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Gmail's PowerPoint Viewer
It's interesting to see this new feature, not long before Google launches the promised presentation tool for Google Docs. The slideshow included in Gmail uses Flash, while most Google tools use AJAX, and seems inspired by Picasa Web Albums.
Among the features, there's an interesting "embed this presentation" that should let you include a presentation into a site. But it's not functional yet.
By default, you have to manually advance to the next slide, but there's an option to start the slideshow.
If you have PPT/PPS attachments in your Gmail account (do a search for filename:.ppt OR filename:.pps), you could try to see if you have this feature by looking for a link that says "View as slideshow" next to a PowerPoint attachment.
Update (June 12): The feature is now available for everyone. The presentation embedding option has been removed, although it could be reincluded when Google launches its full-featured presentation app, in the coming weeks.
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- AnonymousMay 16, 2007 at 6:38 AM
Unfortunately neither way works for me.ReplyDelete
Cool, I have the "View as slideshow" link.ReplyDelete
I also have the "View as slideshow" link for my Gmail PPT attachments and have just now run it through the paces on about five different briefs, ranging from simple text-based to complex graphics-laden PPT files. The results are surprisingly GOOD -- translation is quite good on text-based presentations (as long as you aren't straying too close to the edge of the page in the original PPT file). Noticed more screen anomolies in the PPT file with the most charts and graphics -- lack of transparency, text overrunning container graphics, etc. But overall, not bad -- very handy functionality to have in Gmail.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 16, 2007 at 7:34 AM
i don't have that link and the "vap" way doesn't work either :(ReplyDelete
View as HTML is useless...ReplyDelete
The greater part of the ppt attachments are full of images and html preview doesn't show them...
So I have to download them all.
Maybe they're releasing the tool soon. If everyone seems to have it (I also have it) then I wouldn't be surprised if the tool comes along soon.ReplyDelete
For me, the link appears only for .ppt files, not for .pps.ReplyDelete
The flash slide show looks really cool, definitely better than the "view as HTML" option.
And it also loads faster compared to downloading and opening the file through PowerPoint!
Yes, the performance is pretty good. I tested a 11 MB PPT file with 71 slides and many images. It even loads faster than PowerPoint 2007, but it also lacks the nice slide sorter from PowerPoint (view all the slides in one screen) or a search feature.ReplyDelete
The coolest feature should be embedding but that doesn't seem to work.
I dont have this option checked 5 diff accounts in 2 diff browsersReplyDelete
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As usually with Gmail, this option is slowly rolled out.ReplyDelete
Remember the mail fetcher that was added in Dec. last year, but very few people could see it?
It's enabled for me!!! :DReplyDelete
What happen with the gmail PPS viewer??? It doesn't work anymore why??????ReplyDelete
Google disabled it for a month but its working again. It seems that there was a bug in the powerpoint viewer. http://blog.beford.org/?p=19ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 15, 2008 at 1:41 AM
dead againReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 18, 2009 at 1:37 PM
it sucks, because for some reason I don't get the download link, i don't want to watch it as a slideshow or as html, i just want to download itReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2009 at 7:16 PM
wait how do i get this powerpont thing i need it for a school project asapReplyDelete
It would be very pretty and all, if it wasn't half-baked. That's right, try to click "View" with those powerpoints with photos embedded, and notice them in true 256 colour wonder! with those erroneous colour pixels everywhere, like if you converted 32 bit JPEGs to GIFs.ReplyDelete
And all since 2009 or earlier!
It's 2012 Google, how much longer will you take to address this? In fact, you tried to, in 2009, when I filed a bug report about it. I'm still waiting...
Hurry up google, preferably before GIFs become trendy again.
P.S. Happens to me with different PCs, browsers and google accounts (and all the .PPT with photos in them), so don't even try to suggest that the fault is on my end.


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A pair of diamonds joined as a figure-eight can be seen in three places on the face of this stone. They are the marks of the sculptor or team of sculptors who carved this and numerous other Persepolis reliefs on which the same marks appear.
Foundation Slab of Xerxes
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The geographical term "Susiana," referring to the area ruled in the historical period by the city of Susa, is also applied to the prehistoric cultures of lowland southwestern Iran. Representational designs such as the stylized wild goats with long sweeping horns painted beneath the rim of this krater are characteristic for an advanced stage of the Susiana sequence.
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Many of the pottery vessels from the site of Tall-i-Bakun in the plain of Persepolis show a highly sophisticated use of negative designs in conjunction with more usual painted patterns. On this bowl, two patterns alternate in rhythmic sequence. One is a painted design of anthropomorphic inspiration with a "head" flanked by upraised "arms" facing both the rim and base of the bowl. The other pattern, which is given in negative by the buff surface of the vessel, consists of a cross and two lozenges.
Disc-Headed Pin
Large numbers of decorated disc-headed pins were found in the sanctuary at Surkh Dum-i-Luri. They may have been votive offerings to a fertility goddess or, on analogy with a modern ethnographic parallel, deposits verifying wedding contracts among nomadic peoples moving through the area. The decoration of this example, with an eight-petaled central rosette and surrounding borders of smaller rosettes and punctate patterns, is typical. The tiny incised lion's (?) head faces away from the shaft because the pins were worn with the head hanging down and the shaft pointing up.
Spouted Gray-Ware Pitcher
Around 1200 B.C. monochrome wares were introduced in many parts of Iran and replaced the earlier painted pottery. These new, frequently burnished, wares occur in both a reddish-orange and a dark gray variety. The gray wares, of which this long-spouted pitcher is a characteristic example, were given their color by special firing in an oxygen-reducing atmosphere. They appear to have been ceramic imitations of metal vessels.


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Susan Rice kicks off U.N. series
Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, will argue in a major address Friday evening that the nation should "strengthen" — not "starve" — the world body.
The address is the first in a series of speeches — to continue this spring — making the case to the American people for why the U.N. matters to national security, and detailing how it is being improved. The ambassador will be speaking to the World Affairs Council of Oregon in Portland.
