2011 on /r/askReddit, 3 years before Elliot Rodger and the founding of /r/hapas: "How do I as a white dad respond to angry attacks from my Eurasian Hapa son on my marriage to his Asian mother? Hes always cursing me and my wife out, and spouts ultra-nationalist propaganda, not just from Asian writers but Anything thats anti-white." – "I'm not racist, my wife is Asian!" What will happen when racist, anti-social, anti-diversity, conservative, anti-feminist, anti-black, anti-asian white men marry "traditional, family oriented," status-obsessed, racist asian tiger moms who hope their children look white for privilege – and produce half asian sons who look asian? what happens when half-asian sons grow up to look "too asian," and have a white dad and asian mom who are mocking asian men, while society is unapologetically racist against asian men? an honest appraisal of self-hatred and racism by the very worried son of a racist, black-hating, holocaust denier, Nazi-sympathizer and a racist, self-hating chinese woman.
I always thought my son looked white to me. Maybe thats just because I'm his dad. But since at least his teen years he has always insisted on being full Asian. He says that its not his choice, but that the whole world- including even other Asians- have always treated him as a full-Asian and theres no point in him pretending and begging to be white.
Hes always cursing me and my wife out, and spouts ultra-nationalist propaganda, not just from Asian writers but from Malcolm X , the Black Panthers, Young Lords and Nation of Islam too. Anything thats anti-white. Hes my son, my flesh and blood, but he says I'm just a white guy, and an enemy to him. And that we're not family.
Is there anyway I can get through to him? Hes as much white as he is Asian, and yet he has totally rejected his white side. He reads very militant Asian blogs and forums which bash interracial relationships such as my own. And despite being the offspring of it, he hates it more than most full-Asians. According to him, the worst humiliation and emasculation for an Asian man is to see all the WM/AF couples, and that it is hell on earth to be born an Asian male out of such a couple. He often threatens suicide, and say it would be better if he were never born. He curses his mother out for not just aborting him at birth.
Despite his intense Asian nationalism, at times he is almost worshipful towards whites. He gets incredibly angry whenever either I or his mom suggest he dates an Asian girl, and praises the perfect beauty of white girls. And sometimes he talks about getting the Asian eye-lid surgery since he says all his problems come from being Asian. He says that his natural look, since he used to look more white as a kid.
I never imagine that the greatest obstacle to my interracial marriage would come not from society, not from whites or asians, but from my own son. You would think a mixed kid would be the last person to hate mixed loved.
My son claims that white men and asian women can never understand what asian men go through, and so his mom and dad have no right to parent him.
Does anyone have any advice on how I can get through to my son?


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The new DDT
Activist Jeffrey Smith teams with rocker Neil Young to warn communities about glyphosate
Mollie Putzig
It's sprayed on crops, schoolyards, parking lots and possibly your yard. The World Health Organization says it probably causes cancer. It's the world's most-used herbicide and the active ingredient in Roundup: glyphosate.
On July 7, Jeffery Smith, activist and of author of Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating, implored Boulder County Commissioners to stop spraying the herbicide on Boulder's public parks and open spaces. The City of Boulder already banned Roundup in 2011 in favor of safer alternatives, and Smith hopes the county — and the rest of the nation — will follow suit.
"Some scientists who've been looking at [glyphosate] think it's causing more illness than any other chemical on the planet because of how much it's being used," Smith says. "There are more toxic chemicals out there, but the overall impact of Roundup and glyphosate may be greater because of its use in the hundreds of millions of pounds."
Smith, who is also the founder of the Institute for Responsible Technology, is traveling with Neil Young's summer 2015 Rebel Content Tour, which features Young's newest album, The Monsanto Years. Smith's mission on the tour is to tell communities along the way about the institute's Ban Glyphosate Campaign.
Glyphosate is the keystone product of agricultural biotech giant Monsanto, who patented the chemical as an herbicide in 1969. The chemical kills plants by stopping the production of an enzyme used in the production of aromatic amino acids in the shikimate pathway (a metabolic process). For more than 40 years Monsanto has said glyphosate is safe because humans don't have a shikimate pathway — but something inside us does.
Microbes in the human body outnumber our own cells 10 to one. They live inside us, helping digest our food and training our immune systems to ward off disease. They rely on the shikimate pathway.
"We don't use the shikimate pathway in our tissues, but gut bacteria uses the shikimate pathway to produce these amino acids to produce — and you've probably heard of these — serotonin, melatonin, dopamine," Smith says. "If they're not produced in sufficient quantities then you end up with mood and behavior disorders, insomnia, pain problems, problems regulating blood sugar and even the inability to know when you're full.
"Monsanto will deny it," Smith says. "Some of it is very well understood and some of it is speculative based on what we know [glyphosate] does … No one has tested serotonin levels [in humnas] after eating glyphosate … but we know that it blocks the shikimate pathway, the shikimate pathway produces L-tryptophan, L-tryptophan produces serotonin. So it's not that speculative."
Scientists don't yet fully understand the functions of the microbiome. Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder's BioFrontiers Institute have found that it's affected by everything we do, from where and how we are born, to the food and chemicals we ingest. Medical researchers suspect that changes to our communities of microscopic organisms are linked to obesity, diabetes and certain cancers. They know that antibiotics play a significant role in the life of those microbes.
In addition to acting as an herbicide, glyphosate is a powerful antibiotic. Monsanto got a patent from the U.S. government to use glyphosate as an antibiotic in 2010. Like any antibiotic it kills the good along with the bad. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began warning about overuse of antibiotics in 2013 because they are concerned about antibiotic-resistant infections. The more antibiotics we use, the more bacteria develop resistance to them.
"An antibiotic usually you get a prescription for," Smith says. "Here's a very powerful antibiotic that has a broadspectrum capacity for killing bacteria and it's sprayed on our food — it's in our water; it's in our air."
In the mid '80s the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determined that glyphosate caused cancer in mice, but they took it back in 1991 after reevaluating the study, according to the New York Times. Then, as now, they only tested glyphosate rather than the full chemical cocktail of Roundup. A 2014 study in France found that Roundup is 125 times more toxic than glyphosate alone. Contrary to its reputation as harmless, Roundup was "by far the most toxic" of the six herbicides and insecticides the French study examined.
In 2013, the EPA raised the allowable limits of glyphosate residue on food — from 20 parts per million to 40 parts per million in oilseed crops. And foods like carrots, sweet potatoes, beets and onions can now be sold with 15 to 25 times more glyphosate than previously allowed. Paradoxically, an EPA fact sheet about glyphosate says that chronic long-term exposure to highlevels of glyphosate can cause kidney damage and reproductive problems.
Before it became a weed killer, glyphosate was used as a chemical descaler, cleaning mineral deposits out of pipes and boilers. The metal chelating properties of glyphosate have invited speculation as a possible cause of a mysterious kidney disease attacking farmers in Sri Lanka, India and parts of Central America. Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown etiology — called such because its cause is a mystery — has killed more than 20,000 in Sri Lanka alone and has been on the rise for decades.
A study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health posits glyphosate is to blame. Glyphosate bonds with heavy metals like arsenic and cadmium, and it smuggles them through the liver and into the kidney. There the bonds break, and together the toxins destroy the kidney. The study suggests that high use of Roundup in an area where arsenic and cadmium are known to exist could be causing the epidemic.
The World Health Organization lists possible causes of the disease as arsenic, cadmium, pesticides, hard water consumption, dehydration and exposure to high temperatures.
