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The bedroom is the best room for the teenagers and therefore, you need to make it fabulous and functional for their happiness and usefulness. Apart from that color scheme and interior décor, the furniture items in the teenage bedroom are what will make it outstanding for them. Even if you have a small teenage bedroom, you can have some of the most useful and attractive furniture items that will turn the room into a dream retreat and even working place. The following is the list of the teenage bedroom furniture for small rooms.
Storage Based Furniture –
Since it is a small room, there is always a dearth of storage space. However, teenagers need a lot of storage space to keep different things in different dedicated spaces for easy retrieval. Therefore, without compromising with the furniture items, you should opt for furniture with storage facility. This means that you can buy a table with shelves or rack, a bed with upper and lower storage space.
The upper space can be used for storing books and sound boxes. The lower box will contain all the items related to sleeping. Therefore, whichever furniture you choose to buy for your teenage bedroom, make sure it has storage space in whatever way possible.
Sofa Cum Bed –
A bedroom must have a bed, but for a small room, you should avoid buying the traditional beds as they take up space unnecessarily. You can opt for a bed as we have mentioned above with upper and lower box for solving storage issue. But what would be more useful is if you can opt for a sofa cum bed. The teenagers love to hang out on a couch, and a sofa cum bed serves the purpose of a couch and a bed perfectly. Besides, when you use it as a couch, the small room will become extremely spacious. Moreover, the cleaning of the room will be easier.
Wall Shelves –
Since the bedroom is small and every teenage room needs shelves, rather than buying a dedicated furniture that takes up space in the floor, the wall shelves are the best option. There are highly decorative wall shelves that teenager will love to show off. They will also solve the issue of storing items in an organized way. Starting from books and showpieces to electronic gadgets, one can keep everything without making the room congested.
A Hanging Swing Chair –
If you want to make the teenage bedroom luxurious and modern, a swing chair is ideal. The floor-based swing chair is old-fashioned and mostly for kids and elders. Therefore, you should opt for a ceiling hanging chair. There are bubble hanging chairs available of extremely exquisite designs that will make your bedroom look like a million buck deal.
Moreover, such a chair is comfortable and cozy and perfect for retreat, reading books, and de-stressing. You can put a soft carpet or fur rag below it, and it should match with the pillow cover of the swing or hanging chair. If you have space, you can opt for a standing bubble swing chair.
Hi-Tech Furniture –
A sofa cum bed, a hanging swing chair, a creative wall shelf and a compact table for work can make the teenage bedroom modern. But to make it classy, you need to have at least one Hi-Tech furniture item. The Hi-Tech furniture items are space-saver and instant eye-catcher. Besides, they are extremely versatile. They can have shelves, lounge, space for hanging the TV, a table on the outside and much more. If you can afford, go ahead and surprise your kid with a futuristic furniture item.
If you already have a ready-made teenage bedroom, you can choose and buy any of these above-mentioned furniture items to make it effective and luxurious. These are some overall teenage bedroom furniture for small rooms ideas, you can always improvise and make things better for your teenage kid.


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Dietitians are calling out WW's Kurbo app for promoting unhealthy eating habits in kids, but is it as problematic as they think?
There's a difference between dieting and being healthy, and often times, overattention to what you consume can lead to disordered eating. Eating disorders are dangerous and can affect anyone, but they're especially concerning in adolescents. Which is why WW (formerly Weight Watchers) is facing intense criticism for its new app, Kurbo, targeted toward kids ages eight to 17.
The app uses a traffic light system to tell kids which foods are a "green light" and can be eaten as much as they want, which foods are a "yellow light" and should be consumed with caution, and which "red light" foods they should probably avoid.
It seems like a simple system to teach kids what's good for them and what's not, but it regulates kids' diets in an unhealthy way. Gaining weight is a normal, healthy part of child development. Putting on a few pounds means your body is doing what it's supposed to do. While the app classifies foods with too much fat or calories as "red," children need to consume some of these foods to develop their brain.
WW is calling the app "common sense." As Gary Foster, the chief science officer of WW, puts it, items in the red foods category "aren't foods that should be encouraged in kids' diets, but they also shouldn't be vilified or demonized, and there has to be a system that's simple and science-based that highlights that so everyone in the family can understand."

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Traditional Chinese medicine, also known as TCM, includes a range of traditional medicine practices originating in China. TCM therapy consists of Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage, nutrition, and therapeutic exercise. Modern TCM was systematized in the 1950s from ancient texts and clinical experiences of master practitioners.
TCM diagnosis includes observing the patients complexion and tongue coating, listening to the sounds of breath and voice, palpation of the radial pulse and acupuncture points, and questions about history and current symptoms. Identification of a specific pattern that indicates a treatment method and classical prescription is the primary goal of diagnosis. Classical prescriptions are then modified according to the individual needs of the patient.
Modern laboratory diagnosis and pharmacology have become an important part of the 21st century practice of TCM. Thousands of research studies confirm the clinical benefits of acupuncture and herbal medicines for complex and treatment resistant illnesses. Synergistic effects between herbal medicines and pharmaceuticals can be utilized to obtain optimum responses in difficult cases.


