh wow, that sounds like Irish music" ... I'd started to see within the research how much we influence — you know from traveling — how much the planet and how much we're all influenced through music or art, and how much we're connected all over the planet.
AP: As you were discovering these songs and compositions, which story surprised you the most?
Carter: I think the two tunes I recorded, "Hiwumbe Awumba" and "Mwana Talitambula." Reading that they were from the Ugandan Jews and I had no idea that there were Jewish people in Uganda ... It's pretty amazing what I've started to learn just by researching music, the history that sometimes goes along with some of these pieces.
AP: What was most challenging thing about making this album?
Carter: These melodies when you listen to them, they sound very simple, but when you try to play them, you find that sometimes the simplest sounding things are the most difficult things to play. And having the technique and coming from a jazz world and being so used to improvising and using that language, sometimes it was too much. It was too many decorations, if you will, on the music, so I had to stop myself and really strip it away and let the beauty of these melodies really speak for themselves.
AP: How's working with your husband (percussionist Alvester Garnett)?
Carter: Working with my husband is really great. We figured out how it was going to work for us. I'm the boss of course - all the time. And he always tells me, 'Well, she's the boss two times over.' On the road, we don't share rooms, because when we're working together, he's my drummer and I'm the violinist we're ban mates then. And it helps to keep it so there's no favoritism, we're all on equal footing. There's no weird dynamic. And then when we get home, that dynamic, I had to learn. We both did — how to make that shift into being husband and wife.