Mariah Carey & Nick Cannon
"Monroe's in paradise," posted Mariah Carey along with an adorable snap of her daughter lounging in a room full of Hello Kitty toys as her twin brother Moroccan looks on.
"Roc doesn't share the fascination lol," she remarked.
A homeless drifter last night confessed to tossing a Queens father onto a Times Square subway track, where he was fatally crushed by a Q train, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
Naeem Davis, 30 was being grilled in the grisly death of Ki Suk Han, 58, who was struck in front of horrified onlookers Monday after trying desperately to scramble back to the platform.
Davis told police that he “stayed and watched” as the train hit Han, a law-enforcement source said.
“He said he heard his torso snap and he knew he was dead.”
Davis showed no remorse for causing Han’s death, another source said.
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COLLARED: Naeem Davis is in police custody yesterday after he was arrested in the gruesome murder of a straphanger he allegedly shoved onto the tracks Monday.
Davis — who has worked at the Pax eatery in Times Square and gets paid to help street vendors haul their tables to local garages — was picked up at about 1:30 p.m. yesterday near 50th Street and Seventh Avenue after a transit police captain on a coffee break recognized him.
The suspect, who has eight prior arrests in the city and a lengthy rap sheet in Pennsylvania, told cops he and Han “bumped into each and started arguing before getting to the turnstiles” and then “continued the confrontation” on the platform, sources said.
“He said the victim was harassing him and that he pushed him onto the tracks,” a source said.
“I begged him to leave me alone, and he wouldn’t,” Davis allegedly told police. “He wouldn’t stay away, and I pushed him.”
Davis is expected to be put through multiple lineups today at the Midtown North Precinct station house, sources said.
Han, a Korean immigrant who lived with his wife and teenage daughter in Elmhurst, had been headed to pick up a Korean passport when he crossed paths with his killer.
His distraught wife, who yesterday was making funeral plans, said she and her husband had argued the day he died and that her husband was “drunk” and angry when he headed into Manhattan.
Afterward, authorities found a bottle of vodka on Han, a former Laundromat worker who was unemployed at the time of his death.
Witnesses said that, as the victim and his killer argued, straphangers inched away.
Then, just as a loudspeaker announced the incoming train, Han was “launched” onto the tracks, a witness said.
The suspect last night told police he saw flashes as the scene unfolded, and people on the platform screamed at Han and tried to get the train operator’s attention. “He said people were yelling at [Han] to lie down in the tracks to avoid the train,” a source said.
The flashes were a warning to the motorman from Post freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi, who was waiting on the platform when he saw Han go “flying.”
Abbasi was hoping that the motorman would see the flashes and stop.
Davis most recently lived in Queens, according to public records, but neighbors said he moved about six months ago.
Records show he has five sealed arrests since 2010 and a March arrest for selling T-shirts on the street.
He has two open arrests, one in October for sleeping on a park bench and one in September for smoking pot in public.
Davis was due in court today on the park-bench charge, records show.
In Pennsylvania, he has been busted for burglary, receiving stolen property and theft from a vehicle, records show.
While cops hunted for him Monday night, the suspect stashed the clothes he was wearing and spent the night in a van, according to a source.
Davis also shaved off his dreadlocks in an apparent bid to change his appearance.
“He always wears a hat, but today he had no hat on. I saw his head for the first time. His hair was short, almost shaved,” said a worker at a video store on 50th Street who saw detectives take Davis into custody.
“He would walk down the street talking to himself. He was always alone.”
The suspect is well-known to vendors.
“He’s homeless,” said hot-dog seller Esran Shanbi. “He sleeps in a chair or milk crate or on cardboard on 49th Street. I’ve seen him around for years. He looks shifty; he looks sick. But I’ve never seen him in a fight.
“Sometimes, he wants a free hot dog or soda, so I give it to him. He makes about $20 to $40 a day.”
Davis helps vendors wheel their tables to a garage on 48th Street, getting $5 to $10 per job. “I saw his picture today and I said, ‘This guy? I know this guy.’ To me, he was always very nice,” said vendor Mama Sarr, 38.
“He always seemed straight. I never saw him fight or act dangerous.”
Additional reporting by Kirstan Conley and Laurel Babcock
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Q. When are companies going to start writing applications for tablet computers other than the iPad? I own a Pandigital tablet, and when I try to download apps, I’m told they’re either for the iPad or iPhone.
LeRoy Hilton,
Oro Valley, Ariz.