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Monzo is a new UK mobile-only 'digital' bank, which started in 2015 as a prepaid-card issuer. In 2017, it was granted a UK banking license and started issuing current accounts with debit cards in September to a small subset of Monzo users who were early testers. Since then, they've fully launched their current account and closed their pre-paid card scheme.
I found out about Monzo from the XenForo Community - there was a thread going about it, and a member I did some work for had a golden ticket, which I used to register for a pre-paid card (skipping the sign-up queue in the process).
I then ignored this card for a few months, even after getting the upgrade to a current account in December 2017, as I had a very good young persons account with Nationwide, which gave me completely free banking and a free overdraft. When Nationwide took the overdraft away, I switched my student loan payments and direct debits over to my Monzo current account, and started using it for day-to-day banking.
Monzo have an online community forum where their customers can congregate and discuss topics relating to Monzo (and other stuff, in some cases). Being someone that likes online discussion, I signed up, and after switching my day-to-day banking over to Monzo, I became an active member.
Find out about the opening
During the April Monzo open office, I decided, quite randomly, to take a look at job openings at Monzo. There was a weekend customer operations (COps) role open to applications, and after reading the requirements, I thought it suit me quite well - so I decided I was going to apply when I got home.
The Application Process
Initial Application
The initial application process was a basic web-form requesting you upload your CV, and answer some basic screening questions. Having never applied for a job before, I didn't know what they were looking for in these questions, so I tried to keep them humorous, but truthful (even though, in one case, this required me to say that I'd never had the chance to help anyone - which is true!).
I then submitted it, and waited. And then waited some more, as it took three weeks to hear back. However, I received an email from Bobbi Nicholson, saying that they liked my application and were taking me forward to the next stage of the application, which was a written task - I was asked to spend no more than one hour on it.
The Take-Home Task
The written task was split into three tasks. Task one required me to sort ten customer questions into order of urgency, why I chose this order, and then draft an initial response and next steps to each customer query. I found this tricky, but doable. Some of the questions were hard to split with regard to urgency.
Parts two and three were (I believe) directed toward literacy, and the ability to fit in at Monzo.
Task two gave me the following situation:
One of your new colleagues has asked you if they could shadow for a couple of hours as they think your way of handling complex queries is great and would love to learn from you. However, you are responsible for writing the weekly email this week, which would require at least 2 hours of work. On top of that, one of our web services has just gone down and customers are getting in touch as their cards aren't working!
I had to list the things I would need to consider in this situation, and then prioritise them. I then had to detail the steps I would take to resolve the situation.
I quite liked this task, as it was something I could see happening - especially with me as the one asking to shadow someone. I placed a focus on me being able to manage any stress during the rush of getting the email done, assisting an influx of customers, and being able to manage the expectations of the colleague shadowing me. I also focused on the fact that, if I didn't feel that it would be a good idea at that time, I needed to tell my colleague this sensitively, as they may feel that I just don't want them to shadow me.
Task three required me to write a paragraph on my thoughts as to how Monzo could promote accessibility to all of their customers.
My full responses can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BERygSKV3by5CcfPpPK2XjPPVmEIpG7v/view?usp=sharing
Invitation to Interview
Exactly 4 weeks after I submitted the take home task, Bobbi once again emailed me saying that they'd liked me responses and wanted to invite me to an interview at Monzo's Cardiff office.
I replied, saying that was fine, and I booked my train ticket (which Monzo reimbursed).
The Interview
I took a train from London to Cardiff on the 20th June, and walked to the Capital Tower building (where Monzo occupy a floor). I went up, signed in at reception (there was someone in front of me signing in also attending the interview), and then another person came in just after me. After signing in, and waiting a minute, someone from Monzo came and took us upstairs to Monzo's office.
We were given a small tour of the office, and then we sat in a corner and introduced ourselves. A few minutes later, I went into my first 1:1 interview, the technical interview regarding the position I'd applied for.
This interview was tricky. The interviewer delved into the responses on my take-home task, and asked me to justify them. I was then asked questions about how I would resolve them, and what might be some consequences of doing certain things with regard to them.
I was really nervous during this interview, and I had an unfortunate habit of waffling :( In my defense, it was my first ever formal job interview.
After finishing that interview, I moved on to a second 1:1 interview with the Office Manager. This interview was much more relaxed, and was about seeing how I worked and how I learn and use feedback.
Unfortunately, during that second 1:1 interview, near the end, the fire alarm went off... so we had to evacuate :( It was at this point (when everyone was outside) that I learned that another group of 4 interviewees had arrived.
Everyone was offered a coffee (or other beverage) from the Costa across the road from the office. We were all outside for around 20 minutes, before being allowed back into the building.
We then got taken for a group interview. I was in a group with 3 other people, one person from my original group (who came at the same time as me), and 2 other people I had yet to meet (except outside during the evacuation).
The group interview involved each group member being given a customer complaint/query. We then had to, as a group, discuss our customer query, and organise by priority. We then had to discuss what out actions might be, when dealing with said customer queries. Three Monzo staff members were in the same room, making notes as we were doing the group work.
After presenting out decisions with regards to priority and first steps, we were asked various questions by two of the Monzo staff members.
I thought the group task went really well. My other group members had good suggestions, and everyone listened to the suggestions of the other group members.
The Response
After finishing the group interview, I was done, and left Monzo's office. I spent a couple of hours in Cardiff before getting the train home.
I got an email from Bobbi on Friday (22nd) stating that they would not be making me an offer to join the team. The feedback I received from that email stated the following:
While everyone enjoyed getting to know you better, and you gave some really well-considered answers during the interviews, the team didn't feel you'd be the right fit for Customer Operations at Monzo. Specifically, all the interviewers thought you came across as thoughtful and showed a good approach to logically solving problems. However, they felt you were less strong in showing awareness of the needs of customers and making sure these were always considered in decision making. They also felt your skills and experience might be better suited to a more technical role in the future.
I replied, asking for a bit more detail, and I got this response a week later:
Strengths relating to the job criteria:
- Knowledge of Monzo was very good. Active community member and very engaged with Monzo's mission;
- Good understanding of processes and procedures, and why these are important;
- Good knowledge of banking in general;
- Came across as friendly, polite and respectful.
Areas of development relating to the job criteria:
- Couldn't always clearly explain ideas and approaches to problems. Sometimes answers weren't concise;
- Sometimes thinking came across as inflexible, and very aligned to the rules or procedures in place rather than balancing this with the individual needs of the customer;
- Interests seemed more strongly related to technology and engineering rather than customer support. We're looking for people who will be happy in this role long-term and it seemed like there might be other roles that would be a better fit and more in line with their interests.
The second email also stated an interesting fact, that the average acceptance rate for the COp role was 4%, and roughly 8% of applicants get invited for on-site interviews. While this does me only half of interviewees will, on average, get the job, it does still sting slightly :(
I don't disagree with the feedback given, however I feel that I came across that way due to the nerves I was wracked with, given that it was my first interview ever. I feel that if I had tried to calm down a bit before the interview, it may have gone very differently.
With regards to inflexible thinking, I can see where they were coming from, but I also think that everyone is inflexible, until their thinking is made flexible. I can identify key questions where I believe they got this idea from - and they were the questions I found hardest to answer, as I've always been led to believe in life that consistency is key. I guess Monzo believe otherwise :)
I do disagree with the suggestion that I wouldn't be interested in the role long-term, however. I fully intended to keep the role for at the very least until I finished university, of which I still have two full years to complete, and even once I had finished university, I would've stayed until the very last minute, as finding a job may not be the easiest thing in the world. I don't disagree that my interests are much more strongly related to technology and engineering rather than customer support, but part-time jobs for software engineers just don't exist - hence why I applied for this job - I would've enjoyed it. Alas, it wasn't to be :(


