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Five U.S. Urban Counties Lead ‘Terror Hot Spots’ List, but Rural Areas Not Exempt: Research

By Guest PostJanuary 31, 2012General, Politicsarizona, bianca bersani, domestic actors, extreme right wing, gary lafree, homeland security, hot spots, left wing terrorism, los angeles, lubbock county, manhattan, maricopa, massachusetts, metropolitan, miami dade county, nebraska, new york, perpetrator, profile, radical environmental groups, religious, rural areas, san francisco, start, terrorism, terrorist attack, texas, university of maryland, us counties, Washington

*N.Y., L.A., Miami, San Francisco, D.C. Top List; Maricopa, Ariz. Rising*

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Nearly a third of all terrorist attacks from 1970 to 2008 occurred in just five metropolitan U.S. counties, but events continue to occur in rural areas, spurred on by domestic actors, according to a report published today by researchers in the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Center of Excellence based at the University of Maryland.

The research was conducted at Maryland and the University of Massachusetts-Boston. (more…)

Pan-STARRS Telescope Spots New Distant Comet

By Guest PostJune 22, 2011Scienceastronomers, automated software, c 2011 l4 comets, canada france hawaii telescope, earth, haleakala, larry denneau, marco micheli, massachusetts, maui, mauna kea, mercury, mikael granvik, minor planet center cambridge, panstarrs, panstarrs 1 telescope, parabolic, potentially hazardous asteroids, richard wainscoat, robert jedicke, sensitive electronic detector, telescope images, tommy grav, university of hawaii at manoa

Astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa have discovered a new comet that they expect will be visible to the naked eye in early 2013.

Originally found by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope on Haleakala, Maui, on the night of June 5-6, it was confirmed to be a comet by UH Mānoa astronomer Richard Wainscoat and graduate student Marco Micheli the following night using the Canada-France-Hawaiʻi Telescope on Mauna Kea. (more…)

Fastest Sea-Level Rise in Two Millennia Linked to Increasing Global Temperatures

By Guest PostJune 21, 2011Environmentaalto university school of engineering, andrew kemp, atlantic coast, benjamin horton, changes in global mean surface temperature, climate changes, coastal salt marshes, earth sciences, finland, foraminifera, Germany, global temperature, global tide gauge records, jeffrey donnelly, little ice age, martin vermeer, massachusetts, medieval climate anomaly, michael mann, microfossils, national science foundation, north Carolina, nsf, paul cutler, pennsylvania state university, potsdam institute for climate impact research, radiocarbon dating, rate of sea level rise, scenarios of future rise, scenarios of future temperature increases, sea level, sediment cores, stefan rahmstorf, university of pennsylvania, warm climate period, woods hole oceanographic institution, yale university

*Rate is greater now than at any time during past 2,100 years*

The rate of sea level rise along the U.S. Atlantic coast is greater now than at any time in the past 2,000 years–and has shown a consistent link between changes in global mean surface temperature and sea level.

The findings are published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). (more…)

IBM Completes Acquisition of Unica Corporation

By Guest PostOctober 6, 20101 commentTechnologycoremetrics, craig hayman, ibm, industry solutions, marketing software, massachusetts, qualcomm, us cellular, waltham, websphere commerce, yuchun lee

ARMONK, N.Y., – 06 Oct 2010: Through Unica, IBM (NYSE: IBM) is acquiring enterprise and cloud-based marketing software solutions that help businesses streamline and automate marketing processes, and understand and predict customer preferences. Through both the Unica and Coremetrics acquisitions, IBM will enable its clients to develop more relevant and targeted communications while minimizing marketing expenditures. (more…)

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Five U.S. Urban Counties Lead ‘Terror Hot Spots’ List, but Rural Areas Not Exempt: Research

Pan-STARRS Telescope Spots New Distant Comet

Fastest Sea-Level Rise in Two Millennia Linked to Increasing Global Temperatures

IBM Completes Acquisition of Unica Corporation