I'm the CISO of the Photobox Group and we are currently hiring for a Head of Application Security to join our amazing team. Please share this post and Job Description with your network and with who you think would be a great match for our project and culture. Although we will always make a choice based on talent and fit, I would love to get more candidates from diverse backgrounds, namely women.
But first of all, a bit of context about how we think about Application Security (AppSec) at Photobox Group Security.
Basically, any company today is driven by the quality, effectiveness and adaptability of the applications they use. That's because the value a company provides its customers/users is only as good as the technology that's created by the applications it creates, buys or rents.
As we move more to an cloud/serverless world, some components are becoming thinner. But still, the thing that makes the difference is the code that we write - and we have to make sure it is secure (since that code have full, or very privileged, access to our assets). For us at Photobox Group Security, that means protecting the photos our customers store with us, their data, and some cases the personal data of our employees. To make this scale, it is critical that we create an environment where writing secure code is easy, smooth, effective, and ideally, invisible to the developer teams (most of the time).
The vision is: Create an environment where developers can code in the most efficient, fast, and powerful way to develop apps that are secure by default, by design and in deployment.
OK, so who do we need to help us achieve this?
The person that we want is somebody that will thrive on this challenge; who basically wants to figure out, implement, and make sure we have solutions that scale for application security.
The reality is that we already know a lot about writing secure code and writing secure applications at Photobox. We've also put a lot of work into creating environments where applications can be executed securely. And there is a whole range of technologies that can facilitate the next stage of our journey. The question is scalability. We do this in a way that doesn't require a huge amount of security touch points, which usually turn security into a bottle neck.
For example, even if we could review all the code line by line, and had all the time in the world to make changes, that model just wouldn't scale. With hundreds of developers, you would need dozens or hundreds of security consultants. That means the only way this scales is if we can automate the knowledge and the workflows that are available to our security team - and do that in a way that our developers have access to every day (namely via their team's Security Champion).
This is even more important because of the world we're heading into; the world of very fast deployments, where you push to production 5, 10, 20 times, 100 times, 1000s of times a day.
It's a crazy idea that as we move into this mode of fast deployment, suddenly 'we can't do security'; 'we can't do threat models'; 'we can't do security standards'; and we can't have all these practices that add a lot of value - to the business, not just to the security team. But the reality is that to do that, we need to be a lot more efficient. The problem we have is that in the past, application security has not focused on scalability. And, for a whole bunch of historical reasons, AppSec has not been caught up in the whole cycle of application development.
Also, these days 'the application' is actually the whole system (from deployment scripts, to infrastucture provisioning, to code running live, etc…). 'Infrastucure as Code' means that infrastructure 'is' code, and we need to apply the same security principles to it.
What we are looking for is innovative solutions and ideas to build a modern security function. This will allow us to focus on allowing the company to accelerate as fast as it can (in a secure way). And by 'secure', I mean that the risk implications of what we are putting into production, are understood by the multiple business owners (and meets their risk appetite).
The right candidate is somebody that looks at all this, and says "Wow! this is really exciting!".
One of the great things about Photobox Group is that we have strong support for our security vision from the Board, from C-Level execs, from business owners and from developers (as an example see this blog post from our CTO: How we think about Security).
What all this adds up to is that our Head of AppSec AppSec needs to be fully hands on.
This means that we need somebody with very strong leadership skills, a strong ability to deal with pressure and the ability to delegate and communicate the ideas to a much wider team and players. I also expect a strong desire and hunger to learn as much as possible and work very closely with the rest of the highly talented Photobox Group Security team (knowing that no one has all the answers, but that as team we will get to the right answers together).


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Google has announced that it is planning to ditch the 30-second unskippable advertisement format on YouTube, which show up right before a video starts, from next year onwards. The company is reportedly looking at other formats to present ads that can work well for both advertisers and the viewers.
The search giant has decided to kill the 30-second unskippable ads in order to provide a better advertising experience to the online users, Google said in a statement to Campaign. "As part of that, we've decided to stop supporting 30-second unskippable ads as of 2018 and focus instead on formats that work well for both users and advertisers," Google spokesperson was quoted as saying in the Campaign report.
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It seems like YouTube has realised that the unskippable advertisements with long duration can often cause frustration among users and result in bad experience online. As it is a consumer-centric approach, it is definitely a welcome move. However, advertisers are unlikely to be pleased by the company's latest strategy. Considering that Facebook has recently focused heavily on videos and platforms like Snapchat are becoming hugely popular, YouTube might need to be on its toes to remain the preferred video-platform among users going ahead.


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Life-giving theatre in Bosnia & London
Stef O' Driscoll (award-winning theatre director) and Mark Griffin (St Mary's University College, London), friends I've made through my thespian daughter, are off to Sarajevo on Friday. They want to dramatise some of the wonderful stories in Miljenko Jergovic's Sarajevo Marlboro, a collection of short stories on how the young people of Sarajevo from the different communities – Croats, Serbs and Bosniacs – helped each other to survive during the siege. They plan to stage performances in London and in Bosnia.
They'll spend much of their time listening, I suspect, and it will be hard.
Amila and Niko at Blackburn Cathedral
We had a wonderful time in London this evening with some of the Bosnians who have been taking part in the Forgiveness Project exhibition at Blackburn Cathedral. They fly home tomorrow morning. Stef met Silva (a young woman from the Croat community), Amila (who teaches English in Tuzla and is connected to the beautiful madrassa there) and Niko (Deputy Bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Tuzla area).
