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Another shot which for some reason was left untouched in the folder until now, from a trip to the WHF with Emily in August. Back then I think I was looking for something more unusual or dramatic in the first shots I developed. Now I like this more for the clarity. Funnily enough it was taken on a canon 400d when I was camera sharing after running out of batteries.
Taken using a 135mm and 1.4 extension tube.
I've got past the clumsy stage of using a tablet and pen, so did a little dodging and burning on this in Lightroom and sharpened there too instead of Photoshop which is where I'd normally go to crisp the main focus.
"As one of the top predators in the food chain, the cougar has been persecuted unmercifully by man. A combination of guns, poisons, snares, traps, and hunting dogs have been used in this persecution, often under the guise of government sanctioned predator control (bounty) programs. As recently as 1988, almost 200 cougars were killed in a program run by the United States Department of Agriculture. Farmers and ranchers have had a running feud with these cats for decades, and land use and stock management practices must be changed before this situation can be improved.
In an effort to help restore the depleted genetic make-up of the Florida panthers, officials have released a few Texas cougars into south Florida. It is hoped these new animals will breed with the established cats to strengthen the gene pool and prevent inbreeding." Source: wildcatconservation.org
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Living out in rural eastern Oregon, I made great efforts to get a decent heron-in-the-wild shot. They were skitterish, solitary and took off at the first sight of human. All my quiet creeping only got me a few silhouettes of departing wings--lookng like an extended stylized "W".
Fast forward to life in the Portland marinas, where the herons have been partnering up with human fisherman for a few years now, apparently convinced their status as Portland's official "City Bird" entitles then to tribute from the fish bucket.
He's always a welcome visitor, and he can have the fish--Northern Pikeminnow, a species that preys on young salmon--Fish & Wildlife even has a bounty program to reward anglers for catching them.
I have trouble just getting organized enough to pay my taxes--so I'll not be participating in the fish bounty thing. Nor will I carry the grocery store's "Food Club" card, or join the Dogfood club, or even print out those discount coupons from the e-mail. But I always get in line behind someone who does.
But I digress, the heron photos come so much easier now--since the big bird seems to have almost "moved in" to the floating neighborhood. Folks say--"you shouldn't feed the wildlife, they'll become dependent on you." That's for damn sure. Did I tell you about the raccoon that bit me and my wife, when we (us and the dogs) surprised her latenight at the dumpster?
That's apparently how people and dogs originally hooked up--wild canines following the roving bands of hunters, and getting scraps from the firepit. Great to imagine--Us CavePeople, at a riverfront bonfire, luring the jackaldog to take a bone from our hand (that would've been me!)
So, perhaps it's inevitable that one day the heron might want to "go for a ride", too. I really will need to get a "crew cab" truck then. If the BigBird wants to earn his keep, he can be a WatchBird, doing aerial surveilance--he can keep me informed on the parking lot activities and the approach of any raccoons!
Lt. Gen. Stephen G. Fogarty, commander of Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER) (second from left), talks with Soldiers participating in the "Hack the Army" bug bounty program during a visit to Augusta, Georgia for the launch of a partnership between ARCYBER partnership and the Defense Digital Service at the Georgia Cyber Center there Oct. 25, 2018. To read a full story about the event, go to www.army.mil/article/213262 (Photo by Cathy Vandermaarel)
Mark Zuckerberg met with senators on Monday at the Capitol. Credit Pete Marovich for The New York Times
Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, will make his much-anticipated appearance before members of Congress starting Tuesday afternoon. In two days of hearings, he will face tough questions on how and why the company failed to protect the delicate data of many millions of its users.
This is Mr. Zuckerberg’s first appearance before Congress and his performance will be critical to the company’s future. His responses about the company’s ability to protect its users will be closely scrutinized by lawmakers and regulators as well as competitors, Facebook employees and the billions of people who use the platform across the globe.
To help make the case that he should be taken seriously as a businessman and a statesman, Mr. Zuckerberg will be taking oath in a suit instead of his trademark gray T-shirt and jeans.
The hearings were prompted by the revelation that Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm linked to the Trump campaign, harvested data of an estimated 87 million Facebook users to psychologically profile voters. On Tuesday, the company announced it would begin offering a “data abuse bounty” program to reward people who report incidents of similar abuse.
But expect the hearings to expand far beyond the Cambridge matter. Senate and House lawmakers will take the opportunity to grill Mr. Zuckerberg, the 33-year-old iconic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, on the proliferation of so-called fake news on Facebook and on Russian interference on the platform during the 2016 presidential election.
