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$1,400 stimulus checks: Here's where we stand halfway through January...
Now that a plan with $1,400 stimulus checks has been unveiled, how close are we to getting one in the mail?...
CenlaNow - WNTZ
[ Alexandria, LA ]
If you received unemployment benefits you could owe taxes...
Tax season is just around the corner and for those who received unemployment benefits, you could be in for a big surprise....
Hot Pockets recalled because they may contain pieces of plastic, glass...
The company said they've received four complaints of consumers finding glass and plastic pieces in their frozen, not-ready-to-eat pepperoni Hot Pockets....
[ Monroe ]
Trump administration carries out 13th and final execution...
The U.S. government will carry out its 13th and final execution under President Donald Trump...
WDSU
[ New Orleans ]
Sweet success: This woman quit her job during the pandemic to make cheesecakes full-time...
One mouthwatering photo after the other is grabbing customers' attention....
KMSS
[ Shreveport ]
Some Sheridan residents concerned after restaurant posts sign on mask mandate...
SHERIDAN, Ark. A burger joint in Sheridan is fed up with enforcing the Governor's mask mandate. Within the past couple of weeks, they posted a sign outside their windows that read "If you are going to be scared or offended because MooMoo's caf...
WVUE
3 with COVID-19 owe lives to girl who smelled smoke from early-morning fire...
Bianca Rivera, 17, smelled the smoke and was able to alert the other three family members in time for all four to escape safely....
KPLCTV
How to serve on MLK Day while isolating at home...
Caught between colliding pressures of a pandemic, political unrest and outcries for social justice, this Martin Luther King Day of Service is unlike any other....
NOPD: Toddler shot in N.O. East...
The boy was shot in the 4900 block of Wright Road...
Pursue your dreams with help from Shreve Memorial Library...
NOLA.com - Times-Picayune
After gun violence erupts close to business, 7th Ward restaurant plans meal giveaway...
After New Orleans' violent-crime problem hit startlingly close to their business this week, the owners of the 7th Ward restaurant Ray's on the Avenue are teaming up with their neighborhood...
Top Workplaces nominations close on Jan. 22. Nominate your company now...
During these challenging times, it's good to acknowledge the region's top employers for their outstanding service to customers and employees. The deadline to nominate a workplace for The Times-Picayune |...
Charter leaders, Orleans school district bracing for grim budget forecasts due to coronavirus...
As NOLA Public Schools contends with the largest swell in coronavirus cases to date, the district and its charter schools are bracing for another looming crisis: the financial fallout from...
A sunny Saturday...
Biden fills out State Department team with Obama veterans...
They were expected to be the 11 department appointees that Biden was announcing Saturday to serve under his pick for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, the official said....
Rayne police respond to an overnight shooting, 3 people wounded...
According to Rayne Chief of Police Carroll Stelly his office received a call of a shooting in the 600 block of Bella Avenue at 1:09 a.m. Saturday. Officers responded and discovered 3 victims with g......
Saints lineman Will Clapp out with COVID-19...
Clapp is a reserve offensive lineman...
Simple & Delicious Saints Tailgate Pizza Stuffed Garlic Rolls Recipe...
Tailgate preparations for the Saints game with easy delicious Pizza Stuffed Garlic Rolls...
Joe White: Be realistic when planning your gardens...
Faith Matters: Capitol attack was 'not of God.' What we need now is the gospel...
As an American, as a Black man and as a Christian, the deadly attack on our nation's capital on Jan. 6 was difficult to watch....
Religion briefs: Baton Rouge United Methodist churches to hold MLK online...
The African American United Methodist churches in the Baton Rouge Area will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 18, in an online session via Zoom that's open to the public....
No. 5 LSU tops No. 6 Arkansas for second-straight week...
A week after the LSU gymnastics team bested Arkansas in the PMAC, the Tigers took down the Razorbacks again inside Barnhill Arena on Friday, Jan. 15....
LSU pitcher/tight end Nick Storz decides to focus on football full-time...
LSU pitcher/tight end Nick Storz has decided to end his baseball career in order to focus on playing football full-time for the Tigers. Injuries have limited his appearances on the mound....
Isolated at home, this woman connects by giving...
Even as she fights cancer and struggles with a rare lung disease, Corinna Dewar thinks of helping others....
Saints defense focuses on affecting Tom Brady...
It may be his birthday but it won't be much of a birthday weekend celebration for Drew Brees if the Saints defense doesn't do its part and get after Tom Brady....
Pelicans suffer 5th-straight loss with 112-95 defeat at Lakers...
Zion Williamson returned to the lineup for the Pelicans and finished with a double-double but it wasn't nearly enough to lift his team over the Lakers on Friday, Jan. 15....
Zack: A sunny but chilly January weekend...
It's January and it will most certainly be feeling like it this weekend as sunshine does make for some nice weather as long as you're dressed for it....
Shreveport's Christian Harrison aces giant leap on ATP Tour...
How Caddo, Shreveport and Bossier City spent CARES Act funding...
As Saints face Bucs (again), is it actually harder to win a 3rd games? The math says no...
For many New Orleans Saints players, this weekend's upcoming playoff game against NFC South foe Tampa Bay Buccaneers felt inevitable all season long....
Pet of the week...
Aphrodite was transferred to Northshore Humane Society from a municipal shelter that was out of space and time to keep her. She is a 1-year-old medium mix breed who adores...
Our Views: The governor's good call on better health care...
There's an old saying about judgments, that one should not make the perfect the enemy of the good....
What the latest CDC COVID-19 death projections mean and what you can do to change it...
Public health experts have sounded the alarm for months that even with the great promise of vaccines on the horizon, there are dark days ahead, with the worst of the pandemic potentially yet to come....
The Saints ask a lot of Malcolm Jenkins, and once it clicked? The Saints took off...
"He has definitely freed (defensive coordinator Dennis Allen) up to be able to make a lot of different calls because of the different things that he can do," said linebacker...
The Saints and Buccaneers are set to meet for the 3rd time. Here's 5 things to know...
The New Orleans Saints enter the divisional round of the playoffs hoping the third time's just as charming as the first two....
Dustin Higgs, convicted in the killings of three women in a Maryland wildlife refuge in 1996, was the third to receive a lethal injection this week at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana....
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Vaccines to stimulus checks: Here's what's in Biden plan...
President-elect Joe Biden is proposing a $1.9 trillion plan to expand coronavirus vaccinations, help individuals and jump-start the economy....
Inauguration Day also is move in/out day at the White House...
The coronavirus pandemic could be a complicating factor as the executive mansion gets ready for a new president and executes the Inauguration Day ritual of moving out one leader and settling in another....
Toddler hospitalized after shooting in New Orleans East, NOPD says...
A young boy was shot in New Orleans East and was hospitalized late Friday night, according to a release from NOPD....
Allen Raimer's saves day for PJP II in scoreless tie vs. Northlake...
Goalkeeper shuts down Wolverines, as Jaguars win tiebreaker position...
Freshman Bella Saltaformaggio kicks Fontainebleau past Northshore, 1-0...
Her 'lucky' goal turns out to be the only score of the match...
Drew Brees and Tom Brady, ageless wonders and competitive as ever -- at everything...
Some of the most zealous moments in the New Orleans Saints facility have not occurred on the practice fields, but upon the approximately nine-foot long, five-foot wide table that until...
Pelicans can't kick turnover habit as they lose fifth-straight game...
Three points from the New Orleans Pelicans' 112-95 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday....
Salute The Badge: Career crime fighter calls it quits...
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) A life-long law enforcement officer in Northwest Louisiana is calling it a career. Caddo Parish Sheriff's Deputy Cornell Wilson is retiring after serving with the Sheriff's Office for more than 11 years. Prior to his se...


