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Local residents left totally in the dark
Golden Fleece arriving at Brookmans Park station on 21 May, 1942
Screen grab courtesy of the Imperial War Museum non-commercial licence
On Thursday, 21 May, 1942, Class A4 locomotive Number 4495 'Golden Fleece' arrived at Brookmans Park Station. (1)
On board was the Russian Peoples' Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov, along with his staff. British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, was there to meet his Russian counterpart.
This wasn't a scheduled service; this was a special train laid on to carry a Russian delegation on its way to attend a top-secret meeting which would lead to the signing of the Anglo-Soviet Treaty.
A newspaper reporter from the Daily Mirror had received a tip-off and was at Brookmans Park station to record the event along with a staff photographer. But his story about the meeting wouldn't be published for another three weeks.
As the reporter wrote at the time, "I was the only journalist present to see this great occasion. It was a world scoop, which I could not use."
Eden and Molotov on the platform at Brookmans Park station on 21 May, 1942
The party disembarked from the train's sleeper carriage, climbed up to the footbridge, walked past the ticket office, and up to Station Road, where a fleet of ministerial cars was on standby to whisk the party away to Chequers - a 33-mile drive, where Prime Minister Winston Churchill was waiting to meet them.
The British and Russian entourage leaving Brookmans Park station on 21 May, 1942
The group leaving Brookmans Park by car along Station Road on 21 May, 1942
A British Movitone video of the event is embedded below. Look out for the party arriving at Brook=kmans Park station at 1'38", and the group walking up the ramp past the ticket office towards Station Road.
The following description of the video is from the IWM site:
"A record of the visit of Vyacheslav Molotov, Peoples' Commissar for Foreign Affairs, to the United Kingdom and the signing of the Anglo-Soviet Treaty, May 1942.
"Anthony Eden is seen chatting to Maisky in a compartment of the train. Coming into shot are (apart from the official entourage and members of the London Embassy staff) Molotov, Cadogan, Major-General Isayev and Alexander Bogomolov (the Soviet Ambassador to the Allied Governments).
"On the platform of Brookmans Park Station, the Class A4 locomotive Number 4495 'Golden Fleece' arrives. Seen waiting on the platform are Cadogan and Lieutenant General Nye.
"The first scene is viewed through the carriage window following which the group (which includes Rear-Admiral Kharlamov and Colonel Skliarov) leave the train and make their way out of the station to the waiting cars.
"The story of the village that missed its Big Day"
In his report, which appeared in the Daily Mirror on Friday 12 June, 1942, (see above) EH Christian, the Daily Mirror reporter wrote about the secrecy that led to a day of rumours spreading though the local community. Below is a transcript of the piece.
THEY DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS MOLOTOV
M. Molotov arrived by special train at a tiny English station. No one knew he was coming. No one recognised him when he came. This is the story of the village that missed its Big Day. By E. H. Christian ("Daily Mirror" Reporter)
A TINY country station in the damp coolness of the evening - a train drew in and stopped - a world-famous diplomat alighted. (2)
There were no cheering crowds. There were no ceremonial presentations.
This is how M. Molotov, Russian Foreign Minister, arrived. (3)
I was the only journalist present to see this great occasion. It was a world scoop, which I could not use. (4)
M. Molotov arrived from the north in a seven-coach special strain. He came to a station on the outskirts of London, set in fields, with a few houses in the nearby village.
George, the station master, and his one porter were the staff to greet this "special".
A contingent of Air Force men and police arrived well before the train was due.
They had not long to wait for the train was ahead of schedule.
A number of large cars arrived later bearing Mr. Eden, M. Maiskey, and other members of the welcoming party.
Even Anthony Eden's well-known face attracted no crowd.
The only members of the public present, apart from the Daily Mirror photographer and myself, were two village women.
They were so concerned with catching their train that they had no thought for the identity or importance of the visitor.
No Ceremony
The meeting of M. Molotov and the welcoming party was without ceremony.
The Foreign Commissar, hatless, and dressed in a grey suit, stepped from the train and shook hands with Mr. Eden, M. Maisky, and other officials, smiling broadly. Mr Eden also seemed in excellent spirits.
The greetings on the platform were brief. A faint drizzle sprayed the party as it straggled up the incline from the station to the road.
Mr. Eden led the way, with M. Molotov and M. Maisky following side by side.
While waiting for the cars to be brought up, M. Molotov stood, hatless, talking to his Ambassador and Mr. Eden.
The informality was out of keeping with the importance of the occasion.
Day of Rumours
Filled with officials, the first car moved forwards. M. Molotov and M. Maisky entered the second car with two of their staff. They shook hands again as they parted from Mr. Eden.
"Till tomorrow, then," said our Foreign Secretary, as he smiled goodbye.
Within half an hour the occasion was over. The village had missed its big moment. George was once again issuing tickets.
Next morning the village buzzed with rumours about the visitor. They ranged from Stalin to Roosevelt.
But until the villagers read this story they will not know for certain his identity.
Incident referred to in book about WWII
Roger Hermiston, in his book All Behind You, Winston: Churchill's Great Coalition 1940-45 (ISBN: 9781781313312), describes the scene as follows:
At 7.22 a.m. on Thursday, 21 May, a high-speed London and North Eastern Railway locomotive, the Golden Fleece, pulled up at the quiet country station of Brookmans Park, just eighteen miles outside London. (2)
From the door of the sleeping compartment stepped a stocky man in a smart brown suit with a distinctive black moustache and round spectacles.
He wore a frosty smile and looked every inch the suburban bank manager.
Accompanying him, umbrella in hand, was a tall, elegant-looking individual, sporting a lighter moustache and slicked-back hair, who would not have been out of place on a Hollywood movie set.
Vyacheslav Molotov, people's commissar for foreign affairs, and Anthony Eden, British foreign secretary, were meeting on this unremarkable branch line (5) in conditions of great secrecy; not a word of the Soviet politician's trip had been made known to the wider world.
This 'mystery man thriller', as the Daily Express would later dub it, was partly a product of the natural paranoia of an aide to Stalin, but due also to Molotov's unwillingness to publicise a set of negotiations that might well fail and reflect badly on him.
After extracting a guarantee of confidentiality from a resourceful Daily Mirror photographer who had turned up on a tip-off, Eden led his guest to a waiting car and they drove out of the village, heading for Chequers, where Churchill was waiting to meet them.
Thanks to Roger Hermiston for letting us include the text from his book along with the image of the cover.
1: It's interesting to see that the "Golden Fleece" seems to have no headcodes, neither lamps nor discs. Travelling without lamps during wartime is understandable, but the fact that the locomotive is not displaying discs might be down to the secret nature of the journey.
2:There is a minor discrepancy between the accounts of the event recorded by Roger Hermiston and EH Christian. Christian reported that the train arrived "in the damp coolness of the evening", however Hermiston's book states that the train arrived at 7.22 a.m.
