How Not To Be Dependant On One Woman
August 29, 2005 by Thundercat
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n3rv1 has one hell of a post over on mASF about something he calls "Dependancy." We all know how sometimes a guy can get hung up on that "one special girl," and when that happens, he ignores all other possibilities with women only to eventually find out that the girl of his desire just wants to be "friends." Well, n3rv1 offers a solution to that predicament…
n3rv1 writes:
Variation.I’m not a drug councelor or anywhere near an expert on the issue, so what I mean by "dependency" is a subtle kind of mental weakness that keeps a guy from doing things out of the ordinary, like, say, having sex with different women.
As I see it, dependency keeps a guy in his comfort zone. This is a big issue. He learns to depend on circumstances being familiar. His system can’t cope unless he is "in his element," so to speak. This inability to cope with new situations will, over time, translate into an unwillingness to ACT outside of the boundaries of what’s known and predictable.
This unwillingness to act is what I mean by "dependency."
The best cure for this is VARIATION in all senses of the meaning.
Mix it up. Keep things fresh. Engage everything. These words are purposely ambiguous.
Hovering over insignifcant details shouldn’t be allowed. Sticking to one train of thought for too long should become UNCOMFORTABLE. "New" things should no longer be seen as
"new," but "natural."I seriously think this issue and explanation is multi-applicable. I think it has to do with PU, sexual activity, probably even drug/substance use, feelings of motivation, happiness, and a whole lot of other shit that I can’t explain.
Personal, REAL LIFE examples of how I try to keep things in variation include, but are in no way limited to:
Physical Activities: Obviously sex, lifting weights, playing frisbee golf, swimming, canoeing, hiking, camping, biking, fishing, cooking outdoors, playing drums, painting, working two part-time jobs instead of one full-time job, walking as transportation, doing weird shit, etc.
Mental Activities: #1 MOST IMPORTANT: TALKING TO STRANGERS (there’s no better mental exercise for me than having quick connections with random people — it’s a dual exercise in wit and empathy, it’s not PU, it’s nothing that takes EFFORT, it’s just an overall openness and compassion for other human beings), listening to as wide a variety of music as possible, reading (philosophy, art, comparative mythology, great literary works, science magazines, psychology, PU, current affairs, history, comic books, etc) writing(***PU JOURNAL*** –> key item: keeping track of approaches and random interactions I’ve had throughout the day keeps positive experiences in my conscious sphere, making it easier for me to project positive friendly-guy vibes}, interesting-event journal, dream journal, keeping track of upcoming events, creative writing, mASF, written correspondence, chat, random thoughts jotted down on post-it notes, etc), watching movies and TV (which I don’t get enough of — with no cable access and a budget too tight for rentals or high-speed internet I’m kind of out of touch with pop culture)
The main point I’m trying to make is that it is possible to INGRAIN VARIETY into your behavior and lifestyle, not in a drastic, earth-shattering way, but in MANY realistic, subtle, yet impactful ways.
I wholeheartedly agree with n3rv1′s assessment here. It’s really foolish to latch on to just ONE woman (at least until you’re married or in a relationship). You have to keep your options open and meet lots of women. This little tactic will really help you from getting your heart broken.
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The end of Endeavour: Shuttle touches down on Earth
after final space mission
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Updated: 17:40 GMT, 1 June 2011
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Endeavour returns to Kennedy Space Center after completing Nasa’s share of construction at the ISS
Atlantis wheeled to the launch pad in front of thousands of onlookers
ahead of final shuttle mission
Space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts returned
to Earth in the early hours of this morning, bringing to an end the
penultimate mission in Nasa’s 30-year programme.
Endeavour touched down on the runway a final time under the
cover of darkness, just as Atlantis, the last shuttle bound for space, arrived at the launch
pad for the grand finale in five weeks.
Commander Mark Kelly – whose wife, Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, remained
at her rehab centre in Houston – brought Endeavour
to a stop before hundreds of onlookers that included the four
Atlantis astronauts who will take flight in July.
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Under cover of darkness: Endeavour touched down on the runway at Kennedy Space Center a final time this morning
Nearly over: The landing at 2.35am local time (7.35am GMT) brought to an end the penultimate mission in Nasa’s 30-year programme
ENDEAVOUR’S FINAL TALLY
25 flights, nearly half of them to the space station
122.8million miles
170 crew members
299 days in space
4,672 orbits of Earth
Mission control told the astonauts: ’122million miles flown during 25 challenging space-flights.
Your landing ends a vibrant legacy for this amazing
vehicle that will long be remembered. Welcome home, Endeavour.’
Commander Kelly replied: ‘It’s sad to see her land for the last time,
but she really has a great legacy.’
He thanked all those who worked on Endeavour over the
years.
The final Endeavour crew completed the U.S.
share of construction during their 16-day trip to the International Space Station.
A considerably bigger crowd had gathered a few hours earlier to see Atlantis make its way
to the launch pad, the last such trek ever by a shuttle.
Thousands of Kennedy Space Centre workers and their families lined the route last night as
Atlantis crept out of the mammoth Vehicle Assembly Building
a little after sunset, bathed in xenon lights.
Mission completed: The final Endeavour crew completed the U.S.
share of construction during their 16-day trip to the International Space Station
During their mission, Endeavour’s crew installed a $2billion cosmic
ray detector, an extension beam and a platform full of spare
parts, enough to keep the ISS operating in the shuttle-less decade ahead
Homecoming heroes: Endeavour astonauts (from left to right) Roberto Vittori,
Gregory Johnson, Mark Kelly, Michael Fincke, Greg Chamitoff and Andrew Feustel
Atlantis Commander Christopher Ferguson said, waving towards his ship: ‘We’re going to look upon this final
mission as a celebration of all that the space shuttle has accomplished over its 30-year life span.’
Bright lights also illuminated the landing strip for Kelly and
his crew, who made the 25th night landing out of a total
of 134 shuttle flights.
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The Endeavour astronauts – all experienced spacemen –
departed the 220mile-high outpost over the weekend, after adding the finishing touches.
They installed a $2billion cosmic ray detector, an extension beam and a platform
full of spare parts, enough to keep the station operating in the shuttle-less
decade ahead.
Their flight lasted 16 days and completed Nasa’s role in the space station construction effort that began 12 years ago.
Last shuttle: Atlantis approaches the launch pad after it was rolled out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center last night
Thousands of Kennedy Space Centre workers and their families lined the route as Atlantis made its way towards the launch pad
The official tally for Nasa’s youngest shuttle after 25 flights, nearly
half of them to the space station, is 122.8million miles, 170 crew members, 299 days in space and 4,672 orbits of Earth.
Kelly’s wife was shot in the head during a mass shooting in January, but made
a remarkable recovery and was able to watch the launch on May 16.
She did not travel to Florida for the landing because of the inconvenient
hour, her husband said. They will reunite in Houston on Thursday.