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Do you want your stories to be wholesome and focused on your faith? Do you prefer if serious issues are tackled within the confines of Christian principles? Ebooks in our Christian Fiction genre are what you are looking for, then. Authors who promote their Christian Fiction ebooks here at eBookHounds are always going to deliver you their excellent, highly-rated stories for free or a discounted price.
Definition of the "Christian Fiction Genre": In general, ebooks in the Christian Fiction genre have little or no violence, sex or swearing. They focus very heavily on good and evil, and the demarcations between the two are set forth clearly. Christian values are also a strong aspect of these ebooks, which may tend to be slower in their pace because they typically do not include the features set forth above. The "godfather" of this genre of ebooks is C.S. Lewis.
Some examples of bestselling Christian Fiction ebooks are Allison Pataki (The Traitor's Wife), Leah Atwood (After the Rain), Anita Diamant (The Red Tent), Dee Henderson (Undetected) and William P. Young (The Shack).
Child Of The King A Journey of Hope Book 1: Earthly Story With A Heavenly Message
by K. G. Ingram
Encounter Jesus through the eyes of a first century twelve-year-old Jewish boy.
Consider what your response would have been if you had lived in the days of Jesus' ministry on earth. Imagine witnessing Him performing His miracles. How would you have reacted? In listening to Him teach, would you have believed Him? Would you have believed He could be the Messiah? Or would you have rejected Him?
Immerse yourself in the culture, customs, and traditions of the ancient Jewish people and imagine what it might have been like to encounter Jesus.
In a predictable Jewish life, something un-predictable happens to twelve-year-old Azan. See how the events in his life change him forever. Experience Jesus through the eyes of this impressionable young boy.
What will you do with Jesus? Will you seek after Jesus? Or will you deny Him? He will not force Himself on you. It's completely your choice. Choose wisely.
'God did not send His Son into the world to judge the world. He sent his Son to save the world through Him.' - NASB John 3:17
It cost Jesus his very life to save yours. He went to the cross willingly because He loves YOU that much!
'Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them,
for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.' - NIV Matthew 19:14
'See how great a love the Father has given us, that we would be called children of God; and in fact, we are.' - 1 John 3:1
Fluffy's Christmas Gift
by Charles W. Page MD
EXPERIENCE CHRISTMAS THROUGH THE INSPIRING STORY OF A CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENT.
This kids Christmas book helps you see the holidays through the eyes of a tree decoration. Fluffy, a handmade ornament, wants to hang by the tree star and climb higher on the tree. On his journey up the tree the snowman faces many setbacks:
Hurtful words and criticism
Loneliness, fear, and disappointment
Pain from being broken apart
When Fluffy finally gets to the tree top, he learns new things about himself as he turns his gaze to the baby Jesus sleeping in the manger. In his transforming journey, the broken snowman learns about the meaning and purpose in his life challenges.
In this inspirational holiday children's picture book, you and your youngster will learn:
To see the opportunities in life's obstacles.
How setbacks can work out for a higher purpose.
To put criticism, conflict, and bullies in perspective.
To have courage when facing difficulties.
For many people, the holidays brings loneliness, regret, and anxiousness. This kid's Christmas book may be for you or a loved one if your looking for:
An inspirational read aloud for parents and children
An encouraging kids gift for Christmas
A picture book helping readers look beyond their life challenges and experience transformation.
The illustrations in this children's Christmas tree book were hand drawn by Kara Bazley. Dr. Chuck, the author, is a practicing surgeon who has walked alongside people in their most challenging life experiences. He is the father of five fabulous children and the host of Spoonful of Courage TV.
If you're willing, click on the read-inside option and watch a free read aloud video.
Preacher on the Run: A Novel of the Regulator Uprising (For Liberty and Conscience Book 1)
by Jayna Baas
STANDING FOR TRUTH COULD COST HIM HIS FREEDOM.
FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM COULD COST HIM HIS LIFE.
It's 1771, and North Carolina is at war. On one side stands established religion and the power of the Crown. On the other side stands a dangerous freedom of conscience.
Robert Boothe has spent the last four years leading the tyrant-hating Regulators against North Carolina's corrupt British government. All he wants is a safe place for his little Baptist church to live and worship God.
But choosing sides has made Robert a target. The Church of England wants him to shut up. The governor wants him dead.
Buy your copy of this engaging Christian historical novel and step into a nation on the verge of the Revolutionary War.
Fishers of Menace: Faith and Foils Cozy Mystery Series Book #1
by Wendy Heuvel
Welcome to Banford, where townsfolk are family, tea is hot, and murder is inevitable.
Cassie Bridgestone's life is simple. Along with running her country décor shop, she loves to cuddle her cat, sip tea, attend church, and watch birds.
But then, things go awry.
First, the handsome but mysterious Daniel opens a bookstore in her building and challenges her to face long-buried feelings about her previous relationship.
Then, a friendly fishing tournament turns deadly and her friend is accused of murder, throwing Cassie's world into a tailspin she might never recover from.
Unless she finds the real killer.
But the folks in Banford have secrets. Secrets they'll do anything to protect, including bringing Cassie's life to a quick and surreptitious end.
Fishers of Menace is the first book in the Faith and Foils Cozy Mystery Series
On His Bended Knee: a Sweet Marriage of Convenience series (The Brides of Purple Heart Ranch Book 1)
by Shanae Johnson
She needed a place to stay. He needed to save his ranch. Together they just might make a home.
Sgt. Dylan Banks lost more than just his leg in the war. His fiancée and family turned their backs on him as well. Now, he's determined to create a safe place where wounded warriors like himself can heal. But a hidden zoning law requires all residents of the Purple Heart Ranch to be married. To save his dream, Dylan and his men will have to tie the knot—but can a man with such deep scars inside and out believe in love again?
Maggie Shaw lost both her job as a veterinary technician and her apartment on the same day. Who knew her unreasonable landlord would kick her out for being four dogs over the one pet limit? Now, she and her gang of special-needs dogs are in trouble. Fate puts her in Dylan's path with a proposal that seems too good to be true—but can her heart bear a loveless marriage of convenience?
Dylan yearns to reach out for Maggie's healing touch, but he keeps his distance, convinced his wounds are too deep for her embrace. Maggie sees past Dylan's injuries, but if she fails to capture his heart they both could lose it all: her beloved animals, his ranch, and each other.
Find out if love can truly heal all wounds in this light-hearted, sweet romance of convenient arrangements that unfold into lasting love. On His Bended Knee is the first in a series of marriage of convenience tales featuring Wounded Warriors who are healed with the power of love.
A Second Chance to Hope (The In Jesus' Love series Book 1)
by BetteLou Price
She's an unwavering apostle. He's lost his trust in a higher power. With a powerful spark between them, can the Almighty help them see eye to eye?
1985. Hope O'Leary is eager to find God's perfect match. Still shaking off heartbreak that ended in religious disagreement, the single woman excitedly attends a hot air balloon gala in Colorado. But when treacherous weather cancels the festival, an impromptu indoor party unexpectedly locks her in close quarters with the nonbeliever she once loved.
Neil McGrath's life has left him emotionally bruised. Shunned by his father when his parent chose a well-paid job over spending time with his son, the aviation enthusiast is left absolutely speechless when he runs into the woman he fell for fifteen years ago. But his disbelief only intensifies when his reunion with the devout disciple is interrupted by none other than Jesus Christ.
As Hope stands strong in the face of temptation, she's determined to help the man she deeply cares for rediscover the healing powers of faith. And though Neal's past and present struggles rear their ugly heads to make him question his choices, the broken Doubting Thomas still persists in rebelling against his Creator.
Desperate to fulfill their heart's desires, can this torn couple pave a righteous path to true happiness?
A Second Chance to Hope is the heartwarming first book in the In Jesus' Love romance series. If you like introspective characters, meaningful biblical references, and touching sentiments, then you'll adore BetteLou Price's clean tale of rekindled passion.
Buy Second Chance to Hope to feel His strength today!
Willow Falls (The Matt Bannister Series Book 1)
by Ken Pratt
Welcome to Willow Falls. The town young Matthew Bannister ran away from fifteen years before. Now famed U.S. Deputy Marshal Matt Bannister is coming home to reconcile with his family. He prayed he wouldn't see his ex-best friend Tom Smith nor the only girl he ever loved, Tom's wife, Elizabeth. However, old feuds unsettled never die and spark a powder keg of action when the desperate Moskin Gang kidnap Elizabeth and leave a murderous trail behind them. In anguish, Tom, the Willow Falls sheriff, turns to his despised old-friend to help get the woman they both love back alive, if they can.
Sometimes God's greatest blessing is unanswered prayer.
by Jessie Mattis
Eleven-year-old Lexi has learned all there is to know about God … or so she thinks until Miss Kate arrives and shakes up Kids' Church with her new ideas. As if it's not enough that Lexi has to get her history grade up or miss out on the class trip with her friends, her new relationship with the Holy Spirit is suddenly put to the test when a family crisis strikes. Can Lexi trust that God is good in the middle of all this pressure?
Sewing up Some Love: A Christian Romance Novel (Indiana Romance Book 1)
by Leanne Malloy
A charming Christian romance story of small-town love, life's ups and downs, and discovering lost faith.
Lauren Gardner has a full life, a little too full at times. She's a social worker, seamstress and designer, ex-fiancée, and only daughter of parents with their own issues. When her friend Jenny needs a quick and inexpensive bridal gown, Lauren is the obvious choice to make that happen. But being in Jenny's wedding adds the complication of reconnecting with best man Bryan Dawson – heir to a local business fortune. While they have a real attraction, Lauren's unwillingness to trust Bryan hampers their budding relationship.
Bryan has his own hidden problems, despite his surface charm and hunky appeal. His family's flagship business is in trouble, and a recent breakup has jaded his thoughts about women. Lauren intrigues him, but every time he thinks they're getting closer, she pulls back. How is a guy supposed to get to know someone that is so closed off?
Between Lauren's demanding job at the mental health center and Bryan's efforts to save Mohr's Department Store, the couple learns to work together and trust God's provision.
A Wish for Christmas
A Blizzard, a Wish and a Lost Treasure…
How hard can it be to entertain a house full of guests, without revealing they are at the wrong Inn? Mila needs the money to satisfy the bank. All she has to do is give them a holiday they won't forget and not fall in love with Garrett Donnelley and his family.
Mila Vunderberg is in desperate need of money to save her family home. Left caring for an ailing grandmother who spends her days searching for a "treasure" that doesn't exist, she has been forced to sell off pieces of her lineage to make ends meet. A blizzard blows in help in the form of a family looking for the perfect Christmas.
Garrett Donnelley's family surprises him with the gift of a perfect Christmas in New York. When the driver drops them off at a beautiful home on the Hudson River they are welcomed like family. Enchanted by Mila, Garrett is seeing visions of a future with her but his hostess has secrets that threaten everything he cherishes.
One man believes the treasure is real and the Donnelley family is in his way. Mila and her treasure will be his, one way or another.
Dangerous Pursuits : 15 Stories From Today's Most Popular Mystery and Suspense Authors
by Loree Lough
Crisp Days. Cold Nights. Dangerous Pursuits.
The chill of fall brings with it a hint of peril in Dangerous Pursuits, a clean and Christian suspense anthology featuring some of today's most popular female authors.
Start your fall off right with 15 gripping tales of Clean and Christian suspense from today's most popular ladies of mystery and suspense. Join Mary Alford, Lisa Harris, Therese Heckenkamp, Cynthia Hickey, Gina Holder, Ronie Kendig, Loree Lough, Dana R Lynn, Shirlee McCoy, Dana Mentink, J. Carol Nemeth, Cara Putman, Sharee Stover, Terri Reed, Lenora Worth, and featuring a special bonus book by author Ann Malley, as we take you on a dangerous journey filled with mystery and suspense that will keep you turning pages until the very. Last. One.
Just .99 cents until October 12th.
Ciphercraft Books 1-3 : A Portal Fantasy LitRPG Box Set
by Tim Kaiver
When the system that time forgot suddenly shows back up...
The Cipher ran the universe with its game-like rules, and it has chosen Cullen, an exiled bounty hunter, to be the method of its return.
He's given a quest to free a telepathic mother and son from wrongful imprisonment. If he can break his targets out of prison, they'll have to level up, learn new skills, and hunt down the prophecy's clues. All while facing down berserkers and EMP-hurling tigers, in a jungle that offers no succor.
The promised reward is that the Cipher will grant access and the associated power to all of his embattled people, turning the tide in the galactic war that's ravaging the cosmos.
The Ciphercraft series is influenced by party-building, multi-class RPG games like Final Fantasy, town builders like Age of Empires, and a mashup of classic novels like Dune and Dragonlance. Inside you'll experience a story of hope-filled, dog-tough adventurers gaining extraordinary powers right when their people need them the most.
