Headline, October07, 2013

''' ^^^ EASTERN BALI : ALMIGHTY

 GOD'S KNOCKOUT BEAUTY ^^^ !!!

There are few destinations in the world where the word paradise cuts deeper. Bali's eastern highlands and on its eastern seaboard.

The knockout natural beauty that this Indonesian province has been renowned for remains largely intact.

The deep religiosity of the Balinese -Hinduism blended with Buddhism, ancestor worship and a sprinkle of white magic  -continues to thrive in the east too. Between Aug 29 to Sept.7.

The islanders travel en masse to their ancestral village for Galungan, a major festival for the Balinese Hindus.

Marking the period when deities are believe to return to the island created as a shrine in their honor, Galungan comprises 10 days of temple visits.

 Family gatherings and quirky animist rituals to exorcise demons and pay tributes to the gods. 

The feast of Kuningan takes place at the end of Galungan. Gatherings are generally restricted to family and close friends, though restaurants in the east rise to the occasion by spicing up menus with holiday foods like jaja.

Colored cakes made of glutinous rice dough and lawar babi a coconut dish. Coupled with the colorful festivities.

These tantalizing morsels help locals and visitors alike reconnect with the Island of Gods. The other east coast highlights include:

Amed: A string of fishing villages lining Bali's easternmost peninsula. The beach oscillates in color from gray to jet black, a remnant of the violent volcanic explosions that formed the gently meandering coast,

The sand is fronted by coral gardens teeming with tropical fish and rated among the Island's most idyllic snorkeling spots.

The USAT Liberty Wreck: Just North of Amed, Tulamben is the jewel in the crown eastern Bali's dive industry. It's the site of the wreck of the USAT Liberty, an American supply boat torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943.

Sidemen: A dreamlike village hidden within the velvet green rice terraces of the Sidemen Valley. Sideman is a haven for peace and introspection.

The German painter Walter Spies relocated in the village in the late 1930s to escape the commotion of the Ubud in central Bali  -a move that New Age travelers have been emulating for a few years.

They spend their time hiking, meditating, practicing yoga and attending Balinese language, painting and cooking classes, or simply immersing themselves in the rhythms of village life.

Mount Agung: At 3,142 m, Mount Aguing is the highest most active volcano in Bali. When it last erupted in 1963, rivers of lave came within meters Basikh, the island's largest temple complex. 

Balinese flock to Besakh during Galungan to pray for the victory of Dharma (good) over addharma (evil) and leave flowers, yellow rice and other traditional offerings

Pantai Pasir Putih : The beautiful Pantai Pasir Putih (White sand beach) stands in contrast to the black volcanic beaches that typify Bali's coasts.

An angel among demons. Bookended by dramatic limestone cliffs, it is a coconut lined half-moon bay and the stuff tropical-island postcards are made of.

To sum, the Indonesian isle's unspoiled side remains Creator's truly splendid exhibition.

With respectful dedications to the Students, Professors and Teachers of Indonesia.

With greater and loving dedication to all the Girl !***Students***! Thank you for the Heroism.

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Good Night & God Bless!

SAM Daily Times - the Voice of the Voiceless

Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal in China Open final

Rafael Nadal may be set to overtake Novak Djokovic and regain the world number one spot but he was beaten by his rival in the China Open final.
An inspired Djokovic won 6-3 6-4 against his Spanish opponent, who will move to the top of the men's rankings on Monday after reaching the final.
The Serb secured one break in each set on the way to victory.
Nadal failed to engineer a break point as his run of 21 matches unbeaten came to an end in Beijing.
The victory will provide some satisfaction to Djokovic, who won the China Open for a fourth time.
He started strongly to set the tone for the match by breaking Nadal's first service game to race into a 3-0 lead.
The break proved crucial as the Serb produced some impressive tennis, with the timing and depth of his strokes not allowing Nadal the chance to get his game going.
Djokovic dragged Nadal out wide with his serve and struck a powerful forehand into open space to wrap up the opening set after 35 minutes.
The start of the second set saw Djokovic immediately break the Spaniard again and he continued to hold the initiative in commanding style.
He took the following game to love and, as Nadal struggled to put pressure on his serve, went on to secure an emphatic win.

- BBC.co.uk

Headline, October06, 2013

''' ^^^ !!! FREE -CHEAP- APP ! = 

! FREE -CHEAP- INTRUSION !!! ^^^ '''

BYE-BYE Privacy:

!Government snooping is big part of the worry! . But the market demand has just gone crazy and is driving some of the biggest collectors of data. Mobile advertising is now an over $7 billion industry.