Ready for action: Atlantis will bring Nasa’s 30-year space shuttle programme to an end when it completes its final mission in July
Waiting to make history: The Atlantis crew (from left
to right) is Commander Chris Ferguson, pilot Doug Hurley and mission specialists
Sandy Mangus and Rex Welhiem
Night-time view: Endeavour while she was still docked at the ISS
at the weekend
Out and about: A new image of astronaut Greg Chamitoff carrying out repairs on the ISS during the
mission’s fourth spacewalk last week
An Endeavour crewmember took this image of the ISS solar array wings
intersecting the thin line of Earth’s atmosphere
Last lift-off: Endeavour blasts away from Kennedy Space Center
on May 16. She today followed Discovery into retirement.
Nasa plans to close out its 30-year-old shuttle programme with a final supply run to the ISS aboard Atlantis in July
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I always used to read post in news papers but now as I am a user of internet thus from now
I am using net for content, thanks to web.
So Christmas Day is over with all traditions swept
back into the box, stored until next year. Not the tree decorations and cards, which remain for as long as possible (albeit with a faintly superstitious feeling about Twelfth Night), but all the
activity surrounding the day.
If, like me, you have achieved an almost unchanged Christmas ritual for 66
years, you are either a) unadventurous to
a staggering degree; b) a soppy nostalgic fortunate to be indulged
in your whims by those around you; or c) too scared to discover whether you’d enjoy something else.
What would happen if we threw caution to the wind and
flew to the Caribbean to have a picnic on white sands?
Or spend the day, in pyjamas, with a jeroboam of champagne, a
tub of caviar and old movies?
The world wouldn’t stop turning, of that much I’m sure,
but such is my love for Christmas tradition that I’m too apprehensive
to find out.
From the piling of gifts under the tree on Christmas Eve to the tangerine at the bottom
of the stocking, to (my personal favourite) the silence of the London streets on Christmas morning – this is the day as I
know and love it.
But this year, for a variety of reasons, I had to give in to a change of plan.
All the above were still in place but instead of
cooking a huge feast at home for extended family and friends, we went to a restaurant – just my son, his father and
my boyfriend.
Absent was the fridge stuffed with cheese and brandy butter, the brined huge turkey à la Nigella soaking in a bucket
in the garden shed, bowls of chopped and pared carrots, parsnips, red cabbage,
and the Christmas Eve peeling of potatoes. Instead, I was slumped
on the sofa watching Funny Girl and King’s College carols on TV.
I have achieved an almost unchanged Christmas ritual for 66 years,
but this year for a variety of reasons this year, I had to give in to
a change of plan, writes ALEXANDRA SHULMAN
Instead of cooking a huge feast at home for extended family and
friends, we went to a restaurant (file photo)
Throughout Christmas Day morning, I had dramatic twinges of muscle memory reminding me of all the usual rituals
I wasn’t doing.
For example, my brain was telling me it was time to heat
the oven for the turkey, to remember to put the water on for the pudding, or make a crucial decision about whether maple syrup or honey would be best for parsnips.
Our kitchen was a strange land on a Christmas
morning with nothing to do but make a pot of coffee.
I kept expecting the doorbell to ring with new guests tumbling into
the house in a noisy mass.
In the end, I admit that going out was nice.
My son said it was wonderfully calm – read into that what you wish.
We had a table in The Park restaurant where we could watch crowds pile into Kensington Gardens for their afternoon walk.
Crackers were on the table and the menu allowed us to dump tradition if
we wished and feast on pasta, hot dogs, clam chowder and ice cream sundaes.
We chatted to other families, who, like me, all felt
they needed to offer an explanation for their presence.
It was as if everyone believed it was slightly the wrong thing to be doing.
And then we went back to a house with no washing-up, but presents to explore.
But I’ll tell you what. It just wasn’t what I call Christmas.
Purple reigns (but not in a good way)
Like many people, I did some Boxing Day shopping from my bed.
Not that I really needed anything. I have been supremely spoilt on the gift front but
that didn’t mean I’d pass up the opportunity to buy a reduced-price Nutribullet
and a pair of purple John Lewis joggers that suddenly seemed to be a must-have.
They are entirely unnecessary but will team with the
purple
knitted hat my ex-husband gave me and I will look like the walking illustration of the most irritating poem in the English language: ‘When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple.’
Brands that warrant my seal of approval
Cadbury’s loss of its Royal Warrant is big news. But
the list of those firms which made the grade is a comforting
reminder of an unchanging Britain – Kent bristle hairbrushes, Bendicks chocolate, Peter Reed bed linen, Weetabix
and Jeeves of Belgravia dry cleaners.
Reading the list is like a lolling in a warm bath, but spare a thought for those who have lost their cherished
status, such as Boots, Schweppes, Elizabeth Arden and,
surprisingly, Angostura bitters. Are they really knocking up G&Ts in Sandringham without
Angostura?
In the same spirit, I have drawn up my own list of ‘By Appointment to the House of Shulman’ warrants.
Rose’s lime juice cordial (no other brand is acceptable), Badedas Original bath gelee, Brillo pads, Smythson stationery, M&S and
Fortnum & Mason would be surefire appointees.
Almost all of these are brands, but if Queen Camilla can include her loyal hairdresser
Jo Hansford in the royal list, I’d like to add mine, George Northwood.
He would look truly dashing with a coat of arms on his T-shirt.
A cheeky gift… or sexual harassment?
Back when I was single and working on a newspaper, a male colleague
and friend gave me a pair of red lace knickers as a Christmas present.
I’d never owned a pair of red lace knickers before and didn’t much like them but took the gift in my stride,
so to speak. For weeks, colleagues jovially compared the gift
with the one the man had given his girlfriend – a saucepan.
Today, would that be logged as unwelcome sexual behaviour?
Beyonce and her secret girl power
Beyonce performs with her daughter Blue Ivy at an American football
game between Baltimore Ravens and Houston Texans on Christmas Day
Beyonce and her young daughter Blue Ivy performed together at
an American football game in Houston on Christmas Day.
Both were in the full country regalia of white stetsons,
sequins and chaps.
Blue Ivy must be the only 12-year-old in the world prepared to dance with their mum, togged up in the
same clothes.
Most girls her age will do anything to escape the mortification of looking like their mother, let alone dance with her.
What’s Beyonce’s secret?
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Hip hoop hooray! Basketball fans catapult themselves into the record books with
incredible medieval-style long shot
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The Legendary Shots are a group of basketball fans who go to great lengths to
get the ball in the net – literally.
The Alabama friends recently scored a basket from around 150
feet – potentially a new world record – but it was actually the method
of the shot that pleased them more than the distance.
The nine-strong gang built a wooden catapult which they used to
fire the ball across a street and through the rim.
