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Donald Trump is the first major-party nominee whose basic motive is the subject of sincere curiosity. Every other figure who secured the nomination of one of the two main governing parties clearly did so as part of a plan to get elected president. It is possible that this is Trump’s plan, too. But it’s also possible that it’s not, which is one of the things that makes his candidacy, or perhaps his “candidacy,” so unusual.

 It is increasingly clear that Trump’s actions are inconsistent with any rational plan to become president. He is unpopular on a scale that defies historical precedent, utterly loathed by overwhelming majorities. Some people believed Trump was merely playing the part of a right-wing provocateur in order to stand out from the field and win his party’s nomination, and would “pivot” to the center afterward, but these hopes have been dashed. Trump has only become more hated. Nor is he doing basic tasks required of a nominee. When he was asked to call two dozen major Republican donors, Politico reports, Trump called three of them and then packed it in.

 It is entirely possible that Trump is simply in way over his head — he wants to be president but doesn’t know how to go about it, and he trusts his own instincts far too much. The alternate possibility is that he has a different motive. In this scenario, Trump is not completely incompetent, but is shrewdly, or at least rationally, following a plan to enrich or otherwise gratify himself. The trouble has always been discerning what such a plan could be.

 Trump’s campaign has not helped his branding business. To the contrary, it seems to be doing enormous damage. He has lost clients already, and will probably continue to do so. If your last name is synonymous with racism and misogyny, you can’t sell your name to golf courses and restaurants, which have dropped him left and right. Being adored by 30 percent of the country and hated by the rest is a recipe unsuited either for winning nationwide office or selling consumer products.

 What it could well be is a plan to launch an independent media organ. Sarah Ellison reports that Trump is exploring the possibility of a television or other media venture that would cater to his loyalists. “According to several people briefed on the discussions, the presumptive Republican nominee is examining the opportunity presented by the ‘audience’ currently supporting him,” she writes. “He has also discussed the possibility of launching a 'mini-media conglomerate' outside of his existing TV-production business, Trump Productions LLC.” According to Ellison, Trump chafes at the way media have been able to make money off his antics without him getting a cut — a piece of reporting that happens to comport with Trump’s frequent public boasts about the ratings he commands and the money others are making off him.

 And if this is Trump’s plan, it makes sense. Perhaps he grasps a truth the official Republican Party has refused to acknowledge: The conservative base is a subculture. It is a numerically large subculture, but a subculture nonetheless. It rejects the moral values of the larger society and wallows within its own imaginary world, in which Barack Obama is a foreign-born agent of anti-American interests, global warming is a lie concocted by greedy scientists or perhaps the Chinese, and hordes of foreigners are rendering the United States unrecognizable. The greater the gulf between the reality perceived by Trump’s supporters and the reality experienced by the rest of the world, the worse for the Republican Party, but all the more profitable for the media that can cater to their delusions. Figures like Rupert Murdoch, Ann Coulter, and Rush Limbaugh have grown rich doing so. Trump may have figured out that there’s no reason he should work for them when he can cut out the middleman. ||||| Every election cycle has its own breakout media star. In 1992, it was CNN. A few years later, it would be an e-mail blast called the Drudge Report. By 2000, the country had more or less been neatly delineated between MSNBC and Fox News households. The 2008 election introduced Politico and the Huffington Post to the adults’ table. BuzzFeed joined in 2012.

 The breakout media star of 2016 is, inarguably, Donald Trump, who has masterfully—and horrifyingly—demonstrated an aptitude for manipulating the news cycle, gaining billions of dollars worth of free airtime, and dominating coverage on every screen. Now, several people around him are looking for a way to leverage his supporters into a new media platform and cable channel.

 Trump is indeed considering creating his own media business, built on the audience that has supported him thus far in his bid to become the next president of the United States. According to several people briefed on the discussions, the presumptive Republican nominee is examining the opportunity presented by the “audience” currently supporting him. He has also discussed the possibility of launching a “mini-media conglomerate” outside of his existing TV-production business, Trump Productions LLC. He has, according to one of these people, enlisted the consultation of his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who owns the The New York Observer. Trump’s rationale, according to this person, is that, “win or lose, we are onto something here. We’ve triggered a base of the population that hasn’t had a voice in a long time.” For his part, Kushner was heard at a New York dinner party saying that “the people here don’t understand what I’m seeing. You go to these arenas and people go crazy for him.” (Both Kushner and Ivanka Trump did not respond to a request for comment.)

 “Even old Fox News didn’t have the right read on what the base is. And we do.”

 Trump, this person close to the matter suggests, has become irked by his ability to create revenue for other media organizations without being able to take a cut himself. Such a situation “brings him to the conclusion that he has the business acumen and the ratings for his own network.” Trump has “gotten the bug,” according to this person. “So now he wants to figure out if he can monetize it.”

 Hope Hicks, Trump’s spokeswoman, adamantly denied that such conversations have occurred. (“There is absolutely no truth to this whatsoever,” she told me. “This hasn’t been even uttered. Not even thought about.”) Then, after conferring with Trump, she issued a subsequent statement clarifying her point: “While it’s true Mr. Trump garners exceptionally high ratings, there are absolutely no plans or discussions taking place regarding a venture of this nature.” Meanwhile, someone close to Kushner has suggested that Trump would be unlikely to go so far as to seek out a partner at this stage of the race, given that it might risk alienating many of the established media players that he has outflanked—and that he is relying on to get him elected. (Such a move would also inevitably raise issues regarding the F.C.C.’s “equal-time” rule.) Nevertheless, shortly after my correspondence with Hicks, he tweeted out: “The press is so totally biased that we have no choice but to take our tough but fair and smart message directly to the people!”

 Indeed, the specter of a Trump-focused platform, no matter how unappetizing, is not entirely illogical. Republican candidates have historically used the protracted national election cycle to indirectly land gigs on Fox News or Sirius XM. Election cycles have become veritable job interviews for the likes of Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, and others. But Trump has successfully circumnavigated traditional media outlets more than any candidate in history. He has picked fights with Fox News and won. His campaign has barred reporters from the Huffington Post, Gawker, Buzzfeed, and the New Hampshire Union Leader from events. Earlier this month, a Politico reporter was denied access to an event in California. After The Washington Post reported on Trump’s suggestion that President Obama was somehow complicit in the Orlando terrorist attack, his campaign revoked the news organization’s press credentials.

 A generation ago—perhaps even a few months ago—these tactics would have irreparably doomed a campaign. But Trump has proved that he no longer needs the platform that news outlets have traditionally provided for candidates. As my colleague Nick Bilton has noted, Trump has mastered the attention war on social media and discovered a preternatural ability to tap into his base directly. Love him or despise him, Trump indisputably has the finger on the pulse of his audience. And this connection could certainly facilitate such a hypothetical mini-media conglomerate. “Even old Fox News didn’t have the right read on what the base is,” one person briefed on the conversation told me. “And we do.” ||||| The Associated Press is reporting that President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Syria crystallized during a December 14 phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. According to the news agency, the decision was “made hastily, without consulting his national security team or allies, and over strong objections from virtually everyone involved in the fight against the Islamic State group, according to U.S. and Turkish officials.”

 One of the surprising details of the report is that Erdogan himself was taken aback at how successful he was in convincing Trump on the Syrian matter. Before the phone call, the consensus position that the Trump administration had reached, backed by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, was that Trump would tell Erdogan to back off from his threats to attack Kurdish forces in Syria.

 But during the phone conversation, Trump threw away the script and agreed with his Turkish counterpart. As AP relates, Trump started by reiterating the message of backing off. But then a change occurred:

 Erdogan, though, quickly put Trump on the defensive, reminding him that he had repeatedly said the only reason for U.S. troops to be in Syria was to defeat the Islamic State and that the group had been 99 percent defeated. “Why are you still there?” the second official said Erdogan asked Trump, telling him that the Turks could deal with the remaining IS militants.

 Trump then posed Erdogan’s question to his National Security Advisor John Bolton, who was participating in the phone call. Bolton admitted that the Islamic State had indeed lost 99 per cent of its territory but said that it was in America’s interest to make sure the group did not enjoy a resurgence.

 Trump was not dissuaded, according to the officials, who said the president quickly capitulated by pledging to withdraw, shocking both Bolton and Erdogan. Caught off guard, Erdogan cautioned Trump against a hasty withdrawal, according to one official. While Turkey has made incursions into Syria in the past, it does not have the necessary forces mobilized on the border to move in and hold the large swaths of northeastern Syria where U.S. troops are positioned, the official said.

 From this reporting, it seems likely that it was never Erdogan’s intention to get the United States to withdraw. Rather he made the demand as a bargaining move, to get other, lesser goals. Trump, displaying his mastery of the art of the deal, gave in to Erdogan’s maximum position.

 The White House denies the accuracy of AP’s account. ||||| A charismatic, über-rich New York businessman and celebrity, derided by his political opponents as a con man and “crypto-fascist clown,” embarks on his first run for elected office. He electrifies his die-hard conservative followers with appeals to patriotism, family values, pride and wealth acquisition and a pledge to restore the promise of America.

 What sounds uncannily like the narrative behind Donald Trump’s 2016 run for the U.S. presidency is in fact the plot of Bob Roberts, the 1992 political mockumentary about a crusading Pennsylvania Senate candidate and self-made millionaire/folk musician (played by Tim Robbins, who also wrote the screenplay and directed). Bob Roberts may not stand under a “Make America Great Again” banner, but the conservative rebel’s “Times Are Changin’ Back” outlook and album title managed to preview both the culture wars of the 1990s and the Trump phenomenon of the current election cycle.

 Roberts is a brilliant manipulator of the media who is not shy about trumpeting his own wealth.

 Roberts is “handsome, meticulously dressed and groomed,” according to the screenplay. “He is the quintessential yuppie but there is also something intimidating about him.” A military school grad with an Ivy League degree, he is a slick businessman whose campaign bus and staff double as a mobile trading unit. Not unlike the current Republican front-runner, Roberts is a brilliant manipulator of the media who is not shy about trumpeting his own wealth and the importance of winning.