With one book left to complete this epic tale, there is no better time than now to start reading. Portal Wars is coming soon.
Cipher's Quest (Book 1)
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Fell in headfirst. The world is deep and kept building. Some readers in this genre like less world-building, but I'm crazy for it. Had a Dune like feel to it, pushing sci-fi and fantasy together." - TJ Reynolds, author of Eternal Online
Windwalker (Book 2)
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"This is a great series with great characters and a unique storyline that keeps you interested throughout. Looking forward to book 3!" - Cody Whitfill, author of Clearing Waves
Resurrection City (Book 3)
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "If you like LitRPG it was a good story for that. But it was also a good story for the sake of the story." - Christy, Top Contributor: Fantasy Books
Called to Battle: A Supernatural Thriller of Heart-Pounding Mystery & Suspense
by J. Henry Watson
For fans of best selling mystery and suspense novels comes a supernatural thriller about a pastor, a lawyer and a police officer who are swept up into a battle between spiritual forces of good and evil.
When Jim Conwell answered the call to pastor a small community church, he never dreamed it would toss him into the fight of his life.
The unsuspecting town of Whittenville, nestled in the scenic mountains of New England, once had everything going for it. But now, the winds have changed; sin has become rampant and drug dealers rule.
Dark powers lurking in the shadows threaten to destroy anyone standing in the way of their plans. The evil hits its mark when the police discover Jim with a smoking gun in his hand and the body of a church member on the floor. Jim soon finds himself at the epicenter of a courtroom drama that is fought not only in the natural, but also in the spiritual realm.
The opposition is ruthless, but with Jim's guidance and godly wisdom, a small team of ordinary people come together with only their faith and willingness to fight the good fight. Victory seems impossible, but with God's power made accessible to them, they just might be able to reclaim the battlefield. But will it be enough to win the war?
This gripping murder mystery, inspired by real events in the author's life, offers keen insight into spiritual warfare, the reality of evil, and the power of prayer. If you enjoy a great legal thriller or suspense novel from Christian fiction authors like Ted Dekker, Frank Peretti and Joel Rosenburg, don't miss this heart-pounding novel from J. Henry Watson.
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From the Foreword
If anyone understands spiritual warfare, it's Pastor J. Henry Watson.
In this compelling supernatural thriller, he weaves together his real life experiences and keen spiritual insights into a non-stop legal battle centered around a small New England congregation. From the opening pages, the reader is swept up into the mystery and suspense as a team of dedicated Christians work together to solve a puzzling case of attempted murder.
Buckle up for a "can't put it down" roller-coaster ride featuring plot twists, surprising suspects and unlikely heroes. With each turn of the page, you'll not only be entertained but inspired by the power of prayer and the value of friendship.
I've been privileged to know J. Henry and his wife Kristin for several years. I have witnessed their faith under fire, and their tremendous courage in the face of tragedy. When J. Henry writes about the challenges of the pastorate, local politics and the legal system, he draws from a deep well of both pain and purpose.
Anyone who enjoys reading Christian fiction books will love this "courtroom drama meets supernatural thriller." I highly recommend to you both the message and the messenger.
Donna Partow
Author of more than 30 bestselling Christian books including Becoming the Woman God Wants Me To Be
Dreaming of His Snowed In Kiss (Cowboy Mountain Christmas, Small Town Sweet Romance Book 4)
by Jessie Gussman
Everyone thinks Poppy Kyle is naturally happy and positive. But it took a major tragedy in her life for her to overcome her natural negative tendencies and develop a happiness attitude. She will not allow the surly West Barclay to steal her joy.
After West Barclay lost his parents in a car accident, he spent some time in foster care. Unfortunately, he fell in with the wrong crowd and saw just how rotten life can be. He still carries the scars. Poppy, with her perpetual smile and positive attitude irritates him to no end.
He couldn't think of a person he would be less inclined to be snowed in with.
So, of course it was Poppy who had delivered the church's supper to his ranch when the Snowstorm of the Century hit, closing down all roads and stranding two people who can barely stand each other together for a week.
Is it possible that they will see beyond their surface irritations and fall in love?
Reviews for Dreaming of His Snowed In Kiss:
★★★★★ "WOW. WOW. WOW. I can't tell you how much this author writes from he heart but she does and everything she writes is just amazing, wonderful and heart melting. All of her Christmas stories are unique and you won't be able to put them down until the very last page is read." - KRP
★★★★★ "Jesse does it again. Another soul reaching book that takes you through the heartbreak of life and the hope and love that is found in the ashes." - Supermom
★★★★★ "Jessie can bring grace and love and hope to the most dismal situations. You never finish one of her books without feeling uplifted and smiling. Her humorous takes on everyday situations in life are spot on and helps you get over the tough parts of life happening in her stories." - Wren
★★★★★ "This is a lovely story of life, loss, and having faith in yourself when you feel all is crashing around. This is a standalone story, but it is interwoven in the lives of a family built from heartache and through their faith in the Lord. This is one of those series you fall in love with over and over." - GreenJeepMom
★★★★★ "I'm feeling all kinds of feelings. Joy, peace, heartache, silliness, giddiness, so much love. I'm feeling them all. I'm wrapped up in love. And I'm sad. And I'm happy. It's the entire gamut of human emotions. What a great book. So very touching. West and Poppy are the best kinds of characters." - Janet
A Secret Baby in the Show Me State (Cowboy Crossing Western Sweet Romance Book 3)
A midnight tryst, an unknown admirer and a baby that is delivered to church with just a short note.
On the day Deacon Hudson was set to be ordained, a bundle shows up at the church with a simple note on it. Deacon Hudson is the father. Take care of her.
Deacon knows he's not the father. The Immaculate Conception was a one time thing. But the baby needs a parent, and he has to decide if he will give up his life dream of being a pastor to take the child, despite the fact that the note is a lie. Can he do it without resenting the child?
Blair Dixon made an unthinkable decision and sacrifice, driven by the unfathomable love a mother has for her child.
She served her time. Now she's back to fix the mess she made.
It might not be possible to straighten everything out.
It's definitely not possible for her to get everything she wants – the best everything for her daughter and the love of the cowboy she chose to be the father.
But small town gossip can be vicious, and unless she comes up with a plan, she could ruin his life a second time.
After what she'd done, love was impossible. Or was it?
Reviews for A Secret Baby in the Show Me State:
★★★★★ "I really enjoy seeing Jessie put real life thoughts and conversations in her books that really do go through the minds and hearts of Christians." - Tiffany
★★★★★ "Lots of emotions in this story, just as in Chandler's. And the author was spot on with how judgmental church people can be." - Judy
★★★★★ "I honestly think this book should become recommended reading for all new Christians. While all the Hudson brothers are good men, Deacon embodies what forgiveness and compassion should look like as a Christian." - Kati
★★★★★ "I can't say enough good about these stories in this series, characters are awesome, story line are so interesting. Love the fact I can share with my mom and she has clean interesting stories to read and we can talk about!" - Kindle Customer
★★★★★ "A romance where the girl doesn't think she is good enough for the guy. Makes for an interesting story." - Pam
Books in the Cowboy Crossing series:
Best Friends in the Show Me State
Sold! in the Show Me State
A Secret Baby in the Show Me State
The Beast Gets His Cowgirl in the Show Me State
A Marriage of Convenience in the Show Me State
A Second Chance in the Show Me State
A Mistletoe Mishap in the Show Me State
His Best Friend's Sister in the Show Me State
The Cowboy Finds Love in the Show Me State
The Cowboy's Best Friend (Sweet Water Ranch Western Cowboy Romance Book 1)
He's a cowboy with a billion dollar problem. His best friend can solve it, but it might break his heart.
*Previously titled Cowboys Don't Marry Their Best Friend*
Palmer wouldn't trade his family's land for the world. But the only way to save the ranch from financial disaster and claim his billion-dollar inheritance is to find himself a wife. His happily-ever-after would be complete if he could just hitch his wagon to the woman who sees him only as her best friend.
Ames' free spirit can't be tied down. So she's more than willing to help Palmer find the perfect bride before she takes off to pursue her dreams in LA. But every time she thinks about the rugged cowboy with another girl, her heart burns with jealousy.
Though Palmer tries to enjoy his new match-made companions, he can't keep his mind off Ames. And now he worries her wanderlust is blinding her to what's right in front of her eyes.
Can Palmer and Ames find the truth in their hearts before it's too late?
The Cowboy' Best Friend is the charming first book in the Sweet Water Ranch Western Cowboy Romance series. If you like tender moments, down-home chemistry, and heartwarming humor, then you'll adore Jessie Gussman's wholesome Christian story.
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The Marshall and the Thief
He's a Marshall, sworn to protect and uphold the law. She's the daughter of a violent and dangerous thief. Paige longs for freedom and a life with no pain or fear. U.S. Marshall Nash Houston tempts her with a promising future, but first she has to agree to help him stop her father. Will she steal his heart and run for freedom or choose to trust in the promises he whispers?
Paige has been plotting and saving. After each robbery she squirrels away a piece, preparing for a life of freedom. When Paige discovers that her father has promised her to the highest bidder, she knows it's time to run. The train robbery was supposed to be a chance to escape from the constant pain, but when the guns are turned on a passenger, Paige steps in and changes the path of her life.
Nash Houston is a Marshall on a perilous assignment. He's been hunting a band of robbers turned murderers for six months. It's the final step before returning home for good. When his mother is almost killed by the very robber's he's hunting, Nash makes a deal with the devil's daughter by offering her freedom. The last thing he expects is to have feelings for a thief.
As the manhunt throws them together, their reliance on each other grows. Falling in love is easy but learning to trust seems impossible for the Marshall and the Thief.
Nearly Drowned (Tèarmann Chronicles Book 1): A Christian Urban Fantasy Series
by TR Moore Ede
Malissa Crop always thought she would live a normal human life. She will soon discover she is wrong; in more ways than one.
Maybe normal was always a bit of a stretch, but what does it matter that although she doesn't try, Malissa has more strength than perhaps she should. Or that two traumatic experiences with water leaves her with no fear of it.
Malissa always knew she was adopted, but it takes sixteen years before she discovers not only was she left on the Crop's doorstop, but that she was left there for her safety.
After rescuing a man from a pool that was closed down, she finds herself a target of those who tried to drown him. Those now after her seem to know her from before the pool incident and are aware of something she has yet to discover about herself.
Tèarmann Chronicles, Nearly Drowned, is the first in a 30+ book series. If you enjoy magical creatures and humans with powers, this series is for you.
The Cowboy's Best Friend's Sister
*Previously titled Cowboys Don't Have a Fake Marriage with Their Best Friend's Sister*
She's his best friend's little sister.
He's never noticed her. Not like that.
He needs to marry to inherit his money, so he's hired a woman to be his fake bride. Only he's too sick to get married.
Now he's confined in his small house with his fake fiancée-to-be and his best friend's little sister. The ladies don't seem to get along.
And one of them isn't what he thought.
Should he follow the plan, or follow his heart?
Books in the Sweet Water Ranch Western Cowboy Romance series:
1.The Cowboy's Best Friend
2.The Cowboy's Secret Baby
3.The Cowboy's Beauty
4.The Cowboy's Best Friend's Sister
5. The Cowboy's Marriage of Convenience
6. The Cowboy's Fairy Tale
7. The Cowboy's Secret Romance
8. The Cowboy's Auction Bride
9. The Cowboy's Enemy
10. The Cowboy's Mistletoe Christmas
11. The Cowboy's Marriage Mistake
12. The Cowboy's Winning Bid
The Redesigned Ranch: Christian Contemporary Cowboy Romance (Horseshoe Home Ranch Book 1)
by Liz Isaacson
The ranch foreman, the fiery new designer he hires, and an old flame that could burn them both...
Jace Lovell only has one thing left after his fiancée abandons him at the altar: his job at Horseshoe Home Ranch. He throws himself into becoming the best foreman the ranch has ever had—and that includes hiring an interior designer to make the ranch owner's wife happy.
Belle Edmunds is back in Gold Valley after she lost her job at a prestigious design firm in California. She's working for a conglomerate, but she's desperate to build a portfolio that she can use to start her own firm in Montana. She applies for the job at Horseshoe Home, and though Jace and Belle grew up together, they've never seen eye to eye on much more than the sky is blue.
The spark between them now that they're adults can't be denied, and as Jace and Belle attempt to work together, they also fight their growing attraction to each other. But Jace isn't anywhere near forgiving his fiancée, and he's not sure he's ready for a new relationship with someone as fiery and beautiful as Belle. Can she employ her patience while he figures out how to forgive so they can find their own brand of happily-ever-after?

