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Published November 10, 2014

MOSCOW The Kremlin-funded Russia Today media group has launched an international news service that it claims will fight the "propaganda" of other news media.

The service started Monday, called Sputnik, will have bureaus in more than 30 countries and send its news to local audiences by radio stations, websites and social media.

The launch underlines Russia's consistent complaints that world news media are biased against the country. In a major speech last month, President Vladimir Putin bemoaned what he called "total control of global media (that) has made it possible to when desired to portray white as black."

Russia Today chief Dmitry Kiselyov says "we are against aggressive propaganda ... this can only result in bloodshed."

Russia Today also includes the RIA-Novosti news agency and the satellite TV channel RT.

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Cable operator Virgin Media has issued a brief apology after an unspecified number of their customers suffered problems accessing websites due to a fault with the ISPs Web Safe (Parental Control) service, which uses network-level filtering to block potentially age-inappropriate websites from the eyes of children.

The Government requires that all of the countrys largest broadband ISPs offer customers an enforced option about whether or not to enable similar network-level filtering solutions and the majority of subscribers generally choose not to use it.

But in this case even those whom had specifically elected not to enable Virgin Medias Web Safe service were also suddenly finding their access being obstructed due to an unusual fault with the same system, with the first angry reports coming in at around 5-6pm on Saturday (8th Nov 2014).

Customers complained that their attempts to browse various websites were instead being forwarded by the providers DNS servers to https://websafe.virginmedia.com/select?originalURL= (i.e. the ISPs Web Safe filtering system), which then promptly returned an SSL error (Secure Connection Failed). The problem appeared to affect websites sporadically, with some like Google and Facebook working fine and most others throwing up the error.

Furthermore customers who called Virgin Media to complain were initially greeted by an automated message that simply advised them to reboot their routers, which obviously didnt work because the problem was at the ISPs end. The ISP eventually coughed up to the issue at around 8pm (here) and it wasfinally resolved by early Sunday morning.

A Virgin Media support agent said:

Im pleased to confirm that this was fixed last night.

Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience caused.

Virgin Medias WebSafe filter is DNS based and so the ISPs more informed customers were able to work around the problem by swapping to different Domain Name Servers, such as OpenDNS or Googles own Public DNS. People who already use one of the non-ISP DNS alternatives were naturally not affected by the providers fault.

One interesting outcome of the recent problems is how some subscribers have informed ISPreview.co.uk that they will no longer be using Web Safe.

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Virgin Medias Censorship Tool Bodges UK Customers Internet Traffic

A jurys failure to convict George Zimmerman sparked a wave of black youth activism not unlike the awakening after the beating of Rodney King. What now? Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP

Black lives matter? Its tough to keep saying something like that to shout it in anything but protest with this impending reality: At some point in the next few days, its likely that Darren Wilson will not be indicted, by the US justice department or the state of Missouri, for the extrajudicial killing of Michael Brown an 18-year-old unarmed black man in Ferguson, in broad daylight, three long months ago.

It is at once horrific and predictable that a law enforcement officer may never have to answer for his crimes in criminal court, that his life will remained buttressed by the power of a blue wall as more black people are shot dead in America simply for existing, and by secret online donations from supporters with names like Jim Crow who applaud him for taking out the trash, like George Zimmerman and so many others before him.

But to understand a non-indictment in Ferguson as simply par for the course in the United States case is not to say that Browns life is unworthy of defending, nor that his death and its international aftermath are unworthy of redress. This reality check simply locates another officer in the context of the white supremacist law-enforcement apparatus that defends him in lieu of protecting its (black) citizens, that operates with impunity. And for the rest of us to view black life as worthy of defending, to unequivocally repeat that black lives matter in a world that insists otherwise, is a radical act if a tiresome one.

The hard truth about no justice for Mike Brown is that we must reassess our standards for justice to create a kind of peace for his family, for Ferguson, and for those of whose anger and grief emerge anew each time a black life is taken without consequence.

With the Missouri grand jury expected to announce its decision as early as mid-November, Ferguson community members are preparing a response and asking that they be given 48 hours notice to do so. The Dont Shoot Coalition has issued a set of 19 demands and they are, like the desire for Wilson to be indicted for a crime no one denies he committed, very modest. Especially the first demand:

The first priority be the preservation of human life.

It is a simple request, perhaps the simplest we know as humans the desire to exist freely without imminent, disproportionate threat to our lives. And yet, the weeks since Browns death have seen continued violence from the state, including the fatal, officer-involved shootings of two other young black men in nearby St Louis, Vonderrit Myers and Kajieme Powell.

The US justice system has failed to provide solutions to the problems it creates. It cannot reform a policing apparatus first conceived as a runaway slave patrol with cursory racial sensitivity training. And while outgoing US attorney general Eric Holder stressed the need for wholesale change in the Ferguson police department, his Department of Justice is limited by bureaucracy and allegiance to its own conventions. President Obamas nomination of two-time US attorney Loretta Lynch to succeed Holder may offer renewed momentum, but renewed from what? From begging for some semblance of justice? From having to stage the most influential protest on race in a generation only to see absolutely zero decrease in the level of violence faced by the black community?

That we must beg for the government to take up the mantle for victims in cases where black folks blood has been unceremoniously spilled is not without precedent: Zimmerman was not arrested for more than six weeks following the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin. The jurys failure to convict Zimmerman on murder charges sparked a wave of black youth activism that channels righteous anger and inexplicable pain into community-driven advocacy initiatives not wholly unlike the collective awakening that emerged after the 1992 beating of Rodney King.

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Beyond 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot': what if there's no indictment in Ferguson?

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Recently I've been posting on job-related topics like networking strategies and job tenure. Because my current position entails working with college students, I've been asked on numerous occasions to talk to various undergraduate groups about getting into graduate school. In fact, I'm giving one such presentation next week.

Many of the things I cover in such presentations are also broadly applicable to any situation where you are competing against a number of other applicants for a position. This includes job-hunting. I've also taught entire units on job-hunting in upper division business writing courses at the university level. Much of the advice that I give is pretty standard:

Research the position and the company

Write a cover letter and rsum that are tailored to the position

Give your references the information they need to recommend you, including a reminder of your recent accomplishments and details about the position.

One of the tips that I give always makes college students gasp in surprise and dismay -- the idea that their social media presence could impact their employability. I have to admit to being somewhat surprised and dismayed myself that this hasn't occurred to everyone. However, it is one of those things (like checking your credit report and credit score every year) that bears repeating and requires regular attention.

Social media and your professional identity

If you are like most people, your day job is your main source of income. Additionally, while you can only cut costs so far, your earning potential is theoretically unlimited. This is one of the reasons your income is so important. However, if your professional identity has been tainted by your social media presence, you could inadvertently be limiting your career and putting a cap on your earning potential.

A company's reputation is important to them, both within their industry and with their customers. Increasingly, stories are surfacing on social media that can have an impact on how companies are viewed. Employers might not want to hire someone whose credibility is already questionable, and there are even stories of individuals who have been fired after making inappropriate postings to social media sites.

Whether you would rather keep the job you have, remain eligible for a promotion, or be regarded as employable when looking for new opportunities, it is important to curate your online presence. When discussing what your job tenure says about you, I suggested that there were two types of job-hunting: offensive and defensive. Similarly, curation of your presence on social media and elsewhere online also falls into these two categories.

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Social Media Tips for Job Hunters