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2019, am I right? It was a year! It occurred after 2018! And before 2020! And a bunch of things happened!Read about it!
2019, am I right? It was a year! It occurred after 2018! And before 2020! And a bunch of things happened!Read about it!
Is becoming a tech lead just like having children? Absolutely not! But I found at least one parallel.Read about it!
Most refactoring resources are about specific actions in your code. This article aims to provide more general guidance for undergoing THE BIG REFACTOR.Read about it!
I recently built some workshops. It was a lot of work, but it was fun and I learned some things!Read about it!
2018 happened. There were some lows. But there were a lot of highs!Read about it!
We recently finalized the speakers and sessions for Cream City Code 2018. We received a great number of submissions this year, and after reviewing them all, I've put together 5 tips for writing your next conference submission.Read about it!
In the last couple years, I've given over 20 talks at local meetups and code camps, and conferences throughout the Midwest. Here are 10 tips for preparing talks.Read about it!
Rejection feels bad. Sometimes I forget how to deal with it. Here are some of the strategies I keep forgetting.Read about it!
2017 was awesome! I hit the speaker circuit hard. I'm hoping for a great 2018 as well!Read about it!
What can we learn about testing from a Russian playwright that's been dead for over 100 years?Read about it!
I wanted to speak more in 2017. Looks like I'm getting my wish!Read about it!
When unit testing your ES2015 code, you'll probably want to mock dependencies. My team had been tolerating some test-induced damage to our code, in order to allow mocking of ES2015 module exports. But recently we discovered a feature of ES2015 modules that allowed us eliminate the test-induced damage.Read about it!
2016 was a ...year that happened. At a personal level, I had a great 2016.Read about it!
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October was a crazy month! Aside from being peak soccer season for my kids, I had two speaking engagements, and helped organize a conference.Read about it!
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In mid-July 2014, Time attempted an antiviral intervention against the first Internet hoax involving NSA leaker Edward Snowden. "Why Iran Believes the Militant Group ISIS Is an American Plot" read the headline above a lead that began, "Conspiracy theories are nothing new in the Middle East…." This particular rumor, said Time, had "assumed truthlike proportions through multiple reposts and links." It postulated a secret U.S., British and Israeli op—codenamed "Hornet's Nest"—hatching the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) to attract terrorists worldwide to so vex the region that Israel's enemies would be in Biblical disarray. Time traced the hoax to Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), which Time accused of "concocting an obviously fictional fake Snowden interview to bolster the narrative." Six days later, IRNA reacted testily, complaining that Time(which it called "Times") had smeared IRNA's report as "fabricated" without once referring to its original source, billionaire Pierre Omidyar's online startup The Intercept.<o:p></o:p>

The problem is that, between its February 10, 2014 launch and July 14, The Intercept had posted 258 pages of NSA documentsleaked by Snowden and numerous articles based on those leaks, but hadn't said a word about Israel's national intelligence arm, the Mossad, grooming ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as chief stinger for the Hornet's Nest. In the 30-day run-up to July 6, when the story first surfaced, The Intercept published just four articles, none of which mentioned Mossad or al-Baghdadi. "Hornet's Nest" occurred twice on The Intercept's website, in comments posted by reader Kelly on July 21 and July 29—weeks after the hoax began—both in the context of Hamas being ill-advised to stir the metaphorical Israeli hornet's nest causing the "entire swarm" to attack; her comment had nothing to do with a secret U.S., British and Israeli op involving ISIS. It's also significant that in rebuttal to Time, IRNA neglects to include a single hyperlink to The Intercept or any of "several other news outlets" that IRNA claims "also published The Intercept story." As we shall see, this omission of links to sources is de rigueur for articles spreading the hoax.

Ironically, among those failing to link crucial documents is Timeitself, which somehow forgets to point us to what it calls IRNA's "scoop" that supposedly started the fuss. Instead we're linked to the TehranTimes, where Time says an English translation of IRNA's scoop "recently" appeared—only to be confronted with the Tehran Times home page, not any specific article. Using the site's search function, we get 50 hits on the keyword "Snowden," but none more recent than April 2014 and none translating IRNA's scoop. To conclude that IRNA "concocted an obviously fictional fake Snowden interview," a reader must rely on the opinion of Time's Middle East Bureau Chief, Aryn Baker. That leaves rigorous debunkers unfulfilled.<o:p></o:p>
Regrettably, not knowing the date of IRNA's scoop, or being able to view its text online, complicates investigation. The earliest available evidence of the Snowden Hoax is a July 6 post in Arabic with a title that roughly translates as "Snowden: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the result of a three-nation intelligence cooperation."

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Its pseudonymous author is "shababek," which is also the name of the website where it is posted within a German domain, www.shababek.de. All of the elements of the nascent hoax are in place. Edward Snowden is said to have revealed that the NSA, together with Britain's secret intelligence service MI6 and Israel's Mossad, "paved the way for the emergence" of ISIS as part of "an old British plan known as the 'Hornet's Nest' for the protection of the Zionist entity." Al-Baghdadi underwent "intensive," year-long military training "at the hands of the Mossad." The source of Snowden's revelations is The Intercept. There are no hyperlinks.<o:p></o:p>

Social media puts a face to "shababek." The Twitter account @shababekT is active but contains only three tweets, in Arabic, all from August 2012 and two containing busted links to the website www.shababek.de. The profile photo shows a well-groomed, black-haired man in his 40s with goatee, dressed in a conventional business suit with necktie, above the name Kareem Al baidani. The same photo adorns the Facebook page of Abosamir Albaidani, who posts in Arabic, most recently in October 2013, and self-identifies as a graduate engineer. Some of these posts too contain broken links to www.shababek.de. A different photo of the same man, taken later judging from his graying goatee, is on the Facebook page of Kareem Al-Baidani, who likewise posts in Arabic, mainly about Iraq and most recently in March 2014, and again with nonfunctional links to www.shababek.de. Without reading Arabic, one can glean from the Internet that Kareem Al-Baidani is an Iraqi Shiite writer based in Munich, Germany. His Facebook photo is copyright Irak Heute Programm, which is German for Iraq Todayprogram. A TV show by that name—"Al-Iraq Alyom" (Iraq Today)—appears on Al-Alam, an Arabic news channel broadcasting from Iran by the state-owned media corporation Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting.

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These tenuous connections between an Iraqi Shiite writer and Iran's state-controlled media are at most suggestive. We cannot say definitively that Kareem Al-Baidani is Hoaxer Zero, whose three-part inventions about the NSA, MI6 and Mossad hornet's nest exposed by Edward Snowden found a ready audience, initially in the Middle East but soon around the world. Nevertheless, we can note that a day after he posted the hoax online, it was picked up—word for word—on the Arabic website Iraq Now, with an expanded title: "Snowden: Abu Bakral-Baghdadi, the result of a three-nation intelligence cooperation and trainedby the Israeli Mossad." The following day, the Arabic version of Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency (FNA) ran the story, again identical to Al-Baidani's original but with a snappier headline: "Snowden:Baghdadi underwent an intensive course at the hands of Mossad."<o:p></o:p>

FNA was no stranger to Snowden-related stories of shady provenance. In January 2014 and in apparent seriousness, FNA published "Snowden Documents Proving "US-Alien-Hitler" Link Stun Russia" to the effect that space aliens run the U.S. government. (No jokes, please.) It linked to a piece posted the previous day at whatdoesitmean.com that relied on, but provided no link to, a "stunning" report from Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB). Neither of these articles linked to any Snowden docs. And more than a year before, Fars had republished as straight reporting a piece from The Onion's satirical website claiming that a Gallup poll found rural white Americans preferred Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, then president of Iran, over U.S. President Obama. So it's entirely consistent for a propaganda arm of the Iranian government to disseminate disinformation by invoking that internationally recognized paragon of truthfulness, Edward Snowden. In this case, Fars would be especially motivated by a threat much closer to home than space aliens. About 90% of Iranians are Shia, which is the official state religion; only 9% are Sunni or Sufi. ISIS, by contrast, grew out of the Sunni insurgency and built its violent reputation by brutalizing Shia Muslims. Naturally Iran would strive to defame the hated and feared ISIS and al-Baghdadi through association with the demonic three-headed hydra U.S., Britain and Israel.<o:p></o:p>