You can expect more apps for non-Apple tablet computers when those devices gain more market share. How soon, or if, that will happen is anyone’s guess.
People who write apps are motivated by the revenue they’re likely to get. They can maximize that revenue by focusing on the tablet computer that is owned by the largest number of people.
Right now, the best opportunity for app writers is the iPad, which in the first three months of 2012 accounted for 68 percent of the 17.4 million tablet computers sold worldwide, according to market research firm IDC. The iPad’s chief competitors, in order of market share, are tablets made by Samsung, Amazon, Lenovo and Barnes & Noble. Pandigital is further down the list.Q. I recently bought a Kindle Fire tablet computer, and I’m disappointed that it cannot be read in the sunshine as other Kindle devices can. Is there anything I can do to make the screen more readable outdoors, such as buying an anti-glare screen protector?
Mary Jo Ready,
Shoreview, Minn.
An anti-glare protector won’t help. The issue is that your Kindle Fire’s LCD, or liquid crystal display, screen is lit from inside, but isn’t bright enough to compete with sunlight. Your only outdoor options are to raise the screen brightness and find some shade. A video that explains how to adjust screen brightness can be found on Amazon’s help pages, at http://www.tinyurl.com/7289vlo. Q. My Windows task bar was always at the bottom of my screen, but the other day it went to the top for some reason. How can I get it back to the bottom of the screen?
Kathleen Gignac,
Bartow, Fla.
The task bar can be dragged to a new location using your mouse. Left-click a blank space on the task bar and, while holding down the mouse button, drag the bar to the bottom of the screen.
You can skip this manual process if you are using Windows XP or Windows Vista. Just go to http://www.tinyurl.com/c7qwp8 and click the automatic “fix it” button. That will return the task bar to its default position at the bottom of the screen.
If you have problems with either of these techniques, the task bar may have become “locked” in its current position. There are directions on the same Web page that explain how to “unlock” the tool bar’s location so it can be moved.
Contact Steve Alexander at Tech Q&A, 425 Portland Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minn. 55488-0002; e-mail steve.j.alexander@gmail.com.
Think you're a neat freak? Meet Alfreta.
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The self-confessed germophobe not only spends the majority of her day scrubbing her home with gallons of bleach (as well as public bathrooms and friend's houses when she gets the chance), she utilizes her favorite cleanser to sanitize her meals before eating.
Check out a sneak peek in the player above!
Neat Freaks premieres Wednesday, December 5th on TLC.
News Corp. named Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Robert Thomson as CEO of its soon-to-be spun-off publishing entity.
News Corp., which will split into two publicly traded companies — the other will be entertainment-focused — also announced the publishing company will retain the News Corp. name and that Rupert Murdoch would serve as its chairman.
The entertainment company will be named Fox Group.
Murdoch will be CEO and chairman of Fox Group. Chase Carey will serve as COO and president.
“The challenges we face in the publishing and media industries are great, but the opportunities are greater,” Murdoch said in a statement.
Wall Street Journal, Twitpic
Chairman Rupert Murdoch douses Baker with Champagne in celebration, while Thomson cheers him on.
The assets of the new News Corp. will include the Journal, Times of London and The Post.
“Under Robert’s leadership at News Corp., we will build on our traditional mission to inform, entertain and enhance the lives of readers and viewers around the world, and relentlessly drive global growth by promoting excellence and investing in our businesses,” Murdoch also stated.
The split is expected to take place on July 1.
Thomson, who joined the company from his post as US editor of the Financial Times, will work closely with Murdoch.
Thomson is set to step into the wider role on Jan. 1.
Also joining the newly configured News Corp. is former MGM Studios executive Bedi Ajay Singh, who becomes CFO.
In addition:
* Paul Cheesbrough, current News Corp. chief technology officer, will slide across to join the new News Corp. Cheesbrough developed new digital products for the Times of London. Also, Keisha Smith joins from Morgan Stanley to run human resources.
* The company also named Jesse Angelo publisher of The Post. Angelo, a longtime executive editor of the paper, is editor-in-chief of The Daily, the iPad-only publication. The Daily will cease publication on Dec. 15.
Greg Clayman, publisher at The Daily, is being elevated as digital boss across the publishing division.
* Murdoch has asked the current publisher of The Post, Paul Carlucci, to focus on his other role, running News America Marketing, a company that manages newspaper inserts and in-store marketing.
* Gerard Baker has been named managing editor of the Journal and will take over from Thomson.
