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Last November, the Japan-based correspondent of Le Monde, Philippe Mesmer, spent several days in the Philippines researching Ondoy/Pepeng stories. Because of something he thought I wrote, his host set up a meeting with me; I also invited him to an Inquirer Briefing on the great flood.
Last week, he sent me copies of the two stories Le Monde published. They are in French, and because my scanty knowledge of Romance languages can only take me so far (in other words, all nuance escapes me), I have had to "read" them in Google translations.
But in case a French reader happens to drop by (in the wooly world of the Internet, one never knows), I thought it might be an interesting exercise to re-publish (with Philippe's permission) at least one of the stories here. (With links to the online translations.)
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Public health, private profits
Allegations of fraud and corruption at a privately run public hospital in Western Australia have sparked an independent inquiry.
CHRIS UHLMANN, PRESENTER: Allegations of fraud, corruption and harassment at a privately run public hospital in Western Australia were aired at a parliamentary inquiry last month.
That prompted the State Government to launch a fresh investigation into why the hospital's operator had overcharged the Government $1.8 million, money that has since been repaid.
Whistleblower Ashton Foley says money has been misspent, but an injunction prevents her from revealing all.
The State Opposition has called for a judicial inquiry.
Bronwyn Herbert reports.
BRONWYN HERBERT, REPORTER: Ashton Foley was a senior health bureaucrat. Now she's out of a job and moving her family interstate.
The mother of four has gone public about allegations of fraud, corruption and bullying.
ASHTON FOLEY, FMR CHIEF OPERATION OFFICER, PEEL HEALTH CAMPUS: While I very much wanted to do the right thing and to protect the rights and the healthcare services of this community, I have been attacked personally.
BRONWYN HERBERT: Her allegations have led to an inquiry, public embarrassment for the Government and questions of how effectively a profit-driven private company can operate a public hospital. And it's come at an immense personal cost.
ASHTON FOLEY: I've been harassed, there have been threatening notes left on my front door saying, "Burn, burn, burn." I believe that I've been followed. My husband's been followed. It's certainly taken a toll.
BRONWYN HERBERT: The new Peel Health facility was built at Mandurah, about an hour's drive south of Perth, to meet growing demand. In 1997, a 20-year government contract was awarded to Health Solutions WA to manage it.
John Fogarty, a former Perth footballer, now Singapore-based businessman has a 95 per cent stake in Health Solutions. He employed Ashton Foley in April largely to look after the hospital's accounts after an audit had found the company had overcharged the Government $1.8 million.
ASHTON FOLEY: They particularly brought me in because of my financial background and those (inaudible) because they needed someone that could help them. As John Fogarty told me: "Clean up the CDU mess." And that's exactly what I did. I worked with PriceWaterhouseCooper on those audits and did my best to try and work with them to make sure that there was a collaborative exchange of information.
BRONWYN HERBERT: What Ashton Foley found was that doctors working in the hospital's emergency department between 2010 and 2011 were paid a $200 bonus for each patient they admitted into the hospital.
ASHTON FOLEY: No other hospital that I am aware and certainly in the state of WA or even across the nation that incentivises its doctors to admit parents.
BRONWYN HERBERT: Health Solutions made big profits from it. Instead of receiving $500 for every patient treated at emergency, it could bill the Government more than $3,500 for each patient admitted into hospital.
ASHTON FOLEY: I think it's just a money-making scheme. That would be the best way to describe it. There is no clinical outcome that could be derived from it. And there should - it's a breach of ethics, I would imagine, for doctors to be incentivised in terms of admissions.
BRONWYN HERBERT: 7.30 has spoken to two doctors working at Peel Health at that time. They're frightened to speak publicly but confirm Ashton Foley's findings. They explained they didn't think the payments were illegal, but they say didn't raise questions when hospital management asked them to set up separate bank accounts.
ASHTON FOLEY: The hospital actually asked the doctors to set up their own ABNs, which is in essence set up their own businesses and to bill these $200 payments separately. And in some cases one particular practitioner, he would - he racked up tens of thousands of dollars in just one month.
BRONWYN HERBERT: As Ashton Foley's investigation continued, staff at the hospital came to her and told her funds weren't being spent on some basics like replacing vinyl flooring in an operating theatre.
ASHTON FOLEY: I do believe because of the lack of investment in equipment and furnishings, if you will, for that hospital, medical supplies in particular, medical equipment, as well as a under-resourcing - I believe that there are significant issues there that put patients at risk.
BRONWYN HERBERT: Since Ashton Foley has spoken out, patient after patient is going public about Peel Health putting profits ahead of patient care.
Mandurah retiree Brian Smith was left without medicine after having a hernia removed in July.
BRIAN SMITH: I had a couple of blood clotting sleeves on mE legs and I was only - one was working, which didn't bother me 'cause I had so much pain I didn't worry about it. And one of the nurses came in and said, "Do you want some pain for your stomach?," and I said, "Yes. Could ya give me some pain." And with that she went; I never seen that nurse again.
BRONWYN HERBERT: He said what made it worse was his bedside buzzer wasn't even connected.
BRIAN SMITH: I pushed the bell, this emergency bell five times and with no response. And it wasn't until the wife came in at two o'clock in the afternoon, she's seen me condition and pushed the bell, got no response too, she went down to the nurse's quarters. I was lucky I was only in there one night and I survived.
BRONWYN HERBERT: Vicki Roedel's 80-year-old father died after contracting a deadly infection while at the hospital in August.
VICKI ROEDEL: He was admitted with a chest infection. Contracted golden staph within a week.
BRONWYN HERBERT: She believes his death could have been prevented.
VICKI ROEDEL: I took these photos as evidence of my complaint. A dust ball as large as the bed wheel. Three dust balls after they'd supposedly cleaned the room. Dirty wound dressing just left. The wound inflected on my father. They tell a graphic story of the hospital's lack of sanitary care and compassion.
BRONWYN HERBERT: Peel Health says the complaints have been taken seriously and in Ms Roedel's case resulted in a review of licensing standards. Peel Health says there's no evidence the bacteria was acquired at the hospital.
