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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Moroccans among hackers who launched cyber attacks on Israel ...

Morocco World News

New York, April 7, 2013

According to the Doha-based Aljazeera channel, Moroccans were among the group of anonymous hackers who conducted a massive cyber attack against Israeli website this weekend.

In addition to Moroccans, the anonymous group includes hackers from Tunisia, Kosovo, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Albania, Turkey and Indonesia, where most attacks came from, according to Aljazeera.

A number of government?s website was brought early on Sunday, such as the Israel?s Bureau of Statistics, Defense and Education Ministries, Israel Securities Authority, the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption.

In a video posted on YouTube on Sunday, the group of Anonymous said that, ?elite cyber-squadrons from around the world have decided to unite in solidarity with the Palestinian people against Israel as one entity to disrupt and erase Israel from cyberspace.?

?You have NOT stopped your endless human right violations. You have NOT stopped illegal settlements. You have NOT respected the ceasefire. You have shown that you do NOT respect international law,? it added.

But the Israeli government said it foiled the hackers? attempts to disrupt its websites, arguing that the hackers don?t have the skills to damage its online infrastructure.

Source: http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2013/04/85815/moroccans-among-hackers-who-launched-cyber-attacks-on-israel/

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Stocks edge lower ahead of earnings season

Trader Luigi Muccitelli, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, April 4, 2013. Stocks are notching small gains in early trading after the U.S. government reported that the number of people applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level since late November. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Stocks edged lower Monday as major U.S. companies prepared to start reporting first-quarter results.

Alcoa will release its results after the markets close Monday. The aluminum company will be the first member of the Dow Jones industrial average to unveil earnings for the quarter. Alcoa rose was unchanged at $8.24.

Analysts expect earnings for companies in the S&P 500 to rise by 0.6 percent from the first quarter of last year. Telecommunications and so-called consumer discretionary stocks are forecast to lead the growth, according to data from S&P Capital IQ. Consumer discretionary stocks include department store chains such as Macy's.

While expectations for the coming reporting period are low, investors will be studying the reports to gauge the outlook for the rest of the year, said Cam Albright, a director of asset allocation at Wilmington Trust Investment Advisors.

"That'll be a critical piece for the markets to digest," he said.

The Dow fell 43 points, or 0.3 percent, to 14,521, in the first half-hour of trading. The Standard & Poor's 500 index declined one point, or 0.1 percent, to 1,552.

Telecommunications and health-care stocks fell the most, down 0.7 percent and 0.4 percent, respectively. Seven of the 10 industry groups in the Standard & Poor's 500 index fell.

The two industry groups have performed well this year, as investors have sought less risky stocks that pay good dividends. Healthcare companies are up almost 16 percent, making them the best performers in the S&P 500.

Lufkin Industries, an oilfield equipment maker, surged $24.15 to $88.07 after General Electric Co. agreed to buy the company for $3 billion. GE wants to bolster its oil and gas operations. Its stock edged 8 cents lower to $22.87.

Monday's stock market declines continued last week's fall. Stocks fell Friday after the government reported a slowdown in hiring that was far worse than economists had expected. The report capped a bad week: The S&P 500 logged its biggest weekly decline of the year as signs emerged that U.S. growth is starting to cool.

In other trading, the Nasdaq composite index dropped two points, or 0.1 percent, to 3,202 on Monday.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 1.72 percent, after falling as low as 1.69 percent Friday, its lowest level of the year.

The benchmark rate has fallen in the past month as demand for low-risk assets increases.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/f70471f764144b2fab526d39972d37b3/Article_2013-04-08-Wall%20Street/id-cf271b235ef649c6ac90ab832d5d244b

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Acclaimed documentary maker Les Blank dies at 77

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) ? Les Blank, an acclaimed documentary maker who focused his camera on cultural corners ranging from blues music, to garlic lovers, to shoe-eating artists, died Sunday at age 77, his son said.

Blank died at his home in Berkeley, Calif. nearly a year after being diagnosed with bladder cancer, Harrod Blank said.

Blank's 42 films earned him a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute.

"I think he's a national treasure," filmmaker Taylor Hackford, president of the Directors Guild of America, told the New York Times. "Although his films are not well known at the moment, they'll take their place"

The Florida-born Blank's early documentaries focused on musicians, including 1965's "Dizzy Gillespie" and "The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins," a portrait of the Texas bluesman that won Blank his first wide renown.

He shifted to food with documentaries like 1980's "Garlic is as Good as 10 Mothers," and 2007's "All in This Tea."

Blank was known for following his curiosity anywhere. No topic was too strange ? or too ordinary. His 1987 film "Gap-Toothed Women" was a series of interviews on the subject spurred by an old high school crush.

"If he was interested in gap-toothed women, he's going to make a film about it. If he wants to make a film about garlic because he loves to eat garlic, he's going to do it," said Harrod Blank, who is also a filmmaker.

But the subject that led to Blank's most memorable work was fellow filmmaker Werner Herzog.

In 1979's "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe," Blank chronicled Herzog's attempt to dine on his boot, the result of a lost bet.

