Memories of Japan, Tokyo November 2016

#Japan #tokyo #digitalphotography #streetphotography #architecture #nikon #nikonphotography #asiaphotography #citylife #cityscape #streetportrait #memoriesofjapan #streets #japanlife #colourphotography #travel #travelphotography #日本 #東京

NIKON D700
f/4.2 1/80 48 mm ISO 320

Bitten by a slug

Common puffball (Lycoperdon perlatum)

Svartskog, Norway

Lots of spiky warts were no match for a slug that went all the way to the top and took a deep bite and then went off. You can see the shiny and dry slime in several places on the cap.

As a kid I had lots of fun with the mature puffballs and made lots of smoke bombs. At that stage they are way past edible, but during their early and all-white stage they are edible and by many considered a delicacy.

Image Copyright © 2017 +Morten Ross
Image Capture Date: 20 September 2017 14:21
Altitude: 24 meters

#fungi #mushrooms #autumn #svartskog #norway

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Memories of Hong Kong, May 2014

#hongkong #digitalphotography #streetphotography #architecture #nikon #nikonphotography #asiaphotography #trams #citylife #cityscape #streetportrait #memoriesofhongkong #rain #memoriesofhongkong #umbrella #rain

NIKON D700
f/5.6 1/40 135 mm ISO 1000

Why Kylie Jenner backed out of her Megyn Kelly interview http://nyp.st/2xgD0FA

Do you have a #SamsungS8 ...? Know someone who does? I'm giving away a bunch of cases.

When you shout "Selfie"...
and everyone squeezes in 😭😂 LOL!! Smiling is our FAVORITE⭐️✨
Catch our Happy HTC faces by following us on Twitter at "TexansCheer" ❤️💙

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#Sports #NFL #Cheerleaders

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Men Set the Standards for Public Speech. Until That Changes, a Woman Can't Win. http://ellemag.co/NElfx6y

Happy #HairWhipWednesday! 🌟

Only 4 days until Game Day!
#NEvsHOU!

📸: David Silverman

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#Sports #NFL #Cheerleaders

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This game is going to give me a heart attack! If you have any thoughts about the video, just leave a comment down below. Thanks for watching!

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On the Origin of Complex Life

"Complex life, as we know it, started completely by chance, with small strands of molecules linking up, which eventually would have given them the ability to replicate themselves.

In this world, billions of years ago, nothing existed that we would recognise today as living. The world contained only lifeless molecules that formed spontaneously through the natural chemical and physical processes on Earth.

However, the moment that small molecules connected and formed larger molecules with the ability to replicate themselves, life started to evolve.

"Life was a chance event, there is no doubt about that," says Dr Pierre Durand from the Evolution of Complexity Laboratory in the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits University, who led a project to find out how exactly these molecules linked up with each other. Their results are published today in the journal Royal Society Open Science, in a paper entitled "Molecular trade-offs in RNA ligases affected the modular emergence of complex ribozymes at the origin of life"."

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-09-complex-life-evolved-chance-coupling.html

Google and HTC announced their plans tonight and it'll cost $1.1 billion from Google as they buy the Pixel team. This isn't Google taking over HTC at all. HTC will continue to make its own HTC-branded phones. Google, well, they picked up some talent for a sh*tload of money.

#android #htc #google

https://drd.life/2yrng0q

There it is.

With this agreement, a team of HTC talent will join Google as part of the hardware organization. These future fellow Googlers are amazing folks we’ve already been working with closely on the Pixel smartphone line, and we're excited to see what we can do together as one team. The deal also includes a non-exclusive license for HTC intellectual property.

The program is called "Kurort health walk," the German word for a health spa where many people go to recuperate.

LOL

Landon Collins starts Twitter feud with ‘bully’ Lions tight end http://nyp.st/2xgIW1u

Hewitt told LAPD detectives she had entered the actor’s home early that morning to retrieve her clothing and that Phillippe kicked, punched and threw her down the stairs twice.

Banana Cinnamon Tea Recipe For Deep Sleep (Works Better Than Sleeping Pills!)

Tossing and turning, is that your daily routine at night? Restless night in which you are unable to shuteye for more time and spend half of the night staring at ceiling. Sometimes you get so worried about not getting sleep that the mind races for long hours and then you see the sun is peeking through your window.

#banana #health #sleep #explore #medicine #herbal #healthbenefits #remedy #homeremedies #treatment #healthyliving #cure #naturalremedies #recipe #healthy

Venus and Regulus


Marek: "These pictures I took at dawn on September 19th. It was a magical morning."

