THRIVE YOUTH IS BACK! So you're wondering how is THRIVE YOUTH back? I thought it was always here. Well, you are right, but have you ever had one of those moments in your life where you go through a tough season? Maybe seasons where you struggle to get motivated or feel like things are not going the way you hoped they would?
I feel like THRIVE YOUTH has been going through one of those seasons. We have had our ups and downs, we waited patiently for a new room, and we even lost some people. Maybe as a youth pastor I should not say this type of thing, but I believe it is good to always be upfront and honest about everything. Even those reading this that are on the outside looking in, need to know what we are about. What are we about? Simple. Jesus all the way! We are about putting Him as our Number 1 priority. We are about going above and beyond for Him. We are about standing up for what we believe in. We are about living out our faith out and helping anyone we come into contact with.
You see many of us are going through really difficult circumstances in life, things that are completely out of our control, and they're tough to deal with sometimes. A lot of times those types of situations can affect whether or not we choose to follow Jesus. Whether we choose to even come to church at all.
I recently went through a tough season in my life. Not a season of not wanting to come to church but a season of wondering if God was really hearing my prayers. I'm not saying that I'm completely out of it, but I'm not going to be defeated either. Satan wants to defeat you by tearing you down and putting obstacles in your way to keep you from God's will. I heard this quote the other day and it really hit me.
"Satan knows your name, but he calls you by your sin. Jesus knows your sin, but He calls you by your name."
Jesus is calling each one of you right now BY YOUR NAME. You have an identify in Christ. Don't let Satan steal that from you, don't let him destroy your identity and cause you to stay in a low place of discouragement. Get out of that place.
My challenge for you today is to be a part of something, whether or not that is THRIVE YOUTH is your choice, but most importantly get back to seeking after God and watch where you will go next. Pull out your Bible and read it and pray and talk to God.
Remember we at THRIVE are always here for you and want to be a part of your life. THRIVE YOUTH IS BACK, and if you don't believe us, just come join us on a Wednesday night and see our new space and let's go after God TOGETHER.
So here we go, my first post on this blog. I don't consider myself a major blogger; in fact, it seems like most blogs get started and then a year later you are like, "Whoa I forgot to post something." I decided since I had the ability to use this blog that I would take advantage of it. Mainly because there are moments in my life where I get a brief moment of wisdom. Okay maybe not wisdom, maybe it's more like enlightenment? Either way you get the point, from time to time my creative juices start to flow.
My role here at THRIVE is the youth pastor and I love being a part of this ministry. My wife, Fawn and I have been a part of THRIVE for over 7 years now. Hard to believe it has been that long. We have seen a lot of things take place here and have met a lot of great young people along the way. Even those who have gone to college or are no longer teenagers we still think about them. However, my rock and support in this ministry is my wife, and she means everything to me. Now she would probably say that without her this ministry would lack the funny appeal and I probably would agree with her on that one. Kidding aside though, we both love what we do and even though things can be difficult and sometimes we might even think that nothing is being accomplished, we know that is a lie from the enemy. Sometimes that can sound cliché, but I believe that with everything in me.
I also believe that God has a plan for each of our lives and the choices we make can lead us closer or farther away from His plan. This isn't a plan that He is forcing on us, but one that He gives us a choice with. In the end, His plan is always better than anything we could ever choose. That is why I continue to motivate myself about our youth ministry because I know He has us here for a reason. Later I may talk a little more about how I decided to be involved in youth ministry, but for now I just want you to know that we are in this until God tells us otherwise.
I hope this page can just become a source of information of what is going on at THRIVE, maybe for those that are not on social media, and also just a place to express some of my thoughts. Appreciate all of you who support me on a daily basis and I hope I can continue to build some great relationships with more of you.


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Enterprises in the throes of a denial-of-service attack, or suspicious about the integrity of their Internet traffic, will soon have a free data feed available that cuts through the noise produced by normal Internet routing over BGP, the Border Gateway Protocol.
During next month's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, researchers from OpenDNS are expected to launch a new Twitter feed called BGP Stream. The feed will cull information gathered by OpenDNS' BGPmon service, distill any anomalies from regular traffic, and tweet information to subscribers that can also be pulled via Twitter's API for use on internal monitoring and alerting systems.
OpenDNS chief technology officer Dan Hubbard said network security analysts and administrators, ISPs and hosting providers can use the feed to validate suspicions over potential attacks.
BGPmon was acquired by OpenDNS earlier this year; OpenDNS has since been acquired by Cisco. It uses more than 100 probes placed at peering points around the Internet to monitor for anomalous and possibly malicious changes to BGP routing and suspicious ASN changes. The protocol is considered fundamental Internet infrastructure, and when this type of plumbing leaks, availability and security are be impacted.
The feed will be populated automatically, and Hubbard expects anywhere from five to 15 tweets a day. Hubbard said risk will be factored into what is tweeted out as well, differentiating between security-related tweets and informational, for example. Eventually, Hubbard said, he expects BGP Stream to evolve and add DNS monitoring data.
BGP will have center stage for a number of sessions at Black Hat, including a session called Breaking HTTPS with BGP Hacking by Artyom Gavrichenkov of QRator Lab. Gavrichenkov is expected to explain new attacks against the encryption around BGP routing that can facilitate BGP hijacking. Also, Wim Remes of Rapid7 is scheduled to deliver a talk on the state of BGP security, and how the so-called Internet of Things introduces exponentially more complexity into BGP routing.
The Hacking Team breach also threw back the covers on not only on a handful of zero day vulnerabilities and exploits at its disposal, but the lengths that spyware purveyors and nation states would go to help law enforcement and governments spy on targets, including BGP hijacking.
That nugget that emerged from the 400 Gb of stolen Hacking Team data posted online where Italian law enforcement used Hacking Team's Remote Control System monitoring software to regain control over a number IP addresses it was watching that were already infected with Hacking Team software by hijacking BGP routes in order to redirect traffic and regain control over a target's machines.