In a wholly uninspiring hotel lobby, conversation ranged from the dreadful and continuing pain of multiple and unexplainable bereavement, to justice denied, the thirst in Bosnia for creativity, beauty and the arts, the power of women's stories and of the life-giving and transformative possibilities of carefully devised theatre. It's impossible to have conversations like these with our Bosnian friends without a great deal of laughter, too – I love it.
I also caught sight of Chris and Anjum from Blackburn Cathedral, who worked hard to bring our Bosnian friends to the UK. We're hoping that the final report of the original UK visit in October 2009 will be the kind of document that people will say, "If you're going to Bosnia, read this".
This entry was posted on 11 February 2010 by Catriona Robertson in Bosnia and tagged Blackburn Cathedral, Bosnia, Bosniac, Forgiveness Project, Franciscan, London, Sarajevo, Serbian Orthodox, theatre, Tuzla, women.
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Property NameSpace Shuttle Enterprise Reference Number13000071StateNew YorkCountyNew YorkTownManhattan Street AddressPier 86 , W 46th Stand 12th Ave, Manhattan, New YorkMultiple Property Submission NameN/AStatus Listed 03/13/2013Areas of Significance0ther/space exploration, TRANSPORTATION, ENGINEERINGLink to full file https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/pdfs/13000071.pdf The Orbiter Enterprise, OV-101, is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places in the context of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program (1969-2011) under Criterion A in the areas of Space Exploration and Transportation and under Criterion C in the area of Engineering.
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Under Criterion C, Enterprise is exceptionally significant for its .role in the practical application and testing of orbiter designs and features.
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Q: Unable to upgrade virtualenv with Python3.5 and Python2.7 on the same machine Python 2.7 is the default version on my RHEL box. I also have Python 3.5 installed and added the following to my .bachrc file:
alias python=/usr/bin/python3.5

I run python -V and it indicates 3.5. All good.
I then run:
 pip install --upgrade virtualenv

I get the following error:
No distributions at all found for virtualenv in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages

I'm wondering why 2.7 is still be referenced?
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A: If you look at the contents of pip you will notice that it's just a Python script, and it has a shebang line (#!) pointing to your old python. Try this
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You probably have a pip3.5 program, and you can alias it like this
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Revisiting a 1958 Map of Space Mysteries
What have we learned about the cosmos over the past 60 years?
by Jessica Leigh Hester August 24, 2018
Some of these questions were cracked soon after the map was produced. Others still hang on today. Courtesy Geographicus Rare Antique Maps
A year after Sputnik launched into space, in 1957, speculation was sizzling. Surely, humans would be up there before too long, which in turn would finally put us in a position to answer our many, many questions about the universe.
In 1958, the American Oil Company (AMOCO) released a pictorial map outlining some of the most bedeviling space-related puzzles of the age, and predicting what might happen when space explorers were able to get a closer look.
Some of these questions were tied up pretty quickly. A decade after the map's cartographer, Rudy de Reyna, mused about whether humans would orbit or land on the Moon, we did both. The Apollo 8 crew flew within 69 miles of the Moon's rutted surface on Christmas Eve, 1968. (A Soviet craft had orbited within 1,240 miles the previous year, but it wasn't crewed. Instead, it carried tortoises, flies, mealworms, and bacteria; a mannequin was strapped in, too, as a low-maintenance proxy for a human passenger.) The following year, on the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong became the first person to bound across the lunar landscape.
Asked and answered.
But the rest of the questions on de Reyna's map aren't so neatly resolved. Sixty years later, Atlas Obscura checked in with space experts to weigh in on which have been cracked, and what continues to confound. Use the zoom tool below to take a closer look.
Mystery of the Expanding Universe
1958 Question: "Was our universe born in a mighty explosion some three to eight billion years ago?"
2018 Answer: There was probably a bang—but it likely happened much earlier.
To gauge the age of the universe as a whole, scientists have often started with the age of the stuff inside it—specifically, early stars gathered in dense arrangements known as globular clusters. "Just like archaeologists use fossils to reconstruct the history of the Earth, astronomers use globular clusters to reconstruct the history of the galaxy," as Andrea Kunder, a professor of physics at St. Martin's University, explained to Space.com last year. Globular clusters can help establish one threshold—the youngest the universe could be—but they don't necessarily help us crack that upper limit.
The team behind NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which began in 2001 with the aim of filling in more details about the universe's earliest days, analyzed measurements of cosmic microwave background radiation (that is, the Big Bang's afterglow), plus data about composition and the rate at which the universe is expanding. Their best guess: The universe was probably born around 13.77 billion years ago.
The Tarantula Nebula, within the Large Magellanic Cloud, is an especially fertile region for star formation. ESA/Hubble & NASA
Mystery Clouds of the Galaxies
1958 Question: "What's going on in the space between stars?"
2018 Answer: Quite a lot.
By the 1950s, scientists had realized that space wasn't a mostly empty frontier punctuated by the occasional planet. "They had mapped out the distribution of atomic gas throughout the Milky Way," but focused mostly on atomic gases, says Mark Heyer, an astronomer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who studies galactic gases.
Then, in 1970, scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories detected carbon monoxide molecules in space and gained new insight into the places where, as Chemical Engineering News put it at the time, "thin chemical soups are giving birth to new stars." When the astronomers observed these clouds of molecular gas, Heyer says, "they could see… that's the reservoir from which new stars are formed."
