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Schools email marketing company told us to go away when we told them of exposed database creds, say infoseccers
An email marketing company claiming to hold details on a million UK teachers and school admin personnel was potentially exposing those to the public internet thanks to a misconfigured error page on its website. Not only that, but the Schools Marketing Company (SMC) seemingly dismissed the findings of the infosec company which …
Tuesday 12th October 2021 09:27 GMT AndyFl
No need to compromise their systems
They had already misconfigured the server to expose all the details anyway.
This is one of the cases where the ICO should hang them out to dry. I'm not holding my breath though as the ICO always appears to be more than a little toothless.
Tuesday 12th October 2021 11:28 GMT TKW
Re: No need to compromise their systems
In my view the problem is much more about the response than it was about the original "misconfiguration". The way they also responded to El Reg shows that it's institutional and probably beyond repair: they need ICOing out of existence.
Tuesday 12th October 2021 20:34 GMT anothercynic
As for the "there's no indication that this information has been misused" (I paraphrase) - Like anyone who is going to go for a marketing database is going to email them to say "hey, we stole your data, neener-neener".
The company acted in a cavalier fashion, their staff responded in a cavalier fashion, and it blows my mind that they haven't been reported yet.
Wednesday 13th October 2021 12:34 GMT Alan Brown
"The company acted in a cavalier fashion, their staff responded in a cavalier fashion, and it blows my mind that they haven't been reported yet."
Agreed. If I received a response like that, the first thing I'd do would be to hand it to regulators as it's highly unlikely that such an issue would be the only thing wrong at the company
Tuesday 12th October 2021 09:31 GMT Anonymous Coward
Alarm bells..
"have taken and are taking steps to ensure security of our systems as we always have done.
"There is no indication that any systems or information we hold have / has been compromised"
Dude your systems were compromised.
If I worked with this company as a client, I'd be very worried.
Re: Alarm bells..
If they were a supplier of ours and exposed our data they would not just be facing an ICO complaint - I'd take them to court for as much as I could get away with and then some, and I made sure it hit every newspaper in the country.
Mistakes happen, yes, but that response demonstrated such a lack of interest and arrogance that I would not have them as a supplier. That said, the way we screen suppliers I doubt they'd get past the first stage in the first place because that sort of attitude tends to be pervasive.
Here's hoping the ICO gets acquiresthe ability to fine to levels that existed under GDPR as they are serious enough to demand attention. Otherwise they're a waste of time.
Tuesday 12th October 2021 17:07 GMT jsdbroughton
They have 0% way of knowing how many / if any of their data have been scraped and misused.
Wednesday 13th October 2021 07:46 GMT hoola
Given that the information appears to have been freely available without "compromise", they are correct in one sense, their system was not compromised.
The simply fact that the data was visible and should not have been is enough, the data has been compromised.
Sadly the response that was given is all too common in many of these sorts of organisations that simply have not concept of IT, security or responsibility.
There are far too many people involved in education IT or providing IT services to education that are so stuck up and have this unwavering belief that everything they do is perfect is is unreal. Many have never worked anywhere else and have no concept that actually providing what the user needs might be a good idea. This starts in primary school and goes right through to universities.
Tuesday 12th October 2021 09:45 GMT Martin an gof
Probably being thick...
...but how did they get all those contact details in the first place?
Re: Probably being thick...
I don't know about that company in particular, but have seen the tactics used elsewhere. They scour the school websites for email addresses. And job vacancy sites with contact details etc.
They may also look at simple staff lists and assume the email format as being firstname.lastname@school.domain or f.surname@ etc (often assisted by seeing other addresses for the same establishment) - they extrapolate as much as possible to boost their headline figure.
There's nothing that you couldn't find yourself, but they sell the convenience of having it all in one place.
Tuesday 12th October 2021 09:52 GMT Mr Dogshit
Schools Marketing
Two words which should never follow each other in that order.
Tuesday 12th October 2021 11:48 GMT MOH
Re: Schools Marketing
Or any order
Tuesday 12th October 2021 11:58 GMT Terry 6
But they are. marketing to schools has been increasingly about big business for decades. And very much supported by government policies.
Where once services for and in schools were local authority or non-profit (e.g. exam boards) they are now almost all commercial. Teaching reading is off-the-shelf phonics, easy to sell and easy to measure ( even if it's not a great way to teach reading) of commercially produced packages authorised by government . Exams are run by publishing companies, who also sell the curriculum materials. Advisory and support teachers have been privatised or abolished by local authorities for schools to buy in services from any company that's persuasive enough. Services that were once provided on an "as needed" basis with no need to provide corporate profits, sales, marketing or management costs by locally employed experts who were committed to their roles
And yes I was one such..
And the upshot is that services which were only viable when costs were spread - particularly thinking of the schools music services, schools library services, but it also applies to things like pupil support - have been destroyed in the name of choice. School management teams "choose" not to pay for peripatetic music teachers to come in and give subsidised lessons to children learning a - probably borrowed - instrument and spend the money on iPads instead, so only children whose parents can afford to pay commercial rates and buy or rent the instrument end up with those skills.
School management teams "choose" not to purchase speech therapy support from the local authority's small centralised, specialist team and instead interpret the child's "statement of educational needs" as meaning they can contract out to a private supply company who will send an 18 year-old on a gap year with no relevant qualifications to plod through some worksheets and take the child out of class if they get a bit stroppy, because two hours of qualified SLT is worth five mornings of 18 year-old.
The situation is a little better in those parts of the UK where schools aren't forced to become academies and local authorities retain some oversight, but only a little.
Anon because I know people on all sides of this debate and I might be exaggerating - though only a little.
Wednesday 13th October 2021 10:57 GMT Terry 6
<rant> I used to support kids with literacy difficulties, employed by a local authority. And we divided our service as fairly as we could between schools We were, when it was the Inner London Education Authority, funded in a way that spread the costs over rich and poor boroughs and after, worked equally across the rich and poor schools in our boroughs. We'd been provided training by the best trainers that could be found. Real experts that willingly gave their time because we weren't doing this for shareholders' profits. We developed and honed our work by keeping up to date with all the research coming out of universities, not just the commercially developed or ideologically approved ones.
We sourced books from school library services that would engage and encourage the kids.
Schools also received advice and support from a range of locally employed specialists across the curriculum, employed by the authorities. When the LEAs tried to retain some funding for this they were berated and called "greedy" (notably by the BBC by the way) as if the money was being used for big lunches and parties, rather than to employ a bloody primary science advisor or curate a collection of teaching materials to share across their schools.
</rant> Rant ended only because I need to go and calm down.
Wednesday 13th October 2021 19:53 GMT John Brown (no body)
"spend the money on iPads instead,"
There's DJing and Scratching apps on the iPad, as well various music making software isn't there? That'll do. The iPad is a !musical instrument" :-)
You are correct that local authorities have abolished almost all the support services but that is actually no the fault of the authority. The entire thing is rigged with there huge academy chains that have commercialised education for their own gains (large profits and salaries). This has left the LEA with nothing left to provide except the bare minimum because all the money has been taken away by Government.
There is this bizarre concept that just because a academy is a trust it is somehow respectable and everything is for the benefit of "The Children". This is complete bollocks as all the trust status does if give them tax advantages. The upper echelons of these trusts are paid huge amounts of money as are many heads and the now essential "Executive Head". Then entire management and support chain now costs vastly more than it ever did through the LEA as it is both grossly inefficient (more people) and far higher salaries.