3: The use of 'M.' in the Daily Mirror article of Friday 12 June, 1942, by EH Christian is, we think, an abbreviation for 'Monsieur', the title given to a French-speaking man. It corresponds to the English 'Mr.'. 'M.' was used as a courtesy title in Britain in the past for all men whose language was not English. This stems from the fact that at one time French was the international diplomatic language.
4: In his piece, EH Christian writes, "I was the only journalist present to see this great occasion. It was a world scoop, which I could not use." This could have been because of a D-Notice had been issued. A D-Notice is an advisory request by government to withhold information, particularly in regard to national security.
5:There is a reference to Brookmans Park station being on a branch line rather than on the main line known as the LNER at the time the event took place.
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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Wednesday 29/3/2006The industry's most enduring fruit-and-nut case is back for the third time of asking: Apple versus Apple. Apple Corps, home of such rock music aristocracy as Doris Troy, Grapefruit and The Beatles, has long been mildly irked at Apple Computer's use of a similar logo to the Corps' famously green Granny Smith.
By Rupert Goodwins for Mixed Signals | March 31, 2006 -- 18:30 GMT (10:30 PST) | Topic: Innovation
The industry's most enduring fruit-and-nut case is back for the third time of asking: Apple versus Apple. Apple Corps, home of such rock music aristocracy as Doris Troy, Grapefruit and The Beatles, has long been mildly irked at Apple Computer's use of a similar logo to the Corps' famously green Granny Smith. The first time they went to court at the beginning of the 80s, Apple Computer paid a small fine and agreed not to use the logo for anything to do with music.
Then came the 1990s, multimedia, MIDI and sample files on the Mac called Sosumi. Court case number two. Apple Computer had to cough up $26.5m, in exchange for which it was allowed to do musical computers but not actually sell music in physical form, or use the Apple logo for what legal experts call 'that sort of thing'. Is the combination of an iPod and iTunes Music Shop a physical form of music? Is having the Apple Computer logo on a Coldplay video too similar to having the Apple Corps logo on a record label?
The court has to decide. It sounds like quite a fun case, with the judge being a self-confessed iPod owner and the prosecution downloading Le Freak to the frank admiration of everyone within earshot. Isn't that a public performance, though, as explicitly forbidden by our moral masters? I'm only asking. Apple Computer is, by some accounts, preparing for the worst – with a cash stash of $8bn, it can afford any fine but it may have to get its logo and name off iTunes. Or maybe it can buy Apple Corps and get Pixar to do a remake of Yellow Submarine — the Hunt For Yellow October, perhaps, with Sean Connery as a Blue Meanie.
All this means that one of my long-held fantasies is unlikely to come true, that of Jobs and Woz starting up a Beatles' tribute band. There's no shortage of potential cross-over ideas — "Got To Get You Into iLife", "Father Mackensie", writing his blogs in the night when there's nobody there. Nobody cares.", "Hey Jobs, take an iPod, and make it whiiiiter", "PowerBook Writer" and so on. Doubtless, you can do better.
As could Apple Corps: it's hardly likely that anyone's confused enough to think they're behind the iPod. There's a chance that the company is still miffed that its own attempts at producing gizmos — Apple Electronics — foundered because of the small problem that it was based entirely on the acid-fried imaginings of one Magic Alex. Some people wander into a field, stare at the cosmos and come back with the idea of a solar-powered electric guitar; others come up with the personal computer.
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Achron, Joseph
Joseph Achron was influential in the real of Hebrew music. He was born in May of 1886 in Losdseje, Russia. He began studying violin with his father, who'd supposedly made his violin, and then in Warsaw with Sergei (Sergey) Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Successor of Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolai at the Imperial Chapel, and son of Mikhail Vasilyevich Lyapunov, an astronomer. In 1894, Achron studied with Isadore Lotto for five years, after which he went on to learn from Leopold Auer.
Before Mr. Achron was drafted into the army in Russia, he joined the Kharkov royal conservatory, and was one of the founders of the Society for Hebrew Folk Music. More information can be found about it here: https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Society_for_Jewish_Folk_Music.
The aforementioned Sergei Lyapunov composed an interesting violin concerto in D minor, op. 61: https://imslp.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto%2C_Op.61_(Lyapunov%2C_Sergey)Below are compositions Achron dedicated to notable musicians.
Violin concerto in G, op.60 dedicated to Jascha Heifetz in mid-1920s: https://imslp.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_No.1%2C_Op.60_(Achron%2C_Joseph)
Two compositions dedicated to Leopold Auer:Suite for violin and piano 'en style moderne' No. 2 op.22 in A minor (1906). This is a 5-movement composition: https://imslp.org/wiki/Suite_No.2_en_Style_moderne%2C_Op.22_(Achron%2C_Joseph)
and 'Coquetterie ' or Coquetry op.15, a little piece in A major for violin and piano from 1905: https://imslp.org/wiki/Coquetterie%2C_Op.15_(Achron%2C_Joseph)
Although short, it is quite demanding – high positions, double stops, and harmonics.Achron had written cello music as well that is quite stunning:Fragment mystique, for cello and piano in B minor, Op.43. Based on a Hebrew theme. (1917/1926)Sheet music: https://imslp.org/wiki/Fragment_mystique%2C_Op.43_(Achron%2C_Joseph)
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT8VfRlDnmM&ab_channel=GregoryHamilton-Topic
Originaly an orchestral piece but arranged for violin and piano in dedication to Joseph Szigeti, 'Stempenyu' 3-part suite. Stempenyu is a character in a Jewish romance novel from 1888 by Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (nicknamed Sholem Aleichem), who plays Klezmer violin: https://imslp.org/wiki/Stempenyu_(Achron%2C_Joseph)
Additionally, he arranged piano pieces for piano and violin including 'Liebestraume' by Franz Liszt, Scherzo-Impromptu from Edvard Grieg's 'Moods', and Robert Schumann's 'Bilder aus Osten'.
Hebrew Lullaby 'Hebraisches Wiegenlied' No.2 Op.35
Hebrew Melody Op.33


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Ruth Perry Music Award
Due: 2023 TBD
The Ruth Perry Award was established by First Church through donations from its members to honor Ruth Perry, who was music director from 1931 to 1971, for her contributions to the musical ministry of First Church. The intent of the award is to recognize those graduating high school seniors who have participated significantly in the musical life of the church.
Each year the Music Team may vote to award one or more awards from the interest accrued in the Ruth Perry Award Fund. The recipient(s) and the amount(s) of the individual award(s) will be determined by a majority vote of members of the Music Team, the Minister and Director of Music. It will be the prerogative of the Music Team to abstain from awarding any grant in any given year.
The application is open to high school seniors. The award(s) will be given on a Sunday in June.
You can now fill out the application online, for the Ruth Perry Music Award (scroll down to find the application.)
