Wednesday, November 28, 2012

PeterPan Musical in Kuwait

The magical musical of the boy who didn’t want to grow up. He takes Wendy and her brothers to Neverland to evil Captain Hook and his pirates, the Injun chief, Tiger Lily and the Lost Boys with his naughty fairy Tink. 
Performed by One World actors. Very limited seating. Their target is 5,000 KD for BACCH! With the box office at BACCH and every ticket stamped by the ministry you can guarantee every dinar gets to where it should. 



Tickets Cost 10 KWD.

Contact peterpanatbacch@gmail.com.
One World (theatrical company) was last seen performing A Midsummer Night's Dream and Titanic at the British Embassy.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Adorable video of kitten giving his feline friend the purrfect massage


Kneading those tiny paws in and out of a feline friend's backside, this adorable video captures a cat giving another cat a message.
Stretching out, the white and black cat flicks his tail with pleasure as his friend gets to work on his lower back, pushing every little claw into his thick coat.
The striped black and brown masseuse takes a few moments to turn and look at his friend's reaction to his efforts, before lazily sliding its paws toward his belly.



Sunday, November 25, 2012

Kim Kardashian Coming to Kuwait on November 28th 2012

According to news Kim Kardashian is coming to Kuwait this Wednesday November 28th 2012 for the inauguration of the Millions of Milkshakes at the Avenues Phase III. The inauguration will be on November 29th (Thursday) 2012.
On the 30th she will  be having V.I.P Dinner at LeNotre and also she might be visiting 52 Degrees at Tilal Complex in Kuwait.
She will leave for Bahrain on December 1st. According to her official Video she seems very exited about the visit to Kuwait and she wishes to meet all the people.
Check out the official video below




Currently Mark from 248am is having a competition for Kim Kardashian meet and greet Giveaway based on the question "What would you ask Kim Kardashian if you could ask her just one question? "

These tickets will allow you to meet Kim Kardashian at Millions of Milkshakes during the opening as well as take pictures with her.The normal price for the Meet and Greet Ticket is 350 KWD !!!


You can check it out in this link Kim Kardashian meet & greet giveaway



Thursday, November 22, 2012

Beware the cash trap! Claw-like devices inserted into ATM slots can steal notes in latest hole-in-the-wall scam


Most bank account holders have heard of card skimmers, the insidious devices that steal your details from inside a cash machine.
Now, however, there is another danger to watch out for at the hole-in-the-wall - the 'cash trap'.
The simple, claw-like implement sits inside the slot that dispenses notes and grabs hold of customers' money until the thief returns to collect the loot.
Invisible crime: Claw-like cash trap devices, which are inserted into ATMs to grab cash before it can be dispensed to the customer
Invisible crime: Claw-like cash trap devices, which are inserted into ATMs to grab cash before it can be dispensed to the customer
Rife: The simple contraptions inserted into cash-dispensing slots have been spotted in Lincolnshire and across Europe
Rife: The simple contraptions inserted into cash-dispensing slots have been spotted in Lincolnshire and across Europe

The devices have been used at cash points across Britain, with 2,479 reported cases in the first half of 2012.
Fraud losses through cash trapping and other ATM scams across the UK came to £29.3million last year, according to Financial Fraud Action UK, although this is said to be dropping since chip and pin was introduced in 2004.


Such scams are already rife across Europe. Thieves stole more than a million euros from French cash machines this year using devices that prop open note-dispensing slots, according to security experts.
Police have warned account holders to be vigilant, but many devices are impossible to spot.
Some are designed to look like part of the machine and attached to the front, and others - such as the claw - are completely hidden inside the ATM.
This can mean that customers remain unaware of the problem and simply assume there is a fault with the ATM, failing to report the crime.
Jaws: cash trapping device is shown removed from the machine. Police have warned customers to look out for anything unusual at ATMs
Jaws: cash trapping device is shown removed from the machine. Police have warned customers to look out for anything unusual at ATMs

The European ATM Security Team advises customers to immediately report all incidents to the bank.
In August, Lincolnshire Police issued a warning to cash machine users after fraudsters tampered with three machines in Spilsby and Louth, pocketing hundreds of pounds from one transaction.
Officers warned anyone who spots anything unusual on an ATM, finds a device or notices part of the machine falling off to contact the police as soon as possible. 