"The U.N. provides a real return on our tax dollars by bringing 192 countries together to share the cost of providing stability, vital aid and hope in the world's most broken places," Rice said in prepared remarks.
"Because of the U.N., the world doesn't look to America to solve every problem alone. … We're far better off working to strengthen the U.N. than trying to starve it — and then having to choose between filling the void ourselves, or leaving real threats untended."


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text: A hacker who claims he was behind a fast-spreading e-mail worm that crippled corporate networks last week said that the worm was designed, in part, as a propaganda tool.The hacker, known as Iraq Resistance, responded to inquiries sent to an e-mail address associated with the "Here you have" worm, which during a brief period early Thursday accounted for about 10 percent of the spam on the Internet. He (or she) revealed no details about his identity, but said, "The creation of this is just a tool to reach my voice to people maybe... or maybe other things."He said he had not expected the worm to spread as broadly as it had, and noted that he could have done much more damage to victims. "I could smash all those infected but I wouldn't," said the hacker. "I hope all people understand that I am not negative person!" In other parts of the message, he was critical of the U.S. war in Iraq.On Sunday, Iraq Resistance posted a video echoing these sentiments and complaining, through a computer-generated voice, that his actions were not as bad as those of Terry Jones. Jones is the pastor at a small Florida church who received worldwide attention this week for threatening to burn copies of the Koran.Security experts agree that the worm could have caused more damage. However, it did include some very malicious components, such as password logging software and a backdoor program that could have been used to allow its creator to control infected machines. But because the software was not terribly sophisticated, it was quickly shut down as Web servers that it used to infect machines and issue new commands were taken offline last week."Here you have" spread when victims clicked on a Web link and then allowed a malicious script to run on their computer.It is the more-successful follow-up to an August worm that included the e-mail address that Iraq Resistance used to communicate with the IDG News Service.According to Cisco, the worm accounted for between 6 percent and 14 percent of the world's spam for a few hours Thursday. It primarily gummed up corporate e-mail networks in the U.S.It is the first worm in years to have such a widespread and noisy effect, hearkening back to the days of the Anna Kournikova worm. Nowadays, most malware writers don't want to draw attention to their activities, because they generally want to keep their malicious software hidden away on victims' computers as long as possible.Disney, Proctor and Gamble, Wells Fargo and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are among the organizations reported to have been hit by the worm.SecureWorks Researcher Joe Stewart believes that Iraq Defense is a Libyan hacker who is trying to gain followers for a cyber jihad hacking group called Brigades of Tariq ibn Ziyad.Tariq ibn Ziyad was the eighth century commander who conquered much of Spain on behalf of the Umayyad Caliphate. Iraq Resistance's YouTube video has a Spanish theme too. It shows a map of Andalucia, and Iraq Resistance lists his location as "Spain" in his YouTube profile.In his e-mails, Iraq Resistance did not answer questions about his identity, saying that he was worried about his safety. "I think this information is enough for you and having more looks like [an] investigation," he said. "I don't see myself that criminal."Robert McMillan covers computer security and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Robert on Twitter at @bobmcmillan. Robert's e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com


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From Frankenstein to I, Robot, we have for centuries been intrigued with and terrified of creating beings that might develop autonomy and free will.
And now that we stand on the cusp of the age of ever-more-powerful artificial intelligence, the urgency of developing ways to ensure our creations always do what we want them to do is growing.
For some in AI, like Mark Zuckerberg, AI is just getting better all the time and if problems come up, technology will solve them. But for others, like Elon Musk, the time to start figuring out how to regulate powerful machine-learning-based systems is now.
On this point, I'm with Musk. Not because I think the doomsday scenario that Hollywood loves to scare us with is around the corner but because Zuckerberg's confidence that we can solve any future problems is contingent on Musk's insistence that we need to "learn as much as possible" now.
And among the things we urgently need to learn more about is not just how artificial intelligence works, but how humans work.
Humans are the most elaborately cooperative species on the planet. We outflank every other animal in cognition and communication – tools that have enabled a division of labor and shared living in which we have to depend on others to do their part. That's what our market economies and systems of government are all about.
But sophisticated cognition and language—which AIs are already starting to use—are not the only features that make humans so wildly successful at cooperation.
Humans are also the only species to have developed "group normativity" – an elaborate system of rules and norms that designate what is collectively acceptable and not acceptable for other people to do, kept in check by group efforts to punish those who break the rules.
Many of these rules can be enforced by officials with prisons and courts but the simplest and most common punishments are enacted in groups: criticism and exclusion—refusing to play, in the park, market, or workplace, with those who violate norms.
When it comes to the risks of AIs exercising free will, then, what we are really worried about is whether or not they will continue to play by and help enforce our rules.
So far the AI community and the donors funding AI safety research – investors like Musk and several foundations – have mostly turned to ethicists and philosophers to help think through the challenge of building AI that plays nice. Thinkers like Nick Bostrom have raised important questions about the values AI, and AI researchers, should care about.
But our complex normative social orders are less about ethical choices than they are about the coordination of billions of people making millions of choices on a daily basis about how to behave.
How that coordination is accomplished is something we don't really understand. Culture is a set of rules, but what makes it change – sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly – is something we have yet to fully understand. Law is another set of rules that we can change simply in theory but less so in reality.
As the newcomers to our group, therefore, AIs are a cause for suspicion: what do they know and understand, what motivates them, how much respect will they have for us, and how willing will they be to find constructive solutions to conflicts? AIs will only be able to integrate into our elaborate normative systems if they are built to read, and participate in, that system.
In a future with more pervasive AI, people will be interacting with machines on a regular basis—sometimes without even knowing it. What will happen to our willingness to drive or follow traffic laws when some of the cars are autonomous and speaking to each other but not us? Will we trust a robot to care for our children in school or our aging parents in a nursing home?
Social psychologists and roboticists are thinking about these questions, but we need more research of this type, and more that focuses on the features of a system, not just the design of an individual machine or process. This will require expertise from people who think about the design of normative systems.
