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No Corkscrew? No Problem. A Better Way to Open a Winebottle

March 17, 2017

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You’ve been there: You’re on a picnic. You’ve got the wine. You forgot the corkscrew.

Oh sure, you can jam something in the cork, watch in horror as it disintegrates into the bottle and wind up fishing out tiny cork bits from your glass all night.

No Corkscrew – A better way to open a wine bottle

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http://www.nbcnews.com/better/a-better-way/no-corkscrew-no-problem-better-way-open-winebottle-n728216

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What the Federal Interest Rate Hike Means for You

March 17, 2017

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The Fed raised interest rates a quarter of a point this afternoon. Here’s what it means for your money.

Savings: “The ‘average’ saver won’t see much benefit because the ‘average’ financial institution is unlikely to increase the measly payouts in a meaningful way,” said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst for Bankrate.com.

Those salting away their cash in a bank account have earned next to nothing in interest for the past few years. That won’t really change.

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http://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/what-interest-rate-hike-means-you-n733796

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If You Have to Fall on Ice, Here’s How Not to Hurt Yourself

March 16, 2017

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We’ve all been there — the moment when we walk too fast on an icy day and lose our balance and know that we are going down. Hard.

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Unfortunately, there isn’t a magical trick that we can give you never to fall again. Or to fall gracefully.

But if you are going to fall, you might as well commit to it and make it safe.

We talked to Femi Olagoke, a professional stunt performer, who told us some of his best tips for falling safely.

A Better Way to Fall on Ice

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http://www.nbcnews.com/better/a-better-way/if-you-have-fall-ice-here-s-how-not-hurt-n712051

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Spirit Airlines Pilot, Wife Found Dead by Children After Possible Overdose

March 16, 2017

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Authorities on Friday were investigating the deaths of a Spirit Airlines pilot and his wife whose bodies were found by their children in their southwestern Ohio home. A coroner said the preliminary cause of death for both appears consistent with a drug overdose.

Pilot Brian Halye, 36, and wife Courtney, 34, were found dead Thursday in a bedroom of their home in Centerville, south of Dayton, police said.

The couple’s children can be heard on a 911 call after their parents failed to wake them for school.

“They were very cold,” their son told a dispatcher while his three sisters can be heard crying in the background.

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Image: Brian and Courtney Hayle. Brian and Courtney Halye.

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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/spirit-airlines-pilot-wife-found-dead-children-after-possible-overdose-n735086

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Are You Doing Push-Ups Right? Here’s How to Do It Better

March 15, 2017

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Push-ups are an amazing exercise because they work your whole body. They work the chest muscles and the core muscles at the same time, so a lot of the benefits you get from planks, you get from push-ups.

Push-ups are great for people of any age and fitness level, because they can be modified and changed in difficulty, so you can do easy push-ups on your knees, medium difficult traditional push-ups and very difficult plyometric clapping or one-legged push-ups, all with the same exercise.

But it’s also easy to get them wrong — in the IronStrength classes I teach, I see people with their hands too close together, their bodies sagging and yet getting nowhere close the ground.

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http://www.nbcnews.com/better/diet-fitness/are-you-doing-push-ups-right-here-s-how-do-n732791

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Russian Spies Charged in Massive Yahoo Email Hack

March 15, 2017

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The Justice Department announced charges Wednesday against two Russian spies and two hackers behind the 2014 theft of data connected to half a billion Yahoo accounts, which officials called one of the largest known data breaches in American history.

The four men together face 47 criminal charges, including conspiracy, computer fraud, economic espionage, theft of trade secrets and aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department said in a news release.

One of them, Karim Baratov, 22, a Canadian and Kazakh national and a resident of Canada, was arrested in Canada on Tuesday, said Mary McCord, acting assistant attorney general for national security.

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http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/justice-department-announce-indictments-massive-yahoo-hack-source-n733716

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Judge Blocks Second Travel Order; Trump Slams ‘Judicial Overreach’

March 15, 2017

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A federal judge in Hawaii blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s revised executive order on entry into the United States on Wednesday, just hours before it was to have taken effect.