Regulus, also designated Alpha Leonis, is the brightest star in the constellation of Leo and one of the brightest stars in the night sky, lying approximately 79 light years from the Sun.
(Source: Wikipedia)

Credit: Marek Nikodem
Location: near Szubin, Poland
Image Date: September 19, 2017

#Earth #Astronomy #Science #Space #Venus #Planet #Star #Regulus #AlphaLeonis #Leo #Conjunction #SolarSystem #Cosmos #Universe #Astrophotography #Photography #Art #Szubin #Poland #Europe #STEM #Education

Optimism...I feel you.

The deal, which moves the team behind the Pixel and Pixel XL over from HTC to Google, is expected to close by early 2018. #News #Google #GooglePixel

Thanks to +Android Unfiltered​ for reviewing Cosmicons! Go check out the article 😄

Trump blocks woman with stage 4 cancer on Twitter after she criticized his latest health care plan https://thinkprogress.org/trump-blocks-laura-packard-after-she-criticized-trumpcare-graham-cassidy-heller-adb4d69020c5/ -via Flynx

Those of us who’ve experienced acne know that pimples don’t restrict themselves to just sprouting up on our faces.
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Perquita Burgess, who claims O’Reilly harassed her with sexually-charged language, was found to have been arrested for making false accusations.
will this vindicate O’Reilly it should ..

Manafort used Trump campaign account to email Ukrainian operative http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/20/paul-manafort-trump-campaign-email-ukrainian-operative-242949 -via Flynx

Ruin Me in theaters now!

Alexandra reluctantly tags along for Slasher Sleepout, an extreme event that is part camping trip, part haunted house, and part escape room. But when the fun turns deadly, Alex has to play the game if she wants to make it out alive.

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#movie #film

We're about to crack the code on some the biggest Windows mysteries.

Really long read but great story on Dwight

Diabetes: The Rice You Eat Is Worse Than Sugary Drinks

In a recent research a shocking new has come up regarding the diabetic patient. The research work claimed that rice is the most dangerous ingredient for the diabetic patient.

#diabetes #health #eating #explore #drinks #healthy #healthbenefits #remedy #healthyliving #rice #cure #healing #disease #healthcare #naturalremedies #treatment

WaPo: "Less than two weeks before Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign chairman offered to provide briefings on the race to a Russian billionaire closely aligned with the Kremlin, according to people familiar with the discussions.

The Good Place Creator Michael Schur on Season Two, Food Puns, and Why You Shouldn’t Expect Another Finale Twist http://vult.re/2xgID6U

[...]
"Daniel Rothman, professor of geophysics in the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and co-director of MIT's Lorenz Center, has analyzed significant changes in the carbon cycle over the last 540 million years, including the five mass extinction events. He has identified "thresholds of catastrophe" in the carbon cycle that, if exceeded, would lead to an unstable environment, and ultimately, mass extinction.

In a paper published in Science Advances, he proposes that mass extinction occurs if one of two thresholds are crossed: For changes in the carbon cycle that occur over long timescales, extinctions will follow if those changes occur at rates faster than global ecosystems can adapt. For carbon perturbations that take place over shorter timescales, the pace of carbon-cycle changes will not matter; instead, the size or magnitude of the change will determine the likelihood of an extinction event."

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-09-mathematics-sixth-mass-extinction.html

CCleaner malware might have been espionage against specific targets. "This post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin, Earl Carter, Warren Mercer, Matthew Molyett, Matthew Olney, Paul Rascagneres and Craig Williams.

Note: This blog post discusses active research by Talos into a new threat. This information should be considered preliminary and will be updated as research continues.

INTRODUCTION

Talos recently published a technical analysis of a backdoor which was included with version 5.33 of the CCleaner application. During our investigation we were provided an archive containing files that were stored on the C2 server. Initially, we had concerns about the legitimacy of the files. However, we were able to quickly verify that the files were very likely genuine based upon the web server configuration files and the fact that our research activity was reflected in the contents of the MySQL database included in the archived files.

In analyzing the delivery code from the C2 server, what immediately stands out is a list of organizations, including Cisco, that were specifically targeted through delivery of a second-stage loader. Based on a review of the C2 tracking database, which only covers four days in September, we can confirm that at least 20 victim machines were served specialized secondary payloads.
[...]
These new findings raise our level of concern about these events, as elements of our research point towards a possible unknown, sophisticated actor. These findings also support and reinforce our previous recommendation that those impacted by this supply chain attack should not simply remove the affected version of CCleaner or update to the latest version, but should restore from backups or reimage systems to ensure that they completely remove not only the backdoored version of CCleaner but also any other malware that may be resident on the system."