"The physics of molecular clouds is really the physics of star formation," Heyer adds, and bigger, more-sensitive telescopes are giving astronomers an ever-closer look. Multi-telescope arrays and hulking, single-dish instruments in Chile, Mexico, Spain, and Japan, for instance, allow scientists to peer at small features such as discs around newborn stars, or survey thousands of positions in the sky at once. "You can start making big maps or surveys of the galaxy much more efficiently," Heyer says.
The map describes "seething" clouds of gas, and they are indeed swirling spots. Inside, particles move many times faster than the speed of sound. The churning motion affects star formation, "which then drives the evolution of galaxies—how they might appear in a billion years, or 10 billion years," Heyer says.
But what's driving all that churning? Supersonic turbulence dissipates over several million years—which sounds like a while until you remember that these clouds have a lifespan of up to 30 million years. Some energy source is keeping things moving. It could be a combination of radiation, rotation, and more, but the precise mechanism, Heyer says, "is still a big unanswered question."
The sunspot on this 2014 image is larger than the diameter of ten planets the size of Earth. NASA/SDO
Mystery of the Sunspots
1958 Question: "Why do sunspots have an 11-year cycle?"
2018 Answer: They relate to the Sun's magnetic field—but questions remain.
The Sun's magnetic poles tend to flip roughly every 11 years, for a 22-year cycle. Dark, splotchy sunspots tend to crop up in response to intense magnetic activity, and are a barometer of sorts for just how feisty a given cycle is. They tend to freckle our star just before a cycle rolls over. Lately, though, things have been calmer than usual, and it's not entirely clear why. Plus, our bright neighbor can be unpredictable, as Alexei Pevtsov, an astronomer at the National Solar Observatory in Boulder, recently told Scientific American: "There's an element of randomness."
The 64-meter antenna in Goldstone, California, received signals from Mariner 4, including images and video (center), in 1966. NASA/Public Domain
Mystery of Interplanetary Expeditions
1958 Question: "What created the canals on Mars? Is there life hidden under the dense clouds of Venus?"
2018 Answer: It's complicated.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as humans were digging a lot of canals on Earth, some astronomers insisted that they observed similar features on Mars—right down to mules hauling boats around the planet's waterways. Later research, including images captured aboard Mariner 4, in 1965, disputed the presence of these arteries, and eventually dismissed them. Early observers may have been confused by an optical illusion, misled by smears of dust, or simply seeing what they hoped to find.
The Pathfinder touched down on Mars on July 4, 1997. NASA/Public Domain
As for Venus, before astronomers got a close-up look at that planet, imaginations ran wild. Scientists and comic-book artists alike surmised that there could be vast deserts, oceans, or rainforests underneath the planet's thick cloud cover. Then, in 1962, a few years after the AMOCO map was created, the space probe Mariner 2 flew 21,607 miles from Venus and collected measurements indicating that the clouds were cool and the ground was scorching. Today, we know that the planet has pressure akin to our oceans' deepest depths, and temperatures that would reduce metals to puddles.
But, for decades, some scientists have suggested that lifeforms could have eked out an existence on the planet during a long period of past habitability, and that bacteria could still be living somewhere in the clouds. Carl Sagan first proposed this idea in 1967. Last April, researchers led by Sanjay Limaye, of University of Wisconsin–Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center, suggested in Astrobiology that Venus may once have been covered with water, long-since evaporated, and that microbes from that vanished body might be able to survive as "splotches" high up in the clouds, similar to how some microorganisms on Earth flourish in highly acidic environments by consuming carbon dioxide. "To really know, we need to go there and sample the clouds," co-author Rakesh Mogul, a professor of biological chemistry at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, told Popular Mechanics. "Venus could be an exciting new chapter in astrobiology exploration."
Mystery of Gravity
1958 Question: "Why do things fall down, not up, and will that be different in space?"
2018 Answer: Meet "microgravity."
Certainly, scientists knew a lot about gravity by the 1950s. As the map's authors point out, there was a trove of information from Galileo, Newton, and Einstein. We had a good handle on how things worked on Earth, at least. Gravity is pulling on you in all directions, at all times. It's not really a matter of "down" or "up," but of mass. More-massive objects have a stronger gravitational pull, which is why—even though you're exerting a gravitational force, too—you'll lose out to Earth every time.
But what happens in space? Astronauts would soon figure it out. In 1972, one mission team even tested these theories out on the moon, dropping a hammer and a falcon feather onto the lunar surface. Space is not a gravity-free zone: According to NASA, a small amount of gravity exists across space, though it's weaker over greater distances. Gravity is also key to orbits.
The term "zero gravity" is admittedly a misnomer. NASA uses the term "microgravity" instead, to refer to the weightlessness that crews experience in orbit. But that only happens because they're moving. "If there was a super tall tower reaching into space, they wouldn't float around," the physicist Rhett Allain wrote for Wired earlier this year. "The 'weightless' environment is caused by the orbital motion of the people inside a spacecraft or space station."
Gravity does exist outside a spacecraft. So, if you happen to find yourself on the Moon, which is much less massive than our planet and roughly a quarter of its size, prance around and enjoy higher-flying leaps!