The ruling, granting a request for a temporary restraining order by the state of Hawaii and Ismail Elshikh, stalls the president’s second attempt to suspend admission of nearly all refugees for 120 days and to restrict visas for nationals from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days.

U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson, who said the restraining order applies nationwide, said Trump’s travel order was religiously discriminatory.

Judge Blocks Second Travel Order

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A Better Way to Walk On Ice: Think Like a Penguin

March 13, 2017

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Ever wonder why penguins can gracefully get across the ice, and whenever we try, we fall *splat* on our backs?

Well, it turns out that the trick of the trade is their signature waddle, which allows them to keep their balance so they can swiftly get across slippery surfaces.

We talked to Femi Olagoke, a professional stuntman, for advice on how to get across the ice as easily as penguins do. It turns out all you have to do is take a page out of the winter expert’s book and think like a penguin.

A Better Way to Walk on Ice – Be Careful Everyone

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http://www.nbcnews.com/better/a-better-way/better-way-walk-ice-think-penguin-n714651

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These New Robots Look Freaky But Can Do Amazing Things

March 9, 2017

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In labs around the world, robots are sprouting legs. Engineers are fine-tuning their abilities to walk, climb, and stay balanced so they can carry heavy loads or scout hazardous environments.

Just a few years ago, many of the elite robots at the DARPA Robotics Challenge struggled with simple tasks. But robots are becoming more nimble all the time, and the age of awkward, clumsy machines is receding.

Many of these impressive robots don’t look particularly humanoid — or friendly. Handle, the newest limbed robot from Boston Dynamics, has even been described as “nightmare-inducing” by company founder Mark Raibert. Others scuttle along with an unsettling resemblance to spiders, ostriches, and mammals.

But their freaky designs are meant to help these robots move about more easily, both in remote wilderness and human cityscapes. Soon, legged robots will walk among us, and their inventors are already planning how they will make our lives easier and safer. Here are a few of the newest generation of bizarre-looking but mobile robots.

Agility Robotics is planning to use Cassie for future tasks including telepresence, inspecting industrial sites, and curb-to-doorstep package delivery. Agility Robotics

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http://www.nbcnews.com/mach/technology/these-new-robots-look-freaky-can-do-amazing-things-n731151

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Cancer Pill Gleevec Keeps Patients Alive and Well for a Decade

March 9, 2017

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Everyone hopes and wishes for that last-minute cancer breakthrough that will save doomed patients. It almost never actually happens. With Gleevec, it did.

The once-a-day pill turned chronic myelogenous leukemia, or CML, from a certain death sentence into a manageable disease. Now data shows it’s helped 83 percent of patients live 10 years or longer, even with side-effects that include a characteristic rash, nausea and fatigue.

And some may be able to stop taking the pills altogether, even though they are not cured, the original team of researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine Thursday.

“It’s the first targeted personalized medicine that had ever been used. It was also the most successful,” said Dr. Richard Silver, a hematologist and oncologist at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center who helped first test the drug in patients.

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Gleevec Gleevec the cancer drug. Carlos Chavez / LA Times via Getty Images

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http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/cancer-pill-gleevec-keeps-patients-alive-well-decade-n730951

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James' World 2

No Corkscrew? No Problem. A Better Way to Open a Winebottle

What the Federal Interest Rate Hike Means for You

If You Have to Fall on Ice, Here’s How Not to Hurt Yourself

Spirit Airlines Pilot, Wife Found Dead by Children After Possible Overdose

Are You Doing Push-Ups Right? Here’s How to Do It Better

Russian Spies Charged in Massive Yahoo Email Hack

Judge Blocks Second Travel Order; Trump Slams ‘Judicial Overreach’

A Better Way to Walk On Ice: Think Like a Penguin

These New Robots Look Freaky But Can Do Amazing Things

Cancer Pill Gleevec Keeps Patients Alive and Well for a Decade

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