A SERIES OF SCAMS

The tricks used to steal money from bank accounts are sophisticated, varied and widely used. Here is how they have developed:
Spring traps: Once a card has been inserted, these prevent it from being returned to the customer and stop the ATM from retracting it.
Cash traps: Claw-like implements are inserted into cash-dispensing slot to 'capture or skim some of the dispensed bills'.
Jammers: An oversized fork-like device is jammed into the cash dispenser slot to keep it open following a normal ATM transaction.
Skimmers: Thieves lift the data from cards through handheld skimmers or via magnetic strip readers. The data can then be re-encoded on to blank cards and used at ATM along with victim’s PIN to withdraw cash.
Transaction reversal fraud: Involves 'tricking' ATM into not debiting some of the cash that has been taken or manipulating the ATM to pay more than the balance available. Can be done via clips or fingers or by removing some notes so machine does not realise it has dispensed them. 
A spokesperson for the force said: 'Unfortunately, there was insufficient forensic and CCTV evidence [in Louth] to progress the investigation and no arrests were made.  
'The Spilsby incidents related to ATMs possibly being tampered with and no actual thefts occurred.  
'The banks don’t always notify police in these cases if no crime has taken place and their own fraud departments investigate the matter.
'ATM tampering is obviously a nationwide issue and we work with the banks to raise awareness and educate the public about how to protect themselves from fraud and what things to be on the lookout for.'
Most of the crimes apparently take place outside of normal banking hours.
A spokesperson for EAST said: 'The criminals operate by cash being collected by a customer. As far as a customer is concerned everything can be going fine with their transaction and the receipt - if they get one - can say "£20 taken out", but they've got no money.
'The cash trap is normally placed across the front of the cash dispensing slot, either with adhesive or a spring. The claw is one variant, which is placed inside machine and is a little more sophisticated.
'The criminals make one transaction and insert the device while the slot is open.
'We saw a significant increase in these attacks in 2011, with 15 European countries reporting such crimes, and a surge in the second half of the year.
'The success of chip and pin seems to be driving criminals from high-tech card skimming to low-tech techniques such as cash trapping.
'This can be combined with other ways of manipulating the ATM.'
It is estimated that in the first six months of 2004, more than £40.5million was fraudulently taken from customers' accounts using card skimming in London and the South-East alone.
In March 2005, Dover-based Kenneth Mennie had £1,500 stolen from his Lloyds TSB current account after his debit card was copied and used in Thailand.
Four months later, five Romanians stole up to £1.2m by sticking false fronts to ATMs across London to skim unwitting customers' cards and film their PIN numbers being entered.
A laptop found at the gang's safe house contained details of 1,236 bank cards.
It is believed most of the cash was channelled to Romania in a 'fruitful and sophisticated fraud'.
Helping themselves: Thieves stole more than a million Euros from French cash machines this year using a similar technique, pictured, in which cash-dispensing slots are propped open after normal transactions
Helping themselves: Thieves stole more than a million Euros from French cash machines this year using a similar technique, pictured, in which cash-dispensing slots are propped open after normal transactions

Since the advent of chip and pin, however, cash traps may be the most worrying trend, because they are simple, cheap and spreading fast.
Earlier this year, industry experts reported on the danger of 'robbing by radiowave' - in which thieves access 'contactless' cardholders' details simply by walking past them in the street and activating a handheld machine.
A spokesperson for Vocalink told MailOnline they had seen a move back to more traditional methods of fraud such as shoulder surfing since chip and pin came in.
Cardholders who are given a contactless card when their old one expires can unknowingly surrender their details to a thief by simply walking past them in the street.
The technology in the card, known as radio frequency identification (RFID), transmits bank details via its own radio signal, and is accepted in many High Street chains, including Co-op, Boots and Pret-a-Manger.
Lucrative scam: A simple fork, pictured, can be placed inside the machine to hold it open after customers have left
Lucrative scam: A simple fork, pictured, can be placed inside the machine to hold it open after customers have left

It does away with the need for a customer inputting their PIN when buying goods, and was designed to reduce queues at the checkout.
However, a fraudster with a contactless cardreader can easily collect the 16-digit credit card number, expiry date and  name – known as RFID skimming – from anyone who walks past carrying one of the new cards.
They then have enough information to rack up huge bills at any internet shopping site that does not demand the three-digit security code on the back of the card.
David Maxwell, a former policeman and director of RFIDprotect, a firm which specialises in protection against card fraud, said: ‘It has been a big problem in America for a while and is getting to be a big problem over here.’
Cards can be protected from RFID skimmers by being wrapped in tin foil or being kept in special foil-lined wallets.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Miracle baby born with heart that beat OUTSIDE her body now recovering after life-saving surgery

A baby girl who was born with her small heart beating outside of her body is now remarkably recovering after a revolutionary surgery saved her life.
Audrina Cardenas was born with a rare congenital disease where her heart formed outside the chest; though the disease affects only one in eight million, 90 percent of infants with the condition are stillborn or die within days of their birth.
But after hours of complicated surgery at the Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Audrina is recovering, and her mother Ashley couldn’t be more thankful.


