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Sexual assault is one of the most vilified crimes in American law books,
and as such it is always vigorously investigated and prosecuted. In all
the controversy, though, it is important to remember the rights of the
defendant — specifically, the right to fair trial that thoroughly
examines and weighs the verified facts of the case. The punishments for
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for this reason, defense attorneys have questioned the female midshipmen
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woman's past history with the accused, and a Twitter account that
the woman deleted after the night in question. The rigorous questioning
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In Benghazi, Libya's second city, we were asked to renovate and refurbish a cinema into the city's theatre, to be called Popular Theatre Benghazi. Benghazi is a beautiful harbour city, with a demand for renovation works.
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Conley Thompson from Barnsley went missing on Sunday (26 07 15)
There are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of seven-year-old Conley Thompson, police have said.
Following a post mortem examination, South Yorkshire Police confirmed that Conley appeared to have entered a vertical plastic pipe on a building site in Barnsley and become stuck.
Detective Chief Inspector Dave Stopford said: "The results of the post mortem suggest that Conley had, by some means, entered a vertical pipe on a nearby construction site and was unable to get out.
"Conley's weight caused him to fall further into the pipe and pushed his clothing up around his body restricting his breathing.
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"Forming part of that investigation we will continue to work with the Health and Safety Executive and our thoughts remain with the family and friends of Conley at this extremely difficult time."
Conley went missing on Sunday evening after failing to return home from Locke Park, two miles from his home, at around 8pm.
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Officers had been there during the search on Sunday night and found it "securely locked with a large perimeter fence".
Conley's grandmother Deborah Silverwood described him as a "lovely little lad, boisterous, got into anything and everything but his smile could light up a room".
She said: "It's not even sunken in now that he's gone.
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People have been laying flowers and teddy bears next to the building site.
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By Scott La Fetra, Jeff Rous, Published: 10/18/2018, Last Updated: 12/06/2018
CPU particles in Unreal Engine* 4 have many features above and beyond GPU particles including accurate collision with level geometry and allowing bouncing off floors and walls. They can also light what's around them, creating more realistic effects as they move around the level. CPU particles also influence other objects, such as using gravity to move things in the scene. Glorp was created to show how to best make use of CPU particles in a game scene.
The latest release of Glorp can be found on GitHub*, GameTechDev Glorp. It is built for a special version of Unreal 4.21 that includes the code changes discussed below. The changes for 4.21 can be found published as a pull request on GitHub*. If the pull request cannot be viewed, be sure to get access to the Unreal Engine 4* source code at UE4 On GitHub*
Figure 1. Glorp_Main Map
Glorp is a small, 1 to 4 player game that demonstrates how to get the most out of CPU particle systems with Unreal Engine 4. Within Glorp, there are three scenes to help with this. The first, Glorp_Main, features a small game that utilizes CPU particle systems to show off all of the optimizations covered in this guide. The other two maps, GlorpDynamicTest and GlorpStressTestLit, are for testing the optimizations and pushing the system as far as it will go.
Figure 2. GlorpStressTest Map
The GlorpStressTest Map provides a static representation of the particle system used for the players in the Glorp_Main map.
Figure 3. GlorpDynamicTest Map
The GlorpDynamicTest map provides a method of stress testing the system Glorp is running on and displays the number of particles it can support. This is done with several parameters, namely whether CPU or GPU particles are used and the percentage of lit particles.
One of the most GPU heavy features of CPU particles are lit particles, so it's important to not use more than needed. The simplest and most effective way to reduce GPU time spent rendering lit particles is to lower the lit percentage. In many particle systems, this won't change the appearance of the system by much and will speed up the scene immensely. In particle systems where a flickering or pulsating light is desired, such as a flame, having a low lit percentage will help create that effect.
Usually a particle system that is 20% lit will appear full of moving lights, but experimentation is needed to find the right percentage of lit particles for the desired effect.
Figure 4. A Glorp particle system open in the Unreal* editor
In the Cascade particle editor in Unreal Engine, set or change the percentage of lit particles by double clicking the asset in the content browser. In the center section of the Cascade editor, locate the emitter. In the list of modules for that emitter, find and click on the Light module. (Highlighted in orange in figure 4 above). If the emitter doesn't have a light module, we can add one by right clicking in the blank area under the list of modules and selecting "Light" in the "Light" section.