See the video below…
Long shot: The nine-strong gang built a wooden catapult which they used
to fire the ball across a street and through the rim
Sky’s the limit: The ball can bee seen flying through the air after being launched
It took them most of the winter to draw up plans
for the catapult after seeing one on YouTube, and
then make good on the blueprints by building it.
It cost around $300 to build and is powered
by a pair of 110-pound springs, according to Yahoo!
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They decorated it with their own Legendary Shots logo but despite the hard work it
turned out that the catapult was more scattershot than supershot.
In the hoop: From another angle the boys watch with eager
anticipation to see if their invention has worked
With the ball hardly ever getting within two feet of the rim, it took them six Saturdays
- shooting the ball over and over for around seven hours a day – before they struck
lucky.
And there was luck involved. In the video below there are audible groans from the group as the shot
initially misses again – only for the group to celebrate wildly when the ball bounces up
and into the basket.
The group comprises Evan, Jeffrey, Grant, William, Chase, Bryan, Alex – the team member credited with making the
slingshot score – and Carson Stalnaker, in whose back
garden the video was shot.
More than a three-pointer: They go berserk when they see the ball
drop seamlessly into the net from 150ft
Their reaction to the success shows they consider it their biggest hit to
date, a none too considerable feat from a team which has previously made
videos of themselves scoring with shots from a moving rollercoaster, a reverse
bungee ride and a hot air balloon.
‘We’re The Legendary Shots, and we make amazing basketball trick shots for you to watch,’ says the group on its YouTube profile page.
The group, which has been used in TV adverts in the U.S., may
even want to put themselves forward to the Guinness Book of
World Records.
The longest successful basketball shot recorded by the body was measured 104ft 7ins.
It was made by Elan Buller at Campbell Hall Elementary School in North Hollywood,
California, on February 16, 2011.
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There’s a common misconception that women over the age of 50 should cut their
hair short, but nothing could be further from the truth.
Just take a look at some of your favourite celebrities – they are proving women of all
ages can rock pretty much any hairstyle. All you need is some
good inspiration, an appointment at a trustworthy
salon, and the right tools and products to recreate the look at home.
With that in mind, we asked the pros at Jo Hansford for a list
of the most flattering celebrity hairstyles for women over 50.
So keep scrolling…
Sharp bob
Cate Blanchett
Everyone loves a classic bob, including Cate Blanchett.
It’s a versatile, timeless and fail-safe choice for women over 50, which exudes elegance and confidence.
That being said, Daniel Balbes, Senior Stylist at
Jo Hansford, warns it is quite high-maintenance.
‘‘A sharp bob requires a lot of precision cutting to even out those straight, blunt edges.’
Medium-length, soft layers
Cindy Crawford
Soft layers are a great way to switch up your look without making a drastic change.
‘The subtle haircut will add movement and texture,’ says Balbes, ‘while the classic 90s blow-dry will leave you feeling fabulous.’
To recreate the bounciness of Cindy Crawford’s soft, layered haircut: ‘Use a good volume spray to help achieve body, alongside a good quality bristle brush.’
Soft bob
Halle Berry
The soft bob suits all hair types. ‘It’s a fabulous alternative to the sharp bob,
‘ reasons Frankie Moody, Senior Stylist at Jo Hansford.
‘I like to leave the length just below the chin – it’s chic and
not as severe as a jaw-length bob.’
She cites Halle Berry as a gorgeous example of how having a soft bob with textured, curly hair in your fifties can ooze sophistication and confidence.
‘The waves add softness and create a more feminine look.’
To achieve the perfect tousled wave, Moody recommends using a
small curling wand and wrapping the hair in alternative directions.
Forward graduation
Tess Daley
The combination of soft layers and face-framing graduation à la Tess Daley is an elegant choice for women over 50, even if you have thin hair.
‘Extensions are a great addition to add thickness and shape without making the hair
look thin and wispy,’ says Moody. ‘To enhance the
cut, finish with a smooth blow-dry.’
Side-parted bob
Hannah Waddingham
Hannah Waddingham’s take on the bob is the perfect example of how impactful even the
most subtle change to a haircut can be. ‘Adding a deep side parting and sweeping fringe
adds softness to the forehead area, while the subtle layering creates movement and a flattering shape to enhance
her features,’ explains Moody.
To get the look, use rollers to achieve bounce and body in the hair.
Shaggy layers
Jennifer Lopez
Michaela Galvin, Senior Stylist at Jo Hansford,
says a layered haircut with a soft fringe
is the ultimate accessory for over 50s. ‘The fringe will create
a subtle statement and soften the face,’ she reasons.
‘Jennifer Lopez regularly rocks this style and always looks fierce.’
To embrace J-Lo’s wavy take on shaggy layers, Galvin suggests using a big curling
wand to create movement, as well as a salt spray to finish.
Long, bouncy layers
Sofia Vergara
When in doubt, blow it out. As Sofia Vergara proves, there’s no
haircut more flattering for women in their 50s than long, bouncy layers that have been given the ‘soft
Hollywood’ treatment. ‘You’ll feel like a million dollars,’ says Galvin. She recommends blow-drying
your hair straight, before using a straightener to achieve these tousled waves.
Pixie cut
Kris Jenner
If you want to go short, a textured pixie cut is the way to go as it enhances your
cheekbones. ‘This haircut is the definition of striking, unique and sassy – everything a woman in her
50s should be,’ says Galvin. ‘It’s Kris Jenner’s signature style and we all agree she looks fabulous in her 60s.’ To
recreate her messy, textured look, using a hair paste is key.
Full-body bob
Lucy Liu
Another spin on the classic haircut, ‘the full-body bob will give your face a lift, as well as
make your hair appear thicker and fuller,’ says Galvin. Keep it effortless and sleek like Lucy Liu, and amp up the
volume using a volume spray to help enhance the body in your hair.
Androgynous undercut
Tilda Swinton
It takes a powerful and strong individual to pull
off the androgynous undercut à la Tilda Swinton,
but it’s the perfect haircut for anyone with a strong jawline.
‘It’s bold, edgy and eye-catching,’ says Galvin. Finding
a volume powder that works, is key to maintaining this hairstyle.
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Egypt’s security forces disperse small protests against Sisi
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CAIRO, April 25 (Reuters) – Egyptian security forces used tear gas to disperse small protests against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
on Monday, witnesses said, deterring what opposition groups expected to
be a day of large demonstrations against his rule.
Earlier this month, thousands of Egyptians angered by Sisi’s decision to hand over two
islands to Saudi Arabia called for his government to fall in the largest demonstration since
the former military general took office in 2014.
Security forces moved swiftly on Monday to prevent this scenario from repeating, blocking roads in Cairo leading to
a popular downtown meeting point and dispersing a march in the Dokki neighbourhood with
tear gas as it took off, a witness said.
Videos and pictures posted on social media also showed that teargas was used at a small protest in the Imbaba district.