Monsanto has brushed off claims that glyphosate may be linked to kidney problems. Even so, complete to partial bans on glyphosate have popped up in Colombia, Sri Lanka, Denmark, France, the Netherlands and California.
"One of the issues that we're dealing with is the power of Monsanto to disinform and highjack regulatory bodies here and around the world," Smith says.
Monsanto was convicted of false advertising first in New York and then in France, where claims that glyphosate was readily biodegradable were refuted. Their own science showed that only 2 percent of glyphosate biodegrades in 28 days. Even after losing the case in New York they continued the false ad campaign in Europe.
"They continued to advertise it falsely in Europe until they were convicted there and had to pay 28,000 euros," Smith says. "From a business standpoint, it paid to lie, but from an ethical standpoint, it's been a disaster.
"We believe there's significant justification for an immediate ban," Smith says. He wants glyphosate eliminated not only from the 100,000 acres in Boulder County's jurisdiction, but also from school grounds and other private lands where it's use is up to citizens.
The EPA has a list of "minimum risk" pesticides that can be used in place of Roundup. They rely on products such as citric acid, corn meal, garlic and mint instead. When the City of Boulder banned Roundup, it switched to "mechanical means" or good oldfashioned weeding.
"Boulder is really a lighthouse for the nation in organic, natural and healthy living," Smith says. "Everyone in Boulder knows that. It makes complete sense that Boulder takes the leadership in this area."
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What Materials Can Replace Steel?
Russia and Ukraine is an important exporters of oil, natural gas, metals, fertilizers, rare gases and other industrial raw materials. Affected by the further intensification of the tension of the war, the global market has become more worried about the supply of the titanium carbide powder, and panic spreads in the futures market. Prices of commodities such as aluminum and nickel are at recent highs on concerns that supplies will fall. Russia accounts for 49 percent of global exports of nickel, 42 percent of palladium, 26 percent of aluminum and 13 percent of platinum, and is a significant exporter of steel and copper. Palladium is an important metal for sensors and memory. In addition, Russia is the world's largest exporter of nitrogen fertilizer, the second largest exporter of potash fertilizer, and the third-largest exporter of phosphate fertilizer. Ukraine is also an important producer of nitrogen fertilizer. Russia's natural gas supply also has a significant impact on the global fertilizer industry and titanium carbide powder industry, especially in Europe. The price of the titanium carbide powder will also fluctuate to some extent. Russia carries out crude gas separation, and Ukraine is responsible for refined exports. Ukraine supplies 70% of the world's neon, 40% of krypton and 30% of xenon. These three gases are the materials used to make chips.
We use steel to build houses, parks, and playgrounds. If steel no longer exists, or if we have to build cities on Mars, what materials can replace steel?
Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastics (FRP)
It was first heard in 1940. Fiberglass has no steel in it, but it is very hard: An 8mm thick glass plate cannot be penetrated by a speeding bullet.
To make fiberglass, glass is first melted and drawn into wires. Glass fiber is very elastic and can be spun into cloth. Fiberglass or glass-reinforced plastics are made by pressing layers of glass cloth together and adding heat treatment to a hot-melt plastic.
The mechanical strength of fiberglass is comparable to that of steel, but it weighs only a quarter of that of steel, so it's very light. Moreover, fiberglass does not rust, and does not conduct electricity.
Glass fiber reinforced plastics (FRP) is a new technological material, which is light, beautiful, and strong, and can be used to make car bodies, motorboat hulls, railway carriages, construction materials, etc. The body of a car made of fiberglass weighs just over 150 kilograms. Fiberglass powerboats don't rust and rot, and they can be made into one piece without splicing. If the body of the boat breaks somewhere, just put some adhesive resin around it and put pieces of glass cloth on it.
The use of FRP is more and more extensive. In the military, FRP is used to make light tanks and gunboats, and in sports, FRP is used to make pole vaulting poles and bows for archery. In life, FRP is also used to manufacture furniture and kitchen bath equipment, such as bathtubs, sinks, which are beautiful, light, strong, and durable.
Iron and steel materials have many advantages, but it also has many defects, such as not corrosion resistance, not high-temperature resistance, not being hard enough, and heat insulation. Ceramics make up for these defects.
We all know that ceramics are fragile. After analyzing the composition of ordinary ceramics, scientists believe that one of its main materials, clay containing more impurities, is the source of ordinary ceramics' easy cracking. So, a silver-gray silicon nitride ceramic was made by mixing sand, starch, and zirconia in a nitrogen-filled furnace at 1,400 °C for seven hours.
This colorful high-tech ceramic, with almost the same specific weight as aluminum, can withstand high temperatures of more than 1500℃, and has very good toughness, and amazing hardness, only diamond can cut it. Since then, silicon carbide, zirconia, titanium carbide, toughened alumina, and other new ceramic materials have come out.
Different high-tech ceramics with different compositions have their own use.
Zirconia ceramics, for example, are particularly resistant to wear, corrosion, and high temperatures. Engine cylinders made of zirconia do not need a cooling system so that the heat generated by fuel combustion in the cylinder can be converted into the power required by the car to the maximum. In addition, the new cylinder is hard, not easy to wear, and the acid gas is formed by the decomposition of fuel oil corrosion. Therefore, this high-tech ceramic automobile engine has a long service life, high power, low manufacturing cost, and can save a lot of metal materials and 30% of the fuel consumption.
More interesting is that the cutting tool is made of high-tech zirconium-containing ceramics, once the knife body is impacted by external forces and cracks, it will automatically expand, and the cracks will be closed. Zirconia ceramic scissors, the blade is not blunt, rust not crack, known as never scrap "long life scissors".
The development of high and new technology can make ceramic become harder than iron and steel, and also can make it as ductile and plastic as copper, aluminum, and other non-ferrous metals. Titanium oxide ceramics, for example, are ground into extremely fine grains and, with a binder, melted into sheets at high temperatures. Simply heat the sheet to 1809°C and crush it. The result is a wavy ceramic plate. Another calcium fluoride ceramic, even when heated to 80℃, takes on the characteristics of extrusion deformation.
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Twitter recently announced that it had reached an agreement with Musk to take full ownership of the company for $54.20 per share, or about $44 billion in cash. After the deal, Twitter will become a privately held company. The deal, which has been unanimously approved by Twitter's board but still requires shareholder and regulatory approvals, is expected to close in 2022.
After Tesla CEO Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter was finalized, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey sent out a series of six tweets expressing his expectations for Musk.
Dorsey called Twitter his biggest regret, saying, "The idea and service is all that matters to me, and I will do whatever it takes to protect both. Twitter as a company has always been my sole issue and my biggest regret. It has been owned by Wall Street and the ad model. Taking it back from Wall Street is the correct first step.
"In principle, I don't believe anyone should own or run Twitter," Dorsey goes on. He thinks the service is a public good.
He called Musk a "singular solution" to Twitter's problems, "Elon's goal of creating a platform that is" Maximally trusted and inclusive "is the right one." He wrote, "Thank you both for getting the company out of an impossible situation. This is the right path... I believe it with all my heart."
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MountFest: Kick off your summer in the beautiful surroundings of Mount St. Francis, just off Highway 150 near Floyds Knobs. Spend the afternoon and evening browsing through the displays of paintings, pottery, and other products from local artists, while local musicians provide entertainment. Sample wine and beer from regional wineries and brewers. Food trucks will be onsite, giving visitors a variety of eating options. The event is family friendly with activities for children. Admission is FREE. Plan on arriving early and staying late — Saturday, June 1, 2 – 8 pm.