This makes for interesting reading....
https://www.nga.org.uk/getmedia/9688a374-2272-48e8-afe1-d82f2532432d/ASCL-Guidance-Paper_Setting-Pay-for-Ex-Heads-Princials-and-CEOs_Nov-2017.pdf
Tuesday 12th October 2021 10:13 GMT Gareth.
If I were a teacher in the UK...
...I'd be submitting a DSAR to understand what details they may hold about me.
Tuesday 12th October 2021 10:30 GMT chivo243
Fingers in ears
La la la la la. We didn't hear that, so it can't be true! ??
Tuesday 12th October 2021 10:40 GMT TechHeadToo
Teachers eh?
It's the education sector. Probably run by ex-teachers, and the subjects are teachers.
So it's about what i expect. After all, teachers know EVERYTHING and cannot allow themselves to be shown to be, to be, well, a lot stupid about so much of life.
Re: Teachers eh?
Yes my friend, Teachers are the worst students, and Doctors are the worst patients...
Tuesday 12th October 2021 10:46 GMT IanRS
"We do not hold any confidential information on any of our servers."
Well that much was true certainly.
Tuesday 12th October 2021 11:31 GMT Antron Argaiv
I'll bet they had a good laugh after someone came up with that sentence.
One step up from spammers.
"we do not hold any confidential information on any of our servers"
So why do they need to be GDPR and PCER complient and be registered with the ICO?
Or is this like advertising a chicken salad as being "dolphin friendly" on the label?
Tuesday 12th October 2021 11:34 GMT Doctor Syntax
"taking steps to ensure security of our systems as we always have done"
Did he even stop to think what he was saying?
Tuesday 12th October 2021 16:56 GMT Pascal Monett
Well, given that he didn't stop to think about what he was doing, I'd venture a "no" to that question.
In any case, he certainly gets an A+ for Arrogance.
Tuesday 12th October 2021 19:00 GMT doublelayer
No, using the simile in its unrestricted ability, it's perfectly accurate. Just as a murderer protects life as they always have done or Facebook acts ethically as they always have done. Nobody said the sentence applied if you cut before the "as".
"We have no prior relationship with Pen Test Partners"
Neither do criminals who will want to get into your systems!
Monday 18th October 2021 09:31 GMT Andrew 6
Re: FFS
Actual knowledge of that or are you just assuming that's the case?
Tuesday 12th October 2021 12:51 GMT batfink
Pardon? Splurged over t'internet isn't "compromised"?
Tuesday 12th October 2021 15:53 GMT Cybersaber
Re: "There is no indication that any systems or information we hold have / has been compromised"
Nope, get with the times re: the latest PR spin. It wasn't 'compromised', it was 'leaked'.
Not being a pedant about correcting you, (because you're correct) I'm just pointing out the weasel wording by the company.
Tuesday 12th October 2021 14:15 GMT ecofeco
Why is this even a thing in the first place?
School marketing? An entire company that does... school marketing?
But... why? Why do schools need marketing companies? Hint, they don't. This is a simple thing that should be done in-house.
Wednesday 13th October 2021 03:07 GMT MachDiamond
Re: Why is this even a thing in the first place?
"Why do schools need marketing companies?"
The schools don't need a marketing company. The marketing company is specializing in schools and school employees to sell lists to companies that provide products and service to schools and staff.
Wednesday 13th October 2021 11:06 GMT Anonymous Coward
It sounds like marketing to schools in this case.
But there is school marketing too.
Competition. It's the Policy. Set schools against one another. And schools know full well that there is a spiral involved. I have two local schools federated. One is seen as the good school and gets the middle class families as their first choice. One gets all the needy families, the ones that couldn't/didn't try to get a place in the middle class school. They're with a 5 minute walk of each other, have the same management team etc etc.
Reputation is everything. Local estate agents only refer to one of these schools.
And when rolls start to fall, which schools' staff's jobs are in jeopardy? And which staff group have the tougher jobs with the highest skills?
Wednesday 13th October 2021 11:21 GMT andy gibson
The blurb on their website says:
"Want to talk to bursars, facilities managers or Heads of IT? No problem. We've got their direct, personal school email addresses - ready to send your marketing emails directly to them."
Not a problem for me. If an unsolicited email comes in, it goes in the bin, the sender gets blocked and that company doesn't get my business.
Which is probably true for most schools. That still makes effort for someone who could be using their time better. And useful/important emails can get lost in the wash.
Why do schools need marketing companies?
For the same reason that the NHS needs them. The same reason that the UK needs a couple of decades more of BJ and chums. The same reason that we needed Dildo Harding in charge of T&T. The same reason we needed to leave the EU.
Tuesday 12th October 2021 14:39 GMT Trollslayer
Is Dido Harding
involved?
I'm sure she'll soon be accepted on the Board in an honorary position.
For £150K/year.
Tuesday 12th October 2021 22:16 GMT Ex IBMer
Compromise is such a ..... dirty.... word
Are we ***sure*** that there has been a compromise.....
I mean, all it takes on one little design specification saying that upon error the system is to blurt out all of the access credentials ever used for it, and its not compromised at all. It is operating by design :-)
Alternately, if the design specs didn't **explicitly** say that outputting passwords was disallowed, then again, the system is operating as designed.
It's not as if somebody actually hacked them :-P
Tuesday 12th October 2021 22:44 GMT Ian Johnston
I don't see how their response to the hacking company was arrogant. The problem had been pointed out and they had dealt with it. Were the hackers coughing meaningfully and holding a hand out, perhaps? Apart from soliciting money, what further role could they have?
Wednesday 13th October 2021 10:23 GMT the hatter
That the problem wasn't fixed with the first several emails, and they eventually sort it then whine you'd contacted them several times prior is arrogant, it's not admitting they should have fixed something sooner, not acknowledging that you helped them in pointing this out. If I tell you that you left your car unlocked, you don't need a 'prior relationship' with me to thank me for pointing out your carelessness. if it had your laptop bag sat on the passenger seat, I've just done you a favour. if it had thousands of other people's property sat on the passenger seat, I've done them a favour, and you're doing them a disservice to not acknowledge you've been negligent to leave other people's things unsecured.
Wednesday 13th October 2021 10:51 GMT JohnG
The correct response would have been something like "Thanks for letting us know", not a polite variant of GFY.
Wednesday 13th October 2021 17:56 GMT Ian Johnston
Perhaps, but it appears that the "GFY" was in response to a second contact, after the company had been made aware of the problem. They refused any further engagement and the hackers publicised the leak. I really can't help wondering if they would have done so with their mouths stuffed with cash.
There is no doubt that the company in question was sloppy and perhaps criminally sloppy, but the hacking gang sounds pretty iffy too.
Wednesday 13th October 2021 19:43 GMT doublelayer
Come on. The second and third emails mentioned almost certainly looked like this:
First: "You have a problem with your database credentials being shown here ..."
Second: "Sorry if you didn't get our last email, but you have a problem with your database credentials being shown here ..."
Third: "You've got some seriously confidential data in your database, and it's a crime to leak it or not report a breech, and your credentials are right here. You need to fix it."
Then the response. The article notes that the credentials were fixed after the press got involved, not beforehand. You have decided based on no evidence at all that the researchers wanted money, but as the problem they found wasn't fixed, they could easily have just wanted it fixed. Like many other researchers, if someone won't fix their problem which is actively affecting others, they go public. For a similar reason, if you were periodically firing a projectile from your house onto the street, I'd try to make you stop and if you didn't immediately do it, I'd report you to protect pedestrians. No money involved.