Jets and helicopters were circling over Cairo.
Police in recent days have arrested over 90 people across eight governorates, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a Cairo-based human rights group.
Groups of youth were arrested from coffee
shops and others targeted in their homes, it said.
The ministry of interior was not immediately available for
comment.
On Sunday, Interior Minister Magdi Abdel Ghaffar said there would be no leniency against any “any attempts to destabilise national security and any vital public or police facilities”.
Monday’s protests, which coincide with a national holiday celebrating the Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula in 1982, come as
Sisi faces mounting criticism for a government accord putting the uninhabited Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir in Saudi waters.
Saudi and Egyptian officials say the islands belong to the kingdom across the Red Sea and were only under Egyptian control because Riyadh had asked
Cairo in 1950 to protect them.
Popular backlash to the decision evolved into
broader opposition against Sisi and his government earlier this month, when protests carrying the 2011-era chant “down with military rule” spilled into the streets of downtown Cairo.
(Reporting by Cairo bureau; Editing by Ulf Laessing and
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Felicity Jones commanded attention in a dazzling silver Prada gown as she walked the star-studded red carpet
at the 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night.
The actress, 41, looked sensational in the Prada sleeveless figure hugging number, which
boasted an eye catching floral embellished detailing.
Felicity showed off her amazing figure as she posed for photos ahead of the awards ceremony, which was held at
the Beverly Hilton.
Styling her long brunette tresses in an up do, the Chalet Girl star accessorised with a
simple pair of stud earrings.
She wore a glamorous palette of makeup for the night after using the LYMA laser
to prep her skin for the star-studded event.
Felicity was joined during the evening by her husband Charles Guard, who cut a dapper figure in a black tuxedo.
Felicity Jones commanded attention in a dazzling Prada
silver gown as she walked the star-studded red carpet at the 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night
The actress, 41, looked sensational in the sleeveless figure hugging number which boasted an eye catching floral embellished detailing
During the evening, Felicity missed out on Best Supporting
Actress in a Musical or Comedy for her role in The Brutalist with
Zoe Saldaña taking home the gong for Emilia
Pérez.
However, the British stars latest film The Brutalist did pick up Best Drama
Film, Best Director and her co-star Adrien Brody won Best Actor.
The Brutalist is a post-war epic about a Holocaust survivor attempting
to rebuild a life in America.
Director Brady Corbet said at the festival: ‘The film is about the physical manifestation of the trauma of the 20th century.
It’s dedicated to the artists that didn’t get to realise their
vision.’
Inspired by the Jean-Louis Cohen’s book Architecture in Uniform, the film starring Adrien Brody as a Hungarian architect will have its world premiere on Sunday.
Spanning decades, The Brutalist tells the story of László Tóth
and his attempts to pursue his art after the war in America.
Adrien Brody plays Tóth, and Felicity his wife, Erzsébet.
He lives in near-poverty until a wealthy industrialist, Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce), gives him an important
contract. Joe and Alessandro Nivola also star.
The event was hosted by Nikki Glaser and was certainly a
night to remember, as it contained everything from a joke about jailed rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to an actress who almost flashed the audience.
It was filled with controversial comments, unexpected wins, a shocking engagement rumour – and
a moving tribute to Aubrey Plaza, whose husband Jeff Baena, died by suicide on Friday at age 47.
She showed off her amazing figure as she posed for photos
ahead of the awards held at the Beverly Hilton
Styling her long brunette tresses in a neat up do,
the Chalet Girl star accessorised with a simple pair of stud earrings and wore a glamorous palette of makeup
Felicity was joined during the evening by her husband Charles
Guard who cut a dapper figure in a black tuxedo
During the evening, Felicity missed out on Best Supporting Actress in a Musical or
Comedy for her role in The Brutalist with Zoe Saldaña taking home the gong for Emilia Pérez
However, the British stars latest film The Brutalist did pick
up Best Drama Film, Best Director and her co-star Adrien Brody (L)
won Best Actor; pictured with Guy Pearce
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The show kicked off with host Nikki delivering a brutal monologue that contained digs at Timothee Chalamet and the cast of the Joker sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux.
She also made a quip about disgraced rapper Diddy – and social media was not pleased with her comment.
Things only got more awkward when Baby Reindeer star Jessica Gunning
headed to the stage to accept an award and narrowly
avoided accidentally exposing herself to the audience.
In addition, Jodie Foster was heckled by her fellow nominee
Sofía Vergara after she took to the stage to accept an award and Vin Diesel was accused of shading the movie Wicked due to his interesting reaction to
the film’s win.
Zendaya even sparked engagement rumours thanks to a big rock on her
finger, while another left fans concerned because of her frail appearance.
At one point, the audience became emotional after The Brutalist director Brady Corbet gave a touching tribute White Lotus star Aubrey,
who was originally supposed to present at the awards show but
was not present following the news that her husband had
passed away.
The excitement began long before the star-studded event even started, as
the red carpet had its own fair share of dramatic encounters, including a slew of bizarre and revealing outfits and
some adorable PDA from a few of Hollywood’s most coveted
couples.
While many stars wowed in daring gowns and figure-hugging frocks, some totally missed
the mark and had sartorial fails.
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Do Greens and crossbenchers who claim that transparency and integrity
is at the heart of their reason for entering Parliament in the first place hear
themselves?
In the past few days they have mounted self-serving arguments against proposed electoral reforms that the major parties look set to come together to support.
The reforms include caps for how much money wealthy individuals
can donate, caps on the amount candidates can spend in individual electorates
to prevent the equivalent of an arms race, and a $90million limit on what any party can spend at an election –
actually less than the major parties currently spend.
The proposed new laws also include lower disclosure thresholds for donations, thus increasing the
transparency of who makes political donations in the first place.
So the wealthy wont be able to hide behind anonymity while using their cash to influence election outcomes –
and the extent to which they can use their wealth at all will be limited.
The bill will further improve transparency by also increasing the speed and frequency that disclosures of
donations need to be made.
At present we have the absurd situation in which donations get made
- but you only find out the details of who has given what to whom many months later,
well after elections are won and lost.
In other words, what is broadly being proposed will result in much greater transparency and
far less big money being injected into campaigning by the wealthy.
Teal Kylea Tink claimed the major parties were ‘running scared’ with
the policy and warned the reform would ‘not stop
the rot’
Greens senate leader Larissa Waters (left) fired a warning shot – saying if it serves only the major
parties ‘it’s a rort, not reform’. Teal independent ACT
senator David Pocock (right) said: ‘What
seems to be happening is a major-party stitch-up’
Anyone donating more than $1,000 to a political party,
as opposed to $16,000 under the current rules,
will need to disclose having done so. And how much they can donate will be capped.
Yet the Greens and Teals have quickly condemned the proposed new laws, labeling
them a ‘stitch-up’, ‘outrageous’ and ‘a rort, not a reform’.
They have lost their collective minds after finding out that Labor’s proposal just might secure the support of the opposition.
I had to double check who was criticising what exactly before even starting to
write this column.
Because I had assumed – incorrectly – that these
important transparency measures stamping out the influence of the wealthy must have been proposed by the
virtue-signalling Greens or the corruption-fighting Teals, in a united crossbench effort to
drag the major parties closer to accountability.
More fool me.
The bill, designed to clean up a rotten system, is being put forward by Labor
and is opposed by a growing cabal of crossbenchers.
It makes you wonder what they have to hide. Put simply, the Greens
and Teals doth protest too much on this issue.
Labor is thought to be trying to muscle out major political donors such
as Clive Palmer
Another potential target of the laws is businessman and
Teal funder Simon Holmes à Court
The Greens have taken massive donations in the past, contrary to their irregular calls to tighten donations rules (Greens leader Adam Bandt and Senator Mehreen Faruqi are pictured)
The major parties have long complained about the influence the likes of Simon Holmes à Court wields behind the scenes amongst the Teals.
And we know the Greens have taken massive donations from the wealthy in the past, contrary to their irregular calls to tighten donations rules.
Now that tangible change has been proposed, these bastions of virtue are
running a mile from reforms that will curtail dark art of political donations.
The Labor government isn’t even seeking for these transparency
rules to take effect immediately, by the way. It won’t be
some sort of quick-paced power play before the next election designed to catch the crossbench
out.
They are aiming for implementation by 2026, giving everyone
enough time to absorb and understand the changes before preparing for them.
Don’t get me wrong, no deal has yet been done between Labor and the Coalition. I imagine the opposition want to
go over the laws with a fine tooth comb.
As they should – because it certainly isn’t beyond Labor to include hidden one-party advantages in the proposed design which
would create loopholes only the unions are capable of taking advantage of, therefore disadvantaging the Coalition electorally in the years
to come.
But short of such baked-in trickiness scuttling a deal to get these proposed laws implemented, the crossbench should offer their support, not cynical opposition, to what is being advocated for.
They might even be able to offer something worthwhile that could be incorporated in the package.
To not do so exposes their utter hypocrisy and blowhard
false commentary about being in politics to ‘clean things up’.
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Royal Mail postal workers are being told by higher-ups to ‘fake
deliveries’ so their bosses can hold onto bonuses, it is claimed.
Lower-rung employees allege they have been ordered
to record parcel deliveries as ‘inaccessible’ even if they were never attempted.
This would risk a number of parcels not coming in time for Christmas - with
packages that contain other important items also failing to
arrive
The allegations were made after several postal workers came forward, with some saying they had been asked ‘three or four times’ in the past month to comply.
The workers claimed that was a ‘culture of greed’ in the higher
ranks of the firm, with bosses eager to make the most of bonuses that can total up to £5,000-a-year.
Postal minister Justin Madders said he was ‘disturbed’ by the allegations and called for an investigation into the claims.
Royal Mail insisted the claims were ‘nonsense’ when contacted by MailOnline.
The accusations were made by postal workers who spoke anonymously to The Telegraph.
It is claimed Royal Mail postal workers are being
told by higher-ups to ‘fake deliveries’ so their bosses can hold onto
bonuses
This would risk a number of parcels not coming in time for Christmas – with
packages that contain other important items also failing to arrive
One told the publication: ‘I can’t honestly say I’d know what
would happen if I refused to do it, as I never have.
‘Obviously, it probably is unethical to do something like that, as it is
dishonest – and the customer is expecting their parcel.
I don’t feel comfortable doing it. There is a culture of greed from
the managers, and they just care about their
bonuses.’
Another added the rural area for which he
is responsible had ’30 to 40 parcels’ that there was not time to deliver at the end of the
day with workers being told to scan these as ‘inaccessible’.
This would then send a customer a message to say that
the delivery was attempted and another attempt was going to be made the following day.
The worker described this as ‘a lie’.
It comes as some customers have reported receiving said ‘inaccessible’ emails despite not hearing a knock at the door, the Telegraph reports.
A postman based in Scotland added: ‘Morale is on the floor,
there’s a high level of turnover for staff and there’s not
enough people to cover overtime.
‘The managers will ask [postal workers] to take it all out as they need to report what’s left in the building.’
He said colleagues were often pushed into emptying their
‘frame’ – in other words, all the post assigned to them on shift.
Customer operations managers are the employees alleged to be benefiting
from the practice – receiving their their mid-year bonus understood to be partly based
on hitting targets for the number of parcels that leave Royal Mail depots.
A person in the position could receive a salary ranging from £44,
500 to £49,000 and a ’10 per cent on-target bonus’, according to job adverts.
Colleagues are allegedly often pushed into emptying their ‘frame’ –
in other words, all the post assigned to them on shift
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What this means is a manager in the role could receive just under £5,000-a-year if they met all
targets while postmen would receive just £200 in two £100 bonus payments.
Kevin Hollinrake, a former Post Office minister, said: ‘It’s disgraceful.
If that’s something that is required by management, even localised management, that’s totally unacceptable.
This is something that will once again damage Royal
Mail’s reputation. In recent years, it’s failed year after year.’
Ian Smith, 67, who lives in County Durham, said he missed a number of cancer treatment appointments three years ago because Royal Mail took more than two weeks to deliver letters about
them.
Mr Smith is now waiting for a limited edition music album that his postman ‘hasn’t seen’ but has received
notification for attempted delivery.
The claims come as Royal Mail has also had its reputation blighted by various other controversies in recent times.
For example, the worst Christmas postal chaos ‘in decades’
saw the organisation hit with a record £10million fine for missing delivery targets.
Some staff blamed this on managers ordering them to ship lucrative ‘premium products’ at the expense of
important letters.
Royal Mail previously denied that this was policy but admitted this month they do so ‘at
exceptionally busy periods’. A spokesman claimed this was because packages
‘take up far more space than letters’ but insiders say it is because of
lucrative contracts.
Justin Madders, minister for postal services, said: ‘I am disturbed by these reports, and we urge the
business to investigate and address these issues
And it was announced just two days ago that Royal Mail would scrap Saturdaymadders second-class post for nearly a million households next year.
Currently Royal Mail must deliver letters six days a week to all 32million addresses in the UK under the Universal Service Obligation. But the
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RBS today admitted that it had failed to invest properly
in IT systems for decades, as customers woke up to find money
had been emptied from their accounts by a computer glitch.
Supermarket trolleys full of food were abandoned, mothers were unable to
buy milk for babies and motorists could not purchase fuel as
the error also left Britain’s shoppers high and dry last night.
On the biggest online shopping day of the year, customers of the
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group, which includes NatWest and Ulster Bank, were left unable to use their debit or credit cards.
Problem: A computer glitch at NatWest left customers unable to
use their cards or make online purchases
Chief executive Ross McEwann insisted the bank was now investing heavily in building IT systems
that its customers ‘can rely on’, adding that he was ‘sorry for the inconvenience we caused’.
On the first working day of the month and just three weeks before Christmas,
some customers found their wages had gone missing and they had gone overdrawn as direct debits
went out.
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The problem – which lasted for around three hours between 6.30pm and 9.30pm yesterday – also affected use of the bank’s cash machines,
smartphone apps and websites, on ‘Cyber Monday’.
Other customers logged on to find they were overdrawn – when there
should have been funds available in their accounts, but the bank said
this had only happened to a small number of people.
Shocked: RBS customer Rachael Horrocks, 24, pictured at her workplace
in Berkshire, found her account value was negative today, despite her
having ‘a reasonable amount of funds in there yesterday’
Mr McEwann said: ‘Last night’s systems failure was unacceptable.
CUSTOMERS COMPLAIN AT SPEED OF RBS RESPONSE
ON TWITTER
Customers complained that it took RBS and NatWest at least one hour
to alert customers to the problem via Twitter.
Once the details were made public, the banks were met with a tidal wave
of frustration and anger from people stranded
without money or turned away from tills.
Many people complained direct to the Help Twitter feeds of NatWest
and RBS.
Andy Neillans said: ‘Can’t believe it took so long to
get an announcement out. Looks like issues for last one hour plus, and this is the first info.’
And Samuel Cramer wrote: ‘I’m stuck – unable to either go
home or go where I’m meant to be going, so hurry up with it.
Switching banks first chance I get.’
‘Yesterday was a busy shopping day and far too many of our customers were let down, unable
to make purchases and withdraw cash. For decades, RBS failed to invest properly in its systems.
‘We need to put our customers’ needs at the centre of all we do.
It will take time, but we are investing heavily in building IT systems our customers can rely on. I’m sorry for the inconvenience we caused our customers.
We know we have to do better.
‘I will be outlining plans in the New Year for making RBS the bank that
our customers and the UK need it to be. This will include an outline
of where we intend to invest for the future.’
As well as anger among internet users, people complained about being caught up in long queues at supermarkets
and petrol stations as those affected struggled to find alternative payment methods.
The bank has apologised to customers across the country
who were hit by the problem. Reports of cards being declined began at 6.30pm – when many people go online to buy groceries after work.
Not in use: A mother and baby pass an out-of-order NatWest cashpoint in the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire
At 7pm, one customer reported NatWest cards being declined ‘en masse’ at a supermarket in Kent.
‘I WAS FORCED TO CANCEL MY JOB INTERVIEW BECAUSE I HAD NO MONEY TO GET THERE’
NatWest customer Natasha Lewis said her card was declined while getting petrol last
night, which caused ‘a huge lot of grief as I knew I had money in there’,
and she had to call her partner to walk up to pay for it instead.
But the 26-year-old nursery nurse from Birmingham experienced further problems this morning, being woken up by a text
message that she was overdrawn.
Since then she has had to cancel a job interview because she had no money to get
there, and was not able to reschedule it.
Ms Lewis told MailOnline: ‘I rang customer services,
to be on hold for an hour to be told I took money out which was not
in there. I explained I got paid that day and I checked my available balance first like I always do.
‘Then (the woman on the phone) told me that my money
had disappeared and there were no signs of money going
into my account yesterday. She wanted to take money out of my
savings to cover it.
‘I said “no” as it’s not my fault the money has gone, so
I shouldn’t have to pay. I had a job interview today which I’ve had to cancel as
I’ve got no access to money to get there as my partner has the car.
The bank is a joke.’
She added that she will be changing banks if the problem is
not sorted today, because she has a number of bills to come out tomorrow.
Posts on Twitter included: ‘NatWest useful banking
- really? Useless banking is more appropriate.’ Another person tweeted: ‘I’m
pleased that Natwest has crashed. No, not that.
Furious, that’s it.’
RBS customer Rachael Horrocks, 24, said: ‘Just checked
my account now this morning and my account was in minus,
when I had a reasonable amount of funds in there yesterday.
Today they just disappeared.
The freight imports co-ordinator, who works in Colnbrook, Berkshire, near
London Heathrow Airport, told MailOnline: ‘I was ringing RBS for one hour
this morning, only to be told that they don’t know when they will
be able to return services back to normal. Absolutely useless.’
She said there was around £200 in the affected account when she checked at 4pm yesterday, but found it
was showing -£65 when she woke up this morning.
Ms Horrocks added later on: ‘I have called again now and they have advised me that
people should start seeing their money back in their accounts, but mine still has not been restored.’
Another customer, Jill Gale, said she was affected last night and by the outage last year – and has finally had enough of NatWest, so switched banks this morning.
The 34-year-old from County Durham told MailOnline: ‘My
wages disappeared last year for three days and last night when I filled up my car I
couldn’t pay for my petrol.
‘Why should I carry £50 cash in my purse? Surely having my card
and ensuring I have valid funds in the account should be
enough. As it happens I had a separate Visa which I used.
‘But it is humiliating when it happens, even though the
people behind me were in the same position – and two of them didn’t have any other way
of paying.
‘Needless to say, the first thing I have done this morning is change banks.
My new bank will close my old accounts when the
switch is successful, but not without a complaint from me first.’
Meanwhile, a pilot and his crew who arrived yesterday in the
Falklands for a two-month tour found once they reached their base that
they could not use their cards when they went to a cashpoint to pay
for dinner.
The pilot’s mother Sarah Prosser told MailOnline:
‘They all had to queue up to use a phone to call home to find out what was going on and to tell families that they could not access any money.
‘Not only are the poor lads away from home for Christmas,
but they can’t buy anything either.
NatWest apologised for the glitches and told the Twitter community it was trying to resolve the situation
‘The least RBS/NatWest could do would be to fly some “Christmas cheer” down to them and
sort their accounts out as soon as possible, as a way of saying sorry.’
Q&A: WHAT SHOULD YOU DO NOW?
HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE AFFECTED?
It is believed around 750,000 people unsuccessfully tried to take out cash last night.
Many more had problems with credit or debit card payments.
And a small number of people have also found their accounts to be incorrectly overdrawn, the bank said.
CAN I CLAIM COMPENSATION FOR THIS?
RBS said it will consider claims for compensation on a ‘case-by-case’ basis and insisted that if anyone has been left out of pocket as a result of the problems, ‘we will
put this right’. But it will not reimburse people for inconvenience
or time wasted, although it has apologised for this.
If customers are unhappy with the response, they can then complain to the free Financial Ombudsman Service.
HOW DO I GET IN TOUCH WITH THE BANK?
The bank has asked everyone affected to get in touch.
It can be contacted on the freephone numbers 0800 151 0404
(NatWest), 0800 151 0405 (RBS), or 0800 046 5486 (Ulster).
I’VE BEEN SENT AN EMAIL SAYING MY SECURITY DETAILS
HAVE BEEN RESET
There is a phishing scam trying to trick customers into giving away security
details to fraudsters. Security experts are
advising people not to click on the links in any email claiming to be from the bank.
If you have concerns about this, you should call the bank
HOW CAN I SWITCH MY BANK ACCOUNT?
Switching bank accounts takes seven working days and all incoming and outgoing payments
will be moved to your new account, by your new bank, MoneySavingExpert.com said.
And NatWest customer Kim Forsdyke, 48, of Wraysbury, Berkshire, said:
‘Went to pay in a shop last night and card got declined.
Put it in the cash machine and got declined.
‘Went for a meal for my daughter’s birthday and card got declined again. This morning, went to log onto internet banking and cannot.’
Woman, 21 of Streatham, south London, said: ‘I was also unable to access my app yesterday for the times stated as well as even past 9:30pm.
‘Also, I was trying to purchase a camera from Currys which was at a reduced price as
a result of the recent Black Friday, and was unable to
as it stated that the transaction was unsuccessful. Looks like NatWest will be losing a customer.’
MailOnline reader Melissa, of Cheshire, said she was trying to buy Christmas presents
online from clothing retailer Topshop, but ‘because NatWest messed up, the transaction went through
six times even though it got declined each time – and I got charged nearly £500′.
Another reader, Keri, from Liverpool, said she was declined when trying to
buy shopping today – and then found her account was overdrawn and a £300 payment in had gone missing.
‘To try and save some embarrassment I tried to transfer money from my savings account
into my current account, only to find they had lost the hundreds made into that account online on Sunday had also gone
missing,’ she added.
‘I went straight to the bank – resulting in me not only being late
for work, but the time spent on the phone to the complaint department meant I had to request work allow me the day
off – now more out of pocket.
‘I’ve got direct debits due this week to credit cards.
Who knows whether they’ll find the missing money or how long when they do.
Worrying about my credit scoring now as well as everything else.’
Megan Clarke, 20, who went shopping last night at
the Trafford Centre in Manchester, had a fortunate escape after filling
up her car with petrol before the glitch occurred.
Trying to get money: Megan Clarke, 20, who went shopping at
the Trafford Centre in Manchester last night, described seeing a queue by a cash machine, ‘with many panic-stricken people’
She told MailOnline: ‘My card got declined three times in a
shop. I went to the cash machine and it said “unable to access account contact provider”.
A queue starting forming by the cash machine, with many panic-stricken people in need of money to get home.’
Susan Allen, director of customer solutions at RBS Group, told BBC
News today: ‘We sincerely regret the inconvenience that
customers have had. There have been some fairly horrible stories this
morning about the inconvenience and distress caused for people out
shopping yesterday evening.
‘If anybody is out of pocket, then we have made a commitment that we will make sure that everybody is put back in the right position.
‘It’s very upsetting when you hear the stories,
and I’ve talked to a number of customers and seen their stories
this morning, so I can understand the frustration and anger that people are feeling.’
She also told BBC Radio 5 Live: ‘We put all our focus on getting it fixed and we now
start the detailed work on what went wrong. We understand the
impact on our customers.
‘It is completely unacceptable that customers couldn’t access their own money.
The investigations would suggest it is completely unrelated to the volumes on Cyber Monday.’
A spokesman also told BBC Radio Four’s Today programmethat for ‘even one customer not to be able
to access their money was unacceptable’.
The problems have rekindled memories of the meltdown the
bank suffered in the summer of 2012, which
delivered days of issues.
Sale denied: Twitter users vented their frustration about the
crash
A technical glitch millions saw unable to access their
salaries in what was branded one of the biggest IT failures
at a UK bank.
‘I COULDN’T PURCHASE MILK FOR MY FOUR-WEEK-OLD BABY’
A mother said she was left without milk for her four-week-old
baby after the NatWest glitch.
Kady Pike, 25, of Basingstoke, Hampshire, told MailOnline she went to a Tesco store
last night to purchase milk for her child Ted, but her card was
declined three times.
She then went to the cashpoint outside the store only to receive the message that the machine
‘cannot process request at this time’.
Ms Pike said: ‘I have just suffered an acute cardiac arrest bought on by
a suspected clot I my lung, so my trips outside of the
house are very few and far between.
‘Seeing that my card had been declined; naturally I panicked – a) My newborn baby
needs his milk and b) What’s happened to my money?’
She then called NatWest but said the member of staff was unable to help further
than putting her through to the customer service team.
Upon calling them, she was put on hold for 10 minutes and eventually
decided to hang up. Her father later went out to buy the
milk.
She added on BBC Radio 5 Live: ‘We put all our focus on getting
it fixed and we now start the detailed work on what went wrong.
We understand the impact on our customers.
Branches were forced to open late and on a Sunday to cope with the
aftermath of millions of people unable to receive money
or pay bills.
A investigation by City regulator the Financial Conduct Authority into the outage last year is still ongoing.
Yesterday’s high profile collapse has dealt a further blow to RBS
NatWest as it tries to rebuild its reputation after that event and being forced into a taxpayer
rescue during the financial crisis.
Experts say Britain’s bank customers could face increasing technical problems due to systems creaking under the weight of new technology and increased online payments.
Banks were early adopters of IT systems when technology was still young and
still rely substantially on decades old platforms that have high levels of demand placed on them thanks to the internet age.
MoneySavingExpert.com creator Martin Lewis said: ‘People have
been left stranded and unable to get home, embarrassed in shops, and
missed out on hot deals on the biggest shopping day of
the year – all because NatWest, RBS and Ulster haven’t
got their act together.
‘This is at least the third time in the last 18 months this has happened, and while thankfully it was shorter than last summer’s almost a month-long outage for Ulster customers – it should still raise huge questions for customers.
‘Couple this not-fit-for-purpose technology with the fact its bank accounts are mostly far shy of the best-buy deals,
and many of its customers should genuinely be looking to place their custom elsewhere.’
Iain Chidgey, from data management company Delphix, told MailOnline:
‘Software glitches are becoming more and more frequent in the
banking industry. Often the cause is insufficient testing.
‘The databases in financial institutions are large and often more complex
than in other companies. IT departments provide copies of databases for testing,
but by the time a copy is available, the data itself is often old.
‘In our data-intensive world, data can be obsolete after only a couple of hours, but when refreshing just a single testing data set can takes days,
the data will never be up to date enough for risk free testing.’
And, following the technical problems, security specialist firm
Check Point today warned customers to watch out for phishing emails which appear
to have been sent by their bank.
Cash machines have been affected and one customer reported
NatWest cards being declined ‘en masse’ at a supermarket in Kent
The company’s UK managing director Keith Bird said: ‘Bank customers need to
be very careful not to click on links in emails which appear to
come from RBS, NatWest or Ulster Bank advising them about changes to account security, no
matter how authentic the email seems to be.
‘DECLINED CARD MEANT I COULDN’T BUY ANY CHRISTMAS PRESENTS’
Suresh Mekala spent more than £13 on a train ticket from
Gloucester to Bath to do some Christmas shopping.
But it was a wasted trip as the 29-year-old ended up having his NatWest card declined at several stores – and could not buy anything.
He told MailOnline: ‘I never keep cash as I use my card to pay for
all my transactions. But I had a really bad day –
I went to my favourite shops got lots of shopping but my card was
declined several times.
‘NatWest is the only bank account I have and no cash.
My trip was for nothing.
‘I couldn’t withdraw money from cash point or check my online banking.
I’m really frustrated with the bank.’
‘Attackers have jumped at this opportunity to try and trick customers affected by yesterday’s technical problems
into revealing their bank details.
‘For those attackers, it’s just a numbers game, but it
could have serious consequences for customers. Phishing
emails continue to be the most common source for social
engineering attacks.’
RBS, which is 80 per cent owned by the taxpayer after being rescued during the financial crisis,
has also been under fire over the last week over allegations that it drove distressed firms to
collapse to buy back their assets at rock-bottom prices.
Trade union Unite, which represents RBS staff, called for the bank to halt its cost cutting programme
- which has seen thousands of jobs axed and IT functions sent abroad – in the wake of the IT problems.
National officer Dominic Hook said: ‘It is unacceptable that the bank’s customers are once again facing inconvenience.
‘Unite has grave concerns that staffing challenges are exacerbating the problems facing the bank.’
Richard Lloyd, executive director of consumer group Which?, said: ‘Yet again consumers
are bearing the brunt of bank failures.
‘RBS must explain why these IT glitches keep happening and assure customers that they are doing everything to prevent it in future.
‘Banks’ IT systems are not fit for modern banking purposes,
and it’s high time the Financial Conduct Authority took action.
‘Unhappy customers should also remember it is now quicker and easier to switch banks so
they can vote with their feet.’
IT’S A FEELING OF DEJA-VU FOR MILLIONS OF NATWEST CUSTOMERS WITH CYBER MONDAY’S FIASCO BEING THE LATEST IN A LONG LINE OF GLITCHES
NatWest’s slogan is ‘helpful banking’, but that
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suffering a spate of major IT glitches recently.
In mid-2012 the technical meltdowns were so severe
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RBS, personally apologised for the issues.
The IT problems led to payments going missing, wages disappearing
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The bank kept 1,000 branches open late for one day in all major
towns and cities to help frustrated customers.
Mr Hester admitted that NatWest had let down its customers after hundreds of people vented their anger
over the issue.
The fiasco cost the bank some £175 million in compensation.
And in October 2012 the bank had to suspend a mobile phone banking App feature called GetCash, after the service was subject
to a spate of ‘phishing’ attacks by fraudsters.
The bank also had huge technical problems earlier this year when the mobile Apps
used by two million customers to access their accounts from iPhones, Android smartphones
and tablets failed.
Millions of customers were locked out of their accounts for
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Welcome to Ice City: Russia plans to build frozen community 1,000 miles from North Pole…
as race for Arctic minerals heats up
By WILL STEWART FOR MAILONLINE
Updated: 15:44 GMT, 24 October 2011
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Russia is to build an ultra-modern city on a frozen island deep inside the
Arctic Circle – in the Kremlin’s latest move to back its claim to
vast oil and gas reserves under the polar ice cap.
Named Umka, after a popular Soviet polar bear cub cartoon hero, the initial 5,000
residents will live under a vast dome to protect themselves from temperatures sinking below minus 30C in winter.
‘This city will be of strategic importance as Russia’s northern outpost,’ said
architect Valery Rzhevskiy who has shown its modernistic designs
to an approving Vladimir Putin.
Extraordinary: The city will cost up to £4 billion and be built on the
remote island of Kotelniy, in the Novosibirsk archipelago, some 1,000 miles from the North Pole
Vast: The Umka designs are based on the International Space Station but in comparison is much
larger – one mile long and 800 yards wide
Sources say it is likely to house soldiers, border guards
and secret service officers, as well as scientists and explorers, as Moscow gets serious about claiming Arctic mineral riches.
All will enjoy a luxury lifestyle in the cocoon with its own specially regulated temperate climate – including many facilities to make
inhabitants of other cities envious.
‘We aim to have scientific laboratories, houses, but also parks with attractions,
an Aqua complex, hotels and a cathedral. Naturally there will be schools, kindergartens, recreation zones, a hospital,
and sport facilities are planned, too,’ said Rzhevskiy.
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‘We want people who will be living and working here not to realise they are in some closed space
with an aggressive Arctic climate outside.’
The extraordinary venture – nicknamed ‘wonder city’ – will be built at a cost of up to £4 billion on the remote
island of Kotelniy, in the Novosibirsk archipelago , some
1,000 miles from the North Pole, closer than any other Russian city.
Strong winds make it one of the most inhospitable places on the planet, and even in summer it barely climbs over freezing point.
Bleak: Strong winds make the area one of the most inhospitable places on the planet, and even in summer it barely climbs over freezing point
The Umka designs are based on the International
Space Station, but it is vast by comparison – just short of one mile long and 800 yards wide.
‘So far it’s the only project in the world with an artificial climate and integral life support – just like on the space station. Not only is it a new word in architecture, but in human living
too. We have used aero and space technologies while creating it.’
‘So far it’s the only project in the world with an artificial climate and integral life support – just like on the space station. Not only
is it a new word in architecture, but in human living too.
We have used aero and space technologies while creating it.’
- Valery Rzhevskiy, architect
Electricity will be supplied by a floating nuclear power station. Food wise, it will
be totally self-sufficient with fish and poultry farms,
greenhouses, a wheat processing factory and bakeries.
‘There will not be any rubbish at all, as the city will
have two factories converting all kinds into ashes.’
It will house workers for local mines and oil platforms which should pay the
costs of the development, it is claimed.
‘This project is designed to work on any surface, even on the Moon if
needed,’ said Rzhevskiy, one of Russia’s top
architects.
The ice city plans – currently with no fixed timetable for opening – comes as all countries with territory touching Arctic waters are gearing up to make competing demands
to the United Nations over underwater mineral exploitation rights.
Western countries were stung when in 2007 Russian polar explorer Artur Chilingarov placed
his country’s flag in the Arctic seabed in 2007.
‘We must prove the north pole is an extension of the Russian land mass,’
he said at the time.
A Canadian think tank this year even warned that ‘an arms race maybe beginning’, expressing
concerns at the risk of conflict.
The U.S., Canada, Norway and Russia have all boosted their naval presence in Arctic waters amid
warnings of a Cold War that could literally be cold – except perhaps
at Umka.
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