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EU opposes two executions in Belarus, reiterates its position on capital punishment
"The execution of Aliaksandr Zhylnikau has taken place in Belarus in June 2019; according to reports there is a high probability that Viachaslau Sukharka was also executed," said the EU in a statement issued on 14 June.
"The European Union expresses its sincere sympathy to the families and friends of the victims of the crimes committed. At the same time, the EU reaffirms its strong opposition to capital punishment in all circumstances and calls on Belarus to introduce a moratorium on executions as a first step towards abolition."
The EU reiterated that "the death penalty violates the inalienable right to life enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment".
"The continued application of the death penalty goes counter [to] Belarus' international commitments. Belarus is the only country in Europe still applying capital punishment," it underlined, concluding the statement.
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'Southern Abstraction' is a compelling view of a provocative art form (gallery)
Updated Jan 14, 2019; Posted Jun 01, 2012
By Thomas B. Harrison, Press-Register
Jim Baker of Huntsville, left, and Bobba Turley of Mobile view works by Herb Jackson featured in Today's Visual Language: Southern Abstraction at Mobile Museum of Art. (Press-Register/Mike Kittrell)
MOBILE, Alabama — Abstract art "should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed," said Jackson Pollock. "After a while you may like it or you may not."
Is abstract art something mere mortals are not meant to understand, or is it a form of "visual language" that touches us in subtle yet meaningful ways?
Take a casual stroll around the galleries at Mobile Museum of Art and study the artwork in "Today's Visual Language: Southern Abstraction, A Fresh Look."
The exhibit, on view through Sept. 16, is a profusion of odd and eye-catching forms, colors and textures. The vibrancy of this show suggests the electricity of a "live" performance, an ongoing conversation between artist and viewer — and an art form that continues to evolve and re-invent itself.
Many people regard "abstraction" as a fairly recent development, but its roots are much older.
"Much of the art of earlier cultures — signs and marks on pottery, textiles and inscriptions and paintings on rock — were simple, geometric and linear forms (that) might have had a symbolic or decorative purpose," according to the website Wikipedia.
"It is at this level of visual meaning that abstract art communicates. One can enjoy the beauty of Chinese or Islamic calligraphy without being able to read it."
Like a great symphony, the artwork in "Southern Abstraction" is a compelling experience.
Every two years the Mobile Museum of Art organizes a major exhibition focused on Southern art, says chief curator Paul W. Richelson, Ph.D.
Artwork by Shawne Major featured in Today's Visual Language: Southern Abstraction at Mobile Museum of Art. (Press-Register/Mike Kittrell)
For this overview of abstract art produced in the last two decades the museum selected 37 artists either born in the Southeast — Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina and Virginia — or who currently reside or attended fine arts programs in those states.
"The invited artists represent a much larger active group of abstractionists than could be accommodated in our exhibition galleries," Richelson states in the introduction to the exhibition catalog. Artwork includes painting, drawing, glass and fiber/mixed media. In all, 77 pieces were chosen by Richelson and Donan Klooz, curator of exhibitions.
"In the 100 years since Russian artist and theorist Wassily Kandinsky began producing non-representational abstract art, liberating the artist from the tyranny of images, it has been utilized at different moments by artists," the introduction states. "Kandinsky explored the world of equivalences: sound and color and emotion and color.
"When the museum received several gifts of abstract paintings by contemporary Southern artists, the curatorial staff was inspired to research the wider context of the use of abstraction today.
"As the influential German-born teacher and painter Hans Hoffman said in 1949, 'A picture should be made with feeling, not with knowing. The possibilities of the medium must be sensed.'
"This desire to proceed through feeling rather than knowing is a funny thing, however, as the desire to be truly innovative is in itself a feeling."
Rene Culler is an assistant professor of art at the University of South Alabama, where she is director of the glass program.
"The work (in 'Southern Abstraction') is from a series I began about three years ago called 'Byzantium,'" she says. "The inspiration comes from the poem by Yeats, 'Sailing to Byzantium,' as well as the Byzantine-era mosaics that I always visit at the church of Chora when I am in Istanbul.
Mobile Museum of Art is sjowing artwork by 37 artists with Southern connections in Today's Visual Language: Southern Abstraction. Shown here: artwork by Atlanta artist Don Cooper. (Press-Register/Mike Kittrell)
"The works measure 36 inches high by 26 inches wide and one inch deep. I am using glass that has a dichroic coating — which is way over the top visually — but a modern-day equivalent of the gold that was used in the Byzantine mosaics."
"Byzantium Zed" was created in 2009, and "Byzantium Red" was completed in 2012, according to Culler.
"Since coming to South I have not had the time to continue with my cast-glass sculpture, which I hope to continue soon," she says. "I always create work for the wall that has become a substitute for drawings and paintings on paper.
"In general, I am interested in texture and surface dimensionality, so these works fit into that mode as they are first fused and then later slumped at high temperatures. I am intrigued by this work and continue with the series. I was delighted to be invited to exhibit with the exciting paintings that one may see at the museum.
"I feel that these works are very 'painterly' as I cut hundreds of squares of glass and then pick and choose colors to lay up, and the colors interact with each other. My esteemed painting teacher at the Cleveland Institute of Art was a student of Joseph Albers; his name is Julian Stanczak and he had the one-person exhibition in New York that was described as 'Op Art.'"
Culler says she regards abstraction as "the most exciting type of work — it demands tuning into the subconscious."
This exhibition shows that abstraction is "not just a New York thing," she says. "Southerners are also tuned in and adept at this way of working, and some of the painters in the exhibit are represented in New York.
"Many regional shows feature excellent landscapes and seascapes, 'Southern scenes.' However, this show illustrates that the South is fertile with all types of creative painting."
Artwork by Zdenko Krticz is part of the Southern Abstraction show at Mobile Museum of Art. (Press-Register/Mike Kittrell)
Louisiana artist Anastasia Pelias exhibited her artwork in 2006 at the Eichold Gallery at Spring Hill College, and also in the "Catalyst" show at Space 301 in the aftermath of the BP Gulf oil spill.
She has two paintings in the exhibit: "Automatics" ("Milk & Honey"), 2008, oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 by 45 inches; and "Automatics" ("Lookout"), 2009, oil and acrylic on canvas, 50 by 40 inches. Both were part of Pelias' "Automatics" series from 2008-09.
"In this body of work my intent was to remove all conscious thought from the making of the work," she says, "but I was inspired to create this body of work by the way that snails travel and the trails that they leave, and also by the way that I felt post-Katrina — like a peripatetic refugee with no real place to go. And, of course the Dadas!"
The artist says one of the things she likes best about this exhibition is "the far-reaching parameters associated with the term 'Southern Abstraction.'"
"Many of the painters in the show were just born in the South or went to school in the South and now live in New York or places other than the South," she says. "I do believe that to some extent we are all products of our environments, but for me personally my work is informed equally by New Orleans, where I live, and by Greece, my ancestral home."
Among the artists Pelias most admires are painters.
"Katharina Grosse, Margaret Evangeline, Nancy Haynes (and) James Nares are a few who I'm looking at now," she says.
Pelias is currently working on a series of paintings called "Washed," which she says "involves highly saturated fields of color bumping into each other."
"I just had a solo show of this work at Heriard-Cimino Gallery," she says. "I have a large painting from this series titled 'Love, Pleasure, Water' on view through June 10 at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans."
Thornton Willis (www.thorntonwillis.com) is a Pensacola artist who now resides and works in New York City. "Southern Abstraction" includes two wall-length paintings, "Gothams' Rhythm" and "Gotham Towers," which will travel from Mobile to Sarah Moody Gallery at the University of Alabama for an extensive one-person show in October.
"I was surprised and pleased that the curators chose such large paintings — 'Gotham's Towers' from 2009 is 97 by 70 inches and 'Gotham's Rhythm' from 2008 is 106 by 65 inches," the artist says via email.
"They also chose the only two paintings I ever made with the word 'Gotham' in the title, (although) titles . . . do not mean a lot to me. I pick them kind of randomly, but these titles do evoke the sense of 'city.'
"In terms of what has inspired my work, I would include also what has informed my work. Generally, my work has been inspired by the main thrust of western painting, since the post-impressionist, more specifically the Cubists and the American Abstract Expressionists.
"In recent decades my work has been informed by the rhythms, density and the sheer mass of the city. But the work is essentially from the core of my person. Having spent the first 31 years of my life in the Deep South, the climate and color of the South's rich culture was significant in shaping my values and beliefs."
Bayou Haiku #2 by Allison Stewart. (Courtesy of Mobile Museum of Art)
Willis says the artwork in this exhibit is indicative of his lifelong commitment to "a kind of painting, and I can see how my work has developed over the years from where I started out."
"My interest in abstract painting began in the late 1950s when I was enrolled in the school of architecture at Auburn University. There were not many places back then in the South to see abstract art. I used to drive to New Orleans to catch shows — now you have this great new museum here in Mobile.
"I started out working in shapes and stripes and still am. My paintings in this show are from 2008 and I am currently working in a similar direction."
The title "Southern Abstraction" suggests many things to Willis.
"There is something special about Southern colors, earth, sky, trees and flowers and birds," he says. "Oh, and the food! I had a wonderful childhood sitting up top in the limbs of trees, or going night fishing. The experience of nature is at the heart of every artist. Our origins are important but as artists we have to go beyond regionalism to consider the whole of American culture."
"Perhaps the show's title suggests that abstract painting is ongoing in America, alive and well, and that many of the painters responsible for the strength and health of abstract painting in America today are Southerners?"
Willis says many abstract artists from the South have contributed to American painting and sculpture.
"Some are known and some are lesser known, but they all put in the time and sweat to move it forward," he says. "In order to do so, they most often had to leave their homes in the South and come to large centers like New York. Here they met up with their counterparts from the Midwest, North and Southeast, and the Coast. All together they brought their own regional sensibilities and shared ideas and techniques.
"What emerged is an "¤ 'international' style. Abstract painting today is about an international style."
Willis says his own work reflects many influences including Cubism, especially the work of Braque, Picasso and Juan Gris.
"The American Abstract Expressionists were a particularly important and powerful influence," he says, "and that includes Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and my mentor, the painter Melville Price, in particular. Also, there have been contemporary influences such as the work of Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, and Ray Parker."
Allison Stewart is well known to Mobile art lovers, having shown her work at the Eichold Gallery and Space 301, among other venues.
'SOUTHERN ABSTRACTION'
WHAT: "Today's Visual Language: Southern Abstraction, A Fresh Look"
WHEN: through Sept. 16
WHERE: Mobile Museum of Art in Langan Park, west Mobile
NOTE: Exhibit is an overview of contemporary abstract art featuring work by 37 artists with ties in heritage or training to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina and Virginia. Includes painting on canvas and paper, drawings on paper, glass, fiber/mixed media and collage.
CURATORS: Paul W. Richelson, Ph.D., chief curator for the Mobile Museum of Art; and Donan Klooz, curator of exhibitions.
ALSO ON VIEW: "Boxes & Their Makers," through July 1; "The Heart of Echizen: Wood-Fired Works by Contemporary Masters," through July 28; and "Masters of Graphic Art from the Collection of Gerald Swetsky," through Sept. 24.
HOURS: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday; 1-5 p.m. Sunday
ADMISSION: $10 for adults, $6 for students
INFO: 251-208-5200 or www.mobilemuseumofart.com
She recently completed work for a large one-person exhibit at Southeastern University of Louisiana in Hammond. The exhibit will be on view during June at the Contemporary Art Gallery on the university campus.
"In addition to paintings on canvas, I will have two installations of drawings and large paintings on drafting film," she says. "I've been experimenting with new materials and approaches and am looking forward to seeing the work installed."
Stewart's work in "Southern Abstraction" is titled "Bayou Haiku #2" and is one of the many pieces she completed in 2006 after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
"Two of those paintings, 'Bayou Haiku #1' and 'Bayou Haiku #2,' address the dilemma of living in an area where man and nature exist in uneasy and precarious balance," Stewart says. " 'Bayou Haiku #1' (not in the show) references a dying swamp, with browns and blacks and swirling gray waters filled with detritus.
" 'Bayou Haiku #2' describes a recovering swamp full of verdant color and healthy with signs of new life. In the center is the crimson 'heart' of the swamp, with its mysterious and mystical properties. Both paintings address the constant flux of destruction and regeneration."
"Bayou Haiku#2" is a diptych measuring 48 by 130 inches and was created using mixed media, including gesso, charcoal, acrylic, tar and oil glazes, according to the artist.
"I live one block from the Mississippi River and frequently walk along its levees," Stewart says. "The life-giving and life-taking power of water has become my primary subject matter. Over the years I've been interested in the many problems involving our waterways, the loss of our wetlands and the measures that man has taken to accelerate that loss."
The "Catalyst" exhibit addressed the problem in an eloquent way, according to Stewart.
" 'Southern Abstraction' has a wider focus and includes more facets of living and working in the South," she says. "I think we are a region of story-tellers, so narrative and metaphor play an important role in Southern art. I also believe that the South, and especially New Orleans, is a place for the senses.
"The intoxicating scent of night jasmine and chicory coffee roasting, the sound of ships' horns on the river, the overgrowth and intensity of the colors of the azaleas and crepe myrtle all influence my artistic creation."
Although there are many notable Southern abstract artists, Stewart thinks the explosion of abstraction occurred after World War II when the center of the art world moved from Paris to New York.
"To me the South could not have produced major movements like minimalism or conceptualism because we are too celebratory and too tied to the land," she says. "We do not need lofty intellectual underpinnings to justify the art we make. Our art is often filled joy and quirkiness.
"I find that paintings made in the Northeast are often predominately gray and ponderous, while paintings in the Southwest reflect the colors of the sunset and wide open spaces.
"Southern art to me is about living close to our roots and celebrating each day. Southern artists and Southern writers share the same creative bed."
Stewart says her primary influence has been the British artist William Turner, whose "passion for his craft as well as his fascination with weather and atmosphere, wind and water has inspired me for many years."
She says the evolution of art in the South has been intriguing and exhilarating.
"Several years ago in New Orleans there was a group of figurative artists loosely called 'Visionary Imagists,' which included Douglas Bourgeois, Jacqueline Bishop and George Febres.
"Today there are a number of young artists along the St. Claude corridor in New Orleans doing interesting work in every medium including sound, video, computer-generated art and performance," she says.
"The line between two- and three-dimensional art, between art and craft, and between high art and street art has been erased. Today anything goes. It's very exciting!"