Thursday 14th October 2021 10:03 GMT cybergibbons
There was no way to tell if the email had been received and acted on. Given the issue hadn't been fixed, it was chased.
I've personally disclosed over 50 issues so far, never accepted payment to not disclose them.
There is no hacking gang.
Thursday 14th October 2021 11:01 GMT Gareth79
The content of the email was published - it had full details of the issue and exactly how it needs to be fixed, with no demands for payment or use of their services. There was also no "hacking" involved. Basically the company got a free warning of a serious vulnerability.
Wednesday 13th October 2021 03:11 GMT PeteS46
Blithring idiots!
Wednesday 13th October 2021 03:23 GMT EricB123
Worldwide Problem
I have lived in several countries, and the same non-attention to software security is everywhere I go. Although I have never been to thr UK, one of the countries I have lived in is the USA. I wish I had an answer to this serious problem,
My kids are too old to be targets. Grandkids though are in range.
IF my details are exposed I'll be reaching for my lawers.
So should parents!
Wednesday 13th October 2021 07:31 GMT arachnoid2
No eveidence….
Well….. if you can't see your servers open to abuse how then can you tell if it's been compromised?
Wednesday 13th October 2021 07:36 GMT greenwood-IT
Good luck with that argument..
I understood name, email, job description, company and password were classed as personal and confidential. I'm pretty sure I can't just publish my list of contacts from my database on a web page - which is what they have basically done! ICO, do your job.
Wednesday 13th October 2021 08:29 GMT flayman
There never would be any indication of this, judging by the kindergarten work practices. Probably zero monitoring and logging. Security an afterthought if it was ever a thought.
Am I right in thinking that the business model for freelance penetration testing is "attempt to steal data from companies and when you manage to do so threaten to publicise the weakness unless you get some money"? Because I am pretty sure there is a word for that.
No, you are not right in thinking that. They provide a free public service and make responsible disclosures of their findings.
So why were this lot pestering their target after making the discovery? What did they hope to get out of it?
They wanted it fixed. Because not having it fixed meant potential problems for the people whose data was in there.
Don't get me wrong, if the company decided to reward them for their warning, I'm certain they would have taken that gladly. They still wanted the issue fixed though.
I don't accept rewards unless the bug is submitted via an already established bug bounty.
I sent one email chasing the original report to make sure it had been received.
They don't have a means to report security issues, so there is a significant chance that the email doesn't reach the person responsible for the security of these systems, and the issue remains unfixed, leaving them at risk.
This is not "pestering".
Wednesday 13th October 2021 09:09 GMT cybergibbons
I'm not a freelance penetration tester, but not sure I have seen any operate under that model either. It's not exactly going to be lucrative working like that.
As you can see, the way we report issues, we ensure that we aren't offering any services:
https://twitter.com/cybergibbons/status/1446022192928595973
The weakness will be disclosed regardless of any services purchased or not. Either the compromised company will disclose the personal data has been compromised, as legally required to, or they will be reported for failing to disclose it. The technical weakness will be reported because it's in the public interest to ensure others can learn from this mistake and avoid leaking people's personal data due to poor practices or common mistakes.
This company says 'we're sure no data has been lost or misused' but it's hard to believe a company that makes this mistake in the first place has such complete network and system logging to accurately determine this claim, in act quite the opposite. Exactly which outfit they choose to hire to help with their information security is up to them, they're not obliged to do that but they're going to have an even harder time brushing it off next time, to their directors/shareholders, to tee ICO, to their customers, and to the people whose data is leaked, if it happens a second time, having already been warned their processes are insufficient.
Wednesday 13th October 2021 09:27 GMT Stephen Gray
It's a quality product.
Given the fact that they can't even configure the site to display correctly in Chrome should tell you everything you need to know.
Wednesday 13th October 2021 09:33 GMT Real Ale is Best
Looks like an old version of Laravel...
... with Debug switched on in the .env file.
Probably a developer checked in their local copy of the file overwriting the production copy.
Use The Forge Luke!!
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There are churches all over that play Rob Bell's Nooma videos. I make no bones about it, Rob Bell ascribes to Universalism, Humanism and denies fundamental Christian teachings like the virgin birth, salvation by Grace through faith alone, etc.
Someone produced a very insightful and frankly staggering video to respond to Rob Bell's false understanding of who Jesus is.........watch and then of course send or post your comments.
Our preferences do not matter it is whether or not they line up to scripture. If Rob Bell wants to be a Christian then among other things he needs to put scripture above his own interpretation and preferences. There is objective truth out there and that is why we have the Word of God. Bullwhip guy lines up with Scripture and what Rob Bell did is put out his disdain for something he is uncomfortable with. He does not back it with truth or empirical evidence. That is why all these false teachers are soooo scary.
I mean the 66 books of the Bible the Canonized version. I have read much of the different variants of Hermeneutics including the textual criticism method. I have read and researched the arguments. In all reality their is nothing that is affects theologically definitively. Their might have been some copiest errors but they are minor and do not effect the Gospel in any way.
I am fine with the KJV and I also use the ESV which derives its text from both the textus receptus and the Greek Majority (RSV). You are asking a question here so that you can take your presupposition and try and defend the god you have created in your mind. Go read an ESV and compare it to the Greek in the NT. I do not think a OT debate is hardly worthwhile because of all the text we have. And I have already dealt with both canonization and the councils pre 1500's.
I think their are many in many denominations that are saved which includes Lutheran, Anglican, and Methodist. I also believe their are many false converts in every church as Jesus preached about this much.
All Christians regardless of denomination agree on the essentials.
All the churches you mentioned at some have those things in common at their core and we do not debate those issues. Not until very recently have some churches in all denominations decided to apostate themselves from the Body of Believers. Christ called His Church the "Bride" and He does not tolerate those who seek to undermine the work of the Cross regardless of your affiliation.
So my view of truth is inseparable from God and His Word because He created it that way.
So what is your favorite proof for Evolution? After reading your blog I see that you have a passion for being an Evolutionist. Please explain which points of the THEORY you think are the most observable today?


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Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Richard Clarida today acknowledged that the growth of inflation in personal consumption expenditures is "much more than a 'moderate' overshoot" beyond the Fed's 2% target.
Fed's Clarida: Inflation 'Overshoot' Is 'More than Moderate'
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Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Richard Clarida today acknowledged that the growth of inflation in personal consumption expenditures is "much more than a 'moderate' overshoot" beyond the Fed's 2% target. "I would not consider a repeat performance next year a policy success," Clarida added, noting that risks to in the inflation outlook remain to the upside.
However, Clarida emphasized that he still thinks that "under appropriate monetary policy, most of the inflation overshoot relative to the longer-run goal of 2% will, in the end, prove to be transitory." He projected core PCE inflation to surge to at least 3.7% this year before reverting to 2.3% in 2022 and 2.2% in 2023 and 2.1% in 2024.
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"Mad Geniuses" Take on Pandora in Quest to Create Online Radio Magic
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Here's a challenge: Turn off Spotify, Pandora, or iTunes for a minute, and try to remember the last time you really loved listening to the radio. What made it special? Was it the particular time in your life, or a crew of disc jockeys who had a sixth sense about introducing you to the perfect new bands?