* Mike Darcey has been named new CEO of News International. He was COO of BSkyB.
“Change always breeds uncertainty, but let me be very clear about one thing that is certain: We aren’t finished achieving what others deem impossible,” Murdoch said in a memo to employees. “Not even close.”
Separately, News Corp.’s UK newspaper division chief, Tom Mockridge, said he was leaving the company.
News Corp. shares, up more than 37 percent this year, dipped 0.5 percent yesterday, to $24.53.
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This week, thousands of art collectors, museum trustees, artists, journalists and hipsters from around the globe will arrive for the phenomenon known as Art Basel Miami Beach. The centerpiece of the week: works shown at the convention center by more than 260 of the world’s top galleries.
Only two of those are from Miami.
While Art Basel has helped transform the city’s reputation from beach-and-party scene to arts destination in the years since its 2002 Miami Beach debut, the region’s gallery identity is still coming into its own.
“Certainly Miami as an art town registers mightily because of the foundations, the collectors who have done an extraordinary job,” said Linda Blumberg, executive director of the Art Dealers Association of America. “I think there’s a definite international awareness there. But the gallery scene probably has a bit of a ways to go. That doesn’t mean it’s not really fascinating and interesting.”
The gallery business, especially where newer artists are concerned, is a game of risk, faith and passion. Once a gallery takes on an artist who shows promise, they become an evangelist on their behalf, showing their work in-house and at fairs, presenting it to museums and curators and potential collectors and bearing the cost of that promotion.
For contemporary artists, most galleries take work on consignment, meaning they get a cut of as much as 50 percent when works sell. While local art galleries have been growing in number and popularity in the last several years — just try to find parking during the monthly art walk in Miami’s hot Wynwood neighborhood — even some of the area’s top art dealers say that while business overall is good, they struggle in the local marketplace.
“Our problem is that we have to do lots of art fairs in order to connect with the market that we need to connect with to sell the work that we have,” said Fredric Snitzer, a Miami-Dade gallery owner for 35 years. “The better the work is, the harder it is to sell in Miami. And that ain’t good.”
A handful of serious collectors call Miami home and store their own collections in Miami, including the Braman, Rubell, Margulies and de la Cruz families. But outside a relatively small local group, many gallerists say, their clients come from other parts of the country and world.
And some gallerists point out the troubling reality that even the powerhouse Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin could not stay open in Miami for more than a few years.
“The fact that big galleries have not been able to sustain their business models in South Florida tells you we’re obviously not at this high established point,” said gallery owner David Castillo. “It’s not like we’ve arrived, let’s sit back and watch Hauser & Wirth open down the street.”
Still, Miami’s gallery business has come a long way since the early 1970s, when a few dealers on Bay Harbor Island’s Kane Concourse were selling high-end pieces but the local scene was hardly embraced.
Virginia Miller, who owns ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries in Coral Gables, first opened in 1974 to showcase Florida artists, though her focus soon added an international scope. She and other longtime observers credit several factors for Miami’s transformation, including the community’s diversity, the establishment of important museums, the Art Miami fair that started 23 years ago, the presence of major collections and, of course, Art Basel Miami Beach.
Six months into negotiations with federal regulators over Miami-Dade’s aging sewer system, the county has come up with a $1.5 billion, 15-year plan to rebuild pipes, pumps and sewage treatment plants that in some cases are almost 100 years old.
County leaders devised the proposal in an attempt to fend off a federal lawsuit, and potentially millions of dollars in fines, for not abiding by the federal Clean Water Act. The county also has proposed replacing or repairing a good portion of the 7,500 miles of sewer lines that regularly rupture and spill millions of gallons of raw waste into local waterways and Biscayne Bay.
Before any work is to begin, the Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency — which put the county on notice in May — must accept the county’s terms. The plan, referred to as a consent decree, also must be endorsed by a majority of county commissioners. That could come as soon as late January or early February.
One of the largest repair jobs would be a $555 million reconstruction of the controversial wastewater treatment plant on Virginia Key. Entire concrete structures would be rebuilt, and pump stations and electrical systems would be replaced. The plan calls for spending another $394 million on similar fixes to two other wastewater treatment facilities, in Goulds and North Miami.
Another $408 million would be spent replacing and rehabbing the county’s 1,035 pump stations, and miles of transmission lines that run to and from the plants.
The plan has already garnered some criticism.
The Biscayne Bay Waterkeepers, clean-water activists who filed to join the federal action against the county, say spending hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild on Virginia Key is a waste, because the spit of land is likely to be under water within 50 years.