An artist's rendition of objects orbiting Earth, drawn from density data. ESA
Mystery of Satellite Territory
1958 Question: "Why aren't meteoroids smashing into more of the stuff we've sent up into space?"
2018 Answer: There aren't that many of them, in the grand scheme of space.
By the end of the 1950s, two man-made satellites had been launched into Earth's orbit (the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, and the U.S. dispatched Explorer 1 the following year). The AMOCO map's authors wondered why they weren't constantly getting dinged by dust and meteoroids. After all, to lay observers looking skyward from Earth, it often appears that there are zillions of things streaking around. These days, of course, there are many more satellites orbiting Earth. As of April 2018, the Union of Concerned Scientists was tracking 1,886 of them. So why aren't they constantly getting smacked with stuff?
Satellite tracker Marco Langbroek explains that meteoroids aren't too threatening because, across space, the density of this dust is pretty low, even at the peak of a major meteor shower.
Consider the Perseids, one of the most dazzling meteor showers of the year. During this shower, only one meteoroid passes through a one-kilometer square plane of atmosphere every 32 hours, Langbroek explains. Outside of those periods, that number is much lower, he adds—more like one meteoroid per square kilometer every 10 or 15 days. We only see streams of meteors on any given night because we can survey millions of square kilometers of atmosphere. "Satellites by contrast, have a small surface and hence are very small sample areas," says Langbroek.
Think of it in terms of driving your car through a desert. Say there's not a whole lot flying around—maybe a single mosquito per square kilometer every 10 days. "The chance that you will squash a mosquito on your windshield, while not zero, is then nevertheless very low, even if you drive there for years at a time," Langbroek says.
When meteoroids drop into Earth's atmosphere, they become known as meteors. This composite image captures the active meteor showers over Alabama on July 30, 2014. NASA/Public Domain
Even if a meteoroid does make impact, many of them are very small, and satellites are designed to withstand those. That means that collateral is rare, even when collisions do occur. "Even during the very strong peaks of the Leonid meteor shower during the late 1990s, when the parent comet was passing Earth, and Earth passed through relatively very dense particle trails with visible hourly rates of meteors briefly reaching thousands per hour, there were no fatal impacts on satellites," Langbroek says.
The bigger threats to satellites are dust-ups with other satellites and collisions with space junk, those decommissioned satellites, fragments of rockets, and other hefty cast-offs that are clogging up low-Earth orbit. "With a growing number of launches, and growing number of debris-generating events in space (e.g. exploding old rocket stages), the risk will increase," Langbroek notes. That's a recipe for a bit of a bumper-car scenario.
Mystery of Magnetism
1958 Question: "Why does a compass needle point in different directions throughout the day?"
2018 Answer: Something's wrong with your compass.
Magnets inside a compass compel the needle to respond to Earth's magnetic field. The tools will point you in the direction of magnetic north—roughly in the direction of the geographic North Pole, but not quite square on it.
For years, magnetic north fell on Ellesmere Island, part of the Arctic archipelago in Northern Canada. Recently, researchers have suggested that magnetic north is slowly migrating, and some of them have wondered whether we're in for a flip. Polar reversals have happened throughout Earth's long life—usually over the course of thousands of years, though sometimes apparently much faster. In any event, the switcheroo isn't happening over a single day. If your compass is spinning wildly, it may be drawn to magnetic materials nearby—or it could just be busted.
The Northern Lights dancing over Mt. McKinley sometime between 1972 and 1976. National Archives/42213344
Mystery of the Northern Lights
1958 Question: "What causes the 'auroral fireworks?'"
2018 Answer: Particles on the move.
The AMOCO map's authors reported that bands of green, blue, and yellow—and, sometimes, rose and amethyst—wave in the sky over Earth's North and South Poles "a day or two after a 'storm' on the Sun," almost as if "the Sun had spit out" a "stream" of them.
That's partly true. The colorful bands of the Northern Lights are related to the plasma particles that blast off from the Sun's surface through solar flares and beeline toward Earth's magnetic field. The eerie glow tends to be green or a golden yellow when the particles encounter oxygen, and red, violet, or blue when they collide with nitrogen. While the borealis thrashes most magnificently when the sunspots are busiest, it doesn't disappear when they subside. Your best chance to see them dance is from a northern outpost on a crisp, cloudless winter night.
Hi, Steve! This picture of the curious light was stitched together from 11 composites taken at Childs Lake in Manitoba, Canada. NASA/Public Domain
Mystery of the Night Sky Glow
1958 Question: "What's up with the faint light in the dark sky?"
2018 Answer: We're not sure.
Have you met Steve? He's been around for years, but was mostly overlooked in scientific circles until July 2016, when a group of citizen scientists in northern Canada spotted a narrow band of purple light shooting straight up into the sky above them. They were befuddled and enchanted by their neighbor, gave it an affable moniker, and started nudging researchers to take it seriously. It looked a bit different from the Northern Lights—unlike those wide bands, Steve was narrow and nearly vertical—but the observers figured it might be related.
New research, published this week, suggests otherwise. Writing in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers from the University of Calgary concluded that whatever Steve is, he's not an aurora—he doesn't have the same charged particles that the Northern Lights do. For now, he falls under the umbrella category of sky glow. "We know very little about it," said lead author Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, a space physicist at the University of Calgary, in a statement. "And that's the cool thing."
Mystery of the Cosmic Rays
1958 Question: "Where do these 'strange space travelers' come from?"
2018 Answer: Still a little unclear.
We know that cosmic rays are parts of atoms, and that they arrive from outside our solar system—but we still don't know exactly where they originate. In 2017, a team of researchers working at the Pierre Auger Observatory, in Chile, determined that the particles travel from somewhere beyond the Milky Way. That leaves many cosmic stones unturned, but "we are now considerably closer to solving the mystery of where and how these extraordinary particles are created, a question of great interest to astrophysicists," said team member Karl-Heinz Kampert, a professor at the University of Wuppertal in Germany, in a statement.
Even if their origin is a little murky, here on Earth, cosmic rays have also been recruited to do some detective work. Take muon particles, for instance. They form when cosmic rays enter the atmosphere; when they fall to Earth, they behave in consistent, predictable ways. Muons lose steam when they barrel through dense objects—so, by tracking them, researchers can estimate an object's density. One team tried this last year, with a novel, non-invasive way of visualizing voids inside the Great Pyramid of Giza. A similar imaging project is underway in Florence, Italy, where a team hopes to discover whether Il Duomo's cracking cupolas were shored up with any iron reinforcements.
Mystery of the Jet Streams
1958 Question: "What causes these 'mystery winds?'"
2018 Answer: A temperature gradient—and other things.
The AMOCO map's authors were baffled by what they described as the "300-mile-per-hour invisible tailwinds of the stratosphere." Some of its mechanisms are pretty easy to describe: "The jet streams in the atmosphere are a straightforward, natural result of the meridional (that is, equator-to-pole) temperature gradient in the earth's atmosphere," as James Partin, science and operations officer at the Marine Prediction Center, told Scientific American. Earth's atmosphere is a many-layered sandwich, and scientists now know that the jet streams exist under the tropopause (the part between the troposphere and the stratosphere). The jet streams' maximum velocity occurs during the winter, when there's an especially large discrepancy between the temperatures at the equator and the poles.
A newer mystery, though, is why the jet stream sometimes clogs up. In a phenomenon called "blocking," the stream sometimes wanders; when this happens, weather systems can't budge eastward. Earlier this year, atmospheric scientists at the University of Chicago began to crack the case, and noticed that the equations they were landing on echoed ones that engineers had used to look at traffic jams. Like a congested asphalt artery, "blockages" in the jet stream occur when something—say, a mountain or coast—is in the way. The researchers say that their model, which was published in Science, could help predict future weather patterns.
John W. Young, an Apollo 16 astronaut, salutes on the Moon in 1972. NASA/Public Domain
Mystery of Lunar Expeditions
1958 Question: "Will humans orbit and land on the Moon? And can we set up camp there?"
2018 Answer: We sure did, and probably!
One mystery solved, one to go.
We're not quite there yet, but a settlement is on the horizon, explains Colin Stuart, a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and author of the new book, How to Live in Space: Everything You Need to Know for the Not-So-Distant Future. "I find it really unlikely that we will get to the end of this century and there isn't some form of semi-permanent human presence on the moon," Stuart says.
As far as cosmic habitats go, the Moon "is relatively safe—as safe as space can get," Stuart adds. There's no communications delay to speak of—a radio signal can bounce to Earth within about two seconds—and if you need to return home, you can arrive within three days.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has set a target of establishing some type of Moon colony by the 2030s, and scientists have already begun prospecting for the right patch of lunar real estate and noodling over designs. The satellite's south pole is a frontrunner for location. While the Moon's tilt plunges much of it into long periods of darkness punctuated by weeks of light, this spot receives consistent sunlight, which could be harnessed for energy; it's also got plenty of water, in the form of ice.
Lunar denizens may end up living in 3D-printed homes. ESA/Foster + Partners
ESA recruited the architecture firm Foster + Partners to sketch some habitat prototypes. They look a bit like a hybrid of sand castle and igloo, and may rely on 3D printing and heaps of lunar soil to block radiation from the sun and exploding stars. "When astronauts went to the Moon, they were just blind lucky that they didn't get hit with a solar flare or something," Stuart says. "On a 10-day hop to the Moon, you got pretty good odds of dodging such a thing. If you're talking about a base where people are going to spend months, you've got to make sure your radiation protection is up to scratch." Building the homes up in space, and relying partly on materials that are already there, would slash fuel costs that would otherwise be required to haul supplies. Astronauts have already successfully 3D-printed tools aboard the International Space Station (ISS)—but full-on construction is much more complicated.
Another hurdle: the uncertain emotional toll. From the ISS, homesick astronauts can look out the window and glimpse our turf in pretty remarkable detail. Not so on the Moon. "If you're on the Moon, you can see the Earth, but it's pretty small, and you know you're days from getting back," Stuart says. "We would have to deal with isolation in a way we haven't yet in space." Despite simulations in light-starved, cold, and isolated Antarctic environments, possible emotional fallout remains a bit of a wildcard. Astronauts on Apollo 8 described "vast…awe-inspiring" loneliness, and Stuart suggests that future mission teams might send a psychologist along, or rely on an AI interface to help soothe tensions or ennui. "The rest is engineering," Stuart says. "We have a good history of overcoming engineering problems if we throw enough brainpower at it."
So how we will navigate our messy, complicated inner lives so far from familiar terrain? That's one of the greatest mysteries of all—and we won't know until we get there, gazing out at the planet we currently call home.
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Actor Reese Witherspoon jumps on the 10 Year Challenge trend.
Thousands of social media users across the globe, including celebrities, have been jumping on what has been dubbed the 10 Year Challenge - but debate has sparked over whether it's all a scam.