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Bummer! Light snow deposited about an inch or two exactly when I needed to drive to church. Eye doctor doesn't want me driving when visibility is compromised. Sigh. So I have been playing Gentle Praise and singing along when I know the words while reading in Nehemiah. The lessons from that book of the Old Testament amaze! The harassed Jewish people kept their faith, vigilance and continued to rebuild Jerusalem's walls and temple in spite of all sorts of obstacles and threats.
Seems not much has changed where God's people are concerned. Whether health issues or political issues, the enemy of our souls uses every crack in our soul's defenses to attack. Despite evil doing its worst, God as known through Jesus Christ is good . . . all the time, not just when things are going smoothly, or we're getting our own way, or we're in perfect health, or the weather is blowing a blizzard, or even simply flurries.
Lord God, please bless those who need an encouraging touch from You, and bless all ministers as they preach Your Word, and all the congregants as they worship, listen, and then go and do for others, in Jesus name we pray, Amen.


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Equifax Hit With Maximum UK Privacy Fine After Mega-Breach
Credit bureau Equifax has been hit with the maximum possible fine under U.K. law for "multiple failures" that contributed to its massive 2017 data breach, including its failure to act on a critical vulnerability alert issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
'Magecart' Card-Sniffing Gang Cracks Newegg
Jeremy Kirk • September 20, 2018
Online retailer Newegg is investigating a malware attack that may have stolen customers' payment card details for more than a month. Security firms have traced the heist to Magecart, a loose affiliation of cybercrime gangs also tied to payment card data breaches at British Airways and Ticketmaster.
A Fresh Look at Outsourcing
Information Security Media Group • September 20, 2018
The biggest security budget in the business cannot save you from also suffering one of the biggest breaches. The key is: Do you have the right skills and technology deployed to defend your critical assets? Michael Malone and Ben Johnson of Datashield, an ADT company, make the case for outsourcing.
Business Email Compromise (BEC)
Cybercrime: 15 Top Threats and Trends
Criminals operating online continue to target cryptocurrencies, leverage phishing and other social engineering attacks, as well as tweak age-old scams - including Nigerian prince emails - for the modern age. So warns Europol in its latest Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment.
Perth Mint Says 3,200 Customers Affected By Data Breach
If you're going to hack, why not go for the gold? That appears to have been the impetus behind an unusual data breach at the government-owned Perth Mint in Western Australia, which says personal details for 3,200 customers stored in an old database were compromised.
New Hacker Exploits and How to Fight Them
Nick Holland • September 19, 2018
Hackers are constantly developing new exploits, and updating defenses is not an easy task. Dan Larson of Crowdstrike discusses some the new techniques hackers are using and how to fight them off.
How Pinterest Drives Engagement and Growth with Email and SparkPost
Hospital Insider PHI Theft Case: Lessons to Learn
A case involving alleged insider theft of protected health information from a hospital in New York illustrates why healthcare organizations need to take extra precautions to prevent similar incidents. Security experts offer recommendations.
Yahoo's Mega-Breaches: Altaba Moves to Settle Lawsuits
Lawsuits sparked by massive data breaches at Yahoo - and the company's failure to report those breaches to investors in a timely manner - could soon be resolved. Plaintiffs and defendants say they have committed to a $47 million deal that they expect to submit for court approval within 45 days.
Are State AGs Picking Up Slack in HIPAA Enforcement?
Is a recent HIPAA settlement issued by the New York state attorney general's office another sign that states might begin to overshadow federal regulators when it comes to enforcement actions involving health data security and privacy?
Europe Catches GDPR Breach Notification Fever
Less than four months after GDPR enforcement began, Europe has arguably entered the modern data breach notification era. Reports of data breaches continue to increase, and breached organizations now face the specter of class-action lawsuits over material as well as non-material damages.
FreshMenu Hid Data Breach Affecting 110,000 Users
Suparna Goswami • September 14, 2018
FreshMenu, a food delivery provider based in India, has come under social media attack for keeping under wraps a data breach two years ago that exposed the personal information of over 110,000 users.
Equifax Breach: Key Lessons Learned
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of a new Government Accountability Office report on the causes of last year's massive Equifax breach. Also: An update on the role of tokenization in protecting payments.
Romanian Hacker 'Guccifer' to Be Extradited to US
A Romanian court has ruled that the notorious hacker "Guccifer," who discovered the existence of Hillary's Clinton's private email server, will be extradited to the U.S. to serve a 52-month prison sentence after he finishes serving a seven-year sentence in his home country.
Postmortem: Multiple Failures Behind the Equifax Breach
A newly released report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office on the massive 2017 Equifax data breach provides a postmortem look at what went wrong, centering on the credit bureau's identification, detection, segmentation and data governance, as well as a failure to rate-limit database requests.


