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Travel Gangnam Style: Seoul promotes tourism to Gangnam district

December 8, 2012 11:49 am | Leave a Comment |

Travel Gangnam Style: Seoul promotes tourism to Gangnam districtGet short URLLink copied to clipboardemail story to a friendprint versionPublished: 08 December, 2012, 15:49

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printscreen from youtube video by user whatisgangnamstyle“You know the song and you know the dance… But what’s Gangam?” The extraordinary success of ‘Gangnam Style’ by South Korean rapper PSY has sparked a campaign by Seoul officials to attract touris
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The South Korean capital’s tourism ministry has released a video promoting the Gangnam district – the richest and most developed area of the city. The clip already scooped around 400,000 views on YouTube, the Daily Telegraph reported.“What’s Gangnam?” the video asks. Most foreigners do not know what Gangnam means, and think the word translates to ‘crazy’ or ‘fun.’ Seoul’s Gangnam district, south of the city’s Han River, is the upmarket neighborhood featured as the backdrop in PSY’s original video. The video focuses on attractions in the prestigious area, like shopping, entertainment and culture. The district, however, has never been a popular tourist spot. Time Out described the neighborhood as “far less visited than other parts of the city.” PSY’s record-breaking video beat Justin Bieber’s ‘Baby’ on YouTube as the most-watched clip ever. Since its release in August, it’s been viewed over 900 million time. ‘Gangnam Style’ also holds the Guinness World Record for the song with the most ‘likes’ ever.printscreen from youtube video by user whatisgangnamstyle … Read More

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Mosque bombing kills at least three in Kenyan capital

December 7, 2012 8:58 pm | Leave a Comment |

Mosque bombing kills at least three in Kenyan capital

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: Smoke billows from fires in a street, on December 7, 2012 following a large explosion outside a mosque in Nairobi (AFP Photo / STR)

At least three people have been killed and eight wounded after a large explosion in Nairobi. It’s the third deadly blast in two months popularly attributed to militant group al-Shabaab.

People inspect blood stains on a road, on December 7, 2012 following a large explosion outside a mosque in Nairobi (AFP Photo / STR)
A wounded man of Somali origin is wheeled into the Kenyatta national hospital on December 7, 2012 following a large explosion outside a mosque in Nairobi (AFP Photo / Simon Main
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­Emergency teams have been sent after the explosion, near a mosque in the majority Somali district of Eastleigh, the Kenyan Red Cross said.

A grenade was thrown into a crowd of worshippers as they left the mosque after evening prayers. A number of demonstrators took to the streets after the the explosion, but have been contained by police as emergency teams rushed the injured to hospital.

“There are eight others in hospital. Among them is a member of parliament,” the Red Cross reported.

The Friday explosion followed a recent roadside bomb blast in the same district, which killed one and injured eight, AFP reported.

A November bus bombing in the district took another seven lives, injured dozens, and provoked ethnic clashes.

No group has claimed responsibility for the series of attacks so far, although the Kenya-based Islamist group Muslim Youth Center praised the recent blast on Twitter.

The group supports the al-Qaeda offshoot al-Shabaab, a militant group that has recently struggled with Kenyan government forces but has denied involvement in previous bombings.

Al-Shabaab’s militants are often blamed for attacks in Kenya, AFP said.

The fundamentalist Islamist group has vowed revenge after Kenyan troops entered Somalia in 2011. In October last year, Nairobi declared that it had the right to defend itself after a number of militant kidnappings of Europeans inside Kenya. Initially, the Somali government welcomed the support from “our Kenyan brothers.” 

As of 2012, the Kenyan contingent is aided by another 18,000 African Union soldiers supporting the UN-backed government.