You may also download a .pdf version of the application HERE, and email it to daniel@firstchurchlongmeadow.org.
The application deadline is: TBD 2023
be a member of First Church.
be a graduating high school senior who is pursuing post high school studies.
have been an active participant in the musical life of First Church. Examples of active participation are:
Membership in church musical organizations
Instrumental performance at church services
Musical participation at other church activities
Assistance to the Director of Music; assistance at church-related musical functions; cataloging of music; other assistance at the discretion of the Director of Music.
First consideration will be given to college bound students who plan to pursue a musical career, or a major in music. Good Luck!
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Harlem's Tren'ness Woods-Black And Others Offer Ideas To Boost Minority And Immigrant-Owned Businesses In Crisis
Yesterday marked the beginning of the gradual reopening of New York City's economy, but there is much policymakers will need to do in the weeks and months ahead to ensure that the city's economic recovery is inclusive and equitable. One clear step should be to support the city's minority- and immigrant-owned businesses, which have been disproportionately devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. On May 28th, 2020, their forum, "Bolstering Immigrant and Minority-Owned Small Businesses Impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic," surfaced a number of concrete ideas to help these businesses get through the crisis.
Check out the video of their forum, which was supported by HSBC and featured:
NYC Department of Small Business Services Commissioner Jonnel Doris
NY State Assemblymember Ron Kim; NYC Councilmember Ben Kallos
Mohamed Attia of the Street Vendor Project
David Estrada from Sunset Park BID
Shaun McDougall of HSBC
Lissarette Nisnevich, founder of child care company Pequeñines
Yanki Tshering of the Business Center for New Americans
Harlem's Tren'ness Woods-Black, VP at Sylvia's Restaurant
Some of the policy ideas put forward during the discussion include:
Think big about opening streets and public spaces for commerce. Perhaps more than anything else, the city's immigrant- and minority-owned businesses need customers. One way to help is by opening up streets, sidewalks, plazas, and even public parks to neighborhood restaurants, retailers, and street vendors. Although some city officials have embraced the idea, our panelists urged them to go beyond incremental steps and make a bold new commitment—even if it's just for the next several months—to allow more commerce on city streets and in public open spaces. "Shared public space should be dedicated to public commerce," said David Estrada of the Sunset Park BID. "Food and drink establishments need multiple times their current capacity."
To ensure government programs reach minority- and immigrant-owned businesses, partner with CDFIs and other community-based organizations. Thousands of minority- and immigrant-owned businesses across New York were unable to access the federal Paycheck Protection Program as well as the city's emergency grant program for small businesses impacted by the pandemic. To ensure better results in the future, government programs should partner with Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) and other community-based organizations, which have the trust of these businesses and understand the unique challenges they face. "These organizations know how to reach the businesses that have been left out," said Yanki Tshering of Business Center for New Americans.
Provide commercial rent relief. Many immigrant and minority-owned businesses are microbusinesses for whom rent is a much greater expense even than payroll. The city and state should take the lead and convene businesses, landlords, and financial institutions to find a common solution.
Push city agencies, FEMA, hospitals, and universities to buy from local businesses. City agencies, hospitals, FEMA, and other large institutions are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency-related contracts, but immigrant- and minority-owned small businesses are struggling to access those opportunities. City officials should push for more of these contracts to go to local businesses, and it should help minority- and immigrant-owned firms prepare for and pivot to access these opportunities.
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Include street vendors in recovery plans. The pandemic has taken a significant toll on the city's street vendors, but nearly all of them have been completely shut out of government relief. Going forward, city and state economic development officials should develop plans to support these entrepreneurs. Among other things, Mohamed Attia of the Street Vendor Project urged city officials to include vendors in plans for opening up sidewalks and streets for commerce.
This symposium, the first of their three forum series on how to boost support for immigrant- and minority-owned businesses in New York, was made possible through generous support from HSBC. The Center receives general support from The Clark Foundation and the Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation. They are also grateful for support from Fisher Brothers for the Center for an Urban Future's Middle-Class Jobs Project, and ongoing support from a number of other philanthropic funders.
A video of the full discussion is available here. Their next forum focused on Brooklyn's minority- and immigrant-owned businesses will take place on the morning of June 24th, 2020.
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But luckily, Kaitlyn and I were able to fit in a shoot before the chilly weather set in! Kaitlyn is a fellow senior at The University of Texas at Austin (Hook 'em) graduating this Winter 2015. We spent a rainy Saturday (and a much sunnier Sunday morning) capturing photos and "borrowing" colorful streamers we found on the sidewalk. Congratulations to this awesome gal and I wish her luck at UT's School of Nursing next year!


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In present days, Microsoft Word 2010 is the most running edition of the MS Word of the Windows pc. Majority of people working on the Windows are enough familiar with the Word `10 documents. Even though Microsoft has released 2013 version of Word people still prefer the Word 2010 only. The obvious reason behind this is its ease of use. Word 2010 is the assumed as one of the most reliable and perfect tool for word processing to work in. Even the people who are not related with software field are working with great ease on Microsoft Word 2010.
Microsoft Word 2010 enables you to create reports, legal copies, letters, memos, some crucial documents as well as editing, e-printing. Also students or home users are also takes use of it to prepare resume or / and project documentations. MS Word `10 feeds up you with a large number of facilities related to documentation which facilitates you prepare complex records and also to maintain it. As it common to all MS Word also has some data loss issues which is an unavoidable problem. Like other user you also maintaining your important records with Word app and sudden one fine day you are not able to access your documents, what will you do now? All your valuable records, your efforts goes in waste, will you let it go? Of course not, you will start finding solution on it.
System errors- suppose you working with word doc and also changing the settings in the system, if you change in the system with opened word doc will cause corruption and the loss of that particular word doc.
Virus influence- cases where you store your doc file in folder along with other files. While scanning with powerful antivirus, your folder gets vanished in such cases along with the main folder your word doc also get lost.
System shut down- sometimes when you working with word and in middle of the process suddenly your system gets shut down, then here many possibilities of corruption and loss of word doc.
It supports all file types of DOC and DOCX.
Have an ability to recover texts, OLE objects, fields which include hyperlinks.
Supports Win 7 with 32 – bit as well as 64 – bit.
Microsoft word is the finest application to work with the text files developed by Microsoft. This application is a part of the Microsoft office which has the different version. Microsoft word facilitates you with the advance text tools like bulleting, numbering, fonts, supports in different language, and many more which make your text files more attractive, expressive. This word file can contains images, fonts and many more things which give a complete representation of ones ideas and thoughts.
Microsoft word 2003 is one of the version comes with an office which gives you permission to work with text files even on the internet. Online sending and receiving of files are so easy for example resume. The extensions of the word files are DOC, DOCX etc.