Figure 5. The Details panel of the "Light" module
Once the Light module is selected, find the "Spawn Fraction" option under "Light" in the details panel in the lower right of the screen. This will control the percentage of lit particles spawned on a scale between zero and one.
Unreal Engine 4 provides the ability to detect the capabilities of the hardware the game is running on and scale the visual quality accordingly. Add this by simply calling three blueprint nodes on setup: Get Game User Settings, Run Hardware Benchmark, and Apply Hardware Benchmark results.
Figure 6. Running a benchmark in Blueprints
Once the function is created and settings adjusted, connect the three nodes together as pictured in Figure 6 above. The first of these nodes, Get Game Users Settings, retrieves the user settings object that the other two nodes need to target. When calling the Run Hardware Benchmark node, Unreal Engine will run a quick benchmark to generate CPU and GPU benchmark data. Be careful not to run the benchmark while the game is active as it will cause a hitch in rendering while the data is gathered. After this is completed, Unreal Engine will have generated the scalability settings it believes are appropriate for the hardware it's running on.
The Apply Hardware Benchmark Results node will apply the scalability setting to the game, scaling both graphics quality settings and graphics effects such as particle systems. Note that for a particle emitter to be affected by this, the "Apply Global Spawn Rate Scale" option in the Spawn module of said emitter must remain checked.
Many complex games run into a problem where the render thread starts becoming the bottleneck as the number of objects on screen rises and Glorp is no exception. To lessen the load on the render thread and improve overall system throughput a dedicated DirectX* 11 API submission thread (RHI thread) was added.
The PhysX* library suffers from a sub-optimal locking strategy and excessive flushing when the Unreal Engine submits ray->triangle intersection tests in a threaded manner during particle collision. Pre-optimization, all intersection tests were serialized through a single lock and a physics scene flush was being done before each read operation, impacting performance on a well threaded app like Glorp.
To solve the lock issue, the scene locks were separated into reads and writes. Writes wait for reads to finish and reads wait for writes. In most cases, Unreal Engine only queries the physics scene after writes are finished. This provides a big boost in performance and eliminates the serialization problem.
To reduce the flushing issue, a scene flush is added after each write is finished and the flush before each read is removed. As with the lock issue, this works because Unreal Engine typically only reads from the physics scene after writes are finished and also because there are many less writes than reads.
By default, Unreal Engine updates particle systems on the game thread, performing operations such as collision and spawning in serial. While this is a simpler approach than updating each particle system in parallel, it doesn't utilize the multi-core functionality of modern CPUs very well. For this sample, the engine code was modified to allow the update, or tick, of each particle system to happen in parallel. This gives a big boost, especially in maps that contain a high number of particle systems.
This optimization can be toggled on or off by setting the console variable "FX.AllowAsyncTick" to zero or one.
Just like with updating particle systems, Unreal Engine will check the collision of each particle of a system in serial. Keeping in mind that particles within a single system do not collide with each other, by adding an optimization where sufficiently large systems are split into smaller pieces the collision results will be calculated in parallel. Doing this can allow many times more colliding particles in one system to be used at once.
This optimization can be toggled on or off by setting the console variable "FX.ParallelParticleCollision" to zero or one.
Figure 7. Before Optimizations
Figure 8. After Optimizations
With the above optimizations in place, we can now get up to 3.6 times more particles as we could before without dipping under 60 frames per second.
Table 1. Particle Improvements Measured
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|2.9 GHz
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Figure 9. Particle Improvements Visualized
Glorp was designed to showcase how to take advantage of the features in Unreal Engine 4 to manipulate particles for more realistic game effects. By understanding lit particles, scaling for different hardware, and by using the provided performance patches a developer can greatly enhance the look of their game with particles that collide, bounce, and interact with other objects and more.
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Dr. Clark Ford, professor in food science and human nutrition, has been named the 2016 Iowa State University AgOnline Teacher of Year for his World Food Issues (Agron 342) online course. Bestowed during National Distance Education Week, the award is given by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Brenton Center for Agricultural Instruction and Technology Transfer, which conduct course evaluations each semester to tally student nominations for the AgOnline Teaching Award. Dr. Ford's honor is based on evidence of commitment to online education, outstand teaching and mentoring of students, innovative course design and delivery, and contributions to online teaching.
"Clark Ford is making a difference in the course he teaches," Brenton Center Director Gaylan Scofield said. "His dedication, work ethic, and expertise combine to help his department and college deliver an innovative, quality course that serves students at a distance."