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Workplace bullying is not a new phenomenon. Most of us (working professionals) have seen or experienced some serious incidents, but a recent verdict in Australia by the Fair Work Commission has ignited a fresh debate on the definition of workplace bullying. In its verdict, the Commission found that a pattern of unreasonable behavior over about a two-year period, which featured a range of demeaning actions including berating, unfriending on Facebook and so on, constituted the acts of workplace bullying.
If statutory bodies are transforming labor laws to tackle such issues then employers also must recognize their responsibilities and ensure that their employees understand their rights and are aware of internal processes for reporting such incidents and not approach the courts directly. Modern HRIS incorporates a number of tools to help HR department manage their responsibilities effectively without increasing the workload on its HR staff.
HR professionals explain that bullying is an unreasonable and repeated behavior. It may not always be intentional. In most cases, employees don't even realize that their actions may constitute bullying. That's why every employer should organize workshops or some education programs internally and explain guidelines in this context. Some of the frequent bullying acts include spreading rumors, isolating employees, verbal abuse, intimidation, unjustified criticism and even deliberately changing work rosters to annoy or tease a particular colleague or employee.
This short video eloquently explains the act of workplace bullying. It also explains legal duties for workers, employers and supervisors.
How to avoid workplace bullying?
Occupational health and safety (OHS) policy statement of the company must address issues such as physical harm, bullying and mental harm. In some countries, statutory bodies ask employers to have proper policies and procedures in place to manage all types of anti-bullying efforts. For example, if your company's HRIS solution has an Employee Self Service module, it should be able to help you manage the said processes and the reporting of incidents or complaints.
A streamlined onboarding process can also help companies prevent bullying practices. If your HRIS solution automates onboarding process, then you can ensure that your new hires follow the company approved induction process which includes guidelines regarding bullying activities and the reporting process.
Australia is not the only place where 'workplace bullying' is prevailing. According to David Maxfield, co-author of the books Crucial Conversations and Influencer, 96% of American employees experience bullying in the workplace and the nature of that bullying is changing. In such circumstances, HR Department can rely on a modern HRIS solution which are scalable and flexible. Such solutions can forecast possible bullying incidents by analyzing employee behavior and allow HR admins to control the situation before it gets serious.


