August 26, 2015
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Science
amazon, Army Corps of Engineers, business, Business News, Gerry Galloway, Hotels, human-rights, Hurricane Katrina, Katrina, medicine, mental-health, New Orleans, Reducing Flood Risks New Orleans, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, University of Maryland, vacation
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It’s not a question of if, but when.
Another Katrina-like hurricane, or worse, is out there, and for New Orleans the big questions are: How soon before the next one hits? How prepared will the city be?
“We’re dealing with probabilities here,” said Gerry Galloway, a retired Army Corps of Engineers general who is now an engineering professor at the University of Maryland. “There is nothing that prevents a hurricane the size of Katrina or Katrina-plus tomorrow. Sooner or later something like that is going to happen.”
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Reducing Flood Risks Ten Years After Hurricane Katrina
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http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/new-orleans-14-5-billion-walls-n415816
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August 25, 2015
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Breaking News
amazon, business, Business News, central bank, China, china selloff, dow jones, Hotels, human-rights, interest rates, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, stock market, stocks, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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U.S. stocks jumped at the open after China’s central bank cut interest rates to support its economy.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 296 points, or 1.9 percent, to 16,180.61, as of 9:45 a.m. Eastern time. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index climbed 38 points, or 2 percent, to 1,932. The Nasdaq composite rose 109 points, or 2.4 percent, to 4,635.
Oil prices are up, but U.S. crude is still trading below $40 a barrel.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/us-stocks-jump-at-opening-bell-after-global-markets-stabilize_55dc6febe4b0a40aa3ac1655?0i2otj4i
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August 25, 2015
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Crime
amazon, business, Business News, Hotels, human-rights, Kevin Daigle, Kevin Daigle the accused shooter, Louisiana state trooper, medicine, mental-health, Michael Edmonson, research, Science, Science News, State Police, Steven Vincent, Steven Vincent 43, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Vincent
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A Louisiana state trooper who was shot in the head with a sawed-off shotgun during a weekend traffic stop died on Monday morning, police said, as authorities praised the good Samaritans who rushed to his side.
Authorities plan to charge Kevin Daigle, the accused shooter, with first-degree murder in the death of Steven Vincent, 43. Vincent had been attempting to help a motorist whose pickup truck was apparently stuck sideways in a ditch, Col. Michael Edmonson said.
Edmonson said police video shows Vincent, a 13-year veteran of the state police, offering assistance to the apparently stranded man.
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Louisiana State Official on Good Samaritan: ‘This is a Hero’
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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/steven-vincent-louisiana-state-trooper-dies-after-being-shot-head-n414836
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August 24, 2015
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Breaking News, Business
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Wall Street woke up to, if not a Black Monday, at least a Blackish Monday.
Markets around the world tumbled toward historic losses amid a toxic cocktail of financial volatility. As the global sell-off hacksawed European and Asian markets, U.S. traders braced for the worst. The New York Stock Exchange invoked the rarely used Rule 48, allowing stocks to open without any price indications.
But don’t panic. The market is already correcting the reverse.
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August 22, 2015
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Breaking News
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On Sunday, a swarm of small rogue drones disrupted air traffic across the country on a scale previously unseen in U.S. skies.
At 8:51 a.m., a white drone startled the pilot of a JetBlue flight, appearing off the aircraft’s left wing moments before the jet landed at Los Angeles International Airport. Five hours later, a quadcopter drone whizzed beneath an Allegiant Air flight as it approached the same runway. Elsewhere in California, pilots of light aircraft reported narrowly dodging drones in San Jose and La Verne.
In Washington, a Cessna pilot reported a drone cruising at 1,500 feet in highly restricted airspace over the nation’s capital, forcing the U.S. military to scramble fighter jets as a precaution.
In Louisville, a silver and white drone almost collided with a training aircraft. In Chicago, United Airlines Flight 970 reported seeing a drone pass by at an altitude of 3,500 feet.