Are we prepared for AIs that start building their own normative systems—their own rules about what is acceptable and unacceptable for a machine to do—in order to coordinate their own interactions? I expect this will happen: like humans, AI agents will need to have a basis for predicting what other machines will do.
We have already seen AIs that surprise their developers by creating their own language to improve their performance on cooperative tasks. But Facebook's ability to shut down cooperating AIs that developed a language that humans were unable to follow is not necessarily an option that will always exist.
As AI researcher Stuart Russell emphasizes, smarter machines will figure out that they cannot do what humans have tasked them to do if they are dead—and hence we must start thinking now about how to design systems that ensure they continue to value human input and oversight.
To build smart machines that follow the rules that multiple, conflicting, and sometimes inchoate human groups help to shape, we will need to understand a lot more about what makes each of us willing to do that, every day.


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How to lead your department through a LODD
How NIOSH investigators and the department can better understand the LODD and prevent its repeat
By the time a person has struggled to the top firefighter position, that member has managed a lot of issues. It is likely that the fire chief has experienced about everything under the sun.
Whether managing a complicated administrative process or handling a complex emergency response, the hope is that the chief has been there and done that, at least once.
According to NFPA figures, there were more than 370,000 structural fires in 2011. In addition to fires and rescues, each year career and volunteer fire chiefs oversee some type of budgetary and other administrative processes.
As the chief settles into the "routine of the position" (if there is such a thing), there are not too many surprises happening in the corner office. Then, on the most horrible day of an entire fire service career, the department experiences a line of duty death.
I don't know anyone who has the experience to be comfortable handling a LODD. After the initial shock and stress of learning that a member's precious life has been lost, time will seem to speed up and the department will be tested to its breaking point.
The organizational leadership team will need to step up to guide the department through this dark period. They will have hopefully participated in one of the many outstanding programs presented by the National Fallen Firefighter Foundation. Even with the proper training under your belt, this is a very difficult and sad assignment to manage.
The investigation begins
The first phase of leading after a LODD is making sure every detail supporting the grieving family has been handled respectfully and properly. The next phase will be the investigation component.
Many leaders would say that the focus of the LODD investigation must be on learning the details about the response and never allowing the same situation to occur again. The mantra will sound something like: "If we don't learn, we are destine to repeat history."
However, when the sleeves are rolled up and the investigation begins, there can be a lot of barriers blocking the investigators from getting to the facts. The same issues may prevent the department from building an effective recovery plan. A recovery plan gives the department a good shot at not repeating the actions that lead to the LODD.
An investigation will most likely include the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program. NIOSH is the investigative arm for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention responsible to conduct a voluntary review of firefighter LODDs.
About NIOSH
NIOSH's fatality investigation program opened its doors in 1988. During the past 15 years, it has produced hundreds of LODD reports.
Some of those who have an interest in firefighter health and safety issues, say the NIOSH LODD reports need a facelift. They say the NIOSH reports use a lot of the same recommendations from case to case.
The naysayers will say that the investigators do not go after the actual causal factors. They may go as far as to say that the root causes are covered-up for political reasons or to prevent organizational and personal embarrassment. The LODD final reports use the same boilerplate information and they have very little value, can be heard as well.
One wonders if this criticism is warranted or overstated. After 15 years of service, does NIOSH need to change its investigative process and reporting?
In 2008, NIOSH began hiring company and chief officers who served in fire suppression or operations in career fire departments to investigate LODD incidents. NIOSH did this in reaction to requests from the fire service for this level of qualification.
Many of the cases NIOSH investigates are in fact similar incidents. Further, there are dozens of documents showing that many of the firefighter fatalities happen in similar ways with similar root causes.
If this is so, then it stands to reason that the factors are very similar and the final report text does appear to be a boilerplate.
For example, many fireground LODDs had no accountability system in use. In some LODD cases, the department doesn't have an accountability policy, system or training. If this is the case, it appears that NIOSH is doing its job and doing it well.
Broader authority
One of the first concerns NIOSH supporters raise is that the agency needs to have broader and better defined authorities to respond to and investigate all line of duty deaths.
To initiate a NIOSH investigation, the department that experienced the fatality must request that NIOSH respond to the event. I wonder how many commercial airlines would call in NTSB to investigate a plane crash, if that was a necessary step? My guess is not many air carriers would call out of fear of increasing the airline's liability and its organizational embarrassment.
So, the Federal Code of Regulations gives the NTSB the legal authority to respond to all plane crashes that occur in the United States. With that authority and responsibility, NTSB needs the budget to support its mission. Even if it had the authority to respond uninvited to all traumatic (nonmedical) LODDs, it is doubtful that NIOSH has the funding.
Changing times
If an investigative facelift is necessary, then what would it take for the NIOSH reports to be more valuable in reducing future firefighter fatalities?
First, give NIOSH the authority, responsibility and funding to investigate all traumatic LODDs. Next, NIOSH should share the responsibilities of the preliminary investigation.
The "go team" model that NTSB uses would be of great value. For example, the crashed Boeing 777 at SFO was still smoldering at the end of the runway when the NTSB go team was packing up to head west.
The team wastes no time arriving on location to get information at a plane crash, as some information is perishable. Arriving in time to obtain that information and the fresh human data (personal accounts) needs to happen as soon as possible.
To implement the go-team concept, I suggest trained, qualified and well-respected members from two of the top three associations: International Association of Fire Fighters, National Volunteer Fire Council and International Association of Fire Chiefs.
If two qualified investigators were added to each team at no additional federal cost, a lot more could be accomplished when the boots hit the ground. Further, if each group is represented, then there will be a higher level of buy-in, which will lead to more respect and usefulness for the final LODD report.
NIOSH uses expert technical reviewers to ensure accuracy and correctness with each investigation report. NIOSH selects a reviewer based on the type and size of the department involved with the investigation.