Citing FNA as an impeccable authority, the hoax next began to spread in languages other than Arabic. Just two days after Kareem Al-Baidani's brainchild emerged from its birth canal, Al-Manar—a Beirut-based Lebanese satellite TV station affiliated with the Shia Islamist terrorist organization Hezbollah—published the story in Spanish, titled "Snowden: el líder del EI fue formado por el Mossad israelí." Al-Manar added a decorative touch by illustrating its piece with a posed photo of NBC News anchorman Brian Williams and Edward Snowden taken to promote NBC's May 2014 exclusive interview with the leaker, televised 41 days before Al-Manar published this article that never mentions said interview. The picture of two men seated pensively in front of tasteful, well-stocked wooden bookcases just looks good, is all.<o:p></o:p>

Finally, three days into the hoax, an article appeared that linked to a reputable news outlet. At last! Baghdad-based Iraqi satellite TV network Alsumaria's "Snowden: Al-Baghdadi is the product of three intelligence cooperation" identified its source with the familiar hyperlinked logo of Arabic CNN. Alas, this led merely to the homepage and no specific story. Good luck finding Alsumaria's source. The blog Going Global East Meets West soon followed suit by linking its story to the "original source" that turned out to be—you guessed it—Alsumaria's report relying on an unspecified post at Arabic CNN. The Snowden Hoax had now become circular and self-contained. Whereas earlier versions simply omitted sources outright and unashamedly, subsequent iterations would cite them as sources.<o:p></o:p>

Five days in, the hoax transitioned to Persian with "Snowden: Abu Bakral-Baghdadi made in Britain, America and Mossad," published by Salam Times. The article cited the Iranian Students' News Agency, run by university students, but contained no links. That same day, the hoax debuted in French with Croah's "Snowden confirme que Al Baghdadi a été formé par le MOSSAD," linking to Al-Manar's day-old French translation of its two-day old Spanish report.

Croah, however, replaced the shot of Brian Williams and Snowden with side-by-side photos of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Snowden seemingly glancing at each other with mutual distrust. This would thereafter fortify other articles and tweets promoting the hoax, as if one picture proved a thousand falsehoods.

Indeed, the same contrived image gilded the hoax's first article in English, from Som Daily News, based in Somalia, East Africa. All of five sentences long, it was titled "Snowden confirms that Al Baghdadi was trained by MOSSAD" (web page has since expired http://somdailynews.com/snowden-confirms-that-al-baghdadi-was-trained-by-mossad/). Four days later, the Som Daily News story was picked up by Gulf Daily News, the self-proclaimed Voice of Bahrain, headlined "Baghdadi 'Mossad trained,'" and by a blog calling itself The Real Syrian Free Press Network, headlined "Strategy 'hornet's nest': Snowden confirms that Al Baghdadi was trained by Mossad." Just to be safe, The Muslim Times then named both Som Daily News and Gulf Daily News as sources for "Baghdadi 'Mossad trained': Edward Snowden."

Ten days in, the virus jumped the Atlantic. "ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi Trained by Israeli Mossad, NSA Documents Reveal" at the Canadian website Global Research cited as its source Gulf Daily News, which had cited as its source Som Daily News. Having spread geographically from Germany to Iraq to Iran to Lebanon to France to Somalia to Bahrain to Syria, and linguistically from Arabic to Spanish to French to Persian to English, the readily adaptable Snowden Hoax was ideally positioned to infect North America. As a bonus, foreign outlets could now point to an ostensibly authoritative Western source, as happened the next day. As its basis for "Former CIA Agent: 'The Isis Leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi Was Trained by the Israeli Mossad,'" The Moroccan Timescited the lofty-sounding, Montreal-based Centre for Research on Globalization, a self-described "major news source on the New World Order" that runs the Global Research website.<o:p></o:p>

On July 19, scarcely two weeks after Kareem Al-Baidani cooked it up in Munich and the same day Time sought to discredit it, the Snowden Hoax arrived in America. InfoWars, the website of popular broadcaster Alex Jones, gave us "NSA Doc Reveals ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi is U.S., British and Israeli Intelligence Asset." It led off with an Editor's Note (never a good sign) stating that writer Kurt Nimmo's piece was based on "a document recently released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden" (no link thereto), the validity of which "cannot be verified due to the exclusivity of the Snowden cache." So it was released (to whom?) but nevertheless remains secret. InfoWars said the cache was being kept by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, journalist Barton Gellman, filmmaker Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, the ACLU, Electronic Frontier Foundation and others, but didn't speculate as to why none of those privileged parties had breathed a word about the Mossad training al-Baghdadi. Those who had Snowden's ear and his stolen documents were strangely silent on this sensational story, whereas those covering it hadn't spoken to Snowden and were denied access to the documents about which they were reporting. Welcome to the upside-down, inside-out world of the Snowden Hoax.<o:p></o:p>

As it happened, on August 6, Glenn Greenwald—principal keeper of the Snowden cache—did belatedly weigh in on the story. Starting more than three weeks before, 10 people had tweeted intermittently to Greenwald (renowned for his intense daily engagement on Twitter) alerting him to the hoax, providing links to false reports, and respectfully asking him to refute the fraud. Finally, London-based freelance journalist Sunny Hundal tweeted: "@ggreenwald Just to confirm, did Snowden ever say the ISIS chief al-Baghdadi was trained by Mossad? Hearing it all over FB [Facebook]." Greenwald replied immediately: "I've never heard him say any such thing, nor have I ever heard any credible source quoting him saying anything like that." On August 10, Greenwald reiterated: "I've never seen anywhere where he said that, nor any documents that suggest it." At exactly the same time, down to the minute, Snowden's ACLU lawyer Ben Wizner coincidentally concurred in a single-word tweet: "Hoax."