 Set during the 1990 election cycle, the film traverses a very different political landscape from today, from concerns with drugs and Contras to the threat of Saddam Hussein, as it follows Roberts along the campaign trail. But Roberts’ brand of “down-home fascism,” as critic Roger Ebert labeled it, transcends the era. It is a populism grounded in division, and the faux folk anthems that the guitar-strumming Roberts sings at his massive campaign rallies are hymns to greed (“I will take my inheritance and invest it with pride”) and diatribes against political correctness, Arabs and “lazy people” who “complain and complain and complain” about their lot in life. “I wanna be rich, I don’t have a brain / So give me a handout while I complain,” goes one of the catchy songs written by Robbins and his older brother, David (their father was folk singer Gil Robbins of the Highwaymen).

 As Roberts’ election fortunes begin to soar, the dynamic surrounding his campaign turns increasingly ugly. Protesters attending his rallies are roughed up as he aggressively calls them out from the stage. The film even captures how his somewhat sinister celebrity grates on many of the journalists and entertainers who have no choice but to go along with it. “It seems you would like Americans to cast their vote based on hatred and ignorance,” says one TV newswoman who can barely hide her contempt for the man she later confides to the camera “has adopted the persona and the mindset of the free-thinking rebel and turned it on itself.” The controversy surrounding Roberts’ guest appearance on a fictional version of Saturday Night Live mirrors many of the misgivings surrounding Trump’s hosting of SNL in November. Unlike with Trump, however, an angry staffer pulls the plug (literally) on Roberts’ performance.

 Bob Roberts is not a subtle film in either its plot or its caricature of far-right politics, and, in the end, it collapses under its own pretenses and far-fetched conspiracies as its Machiavellian protagonist engages in the ultimate deception to win voter sympathy — and a Senate seat. Still, like every shrewd political satire, it nails its mark enough to remain relevant, even while verging on the ridiculous. “Recent events haven’t completely overtaken the movie,” The New York Times wrote of the film’s opening in the midst of the turbulent 1992 presidential election, “but they do indicate just how wild a satire must be these days to remain on the cutting edge of the outrageous.”

 Even in this 2016 election, where the outrageous — and the level of outrage — have reached new heights, Bob Roberts still strikes a powerful chord among those who complain and complain and complain about the state of American politics. |||||
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– Is Donald Trump running for president simply as a means of launching his own cable news network? That's the theory put forth by Vanity Fair, quoting anonymous sources close to the situation. Trump is reportedly "irked" that he's bringing in big ratings for other networks without getting any of the profits himself. “He wants to figure out if he can monetize it,” a source says. He's allegedly consulting with daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner on a "mini-media conglomerate." His reasoning, according to a source: “We’ve triggered a base of the population that hasn’t had a voice in a long time.” A Trump spokesperson denies Trump is even thinking about such a thing. But immediately after, Trump tweeted: "The press is so totally biased that we have no choice but to take our tough but fair and smart message directly to the people!” New York Magazine says the theory makes sense. This is the first time it's unclear whether a presidential candidate actually wants to be president. Trump is historically unpopular and shows little interest in changing that, and he's half-assing basic tasks of running for president, such as calling donors. Trump TV would be the "logical end" of his campaign, according to New Republic. “If Trump’s TV station gets 30% ratings, it’ll be doing fantastically well," the website states. "But if that’s his share of the vote, then his candidacy will end in failure.” Transitioning from presidential candidate to media baron wouldn't be easy. Trump would still need a partner for funding and would likely need to buy an existing cable channel. “It’s a fool’s errand,” an entertainment executive tells Vanity Fair. “But then again, we are talking about Donald Trump.” (Did this 1992 movie predict Trump's campaign?)


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 Mary Kristene Chapa, 18, who was shot in the head on Saturday along with her girlfriend Mollie Judith Olgin, 19, who was killed, is making an “amazing” recovery, her brother told NBCLatino.com.

 “Krissy’s health — considering what happened to her — she’s doing amazing,” says Hilario Chapa, 32. “She’s making a strong recovery. The doctors are amazed.”

 A couple visiting Andrews Park in Portland, Texas on Saturday saw the bodies of two teens in a grassy area. In a statement, Portland police chief Randy Wright said that while family and friends have confirmed the two teens were in a same-sex relationship, there is no evidence as of yet to indicate the attacks were a hate crime. The Texas Rangers have joined the investigation.

 Hilario, a tech sergeant in the Air Force reserve, who served with the 82nd airborne division, says his sister took sign language in high school and has been able to communicate in that way. He says she has made physical progress on her right side but they are still waiting for a response from the left side of her body.

 “The doctors say it’s too early, no one is using the word paralyzed,” he says. “They say we should be so happy with her progress after 3 or 4 days. She’s very strong. She survived a very tough ordeal but her recovery is coming in strides and impressing everybody.”

 As of now her brother says there is no timeline for when she can come out of the intensive care unit and because of the investigation he is hesitant to share many details about the search for a suspect.

 “We don’t know who did this to her, she hasn’t given us a name,” he says. “We’re under the impression she doesn’t know who did it. We don’t know if it’s a hate crime.”

 The Mexican-American Chapa family lives in Sinton, Texas, which is 72 percent Latino.

 A remarkably composed Hilario says he initially had trouble controlling his emotions when he found out what happened to his sister. His father, who is an Iraq war veteran, and his mother have also had to deal with the devastating shooting of their daughter.

 “My father is the strong one,” he says. “My mom is not doing so well. They haven’t left the hospital. They come to my house to shower and then go back.”

 With their father between jobs, Kristene is without insurance. The family has set up an official donation page on WePay, to help pay for her medical bills.

 He says the family of Mollie Olgin has reached out to meet with his family but it hasn’t happened yet because his mother is so shaken over what happened that she is struggling with the idea of meeting with a family who lost their daughter. He says the families will eventually meet soon.

 Hilario also addressed the support his family has received from across the country, as a Facebook event for a “candle lit walk in memory of Olgin and to keep Kristene Chapa in prayers for a speedy” recovery has 741 people who say they will participate Friday evening. He also says he and his family cherish the support they’ve received from the gay community across the country and abroad.

 “I don’t want to say the wrong thing because my sister has always been private,” he says. “She is a lesbian and she’s getting a lot of support from the gay and lesbian community. I’m proud of my sister. I have no problem with it and our family doesn’t either.”

 Her brother says the support through this dark time is lifting spirits.

 “It makes us all stronger and brings the community together,” he says.

 “We just want to make sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else and find who did this.”

 Mary Kristene Chapa’s family’s WePay donation page. ||||| Father of Portland Shooting Victim Says Justice Will Be Served Posted: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 1:32 PM EDT Updated: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 2:15 PM EDT

 The Texas Rangers, who are assisting Portland Police with the investigation of the double shooting that happened this past weekend, were back out at the crime scene Tuesday; the shooting that left 18-year old Mary Kristene Chapa in serious condition, and resulted in the death of 19-year old Mollie Olgin of Ingleside.

 Olgin's father said the family is truly touched by the outpour of support, not only from the Ingleside community, but from all over the country. They know it may take some time, but have complete confidence that their daughter's killer will be brought to justice.

 "She's my guardian angel," said Mario Olgin, her father. "I know she's looking down on us, in a better place."

 Mollie Olgin dreamed of becoming a psychiatrist, and had just finished her first semester of college; but when she didn't show up for work Saturday, Mario Olgin knew something was terribly wrong.

 "It wasn't like Mollie," he said. "I immediately had bad feelings about it."

 That gut feeling, his worst nightmare, had become reality. Friday evening, Olgin's daughter had plans to see a movie with her girlfriend, Mary Kristene Chapa. They stopped at the Violet Andrews Park in Portland to kill some time before heading to the theater.

 That is where the shooting occurred. They were both shot in the head by an unknown assailant. Olgin died a short time later, and Chapa survived.

 The Portland police chief said there is no evidence yet that it was a hate crime and they are not treating it as that; but he also said they are not ruling it out.

 While state, federal and local authorities continue to follow leads, Olgin is confident that his daughter's killer will be caught and have their day in court.

 "She was happy," Olgin said. "Justice will be served."

 Olgin has not talked to Chapa's family since the shooting, but said he plans to once they are ready. In the meantime, the small town of Ingleside is mourning the loss of a life that ended before it truly began.

 A memorial services for Olgin will be held at 4:30 p.m. Friday, at Limbaugh Funeral Home in Portland, followed by a candlelight vigil for both girls at 6 p.m. at the Violet Andrews Park. |||||
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– The dad of the teenage lesbian shot dead in a Texas park called for justice yesterday. He immediately had a "bad feeling" when his 19-year-old daughter, Mollie, failed to show up for work, said Mario Olgin. “It was not like Mollie," he told KIII-TV. "If she had some place to be she was going to be there.” Mollie and her 18-year-old girlfriend, Mary Kristene Chapa, had been shot in the head by an unknown assailant. Mollie died at the scene, but Chapa is making an "amazing" recovery, her brother told NBC Latino. Mollie has just finished her first semester of college and dreamed of becoming a psychiatrist. "She was happy," Olgin recalled. Now, "she's my guardian angel. I know she's looking down on us, in a better place." He's confident police will find her killer. "Justice will be served," he declared. Texas Rangers have joined Portland police in continuing to investigate the crime, but haven't yet discussed any progress. They haven't labeled the shootings a hate crime, but aren't ruling it out.


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Update for Aug. 1: The Blue Moon of July 31 wowed skywatchers around the world. See photos and our full story, read: Blue Moon of 2015 Thrills Skywatchers with Lunar Beauty: Photos

 On Friday, much of the world will have the opportunity to observe a Blue Moon: A somewhat rare occurrence that doesn't have anything to do with the moon's color.