Peopke stand as smoke billow from fires in a street, on December 7, 2012 following a large explosion outside a mosque in Nairobi (AFP Photo / STR)
People inspect blood stains on a road, on December 7, 2012 following a large explosion outside a mosque in Nairobi (AFP Photo / STR)
A wounded man of Somali origin is wheeled into the Kenyatta national hospital on December 7, 2012 following a large explosion outside a mosque in Nairobi (AFP Photo / Simon Maina) … Read More

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Diary of Two Snapchat Addicts

December 7, 2012 8:33 pm | Leave a Comment |

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Snapchat is one of those rare tech products, like Pinterest, that seems to have taken hold in suburbia and then migrated to New York, at least judging by the coastal buzz suddenly circling the year-and-a-half-year-old app. The service, which was founded by two Stanford computer science students who met at a frat, lets you send photos to friends and strangers for 10 seconds or less before they (in theory!) disappear. You can type a message or use a crude coloring stick to mark up the image. It currently holds down the no. 3 spot for free apps in iTunes and recently claimed 30 million “interactions” a day.
After downloading it earlier this week, however, we were disappointed to find a dearth of norms acquaintances willing to snapchat us. A real pity considering that’s pretty much all we want to do with our waking hours in 2012, the Year of Our Lord P.S. (post-Snapchat).
Evidence about Snapchat’s newfound popularity with urban adults is purely anecdotal. It may just be that “that teen sexting app” doesn’t appeal to the grown up(ish!) people in our contacts list. But sexting is only one use case, and an ill-advised one at that.
Seriously, kids, don’t try this at home.
Snapchat says it doesn’t store any of the pics on its server, however  flash-fingered pervs can always take a screenshot. Snapchat will alert you if they do, but it’s not like the app can stop them. One thoughtful tipster has also published a guide to circumventing the “Screenshot!” alert. Helpful! What’s more, Snapchat also obscures an indiscreet feature: PUBLIC web profiles that display the top three people every users has messaged, along with the number of pics they’ve sent.
But there’s another reason Snapchat is far from the “perfect sexting app”: 10 seconds or less of viewing time is hardly worth your while. It’s the App Store version of “just the tip.” That might be why its founders keep insisting that the majority of users don’t appear to be using it for sexting at all. Jessica’s 20-year-old sister, at college in central Pennsylvania, uses Snapchat daily to send funny updates to her friends. “Studying!” she snapchatted us, alongside a photo of her looking glum next to her laptop. Apparently, we’re also not the only ones receiving pantsless shots from the loo #nofilter.
And that’s the beauty of the app: its ephemerality makes it less the new Chatroulette than the anti-Instagram. You didn’t need a cringe-inducing Nickelback parody video to tell you that Kevin Systrom has pulled the ultimate coup: conscripting you into a curator of your own personal brand. Snapchat, on the other hand, tickles the same innate human impulse for sharing selfies, but stripped of the vanity. The photo quality within the app is iffy and there’s no moody filter to present a prettified version of the highlights of your life.
It lends itself neatly to silliness, a comforting dissipation of self-awareness. But just because the vanity is gone, doesn’t mean the desire to document your life is, making it the perfect app for our ADD-addled society.
So please, for the love of god, Snapchat us. Before this thing becomes the next Draw Something. … Read More

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Do We Need Politicians to Take a “No Debt Increase” Pledge?

December 7, 2012 6:55 pm | Leave a Comment |

As Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge
seems to be losing its force, Jonathan Bydlak at National
Review
argues it was never enough:

Imagine if instead of pledging not to raise taxes, all those
politicians had pledged not to raise spending….That’s why it’s
important to do for spending what Norquist has done for taxes:
create a means for voters to hold elected officials accountable
when they break campaign promises of fiscal responsibility.
…Given our ever-mounting debt, it is incumbent on all of us
who care about the future prosperity of this country to reexamine
the completeness of Norquist’s approach. We have to look at more
than the tax side of the equation.
Fortunately, some in Washington are taking aim at our political
sacred cows. Doug Collins, Representative-elect from Georgia, and
Ted Cruz, Senator-elect from Texas, both pledged to voters this
cycle that they consider all items in the budget eligible for
reduction. By signing the ;Reject the
Debt ;pledge in addition to ;the
taxpayers-protection pledge, they will vote against not only
tax increases now but also spending increases that would amount
to ;future tax burdens.
As one
columnist recently wrote, “From now on, any politician who
signs the anti-tax pledge without also signing the anti-debt pledge
can be dismissed as a complete hypocrite.” The companion to
Norquist’s no-tax pledge is the ;Reject the Debt ;pledge.
Elected officials need to sign both.