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Charter school drops motto 'Work Hard. Be Nice' for contributing to 'systemic racism'
One of my favorite Twitter accounts is that of Katherine Birbalsingh (@Miss_Snuffy), the Headteacher of an experimental school in a deprived part of London, Michaela Community School. The experiment involves conveying knowledge to the children in an environment in which teachers and pupils do not live in constant fear of being assaulted. Naturally, this is an almost unique experiment, and she is constantly attacked by the progressive teaching establishment. There are precedents for her approach, however, and she expressed her dismay when one of these, the American Charter School chain KIPP, explained that in light of the Black Lives Matter movement that it had decided to change its motto and discipline policy. It explained:
(Article republished from LifeSiteNews.com)
We are retiring "Work hard. Be nice." as KIPP's national slogan; it ignores the significant effort required to dismantle systemic racism, places value on being compliant and submissive, supports the illusion of meritocracy, and does not align with our vision of students being free to create the future they want.
The obvious response to this statement is that if children cling to an attitude of angry non-cooperation toward their teachers, they are not going to learn anything or do well in any exams, and if they start off in deprivation, then they will stay there. KIPP, like Miss Birbalsingh's school, has as its mission lifting children out of poverty and desperation, and if the school is giving up on that, this is a tragedy.
Sometimes a bit of angry non-cooperation may be appropriate. St. Clement Hofbauer denounced the heresy he was being taught in Vienna from the lecture room benches. But his experience wasn't entirely an exception to the general principle: he lost his chance of getting ordained in Austria, although he was able to join the Redemptorists in Italy.
The more fundamental contrast is this. St. Clement was, like many orthodox seminarians since his time, protesting against the misrepresentation of the teaching of the Church, a misrepresentation being pushed by an anti-clerical cultural and political establishment: the version of this in his day was "Josephism." The suggestion, being made in all seriousness by KIPP, and many educationalists responding to Miss Birbalsingh on Twitter, is that self-discipline, classical culture, and even correct English usage is bad, and so children, who may well have lots of things to be angry about, should be told by the cultural and political establishment to be angry about being taught those things.
I don't think this is a conscious attempt by the elite to keep the underclass in its place, but if it were, it would be pretty effective.
Is old-fashioned school discipline a training in deference to the existing order? History does not suggest this. Great revolutionaries, both intellectual and political, usually had good, classical educations — in many cases, in fact, at the hands of Catholic teachers. This education gave them a grasp of how the establishment works and made them articulate and effective rebels against it — sometimes for the good and sometimes for the bad. The French and Russian revolutionaries, for example, were people who could write convincingly and do sums.
The example of St. Clement Hofbauer should remind us of something else as well: that even a successful formation in Christian humility shouldn't turn people into doormats. Reading the Life of St Bernard of Clairvaux in Butler's Lives of the Saints, I was struck by this statement:
True humility removes a soul as far from pusillanimity and abjection as from pride and presumption; for it teaches a man to place his whole strength in God alone. Hence sprang that greatness of soul and undaunted courage …
St. Bernard was no shrinking violet. Similarly, Moses, the meekest of all men (Num. 12.3), and Jesus Christ, who tells us to learn of him to be meek and humble of heart (Mt. 11.39), were capable of anger and even violence.
At this point, we may have to modify our conception of what meekness and humility really mean. They mean not asserting ourselves or seeking our own good at the expense of others. The meek and humble man should be filled with zeal for God's honor (John 2:17) and anger against injustice toward human beings (Mark 3:5). The proud man cares more for his own reputation and comfort and takes up good causes only as a cover for advancing his own interests. The soldier's first lesson is not to place excessive importance in his own safety, and this makes him a model for the Christian.
Classical education doesn't turn people into robots all running the same program. Cooperation with it, inasmuch as it is still being offered in schools, is not a matter of conceding to structures of injustice, but of encountering cultural artifacts that, while always imperfect, are good in themselves, and gaining the tools necessary to do anything useful in life, including dismantling structures of injustice. In the words of Katherine Birbalsingh, "I will die on this hill!"
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While everyone is fawning over Angular 2.0, it isn't something we can really use for a while. But Tracuer and @script are here, and--as long as you support IE9 and up--they are here for you today.
So why is annotation-oriented programing so much win?
The quick answer is meta programing. Buzz word alert: The basic idea is that you can mark up some object in your code with additional meta-information. And the cool part: parse that mark up at runtime to give your application additional intelligence.
An annotation is really just the instantiation of some class that can be bound to an 'annotations' property on the target class. The above code created an annotation class called "animal." When instantiating a class, we can create animal with a custom sound. As the example bellow shows, the @script annotation syntax allows us to attach the annotation class of "animal" to any classes we create like "cow" or "dog" targets.
// Create a cow class an annotate it with a cow sound.
// Create a dog class and annotate it with a dog sound.
After the classes are marked up with annotation, a new property, 'annotations,' becomes available on the class object. It is an array, allowing for multiple annotations to be applied to a class.
This is nothing revolutionary, but it does create a great convention, allowing us to write code that describes itself to itself. Lets take a look at a way that this can be consumed. In the code example, lo-dash, it is used for writing functional code, I am a lambda whore.
Each loop can process the individual classes for the annotation property. In more complicated workflows, this can take into account the different annotation classes.
You can find running code examples here.
The code example above is not very useful, since any number of polymorphic practices can resolve this problem in much cleaner ways. But it does show how annotations can create behaviors on classes that you may not have the rights to change. Annotation also get out of the way of the implementation, allowing you to attack cross cutting concerns without affecting the annotated class.


