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slide date stamped, March 1988

DirtyGlassEye has added a photo to the pool:

So funny story, I tried editing this one before but I just couldn't find out a reasonable way to make this composition work. But under the guise of the new mini series I'm trying, that gave me a new perspective.
Now I know this may look like a Halloween shot of sorts, but its actually anything but. These are part of the Christmas light event that goes until mid June that I praise so highly at Sagamiko. The rain was starting to come down as I reached this area of the walkway. This position was actually outside the tunnel where I would get my best shot I've ever taken so far, which you can see here. I had a sizeable amount of switchbacks and orange optics. Most of my older followers know I like finding excuses for making creepy shots, but somehow the thought never crossed my mind on this one.
I didn't dim and bleach the sky to make it look grim, I did it so the color of the lanterns can stand out more. I brought the foliage on the ground down in clarity and the house down at the bottom of the mountain lower highlights. The one glaring flaw still was there were multicolored spires peaking out of the woods on a further switchback that stood out like a sore thumb. Nothing a little recolor adjustment couldn't fix, this is inadvertently one of my better improvised leading line shots in my career, and I hope you agree.
And just to reemphasize one more time, this isn't meant to be a spooky shot. A friend of mind pointed it out and now I can't stop seeing the vision, but ehh what the hell.

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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added an exploited N-able vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, giving federal agencies three days to patch a flaw that could let attackers reach managed service provider (MSP) customers. Attackers exploiting the flaw can gain "full administrative access to an N-central console," Tracked as CVE-2026-18577 (8.2 CVSSv4), N-able disclosed the vulnerability affecting N-central on Sunday, noting that it was exploited as of July 31. MSPs use N-central to manage customer systems from a single dashboard, and successful exploitation can hand an attacker administrative access to the console. Based on the limited set of partner logs it reviewed, security firm Huntress said successful attacks led to pivots into managed endpoints and the creation of Cloudflare-based tunnels for persistent access to victim networks. "From an MSP perspective, exploitation of this flaw can grant an attacker full administrative access to an N-central console – the same level of control normally reserved for trusted NOC and engineering staff," wrote Huntress's Ben Bernstein and John Hammond. Attackers can then open remote control sessions on critical systems and modify roles, accounts, and policies to support follow-on attacks. The vulnerability affects N-central releases earlier than version 2026.3 when the server is exposed to the internet or reachable from an untrusted network. Huntress advised customers unable to apply N-able's hotfix immediately to disable N-central until they could do so. Authorities elsewhere have also urged users to patch. NHS England's advisory mentioned that its National Cybersecurity Operations Centre assessed that "further exploitation is likely," while Belgium's Centre for Cybersecurity urged fast action due to the "potential for significant impact." CVE-2026-18577 is related to an earlier flaw, CVE-2026-18556, patched in N-central 2026.2. According to N-able, that fix left another route to exploitation, which attackers began abusing late last month. CISA gave Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies until August 6 to remediate the flaw. Under Binding Operational Directive 26-04, CISA can impose a three-day deadline on vulnerabilities it considers an urgent risk rather than allowing the usual 14 days. According to Huntress's data, affected customers have leapt into action. By August 3, nearly all cloud-hosted N-central instances had been patched, although 28.6 percent of observed self-hosted servers remained vulnerable and exposed to the internet. ®

ARNHEM (ANP) - Femke Broeders-Bol (26) heeft voor haar EK-debuut op de 800 meter in Birmingham zichzelf als doel gesteld om een finaleplaats te halen. Dat vertelde ze dinsdag bij de teampresentatie van de Nederlandse ploeg voor de EK atletiek in Birmingham op sportcentrum Papendal.

"Ik hoop dat ik de finale haal, vooral ook omdat ik graag een heel toernooi wil meemaken op de 800 meter. Ik ga er niet alleen heen voor de ervaring, maar ik wil ook graag veel leren", legde ze haar doelstelling uit. Na succesvolle jaren op de 400 meter horden besloot de Amersfoortse eind vorig jaar dat het tijd was voor een nieuwe afstand. Sindsdien liep ze vijf races over 800 meter.