Ashton Foley took her long list of complaints to a Labor MP which led to a parliamentary inquiry.
GIZ WATSON, GREENS MP: That's one of the toughest inquiries I've had to preside over and I think we thank those people who came forward.
BRONWYN HERBERT: The committee was told cash from a sinking fund was used on day-to-day expenses and heard details of extreme profit Health Solutions earns for its major shareholder.
GIZ WATSON: That was a bit of a wow moment in the committee, I have to say, when we started to add up the figures in terms of the various payments that Mr Fogarty received. Certainly $10 million in one particular year seems extraordinary.
BRONWYN HERBERT: The parliamentary committee heard John Fogarty was too busy in Singapore trying to raise capital for the hospital's expansion to attend the inquiry. Instead he launched his own attack including a newspaper advertisement. He also said Ashton Foley wasn't qualified to change a bandaid and the parliamentary committee was politically motivated, biased and unfair.
7.30 has approached both John Fogarty and the recently appointed managing director, Neale Fong, for an interview. Both have declined.
In a statement Health Solutions said, "We have nothing to hide and look forward to a balanced and fair review of the facts surrounding various unsubstantiated claims made recently."
After mounting political pressure, the WA Government has announced an independent inquiry to be led by Bryant Stokes which will examine whether Health Solutions breached its contract with the Government.
KIM HAMES, WA HEALTH MINISTER (Dec. 6): We have chosen someone who has that medical background so can easily understand issues relating to doctors behaviour and what they did. But also he has an administration background as chair of one of our governing councils.
BRONWYN HERBERT: The State Opposition says it has absolute respect for Professor Stokes, but questions how independent the inquiry will be because of his potential conflicts.
ROGER COOK, WA OPPOSITION HEALTH SPOKESMAN: He is currently the chair of the metropolitan health services. On the one hand he's inquiring into this hospital. On the other hand, he can potentially be finding recommendations of conclusions which reflect poorly upon the metropolitan health services that he is essentially the head of. Secondly, Professor Stokes has got a long history at the Department of Health, was the chief medical officer at the time that the contract at Peel Health Campus was struck and has long-term relationships with the players at Peel Health Campus.
BRONWYN HERBERT: That includes Neale Fong, the now managing director of the hospital. Department of Health annual reports show he sat on the executive alongside Professor Stokes when the Peel Health Campus contract was negotiated.
The Health Minister rejects any suggestion Professor Stokes' independence is compromised.
KIM HAMES: I think it's ridiculous and I understand it's the Opposition that is suggesting some conflict. I think that's just to further their own call for a judicial inquiry. I think it's absolute nonsense.
BRONWYN HERBERT: What's clear is there's a lot riding on the outcome of the inquiry. Health Solutions is trying to extend its contract, worth more than $100 million a year, as well as expand its private hospital. So much at stake Health Solutions got a court order which allowed its lawyers to search Ashton Foley's house for documents.
ASHTON FOLEY: They spent approximately five hours here. They went through anything from the Christmas tree to the children's bedrooms. They went through their toy box; even opened birthday gifts that had not been opened yet. They opened a memory box of my little girl who passed away in 2010 which was incredibly invasive and violating.
BRONWYN HERBERT: Professor Stokes has been asked to release his findings before the state election in March. Ashton Foley and her family aren't staying around in WA to hear the final outcome.
ASHTON FOLEY: I've only tried to do the right thing by the community and by my former colleagues at that campus and by the patients that are actually treated there. And why I've been victimised this way I'm not sure. It's quite disheartening to be honest.
CHRIS UHLMANN: Bronwyn Herbert reporting.
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I know this is thread is mostly about AMX's but have any of you knowledgable AMC guys seen this cool old ad? While it shows Javelins it does mention the "HOT" AMX. I found it while searching for something else. It was posted by someone named 2drpost" on a thread about vintage Canadian auto ads here: http://canadianponcho.activeboard.com/t53167695/vintage-auto-ads/There are some pretty cool ads featuring Camaros as well.
I had wondered if it might have been white originally. Thanks for the rundown of how it was originally equipped. Looks to be a good, solid car.I think that Kaplan for sure made at least three cars in '69 because I believe Don White's car that ran in Nascar GT was a Kaplan-built car.
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...a friend of mine, Adam Tarr, sent me this link on SCCA AMX racing....I currently own the #66 Bill Ackerman car from the St. Louis area: http://ssamx.com/1968_scca_bp_AMX.htm The only information that I have on the car is the information that I got from the previous owners. If anyone has any history, pictures or documentation on the car, I would greatly appreciate it...thanks Mike


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Games Played at GASP Games Day - May 13th, 2017
- Don McCalmon(ismar2)United States
This was the last Games Day of 2016, and also the last Games Day at the Springdale location. Starting in 2017, we are moving to a new venue, see details below.Recommend
Games Days have been scheduled for all of 2017. Except for a few instances, we were able to keep the 2nd Saturday of the month. See below for the schedule, it will be updated as needed. Note one of these dates will be cancelled for GASPcon 17, we just don't know which one yet.
2017 Dates
• January 14th
• February 18th (third Saturday)
• March 11th
• April 1st (first Saturday)
• May 13th
• June 10th
• July 22nd (fourth Saturday)
• August 12th
• September 9th
• October 14th
• November 11th
• December 16th (third Saturday)
The address for the church is located at the bottom of the page
Game Days run from 10am till 10pm, and are open to everyone. There is a small fee per person ($5) to attend Games Day, to cover the cost of the rental hall. This fee is waived for all first-time attendees. The fee will be collected when you arrive, and will grant access to all the games contributed by our members, for use that day. Since we are starting in a new home, we will restart yearly payments again. You can sign-up for yearly payments at the December 2016 or January 2017 Games Day.
Speaking of games, there are always a multitude of board, card, role-playing, and miniature games being played on any given Game Day, but a few events are near constants.
• Our Multi-Player Magic League runs each Game Day, starting around 11am. It's a league that runs Jan-Oct. There is a second league starting at 4:30PM with modified rules and decks, please read the forum post for more information.