Imagine if you can the cold palms and nervous sweat that occurred when my Mac refused to boot. I do back everything up but I haven't really got time or the inclination to reinstall all my software etc etc. Thankfully after a quick search it seems that Adobe Version Cue is the problem. If you have it as a start up item it is likely that it is causing the problem.
Boot your Mac in safe mode by holding down shift as you boot. I had to do this a couple of times before it worked but it did. Once in safe mode browse to /yourmac/library/startupitems/. If you see Adobe Version Cue in there delete it. If you don't use Version Cue you can also remove it from the Applications folder. Now you can reboot and it should go through to the SMC updater. This worked on MacBook Pro 10.4.6.
Although I'm very pleased with my Mac it is a bit annoying that the update doesn't test against major third party software installs. I would say there will be a lot of Adobe / Mac users out there who have experienced this problem. Still all is well now - phew.


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Honor i Ojczyzna – dewiza Wojska Polskiego, umieszczana na sztandarach jednostek wojskowych. Obecnie dewiza Orderu Virtuti Militari.

Historia
Wprowadzona w 1919 r. na mocy art. 1 pkt 6 i wzoru nr 10 do Ustawy z dnia 1 sierpnia 1919 r. o godłach i barwach Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (); utrzymana następnie kolejno przez:
 art. 7 ust. 3 i wzór nr 5 do Rozporządzenia Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej z dnia 13 grudnia 1927 r. o godłach i barwach państwowych oraz o oznakach, chorągwiach i pieczęciach ( ze zm.), oraz
 art. 10 ust. 3 i wzór nr 2 do Dekretu Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej z dnia 24 listopada 1937 r. o znakach wojska i marynarki wojennej ().

Zastąpiona została triadą Bóg, Honor, Ojczyzna wprowadzoną po raz pierwszy na sztandary oddziałów Polskich Sił Zbrojnych na Zachodzie dekretem Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej z 15 października 1943 r..

W 1955 art. 10 ust. 4 i załącznik nr 2 do Dekretu z dnia 9 listopada 1955 r. o znakach Sił Zbrojnych ( ze zm.) wprowadził dewizę "Za naszą Ojczyznę Polską Rzeczpospolitą Ludową".
W 1993 r. – mocą art. 14 ust. 3 i załączników nr 5 i 5a do Ustawy z dnia 19 lutego 1993 r. o znakach Sił Zbrojnych Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej () – przywrócono  dewizę: "Bóg, Honor, Ojczyzna".

Zobacz też

Honor
Ojczyzna
Bóg, Honor, Ojczyzna
Za wolność naszą i waszą

Przypisy

Symbole narodowe Polski
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Ryan McAllister is a second-year environmental studies student at Okanagan College.
"The biggest perk of open textbooks are the cost-savings. Saving money as a student will always come first," he said.
Okanagan College ranked third in open textbook adoptions out of 31 participating post-secondary institutions in BCcampus's 2015/16 annual review of its Open Textbook Project.
"Okanagan College is committed on a number of fronts to minimizing barriers to post-secondary education," said Jim Hamilton, OC president.
Arthur Gill Green, a geography professor at the college, has been an advocate of OER since 2010 when he discovered three of his students sharing a textbook because they couldn't each afford to purchase one.
Green became involved with the Open Textbook project in 2012 and doesn't just teach with the materials, he creates them. In 2014, he co-wrote British Columbia in a Global Context, which is published and available in the online repository.
"Students are responding really well to open textbooks on multiple levels," said Green.


H1B Visa approval for top 7 Indian IT Companies in US including TCS, Wipro, Infosys dropped by 37 percent (5436 nos.) in 2016 compared to last year. With the Trump Government further tightening the visa norms, the numbers are expected to drop more.
Reebok India has applied for permission to set up single brand retail stores in India. Currently Reebok sports shoes and clothes are being sold by Adidas AG.
GST update : With GST all set to roll on 1st July, Industry bodies such as CAIT and RAI are organising countrywide classes to teach small businesses the nitty-gritty of GST and helping them become GST compliant.
Lightbox, a VC firm, which has backed start-ups such as Faasos, Embibe, Furlenco and Droom, having a corpus of $100 million shall invest in another 4-5 companies over the next 12-18 months before raising new fund next year.
Quiklo, a financial technology start-up providing loans to students for buying consumer durables such as phones and laptops, has launched an education finance service. As part of the new service, students can avail loans to pay course fees or even test preparation fees.
Spinny, online platform for buying and selling pre-owned cars, has raised $1 million in seed funding led by Blume Ventures. The fund shall be invested in technology platform and opening retail hubs.
NEC, Japanese Technology firm, is setting up an Analytics Centre in Noida with an expected revenue of $100 million within the first three years. The firm would focus on telecom, manufacturing and BFSI verticles.
Flipkart is gradually entering the Online Advertising and Performance Marketing space for BFSI, consumer durables and fashion products. This follows current trend in the market where online retailers are trying to increase revenue by additional streams.