A few days after The Moroccan Times published "Former CIA agent: 'The ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was trained by the Israeli Mossad,'" it appended its own EDITOR'S NOTE, going InfoWars one better by using ALL CAPS: "Time Magazine has released on July 19, 2014 an article arguing that this story, which was reported by many Iranian sources including Iran News Agency, is a conspiracy theory from Iran and that it is not true. Nevertheless, it is worth pointing out that though the piece of news went viral on the net, Snowden did not refute the claims of the Iranian News Agency." In the quaint intellectual discipline of logic, asserting that a proposition is true because it hasn't been proven false is called argumentum ad ignorantiam (argument from ignorance). Since The Moroccan Times intrepidly elevates this informal fallacy to the level of an EDITOR'S NOTE, it's doubtful they'd be much impressed by Greenwald's or Wizner's tweets. After all, it wasn't Snowden himself refuting the hoax. So it must be true.<o:p></o:p>

Two days after Greenwald spoke out, his rival WikiLeaks chimed in, tweeting: "#Snowden docs reveal #ISIS trained by Mossad—falsely claims #Bahrain gov affiliated newspaper Gulf Daily News." A link was provided thereto. "It is," WikiLeaks resumedin a follow-on tweet, "intentional fabrication by or accepted by the Bahraini government affiliated news site Gulf Daily News." WikiLeaks seemed unaware that Gulf Daily News almost word-for-word plagiarized the Som Daily News story published four days before. Over an hour later, WikiLeaks tried again, tweeting: "Ground zero for false 'Snowden docs show ISIS leader trained by Mossad' story goes back to last month in Algeria." This time the link was to Algérie1.com's "Snowden: « Le chef de l'EIIL, Al Baghdadi, a été formé par le Mossad » [Snowden: 'The head of EIIL, Al Baghdadi, was trained by Mossad']." The Algerian article was dated July 11—three days after Iran's Fars News Agency ran the story. Hardly ground zero, Julian.<o:p></o:p>

In any case, Twitter's role in spreading the Snowden Hoax was instrumental. To measure its effect, a search was conducted to find tweets containing all three names "Mossad al-Baghdadi Snowden" within the 30-day range July 8–August 7, 2014. The results were entered into a database, omitting only tweets where the sender questioned the rumor's authenticity. The goal was to capture tweets promoting the hoax, not doubting or disputing it.

A total of 1219 tweets was compiled from 1016 unique senders. Nearly 89% (903) of senders tweeted just once, accounting for 74% of the database. Among the 11% who tweeted twice or more (113 senders for a combined 316 tweets), only two hit double digits: @kelpo1002 (27), who tweeted in French to more than 1K followers, and @AnonOperations2(11), who tweeted in English to 560+ followers. Based on this analysis and on a visual review of every tweet collected, it seems unlikely any were generated by automated methods such as bots. These have the look and feel of genuine tweets from real people.

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croah.fr: "Snowden confirme que Al Baghdadi a été formé par le MOSSAD"<o:p></o:p>
somdailynews.com: "Snowden confirms that Al Baghdadi was trained by MOSSAD" [expired]

Relevant page associated with each website:

http://somdailynews.com/snowden-confirms-that-al-baghdadi-was-trained-by-mossad/ [expired]<o:p></o:p>

http://croah.fr/revue-de-presse/snowden-confirme-que-al-baghdadi-a-ete-forme-par-le-mossad/<o:p></o:p>

http://www.globalresearch.ca/isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-trained-by-israeli-mossad-nsa-documents-reveal/5391593<o:p></o:p>

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/07/edward-snowden-reveals-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-trained-by-israeli-mossad-video-2993768.html<o:p></o:p>

http://lesmoutonsenrages.fr/2014/07/16/selon-edward-snowden-le-chef-de-leiil-al-baghdadi-a-ete-forme-par-le-mossad/<o:p></o:p>

http://syrianfreepress.wordpress.com/2014/07/15/snowden-confirms-that-al-baghdadi-was-trained-by-mossad/

In conclusion, more than 30 days after its initial outbreak, the Snowden Hoax continues unchecked. Any notion that WikiLeaks might halt the spread was quickly dispelled, due mainly to their clumsily worded tweet: "#Snowden docs reveal #ISIS trained by Mossad—falsely claims #Bahrain gov affiliated newspaper Gulf Daily News." Some readers missed or misunderstood the throwaway "falsely claims" and took it as confirmation of the hoax by WikiLeaks, the organization Snowden himself had praised to the sky: "They are absolutely fearless in putting principles above politics. Their efforts to build a transnational culture of transparency and source protection are extraordinary. They run towards the risks everyone else runs away from."

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No surprise, then, that among the replies posted directly were these:<o:p></o:p>

Sheba @sahi_100: "I could well believe this."<o:p></o:p>

Naheed R @naheedR: "Doesn't surprise one bit. They all look like bad actors."<o:p></o:p>

Abdul Rahman @Engr_AR: "Agree, shame on Mossad."<o:p></o:p>

nu2twitr @4in4mation: "Filthy Zionist Jews are Behind ISIS Terror Group."<o:p></o:p>

Within 24 hours of posting, WikiLeaks's tweet had been retweeted 465 times by readers to their followers, and marked as a favorite 155times. (In contrast, Greenwald's by then three-day-old tweet still hadn't made it out of single digits for either RTs or favorites.) Abandoning the orphaned "falsely," some readers extracted the first clause as a standalone, unqualified endorsement, attributing to WikiLeaks the very untruth that WikiLeaks had sought to expose.<o:p></o:p>

the hermawans @KerjaInterior: "RT @wikileaks: #Snowden docs reveal #ISIS trained by Mossad."<o:p></o:p>

Riswandha Risang @r_risang: "Snowden docs reveal that ISIS trained by Mossad – Wikileaks."<o:p></o:p>

David Plater @PlaterDavid: "'@wikileaks: #Snowden docs reveal #ISIS trained by Mossad.' So @foreignoffice @StateDept What does yr intel say?"<o:p></o:p>

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Hell, David, at this point, after the feverish onslaught of a month-long infection by the Snowden Hoax, it might be a relief to see a tweet from the verified U.S. Department of State @StateDept account conceding, once and for all, that Snowden's phantom NSA documents and imaginary interviews do indeed prove that Mossad trained al-Baghdadi and that Operation Hornet's Nest is real. Maybe then these loonies on the Internet will give it a rest.

Nah. Who am I kidding? They're like the alien seed pods in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. They're here already! You're next! You're next!

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This is another recipe my mother got from a Hunt's Tomato Sauce advertisement when I was a child.
1/2 cup chopped onions
1 1/2 Tablesp. Wesson, pure vegetable oil
1/2 lb cooked and cubed ham
1 lb 14-oz can Pork and Beans
1 8-oz can Hunt' Tomato Sauce
1 Tablesp. Worcestershire sauce
1 teasp. prepared mustard
2 Tablesp. brown sugar
Saute onions and meat in Wesson oil until onions are golden. Mix in remaining ingredients. Pour into a baking dish and bake at 350 degrees, uncovered, for 30 to 45 minutes. Serves 4.