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Revitalization Takes Guts
By Jessica Miller Kelley
Honesty and courage.
These two words may call to mind a virtuous Boy Scout or a knight of King Arthur's round table, but to Jorge Acevedo, they are the essentials for revitalizing churches in decline.
And Acevedo should know. Grace Church, the United Methodist congregation he leads, had lost half its members in a five year period before Acevedo was appointed there in 1996. Now, Grace is a thriving church with four campuses across southwest Florida. Three of those campuses were once languishing congregations that have been revitalized (the fourth is a grocery store turned community center).
Acevedo is passionate about revitalizing declining congregations, and his denomination overall. A major research study commissioned by The United Methodist Church found that only 15 percent of United Methodist congregations scored highly on indicators of vitality like small group involvement, pastoral training of lay leaders, mission engagement, and use of topical sermon series.
Nonetheless, Acevedo doesn't ascribe blame for the state of congregations considered "less than highly vital."
"It's good people who lost their way," he said. "They get caught up in institutional maintenance . . . and slowly shift focus from the community to themselves."
Overcoming such myopia requires a greater awareness of today's realities, and a willingness to make difficult decisions.
"I think the world changed and the church just didn't see," he said, pointing to statistics about the rising average age of church members, and the racial and socioeconomic homogeneity of congregations.
"Our culture is getting more diverse. We have to find a way to reach that generation."
Numbers vs. Stories
While many churches are aware of their numerical decline, they may be deceiving themselves as to their qualitative vitality, Acevedo said.
Acevedo recalls a friend who consulted with a nondenominational church in numerical decline. The church proudly told the story of a prostitute who had given her life to Christ in their church, been discipled, and turned her life around. The consultant then learned that the inspiring tale had occurred fifteen years prior.
"They had been banking on that story all that time [to convince themselves they were bearing fruit]," Acevedo said.
"Some churches talk about how at Thanksgiving, they feed 150 families. But what are you doing the other 51 weeks of the year?" he wonders. "They tell one or two stories of good things they are doing, but use it to justify lack of fruitfulness."
Some congregational leaders object to standards of measurement that focus on worship attendance, addition of new members, etc., protesting that numbers do not reflect true vitality, and that anecdotal stories of transformation paint a more accurate picture.
Acevedo agrees, to a point. "Vitality is about stories," he acknowledges.
Indeed, his forthcoming book, Vital: Churches Changing Communities and the World (coming in January from Abingdon Press), is full of stories of vital congregations, making a difference in their communities that may or may not be correlated with greater worship attendance or membership.
Some of those vital congregations would be considered numerically "small" and "very small," proving that size and vitality are not automatically linked.
"If you're a church of 20, and grow to 40, you're still very small, but movement is up," Acevedo explained.
Some megachurches, while still big overall, are slowly declining, and are not growing in vital behaviors like small group participation, vibrant worship, or service and mission.
"My numbers-averse friends are right that it's not all about worship attendance, but it's not true that [numbers] don't matter," he said. "The overall trend of attendance matters. Going from 800 to 60 tells you something. It's denial if you don't see it."
Acevedo acknowledges that worship attendance is currently "a little flat" at one of Grace's campuses, but participation in small groups is up, and professions of faith are up.
But while Acevedo is not putting too much stock in worship attendance, he is also not ignoring the problem of stagnation.
"We're fixing it," he said. "We're being honest about the problem, and constantly looking at our systems."
Such honesty is a necessary precursor to revitalization efforts, according to Acevedo. Nothing can change so long as people make excuses and blame decline on outside factors, rather than examining their own practices and priorities.
"It takes being honest about the current reality and having the courage to do something about it."
Taking Courageous Action
That courageous response includes pastors making their priorities known and using their energies on things more likely to bear fruit, says Acevedo.
He uses the example of a men's group that met on Saturday mornings and brought in speakers like the town dogcatcher. He had to tell the group he would not be coming to their meetings any longer, that he needed to be home with his children on Saturday mornings, and that he would be starting a Bible study for men at 6 a.m. on a weekday morning.
"You can keep doing this, but I'm going to go over here and do this," he told them, in effect.
"You have to say some things are not important. I'll be kind, but I'm not going to give it attention," he said. "Pastors spend a lot of time doing things they think people want them to do. But they could do other stuff. Set up a parallel universe. Like a magnet, people are drawn to that and the old either dies its own death or gets converted."
Not everyone will like new initiatives, of course, whether they occur alongside long-standing programs or as a result of a declining church's "adoption" by a more vital congregation.
Acevedo experienced such resistance from some members of the two struggling congregations that have been adopted and revitalized as campuses of Grace Church. When Central United Methodist Church in downtown Fort Myers voted on whether to be adopted by Grace, Acevedo was disheartened that a significant minority of the church's remaining congregants voted to close their doors, rather than make the changes necessary to grow and thrive as a vital congregation.
Revitalization "takes institutional and personal courage . . . that God will give to us if we ask for it," Acevedo said. "It takes guts."
Beyond intestinal fortitude, however, leaders need to learn how to apply core principles to their own contexts, a process Acevedo calls "translation."
Vital aims to help pastors in that task of translation, Acevedo says, by laying out five behaviors common across vital churches, and the principles that drive those behaviors.
Vital churches provide an "incubator for discipleship," for example, but whether that takes the form of a home-based small group ministry or niche ministries like Building Better Moms, a program of St. Andrew UMC in Frisco, Texas, will depend on each church's context.
St. Andrew's use of the moms group as a portal for reaching new people is one of the stories told throughout the book, illustrating how principles of vitality are expressed in a variety of ways, in churches big and small, urban and suburban. Changes undertaken by churches who accept the challenge of revitalization will vary as much as the context of each congregation, but courageous acceptance of that challenge is a common thread.
"Insanity is doing same thing over and over and expecting a different result," Acevedo says. "Churches are caught in a pattern of doing yard sales to [raise money] and thinking that's ministry."
"You can use all your energy for self-sustaining maintenance. But if you take your energy and apply it to new things out in the community, you will get different results."
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Because Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper appointed me to serve on a task force charged with recommending to the state legislature how to implement a constitutional amendment making recreational marijuana use legal in this state, I have become more aware of potential harms to public health and safety that Coloradans should know about.
In the interest of full disclosure, I have not hidden my thoughts about marijuana legalization. It is wrong not only for the health and well-being of Colorado, but for our nation and I have every reason to believe many people will learn this the very hard way.
I am working to help other states understand the myriad mistakes Colorado has made and is on track to make through my work on the board of a new national organization, called Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM). That group seeks, in part, to help Americans understand the dangers of marijuana use, and that they can reform marijuana laws sensibly without legalizing the drug, which drives more of our nations youth into addiction treatment than any other substance.
The disconnection between what science has told us about marijuana and what the burgeoning but highly funded and organized marijuana industry trumpets is painfully obvious in Colorado, where debates are far more focused on money than on matters of public health and safety. When members of the governors task force ranked eight primary principles on which our deliberations are to be focused, Be responsive to consumer needs and issues was placed second only to Developing guidance for certain relationships, such as employer/employee Last on the list? Promote the health, safety and well-being of Colorado youth. What else ranked lower on the list than consumer needs? This principle: Ensure our streets, schools and communities remain safe.
The public needs more education and information immediately. I remain unconvinced that many Coloradans who voted in favor of Amendment 64 fully understood what they were supporting. Though my evidence is anecdotal, it is significant. For example, last week, I participated in a professional meeting where a Denver city official explained that an informal poll revealed Denverites want fewer marijuana shops, not more. Residents will be very surprised by what Amendment 64 unleashes unless the Denver City Council steps in to ban retail shops and other pot-related events and entities as other Colorado cities have.
permit the pot clubs that already are springing up.
usher into Colorado the pot tourism much like what the Dutch city of Amsterdam is now trying to rid itself. The marijuana industry in this state already is lobbying hard against a residency requirement that would limit the drugs sale only to Coloradans.
allow for marijuana concentrates which means theres really no THC limit on the potency of marijuana and marijuana-infused foods and drinks, also called edibles, that could be sold in Colorado.
allows for a 1 oz. marijuana-possession limit that feasibly translates into hundreds yes, hundreds of THC-infused candies, cookies and other edibles. In other words, there really is no possession limit either.
And thats just for starters. I hope scientific polling of the states residents will begin in earnest because I strongly suspect many of them will say they wanted Coloradans age 21 and over to have the right to use marijuana in small amounts, in privacy (and in strictly private environments) and without fear of prosecution.
I think many voters supporting Amendment 64 believed they were supporting far more stringent regulation that would clean up the mess they have come to know as medical marijuana. I think many voters thought the amendment would result in more rigorous analysis and inspection of the content of marijuana-infused foods and drinks.
As an addictions scientist and treatment provider, I am especially troubled that this cleverly worded amendment makes it very hard, if not impossible, for the public to control the THC content of marijuana and the potency of foods and drinks infused with it. Because Colorado already essentially has lost control of this aspect of marijuana legalization (the state legislature will not be able to change these allowances now carved into the Colorado constitution), it is vitally important for this state to devise a regulatory framework that protects public health and safety and puts it far ahead of financial and political interests.
It is just as important for the federal government to act in the interests of the rest of the country because responsible drug policy is national policy, not policy decided for the nation by one or two states (and certainly not policy decided in the rushed manner and timeline Colorado is forced to honor again because of Amendment 64s clever wording). I join many other organizations, including the Colorado chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Association of Drug Court Professionals, in calling on President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and other federal officials to enforce federal law, put an end to these slapdash state initiatives and engage the country in a reasonable and far more informed national discussion about marijuana use and the enforcement of marijuana-related laws.
Lets put public health and safety first this time. Lets put taxpayers interests ahead of private business owners interests. If our nation truly wants to launch another industry peddling another addictive substance for recreational use, we must not repeat the mistakes we have made with Big Tobacco and Big Alcohol whose products are responsible for our nations No. 1 and No. 3 causes of preventable death, respectively.
Unfortunately, the regulatory frameworks presented to the governors task force so far dont reflect much concern for Colorados health and safety, much less the nations. One regulatory framework loosely referred to as the open model is essentially a free-for-all that could, feasibly, allow marijuana to be sold in convenience stores and encourage tobacco behemoths champing at the bit to dive into the marijuana business to set up shop in the Rocky Mountain state.
Because the governors task force on marijuana regulation has been asked to consider one of the loosest regulatory frameworks imaginable, I decided to try to identify a far more conservative framework which has led me to question a model that is either partly or fully controlled by the State of Colorado.
Yes, state control a model that has scientific merit, at least where alcohol regulation is concerned. Marijuana-legalization advocates insist regulation works, and they say weed needs to be regulated like alcohol, right? After researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control examined 37 state-run models in the United States and other countries, they concluded in a peer-reviewed paper published in 2012 in the American Journal of Prevention Medicine that government control of off-premises sale of alcoholic beverages is one of many effective strategies to prevent or reduce excessive consumption.
In other words, as destructive as marijuana use is, directly involving the state in marijuana production and/or sale might reduce some harms to public health and safety. If people want to live with marijuana legalization, they also should consider a regulatory framework that stands to serve in the states financial interests and protect the greatest number of people. They should demand that their elected officials give it serious consideration. At this point, I am not calling for a state-run model. I only am calling for more research and thoughtful analysis of a state-controlled framework which could assume many forms.
Colorados privatized medical marijuana industry already has failed miserably. A state-run system at least stands to be a far more responsible approach. If were going to do something unwise, lets at least do it in a manner that could protect the health and safety of the most people and the financial interests of taxpayers.
Lets be honest. We need more research.
So far, some members of the governors task force have dismissed the idea of state control and before a state-run model even has been defined and studied. This is unwise especially if we care about public health and safety.
Remember: every regulatory scheme presented for consideration is outside the bounds of federal law so state control also deserves full and fair review, especially when science tells us it stands to be better for public health and safety than any of the other (also federally illegal) models Colorado legislators will be asked to debate and decide.
During its Feb. 14 meeting, the Regulatory Framework Working Group, a committee of the task force, crafted an explanation for its rejection of a state-run model which came with little to no formal study of the idea. I invite you to read the full explanation, found on page 12.
I remain unconvinced that the amendments language expressly prohibits the state from commercial activity and I know some lawyers who have examined this matter are as well.
However, below is the passage that caught my eye because it brightly underscores the degree to which people are hard at work to create an industry that not only operates outside the bounds of federal law, but also operates in a manner that encourages the federal government to continue overlooking what is happening here.
As an additional matter, we note that adopting a regulatory model which called for state-run retail stores would raise serious federalism concerns. Under such a model, the state would be actively violating federal law rather than merely licensing others to do so. Such open defiance of the Controlled Substances Act might be seen by the federal government as an intolerable obstacle to the enforcement of federal law and could lead to a suit to enjoin such conduct. A state-run distribution system is thus far more antagonistic to the federal government than one in which the state merely licenses private conduct and should be rejected for that reason as well.
Dr. Christian Thurstone is a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Denver who specializes in addictions. He is medicaldirector of one of Colorados largest youth substance-abuse-treatment clinics and an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado Denver, where he conducts research on youth substance use and addiction. An extended version of this op-ed appeared on his website at www.Dr.Thurstone.com.