• Several RPG campaigns are also run each Game Day, including our "One-Shot Saturdays", stand-alone adventures run by various GMs each month.
• There are several miniature games that regularly appear at each Game Day. These vary each month, but some examples are Bolt Action, X-Wing, Lord of the Rings, Firestorm Armada, Dystopian Wars, Axis and Allies: War at Sea & Angels 20, BattleTech, MERCS, Infinity, and others.
• Don't forget our extensive board game contingent. You can always find players for a board game, whether you bring your own or try out one of the many titles our BGers own and bring each month to our Games Library.
We ask that everyone attending our Game Days brings something along as a snack and/or drink, for the community to share in. The facility has a full kitchen, so items that need refrigerated are OK. Most people bring some soda, chips, cookies, veggie tray, etc. This helps everyone have a good time without worrying about snacks or drinks.
See you at Games Day!
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Baldwin Community United Methodist Church
5001 Baptist Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15236
Visit www.gaspgamer.com for more information.
This Geeklist is for the games that were played at our latest Games Day.
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Smart Storage Solution for Small Spaces: The Fauxdenza
We don't know who first came up with the idea to use IKEA kitchen wall cabinets for a floating credenza, but the trend is certainly growing. Coined by Anna of Door Sixteen, the "fauxdenza" is a clever solution for small spaces, often providing ample storage for a fraction of what a real credenza would cost. Need a DIY project for the holiday weekend? Here are ten examples to get you motivated!
Over the last month, we've talked about the importance of a landing strip in the Slow Home. Even though this solution works well in many areas of the home, the fauxdenza is a perfect way to provide both storage and shallow counter space for keys, mail and other small items in narrow or awkard entryways.
If you're wondering if this is something you could tackle in your own home, keep in mind that many of these DIYers had to overcome wonky walls, finicky plaster and other challenges - so hang in there (and stock up on shims)!
1. Morgan of The Brick House recently blew us all away with her elegant take on the floating credenza. Ten feet in length, the unit is comprised of four Akurum units, topped with a piece of Afrormosia (a durable but less expensive alternative to teak). Morgan opted not to install handles or door pulls since the bottom door edges are easy to grab onto.
2. This House Tour on Apartment Therapy featured one of the earliest fauxdenzas back in 2006. Instead of a countertop, Andreas used books and other deco to hide the joints between cabinets.
3. Jesse and Whitney Chamberlin shared their budget-friendly credenza on Design*Sponge a while back. They chose slightly deeper units which turned out to be perfect for storing records!
4. In her tiny NYC apartment, Anna of Door Sixteen installed three taller cabinets and topped them off with an inexpensive piece of pine from a local home improvement store.
5. To provide much needed storage and double as a stair guardrail in our small 800 SF home, we too went the fauxdenza route. The cabinets are mounted to a short stud wall and wrapped in vertical grain fir boards and a white laminate countertop. The toe kick cleverly hides a return grill for our forced-air heating system.
6. Inspired by Andreas' loft, Sarah Coffey showed readers on Apartment Therapy how to assemble your own floating credenza.
7. Found on IKEA's interior design blog, LIVET HEMMA, this painted version is a playful one-eighty from the mostly all-white examples we've seen thus far.
8. Apartment Therapy reader Alison installed her white fauxdenza against a brightly-colored wall, providing the same amount of storage without the visual bulkiness of her previous dresser.
9. Moving outside the living areas, Matt of Wood&Faulk used three Akurum units with a beautiful walnut top to add extra storage and counter space to his tiny galley kitchen.
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Futures spoils belong to the World
Speed, timely hitting carry International team over U.S. prospects
By Anthony Castrovince / MLB.com | July 8, 2007 2:43 PM
SAN FRANCISCO -- Get 'em on, and get 'em in. It's an age-old formula for baseball success, and it's a formula the World Team used with great precision on Sunday in a 7-2 victory over the U.S. in the annual XM All-Star Futures Game at AT&T Park. From the outset, the World Team, managed by Hall of Famer Juan Marichal, took advantage of its speed and some timely hitting to put up a solid offensive attack against some of the game's brightest pitching prospects. "Basically, [Marichal] looked at the stats and the scouting reports," said World center fielder Michael Saunders (Mariners), "and gave us the green light to go." And off they went. In the first inning, with right-hander Jeff Niemann (Devil Rays) on the mound, Saunders reached on a fielding error by second baseman Chris Coghlan (Marlins), stole second, then scored on Chin-Lung Hu's double. Hu (Dodgers) went on to steal third and scored on a sac fly by Joey Votto (Reds) to give the World an early 2-0 lead. "Last year we got beat," said Hu, a second-time Futures Game participant who would go on to win the Larry Doby MVP award. "I just wanted to do well to help the team win. I wasn't trying to do too much." But what Saunders and Hu did early in this game set the tone for a day of World domination. In the third, Saunders was set to lead off again, this time against Yankees prospect Joba Chamberlain. "My second at-bat," Saunders said, "[Hu] and I said, 'Let's do the exact same thing as the first inning.' " This time around, Saunders drew a walk, swiped second and came home on Hu's ground-ball single to right. Once again, the aggressive approach on the bases paid off for Marichal's club. "I had a good coaching staff," Marichal said. "They knew these kids real well. They knew they could hit and run." Whereas the World Team put together runs the old-fashioned way, the U.S. team got on the board with power. In the third, Justin Upton, the No. 1 overall Draft choice of the D-backs in 2005, took Fautino De Los Santos (White Sox) deep with a solo shot to left to make it 3-1. But the World did not rest. In the fourth, Max Ramirez (Indians) led off with a double and later scored on Carlos Gonzalez's (D-backs) sacrifice fly. And even when the U.S. struck with John Whittleman's (Rangers) solo homer off Deolis Guerra (Mets) in the fifth, the World responded with some power of its own in the form of Votto's solo blast off Clay Buchholz (Red Sox) in the top of the sixth. By the time James Van Ostrand (Astros) hit a leadoff homer and Wladimir Balentien (Mariners) chipped in with an RBI double in the seventh, this one was over. As impressed as he was with his team's offense, Marichal had to give credit to a pitching staff that got scoreless innings of work from the likes of starter Rick Vanden Hurk (Marlins), Carlos Carrasco (Phillies), Henry Sosa (Giants) and Franklin Morales (Rockies). "I couldn't believe these kids' command," Marichal said. "One thing that really surprised me was the command they had with their changeup. They could throw it at any time." Though the talents of those on the field were clear, U.S. team manager Dave Winfield reminded his players of the value of a strong work ethic to get the most out of their abilities. "I told them before the game started, there are a lot of people you never know how good they're going to be, or what kind of player," Winfield said. "I said, 'If you saw Pete Rose when he was a kid, he wasn't fast, he wasn't strong and he wasn't a home run hitter. Look what he did.' Anybody can succeed at this game if they do the right things and play it right." In this particular showing, the World succeeded for the fourth time in the event's nine-year history. But Marichal saw plenty of skill from players in both dugouts. "I was surprised with all the talent I saw on both teams," he said. "I think baseball has a great future."