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Ecosystem Diversity
Table Tennis Players to Support Eco-Friendly Paddle
Industrialization and modern technologies do not favor conservation and management of the environment. This is the reason there are many conferences on climate change geared towards eco-friendly technologies. Sport is not left out either, especially table tennis where it directly affects the use of wood which has a negative impact on the environment. The fact there is wood in the paddle among other table tennis equipment; something has to be done to save the environment.
How best can table tennis players support an eco-friendly paddle?
Indoor table tennis games
Who said you can only play table tennis in a sports field? You can play table tennis during office break just to rejuvenate and even feel fresh to handle the difficult tasks. It is one game that does not need a big space, as a matter of fact, the hospitality industry is embracing the game as a value-added service to maintain customer loyalty. It has an impact on many sports field that can be used as an
environmental conservation measure. You can emulate this even at home such that you have indoor table tennis equipment for family bonding.
Ping pong games aimed at environmental awareness
To get people to just come to listen to long lectures may not be an idea to create awareness of eco-friendly sports equipment. Renowned players can organize a tournament with the aim of disseminating information to the public in ways of saving the environment. It could be a great event for exhibitors to comes and showcase their stuff. This is one tournament that can attract who-is-who in the environment industry just to make the point clear.
Eco-friendly paddle including equipment
The paddle itself is made of wood meaning; there is a tree that has been cut short of life. The question is, has it been replaced. If yes, then well and good if not then what are some of the measures to be taken to make sure we have more trees at the same time not kill the sporting industry? This is the point some countries, put companies that directly deal with wood as a raw material to be on the front line to advocate for tree planting events as a way of showing solidarity to the environmentalists.
Inclusion of modern technologies in the development of the paddle
The question that should linger to manufacturers of table tennis paddle is, what else can replace the wood but still maintain the quality of the equipment? With modern technology, and also in line with the International Table Tennis Federation, they should have a round table talk to have an alternative raw material. This will have a massive positive impact on the number of trees that will befell to meet the ever-growing demand of the sporting tool. Why involve the Federation? Most players will prefer to train with equipment that is recognized internationally, otherwise, they may be seen to be of low standard and further get banned from international tournaments. It will also be a loss to both the buyer and the manufacturers for they will be deemed to manufacturer substandard products.
All fields have a direct impact when it comes to saving the environment. By extension, the playing fields mean there is no vegetation cover in its development. A table tennis player is not affected by this since it is considered an indoor game. The ping pong players should have a broad thinking mindset. Some of the questions that should linger in their mind include
- How well am I assisting to enhance eco-friendly table tennis equipment?
- How best can I be part of the system to use my influence for the same objective?
- Am I an environmental conservationist in my own small way? If not, what can I do to become better or even enhance the climate change song that is sung all over?
Toilet That Conserves Water
In the average home, the bathroom represents the majority of domestic water consumption. Average bathroom, most of the used water falls into the toilet. Standard toilets use three to five gallons of water to wash, while older models consume up to eight gallons. In addition to using a general-purpose toilet, the toilet is sometimes used to collect garbage and can pass hundreds of gallons through a leak. All this also increases the amount of water consumed in this source, as well as the cost of water in residential premises. Water saving can be done in a few minutes and with the use of economical tools.
The displacement bag
The toilet bowl is an offset bag that fills with water and fits into the toilet. It passes between the inlet valve and the tank wall. On the outside of the bag there is a handle that allows you to hang it on the side wall of the toilet bowl. This tool reduces the amount of water used during each wash using 0.8 gallons.
Tiny toilet water saver
The side discharge cycle is connected to the supply hose to reduce the amount of toilet water used during each discharge. To install, first pull the hose out of the overflow pipe. Remember to remove the clip if it is. Then enter the deviation of the filling cycle at the end of the hose. Finally, the deflector must be attached to the overflow pipe. The toilet cycle switch lever must be inside the overflow pipe and the other must be outside.
You have several options
A double convector for washing is a slightly more complicated water-saving toilet system that can save even more water, thousands of gallons a year. This device has two different rinsing options: liquid and full, or half full. Depending on the setting used, the transmitter knows how much water is needed to clean the tank with each color.
The installation of a double transducer is based on the type and type of toilet in which it is installed. Do not worry, all manufacturers provide detailed instructions for installing transducers and estimate that their assembly takes less than half an hour.
Even leakage can be annoying.
Periodic testing and repair of toilet leaks not only helps to prevent water
The most common way to check for leaks is to use a coloring toilet mechanism pill that you can buy for a penny. Take the tablet and put it in the toilet. After about 15-20 minutes, if there is a drain, the water will change color. Another way to check if you have drainage in your hand is to install a leak detection device. Use a vibration signature from the filling valve to determine if a normal washing cycle will occur or if a re-supply reaction occurs in response to a valve leak.
Installing a water-saving device in the toilet is a simple way to make sure that your home has little water loss or water loss. The protection of toilet water also helps reduce the impact of our apartments on local water resources as well as our monthly budget.
How Ping Pong Save the Environment
It is not necessary to be in a position to save the environment because there are several ways to be an environmentalist or environment advocate. We are all being aware now how we greatly impact our mother nature with all the things that we are doing may it be harmful or not For all sports enthusiast, this article talks about how one simple sport can affect the environment and ways to save it We have to be practical nowadays by making sure that whatever we're good at should be able to shell out for the betterment of our surrounding because karma is just there waiting for your huge mistake to happen.
Ping pong is a very simple sport that is always played indoors where breeze or wind is controlled because it affects the ball being passed on from one side to another using a small-sized racket and the ball is passed one over a net attached to a table. What makes Ping Pong is loved by many because anyone can play it equipment needed for this are all made out of wood especially the racket which can be held by anyone even kids with differences of height. This sport is environmental friendly in such a way that they are played indoors so we don't have to worry about the plants being hit or Bermuda grasses that might be destroyed due to movement of feet that is much needed for this kind of game. What made it more best bud of the environment is because of the pingpong table being used which is in any condition.
Any condition pertains to any flat surface that can be elevated so it isn't necessary to be a new table anytime but we can use desks or tables in our house or in any buildings like our offices or schools for recreational activities. This only means that it supports or it is an advocate of recyclables which is very much loved by our environment. Making tables or desks will hurt not only one tree or it could be more depending on the size that is needed and how many tables are there in a house or in an office? We will be saving more if we know how to use anything that has already been used which is applicable to things or sport that we are doing. This is the advantage of Ping Pong comparing to any other sport which makes us more encouraged to learn because it gives something good not only to us and our health but also to our environment that is facing several climate changes. Good karma is the appropriate term for this instance and we want to all have that good fate, right?
We can save the environment in just one simple sport and that is Ping pong. It is fascinating how one simple sport can create a huge impact to the world we are living into the entire sports enthusiast including simpletons, let us find a way to save the earth with all the hobbies that we do.