This means that a reviewer from a metropolitan fire department would be called on for an incident at another metro department and a volunteer fire officer would be used to review an incident involving a volunteer department. The reviewer must be a fire officer with operational experience, knowledge and skills.
Recovery plan
Once the final report is published, the affected fire department should develop, publish, distribute and follow a comprehensive LODD recovery plan. This is an area where we often fall short. It seems that most fire departments do very little with what the NIOSH investigators provide.
A second go team needs to appear on-site and guide the department in the development of its LODD recovery plan. This continuum of outside efforts could range from handing the entire process to simply observing the department develop its own plan with internal resources. I would think that only one NIOSH official would be needed along with two of the three member associations assisting the recovery plan development.
One of the most comprehensive LODD recovery plans was developed under the direction of Fire Chief Alan Brunacini of the Phoenix Fire Department. This plan, Southwest Supermarket Fire Report, took a year to develop and contains more than 100 pages of text; it is an excellent best-practice guideline.
The elements of the recovery plan must be based on national standards, such as those of NFPA, whenever possible.
How it can work
Here's one way this can work. When command training is needed to be included, use a nationally recognized program such as Blue Card or National Incident Management System in the recovery plan when command failures were listed in the final LODD report.
Next, use the recovery plan to develop a detailed, logical and well-supported action plan to guide the recovery efforts. The action plan can be part of the recovery plan, but must focus on the steps necessary to make the identified changes and organizational improvements.
The action plan needs to identify the funding source as well as the people responsible to complete the tasks as required. The action plan should contain the person who has the overall responsibility and when progress meetings are to be held to describe successes and point out barriers that must be removed to reach.
The meetings must continue until all of the action steps are completed. This relentless follow-up of the plan is mission-critical.
Finally, if there have been other LODDs or serious near misses in the same department, a gap analysis report should be developed. This report should list all of the previous recommendations and improvements that were documented.
The status of each recommendation should be reviewed and described. The items that have not been completed should be added to the action plan; this will close the firefighter safety gap from previous investigations and suggestions.
The tone of the investigation and report cannot be accusatory. The focus needs to be on learning and prevention.
Tip of the spear
This column regularly acknowledges fire service leaders who have been on the leading edge of a specific project or fire service improvement. So this month's Tip of The Spear shout out goes to Richard Duffy of the International Association of Fire Fighters.
Duffy was instrumental in bring about the NIOSH investigation process. It is fair to say that without Duffy's leadership the death investigation process would like not exist.


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UPDATE: The exhibit and website are now "down for maintenance".
Earlier this month, Disney announced a collaboration between Blue Cross Blue Shield Florida to bring their considerable experience and expertise in marketing to children to the health insurance industry's long-standing commitment to blaming fat people for their health problems. These titans of industry will pool their talents to give fat shaming of children a brand-new re-branding. Oh, that's not what they announced, of course, but it is what they are doing.
Newly unveiled at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center is "Habit Heroes", an exhibit and online game designed to combat "bad habits" by personifying those habits and then stigmatizing those personifications. I'm guessing you are already ahead of me. 25 Pixar-inspired characters make up the "Bad Habit Gallery", a collection of low-ambition super villains content to use their powers to model socially unwelcome behavior. I'm not going to really get into the advisability of the project. This sort of negative reinforcement feels misguided in general, but especially when the negative reinforcement involves creating cool characters of the things you are supposed to be stigmatizing. (See Hungry) Never mind the broad condemnations of things like being in a bad mood are just setting kids up to fail. Everyone gets in bad moods or doesn't get enough sleep enough some of the time. Especially counterproductive is shaming kids for lacking self-esteem. You're going to make kids feel bad about themselves because they feel bad about themselves? Way to go, Disney. So, there is a lot to complain about, but as you probably deduced, what really concerns me are the fat shaming characters in the "Bad Habit Gallery".
And yes, characters. As I noted, the residents of the "Bad Habit Gallery" are all personifications of "bad" things. One is a personification of bullying (so, he's a bully), one is a personification of listening to music too loudly (a guy with headphones; they really didn't try very hard), one is a personification of sharing your personal information online (find out more when you register with http://www.habitheroes.com!). There is even a personification of eating spoiled and moldy food, which I must admit, I was not aware was so pervasive a problem.
I'm having a little fun with all of this, but that's because I can. I'm an adult and I'm encountering all of this with cool detachment. That doesn't mean the influence on children isn't insidious. These three characters are carefully designed to get children to associate fat bodies with the negative behaviors our culture associates with fat bodies. Its like a "My First Fat Shaming". The game pretty explicitly tells children to see fat bodies and think they are slothful beasts cramming themselves full of fattening treats. All of these bad habits that we know our culture links to fatness, the game does, too. This isn't about the bad habits at all. Its training children to adopt the socially dictated bigotries around fatness.
Don't think the creators didn't know what they were doing, either. Indeed, its clear from the site's video game that they created another character to shield them from criticism for making all of the anti-fat "Bad Habits" big fat fatties. They already had Snacker designed to personify eating junk food. She was even designed like a sugar plum fairy of sorts. But she doesn't eat sweats. Oh, no. They have another character for that, Sweet Tooth. She's thin and everything. Well, "shapely" is how they describe her. See, they pointed out that she's not fat. Immediately after doing so, they scold her for not being fat, too, teaching kids to rely on the visual evidence of evil fat bodies even if some evil people have disguised themselves as "shapely" while really they have high blood sugar. (Yep, diabetes shaming, too!) For gosh sakes, she's got the name Sweet Tooth instead of Snacker who's bio identifies her as a FAILED TOOTH FAIRY? How clearer can it be that this character is just an afterthought to provide some deniability for their fat shaming? Well, as I mentioned, the game makes it completely unavoidable. While all the other bad habits are encountered on their own, Sweet Tooth and Snacker are just doubled up and do the same thing. (You douse them with vegetable juice while they pelt you with donuts and cakes)
It doesn't stop there, though. Three other characters are fat in ways that specifically exploit prejudices about fat people. Stress Case is a fat opera singer. Well, former opera singer. Stress caused her to blow out her voice and destroy her career. Sounds tragic, but remember the point is how inexcusable it is to be stressed. The real take-away, though, is that she was too busy being stressed that she doesn't bother to exercise. While dressed up to be about stress, its actually just another lesson about fat people being lazy. What else do fat people do? They stink! Stinkbomb is the personification of bad hygiene. If you guessed that he's also fat, congratulations. Get Sweet Tooth to launch a cookie at you. I guess we should be relieved that he doesn't explicitly connect being fat to smelling bad. I'm pretty sure kids already "know" that, though, so they'll put two and two together. Finally, we have The Prescriptor, the personification of not doing what your doctor tells you. Hmm. Like lose weight? Again, they don't specifically connect is fatness to his fault, but its not hard to make the connection given existing social beliefs that people are fat because they are ignoring all the people telling them not to be. In a lot of ways, the construct of The Prescriptor is how a lot of trolls view fat acceptance. Just a bunch of ignorant people ignoring their doctor's orders. The fact that those orders can't really be fulfilled is meaningless.