For many students, Dr. Ford's class is an entry point into the many problems associated with poverty and world hunger. As a result, he deeply values the course's ecological component and most enjoys the outstanding papers his students write in order to explore sustainability more extensively.
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Microsoft Pits Surface Pro Vs. MacBook, Chromebooks On Rise, And More… [Tech News Digest]
Also, Cortana is being baked right into Windows 9, the FCC announces net neutrality round table discussions, Microsoft unveils a $25 Nokia feature phone, and discover what happens when you Like everything on Facebook.
Microsoft Pits Surface Pro Against MacBook
Microsoft sees its Surface Pro tablets Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Review and Giveaway Although the Surface Pro 2 might not be the latest and greatest, is it still a good device to get? Read More as all-in-one devices capable of doing almost anything you care to throw at them. This is somewhat true, with the Surface being a cross between a tablet and a fully-fledged Windows laptop. Unfortunately, this unique positioning hasn't translated into huge sales.
The company is now employing a new strategy for selling the Surface Pro to consumers. Taking a leaf out of Apple's playbook with spots mocking the old PC vs. Mac adverts, Microsoft has released a trio of commercials pitting the Surface Pro 3 against a MacBook Pro.
One sees Microsoft comparing the two directly in a head-to-head battle, one talks up how powerful and capable the Surface Pro 3 Surface Pro 3 Reviews, Happy Google Employees, Free Amazon Fire TVs [Tech News Digest] Microsoft Surface Pro 3 reviews, an update on Apple buying Beats, Google keeps its employees happy, free Amazon Fire TVs, the PlayStation 4 in China, Google+ Stories, and an iPhone ringtones dance track. Read More is, and one suggests an Apple fan would have to carry a MacBook, an iPad, and a paper notebook to enjoy the same freedom as the Surface 3 user.
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Google Chromebooks Are On The March
Good to know Chromebook coders can spell, eh? Oh. pic.twitter.com/NFi8CIyzQp
— Angela Alcorn (@smange) August 10, 2014
The Google Chromebook Chromebooks – Useful or Useless? My wife gave me a choice of gadgets for Christmas – a new MP3 player, or a Chromebook? Read More is on the march, with sales rising, and Gartner predicting that trend will continue for the foreseeable future. Chromebook sales are expected to rise to 5.2 million units by the end of 2014, and then triple to 14.4 million units per year by 2017.
This is an impressive rise from nowhere, but it's still a drop in the ocean when measured against total PC sales of 308 million for the year. Interestingly, a large percentage of Chromebook sales came in the education sector Four Awesome Ways to Use a Chromebook in the Classroom Chromebooks now account for twenty percent of all United States school purchases of mobile computers. What role can Chromebooks play in the education sector? Read More , which might help Google in the years to come as kids being exposed to Chrome OS on a daily basis now become the consumers of the future.
Cortana Integral Part Of Windows 9
It's looking likely that Cortana will be baked into Windows 9, currently codenamed Windows Threshold. Neowin is reporting that Cortana has survived into the earliest stable builds of Microsoft's next operating system, which suggests it will be included in the final release.
Cortana is Microsoft's personal assistant Geek Humor Included! Meet Cortana, Windows Phone 8.1 Digital Assistant Cortana is the best reason to upgrade your Windows Phone early. Microsoft's answer to Siri offers great features and will make you laugh. Read More which is currently available on Windows Phone 8.1 and which has already managed to capture the heart of our own Christian Cawley How Cortana Became The "Other Woman" In My Life She appeared one day and changed my life. She knows exactly what I need and has a wicked sense of humour. It's little wonder that I've fallen for the charms of Cortana. Read More . Cortana is expected to be fully integrated into Windows 9, with her familiar circle being retained for desktops. As long as she isn't given a face as in Halo, as that would just be creepy.
FCC Hosting Net Neutrality Round Tables
Before making a decision on net neutrality, FCC needs to get out of DC and hold public hearings across the country. https://t.co/tQtT1A7G4j
— EFF (@EFF) August 11, 2014
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced plans to hold six round table discussions around net neutrality and the open Internet. The sessions will be held on Sept. 16, Sept. 19, Oct. 2, and Oct. 7. All are free and open to the public, and will be streamed live online at fcc.gov/live.
Considering that over 1 million comments were sent to the FCC about net neutrality What Is Net Neutrality & Why Should I Care? A significant number see Net Neutrality as essential to the survival of the Internet. In this article, we're going to look at why Net Neutrality matters, and why we should fight to protect it. Read More , there is not only a great deal to discuss, but the live streams could be insanely popular. Let's hope the tubes can cope with the traffic.
Microsoft Unveils $25 Nokia Phone
Microsoft has unveiled a $25 feature phone called the Nokia 130. As basic feature phones go, the 1.8-inch Nokia 130 is extremely capable, with an MP3 player, an FM radio, an SD card slot, and an impressive battery life. Still, it's bizarre to see Microsoft selling such a low-powered device.
Microsoft expects the Nokia 130 to "begin shipping in the third quarter of this year," and it'll be available only "in select markets, including China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Vietnam." Which is a shame as I wanted one. It is only $25, after all!
How Facebook Turned Likes Into Hate
There is NEVER a valid reason to like your own status on Facebook.
— Barney Stinson (@BarneyStinsonHI) August 12, 2014
And finally, Facebook isn't the only one capable of carrying out experiments on its platform How Do You Feel About Being In Facebook's Psych Experiment? [Weekly Facebook Tips] You've probably heard about the latest scandal from the Facebook world: Facebook has been experimenting on users and playing with their emotions. Yes, really. Read More , as Wired writer Mat Honan recently demonstrated. Honan decided to Like everything he saw on Facebook for 48 hours, the result being Facebook becoming a site he dreaded visiting.
A few Likes can help mold Facebook into a place you'll love, but too many Likes and that love will turn to hate. There's surely a lesson to be learned here, but I can't quite figure out what it is. Answers on a postcard please.
Your Views On Today's Tech News
Do you think Microsoft is sensible in pitting the Surface Pro against the Apple MacBook? Will Chromebooks continue growing in popularity? What are your thoughts on Windows 9 at this moment in time?
Let us know your thoughts on the tech news of the day by posting to the comments section below. Because a healthy discussion is always welcome.
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After failing to qualify for a work permit for the UK, Wellington Silva will spend the rest of the season with Spain's Levante. The player was expected to join Arsenal this month but failed to meet the UK's stringent regulations regarding work permits for non-EU players. The teenager got off to a very bright start in 2010 before falling out with the coaching staff at Fluminense. Arsenal hope that the spell in Spain will help Silva mature both on and off the pitch.
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Remember when you first fell in love with your partner? All the romance, the fun, the good manners? And then you got married and the business of life became a priority and you may wonder what happened to all the fun. The love is still there but it now looks a lot less sexy than it used to, doesn't it.
Yep, marriage can be tough, like any relationship that spans years and decades. Think of your relationship with your parents or siblings. They've all had their ups and downs. Life is a complex cycle of changes and growth and aspects of a relationship that were relevant at one point in time, may alter and move in opposite directions from time to time. It is the nature of life. Provided that you love your spouse and remember the value in them as you did when you first fell in love, it's worth making an effort to resolve challenges in a marriage and make it as good as it can be.
Many that do stay together keep their mind on the vows that they originally made and the aspects of staying together through the tough times and the good is a true value to which they adhere. That is an admirable commitment in these times where many enter into marriage knowing that divorce is an option if it doesn't work out. Try to put that out of your mind and tell yourself it is not an option to see how much greater an effort you can then put into working through your struggles. Believing that you're in it together is one of the primary bases for success in marriage. Of course, you could not predict every curve ball that would get thrown your way so the following advice will come as a generalization which may or may not apply in some degree to your own marriage.
Money problems are a big one. The stress that is associated with financial crisis might be completely overwhelming and you may fear the risks that confront your family. The only tips that can be offered on a general basis are to sit down together and create a joint financial plan and then stick to it, discussing any changes that need to be made together. Don't keep monetary secrets from your spouse like shopping splurges or other indulgences or debts and investments. Even if they are separate and in your own name, make sure that you don't attempt to hide them. It erodes trust and creates guilt.
Parenting is another aspect that can really impact a marriage. There will always be challenges where kids are concerned and you and your spouse need to be on the same page, even if that means agreeing who will be good cop and who will be bad cop on any given issue. And make your marriage a priority. Do not let the children take the reins in the household and play you against each other. If you prioritize each other, you'll set an excellent example for your children and it will be easy to work as a cohesive team.