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NIST, GDPR, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, CSF & FCA on Cyber Incident Response
To discuss cyber incident response with the CEO, you must be familiar with ISO 27001, NIST's CSF, PCI-DSS NCSC'S Cyber Assessment Framework and other regulations and standards that discuss cyber incident response and incident management.
In this blog, we cover the EU GDPR, PCI-DSS, NIST's CSF, NIST's Incident Handling Guide, ISO 27001:2013, California's Breach Notification and other standards and regulations and share a summary of what they dictate about cyber incident response and more.
First, know that all these regulations and standards refer to one or more of the below topics:
Plans, processes and procedures for responding to cyber-attacks, created, maintained and updated regularly.
Ability of an organisation to contain, eradicate and recover from cyber incidents.
Ensuring IT and/or security staff are capable and have the appropriate training on detection and response technologies and processes.
Data Breach Notification, the accurate and timely reporting of data breaches to relevant supervisory authorities and regulators.
Our NCSC-Certified Cyber Incident Planning & Response Course covers the above topics and more.
The EU GDPR and Data Breach Notification:
The GDPR has become synonymous with the protection of personal privacy. However, a part of this privacy regulation asks that organisations are able to timely detect and swiftly respond to data-breaches that impact the natural living person. Specifically, two articles in the EU-GDPR regulations speak about data breach notification, namely Article 33 and Article 34.
Article 33 GDPR: Notification of a personal data breach to the supervisory authority: In summary, the organisation has 72 hours to inform the regulator of their country. To note, the breach must impact the data subject's rights and freedoms.
Supporting Recitals: Recital 85, 86, 87 & 88
Article 34 GDPR: Communication of a personal data breach to the data subject: In summary, you have to also notify the data subject.
Please note: NOT all data breaches need to be reported. The points mentioned above, in relation to data breaches and GDPR, are just the tip of the ice-berg and for businesses who are inclined to becoming truly compliant, it is advisable to review our CIPR workshop and its detailed modules. The CIPR course's module 9 on 'Regulations and Standards;' discusses exactly what you need to know and how to ensure you meet your obligations on the above requirements. UK's ICO holds the same position about reportable breaches. In the UK, the GPDR is officially known as the DPA 2018.
Our Opinion:
Reporting a breach is the easier part, especially if the media does it for you. However, to be on the front-foot you need to ensure all your 'ducks' are in order including, but not limited to, monitoring, coverage of the monitoring, detection technology, technology to protect the monitoring data and staff that are adequately trained to operate the technology stack. (Top)
ISO 27001:2013 and the Management of a Security Incident
The Annex A16.1 in the ISO 27001:2013 is devoted to everything about incident management including reporting, assessment, response and lessons learnt (similar, but different to NIST). The NCSC-Certified CIPR course is geared to teach you how to achieve and comply with this section of the ISO 27001. Below are the control descriptions listed in the Annex A16.1:
16.1.1 - Responsibilities and Procedures: As it says, defined staff responsibilities for critical activities. Procedures that are fit-for-purpose and that can help you respond to different kinds of cyber-attacks.
16.1.2 - Reporting Information Security Incidents: Clear procedures, forms and workflows and awareness that ensures that staff know how to report security incidents.
16.1.3 - Reporting Information Security Weaknesses: Procedures and importantly staff empowerment to ensure all weaknesses are recorded formally.
16.1.4 - Assessment of, and decision on, Information Security Events: It may sound easy but timely and accurately assessing information security events and then classifying the events takes skilled staff, working and optimised technology controls along with fit-for-purpose processes and procedures.
16.1.5 - Response to Information Security Incidents: Equally important is the need to ensure rapid response to classified events.
16.1.6 - Learning From Information Security Incidents: More than the tired 'lessons learnt' this control asks that you have verifiable procedures and a culture where lessons are truly learnt and that knowledge is shared in a formal structured manner.
16.1.7 - Collection of Evidence: The NCSC-Certified CIPR course discusses the importance of not just collecting but also protecting the evidence. You must ensure that evidence is collected but also protected from any change.
ISO 27001 is often considered a prize and great effort is spent on achieving the ISO certification. In our opinion, this is a fallacy. It is our opinion that the ISMS, the Information Security Management System, the key and core component of ISO 27001:2013, must become part of the organisational culture.
When it comes to ISO 27001 Annex A16.1 controls, organisations must avoid focussing solely on the paper elements of the requirements i.e. the reporting form, the procedure documentation and instead focus on materially improving the organisation's cyber resilience posture by adopting our CIPR philosophy of CATTS. Critical Assets, Threats (to the critical assets, Threat Actors that can materialise those threats and finally Scenarios that will combine the CATT elements to impact your business. To further understand the requirements of the ISO 27001 certification, you can go through our CIPR training that delves deeper into the control descriptions given above. (Top)
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is an information security standard for organisations that handle credit cards from the major card schemes. Card brands mandate the PCI Standard but the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council administers the scheme.
In the PCI-DSS, there are several requirements that can be classified under Cyber Incident Planning & Response:
Requirement 10: Track and monitor all access to network resources and cardholder data: This requirement says you must log all user activity to critical systems components so that you can go back and 'replay' and build a clear picture of what happened, when it happened and which user was involved.
Requirement 10.1 & 10.2 talk about implementing audit trails and ask for detailed audit so you can reconstruct events like who accessed what, especially privileged users.
Requirement 10.3 sticks with auditing and is more prescriptive of what you should audit like time, origination of event and etc.
Requirement 10.5 talks about time and protecting time synchronisation.
Requirement 10.6 talks about the necessity to regularly review the logs you are capturing and prescribes the minimum type of logs that you should review daily.
Requirement 10.7 talks about how long you should retain logs. If you fall under the PCI-DSS scope, the recommended log retention period is 1 year.
Requirement 12: Maintain a policy that addresses information security for all personnel. Specifically, Requirement 12.5 says that you must assign to an individual or team the following information security management responsibilities:
Requirement 12.5.2: Monitor and analyse security alerts and information, and distribute to appropriate personnel.
Requirement 12.5.3 specifically calls out procedures for creating, maintaining and distributing procedures.
Requirement 12.10 says you should have an implementation of a response plan.
Requirement 12.10.1 of the above says your incident response plans better be fit-for-purpose and have specific procedures for responding to an incident.
Requirement 12.10.4 specifically talks about security breach response training for staff responsible for IR.
We like the Payment Card Industry's Data Security Standard. It's detailed and prescriptive and even if you are not processing credit card details you should consider reviewing the above controls (and other controls) to try to improve your cybersecurity and overall cyber resiliency.
Requirement 10 is more technical and is all about logging, what you should audit, how long you should maintain those logs and more. To summarise, PCI-DSS requirement 10 asks that you be able to piece together all the pieces of the puzzle during and after an attack.
Requirement 12 is about policy and says that your staff must be trained properly on the technology and know about the various policies and procedures on cyber incident detection and response.