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Don't ask me why -- it had a 4.77 MHz > clock, IIRC, so it must have been harmonics of some sort. I could > clearly hear the computer "work" -- the buzz was nicely modulated when I > ran a small floating point program, for example. Made me truly believe > that someone could read your keystrokes off your power supply line or > local system EMF with sufficiently delicate equipment a la > Cryptonomicon... heh. Nowadays, you dont need a radio, you just need a cellphone. Both my laptop speakers on my 600Mhz P3 laptop and my cell phone will buzz like nuts when one or the other is near. The PC buzzes in bursts, slow bursts when im not talking and quick ones when I am or the other person is. When the laptop is idle, it buzzes in quick patterns, if I do a fair bit of stuff on it (compile, move windows, surf), I just hear solid buzzing -- probably the memory refreshing? > At a guess you could have also solved your problem by inserting e.g. > aluminum screens with mesh holes on the order of a few mm in between > nodes. Depending on whether or not you got reflection and self-induced > crash or absorption. What 'absorbs' RF? (other than stealth bomber paint) > However, as I noted to one person off list, the things that have > prevented me from ever building a cluster like this are: > > a) Liability, fire codes, personal safety, and (as noted) emf. In many > institutions you'd get flayed alive installing electrical hardware in > non-UL-or-other-safety-underwriter-underwritten configurations. A small > "lab" or "hobby" configuration maybe -- in a large scale production > facility no no no. Just establishing predictable airflow cooling and > controlling dust argue against an open large scale design. This was a small 'hobby' installation to test wether this was the gear we wanted. 12 nodes only I think, at the time. The cabinet we had designed wasnt ready yet. (The cabinet worked much better of course, being solid plate steel and easily grounded.) > b) Time, beauty, and convenience. Time because it takes a lot less to > just use OTC parts. Beauty matters to e.g. granting agencies -- they > are more inclined to think a cluster is a "real" resource if it looks > like a rackmount or even a tower/shelfmount beowulfish computer than if > it looks like my latest science project with everything out naked and > wires exposed. Convenience (really more time) because if a node fails, Our cabinet in the end with its smoked glass door with its futuristic rivetting/bolting pattern (no charge) looked *MUCH* nicer than a tower case. People see towers and go "hmm regular computer, possibly a low end server". When they see the Monolith (as it got dubbed) they're much more impressed ;) > it is encapsulated and can be benched to work on it. Unbolting a power > supply from a shelf of running units, pulling the motherboard out of a > shelf of running motherboards? Messing with cards ditto? Adding a hard > disk to a shelf-mounted system? Standardization saves time, and cases > are reasonably standardized. This is why we had a custom cabinet with appropriate mounting braze-ons for screwing in motherboards, mounting power supplies and even a 3.5" mini mounting L bracket in case they wnated to add hardisks later to the diskless config. > Custom stuff pushes you out of the OTC/OTS sweet spot, into greater > risk, less explored engineering terrain, uglier and less > professional-looking installations, and ultimately can cost time and > money beyond what you expect to save. I'd avoid them unless you are a > devoted hobbiest and/or have some very specific engineering constraint > that can't be met with OTC parts and configurations. I wanted it to look like a cluster cabinet, not a server PC (or rack thereof). The cabinet looks way nicer than that ;) As I said, the cost was about the same as PC cases in the end (and we even had a cost overrun -- it would have been cheaper than cases, had I planned a little more carefully, but I am pretty happy with my first ever attempt at a custom cabinet (the actual manufacturers had much experience with building such things, however, they could not have forseen the way we were going to use it once it was in place (I didnt either, which was the problem). No major hassles have resulted, so they're minor and quite easy to fix for next time. > With that said, I >>have<< had occasional fantasies about doing a > home/hobby shelf of nodes this way. There my time is "free", my space > is very limited. OTOH, I burn myself, my family, and my pets alive if > it starts a fire in the middle of the night that gets out of hand too > quickly, or maybe just lose everything I own. And presumably safe(r) > tower cases that might possibly confine a the heat/fire from an internal > short until a fuse blows are so cheap. And my nodes accumulate dust > (see "pets") so fast even when closed... How many clusters have gone up in flames? :) Not that this is a concern, it just suprises me that things could get that hot. Arent things generally considered ok if the high voltage (AC 110) is in the powersupply box? The boards are using 12 and 5v and lower, which isnt regulated nearly as tightly. (Our cabinet was made of metal so im not too worried here, just asking for future 'build a test cluster on a shelf' designs that I am *SURE* _MANY_ beowulfers are not admitting to having running AS WE SPEAK! :) /kc > > rgb > > Robert G. 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If you have an Internet connection, you're probably on Facebook. Despite this nearly ubiquitous use, it's still fairly shocking how much information we and the network are willing to surrender. Our phone numbers, identities, interests, home address, email addresses, and other personally identifiable information is sitting in an insecure vault behind an easily crackable password. And if you are a hacker, you're more than aware of this.
