Tom Snow

Analyst & Industry Relations @athenahealth. @Dyn, @Oracle alum. Change the rules.

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

When I was 22 years old, I commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy and swore an oath to the Constitution. I upheld that oath through flight school, multiple deployments on the USS Midway, 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm, test pilot school, four space shuttle flights at NASA, and every day since I retired – which I did after my wife Gabby was shot in the head while serving her constituents.

In combat, I had a missile blow up next to my jet and flew through anti-aircraft fire to drop bombs on enemy targets. At NASA, I launched on a rocket, commanded the space shuttle, and was part of the recovery mission that brought home the bodies of my astronaut classmates who died on Columbia. I did all of this in service to this country that I love and has given me so much.

Secretary Hegseth’s tweet is the first I heard of this. I also saw the President’s posts saying I should be arrested, hanged, and put to death.

If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution.

[Anna Bower @AnnaBower]

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the top prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia.

https://t.co/nES7Y0tp5G

[KeepTheShuttle @KeepTheShuttle]

"NASA did not design Discovery to be disassembled, and doing so could result in irreparable damage, particularly to the shuttle's frame, heat shield, and thermal insulation fabric"

[MyRadar Weather @MyRadarWX]

BREAKING: A world record 515 mile-long lightning bolt has been confirmed over parts of Texas, eastern Oklahoma, northwest Arkansas, southeast Kansas and southwest Missouri!

The World Meteorological Organization announced the discovery on Thursday. The strike occurred on October 22, 2017, but was only more recently discovered in data from the GOES East weather satellite.

Researchers call these enormous discharges "megaflashes".  Conventional ground-based lightning detection networks can only detect ground strikes. By using satellite data, scientists were able to peer down from 22,236 miles above Earth's surface. That allowed researchers to determine that a SINGLE discharge stretched from east of Dallas all the way to near Kansas City.

Much of the discharge occurred within the clouds, but the same bolt also branched off and struck the ground in 64 different locations! How long is 515 miles? The equivalent is Boston to the Outer Banks, or from Brownsville, Texas to the Oklahoma border.

To get massive bolts, you need to have horizontally-extensive storm complexes. We call those MCSs, or mesoscale convective complexes.

Storms are "only" 10 to 12 miles tall at most, but large-scale complexes can be hundreds of miles long. A region of charge can spark a discharge, or bolt, in one cloud that can "crawl" through the remainder of the complex.

The new record beats a 477.2 mile-long bolt that discharged across parts of the southern Plains on April 29, 2020.

"These new findings highlight important public safety concerns about electrified clouds which can produce flashes which travel extremely large distances and have a major impact on the aviation sector and can spark wildfires,” World Meteorological Organization secretary-general Celeste Saulo said in a statement about the discovery.

Megaflashes are also known to be long in duration. On June 18, 2020, an enormous bolt spent a total of 17.1 seconds discharging over Uruguay and northern Argentina.

“The duration of this flash was over 7 seconds,” wrote Randy Cerveny, a researcher and professor at the University of Arizona, in an email.

In its new announcement, the WMO also referenced two other lightning records — both for fatality counts from single strikes.

In 1975, 21 people in Zimbabwe were killed by a bolt as they huddled inside a hut for safety. And in 1994, 469 people were killed in Dronka, Egypt when lighting struck a set of oil tanks, sparking a fire and causing burning oil to flood the town.

[Eli Dourado @elidourado]

The start of an era.

[MaineDOT @MaineDOT1]

We're pleased to announce a new safety initiative: Squirrel Skywalks. These specially designed bridges will provide safe passage for squirrels over busy roads, lower wildlife-vehicle collisions, and reduce roadkill cleanup costs by up to 7%. Installations to be completed by 2026.

[Tom Snow @ItsTomSnow]

@kyork20 @OluKai Yes! @FootJoy and a number of other brands have some great options -- cleats and all! Great for hot days, even better when the course is soggy and you don't want to wait a week for your golf shoes to dry out. And comfortable!

[Mount Washington Observatory (MWOBS) @MWObs]

Summit fog cleared this morning just in time for a gorgeous sunrise with a partial undercast!

[The Journalist's Resource @JournoResource]

Researchers rush to preserve federal health databases before they disappear from government websites:

https://t.co/aWmP64DMZR

We include several tips that journalists can use to help preserve the data👆

[Mount Washington Observatory (MWOBS) @MWObs]

This morning, we had a snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) land on the summit. This is looking towards the Mt Washington Auto Road Stage Office (aka "the building with the chains over it") before it took off and soared to lower elevations.

#NH #birdphotography #Owl

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

During the Renaissance, people in Venice would vote by dropping little balls into an urn.

The Italian word for “little ball” is ‘ballotta.’

Now any kind of secret voting, by ball, piece of paper, or voting machine, is called a ‘ballot.’

[Keith Townsend @CTOAdvisor]

GK just shared the same thing I see. Data management and normalization takes 80% of data scientists time. Data wrangling is the problem to solve in data analytics across data sources. #NetAppInsight.

[MLB Scoring Changes @ScoringChanges]

HAPPY DANNY JANSEN DAY!!!

History will be made at 2:05 Eastern today when Danny Jansen enters at catcher for the @RedSox catching the at bat he started with the @BlueJays, becoming the first player in MLB history to play for both teams in the same game.

I can confirm that the scorecard of official scorer Bob Ellis will be sent to the Hall of Fame.

[NetApp @NetApp]

Choosing @Azure as their cloud provider and Azure NetApp Files as their storage solution was a no-brainer for @mystlukes as it tied into their @Microsoft ecosystem and is HIPAA-certified.

But wait, there's even more benefits 👉 https://t.co/x5uSFZQpra

#NetApp100

[NetApp @NetApp]

Radiology and oncology departments thrive when they can quickly access and share patient data, regardless of location.

@AkuminHealth will be at #NetAppINSIGHT to show how they implemented scalable #datastorage to support their diagnostic imaging services: https://t.co/YpgiEQ2JGR

[NetApp @NetApp]

Agile and reactive under pressure. That's what the @AstonMartinF1 team are looking for in their drivers, car AND data infrastructure.

Tom White, one of the team's IT trackside engineers, takes us through what makes the perfect #F1 data infrastructure: https://t.co/vokeA86AE0

[NetApp @NetApp]

More data requirements and locations, more rules and regulations, more cyber threats… it never stops! Luckily, #AI can help. But is your data storage able to tap into the full potential of AI? That’s why having an intelligent data infrastructure is key: https://t.co/6a3Yy5rjQ2

[NetApp @NetApp]

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO @FIAFormulaE WORLD CHAMPION @PWehrlein!! 🥳

The 2024 season has been a test of skill, speed and strategy for the TAG Heuer @PorscheFormulaE Team, and it has paid off spectacularly. 👏

Now for some well earned rest before season 11 preparations begin. 😌

[Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive]

We welcome the Supreme Court’s decision to grant a stay.

Access to mifepristone is preserved for now — and our fight to defend reproductive freedom continues.