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Patty Andrews's spokesman, Alan Eichler, said she died from natural causes at her Los Angeles home.
BBC: Last Andrews sister, Patty, dies in LA aged 94
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It looked especially incongruous there, a piece of Deco art in a Bauhaus modern Silicon Valley Eichler home.
FORBES: The Coupe Coup
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The comet gets compressed and then explodes in the solar atmosphere which, in turn, creates shockwaves, says Eichler.
FORBES: Sun-Grazing Comets As Triggers For Electromagnetic Armageddon
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If such a comet were the size of Hale-Bopp, Eichler says, the resulting solar flare would by far be the largest ever observed.
FORBES: Sun-Grazing Comets As Triggers For Electromagnetic Armageddon
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Eichler thinks that such a sun-grazing comet may have triggered a large solar flare and cosmic ray-generating shockwaves as recently as 775 A.D.
FORBES: Sun-Grazing Comets As Triggers For Electromagnetic Armageddon
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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Patty Andrews, the last surviving member of the Andrews Sisters, died at her Northridge, California, home Wednesday, her publicist Alan Eichler said.
CNN: Last Andrews Sister, Patty, dies at 94
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The sisters performed with "Patty always singing the lead, Maxene the high harmony and LaVerne the low harmony, inventing a unique blend that came from their hearts, since none of the girls could read music, " according to the official biography released by Eichler.
CNN: Last Andrews Sister, Patty, dies at 94
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Or so says David Eichler, lead author of a forthcoming Astrophysical Journal Letters paper positing that a sun-grazing comet roughly the size of Hale-Bopp (with a nucleus some 30 kms in diameter), could trigger cosmic ray-generating shockwaves large enough to initiate a global electromagnetic Armageddon.
FORBES: Sun-Grazing Comets As Triggers For Electromagnetic Armageddon
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As Eichler notes, several things are driving this, including a long-term shift in resources to antiterrorism cases, and more recently the use of deferred prosecution agreements, a policy put in place during the Bush administration and unchanged by Obama, which puts an emphasis on self-policing by corporations in the hopes of heading off long, costly court cases.
FORBES: Not Prosecuting the Banks