Rob Rachwald, Director of Security and Strategy at Imperva, a security firm in California, revealed to us the many strategies that hackers are using to gain access to your personal information and credit card info, all through Facebook. "In general Facebook is not written to be secure. In fact the purpose of Facebook is to violate your privacy as much as possible. So what you're doing in essence, you're getting closer to people through an electronic medium at the expense of divulging information about yourself. That's their business model." But Rachwald credits Facebook for avoiding massive data breaches, like the Korean social networking competitor CyWorld that was speculated to have 35 million passwords stolen by the Chinese government. In many instances, Rachwald says, it's actually the users that are divulging too much information or signing up for different sites, although Facebook is not without fault entirely since its platform is inadvertently hosting malicious activities.
With that in mind, here's a 101 course on what Facebook hacks and attacks you need to keep an eye out for.
Hacker strategies
Picture trolling
While this is an earlier practice that people would use to make money from, it's evident it still goes on today. Facebook "friends" would sell images of attractive women, usually found in a user's public Facebook album, to porn sites or publish them on public forums that would then circulate around the Web and without the users' consent.
People have gotten smarter these days and are using more sophisticated measures, Rachwald tells me. One trend he's noticed is hackers that are emulating profile information about an existing user and using that profile to deceive the victim's friends into befriending them again on Facebook. What this means is that a hacker will create a new profile with the same or similar information about that person, including the profile photo, and "re-friend" all of the victim's friends. In a matter of a few days, the profile created under misleading pretenses could have access to several hundred friends, while in the background a crawler is downloading all the personal data about these new "friends," including email addresses, phone number, pictures, and other information.
One instance where this could be a particularly dangerous attack is that these "hackers" could ask the victim's Facebook friends for money due to financial duress – and they might indulge, given that it appears that the request is coming from the friend.
If you're in an authoritative position and a hacker wants to target you, organizational mapping is one strategy that professionals should be vigilant of. It's not only on Facebook, and Rachwald says that it's more of a threat on LinkedIn. Hackers will find out information about the friends of the victim through Facebook and find out who their best friend is. By assuming the false identity of the victim's "friend," the chances are greater that the victim will be comfortable clicking on a link with a virus, malware, or spyware embedded in the opened website. This is especially dangerous for individuals like bankers, politicians, and other authoritative professionals.
A tip for anyone who's wary of opening up suspicious URLs, even if it is from a friend, a personal favorite that I like to use is VirusTotal.com.
Geolocation information
What few of you might realize is that all of the photos that you take on a smartphone with GPS logs the exact location where you've taken that photo. So if you're sharing these images to Facebook or another social network for that matter, and you've taken one in front or around your home, I could easily find out where you live. And there are a number of websites that can pull this type of information from your photos in an instant.
How hackers are abusing Facebook
Now specific to Facebook, these are the most popular ways that hackers are abusing Facebook.
Facebook for a long time has supported attachments in Facebook Messenger, and there are no in-app precautionary features that help to detect malware in suspicious attachments. Although users can scan files using Facebook endorsed third-party antivirus software. However a file can only be scanned once the attachment has been downloaded and it would be too late by then.
Photo baiting
We've all seen this before. False photos of Osama Bin Laden's death for example, when news first broke, circulated on Facebook. Built using a Facebook app that automatically shared the image to your wall when you clicked on it, some versions of it opened up a porn site. Intriguingly enough, some hackers were using this as an opportunity to improve their SEO ranking in Google's search results. What would happen was that by baiting Facebook users to click on the Bin Laden photo that opened up a porn site, it would improve the site's ranking in search results when searching for Bin Laden.
Social Engineering
Facebook Pages have become a psychological indicator of authority for a website or brand. If there are 100,000 likes on a Facebook Page for a luxury car reseller, it must be legitimate, right? Unfortunately this thought process has deceived many Facebook users. One example of this that Rachwald explains to me was an elaborate scheme that "social" hackers socially engineered to lure users who checked out the Facebook page into purchasing luxury cars on a sham Website for a fraction of its cost. Of course the money being sent was being pocketed and there were no luxury cars to be sold in the first place.
Cracking passwords
You'd be surprised at how easily you can attain a password hacking program from the Web. Rachwald tells me about one that he's seen making rounds, and it's apparently supported by tutorials on YouTube. We wouldn't recommend that you to look around for these tools since in many instances these programs are laced with Trojans themselves. But with the right program, which use a brute force method to figure out your password, the effects can be devastating to any victim. Especially now, with features like Photo Sync, which automatically syncs every photo that you take from your smartphone, a hacker could get a hold of intimate or personal images that you wouldn't want see publicly online.
Facebook Apps
Any developer, or wannabe developer, with a little knowledge of code can use readily available resources to put together a Facebook app intended for malicious purposes. And it's an effective medium since all information that you share with these developers, including your email, access to your News Feed, phone number, photos, and other personal data can be logged and used against Facebook's Terms of Use. For example if you find a credit card form in a gaming app and add your information, that developers has access to your credit card number.
It's up to you to protect yourself
In the majority of cases, Rachwald tells me, it's the consumers, or third-party sites that have access to your Facebook data, that are being breached from hackers or being tricked into revealing personal information. Rachwald brings to my attention that in 2009, third-party Facebook game developer RockYou was hacked by an SQL injection method, which Imperva first recognized, and over 30 million names and social media passwords was exposed.
But on some occasions, Facebook will leave itself open to vulnerabilities. For example an anonymous tipster from a hacker forum recognized that when you delete Facebook Messenger's desktop app, it stays in your registry. The danger here was that Facebook User ID was left exposed, which could easily be copied with a Trojan virus. I checked that vulnerability recently and recognized that it appeared to have been silently patched by Facebook, although the file in my registry remains.
At the end of the day, you're left on your own to protect your personal information. Rachwald himself isn't on Facebook for the reasons discussed above. Despite the precautions you might take, Facebook's obvious reluctance to address its security vulnerabilities means hackers are always coming up with new and innovative measures to manipulate users. Facebook is the largest social network with more than one billion users, making it a hacker's playground and paradise – and nothing is going to change that.
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Slammed by the payroll-tax hike, February same-store sales at Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE:WMT) have reportedly been a "total disaster," marking the worst start to any month in about seven years.