Nick Gillespie from last week on
why spending drives deficits. … Read More

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Hackers Hit Former U.S. Military Chief

December 7, 2012 5:28 pm | Leave a Comment |



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According to reports, the hackers targeted personal computers retired Admiral Mike Mullen, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The FBI is hunting for foreign hackers. Mullen is currently teaching WWS 318: U.S. Military and National and International Diplomacy and will teach an unnamed graduate seminar in the spring.

According to Mullen’s aides, however, he did not save or view classified information on his personal computers. Agents from an FBI cyber-security unit contacted Mullen in late October or early November, and asked that he surrender his computers in connection with the ongoing inquiry. Mullen agreed, and in early November at least one FBI agent collected the computers at his office at the U.S. Naval Institute.

One official said that evidence gathered by the FBI points to China as the origin of the hacking, and that it appeared the perpetrators were able to access a personal email account of Mullen.

Officials said that Mr. Mullen has had access to classified information while working on the Benghazi investigation, but his own computers weren’t in such a heavily protected network.

China is often cited as a suspect in various hacking attacks in the United States and other nations. Beijing dismisses allegations it is involved.

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Guide dog not a hot ticket to disability bash

December 7, 2012 3:15 pm | Leave a Comment |

A partially-sighted Swedish woman was barred from a disability conference because another attendee was allergic to her guide dog, but has retaliated by reporting the incident to Sweden’s Equality Ombudsman (Diskrimineringsombudsmannen). City slammed for ‘special treatment’ of Muslim kids (11 May 12)
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The conference, dubbed Today’s Disabilities, was organized in early November 2012 by the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen).”They said I couldn’t attend because a woman at the conference was allergic to dogs,” the woman wrote in her complaint. The woman, who also suffers chronic pain, said event organizers had previously said it was fine to bring the dog with her. The standard form used to submit reports to the Ombudsman asks what the nature of the would-be-discrimination is. The woman chose not to tick any of the boxes available – gender, ethnicty, age, religion or even disability – and instead wrote:”There is a huge lack of knowledge about allergies; myths and ignorance have been allowed to become ‘true’ without anyone looking at the facts.”The Local/atFollow The Local on Twitter … Read More

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Police probe Swede’s Holocaust ash art work

December 7, 2012 2:26 pm | Leave a Comment |

Swedish police on Friday said they had launched an investigation into an artist who says he used paint mixed from the ashes of Holocaust victims in a watercolour.Holocaust ash painter reported to the police (6 Dec 12)

Carl Michael von Hausswolff claims he used ashes he took from a crematorium at the Majdanek concentration camp in 1989, mixing them with water to create the painting entitled “Memory Works”.The monochrome work, featuring vertical brushstrokes in a rectangle representing the suffering of the victims, is on display at the Martin Bryder Gallery in the southern Swedish town of Lund.A member of the public filed a police complaint against von Hausswolff on December 5 for “disturbing the peace of the dead”, calling the artwork a “desecration of human remains”, said police inspector Annika Johansson.She said the police complaint was “very unusual”, noting that von Hausswolff took the ashes in Poland, not in Sweden. It was unclear if using the ashes was considered a crime in the Scandinavian country.Police said the prosecutor’s office would investigate the case and decide whether to press charges.Gallery owner Martin Bryder refused to comment on the work when contacted, and said the artist was also unavailable.On the gallery’s website, von Hausswolff explained that he travelled to Poland in 1989 for an exhibit and while there visited the Majdanek concentration camp.”I collected some ashes from one of the crematoriums but didn’t use it for the exhibit — the material was too emotionally charged with the cruelties that had taken place there,” he said.”In 2010 I pulled out the jar of ashes and decided to ‘do something’ with it. I took out a few sheets of watercolour paper and decided to cover just a rectangular space with ashes mixed with water.”When I stepped back and looked at the pictures, they ‘spoke’ to me: figures appeared… as if the ashes contained energy or memories or ‘souls’ from people… people tortured, tormented and murdered by other people in one of the most ruthless wars of the 20th century.”Swedish author and doctor Salomon Schulman condemned the exhibit as “offensive”. “I’m never going to step foot inside this gallery to view this desecration of Jewish bodies. Who knows — maybe some of the ashes come from some of my relatives,” he wrote in a debate article in regional daily Sydsvenskan.The gallery’s website said the exhibit could only be visited by appointment.AFP/The Local/atFollow The Local on Twitter … Read More

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