However, the mandates and recommendations covered here are but a glimpse into the full extent of the compliance requirements of the PCI-DSS, that we cover in our CIPR training workshop. Businesses that are directly involved in the Payments Card industry or those that are interested in enhancing their security posture by complying with these standards, would be advised to get a deeper understanding of the same. (Top)
The NIST Security Incident Handling Guide:
The National Institute of Standards and Technology needs little introduction. NIST's Computer Security Incident Handling guide has been the bible for incident response for ages. In summary, NIST (Special Publication 800-61 Revision 2) talks about four key areas including
Preparation: As the name implies, this is an important phase that involves planning for an incident. It may sound simple but this phase is about more than just creating a cyber incident response plan document. There are several areas that need to be considered including, but not limited to, the technology stack, communications and public relations, change control, contact details, training assessments, forensics, investigations, third-parties and more. Our NCSC-Certified Cyber Incident Planning & Response course takes you through this stage in detail. Trust us, it's crucial that you nail this phase.
Detection & Analysis: The ability, technology and staff to detect and then analyse an incident are included in this phase. Early detection and accurate analysis are some of the key things to strive for in this phase. Think about it this way, you are on holiday (not during this pandemic, but you get what we mean). A burglar alarm that does not detect successful robberies in time or simply fails to alert the police is useless. That's the same for your organisation's detection and analysis capabilities.
Containment, Eradication & Recovery: As it says on the tin and sticking with the burglar analogy, it would be completely pointless if the police took 2 hours to turn up at your burgled house (whilst you were on holiday). The same goes for a cyber-attack. Today's malware (malicious software) can spread in seconds and disable your laptops and servers permanently. Your response actions, especially that of containment, must match the speed of the malware's infection. If not, your business will be impacted.
Post-Incident Activity: This phase is more than just 'lessons-learned'. Professionally, this is a cliché that has lost its meaning. Knowledge sharing, customer /client management, public relations, review of technology stacks, up-skilling are some of the things that need to happen in this phase. In addition, you must use the knowledge from an attack to prepare and update your existing plans.
The above four phases are just a part of the state of 'being-prepared' (only part). In our opinion, there is a significant amount of experience, effort, training and skill involved in increasing an organisation's capability in cyber resilience. We caution the reader against a dogged approach to compliance and/or religious dedication to a particular standard. To the contrary, we advise our clients to focus on the primary objective; that of ensuring a business can continue to operate and make profit when put under a significant impact by a cyber-attack. Further, for a detailed understanding of the NIST requirements, we advise our clients to conduct our CIPR training for the key security decision-makers and associated stakeholders in their business.
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework
This is another brilliant document from NIST that mentions five key areas namely, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover. These areas are called Functions and these are further broken down into categories and then sub-categories. The sub-categories call for specific outcomes. For example:
The Detect Function (DE) has a category Anomalies and Events (AE) and the 2nd subcategory in AE says: Detected events are analysed to understand attack targets and methods.
There are too many sections in the CSF to cover in this blog and for a detailed understanding, interested businesses can look into our CIPR course, but here are a few:
The Detect function has three categories namely, Anomalies and Events, Continuous Monitoring & Detection Processes.
The Respond function includes Response Planning, Communications, Analysis, Mitigation and Improvements.
In the Protect function, the Awareness and Training category says that staff must be trained so they can carry out their cybersecurity-related duties in accordance with processes, policies and procedures.
Another great document created in 2014, NIST's Cybersecurity Framework taxonomy of IPDRR (Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover) is often quoted by experienced cybersecurity practitioners around the world. We cannot say it better than NIST which says this about the CSF, "The Framework focusses on using business drivers to guide cybersecurity activities and considering cybersecurity risks as part of the organisation's risk management processes."
Although originally developed for Critical National Infrastructure (original document is titled, 'Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity'), the Cybersecurity Framework or CSF is used and implemented by companies from all verticals and sizes. (Top)
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
Similar to NIST's Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), the UK's NCSC created a Cyber Assessment Framework or CAF that is written with specific outcomes rather than a checklist of tick boxes. The Cyber Assessment Framework is quite comprehensive and has 14 principles. An organisation can carry out a self-assessment using this framework or the assessment can be carried out by an external consultant.
The NCSC has three objectives for most Principles: Not Achieved, Partially Achieved and Achieved.
CAF Objective B - Protecting Against Cyber-Attack
Principle B5 - Resilient Networks & Systems
The aim here is to ensure that an organisation has resiliency built into its networks and systems so it can recover them and its business operations.
B5.a Resilience Preparation
B5.b Design for Resilience
B5.c Backups
CAF Objective C - Detecting Cyber Security Events:
Principle C1 - Security Monitoring
The overall objective here, as it says in the objective, is to ensure that an organisation monitors networks and systems so it can detect and track problems and to ensure existing controls are effective. Under the C1 of the NCSC's CAF, we have the following that address cyber incident response and cyber resilience.
C1.a Monitoring Coverage
C1.b Securing Logs
C1.c Generating Alerts
C1.d Identifying Security Incidents
C1.e Monitoring Tools & Skills
Principle C2 - Proactive Security Event Discovery
As it says on the tin, the keyword here is proactive and to achieve that is not a simple task. Many moving components need to all align and move in unison, including having highly skilled staff, the right kind of technologies including automation technologies and optimised processes and procedures.
C2.a System Abnormalities for Attack Detection
C2.b Proactive Attack Discovery
The full CAF by NCSC is comprehensive. Our NCSC-Certified CIPR course is the best place to get into the context of the CAF, which is also straightforward and like the NIST's CSF it does a good job at trying to capture the various stages or phases of a cyber-resilient organisation. However, many a times organisations get lost in the detail and more importantly lose sight of the main objective. That of being Cyber Resilient; being prepared to either carry on business operations or rapidly resume business operations in the face of a crisis. (Top)
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
As you would expect, UK's FCA has guidance on collateral on the topic of cyber incident response and more specifically notification.
Principle 11: So, the FCA has a total of 11 principles (here) and Principle 11 is what concerns us. Verbatim, principle 11 of FCA's Handbook says:
A firm must deal with its regulators in an open and cooperative way, and must disclose to the FCA appropriately anything relating to the firm of which that regulator would reasonably expect notice.
As it says, organisations must be open and transparent. This principle 11 applies to regulated and unregulated activities.
In FCA's Handbook, SUP 15.3.1 is pretty clear (cyber incident or not),
A firm must notify the FCA immediately as it becomes aware, or has information which reasonably suggests, that any of the following has occurred, may have occurred or may occur in the foreseeable future:
(2) any matter which could have a significant adverse impact on the firm's reputation; or
(3) any matter which could affect the firm's ability to continue to provide adequate services to its customers and which could result in serious detriment to a customer of the firm; or
(4) any matter in respect of the firm which could result in serious financial consequences to the UK financial system or to other firms.
FCA's CQUEST Questionnaire
In addition to the above, the FCA and PRA (Prudential Regulation Authority) have a cybersecurity and cyber resilience questionnaire titled CQUEST that is divided into 6 categories, namely:
Governance & Leadership (9 questions)
Identity (6 questions)
Protect (17 questions)
Detect (8 questions)
Respond (5 questions)
Recover (3 questions)
Reporting a cyber incident - Principle 11 of the FCA Handbook
Under Principle 11 of the FCA Handbook, you must report material cyber incidents. An incident may be material if it:
results in significant loss of data, or the availability or control of your IT systems
affects a large number of customers
results in unauthorised access to, or malicious software present on, your information and communication systems
As mentioned in earlier sections, this blog aims to only offer a cursory view of the important stipulations of all regulatory guidances and for a clearer perspective and guidelines on how to achieve complete compliance, you need to look at our CIPR course which covers these subjects in detail. (Top)
California Data Security Breach Reporting
If California were a country, (apparently) it would be the 5th largest economy in the world! Yes and California does unique things and is also known for taking the lead on many things, including having a similar
GDPR-like law called the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act).