The group points to a recent study by the journal Science that showed the polar ice caps in Greenland are melting at three times the rate originally believed. They also say a climate change compact Miami-Dade agreed to with three other counties — which accepted a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study that shows sea levels will rise 3 feet by 2060 — shows the Virginia Key plant could be in peril.
“Doubling down on Virginia Key the way they’re doing it is just stupid,” said environmental attorney Albert J. Slap, representing the Waterkeepers. “There’s not a dime in it for armoring the plant, or raising it. It’s on a barrier island.”
Doug Yoder, deputy director of the county’s water and sewer department, didn’t dispute the Army Corps findings, and said the county could abandon the Virginia Key plant for a new plant on the western edge of the county if federal regulators make such a demand.
“We certainly don’t want to spend a lot of money fixing up a facility we’ll soon abandon,” he said.
Most of the costs for the overall plan will be covered through county revenue bonds, Yoder said, meaning a future increase in water rates and debt service bills. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has been warning for months that rate hikes are in the offing.
To meet demands from the feds, the county also must abandon by 2027 an outflow system it now uses that dumps up to 120 million gallons of sewage each day miles offshore. The county has until July 2013 to come up with an alternate disposal method.
A project cited in the new plan that had not been publicly addressed previously is the installation of 7,660 linear feet of sewer mains in an industrial area just below State Road 112 and between Northwest 27th and 37th avenues, which now depends on septic tanks. The job of hooking up local businesses there to county sewers would cost a little over $2 million.
Federal regulators began talks with Miami-Dade in May after a series of massive raw sewage spills released more than 47 million gallons of untreated human waste throughout the county. DOJ and the EPA, along with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, sketched out the 78-page consent decree.
Four times between October and December 2011, the sewage treatment plant on Virginia Key alone ruptured, spilling more than 19 million gallons.
The county also has agreed to pay a $978,000 fine for past spills within 30 days of the plan being accepted, with about half the money going to the DOJ and the other half to the state.
DOJ spokesman Wyn Hornbuckle declined to comment Friday.
In October, the county denied 12 permit applications in the Coconut Grove area by businesses that wanted to install sinks, toilets or showers. The county said it was imposing a moratorium on new sewage outflow from a Coconut Grove-serving pump station.
Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy eulogized their late Dallas co-star Larry Hagman in an emotional memorial service in Texas on Saturday.
Video-Larry Hagman's Son: 'Dallas' Kept Him Alive
Gray, at one point overcome by tears, spoke affectionately of Hagman, her TV husband of many years.
"To work as Sue Ellen Ewing with J.R. was magical," she recalled. "To call him my friend for 35 years, priceless."
Duffy, who played Hagman's on-screen rival in the series, reminisced about his passionate and ever-positive friend.
Video-Matt Damon: Larry Hagman Impacted My Life
"There was never a day that went by that he didn't tell me how lucky we are to be working," said Duffy. "Anything he could do within the realm of his profession was the most exciting thing he could possibly do and he personified that."
According to DallasNews.com, Josh Henderson, Jesse Metcalfe, Brenda Strong, Julie Gonzalo and Sheree Wilson, of Dallas' TNT reboot, were also in attendance.
Video: Larry Hagman Reflects on Cancer Struggle
Hagman, 81, passed away from complications related to chemotherapy November 23. His ashes will be spread all over the world, per the late actor's wishes.
* Child care: Between all those adult holiday parties and the time “Santa” needs to shop, the demand for child care during the holidays spikes like punch at a high school prom. Day-care centers and pre-schools also need extra help, especially since some open up on Saturdays to create extra holiday revenue, according to Ron Thomas, a director at Buck Consultants, an HR consultancy firm.
* Shipping and fulfillment: Companies such as FedEx and UPS ramp up operations during the holidays — and they need live bodies (not everything can be done by machine) to make it happen. Online retailers like Amazon also need additional staff in their fulfillment centers to package holiday orders. Just beware that these gigs can be physically strenuous and require quite a bit of heavy lifting.
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TIS THE SEASON : Rebecca Cenni, CEO of Atrium staffing, says “Retail jobs are just a piece of the employment pie this holiday season ...All of my sectors are incredibly busy.”
* Web design: Almost every retailer has a Web site, and those Web sites have to be designed and updated for the holidays, “There’s a huge uptick in demand this time of year,” says Rebecca Cenni, CEO of Atrium staffing. And the jobs pay well. Depending on a Web designer or front-end developer’s expertise, pay runs from $18 to $65 an hour.