Infidelity can cause quite a bit of strife in a marriage and in fact, may be one of the primary reasons marriages fail. If there is a temptation to pursue another relationship or even a casual encounter, there is a problem in your marriage that is not being addressed. Don't cheat and seek out the real problem and deal with it. Whether it's a serious illness or depression or other external causes, get to the source and address that before you are unfaithful.
Finally, nurture the relationship itself. Put the same effort in that you did prior to your marriage in spite of everything. Make dates, do kind things, speak to each other respectfully, laugh a lot whenever you can and be generally loving towards each other.


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In 2018, GDPR enforcement actions began trickling out from various EU data protection agencies. We want to give people a way to know who was fined, when, and why. This list focuses on major fines of at least €100,000.
Did we miss one? Let us know.
Major GDPR fine count:
- 2020: 9
- 2019: 31
- 2018: 1
- Total: 39
Major GDPR fine total in Euros (approximate due to currency conversion):
- 2020: € 57,161,447
- 2019: € 440,515,407
- 2018: € 400,000
- Total: € 497,188,353
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2020 Major GDPR Fines
July, 2020
The Italian Garante (Data Protection Authority) fined a bank €600,000 for several violations that occurred before the GDPR came into force. The violations affected over 700,000 customers between April 2016 and July 2017. The bank reported the violation to the Authority in July 2017. Employees of a commercial partner of the bank were able to access personal and sensitive information about the bank's customers. This information included personal and contact data, profession, level of study, identification details of an identification document and information relating to employer, salary, loan amount, payment status, "approximation of the customer's credit rating," and IBAN code. That is a lot of sensitive information!
Interestingly, the Garante explained the rationale for the amount of the fine as follows: "In determining the amount of the amount in €600,000, the Authority took into account several elements, including the fact that the violations were committed against a significant number of people and that the bank — which did not suffer previous sanctioning measures by the Guarantor — following the data breach, adopted various measures and initiatives aimed at strengthening the security of its IT systems."
May, 2020
Hungary – Unknown Company – €288,501
The Hungarian NAIH (Data Protection Authority) fined an unnamed company service 100,000,000 Hungarian Forint for failing to apply adequate security measures to protect user data. A hacker discovered the vulnerability and reported it to the controller, but the controller did not act. It was possible to reach databases containing personal data through the homepage, and the controlled failed to encrypt the database. Further, a database created for correcting failures was not deleted after task completion.
Finland – Posti Group Oyj – €100,000
The Finnish Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman's sanctions board fined the national postal service for disclosing personal information to organizations that used the personal information to send direct marketing and advertising materials, and for not notifying individuals that their data might be used in such a way. Over 161,000 people were affected in 2019 alone.
April, 2020
Netherlands – Unnamed Company – €725,000
The Dutch Data Protection Authority fined an unnamed company for unlawfully using fingerprint scans of its employees for its attendance and timekeeping records. The DPA stated that "A fingerprint cannot be replaced, unlike a password. If something goes wrong, the impact can be huge and have a lifelong negative effect on the person concerned."
March, 2020
Croatia – Unnamed Bank – €20,000,000
The Personal Data Protection Authority of Croatia fined an unnamed bank for failing to provide access to the personal information of approximately 2,500 individuals who had requested visibility into their data at the bank.
The Data Protection Authority of Sweden fined Google for failing to remove the personal information of various individuals who had requested exclusion from Google search results.
Netherlands – Royal Dutch Tennis Association – €525,000
The Dutch Data Protection Authority fined the tennis association for selling the personal data of more than 350,000 association members to sponsors. These sponsors then contacted some of the members by mail and telephone for marketing purposes. The Authority rejected the tennis association's argument that it had a legitimate business interest in selling the information.
February, 2020
Spain – Vodafone España – €120,000
The Spanish Data Protection Agency imposed a fine on Vodafone España because the telephone operator was unable to prove that it had received consent from an individual to process that individual's personal data, and was unable to prove that the individual had ordered service from the company. Further, the company disclosed the personal data to several credit agencies.
January, 2020
The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) fined TIM, a telephone network operator, for a variety of unlawful actions associate with marketing and advertising campaigns affecting several million people. These included making unsolicited promotional calls, enrolling people in prize competitions without their consent, ignoring do-not-call exclusion requests even after 155 calls were made to one individual. TIM lacked policies, systems, and management to properly conduct operations.
