Murray has served as Vice President Joe Biden’s communications director since 2011 and had also taken on the role of deputy chief of staff. She worked previously for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.
Daily Archives: 24. März 2015
Where is Cassini now? Present Position
These images show SIMULATED views from the Cassini spacecraft, from several useful points of view which will vary depending on what‘s happening in the mission. Click on an image to see a full-screen view. These images are updated as circumstances warrant, at least once a day.
Japan Hopes New Telescope Can Shed Light on Universe‘s Origin
Japan is leading the construction of a large cosmic-ray telescope as part of the multinational Cherenkov Telescope Array initiative.
Michigan State involved in new gamma-ray observatory
The East Lansing-based school is among 14 U.S. and 10 Mexican universities collaborating at the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory. The facility is the newest tool available to visualize interplanetary events, such as black holes, dark matter and exploding stars, and learn more about the nature of high-energy radiation.
Here comes HAWC: New observatory to seek out gamma rays
The observatory, the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC), is a partnership between the United States and Mexico and is designed to gather the highest-energy gamma rays. The rays are particles of light with energies that are orders of magnitude higher than ordinary photons or even X-rays.
Welche Rolle spielt kosmische Strahlung bei der Galaxienentstehung?
Der HITS-Astrophysiker Priv.-Doz. Dr. Christoph Pfrommer hat sich erfolgreich um einen Consolidator Grant des Europäischen Forschungsrats (ERC) beworben. Für sein Forschungsprojekt mit dem Titel „CRAGSMAN – The Impact of Cosmic Rays on Galaxy and Cluster Formation“ erhält der 39-jährige für die Dauer von fünf Jahren rund zwei Millionen Euro.
Lawsuit Launched Over EPA‘s Approval of a New Insecticide
„EPA‘s registration of flupyradifurone – and its approval of three products containing flupyradifurone – will likely jeopardize federally-listed species and adversely modifies the critical habitat of listed species,“ the letter said.
Time for Obama to shake things up, ‚declare Israel nuclear state‘
The American commentator warned about the “incestuous marriage” of Israel and the Congress, which serves Tel Aviv’s interests „first“ whenever there is conflict between the regime and Washington.
Internet-Überwachung in Äthiopien: Deutsches Unternehmen Trovicor lieferte Technik zum massenhaften Abhören
Nokia, Siemens, Trovicor, Gamma, Elaman
Trovicors Vorschlag war es, die Speicherkapazität für abgeschnorchelte Daten aus dem äthiopischen Internet-Netzwerk zum Zweck der Überwachung zu verdoppeln. Abgefangene Daten äthiopischer Netze würden damit über zwei Jahre lang gespeichert werden.
Zu- oder Testfall: Ostafrikas dramatischer Telekommunikation-Blackout
(29.2.2012) EASSY verbindet die Länder Sudan, Dschibuti, Eritrea, Somalia, Kenia, Madagaskar, Mosambik, Tansania und Südafrika direkt untereinander und mit dem Internet. Im Endausbau soll die Länge etwa 10500 Kilometer betragen und zudem noch die anliegenden Binnenstaaten Äthiopien, Botswana, Burundi, die Demokratische Republik Kongo, Lesotho, Malawi, Ruanda, Sambia, Simbabwe, Swasiland, Tschad, Uganda und die Zentralafrikanische Republik anbinden.
Europe India Gateway (EIG) verbindet Grossbritannien, Portugal, Gibraltar, Monaco, Frankreich, Libyen, Ägypten, Saudi-Arabien, Djibouti, Oman, die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate und Indien.
South East Asia Middle East Western Europe-3 ist mit 39000 km Gesamtlänge das grösste Seekabelsystem der Welt, das Europa, Afrika, Asien und Australien miteinander verbindet (siehe Karte).
WikiLeaks: S E C R E T STATE 015113 wichtigste Kommunikationsnetze und Ressourcen
(29.12.2009) Der globale Kommunikationswege- und Rohstoff-Atlas der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika
Unchecked government drones? Not over my backyard
On last Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration gave Amazon the green light to begin testing drones
Airbus-Probleme: Germanwings- und Lufthansa-Piloten weigern sich zu fliegen
Auch am Stuttgarter Flughafen wurden drei Germanwings-Flüge gestrichen – ebenso der Flug von Berlin nach London. In Düsseldorf bekamen wartende Passagiere die Auskunft vom Bodenpersonal, dass sich die Crews zurückgezogen hätten, um über ihre „Fluguntauglichkeit“ zu beraten.
Iraqi foreign minister meets Syria‘s Assad in Damascus
Iraqi foreign minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari met Tuesday with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the first visit by a senior Baghdad official since Syria‘s conflict began in 2011.
Jaafari told a press conference at Damascus airport that he met with the embattled president on Tuesday morning and held talks with his Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem.
Syrian state television reported that the two foreign ministers discussed combatting terrorism.
US deployment of nukes in Europe violates NPT: Russia
Article 1 of NPT stipulates that no country is allowed to transfer its nuclear weapons to other parties while article 2 of the treaty prohibits those countries lacking nuclear know-how from having access to nuclear weapons, Lukashevich stated, adding that the US deployment of nuclear arms in Europe infringes upon the terms of the agreement.
Ex-Met officer: Royal pedophile allegations dropped
A former British police officer has claimed that an investigation into a pedophile ring back in 1980s was suspended over the involvement of a member of the British royal family.
US Military Sexually Abused at Least 54 Colombian Children
U.S. soldiers and contractors have not been prosecuted for sexually abusing Colombian girls because of diplomatic immunity.
MVS Radio Refutes Having Censored Mexican Journalist Aristegui
Aristegui said that there was a request from the company not to air a story that she published on her own website, Aristegui Noticias.
Kritische Journalistin in Mexiko entlassen
Nach der Entlassung der Radiojournalistin Carmen Aristegui durch ihren Arbeitgeber MVS Radio wirft diese ihm nun Zensur vor. Im Interview mit der Wochenzeitung „Proceso“ vom vergangenen Wochenende sprach Aristegui davon, durch MVS unter Druck gesetzt worden zu sein, sollten sie und ihr Team einen geplanten Bericht über den Korruptionsskandal um das sogenannte Weiße Haus der mexikanischen First Lady veröffentlichen.
Saudi Arabia beheads Pakistani national, own citizen
The Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency that the Pakistani man known as Benyameen Ali Ahmed was beheaded in the port city of Jeddah on Tuesday.
Israel must be held accountable for war crimes: Activist
Press TV has conducted an interview with Issa Amro, a peace activist based in al-Khalil (Hebron), to discuss Israel’s boycotting of the UN Human Rights Council.
Washington continuously lies to start wars: Activist
Furthermore, the Al Jazeera television network released a secret Mossad cable last month which revealed that Israel has been aware that Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful and does not include “the activity necessary to produce weapons.”
Traut Ihr eigentlich noch der Landespolizei?…
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Total Information Awareness
Total Information Awareness (TIA) was a program of the US Information Awareness Office. It was operated from February until May 2003, before being renamed as the Terrorism Information Awareness Program.
Based on the concept of predictive policing, TIA aimed to gather detailed information about individuals in order to anticipate and prevent crimes before they are committed. As part of efforts to win the War on Terror, the program searched for all sorts of personal information in the hunt for terrorists around the globe.
Transcript: Mayor de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bratton Announce New Gun Detection Technology
(17.März) They have an operational command center not located in New York, where it is reviewed by a trained technician. And that trained technician, usually within 30 seconds, is able to determine – is this a true positive? Is this gunshots that are being fired? Or is this an engine backfiring, firecrackers, whatever? And in the examples of true positives, they forward that alert into the NYPD’s Domain Awareness System. This is very important for us because in 2011, we piloted similar technology – it was a gunshot detection system. Actually, the technology was different, but it was a gunshot detection system. And there, the pilot was unsuccessful ultimately, because we had so many examples of false positives that the whole system just because, for lack of a better word, noise. The other key difference between this system and the system that we piloted back in 2011 is that to trigger an alert here, you have to have three sensors that pick up the sound of the gunshots. In the old system, all they required was one sensor to pick up the sound of the gunshots.
Das NYPD hat jetzt ein System namens Shotspotter im Einsatz. Das ist im Wesentlichen ein Haufen Mikrofone über die Stadt verteilt, und dann eine Software, die aus den Verzögerungen die Position eines Geräusches triangulieren kann.
Die Nebenwirkung ist, dass man jetzt in New York nicht mehr auf der Straße reden kann, ohne das Gefühl haben zu müssen, dass das aufgezeichnet wird.
Cosmic Ray Diffusion from the Galactic Spiral Arms, Iron Meteorites, and a possible climatic connection?
(2002) We construct a Galactic cosmic ray (CR) diffusion model while considering that CR sources reside predominantly in the Galactic spiral arms. We find that the CR flux (CRF) reaching the
solar system should periodically increase each crossing of a Galactic spiral arm. We search for this signal in the CR exposure age record of Iron meteorites and confirm this prediction. We then check the hypothesis that climate, and in particular the temperature, is affected by the CRF to the extent that glaciations can be induced or completely hindered by possible climatic variations.
Wissen ist Macht
Liebknecht, einer der Gründer der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands (SPD), vertrat die Forderung, die Arbeiterklasse solle die politische Macht erringen und bestehende Schranken beseitigen, die großen Teilen der Bevölkerung den Zugang zu Wissen, Bildung und Kultur verwehrten. Der Slogan wurde innerhalb der Arbeiterbewegung sehr populär.
Ein Analysegerät für die Westentasche
(2.7.2014) Man kann damit messen, wann das Öl in der Maschine ausgetauscht werden muss. Man kann ermitteln, wie viel Fett in der Wurst ist. Wenn man will, kann man auch herausfinden, mit welchen Schädlingsbekämpfungsmitteln die chinesische Exportfirma den Container begast hat, der neben Millionen anderer im Hamburger Hafen liegt. Das IRSphinx ATR Portable ist ein wahrer Alleskönner.
Methane, Ammonia on Mars? Mariner 7 Sees Hint of Life
(8.August 1969) Pimentel´s evidence was from an infrared spectrometer, designed to detect elements by measuring their radiation.
Is there methane on Mars?
Available online 13 December 2010 (…)
The first discovery of methane on Mars was announced in 1969 at a press conference by the Mariner 7 Infrared Spectrometer (IRS) team just two days after the flyby.
Die Sonde „Curiosity“ hat Stickstoff entdeckt: Gab es auf dem #Mars einmal Leben?
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Später Besuch vom charismatischen Griechen: Zeitenwende in Europa
Der späte Besuch von Alexis Tsipras bei Angela Merkel in Berlin markiert trotz der weiterhin umstrittenen Details zur griechischen Reformliste und der mehr grundsätzlichen Statements dieses ungleichen Duos eine europapolitische Zeitenwende: