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12/21/2012 (1 year ago)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
'We are in the midst of a New Evangelization, and I believe this book is a signal moment in its success. This book is a grace from God. It is also a sign that will lead many folks back home to the family of God, which is the Catholic Church'. (Dr. Scott Hahn)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
12/21/2012 (1 year ago)
Published in U.S.
Keywords: Tom Peterson, Catholics Come Home, Scott Hahn, New Evangelization, Peter Kreeft, Patrick Madrid, Missionary Age, Evangelism, Rick Warren, Catholic converts, testimony, Deacon Keith Fournier
CHESAPEAKE, VA (Catholic Online) - In a few days the world will pause to remember the Nativity of the Lord Jesus, the birth of greatest gift ever given. In those words penned by the beloved disciple John, the most quoted words of the Holy Bible, we read: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God sent the Son into the world not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him." (John 3:16)
God the Father is the greatest gift giver. In giving us His Son Jesus, He has given us everything. Jesus is the "Yes" of God. St Paul wrote to the Corinthians and reminded them, "For however many are the promises of God, their Yes is in him." (2 Cor. 1) Yet, so many do not know the great gift which we soon pause to remember and receive anew as we bend the knee at a stable in Bethlehem where a King was born.
That is why we need evangelizers, men and women who tell the "Good News" - that is what the word Gospel means - in a naturally supernatural way. Men like Tom Peterson, the founder of "Catholics Come Home". I met Tom Peterson years ago at a Catholic Leadership Conference. I remember the year because I had pneumonia and almost did not even attend that particular conference. However, after persevering through the long trip because the conference is always a highlight of my year, I knew I simply HAD to meet this man.
I had seen my first "Catholics Come Home" commercial months earlier and became convinced that the work of this non-profit media apostolate was going to become one of the most important resources for the New Evangelization in my lifetime. "Finally," I thought to myself, "someone is using the new integrated media with excellence to tell the real story of the greatest treasure in the whole world, the fullness of the Christian faith as found within the Catholic Church."
On the first day of the conference I found Tom in the crowd. I was brimming over with enthusiasm. I walked up to him, introduced myself, and told him that I believed the work the Lord had given to him was one of the greatest resources we had in this new missionary age. Those who know me know that when I believe something is anointed by the Spirit and effective, I am blunt and right to the point. However, in retrospect, I was visibly very sick and anything but laid back in that encounter.
Fortunately, Tom was not put off by either my manner or my coughing. He was encouraged. We conversed for quite some time and connected throughout that important weekend. I had the opportunity to see their newest commercials and to hear Tom speak. This gifted and humble man left a successful advertising career to serve the Lord and his Church in this critical time in history. He is an extraordinary example of what is needed throughout the entire Catholic Church, a lay Catholic Christian who has truly encountered the Lord and is dedicated to giving Him away to others.
Tom Peterson has made the New Evangelization his Life's mission. He is a man who lives to share the good news of the Christian life as found in its fullness within the Catholic Church. Tom, who refers to himself as an "advertising guy, simple and not a scholar" has built "Catholics Come Home" into an evangelization effort which is unmatched in the Catholic Church today. Both its reach and its quality are appropriate to the new missionary age in which we live. It was said of Jesus "He does all things well". (Mk &:37) It can also be said of His follower, Tom Peterson.
Like the little boy with the loaves and the fish in the Gospel account of the multiplication of the loaves and the fish (John 6), Tom Peterson has offered what he had and the miracle continues through the hands of Jesus Christ. This "advertising guy" is utilizing the best quality offered by the integrated media of our age to reach real people with the real hope they need in an age that has lost its soul. I again affirm what I told Tom years ago, this is one of the most important resources available in this critically important hour.
I had the privilege of being a lay witness to the fullness of Christianity as found in the Catholic Church for many years. Then, I was ordained to the order of Deacon sixteen years ago. My service as a Deacon is deeply involved in the New Evangelization in the Catholic Church - as well as in the New Missionary age of the Catholic Church, for the world. I have the joy of sharing the Catholic faith with many former or fallen away Catholics and helping them find their way home. I also have the joy of helping Christians from other communities come into the full communion of the Catholic Church.
Because of this sense of personal vocation, I am always looking for resources to help in the work. Catholics Come Home is one of the greatest resources available. The effort has reached well over 40 million viewers across the US and over 1.5 million viewers worldwide in the past three years. According to census statistics published by participating dioceses, "Catholics Come Home" ads have helped more than 200,000 fallen away Catholics come home to the Catholic Church.
Now, there is a book which tells the life story of Tom Peterson and the Catholics Come Home Apostolate in a compelling, delightful and accessible way. It is a model of how to do effective personal evangelization. Tom begins his first chapter, entitled "God's Extraordinary Plan for You", by quoting a great evangelizer Saint, Ignatius of Loyola: "Few souls understand what God would accomplish in them if they were to abandon themselves unreservedly to Him and if they were to allow His grace to mold them accordingly."
In doing so he sets the pattern for a popularly written evangelistic book which draws the reader into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ and the fullness of the Christian faith as found in His Catholic Church. The book is written with the compelling simplicity and love which characterizes personal evangelization and testimony. Tom continues: "God has something extraordinary planned for your life. Let me say that again slowly because it's really important. God has something extraordinary planned for your life!"