The word is used in many organizations for different purposes and even common users are many in count. When this word file gets corrupted then they ought to repair to abstain from loss of text file (mostly documentation). File repairing softwares are available on the internet which can be used to repair your corrupted file.
So to fix word document there are many softwares but what can be the reason behind the corruption of files? And if there is repairing process then there should be precautions too? Yes there are some precautions which are intended to be taken and there are some scenarios which can be the reason for the corruption of files and you can recover every version like you can repair word 2007.
NOTE: – These are some scenarios which might cause the corruption but there are many unknown reasons too which cause the corruption.
Unexpectedly closing of application when process of saving file was going on.
Power surge as well as power failure both are the scenario which most of the time causes corruption of files.
Upgrading the version of the files without upgrading the version of the application or opening the application in older version.
The format changed while saving your files (change the extension of saved files).
Virus attack to the system location where the files is saved can corrupt the file and it is basically the most common scenarios amongst the different scenarios for corruption of files.
Application crash meanwhile saving of files.
TIPS: – Apart from these scenarios there are some precautions or dons to be followed.
Back up creation is must to escape from data loss and that backup should be saved in some reliable tool.
Upgrading of files can be done but not by changing the extension only.
Check a location whether the file is saved on the rite location in hard disk or CD.
Good power supply should be given to the system to abstain from the sudden shut down of a system.
After this really if you find that your data is corrupted in files holding it then you need the repairing tool which can fix your problem. There are many download which are available on internet for repairing of the word files. Better to go with the trial version first then if you find that the software is quite good for the purpose then you can download the entire version of it.


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Surviving the Storm
Micca Campbell, Speaker, Writer, Assistant Director with Proverbs 31 Ministries
Mark 4:37; 39, But soon a fierce storm arose. When he woke up, he rebuked the wind and said to the water, "Be Still!" Suddenly the wind stopped, and there was a great calm. (NKJ)
Devotion:
When you're in the midst of a raging storm whether it's financial, relational or an unexpected illness, does Christ seem far away and unaware of your situation? While I know that's not true, the weight of my own burdens can often make me feel as if I'm carrying them alone. Even in situations that seem reasonable for me to handle, I frequently find myself asking, "Where are you God? I need to know that you are near."
While the disciples were experienced seamen, they found themselves in a desperate situation that only Jesus could overcome. The angry sea was tossing them about as water filled their boat. Surely they would drown. And where was Jesus? He was asleep in the boat unaware of the storm, or so it seemed.
Defeated by their own efforts to save themselves, the disciples became afraid and anxiously cried out to Jesus. Responding to their cry, Jesus rebuked the wind and calmed the storm. Then he asked, "Why are you so afraid? Do you still not have faith in me?"
Good question. What comes to the surface when you're in a raging storm-faith or fear? If Jesus promised to never leave us or forsake us, then that means there is nothing to fear. Jesus is always in the boat with us. Yet, in order to survive, we must keep our eyes on Him instead of our circumstance.
To survive the storm, we need to trust that:
1. Even though Jesus was asleep in the boat, he was aware of their situation. The storm didn't wake him, but the cry of his disciple did and he responded powerfully and without delay. Jesus was in control of the storm. He is also in control and aware of your storm. Matthew 10: 29 says, not even a sparrow can fall to the ground with out your Father knowing it. Jesus is aware of your situation.
2. Jesus will answer your cry for help. Sometimes it may seem like Jesus is asleep but he may be allowing us to reach a point of desperation. The disciples were experienced fishermen, yet they were in a storm only Jesus could handle. Sometimes we have to come to the end of our own self-effort and depend only on God. He wants us to know he is sufficient in the midst of our storm. When we give up and cry out, he will answer our call.
3. With Jesus, you can make it through the storm. Every one of us is going to face hardship, but only the child of God has the promise of his presence with them in the midst of a storm. Although Jesus never promised us a life of smooth sailing, he did promise us a safe journey. God will not leave you abandoned in the middle of your hardship.
Henry Blackaby, the author of "Experiencing God," says, "The effects of the storm were not the truth of the disciples' situation. The Truth was asleep in the boat." Our circumstances in life do not have the final say, Jesus does. And He says in Isaiah 41:10 fear not, for I am with you. Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. I will uphold you with my righteousness right hand. When the waves of trouble come crashing in on you, know that you are not alone. There's no need to fear. Instead have faith that Jesus is in the boat. And with Him, you can survive the storm.
My Prayer for Today:
Dear Jesus, Thank you that you are my provision in the midst of my storm. I need to know you are near. Help me to see that you are with me. Help me to trust you to overcome my burden even when I can't see land for the rain, thunder and clouds. I trust you will lead me safely through. In Jesus' name I pray. A-men.
Application Steps:
Just as storms are part of nature that comes again and again, so are the storms of adversity in our lives. It's only by trusting Jesus that we survive. Cling to him throughout the day and rest in His care until He calms the storm around you.
Refection points:
What is your first reaction to a problem - fear or faith?
What steps can you take to turn your fear into faith?
Do you need to stop trying to fix your own problems and lay them at the feet of Jesus?
Are you trusting Jesus over your circumstance?
Have you thanked Him lately for being your provision and help?
Power Verses:
Psalm 27:14 Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord. (KJV)
Isaiah 43:2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shall not be burned; neither shall the fame kindle upon thee. (KJV)
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strenghteneth me. (KJV)
Psalm 31:24 Be of good courage and He shall strengthen your heart, all ye who hope in the Lord. (KJV)
Philippians 4:6 Be careful for nothing, but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. (KJV)
Coming out of the Dark, by Mary Southerland
http://www.gospelcom.net/p31/resources/outofdark.html
Radically Obedient; Radically Blessed, by Lysa Terkeurst
http://www.gospelcom.net/p31/resources/radical.html
Where is God When Bad Things Happen, book/tape by Mary Southerland
http://www.gospelcom.net/p31/resources/badthingsset.html
Originally published Tuesday, 18 May 2004.
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July 2015 - Hummersknott Badminton Club Tour
Sunday 12th Jul 2015
Hummersknott Badminton Club organised its 2015 International Tour in July to Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Czech Republic – making it 22 countries played in over recent seasons. The Club has grown over the years also to link closely with other local groups. Lots of badminton was played on tour and a highlight became the visit to meet the UK Ambassador, Mrs. Susan le Jeune d'Allegeershecque, in the Embassy in Vienna where the players took afternoon tea. It has been a priority to travel as ambassadors for Darlington and the UK. Plans are in progress for a further tour in 2016 to Malta, Spain, Gibraltar and Portugal.
In Pressbaum, Vienna, the group were privileged to have with them an International player from New Zealand, Richard Purser (Badminton legend from NZL and several times World Masters Champion), who emailed a couple of days after we moved on as follows:
"…what a great time I had with you & your enthusiastic group over the last 2 days. They were a delight to be with - on the courts, on the bus, & doing the Vienna culture scene with very interesting embassy & UNO visits & Donauturm & dinner. Sport is an extra special way to see the world & it's so great being able to mix with the locals. Very many thanks for having me "on board".