California also has a specific law on Data Breach Notification known as the California Data Security Breach Reporting. Below is a part of what it states, verbatim.
California law requires a business or state agency to notify any California resident whose unencrypted personal information, as defined, was acquired, or reasonably believed to have been acquired, by an unauthorised person. (California Civil Code s. 1798.29(a) [agency] and California Civ. Code s. 1798.82(a) [person or business].)
Any person or business that is required to issue a security breach notification to more than 500 California residents as a result of a single breach of the security system shall electronically submit a single sample copy of that security breach notification, excluding any personally identifiable information, to the Attorney General. (California Civil Code s. 1798.29(e) [agency] and California Civ. Code s. 1798.82(f) [person or business].)
Other US States that have similar laws include:
Oregon: You must notify concerned parties within 10 days of discovering a breach of security.
Texas: You have to notify the affected individuals without undue delay but within 60 days.
Washington: The notification used to be 45 days but is now 30 days.
The above is just a summary. As in any regulations the 'devil is in the details' and if you come under the purview of the laws of California, you must check out the regulations in detail in our CIPR course. (Top)
If you need more information on how to design the most effective cyber incident response plans and inculcate best response practices so that your business remains compliant and on top of data breaches, you could check out our GCHQ-Certified Cyber Incident Planning & Response course here.
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The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced the Documentary Feature nominees and it came with a few surprises.
The list of films (below) advances in the final voting for the 29th Annual Producers Guild Awards presented by Cadillac. The winner will be announced during the Producers Guild Awards ceremony on Saturday, January 20, 2018 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, CA.
Visibly missing in the list is "Faces Places," the acclaimed French documentary which won the L'Œil d'or award (best documentary) at 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
PGA started handing out best documentary feature since 2007. Since then, five documentary films that were honored went on to win the Academy Award Best Documentary Feature including Man on Wire, The Cove, Searching for Sugar Man, Amy and O.J.: Made in America.
Here is the list of films nominated for Outstanding Documentary Motion Picture in alphabetical order:
Chasing Coral
Cries from Syria
Earth: One Amazing Day
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
ABOUT THE PRODUCERS GUILD OF AMERICA (PGA)
The Producers Guild of America is the non-profit trade group that represents, protects and promotes the interests of all members of the producing team in film, television and new media. The Producers Guild has more than 8,100 members who work together to protect and improve their careers, the industry and community by providing members with employment opportunities, seeking to expand health benefits, promoting fair and impartial standards for the awarding of producing credits, as well as other education and advocacy efforts such as encouraging sustainable production practices.
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Here's a photo of my nephew sailing over the Imperial Sand Dunes in California.
Just west of Yuma, Arizona, in the state of California, lies one of the nation's largest mass of inland sand dunes. The erg is approximately 45 miles long by 6 miles wide. We've driven through this area on our way to California, but have never done any exploring.
Granted, there's not much to explore but sand, and there's no way to do it other than on a motorcycle or in an all-terrain vehicle. And it's hot. So as you'd imagine, I'm not doing any kind of exploring in this place.
My brother has been to the dunes many times over the years with his best friend from high school. He's also taken my nephews out there a few times to ride. They love it. And now that Ed has a motorcycle, I suspect he'll be going on one of the future trips. I'm already concerned.
The boys like to show off, jump from dangerous heights (some of the dunes rise 300 feet), and drive faster than they would anywhere else they've ridden. There have been several injuries over the years, including a few this past week. Nothing serious in the minds of men as you might imagine, and so far they've all come back with operational limbs so it constitutes a good time.
A natural draw for off-road enthusiasts, The Imperial Sand Dunes see more than a million visitors each year. That's a whole lotta people coming out to see what's essentially a giant sandbox.
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Giorgi Mikadze is Georgian pianist, composer and arranger. Born in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, Giorgi first sat down on the piano bench at the age of five. Playing the music seemed to come effortlessly to him and by the time he was 12, he was performing piano concertos with symphonies in his native Tbilisi, Georgia. Giorgi absorbed his classical music studies and began composing at 14. In high school, he became more fascinated with Jazz, after discovering Errol Garner, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock. He has won numerous classical piano competitions and has received awards in many different countries. Giorgi's concerts have been broadcast on several radio stations and television in Europe, Asia, and Americas. He has appeared at major festival venues such as: Newport Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Tbilisi Jazz Festival, Young Euro Classic, Bean Town Jazz Festival, Kavkaz Jazz Festival, Black Sea Jazz Festival, "Autumn Tbilisi" Festival, and Berklee's high school jazz festival. He recently finished American concert tour with Lee Ritenour and recorded album with Jack DeJohnette. His current jazz composition work explores the microtonalities of traditional Georgian folk music and reimagines those structures in innovative new musical motifs.
Currently, Giorgi is directing his project VOISA which is fulfilled together with his all-star band and ensemble BASIANI which has an enormous experience performing old and historic Georgian songs and chants. The Project represents the transformation of traditional Georgian culture in the midst of globalization and represents a cultural dialogue – combining Georgian folk music, jazz, funk, fusion, hip- hop, R&B, electric-acoustic music and micro-tonal directions. It is an unprecedented musical product that caters to a wide range of musical tastes.
Noted for his supreme technical skills as a pianist and composer, Giorgi has performed with the Tbilisi Symphony Orchestras, Berklee Symphony Orchestras and MSM Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also composed for plays at the Rustaveli National Theatre. Giorgi was a musical director for Berklee's tribute to Quincy Jones and a Berklee Commencement Concert. He has played together with number of renowned artists, including: Jack DeJohnette, Roy Hargrove, Dave Liebman, Lee Ritenour, Meshell Ndegeocello, Chris Potter, Matt Garrison, Nils Landgren, Tia Fuller, Patti Austin, Jojo Mayer, David Fiuczynski, Brett Dennen, Siedah Garrett, Stefon Harris, Melwin Davis, Tom Kennedy, Phil Wilson and Mulatu Astatke.
Giorgi won prizes in many national and international competitions and was awarded a full - tuition scholarship at the International Festival-Institute in Round Top Texas, Berklee College of Music and Manhattan School of Music. He has also won scholarships from the president of Georgia, Eteri Andjapharidze, Giya Kancheli, Emmanuel Zambelli and 18th street arts center.
Giorgi graduated from Berklee in May 2014, and holds Master of Music from Manhattan School of Music. In summer of 2017, he was invited as a visiting professor at Berklee College of Music where he was teaching 7 different courses that included jazz ensembles, theory, ear training, and private piano lessons. With his groups, Mikadze plays a repertoire that includes his genre-hopping compositions and clearly shows how he's become in-demand as a sideman and musical director.
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The game is a cool concept, but there are too many ads for my liking, and on the second section you need to get instagram or buy premium to unlock the art to unlock the next section. I don't have instagram or want to pay $7.00 or so a week just to spin some simple polygons around to make a picture. I guess this app isn't for me.
the graphics for samsung halo is awesome i love the challenge of the game. the best 3d puzzle I've seen and or played. there are however alot of ads guess you would need to pay to remove them. probably worth it if you can afford it. i love it. thank you for this phenomenal game. it may be much but i see it fit. oh it occasionally freezes if your luck restarting gets back on track.
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okay game, too many ads. Developers never learn that people don't want to pay for a game after 5 levels (where three of them are tutorial) I deleted after 2 consecutive levels were forcing me to pay. put them somewhere else and be happy with your ad money, because there are plenty of those too.