It can be a little hard to remember the virtues of traditional terrestrial radio in the iPod/streaming music/SiriusXM era. Technology has empowered listeners to become their own programmers, and the consolidation of the radio industry has created a lowest-common-denominator blandness.
But some people remain true believers in radio. Eric Neumann, founder of Mad Genius Radio, is one of them, and he thinks that he and his startup will convince you to be one, too.
Mad Genius Radio is a Denver-based company that just launched a new streaming music service available online and on Android and iOS. The company's goal is to combine the power of new technology with the ineffable magic of great radio stations.
"There's this ability to take the things radio does really well, and take the technology, and bring the two together," Neumann said.
Creating a new streaming music service in 2014 might seem a little, well, mad. Just look at the competition. Pandora (NYSE: P) has 76.5 million active listeners (and is about a $4 billion company), Spotify claims more than 40 million, virtually everyone has their favorite playlists stored on their smartphones or computers, and Apple, Amazon, and Google all are trying to break into the streaming music game.
None of that daunts Neumann, who is a serial entrepreneur and a radio industry vet. He thinks those companies make good products, several of which he uses, but their business models, technological approach, and understanding of what makes music special are off.
It starts with the human element, Neumann said. People have eclectic tastes, and even if they spend hours and hours creating well-curated collections, they still want variety, to discover new acts, and also to hear deep cuts that rarely get played from musicians they love.
Neumann feels existing solutions fall short. Playlists lack the wonders of surprise and discovery, while relying on streaming music's algorithms can yield choices that are predictable and unreliable, Neumann said.
"People are eclectic, and that's because people's musical tastes are based on an emotional connection and not a mathematical correlation, like all these other apps are putting out there," he said.
Mad Genius has its own algorithm, but Neumann said the idea behind it is different. It's not based on asking listeners to make binary thumbs up/thumbs down decisions and then trying to create correlations.
Neumann describes his startup's approach as "rotational," and it sounds a bit like the classic radio method of relying on DJs and programmers to create the right mix, only that it lets listeners take an active part. That's crucial, because no matter how good stations can be, music lovers are a prideful crowd.
"Just ask anyone, and they'll tell you they have the best taste in music, so we're here to give them the right tools to get the best possible radio for themselves," Neumann said.
New users start by picking from about 100 genres, ranging from country to dub step to classic jazz, with the songs in each category picked by human "radio curators." Listeners then create "presets" that mix up to seven genres while also selecting the frequency songs from each genre appear. They also can rate artists and songs to determine how often they'll play.
That will create an "infinite playlist" that is naturally personalized to each user, Neumann said. At the moment, Mad Genius Radio has more than 23 million songs from hundreds of thousands of artists in its repertoire, the company said.
I did a quick test of the product, and while I couldn't verify those numbers, it did live up to the others. Songs from bands I love were mixed in with ones from new artists that I'll check out, and there were surprises from bands I had lost track of. Of course, there were a few duds mixed in—one way or another, U2 will make you listen to its new album, dammit!—but that's what the skip button and alternate presets are for.
If Mad Genius Radio has a shortcoming, it's that its catalogue is oriented to the types of music that have dominated radio since the Baby Boomers came of age, along with a couple of niche genres. There's a good deal of Classic Rock and some Motown, but only a little Jazz and no Classical that I could find.
Along with the presets listeners can create, the site also has some other cool features, like a special "guilty pleasures" channel. So far, that features dozens of songs you might not want to add to your playlist but have a soft spot for, like Cutting Crew's sappy ballad "(I Just) Died in Your Arms."
For Gen Xers and Millennials on a nostalgia kick, there's also a "time machine" feature that will blend into the mix songs from genres such as Top 40 and urban soft hits, with the catalogue going back to the early 1990s.
When I tried it, it did the trick. After telling Mad Genius to play alternative rock hits from the winter of 1994, it immediately called up a few semi-forgotten tunes from Pearl Jam and Radiohead that were among my favorites back then. A deep cut from Peter Gabriel that I had never heard followed, along with tracks from bands like Teenage Fanclub and The Jayhawks that like-minded friends rave about but I've never before given a listen.
The goal of the time machine is to "recreate a soundscape," Neumann said, and I take that to mean more than rehashing the handful of played-out hits that are staples of radio flashback shows. If that's the intent, Mad Genius Radio succeeded. And even when the time machine "failed," it was fun, although maybe unintentionally. After all, who can resist the chance to hate Stone Temple Pilots all over again?
So, will a couple of cool features and neat ideas be enough to enable Mad Genius to grab ample listeners—and paying customers—to become a viable business?
Neumann thinks so. First, the company is going to use a subscription model that asks users to pay $5 a month, or a reduced rate of $48 for the year if they sign up for the annual subscription. That's cheaper than what Spotify's 10 million-plus subscribers pay for its premium service and on par with what Pandora's 3.5 million subscribers pay.
But the vast majority of those companies' listeners don't pay anything. The tradeoff is they have to listen to ads—sometimes a lot of ads—and that's the one part of the radio experience almost no one is nostalgic about. They also lose features like the ability to search for songs or can only skip a limited number of tunes they don't like.
After an introductory period, Mad Genius Radio won't offer a free option, betting listeners will be willing to pony up for a full-featured product with no advertising. It also spares the company the challenges and costs of courting and retaining advertisers.
"It's tough making a living on an ad model," Neumann said.
He also said that the model should enable Mad Genius to give artists and songwriters more in royalties, which is a huge issue between the music industry and streaming music services.
That still leaves Mad Genius Radio the challenge of getting listeners. It's just coming out of its beta trial, where about 2,000 people used it.
Neumann said Mad Genius' listener counts don't need to be nearly as high as its competitors' total active listener counts for the company to be sustainable. But it does need to convince people to pay, which even Pandora and Spotify have found difficult.
That doesn't faze Neumann.
"We [will be] profitable at just a few hundred thousand listeners. We don't ever have to be bigger than Pandora, or beat them, or be chasing them in the No. 2 slot," he said. "We can afford to be a player that might only have a million or two million listeners and be as profitable as Pandora is today."
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Philip Landau says:
Mad Genius. Hardly. This is a flat out Rip-off of Radical.fm. Right on down to cherry picking the narrative and flat out stealing the exact player that Radical developed years ago. Unreal. Michael, you really need to do your research!!! Mad Rip-off, you need to come up with your own ideas instead of stealing!
Tony Loro says:
Tried. Gork. Will not use.
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OSHA cites frozen foods manufacturer
BUFFALO, NY – Rosina Food Products Inc. was cited with nine serious violations of workplace safety standards at the company's West Seneca, NY, production facility, according to the US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
An inspection by OSHA's Buffalo Area Office revealed deficiencies in the operation and maintenance of the plant's refrigeration system and anhydrous ammonia used in the refrigeration system. The company, which produces meatballs, pizza toppings, sausage and appetizers, faces proposed penalties of $54,750.
Specifically, OSHA found the plant lacked:
• Effective operating procedures for all emergency shutdown procedures of the refrigeration system;
• Necessary corrective actions identified during hazard analyses of the refrigeration process;
• Clear instructions for safely conducting refrigeration procedures;
• Written procedures to maintain the ongoing mechanical integrity of all equipment used in the refrigeration process; and
• Procedures for handling small releases of anhydrous ammonia.