"In our fast-paced, highly technological world, this statement might sound a bit lofty, but the lives of mil-lions of souls who have come before us attest to this simple truth: God has a wonderful plan in store for you. God wants you to be happy. He wants you to experience His unfailing compassion. He wants you to feel the warmth of mercy and to share His love with others. God wants you to know that you exist for a reason. Discovering God's plan for your life is rather easy, yet, to be honest, somewhat difficult, too. It starts with saying yes to the Holy Spirit and allowing Him to guide you."
You can read the first chapter by clicking right here. Then, you can pre-order this wonderful book by clicking here. The book contains endorsements from several popular Christian evangelists and apologists including Catholics Dr. Peter Kreeft and Patrick Madrid, and evangelical Rick Warren. The endorsement of Dr. Scott Hahn, who also wrote the forward to the book, summarizes its significance in these words: "We are in the midst of a New Evangelization, and I believe this book is a signal moment in its success. This book is a grace from God. It is also a sign that will lead many folks back home to the family of God, which is the Catholic Church."
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NCI reviewers, who also conducted a two-day site visit before approving the grant, noted particular U-M strengths in breast cancer, prostate cancer and cancer stem cell biology -- all areas of Taubman Scholar expertise.
And Dr. Charles Burant, a Taubman Scholar and head of the Michigan Matabolomics and Obesity center, will be the principal investigator of a $9.1 million rsearch grant from the National Institutes of Health. The grant will support the creation of the Michigan REgional Comprehensive Metabolomics Core, which will help researchers examine small molecules called metabolites to detect changes in cell behavior and organ function, the university said.
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someone on their back, they will sometimes try to rub them off on the
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Lazarus and the Rich Man
There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried. In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, "Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire."
But Abraham replied, "Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us."
He answered, "Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment."
Abraham replied, "They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them."
"No, father Abraham," he said, "but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent."
He said to him, "If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead."
Some thoughts:
It is interesting that for many of our homeless and marginalized brothers and sisters, they are forced into a life of wandering anonymity whilst the rich are celebrated and honored, but Jesus here names and welcomes the poor man and leaves the wealthy one anonymous.
The rich man is not condemned as evil or a non-believer, it just notes that he is rich and literally outside his gate, the poor were literally suffering and dying.
The rich man appeals for Lazarus' help, after apparently ignoring Lazarus all those years.
There is no help forthcoming, because there is a "chasm" that had been set in place... one can't help wonder: Who set the chasm in place? Could it be that this is the rich man's own chasm that he had separated himself?
The rich man was worried about his presumably also-wealthy family, that they might suffer the same fate as he did.
Whatever your thoughts about the Bible, this is a great story - powerful, moving, tragic and compelling.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Finding Hope
Words of hope and rebellion, from Wendell Berry...
...So, friends, every day do something
that won't compute.
Love the Lord.
Love the world.
Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Denounce the government and embrace
the flag.
Hope to live in that free republic
for which it stands.
Give your approval to all you cannot understand.
Praise ignorance,
for what man has not encountered
he has not destroyed.
Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millennium.
Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.
Say that the leaves are harvested
when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit.
Prophesy such returns...
Put your faith in the two inches of humus
that will build under the trees
every thousand years.
Listen to carrion – put your ear
close, and hear the faint chattering
of the songs that are to come.
Expect the end of the world.
Laughter is immeasurable.
Be joyful
though you have considered all the facts...
Go with your love to the fields.
Lie down in the shade.
Rest your head in her lap.
Swear allegiance
to what is nighest your thoughts.
As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn't go. Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.
~excerpts from Wendell Berry's Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Friday, October 24, 2014
I've Been Around the World
An Anniversary, of Sorts, or a Milestone, Perhaps...
I realized today that it was about 15 years ago that Donna and I moved from a two car to a one car family. I began biking to work, church and other >5 mile trips and biked for the first 7 years or so, then started walking in lieu of biking (which took more time, but I enjoy walking even more).
And I further realized that I've now walked the equivalent (give or take) of one lap around the globe.
Assuming walking (round trip) 5 miles to work, 5 days a week and 5 miles to church... that's about 30 miles a week. Multiply that times 50 weeks (allowing that there have been exceptions) and that times 15 years and - if my math is correct - I've walked and biked over 22,000 miles.
Or, in another way of looking at it, that is the equivalent to having walked from the northernmost point of Alaska to the southernmost tip of South America, with plenty of room to ramble around in between... it's a whole a bunch of walking.
According to one "carbon calculator" I found, that means we've saved about 43,000 pounds of CO2 emissions and, they said, "altogether you will save or get benefits worth $155,131.60" I'm not sure what that's based upon, but it sounds sorta cool.It's certainly saved some. AAA estimates that each car in a house hold costs, on the low side, $6,000/year, so that's $90,000 for 15 years.
Anyway, it's been a great 15 years of Human Powered Motion. Here's hoping for at least one more trip around the globe... To honor the event, I present a bit of HD Thoreau, on Walking...
"I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks—who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering, which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la SainteTerre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander...
They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, would derive the word from sans terre without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense, will mean, having no particular home, but equally at home everywhere. For this is the secret of successful sauntering. He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea...
