RHM Adult Peregrine Falcon @ Boeing Aerospace Bld Kent, Wa
Peale #39;s adults are overall darker, having more heavily streaked breasts, heavily barred bellies, streaking in cheek patches and lacking a rufous wash on underparts. Adults in SE Alaska and...
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Gaetz Aerospace Institute Concurrent Enrollment Program
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University presents the Gaetz Aerospace Institute Concurrent Enrollment Program. This dual enrollment program provides rigorous STE...
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Anvil Aerospace Gladiator - Close Look Review - Star Citizen
Today we take a close look at the dedicated bomber, The Anvil Aerospace Gladiator. This review is only possible due to the enormous kindness of Robert, who has allowed me access to his hanger...
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January 19, 2015
A detail from the Hubble Space Telescope's largest photograph ever, which depicts the Andromeda galaxy. (Credit: NASA)
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A massive, high-definition panorama taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is being called the largest picture ever taken, and it shows Andromeda in unprecedented detail, depicting over 100 million individual stars and traversing a 48,000 light-year-long stretch of the galaxy.
The panorama is a gargantuan 1.5 billion-pixel image that requires more than 4 GB worth of disk space and is comprised of 411 individual Hubble images. In addition, it is the sharpest large-scale composite of Andromeda image ever captured, according to NASA, with 100 million-plus stars depicted in the image.
To put that into perspective, the European Space Agency said that the image is so big that it would take more than 600 high-definition TV screens in order to display the whole thing. According to the ESA, the panorama is the largest Hubble image ever released, and it has also established a new benchmark for the precision studies of large spiral galaxies.
Andromeda, also known as M31, is the closest galaxy to our own Milky Way. It is more than two million light years away, but the US space agency said that Hubble is powerful enough to resolve individual stars in a 61,000-light-year-long stretch of its pancake-shaped disk. NASA compares it to photographing a beach and being able to pinpoint individual grains of sand.
Never before have astronomers been able to see individual stars inside an external spiral galaxy over such a large contiguous area, NASA said. The image, which was presented earlier this month at the 225th Meeting of the Astronomical Society in Seattle, Washington, is the first data to reveal populations of stars in context to their home galaxy, the agency added.
The Hubble telescope traced densely packed stars that extended from the galaxys innermost region. Moving out from the center, the panorama sweeps across rows of stars and dust to the sparse outer disk. Large group of young blue stars indicate regions of star formation and star clusters, and the dark silhouettes indicate complex dust structures. Underlying the entire galaxy is a distribution of cooler red stars that trace the evolution of the galaxy over a period of several billion years, the researchers said.
The panorama was the product of the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) program, and images were obtained by viewing Andromeda in near-ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared wavelengths.
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Q A with Dr Ibrahim Moussa at anti-Nato event at British Parliament
On Mon 12 Jan 2015 in Committee Room 15 in the Houses of Parliament Dr Moussa Ibrahim addresses the event #39;Libya: Nato #39;s Untold Story #39; organised by the Tricontinental Anti-Imperialist Platform....
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Nato Mundial La Jipeta
[Descargar AQui] http://mfi.re/listen/zv321czrlcl65gm/NT_-_La_Jipeta.mp3.
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Islam Crushed USA-EU-Nato-Israel-Daech Axis
Islam Crushed Nazi-USA-EU-Nato-Israel-GCC-Daech-Isis-Isil-AlQaeda Axis. Islam Crushed the Biggest Terrorist Christian-Muslim-Jewish Alliance in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Pakistan,...
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#39;Not time to mend ties with Russia #39;: Top NATO official says Ukraine situation deteriorating
A top NATO official HAS it was the wrong time to talk about mending relations with Russia, given the conflict in Ukraine, even as the EU said they must start...
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NATO shifts interim troops focus to Europe
After combat operations in Afghanistan have ended, NATO is shifting its focus to Europe. It is creating a new ultra-rapid-response force; all to deter Russia. CCTV #39;s Jack Barton reported this...
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January 20, 2015
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a political and military Alliance whose primary goals are the collective defence of its members and the maintenance of democratic peace in the North Atlantic area.
Since its inception in 1949, NATO has been a central pillar of Euro-Atlantic defence and a cornerstone of Canadian defence and security policy. While the nature and the scope of threats faced by Canada and its allies have changed over time, NATOs basic tenets of solidarity, dialogue and cooperation continue to uphold the Alliances approach to collective security. NATO members are more secure because security concerns are discussed in a shared forum and addressed collectively, based on a set of common principles and shared values.
As one of NATOs founding members, Canada has been, and remains, a leader in the Alliance. The Canadian Armed Forces contribute to NATO providing modern, deployable capabilities to allied missions and highly trained personnel to its command structure. Canadas recent and on-going contributions to NATO, including the service and sacrifices of the Canadian Armed Forces personnel and civilians in Afghanistan, the Balkans, in the skies and off the coast of Libya and, most recently, contributions to the Alliances reassurance measures in response to Russian aggressions in Ukraine, are clear demonstrations of Canadas commitment to, and leadership in, NATO.