 During most years, the Earth experiences 12 full moons, one in each month. But some years, such as 2015, have 13 full moons, and one of those "extra" lunar displays gets the label of Blue Moon.

 The lunar or synodic month (full moon to full moon) averages 29.530589 days, which is shorter than every calendar month in the year except for February. Those extra one-half or one-and-one-half days accumulate over the year, causing some years to have 13 full moons rather than 12. [Video: What's a Blue Moon, Is It REALLY Blue?]

 Thought to be called "blue" after an old english term meaning "betrayer," a Blue Moon is an extra full moon that occurs due to a quirk of the calendar. [ See the full Blue Moon Infographic here .] Credit: Karl Tate, SPACE.com

 To see what I mean, here is a list of full-moon dates in 2015: Jan. 5, Feb. 3, March 5, April 4, May 4, June 2, July 2, July 31, Aug. 29, Sept. 28, Oct. 27, Nov. 25 and Dec. 25. In 2016, the first full moon falls on Jan. 23, and each calendar month has only one full moon.

 The expression "once in a blue moon" has a long history of being used to describe rare events; but it was also used in the Maine Farmers' Almanac to describe the third full moon in a season that has four (normally, a three-month season will only have three full moons).

 In 1946, Sky & Telescope magazine published an article that misinterpreted the older definition, defining a Blue Moon as the second full moon in a calendar month. This has become the most recent and perhaps most widely accepted definition of a Blue Moon. And hence, the full moon on July 31 is referred to as a Blue Moon, because it was preceded by the full moon on July 2. By this definition, a Blue Moon occurs roughly once every 2.7 years.

 The full moon appears to last for at least the length of one night, but technically speaking, it is an instantaneous event: It occurs when the sun, Earth and moon fall close to a straight line. It takes place at the same instant everywhere in the world, whether the moon is above or below the horizon.

 Supermoon! Not only is it the biggest full moon of the year, it's super cool.

 Full Moons: They come around every month and light up the night.

 Lunar Eclipses: There's nothing more spectacular than a blood-red moon in Earth's shadow.

 Blue Moon: They're rare and amazing, if not actually blue.

 Solar Eclipses: The moon has the power to block out the sun!

 The full moon on July 31 occurs at exactly 6:43 a.m. EDT (1043 GMT).

 So, when you look at the Blue Moon on Friday morning, don't expect to see a different color scheme (although it is possible for the moon to appear to have a bluish hue). Just be aware that the so-called Blue Moon is a byproduct of the contrast between the calendar month and the lunar month.

 Editor's note: If you capture an amazing view of the Blue Moon full moon of July 31 and would like to share it with Space.com for a story or gallery, send images and comments in to managing editor Tariq Malik at spacephotos@space.com.

 This article was provided to SPACE.com by Simulation Curriculum, the leader in space science curriculum solutions and the makers of Starry Night and SkySafari. Follow Starry Night on Twitter @StarryNightEdu. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com. |||||

 Blue moons aren’t actually blue, but they are as rare as the saying goes.

 The second full moon in a month is commonly referred to as a blue moon—we had a full moon on July 2, and we’ll have another this Friday on July 31—but there’s a more complicated definition according to the U.S. Naval Observatory: |||||
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– When Friday's blue moon arrives, don't expect it to be blue—a blue moon isn't actually that color, reports CNN, though some full moons can indeed have a bluish hue. The phrase "once in a blue moon" refers to something that is rare, and it was once used this way in the Maine Farmers' Almanac when describing the third full moon in the rare season that has four (typically, there is only one full moon a month, thus a three-month season will have three full moons). But in 1946, Sky & Telescope magazine published an article that misunderstood this definition, instead calling the second full moon in a calendar month a blue moon. And it is indeed fairly rare: It happens once every 2.7 years or so. This has become the modern definition and is used to describe Friday's full moon, which is the second this month (the first was on July 2); it'll be the last of its kind until January 2018. Interestingly, while the most recent blue moon according to this modern definition occurred at the end of August of 2012, the most recent blue moon according to the original definition occurred more recently, in August of 2013, when the full moon was the third of four that summer. As for the blue moon on July 31, while it may seem to last all night, it's technically an "instantaneous event" that occurs at 6:43am EDT on the nose, reports Space.com. (Earlier this month, a man took an incredible picture of the International Space Station passing in front of the moon.)


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Mayor Rahm? 'I would like to run'

 WASHINGTON -- White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who in January tried to quash stories about a future Chicago mayoral bid, on Monday put his interest in City Hall on the record: "One day I would like to run for mayor of the city of Chicago."

 Emanuel made his comment on the ''Charlie Rose'' show, taped in Manhattan.

 After damping talk about a mayoral run in January, Rose resurrected the issue when he asked Emanuel what other government jobs he would be interested in if he left the White House.

 "I hope Mayor Daley seeks re-election. I will work and support him if he seeks re-election," said Emanuel, 50. "But if Mayor Daley doesn't, one day I would like to run for mayor of the City of Chicago. That's always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives."

 Mayor Daley -- who will be 68 on Saturday, in his 20th year overseeing City Hall -- has not yet made an announcement about running for another term. The mayoral election is next February, and Daley is expected to seek re-election.

 Emanuel is trying to set the stage as his logical successor. Though he would have tremendous fund-raising ability, Emanuel would also have some competition.

 "That makes him one of many who aspire to the same goal. It is a laudable aspiration," Daley spokeswoman Jackie Heard said Monday.

 Emanuel has pledged to serve as President Obama's chief of staff to the end of the year, and has signaled that could be extended if Obama asked him. Emanuel moved his family -- wife Amy and three children -- to Washington last year and enrolled his kids in local schools.

 Emanuel gave up a safe House seat -- and a path to one day possibly being House speaker -- when Obama tapped him for chief of staff.

 Gossip about Emanuel's future was first triggered Jan. 5 when Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn wrote that "Emanuel is said to have told people that the chief-of-staff role is an 18-month job and that he is considering a run for mayor of Chicago." ||||| View more news videos at: http://www.nbcchicago.com/video.

 Charlie Rose: Is there any other job in government you'd like to have?

 Rahm Emanuel: In government?

 Charlie Rose: In government.

 Rahm Emanuel: Yeah.

 Charlie Rose: What?

 Rahm Emanuel: Well, I mean, it's no secret --

 Charlie Rose: That you want to be speaker of the house.

 Rahm Emanuel: Well, that's over. No, I would one day -- first of all, let me say it this way, I hope Mayor Daley seeks reelection. I will work and support him if he seeks reelection. But if Mayor Daley doesn't, one day I would like to run for mayor of the City of Chicago. That's always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

 Charlie Rose: Mayor of Chicago.

 Rahm Emanuel: Yeah, fact I said the one thing if you ask me what I miss, I miss the contact with constituents. You know, I miss being in the -- when you were running the office, that touch with people. I used to do as you know I developed this thing called Congress on Your Corner where I used to stand in the grocery stores with a table of constituent service, and just greet people. And you learned a lot. And one of the best pieces of legislation I introduced was the Elderly Justice Act, came from a lady who talked to me at a grocery store about what happened to her father in a nursing home, and the way I found out that the law on the books was no real federal bill that dealt with seniors. And that's a -- you know, not all stories are like that. I helped a small business get a loan that expanded a tubing company. I miss that. I mean, I love what I'm doing. I find great passion in it because I work for a great president with a breadth of issues that has -- if you're in public policy at a period of time in history that's important, one day I'll go back to elected office and say I've enjoyed it, I enjoyed that process.

 Charlie Rose: So rather than being a member of the Cabinet, if you left the chief of staff job you'd more likely want to go -- |||||
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– Rahm Emanuel sounds like he wants out of the Obama administration—and Washington altogether. In an interview with Charlie Rose last night, Emanuel confirmed the rumor that he's considering running for mayor of Chicago in 2011. “I hope Mayor Daley seeks reelection. I will work and support him” if he does,” he said. “But if Mayor Daley doesn't, one day I would like to run for mayor … that's always been an aspiration of mine.” “I want to run for office again,” he said, saying he'd missed the contact he'd had with constituents in the House. But Chicago isn't exactly rolling out the welcome mat. “That makes him one of many who aspire to the same goal,” a Richard Daley spokesman tells the Chicago Sun-Times. But hizzoner's brother, William Daley, was more blunt last month, saying Emanuel would have to “get in line.” You can read a transcript of Emanuel's remarks at the Huffington Post.


DHAKA, March 2 Bangladesh's anti-terrorism unit said it had arrested on Monday the main suspect in the killing of a U.S. blogger who was hacked to death in Dhaka last week in the latest attack on critics of religious extremism in the Muslim-majority nation.

 Forces from the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Farabi Shafiur Rahman, who was previously jailed for his ties to the extremist Hizbut Tahrir Islamist group, at a bus stop in Dhaka, a RAB spokesman told reporters.

 The spokesman said Farabi had confessed to threatening to kill blogger Avijit Roy. Farabi was still being interrogated.

 Roy, an engineer of Bangladeshi origin, was killed by machete-wielding assailants on Thursday while returning from a book fair. His wife and fellow blogger Rafida Ahmed suffered head injuries and lost a finger. She remains in hospital.

 The police said Farabi was arrested in 2013 for social media comments that supported the murder of another blogger, Ahmed Rajib Haider, but he was later released on bail. Last year, Farabi posted on Facebook: "It's a holy duty of Bangalee Muslims to kill Avijit", the police added.

 Roy's killing comes amid a crackdown on hardline Islamist groups, which have increased activities in recent years in the South Asian nation.

 In 2013, religious militants targeted several secular bloggers who had demanded capital punishment for Islamist leaders convicted of war crimes during Bangladesh's war for independence.

 Media group Reporters Without Borders rated Bangladesh 146th among 180 countries in a ranking of press freedom last year. (Editing by Miral Fahmy) ||||| Story highlights Police say the suspect posted photos of the crime scene

 He also threatened Roy in social media posts, his family said

 Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN) Bangladesh authorities say they have arrested the prime suspect in the murder of American blogger Avijit Roy who was hacked to death on a Dhaka street last week.

 The person, Farabi Shafiur Rahman, had called for Avijit Roy's death in numerous Facebook posts, according to Roy's parents.

 And within minutes after the Thursday attack, Rahman posted photos of the crime scene, said Col. Ziaul Ahsan of Bangladesh's elite anti-crime unit, the Rapid Action Battalion.

 In a Facebook comment last year, Rahman allegedly wrote, "Avijit Roy lives in America. So it's not possible to kill him now. But when he returns home, he will be killed then."

 In an earlier post, the same person wrote, "It's a Bengali Muslims holy duty to kill Avijit."

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– The top suspect in the brutal killing of a Bangladeshi-American blogger has been apprehended, Reuters reports. Farabi Shafiur Rahman, who was arrested at a bus stop in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has confessed to threatening blogger Avijit Roy, officials say. "It's a holy duty of Bangalee Muslims to kill Avijit," he wrote on Facebook last year, according to police. Farabi was jailed in the past in connection with an Islamic extremist organization; Roy battled extremism in his writings. Farabi was also arrested last year over social media comments backing another blogger's death, though he was released in that case. That blogger, Ahmed Rajib Haider, was similarly hacked to death, CNN reports.


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Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) Thursday said he was glad that one of his Democratic opponents, consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren, didn't "take her clothes off" to pay for college. Brown, who won his seat in a 2009 special election, was speaking on Boston radio station WZLX.

 Brown made his comments when asked about Warren's response in a debate Tuesday to a question about how she paid for college. The question referenced the fact that Brown posed nude for Cosmopolitan in 1982 to make money.

 "I kept my clothes on," Warren said, adding that she borrowed money to go to a public university and worked a part-time job.

 "Have you officially responded to Elizabeth Warren’s comment about how she didn’t take her clothes off?" the host asked Brown Wednesday.

 "Thank God!" Brown said, laughing.

 The host got a kick out it, too. "That’s what I said! I said, 'Look, can you blame a good-looking guy for wanting to, you know…”

 "You know what, listen: Bottom line is, you know, I didn’t go to Harvard, you know, I went to the school of hard knocks, and I did whatever I had to do to pay for school," Brown cut in. "And for people who know me, and know what I’ve been through … mom and dad married and divorced four times each. You know, some real challenges growing up. You know, whatever. You know, let them throw stones. I did what I had to do. But [if] not for having that opportunity, I never would have been able to pay for school, and never would have gone to school, and I wouldn’t probably be talking to you, so, whatever."

 Warren did not go to Harvard either, as Brown seemed to imply. She graduated from the University of Houston, a public school, though she spent her first two years at the private George Washington University on a debate scholarship. She later attended law school at Rutgers, a public university in New Jersey. Brown graduated from Tufts University and Boston College Law School.

 Brown reminded the host that they shared equally in the blame for the Warren crack.

 "That’s funny, you throw that jab," the host said, before Brown interjected: "You said it, too!"

 It was fair game, the host pointed out. "Well, they said it about you! And not being in shape. You know, 'if you’re going to take your clothes off, next time, be in shape.' That’s what they said about you!"

 Brown said he'd be happy to compete "anytime they want to have a little road race, or a triathlon, or anything."

 Warren, a Harvard law school professor, was instrumental in establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. President Obama did not nominate her to serve as the permanent head of it, fearing a contentious Senate confirmation battle; he instead nominated former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, who cleared his first hurdle in a Senate subcommittee Thursday.

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 Scott Brown: 'Thank God' Elizabeth Warren Didn't 'Take Her Clothes Off' Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth Warren 1 / 9 Introduces Financial Product Safety Commission Elizabeth Warren announced a bill creating a Financial Product Safety Commission with House and Senate Democrats in March 2009. The body was designed to have oversight over mortgages and other financial instruments to protect consumers against predatory practices. She said if the agency had existed before the subprime collapse then "there would have been millions of families who got tangled in predatory mortgages who never would have gotten them." HuffPost's Ryan Grim reported: Without all these toxic assets on banks' balance sheets, the institutions wouldn't be on the brink of collapse and the recession would be more manageable. "Consumer financial products were the front end of the destabilization of the American economic system." Sen. Charles Schumer's cosponsorship of the bill is notable because of his proximity to Wall Street. The bill's merit, the New York Democrat said, is that it regulates the actual financial product rather than the company producing it. AP

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 Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and leading Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren scrapped Thursday over a nude photo shoot Brown participated in decades ago, with Brown thanking God that Warren never took any such photos.

 During a debate Tuesday for Democratic Senate candidates in Massachusetts, Warren took a shot at Brown, who posed for Cosmopolitan in the 1980s to help pay for college, saying she had chosen to keep her clothes on and borrow money to fund her education instead.

 "Thank God," Brown said on Boston-based radio station WZLX

 The host laughed and agreed.

 "I didn't go to Harvard. I went to the school of hard knocks," Brown elaborated. "I did what I had to do, and but not for having that opportunity, I never would have been able to pay for school, and never would have gone to school, and I wouldn't probably be talking to you, so whatever."

 Warren did not study at Harvard, but is a member of the faculty at Harvard Law School — a position Brown has argued makes her part of an out-of-touch class of intellectuals.

 Warren's campaign declined to comment on Brown's remark, but the state Democratic Party called it gutter campaigning and a dirty trick.

 "Sen. Brown's comments are the kind of thing you would expect to hear in a frat house, not a race for U.S. Senate," said Massachusetts Democratic Party Executive Director Clare Kelly, who added that Brown's comments "send a terrible message that even accomplished women who are held in the highest esteem can be laughingly dismissed based on their looks."

 Warren is at the head of a pack of Democratic candidates vying to take on Brown, who won a special election in 2010 and will face reelection to his first regular term in 2012.

 Despite being a Republican in a heavily Democratic state, Brown has remained popular in Massachusetts — but his recent comment is unlikely to help him with women voters. |||||
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– Aren't Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren supposed to be debating the social contract and other lofty things? Their Senate race just took a low detour: Warren made a point during a debate Tuesday to take a jab at Brown's old Cosmo cover, saying that when she was a college student, she took out loans to pay the bills and kept her clothes on. "Thank God," Brown told a local radio station in response, reports the Hill. He and the host then laughed. "I went to the school of hard knocks," Brown said. "I did what I had to do, and but not for having that opportunity, I never would have been able to pay for school, and never would have gone to school, and I wouldn't probably be talking to you, so whatever." The Warren camp did not respond today to his retort. Click for more details on Brown's back and forth with the host on WZLX.


Focused crawls are collections of frequently-updated webcrawl data from narrow (as opposed to broad or wide) web crawls, often focused on a single domain or subdomain. ||||| Randy and Rhonda Thill after a ride to Hudson, Wis., on Sept. 6, 2014. (Photo courtesy Rhonda Thill)

 Rhonda Thill holds her husband Randy's wedding ring Thursday at her St. Paul home. She thought the ring was lost after Randy was killed in a motorcycle accident in June. (Pioneer Press: John Autey)

 About a dozen bikers in leather and denim were crawling aroundin the median this weekend on U.S. 61 in St. Paul.

 They were trying to mend a broken heart.

 The broken heart belongs to Rhonda Thill, a St. Paul woman who lost her love, her husband and the father of her three children, in a motorcycle accident three weeks ago.

 She couldn't bear to lose his wedding ring, too.

 But the ring wasn't among the personal effects she got from authorities after Randy Thill's fatal accident. Thill, 47, died about 1 a.m. June 25 after losing control of his Harley-Davidson and hitting the U.S. 61 median about a half-mile south of Warner Road.

 He died at the scene.

 Rhonda Thill knew his gold band must be there. It was a little loose on his finger, but he wore it every day for nearly 19 years.

 Someone would have to go there, to the spot where he died, and find it.

 "I wanted to go, but I can't," she said this week. "I'm not ready to see it yet."

 A friend called the State Patrol for her and explained the situation. A trooper went back to the scene to look for the ring but couldn't find it.

 A few friends made plans to search on the Saturday after the accident, but a thunderstorm kept them away.

 Her father and brother went out with a metal detector, but they came up empty, too.

 Thill was despondent. She turned to a high school friend who knew someone at the towing company that picked up her husband's Harley. They still had the bike, so she asked if he could at least bring her the guardian ride bell from her husband's motorcycle.

 He did, but it wasn't enough.

 "She called me up crying and said 'I really want that ring back. I don't know what it's going to take,' " said Tim Allen, her high school friend.

 Allen, vice president of Los Valientes motorcycle club, wanted to help. Randy Thill, a technician at Medtronic, got his motorcycle a couple of years ago, and the Thills had grown close to Allen and his girlfriend during their rides.

 "I said I'd round up some friends," Allen said.

 Allen called up his friend at Rapid Recovery, the towing company that had Randy Thill's Harley. He asked if he could get the driver who picked up the bike to show them exactly where the accident was and maybe block a lane of traffic with a tow truck while they searched.

 His friend, Jay Stevens, did more than that. He's vice president of another motorcycle club called Sober Soldiers, a group for bikers who don't drink.

 Not only did he arrange for the tow truck and driver, he also brought along most of his motorcycle club to help search.

 "We didn't know if we'd find it," Stevens said. "We just wanted to give her some closure.

 Jay Stevens of the Sober Soldiers motorcycle club holds Randy Thill's wedding ring on his pointer finger after finding it Sunday, July 12, in the Highway 61 median in St. Paul. Tim Allen of Los Valientes motorcycle club, right, organized the search. (Photo courtesy of Emi Yokose)

 Allen, his girlfriend, Emi Yokose, a couple of Los Valientes members and about a dozen Sober Soldiers followed the tow truck to the scene of the crash.

 They started searching a 100-foot stretch of road, some with metal detectors, others on their hands and knees.

 Someone spotted the rubber gloves the paramedics left behind.

 That was where Thill died.

 Stevens focused his search in that spot, in the tall grass of the median just over the cable barrier.

 Allen watched him while he did his own digging nearby.

 "He was persistent, looking where the body was," Allen said. "All of a sudden, he jumped up and said 'I found the ... thing!' "

 Stevens said the ring was pushed into the soil behind a weed. He said he pushed the weed aside and there it was.

 "It looked like a bit of gold in the ground," Stevens said.

 The whole group went back to Rhonda Thill's house on the East Side.

 Allen and his girlfriend walked up to Thill. They handed her a flashlight and a pair of glasses they found in the median. They belonged to her husband, but they weren't what she was looking for.

 "She held her head down," Allen said. "Then I held up my pinky with the ring on it and said, 'And I got this.'

 "We had to hold her up. She was about to fall over."

 Thill said it was amazing that a group of people she mostly didn't know would go to such trouble to help when Allen asked.

 "He just had to make a call," she said. "All those people have such kind hearts. They didn't hesitate."

 Jaime DeLage can be reached at 651-228-5450. Follow him at twitter.com/JaimeDeLage.

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 What: Riding with Randy -- Benefit and Poker Run

 When: 11 a.m. Sept. 5

 Where: St. Paul Saloon, 1045 Hudson Road

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– When Rhonda Thill got husband Randy's belongings back after he died in a motorcycle crash last month, her heartbreak was compounded when his wedding ring wasn't among them, she tells Kare 11. "It had to be somewhere," she says. "Maybe the force of the impact—it came off or whatever. I didn't want it to be just left out there." A trooper went to the scene to search, but came up empty-handed, the Pioneer Press reports; likewise her dad and brother with a metal detector. Then Rhonda talked to a high school friend, also a biker, and suddenly a dozen bikers were digging in waist-high grass on hands and knees. After about 45 minutes, KARE 11 reports, one man literally struck gold, spotting the ring pushed down in the dirt. The searchers first gave Rhonda Randy's eyeglasses and a flashlight they had found, per the Press. "She held her head down. … Then I held up my pinky with the ring on it and said, 'And I got this,'" her friend tells the paper. "We had to hold her up. She was about to fall over." Rhonda is still amazed that the group, many of them strangers, would go to such lengths—and grateful to have Randy's ring once more. "It ... makes me feel like I've got a piece of us back together again," she tells KARE 11.


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Once they sense danger, fruit flies can pitch their bodies like a fighter jet during flight, rolling almost upside down in order to shift momentum and speed to avoid a oncoming threat, new research shows.

 “We discovered that fruit flies alter course in less than one one-hundredth of a second, 50 times faster than we blink our eyes, which is faster than we ever imagined.” Michael Dickinson, UW professor of biology and co-author of the paper about these findings, said in a news release.

 In his lab, Dickinson and other researchers have found that evasive maneuvers performed by fruit flies, also known as Drosophila hydei, are very similar to those of a fighter jet. His research will be published in the April 11 issue of Science.

 Escape Maneuver in a Flying Fly from Michael Dickinson on Vimeo.

 More like a plane than a boat

 “One of the fastest things a fruit fly does is take information from its eyes and react accordingly,” Dickinson said.

 Previous research suggested that flies would turn like a boat would, Dickinson said, but this new research has shown that they can pitch their body and perform banked turns much like a plane would.

 “They do this with remarkably subtle changes in wing movement,” Dickinson told us.

 Florian Muijres, lead author of the paper and postdoctoral researcher, said that it’s both the speed and accuracy of the flies that they have found impressive.

 “What we have found is that these flies are fast and accurate in their response,” Muijres said.

 According to Muijres, the flies can roll almost completely upside down while flying thanks to the incredible speed at which they flap their wings.

 “These flies normally flap their wings 200 times a second and, in almost a single wing beat, the animal can reorient its body to generate a force away from the threatening stimulus and then continues to accelerate,” Muijres said in the UW release.

 The fly’s brain may be small, but it’s very dense with neurons. Muijres said a fly’s brain is actually more dense than a human brain. The mystery of how these little creatures are able to perform such amazing feats is still pushing the researchers at UW forward with their research.

 “We have the input and the output and now we are looking at how the input translates into the output,” Muijres said.

 Using tech to slow down time

 UW researchers used three high speed cameras to accurately capture the flies’ movements in a 20-by-20 centimeter flight arena. They used an expanding shadow effect to make the fly take evasive action, and the cameras recorded the action at 7,500 frames per second.

 Escape Maneuver Fly SetupNrobofly from Michael Dickinson on Vimeo.

 Because the camera shutters were opening and closing every one thirty-thousandth of a second, they need to light the flight arena so the cameras would be able to get the footage. Dickinson said they used infra-red light in order to light the space for the cameras without blinding the flies in the process.

 “When the flies would go through the focus of all three cameras is when we would start recording,” Dickinson said.

 Once the measurements and video were recorded, the scientists were able to replicate the fly’s movement on a robot fly model.

 “We are able to take the measurements and replay them on the robot and directly measure the forces the wings were generating,” Dickinson said.

 Amazing brains

 Dickinson said a fruit fly’s brain performs very complicated calculations in a split second, an amazing level of calculation for something so small.

 “How can such a small brain generate so many remarkable behaviors? A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a much larger animal such as a mouse. That’s a super interesting problem from an engineering perspective,” Dickinson said in a news release.

 Check out some more videos of the fruit fly in action:

 Escape Maneuver FlyModel from Michael Dickinson on Vimeo.

 Escape Maneuver Fly Topview from Michael Dickinson on Vimeo.

 Escape Maneuver in Fly #2 from Michael Dickinson on Vimeo.

 Break out your 3D glasses for this one:

 Escape Maneuver FlyModel 3D from Michael Dickinson on Vimeo. ||||| Fruit flies could make some talented fighter pilots. Scientists who had the insects wing it through two laser beams watched the bugs make hairpin turns at blazing fast speeds, by banking in the same way that fighter jet planes do. The findings, published in the journal Science, shed light on these tiny critters’ remarkable ability to evade predators (and fly swatters).

 [Updated at 5:15 p.m. PDT April 10: Tracking how these insects fly in response to a threat should help researchers understand the fruit fly's inner life, said Cornell University physicist Jane Wang, who was not involved in the research.

 "The insects turn because they have some internal control circuitry, just like a pilot [who's] turning a plane," Wang said. "And by looking how the insects turn, we might be able to say what the 'pilot' is thinking."]

 When trying to escape from a threat, the Drosophila hydei flies turn at a speed that’s five times faster than their normal turning speed, according to researchers from the University of Washington. Instead of turning right or left on the "yaw" axis, like a boat in the water, the flies execute banked turns, by rolling and pitching their bodies at the same time, which supercharges their turns. They can execute one of these within less than one hundredth of a second after seeing a threat, the scientists said. That’s 50 times faster than the blink of an eye.

 “A lot of other people working in the field … would not have predicted the fly could rotate itself so quickly,” said study coauthor Michael Dickinson, a neurobiologist at the University of Washington in Seattle.

 Dickinson and his colleagues captured 3,566 wing beats involved in 92 separate fruit fly escapes, which was no easy task. To capture such infinitesimally tiny movements, the scientists had to use high-speed cameras that took 7,500 frames per second -- that’s nearly 40 frames for each wing beat. They also needed flood the flight area with light to capture the motions in high detail -- but all that light would blind the flies, which wouldn’t be able to maneuver.

 Instead, they had to use infrared light, whose wavelength is too long for human or fly eyes to pick up on. All the circuitry in those lights generated so much heat that the scientists had to run an air conditioner in the laboratory, forcing the researchers to dress warmly in already chilly Seattle weather.

 There were, Dickinson said, “a whole lot of wool hats worn in the lab.”

 The scientists watched the flies fly through two crossing laser beams, causing their own shadow to loom large like an impending threat. In response, the flies quickly executed their escape maneuvers, which the scientists were able to capture on camera.

 The videos showed that the flies could roll to one side by 90 degrees or even more as they made these turns, almost bringing them upside down. And they could make these turns in less than two wing beats -- which is pretty remarkable, given that they typically flap their wings at 200 times per second, the scientists said.

 “So it’d kind of be like a jet fighter pilot with a stick in his or her hand, only had to make a little bit of tiny change in the stick and pshooo, the plane goes off,” Dickinson said. “So we’re very interested in how the brain can control motion on such a fine scale.”

 With all this high quality data, the scientists were able to pull out mathematical rules that governed the flies’ decisions on how to make a banked turn, and they then programmed them into a robotic fly that they tested in flowing mineral oil. (Because the robot was much bigger than the flies, the scientists had to adjust the viscosity of the fluid they were "flying" through so the physics would stay about the same, the scientists said.)

 The next step, Dickinson said, is to understand the complex neural circuitry linked to the flight muscles that makes these daring maneuvers possible.

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– Swatting a fruit fly is as tricky as trying to catch a tiny fighter jet with an expert pilot at the controls, researchers say. High-speed cameras captured the insects avoiding threats by executing supercharged, banked turns much like fighter planes, reports the Los Angeles Times. The flies beat their wings 200 times per second and were capable of altering course in a single wingbeat, performing complex calculations incredibly quickly for a creature with only a tiny speck of a brain. The University of Washington team plans further research to determine how the flies are able to perform such amazing feats in the air, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. "A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a much larger animal such as a mouse," one of the researchers says. "That’s a super interesting problem from an engineering perspective."


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How the Internet reacted to Steve Bannon's growing power in the White House

 CLOSE The hashtag #StopPresidentBannon hit the top of Twitter's U.S. trending chart as thousands sought to protest President Trump's chief strategist. Time

 Twitter is demanding the nation #StopPresidentBannon.