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The Originals hit the stage for their final Comic-Con panel, drops Season 5 teaser
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The Originals hit the stage at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday shortly after Season 5, which will debut mid-season 2018, was announced as their last. Executive producer Julie Plec joined cast members Charles Michael Davis, Joseph Morgan, Daniel Gillies, Phoebe Tonkin, Yusuf Gatewood and Riley Voelkel to reminisce about the past four seasons of The Originals.
It's clear the show has a huge fan base and the sizzle reel at the beginning of the panel was a good reminder of all of the amazing experiences the characters have had over the past four years -- with a few sneak peeks at what's to come! Once the cast was on stage, they admitted to getting emotional seeing the sizzle reel but all are happy the show gets to end on their own terms.
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In the sizzle reel we got a first look a teenage Hope (since there's a ten-year time jump), who will be played by Danielle Rose Russell. Plec said Russell is a natural and first saw her in her amazing scene in Cameron Crowe's Aloha (2015). After the time jump, Freya and Vincent will probably look a little different ... but Riley Voelkel joked that she hoped Freya wouldn't look too different, even after ten years.
Plec discussed the future of couple Hayley and Elijah, who she says have seen "the darkest parts" of each other. Hayley needs to be her own champion and teach her daughter the same. Phoebe Tonkin says they love each other dearly and have faced a lot of tough times but hopefully there's a world where they can exist together whether romantically or as a family.
Family is a central theme of the show and it's obvious the cast feels the same about each other. Joseph Morgan and Daniel Gillies constantly ribbed each other about everything from hair to wardrobe to Joseph directing David in an upcoming episode — the third of Season 5.
Charles Michael Davis teared up as the cast talked about what they'd take away once the show was over, which ranged from remembering how loving everyone was to the laughs on set. Oh, and Joseph Morgan said he's already taken a gold coin and "various items of clothing" from set.
What's the biggest threat in Season 5? Plec says Klaus doesn't like to follow the rules and there will be consequences. She also said she''d love to have some familiar faces re-visit their characters in Season 5. So who knows who will drop by?
Julie ended the panel with a big thank you to fans and saying that she wants both the characters and fans to feel "peace" when the show ends.
Check out the Comic-Con sizzle reel/Season 5 teaser below, and let us know what you think!
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We asked you to Break the Cycle of Homelessness for the 230 children in the Bridge program. Now, because of your compassion and generosity, we are one important step closer to doing just that.
To kick off our expanded children's services, we have hired our first full-time Director of Children's Programs, Ms. Jill Garbaliauskas. Under Jill's leadership, and through your generosity, Bridge kids will begin to heal from the trauma of homelessness. The addition of Jill to our team is just the first step to ensure that Bridge kids have what they need to break the cycle of poverty in their family–permanently.
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Australia: Sneakerboy - Running headfirst into COVID-19 lease issues
by Gavin S Stuart , Adam Cutri and Max Mikha
Bartier Perry
Bartier Perry recently acted on behalf of Sneakerboy Retail Pty Ltd in two decisions of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in:
Sneakerboy Retail Pty Ltd trading as Sneakerboy v Georges Properties Pty Ltd [2020] NSWSC 996 (Sneakerboy No 1); and
Sneakerboy Retail Pty Ltd trading as Sneakerboy v Georges Properties Pty Ltd (No 2) [2020] NSWSC 1141 (Sneakerboy No 2).
These matters provide valuable insight into the practical application of the Retail and Other Commercial Leases (COVID-19) Regulation 2020 (Regulations) and the National Cabinet Mandatory Code of Conduct (Code) (COVID-19 Regime).
The key facts giving rise to the proceeding were as follows:
It was a term of the lease that the lessor had right of re-entry to the premises if rent was in arrears for 14 days.
The lessee had a history of paying rent late.
The lessee was in the business of selling luxury sneakers and streetwear from the premises.
Commencing in February 2020, the lessee experienced a sudden decline in revenue, which it attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On 12 March 2020, the lessee informed the lessor that due to market uncertainty, the February and March 2020 rent would not be paid on time.
On 20 March 2020, the Federal Government placed mandatory restrictions upon "non-essential indoor gatherings" which included the lessee's store.
On or about 23 March 2020, the lessee temporarily ceased trading from the premises. Stock was directed to the lessee's warehousing facility in an attempt to mitigate the potential loss caused by the temporary closure of the premises by focusing on online sales.
On 25 March 2020, the lessor brought the lease to an immediate end by way of re-entry and termination on the basis that rent was late and the lessee had abandoned the premises.
Summary of the issues and findings of Sneakerboy No 1
In Sneakerboy No 1 the Court ultimately found that Sneakerboy was entitled to an order for relief against forfeiture of the lease that occurred on 25 March 2020 in circumstances where the outstanding rent had been paid by virtue of Georges Properties calling on the entirety of the bank guarantee.
The Court further acknowledged that the decision to grant relief against forfeiture was justified to some degree by the fact that the defaults in payment of rent that immediately led to the lessors' decision to terminate the lease were, to some degree, caused by the initial consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and that although there was some delay in bringing the application for injunctive relief, given the COVID-19 pandemic, the delay was justified.
The granting of the abovementioned relief in Sneakerboy No 1 had the immediate effect of reinstating the lease. As a result, the amount of rent (which had already been applied by Georges Properties from the bank guarantee) then became subject to the COVID-19 Regime.
As a result, the Court was then required to determine a number of factors including whether it should make orders concerning the compliance with the COVID-19 Regime and the reinstatement of the bank guarantee, which would ultimately require an analysis on the likely outcome of the good faith negotiations between the parties.
Key takeaways from Sneakerboy No 2
There are a number of key takeaways from Sneakerboy No 2 which include the following:
Retrospective Application of the COVID-19 Regime - Leasing principle 3 contained in the Code requires landlords to offer tenants proportionate reductions in rent "based on the reduction in the tenant's trade during the COVID-19 pandemic period and a subsequent reasonable recovery period". The Court found that even though the Regulation came into effect at a later date, its terms had retrospective effect to 1 April 2020 in relation to rent and outgoings for the period from that date.
Meaning of Tenant's Trade - The Court formed the view that when considering the "tenant's trade", consideration should be given to the particular tenant's turnover, as well as costs and profit, from all locations at which the tenant conducts retail businesses rather than the individual locations.
Reasonable subsequent recovery period - The Court accepted that the reasonable subsequent recovery period would be at the minimum 6 months. As such, renegotiated rent may remain at the reduced rate for at least a 6-month period after 24 October 2020, being that date that the Regulation is meant to cease effect.
Flexibility is required for business with seasonal trade - The Court acknowledged that the process of renegotiation may not be problematic in some circumstances, but difficult in others. If a tenant's business is regular and consistent, the Court suggested that a "substantial decline in turnover following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic may reasonably be accepted as being representative of the tenant's likely turnover for the period of the pandemic...". On the other hand, seasonal businesses may need to compare the turnover for a month or so in 2020 with a longer trading period before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Protection afforded if negotiations completed prior to 24 October 2020 - So long as negotiations are concluded prior to 24 October 2020, being the date that the Regulation will currently cease to have effect, any renegotiated terms of the lease will continue to apply, even after the requirement for renegotiation is repealed.
Risk for negotiations not completed by 24 October 2020 - Any renegotiations that are not completed by 24 October 2020, being that date that the Regulation will currently cease to have effect, may not be enforceable. The Court did not explore, in detail, its ability to assist if parties do not succeed in renegotiating a lease by this date.
While Sneakerboy No 2 has provided guidance on some issues arising out of the renegotiation of commercial leases pursuant to the COVID-19 Regime, the biggest takeaway appears to be that good faith commercial negotiations are essential during this time.
While it is still unclear whether the Regulations will be extended prior to 24 October 2020, parties to a commercial lease should endeavour to deal with any issues as soon as they arise.
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Q: Is an ID column always necessary? I have created a table name customers with the columns:
Id,
CustomerId,
CustomerName,
Phone,
Address