...To come down to my own experience, my companion and I, for I sometimes have a companion, take pleasure in fancying ourselves knights of a new, or rather an old, order—not Equestrians or Chevaliers, not Ritters or Riders, but Walkers, a still more ancient and honorable class, I trust. The Chivalric and heroic spirit which once belonged to the Rider seems now to reside in, or perchance to have subsided into, the Walker—not the Knight, but Walker, Errant. He is a sort of fourth estate, outside of Church and State and People...."
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Come, Dance With Me...
Every child has known God,
Not the God of names,
Not the God of don'ts,
Not the God who ever does Anything weird,
But the God who knows only four words.
And keeps repeating them, saying:
"Come Dance with Me , come dance."
Thursday, October 2, 2014
spare some change?
I saw him all crumpled
on the ground like a
temporary spirit
and I thought I knew him
like an old classmate
or a distant cousin or
maybe a neighbor
from back in the day
and I couldn't place him
but maybe, he was the
guy who used to fix
my car or
deliver the paper
I was certain he
was familiar
maybe my son or
my daughter, my sister or
brother and, the more I looked at him... I think maybe he was.
And I wondered if I could
if I should
spare some change.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
A Post for Marshall...
Years ago, I wrote a two part post that explained how I moved from "here" to "there" on the topic of marriage equity. I was raised and lived for the first ~30 years of my life as an extreme conservative Christian in the traditional Southern Baptist church mode. Given that, I was, of course, extremely opposed to any normalization of "the homosexual agenda..." I certainly did not intend to be unloving or ungracious towards anyone, but in hindsight, I surely was.
At any rate, I was solidly opposed to "gay marriage" - vehemently, so. I was absolutely certain that not only was the Bible and reason clearly against any sort of gay behavior, I had no room in my worldview for any Christian possibly even hinting at thinking it was possible. And yet, here I am today, fully recognizing (and repenting of) my errors in thinking and behavior from that time. In these two posts, I explained how I moved from one position to the other and, not only that, but how I did it based on Bible study, prayer and reasoning from those two alone. At that time in my life, there was no room for any other way to "prove" anything.
Here are those posts...
My Journey, Part 1
My Journey, Part 2
Conservative blogger, Marshall recently said that I left questions unanswered there. I'm putting this post up to give Marshall a chance to ask a question that he thinks I left unanswered.
He, of course, does not find my process or reasoning compelling. That is fine, I wouldn't have found it compelling before I reached this point in my life, either. Now, I could not imagine anyway to find it anything but compelling.
The point I always make with Marshall and his comrades is that, just because the argument is not compelling to them, does not mean, 1. That there is no rational argument being made or, 2. That no one else could possibly find the arguments compelling.
It would be my guess that the main reason he doesn't find my arguments compelling (other than the cultural bias against it, and cultural biases being very hard to overcome) is that he approaches the Bible differently than I do. Where he finds literal history and literal commands from God, I find interesting stories that are told in mythic or epic fashion, and NOT literal commands from God.
Maybe, if one accepts the more fundamentalist view of the bible, my reasoning is terribly faulty. However, the real world fact is that not everyone finds the fundamentalist view of the Bible to be rational, moral or, in fact, biblical. So, you can't say, "You HAVE to hold my view of these texts and, given my view, you are wrong..." That is true only if I hold your view and I do not, so I am not in any rational, moral or biblical way compelled to accept your view.
Having said that: Feel free to ask your question, Marshall.
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Anti-Intellectualism is Stupid
Anti-Intellectualism quote of the day (in response to my question, "Do you think all experience is equal: That the mailman who walks through a poor neighborhood and the social worker who has researched and studied poverty and worked as a case manager directly with the poor are equally informed as to the causes and effects of poverty in the lives of the poor? Or do you make room for the notion that people who actually work for years in a field might possibly be better-informed on the topic?...")
Social workers are trained to give people the benefit of the doubt and in my experience do so to the point of overlooking the obvious. They tend to make excuses for people because they're trying to help. So no, I don't generally trust social workers' experiences. Look at all the kids they leave with negligent parents, yet try to remove kids from homes where parents let them walk to school for a block or two in safe neighborhoods.
[Courtesy of John at the ironically named, Sifting Reality blog, although the attitude is not unique to him, so I'm talking about the comment, not the person...]
There is such an arrogance and wholly uninformed presumption and ignorance in that statement, that one hardly knows how to respond. Why are people like this? Have they been burned by, in this case, what the feel is a bad social worker so they project that hurt feeling out on to all social workers? And does this person feel the same way about other professionals? Water quality experts? Car mechanics? Psychologists? Where does this ignorant hostility end?
Lord help us.
Thursday, August 28, 2014
An Answer for Bubba in return for a Question for Bubba
A question from Bubba:
Suppose that a child got a very serious cut on his arm, and the cut became infected with gangrene, a lethal infection if it goes untreated.
Suppose furthermore that antibiotic and anesthetic are unavailable, perhaps because the situation predates modern medicine or the family is marooned on an uninhabited island, Swiss Family Robinson style.
Suppose that, if the father doesn't amputate the arm even without anesthetic, his child dies.
And suppose the child is too young to understand what death means but not too young to understand that getting his arm cut off is going to hurt. A LOT.
Finally, suppose that the father is a good father who has given his child every reason in the world to believe that he always has the kid's best interests at heart, even enduring great hardship for his sake.