 As confusion and anger swirled over President Trump's executive order to restrict people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States, the president signed another order giving chief strategist Steve Bannon a seat on the National Security Council.

 The #StopPresidentBannon hashtag exploded Sunday as users deplored the ex-Breitbart News chief's increased influence in the White House. Bannon — who was considered a controversial choice for chief strategist because of Breitbart's tendency to share views many perceive as racist, sexist and anti-Semitic — can now regularly attend meetings that deal with policy issues affecting national security.

 What Twitter is saying:

 Since when does the Breitbart guy know more about national security than the Joint Chiefs and the CIA? Never! #StopPresidentBannon — Ed Turner (@papabear7533) January 29, 2017

 I wouldn't trust Steve Bannon to run the Tilt-A-Whirl, let alone the country I live in and love. #StopPresidentBannon — John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) January 29, 2017

 We know who's really in charge. Trump is an illegitimate president who's also letting a Nazi run the country.#StopPresidentBannon — blackpridebrownlove (@KaylinWinters2) January 29, 2017

 Steve Bannon's influence on Trump is America's greatest threat to national security. But we haven't lost yet. Let's #StopPresidentBannon! pic.twitter.com/UEspca1edf — #NotMyPresident (@France4Hillary) January 29, 2017

 People voted for a man who they thought was good businessman and ended up a w/ puppet controlled by white nationalist #StopPresidentBannon — akash chittari (@sanju_akas) January 29, 2017

 Without immigration Trump would have no wives. #MuslimBan#StopPresidentBannon — Matthew Kick (@MatthewKick) January 29, 2017

 Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/2jL27GM ||||| WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Sunday said the addition of President Donald Trump's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, to regular meetings of the country's top national security officials was essential to the commander in chief's decision-making process.

 Trump took steps Saturday to begin restructuring the White House National Security Council, adding the senior adviser to the principals committee, which includes the secretaries of state and defense. At the same time, Trump said his director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff would attend "where issues pertaining to their responsibilities and expertise are to be discussed."

 Bannon served in the Navy before attending Harvard Business School, working at Goldman Sachs, starting his own media-focused boutique investment banking firm and later heading the ultraconservative outlet Breitbart News.

 "He is a former naval officer. He's got a tremendous understanding of the world and the geopolitical landscape that we have now," White House press secretary Sean Spicer told ABC's "This Week."

 Spicer said "having the chief strategist for the president in those meetings who has a significant military background to help make — guide what the president's final analysis is going to be is crucial."

 But to Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, the NSC "sadly has some really questionable people on it," he told NBC's "Meet the Press," citing Bannon among them.

 Breitbart has been condemned for featuring racist, sexist and anti-Semitic content. |||||Summary:

– Amid President Trump's flurry of actions Saturday was some restructuring at the National Security Council. White House chief strategist Steve Bannon now has a permanent seat on the principals committee of the NSC, reports the Washington Post, which notes that "the changes affirm the ascent of Bannon" in giving a political adviser a seat at the military table. At the same time, Trump ordered that the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, former members of the principals committee, would be invited only when "issues pertaining to their responsibilities and expertise are to be discussed." The move is contrary to former President George W. Bush, reports CBS News, who banned Karl Rove from interactions with the NSC; former President Obama, however, occasionally sent David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs to NSC meetings. Bannon, however, "is a former naval officer. He's got a tremendous understanding of the world and the geopolitical landscape that we have now," says press secretary Sean Spicer, per the AP. Meanwhile, USA Today notes that the shakeup started #StopPresidentBannon trending. (Bannon had some succinct advice for the media on Saturday.)


– Did a now-viral video of a man punching a kangaroo come out of Australia? Yes, of course. Should we be judging him for it? It depends on how you feel about dogs. The video, which has amassed more than 4.1 million views so far, was first posted on Facebook Saturday by Steven Stubenrauch, who said he got it from a buddy from Down Under. But while the shot to the 'roo's face is indeed cringeworthy, Mashable explains there's a "saga behind it," and it's "very intense." The man in the video, IDed by News.com.au as Greig Tonkins—nicknamed "Goo," meaning this fight could be deemed "Goo vs. 'Roo," as NineNews.com.au astutely notes—was part of a hunting trip in June for a friend named Kailem, who was in bad shape from cancer and wanted desperately to go on a boar-hunting trip with friends. And so Mathew Amor invited Kailem and some other friends, including Tonkins (who it turns out is a zookeeper), to his New South Wales property for the hunt, and while they were gallivanting about, the featured kangaroo reached out, grabbed Tonkins' dog Max, and put the pup in a headlock. And so Tonkins jumped into action, throwing the punch now seen 'round the world. Everyone turned out to be fine: Amor says Max was startled but OK, the kangaroo was simply "stunned," and Tonkins came away unscathed because he didn't throw that hard of a punch. "It was funny because the guy who did it is the most placid bloke," Amor says. "We laughed at him for chucking such a s--- punch." Sadly, Kailem died last week, but Amor says he'd "be looking down from up there [heaven] and laughing because it was the highlight of the trip." (A cyclist says a kangaroo ruined her breast implants.)

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Seen that viral video of man punching a kangaroo in Australia over the weekend? Turns out there's quite the saga behind it. It's all very intense.

 The video was first shared on the Facebook page of user Steven Stubenraugh, where it's since received 3.8 million views at the time of writing.

 The video shows a man running toward a kangaroo, which has a dog in a headlock.

 The man confronts the kangaroo, who then lets go of the dog after a struggle. Then out of nowhere, the dude gives the kangaroo a punch in the face.

 SEE ALSO: Dude creates what is possibly the most Australian Christmas tree ever

 There's been discussion over whether the footage is fake or not, and of course, over whether it's okay to punch an animal in the face in self defence.

 It turns out the footage was from a "final" wild pig-hunting trip for a young man named Kailem, who died from cancer last week, according to news.com.au.

 "Basically Kailem wanted to catch a boar," trip-organiser Mathew Amor told the news outlet.

 "And so a few of us got together to take him out, and another mate filmed more than an hour of video to put together as a DVD for Kailem and his family of the trip."

 The man who actually punched the kangaroo is only known as "Goo," and has kept quiet due to having a "good government job."

 However Daily Mail say they have identified the man as a zookeeper, working in the elephant enclosure at Taronga Western Plains Zoo — which, if true, would add yet another layer of strangeness to the whole story.

 By the way, the dog is fine thanks to its breastplate — used to protect it from boar tusks.

 "My mate only stunned it," Amor said. "His hand was OK, he didn't hit it very hard at all. It was funny because the guy who did it is the most placid bloke. We laughed at him for chucking such a sh*t punch."

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Roseanne is going home.

 Two decades after the iconic family sitcom signed off the air, ABC has announced that they've handed out a straight-to-series order for a revival, bringing the Connor clan back to the network that made them household names. Network president Channing Dungey confirmed the plans for the new episodes while on a conference call with reporters ahead of ABC's big presentation during 2017 Upfronts week in New York City.

 "We're rebooting Roseanne," she said. "It is planned for the midseason. We're still at the early stages." Per the network's press release, the eight-episode revival will find the Connors continuing to deal with "the economic challenges of living pay check to pay check in 2018." ||||| The reboot, which will feature returning stars Roseanne Barr and John Goodman among others, is set to air midseason.

 It's official: Roseanne is returning to ABC.

 The network has handed out an eight-episode straight-to-series order for a revival of the wildly popular family sitcom headlined by comedian Roseanne Barr. The reboot will debut sometime midseason on the network.

 "We're rebooting Roseanne," ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey said Tuesday during pre-upfronts call with reporters. The series will return midseason, with a formal date to be announced later.

 Original castmembers Roseanne Barr, John Goodman (despite the fact that his character Dan died of a heart attack during the final season), Sara Gilbert (Darlene), Laurie Metcalf (Jackie), Michael Fishman (D.J.) and Lecy Goranson (Becky) are all set to return. Sarah Chalke, who played the role of Becky after Goranson, will also return, but in a different role.

 “The Conners’ joys and struggles are as relevant — and hilarious — today as they were then, and there’s really no one better to comment on our modern America than Roseanne,” Dungey said in a statement.

 The pickup comes almost 20 years after the Emmy-winning multicam went off the air. The revival will again be a multicamera comedy.

 The revival sparked interest from several potential buyers including Netflix, which has revived Full House, Arrested Development and Gilmore Girls. The Roseanne revival was spearheaded by Gilbert, who currently hosts and exec produces the CBS daytime show The Talk.

 Gilbert joins original exec producers Barr, Tom Werner and Bruce Helford. Whitney Cummings and Tony Hernandez also exec produce. Like the original series, independent studio Carsey-Werner Television will produce.

 Roseanne centered on the working-class Conner family in Illinois and ran on ABC from 1988-97. At its peak, Roseanne ranked as the top series on television during the 1989-90 season and drew nearly 17 million viewers for its final episode. The series has continued to air in reruns on TV Land, CMT and Logo.

 The pickup comes as networks, including ABC, have worked hard to better appeal to working-class middle America in the wake of Donald Trump's stunning defeat over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. "[The election] made the ground shake underneath media," TLC president Nancy Daniels told THR in December, "and now everybody is taking a hard look: Are we telling the right stories? Are we reaching the right people?"

 Roseanne is just the latest in a long line of revivals that includes NBC's Will & Grace, as well as 24, Prison Break and The X-Files — which will return with another 10 episodes in 2018 — on Fox. ABC's cult beloved mystery Twin Peaks is also getting the revival treatment, albeit on Showtime.

 Roseanne will be one of two revivals on the Disney-owned broadcaster. The network beat out NBC and Fox to resurrect American Idol only a year after Fox opted to cancel the singing competition. On the unscripted, ABC has also found success with revivals of game shows like Match Game and $100,000 Pyramid.