Regulation and legal action could loom for the company. The joint Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees will hold their hearing shortly after the start of 2:15 p.m. floor vote on Tuesday. Mr. Zuckerberg will appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
Expect a long afternoon: 44 senators will participate in the hearing and have been promised four minutes each of questioning.
Zuckerberg Welcomed by Dozens of Zuckerbergs on the Hill
Greeting Mr. Zuckerberg on Tuesday are dozens of cardboard cutouts of his own image wearing “fix fakebook.” in front of the U.S. Capitol Building. Credit Lawrence Jackson for The New York Times
Facebook Warns Private Messages Might Have Been Harvested
This morning, many people woke up to a Facebook notification that their personal information had been collected by “This Is Your Digital Life,” a quiz app developed by a University of Cambridge researcher, which harvested the data that was ultimately passed to Cambridge Analytica. According to the notification, the app collected data including users’ public profile information, page likes, birthdays, and current cities.
But Facebook’s notifications also alerted people that their messages were possible accessed during the breach. Aleksandr Kogan, a Russian-American academic who contracted with Cambridge Analytica’s British affiliate to harvest and provide private Facebook data, told The New York Times that the app harvested messages from the people who took part in the quiz directly, but not their extended friend network. Mr. Kogan added that the messages were not transferred to Cambridge Analytica.
Mr. Kogan said that the private messages were harvested as part of research that was conducted at Cambridge University in 2013 and the first half of 2014, before he began working with Cambridge Analytica.
The messages were collected for research into how people use emojis to convey emotions. They were kept securely in his university lab, known as the Cambridge Pro-Sociality and Well Being Lab, and access was restricted to a small group of people, Mr. Kogan said.
The message data “was obviously sensitive so we tried to be careful about how could access it,” Mr. Kogan said.
He stressed that his Facebook app only harvested messages from a “couple thousand” people who completed his questionnaire, not from their friends, he said.
During Mr. Kogan’s later work for Cambridge Analytica, his Facebook app would harvest data from people who took his questionnaire and from all their friends. But the data did not include private messages — it included only names, birth dates, locations and pages the users had liked, he said.
— Kevin Roose, Matthew Rosenberg and Sheera Frenkel
A Hot-Ticket Hearing
Several hours before Mr. Zuckerberg is scheduled to begin testifying, the line of people trying to get into the hearing room already stretched far down the hallway.
Annamarie Rienzi, a student at American University, was one of the first people in line. Wearing a T-shirt that read” #deletefacebook,” Ms. Rienzi said that she had come to the hearing to express her displeasure with the social network. She hadn’t actually deleted her Facebook account yet, she said, but was waiting to see how Mr. Zuckerberg performed before deciding whether or not to continue using the service.
“It’s really going to rest on this hearing,” she said. “It’s going to come down to if he’s honest, and if he learned from hiding so much information in the past.”
In Zuckerberg We Trust?
Facebook’s repeated privacy mishaps — and subsequent apologies — will be a recurring theme during the hearings.
Mr. Zuckerberg will start out with another mea culpa and plans to tell lawmakers that the company made a “big mistake” in underestimating its responsibility, according to prepared testimony released by the Energy and Commerce Committee. “It was my mistake, and I’m sorry. I started Facebook, I run it and I’m responsible for what happens here.”
Mr. Zuckerberg is also expected to say the company is hiring thousands of people to make the site more secure and to correct mishaps over privacy and fake news. But the question of trust is at the center of the company’s ability to thrive going forward. Some lawmakers will insist that the company’s business model of collecting data to target ads is fundamentally at odds with the protection of its users’ privacy.
— Cecilia Kang
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#apple #applenews Apple announces long-awaited bug bounty program - TechCrunch t.co/58mUe2aWLp (via Twitter twitter.com/JustGoodBites/status/761355770676047872)
Katie Moussouris, Founder and CEO of Luta Security and the creator of Microsoft's bug bounty program, moderated the discussion.
The northern pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus oregonensis) is bad news for juvenile salmon heading downstream. John Histand, Portland, is pictured here fishing for pikeminnow below the spillway at Bonneville Dam. Bounty fishers can get from $4-8 per pikeminnow as part of the predation control program. More info at pikeminnow.org
The European Commission is running a bug bounty program ( joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eu-fossa-2 ) against several open source packages to assist the community in detecting vulnerabilities in commonly used software. I got a brochure from Intigrity and it promises money awards for people who help find problems.
Some examples: