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The Planetary Society just returned from a major political advocacy trip out to D.C. what did we do and what did we achieve? What's going on with the current funding situation regarding Planetary Science and NASA at large? How does the asteroid retrieval mission help or hurt planetary exploration goals? What's the larger plan and what are the consequences if cuts continue?

Sceenshot of a satellite view from Google/Digital Globe of the destruction in Moore, Oklahoma after the May 20, 2013 tornado. Click image to have access to an interactive, zoomable version via NPR. A new satellite map from Google and Digital Globe shows just-released satellite imagery of the damage from the tornado that struck the area of Moore, Oklahoma on May 20, 2013. It’s been called one of the most powerful and destructive tornadoes ever recorded, and the destruction is heartbreaking. In the screenshot above, you can see how some houses were left undamaged, while others were completely destroyed. Click on the image above to have access to an interactive map that shows hi-resolution views of the damage, providing details of where the buildings and houses once were. NPR put this map together, using satellite data from Digital Globe, along with property data from City of Oklahoma City, City of Moore, and Cleveland County. Satellite data like this are helping to assist the recovery and rescue teams on the ground. (...)Read the rest of Astonishing Hi-Resolution Satellite Views of the Destruction from the Moore, Oklahoma Tornado (135 words) © nancy for Universe Today, 2013. | Permalink | No comment | Post tags: Moore Oklahoma tornado, Natural Disasters, tornadoes Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh

The 7th annual R/Rmetrics Workshop om Computational Finance and Financial Engineering will take place June 30-July 4 in the beatiful alpine setting of Lake Thune, Switzerland. This is an intimate workshop limited to around 50 participants, and features tutorials from leading practitioners in finance with R, with a special focus on the Rmetrics suite of R packages. This year's program includes in-depth material from experts in academia and the finance industry, as you can see below: Key Note Speaker: Gunter Loeffler - University of Ulm, Institute of Finance    Tower Building and Stock Market Returns Tutorials: Basics and Fundamentals:Nicolas Polson, University of Chicago, School of Business, USA     Bayesian Inference, Gibbs Sampling and Markov Chain Monte CarloStefano Iacus, University of Milano, Department of Economics and Statistics, Milano, Italy    Quasi Likelihood Inference and Model Selection for Stochastic Differential Equations Modern Portfolio Design:Bernhard Pfaff, Invesco Research Frankfurt, Germany    Portfolio Selection, Optimization and Design with RDiethelm Wuertz, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland    Portfolio Diversification and Stability Strategies Advanced Computing in R:Stefan Theussl, Raiffeisen Research and Vienna Univeristy of Economics, Austria    High Performance Computing and Parallel R Building Platforms:Charles Roosen, Zurich Re Insurance, Zurich, Switzerland    Behind the Zurich Re Insurance PlatformWolfgang Breymann, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland    The Unified Financial Modeling Platform For more information about the workshop, follow the link below. Rmetrics.org: 2013 Meielisalp Workshop and Summer School 

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Brazil is noted for its high murder rate. In the Wikipedia map posted here, Brazil falls in the highest homicide category, with more than 20 slayings a year per 100,000 people. This figure significantly exceeds that of the United States (4.8) and vastly exceeds those of such countries as Japan (0.4) and Iceland (0.3).  Yet Brazil is hardly the most ...This post is from GeoCurrents

It's the 1 Yr Anniversary of #DigitalGov Strategy! Read abt #NASA & others innovative work from @stevenvdc:

Just helped declare the Int'l Space Dev Conference officially open. I give keynote lunch speech on Sat at 12p & sign…

Astronauts snap a stunning photo of Alaska's Pavlof volcano.

This is the first part of the tenth in a series of posts reviewing Margaret Jane Radin's Boilerplate: The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights and the Rule of Law. But don't think that this is the end. We have more reviews...