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MONDAY, JULY 6, 2015

TOO BAD, THEY DON’T KNOW IT’S A WOMBAT

Wising up on wombat: The wombat mascot of Servcorp that was mistaken for a a
pig.

TOO BAD, THEY DON’T KNOW IT’S A WOMBAT

BY CHRISTINE CHEAH

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/07/06/Too-bad-they-dont-know-its-a-wombat/

PETALING JAYA: Do you know what’s a wombat? Some Malaysians apparently don’t.
The Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has had to temporarily remove a wombat
advertisement from an electronic billboard at Bukit Bintang because people were
mistaking it for a pig.
Mayor Datuk Ahmad Phesal Talib confirmed the removal of the digital
advertisement at Jalan Bukit Bintang, while DBKL was trying to get in touch with
the company behind the advertisement to confirm the fact.
Ahmad Phesal agreed that the animal in the advertisement was a wombat.

Wombats, incidentally, are marsupials, like kangaroos, wallabies and the koala
bears.
“An irresponsible person perceived it as a pig and spread false rumours on the
Internet which led to the public misconception,” he said in an interview.
There was a public uproar on social media after a screenshot of the wombat went
viral describing the advertisement as a “pig wearing a songkok and baju Melayu
while accompanied by a Selamat Hari Raya greeting”.
It has been established that the wombat is the mascot of Servcorp, an
Australia-based company offering serviced offices in the region.The cartoon
wombat is normally depicted wearing a hat with a cream-coloured coat and brown
pants in the advertisement, and even has a name: Sidney.
Sidney has been touted by Servcorp as the “world’s wisest wombat”, and it even
has its own Facebook page as well as website.
Servcorp, which used the same mascot in the digital advertisement in a
promotional video in 2012, could not be contacted yesterday.

The digital billboard of the wombat in KL.

Posted by Camelia at 5:53 PM 1 comment:

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2014

10 CLEAN CITIES THAT MAKE INDIA PROUD

Last updated on: October 08, 2014 13:46 IST

Chandigarh has emerged as the cleanest city in India as per a study conducted by
the ministry of urban development.

Dancers perform during the Republic Day celebrations in the northern Indian city
of Chandigarh January 26, 2011. India celebrated its 62nd Republic Day on
Wednesday.Ajay Verma/Reuters
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nationwide ‘Clean India campaign’ or Swachh
Bharat Abhiyan is very well received by the masses and celebrities alike.
Be it celebrities like actor Aamir Khan, BSF Jawans or the aam junta - most have
joined hands to make this mission a success by 2019. However, according to data
available with the Ministry of Urban Development, there are ten cities which are
very clean and these are:
Chandigarh
State: Chandigarh
The city has emerged as the cleanest city in India as per a study conducted by
the ministry of urban development.
In order to keep its ranking and reputation as the greenest and cleanest city in
India, the administration of Chandigarh along with The Energy and Resources
Institute to working towards environment-friendly including use of natural
construction material and lower energy consumption.
Chandigarh is also on the way to become the country's first solar city by 2016.

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Image: Temple tank in Shravanabelagola. Photograph: Courtesy, Dinesh
Kannambadi/Wikimedia Commons
Mysore
State:Karnataka
In 2008, a citizen group in Mysore started a movement called Let’s do it!
campaign to clean up not only the city but the entire country.
The response to this campaign has been huge. The youth in the city are spreading
awareness on what each one of them can do individually and collectively to keep
Mysore clean.

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Image: Vehicles move over a bridge built over the river Tapi at Surat, in
Gujarat. Photographs: Amit Dave/Reuters
Surat
State: Gujarat
The diamond city of Gujarat follows high standard of cleanliness at public
places. The civic authority in the city is very strict about cleanliness on
roads and public places.

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Image: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching the cleanliness drive for Swacch
Bharat Mission from Valmiki Basti, in New Delhi. Photograph: PIB photos
New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC)
State: Delhi
NDMC has intensified its cleaning operations after the launch of Swach Bharat
campaign. Volunteers have even identified highly populated belts where they can
spread their cleanliness drive.
NMDC is also keen to clean the backlanes of crowded colonies.

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Image: Sports enthusiasts exercising on a clean road in New Delhi. Photograph:
Reuters
Delhi Cantt
State: Delhi
Delhi is also considered a clean city due to the presence of various citizen
forums that are actively involved in various cleanliness drives across the city.

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Image: Mukkombu, a famous tourist spot in Tiruchirappalli. Photograph:
Courtesy, Tiruchirappalli Tourism
Tiruchirappalli
State: Tamil Nadu
Tiruchirappalli is a city with amazing tourist spots. The citizens surely know
how to keep their city clean. Tourists who have visited the city will tell you
about clean habits that each one in the city follows.

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Image:XLRI, Jamshedpur. Photograph: Rediff archives
Jamshedpur
State: Jharkhand
Jamshedpur adheres to a high standard on sanitation and cleanliness.
The steel city is totally sanitised and citizens here believe that healthy
living is utmost important and for this purpose they must adapt to cleaner
habits.

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Image: Mangalore Town Hall. Photograph: Courtesy, Premkudva/Wikimedia Commons
Mangalore
State: Karnataka
In Mangalore, the popular Nirmala Nagara Yojana is a very effective scheme to
implement cleanliness in the city.
Volunteers of this scheme arranges for collection of garbage in a segregated
manner from every household, the garbage so collected is later classified into
different categories which can be used as a landfill material or used for making
compost.

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Image: Bandstand, Rajkot. Photograph: Courtesy, Jadia Gaurand/Wikimedia Commons.
Rajkot
State: Gujarat
Rajkot is the fastest growing city in the country. The city's civic body,
resident forums are actively involved in keeping the city clean.

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Kanpur
State: Uttar Pradesh
Kanpur is the biggest city in Uttar Pradesh with high industrial growth rate.
The city was not so clean few year ago, but currently, the city had made it to
the list of clean cities in the country.
The credit for maintaining cleanliness goes to the local authorities and
citizens who follow strict civic rules.

Posted by Camelia at 7:24 PM 1 comment:

ISLAMIC STATE: MILITANTS KILL 50 FROM IRAQI ANBAR TRIBE

1 November 2014 Last updated at 15:56

ISLAMIC STATE: MILITANTS KILL 50 FROM IRAQI ANBAR TRIBE

The people who died are believed to have been displaced from the town of Hit,
seized by IS

ISLAMIC STATE

Militants from Islamic State (IS) have killed at least 50 members of an Iraqi
tribe in western Anbar province, officials and tribal leaders say.
The men and women from the Al Bu Nimr tribe are reported to have been lined up
and shot in retaliation for resisting the jihadists.
A number of people from the same tribe were also found dead in mass graves
earlier this week.
IS militants control large areas of Iraq and neighbouring Syria.
Meanwhile, AFP news agency quoted the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights as saying that at least 100 IS fighters had been killed in three days of
fighting for the strategic Syrian border town of Kobane.
On Friday, some 150 Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters crossed from Turkey to join
Syrian Kurds who have been defending the town against IS for six weeks.
The Observatory says that more than 950 people have died in the battle, more
than half of them from IS.
Deliberate strategy A local official told the Associated Press news agency that
the Sunni Muslim tribesmen and women were killed on Friday in the village of Ras
al-Maa, north of the provincial capital Ramadi.
Faleh al-Issawi said many members of the tribe had to flee their homes near the
town of Hit last month when it was captured by IS.
The Al Bu Nimr tribe had joined the Shia-dominated government's campaign against
IS.
There have been many other such killings, as pressure mounts on the tribes to
swing one way or the other.
Analysts say mass killings are also a very deliberate strategy by IS to spread
terror in their opponents.
One local official, Sabah Karhout, described the killings in Anbar province as a
crime against humanity and called for more international support for Sunni
tribes fighting the militants in Anbar.
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said the killing of Sunni tribesmen in Iraq by
Islamic State fighters was the brutal "reality of what we're dealing with" in
the conflict.
The US carried out an air drop of food supplies, the first of its kind, to the
Al Bu Nimr tribe just a few days ago.
IS has taken over large parts of Anbar province as it expands its territory,
currently about one-third of both Iraq and Syria.
The BBC's Jim Muir says the recently-formed Iraqi government is trying to win
the Sunni tribes over, seeing them as a key element in the fight against IS,
which in turn is trying to deter them from that course.
But Baghdad has not yet succeeded in persuading the bulk of the tribes to turn
on IS.
The tribes want guarantees that they will be given a serious degree of
devolution for their areas and a real say in national decision-making, our
correspondent adds.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29862886

Posted by Camelia at 6:59 PM 1 comment:

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

YES, CELEBS HAD THEIR ICLOUD ACCOUNTS HACKED. NO, YOU SHOULDN'T SHUT YOURS OFF

Back in May, Jennifer Lawrence joked to MTV: "My iCloud keeps telling me to back
it up, and I'm like, I don't know how to back you up. Do it yourself."

The release of numerous nude photos of celebrities over the past several days
was apparently made possible by a group of determined hackers who broke into the
iCloud accounts of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and others. Because photos are
backed up to iCloud automatically from iPhones — and to Google+ on Android —
there has been a spate of articles explaining how you can shut off this
functionality to “protect” yourself from being similarly victimized. The Mirror,
in typical tabloid fashion: “Celebrity nude photo hacking: How to disable iPhone
iCloud backups and keep your pictures safe” you’d expect. But the normally sober
Will Oremus at Slate: “How to Not Back Up Your Naked Selfies to the Cloud” seems
to have gotten caught in the frenzy too. Ignore them both. And everyone else who
tells you it’s better not to use cloud backup. Instead, take some simple steps
to get safer and smarter.
Why not just turn it all off?
Simple, it’s about relative risk. You need to consider the chance that someone
is going to hack your cloud account against the chance you’re going to lose your
phone. While there’s no doubt that the group responsible for revealing more of
Selena Gomez than she hoped was determined, the odds anyone is interested in you
aren’t particularly great. But the chance your phone will be damaged beyond
repair, lost, or stolen is pretty good. When that happens, you won’t just lose
the photos on it, but also your contact info, calendar and possibly even some
e-mail, depending on how things are configured there.
Oh, and if someone has your phone, there’s a good chance they can get into it
and access your pictures anyway. Yes, you can wipe that all out remotely on both
iOS (with Find My iPhone) and Android (using this technique). Both of those use
cloud services, by the way. So you could turn off the photo backup and use them
anyway, but why not just secure your cloud account instead?

OK, how do I do that?
The answer turns out to be pretty simple and slightly complex at the same time.
The first thing you need to do is use a good password for iCloud or for your
basic Google/Gmail account. Hackers love it when you make their life easy by
using “password” or “1234″ so you’ll obviously want to go above and beyond.
Throw in punctuation, use miXed capS and lowercase, add in s0m3 numb3rs. Sure,
you want it to be easy enough to type, so play around with this on your
smartphone. But remember that complexity is your friend. (Google has some good
advice.)
Also remember that your password can be reset by having a link sent to the
e-mail address associated with your account. That’s a huge vulnerability if that
account has a lousy password. The complexity of maintaining different, elaborate
passwords is frustrating. I can’t keep track of the different variations I use,
so I got myself LastPass a few years ago. Others swear by 1Password. Neither
works very well on the iPhone itself because of limitations in the way Apple
supports browser add-ons, but those should be fixed in iOS 8. Even now, though,
LastPass is on my phone, secured by a master password that protects a list of my
other passwords called the “vault”. When I forget one, I can look it up. Your
Notes file or Word document with a list of passwords, backed up to your Dropbox,
is a hackers dream. Print a copy, delete it from the cloud and your device, and
get a password manager.
A lot of this stuff seems like it shouldn’t be my job?
That’s an entirely fair point. The second most egregious part of the celebrity
hacking (after the unconscionable privacy violation) has been blaming the
victims, as if they did something wrong. What’s wrong is that security is too
damn hard and the way all of this works is beyond incomprehensible. I defy
anyone to accurately explain how iCloud photo backup currently works.