* University proctors: The holidays dovetail somewhat inconveniently with final exams. In order to keep the future leaders of America from degenerating into those cheating eggheads at Harvard, colleges are on the hunt for folks to supervise the December battery of tests, says Cenni.
* Registered nurse: In order to keep the holidays as tragedy-free as possible, event organizers often hire RNs for their parties, and hospitals, clinics and home health care agencies also tend to increase staff during this time. “If you have defined education and skills in the health care industry, there are opportunities out there,” says Dr. Tracey Wilen-Daugenti, an expert on education, technology and the workforce.
* Advertising agencies: The flood of ads that come with the season can stretch the limits of even the largest agencies. Cenni notes that temp copywriters, art directors and presentation designers are all in demand.
* Costume and set designers: “For every character that’s out there acting, somebody has to make that costume,” says Wilen-Daugenti. “You have the Thanksgiving parade. You have all these celebrations... You don’t realize it takes a lot of people to make these things come together.”
* Clerical work: “Companies have everyone taking their vacation,” Cenni says. “They need temps — receptionists, administrative clerical coverage and executive assistants to fill in.”
* Photographers: For photographers, the holiday season is like a six-week wedding. Events need roving photographers, while mall Santas need would-be Annie Leibovitzes to create the illusion that Little Johnny wasn’t squirming like a hooked worm on their laps.
* Event workers: It’s the party season, which means hotels, convention centers and special event locations need plenty of bodies to supplement their staffs. “They need every kind of help to support thousands of people,” says Wilen-Daugenti. “Everything from drivers to limo personnel to event planners to caterers to people to organize and guide (partygoers) from point A to point B.”
This week, thousands of art collectors, museum trustees, artists, journalists and hipsters from around the globe will arrive for the phenomenon known as Art Basel Miami Beach. The centerpiece of the week: works shown at the convention center by more than 260 of the world’s top galleries.
Only two of those are from Miami.
While Art Basel has helped transform the city’s reputation from beach-and-party scene to arts destination in the years since its 2002 Miami Beach debut, the region’s gallery identity is still coming into its own.
“Certainly Miami as an art town registers mightily because of the foundations, the collectors who have done an extraordinary job,” said Linda Blumberg, executive director of the Art Dealers Association of America. “I think there’s a definite international awareness there. But the gallery scene probably has a bit of a ways to go. That doesn’t mean it’s not really fascinating and interesting.”
The gallery business, especially where newer artists are concerned, is a game of risk, faith and passion. Once a gallery takes on an artist who shows promise, they become an evangelist on their behalf, showing their work in-house and at fairs, presenting it to museums and curators and potential collectors and bearing the cost of that promotion.
For contemporary artists, most galleries take work on consignment, meaning they get a cut of as much as 50 percent when works sell. While local art galleries have been growing in number and popularity in the last several years — just try to find parking during the monthly art walk in Miami’s hot Wynwood neighborhood — even some of the area’s top art dealers say that while business overall is good, they struggle in the local marketplace.
“Our problem is that we have to do lots of art fairs in order to connect with the market that we need to connect with to sell the work that we have,” said Fredric Snitzer, a Miami-Dade gallery owner for 35 years. “The better the work is, the harder it is to sell in Miami. And that ain’t good.”
A handful of serious collectors call Miami home and store their own collections in Miami, including the Braman, Rubell, Margulies and de la Cruz families. But outside a relatively small local group, many gallerists say, their clients come from other parts of the country and world.
And some gallerists point out the troubling reality that even the powerhouse Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin could not stay open in Miami for more than a few years.
“The fact that big galleries have not been able to sustain their business models in South Florida tells you we’re obviously not at this high established point,” said gallery owner David Castillo. “It’s not like we’ve arrived, let’s sit back and watch Hauser & Wirth open down the street.”
Still, Miami’s gallery business has come a long way since the early 1970s, when a few dealers on Bay Harbor Island’s Kane Concourse were selling high-end pieces but the local scene was hardly embraced.
Virginia Miller, who owns ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries in Coral Gables, first opened in 1974 to showcase Florida artists, though her focus soon added an international scope. She and other longtime observers credit several factors for Miami’s transformation, including the community’s diversity, the establishment of important museums, the Art Miami fair that started 23 years ago, the presence of major collections and, of course, Art Basel Miami Beach.
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