QUESTION 1: What is the father's moral duty, to amputate without anesthetic, to let the child die, or to let this very young child decide whether he wants to live without an arm even if he doesn't really understand the fatal alternative?
Amputate the arm, if the father knows well enough how to do this without making things worse. I would add the caveat that, if the child were old enough - a young man, for instance - then the decision about how to proceed should be the young adult's decision. But you stipulated a very young child, so that is my answer.
Easy enough. Do you need any further clarification or does that suffice?
Dan's question for Bubba:
You hold several opinions about what God wants us to do/how God wants us to behave. You hold the opinion, for instance, that God is opposed to gay folk marrying one another (or words to that affect) or that God supports Christians going to war to kill their nation's enemies. Clearly, this and all of your opinions about what God thinks are your human opinions, interpretations that you take from biblical teachings. As your human opinions, they are your subjective, unprovable opinions, they are not objective facts about what God does or doesn't want. Is this correct?
IF it's not correct... IF you think that your opinions about what God wants are objective facts that are provable, demonstrable, please provide the hard data to support that claim.
IF it's not correct... IF you think that your opinions about what God wants are objective facts that are provable, demonstrable, please provide the hard data to support that claim.
Since, in the real world, these are clearly subjective and unprovable opinions, this should be an easy question to answer, but you tell me.
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Research Confirms: Peace Works
Impressive research, worth citing...
"Between 1900 and 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance against authoritarian regimes were twice as likely to succeed as violent movements. Nonviolent resistance also increased the chances that the overthrow of a dictatorship would lead to peace and democratic rule. This was true even in highly authoritarian and repressive countries, where one might expect nonviolent resistance to fail. Contrary to conventional wisdom, no social, economic, or political structures have systematically prevented nonviolent campaigns from emerging or succeeding.
From strikes and protests to sit-ins and boycotts, civil resistance remains the best strategy for social and political change in the face of oppression. Movements that opt for violence often unleash terrible destruction and bloodshed, in both the short and the long term, usually without realizing the goals they set out to achieve. Even though tumult and fear persist today from Cairo to Kiev, there are still many reasons to be cautiously optimistic about the promise of civil resistance in the years to come.
In the United States and Europe, policymakers often seem at a loss when confronted with the questions of whether to support civilians resisting authoritarian regimes using nonviolent protest and, if so, what form that support should take. Liberal interventionists cited a "responsibility to protect" civilians to justify NATO's intervention in Libya and have also invoked that argument in advocating for similar action in Syria. But the promise of civil resistance suggests an alternative: a "responsibility to assist" nonviolent activists and civic groups well before confrontations between civilians and authoritarian regimes devolve into violent conflicts.
Civil resistance does not succeed because it melts the hearts of dictators and secret police. It succeeds because it is more likely than armed struggle to attract a larger and more diverse base of participants and impose unsustainable costs on a regime. No single civil resistance campaign is the same, but the ones that work all have three things in common: they enjoy mass participation, they produce regime defections, and they employ flexible tactics. Historically, the larger and more diverse the campaign, the more likely it was to succeed."
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Saturday, August 16, 2014
The Great Flood
Fiddle music rising over the hills
children laughing
dogs barking
friends playing and singing...
sorrows divided and
happiness multiplied
like loaves and bread
let the doubters haggle
and the believers settle down
into a chaotic mellowness
joy flooding the evening
raising us all to a blessed higher ground.
Saturday, August 9, 2014
Safe Haven
Children seeking shelter and safety should never be considered or treated like criminals. We all need to be safe havens for children, especially those in dangerous places and situations.
Do we even need to have that discussion?
Thursday, July 31, 2014
This summer, during Ordinary Time, we, at my church, have been thinking on Sabbath. Here is my Sabbath reflection from last Sunday, which was accompanied by this video.
To float is to
rest and to
in forces, unseen
as a leaf drifting
down a wild mountain stream
or a crow circling
on a rising wind;
as an ember rising
from a campfire
as a seed dancing
on a delightful breeze
or a reflection bouncing
on a still lake's surface
and I sometimes find
my sabbath rest
in floating
where the day may lead...
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Obviously, you are not allowed to smoke inside the hotel. But in the early morning just open the kitchen door and you are in the patio. And enjoy killing yourself.
Please, train your bladder (and bowel as well) if you've already booked a room in this hotel. One of the six rooms. With one toilet.
Nice clean room, TV with sky, great value for money. Close to train station.
30 minute walk to the nearest underground station. Would have been nice if the ice and water machine worked on the fridge.
The self cathering aspect of it and the non-interference with staff. The fact that it sell no alcohol is good. Everything one needs is provided and in excellent condition.
Some lodgers smoked in their room and could be perceived outside. Staff are not readily available and do not respond in time if called. The beddings are changed every 2 days.
Got charged twice. Not happy. .
Staff really helpful, clean place, kitchen with washing machine and dryer, reasonable price (remembering that we are talking about London).
The only bad point is the location (need to get a bus after getting out of some tube station and still walk a bit). Everything else was nice for our purposes!
Good place and staffs are very friendly service is awesome i booked one day because the service i extended 3 days.
people around are nice and helpful.
need one more bathroom for a house of 6 rooms.
I like how the rooms are done, love the location..I would also like to point out that ahtesham is a wonderful staff, always helps me and asks if I need any help..makes me feel really welcome. Good to know that staff care about customers.