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The images are nice and at first it was a fun little challenge, but now I've found that if you rotate an image, any image in a certain way it'll always line the pieces up. Just think it's a little lazy that the puzzles aren't rotated in different ways at each start. Regardless of what other people say, you can gain access to all levels without paying or subscribing.
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LPL did in fact have an archiving system in place, but was plagued by "systemic email failures", and did not do much to fix or avoid them.
Archiving email is not enough, as well as being retained, the data needs to be monitored and, if requested, it needs to be easily retrieved. In 2009 LPL switched to a different archive provider and lost access to 280 million emails for five months, and that is just one of 35 failures identified between 2007 and 2013.
This should serve as a wake-up call for company owners nationwide; an organization that makes a reasonable compliance effort will escape punishment. FINRA's crackdown on LPL may be showing that they are taking a harder stance on enforcing these regulations and companies should beware and take the necessary compliance precautions to avoid investigation.
Brad Bennett, Executive Vice President and Chief of Enforcement, said, "As LPL grew, it did not expand its compliance and technology infrastructure; and as a result, LPL failed in its responsibility to provide complete responses to regulatory and other requests for emails. This case sends a strong message to firms to make sure your business does not outgrow your compliance systems."
At the end of the day, a company doesn't need an army of compliance officers scanning and monitoring emails, but a system does need to be put in place that represents an organisations best efforts.
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While welcoming freelance journalist Xiang Nanfu's release, announced on 19 August 2014, Reporters Without Borders calls on the European Council to sanction state-owned CCTV13's executives for violating his right to a fair trial by broadcasting his forced confession in order to incriminate him.
Xiang wrote about land confiscation and organ trafficking for the US-based Chinese-language news website Boxun. When he was arrested on 3 May, the police accused him of receiving sums of from abroad, and his articles were said to have undermined China's image.
On 13 May, ten days after his arrest, he was shown on CCTV13 confessing to having "smeared the Party and the government."
Announcing his release on 19 August, the police said he was being freed on parole "because of his poor health and above all because of a relatively good attitude in pleading guilty."
Xiang's forced confession was broadcast just five days after a similar "confession" by the well-known journalist Gao Yu. Broadcasting forced confessions is often used to discredit dissident news and information providers. It was used with the journalist Chen Yongzhou in November 2013 and with the blogger and businessman Charles Xue in September 2013.
"We are relieved by Xiang's release but we are very shocked by the way it was obtained," said Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Christophe Deloire. "The Chinese authorities flout their own justice system by making journalists 'confess' publicly to crimes they did not commit. The sole aim of these forced confessions is to destroy the credibility of those charged.
"We call on the European Council to adopt sanctions against CCTV13 and its executives – China Central Television CEO Hu Zhanfan, CCTV board member Jiao Li and CCTV vice-president Zhang Changming – for broadcasting these forced confession. This is intolerable on the part of a news organization, even one controlled by the state."
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The way that the forced confessions were broadcast in China was similar to the Iranian cases considered by the European Council.
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9 Incredible Science Facts about the University of Toronto
A celebration of unique, extraordinary and record-breaking feats and facts from the U of T's 187-year history of learning and discovery
June 18, 2014 | By Scott Anderson
The University of Toronto isn't just Canada's biggest university, or one that regularly scores highly on prestigious university rankings. When we delved into the records that U of T and its community members hold – Canadian bests, world firsts, campus biggests or oldests or even hottests – we uncovered a picture of a place bursting with creativity, tradition and personality. It's enough to give Guinness a run for it's money. Check out all four categories: Arts, Science, People and Places & Programs.
World's Smallest Satellites
A satellite as small as a toaster? Welcome to the world of nanosatellites. This June, two miniature orbiters were to be launched into space, each carrying a tiny space telescope, which will enable astronomers to learn more about the the galaxy's brightest stars. U of T's Institute for Aerospace Studies and the engineering faculty collaborated for years to research, invent and build the amazing instruments.
Most Startup Companies of any North American University
Between 2009 and 2012, U of T and its partner hospitals created 63 new companies – more than any other American or Canadian university. For the top spot, U of T surpassed MIT, a perennial entrepreneurial powerhouse, which produced 58 spinoffs over the same period.
Bionym, a U of T start up founded in 2011, has created a device that identifies and authenticates people by their own unique cardiac rhythm
Canada's Fastest Computer
Installed in 2012, an IBM BlueGene/Q system, called Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform, is the fastest computer in Canada (and 89th in the world). How fast is that? Try 419.4 trillion calculations per second. BGQ crunches data for projects from medicine (mapping brain neurons) to geophysics (modelling ocean tides).
First Black Hole Discovered
In 1972, University of Toronto astronomer Tom Bolton published evidence of the first black hole to be observed in space. Theorists had been postulating about the existence of black holes for years, but had not been able to confirm the location of one. Bolton's paper was later included in a Harvard University Press selection of the most important astronomy papers published between 1900 and 1975.
Watch a NASA animation of one way to spot a black hole – observe the energy flares when it consumes a star.
Biggest Stressor (It's Not Exams!)
The Structural Testing Facility in the department of civil engineering hosts a three-storey contraption called a Baldwin Universal Testing Machine that applies loads of 1.2 million pounds to check the strength of various building materials and designs. The facility also boasts a Shake Table and a Blast Generator, surely putting it in contention for most fun workplace on campus.
Watch Prof. Evan Bentz give a tour of U of T's Structural Testing Facility.
World's First Single and Double Lung Transplants
In 1983, a team of surgeons at Toronto General Hospital, one of U of T's partner hospitals, performed the first successful lung transplant. Three years later, the same surgical team performed the first successful double lung transplant surgery. Since then, the surgery has helped save thousands of lives around the world.
Hottest Place on Campus
The Laser Photonics Fabrication Lab in the department of electrical and computer engineering is a true campus hotspot. "When [we focus] ultrashort laser light inside transparent glass, nonlinear absorption in the focal volume heats the material to sun-like temperatures, peaking over 5,000°C for nanosecond durations," explains Jianzhao Li, research associate with the department.
Coldest Spot on Campus
4°Kelvin – that's four degrees above absolute zero, or a bone-chilling −269°C. These cold spots appear not just in labs where liquid helium is used but in hospitals – liquid helium is required to cool down the superconducting magnets used in MRI machines.
Update: After this story was published, Prof. Stephen Julian of the department of physics wrote to tell us about one spot on campus that is even cooler…
Did you know U of T's McLennan Physical Laboratories building is named after Prof. Sir John McLennan, a physicist who, in 1923, was the first person in Canada to successfully create liquid helium?
World's Largest Health Study
Prof. Prabhat Jha of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health wants to understand how people die so that we can take better care of the living. That's why in the past 12 years, he and his research team have examined the deaths of 600,000 people in India. What have they learned so far? That malaria kills far more people in rural areas than previously thought, and HIV-AIDS kills far fewer. His study has influenced health-policy decisions by the Indian government, and now serves as a model for other countries.
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Well, Cinco de Mayo falls on a weekday so we thought we would hold our little celebration on Saturday, the day before Mother's day. So c'mon out, have a little fun then take your significant other out the next day to make up for it. Seems reasonable right?