The latest trend of 2019 - involving people posting two photos of themself 10 years apart - has gained speedy traction on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
However, technology commentator Paul Brislen spoke to Newstalk ZB presenter Andrew Dickens this afternoon about the "fun game" exposing users to identity theft.
"Nine times out of 10 it is a scam, the whole push and the reason for these games or puzzles is to give a company access to your information and your data so that they can better understand you and your networks to pitch advertising at you," Brislen said.
Anyone in the information technology industry had the ability to start these games to test new software, Brislen said.
Social media sites could use the photos people are posting to better train their software algorithms, or robot brains that invest the sites, how to better identify users, Brislen said.
He said on the surface it didn't appear to be a big problem as it could be a way of tagging people in photos automatically but the extent of invasion was concerning.
"For my kids or my elderly parents who don't actually want everybody to know where they are, this capability becomes a threat to their privacy," Brislen said.
He felt that people walked backwards into these "games" without thinking about the ramifications.
He said it was also becoming a threat to security as face recognition was more commonly being used as security measure.
"One example of that is the new iPhone that uses face ID to unlock your phone, the ANZ app also uses the same system to access your bank account as a pin-number replacement."
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Goodale dangles goodies for Regina at campaign launch party
The eight-time Regina—Wascana MP said federal funding for the Globe Theatre, the Paul J. Hill School of Business and the city's plan to end homelessness are still just "ideas," not commitments.
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Federal Minister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale, who has represented Regina—Wascana (and overlapping ridings that preceded it) in the House of Commons since 1993.	BRANDON HARDER / Regina Leader-Post
Ralph Goodale launched his campaign for a ninth consecutive term as MP for Regina—Wascana by signalling his eagerness to work on priorities like funding the fight against homelessness and bringing a national museum to the RCMP depot.
"There's much more to do," he told a crowd numbering about 200 in a room at the Conexus Arts Centre on Tuesday evening. "I hear from the mayor, I hear from people in the community about the priorities for Regina, and I can't wait to get on with those extra priorities for the future in the weeks and the months and the years ahead."
What followed was a long list of what Goodale later called "ideas" for the city, not specific funding commitments. At least not yet. He said he wouldn't be able to give any details on what will be in the Liberal platform for the October 21 federal election, as he is a co-chair of the party's platform committee and is still sworn to secrecy.
He began by mentioning the need to find a new home for the Globe Theatre, whose current building downtown requires several million dollars of renovations. He said he is "very anxious" to work with those hoping to build a new facility for the Paul J. Hill School of Business at the University of Regina, and again touted a plan to connect Lake Diefenbaker with the Qu'Appelle Valley that's been on the drawing board for decades.
Goodale stopped just short of pledging federal support for Regina's $63-million Plan to End Homelessness, which has requested $25 million from Ottawa's $55-billion National Housing Strategy.
"We need to make sure that the homelessness initiative that the city has developed is properly supported by senior levels of government," said Goodale.
He stressed the need to "ensure that investment and maintenance is strong enough" to preserve Wascana Park and to ensure the cash-strapped YMCA "survives and thrives," while reiterating his desire to turn the RCMP Heritage Centre into a national museum of the same status as the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.
"We also need a revitalized urban Indigenous strategy for the City of Regina," said Goodale.
Goodale's launch event featured a speech from Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, who stopped by Regina the day before her trip to the G20 summit in Japan. She called her cabinet colleague a "strong Prairie voice" and said it's essential for him to be re-elected in October.
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer had preceded Goodale and Freeland at the Conexus Arts Centre on Tuesday, speaking at a Chamber of Commerce event about seven hours earlier. Understandably, he had a different perspective on Goodale's prospects and accomplishments.
He said the Liberal government has been "disastrous for Saskatchewan." To make the case, he pointed to the carbon tax and Bill C-69, which amends the federal assessment process for major resource projects. Scheer disparaged it as the "no-more-pipelines bill."
He noted that Goodale has voted with his party on those files, as he is generally required to do as a member of cabinet.
"One of the things that has disappointed me the most as a Saskatchewan member of Parliament is watching Ralph Goodale do what Justin Trudeau tells him to," Scheer told reporters at the end of a scrum, unprompted.
"There are many many people in Regina that vote for Ralph because they see him at community events and they think he's a nice guy, but when the chips are down, he never votes for us."
He encouraged Reginans to vote against Goodale, presumably in favour of the Conservative candidate in Regina—Wascana, Michael Kram, who was also at the chamber event.
During his campaign launch, Goodale stressed that his government has already done much for Regina and Saskatchewan. He spoke of support for the Winnipeg Street overpass, a new power system for Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant and an investment in the planned cleanup of the old CP rail yard.
He said the Liberals have funded about 200 water projects across the province.
Goodale's re-election bid is hitting the ground running and will use every tool available to achieve victory, according to Cameron Wensel, president of the Regina—Wascana Federal Liberal Electoral District Association. He said the campaign has already begun calling and door-knocking to identify supporters. The campaign manager will be Sean McEachern, a veteran of the last six federal election campaigns in the riding, Wensel confirmed.
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A party may file with the Supreme Court a petition to review an adverse decision by the Court of Appeals.� See Wis. Stat. � 808.10 and Rule 809.62.�
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�1������� PER CURIAM. Michael Frey appeals a judgment convicting him of second-degree sexual assault and two counts of delivering marijuana.� He also appeals an order denying his motion for resentencing.� He argues that the sentencing court improperly exercised its discretion by focusing on a dismissed charge, drew unreasonable inferences from the facts and sentenced Frey on an erroneous belief that force was used in the sexual assault.� We reject these arguments and affirm the judgment and order.
