Finbar O'Neill's Blogger: October 2014

Friday, October 31, 2014

On the Market in New York City by MICHELLE HIGGINS

By MICHELLE HIGGINS

This week’s properties include homes in the East Village, Greenwich Village and East Williamsburg.

Published: November 1, 2014 at 08:00PM

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Comfort Me With Sneakers by DAN SHAW

By DAN SHAW

Ben Daitz, an owner of the Num Pang Cambodian-style sandwich shops, lives in Greenwich Village among collections of shoes, hats and bourbon.

Published: November 1, 2014 at 08:00PM

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$56 Million for Prime New York City Views by ROBIN FINN

By ROBIN FINN

A full-floor, four-bedroom aerie near the pinnacle of One57 was the sale of the week.

Published: November 1, 2014 at 08:00PM

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Untapable Wins Breeders’ Cup Distaff by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rosie Napravnik was riding with a secret, and she couldn’t keep it any longer once Untapable won the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff.

Published: October 31, 2014 at 04:09PM

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A Billion to Spend, and Only Two Years to Do It by PAUL SULLIVAN

By PAUL SULLIVAN

Foundations that plan their own demise have bucket lists and regrets too.

Published: October 31, 2014 at 08:00PM

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UN: Growing Number of Foreigners in Terror Groups by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A new United Nations report says the world faces a challenge of foreign fighters in terror groups on an “unprecedented scale,” with about 15,000 in Syria and Iraq alone.

Published: October 31, 2014 at 04:19AM

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Short and Sweet by ROBIN FINN

By ROBIN FINN

New York’s one-block streets are in big demand. That’s because they tend to be long on charm.

Published: November 1, 2014 at 08:00PM

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Editors’ Choice by Unknown Author

By Unknown Author

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Published: November 1, 2014 at 08:00PM

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Michael Connelly’s ‘Burning Room,’ and More by MARILYN STASIO

By MARILYN STASIO

In Michael Connelly’s “The Burning Room,” Harry Bosch tries to impart wisdom to his new partner.

Published: November 1, 2014 at 08:00PM

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This near-infrared, color mosaic from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows the sun glinting off of Titan’s north polar seas. While Cassini has captured, separately, views of the polar seas (see PIA17470) and the sun glinting off of them (see PIA12481 and PIA18433) in the past, this is the first time both have been seen together in the same view.

The sunglint, also called a specular reflection, is the bright area near the 11 o’clock position at upper left. This mirror-like reflection, known as the specular point, is in the south of Titan’s largest sea, Kraken Mare, just north of an island archipelago separating two separate parts of the sea.

This particular sunglint was so bright as to saturate the detector of Cassini’s Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) instrument, which captures the view. It is also the sunglint seen with the highest observation elevation so far — the sun was a full 40 degrees above the horizon as seen from Kraken Mare at this time — much higher than the 22 degrees seen in PIA18433. Because it was so bright, this glint was visible through the haze at much lower wavelengths than before, down to 1.3 microns.

The southern portion of Kraken Mare (the area surrounding the specular feature toward upper left) displays a “bathtub ring” — a bright margin of evaporate deposits — which indicates that the sea was larger at some point in the past and has become smaller due to evaporation. The deposits are material left behind after the methane & ethane liquid evaporates, somewhat akin to the saline crust on a salt flat.

The highest resolution data from this flyby — the area seen immediately to the right of the sunglint — cover the labyrinth of channels that connect Kraken Mare to another large sea, Ligeia Mare. Ligeia Mare itself is partially covered in its northern reaches by a bright, arrow-shaped complex of clouds. The clouds are made of liquid methane droplets, and could be actively refilling the lakes with rainfall.

The view was acquired during Cassini’s August 21, 2014, flyby of Titan, also referred to as “T104″ by the Cassini team.

The view contains real color information, although it is not the natural color the human eye would see. Here, red in the image corresponds to 5.0 microns, green to 2.0 microns, and blue to 1.3 microns. These wavelengths correspond to atmospheric windows through which Titan’s surface is visible. The unaided human eye would see nothing but haze, as in PIA12528.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The VIMS team is based at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

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R.B.S. Posts Profit as It Sets Aside $1.25 Billion for Legal Costs by CHAD BRAY

By CHAD BRAY

The charges include £400 million, or about $640 million, to cover potential fines and litigation costs related to an investigation into the potential rigging of currency markets by six big banks.

Published: October 31, 2014 at 12:57AM

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Bank of Ireland Capital and Margins Rise Further in Third Quarter by REUTERS

By REUTERS

Bank Of Ireland said it continued to generate capital at a significant pace during the third quarter, when its margins grew further and its stock of defaulted loans declined.

Published: October 31, 2014 at 12:10AM

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RBS Sets Aside 400 Million Pounds to Settle Forex Probes by REUTERS

By REUTERS

Royal Bank of Scotland said it had set aside 400 million pounds to cover potential fines for manipulating currency markets and another 100 million to compensate customers mis-sold loan insurance.

Published: October 30, 2014 at 11:20PM

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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Controversial Batsman Ryder Gets World Cup Lifeline by REUTERS

By REUTERS

Aggressive top-order batsman Jesse Ryder was passionate about rekindling his international career after he was thrown a World Cup lifeline by being named in a New Zealand ‘A’ team for one-day matches in the United Arab Emirates next month.

Published: October 30, 2014 at 04:28PM

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From State of Pappy and Kinky Comes SpicyBrown for Senate by JOHN REYNOLDS

By JOHN REYNOLDS

Texas political history is loaded with characters like Ox Cart John Ireland, Pa and Ma Ferguson and Kinky Friedman. Now comes Emily Sanchez, a slam poet and Green Party candidate for Senate who borrowed her nickname from a mustard bottle.

Published: October 30, 2014 at 08:00PM

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