In my scenario CustomerId is the primary key but the values in CustomerId are not in order.
I see many people who use an auto incremented 'Id' as primary key, but in my case it will not be it and it will have no use whatsoever.
Is an 'Id' column (Auto incremented) necessary in each and every table?

A: The Id column (Auto increment or not) is usually used to differentiate the rows between them. In other words in many cases it can be used as a Primary Key.
It can also be used as a Foreign key to other tables, if you want to have relationships between them and construct inner joins etc.

A: You are reading good, but some where your are wrong in terms of 2 column one is auto-increment and second is primary.
Generally and as per database creation standard or say normalized form of database, you must create a auto increment-id with primary-key column which is used as a reference of another table.
So no need of 2 column, only use one column with appropriate name and functionality / role. Never create extra column which you never use.
Here is good article for your basic understand about primary-key.
http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_primarykey.asp
This links shows why we need primary key:-
The Primary Key constraint is a convention to indicate that the declared column (or list of columns) constitutes a key. (very good article) refer below link.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/376d565a-f16d-4ae4-afeb-ef2ef78dc4af/why-do-we-need-primary-key-in-a-database?forum=transactsql
https://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090905225547AAAK6Ul

A: Since the CustomerID is your primary key, the ID column may be dropped. An autoincrement column is often used as "Surrogate Key" in cases where you don't have just a simple key (or you have none). So you can create an autoincrement column and set that one as your primary key, mainly because a Clustered Index is a must have on a table. Having a Heap Table may be considered a bad practice in almost any situation.

A: You think it has no use, but it often has.
The Id field is used to retrieve a column on something that makes it unique. It could be any column (you could even use Name for it), but Id is a convention everybody uses.
That kind of column is called a 'Primary Key'. As the name says: it's the primary way to identify a row.
Example:

What if both PostalCode, HouseNumber and Country make an Address row unique. How to retrieve of reference a specific row? Either by specifying the three columns in a query, or just use the Id. Also, If you change either of the three columns, your reference will become invalid. The Id always stays the same.

A: CustomerId is the PK, so it is also unique, in that case another unique ID generated by the system is not needed to create a unique row id. You may still want to create it for performance reason: a small datatype can store more index on the same index page, and that mean a faster search time. In that case you can create a CLUSTERED UNIQUE INDEX on the ID row and a NON CLUSTERED PRIMARY KEY on the CustomerID column if the ID have a smaller data type.
The order of the data in the table is a non-problem, never thing that a table is ordered on it's own, it is not. The data is ordered as the result of an ORDER BY clause in the query.