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Norway child custody row: Handling case as per Norwegian law, Oslo tells India
India PTI Dec 27, 2016 19:23:44 IST
New Delhi: Norway on Tuesday told India that it is handling the case involving the custody of a child of a Indo-Norwegian family in accordance with the Norwegian Child Welfare Act which includes directions from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
This was conveyed to the Indian ambassador who had gone to meet the Norwegian officials, who also informed him that since child welfare cases are highly sensitive, the cases are therefore subject to a strict duty of confidentiality.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. AFP
Ahead of the meeting, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had said India wants the five-and-a-half-year-old boy united with his natural parents and refused to accept that foster parents can take better care of the child than the natural parents.
"The foster parents are totally ignorant of the Indian culture and our food habits. We want restoration of Aryan to his natural parents," Swaraj had tweeted.
According to Norwegian Embassy Spokesperson in new Delhi, "The Indian ambassador to Norway visited the Norwegian authorities earlier today (in Oslo) to discuss the child welfare case involving a Norwegian/Indian family, where the child holds Norwegian citizenship. The meeting had a constructive atmosphere.
"The Norwegian authorities have reiterated that child welfare cases are handled in accordance to the Norwegian Child Welfare Act, which includes directions from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child."
During the meeting with the Indian envoy, the Norwegian authorities also said the the Act applies to all children in Norway, regardless of their background, residential status or citizenship. The embassy also was once again assured that the Norwegian authorities were dealing with the case with complete sensitivity and awareness.
Indian national Gurvinderjit Kaur and her husband, who is a Norwegian national, have alleged that the authorities in that country have taken away their son on a frivolous complaint of abuse. Kaur had also written to the inistry seeking help in getting back her son, who has been taken away by the Norway Child Welfare Services.
This is the third case since 2011 when children have been taken away from their Indian-origin parents by the authorities in Norway on the grounds of abuse. In 2011, a three-year-old and a one-year-old were separated from their parents, prompting the then UPA government to take up the issue with Norway.
The Norwegian court later allowed the children to be reunited with their parents.
In December 2012, an Indian couple was jailed on charges of ill-treatment of their children, 7 and 2 years. Later, they were sent to their grandparents in Hyderabad.
Tags : India, NewsTracker, Norway, Norway NRI Couple Lose Child's Custody, Norwegian Child Welfare Act, Sushma Swaraj
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Sheffield News & Discussions
Beggars, homeless, street drinkers & drug users in Sheffield!
By lipschitz October 5, 2016 in Sheffield News & Discussions
Anna B
Posted September 7, 2021 (edited)
On 05/09/2021 at 21:36, Box11 said:
Trust me no children from 1979 were given rights !!....
I know someone who had his brother torn away from him separated to different children's homes by Sheffield Social Services then placed with a family who were horrible to him for 5 long years during his time with that family he asked his Social Worker that he hated being with them and wanted to leave the Social Worker told him:
"There is no where else for you to go" !!..
The all system stinks there was also a lovely family who wanted to adopt them both before they split them up but Social Services's turned it down they are disgusting to say the least !!!....
He was treated very unfairly by the system and could have quite quickly turned out the other way and ended up on drugs drink and homeless if it wasn't for his strong strength within himself to be successful !!!!....
Many children in the care of social services before 1979 did have it hard and abuse did take place but come on Anna B were there young adults in their thousands on streets in every town and city's on drink and drugs begging across the Uk answer is no !!!!!...
Social Services and many organisations in league with them are not fit for purpose and to this day my friend would never engage with any of them period !!!!.......
Secret courts in the family division have a lot to answer for as well.
Everyone deserves to have a good upbringing in a happy, decent family to get a good start in life, but of course that doesn't happen for everyone.
And these days with all the myriad problems, maybe happy families are becoming rarer.
If you have a happy family, or come from one, count yourself fortunate and very blessed. It's a strong foundation that will see you through the slings and arrows of everyday life.
But always remember some others are not so lucky...
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1 hour ago, Anna B said:
What do you mean by:
"secret court within a family"
Jim Hardie
W A W A W
15 minutes ago, Box11 said:
Family courts are held in private.
ECCOnoob
3 hours ago, Jim Hardie said:
I don't see the problem? Family courts are often dealing with extremely sensitive issues involving extremely vulnerable people. It shouldn't be open to the world to be coming in, intruding and likely disrupting what are already very contentious and often highly emotional proceedings.
Family court is totally different to criminal or civil hearing. There is no public involvement or jury. It is down to a qualified and experienced judge to make a decision what is best for the parties' welfare free from any sort of influence, emotive or reactionary events surrounding.
There are no 'secrets' to the parties actually involved. Closed hearings are not some great conspiracy. As far as anyone else not directly connected is concerned it should be none of their business.
Sometimes hearings remain private for good reason.
Edited September 7, 2021 by ECCOnoob
2 hours ago, ECCOnoob said:
And sometimes they aren't for good reason. They're a good cover up for mistakes made by social services etc. And sometimes even parents aren't allowed to be involved. Nobody is asking for it to be splashed across the papers/media, and that is fairly simple to stop anyway.
But transparency is an important aspect of justice.
How does a hearing in a court of law in front of a judge with legal representation for both parties "cover up" mistakes from social services???
Both parties to the matter are present (either directly and/or through their nominated legal representative). Just because a judicial decision doesn't go someone's way is not automatically a cover up.
I think you seem to be getting confused between a court of law and some sort of internal or government body enquiry. Despite what some people try to portray or the conspiracy theorists keep banging on, there is still separation between judiciary and government. Its for that reason why, for example, the might of the Home Office gets a dressing down when one of their key policies approved by Parliament suddenly gets cancelled by the judgement of say the Supreme Court.
Yes I admit there are occasions in the family court where the parents are excluded but again, that is because the decision is being made on a very very complex issue regarding the welfare of a child. It needs to be done by a qualified professional without influence and emotive reactions from the parents. That is why these parties have legal representatives who can deal with such difficult circumstances without any such emotional interest.
Transparency is all well and good but who exactly should have a right to know and more importantly why do they think they need to know. Reasonable knowledge of what is going on within such hearings in a can of worms. Does it extend to the grandparents, step parents, the cousins, the neighbours, the school teachers, the baby sitters, the seed donor... Where is actually does the end.
"Interested parties" has already been well established in court policy.
It would be better if children taken from parents and placed in care weren't being sent from one unsatisfactory situation, often into another.
I don't like the 'gagging' orders that emminate from the family courts either.
However we seem to have strayed away from original thread about beggars, homeless etc.
12 hours ago, Jim Hardie said:
Thanks for that.....


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"The veto is a completely legitimate aspect of the talks", Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau has said. He described the rumours about Polexit as completely absurd and, at times, even hysterical, adding that they are entirely baseless.
Poland's veto regarding the EU's next budget has been viewed by many as yet another step by the country towards exiting the bloc, but Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau has rejected the idea.
"Polexit is a completely absurd idea", the foreign minister said, adding that there are no substantial political groups in Poland who would truly consider the country's exit as an possibility.
He said "we saw an emotionally overwhelmed, at times hysterical raction from the opposition" regarding Poland's veto, but he also stressed that Poland's veto wasn't at all as scandalous as many would like to portray it.
"The veto is a completely legitimate aspect of the talks and the EU procedures", the foreign minister said. Mr Rau likened countries' right to veto to an emergency brake on trains, stressing that in the current situation - when there are efforts to implement a new budgetary machanism by circumventing certain laws - it could come in handy for the sake of the EU's general well-being.
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Church of St Andrew, Heddon on the Wall
Church of St Andrew
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"The church of St Andrew is mainly 12th and 13th century, but includes some earlier remains which date back to Saxon times (680 AD), when Northumbria was a separate kingdom. http://heddonhistory.weebly.com/st-andrews-church.html" Photo by Andrew Curtis, 2004.