Established under the Washington Treaty, NATO was created as an alliance of collective defence as a deterrent to protect Western Europe against Soviet domination. Over the course of the Cold War, NATO allies devoted significant resources toward the development of military and civilian structures to further protect against the threat of an expansionist Soviet Union. This lengthy period of allied defence cooperation gave NATO substantial military capabilities as well as valuable experience in the planning and execution of multi-national military operations, and laid the foundation for an unprecedented and uninterrupted period of stability in the Euro-Atlantic area.
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact that marked the end of the Cold War in the 1990s, NATO adopted a new spirit of cooperation with non-member countries as part of a broader approach to transatlantic security. NATO has since shifted its posture towards addressing a far broader spectrum of security challenges, including the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile technology, cyber-attacks, and transnational terrorism. Today, NATO engages with some 40 countries through various partner arrangements, including the Partnership for Peace, the Mediterranean Dialogue and the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative, as well as international organizations such as the United Nations, the European Union, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The Alliance has a global approach to defence, with activities ranging from peace support operations in Kosovo, to counter terrorism operations in the Mediterranean, as well assurance measures and joint training exercises in Central and Eastern Europe.
Canada is at the forefront of efforts to transform and reform the alliance to ensure it is better able to act as a fit-for-purpose, political and military hub that enables allies and non-NATO partners to collaboratively address current and emerging security challenges.
Membership in the Alliance affords Canada an effective military instrument that helps Canada meet its three strategic defence and security objectives: to defend Canada and North America, and to project leadership abroad. NATO is an important driver for Canadas military interoperability with allies and partners. NATO also provides an important political forum in which Canada can advance its views and interests and build consensus around issues of pressing concern. Canada also leverages NATO to maximize information-sharing and to strengthen bilateral relationships with its allies and partners.
In the event of a crisis that threatens the security of a NATO nation, Canada could rapidly make available the contingency forces that it maintains for Alliance operations, including land, air and sea and Special Forces elements. Canada currently contributes over 300 personnel to NATOs structures, and to our Joint Delegation to NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Along with allies and partners, the Canadian Armed Forces participates in NATO exercises to maintain interoperability, and support NATOs high readiness forces. Canada provides 6.09 per cent of NATOs common budgets for investment and operations, making it the sixth largest financial contributor among all allies.
Canada is represented at NATO by the Permanent Representative of Canada to the North Atlantic Council, the Alliances highest decision-making body. The Canadian Military Representative represents the Chief of the Defence Staff on the Military Committee. In addition to its regular meetings with permanent representatives, the North Atlantic Council also meets at the level of heads of state and government, or ministers of defence or foreign affairs. NATOs Chiefs of Defence staff also hold periodic meetings, normally in advance of high-level meetings of the North Atlantic Council.
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NSA Hacked North Korea Years Before Sony Hack
The New York Times reports the NSA knew North Korea hacked Sony because the NSA had hacked into North Korea years ago. Follow Jay Strubberg: http://www.twitter.com/jaystrubberg See more at...
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In addition to having its own arsenal of digital weapons, the U.S. National Security Agency reportedly hijacks and repurposes third-party malware.
The NSA is using its network of servers around the world to monitor botnets made up of thousands or millions of infected computers. When needed, the agency can exploit features of those botnets to insert its own malware on the already compromised computers, through a technology codenamed Quantumbot, German new magazine Der Spiegel reported Sunday.
One of the secret documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and published by Der Spiegel contains details about a covert NSA program called DEFIANTWARRIOR thats used to hijack botnet computers and use them as pervasive network analysis vantage points and throw-away non-attributable CNA [computer network attack] nodes.
This means that if a users computer is infected by cybercriminals with some malware, the NSA might step in, deploy their own malware alongside it and then use that computer to attack other interesting targets. Those attacks couldnt then be traced back to the NSA.
According to the leaked document, this is only done for foreign computers. Bots that are based in the U.S. are reported to the FBI Office of Victim Assistance.
The NSA also intercepts and collects data that is stolen by third-party malware programs, especially those deployed by other foreign intelligence agencies, if it is valuable. It refers to this practice as fourth party collection.
In 2009, the NSA tracked a Chinese cyberattack against the U.S. Department of Defense and was eventually able to infiltrate the operation. It found that the Chinese attackers were also stealing data from the United Nations so it continued to monitor the attackers while they were collecting internal UN data, Der Spiegel reported.
It goes deeper than that. One leaked secret document contains an NSA workers account of a case of fifth party collection. It describes how the NSA infiltrated the South Korean CNE (computer network exploitation) program that targeted North Korea.
We found a few instances where there were NK officials with SK implants on their boxes, so we got on the exfil [data exfiltration] points, and sucked back the data, the NSA staffer wrote in the document. However, some of the individuals that SK was targeting were also part of the NK CNE program. So I guess that would be the fifth party collect you were talking about.
In other words, the NSA spied on a foreign intelligence agency that was spying on a different foreign intelligence agency that had interesting data of its own.
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The United States National Security Agency knew in advance that North Korea was about to hack into Sony's systems, according to The New York Times.
The NSA apparently penetrated North Korea's network through several vectors, including Chinese networks used to connect with the rest of the world and hacker connections in Malaysia. The NSA was able to burrow in using the networks of South Korea and other allies.
