Gary Malhotra's Blog: October 2014

Friday, October 31, 2014

Milky Way over Devils Tower

A mysterious formation known as Devils Tower rises into the dark above northeastern Wyoming's prairie landscape in this 16 frame panoramic view. Seen against the night sky's thin, pale clouds and eerie green airglow, star clusters and nebulae of the Milky Way arc toward the galaxy's central realm at right. Of course the scene contains the Milky Way's own haunting and grisly visages of halloween, including ghosts, a flaming skull, a glowing eye and a witch's broom. To find them, slide your cursor over the picture or just follow this link, if you dare. And have a safe and Happy Halloween! via NASA http://ift.tt/1zPvpcL

Lamb Shanks Reveal a Softer, Subtler Side

By DAVID TANIS from NYT http://ift.tt/1tpvwpz

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No Matter the Noodle, Flavors to Match

By MELISSA CLARK from NYT Dining & Wine http://ift.tt/1udny6h

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When Contemporary Art Evokes True Love

By SCOTT REYBURN from NYT Arts http://ift.tt/1yMpfWw

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Michael Connelly’s ‘Burning Room,’ and More

By MARILYN STASIO from NYT Books http://ift.tt/1wObbwt

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For Pot, Inc., the Rush Begins

By JOHN LELAND and MOSI SECRET from NYT N.Y. / Region http://ift.tt/1yMpCRc

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The Biggest Ship in the World (Though It Isn’t Exactly a Ship)

By Photographs by STEPHEN MALLON from NYT Magazine http://ift.tt/10a07wO

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Chevron Profit Jumps as Refining Offsets Production Dip

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Morning Agenda: Citigroup's About-Face

By SYDNEY EMBER from NYT Business Day http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/morning-agenda-citigroups-about-face/

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Gas Almost Under $3 Nationwide: What to Know

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT U.S. http://ift.tt/1q7dXHh

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Japan’s Central Bank Unexpectedly Moves to Stimulate Economy

By JONATHAN SOBLE from NYT Business Day http://ift.tt/1wPsui8

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Thursday, October 30, 2014

BNP Back in Profit, on Look Out for Bolt-On Acquisitions

By REUTERS from NYT Business Day http://ift.tt/1zlaugA

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BOJ Shocks Markets With Surprise Easing as Inflation Slows

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Asset Sale Not on the Cards for Indonesia's Indebted Bakrie Group-Sources

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Japan’s Central Bank Unexpectedly Eases Monetary Policy Further

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A Spectre in the Eastern Veil

Frightening forms and scary faces are a mark of the Halloween season. They also haunt this cosmic close-up of the eastern Veil Nebula. The Veil Nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, the expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star. While the Veil is roughly circular in shape and covers nearly 3 degrees on the sky in the constellation Cygnus, this portion of the eastern Veil spans only 1/2 degree, about the apparent size of the Moon. That translates to 12 light-years at the Veil's estimated distance, a reassuring 1,400 light-years from planet Earth. In the composite of image data recorded through broad and narrow band filters, emission from hydrogen atoms in the remnant is shown in red with strong emission from oxygen atoms in blue-green hues. Of course, in the western part of the Veil lies another seasonal apparition, the Witch's Broom. via NASA http://ift.tt/1q1lTtw

Liberia’s Ebola Crisis Puts President in Harsh Light

By HELENE COOPER from NYT World http://ift.tt/1wP3vM7

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New Russian Boldness Revives a Cold War Tradition: Testing the Other Side

By DAVID E. SANGER and NICOLE PERLROTH from NYT World http://ift.tt/1xGKvfn

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W. M. Anderson, 92, Dies; Led Union Carbide in ’80s

By DOUGLAS MARTIN from NYT Business Day http://ift.tt/1p8LGFn

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Why Republicans Keep Telling Everyone They’re Not Scientists

By CORAL DAVENPORT from NYT U.S. http://ift.tt/1wLEj7A

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Events on Long Island for Nov. 2-8, 2014

By Unknown Author from NYT N.Y. / Region http://ift.tt/1p8kW81

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A County Resents Oil Drilling, Despite the Money It Brings In

By AMAN BATHEJA from NYT U.S. http://ift.tt/1rXE6ZF

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Harriet Korman: ‘Line or Edge, Line or Color: New Paintings and Drawings’

By ROBERTA SMITH from NYT Arts http://ift.tt/1tn4XBq

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Jörg Immendorff: ‘Café Deutschland’

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Bare-Knuckled Advice From Veteran Lobbyist: ‘Win Ugly or Lose Pretty’

By ERIC LIPTON from NYT U.S. http://ift.tt/1zk2IU7

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Sit Down, Relax and Enjoy the Snow

By ANITA GATES from NYT Movies http://ift.tt/104JRxt

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Another Movie Means Another Crisis

By LORNE MANLY from NYT Movies http://ift.tt/1tVflmx

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Conoco to Spend Less in 2015, Below $16 Billion

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Wall Street Is Mixed as Economic Data Is Weighed

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Giants’ Ace Is the Product of Rural North Carolina and a Proud Father

By MICHAEL POWELL from NYT Sports http://ift.tt/10B71fE

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Brazil’s Exhausting Election

By VANESSA BARBARA from NYT Opinion http://ift.tt/1034b24

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State Initiatives, From the Important to the Ho-Hum

By JOSH BARRO from NYT The Upshot http://ift.tt/1wIIPDL

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Boko Haram's Continuing Rampage

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD from NYT Opinion http://ift.tt/1sJzy8j

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FTSE Feels Weight of Commodity Stocks After Hawkish Fed

By REUTERS from NYT Business Day http://ift.tt/1q2nTBK

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Royal Dutch Shell’s Adjusted Earnings Rose in Third Quarter

By STANLEY REED from NYT Business Day http://ift.tt/1sJh5Jg

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Stocks Mostly Gain After Fed Ends Stimulus

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Shell 3Q Profit Dips 4.5 Percent

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Lufthansa Cuts 2015 Profit Goal as Economy Weakens

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Shell Beats Third-Quarter Earnings Expectations, Appoints New Chairman

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After Fukushima, Japan Gets Green Boom _ and Glut

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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

U.S. Says Working With Iraqi Kurdistan to Stop Islamic State Oil Smuggling

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Factbox: Midterm Elections' Impact on U.S. Energy, Environment Agenda

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What’s On TV Thursday

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Iridescent Cloud Edge Over Colorado

Sometimes your eclipse viewing goes bad in an interesting way. While watching and photographing last Thursday's partial solar eclipse, a popular astronomy blogger suffered through long periods of clouds blocking the Sun. Unexpectedly, however, a nearby cloud began to show a rare effect: iridescence. Frequently part of a more familiar solar corona effect, iridescence is the diffraction of sunlight around a thin screen of nearly uniformly-sized water droplets. Different colors of the sunlight become deflected by slightly different angles and so come to the observer from slightly different directions. This display, featured here, was quite bright and exhibited an unusually broad range of colors. On the right, the contrails of an airplane are also visible. via NASA http://ift.tt/1tJ7ad5