Hi, we just want to say a big thankyou, we enjoyed our room, eveything was perfect we got what we wanted. Excellent service. We will definately come back.
Cheap and clean
No hot water at all!
It was near the library and within walking distance of the station.
There was only one toilet and enough room for sixteen people.
The Guy (manager) of the House is very kindly, help on every problem, (we has some..:) ) He personally help us, not caring his time. So He was very very good. Go by train to City it is faster, 40-50 minute in total, not go by car. We had car also, but we left next to house there is free parking. The house has free wifi.. If you have problem just ask the guide for help he will..:)
Well-equipped kitchen. 10 minutes fast walk to station.
Single bathroom for all rooms. No extra toilet. And my room was next to the bathroom! Poor mattress.
I liked everything about the hotel, good value for money
I like everything
Clean and well lit rooms. Good location for shopping in Ilford.
Having ring and get hold of staff prior to arrival. Staff nit very friendly and could do with customer care training.
Overall very good
I liked the way they take care of the place and the serenity of the area.
I didn't like that I couldn't watch UEFA Champions League on their Sky decoder on the night I was there.
Place is located 15 minutes from train station which is 25 minutes away from central London. Room was clean. Good place for people who look for good price. The owner was kind enough to provide additional stuff like iron even tough it wasn't part of normal equipment.
mattress was too soft and caused back pain.
i liked everything
I like how the staff were friendly maki g us feel welcome and the place is not bad for the price
It was all good but we didn't know that theres no hot water just found out at the middle of the night and we didn't know what number to call to report it but apart from that it was all good
Good location to all London transportation's and was only ten mins walk to the nearest train station, i will DEFO use again and will recommending to my friends and families.. value for money..
Just need some couple things like bottle opener (wine bottle opener) and could do with smoke area on back garden because some of the guest actually would love to have provide with facility. apart from that it was lovely place to stayed couldn't fault it....
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Schneier, Diffie, ex-MI5 bod, privacy advocates team up on Code Red
Re: Long overdue
Except that in the case of Bruce Schneier, he didn't complain about such surveillance when it was his employer doing it.
I guess spying on people is OK if it's for profit and not for the government.
And as for Simon Davies, does anybody here remember the consultancy 80/20 Thinking that he set up and the apparent attempt to legitimise Phorm through the PIA released by his consultancy?
Personally I'd like to see what they actually get up to before deciding whether it's anything worth supporting.
Microsoft EU warns: If you have ties to the US, Feds can get your data
You'd think so, but then you'd be forgetting the safe harbour (or harbor?) agreements that exist.
The safe harbour scheme been accepted by the EU commission as something that provides an acceptable level of protection for personal data belonging to EU citizens despite the likes of the PATRIOT act, FISAAA, and the Reagan-era executive order 12333 amongst others.
In reality though they provide even less protection for our information than the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties that the US government seems to think it ought to be able to ignore with impunity.
Oh, and the safe harbour scheme itself is overseen by the very people that want unquestioned access to all data. Everywhere.
Politicians on our side of the pond still wonder why some of us might have an issue with that.
There's talk about changing such arrangements of course, but at this point that all it is: talk.
Which major project was that?
According to the government's own G-cloud records there seems to be plenty of SaaS activity that involve US companies. Try looking up all those huddle licence records as one example - a range of different organisations use them, including the likes of the CPS and DWP. The following type of line seems quite common in the CSV based records too:
Software as a Service (SaaS),01/06/2012,1494.8,Health,Large,SharePoint Online (Plan 2),MICROSOFT IRELAND OPERATIONS LTD,West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
So the NHS also seems to be using Irish based services? There's also a number of references to EMERGN LTD elsewhere in the CSV file (filed under 'Specialist Cloud Services'), which seems to have a US presence and therefore would be presumably open to attack from the US legal system too. Such entries exist for Department for Work And Pensions & Ministry of Justice amongst others.
There's probably others, but personally I don't believe things are as strictly implemented as you have been lead to believe.
Remind me where the house of commons here has located its email systems? Oh, that's right: servers in Ireland.
Under Microsoft's control too.
You really couldn't make this stuff up, and what's even worse is that the likes of William Hague still seem to cling to the rather quaint belief that the US will stick to its international obligations, even after the blatant display that shows that the rules only hold up as long as US judges want them to.
It's just a pity that somebody in his position can't do better as a response than sticking his fingers in his ears and shouting 'LA-LA-LA!!!-I-can't-hear-you-LA-LA-LA!!!'
Pay a tax on every gigabyte you download? Haha, that's too funny. But not to Hungarians
Re: Are you a slave?
Except that taxes don't stop you from working, nor do they limit your ability to communicate or associate (if anything they're used to make it easier - most state funded libraries in the UK have free internet access for example) so the analogy doesn't really work IMO.
Just curious. IANAL...
Wouldn't a tax that charges people for expressing themselves or associating with others (and thereby potentially hinder such association or speech as well as limit it to wealthier segments of society) go against the ECHR?
I'm thinking of articles 9,10 and 11 in particular.
Apple KILLS SUPER MARIO. And Zelda. And Sonic
Re: Nintendo
Never mind iOS - I'm still waiting for GBA/SNES titles to appear on Nintendo's own 3DS.