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Last modified: 3 years, 9 months ago
Picture Taken: 2004-01-29


This recipe was adapted from one provided by my friend Adam. It is an easy soup that is warming but fresh at the same time. Perfect!
Prepare the noodles according to the package instructions; set aside.
In a large saucepan, combine the stock, chilli, garlic, ginger, fruit zest and fish sauce, place over medium heat and simmer for five minutes. Add the chicken meat (or tofu) and coconut milk, simmer for five minutes, then add the cabbage and carrot, and simmer until just tender.
Add the noodles, lemon or lime juice, spring onions and coriander, and cook until the noodles are warmed through. Taste and adjust seasoning, adding more fish sauce if you like and the vinegar if you feel it needs a bit more tang.
Serve sprinkled with coriander and with lime wedges on the side, to squeeze over.


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The Nazis persecuted homosexuals as part of their so-called moral crusade to racially and culturally purify Germany. Gay men were targeted for persecution because they were viewed to be carriers of a "contagion" that weakened society and did not contribute to the growth of the "Aryan" population. Between 1933 and 1945, an estimated 100,000 men were arrested for violating Nazi Germany's law against homosexuality, and of these, approximately 50,000 were sentenced to prison. An estimated 5,000 to 15,000 men were sent to concentration camps on similar charges, where an unknown number of them perished.


Less is more and acetate!
Wistful thoughts and lots of bright colours!
Hi all,hope you all are having a wonderful easter and this gorgeous weather is such a pleasure, anyway can finally show you all a book card that i have actually finished.....lol. Made one at the first bristol meet but was not happy with it but loved the idea and made another one at home and this is it.Unable to show before now as i made it for a good buddy of mine called angiebabe over at docrafts.
Had all the ingredients written down somewhere safe but as it was a while ago i cant find them....lol but i used instructions from sue playingwithpaper and you can also find them here, and raided my stash to make this oriental theme book card and i even decorated the box to match.
And very nice it is too! Kay, lol well worth the wait!
Its adorning my mantle-piece as we speak!
wow stunning Kay!! love it!
It's gorgeous Kay, beautiful papers too, bet Angie loves it.


Rovers manager Grant McCann and chief executive Gavin Baldwin will answer questions from supporters on Thursday evening.
They will be guests of the Retford branch of the Rovers Supporters Club as they hold their AGM at Cannon Park.
The question and answer session will open the evening at 7.30pm, with a free buffet for those in attendance.
Cannon Park is on Leverton Road, with the postcode DN22 6QF. All fans are welcome to attend.


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As mentioned earlier today, NH SoS Bill Gardner told WMUR in NH that "We did nine of the 12 wards in Manchester, and a lot of the votes were exactly the same...Some went up by a vote or two." He didn't, of course, note that a lot of the vote counts (most of them) were off by 5 or more.
the counts aren't off for just one candidate as most of those I remember from recounts in 2004. I ran the percentages on the numbers from the recount of Ward 5 and the undercount is consistent across the candidates there.


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New Delhi: After accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of doing "dalali" (trade) over the blood shed by Indian soldiers on Thursday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today said he was against using Army in political posters by the Bharatiya Janata Party.
He, however, added that he supports surgical strikes along the Line of Control.
"I fully support the surgical strikes and I have said so unequivocally, but I will not support using...the Indian Army in political posters and propaganda all across the country," the Congress leader tweeted.
Yesterday, while addressing a rally at the Jantar Mantar here at the end of his Kisan Yatra across poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, the Congress vice-president said Narendra Modi was taking political mileage from the surgical strikes the Army conducted in Pakistani territory and the sacrifices of soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir.
"Unki dalali kar rahe ho... Yeh bilkul ghalat hai... Hindustan ki sena ne Hindustan ka kaam kiya, aap apna kaam keejiye... (You are trading on them. This is totally wrong... The Indian Army did its job for India, you do your work)," Rahul had said.
On its part, the Bharatiya Janata Party had described Rahul Gandhi as an "immature leader" after his 'khoon ki dalali' comment.
"I am really astonished by the kind of language Rahul Gandhi has used for the Indian Government and the Indian Prime Minister. By saying that the surgical strike and the aftermath was nothing but `khoon ki holi`, he had in fact made the joke out of the martyred brave soldiers and Indian Army," BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said.
Those criticizing Rahul Gandhi's remarks also include Delhi Chief Minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal.


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Public Release: 15-Mar-2016
New ORNL method could unleash solar power potential
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
IMAGE: (Top) A phasor plot of the transient absorption data shows the presence of free charges and excitons; a false colored image shows their contributions at different spatial positions. view more
Credit: ORNL
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 15, 2016 - Measurement and data analysis techniques developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could provide new insight into performance-robbing flaws in crystalline structures, ultimately improving the performance of solar cells.
While solar cells made from light-harvesting perovskite (an organic-inorganic hybrid) materials have recently eclipsed the 20 percent efficiency mark, researchers believe they could do better if they had a clearer picture of energy flow at the nanometer scale. The ORNL discovery, described in a paper published in ACS Photonics, synchronizes microscopy, ultra-short pulses of laser light and data analytics to extract images with single-pixel precision, providing unprecedented detail.
"If we can see exactly and in real time what is happening, we can map out the electronic processes in space instead of relying on snapshots gleaned from spatial averages," said Benjamin Doughty, one of the authors and a member of ORNL's Chemical Sciences Division.
Armed with information about what electrons are doing inside the material, researchers believe they can make improvements that lead to solar cells that are more efficient and potentially less expensive.
"With conventional approaches of studying photovoltaic materials, we are unable to accurately map out electronic processes and how electrons are getting lost," Doughty said. "Those processes can translate into losses in efficiency."
The experiment consists of optically pumping the thin film sample with a 50 femtosecond -- or 50 millionths of a billionth of a second -- laser pulse and then measuring changes in light absorption with a second laser pulse in the material. The technique, called femtosecond transient absorption microscopy, consists of a tabletop of lasers, optics and a microscope. The net result is a pixel-by-pixel map of the material being studied and information researchers can use to improve performance.
"The ability to identify what will be created after the solar cell absorbs a photon, either a pair of free charges or their bound form called an exciton, is crucial from both fundamental and applied perspectives," said co-author Yingzhong Ma, who led the research team. "We found that both free charges and excitons are present, and the strength of our approach lies in not only identifying where they are but also determining what their relative contributions are when they are both present at a given spatial location."
A key remaining challenge is to understand what causes the observed spatial difference, said Ma, so he and colleagues are exploring an all-optical imaging approach that would allow them to correlate electronic dynamics with underlying structural information. This approach may also help researchers map and understand perovskite degradation issues associated with moisture. Ma noted that this must be resolved before solar cells based on this class of materials can be successful.
Other team members were Mary Jane Simpson, the lead author and a postdoctoral research associate in the Chemical Sciences Division, and Bin Yang and Kai Xiao of ORNL's Center for Nanophase Materials Science. The paper, titled "Separation of Distinct Photoexcitation Species in Femtosecond Transient Absorption Microscopy," is available at http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00638.
This research was funded by DOE's Office of Science. Perovskite sample preparation was done at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, a DOE Office of Science User Facility.
UT-Battelle manages ORNL for the DOE's Office of Science. The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit http://science.energy.gov/.
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