Apple left a big hole in iCloud that allowed hackers to try an unlimited number
of guesses at passwords without being locked out (since fixed). And far too many
apps on both iOS and Android manage to lose your login info over and over, which
encourages the use of short, lousy passwords. Things should get better when you
can secure login information with TouchID, Apple’s fingerprint sensor, in iOS8.
That ostensibly would allow people to choose nearly uncrackable passwords
(LastPass can generate them automatically) but login with just their finger.
But I need better security now, there’s something I can do, right?
Yes, in the meantime, both iOS and Android allow you to use 2-factor
authentication and you should borrow a page from Nike and “just do it.” In
2-factor, you have to not only enter a password, but also a code that you
receive through another means to ensure it’s really you. With Apple, the process
involves text messages sent to “trusted devices” and the process is laid out in
a pretty clear FAQ. It may sound inconvenient, but once you’ve established that
a device is trusted, you won’t constantly be nagged to reconfirm that fact. This
kind of security can be very effective against the kind of hack the celebrities
fell victim to because it can block account access from a computer that isn’t
already verified.
That said, Apple’s implementation of 2-factor security is incomplete right now,
as TechCrunch reports. It’s still possible to grab a PhotoStream from iCloud
without using the second factor, which is another hole Apple needs to plug in a
hurry. Google, incidentally, has a more comprehensive 2-step offering. In
addition to sending codes via text message, it can use a special app called an
authenticator (which works even if you have no cell coverage) or can call you
and read you a code. Apple didn’t respond to TechCrunch’s inquiry about
expanding 2-factor to do more, but it seems certain to do so in the near future.
Is there more I can do?

There’s a lot more, which generally falls into two categories. On the one hand,
you want to make sure you don’t fall into traps that compromise your information
in the first place. So be careful clicking on suspicious e-mails or websites,
don’t download things from untrusted sources and stay off of WiFi networks you
can’t be sure are reputable. All of those are rapid paths to malware or
exploits designed to get hold of your passwords or other credentials.
On the other hand, if you’re really interested in security, you can encrypt your
data. That’s hard with automatic backup function like PhotoStream on iCloud. But
it’s possible for sensitive files or important e-mails. Forbes privacy guru
Kashmir Hill posted an explainer on sending and receiving encrypted e-mail, for
example. Online backup services like CrashPlan use strong encryption that
renders your files a bunch of digital gibberish if the servers are accessed
without your keys. A tool like CloudFogger can add a layer of encryption to your
files on Dropbox, Microsoft’s OneDrive or Google Drive. The use of VPN software
can help keep you secure on public WiFi.

Last thoughts?
Yes, the weakest link in most security turns out to be the human element, not
the technology per se. A lot of sites let you engage in password resets using
security questions. iCloud is one of those. When you’re famous — or just
semi-open on Facebook — it’s often really easy to guess the answers to those
without being the person about whom they’re being asked. This presents a problem
for which the solution is again easy and hard. The easy part is to use absurd
security questions like “What is the last name of your favorite elementary
school teacher?” instead of “What was the name of your first pet?” There’s a
good chance the former isn’t on Facebook while the latter might well be. Or
maybe you told David Letterman about Scruffles once. (With 2-factor, the
security questions aren’t a vulnerability by the way.)
The fact is your data is a tempting target, even if you aren’t the world’s most
famous actress at the moment. And it’s very much up to Apple, Google and
Microsoft (along with Dropbox, et al.) to do a better job of making it easier to
protect that data from prying eyes. But at the same time, services like
automatic cloud backup are hugely valuable. What was the once the catastrophic
loss of possibly years worth of photos is now a mere inconvenience thanks to the
cloud. Phone upgrades are routine as you pull all your information from an
automatic backup you don’t even need to manage.
The last thing you want to do is stop using all those features just because
things went wrong. You didn’t stop using your credit cards after the Target hack
(nor will you if this Home Depot situation turns out to be worse). Don’t become
a cloud Luddite just because security there isn’t perfect. Treat it like
driving, which is inherently dangerous, but usually works out for the best: Make
it as safe as you can, know that innovation will make in better over time, and
be careful.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markrogowsky/2014/09/03/the-celeb-hack-has-people-telling-you-to-turn-off-cloud-backup-ignore-them/