"Ik vind het gewoon leuk om weer een beetje onwetend te zijn, onbevangen te zijn zoals ik vroeger was", vertelde Broeders-Bol, die verder zei van het proces te genieten, maar ook schrok van de hoge verwachtingen van buitenaf.

Horden

Op de 400 meter horden domineerde ze afgelopen jaren met een reeks van dertig Diamond League-overwinningen op rij. Verder verzamelde ze twee wereldtitels (2023, 2025), twee Europese titels (2022, 2024) en behaalde ze brons op Olympische Spelen in Tokio (2021) en Parijs (2024).

"Ik heb nooit in medailles gesproken, ook al was het op de ranglijst duidelijk dat goud voor mij bij een perfecte race op de 400 meter horden wel haalbaar was. Op de 800 ligt het in de finale veel meer open", ziet de ervaren atlete.

Kracht nieuwe afstand

Haar relatieve onervarenheid op haar nieuwe afstand ziet Broeders-Bol als kracht. Een verrassing sluit ze dan ook niet uit. "Natuurlijk hebben mensen nu wat races gezien en hebben ze een idee van wat ik kan. Maar tegelijkertijd heb ik zelf soms niet eens echt een idee wat ik kan", vertelde ze. "In dat opzicht ben ik een soort joker. Ik weet niet precies hoe zo'n finale voor mij goed verloopt, waardoor ik misschien dingen doe die mensen niet verwachten", zei ze over het tactische aspect van de race.

"Als ik de finale haal, zal ik altijd een plan klaar hebben om een medaille te halen. Maar je moet er eerst komen en dan nog maar zien of het plan kan worden uitgevoerd en wat het oplevert."

De EK zijn van 10 tot en met 16 augustus in het vernieuwde Alexander Stadium in Birmingham.

In 2023, Minnesota-based artist Lydia Hansen set a goal of taking at least one hike every week throughout the entire year to care for her mental health. She began musing about how fun it would be to create crocheted mushrooms that one would encounter with the same surprise they’d feel coming across the real thing. Serendipitously, she ran into one of the trail managers of the park she was exploring and shared her idea. “That turned into my very first Fungi Hunt, which ran for an entire year at the Lost Creek Hiking Trail near Chatfield, Minnesota,” the artist tells Colossal.

This summer marks the third iteration of the project, which visitors can explore at Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center in Lanesboro, Minnesota, and Hansen already has more planned for the next couple of seasons. The artist describes her practice as “experiential fiber art,” combining her love of nature and creativity in the public sphere. “When I was developing the Fungi Hunt, one of the motivating factors behind the design was to create something that would encourage people to be looking up from their feet and taking note of what was around them as they walked,” she says.

Each crocheted oyster mushroom or turkey tail is a nod to native flora of the region. “The point of this ‘restriction’ is to highlight what’s already around us, not just the most colorful, most unusual, or most oddball fungi species the world has to offer—and there are many weirdo fungi out there,” Hansen says. She uses secondhand yarn for the mushrooms themselves, then she staples, screws, or stakes the pieces temporarily onto dead wood.

A grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council supports the Eagle Bluff project and allowed Hansen to contract Minnesota naturalist and “fellow fungi nerd” Tanner Barnharst to develop interpretive signage. “As the internet gets rapidly more unreliable to accurate scientific information, I wanted to make sure folks could get good information on the hikes—especially since cell service is spotty on a lot of these trails,” the artist says.

The Eagle Bluff Fungi Hunt continues through October 31. If you’re in the area, Hansen and Barnharst will be leading a free guided mycology hike in the afternoon of August 16. The artist is currently preparing for her largest hunt yet, which will take place across three parks in Olmsted County next summer. She’s also curating a fungi-themed exhibition at Kouba Gallery in Bloomington, Minnesota, and is excited to be fielding invitations from further afield for future installations.

See more on Hansen’s Instagram.

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Aan de Quebecstraat in de Botlek was dinsdagmiddag rond 16:15 uur brand ontstaan bij een metaalrecyclingbedrijf. Het ging om een zeer grote smeulbrand waarbij veel rook vrijkwam. Het blussen van de brand heeft een aantal uren geduurd.