Although the website features 25 bad habits, what I've found of the actual exhibit makes me wonder if most of the non-fat shaming ones were just filler. This site includes the preview posters for the exhibit which pretty much exclusively focus on fat shaming. The only habit we haven't already talked about is the one representing TV/internet/video game addiction although the poster renders him as a pudgy sprite instead of the robotic overload the site features. Spoiler alert? I wasn't able to finish the game due to site errors, but it wouldn't surprise me if the reveal on the interactive entertainment boogeyman was that he was just a squat guy. This review of the now open exhibit reinforces the point. No sign of the website's peer pressure or teethcare villains. It seems to just be the ones about eating and laziness. A point also made by the exhibit's focus on a gym as the hero's base. This was in the game, too, but was a minor point there. In the exhibit, its clearly a focal point.
Perhaps the most dangerous part of the program is how it teaches kids to shame their peers. All of the bad habits are defined as having a "master plan" to subject everyone to their socially stigmatized trait. While the video game that accompanies the site has you winning over the bad habits (though much that involves making mean-spirited remarks to them which seem an awful lot like the bullying that is supposed to be a bad habit), the wording on the bios just makes it out like these people are obsessed with ruining everyone around them. Got a fat friend? They want to make you fat like them so they won't feel so bad! No, really, that's what the site tells you. At best, its teaching kids to constantly pressure their friends about their supposed faults. At worst, its telling you stay away from them at all costs. Or maybe best and worst and mixed up there. Its kind of hard to differentiate between two awful outcomes intended to stigmatize kids for not meeting certain standards. Either by constant pressure or by ostracizing them.
Simply put, kids don't need this message. They already know to shame kids for not fitting in, and that is a problem. Programs like this just teach those kids they are right to do that. No fat child needs a video game to belittle them for supposedly being lazy or gluttonous. Fat children already hear that all of the time. It has nothing to do with what bad habits they may or may not have, either. The implicit connection "Habit Heroes" draws between fat characters and fat lifestyles will empower the continued abuse of fat children, both externally and internally. They'll keep being taught to feel constant anxiety about their eating and activity level. They'll keep trying to do "the right thing" only to find it doesn't make them thin, teaching them that moderation is worthless and encouraging dangerous activities. It will keep teaching fat children that they aren't right and teaching other children the same thing. Society was doing just fine on that without Disney's metaphorical weight behind it. This is the last thing the world needed.
Habit heroes represents some of the worst of our society. It relies on cheap and easy prejudice, pandering to cultural bigotries surrounding weight and morality. It bullies the disenfranchised for the benefit of the status quo. They rely on the widespread of acceptance of fat shaming and fat stigmatization to put forward a message that will be poisonous to fat children. Fat shaming needs no more corporate partners or endorsements. Fat children are constantly being told to feel awful about their bodies. Given that no safe, reliable means of weight loss exists, even for the children, this is a prescription not for good habits, but for self-hatred. Worse than that, its an endorsement of others hating fat people.
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On Feb. 5, employees at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, started having network access problems that prevented electronic communications. Over the next few days, they learned that the hospital was the victim of a ransomware attack that encrypted files on multiple computers.
After several days during which staff had to resort to pen and paper for some record keeping, the hospital decided to pay the $17,000 ransom — the equivalent of 40 bitcoins that the attackers had requested. It was deemed to be the fastest way to restore the affected files and systems.
This was to be the first in a string of ransomware attacks that affected multiple healthcare organizations in the U.S. over the following months, including the Chino Valley Medical Center, the Desert Valley Hospital and Methodist Hospital in Henderson, Kentucky.
It also highlighted a worrying trend: While in the past, ransomware attacks primarily targeted consumers, attackers were now shifting their focus toward businesses.
Over the past two years there has been a dramatic shift in the type of ransomware being used by attackers, said Ed Cabrera, chief cybersecurity officer at antivirus vendor Trend Micro.
In 2014, 80 percent of ransomware attacks used traditional techniques that involved, for example, locking the desktop screen and telling users that they needed to pay fines. However, in 2015, the statistics flipped and 80 percent of attacks involved crypto-ransomware, the malicious programs that encrypt files.
"Another ransomware evolution is the transition from targeting consumers to enterprises," Cabrera said. "Many of the new crypto-ransomware families detected and blocked in 2016 have targeted more enterprises than ever before."
This change in targets is not entirely unexpected. After all, business records are much more valuable than personal documents, companies can afford to pay higher ransoms than consumers and their security posture can vary greatly based on their geographic location, size and industry segment.
"We've begun noticing that ransomware has been focusing on small and medium businesses for the past year, as they're more likely to pay larger ransomware fees than the average user," said Liviu Arsene, a senior e-threat analyst at antivirus firm Bitdefender. "Considering that the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Hospital paid $17,000 when hit by a single ransomware infection, it stands to reason that cybercriminals would be far more interested in targeting organizations."