Posted by Camelia at 6:46 PM 1 comment:

SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 2014

PRINCE GEORGE'S FIRST STEPS

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/its-a-royal-walkabout-as-george-takes-his-first-steps-30356812.html

THE world has followed his every move but now Prince George's first steps are
grabbing all the attention.

Posted by Camelia at 6:49 PM No comments:

FRIDAY, JULY 25, 2014

DUTCH SENDING POLICE, WANT TO SECURE MH17 CRASH SITE: PM

The Netherlands is sending 40 unarmed police to the crash site of flight MH17 in
rebel-held Ukraine and seeking means to "further stabilise the area", Prime
Minister Mark Rutte said Thursday.
"We're examining means to further stabilise the surroundings... it requires
international discussions, it requires a legal mandate," Rutte said, amid
growing concern that the site has not been secured and all of the 298 bodies,
most of them Dutch, not recovered.
"It's absolutely not certain that this is all going to work. It's very complex
and requires many partners," Rutte told journalists.
"This must happen very carefully, which is why the cabinet is seeking ways to
strengthen our commitment on the ground in the coming days, but that will happen
step-by-step and very carefully," Rutte said.
A bolstered team of 23 investigators will be sent to the area, "accompanied by
40 unarmed royal military policemen," Rutte said.
The police will also be tasked with helping to recover bodies, he added,
describing the security situation in the area as "changing".
He refused to comment on reports that the Netherlands and Australia are drafting
a new UN Security Council resolution to allow armed police or troops to secure
the crash site.
"The cabinet is working on several options that should help to create a more
stable environment for bringing back the remaining victims," Rutte said.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, whose country lost 28 citizens in the
disaster, said that there was still a need for a rigorous search of the site and
that 50 Australian officers were on stand-by in London.
At the crash site in eastern Ukraine, the Organisation for Security and
Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring mission said that an Australian
policeman had been inspecting the security situation in the area.
"The Australians are getting a sense of the security for the area, they're
mapping it, they're getting a sense of where the crash sites are," OSCE
spokesman Michael Bociurkiw said.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down with 298 people on board a week ago
over rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine in as-yet unexplained
circumstances.
Dutch authorities say they can only be sure that 200 corpses have been recovered
and no recovery efforts appear to be underway for more bodies or remains.
http://news.malaysia.msn.com/malaysia-news/dutch-sending-police-want-to-secure-mh17-crash-site-pm-1

Posted by Camelia at 7:14 PM 1 comment:

TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2014

GODZILLA IN MALAYSIA? GODZILLA, KING KONG, ULTRAMAN, THOR, IRONMAN AND ROSMAH
CAUSED THE SINKHOLE

Meme including Thor and Loki

KUALA LUMPUR: KL Monorail service from Hang Tuah station to Jalan Imbi
temporarily suspended due to two large sinkholes here have sparked off the
creative juices of Malaysian creating a tide of funny memes on the Internet

HERE ARE SOME:

- See more at:
http://www.funnymalaysia.net/godzilla-king-kong-ultraman-thor-ironman-and-rosmah-caused-the-sinkhole/#sthash.Zx9GeKW5.dpuf

Maybe footballer Luis Suarez bit the road and caused it to collapse...
http://features.insing.com/gallery/kl-tunnel-collapse-sparks-hilarious-memes/id-60473101/photos/

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