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The report, from Bloomberg News, sent shares of the world's largest retailer dropping more than 3% and pushed the S&P 500 to session lows.
"In case you haven't seen a sales report these days, February MTD sales are a total disaster," Jerry Murray, a vice president of finance and logistics at Wal-Mart, said in an email to other executives on February 12, according to Bloomberg. "The worst start to a month I have seen in my ~7 years with the company."
In response to the report, a Wal-Mart spokesman said: "As with any organization, we often see internal communications that are not entirely accurate, that lack the proper context and represent individual opinions."
Wal-Mart no longer discloses monthly sales results, but the company is scheduled to report full quarterly results on February 21.
Like other discount retailers, Wal-Mart may be hit hard by the increase in payroll taxes that have hit millions of Americans' paychecks this year, eating into discretionary spending.
Economists have warned the tax hike may hurt household income by a total of $125 billion in 2013 alone, curbing gross domestic product growth.
Internal documents from Bloomberg reveal Wal-Mart stumbled in January as well.
"Have you ever had one of those weeks where your best-prepared plans weren't good enough to accomplish everything you set out to do?" Cameron Geiger, another Wal-Mart exec asked in a Feb. 1 email. "Well, we just had one of those weeks here at Walmart U.S. Where are all the customers? And where's their money?"
Both Wal-Mart executives cited the increased payroll taxes as well as delayed tax returns, with Geiger calling it a "potent one-two punch," Bloomberg reported.
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Shares of Wal-Mart dropped 2.68% to $68.92 Friday afternoon, trimming their 2013 gain to just 1%.
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For the second time in as many weeks, I want to highlight a discussion on media criticism that was led by CNN Reliable Sources host Howard Kurtz. I wish I could embed the video here but you'll have to click this link to watch it. It is about 10 minutes long but it's a fascinating discussion. I'm not saying I agree with everything in the discussion -- I don't -- but it's the type of conversation that will interest readers of GetReligion and give us some things to think on. Here's the transcript of the conversation, headlined "Media Miss Catholic Outrage."
KURTZ: The press pounced on the story when the Komen Foundation tried to defund Planned Parenthood. But when the White House ruled that even Catholic organizations had to offer birth control in health plans, not so much -- that is until Catholic leaders and some commentators began sounding off ...Why did it take news outlets a couple of weeks to catch up with the Catholic protests?
Kurtz explains that it wasn't big news at all when the Obama Administration issued its ruling requiring Catholic institutions to subsidize insurance plans that include coverage for things Catholic teaching opposes. Kurtz terms this "birth control" but it actually goes beyond that, of course. The Washington Post got it on page one, the New York Times on page 17 and the network newscasts didn't even touch it. (I should note that this was big news in conservative, Catholic and other media.)
A couple of weeks later, some media began covering it:
KURTZ: But it wasn't until this week that the controversy really reverb rated across the media landscape.
JOE SCARBOROUGH, MSNBC: I'm going to say, it is a staggering, staggering decision by HHS.
DIANE SAWYER, ABC NEWS: As today, a fiery debate took center stage about women, contraception, and a White House order that has the Catholic Church up in arms.
Please note that Sawyer's description of the debate doesn't include any mention of the First Amendment or religious liberty, a continuing problem for some media types. Kurtz asks why, if the debate was so fiery, did it take the media so long to notice it. On the panel are Lauren Ashburn, former managing editor of USA Today, and Frank Sesno, a George Washington University professor of media.
KURTZ: Here's the contrast I would draw. Komen Foundation moves to cut off Planned Parenthood. Twenty-four hours after it hit social networks, the media erupted with this.
Why would you have to wait for Catholic leaders to speak out to say this is a pretty sensitive hot button controversy that we ought to cover as more than a one day history?
FRANK SESNO, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: I think what happened here is you started with policy and it became politics. And politics is always easier and more fiery. Policy is narrower. It's sort of down in the weeds.
Isn't that telling? When it was just a policy that violated, in its critics eyes, religious liberty, it wasn't news. Once it became political and candidates started addressing it, then it was. There is truth to this. The media are political junkies of the horse race variety so much more than they are interested in Catholic moral reasoning or constitutional protections. I should also note, of course, that even after the bishops were taking dramatic steps in speaking out against it, it still wasn't getting coverage.
Kurtz gives props to the liberal Catholic commentators who raised the issue even though it attacked their own political cobelligerents.
The panel discusses another intriguing angle:
KURTZ: If there was a tin ear here initially, is it related to the fact that most journalists are not devoutly religious, whether they're Catholic or not?
SESNO: No.
ASHBURN: No, I think that --
KURTZ: You're saying because it wasn't a political flap. You're saying --
ASHBURN: I'm saying -- well, you know, I can't speak for how many -- I have no idea how many are religious or aren't, who are agnostic, who are Catholic, who are Jewish. So, I think that your question is --
KURTZ: Religion generally --
KURTZ: Religion generally doesn't get that much coverage.
ASHBURN: That's not true.
The relative vapidity of that portion of the discussion might be the most telling aspect of it.
Then they discuss the invented statistic that will not die that 98% of Catholic women use contraception. No one disputes that this is a White House talking point that the media never bothered to check before running it. Instead they discuss whether maybe the media took religious liberty concerns too seriously:
SESNO: I think you could argue, and you could attack the media for not looking. If you are going to talk about holding authority to account wherever that authority may be, there is a giant story within the Catholic Church over their attitudes towards these issues, and their disconnect with their followers. So, that's part of this, too.
ASHBURN: I think I disagree. I mean, I think that, yes, you call people cafeteria Catholics. And, yes, in the media we are hearing that 98 percent of women use birth control. I mean, that was one of the stories.
But does that mean that because of that that they are not Catholics and they're not concerned about religious freedom?
SESNO: Lauren, that's not the issue. The issue is the media's role and the media's responsibility in all this.
If the Catholic Church is, in effect, declaring war on the Obama administration over the availability of contraception for people who work for institutions that are not merely the Catholic Church, but institutions supported by this religion, and saying this is war on religion, and if there is a schism, there is a divide within the Catholic community, why is that not part of the story? Why is that not a big part of the story?