And identifying potential customers based on their personal information is the new frontier.

Year before last reports showed that free and cheap apps were capable of everything from collecting location information to images a phone is seeing. One app with image collection capabilities,  

''Tiny Flashlight'' , uses a phone's camera as a flashlight and has been installed at least over 50 million times on phones around the world. 

Tiny Flashlight's author, Bulgarian programmer Nikolay Ananiyev denies this. According to him his program does not collect the images or send them to third parties.

Then just later, news broke that a company named Carrier IQ had installed software on as many as  ''150 million phones''  that accesses users texts, call histories, Web usage an location histories without users' knowing consent. 

Carrier IQ says it does not record. store or transmit the data but uses it to measure performance

In February of the same year, Facebook,Yelp,Foursquare and Instagram apps, among others, were reporting to be uploading contact information from iPhones and iPads 

The software makers told the blog VentureBeat that they only use the contact information when propmpted by users. ''No app is free,'' says one senior executive at a phone carrier.''You pay for them with your privacy.''

Many consumers are happy to do so, an so far there hasn't been much actual damage!!?, at least not that private advocates can sharply point to. The question is where to draw the line. For instance, half of smart      phone users make banking transactions via their mobile device.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has brought 40 enforcement cases in recent years against companies for improperly storing customers' private information.

Law enforcement is subject some oversight. Absent an emergency, prosecutors and police must convince a judge that the cell information they are seeking from wireless companies is material to a criminal case under investigation. 

An unusual alliance between liberals and conservatives is pushing a bill to impose the same requirements for cell tracking data as those that are in place when cops want to get a warrant to search a house.

Another bill would increase restrictions on what app writers can do with personal info. Cases moving through the courts may limit what law enforcement can do with GPS tracking.

Tech companies since long have been trying to get a handle on the issue. Apple has a single customer privacy policy. Google posts the permission that consumers give each app to operate their phones hardware and software, including authorization to access camera and audio feeds and pass on locations or contact info.

The rush to keep up with technology will only get harder: the next surge in surveillance is text messaging. Industry experts say, as companies and cops look for new ways to tap technology for their own purposes.

But then do think hope? Last Pass Premium Security consolidates multiple passwords into the Master key for your computer and smartphone. And Google's Chrome has an ''incognito'' mode, and when you are done, your browsing history and cookies self destrcuct.

Or so we think?!!

With respectful dedication to the Students of the World.

See Ya all on the World Students Society Computers-Internet-Wireless:

''' !!!The Grand Vision ^^^ '''

Good Night & God Bless!

SAM Daily Times - the Voice of the Voiceless

Man Becomes 'World's First Trillionaire'?

What would you do with a trillion bucks? That's the question Texas resident Reggie Theus faced on Wednesday when he checked his bank account and found that his balance was well over $4 trillion.

Unfortunately, the balance, which would have made Theus the world's first trillionaire, was a mistake, according to local news station KLTV.

"I was definitely surprised when I looked in my account and saw that much money in there," Theus told KLTV.

Though Theus won't get to keep the cash, he told KLTV that he would have used it to help pay off the national debt.

Oddly enough, Molly Layes, of Fort Smith, Ariz., noticed a similar mistake on her BankCorp South statement earlier this week, according to 5 News Online.

BankCorp South communications executive Randy Burchfield confirmed to The Huffington Post that its online banking system had been experiencing some technical glitches.

"BancorpSouth online banking customers' deposit account balances reflected overstated balance totals for a short period of time Wednesday morning before being corrected," Burchfield wrote in an email.

Banking errors like these are not unheard of. Daily Finance points out that an Indian man, Parijat Saha, discovered $9.8 billion in his bank account, which was the result of a glitch.

- huffingtonpost.com

1 In 3 Black Males Will Go To Prison In Their Lifetime, Report Warns

One in every three black males born today can expect to go to prison at some point in their life, compared with one in every six Latino males, and one in every 17 white males, if current incarceration trends continue.

These are among the many pieces of evidence cited by the Sentencing Project, a Washington, D.C.-based group that advocates for prison reform, in a report on the staggering racial disparities that permeate the American criminal justice system.

The report was submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Committee this week in advance of the U.N.’s review of American compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights later this month. It argues that racial disparity pervades “every stage of the United States criminal justice system, from arrest to trial to sentencing.”