 Roseanne's straight-to-series pickup will be ABC's lone multicamera comedy on its 2017-18 schedule. ABC recently canceled Last Man Standing and Dr. Ken — its only multicamera shows. The Disney-owned network will start the fall 2017-18 season without a single multicamera comedy on its schedule as pilot Household Name, starring Carol Burnett, is being redeveloped. The format, however, remains popular on CBS, which is home to Big Bang Theory, Mom, Kevin Can Wait, Superior Donuts and Man With a Plan. (Both Big Bang and Mom are executive produced by former Roseanne writer Chuck Lorre.)

 In addition to the Will & Grace revival, launching in the fall, NBC has The Carmichael Show and Marlon, both of which are being held for summer. Fox has been out of the multicam business for a few seasons.

 Here's the full original cast reunited at ABC's upfront: |||||

– Roseanne's return to TV has been confirmed, 20 years to the week after the beloved sitcom's final episode aired. ABC, the show's original network, announced Tuesday that it has ordered an eight-episode run of the revived show, which will air mid-season, E! Online reports. The network says the reboot will feature Roseanne's original cast, including Roseanne Barr, Sara Gilbert, and John Goodman, despite the fact that Goodman's character, dad Dan Conner, died during the show's final season. Barr and Gilbert will be among the executive producers of the show, which won 17 Emmys during its nine-season run. Laurie Metcalf, Michael Fishman, and Lecy Goranson will also be back as Jackie, DJ, and Becky. "The Conners' joys and struggles are as relevant—and hilarious—today as they were then, and there's really no one better to comment on our modern America than Roseanne," ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey said in a statement. The Hollywood Reporter notes that the revival comes amid a push by networks to find shows that appeal to working-class Americans like the just-getting-by Conner family depicted in Roseanne.


– A 22-year-old woman allegedly tried to flush her newborn baby down a toilet before abandoning it in a trash can at an Iowa hospital on Mother's Day, the Iowa City Press-Citizen reports. According to the Gazette, Ashley Hautzenrader delivered the baby into a toilet in a hospital bathroom Sunday night. Police say Hautzenrader later told them she wasn't aware she was pregnant before entering the bathroom, KCRG reports. Hautzenrader allegedly tried to flush the baby down the toilet because it wasn't crying and she thought it was dead. Police say she then placed it in a pillowcase and put it in the garbage. Hautzenrader cleaned the bathroom and left. A hospital spokesperson says the newborn was found "shortly after delivery." Its current condition is unclear. The hospital won't say if Hautzenrader was a patient or why she was there. She was arrested Monday and charged with child endangerment, a misdemeanor punishable by up to two years in prison. She was released from jail and placed on supervised release. Under an Iowa law, Hautzenrader could have legally turned her newborn over to the hospital.

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A woman is accused of giving birth, attempting to flush the baby down down the toilet and abandoning the baby in a trash can in Iowa City.

 Twenty-two-year-old Ashley Hautzenrader, of Davenport, faces a child endangerment charge.

 According to a criminal complaint, Hautzenrader gave birth in a bathroom at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics late Sunday night. Police said Hautzenrader told them that she did not know she was pregnant.

 Police said Hautzenrader thought the baby was dead when she tried to flush the baby down the toilet. She is accused of later placing the baby in a pillow case and leaving the baby in the trash can.

 UIHC employees later found the baby alive.

 The criminal complaint said Hautzenrader admitted to leaving the baby in the trash can.

 There's no word on the condition of the baby this morning.

 Hautzenrader faces a maximum of two years in prison as child endangerment without injury is an aggregated misdemeanor.

 A judge put her on supervised release following her initial appearance in Johnson County court Tuesday morning.

 A public defender will be appointed to represent Hautzenrader. ||||| IOWA CITY — A Davenport woman gave birth in a University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics bathroom on Mother’s Day and attempted to flush the newborn down a toilet, believing it was stillborn, authorities said.

 According to a UI Department of Public Safety criminal complaint, 22-year-old Ashley R. Hautzenrader entered a bathroom in the John Colloton Pavillion at UIHC around 9:24 p.m. May 8 and delivered a baby into the toilet. Hautzenrader told police she did not know she was pregnant before entering the bathroom.

 The newborn was not crying, leading Hautzenrader to believe the child was dead. Police said she attempted to flush it down the toilet. Hautzenrader then placed the child in a pillow case and put the baby in a trash can, police said. She then cleaned the bathroom and left.

 UIHC employees later found the baby alive in the trash can. Officers confronted Hautzenrader, who admitted to putting the child in the trash can.

 UI spokesman Tom Moore, citing federal health privacy law, said the hospital cannot say whether Hautzenrader was a patient at the hospital or comment on a condition of the baby. He said that identifying the employees who discovered the baby would give “clues” to Hautzenrader’s private health care information.

 Moore said the baby was found “shortly after delivery.”

 Interim Public Safety Director Lucy Wiederholt said the incident remains under investigation and the police are not sharing any more information.

 Online court records identify Hautzenrader as the petitioner in a paternity and child support recovery case filed in Scott County in May 2015.

 Iowa has a Safe Haven Law that allows parents to leave a newborn up to 14 days old at a hospital without being prosecuted, according to the Iowa Department of Human Services. The law was enacted in 2002.

 Moore said the process to bring a baby to the UIHC under the Safe Haven law “is very easy.” The newborn can be brought to any location in the hospital — including reception desks, clinics and inpatient units — and turned over.

 “The child will be accepted and cared for with no questions asked,” Moore said in an email.

 The UI does not keep records on the number of children turned over under the Save Haven law, Moore said.

 Hautzenrader was arrested and faces one count of child endangerment, an aggravated misdemeanor punishable by up to two years in prison. |||||


– Remember in June when it got too hot for planes to take off in Phoenix? A new study suggests stories like that will become quite common in the not-too-distant future. Via Reuters, the study published in Climatic Change estimates that rising temperatures could leave up to one-third of planes grounded during heat waves in the coming decades. The problem centers around the wings’ capacity for lift, which is lessened in warmer conditions. By 2100, worldwide average temperatures are expected to rise by 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit. To safely take off, airlines would need to make adjustments during the hottest part of the day, with 10% to 30% of planes affected. Full flights will either stay grounded until conditions cool down or lighten their loads by removing fuel, cargo, or passengers, per a release at EurekAlert. Think 12 to 13 people asked to leave a 160-person passenger plane. "Our results suggest that weight restriction may impose a non-trivial cost," one of the study’s lead authors says. Wired reports that among the airports studied, New York’s LaGuardia and Washington’s Reagan-National fared poorly because of short runways, as did Dubai International Airport, where extreme heat could force reduced loads up to 55% of the time during peak temperatures. Better news: New York's JFK wouldn't be much affected. Delayed departures won't be the only hassle. Scientists say severe turbulence would become more common. “I’ve yet to see a benefit of climate change to aviation,” says atmospheric scientist Paul Williams, who believes it’s high time for the airline industry to prepare and adapt. (An essay at New York provided a decidedly bleak outlook on climate change.)

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Rising temperatures due to global warming will make it harder for many aircraft around the world to take off in coming decades, says a new study. During the hottest parts of the day, 10 to 30 percent of fully loaded planes may have to remove some fuel, cargo or passengers, or else wait for cooler hours to fly, the study concludes. The study, which is the first such global analysis, appears today in the journal Climatic Change.

 "Our results suggest that weight restriction may impose a non-trivial cost on airline and impact aviation operations around the world," said lead author Ethan Coffel, a Columbia University PhD. student.

 As air warms, it spreads out, and its density declines. In thinner air, wings generate less lift as a plane races along a runway. Thus, depending on aircraft model, runway length and other factors, at some point a packed plane may be unable to take off safely if the temperature gets too high. Weight must be dumped, or else the flight delayed or canceled.

 Average global temperatures have gone up nearly 1 degree Centigrade (1.8 Fahrenheit) since about 1980, and this may already be having an effect. In late June, American Airlines canceled more than 40 flights out of Phoenix, Ariz., when daytime highs of nearly 120 degrees made it too hot for smaller regional jets to take off. Worldwide, average temperatures are expected to go up as much as another 3 degrees C (5.4 degrees F) by 2100. But that is only part of the story; heat waves will probably become more prevalent, with annual maximum daily temperatures at airports worldwide projected to go up 4 to 8 degrees C (7.2 to 14.4 F) by 2080, according to the study. It is these heat waves that may produce the most problems.

 "This points to the unexplored risks of changing climate on aviation," said coauthor Radley Horton, a climatologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. "As the world gets more connected and aviation grows, there may be substantial potential for cascading effects, economic and otherwise." Most studies so far have focused on how aviation may affect global warming (aircraft comprise about 2 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions), not vice versa. But a handful of studies have warned that warming climate may increase dangerous turbulence along major air routes, and head winds that could lengthen travel times. Rising sea levels are already threatening to swamp some major airports. Coffel and Horton may be the only ones so far to look at takeoffs.

 In 2015, they published a smaller-scale paper, predicting up to four times more future temperature-related takeoff problems for the common Boeing 737-800 at Phoenix, as well as Denver, New York's LaGuardia and Washington's Ronald Reagan. The new study projects effects on a wide range of jets at these, plus 15 of the other busiest airports in the United States, Europe, the Mideast, China and south Asia.

 The authors estimate that if globe-warming emission continue unabated, fuel capacities and payload weights will have to be reduced by as much as 4 percent on the hottest days for some aircraft. If the world somehow manages to sharply reduce carbon emissions soon, such reductions may amount to as little as 0.5 percent, they say. Either figure is significant in an industry that operates on thin profit margins. For an average aircraft operating today, a 4 percent weight reduction would mean roughly 12 or 13 fewer passengers on an average 160-seat craft. This does not count the major logistical and economic effects of delays and cancellations that can instantly ripple from one air hub to another, said Horton.