Who cares if that statistic isn't true? Certainly nobody in the media. Kudos to Ashburn for at least raising the journalistic question of what it has to do with religious liberty. As one commenter pointed out, nobody seems to suggest that just because men lust after women are Jesus' words on the matter "discounted" in the parlance of Sesno. But it is telling that journalists think that they should be. It says a lot about how they approach stories dealing with church teaching and does more than anything thus far to explain why so many stories accept the White House framework on this topic. They accept the framework in part because they agree with it.
Anyway, Kurtz ends by asking why the media needed no prodding in its rush to arms on behalf of Planned Parenthood but did need so much prodding to even cover what's happening to religious institutions. Sesno ends by reminding everyone of the invented statistic.
It's enough to make one quietly weep. Earlier today, the head of my church body did something that may be a first: testified before Congress. It may have happened before but I doubt it. We just don't believe the job of the church is to testify about a given bill or not. We're steadfastly bipartisan. We took no position on the health care bill that has yielded this situation. It was a pretty big day for Lutherans of my stripe. The Rev. Matthew C. Harrison testified (view/read) along with a Catholic bishop, an evangelical professor of moral philosophy, a rabbi and Torah scholar, and a Baptist professor. They were all united in their view that religious liberty is under threat. Precisely one of the witnesses has the same position as the Catholic Church on birth control, so it was clearly not a hearing on religious views of birth control.
Now, it certainly should be covered that one side of the dispute thinks that forcing people to provide insurance coverage for things they morally oppose, including sterilization, abortifacients and birth control, is a good thing. And that has been pretty well covered. But you can't pretend that there aren't people who are seriously concerned about the threat to religious liberty. But note the headlines. Here's Politico: "Carolyn Maloney, Eleanor Holmes Norton walk out of contraception hearing. ABC News: "Rep. Darrell Issa Bars Minority Witness, a Woman, on Contraception". CBS: "Dems decry all-male House panel on WH contraception rule."
ARGH! Yes, it's true, the Democrats were grandstanding and the Republicans were grandstanding. Please take a moment to get over your shock that politicians acted all political today.
And I realize that the media love the political story here. But could we at least try to cover the religion angle to this story? At all? Heck, it might even be nice to have differing sides on just the religious liberty question. Certainly you have a diverse group of Catholics, Orthodox, Lutheran, evangelical, Baptist and other religious bodies united here. But I'm sure there are other church bodies or legal scholars who disagree. Where are their voices? Or do all sides now have to throw a glitterbomb to get noticed?


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Cosmic microwave background (CMB), also called cosmic background radiation, electromagnetic radiation filling the universe that is a residual effect of the big bang 13.8 billion years ago. Because the expanding universe has cooled since this primordial explosion, the background radiation is in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Discovery of the cosmic background
Beginning in 1948, the American cosmologist George Gamow and his coworkers, Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman, investigated the idea that the chemical elements might have been synthesized by thermonuclear reactions that took place in a primeval fireball. According to their calculations, the high temperature associated with the early universe would have given rise to a thermal radiation field, which has a unique distribution of intensity with wavelength (known as Planck's radiation law), that is a function only of the temperature. As the universe expanded, the temperature would have dropped, each photon being redshifted by the cosmological expansion to longer wavelength, as the American physicist Richard C. Tolman had already shown in 1934. By the present epoch the radiation temperature would have dropped to very low values, about 5° above absolute zero (0 kelvin [K], or −273 °C [−460 °F]) according to the estimates of Alpher and Herman.
Interest in these calculations waned among most astronomers when it became apparent that the lion's share of the synthesis of elements heavier than helium must have occurred inside stars rather than in a hot big bang. In the early 1960s physicists at Princeton University, N.J., as well as in the Soviet Union, took up the problem again and began to build a microwave receiver that might detect, in the words of the Belgian cleric and cosmologist Georges Lemaître, "the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
The actual discovery of the relict radiation from the primeval fireball, however, occurred by accident. In experiments conducted in connection with the first Telstar communication satellite, two scientists, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Holmdel, N.J., measured excess radio noise that seemed to come from the sky in a completely isotropic fashion (that is, the radio noise was the same in every direction). When they consulted Bernard Burke of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, about the problem, Burke realized that Penzias and Wilson had most likely found the cosmic background radiation that Robert H. Dicke, P.J.E. Peebles, and their colleagues at Princeton were planning to search for. Put in touch with one another, the two groups published simultaneously in 1965 papers detailing the prediction and discovery of a universal thermal radiation field with a temperature of about 3 K.
Precise measurements made by the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite launched in 1989 determined the spectrum to be exactly characteristic of a blackbody at 2.735 K. The velocity of the satellite about Earth, Earth about the Sun, the Sun about the Galaxy, and the Galaxy through the universe actually makes the temperature seem slightly hotter (by about one part in 1,000) in the direction of motion rather than away from it. The magnitude of this effect—the so-called dipole anisotropy—allows astronomers to determine that the Local Group (the group of galaxies containing the Milky Way Galaxy) is moving at a speed of about 600 km per second (km/s; 400 miles per second [miles/s]) in a direction that is 45° from the direction of the Virgo cluster of galaxies. Such motion is not measured relative to the galaxies themselves (the Virgo galaxies have an average velocity of recession of about 1,000 km/s [600 miles/s] with respect to the Milky Way system) but relative to a local frame of reference in which the cosmic microwave background radiation would appear as a perfect Planck spectrum with a single radiation temperature.
The COBE satellite carried instrumentation aboard that allowed it to measure small fluctuations in intensity of the background radiation that would be the beginning of structure (i.e., galaxies and clusters of galaxies) in the universe. The satellite transmitted an intensity pattern in angular projection at a wavelength of 0.57 cm after the subtraction of a uniform background at a temperature of 2.735 K. Bright regions at the upper right and dark regions at the lower left showed the dipole asymmetry. A bright strip across the middle represented excess thermal emission from the Milky Way. To obtain the fluctuations on smaller angular scales, it was necessary to subtract both the dipole and the galactic contributions. An image was obtained showing the final product after the subtraction. Patches of light and dark represented temperature fluctuations that amount to about one part in 100,000—not much higher than the accuracy of the measurements. Nevertheless, the statistics of the distribution of angular fluctuations appeared different from random noise, and so the members of the COBE investigative team found the first evidence for the departure from exact isotropy that theoretical cosmologists long predicted must be there in order for galaxies and clusters of galaxies to condense from an otherwise structureless universe. These fluctuations correspond to distance scales on the order of 109 light-years across (still larger than the largest material structures seen in the universe, such as the enormous grouping of galaxies dubbed the "Great Wall").