A recent IBM survey of 600 business leaders in the U.S. found that one in two had experienced a ransomware attack in the workplace and that in 70 percent of cases their companies paid to get their data back.
Emails distributing ransomware programs made up nearly 40 percent of all spam e-mails sent in 2016, and criminals are on track to make nearly $1 billion this year from this type of malware, IBM X-Force said.
A ransomware attack can be crippling to a company's day-to-day activities and human resources and financial departments are common targets because it's easy to disguise malware as a resume or an invoice. If the victim happens to be a hospital, public transport service, water utility or some other critical infrastructure provider, ransomware-related downtime can have a serious impact on lives.
In November, hackers compromised and encrypted data from around 900 systems from San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency. The incident did not affect the transit service, but the agency had to open the gates and provide free transport to passengers to minimize customer impact.
When it comes to ransomware, prevention is critical since there are very few options aside from paying cybercriminals once systems are affected. Companies should have a complete response plan in place and simply having a data backup routine is not enough.
Organizations need to regularly verify the integrity of their backups and test that the restoration process works without glitches. Otherwise, they might discover that restoring data through their own process might take too long compared to just paying the ransom.
Ransomware programs have traditionally been distributed through email spam, and many of them still are, but attackers have diversified their infection methods over the past year.
The second most common infection technique is through exploit kits — web-based attack tools that contain exploits for vulnerabilities in browsers or browser plug-ins like Flash Player, Adobe Reader, Java and Silverlight.
Users get redirected to exploit kits through compromised websites or through malicious ads that attackers manage to sneak onto ad networks. These are known as drive-by download attacks and unlike phishing emails, users can't be trained to avoid them, because they can be launched from trusted websites and are usually completely silent.
But it's not just workstations that organizations have to worry about. Attackers are also increasingly exploiting vulnerabilities in server software to get ransomware onto corporate networks.
In April, MedStar Health, a not-for-profit organization that runs 10 hospitals in the Washington, D.C., area was infected with a ransomware program dubbed Samsam. Researchers later established the Samsam was installed through a vulnerability in the JBoss application server and found 2,000 such servers at schools and other organizations around the world running vulnerable JBoss installations.
According to a report from Symantec, the Samsam campaign was also interesting because the cybercriminals behind it were using techniques and tools typically seen in cyberespionage attacks to perform lateral movement inside corporate networks. Their goal was to identify the most valuable targets and to delete existing backups before deploying the ransomware.
Another case is that of Linux.Encoder, the world's first ransomware program for Linux, which infected web servers through a vulnerability in the Magento content management system, Arsene said. "Other interesting distribution mechanisms involve the hijacking of FTP credentials for popular open-source projects and then substituting the binaries with tainted copies, like in the case of the Transmission bittorrent client."
"We do expect that with ransomware 'going corporate' we will see more vulnerability based infections within networks," said Barry Shteiman, director of threat research at Exabeam, a security company that uses machine learning to detect ransomware. "In essence, every server that has vulnerabilities that may lead to phishing, defacing or persistent code injection – could lead to ransomware spreading."
Another ransomware distribution method used recently is through stolen remote administration credentials. Earlier this year, one ransomware variant known as Surprise was being installed through hacked Teamviewer credentials and more recently the Crysis ransomware infected systems through RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) brute-force attacks.
When it comes to email-based attacks, attackers have used executable files hidden inside zip archives, Word documents with malicious macros embedded in them and JavaScript attachments that download and install malware droppers when executed.
In fact, in ransomware attacks, file encryption is the final step of the infection chain, so there are multiple opportunities to detect and block such attacks before they impact valuable data.
First, there's the original entry point into the network, whether that's an email campaign, a web-based exploit or something else. If the the attack is caught by spam filters or endpoint security products at this point, the threat is averted.
The second stage is typically a malicious program called a malware dropper whose goal is to connect back to the attacker's server and download the ransomware program. Detecting and blocking the malware dropper is yet another opportunity to stop a ransomware attack before it causes damage.
Once the ransomware is deployed it will first scan the local computer and network shares for files that it can encrypt and will attempt to disable the Windows Volume Shadow Copy service and delete existing backups.
Finally, before the encryption process is initiated, most ransomware programs will connect to a command-and-control server to obtain an RSA public key. That key is part of a public-private key pair generated by the server and is used to encrypt the data. The private key, which is needed for decryption, never leaves the attackers' server.
Most of the time, if a firewall blocks the malicious program from accessing the command-and-control server and downloading the public key, the data encryption process won't be initiated. However, some recent ransomware variants have the ability to perform offline data encryption using a hardcoded key.
It's worth noting that it's not just business data that can be rendered unusable by ransomware, but also entire computers. Ransomware variants such as Petya and HDDCryptor rewrite the Master Boot Record (MBR) of computers and encrypt the entire file table leaving them unable to boot into the OS.
When ransomware hits, it's important to isolate the infected computers from the rest of the network so that the infection can't spread. Shutting down the unaffected computers until the compromise can be contained is recommended. At this point companies should also contact law enforcement agencies and ask for assistance.
The next step should be to make copies of the encrypted data and to clean up the registry values and files created by the malicious program so it doesn't run again when the computer is started. Changing the user passwords that could be used to access other network services is also important because attackers might have already stolen them.
And then there's the hard decision: To pay the cybercriminals or not. Security experts and law enforcement agencies don't recommend paying the ransoms, because this encourages the criminals and because there's no guarantee that they'll provide the decryption key.
According to a report from security firm Kaspersky Lab, one in every five companies that pay ransom never get their data back. However, sometimes there's not much else an organization can do if it was unprepared to deal with ransomware.
Shteiman believes this is a cost-based decision. The organization should perform an assessment by asking questions such as: What was encrypted? Are there backups for the encrypted data? How many changes occurred to that data since the last backup? What's the cost of losing those changes? How long would it take to recover them using other means? Is it possible to recover the data using existing tools or known keys?