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V5 | Issue 8 | 2.27.21
Tech executives testify in Solorigate hearing. Accellion breach updates. Silver Sparrow targets Macs.
Tech executives testify in Solorigate hearing.
Representatives from SolarWinds, Microsoft, FireEye, and CrowdStrike testified before the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence regarding the Solorigate cyberespionage campaign. According to the Wall Street Journal, SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna emphasized that the compromise of the company's Orion product was only one aspect of a wide-ranging campaign, and said SolarWinds is still investigating how the attackers gained initial access to its servers.
Microsoft president Brad Smith said there should be an investigation into other companies that may have been used as initial access vectors, stating, "There may be other brand-name players that may have been penetrated that not have been as forthcoming…leaving policy makers and potentially customers in the dark."
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz blamed Microsoft's "antiquated" architecture for the failed attack against CrowdStrike. Seeking Alpha quotes Kurtz as saying, "The threat actor took advantage of systemic weaknesses in the Windows authentication architecture, allowing it to move laterally within the network. Should Microsoft address the authentication architecture limitations around Active Directory and Azure Active Directory, or shift to a different methodology entirely, a considerable threat vector would be completely eliminated from one of the world's most widely used authentication platforms."
FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia said most of the victims targeted in the campaign "were government, consulting, technology, and telecommunications entities in North America."
Amazon was invited to the hearing but declined to attend, stating that it wasn't affected by the hack, according to Business Insider. Amazon Web Services' vice president of public policy Shannon Kellogg stated in a letter, "AWS does not use the SolarWinds Orion software and our services were not compromised in any way, which is why we did not provide formal testimony on the panel yesterday. However, we look forward to continuing our ongoing engagement with you and your committee on cyber security issues. When we learned of SolarWinds, we immediately investigated, ensured we weren't affected, and provided mitigation measures to help our customers who were. We promptly shared what we learned with the FBI. We've also provided detailed briefings to government officials, including Members of Congress and, specifically, to your committee."
Senator Susan Collins (Republican of Maine) said the Committee should "should look at next steps" if Amazon declines to participate in the future.
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Accellion breach updates.
Cloud solutions provider Accellion has sustained a data breach that's affected dozens of the company's clients, including Kroger, Singtel, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the Office of the Washington State Auditor, and the University of Colorado. BleepingComputer reports that the breach was carried out by the Clop ransomware gang and the FIN11 threat actor, but the attackers didn't deploy their ransomware and instead simply threatened to release the stolen data. The attackers exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Accellion's legacy File Transfer Appliance (FTA) product, which have since been patched. The vulnerabilities involved are tracked as CVE-2021-27101, CVE-2021-27102, CVE-2021-27103, and CVE-2021-27104. Accellion stated, "Out of approximately 300 total FTA clients, fewer than 100 were victims of the attack. Within this group, fewer than 25 appear to have suffered significant data theft."
FireEye's Mandiant unit investigated the attack and says the attackers, which Mandiant tracks as UNC2546, installed a web shell dubbed "DEWMODE" to exfiltrate the data. FireEye states, "Starting in mid-December 2020, malicious actors that Mandiant tracks as UNC2546 exploited multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in Accellion's legacy File Transfer Appliance (FTA) to install a newly discovered web shell named DEWMODE. The motivation of UNC2546 was not immediately apparent, but starting in late January 2021, several organizations that had been impacted by UNC2546 in the prior month began receiving extortion emails from actors threatening to publish stolen data on the "CL0P^_- LEAKS" .onion website. Some of the published victim data appears to have been stolen using the DEWMODE web shell."
The company adds, "We are currently tracking the exploitation of the zero-day Accellion FTA vulnerabilities and data theft from companies running the legacy FTA product as UNC2546, and the subsequent extortion activity as UNC2582. We have identified overlaps between UNC2582, UNC2546, and prior FIN11 operations, and we will continue to evaluate the relationships between these clusters of activity."
Canadian jet manufacturer Bombardier disclosed on Tuesday that it was affected by the breach, stating, "Forensic analysis revealed that personal and other confidential information relating to employees, customers and suppliers was compromised. Approximately 130 employees located in Costa Rica were impacted. Bombardier has been proactively contacting customers and other external stakeholders whose data was potentially compromised." ZDNet says some of the company's data has been posted, including "design documents for various Bombardier airplanes and plane parts."
A joint advisory from authorities in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, the UK, and the US outlines the risks of the Accellion FTA compromise and recommends risk mitigation measures. The advisory states, "This activity has impacted organizations globally, including those in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Worldwide, actors have exploited the vulnerabilities to attack multiple federal and state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) government organizations as well as private industry organizations including those in the medical, legal, telecommunications, finance, and energy sectors."
The alert, which is hosted on CISA's site, recommends that FTA users temporarily block internet access to and from any systems that host the software, check for evidence of malicious activity and especially for the indicators of compromise included in the alert, consider auditing FTA user accounts for unauthorized changes, reset security tokens on the system and upgrade to the latest version of the Accellion product.
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Silver Sparrow targets Macs.
Researchers at Red Canary, with help from Malwarebytes and VMware Carbon Black, uncovered a malware downloader dubbed "Silver Sparrow" that's designed to run on Apple's new M1 chips. According to Malwarebytes, the malware has been detected on just under 40,000 Macs, although its purpose is unclear since it currently lacks a payload. The researchers also aren't sure how the malware is delivered. Red Canary's researchers say they "suspect that malicious search engine results direct victims to download the PKGs based on network connections from a victim's browser shortly before download. In this case we can't be certain because we don't have the visibility to determine exactly what caused the download."
Red Canary concludes, "[T]he ultimate goal of this malware is a mystery. We have no way of knowing with certainty what payload would be distributed by the malware, if a payload has already been delivered and removed, or if the adversary has a future timeline for distribution....Finally, the purpose of the Mach-O binary included inside the PKG files is also a mystery. Based on the data from script execution, the binary would only run if a victim intentionally sought it out and launched it. The messages we observed of 'Hello, World!' or 'You did it!' could indicate the threat is under development in a proof-of-concept stage or that the adversary just needed an application bundle to make the package look legitimate."
AppleInsider reports that Apple has revoked the developer certificates used by Silver Sparrow's author, which will prevent new infections.
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Twitter takes down coordinated inauthentic accounts.
SecurityWeek reports that Twitter has taken down three sets of coordinated, inauthentic accounts that separately pushed narratives in the service of Iranian, Armenian, and Russian interest. Twitter characterized the takedowns as "disclosing networks of state-linked information operations."
The Iranian influence operation was principally interested in issues surrounding the US Presidential election. Based on tips Twitter began receiving from the US FBI in October, the platform "suspended a total of 238 accounts operating from Iran for various violations of our platform manipulation policies. As previously stated, the accounts had low engagement and did not make an impact on the public conversation. Today, we're adding these accounts to the archive to empower independent research and analysis."
Thirty-five accounts linked to the government of Armenia were also suspended. Those had a more narrowly regional interest, and pretended to represent political figures and government officials in neighboring Azerbaijan. Some of them also misrepresented themselves as Azerbaijan news agencies. These, too, Twitter took down for violation of its platform manipulation policy. (As a bonus, these bogus accounts also "engaged in spammy activity to gain followers and further amplify this narrative" unfavorable to Armenia's rival, Azerbaijan.)
Finally, Twitter took down two distinct networks run by Russian operators. Sixty-nine fake accounts were "reliably tied to Russian state actors." This crew had two interests: boosting the Russian government and undermining confidence in NATO. The second takedown addressed thirty-one accounts from two distinct networks that were assessed as being run by the Internet Research Agency, a notorious troll farm based in St. Petersburg.
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Sunnyvale, California-based email security firm Proofpoint will acquire Colorado-headquartered data protection company InteliSecure for $62.5 million in cash, with the acquisition expected to close in March 2021. Proofpoint stated, "The acquisition of InteliSecure will add approximately 150 employees to Proofpoint's growing global team and will boost Proofpoint's ability to support its robust channel partner ecosystem's service delivery and increase partners' competitiveness by providing processes and experience from working with multiple vendors."
Texas-based cloud identity management company SailPoint has acquired Intello, an SaaS management startup headquartered in New York City. Intello's CEO and co-founder Barak Kaufman stated, "As part of the SailPoint crew, we'll help to build the future of identity security, combining Intello's SaaS discovery and insights with SailPoint's leading identity security platform."
French IT consulting company Atos has acquired Netherlands-based managed security services provider Motiv ICT Security. Atos stated, "This move reinforces Atos's position as the 3rd worldwide Managed Security Services provider1 by strengthening the Group's local capabilities and bringing its recent investment in the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) platform, AIsaac, to Dutch customers. In addition, Motiv's sovereign Security Operations Center (SOC), independently certified at the highest levels of maturity, further expands Atos's extensive network of global SOCs, a pivotal component of the Atos Prescriptive Security approach."
Irish MSP security company Kaseya has acquired Dallas, Texas-based MDR and SOC provider RocketCyber. Kaseya stated, "RocketCyber will continue to operate as an independent business within Kaseya, led by Banzhof in Dallas, Texas. Kaseya's state-of-the-art SOCs will be located in Dallas, TX, Miami, FL and Dublin, Ireland. Additional integrations across the IT Complete suite are in development between RocketCyber and ID Agent Dark Web ID, IT Glue, Graphus and RapidFire Tools."
Open-source web browser Brave has patched a privacy bug that was exposing users' browser histories, The Hacker News reports. The flaw impacted Brave's privacy feature "Privacy Window with Tor," which, by relaying the user request through a network of Tor nodes, was intended to allow users to visit .onion websites without sharing the IP addresses. However, a vulnerability in the browser's CNAME ad blocker was revealing the addresses of the .onion sites to the user's ISP or DNS provider.
The US Justice Department has indicted a Serbian man, Kristijan Krstic, for allegedly running cryptocurrency scams via phony online investment platforms called "Start Options" and "B2G," stating, "In truth, the money sent by investors in Start Options and B2G allegedly was never invested and instead was laundered internationally to a Phillippines-based financial account and digital-currency wallet, and diverted to a U.S.-based promoter of the fraud. Subsequently, as alleged, the promoter transferred to Krstic approximately $7 million in investor funds from B2G and Start Options, and Krstic thereafter stopped responding to all communications and absconded with those investors' funds."
A 66-year-old Missouri man has been charged a second time for Internet stalking. The US Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas states, "Today's indictment charges [Mark Joseph] Uhlenbrock with one count of internet stalking the same victim again. The indictment alleges that from May 2020 to September 2020, Uhlenbrock used the internet to cause substantial emotional distress to a person. The conduct in this indictment occurred while Uhlenbrock was still on supervised release for his first conviction of internet stalking."
US convenience store company Wawa reached a preliminary settlement of $12 million in a class-action lawsuit over its 2019 payment card breach, Law360 reports. The proposed settlement states, "(a) Class members who did not suffer attempted or actual fraud on their payment card are eligible to receive a $5 Wawa gift card; (b) Class members who can provide reasonable proof of an actual or attempted fraudulent charge on their card after a Wawa transaction are eligible to receive a $15 Wawa gift card; and (c) Class members who can provide reasonable documentary proof of money they lost or spent out-of-pocket in connection with an actual or attempted fraudulent transaction on their payment card are eligible to reimbursement of those costs up to $500."
The Wall Street Journal reports that TikTok's corporate parent has reached a settlement in a class action suit alleging misuse of children's and teenagers' personal data. In a settlement filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, ByteDance has agreed to pay $95 million to establish a victims' compensation fund in response to class action suits alleging that the company's TikTok social media platform violated user privacy. The Journal quotes a TikTok representative as saying, "While we disagree with the assertions, rather than go through lengthy litigation, we'd like to focus our efforts on building a safe and joyful experience for the TikTok community."
The Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) was passed by the Virginia house of representatives and senate last week and is expected to soon be signed into law by the governor, making it the second comprehensive privacy regulation in the US, AdExchanger reports. More stringent than the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), the CDPA is an opt-in law and requires clear consumer consent much like the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Facebook has reversed its decision to block news content for Australian users, the BBC reports. Campbell Brown, Facebook's vice president of global news partnerships, stated, "Going forward, the government has clarified we will retain the ability to decide if news appears on Facebook so that we won't automatically be subject to forced negotiation. We have come to an agreement that will allow us to support the publishers we choose to, including small and local publishers."
The US Department of Homeland Security summarized Secretary Mayorkas" cybersecurity agenda and upcoming cyber projects, which include international outreach, domestic speaking engagements, raising FEMA grants' baseline cybersecurity spend, elevating CISA's "Reduce the Risk of Ransomware" initiative, and promoting the Secret Service's ransomware response capabilities. Public-private partnership, workforce development, and infrastructure renovation are additional priorities.
US President Biden signed an Executive Order directing a comprehensive review of the resilience of American supply chains. The order includes, but isn't limited to, software supply chains.
Today's issue includes events affecting Australia, China, New Zealand, Serbia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States.


