Tradition Never Dies. How Many Traditional Instruments Do You Play? 

We have lots of science in the next few weeks that will be using the Microgravity Sciences Glovebox (MSG).  This closed environment allows us to work in a “clean” area.  My favorite science in the MSG, so far, is the stem cell research.  This study is examining  the option of proliferating stem cells in microgravity. 

“I’m obsessed with physics and finding something we can all agree on is the answer or what’s really going on here on the most quantum level. I love health and started to become in tune with being healthy and learning more. Everyone has an opinion; there are a billion scientists and doctors but at the end of the day you want to live kind of a pure and healthy life. I love gaming; I’m kind of a nerd like that. I love film. I’m a huge fan of film. I love golf, as well. I’m terrible at it but I just discovered it and I really love doing it.”

- Fred Durst on how he picked his Flipboard Magazine topics.

A better, more positive Tumblr

Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.

Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).  

Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.

So what is changing?

Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.

Why are we doing this?

It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.

Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.

So what’s next?

Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.

Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.

Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.

Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.

Jeff D’Onofrio CEO

Chat 2.0

When we first launched Chat, our goal was to emulate the best parts of face-to-face conversation. Chat 1.0 was all about the joys of being here — when most apps told you when your friend was typing, Chat let you know that your friend was listening. Two years later, we’ve learned a ton about how people talk, but our goal remains unchanged. We want Chat to be the best way to communicate — second only to hanging out face-to-face.

Today, we’re excited to introduce Chat 2.0. You can start by sending a few chats, and when your friend shows up, start talking or video chatting instantly with one tap. Your friend can simply listen if you want to sing them a song, or watch if you have a new puppy to show them. If they aren’t there, you can quickly send an audio note to say what you mean. And sometimes, a sticker says it best :)

What we love most about the new Chat is how easily you can transition between all these ways of communicating — just like you do in person. When that’s possible, you aren’t texting, calling, or video chatting… you’re just talking. We’ve been working on this redesign for a while — we can’t wait to hear what you think!

We’re also introducing Auto-Advance Stories, the fastest way to catch up with your friends. When you finish a Story, the next one begins automatically — simply swipe to skip ahead, or pull down to exit!

Lastly, we’re refreshing our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, making some things clearer, and building foundations for awesome new products to come. Check out our new Privacy Center for more on that!

Happy Snapping!

Team Snapchat

DAY 3243

Emirates Palace, AbuDhabi        Feb  13/14,  2017         Mon/Tue  3:37 am

Birthday - EF - Saikarun Balivada      Tue, February 14 .. and our love and greetings to you on your special day .. have a good day and days ahead !

The wedding in the morning and the family sets out in suitable attire .. the cousins dance as is traditional .. and the brother dances with the sister , the cousin bride ..

And later at night formal get together to bring in the end of proceedings .. and back tomorrow .. wedding over .. all the pomp and grandeur over .. its back to work ..

more later .. love

Amitabh Bachchan

An Important Message About Yahoo User Security

By Bob Lord, CISO

We have confirmed that a copy of certain user account information was stolen from the company’s network in late 2014 by what we believe is a state-sponsored actor. The account information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (the vast majority with bcrypt) and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers. The ongoing investigation suggests that stolen information did not include unprotected passwords, payment card data, or bank account information; payment card data and bank account information are not stored in the system that the investigation has found to be affected. Based on the ongoing investigation, Yahoo believes that information associated with at least 500 million user accounts was stolen and the investigation has found no evidence that the state-sponsored actor is currently in Yahoo’s network. Yahoo is working closely with law enforcement on this matter.

We are taking action to protect our users:

We are notifying potentially affected users. The content of the email Yahoo is sending to those users will be available at  https://yahoo.com/security-notice-content beginning at 11:30 am (PDT).

We are asking potentially affected users to promptly change their passwords and adopt alternate means of account verification.

We invalidated unencrypted security questions and answers so they cannot be used to access an account.

We are recommending that all users who haven’t changed their passwords since 2014 do so.