At the 34th Annual Presentation Evening in early September, the Club was delighted to welcome the Lord Lieutenant of County Durham, Mrs Sue Snowdon, as Guest of Honour to present many awards. The role of the Lord Lieutenant being to represent HM the Queen in the region. In attendance too were the Mayor and Mayoress of Darlington, Councillor Tom and Mrs Gill Nutt who have been great supporters of the Club and toured Rome last year with the players. Also present were the last two Mayors of Darlington with their wives.
Included were a group from Phoenix Badminton Club, Wolsingham, with their Team Manager Mr Steve Dunnett. Phoenix toured with Hummersknott on the July tour and received their certificates from that from Mrs Snowdon.
Sara Jenson, Deputy CEO of "The Key_your potential unlocked" group, attended to listen to a presentation from James Henderson, Tom Freary and Daniel Smart after the successful International tournament the club hosted in March in Sheffield thanks to the funding provided for the project by The Key. Sara complimented the whole group on their project and skills developed in doing so.
The 12 day tour produced comments such as the following from the Team Captain
"I should add that many of us don't only look forward to it more than Christmas, but without a doubt enjoy it much more. I suppose Christmas and the tour are synonymous in some ways: tours are at the end of the academic year rather than the calendar year; they are a time where you get to escape from the pressures of 'normal' life and spend it with your family (even if they aren't blood relatives)."
Team Vice-Captain said:
"I eagerly look forward to these trips every year. Knowing that after all the struggles of exams and hours of bag packing, awaits a short period away doing what I love with people that I love, really does keep me going. For me, this is why the trips must continue. Everyone should have the opportunity to grow in maturity, integrate with other cultures, and most of all; make lifelong friends just like I've had the opportunity to do. Better than 12 consecutive days of Christmas easily."
It seems what the Club does is unique in world youth sport and players and associates look forward to the next times they travel to represent Darlington.


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What Was Scary About Blackhat 2017?
August 1, 2017 /0 Comments/in hackers /by Robert Siciliano
As you might know, at the end of July, all types of hackers came to Las Vegas to attend Blackhat 2017. During the conference, some pretty scary hacks were exposed, and we can all take this as a lesson on what we are up against in this technology-heavy world. Here are some of the scariest hacks we learned about during Blackhat 2017:
Carwash Hijacking
Nothing is safe from technology, and these days, carwashes are an unexpected target for hackers. It is perfectly possible that a car wash could be hacked, controlled remotely, and used to destroy vehicles. Scary.
Hacking Cars
Speaking of vehicles, it was also revealed how easy it is for a pro to hack automobiles. Just last year, Chinese hackers were successful in hacking a Tesla S. The hackers disabled the brakes, so Tesla updated security in its cars. However, recently, the car company was hacked again, showing that hackers always find a way.
Oculus Headsets and Hoverboards
Another scary hack participants learned about was that hackers can access hoverboards and the Oculus Rift headsets. These hacks could cause the devices to shake uncontrollably, bringing harm to those who are using them.
Printer Hacking
Michael Howard Chief Security Advisor of HP and painfully demonstrated that only 18% of IT security managers are concerned about printer security where as 90% are concerned about PC's. That stat is one reason why ?92% of Forbes Global 2000 companies experienced a breach in 2016 which in part resulted in 4 billion records breached worldwide. According to the Ponemon Institute, 60% of data breaches reported by companies involve printers. Very scary.
The Motivation of Adversaries
We also learned that hackers wanting money, data, or intelligence aren't their only motivation. More and more, they are motivated by the ability to manipulate people, to undermine democracy, and to wreak havoc for journalists and activists.
Wind Hacking
Wait, what? Participants at Blackhat 2017 also learned about how the bad guys are hacking the wind. Well, not actually the wind, but the systems that create wind energy. The main motivation here is money. Just one hacked turbine can cost anywhere from $10,000 to $30,000 per hour. That's a lot of leverage for hackers who only need to hack a single turbine to demand ransom to set the turbine free.
Hacker Masquerade
Hackers are also using a savvy technique to hack phones. Chinese hackers are switching from targeting high tech LTE networks to slow 2G technology. This means, when our phone switch to a slower network, which happens if the signal isn't strong, even if you have great security, your phone can still be hacked.
Facebook Bounties
These are some of the scariest hacks we saw at Blackhat 2017, but never fear, white hat hackers are on it. In fact, companies like Facebook are offering cash, up to $1 million, for developers who create software to keep users safe. OK, not scary. But good.
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Black Hat 2017 was an Amazing Event
July 29, 2017 /0 Comments/in online security /by Robert Siciliano
In July, more than 15,000 security pros, hackers, hobbyists, and researchers met in Las Vegas for the Black Hat Conference 2017 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. This was the 20th year that the security conference was held, and both black and white hat hackers joined together to discuss security.
For two decades, Black Hat has gained a reputation for demonstrations of some of the most cutting-edge research in information security as well as development and industry trends. The event has also had its share of controversy – sometimes enough to cause last-minute cancelations.
Launched in 1997 as a single conference in Las Vegas, Black Hat has gone international with annual events in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
Black Hat 2017 was almost a full week of everything having to do with IT security. There were hands-on training sessions, a full business hall where vendors gathered with swag and products, and of course, parties. I hit 5 parties in 3 nights. I'm totally spent.
This is a conference that attracted some of the brightest people in the world of security, and has a reputation for bringing together all types of professionals and amateurs interested in hacking, security, or the latest in encryption.
What's interesting about Black Hat 2017 is that there is something for everyone. From hackers trying to hack hackers to remaining "off the grid," you never know what you might find. In fact, most people who attended this conference decided to stay away from electronic communication all together. Let's just say leaving devices in airplane mode, shutting off Wi-Fi, using VPNs, and always utilizing two-factor authentication for critical accounts is the norm during the conference for veteran attendees.
One of the most popular parts of Black Hat 2017 was the briefing on business protection. It's important to note that many companies have employees that simply don't comply with security policies. Additionally, these policies aren't governed enough, and it is costing millions. In her presentation Governance, Compliance and Security: Three Keys to Protecting Your Business, the speaker from HP, Sr Security Advisor, Dr. Kimberlee Brannock, during her 16-year tenure at HP, Dr. Kimberlee Brannock has used her extensive education and experience in compliance and governance to shape HP's security standards. shared why it's not always enough to secure business networks and why governance and compliance really matters. With 25 billion connect devices by 2020, maintaining proper network and data security compliance is an important concern for any business, as noncompliance costs businesses an average $9.5 million annually through fines, lost business and lawsuits.
Another very popular briefing at Black Hat 2017 was Staying One Step Ahead of Evolving Threats demonstrated on average, an organization has more than 600 security alerts each week, and over 27,000 endpoints leading to 71% of data breaches starting from the endpoint.