Their obsession with Wii/Wii U really needs to stop if they want to survive in the long term...
Three UK fined £250,000 for customer complaints COCKUP
If you have a problem...
...then take things higher up.
Personally I've always found ceoemail.com useful for finding the email addresses of those in charge of the company. You'd be surprised how quickly things can be fixed once they get involved...
Spies, avert eyes! Tim Berners-Lee demands a UK digital bill of rights
Re: Here We Go Again. @Charles 9
Perhaps you haven't noticed that by simply making the haystack bigger they're not making it any easier to find the needle?
If memory serves one of the 7/7 bombers was under surveillance beforehand, and this had to stop because of lack of resources and a need to target what they had elsewhere.
Unless there is a vast increase in funding and manpower to mirror the increase in what they're gathering then surely they'll just end up making things more difficult for themselves? Rather than minimising the risk they'll end up making it bigger?
Re: Here We Go Again.
@tom dial:
One example is the nasty habit of the NSA sharing information gathered illegally on US citizens with the likes of the DEA and then having said agencies engage in 'parallel reconstruction' (i.e. lying) to hide the true origins of the information.
Then there's the freedom to run your business without hindrance. Industrial espionage has already been discussed as a result of the NSA programs.
One can only wonder how many things have been going on behind closed doors. The people within the NSA aren't above using their access for their own immoral purposes either (look up the term 'loveint' for one such example).
It's not just the five eyes countries you have to worry about either - the US has given access to data gathered to the Israeli government and for all we know other governments too. Do you trust all of them?
Re: Here We Go Again.
'Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.'
Re: Lest We Forget.
...but limited in application of course just among these Anti's, that would exempt them from any protections enabled by all such GCHQ and NSA careful electronic surveillance?...
As always, consider the source when they tell you anything about advantages...
Do MPs really care?
They already have their parliamentary web access 'filtered' thanks to Bluecoat (thereby copying in servers in the US in all requests made) and apparently last year moved their mail so that it would be hosted by Microsoft on servers in the Netherlands and Ireland (given recent stories regarding the US government, Microsoft and - funnily enough - Irish servers this seems like a particularly poor decision).
If they can't understand the sheer lunacy of not having complete control over their own IT then what hope is there for any of us?
Why does it take 8 hours for my posts to be approved?
Have you considered allowing contributors that have a good reputation in your view to serve as volunteer moderators here?
I'm not sure I would have the time to do this myself - or even if I would qualify in your eyes - but it wouldn't surprise me if some of the other regulars would be willing to serve such a role.
Huawei prez: A one-speed internet is bad for everyone
Re: Airlines are a poor analogy
A better analogy in any case IMO would be a little different.
It would involve paying Ryanair or BA for the flight and then having to pay again a second time - either in lost time or increased costs based on whose airspace they fly through.
And worse: not being able to know beforehand whether it will be slower or more expensive before you actually fly...
iPhone 6: Most exquisite MOBILE? No. It is the Most Exquisite THING. EVER
Re: Is it triple irony?
@Al Black
You can still drown...
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I'm wondering how many upvotes I need before I'm upgraded with silverly goodness.
The current tally shows the total me as a user but not the current alias I've been using, so finding this out does not seem to be currently possible since badges are associated with aliases not actual members (unless of course I've missed a link or something that could answer this question for me).
Apple's Cook: We have never allowed g-men access to Apple servers
Re: "Well you'd expect him to say that ..." - MRD
I'm not quite so sure that anybody can be forced as such to tell a lie - just hide the truth.
(Note the 'FBI has not been here' notice aspect of the link above)
One problem with this: FISAAA section 702. That and other laws render any privacy policy and/or assurances from Cook meaningless.
Apple tells devs: NO slurping users' HEALTH for sale to Dark Powers
Would anybody trust Apple given the games that they've played in the past with the likes of location data? And for that matter why trust any US company with health data when they've already been accused of ignoring the safe harbour provisions that they're supposed to be abiding by?
And don't get me started on 'medical research' and the ways in which that term can apparently be stretched into meaning almost anything people want it to.
'Stop dissing Google or quit': OK, I quit, says Code Club co-founder
Tin foil hat time?
- Google escapes enforcement action over the whole street view wifi slurp fiasco
- Google then also seems to get off scot free when it changed it's privacy policy.
- Ex-ICO staffer whose name was associated with the initial wifi slurp investigation moves to Google.
- Now Google supports pet projects partly funded by the government.
This would be the same government that seems to have rolled over and not investigated Google as thoroughly as it should have. Coincidence? Or just quid quo pro for past inaction by the ICO?
Racing Post escapes ICO fine after leaking info of 677K punters
Compare and contrast with the £180,000 handed to the MoJ for failing to encrypt hard drives. Funny how the fines skyrocket when public authorities funded by the tax payer are involved. The more cynical amongst us might be tempted to come to the conclusion that the ICO is little more than a mechanism for the government to claw back funding.
How is failing to secure a website any better than failing to secure the hardware?
What happens in Europe, doesn't stay in Europe: US giants accused of breaking EU privacy pact
Re: Meh....
Try getting the ICO to comment on the suitability of exporting data to the US given the lack of rights foreigners have over there. Go on - have a go.
I did as part of my inquiries related to the gathering of personal data by political parties. The question of suitability was repeatedly ignored.
