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Professors develop Ebola-tracking app
ANDREW COLLINS
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University professors are developing a smartphone app for travelers that tracks the likelihood of an encounter with the Ebola virus and helps calm anxiety about the exposure to the virus. The app, called iChequit, is expected to be released in May.
Luke Huan, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and leader of the app development team,
The research team members, whose specialties range from engineering and telecommunications to medicine, won a one-year $188,000 RAPID grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in December for their proposal
The Ebola virus was first discovered in Zaire, Africa in
The team's work is in progress, and once the app is completed, Huan said he hopes the public will have a better understanding of the disease and risks of getting it when traveling.
"For most Americans, at this moment, the risk is almost zero," Huan said.
1976. Since then, the spread of the disease has been mostly limited to parts of West Africa, and the death toll from the current outbreak is more than 8,000. But with the most recent cases in America in October, the fear of the disease spreading is slightly more prevalent.
on Ebola virus prevention. According to the NSE, the main goal of the research is to develop technology in order for individuals to evaluate risks associated with their past and their travel plans.
According to October Gallup polls, about 16 percent of Americans were worried about themselves or their families getting the Ebola virus, and about 60
percent were confident the government could control an outbreak in the U.S.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the spread of the disease is not like a common cold, but exchanged through bodily fluids of infected people or animals or by touching contaminated objects. An infected person will not show symptoms from two days up to three weeks before becoming ill.
Super Bowl host city still reeling over deal
Edited by Emma LeGault
JOSH HOFFNER
Associated Press
GLENDALE, Ariz. — The entire world will be watching Glendale on Sunday as it hosts the Super Bowl and the legions of fans who are shelling out big bucks to see the big game.
In this Dec. 11, 2014 photo, University of Phoenix Stadium, site of NFL Super Bowl XLIX football game, is seen at sunset in Glendale, Ariz. The world will be watching Glendale on Sunday as it hosts the Super Bowl and the legions of fans who are shelling out big bucks to see the big game.
What may be not visible amid all the hoopla is a sobering reality about the Super Bowl host city: Glendale is suffering deep financial issues over its troubled effort to become a sports destination.
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Glendale bet big on professional sports in the last 15 years; spending millions of dollars on a hockey arena for the Arizona Coyotes and investing heavily in a spring training ballpark for the Chicago White Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers. Then the economy tanked, and the hockey team went through bankruptcy, with several different owners in recent years.
The city has found stronger financial footing since then and its bond rating has improved markedly, but not without having to raise taxes, trim 25 percent of the municipal workforce, cut back on paving projects, and reduce hours at municipal swimming pools and libraries. The 9.2 percent sales tax that shoppers and diners pay in Glendale is among the highest in the state.
To fiscal conservatives, Glendale serves as a cautionary tale for suburban cities across the United States that want to throw public money at professional sports projects.
"Overall, it's a bad move for cities," said Kurt Altman, general counsel for the Arizona-based Goldwater Institute, which fought Glendale over its enticements to the hockey team. "As much
Glendale is a city of about 250,000 people in the northwest part of the Phoenix metro area. The location where the Arizona Cardinals' stadium and the Arizona Coyotes' arena were built had been a dusty farm area. The agricultural influence is visible to people driving to games when they pass tractors and farm equipment in nearby fields.
as they say it's going to make the city a destination, it just doesn't."
The football stadium was built in 2006, but Glendale was not on-the-hook for the costs of the $450 million retractable-roof facility. It was funded primarily with new taxes on car rentals and hotels in the Phoenix area, but that financing hit a snag last year when a judge ruled that the car rental tax was unconstitutional, leaving a major funding source for the Super Bowl venue in jeopardy. The issue is still being argued in the courts.
As the Coyotes and Cardinals sought new facilities in the early 2000s and efforts failed to build them in other parts of the Phoenix area, Glendale stepped in. The city helped pay for the Coyotes' arena with $167 million in bonds in 2003, and as the hockey team's finances began to fade during the recession, Glendale went all-in to keep the team in Arizona. The city dished out $50 million
earlier this decade to keep the team and continues to make annual payments toward the arena, but the money it is getting in return has not met expectations.
Glendale is far from alone. Cities and states nationwide have long struggled with how much public money to spend on stadium projects. The effort to build a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings became embroiled in controversy
over a financial commitment by the state that opponents said was excessive. The St. Louis Rams are at the center of a debate over whether to spend public money on a new stadium. Topeka, Kansas, is immersed in a fight over a motorsports track that has drawn comparisons to hockey in Glendale.
In the case of the Super Bowl, he believes the city is paying dearly. He said Glendale will actually lose a "couple million dollars" by hosting the event. It's spending huge amounts of money on overtime and police and public safety costs for the Super Bowl but not getting much back.
As he navigates the financial situation, Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers returns to a maxim he has repeated many times in his life: "I'm not living in the past. I'm just paying for it."
Super Bowl visitors are mostly staying in Phoenix
and Scottsdale and only showing up in Glendale on game day, meaning the city won't see much of a boost in tax revenue. And the city was hoping the state would reimburse Glendale for its police overtime costs, but lawmakers have scoffed at the idea.
Weiers said it pains him that the city had to cut services and lay off workers, but the moves were necessary to ensure financial solvency. He said the outlook has improved in the last year, a far cry from a couple years ago when Glendale was in jeopardy of joining the likes of Detroit in the category of municipal bankruptcies.
"I have to believe that if '1' is perfect as things could be and '10' was bankrupt, I'd say we were a strong '8,' Weiers said. "We never had to go there, and I strongly believe we won't have to go there."
Denver cops kill woman who hit officer with car
I SADIE GURMAN
Associated Press
DENVER — Denver police shot and killed a young woman who struck and injured an officer in'a stolen car, authorities said Monday.
Few other details were immediately released after the shooting early Monday in an alley in the older, middle-class residential neighborhood. The four other people in the car were not injured by the gunfire, and all were being questioned as part of the investigation, police said. It was not clear whether any had been arrested.
Police Chief Robert White said an officer was called to check on
In a statement, police said the officers then "approached the vehicle on foot when the driver drove the car into one of the officers."
a car that had raised suspicions. After the officer determined it had been reported stolen, another officer arrived.
Bobbie Diaz, whose 16-year old daughter was in the car, said she was lying in bed when she heard four gunshots followed by an officer yelling "Freeze! Get out of the car! Get down!"
White said both officers then opened fire. The officer hit by the car was taken to a hospital with a leg injury.
Diaz said she came outside
to see officers with their guns drawn pulling people out of the car, including the girl who was shot.
Diaz said that, meanwhile, she heard another person screaming "She's dead! She's dead!"
"She seemed like she was not responding, not moving," she said. "They just yanked her out and handcuffed her."
"I'm just trying to process everything. I'm just heartbroken for the girl's family," Diaz said.
Another woman, Arellia Hammock, who has lived in the neighborhood for about a decade, said she heard three gunshots about 6:30 a.m. and then saw several police cars streaming down the street. Hammock said she understands one of the officers was injured, but "that's still no reason to shoot."
"How could something like this happen again?"
"They shouldn't have stolen a
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Both officers involved in the shooting have been placed on administrative leave pending the investigation, which was being conducted by police, the district attorney and the Office of the Independent Monitor, a civilian oversight agency for the city.
car. But the cops are too fast on the gun," she said, "You've got stun guns. You've got rubber bullets. Why do they have to shoot all the time?"
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