If the business downtime caused by data unavailability or by the backup restoration process is more expensive than paying the ransom, or if giving up on the encrypted data has a higher cost in lost revenue and intellectual property than remediation, then organizations should pay the ransom, but only if other options have been exhausted, Shteiman said.
If a company decides to hold its ground and not pay the ransom even if it has no other means to recover its data, it should keep copies of the encrypted files. Sometimes law enforcement agencies or security companies manage to take control of command-and-control servers for various ransomware variants and will make the decryption keys available. Other times security researchers might find vulnerabilities in the encryption implementation of some ransomware programs and create free recovery tools.
Corporate networks are not the only ones at risk; the next wave of attacks could see ransomware targeting industrial networks, said Guy Caspi, CEO of cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct. "In April, the Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) — the third-largest electric and water utility in Michigan — was under a ransomware attack, and so was the first electric utility hit by ransomware."
Caspi believes that the next step in the evolution of ransomware could be programs that wipe hard drives after making a copy of the data instead of encrypting them.
On the other hand, Bitdefender's Arsene believes that since we now have ransomware for Windows, Linux, OS X and Android, the internet-of-things devices could be the next target.
"A scenario where smart devices are held for ransom is not really that farfetched, especially since the number of smart things is expected to exponentially grow in the next couple of years," Arsene said. "If your smart home were to be held for ransom or if you corporate sensor grid were to be taken offline by ransomware, that's when things will get complicated."
Preventing ransomware infections:
- Implement an awareness and training program for employees to teach them how to recognize phishing attacks, malicious attachments and ransomware signs.
- Use a strong spam filter and implement anti-email-spoofing technologies like Sender Policy Framework (SPF), Domain Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance (DMARC), and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM).
- Configure network-level security solutions and firewalls to block access to known malicious IP addresses, including Tor, since many ransomware command-and-control servers are hosted on Tor.
- Keep the software running on workstations and servers up to date and consider a vulnerability scanner and patch management system.
- Use a capable anti-malware program with a proven track record in detecting ransomware and ensure that it's configured to perform regular scans.
- Use the principle of least privilege for local accounts on workstations, as well as network shares and other resources. If a user doesn't need write access to a network share don't provide it.
- Disable browser plug-ins that are not needed and consider running the browser and other programs in Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET).
- Prevent programs from running from temporary folders and other common locations used by malware by using software restriction policies.
- Disable the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and other remote management tools if not needed. If they are needed make sure they use strong and unique credentials.
- Consider using an application whitelisting solution and executing risky programs in virtualized environments.
- Catalogue data based on its value and implement strong access controls and physical separation for critical network segments.
- Back up data regularly, verify the integrity of those backups and regularly test the restoration process.
- Ensure that computers are not permanently connected to backup locations. Create multiple backups and store them offline and offsite, for example in the cloud if they are secured and there is no perpetual access to them. Be aware that continuous file synchronization is not a backup method and some ransomware programs detect and encrypt data in cloud-based file synchronization solutions.
- Conduct regular penetration tests and vulnerability assessments.


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Eurozone Follies: Confusing Callousness For Courage
European elites pushing austerity are repeating the mistakes they made during World War I and the Great Depression. The question is whether they'll realize it before it's too late.
As Spain (momentarily?) reels again as rates rise over doubts it can roll over its debt, it is time to step back and note that the eurozone can almost surely solve its problems in the medium term if it truly wants to. Surprise? It shouldn't be. But rarely has there been such poor management of economic affairs since the Great Depression. Readers should know this: there is a path to successful resolution. Yet one would be forgiven for thinking there is not after reading or watching the media.
The best piece of evidence that something could indeed work is the action beginning in December from the constructively crafty Mario Draghi, new head of the European Central Bank, the successor to the arrogant and stubborn Jean-Claude Trichet. Trichet, remember, raised interest rates in mid-2011 for fear that inflation was on its way back.
As is by now widely celebrated, Draghi was able to inject up to a trillion in euros to banks at low interest cost, which in turn they used to buy sovereign debt. Suddenly, the markets calmed, rates on debt for Spain and Italy fell, and there was breathing room. Perhaps as interest charges fell, they could pay off the debt coming due with room to spare. In such an environment, Europe even came to terms with Greece on a new bailout — albeit onerous ones for the Greeks.
This all could have been done earlier and more directly had the ECB been run by far-seeing people. But German bankers and politicians kept the ECB from being more aggressive back in early 2010, when it should have been doing what the U.S. Federal Reserve had done back in 2008. There should be more from Draghi going into the spring, but of course there are new fears he may cut back.
What should be clear is that the big reason why countries like Spain and Greece may not be able to pay their debt are those high rates, not public spending profligacy. Greece had even run a surplus. The average deficit compared to GDP in the eurozone was 0.5 percent in 2006. Then the recession devastated tax revenues and burst property bubbles. Even so, Italy, for example, has a rather tame deficit even today. But because it has a high debt to GDP ratio, much of it short term, a rise in rates spearheaded by speculative fears becomes very expensive in the near term. Indeed, if governments made an error, it was taking on too much short-term debt that needed constant rolling over, and the U.S. is no exception. Remember when the Clinton administration, with the encouragement of Alan Greenspan, eliminated its 30-year benchmark Treasury bond?
In contrast to the narrow-minded ECB, as noted, the Federal Reserve immediately poured money into the U.S. and world economy (by cutting rates sharply, buying Treasury securities, and guaranteeing money market liabilities and other instruments) when Lehman Brothers fell apart — and to a lesser degree earlier. Even when Europe established a new facility, the European Financial Stability Facility, to lend money in 2011, Germany restricted it from borrowing from the ECB. The EFSF should be expanded, without question. Some resist that idea, most prominently Germany, although Germany is now under recessionary pressure itself and seems to be relenting somewhat. That is unconditional good news.
The success of the Draghi plan shows how unfortunate the stringency has been. Nations that set their own monetary policy, like the U.K., have not had a run-up in rates because the central bank can in effect print money, and has. These nations can also devalue their currencies. Even the U.S. dollar has fallen, if probably not enough.