Leveraging the South Korean network was referenced in this now-unclassified NSA document published by Der Spiegel.
The evidence gathered by the NSA reportedly spurred President Obama's accusation that North Korea was behind last year's cyberattacks on Sony.
The report triggered a media storm and drew a wide gamut of responses from readers.
"I wonder if perhaps the NSA did get wind of the planned attack but deliberately withheld that info from Sony because it, the NSA, feared that Sony might react by tightening its security, thereby tipping off NK that the NSA knew what it was up to," mused archer717. "I'll bet Sony's execs are asking themselves just that question as they read this article."
Several expressed support for the NSA's monitoring North Korea's systems.
For example, "I'm very glad the U.S. has the capability to monitor these rogue actors," Tim wrote, pointing out that the NSA's stated mission is collecting foreign signals intelligence to prevent strategic surprises.
On the other hand, many, like Phil Green, argued that the U.S.' own hands are not clean.
"You always figure that, when the U.S. accuses another nation of bad behavior, that the U.S. has done the very act complained of," Green suggested. "We hacked Iran's and Brazil's oil companies and invaded the privacy of everyone on Earth long before we were caught, but not before we had accused others of doing what we do best and more of than anyone else."
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US cybersecurity officials were convinced North Korea was behind the notorious Sony hack last November because the NSA had secretly infiltrated the hermit kingdoms computer systems years before the Hollywood e-mail raid, according to a new report.
The National Security Agency penetrated North Korean networks in 2010 over concerns the nations digital infrastructure was considered one of the most impenetrable targets on earth, The New York Times reports.
The NSAs classified program placed malware that could trace the workings of North Korean hackers and followed a secretive system that traveled from Chinese and Malaysian networks back into a North Korean intelligence service.
Evidence gathered during the US cyber-surveillance mission convinced President Obama that hackers backed by the North Korean government were responsible for the Sony attacks, the paper said.
The hackers released embarrassing personal e-mails from Sony Pictures bigwigs in an attempt to thwart the release of a movie that lampooned North Korean despot Kim Jong-un.
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The NSA quietly commandeered a botnet targeting US Defence agencies to attack other victims including Chinese and Vietnamese dissidents, Snowden documents reveal.
The allegation is among the latest in a cache of revelations dropped by Der Spiegel that revealed more about the spy agency.
The "Boxingrumble" botnet was detected targeting the Defence Department's Nonsecure Internet Protocol Router Network prompting NSA bods to redirect the attack to a server operated by the Tailored Access Operations unit.
A DNS spoofing attack tricked the botnet into treating the spies as trusted command and control agents. The NSA then used the bot's hooks into other victims to foist its own custom malware.
Much of the bot-hijacking attacks dubbed "Quantumbot" by the NSA was conducted under its operation DEFIANT WARRIOR which utilised XKeyscore and infrastructure of Five Eyes allies including Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada to identify foreign bots ripe for attack.
The work granted broader network exploitation, attack and vantage points, NSA Power Point slides revealed (pdf).
It was part of what appeared to be the NSA's dream of having "a botnet upon which the sun never sets", a goal noted under the slide title "if wishes were ponies".
Bots found in the US would be referred to the FBI for cleansing, but infected victims in other countries were considered collateral.
The documents also revealed the NSA's Tutelage program (pdf), a sister to Turmoil and part of the Turbulence family of surveillance and exploitation kit, was used to block distributed denial of service (DoS) attacks by the Anonymous collective.
Tutelage was successful in identifying and blocking internet protocol addresses linked to the Low Orbit Ion Cannon DDoS software when US Defence agencies were attacked.
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COPWATCH: Illegal Search Officers Find Nothing
This was one of two illegal searches I witnessed that were conducted not much more than 100 yards apart from each other. There is no such thing as a fourth amendment in DeKalb, IL.
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How the 2014 Elections Were a Second Amendment Success
Townhall #39;s Katie Pavlich explains how more Americans than ever are exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in 2015.
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The Making Of The Twenty Second Amendment Part 2
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To protect its Second Amendment rights, a handgun manufacturer is blasting Liam Neeson for exercising his First Amendment rights. Theres too many f*cking guns out there, the actor said recently. I think the (US) population is like 320 million. Theres over 300 million guns privately owned in America. I think its a f*cking disgrace.
In response, North Carolina-based PARA USA which supplied guns Neesons hit film Taken 3 but now regrets its decision is calling on the firearms industry not to provide guns to his movies. [We] ask that our friends and partners in Hollywood refrain from associating our brand and products with his projects, the firm said in a Facebook post. We encourage our partners and friends in the firearms industry to do the same.
Neeson, whoseTaken trilogy is filled with gun violence, thinks guns onscreen are just fine. I grew up watching cowboy movies, he said. Loved doing that (gun gesture) with my fingers, Bang, bang, youre dead! I didnt end up a killer.
Late-blooming action hero Neesons hit parade continues March 13 with Run All Night, in which he plays a graying assassin who gets in deep with his longtime mob boss and comes out firing.
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The Making Of The Twenty First Amendment Part 10
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