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On April 12, the Atlantic Council and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) hosted the second scenario-driven, interactive conference to discuss the day-after response to a cyber incident. This event, “The Cyber 9/12 Project: Cyber Statecraft after Catastrophes,” brought together experts from sectors such as government, finance, telecommunications, and media to discuss the decision-making process in light of a serious cyber security breach.
More info at www.acus.org/event/cyber-912-project-cyber-statecraft-aft...
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So I took my camera outside today and due to the extreme difference of inside and outside temperature, my lens fogged up really bad. So I ended up giving up and going back inside. Luckily, I took the pic in RAW and decieded to see how well I could fix the picture to make it more presentable. Pretty amazing stuff! Never again shall I use jpg lol
Abell 12, the hidden nebula.
I have thought about imaging this from home but didnt think it would not be possible due to Abell 12’s close proximity to Mu the Orionis quadruple star system in Orion. I had hoped for 2 hours total of Ha and O3 but the clouds limited me to 6 x 300sec Ha. Surprisingly from looking that the data I think RGB will be possible but it will need to wait until Nov - Jan when Its better placed in the sky from a dark site.
The nebula was discovered by George Abell when he scanned his negative plates and noticed a bulging of the nearby star.
30 mins integration (300 sec exp), Astroworx 250mm F4 Truss Newtonian, QSI683-WSG8 CCD, iOptron CEM60EC. Captured with Voyager and processed in Pixinsight.
On May 12, the Gillings School's 78th Commencement Ceremony celebrated the Class of 2018! During the ceremony, more than 330 students were awarded degrees. Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones, the Commencement speaker, charged all in attendance to, “Be courageous, be unafraid of controversy and tell your truth.”
This is the deepest we drilled into the ice with a hand drill. It is amost 5 md down. At the depths of the borehole, even refracted light doesn't get to it and it looks dark. This will be our target for WATSON scanning.
Kids making a living working with a troupe that arranges the 'Baraat' - an integral part of a North Indian Hindu wedding.
The groom's family and friends make up the Baraat convoy that travels on foot for around 1.5 - 2 km upto the venue of the wedding. The entire groom's family arrives in this grand fashion at the wedding venue where the bride's family awaits them. The groom rides a horse while his family and friends dance to the music played by the marching band through this journey.
The convoy halts every 50 metres and on every halt, friends and family of the groom celebrate by dancing fervidly to a couple of hindi songs, the most popular being Mithun da's - 'I am a disco dancer' !!
A lot of money is given out, actually thrown around as 'Inam' (prize). Members of the troupe sometimes tussle over the fallen money to claim it.
And amidst all the fervor were these kids... quietly going about their job carrying 'portable' lighting for the convoy...
It's exam prep week, which also means finishing up all the loose ends, including reading "The Tempest". She had an hour to kill before practice started, so she spent it reading. I picked her up an hour early from practice - she was at practice three hours instead of four tonight - so she could work on other work. As I type this, we are home from practice, and she is now working on Spanish. Sometimes I worry that the schedule is too much, but she seems to be managing it well. I think the discipline she has learned at gymnastics also carries over school work.
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Hill of Uisneach, West Meath, Ireland. August 16, 2012: County Meath and West Meath, Ireland. (c) 2012 - photography by Leaf McGowan, technogypsie.com. pics 8/16/12
The Hill of Uisneach / Cnoc Uisnigh or Ushnagh, in the heart of County Westmeath, is a 182 meter high sacred hill that was once considered to be the absolute center of Ireland. Located along the northern side of R390, and 8 kilometers east of Ballymore, next to the village of Loughanavally - it is a pivotal connection of four adjacent townlands - Ushnagh Hill, Mweelra, Rathnew, and Kellybrook; and is the meeting point of the provincial borders of Leinster, Munster, Connacht, Ulster and Midhe. (Midhe was the once separate 5th province) and by so being, has been called the omphalos or mystical navel of Ireland atop which rests the Cat stone, the Ail na Míreann or stone of divisions. (The actual geographic center of Ireland is near the western shore of Lough Ree to the west. The site was seen as the tromping grounds of the tutelary Goddess Ériu who is seen as the personification of Ireland and is where she legendarily met the invading Milesians and the poet Amergin, after much debate, agreed to give the country her name. The site was most famous for the lighting of the Beltane fires and Druidic ceremonies, of which has been reconstructed with Irelands infamous Festival of Fires Celebration. According to the Lebor Gabála Érenn (Book of the Takings of Ireland) the first fire was lit here by the Nemedian Druid Mide and ever since, a fire was lit here during the feast of Beltane which supposedly can be seen from the Hill of Tara. According to legend, when those at Tara saw the fires lit at Uisneach, they would light the fires on Tara. According to the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain), Geoffrey of Monmouth claimed that the stones of Stonehenge were brought to Britain from the Hill of Uisneach. Some say the hill is also Riba or Raiba that was identified by Ptolemy (Ptolemaeus),
Exactly one week after a powerful earthquake struck Sichuan Province, China began a three-day national mourning for the tens of thousands of people killed on May 12. The national flag was flown at half mast across the country including Tian'anmen Square in downtown Beijing. All public amusements including movie theatres, nightclubs, and other such activities were suspended for three days from Monday. The Government ordered a nationwide display of respect for the dead.