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An undated photo of the SkyLife Air Ambulance helicopter that was involved in a near collision with a drone. (Brett Schoenwald/ SkyLife Air Ambulance)
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/faa-records-detail-hundreds-of-close-calls-between-airplanes-and-drones/2015/08/20/5ef812ae-4737-11e5-846d-02792f854297_story.html
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August 22, 2015
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Human Interest
amazon, business, Business News, Hotels, human-rights, John Gottman, Julie Schwartz, Love, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, Science of love, Seattle, technology, Technology News, The first stage of love is called "limerence, travel, University Of Washington, vacation
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Once upon a time, in the Pony Expresso cafe in Seattle, a man and a woman began to experience the long-mysterious but increasingly scientifically investigated thing we call love. The first stage is called “limerence.” This is the spine-tingling, heart-twisting, can’t-stop-staring feeling, when it seems as though the world stops whirling and time itself bows down and pauses before the force of your longing. The man, a then-44-year-old University of Washington research psychologist named John Gottman, was drawn to the woman’s wild mane of black curly hair and her creativity: She was an amateur musician and painter as well as a psychologist like himself. The woman, a then-35-year-old named Julie Schwartz, who’d placed a personal ad in the Seattle Weekly that John had answered, was turned on by John’s humble little car—voted the ugliest vehicle in the University of Washington faculty parking lot—and his expansive curiosity. He read physics and math and history and kept a little spiral-bound notebook in his pocket that he used to jot down things his companions said that captivated him.
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Love
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http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/love-in-the-age-of-big-data/
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August 21, 2015
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Breaking News
amazon, business, Business News, history of pancreatic cancer, Hotels, human-rights, Jimmy Carter, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, pancreatic cancer, President Carter, President Jimmy Carter melanoma, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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Former President Jimmy Carter is slated to begin radiation treatment for several melanoma spots on his brain Thursday afternoon, he said at a news conference in Atlanta.
Carter, 90, told reporters he had a mass removed from his liver on Aug. 3, which he learned was melanoma.
“I’ll be prepared for anything that comes,” he said.
His family has a history of pancreatic cancer. His father, both his sisters and his brother died of pancreatic cancer, and his mother had pancreatic cancer as well.
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Jimmy Carter to Begin Radiation to Treat Cancer
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August 21, 2015
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Medical
"superbug" bacteria, amazon, business, Business News, FDA, Federal regulators, food and drug administration, hospital patients, Hotels, human-rights, manufacturer of medical scopes, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, Olympus, Olympus Corp., pseudomonas, research, Science, Science News, superbug Outbreak, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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Federal regulators have uncovered new violations by the manufacturer of medical scopes recently linked to outbreaks of deadly “superbug” bacteria at U.S. hospitals.
Olympus Corp. failed to alert regulators to a cluster of 16 infections in patients who underwent procedures with the company’s scope in 2012, according to a warning letter posted online Monday by the Food and Drug Administration. Olympus did not report the problems to the FDA until 2015, when the company was already under scrutiny for a more recent series of outbreaks.
Medical device manufacturers are required to report serious device problems to the FDA within 30 days of learning about them. The infections reported to the company involved a bacterial strain called pseudomonas, which can cause pneumonia, severe sickness and death in hospital patients.
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August 20, 2015
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Breaking News
1.1 million acres burned, 3 firefighters die, 3 firefighters die battling Washington blaze, amazon, business, Business News, central Washington, firefighters, Frank Rogers, Hotels, human-rights, KXLY-TV, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Washington, Washington blaze
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Three firefighters were killed and four others injured in central Washington Wednesday battling one of the more than 100 wildfires burning across at least 1.1 million acres in the West, authorities told NBC News.
The fatalities occurred when winds shifted unexpectedly near the towns of Twisp and Winthrop and turned back on crews fighting a small new fire, Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers said.
“It was a hellstorm up here,” Rogers told KXLY-TV. “The fire was racing and the winds were blowing in every direction.”
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Wind shifts, 3 firefighters die battling Washington blaze
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August 20, 2015
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Science
Alien Life, Alien World, amazon, business, Business News, Exoplanets, Galaxy, Hotels, human-rights, Jupiter, medicine, mental-health, newly discovered planet, planet, research, Science, Science News, Solar System, Space, star, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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Astronomers have detected the smallest and most solar system-like planet ever directly imaged around another star.
The newly discovered planet called 51 Eridani B is about twice the mass of Jupiter, and orbits a star about 97 light-years from Earth.
The discovery, reported in the journal Science, will provide new insights into how planets and planetary systems are made.
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Small Alien World
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