�2������� Frey was charged with sexually assaulting two sixteen-year-old girls, Ariel and Melissa, two counts of child enticement, and two counts of delivering marijuana.� At the preliminary hearing, Ariel testified that Frey had forcible intercourse with her. �Melissa testified that Frey gave her pills that caused her to fall asleep.� She awoke to discover Frey�s hand coming out of her pants.� Pursuant to a plea agreement, the State dismissed the sexual assault allegation regarding Ariel and the two counts of enticement, and Frey pled no contest to sexually assaulting Melissa and two counts of delivering marijuana.
�3������� At the sentencing hearing, the court considered the facts relating to the sexual assault of Ariel as well as those relating to Melissa in order to assess Frey�s character and the pattern of his behavior.� The court inferred that Frey drugged Melissa for the purpose of sexually abusing her.� It rejected Frey�s contention that the crime against Melissa consisted only of sexual contact, not intercourse, which Frey described as a mitigating circumstance.� Based on Melissa�s testimony at the preliminary hearing that Frey had inserted his finger in her vagina on previous occasions and a statement in the presentence investigation report regarding an incident of digital penetration in Michigan, the court inferred that digital penetration took place in this case as well.� The court imposed consecutive sentences totaling twenty-four years� initial confinement and seven years� extended supervision.
�4������� The court properly considered Frey�s sexual assault of Ariel as a measure of his character and the pattern of his behavior.� See Elias v. State, 93 Wis. 2d 278, 284, 286 N.W.2d 559 (1980).� The court can consider uncharged and unproven offenses, pending charges, and even charges for which the defendant has been acquitted, State v. Bobbitt, 178 Wis. 2d 11, 18, 503 N.W.2d 11 (Ct. App. 1993).� Frey notes that the charge regarding Ariel�s assault was dismissed outright and not read in for sentencing purposes.� When a crime is read in for sentencing purposes, the defendant agrees to have the court consider that offense, relieving the State of its obligation to establish a factual basis for the offense.� Here, the factual basis for the assault of Ariel was provided by Ariel�s testimony at the preliminary hearing.� The sentencing judge also conducted the preliminary hearing and noted that he found Ariel�s testimony credible.� Therefore, the court properly considered the assault of Ariel as a measure of Frey�s character and the pattern of his behavior.�
�5������� Sufficient evidence supports the sentencing court�s inference that Frey drugged Melissa for the purpose of assaulting her.� Frey contends he provided Melissa with drugs on other occasions when she was not molested, suggesting that he merely took advantage of her unconsciousness and not that he drugged her to facilitate the assault.� It is the function of the trier of fact to draw reasonable inferences from the evidence.� State v. Poellinger, 153 Wis. 2d 493, 504, 451 N.W.2d 752 (1990).� When a defendant gives pills to a child that cause her to fall asleep and molests her while she is sleeping, it is reasonable to infer that he gave her the pills to render her unconscious to facilitate the sexual assault.�
�6������� The court also reasonably inferred that the crime included intercourse consisting of digital penetration.� That behavior would be consistent with Frey�s previous digital penetration of Melissa.� Digital penetration, no matter how slight, constitutes sexual intercourse as defined in Wis. Stat. � 940.225(5)(c) (2009-10).
�7������� Finally, Frey has not established that the court sentenced him erroneously believing that force was used against Melissa as well as Ariel.� Frey focuses on the court�s statement that Frey �used force in these cases.�� However, in the context of the entire proceeding, it is clear that the court was fully aware of Frey�s use of force against Ariel and use of drugs against Melissa.� After referring to �force in these cases,� when again speaking of the use of force, the court clarified, �against Ariel in any event.�� The record does not suggest that the court believed it was necessary for Frey to use force against an unconscious victim.� Rather, the fairest construction of the court�s comment was that Frey used force and drugs to sexually assault the girls, but not that he used both methods in both instances.
����������� By the Court.�Judgment and order affirmed.
����������� This opinion will not be published.� See Wis. Stat. Rule 809.23(1)(b)5. (2009-10).


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The isomeric shift (also called isomer shift) is the shift on atomic spectral lines and gamma spectral lines, which occurs as a consequence of replacement of one nuclear isomer by another. It is usually called isomeric shift on atomic spectral lines and Mössbauer isomeric shift respectively. If the spectra have also hyperfine structure the shift refers to the center of gravity of the spectra. The isomeric shift provides important information about the nuclear structure and the physical, chemical or biological environment of atoms.
The isomeric shift on atomic spectral lines is the energy or frequency shift in atomic spectra, which occurs when one replaces one nuclear isomer by another. The effect was predicted by Richard M. Weiner in 1956 whose calculations showed that it should be measurable by atomic (optical) spectroscopy (cf. also). It was observed experimentally for the first time in 1958. The theory of the atomic isomeric shift developed in  is also used in the interpretation of the Mössbauer isomeric shift.