The public stood in silence for three minutes at 2:28 pm on Monday 19 May, a week after the time the deadly quake hit, while air-raid sirens were sounded. And on Sunday, China Seismological Bureau Sunday revised the magnitude of the earthquake from 7.8 to 8.0 on the Richter scale.
The confirmed death toll from the disaster has risen to 32,476 and the toll would possibly rise to more than 50,000 as many, still buried in rubble, are feared dead. A further 220,000 were injured. During the days of mourning, the torch relay for the Beijing Olympic Games will be suspended to mourn the quake victims.
In Sichuan, the death toll in Deyang and Mianyang cities of Sichuan province hit 10,341 and 11,874 respectively. A further 4,156 in Chengdu, 2,586 in Guangyuan, 2,871 in Aba and 23 in Ya'an died. Outside Sichuan, the death toll was 364 in Gansu Province, 113 in Shaanxi Province, 16 in Chongqing Municipality, two in Henan Province, one in Yunnan Province, one in Hubei Province, and one in Hunan Province.
So far, 10.8 billion yuan (US$1.5 billion) has been received from donors at home and abroad for those affected by the earthquake. These include 8.9 billion yuan in cash and 1.9 billion yuan worth of relief materials.
In Nanning city, where I live, thousands of people gathered on Monday evening to light candles in Minzu (Nationality) Square. People also waved flags, sang the national anthem and chanted, “Go China Go!” and “Rebuild Sichuan!” as an encouragement to those affected by the earthquake.
KIM POSSIBLE - Stars attend the premiere of the live-action Disney Channel Original Movie "Kim Possible" at the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences on Tuesday, February 12. The movie debuts Friday, February 15 (8:00 p.m. ET/PT) on Disney Channel. (Disney Channel/Image Group LA)
RAVEN-SYMONE
06/13/12
@ The Blue Moose Tap House
Iowa City, IA
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Exactly one week after a powerful earthquake struck Sichuan Province, China began a three-day national mourning for the tens of thousands of people killed on May 12. The national flag was flown at half mast across the country including Tian'anmen Square in downtown Beijing. All public amusements including movie theatres, nightclubs, and other such activities were suspended for three days from Monday. The Government ordered a nationwide display of respect for the dead.
The public stood in silence for three minutes at 2:28 pm on Monday 19 May, a week after the time the deadly quake hit, while air-raid sirens were sounded. And on Sunday, China Seismological Bureau Sunday revised the magnitude of the earthquake from 7.8 to 8.0 on the Richter scale.
The confirmed death toll from the disaster has risen to 32,476 and the toll would possibly rise to more than 50,000 as many, still buried in rubble, are feared dead. A further 220,000 were injured. During the days of mourning, the torch relay for the Beijing Olympic Games will be suspended to mourn the quake victims.
In Sichuan, the death toll in Deyang and Mianyang cities of Sichuan province hit 10,341 and 11,874 respectively. A further 4,156 in Chengdu, 2,586 in Guangyuan, 2,871 in Aba and 23 in Ya'an died. Outside Sichuan, the death toll was 364 in Gansu Province, 113 in Shaanxi Province, 16 in Chongqing Municipality, two in Henan Province, one in Yunnan Province, one in Hubei Province, and one in Hunan Province.
So far, 10.8 billion yuan (US$1.5 billion) has been received from donors at home and abroad for those affected by the earthquake. These include 8.9 billion yuan in cash and 1.9 billion yuan worth of relief materials.
In Nanning city, where I live, thousands of people gathered on Monday evening to light candles in Minzu (Nationality) Square. People also waved flags, sang the national anthem and chanted, “Go China Go!” and “Rebuild Sichuan!” as an encouragement to those affected by the earthquake.
During the all-school worship service on Aug. 12, the prefects revealed this school's year theme, "Get Real."
Suzy is my newly designed doll. She measures 55cm or about 21" tall - so she is a large doll. She sits very well on her own, and sitting is something Suzy loves to do, because she also has a baby - Baby Josephine, nicknamed Baby-Jo.
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Katelyn Tarver
7/29/12
The Stone Pony, NJ
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The Scottish Greens campaigning for a Yes vote in the 2014 Referendum. In September 2014 they were given permission to use the blue tardis on Leith Walk as a campaigning hub.
Image courtesy of Sarah Beattie Smith and Graeme Cunningham.
The Scottish Political Archive is housed at the University of Stirling. The archive is home to the oral interviews, personal papers and associated material from prominent Scottish politicians. For further information about the work of the archive please visit our website www.scottishpoliticalarchive.org.uk
With partial apologies to Andy Warhol, tins of Ligo Sardines from the Philippines.
Not sure if this is a dilemma (hot or not), quadralemma (hot? monchrome?) or an octalemma (hot?, monchrome? negative?). This boat is sailing backwards...
There is a blog post on how this was made at TransientEye...
Comma seen at Martin Mere WWT 22/09/12
The underside of the wings of this butterfly are a dull brown colour, with a small white 'C' shaped marking resembling a comma (hence the common name).