Most put in thousands of hours, and dollars, for that matter, on securing servers, laptops, and data centers, but many companies are ignoring other areas of security vulnerability. One of the best things about this briefing was that the leader, Michael Howard from HP, Chief Security Advisor, as Worldwide Security Practice Lead, Mr Howard is responsible for evolving the strategy for security solutions and services in Managed Services. He gave a lot of information on printer security, something that most businesses fail to address. He used real-world examples of how some of the most secure organizations are still lagging in their print security and share how he uses a proven framework to secure the print infrastructure.
Overall, Black Hat 2017 was an eye-opening experience, and with the world of network security changing all of the time, all in attendance surely learned something new. I met a ton of very cool characters, partied hard, drank too much, ate too much, slept none and to keep my data secure, I'm considering moving off grid to a cave in the Outback of Australia.
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Blackhat Hackers Love Office Printers
July 27, 2017 /0 Comments/in hackers /by Robert Siciliano
The term, or in this case the word "blackhat" in tech generally refers to a criminal hacker. The opposite of black is white and a "whitehat" is a security professional. These terms originate from the "spaghetti western" movies when the bad guy cowboy wore a black hat and the law wore white hats. Fun huh?! Blackhat is also the name of the largest conference on the planet for information security. The conference itself is 20 years old and as Alex Stamos who is the CSO for Facebook and also Blackhat 2017's keynote speaker said "Blackhat isn't even old enough to drink" That statement reflects just how far we've come in information security and also how much more there is to do.
One of the presentations at Blackhat discussed printer security called "Staying One Step Ahead of Evolving Threats" by Michael Howard Chief Security Advisor of HP and painfully demonstrated just how much more there is to do.
Do you ever feel as if your office printer is dangerous? Most of us don't. In fact, more than half of businesses don't even bother adding printers to their security strategies. Mr Howard stated only 18% of IT security managers are concerned about printer security where as 90% are concerned about PC's. That stat is one reason why ?92% of Forbes Global 2000 companies experienced a breach in 2016 which in part resulted in 4 billion records breached worldwide.
Hackers know this, so office printers are the perfect target for them. Remember, printers are connected to the network, and if unprotected, they are easily hacked. According to the Ponemon Institute, 60% of data breaches reported by companies involve printers. So, why do hackers love printers? Here are a bunch of reasons:
Networks are Vulnerable
Even if you have a firewall, there are several devices that might be on a network that are access points to that network. When you don't add your printer to your security plan, it becomes a welcome access point to hackers. Once they get in, the consequences could be terrible for a business.
Hackers Can Get Useful Data
The data that hackers can get from printers that are not protected is unencrypted. If one of your staff members sends sensitive information to the printer, yet it is unencrypted, the hackers can read it. Mr Howard shared how one universitys unsecured printers led to students hacking tests days before they were taken, giving the students a significant advantage. Do you really want your company's data to be open like that? All hackers have to do is take it if the printer isn't protected.
They Know They Can Access Other Devices
Hackers also love office printers because they know that once they are in, they can access other unprotected endpoints on the network. Mobile devices are an excellent example of this. It is quite challenging to secure access to all of these devices. The more devices that are connected to the network, the easier it is to access it.
Information Leaks
How many times have you printed something at the office and let it sit in the tray for a while? This happens often. Hackers know this, too, and they can essentially print anything once they have access to the printer and retrieve it at any time. This easily opens up the business to compliance issues.
Finally, hackers love office printers because they get inside access. ?Once the printer is compromised, so is the rest of the network.
Change the printers default passwords.
All computing devices including printers need encryption.
Printer hard drives have lots of data. Destroy hard drives prior to recycling or reselling.
Printer firmware and software needs to be regularly patched and updated.
Use "fleet management" tools to ensure all of the companies devices are protected.
When businesses implement security policies and procedures that directly address endpoints, including printers, they significantly reduce risk and maintain proper network and data security compliance.
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What are Bug Bounties?
November 20, 2015 /in hackers /by Robert Siciliano
A bug bounty refers to the reward a bad-guy hacker gets upon discovering a vulnerability, weakness or flaw in a company's system.
This is akin to giving a reward to a burglar for pointing out weaknesses in your home's security.
But whom better to ask than a burglar, right? Same with a company's computer systems: The best expert may be the black hat or better, white hat hacker.
An article at bits.blogs.nytimes.com says that Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Dropbox, PayPal and Yahoo are on the roster of companies that are offering hackers bounties for finding "bugs" in their systems.
A "zero day bug" refers to an undiscovered flaw or security hole. Cybercriminals want to know what these zero day bugs are, to exploit for eventual hacking attempts. There is a bustling black market for these non-identified bugs.
Compounding the issue is that it is becoming easier for Joe Hacker to acquire the skills to infiltrate—skills that common hackers never would have had just a few years ago, and especially a decade ago. So you can see how important it is for businesses to hire the best at finding these bugs and rewarding them handsomely.
So yes, hackers are being paid to report bugs. The bits.blogs.nytimes.com article says that Facebook and Microsoft even sponsor an Internet Bug Bounty program. Such a program should have been started long ago, but it took some overlooked bugs to motivate these technology companies to offer the bounties.
Heartbleed is an example. Remember that? It was a programming code mistake that affected certain SSL certificates—which help protect users on a secure website. As a result, over a dozen major tech companies began an initiative to, as the bits.blogs.nytimes.com article says, "pay for security audits in widely used open-source software."
So as clever as bug bounties sound, it shouldn't be regarded as the be-all end-all solution. How about an incentive to get developers to implement secure, mistake-free coding practices? Well, companies are trying. And they keep trying. But with humans behind the technology, there will always be mistakes.
Robert Siciliano is an identity theft expert to TheBestCompanys.com discussing identity theft prevention.
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What is a Hacker?
October 1, 2015 /in hackers /by Robert Siciliano
You probably think you know what a "hacker" is, but the images portrayed in the media can be misleading. You may be thinking of a geeky-looking guy who causes peoples' computers to get infected with viruses or cracks passwords to raid the accounts of big business. This is one kind of hacker, but in a broader sense a hacker is a person (male or female) who uses their programming skills and technical knowledge to create and modify computer software and hardware by finding their weaknesses and exploiting them.
Hackers can be motivated by a number of reasons, both positive and negative. For instance, criminal hackers can create malware to commit crimes, such as stealing information and money, while other hackers are benevolent. They may work for big companies or the government in the name of protecting them from bad hackers.
It helps to be familiar with these general categories of hackers:
Black hat hackers
This is a hacker who gains unauthorized access into a computer system or network with malicious intent. They may use computers to attack systems for profit, for fun, for political motivations, or as part of a social cause. Such penetration often involves modification and/or destruction of data, as well as distribution of computer viruses, Internet worms, and spam.
White hat hackers
Also known as "ethical hackers," white hat hackers are computer security experts who specialize in penetration testing and other testing methodologies to ensure that a company's information systems are secure. These security experts may utilize a variety of methods to carry out their tests, including social engineering tactics, use of hacking tools, and attempts to evade security to gain entry into secured areas.
Gray hat hackers
These are skilled hackers who sometimes act legally, sometimes in good will and sometimes not. They are a hybrid between white and black hat hackers. They usually do not hack for personal gain or have malicious intentions, but may or may not occasionally commit crimes during the course of their technological exploits.
In addition to these definitions, the term "hacker" is currently used to refer to any individual who deliberately tries to compromise a computer system—regardless of objective.
It may also simply refer to someone who likes to tinker around with the innards of computer systems, and it may also mean a really smart person who can solve any computer problem.
So, while you may have generally thought of hackers as criminals, the term actually describes a range of people with different technical skills and motives. That's why it would be more helpful if we used the term with descriptors, such as "white hat hacker" or "criminal hacker," so we have a better idea to whom we are referring.
After all, hackers shouldn't have a bad reputation overall. They are usually very talented people and we need more of the good variety: white hats.
Robert Siciliano is an Online Safety Expert to Intel Security. He is the author of 99 Things You Wish You Knew Before Your Mobile was Hacked! Disclosures.
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Are All Hackers Bad?
September 9, 2014 /in hackers /by Robert Siciliano
The word hacker has a pretty negative connotation. It brings to mind other words like cybercriminal, thief, and malicious. It's easy to see why hacker has a bad rep. The news is full of stories about hackers stealing data from large companies and the government. Hackers are the bad guys.
Tesla just recently announced they are hiring hackers to find and fix security holes in the Model S car. Google started a league of hackers called "Project Zero" to track down security flaws in their software. Companies like Facebook and others sponsor hack-a-thons, where anyone is invited to try and crack their systems, all the time. Why would these companies want to hire or incentivize hackers?
The truth is not all hackers are the same. Here are the different kinds of hackers:
White hat hackers: Also known as "ethical hackers," these hackers use their skills to make the Internet a safer place. Some white hat hackers do this for fun and then report the information to companies or sites they have broken into so the companies and sites can be fixed. It is these white hat hackers that Tesla is hiring they can find any security holes in their Internet-enabled cars before the bad hackers find and exploit them.
Gray hat hackers: These are the guys in the middle. They sometimes act legally, sometimes not. They usually do not hack for personal gain or have malicious intentions, but may or may not occasionally commit crimes during the course of their technological exploits. An example of gray hat hackers is hacktivists—who hack to bring attention to a political agenda or social cause. Anonymous, a predominant hacktivist group, recently took down multiple Israeli websites in protest of the Gaza crisis.
Black hat hackers: These are the bad guys that give the word hacker its negative connotation. These hackers are committing crimes…and they know it. They are looking to exploit companies or you and your devices for their financial gain.
So the next time you hear the word hacker, don't automatically assume it's a bad thing. Hacking can used for good and evil, it all depends on the hacker's intent.
Robert Siciliano is an Online Security Expert to McAfee. He is the author of 99 Things You Wish You Knew Before Your Mobile was Hacked! Disclosures.
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FFIEC Mandates "System Of Layered Security" to Combat Fraud
July 31, 2011 /0 Comments/in iovation /by Robert Siciliano
For any cave-dwelling, living-under-a-rock, head-in-the-sand, naïve, under-informed members of society who aren't paying attention, we have serious cyber-security issues on our hands.
Black hat hackers, who break into networks to steal for financial gain, are wreaking havoc on banks, retailers, online gaming websites, and social media. Black hats cost these companies and their clients billions of dollars every year. They are using stolen usernames and passwords to transfer money through wire transfers, Automated Clearing House (ACH) and through billing fraud.
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) has repeatedly implored that come January 2012, any lagging financial institutions will be required to significantly upgrade their security protocol. Since any existing form of authentication can be compromised, the FFIEC recommends that financial institutions should institute systems of "layered security."
Previous FFIEC recommendations discussed authentication, suggesting that the security issue takes place when a user logs in. But in fact, not all the danger occurs at login. Other website integration points are vulnerable to security issues, particularly at the point when money is transferred.
According to the FFIEC's recent update:
"Fraudsters use keyloggers to steal the logon ID, password, and challenge question answers of financial institution customers. This information alone or in conjunction with stolen browser cookies loaded on the fraudster's PC may enable the fraudster to log into the customer's account and transfer funds to accounts controlled by the fraudster, usually through wire or ACH transactions."
One of the FFIEC's recommendations for financial institutions involves complex device identification. iovation, an Oregon-based security firm, goes a step further offering Device Reputation, which builds on complex device identification with real-time risk assessments, the history of fraud on groups of devices, and their relationships with other devices and accounts which exposes fraudsters working together to steal from online businesses.
Smart financial institutions aren't just complying with the FFIEC's security recommendations, but are going beyond by incorporating device reputation into their layered security approach.
Robert Siciliano, personal security and identity theft expert contributor to iovation, discusses another databreach on Good Morning America. (Disclosures)
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7 Types of Hacker Motivations
March 17, 2011 /0 Comments/in mcafee /by Robert Siciliano
There are good and bad hackers. Here is a window into what they do and why:
White Hat Hackers: These are the good guys, computer security experts who specialize in penetration testing and other methodologies to ensure that a company's information systems are secure. These IT security professionals rely on a constantly evolving arsenal of technology to battle hackers.
Black Hat Hackers: These are the bad guys, who are typically referred to as just plain hackers. The term is often used specifically for hackers who break into networks or computers, or create computer viruses. Black hat hackers continue to technologically outpace white hats. They often manage to find the path of least resistance, whether due to human error or laziness, or with a new type of attack. Hacking purists often use the term "crackers" to refer to black hat hackers. Black hats' motivation is generally to get paid.
Script Kiddies: This is a derogatory term for black hat hackers who use borrowed programs to attack networks and deface websites in an attempt to make names for themselves.
Hacktivists: Some hacker activists are motivated by politics or religion, while others may wish to expose wrongdoing, or exact revenge, or simply harass their target for their own entertainment.
State Sponsored Hackers: Governments around the globe realize that it serves their military objectives to be well positioned online. The saying used to be, "He who controls the seas controls the world," and then it was, "He who controls the air controls the world." Now it's all about controlling cyberspace. State sponsored hackers have limitless time and funding to target civilians, corporations, and governments.
Spy Hackers: Corporations hire hackers to infiltrate the competition and steal trade secrets. They may hack in from the outside or gain employment in order to act as a mole. Spy hackers may use similar tactics as hacktivists, but their only agenda is to serve their client's goals and get paid.