 Some aircraft with lower temperature tolerances will far worse than others, and certain airports--those with shorter runways, in hotter parts of the world or at higher elevations, where the air is already thinner--will suffer more. For instance, facing LaGuardia's short runways, a Boeing 737-800 may have to offload weight half the time during the hottest days. Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, might be worse; its runways are long, but its temperatures are already very high. Airports probably less affected because they are in temperate regions and have long runways include New York's JFK, London Heathrow and Paris's Charles de Gaulle.

 Horton said that some effects could be mitigated with new engine or body designs, or expanded runways. But modifications would come at a cost, as aircraft are already highly engineered for efficiency; and expanded runways in densely packed cities such as New York are not an option. "The sooner climate can be incorporated into mid- and long-range plans, the more effective adaptation efforts can be," said Coffel.

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 The paper was coauthored by Terence R. Thompson of Logistics Management Institute, a Virginia-based consulting company that studies aviation and other issues.

 The paper, "The impacts of rising temperatures on aircraft takeoff performance," is available from the journal Climatic Change. Elizabeth.hawkins@springer.com. Scientist contacts:

 Ethan Coffel ec2959@columbia.edu

 Radley Horton rh142@columbia.edu +1 646-320-9938

 More information: Kevin Krajick, Senior editor, science news, The Earth Institute/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory kkrajick@ei.columbia.edu 212-854-9729

 Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory is Columbia University's home for Earth science research. Its scientists develop fundamental knowledge about the origin, evolution and future of the natural world, from the planet's deepest interior to the outer reaches of its atmosphere, on every continent and in every ocean. http://www. ldeo. columbia. edu | @LamontEarth ||||| Last month, Phoenix enduring a blistering heat wave, with temperatures so high that airport officials had to cancel dozens of flights. The reason was two-fold. First off, some jet engines risk catching on fire in extreme heat. And when air gets hot, it expands and becomes less dense—so an airplane’s wings can’t generate enough lift to get off the ground. Planes either need to speed up during take-off or use a longer runway.

 But Phoenix’s flight delays aren’t a one-off event. As the Earth’s climate undergoes a 1 to 3 degree Celsius warming over the next half-century, extreme heat waves will hit more frequently. Some of these heat waves will hit airports with short runways. Forget about rain delays or missing flight crews. At places like Washington’s Reagan National Airport, New York’s LaGuardia Airport, and Dubai International, the real trouble will come during heat waves.

 During the hottest part of the day, 10 to 30 percent of planes will have to offload cargo or people, according to a new study by graduate student Ethan Coffell and climate scientist Radley Horton at Columbia University. “This study shined a light on a potential vulnerability,” Horton says. “A lot of airplanes at full capacity are ill-equipped to take off on some of the world’s runways when temperatures get really high.”

 The scientists looked at five common commercial airplane models—the Boeing 737-800, Airbus A320, Boeing 787-8, Boeing 777-300, and Airbus A380—and calculated how their takeoffs would be affected at 19 airports around the world, based on projected temperatures from 27 different global climate models. The runways represented the most common climates, elevations, and runway conditions at busy airports around the world—including US airports in Denver, Phoenix, Chicago, Atlanta, New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Houston and Miami.

 The good news for air travelers is that London, Paris, and JFK in New York will be able to shrug off the worst of future heat waves. But a Boeing 777-300 departing from Dubai at the time of the daily highest temperature may be weight-restricted about 55 percent of the time according to the study, which appears today in the journal Climactic Science. Because of the short runways, airplanes at Washington’s Reagan-National (7,170 feet) and New York’s LaGuardia (7,000 feet) will also have to lighten their load to get off the ground. Expanding the runways probably won’t work, given that they are either sandwiched along the Potomac River or Jamaica Bay.

 Heat waves aren’t the only problem facing the aviation industry as the Earth’s climate changes rapidly. Other scientists have calculated that severe turbulence—the kind that sends drink carts flying and sometimes even unbuckled passengers—will increase over certain transatlantic routes that follow the meandering jet streams.

 Paul D. Williams, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Reading who published on the connection between climate change and turbulence this past year, thinks the industry needs to start dealing with climate change more aggressively. They could develop engines that produce fewer greenhouse gases, for one, as well as adapt its planes to the future world. “I’ve yet to see a benefit of climate change to aviation,” Williams says. “All the published studies have been about thing getting worse.”

 There are plenty of solutions out there, some more complicated than others. Flights may have to leave earlier in the day when its cooler, Horton suggests, or aircraft manufacturers may have to make planes lighter. Or engineers could step in, building some kind of special new wings that generate additional lift. There’s one other option that probably won’t happen: leaving three or four paying customers back at the terminal in order to make the takeoff weight. ||||| NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More frequent heat waves and rising temperatures due to global warming may ground up to a third of airplanes worldwide during hot days in decades to come with some airports in New York and Dubai likely to be hard hit, a study showed on Thursday.

 Airlines may increasingly be forced to cut their loads of passengers, cargo or fuel in order to take off safely because warming air lessens the ability of airplane wings to generate lift, according to U.S. researchers.

 Worldwide, average temperatures are expected to climb some 5.5 degrees Fahrenheit (3 Celsius) by 2100, researchers said.

 But it is more prevalent heat waves that pose a larger threat to the airline industry, they said in a study published in the journal Climate Change.

 Annual maximum daily temperatures at airports could rise by 7 to 14 degrees Fahrenheit (4 to 8 Celsius) by 2080, they found, leading to more costly delays in take-offs or cancellations.

 During the hottest parts of the day, between 10 and 30 percent of fully loaded planes may have to dump weight in order to begin their journey.

 The phenomenon could force the aviation industry to brace for thinner profit margins, the authors said.

 A full 160-seat aircraft trying to safely take off in searing heat may, for instance, need to remove 13 passenger, said the study.

 But the costs of delays or cancellations could also disrupt other sectors of the economy as they trickle down, they said.

 "Our results suggest that weight restriction may impose a non-trivial cost," said Ethan Coffel, the study's lead author and a researcher at Columbia University in New York City, in a statement.

 Airports likely to be most affected according to the researchers' appraisal of 19 major airports include New York's LaGuardia, due to short runways, and Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates, because of scorching heat.

 Projections found the least affected airports included New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, London's Heathrow and Paris' Charles de Gaulle.

 Last month, major airlines were forced to delay or cancel dozens of flights out of Las Vegas and Phoenix airports, citing difficulty in operating aircraft amid a heat wave.

 Previous research has found that changes in climate may increase turbulence on flights, the researchers said.

 They said their study was the first such global analysis. |||||


– It was the "little plop" heard 'round the world. Seth Dixon and Ruth Salas likely thought they'd never find Salas' $3,000 engagement ring again after Dixon accidentally dropped it off a wooden footbridge and into a pond while proposing in Kansas City earlier this month. But thanks to a man WMUR calls a "Good Samaritan with a heart of gold," the couple now has the ring back—and an extra ring from Jimmy Kimmel to boot. That Good Samaritan, Michael Long, also has a metal detector, and so when he heard about the lost ring, he "thought it would just be nice to get up there, help a random couple out, and find the ring before someone else found it." Long says it took him hours, spread out over two days, to find the ring in Loose Park Pond, pulling up a couple dozen nails and a toy car before he unearthed what he was looking for on Saturday. Per the Kansas City Star, the ring had already been found when Dixon and Salas appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday, where they re-created the ill-fated proposal, then accepted a brand-new diamond ring from Kimmel to replace their lost one. (Long says he got in touch with Dixon in California on Monday.) Dixon said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that they alerted Kimmel's staff about Long's discovery once they found out about it—he noted the ring was found while "Ruth and I have been in Los Angeles"—and that "we have been completely honest ... during this entire process." He also notes Kimmel and Co. still insisted they keep the ring. "Now for the next adventure to get married on October 21, 2017!!!!" Dixon wrote.

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Brigham Young UniversityArchive-It Partner Since: Feb, 2013Organization Type: Colleges & UniversitiesOrganization URL: http://lib.byu.edu The L. Tom Perry Special Collections Web Archive at Brigham Young University seeks to enhance scholarship and learning by documenting, providing access to, and persevering the state of Mormonism in all of its variations, as they exist online. The Mormon experience made manifest through culture, expression, history, philosophy, ideology, society, and theology is the main emphasis of this collection. Secondary focus is given to areas of interest such areas as business, education, politics, activism, and philanthropy. ||||| See more of Seth Dixon on Facebook ||||| A Good Samaritan with a heart of gold and a metal detector came to the rescue of a couple that dropped their ring into Loose Park Pond!

 Michael Long heard the story of Seth Dixon and his "splash" proposal to girlfriend Ruth Salas online.

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 Seth had attempted to propose to Ruth on a bridge at Loose Park earlier this month when he dropped the ring onto the bridge, and it fell through into the murky water below.

 "I had a metal detector. I just thought it would just be nice to get up there, help a random couple out and find the ring before someone else found it," said Long.

 It took him two separate days and hours in the water - but on Saturday - he struck gold - quite literally.

 Using nothing but his metal detector, and a bucket of rocks to hold him down - Long combed the bottom of Loose Park Pond.

 He found around 25 nails, a toy car, and finally, after three hours of searching, he found the ring.

 Long said he just wanted to make an adventure of it - and help someone out at the same time.

 "I knew once I got there the first time it was a lot more challenging than I thought," said Long. "On my second trip I was determined and confident I was within feet of it."

 Long was able to verify that it was Seth and Ruth's ring - and he gave it to a friend of the couple's for safekeeping Tuesday.

 Seth and Ruth excitedly posted about the event Wednesday before their flight back to Kansas City from California.

 In a surprise move - the couple was on Jimmy Kimmel Tuesday night - and Kimmel also gave them a new ring.

 No word yet on what their plans are for the old one. ||||| Loose Park proposal falls through the cracks

 Dating for four years, Kansas City couple Seth Dixon and Ruth Salas were ready to take the plunge into marriage. They just never anticipated having to literally go diving for the engagement ring. Video courtesy of Staci Dabney Photography. |||||