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Article source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/arts/design/museum-gallery-listings-for-oct-24-30.html
About 120 people are now being monitored for possible infection with Ebola because they may have had contact with one of the three people in Dallas who had the disease, Texas health officials said Monday.
Officials said 43 of 48 people on an original watch list have passed the 21-day maximum incubation period for the viral disease and are now in the clear.
But others who cared for a Liberian man who died Oct. 8 at a Dallas hospital remain at risk, along with two nurses he infected and their close contacts. That brings the total to 120 people now being monitored, with their wait period ending Nov. 7, said Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. He said the number may fluctuate.
Clay Jenkins, the top administrator for Dallas County, said he was unaware that other health officials had allowed one of the nurses, Amber Vinson, onto an airplane the day before she was diagnosed. Vinson had contacted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Dallas County, and she was given permission to fly home to Dallas after visiting family in Ohio.
“It was a mistake” for Vinson to have flown “and we apologize,” Jenkins said during a news conference Monday morning.
Still, health officials said they were breathing a little easier Monday as the monitoring period ended for many, and after a cruise ship scare ended with the boat returning to port and a lab worker on board testing negative for the virus.
Among those no longer in isolation are the family and friends who were
Article source: http://6abc.com/health/43-declared-ebola-free-in-texas/357800/
By The Associated Press
Posted Oct. 20, 2014 @ 11:21 am
Article source: http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/article/ZZ/20141020/NEWS/141029997/11514/NEWS
Frank Tiano runs both events, but 12 O’Clock High is not a competition.
“This is a cool, very laid-back event and you get to see everything,” Foushi said.
“You can go up and fly when you want, there’s no pressure of the judges and the whole nine yards so it’s a real fun event where an airplane or aviation enthusiast can come out and enjoy seeing the full spectrum of all the different airplanes,” he said.
Tiano said that, while it is not a competition, some awards, like for nicest model plane or best flying, are given out at the end of the three-day event.
“It’s a fly-in. That means it’s not a competition,” Tiano said. “They just come for the camaraderie, to come out and fly together.”
Foushi said planes can range from World War I era planes to modern day jets. All of the models are scaled-down versions of actual airplanes that Tiano said are usually very expensive.
“I’d say the average size may be 8 feet as opposed to the 25 inches you’d see in a park. The average weight might be 45 pounds,” he said. “They’re huge and they’re expensive. Not all of them are expensive but many. Some of them are $15,000 to $20,000. Some of them have engines that cost $5,000.”
Foushi will fly a T-45 Goshawk at the event. He said participating in 12 O’clock High is great practice for the Top Gun competition.
“One of my buddies was in Top Gun and I got a taste for that after I
Article source: http://www.theledger.com/article/20141022/ENT/141029825
1. Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO): Marissa Mayer has started turning the ship
2. NXP Semiconductor (NASDAQ:NXPI): broad-based strength continues
3. EMC (NYSE:EMC): “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – JKF
4. Earnings season triangulation (cont)
5. SAP (NYSE:SAP): remains a tough environment
6. Financial engineers are so “last Thursday”
7. Technicals
8. Trader watch
Last night, Marissa Mayer used YHOO’s earnings as an opportunity to go on the offensive with respect to her strategy for YHOO going forward. She defended her acquisition strategy for growth and reiterated her commitment to shareholders and maximizing value. “Today was really a good opportunity for us to show the progress we’ve made. We were able to reap the fruits of some of what we’ve been sowing over the past few years.”
However, Mayer did note that she is aligned with a number of Starboard’s proposals such as tax efficiency and capital allocation. She noted how “we will meet with them and engage with them.” She went on to say “we take all our investor inputs seriously.”
While not stellar, YHOO did experience 1% growth in revenues ex-TAC, which to us demonstrates the stabilization of the business. YHOO went on to guide Q4 revenues in the range of $1.14B-$1.18B (ex-TAC) versus street consensus of $1.17B. The stabilization and eventual growth will continue
Article source: http://seekingalpha.com/article/2585605-best-u-s-stock-ideas-today?source=barchart_all
Atlanta – — Federal health officials on Monday issued new guidelines to promote head-to-toe protection for health workers treating Ebola patients.
Officials have been scrambling to come up with new advice since two Dallas nurses became infected while caring for the first person diagnosed with the virus in the United States.
Workers at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital were trying to follow earlier CDC guidance. Organizations representing nurses and other health workers have pressed the CDC, saying the old advice was confusing and inadequate, and health workers felt afraid and unprepared.
It’s not clear exactly how the two nurses at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital became infected, but clearly there was some kind of problem, said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“The bottom line is the guidelines didn’t work for that hospital,” Frieden said, in announcing the revised guidelines Monday evening.
Earlier CDC guidelines had been based on a model of how to treat Ebola patients in Africa, which sometimes has occurred in tents. They also allowed hospitals some flexibility to use available covering when dealing with suspected Ebola patients.
The new guidelines set a firmer standard, calling for full-body garb and hoods that protect worker’s necks; setting rigorous rules for removal of equipment and disinfection of hands; and calling for a “site manager” to supervise the putting on and taking off of equipment.
They also call for
Article source: http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/20/ebola-us/17597357/
The large amount of jet fuel required to fly an airplane from point A to point B can have negative impacts on the environment and—as higher fuel costs contribute to rising ticket prices—a traveler’s wallet. With funding from NASA and the Boeing Company, engineers from the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech and their collaborators from the University of Arizona have developed a device that lets planes fly with much smaller tails, reducing the planes’ overall size and weight, thus increasing fuel efficiency.
On October 8, the researchers—including Emilio Graff, research project manager in aerospace at Caltech and a leader on the project—were presented with a NASA Group Achievement Award “for exceptional achievement executing a full-scale wind-tunnel test, proving the flight feasibility of active flow control.”
An airplane’s tail forms a critical part of the control system that helps steer the plane during flying. During flight, air rushes around the vertical tail with great force and is deflected by the tail’s rudder—a moveable flap at the rear of the tail that can steer the plane by angling air to the left or right. By moving the rudder left or right, a pilot can move the air in one direction or the other, helping to keep the plane flying straight during a strong crosswind.
During the high speeds of flight, the air flow around the tail is so strong that the rudder can control the plane’s path
Article source: http://phys.org/news/2014-10-air-devices-greener-planes.html