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Miracle: Audrina Cardenas, who suffers from a rare congenital heart condition that caused her to be born with her heart outside of her body is recovering after surgery
Overjoyed: New mother Ashley Cardenas, center, looks at her daughter Audrina after the successful surgery
Overjoyed: New mother Ashley Cardenas, center, looks at her daughter Audrina after the successful surgery

Audrina had ectopia cordis, causing her heart to be located outside of the body. Incredible video taken during the surgery shows it beating at a steady pace.
Her mother found out about her daughter’s life-threatening condition at a routine check-up at 16 weeks. 

    Ms Cardenas said she was given three options, each of them difficult in their own right –abort the baby, carry her to term knowing she would die shortly thereafter, or have doctors construct a hole in her unborn baby’s chest to make room for the heart.
    She told the Houston Chronicle that her choice to have her newborn daughter operated on was incredibly difficult. ‘You’ll never know what it feels like to make that decision until you’re faced with it,’ she said.
    Modern medicine: Doctors at Texas Children's were able to successfully place the newborn's heart back into her chest during a six-hour surgery
    Modern medicine: Doctors at Texas Children's were able to successfully place the newborn's heart back into her chest during a six-hour surgery
    Discovery: The mother first found out about her daughter's potentially-deadly condition during a routine ultrasound at 16 weeks
    Discovery: The mother first found out about her daughter's potentially-deadly condition during a routine ultrasound at 16 weeks

    Monday, November 5, 2012

    'Transparent' car which projects outside world on interior is developed to help drivers with parking


    James Bond once drove an invisible car in a high-speed car race across a frozen lake.
    Now a car akin to the remarkable vehicle could soon be driven for real.
    A ‘transparent' vehicle that projects the outside world on its interior has been developed by Japanese researchers. 
    James Bond drives the car which can be made invisible in Die Another Day - a vehicle akin to the 'transparent' car that is being developed
    James Bond drives the car which can be made invisible in Die Another Day - a vehicle akin to the 'transparent' car that is being developed

    It is being designed in Tokyo to help drivers with parking, projecting a panoramic view of the area behind the car onto the rear seats.
    The view would include children, animals, or objects such as bollards that may be invisible below the rear window.
    Drivers who struggle to parallel park may find this invention particularly useful.

    The car appears transparent from the inside, allowing drivers to 'see through' the rear bodywork.
    In the James Bond film Die Another Day, the spy's Aston Martin Vanquish is made invisible by replicating the background using a light-emitting polymer skin.
    The feature, accompanied with automatic guns that popup from the bonnet cooling vents and spikes on the tyres, proves very useful during a chase with a Jaguar XK-R on the frozen lakes of Iceland.
    But this real device is a little less advanced.
    The way it works is two cameras on the boot lid capture a full view of the scene behind the car.
    The car appears transparent from the inside, allowing drivers to 'see through' the rear bodywork (pictured is the race scene in the Bond film)
    The car appears transparent from the inside, allowing drivers to 'see through' the rear bodywork (pictured is the race scene in the Bond film)

    The Sunday Times reports that the images are combined by computer and reflected onto the seats to create the illusion that the back of the car is transparent when looked at from the driver's seat.
    Masahiko Inami, from Tokyo's Keio University, said, as reported in the newspaper: 'The driver will feel like he's driving a glass car.'
    Mr Inami works at the university where the technology was developed and fitted to a Toyota Prius.
    A Japanese car manufacturer is said to be already working with the laboratory to put the technology into production.
    Other ideas being developed by researchers include making other parts of the car transparent.
    This encompasses a prototype transparent door that would enable lorry drivers to see if a cyclist pulled up alongside them at a junction.
    This could potentially prove extremely useful in reducing road deaths.
    Research last year by Accident Exchange found that 200,000 accidents are caused by reversing vehicles each year in the UK, with the majority of them being the fault of the driver who was travelling backwards.