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They are often called the cowboys of the Internet. It is an image most Internet service providers want to shrug off, but find it hard to.
Everybody remembers the dotcom boom, when cashed-up ISPs were looked on as pots of gold and every man and his dog rushed into the mix, hosting thousands of users from garage-based operations. But the value of Internet service providers plummeted as the bottom fell out of the market. With the high-profile collapse of big players such as One.Tel's One.Net and, more recently, dingo blue, the gold rush scene has acquired the look of a ghost town. And for the survivors there still seem to be snipers in the hills.
Faced with the pressures of competing in a tough economic climate and continuing consolidation, ISPs are discovering new security threats and intrusion methods daily. More than 26,000 computer intrusion incidents were reported to the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) in the first three months of this year, surpassing the total for all of 2000.
Most of the time, these threats come from end users, script kiddies and the cracker community - the usual nuisance mix that represents a calculated business risk in the game of Internet service provision. What is alarming is that the number of incidents of ISP inter-hacking, or, to use criminal terminology - industrial sabotage - seems to be rising as well.
In December, hackers hit 400,000 Optus Internet dial-up accounts, which resulted in the launch of the biggest computer crime investigation undertaken to date by the NSW Police. But according to many of the ISPs Channel X spoke to, the police need look no further than rival ISP companies.
When a hobbyist administrator and recent correspondent set up his Linux box at home, he set up a "honeypot".
A honeypot is a term used within the security industry to refer to a machine that has been set up to "sting" an attacker by giving them something "sweet" to attack.
The unusual way this correspondent, who preferred to remain nameless, set up his box meant that to the outside observer he would appear to be an ISP. The box was housed within the same IP block range that local ISPs were given with Telstra Bigpond Direct. He also claimed no-one knew if he was on a modem, ISDN or fibre link because he had set up his box to deny incoming traces, pings (the process of checking for the presence of another party online) and probes.
Six months down the track his logs show that a small ISP had repeatedly attempted to gain port access to his Linux box, sometime in the early hours of the morning. After scanning the offending IP address, our "deep throat" was alarmed to discover the culprit was a local ISP.
"Just for the fun of it, I scanned their offending IP, found a lot of interesting stuff open and noticed that they had telnet open. So I, jokingly, opened a telnet session and tried to login once with a bogus account (knowing full well that I wouldn't get in) but I wanted it to be registered on their end," he says.
"A week later I got a voice call from the system administrator saying that a hack attempt was made on their server originating from my IP. I laughed it off and said it was a retaliation for what was attempted on my box, and that if he called the police I would be glad to supply them with the offending logs, and I wasn't going to be cooperative with him personally."
Our source is not alone. Speaking from the coalface, systems administrators of various ISPs, who also requested anonymity, say they have noticed increased activity associated with hacking on their network originating from other ISPs. These include port scanning for vulnerabilities and probing.
One ISP told Channel X that over the years it has been constantly probed by another local competing ISP. (A probe is a device used to collect data about network activity. However, it can also be used to gain access to a computer and its files.) Another hosting company complains it was port-scanned by another ISP, even while the host was already under a heavy spam flooding attack from an unknown source. Combined with the spam flooding, the scanning effectively choked the small company's remaining bandwidth.
Yet, while common among smaller players, incidents of commercial sabotage or hacking from rival ISPs is rather rare in Australia on the medium-to-large ISP scale, according to Edward Murphy, ihug's satellite network engineer.
"Smaller ISPs complain from time to time in the various forums that someone has hacked them or done something to prevent them from operating properly," Murphy says, adding that he believes inter-hacking to be used by players competing over customer base.
But Ross Wheeler, managing
director of Albury Local Internet, says that "the amount of rival-ISP-breaking-the-competition' is a pretty small amount of the total . . . That said, I do know of several instances where an ISP has done things' to rivals," he says, adding that the main motivation is just because they can.
Sven Radavics, senior manager system engineering at network security specialist WatchGuard Technologies, has also witnessed ISP-to-ISP hacking activities. "Coming from a background at Primus and Hotkey, I can say it's not an ongoing war, but it does happen and the risk is incredibly high," he says. "The thing about hacking is a lot of it can be very, very easy. The difficult thing is not getting caught - ISPs are in a fairly good position to backtrack and find the culprit."
When it comes to corpo-
rate espionage or terrorism, Radavics believes that anything that occurred in the offline world now occurs online - and ISPs are not exempt. He offers the example of his father's petrol station business. When a rival petrol station opened in the same street, Radavics senior would find chewing gum stuffed in the padlocks when he went to unlock in the morning. This kind of activity has transferred to the online world.
Although the Australian Federal Police (AFP) is aware of this problem, an AFP spokesperson says: "Some of this [ISP-to-ISP] activity came to our attention in the early days. But to our knowledge, this has dropped off." Whether this is because there are fewer incidents of ISP-to-ISP sabotage, or there are fewer incidents reported, is a little less clear.
The AFP estimates the incidents of unreported incidents of computer intrusion in Australia are in line with recent findings out of the US. Only 34 per cent of companies that had experienced computer intrusion reported it to law enforcement, according to the Computer Security Institute and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's annual "Computer Crime and Security Survey".
PricewaterhouseCoopers' computer crime investigator in Sydney, Graham Henley, claims ISP-to-ISP probing is not an uncommon occurrence. "But probing can happen for legitimate reasons," he says, "such as if an ISP is attacked and they want to find information from the originating site - they may be using probing tools. Lots of probing goes on as part of the normal infrastructure awareness of information coming from the Internet. It's not for malicious intent, but to see information.
"But it's difficult to see whether the probing is intended for a malicious attack, or what the scenario is. There is a difference between trying to find the source of an attack and in trying to slow down another ISP's network," he says. "Sometimes it can be an anomaly, a normal part of tracking the feasibility of the network."
Henley spent 11 years in the Australian Federal Police, including five years in the computer-crime division. He now runs the computer forensics and technical investigations team for PricewaterhouseCoopers. "In most cases," he says, "it is script kiddies that have found a new tool and are checking to see if it can plug into an ISP network."
Preserving the evidence
In his discussions with forensic experts on gathering and analysing evidence, Dr Brian Denehy, chief scientist at security consultancy 90East, has discovered they are all facing the same problem: administrators do not understand the methodology.
"Generally a problem with most administrators is that they don't necessarily do well preserving a chain of evidence, and have stuff pulled offline straight away - they don't have it copied, tagged and kept track of," says Denehy.
Henley agrees: "People need to be aware that if they are a victim, they need to treat logs as evidence. Logs need to be preserved so information can be relied upon in court, with integrity that there has been no tampering. Are the date and time settings correct on this system, for example? If the clock was out by two hours and someone testifies that, then what are you going to do? You need to make notes about what you do so at the end of the day people are collecting the relevant information."
Most ISP network administrators will backtrack after an attack to find the perpetrator. But forensic experts warn that backtracking or probing to seek out the culprit can corrupt the chain of evidence used to prosecute. And a lot of smaller players don't have an incident reporting methodology in place until a breach has occurred.
"It's not an ISP's core business to think with an investigator's mindset," says Henley. "But the bigger ISPs have gone out to hire people with law enforcement references, so they are getting better at dealing with these types of things and have policies in place for dealing with investigations. Those sorts of things are improving."