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In Vineland
There will be no further Ruth Rendell novels.
Or, rather, there will be only the half-dozen or so she most likely composed before publication of The Girl Next Door, her most recent the book (or, as we must get used to describing it: her last).
It upset me when I heard Rendell had suffered a stroke earlier this year, but I'd hoped she'd recover. I'd assumed she would. She seemed like the sort. But no. Sadly not.
There's no author who occupies anywhere near as much space on my shelves, or whose books I so purely enjoy reading, as Ruth Rendell. But enjoy doesn't seem like quite the right word. It is enjoyment but slightly more so and slightly different. I started reading her books about four years ago and since then my relationship with them has developed something of a reliance dynamic, a dependency. If I ever find myself amid a dry streak, muddling my way through a run disappointing novels, a stopover in Rendellland has always been a safe restorative. I finished reading The Crocodile Bird only last week.
Her books, for one thing, are so numerous. Formidably so. As well as that impending half-dozen I'm sure there could be others which have thus far gone unread. Her first novel, From Doon with Death, was in fact her sixth, her first five receiving only rejections from the publishers. She produced over eighty books in total: Rendell novels, Inspector Wexford novels, Barbara Vine novels, short story collections, novellas, a children's book, a travel guide, an anthology, a think tank paper. I still feel something of a Rendell novice despite her occupying a substantial bloc of my shelf-space. There are always a handful of titles in the back of my mind: I must remember to look out for Shake Hands Forever! Need an Amazon add-on item! How much is Heartstones?!
Where is Rendellland? What does it look like? It's a landscape which encompasses dingy London bedsits, neatly ordered suburbs and bucolic Suffolk country piles; is populated with ordinary people: men and women with jobs and families, but also with destructive urges and compulsive needs. They take trips to the supermarket and spend evenings watching television. But suddenly there's a body in the basement, or a hider in the loft. Gradually, you see grudges being nursed, blighting mental illnesses going concealed or unchecked. Class bitterness is rife, repression endemic. It's a site of plainness, but also of aberration, where guilt and hope, obsession and ecstasy, all find their terrible locus.
It is, of course, everyday Britain in all its mundanity and all its terror.
And that's that. Rendellland remains intact, but there's to be no major new developments. What's saddest for me though is that one area in particular is unlikely to see any new additions. Because nowhere is Ruth Rendell a more compelling a writer, or more successful a novelist, than when she is Barbara Vine.
Barbara Vine came to life in 1986. Rendell often described her alter-ego as a separate person from herself, with a 'less cold' personality, someone who was 'more feminine', who was 'a bit more serious, a bit more searching'. Vine was the product of a desire to turn out both a greater number of novels (Rendell and Vine have never shared a publisher), and ones which differed from her creator's. She was never as rigid in her focus on the traditional structure and plotting of mystery fiction as Rendell, allowing instead more in the way of what her blurb writers like to call 'psychology'.
The best known of Vine's books is probably her first, A Dark-Adapted Eye, a woozy, spooky coming-of-age tale, one of muddled parentage and unutterable wartime secrets. Others, like The Blood Doctor and The Birthday Present sold well and gained critical interest for their melding of fiction with an insider's eye on how Westminster functions (Rendell sat in the house of Lords, attending weekly). But for my money, the best book written by Rendell was her third Vine, The House of Stairs.
A cursory summing-up of the plot – woman meets up and begins an affair with woman who was been released from prison where she's done time for killing first woman's best friend – demands resolution, an explanation. The course the narrative takes weaves between a late 80's present-day and flashbacks of the 1960's. It's a very Rendell take on the decade: an era of drugs, swinging and rock music but, rather than providing the characters with opportunities for the breezy liberation and self-discovery one might expect, it instead nurtures their obsessions, drawing them further down into a squalour of sex and neuroses. There's a triangle of characters: Cosette, a plump middle-aged woman trying to get in on the free love and psychedelia; Bell Sanger, a beautiful anonymous woman, the stranger in town; and the narrator, Elizabeth, a once-struggling writer who has turned to churning out financially successful but trashy novels.
This writing about writing theme belies how The House of Stairs is something of a novelist's novel: the book's chief strength lies in its craft, the drama of these characters' interactions playing out with a dreamlike structural confidence – drifting from past to present, neither taking precedence, both pushing the story on. What takes place seems dictated solely by a need to delineate these characters, to follow them in what seems naturally them and fills them with life. But there's an undeniable readableness, and also a seamlessness, the whole tragedy meted out with a hermetically controlled precision.
It's jarring to learn the book never received an award, nor was ever shortlisted. Nor was it singled out for praise beyond that which a new Rendell invariably receives. It's become a cliché to say that crime fiction suffers from literary snobbishness. And it became a cliché to describe of Rendell's Barbara Vine books as her 'literary' or 'psychological' output (there is more of an overlap between Rendell and her alter-ego than a nom-de-plume would indicate). Perhaps Rendell's logic-defying prolificness is to blame for this. It's hard to bring a clear-eyed assessment to an author who brings out more than one book a year. Your grasp of their capabilities is constantly on the shift; their books are judged as part of a whole rather than individually. If Ruth Rendell had only ever written A Dark-Adapted Eye, The House of Stairs and, say, Asta's Book, it's hard not to think that she'd be spoken of in purpled tones as a literary colossus. As it is, these are instead thought of simply as a crime-writer's 'good books'.
Which is a shame. Barbara Vine's novels are by most criteria successful: they engage and excite, they are thematically weighty, they are careful of structure, sophisticated of character and rich with allusion (The Wings of a Dove is unobtrusively referenced throughout The House of Stairs), they speak of their age, and yet are aware of how historicity functions, how some subject matters are touched with a timelessness. And yet, I'm going to hazard, it's unlikely you'd heard of The House of Stairs prior to reading this blog post. You almost definitely won't have read it.
In 2013 I noticed Penguin Modern Classics began had begun to reissue the back catalogue of Penelope Lively and Margaret Drabble, a pair of writers whose work I very much admire and whose sensibilities are similar to those of Vine's. In that same year there was also an interview in which Ruth Rendell declared that The Child's Child, the most recent novel written as Barbara Vine, would also be her final published under that penname. The book itself, whilst definitely not her best, was one I enjoyed and I'd hoped, optimistically, this 'last book' talk was just a bit of chucked-in interview-fuel, something to help the sub-editors with their headlines. But it seems that's not to be the case.
I'd also hoped that both novel and interview-spiel would generate some kind of reappraisal of Rendell's Vine-fictions. However, at the time of writing, The House of Stairs and many of Vine's other novels are out of print. The rights to all of them still lie, presumably, with their original publisher: Penguin.
Perhaps now is the time for that reappraisal to take place.


Craig Levein is hopeful Steven Naismith's knee injury will settle down on its own and he'll be able to play in Monday night's William Hill Scottish Cup quarter-final against Partick Thistle.
The forward was withdrawn at half-time of Wednesday night's 2-1 defeat to Celtic at Tynecastle - Levein later confirmed more as a precaution - and was replaced by Hearts goal scorer Oliver Bozanic.
A knee injury forced Naismith to come off after just seven minutes of the Betfred Cup semi-final against the same opposition at Murrayfield in October. He missed around six weeks of action due to the resulting operation to tidy things up.
Levein hopes this is just a case of that slightly flaring up rather than a fresh injury. He said: "He has had operations on them both over the years. He said at half-time he was having trouble.
"It was irritating him. Sometimes these things, when you have cartilage problems, it can just be a tiny little flap that catches.
"Sometimes it just settles down and is fine. Callumn Morrison has been playing with the same thing since the start of the season.
Naismith is at the stage of his career when the club will take his advice on injuries, rather than the other way round.
"He makes the call," Levein confirmed. "He knows. With younger players, it is more difficult to get the information from them so you try to work out what the right thing to do is.
"With Naisy, if he says he is struggling, there is no point in trying to convince him to carry on.