Cyber Terrorists: These hackers, generally motivated by religious or political beliefs, attempt to create fear and chaos by disrupting critical infrastructures. Cyber terrorists are by far the most dangerous, with a wide range of skills and goals. Cyber Terrorists ultimate motivation is to spread fear, terror and commit murder.
McAfee Identity Protection includes proactive identity surveillance to monitor subscribers' credit and personal information and access to live fraud resolution agents who can help subscribers work through the process of resolving identity theft issues. For additional tips, please visit http://www.counteridentitytheft.com
Robert Siciliano is a McAfee Consultant and Identity Theft Expert. See him discussing another databreach on Good Morning America. (Disclosures)
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Computer bug wreaks havoc on Baker utility department servers
3 years 9 months 3 weeks ago Thursday, April 04 2019 Apr 4, 2019 April 04, 2019 4:49 PM April 04, 2019 in News
By: Chris Nakamoto
BAKER- Thousands of residents who pay their utility bills with cash in Baker can't do so because the system is infected with a bug.
IT Director Trinard Franklin said the problem was discovered last week after hackers encrypted the information on one of the city's two servers. A fix was installed this week, but it didn't work.
"We thought we had it clean," Franklin said. "We put it back online, it reared its ugly head and went into a dormant phase. On Monday it reinfected and came back. We shut the system back down."
Approximately 6,000 households are serviced with Baker utilities. The city said half of them pay their bills in cash.
"It's ridiculous," Christin Parker said.
The city said no personal information was compromised, and the servers are currently being rebuilt. For customers, late fees are being waived and the city is not disconnecting any utilities until their problem is fixed.
"Those fees are obviously going to be waived," Baker Public Information Officer Cedric Murphy said. "Also any disconnect notices that would be due right now will be waived until the problem is over."
The City of Baker expects to have a fix in place by Monday. Residents paying their bills with checks and money orders can do so using an outdoor kiosk.


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Misbehaviour (2020)
Date: September 22, 2020Author: Christian Stirling 0 Comments
A disappointing, uncharismatic take on a pivotal moment in gender and racial political justice.
Misbehaviour tells the true story of how a group of women activists representing the newly formed women's liberation movement disrupted the 1970 Miss World competition in London, in order to challenge the patriarchy and promote their cause to a global audience. This film simultaneously showcases the struggles of racism during that era since The 1970 Miss World Competition was also the first time a black woman was crowned Miss World creating quite an uproar at the time. While the journey of women's liberation is an important story that needs telling, unlikable characters and missed plot opportunities made this a disappointing experience for such an important part of history.
Sally Alexander (Keira Knightley) is a young, driven, divorced single mother who overcomes an interview panel of overly judgemental men and gets offered a position to study history at University College London. Keen to make a difference for the lives of many oppressed women in society, she organizes a women's conference to allow women to come together and talk about equal rights for women. It is here where she meets and eventually befriends a far more aggressive group of activists led by Jo Robinson (Jessie Buckley).
Meanwhile, Eric Morley (Rhys Ifans) and his wife Julia Morley (Keeley Hawes) are busy organizing the 1970 Miss World Competition and are ecstatic when they secure comedic megastar Bob Hope (Greg Kinnear) as their host for the show. However the show has come under public scrutiny for the white contestant representing South Africa – a country where apartheid was still being practiced and most of the population is black.
Eric's solution is to quickly organize South Africa's first black contestant, Pearl Janssen (Loreece Harrison), AKA Miss Africa South, in addition to the country's existing white contestant Jillian Jessup (Emma Corrin), AKA Miss South Africa. Despite the politically uncomfortable position Pearl finds herself in, she manages to make friends with Jennifer Hosten (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), AKA Miss Grenada – another first for the Miss World Competition – who is optimistic about the opportunities the competition can bring her and what her representation would mean for other little black girls.
With Eric and Sally's opposing ideas on the representation of women it's inevitable that their two worlds would clash. Opposing the objectification of women and needing a large media platform to spread their message, Sally, Jo and their activist group, decide to disrupt the 1970 Miss World Competition as it airs live to the world. But as they move forward with their plans to change the world, they learn that it is not without its costs and not without its consequences.
Despite finding most of the characters unlikeable – Bob Hope is disrespectful to his wife, Sally neglects her child to fight the cause, Jo and her activists are a bunch of misandrists – the acting is solid and there's some good laughs to be had – particularly from Rhys Ifans' flustered host Eric Morley. Ifans is fantastic and the standout performance as an event coordinator with a world perspective trapped in the past and struggling to see that the values and views of the world are changing.
So focused on entertaining the masses, Morley hilariously plows forward to try to put on a good show while dealing with serious political issues and a group of determined activists whose motivations are alien to him. Despite representing a competition that reduces a woman's value to how a woman looks, Ifans finds an ignorant innocence that made him my favorite character and garnered most of my laughs.
The biggest gripe I have with Misbehaviour is that it feels like two different movies mashed into one. Director Philippa Lowthorpe (Swallows and Amazons, Cider with Rosie) has done a great job of getting strong performances from all her actors and putting all the elements together that make a competent movie (I especially liked the archival footage of the marches and photos of the characters at the end), however it's not enough to make up for a disjointed and weak script that overlooks great story opportunities worth exploring – particularly when they pertain to the development of the main characters.
I found it frustrating seeing great setups like when Sally is disregarded by the men during university discussions or told to rethink/refocus her dissertation topic about looking from the point of view of women workers because it's too niche i.e. "stay clear of minority interests" only to see nothing come of it. She "wants a seat at the table", yet we never see her overcome the issues that actually matter to her as a woman in the male dominated education system of the United Kingdom (ok, we get a quick line of text at the end letting us know she became a Professor of Modern History at the University of London). Instead the story focuses on her giving in to a bunch of man-haters and wrecking a TV show – and there's not really that much to tell on that front.
Then there's the even more interesting story of South Africa's dual representation at the competition along with the fact it was the first time a black woman won the competition (as well as second place). The political backdrop for this is far more complicated and story-worthy than a group of activists gate-crashing a show and yelling "shame", and it's barely mentioned here.
It felt like it was just there to help pad out a protest story that barely has enough substance to warrant a feature runtime. Only when the film ends do we get a brief explanation of what happens to Pearl Janssen, AKA Miss Africa South and Jennifer Hosten, AKA Miss Grenada, but that's it.
Even though there are some great moments and a few good laughs in Misbehaviour, it felt like two different movies mashed together with each doing a half-assed job of addressing an important theme and moment in history. Coupled with many unlikable characters and overlooked opportunities with characters who were actually interesting, what might have been an interesting look at the changing cultural landscape ended up as little more than a disappointing experience about a pivotal moment in both gender and racial political justice.
MPAA Rating: NR
Distributor: Shout! Studios
Originally published on September 21, 2020 at https://www.popzara.com/movies/vod-reviews/misbehaviour-2020/
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