Atomic spectral lines are due to transitions of electrons between different atomic energy levels E, followed by emission of photons. Atomic levels are a manifestation of the electromagnetic interaction between electrons and nuclei. The energy levels of two atoms the nuclei of which are different isotopes of the same element are shifted one with respect to the other, despite the fact that the electric charges Z of the two isotopes are identical. This is so because isotopes differ by the number of neutrons and therefore the masses and volumes of two isotopes are different; these differences give rise to the isotopic shift on atomic spectral lines.
where ψ is the wave function of the electron involved in the transition, e its electric charge and the integration is performed over the electron coordinates. The isotopic and the isomeric shift are similar in the sense that both are effects in which the finite size of the nucleus manifests itself and both are due to a difference in the electromagnetic interaction energy between the electrons and the nucleus of the atom. The isotopic shift had been known decades before the isomeric shift and it provided useful but limited information about atomic nuclei. Unlike the isomeric shift, the isotopic shift was at first discovered in experiment and then interpreted theoretically (cf. also ). While in the case of the isotopic shift the determination of the interaction energy between electrons and nuclei is a relatively simple electromagnetic problem, for isomers the problem is more involved, since it is the strong interaction, which accounts for the isomeric excitation of the nucleus and thus for the difference of charge distributions of the two isomeric states. This circumstance explains in part why the nuclear isomeric shift was not discovered earlier: the appropriate nuclear theory and in particular the nuclear shell model were developed only in the late 1940s and early 1950s. As to the experimental observation of this shift, it also had to await the development of a new technique, that permitted spectroscopy with isomers, which are metastable nuclei. This too happened only in the 1950s. While the isomeric shift is sensitive to the internal structure of the nucleus, the isotopic shift is (in a good approximation) not. Therefore the nuclear physics information, which can be obtained from the investigation of the isomeric shift, is superior to that which can be obtained from isotopic shift studies. The measurements through the isomeric shift of e.g. the difference of nuclear radii of the excited and ground state constitute one of the most sensitive tests of nuclear models. Moreover, combined with the Mössbauer effect, the isomeric shift constitutes at present a unique tool in many other fields, besides physics.
According to the nuclear shell model there exists a class of isomers for which, in a first approximation, it is sufficient to consider one single nucleon, called the "optical" nucleon, to get an estimate of the difference between the charge distributions of the two isomer states, the rest of the nucleons being filtered out. This applies in particular for isomers in odd proton-even neutron nuclei, near closed shells. In115, for which the effect was calculated in , is such an example. The result of the calculation was that the isomeric shift on atomic spectral lines, although rather small, turned out to be two orders of magnitude bigger than a typical natural line width, which constitutes the limit of optical measurability.
The shift measured three years later in Hg197 was quite close to that calculated for In115, although in Hg197, unlike in In115, the optical nucleon is a neutron and not a proton and the electron-free neutron interaction is much smaller than the electron-free proton interaction. This is a consequence of the fact that the optical nucleons are not free but bound particles . Thus the results of  could be explained within the theory of  by associating with the odd optical neutron an effective electric charge of Z/A.
The Mössbauer isomeric shift is the shift seen in gamma ray spectroscopy when one compares two different nuclear isomeric states in two different physical, chemical or biological environments, and is due to the combined effect of the recoil-free Mössbauer transition between the two nuclear isomeric states and the transition between two atomic states in those two environments.
The isomeric shift on atomic spectral lines depends on the electron wave function ψ and on the difference δφ of electrostatic potentials φ of the two isomeric states.
The first measurement of the isomeric shift in gamma spectroscopy with the help of the Mössbauer effect was reported in 1980, two years after its first experimental observation in atomic spectroscopy. By measuring this shift one obtains important and extremely precise information, both about the nuclear isomer states and about the physical, chemical or biological environment of the atoms, represented by the electronic wave functions.
Under its Mössbauer variant, the isomeric shift has found important applications in domains as different as Atomic Physics, Solid State Physics, Nuclear Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Metallurgy, Mineralogy, Geology, and Lunar research. For further literature cf. also Ref.
The nuclear isomeric shift has also been observed in muonic atoms, that is atoms in which a muon is captured by the excited nucleus and makes a transition from an atomic excited state to the atomic ground state in a time which is short compared to the lifetime of the excited isomeric nuclear state.
↑ a b c d e f R. M. Weiner, Nuovo Cimento 4 (1956) 1587.
↑ a b c d R. M. Weiner, Phys. Rev. 114, (1959) 256; Zhur. Eksptl. I Teoret. Fiz. 35 (1958) 284, translation: Soviet Phys. JETP. 35(8) (1959) 196.
↑ a b c d A. Melissinos and S. Davis, Phys. Rev. 115 (1959) 130.
↑ Richard M. Weiner, Analogies in Physics and Life, World Scientific 2008.
↑ S. L. Ruby, in Mössbauer Isomer Shifts, editors G. K. Shenoy and F. E. Wagner, North Holland Publishing Company, 1978, p. 1.
↑ Fizicheskii Encyclopeditskii Slovar, Sovietskaia Encyclopaedia, Moscow 1962 (Physics Encyclopaedical Dictionary) p. 144.
↑ D. A. Shirley, Nuclear Applications of Isomeric Shifts, Proc. Int. Conf. on the Mössbauer Effect, Saclay 1961, editors D. H. Compton and A.H. Schoen, John Wiley & Sons, New York p. 258.
↑ O. C. Kistner and A. W. Sunyar, Phys. Rev. Lett. 4 (1960) 412.
↑ Mössbauer Isomer Shifts, editors G. K. Shenoy and F. E. Wagner, North Holland Publishing Company, 1978.
↑ Cf. e.g. J. Hüfner et al. in Muon Physics, edited by V. W. Hughes and C. S. Wu, Academic Press 1977, Vol. 1, p. 202.
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