"The stringent and comprehensive requirements of OSHA's process safety management standard are designed to prevent catastrophic incidents, such as the uncontrolled release of highly hazardous chemicals, including ammonia," said Arthur Dube, OSHA's area director for western New York. "This requires full, effective and proactive adherence to the standard's requirements by the employer."
Additionally, OSHA inspectors found the company did not perform all required safety testing. The plant also did not develop specific procedures for locking out machines, did not inspect such procedures and did not use group lockout/tagout procedures as required.
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Lewis Capaldi's ex admits he's 'terrible with women'
Lewis Capaldi's ex-girlfriend has admitted her former lover is "terrible with women".
Paige Turley, who is starring on U.K. reality TV series Love Island, dated the Someone You Loved singer when the pair went to college together, and told Britain's The Sun newspaper that relationships don't come naturally to the hitmaker.
"He's terrible with women," she candidly shared. "He never had a chat-up line as such, as we went through college together. I kind of just fell into it. It was never like he tried to chat me up or such. It just kind of happened quite naturally."
However, she insisted the pair are still on good terms, despite splitting after a year a half together.
"Me and Lewis are still very, very friendly," Paige revealed. "You've seen his social media. He's a very witty, funny guy. So he'll probably make a total joke about it."
And while there had been speculation several songs from the singer-songwriter's chart-topping album Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent are about his ex, she dismissed the rumours, insisting: "He never said to me, 'This is about you.'
"Obviously, it's a really relatable song, for everyone," she reflected. "He's great, he's so talented. Anybody listening to his music, it'd be hard to say anything negative."
Lewis has made no secret about his relationship struggles, and even teamed up with app Tinder to try and find the perfect match. Despite offering free gig tickets to potential matches, he remains unsuccessful.


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Banks Push 'Impact' Investing
Several banks are looking for opportunities that provide an environmental and social impact as well as a financial return.
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Many of these opportunities are in affordable urban housing, rural access to clean water, maternal health, primary education, and microfinance. This category of investments, known as "impact investments" is expected to grow over the next ten years.
It is estimated that investors will contribute $400 billion and $1 trillion to projects in the next decade, according to the study. Backers of these projects are likely to profit between $183 billion and $667 billion,
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package org.pentaho.di.trans.steps.avroinput;

import org.apache.avro.util.Utf8;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleException;
import org.pentaho.di.core.row.RowMeta;
import org.pentaho.di.core.row.ValueMetaInterface;
import org.pentaho.di.core.row.value.ValueMetaString;
import org.pentaho.di.core.variables.Variables;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;

/**
 * Created by bryan on 10/21/15.
 */
public class AvroInputDataTest {
  @Test
  public void testCleansePath() {
    assertEquals( "const.name", AvroInputData.cleansePath( "const.name" ) );
    assertEquals( "const.${var_name}", AvroInputData.cleansePath( "const.${var.name}" ) );
    assertEquals( "const.${var.name", AvroInputData.cleansePath( "const.${var.name" ) );
    assertEquals( "const.${var_name}.${var_2_name}.const",
      AvroInputData.cleansePath( "const.${var.name}.${var.2.name}.const" ) );
  }

  @Test( expected = KettleException.class )
  public void testAvroArrayExpansionInitThrowsExceptionIfExpansionPathIsEmpty() throws KettleException {
    new AvroInputData.AvroArrayExpansion( Collections.<AvroInputMeta.AvroField>emptyList() ).init();
  }

  @Test
  public void testConvertToKettleValuesNullMap() throws KettleException {
    assertNull( new AvroInputData.AvroArrayExpansion( Collections.<AvroInputMeta.AvroField>emptyList() )
      .convertToKettleValues( (Map<Utf8, Object>) null, null, null, null, true ) );
  }

  @Test( expected = KettleException.class )
  public void testConvertToKettleValuesPartsMapMalformed() throws KettleException {
    AvroInputMeta.AvroField avroField = new AvroInputMeta.AvroField();
    avroField.m_fieldName = "a";
    avroField.m_fieldPath = "c.b.a";
    avroField.init( 0 );
    RowMeta rowMeta = new RowMeta();
    ValueMetaInterface valueMeta = new ValueMetaString();
    valueMeta.setName( avroField.m_fieldName );
    avroField.m_kettleType = valueMeta.getTypeDesc();
    rowMeta.addValueMeta( valueMeta );
    AvroInputData.AvroArrayExpansion avroArrayExpansion =
      new AvroInputData.AvroArrayExpansion( Arrays.asList( avroField ) );
    avroArrayExpansion.m_outputRowMeta = rowMeta;
    avroArrayExpansion.m_expansionPath = "c";
    avroArrayExpansion.init();
    assertNull( avroArrayExpansion
      .convertToKettleValues( new HashMap<Utf8, Object>(), null, null, null, true ) );
  }

  @Test( expected = KettleException.class )
  public void testConvertToKettleValuesMapMalformed2() throws KettleException {
    AvroInputMeta.AvroField avroField = new AvroInputMeta.AvroField();
    avroField.m_fieldName = "a";
    avroField.m_fieldPath = "c.b.a";
    avroField.init( 0 );
    RowMeta rowMeta = new RowMeta();
    ValueMetaInterface valueMeta = new ValueMetaString();
    valueMeta.setName( avroField.m_fieldName );
    avroField.m_kettleType = valueMeta.getTypeDesc();
    rowMeta.addValueMeta( valueMeta );
    AvroInputData.AvroArrayExpansion avroArrayExpansion =
      new AvroInputData.AvroArrayExpansion( Arrays.asList( avroField ) );
    avroArrayExpansion.m_outputRowMeta = rowMeta;
    avroArrayExpansion.m_expansionPath = "c";
    avroArrayExpansion.init();
    avroArrayExpansion.reset( new Variables() );
    avroArrayExpansion.convertToKettleValues( new HashMap<Utf8, Object>(), null, null, null, true );
  }

  public void testConvertToKettleValuesMapMalformed() throws KettleException {
    AvroInputMeta.AvroField avroField = new AvroInputMeta.AvroField();
    avroField.m_fieldName = "a";
    avroField.m_fieldPath = "c.b.a";
    avroField.init( 0 );
    RowMeta rowMeta = new RowMeta();
    ValueMetaInterface valueMeta = new ValueMetaString();
    valueMeta.setName( avroField.m_fieldName );
    avroField.m_kettleType = valueMeta.getTypeDesc();
    rowMeta.addValueMeta( valueMeta );
    AvroInputData.AvroArrayExpansion avroArrayExpansion =
      new AvroInputData.AvroArrayExpansion( Arrays.asList( avroField ) );
    avroArrayExpansion.m_outputRowMeta = rowMeta;
    avroArrayExpansion.m_expansionPath = "c";
    avroArrayExpansion.init();
    avroArrayExpansion.reset( new Variables() );
    avroArrayExpansion.convertToKettleValues( new HashMap<Utf8, Object>(), null, null, null, true );
  }
}

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Q: Laravel 5.0 URL change for pagination I want to change pagination URL for Laravel 5.0 from:
http://example.com/en/xyz?page=1
to
http://example.com/en/xyz/1
I have tried MULTIPLE solutions but nothing works for Laravel 5.0 here:
Laravel Pagination with pretty urls than query string
https://github.com/mayoz/pagination
Is there any fix available?

A: required page variable on your route definition and set a default value
Route::get('en/xyz/{page?}', function($page=1) {
    $limit = 10;
    $results = SomeModel::orderBy('someField')
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        ->take($limit)
        ->get();
    return $results;
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Notable Women in Health Care honorees show what it takes to reach the top
As Kindbody CEO Gina Bartasi was looking for $15 million in Series A financing, she decided to chip away at the gender gap in health care venture capital. Bartasi sought a woman's touch for her company, whose clinics for fertility care, mental-health nutrition and gynecological services reimagine how health care is delivered. Two women from the Manhattan firms that co-led the funding, RRE Ventures and Perceptive Advisors, are now on Kindbody's board.
"We intentionally chose female-led investors," said Bartasi, who credits her ability to take a stand to her track record as an entrepreneur, including founding Progyny, a leading fertility benefits provider. "If an entire investment team was male, we made them aware they were unlikely to earn the bid."
In recent years, female health and femtech entrepreneurs have pressured investor networks to open up funding for women-led startups. After all, the market for femtech, which lies at the intersection of women's health and technology, is likely to reach $50 billion by 2025, research firm Frost & Sullivan estimates.
The female entrepreneurs are battling a well-worn trend: Most investors are men who tend to fund men. When a network is dominated by men—venture capitalists, physicians, heads of laboratories, CEOs—the money, jobs, good assignments and research funding mostly flow to men instead of women. It's just one of many challenges that women in health care face, whether they are entrepreneurs, clinicians or scientists.
The second annual Crain's list of 100 Notable Women in Health Care is inclusive and reflective of the many talented women working in health care organizations, startups, medicine, science and academia. Health care often is populated by lesser-known department chairs, groundbreaking researchers and women who lead charities that benefit millions of people. Crain's New York Business celebrates their contributions, which are fueled by talent and hard work.
But we recognize that along the way, many of the honorees faced pay inequality, gender disparity or sex discrimination, hurdles that ambitious women have faced for decades. Now they are pushing back.
As nearly 95% of active capital is controlled by men, female investors have had to fight for every penny. The gap has been scrutinized since 2015 by venture fund Rock Health, which publishes an annual report on gender equity in health care startups and venture capital. It currently is conducting research for its October report, in partnership with consulting firm Oliver Wyman.
Its survey is meant to deepen "understanding of the structures, programs and opportunities startups and venture-capital firms have put in place to promote gender equity."
As nurse practitioner Sarah Pesce, clinical director of operations at Mount Sinai's Lab100, filled out the Rock Health survey, she couldn't help but think "how the pace of change has been slow, with a lot more room for improvement."
Recent statistics prove her correct. In health care, women make up 30% of C-suite teams and 13% of CEOs, according to a report this year by Oliver Wyman. Women who make it to leadership positions that report to the CEO often tend to be in roles "where technical expertise supersedes intangible qualities"—titles including chief legal, information or financial officer, according to the report. Among this year's Notable Women, that category includes New York–Presbyterian's top attorney, Mary Beth Claus, and CFOs Colleen Blye of Montefiore Health System, Michele Cusack of Northwell Health and Stacey Malakoff of the Hospital for Special Surgery, where Jamie Nelson is CIO.
The Crain's list is packed with female CEOs. There are hospital heads Susan Fox, Winifred Mack, Dr. Mary Leahy and Deborah Visconi. Dr. Talya Schwartz leads an insurer. Our honorees include the CEOs of 11 health care companies, 21 nonprofits and three community providers, as well as 13 department chairs or section chiefs of clinical departments. Deans Lorraine Frazier, Dr. Barbara Hempstead and Dr. Bonita Stanton are academia powerhouses.
Crain's asked the honorees how best to address gender inequity. Their advice mirrors the latest research on why the pipeline for female leaders is not more robust. Among the factors cited are that women lack confidence and avoid self-promotion.
The Oliver Wyman report said women's disdain for self-
aggrandizement is a possible outgrowth of "a philosophy that sees teamwork and consensus-building as key ingredients of leadership." And 54% of respondents to a recent survey by Korn Ferry said women do not self-promote as strongly as men to advance their own career.
"By temperament, females are not accustomed to tooting our own horn," lamented Dafna Bar-Sagi, NYU Langone Health's vice dean for science and chief scientific officer.
That's something that Winifred Mack, a Northwell Health executive who is president and CEO of Nassau University Medical Center, wants to change.
"It's important for women to step up and get recognized," Mack said. "Some younger women don't promote themselves. I never did it either. But you have to get out there and promote your accomplishments."
Research suggests that women tend to take a pass on jobs that aren't a 100% match for their skills. Oliver Wyman noted that men and women have different expectations about qualifications, and women think job candidates should "check all the boxes." In one example the consulting firm cited, women applied for promotions if they felt they met 100% of qualifications; men applied at 60%.
"Success often comes down to having the right mindset," said Angela Hwang, a Pfizer group president and member of the pharmaceutical firm's executive team. "Women more than men can be held back by fear of failure—which stops them from taking the bold steps that could really transform their career. I would echo that wise advice to be brave, not perfect."
It isn't one single trend that leads to situations like the one Mack recently encountered: Only one woman responded to advertisements for the six administrative and clinical posts she had open.
"I work toward parity, and we want women in leadership positions so that our employees can see there are great opportunities for advancement," she said. "But female candidates are few and far between."
Many successful women say it was a mentor or sponsor who changed their self-perception. When mentors and sponsors are trained how to help advance women's careers, it can make all the difference. Sponsors can actively promote their protégés, using their influence and networks to provide connections to career-defining assignments, people and promotions.
Pfizer's Hwang said she tries to mentor and sponsor women at all levels. This year she funded a development program for rising female leaders to help provide the tools and confidence needed to reach the next level.
"It's not just about talking up gender parity," she said. "It's about encouraging women to develop in their careers and get out of their comfort zones to take on stretch assignments."
Women in senior leadership often cite having had visionary sponsors and mentors who urged them take on positions they felt unprepared for.
"Sponsorship is absolutely important," said Dr. Barbara Hempstead, dean of the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. "In my case, it was invaluable."
Hempstead recalls attending a major science meeting in Switzerland after her sponsor couldn't go, but said, "I know someone who will do a great job." It was a fantastic networking opportunity that shaped Hempstead's career.
Dr. Mary Leahy, chief executive of Bon Secours Charity Health System, said female leaders "have to set the table for the next group of people behind you. You have to show them this can be done."
The profiles in this report are drawn from submitted nomination materials and Crain's research. No individual paid to be featured. This is the second year Crain's has published Notable Women in Health Care, a new tradition for the metropolitan area's thriving health care sector. Please join Crain's in congratulating our impressive honorees.
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I went to church today and once again, the Gospel and Jesus messed with my mind and heart. And of all places, it was at an Episcopal Church and the Word was brought by an old white guy. Who knew such miracles could happen!?
Each week Bruton Parish Episcopal Church offers a mid-week service of Holy Communion. It's about as traditional as you can get: Bruton Parish is located on Duke of Gloucester Street in the heart of historic Colonial Williamsburg and dates back to 1715; the liturgy is from The Book of Common Prayer with its florid language; the meal is wine and those dry communion wafers that have no taste, stick to the roof of your mouth, and sometimes remind me more of styrofoam than the Savior.
Today's Gospel lesson and the homily (fancy pants word for a sermon) focused on St. Matthew. In the Christian Church calendar, this is his feast day (the last time I went to Bruton Parish for this service, the focus was on St. Bartholomew's feast day; I appreciate the Church's odd sense of humor that a man flayed to death is the patron saint of leather workers – but that's for another blog post perhaps).