We continue to enhance our systems that detect and prevent unauthorized access to user accounts.

We are working closely with law enforcement on this matter.

We encourage our users to follow these security recommendations:

Change your password and security questions and answers for any other accounts on which you used the same or similar information used for your Yahoo account.

Review your accounts for suspicious activity. 

Be cautious of any unsolicited communications that ask for your personal information or refer you to a web page asking for personal information.

Avoid clicking on links or downloading attachments from suspicious emails.

Additionally, please consider using Yahoo Account Key, a simple authentication tool that eliminates the need to use a password altogether.

An increasingly connected world has come with increasingly sophisticated threats. Industry, government and users are constantly in the crosshairs of adversaries. Through strategic proactive detection initiatives and active response to unauthorized access of accounts, Yahoo will continue to strive to stay ahead of these ever-evolving online threats and to keep our users and our platforms secure.

For more information about this issue and our security resources, please visit the Yahoo Security Issue FAQs page, https://yahoo.com/security-update, which will be up beginning at 12pm (PDT).

Statements in this press release regarding the findings of Yahoo’s ongoing investigation involve potential risks and uncertainties.  The final conclusions of the investigation may differ from the findings to date due to various factors including, but not limited to, the discovery of new or additional information and other developments that may arise during the course of the investigation.  More information about potential risks and uncertainties of security breaches that could affect the Company’s business and financial results is included under the caption “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2016, which is on file with the SEC and available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov./

https://investor.yahoo.net/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=990570

Larry Fink CEO BlackRock, Jes Staley CEO Barclays, Tim Sloan CEO Wells Fargo, Sallie Krawcheck CEO Ellevest, Rob Manfred MLB Commissioner, and more at First-Ever Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit

By Andy Serwer, Editor-in-Chief, Yahoo Finance

On February 8, we’re hosting the first-ever Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit at our Yahoo office in New York City. This day-long conference will explore the critical questions and changes facing our economy and financial markets as we begin a new administration for the first time in eight years.

As a long-standing leading business news site, with an audience that spans from every-day investors to industry leaders, we at Yahoo Finance are uniquely positioned to explore all the ways in which this incoming administration will have an impact on our economy. We’re assembling some of the most dynamic minds in business, to help savvy investors – big and small – set their agendas for a new environment, as a new president takes office and a new Congress takes shape.

Among the confirmed participants are:

Larry Fink – Chairman & CEO, BlackRock

Tim Sloan – President & CEO, Wells Fargo

Jes Staley – Barclays, CEO

Rob Manfred – Commissioner, Major League Baseball

Sallie Krawcheck – CEO, Ellevest

Glenn Hutchins – Co-Founder, Silver Lake Partners

Liz Ann Sonders – Chief Investment Strategist, Charles Schwab

Mark Weinberger – Global Chairman & CEO, EY  

Ian Bremmer – President, Eurasia Group

Daymond John – CEO & Founder, Fubu & Shark Tank Co-Host

Slava Rubin – Founder, Indiegogo

Charles Phillips – CEO, Infor

Greg Clark – CEO, Symantec

Jon Stein – CEO, Betterment

Morgan Housel – Partner, Collaborative Fund

Michael Batnick – Director of Research, Ritholtz Wealth Management

Sam Zell – Chairman, Equity Group Investments

Terry Tamminen – CEO, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation

The conference will be live-streamed free of charge on Yahoo Finance, with tickets available for purchase to the general public. To purchase tickets, and for the latest updates on the All Markets Summit participants and agenda, please visit our Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit landing page.

‘Oh you look so beautiful…’ #Paris #U2 #U2eiTour #cityoflights #U2SongsofExperience

Win a Samsung Galaxy S8 phone when released (8/28/2017) {WW} w/ exceptions via http://ift.tt/2lARlXX

Goo Goo Dolls: Tickets - Devin M.

“Awesome Goo Goo Dolls show at Pier Six Pavilion thx to Tunespeak for the tix!”