November 8, 2015
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Crime
amazon, business, Business News, California Endangered Species Act, Hotels, human-rights, Illegal Pot, Illegal Pot Farms, Illegal Pot Farms Are Killing Rare Animals, Killing Rare Animals, medicine, mental-health, Pacific fishers, Pot Farms, Rare Animals, research, rodenticides, Science, Science News, southern Sierra Nevada fisher, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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Illegal marijuana growers in California are not only breaking drugs laws, they are also killing animals protected under the California Endangered Species Act. Pacific fishers, small carnivores that look like a cross between a weasel and a teddy bear, are inadvertently being poisoned by contraband farmers who pepper their crop fields with rodenticides.
Fisher populations have been declining precipitously for the last century, and today the animals occupy just 20 percent of their historic range. Researchers estimate that the southern Sierra Nevada fisher population, for example, includes just 300 individuals and fewer than 120 breeding females.
While the biggest threat to the species’ survival is development, marijuana farms exacerbate this already precarious situation. These farms are known to sprinkle poison scented with bacon or peanut butter flavoring to keep pests away from their crops.
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The weasel-like fisher, an already at-risk animal, faces threats of poison from pot farms. (Michael DeYoung/CORBIS)
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November 8, 2015
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Breaking News
2016 campaign, 2016 election, amazon, business, Business News, Donald Trump, Elections 2016, Hotels, human-rights, latinos, medicine, mental-health, research, saturday night live, Science, Science News, SNL, snl protest, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump remains slated to host this week’s “Saturday Night Live” after the show’s parent company disregarded a campaign by immigrant rights groups and Latino politicians based on the billionaire’s anti-immigrant comments.
The invitation to Trump draws “SNL,” the four-decade-old pop culture fixture, into a controversy that has long dogged the Republican Party: How to harness the enthusiasm generated by the GOP’s nativist elements without alienating Latinos and other minority groups often turned off by hard-line rhetoric.
There’s no doubt that Trump attracts eyeballs. Since hitting the campaign trail, he has blurted out controversial statements that have been enthusiastically embraced by many among the GOP’s conservative core. But those comments have been reviled by Latinos and viewed with dismay by the Republican establishment that hopes to diversify the party. Most memorably, he painted Mexican immigrants in broad strokes as “rapists” who are “bringing crime” and “bringing drugs” to the United States.
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November 8, 2015
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Technical
Active Wellness seat, amazon, Automotive parts manufacturer Faurecia, business, Business News, CNBC, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, monitor emotions of drivers, research, Science, Science News, seat detects stress and fatigue, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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Call it a car seat that helps reduce road rage.
Automotive parts manufacturer Faurecia is developing an Active Wellness seat to monitor emotions of drivers. The seat detects stress and fatigue via built in seat sensors, and then offers a customized treatment to the driver.
“If you’re stressed out, your heart rate increases and your respiration increases,” Faurecia’s Vice President of Innovation, Rob Huber, told CNBC’s Closing Bell. “If you press ‘stress detected,’ it’ll give you a soothing massage and a warming sensation that will calm you down.”
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This Active Wellness seat is designed to monitor emotions of drivers. Faurecia
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November 6, 2015
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Breaking News
amazon, Barack Obama, business, Business News, Canada, Climate-Change, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, Hotels, human-rights, keystone xl, medicine, mental-health, Oil, oil sands, research, Science, Science News, stephen harper, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Washington
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President Barack Obama on Friday rejected TransCanada’s application to build the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have transported oil across the United States-Canada border.
After seven years of reviewing the project, Obama announced his decision from the Roosevelt Room in the White House.
“The State Department has decided that the Keystone XL pipeline would not serve the national interest of the United States,” he said. “I agree with that decision.”
Tensions over the proposed pipeline had been high for years, with Obama’s environmental base pressuring him to reject the project — citing its impact on emissions — and Republicans in Congress voting repeatedly to force its approval, citing the economic boost it would provide.
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November 6, 2015
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Human Interest
amazon, American Louvre, business, Business News, civil war, Georgetown, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, Paris museum, Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th Street, real estate magnate W. W. Corcoran, Renwich Gally, Renwich Gally Washington, Renwick Museum, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, washington dc, Washington Monument, White House
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During the Civil War, the ornate building at Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th Street, diagonally across from the White House, was a warehouse stuffed with army blankets and uniforms. This fall, after a century and a half of use, misuse, confusion and narrow escapes from destruction, it is reborn as one of the most elegant public spaces in the capital and the nation.
The Renwick Museum, now reimagined and renovated, is qualified once again to be called the “American Louvre,” after the Paris museum that inspired it. It was erected just before the Civil War—the first building in America designed specifically to be an art museum—by one of the country’s most distinguished architects, at the bidding of Washington’s richest and most generous citizen.
The banker and real estate magnate W. W. Corcoran had grown up in Georgetown and made enough money to repay his good fortune with vast good works. He was a major backer of the long-running Washington Monument project, and supported causes and institutions at home and abroad.
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November 5, 2015
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Breaking News
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In April, Dan Price, the founder of Gravity Payments, a credit card payment processing company, took a leap of faith. He instituted a new minimum salary policy — one that raised the wages of his lowest-paid workers to an astounding $70,000 per year.
Now, six months later, Gravity appears to be doing just fine.
A recent story in Inc magazine included a rundown of the most glowing statistics. According to the company, revenue growth is twice as strong and the company’s profits have increased twofold since the salary hike. Customer requests ballooned from 30 per month to 2,000 in just two weeks, and customer retention rate went from 91% to 95% in the second quarter of 2015.
Gravity’s employees also appear to be happy with the changes. “People back in Idaho said he was nuts,” G, who does sales for Gravity Payments in Idaho, told Inc. “But it really energized the employees.”
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Source: Ted S. Warren/AP
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November 5, 2015
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Medical
amazon, business, Business News, chip for drug testing, drug testing, future medicine, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, no drug testing on animals, No more testing on animalsd, research, revolutionary technology for drug testing, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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This revolutionary technology could stop us from needing to subject living things to drug testing.
New testing chip
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November 4, 2015
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Breaking News
amazon, business, Business News, egypt plane crash, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, research, russia plane crash, russian plane crash, Science, Science News, sinai plane crash, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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New intelligence suggests that ISIS may have planted a bomb on the Russian passenger jet that crashed in Egypt on Saturday, an anonymous U.S. official told CNN. The source stressed that the U.S. has not conclusively determined the cause of the plane crash.
U.S. investigators are focusing on “ISIS operatives or sympathizers” as the perpetrators, NBC News reports.
Evidence suggests a Russian jet that crashed over Egypt’s Sinai desert may have been brought down by a bomb, the British government said Wednesday, suspending flights to and from the Sinai Peninsula as a precaution.
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Associated Press
The United Kingdom says it is concerned that the Russian jet was brought down by a bomb on Saturday, and is suspending flights to and from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
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November 4, 2015
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Photographs
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This is the New World Trade Center, it is a wonderful achievement and beautiful to behold!
It is a great tribute to those who lost their lives in the old World Trade center.
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November 3, 2015
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Breaking News
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Yemen is expected to see its first hurricane on record early this week, as Tropical Cyclone Chapala hits just southwest of the city of Al Mukallah on Monday evening or Tuesday morning, eastern time (that’s between early Tuesday morning and early afternoon, local time). Since records began in the region in 1945, no hurricane-strength tropical cyclone has hit the desert country; hurricanes are referred to as tropical cyclones in this region, just as they are known as typhoons in the western Pacific.
The storm may bring catastrophic amounts of rain — at least a decade’s worth of rain over the course of just a day or two in populated areas of war-torn Yemen, a country currently involved in a complicated civil war that involves regional powers, including Saudi Arabia.
The war will severely limit the ability of Yemen’s government to respond to any flooding and other storm damage with aid and other assistance, placing an even greater burden on already-stretched international aid groups and the United Nations.
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Computer model simulation showing Tropical Cyclone Chapala’s winds as the small but intense storm approaches the coast of Yemen.
Image: Earth Simulator
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