The presiding priest made the familiar point that as a tax collector Matthew would have been seen as an outsider to avoid, the scum of the earth in the eyes of many, someone not to be welcomed at anyone's dinner table and definitely not someone whose party you would attend.
But Jesus is not just anyone, thank God. He sees Matthew, apparently values him, perceives Matthew's need and ability, and attends his party. And when the local clergy association has a conniption fit Jesus says he's come specifically for people like Matthew, and then gives them a homework assignment: learn the meaning of mercy (maybe that's where Pope Francis learned some of his holy heart lessons).
The point of the story in Matthew's Gospel? There are no outsiders; all have value and are beloved; all count; all lives matter, including those we think don't. To build his case, the priest referenced today the end of Matthew's story when Jesus calls his followers to go into all the world (Matthew 28).
And then came the slam dunk that left me reeling: he retold Jesus' story of the Last Judgment (Matthew 25), which says simply that our eternal salvation depends on how we treat those we think don't count – the hungry or thirsty, the sick or imprisoned, the naked or the stranger All those outsiders on the margins matter to God and we more fully reflect the image of God when they become the focus of our care as well.
If there are no outsiders, if we are all in this together, if we are all embraced by God's arms no matter who we are, then boundaries and borders disappear. That sounds good, right? Until it hit me upside the head. That includes the immigrant, the refugee, the stranger at our border seeking a home, healing, and hope. "Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." Oh, my good Lord.
There Jesus goes again, messing with my mind and heart, calling me to see things differently with new eyes, with God's eyes. And it's Matthew's fault this time (thanks to that old white preacher who just stood there talking while the universe shifted beneath my feet). You see, Matthew's Gospel is the one that tells about the birth of Jesus the refugee whose family must flee for their lives; Matthew's gives us that sweet picture of Jesus the undocumented family member who shows up at Egypt's border without a passport fleeing danger and death; Jesus the immigrant who will live in Egypt not knowing the language or customs or practicing that community's religion; Jesus the suspect outsider.
What if Jesus, Joseph and Mary had been denied entry? What if the Egyptians had built a fence to keep out strangers like them? What if the police showed up one day at their house in downtown Cairo (you can visit a church in that city that is built over the traditional site of their home there) and deported them back to that fearful place they fled?
What if Jesus is still standing at our border, at the fence, his life in danger still? The truth is, Matthew's Jesus still is. That thought, that image from today is what haunts me.
No wonder the political and religious leaders of his day put Jesus on a cross. He didn't get crucified because he was nice, but because he was a threat. And today my preconceived notions and perspectives were threatened. All I wanted to do was go to church and meet Jesus. That happened, but not on my terms. That's why I am still in the process of conversion, still doing the hard homework of learning mercy in order to see with God's eyes and to love with God's heart and to let God set the agenda. I am yet a work in process of transformation.
Pope Francis has called on all Roman Catholic institutions to sponsor at least one refugee family. Maybe he's assuming that if such hospitality is offered, Jesus will be there, too. What if all of us who claim to follow Jesus were to take up that holy calling, and Protestant and Eastern Orthodox congregations, campus ministries, colleges and universities, hospitals and retirement facilities also offered their open doors, open minds, open hearts? What kind of transformation and blessing would transpire, not only for the welcomed but for us standing at the door? I think part of the appeal of the Pope is that he seems to take Jesus seriously; he is the fragrance of Christ (to borrow a New Testament image) in a stuffy, stinky world. What might happen if the world saw Francis joined by legions of Jesus' lovers, also open to seeing and serving this refugee Redeemer, the immigrant incarnating the Holy One, the stranger Savior?
When Jesus was crucified, it happened outside the city's walls. Ultimately, even to the end, Jesus himself was the outsider, the outcast, and cast-off. And if I am going to find him today, I better go and stand there, too. This is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, thanks be to God.
Following the murders in Charleston, SC, of nine Christians engaged in Bible study at Mother Emanuel AME Church, the bishops of that denomination called on people of faith across our land to focus the weekend of September 5-7 on Confession, Repentance, Prayer and Commitment to End Racism. As is often the case, the lectionary of readings for this Sunday provided a providentially apt set of readings relevant to this prayerful call by the bishops (which was echoed by Young Jin Cho, my own United Methodist bishop here in Virginia. Here is what the Spirit brought me to say as I sought to bear witness to God's Word yesterday at Highland Springs UMC in Highland Springs, VA.
I have a confession to make – in 42 years of ministry I've never preached on this text. I avoided it because quite frankly, it doesn't paint a pretty picture of Jesus. His table manners might've been socially acceptable in his day but they're still rather crude and rude. If we like gentle Jesus meek and mild, always caring and kind, he's not here. It's troubling and unsettling and takes us where we'd rather not go.
In Mark's story Jesus is traveling in the area of modern day Lebanon. He needs to recharge his batteries and doesn't want anyone to know where he is. But here comes this woman looking for help. Poor Jesus can't get a break or a day off.
Mark describes her as Syro-Phoenician, a Gentile. The Greek says she's a Hellenist; inMatthew's gospel she's even worse – a Canaanite. In other words she's the worst kind of outsider. In the Bible Canaanites are always the bad guys; in Jewish history the Hellenists caused some of the worst persecutions Jews ever faced. And Jews weren't really sure Gentiles were human, so Jesus' harsh attitude toward this woman fit right in with his time and culture.
Add to that, she's a woman. In Jesus' day women and men who aren't family just don't deal with each other; women know their place and stay in it. But here she is, uninvited into the house looking for Jesus out to ask a favor.
Now she is respectful and humble; Mark says she falls atJesus' feet to beg him to heal her little girl. Who could turn away and not feel pity for her? Apparently Jesus can.
And he does it in a rather crass and cruel way. In our reading Jesus says, "It's not fair to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." It's as if Jesus says, "Don't bother me or waste my time. I've got better things to dothan deal with people like you." Ouch.
One more thing really stings and hurts here. We see dogs and puppies as cute and cuddly, warm and fuzzy. We love them. That's not how they're seen in Jesus' day. They're wild scavengers; curs to be kicked aside and chased away. Dogs are more trouble than they're worth. Basically Jesus calls this woman and her daughter dogs, female dogs. At its worst Jesus may be guilty of using the B word on them. Truth be told, Jesus sounds like a sexist racist.
But there is good news here. I love that Jesus' is so human. We Christians claim a great mystery: Jesus is both fully divine and fully human. Sometimes we want to smooth the raw edges in our picture of Jesus, but scripture says he was like us in every way, except without sin. He's a creature of his own day and time; a first century Jew, part of a culture that sees women and non-Jews in a particular way. There's no sin in that. The sin would be to stay that way when given a better, wiser way that's more like God's ways.
That's what this woman does for Jesus. She opens his eyes wider to see more clearly. She's the only person in the New Testament who gets the best of Jesus in an argument. I love that. Jesus rudely dismisses her; but she's a Momma in need and won't take "No" for an answer with her little girl's life on the line. Jesus tells her, "It' not fair to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." But she comes right back, "Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs." Take that, Jesus. Even Gentiles, Syro-Phoenicians, Canaanites, women and dogs have a place at God's table of grace and mercy and healing and hope.