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ÖKOBAUDAT usually sources its data from EPD programme operators. The listed programme operators meet the ÖKOBAUDAT quality requirements. The programme operator is responsible for the EPD generation and verification and then transfers the data to the ÖKOBAUDAT.
Figure: The manufacturer selects an EPD programme operator that issues the EPD and delivers it to ÖKOBAUDAT. If the manufacturer already has an EPD from a programme operator that has not yet been released for the delivery of data to the ÖKOBAUDAT, the programme operator can apply for acceptance of EPD data delivery for integration in ÖKOBAUDAT.
Most data sets in ÖKOBAUDAT come from EPD which were generated in the framework of an EPD programme (category A). In addition, the ÖKOBAUDAT also contains LCA data subjected to a third party verification that was not generated in an EPD programme (category B) and generic LCA data (category C).
The acceptance of datasets of category B requires approval of the Users Advisory Group of ÖKOBAUDAT. The conditions for the acceptance of these datasets are stipulated according to the case of need. The representative LCA data for wood and wood-based materials of the Thünen Institute correspond to this category.
The generic data are commissioned by the BBSR and have so far been delivered exclusively by thinkstep.
ÖKOBAUDAT provides building life-cycle analysis data that comply with standard DIN EN 15804. Such analyses, among others, are carried out within the Assessment System for Sustainable Building (Bewertungssystem Nachhaltiges Bauen BNB). The principles for acceptance of LCA data in ÖKOBAUDAT in the current version must be considered to ensure high data quality and high consistency.
Therefore, a programme operator must apply for acceptance of data and submit all necessary documents before being released for the delivery of data to the ÖKOBAUDAT. In this application, the programme operator confirms that the EPD programme and all data intended to be imported in ÖKOBAUDAT meet the ÖKOBAUDAT requirements.
1. The applicant declares that the submission complies with the principles for acceptance of LCA data in ÖKOBAUDAT in the application form.
2. The applicant provides the required declarations and supporting documents.
3. The documents and data are checked under the responsibility of the BMI/BBSR, in coordination with the ÖKOBAUDAT Users' Advisory Group where appropriate.
Data of Category A: EPD datasets corresponding to the ÖKOBAUDAT principles can subsequently be accepted in to ÖKOBAUDAT without any further fundamental checks of the contents.
Data of Category B: Since no programme and no set of rules are available in accordance with DIN EN ISO 14025, proof of external verification or a critical review must be provided for each dataset.
4. If the check of the contents for the acceptance of life cycle assessment data has been successfully completed, corresponding access data for importing the data can be requested from the BBSR.
Once the programme operator and the datasets to be delivered have been accepted, the data can be delivered to ÖKOBAUDAT. The datasets must be delivered in ILCD + EPD data format, with all required fields being filled out. The ÖKOBAUDAT Manual (available only in German) contains technical and formal information on the ÖKOBAUDAT database.
The data provider generates the dataset in a software supported by the ÖKOBAUDAT interface. Presently, the EPD editor (based on the openLCA plug-ins) supports data exchange via this interface.
To ensure that the datasets are displayed correctly in the ÖKOBAUDAT browser, the applicant classifies the life cycle assessment data in to the corresponding product categories.
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After importing the data, the BMI/BBSR carries out a plausibility check and, if necessary, checks the contents of the datasets randomly. Only after this is the data approved.
A new ÖKOBAUDAT release takes place approx. once a year with the update of the generic datasets. Accepted EPD programme operators can continuously transfer records. To mark these minor additions or corrections, the current date is added. A correction list makes it clear at any time in which version which changes were made.


VIOLENCE has erupted in the stands ahead of Liverpool's away clash at Red Star Belgrade.
Riot police flooded into the home end armed with batons and protective screens as things got out of hand.
This is even before the Champions League clash has kicked off, with tensions already heightened inside the Rajko Mitic Stadium.
SunSport has reported how Liverpool star Xherdan Shaqiri has been left at home to diffuse concerns he could be targetted.
The Swiss international was booed by visiting supporters during the clubs' game at Anfield following his "Albanian Eagle" celebration at the World Cup.
The 27-year-old along with team-mates Granit Xhaka and Stephan Lichtsteiner enraged Serbian fans in Russia with the controversial celebration.
He was fined £7,360 by Fifa for his "unsportsmanlike" behaviour after he netted a dramatic late winner against Mladen Krstajic's side at the World Cup.
Shaqiri - who has Kosovo and Albanian heritage - was booed by Red Star fans every time he touched the ball at Anfield last week.
Kosovo were granted independence in 2008, but Serbia were one of a number of countries that refused to recognise it as a state.
And boss Klopp believed that Shaqiri's presence in the squad in Serbia could have caused a hostile environment.
Speaking to the club's website, he said: "It's a situation where we will go to the fantastic city of Belgrade as a football team to play football.
"We have heard and read the speculation and talk about what kind of reception Shaq would receive and although we have no idea what would happen, we want to go there and be focused 100 per cent on football and not have to think about anything else, that's all.
"So for that reason, Shaq is not involved and he accepts and understands this. Shaq is our player, we love him, and he will play for us a lot of times, but not on Tuesday."


Piano and lyrical compositions as deep as the grief that they convey as Sisay's vulnerability is felt throughout.
Listen to "(No One Knows Me) Like the Piano"
Deep, dark and brooding through the wave of emotions that come with the maturation of a band and life.
Listen to "Carin at the Liquor Store"
Bringing an injection of moody jazz to 60's surf-rock vibes Burch lays the foundation for the breadth of her vocals to ring through.
Unexpected but entirely fitting, each bringing the skills that make them who they are to make a wandering delightful album to escape into as needed these days.
Striking the line between harrowing raw emotion and folky joy lyrically, each track lets you step back at year end, look inward and reflect.
Gripping struggle and search for something more than oneself is inescapable that tears you down and slowly builds you back up again with all-consuming piano, strings, woodwinds, and guitar.
Vulnerable and haze electric guitar brings a welcomed return of lo-fi with intimacy felt from the bedroom that which the album was recorded in. Perfect.
Listen to "One More Time, Please"
There is no escaping the catharsis felt through the movement and growth of life together. Let it take you away and disappear.
Layered to depths of intricacies that recall eras past yet perfectly introduced synth jolts you forward through methodical compositions to the canon of indie rock.
Poetic and rhythmic, drift away into the dreamy sounds that bring ups and downs from jangle to soulful.


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Legislator leaps into 'Frankenfood' debate
If it passes, it would be the first in the nation.
by Sandy Bauers
Earlier today, State Sen. Daylin Leach (D., Montgomery/Delaware) announced the introduction of legislation that would require foods that contain genetically-engineered components to be labeled as such.
He said the bill has already received support from national and local organizations and individuals including food cooperatives, organic farmers, environmentalists and food justice proponents.
"I've introduced this bill not to ban genetically engineered foods, but to allow consumers to choose which items they purchase. I am concerned about the lack of information available about the presence of genetically engineered food, and I believe it is every consumer's right to know what ingredients are found in the products they buy," Leach said in a press release.
Many refer to genetically-modified food products as "Frankenfood," although the industry says the technology is beneficial.
If the legislation passes, it would be the first in the nation. A similar California bill, Proposition 37, failed in California in last November's election. Some 53 percent of voters voted against the labeling law, and 47 percent voted for it.
The Los Angeles Times reported at the time that the measure "fell victim to a mediat blitz bankrolled by $46 million in campaign contributions from big biotech companies, including Monsanto Co., grocery manufacturers and agricultural firms." The campaign supporting the measure spent $9 million.
Although the measure failed, its supporters claimed a partial victory because, they said, they drew significant attention to the issue.
Supporters of labeling say consumers deserve to know what's in their food, just as current labels specify amounts of nutrients, salt, carbohydrates, fats and other ingredients. However, many supporters of labeling also oppose genetically-engineered foods, saying it is an unproven technology that could harm people.
Opponents of the California measure said that it was expensive and bureaucratic. Opponents also have said that labeling food that has genetically-engineers components suggests that GE foods are harmful, which the GE industry says is not the case.
The industry says GE technology has the promise to increase food production and help adapt food production to climate change, developing corn that needs less fertilizer and rice that needs less water, for instance.
According to the Center for Food Safety, up to 85 percent of corn, 91 percent of soy beans and 95 percent of sugar beets in the United States are made with genetically modified organisms, Leach noted. Additionally, up to 70 percent of processed foods found in grocery stores have been genetically modified.
Leach's announcement come in the wake of a decision by Whole Foods to require its suppliers label all GE foods in its stores by 2018.
Joining Leach at a press conference today were Sam Bernhardt, Pennsylvania Organizer, Food & Water Watch; Karen Stark, GMO-Free PA; Brian Snyder, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture; Jon McGoran, Communications Director, Weavers Way Food Cooperative; Roman Stoltzfoos, Organic Farmer, Spring Wood Dairy; Rebecca Frimmer, General Manager, Greensgrow Farm; Maria Payans, Executive Director, Peachbottom Concerned Citizens Group.
Sandy Bauers