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) was launched in 1995 to observe the fluctuations seen by COBE in greater detail and with more sensitivity. The conditions at the beginning of the universe left their imprint on the size of the fluctuations. WMAP's accurate measurements showed that the early universe was 63 percent dark matter, 15 percent photons, 12 percent atoms, and 10 percent neutrinos. Today the universe is 72.6 percent dark energy, 22.8 percent dark matter, and 4.6 percent atoms. Although neutrinos are now a negligible component of the universe, they form their own cosmic background, which was discovered by WMAP. WMAP also showed that the first stars in the universe formed half a billion years after the big bang.
Isotropy in the cosmic background
Apart from the small fluctuations discussed above (one part in 100,000), the observed cosmic microwave background radiation exhibits a high degree of isotropy, a zeroth order fact that presents both satisfaction and difficulty for a comprehensive theory. On the one hand, it provides a strong justification for the assumption of homogeneity and isotropy that is common to most cosmological models. On the other hand, such homogeneity and isotropy are difficult to explain because of the "light-horizon" problem. In the context of the cosmic microwave background, the problem can be expressed as follows. Consider the background radiation coming to an observer from any two opposite sides of the sky. Clearly, whatever are the ultimate sources (hot plasma) of this radiation, the photons, traveling at the speed of light since their emission by the plasma, have only had time to reach the Earth now. The matter on one side of the sky could not have had time to have "communicated" with the matter on the other side (they are beyond each other's light horizon), so how is it possible (with respect to an observer in the right rest frame) that they "know" to have the same temperature to a precision approaching one part in 100,000? What accounts for the high degree of angular isotropy of the cosmic microwave background?
A mechanism called "inflation" offers an attractive way out of this dilemma. The basic idea is that at high energies, matter is better described by fields than by classical means. The contribution of a field to the energy density (and therefore the mass density) and the pressure of the vacuum state need not have been zero in the past, even if it is today. During the time of superunification (Planck era, 10−43 second) or grand unification (GUT era, 10−35 second), the lowest-energy state for this field may have corresponded to a "false vacuum," with a combination of mass density and negative pressure that results gravitationally in a large repulsive force. In the context of Einstein's theory of general relativity, the false vacuum may be thought of alternatively as contributing a cosmological constant about 10100 times larger than it can possibly be today. The corresponding repulsive force causes the universe to inflate exponentially, doubling its size roughly once every 10−43 or 10−35 second. After at least 85 doublings, the temperature, which started out at 1032 or 1028 K, would have dropped to very low values near absolute zero.
Inflation provides a mechanism for understanding the overall isotropy of the cosmic microwave background because the matter and radiation of the entire observable universe were in good thermal contact (within the cosmic event horizon) before inflation and therefore acquired the same thermodynamic characteristics. Rapid inflation carried different portions outside their individual event horizons. When inflation ended and the universe reheated and resumed normal expansion, these different portions, through the natural passage of time, reappeared on our horizon. Through the observed isotropy of the cosmic microwave background, they are inferred still to have the same temperatures.
Given the measured radiation temperature of 2.735 K, the energy density of the cosmic microwave background can be shown to be about 1,000 times smaller than the average rest-energy density of ordinary matter in the universe. Thus, the current universe is matter-dominated. If one goes back in time to redshift z, the average number densities of particles and photons were both bigger by the same factor (1 + z)3 because the universe was more compressed by this factor, and the ratio of these two numbers would have maintained its current value of about one hydrogen nucleus, or proton, for every 109 photons. The wavelength of each photon, however, was shorter by the factor 1 + z in the past than it is now; therefore, the energy density of radiation increases faster by one factor of 1 + z than the rest-energy density of matter. Thus, the radiation energy density becomes comparable to the energy density of ordinary matter at a redshift of about 1,000. At redshifts larger than 10,000, radiation would have dominated even over the dark matter of the universe. Between these two values, at a redshift of about 1,090, radiation would have decoupled from matter when hydrogen recombined. It is not possible to use photons to observe redshifts larger than this, because the cosmic plasma at temperatures above 4,000 K is essentially opaque before recombination. These photons from a redshift of 1,090 form the cosmic microwave background.
Learn More in these related Britannica articles:
electromagnetic radiation: Cosmic background electromagnetic radiationAs one measures the relative speeds of galaxies by using the Doppler shift of characteristic radiation emissions, one finds that all galaxies are moving away from one another. Those that are moving the fastest are systems that are the farthest away…
astronomy: The cosmic microwave background proves the theoryIn 1965 American astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert W. Wilson were working at Bell Laboratories on a 6-metre (20-foot) horn antenna. The original purpose of the antenna was to detect reflected signals from high-altitude balloons…
spectroscopy…used to discover the so-called three-degree blackbody radiation, the remnant of the big bang (i.e., the primeval explosion) from which the universe is thought to have originated (
see belowSurvey of optical spectroscopy: General principles: Applications). The internal structure of the proton…
spectroscopy: Methods…galactic magnetic fields emit synchrotron radiation in the radio and microwave regions. Intergalactic molecules and radicals have been identified in radio-astronomy spectroscopy, and naturally occurring masers have been observed. The three-degree blackbody spectrum that is the remnant of the big bang creation of the universe (
see above) covers the microwave…
spectroscopy: ApplicationsThis radiation, which is currently at a temperature of 2.73 kelvin (K), is identified as a relic of the big bang that marks the birth of the universe and the beginning of its rapid expansion.…
More About Cosmic microwave background16 references found in Britannica articles
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