Just before this story, Jesus has a huge slap fight with Jewish religious leaders who are too focused on doing everything just so. Jesus rants at them, "You are so busy holding on to human traditions that you let go of God's commandments." And here's this woman holding Jesus' feet to the fire challenging him for doing the very same thing. Whoa.
Typically Jesus connects healing with faith; here it's the woman's reasoning that produces the miracle. Her logic brings the change not only to her daughter, but to Jesus, too.
I love the way Mark tells his tale. In chapter 6 Jesus feeds 5000 Jews with bread and fish. In this chapter Jesus says the children's bread shouldn't be given to dogs but his mind is changed. That's what conversion is. And in chapter 8 Jesus again provides bread to a crowd., but this time it's Gentiles he feeds because he has compassion on them. Even Jesus can grow to see God's ways in new ways; he's blessed because of this woman God uses to make it happen.
That's good news for us, too, because we're Gentiles. We're the outsiders Jesus might have missed without her opening his eyes and heart.
And there's more good news. If the Son of God can grow in his understanding of God's ways, so can we. If Jesus can be blessed through the honest wise words of another, so can we. We need each other; we need church folks to be open and honest with us to challenge and stretch us to live more fully for God. That's what it means to be church, the Body of Christ together.
Some of us grew up in a time and place and that was deeply racist and sexist. There's no sin in that. The sin is to stay there. Jesus doesn't stay with his limited attitudeafter his encounter with this woman in need, and we don't have to stay tied to old, small ways, either.
Our world still doesn't fully reflect God's broad bright ways; Jesus still groans as he heals. Racism and prejudice are alive among us, maybe in our own hearts. Some say we have to say "Black Lives Matter" because in many ways our culture says they really don't matter.
After the racially hate-filled murders of nine of our brothers and sisters in Christ in South Carolina, African Methodist Episcopal Church bishops asked Christians across US to join today in confession, repentance, prayer and commitment to end racism. Our own Bishop Cho made that call to us as well.
Brothers and sisters in Christ, we can't stay deaf and mute to this cancer still eating at our soul. Healing comes as we listen and learn from those who are different, with different life experiences. Blessing comes as we allow ourselves like the Lord Jesus to be challenged and changed by truth heard in unexpected places. In my own life I thank God for the honest hard words and the humble life of a guy named Ben Nelson, my pastor during my teen years. God used him to convert and change this narrow-minded racist boy toward the better way of Christ. It's true – the gospel really is that powerful and wonderful.
This winter I talked with some Randolph-Macon College students of color about their life on that largely white campus. It wasn't easy to hear what they said, but I'm glad they told me the truth. I told them not to stay silent, and one woman said that's hard: white folks can feel guilty and she didn't want to hurt our feelings. But I said I hoped she'd speak up anyway because that's how healing and conversion and better days come.
Today we come to be fed today at this table where the Lord is again present. Let us confess and repent of whatever keeps us from walking God's wide way of grace for all; ask for healing so we won't be deaf to the stories of our brothers and sisters and silent no more in the face of racism or prejudice. Like the woman long ago let us fall on our knees and ask for mercy for us and our land and make a new commitment to the loving way of Jesus; then our table manners will be worthy of the One who calls and heals and welcomes us all, thanks be to God.


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To answer this question, we have to examine the audience perception of songs. Songs are written for people to hear them; therefore the way they identify with songs is most relevant and crucial to the songwriting process. A good songwriter should examine his/her audience beforehand and, consequently, shape the song to be as easily conceived as possible by its intended audience.
As I belong to western music by education (classical music) and to oriental music by birth (being from Egypt), I have examined -as deeply as I could- the perception of songs by both Arabic listeners and European listeners. My conclusion is that those two different cultures produced very differently biased people.
The Arabic culture and legacy is based heavily on poetry while music remained trivial. Consequently, for Arabic listeners the lyrics come first and music is reduced to a melodic vehicle for the lyrics with the least amount of arrangement possible. Lyrics come first for Arabic listeners!
On the other hand, Europe's music heritage is enormous with a lot of genius composers who will always be remembered. At the same time, Europe's great poets used the type of language that today needs a lot of simplification to understand. The music reaches the European listener before the lyrics!
So, does this mean that one can write "bad" lyrics for European listeners and get away with it?! Of course NOT!! They eventually catch up. Also, Arabic listeners will not listen to a song with bad music. The idea is that if your audiences care less for lyrics, then they wouldn't "appreciate" a complex lyric. In fact, they wouldn't understand it and will label it as "bad". It has to be "good" but not "complex". It's all about complexity. Arabic listeners will settle down with a nice melody that fits the lyrics well. It has to be nice, but it CAN'T be complex!! My mother thinks that Dvorak's "New World Symphony" is "louder" than music should be. I think she meant to say: "too complicated for music". Conversely, European listeners will not settle for a nice melody, you have to have strong chord progressions, a powerful base line and a strong drum line.
So, I write more complicated lyrics for Arabic listeners and more complicated music for European listeners. Study YOUR OWN audiences and see what they like and to which side they are biased, so you know how to adjust your song's complexity. But beware; sometimes "less complicated" means "more difficult to write"…Wish you simple songwriting!!


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A Japanese Mom Sex Incest video of a 40s mature woman who guides her son into a forbidden sexual activity with an exciting invitation.
A slender female body throws out a forty-year-old married woman and looks down at her son with a mellow, obscene eye. "Make it violent… oh, be gentle…" The mother asked her son to touch the tip of the small breasts, and her child's finger shook her in agony—a son who has risen to the temptation of his mother. The heart throbbing and repeated caresses as ordered.
"Ah… good…" A finger inserted into a wet pussy and a fierce hand human-made a forty mature woman convulsions her slender body and greets her lightly. However, she is not the woman who can be satisfied with the finger fuck. "Ufufu, I'm completely stiff here." I step on the crotch of my son, who is sitting down and play around with it. The penis had a full erection and was wriggled in his pants. "Be comfortable as usual" The son buried her face in her hips from the back with the fornication order of her mother. Then, using a moist tongue, start cunnilingus. When he reaches ecstasy again, his mother goes to the shower. When I took a bath with my fluttering son, I grasped the cock with foamy hands. "I'll rub you a lot." Just as I thanked you earlier, the 40-year-old housewife started handjobs his son's cock. And even his nipple was groped with the other hand. "yummy, my nipples are standing up." "Mom, my chest is hitting…" "Of course, I'm doing my handjob." Embarrassingly, the beautiful witch said that with her phallus in her crotch. Shook "Hey, it's barefoot. It feels good." "Oh…" "If you barefoot, you have doubled your cock."
The mother who gladly took a full erection and started holding fellatio as soon as she sat in the bathtub. And the big cock of the son was put in the crotch in the standing back posture. "Oh, I'm hitting the clitoris, it feels good." It seems that the intercrural sex from the back is felt, and the married woman dances the hula dance while becoming a toro face. Every time I shook my nice butt, my son's big dick made my mom's pussy look into the glans. It's a strange scene where a cock grows on Mama's dick. "Slides, oh yeah, it's amazing." The vagina that turned into a villa was turned up, and the step of the glans hits the clitoris. Each time, the mature woman raised a nasty voice and went mad. "It's already crazy, deeper…!" Sensitive 40s mature woman was trying to climb to the top of orgasm again with his son's stiff male genitals—pseudo-sex with bare feet to avoid pushing into incest. However, if it could not stand it alone, the cracks were dripping and telling us.
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