The essence of the euro crisis is that members cannot devalue or control their own monetary policy. But the ECB could have done so. If it had recognized its obligations, the crisis would not have been nearly as great. (There are some legal restrictions as well, which I believe could have been disregarded, much as Germany and France once disregarded the legal restriction of a deficit ratio of 3 percent without suffering the prescribed penalties.)
Even so, a more enlightened and courageous ECB would still not have been enough. The eurozone needed fiscal stimulus, much like the Obama stimulus provided, though Europe needed more (the U.S. needed a second round as well). Instead, however, Europe got the opposite: austerity. In return for a Greek bailout from obstinate and ostrich-like Europe, its rates soaring partly because the ECB wouldn't serve as lender of last resort as it does in other nations like the U.K. and U.S., the EU tough guys demanded public spending cutbacks, firing of thousands of public workers, reduced minimum wages, and on. Greece is now essentially in a depression imposed with remarkable callousness by the core eurozone members.
Portugal, Spain, and Italy also have had austerity explicitly or implicitly imposed on them as part of a bailout deal. All are in recession today.
Those who imposed the austerity, led by the Dutch, the Germans, and to a degree the Sarkozy supporters in France, assumed a dog would be able to catch its tail. Austerity meant weakening incomes, as Keynes long ago taught us, and lower incomes meant lower tax revenues. When you missed your deficit target, you had to cut spending again, which led to weakening tax revenues again. Government spending couldn't drop fast enough to meet a deficit target in any of those countries.
Almost everyone knew this was about to happen. But the imposers of austerity believed this would wring these economies of excessive debt, reduce interest rates and wages, and create a new platform from which to grow. Thus, they believed in family economics, not country economics. Tightening the belt may often work at home, but it means disaster for a country .
Research from the IMF also strongly suggests that austerity's pain is delivered unequally. Wages go down farther than profits and stay down longer. Long-term unemployment rises and many do not return to work.
Here's the kicker: Germany is now in recession because austerity economics has so undermined the economies of those that import goods from it. It, too, is suffering. Did it really think it was immune to the process? Its success depended in the 2000s on the very free-spending economies it now disparages. Now the beggar-thy-neighbor consequences of their export-led growth model are at last taking a toll.
It is possible that Greece will say to heck with it, we won't pay our debts and would rather leave the euro. That would produce harsh pain all around. But the Germans don't want a breakdown of the euro — they benefit too much from a fixed euro that is too low given its unit labor costs. If Germany were independent, its currency would have soared already. Someone has to earn enough money to pay for the goods you make. Germany's repressed wages would never have provided it the market adequate to supports its manufacturing growth. Such export-led growth models are not sustainable.
What Europe needs is a far more generous ECB and the end of austerity economics for now. It also needs Germany and others to raise government spending to stimulate the region. And finally, everyone should get over their obsessions with tiny Greece. Europe should treat the troubled country as an obligation, much as the U.S. carried the economies of the deep South for so long after World War II. Make Greece the ward of the state, supply it transfer social funds, help it get its house in better order, but don't suppress the spirit and hopes of democracy.
The deepening, austerity-induced recession in Europe will also take a toll on the U.S. If it makes it still harder for the southern periphery to pay its debts as bond investors get scared off, a new financial crisis could occur. This would affect the U.S., which has exposure to European debt, especially in money market mutual funds. A new recession is not impossible in America.
Will Europe wake up? Will Germany be forced to face reality as it too suffers recessions? Can someone come forward with the guts to take a constructive stand other than Draghi, who disguises it in technicalities and sometimes talks up austerity himself? Perhaps they are now expanding their "firewall," the money available for a bailout. Good news. But others are complaining Spain is backtracking on austerity. That is the return of the ostrich.
It is a fascinating historical period — or would be if it weren't so potentially tragic. The eurozone now practices pre-Depression economics. Cutting debts through spending contraction will reduce interest rates and labor costs enough to restore business investment, they say. Economies self-adjust! That is their song — or their swan song. And we heard it most loudly in the early 1930s. The approach won't work. Worse, it is already clearly not working. But many persist. They say, accept the necessary pain. They even say, share the pain, the best societies do. But pain is not shared under austerity economics, it is borne by the less advantaged.
Perhaps the explanation of this perverse economic policy is simply that the elite won't suffer themselves — the middle and working class will. But eventually everyone will. The world has suffered the insensitivity of elites many times before. Think of those World War I generals sending their working class soldiers to their deaths by the millions. Perhaps not death this time. But it is the same elitist distance from reality, the same elitist insensitivity. And it is called courage by them and by many in the media.
Roosevelt Institute Senior Fellow Jeff Madrick is the Director of the Roosevelt Institute's Rediscovering Government initiative and author of Age of Greed.
Cross-Posted From The Roosvelt Institute's New Deal 2.0 Blog


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In a world of Spotifys and Netflixs and countless other subscriptions, what's just one more? Especially for something as wildly useful as Wikipedia. If Wikipedia was to go to a subscription model, how much would you be willing to pay? How much would be high enough that you would try to go without?
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The 65+ Best PG-13 Fantasy Movies
List of PG-13 fantasy movies, ranked from best to worst with movie trailers when available. This list takes the best PG-13 fantasy movies and pits them against each other to see once and for all what the greatest PG-13 Fantasy movie of all time is. This list of popular PG-13 fantasy movies includes information like who directed the film, when it was released and which actors starred in the movie. If you think the top PG-13 Fantasy movie isn't as high as it should be then be sure to vote it up so it can take its rightful place among the other great PG-13 Fantasy films on this list. If you're trying to find a specific PG-13 Fantasy film you can search this list and filter to find what you're looking for.
Examples of movies on this list: Avatar, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and more.
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Use this list if you're looking for some new fantasy movies that are rated PG-13. Between Netflix's fantasy movies, plus Hulu and other services there are thousands of great fantasy movies rated PG-13, so get out there and start watching.
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