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Credit Card, Debit Card Data Stolen From 40 Million Target Shoppers: Gothamist

Yesterday, it was revealed that retailing giant Target suffered a major security breach. As KrebsOnSecurity first reported, it involves \”millions of customer credit and debit card records… The sources said the breach appears to have begun on or around Black Friday 2013 — by far the busiest shopping day the year.\” And now Target says it looks like 40 million customers\’ information may have been compromised between November 27 and December 15 of this year.

via Credit Card, Debit Card Data Stolen From 40 Million Target Shoppers: Gothamist.

Physicists discover ‘clearest evidence yet’ that Nick Clegg is a hologram

an un-hologram

Pride's Purge

(satire?)

A team of physicists has provided what has been described by the journal Nature as the “clearest evidence yet” that Nick Clegg is not real but is in fact a holographic 2D projection on the extreme boundaries of rational thought and common sense.

The new research could help reconcile one of modern physics’ most enduring paradoxes: the apparent inconsistencies between the different models of the universe as explained by Liberal Democrat manifestos and observations by scientists that Nick Clegg tends to consistently do the complete opposite of them.

The two new scientific papers are the culmination of years’ of work led by Yoshifumi Hyakutake at the Ibaraki University in Japan, and deal with hypothetical calculations of the huge inconsistencies in the behaviour of Lib Dem politicians once they come into close proximity to sources of power such as cabinet titles and ministerial expense accounts.

The idea of the Liberal…

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A to Z reasons why Egypt’s education system is lacking

Egyptian Streets

By Marwan Kamal, contributor, EgyptianStreets.com

The following “A-Z” reasons were found after interviewing several teachers and individuals.

A) Poor teachers, willing to accept bribes, cut corners.

Teachers in Egypt are more often than not underpaid. This forces teachers to take up second jobs or be open to accepting bribes, usually from parents, to pass their children.

B) Crowded classrooms

It’s hard to find a country that doesn’t have this problem these days. However, Egypt is unique in this as it’s schools are not proportionality placed, forcing some parents to send their kids across town to find a large school in a majorly adult community.

C) No accountability

Unlike western and European schools, Egypt has no major accountability infrastructure: schools rarely have to report to their districts about numbers or grades, and dialogue between schools and the Ministry of Education is rare.

D) Grades based on repetition not understanding

While a…

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Egyptian Aak. Week 50 (Dec 9-15)

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In the Brit/Irish Wing of Heaven…now sits Peter O’Toole.

Longshot's Blog

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I’m sure Richard Burton, fellow Irishman Richard Harris and classmate Alan Bates greeted their Shakespearean equal with wide grins, glasses in hand and a bottle to share. Fans around the world aware that we’ve lost another icon and are running out of the best.

Upon hearing the news of O’Toole’s death as with all the greats who leave us, a deep sadness set in. Flashes of all the movies, masterpieces, performances he blessed us with went flying through my mind. As a child I remember the raves of what seemed everybody on Lawrence of Arabia, adults and teens alike were flocking to the theaters to see not one but two handsome men with Omar Sharif. Though it would be O’Toole that would captivate the audience.

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