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Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:47 am Post subject: Scripts Online?
I was wondering if there were any scripts available online? I was wanting to do an Avengers "murder mystery" game on my birthday and hopefully set it around an episode getting quests to play parts.
There are script PDFs for the buyer's personal use on the new UK DVD releases.
I have a couple of TNA scripts on my website (see link in my signature).
Try as I might, Timeless - I can't see how to download those. There don't appear to be any links.
There's a "read" link at the end of the description for each episode. I may do a format change at some point, when life isn't kicking me around so much, and have the download link be on the title of the episode instead. But they're there. I'll repost them here, though.
Sorry, Timeless. Was looking at them in your "archive" section - which doesn't have links as far as I can see.
Thanks for the links here. Much appreciated.
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:46 pm Post subject: Re: Scripts Online?
I have a few, basically those that had been unearthed prior to the new Optimum DVDs, which have the full set.
I prefer the camera script to the rehearsal scripts myself, as it give more cast & crew information; what I'd love to see is both the rehearsal and the camera script for all episodes, but I suspect that will remain an unfulfilled dream.
Camera scripts are great for production information - but sometimes they are terrible for actually working out what was meant to be going on on screen, in terms of actor moves.
Is it possible to get hold of a copy of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station? Its one of my favourites and I think it would be funny to do .
I don't think I have ever seen a camera script before, is it similar to a normal script but with directions and camera angles.
A camera script will detail camera shots and moves and when the shot should change from one to another. It will denote the scene, characters involved, plus all the scripted dialogue with only minor explanation of what is actually happening in front the cameras. Some scripts are better than others in this respect.
Unfortunately, I do not have a copy of A Funny Thing to hand. Hopefully someone else can help you out, Hans.
Any script would do, just as its fun - I want to do game, get people to play parts (kind of a murder mystery game thing), so a script which would suit this would be great .
I might end up going through an episode and jotting down what's said and what happens, and and and make one up.
Have you got the new DVDs from Optimum, Hans? I ask, because they have scripts on them that are accessible via a computer DVD-ROM drive.
Only the first set, I'll have a look and see what I could do .
No problem, Alan--only took a moment to link them up. I hope they prove useful.
It's interesting to see what they leave in, take out or change for the final episode.


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Movie Mogul Jon Peters Once Tried to Talk Pamela Anderson Out of Doing Playboy
6:30 AM PDT 10/4/2017 by Jon Peters, as told to Tatiana Siegel
Hugh Hefner put the star on the magazine's cover a total of 13 times: "He really loved her and saw her beauty," Peters says of the late publishing mogul.
I remember being in Hawaii with my partner Peter Guber and Peter saying, "Have you ever been to the mansion?" I had met Hefner in the early days — I would do hair for people who were in the magazine when I was a hairdresser in the Valley. I would meet these gorgeous girls who just tested for Playboy and they'd come in my shop and I'd do their hair. But I had never been to the mansion. So Peter set it up.
I walked in and saw this little angel sitting at the bar. It was Pammy. She was like 19. I knew she would be a big star. We ended up living together. Of course, Hefner loved her and saw her beauty. Pamela was a girl who with no makeup was gorgeous. She was very smart and very talented. I tried to talk her out of doing Playboy. I said, "Don't do Playboy. Focus on a serious career." She said, "You're nuts." She wanted to do Playboy, and she went on to do 13 covers.
I had total respect for him. People don't realize. They think he was a playboy. He was amazing with the magazine and Playboy After Dark. The way he handled himself, he was a man ahead of his time. I identified with him because I was a guy who worked out of my house in my pajamas too. He was brilliant and very socially conscious. The last time I saw him was years ago. Every time I had a movie like Flashdance, I'd give it to him and he'd screen it and invite all of his friends and invite me over. He liked all of my movies, and he'd ask me to get him a copy.
As for Pammy: If I find someone to be really special, like an actress, they usually become very famous. I have a great eye for beauty, specialness. Leslie Ann Warren. Barbra [Streisand]. All the different women I've been with. Pamela was amazingly ambitious, knew what she wanted to do, how she wanted to do it. She was like the early Kardashians. She's very smart. She raised two kids on her own. She was beat up all the time by that guy Tommy-whatever-his-name-was. I picked her up many times from her lawyer's office and flew her up with her kids and hid her out in Aspen for a month because the guy was beating her up.
She made it through. She raised the kids. She's got money. She's got a career. She's living in Paris. She's the modern-day Marilyn Monroe. She's just unique. And I think that's why Hefner gave her 13 covers. He really loved her. And that's how we met. It's a lost chapter in Hollywood. There are no more Hugh Hefners, believe me.
Peters is former Sony Pictures chairman.
A version of this story first appeared in the Oct. 4 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe.
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Shari Torres
Almost suddenly, American manufacturers were retooled to create commodities for the war effort, and the jobless rate decreased to roughly 10%. As more men were dispatched to war, women were employed to replace them on the production lines. The government also began mass-producing goods such as sugar and rubber, which helped America's allies and hurt its competitors.
World War II had a major impact on American culture. It brought about drastic changes in social behavior, particularly concerning marriage and family. The number of marriages ended in divorce rose dramatically; among white women aged 20-24, it increased by half. The proportion of women in the workforce also increased significantly during this time period. In fact, they accounted for almost one third of all workers in 1943.
American values regarding race and ethnicity changed as well. Before the war, most Americans viewed black people as slaves or at best as second-class citizens. But during that time, many blacks were able to escape slavery and join the military staff or work for other companies. This experience led many whites to realize that not everyone needed to be enslaved to serve their interests.
After the war, millions of dollars were made available to help rebuild Europe and Asia, and this money was distributed primarily based on who was alive and working. This system created resentment among those who had been injured or killed during the war, including veterans themselves.
What impact did the war have on the citizens of the world?
How did the war impact the US?
How did the war affect America economically?
Everything changed when the war began. More workers were required to generate food and weaponry for the soldiers on the front lines. Many people who had been out of employment for some years took advantage of the new opportunities.
The conflict also had an effect on children. They lost one of their most experienced parents, Peter Pan. He was a major influence on many young boys who had never known life without him. In addition, there were several deaths among those working with medicine or health care. These include: Karl Flexner (chemist), Edward Cope (physician), Isaac Funk (physician), Harvey Hubbell (physician), Paul Langerhans (physiologist), Ernest Rock (physician), and Charles Sherwood Scott (surgeon). There were also several others who worked in different ways to help with the war effort.
At last count, this list includes 138 individuals. Of these, 105 were born in Switzerland and 33 died here. Several countries suffered greatly because of the war. France lost over 1 million people while Russia suffered approximately 651,000 casualties.
Overall, this war caused many problems for its participants. It destroyed much infrastructure and caused widespread famine. However, it also led to many changes that improved life for many people around the world. For example, technology now used in hospitals came about because of ideas from physicians working during World War I.
The United States' engagement in World War II had a substantial influence on the country's economy and workforce. American companies were retooled to create commodities for the war effort, and the jobless rate decreased to roughly 10% virtually overnight. The population of cities increased by more than 10 million people, many of them white refugees from the destroyed cities of Europe. In addition, African Americans were increasingly included in the labor force for the first time since before the Civil War.
World War II also played a role in advancing women's rights. Women were encouraged to take jobs that previously had been held only by men, including work in defense plants and other industries not open to men previously. Although most women returned to housework when their sons went back to school at the end of the war, the need for female labor had been demonstrated during that time.
In conclusion, World War II was a major catalyst for change in America - socially, economically, and politically. It brought about the end of slavery and established the principle of racial equality in this country. It also resulted in the creation of many new agencies and institutions that continue to function today. Finally, it showed that women could be effective leaders in business as well as government.
By the time the war ended, almost 18 million jobs had been created or saved.
Additionally, investment in military equipment increased dramatically, helping drive America's postwar economic boom. Between 1940 and 1960, federal spending on defense increased eightfold, from $7 billion to $57 billion. That money was spent on everything from new ships to aircraft to suburbia, with the biggest item by far being the B-29 bomber. The war also had a profound effect on young men and women's expectations about their future roles in society. Women entered the workforce in large numbers for the first time; some estimates are that as many as 20% of all Americans worked during World War II. And finally, the presence of so many soldiers at home led to a rise in demand for goods and services, which helped fuel the postwar economic boom.
World War II brought about many changes for the American economy, but one thing it didn't do was cause any major disasters like so many people believe. There were problems with our industrial base prior to the war, but thanks to aggressive government action (including the creation of wartime industries) they were able to be fixed.
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