Both the government and most of the media (one report on C4 news a few days ago being a notable exception) seem to do their level best to pretend that the question doesn't even exist, much less require an answer.
EE network whacked by 'PDP authentication failure' blunder
Re: Don't even mention PAYG
You could always try writing to the MD.
ceoemail.com has always been useful for looking up email addresses for people like this in my experience.
ICO: It's up to Google the 'POLLUTER' to tidy up 'right to be forgotten' search links
Re: Yes, there are several years of case law. @Tom 35
Who said that the court told Google that they had to come to these conclusions themselves?
If there is any doubt the solution is simple: forward the complaint to the ICO and let them determine if it should be removed. Job done. No need for a single lawyer in that case.
All this 'too much work' crap is a red herring put out by Google who would presumably rather have no legal obligations whatsoever if it means interfering with their business.
Re: No re-writing history?
Google is not going to be able to adequately process all of these requests, especially given how unclear and subjective the criteria are.
Talk about processing 'all of those requests' is a red herring put out by Google who'd rather not have any obligation whatsoever to remove results, even when there is a clear reason to do so (and in any case it shouldn't be up to Google to decide what's in the public interest or not - if memory serves the court never said the Google had to fulfill this role either).
If something is unclear then the solution is simple: get Google to instruct the complainant to take the matter to the ICO. *THEY* are the ones that should be coming to such conclusions - not Google, or any other search engine.
The ICO and the technologically inept idiots employed there just don't want to do so - it might shine a light on their own incompetence on anything IT related after all.
The polluter pays, the polluter should clear up.
Except that it's not clear what's pollution and what isn't. Coming to those sorts of conclusions should be up to the ICO. Good luck to anybody trying to get them to do it though given their complete inaction in the past over anything google/search related.
UK's emergency data slurp: IT giants panicked over 'legal uncertainty'
Re: Hasty ?? @ Titus Technophobe@Dave Bell
but I'll concede the need for some legislation
Only if the aim is to allow the government to continue as before.
Incidentally RIPA has been in effect for 14 years now so they've had more than enough time and opportunities for reviewing it, but putting this to one side for a moment: if it takes up to 2 years to review RIPA properly then what's the bet that a law published and passed in less than a week with no real scrutiny will end up being badly executed and dangerous for all of us?
The government keep on shouting 'terrorist' but always seem to fail to actually provide anything that actually justifies what they want. Anybody that wants another example of this should look to the other side of the pond. The story put out started with dozens of plots being foiled by all their pet programs and projects - then that number started to mysteriously shrink rather suddenly.
Don't forget that Cameron is somebody who seems to think that the likes of NCIS:LA show why we need this. Taking him seriously is extremely difficult sometimes.
Would anybody care to bet on the likelihood of people in the UK being just as economical with the truth?
The new legislation doesn't even properly address the legal problems raised by the judgement (blanket as opposed to targeted surveillance for one thing). We could as country still end up in court at the European level thanks to this bill, sunset clause or no sunset clause.
This law will operate until 2016, and then it stops working.
So it might be one almighty cock up but we'll only have to live with it for 2 years so that's OK then? (assuming of course that they don't just pass another 'emergency' measure since the election would have already taken place by then and MPs minds will be elsewhere).
Re: Oi Clegg, You Having A Laugh?
Clegg promised that "civil liberties would be properly considered"
'I pledge to vote against any increase in fees'.
'nuff said.
Re: Update Model Broken
Tossed mental coin, system was patched at about 2:45 p.m. we all had a nice Christmas break, billing work system worked no breakdowns.
So you were lucky. If government has to act like that then they're doing it wrong. The judgement was announced two months ago. A more appropriate analogy would be getting the patch in October before tossing a coin and blindly hoping that the shit won't hit the fan when it gets applied on Christmas Eve.
Only in this case it wouldn't be luck - it would be plain old incompetence.
What were they doing during the last two months, especially when there were allegations of a zombie parliament, a lack of legislation and generally a surplus of spare time?
Re: Update Model Broken @AC
Interesting to see how files from 30 years or more are now so important but phone records from a few months ago MUST NOT BE KEPT.
The former tends to deal with governments acting in our name. Only the latter deals with what should normally be private communications. Trying to make the two sound like they're equivalent is ludicrous.
Re: Hasty ?? @ Titus Technophobe
Section 1(3): the 'I'll-do-what-I-want-to-thank-you-very-much' clause.
Because discretion has worked so well when it comes to overly broad warrants and ministerial authority up til now...
Re: Let's see if they do retire it in 2016.
Which brings up an interesting question: how much time were the spooks and other civil servants involved in this allowed to draft it before making any of it public?
Anybody that wants to know how well sunset clauses work need only look at the US. The PATRIOT act has been around for ~13 years now.
Re: Hasty ?? @ Titus Technophobe
Funny how it takes a week to put this in place but we have to wait until 2016 for any meaningful review (let alone changes to the legislation).
Re: Hasty ?? @Titus Technophobe
You might want to also take a look at section 1(3) through to section 1(7) of the proposed legislation. It would appear to give the secretary of state far too much power and leeway.
Re: Hasty ?? @Titus Technophobe
What's the emergency? And how does this legislation address this in any meaningful way? At best communications data can help clean up the mess after something has happened. It's unlikely to stop anything though.