An AFP spokesperson gives this advice: "Given the nature of electronic evidence, we would encourage ISPs to contact law enforcement as soon as possible so evidence can be identified and preserved for investigative and prosecution purposes."
Report it?
Detective Senior Constable Frank Schiliro of NSW Police's Computer Crime Investigation Unit says: "Like many types of crime, hacking and denial-of-service attacks are under-reported. A number of companies use their in-house investigators or seek the services of a private investigation firm. This makes it difficult for police to determine the full extent of these types of crime."
Schiliro stresses law enforcement agencies are seeking to build a cooperative relationship with ISPs "with a view to improving our capacity to detect, prevent and investigate all computer crime".
But at the moment ISPs are under no obligation to report incidents. According to Henley, apart from the NSW Crimes Act, there is no legislation forcing ISPs to do so. "Most don't rush to law enforcement and there is no legislation to do so." And according to Denehy: "In a lot of cases, people don't regard this activity as a crime. They regard it as cost of doing business."
In fact, an ISP's core business is to continue providing a service to its clients. Part of the reason an ISP may not report intrusions is that it may disrupt this service and damage customer confidence. At a time when ISPs are watched heavily by consumers who demand more for their buck, the ISP cannot afford to be seen as unstable and prone to attack. Business confidence is one of the prime distinguishers in this marketplace, especially considering that ISPs hold records of customers' e-mail and browsing habits.
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About a week ago, my wife surprised me with a date night filled with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. We had a blast figuring out puzzles and blowing away spiders and other creepy crawly things. Our fun came to an end, however, when a summer thunderstorm rolled through. With the power flickering and almost killing the game, we decided to call it a night. So we watched the lightening outside instead!
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Last night I downloaded the demo for Papo & Yo on the PS3. I had read a fair amount about how the game was based on the developer's abusive childhood, at the hands of an alcoholic father, and I wanted to see how that translated into the game.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Life is a journey, not a destination." What happens though when the journey is beautiful but mundane and the destination turns out to be a complete waste of time?
This past weekend I journeyed through the lands of Journey on the PS3. When all was said and done, I had no clue what had just happened or what I had just played. So, I took to Wikipedia to make sense of my experience. The Wikipedia entry only confirmed my suspicions that not much had just happened. To further illustrate this, the following is a quote from the developer's web site:
Journey is an interactive parable, an anonymous online adventure to experience a person's life passage and their intersections with other's.
I can admit that I thought it was cool to travel across the desert, plunge into the dark depths of despair, and finally rise above a wintry landscape onto the mountaintop of hope. What I disliked about the game was it's stark simplicity. The interactions with other players, while nice, especially in the dark depths, were pointless. Beyond the amazing stylized graphics and tight game play, the narrative journey of Journey fell short to me. If Journey was a movie, I'd be asking for my $15 back.
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For PSP owners, you will be eligible to download two PSP games from the following list. The games will be available for 30 days shortly after PlayStation Store is restored and can be kept forever.
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My personal information is running amok on the Internet! I have now received the first piece of SPAM related to your most recent debacle. Luckily, I can actually read and was able to see that you wouldn't be using an email address like:
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United States Senator Richard Blumenthal wrote a nice letter to Sony:
April 26, 2011
Mr. Jack Tretton
President and CEO
Sony Computer Entertainment America
919 East Hillsdale Boulevard
Foster City, CA USA 94404
Dear Mr. Tretton:
I am writing regarding a recent data breach of Sony's PlayStation Network service. I am troubled by the failure of Sony to immediately notify affected customers of the breach and to extend adequate financial data security protections.
It has been reported that on April 20, 2011, Sony's PlayStation Network suffered an "external intrusion" and was subsequently disabled. News reports estimate that 50 million to 75 million consumers – many of them children – access the PlayStation Network for video and entertainment. I understand that the PlayStation Network allows users to store credit card information online to facilitate the purchasing of content such as games and movies through the PlayStation Network. A breach of such a widely used service immediately raises concerns of data privacy, identity theft, and other misuse of sensitive personal and financial data, such as names, email addresses, and credit and debit card information.
When a data breach occurs, it is essential that customers be immediately notified about whether and to what extent their personal and financial information has been compromised. Additionally, PlayStation Network users should be provided with financial data security services, including free access to credit reporting services, for two years, the costs of which should be borne by Sony. Affected individuals should also be provided with sufficient insurance to protect them from the possible financial consequences of identity theft.
I am concerned that PlayStation Network users' personal and financial information may have been inappropriately accessed by a third party. Compounding this concern is the troubling lack of notification from Sony about the nature of the data breach. Although the breach occurred nearly a week ago, Sony has not notified customers of the intrusion, or provided information that is vital to allowing individuals to protect themselves from identity theft, such as informing users whether their personal or financial information may have been compromised. Nor has Sony specified how it intends to protect these consumers.
PlayStation Network users deserve more complete information on the data breach, as well as the assurance that their personal and financial information will be securely maintained. I appreciate your prompt response on this important issue.
Richard Blumenthal
United States Senate
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Sleep Tight began life in 2008 in the hands of Italian born writer Alberto Marini who has worked with Filmax for more than 10 years, including collaborating with Balaguero on the scripts of his previous award winning horror films Darkness (2002) and Fragile (2005).
Marini, who also serves as executive producer on the project, thought it would be an interesting idea to write about an apartment doorman breaking his code of conduct by spying on the building's inhabitants.
"I originally had New York in mind as the setting for the film where doormen are treated with great respect and hold a lot of control over a sizeable number of people in a building," explains Marini. "I wrote the script in Spanish and got a translator to convert it to English. I had in mind someone like Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Cillian Murphy to play the lead role."
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Fernandez almost immediately bought the rights, but the three of them decided it would be easier to shoot in Spain with a "think local, but act global" approach, according to Marini.
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The remaining money has arrived from Spanish broadcasters TVE, Canal + and TV3, who will split the TV rights; there's also pending soft money from the Spanish Film Institute (the ICAA) and the Catalan government funded body ICIC (Catalan Institute of Cultural Industries); and finally funds from Filmax itself thanks to a sizeable loan from Mexican producer Elisa Salinas, the newly appointed board director of Filmax.
"The success of the first two [Rec] films (which made $12m and $8m respectively in Spain alone) were excellent persuasive tools in our approach to the broadcasters and distributors," admits Fernandez.
The film is expected to be completed by the first trimester of 2011. "Depending on how long the post production takes we should be ready before Cannes, but I think Berlin might be too soon," says Vicente Canales, head of Filmax International.
Next up: Filmax will again be working with director Jaume Balaguero, alongside Paco Plaza, on two new [Rec] horror films to be titled [Rec] Genesis, which will return to the origins of the infection that caused the zombie mutation, and [Rec] Apocalypse, which will end the saga with the pandemic spreading to unknown proportions. The first will be ready by autumn 2011, and the second the following autumn.