And "Burden of Dreams," Blank's 1982 behind-the-scenes view of Herzog's disastrous filming of "Fitzcarraldo" in the Peruvian jungle, became a classic chronicle of artistic obsession.

"If I abandon this project, I would be a man without dreams," Blank films Herzog saying in the film. "I don't want to live like that,"

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/acclaimed-documentary-maker-les-blank-dies-77-055328582.html

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China's bird flu outbreak not cause for panic: WHO

By Michael Martina

BEIJING (Reuters) - A strain of bird flu that has been found in humans for the first time in eastern China is not a cause for panic, the World Health Organization said on Monday, as the number of people infected rose to 21, with six deaths.

The WHO praised China for mobilizing resources nationwide to combat the H7N9 flu strain by culling tens of thousands of birds and monitoring hundreds of people close to those infected.

"So far, we really only have sporadic cases of a rare disease, and perhaps it will remain that way. So this is not a time for over-reaction or panic," said the WHO's representative to China, Michael O'Leary.

The head of China's National Health and Family Planning Commission Li Bin said on Sunday she was confident authorities could contain the virus.

"These are a relatively small number of serious cases with personal health, medical implications, but not at this stage known public health implications," O'Leary told reporters at a joint press briefing with the Chinese government.

But he warned that information on the virus was still incomplete.

"We really can't rely on information from other viruses. H7N9 is a new virus in humans and the pattern that it follows cannot be predicted by the patterns that we have from other influenza viruses," O'Leary said.

No cases have yet been reported outside of China, he said.

In total, 621 close contacts of the 21 people known to have been infected are being closely monitored and have yet to show symptoms of infection, the director of China's H7N9 prevention and control office, Liang Wannian, said.

"In recent years, there have been huge changes in our national epidemic system, especially our health emergency response ability," Liang said.

The bird flu outbreak has caused global concern and some Chinese internet users and newspapers have questioned why it took so long for the government to announce the new cases, especially as two of the victims fell ill in February.

Airline shares have fallen in Europe and in Hong Kong over fears that the new virus could be lead to an epidemic like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which emerged in China in 2002 and killed about 10 percent of the 8,000 people it infected worldwide.

Chinese authorities initially tried to cover up the outbreak of SARS.

In the H7N9 case, it has said it needed time to correctly identify the virus, with cases spread between Shanghai and eastern Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Anhui provinces.

Other strains of bird flu, such as H5N1, have been circulating for many years and can be transmitted from bird to bird, and bird to human, but not generally from human to human.

(Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-bird-flu-outbreak-not-cause-panic-060513422.html

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Suspicious interview experiences? ? CPA Exam Review Forum

@jelly You might have a point. For the first thing you listed. not sure if this is the reason, but I noticed that everyone at that particular office of the company were Caucasian, and I am a minority, so that theory might be valid.

And for the second thing you listed, all right, here's a quick rundown of the recent restructuring of the company. Its accounting department used to be located at its headquarters at a major city, but they decided to move a lot of their accounting functions overseas (the basic stuff that can be done with much cheaper labor), and then moved their accounting department, or what's left of it, to a small town (which is where I interviewed at). Also, for the position they were looking to fill, they were looking for either a recent graduate or someone who is in their last semester of school. If it's the former, then it'll be a full-time job for him/her, and if it's the latter, then it'll be a part-time job until he/she graduates, to which it becomes a full-time job.

Regardless, you are probably right. I may just have dodged a bullet. Honestly, career-wise, my current job at my current company is much better than the other position at the other company, it's just that there is something very personal that is very hard to do now that I didn't get the other job (I will explain if/when I pass all 4 sections of the CPA exam). But anyways, thanks for the words of encouragement man. Now off to study AUD.

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Source: http://www.another71.com/cpa-exam-forum/topic/fishy-interview-experiences

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7-Year Old Cancer Patient Scores 69-Yard Touchdown - Neatorama

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7-year old Jack Hoffman has been fighting brain cancer for 2 years. He's a big fan of the Nebraska Cornhuskers. The team has been helping Jack and his family through the ordeal. Yesterday, the team let him have the ball during a play. Jack ran 69 yards to score a touchdown. Excuse me, but there's some dust in my eyes.

Link -via American Digest

Source: http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/07/7-Year-Old-Cancer-Patient-Scores-69-Yard-Touchdown/

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3Gbps LED light bulb WLAN acheived by Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute

We first noted it back in 2008: the possibility of using LED light bulbs for secure and directional wireless internet access. Well, the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute is claiming that speedy data rates of up 3Gbps have proven feasible in its labs. The boost comes from its latest enhancements, allowing the 180Mhz frequency to be used over the usual 30Mhz, which apparently leaves extra room for moving data. If you'll recall, that's a significant leap over the 800Mbps top speed it achieved back in 2011 mixing various light colors. While this IR-like take on wireless internet access gains steam, remember that it's more likely to be used in areas where WiFi radios cause interruptions (hospitals, trade shows like CES, etc.) -- rather than a strip of mini spot lights from IKEA for the casa. (We can dream, can't we?) FHHI plans to show off the new gear at FOE '13, but for now you'll find the full press release after the break.

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