The Data Retention Directive was itself pushed through Europe largely at the behest of the home office here during the UK's presidency of the EU, and that was in response to the 7/7 and Madrid bombings. If memory serves the coroner at the 7/7 inquest basically said that any additional data would have been useless with regards to preventing that particular atrocity given the way in which they communicated, so even the DRD failed to achieve any of it's aims.
And as far as oversight is concerned, following the US model isn't going to do us any good. This has been implemented over there is one form or another since 2004 and they still manage to get the NSA abusing their powers.
DATA-SWAP SHOCK: A YES to bill that lets big biz, govt share user info
Does this mean that any traffic to/from a large chunk of UK government websites will end up passing through the hands of a US company - 'Fastly' - and often through their servers located in the US?
We all know what sort of attitude the US government has to data held abroad. 'Safe harbour' only has any meaning until a federal judge decides it's getting in their way.
Report: UK.gov wants to legislate on comms data BEFORE next election
If all those GCHQ/NSA programs that we keep on hearing about really are legal then why the need for new laws? Don't they already do most of this anyway? (3 days for full content of communications and up to 30 for meta data if memory serves)
Is this perhaps an implicit admission that some aspect of what they've been up to - whether publically known or not - is not quite as legal as they would have us believe?
New Russian law punishes online 'extremism'
Re: Vimes This is news? @Matt Bryant
Also from the article:
The Met added that the domestic extremism database is maintained in accordance with a code of practice. It said it had recently deleted a large number of files on individuals after Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary found that there appeared to be no justification for keeping some records.
So an unspecified number of people have been put onto a list for an unspecified amount of time and they were only removed once an investigation took place (an investigation that for all we know was initiated for unrelated reasons and may not have taken place as a matter of course).
This doesn't concern you?
Re: Vimes This is news? @Danny 14
Britain isn't that bad yet.
I never claimed it was, but I equally don't think that we should wait for things to deteriorate that badly before we do anything about it.
Freedoms are easily lost and infinitely more difficult to win back.
Re: This is news? @ossi
You don't necessarily have to be arrested to have your freedoms interfered with.
Re: This is news? @ossi
The idea that we should all be treated as extremists where surveillance is concerned because we *might* do something bad isn't of concern to you?
Re: This is news?
Funnily enough there has already been talk of extending the online porn filters in the UK to include 'extremist' material (those home office civil servants must love those vague definitions).
And in other news...
BT at last coughs to 'major outage' after broadband went titsup across UK on Sat
Re: Wasn't a DNS issue...
Seven years to the day that they tested Phorm (and lied to their own customer service department about what was going on too if memory serves). Their own internal documents referred to the whole business as a 'stealth' trial.
I wonder what has really been going on here?
Super-snoop bid: UK government hits panic button on EU data retention ruling
Re: Here we go again
As always, if you want the real reasons then try following the money:
There seems to be a revolving door between government and business when it comes to careers (just ask Patricia Hewitt or Ian Livingston, both of whom have been connected at some point with BT as one example).
Re: Dear all home secretaries
The real problem is the legion of Sir Humphreys working in the background 'advising' ministers with vaguely ominous comments like 'that's a very courageous decision minister' whenever the ministers dare to suggest something that goes against what the civil servants thinks is best.
Just look at Charles Farr. He was active during the last Labour government and was one of the supporters of the snoopers charter. He's still around too, but working as the head of the OSCT at the Home Office.
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Only those who have tarried in the foggy corridors of the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice and the Metropolitan police can have any notion of the Orwellian extravagance of these places. Agencies, units and groups cruise shark-like round the feet of terrified Home Office ministers. Their staffs, expenses, overtime and accommodation are crammed into London's Scotland Yard and Tintagel House. If challenged, they incant their motto: "We keep you safe."
Re: « [...] claimed that Brits were in danger of being "misled". »
Things seem to have worked so well with that undersea cable tapping and so forth when it came to predicting or just limiting the violence in places like Iraq...
Perhaps somebody ought to remind her that the coroner at the 7/7 inquest basically came to the conclusion that any additional information at the time would have been useless given the way in which the terrorists were communicating?
What has changed since then I wonder?
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In my view, SG1, B5 and Andromeda would all have benefited by being properly terminated at least one season early.
B5 was actually changed because they thought they might be cancelled at the end of the 4th season and they wanted to get the important parts of the story arc dealt with before then.
The 5th season ended up being rather unexpected from the sounds of things.
From the wikipedia page on B5:
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Personally I wish more comic books could be released for some series. Imagine how the B5 universe could be expanded for example...
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Re: Warrantless search for $500?
Look up 'parallel reconstruction'. This is a method already used by the DEA when trying to hide the fact that data used to support arrests had originated from within the NSA.
Coulson GUILTY of conspiring to hack phones between 2000 and 2006
Apparently Cameron is due to issue an apology for having hired Coulson in the first place. It's just a pity that we probably won't be getting something similar with respect to him hiring Ian Livingston as trade minister and giving him a seat in the house of lords in late 2013 (*after* being forced to get rid of Coulson).
This is somebody who was closely involved in the Phorm/BT trials from 2006 to 2008 that intercepted the traffic of anything up to hundreds of thousands of BT customers.
Any apology is meaningless if the same mistake is made again and again...
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