2019 Major GDPR Fines
December, 2019
Greece – Aegean Marine Petroleum Network – €150,000
The Hellenic Data Protection Authority imposed a fine because this company did not inform data subjects that their data would be processed and stored on company servers, failed to impose technical measures to secure the processing of this data, and failed to separate the software from the data, possibly allowing companies outside the Aegean Marine Petroleum Group to access these servers and the personal data on those servers.
United Kingdom – Doorstep Dispensaree – €320,000
The Information Commissioner fined this pharmacy operator €320,000 for failing to ensure information security – specifically, storing approximately 500,000 documents containing personal data including medical information in unsealed containers placed behind a building, resulting in water damage to the documents.
Italy – Eni Gas and Luce (EGL) – €8,500,000
The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) imposed two fines totaling €11.5 million on Eni Gas and Luce. The €8.5 million fine was imposed because the company unlawfully processed personal data during an advertising campaign and had poor controls over and protections of personal data.
Italy – Eni Gas and Luce (EGL) – €3,000,000
The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) imposed two fines totaling €11.5 million on Eni Gas and Luce. The €3 million fine was imposed because the company activated unsolicited contracts, some of which may have included forged signatures.
Germany – 1&1 Telecom – €9,550,000
Personal information was available to anyone who provided the name and data of birth of a customer. The fine would have been much higher, but the company cooperated closely with regulators to quickly address the issue.
Germany – Hospital in Rheinland-Pfalz – €105,000
An unnamed hospital sent invoices to the wrong patients, exposing personal information of other patients.
November, 2019
A 2016 data breach concerning 57 million Uber users, of which 174,000 were Dutch citizens, was not reported within 72 hours.
France – Futura Internationale – €500,000
Cell center operators entered data into a CRM system. Some of those operators were located outside the EU, so there was unlawful data storage in countries that did not provide an adequate level of protection of personal data. Some of the data related to the health status of the people contacted, as well as offensive language. Further, the data subjects were not informed of the recording of the calls, or of any other processing of their personal data.
October, 2019
Dutch employee insurance service provider UWV did not apply multi-factor authentication when granting access to the online employer portal, so security was deemed insufficient.
Germany – Deutsche Wohnen – €14,500,000
Unlawful storage of personal information in an archive system that did not have an option to delete old data. The system contained sensitive information about former and current tenants.
Austria – Austrian Post – €18,000,000
The Austrian Post sold detailed personal profiles of approximately 3 million Austrians to various companies and political parties.
Romania – Raiffeisen Bank – €150,000
Bank employees sent personal information, without requesting permission from the affected individuals, to Vreau Credit (which was also fined €20,000), and did not evaluate the risks of taking these actions.
Greece – Hellenic Telecommunications Provider, "OTE" – €200,000
Did not delete personal information, and continued telemarketing after being notified by consumers to stop.
September, 2019
Poland – morele.net – €645,000 (PLN 2,800,000)
2.2 million people's personal information was accessed because it was poorly protected.
Germany – Delivery Hero – €195,407
The company did not delete information of dormant customers, and continued sending unsolicited advertising emails.
August, 2019
Bulgaria – National Revenue Agency – €2,600,000 (BGN 5,100,000)
Records of 6 million people was accessed in a security breach.
Bulgaria – DSK Bank – €500,000 (BGN 1,000,000)
Tens of thousands of bank customer records were stolen because of poor system design and process execution.
July, 2019
Greece – Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) – €150,000
PWC required its employees to sign a blanket consent for PWC to process their data. The regulator determined that there was an imbalance of power in the company-employee relationship, and that the consent was therefore not binding. Further, the regulator determined that the company gave the false impression that it was processing the data legally.
France – Active Assurances – €180,000
Exposed personal information through poor security. This was discovered by a customer, who found that personal data of other customers, including their driver's licenses, registration cards and bank identification records, could be seen by simply changing the numbers at the end of the URL.
UK – Marriott – €123,000,000 (£99,000,000)
After acquiring its competitor Starwood, Marriott discovered Starwood's central reservation database had been hacked. This included 5 million unencrypted passwords and 8 million credit card records. The hack was ongoing from 2014 to 2018. The breach impacted 30 million EU residents.
UK – British Airways – €204,600,000 (£183,000,000)
As a result of an attack on British Airways' website, about 500,000 customer records were extracted by a malicious third party. The UK's data protection agency claims BA's website was compromised due to poor cyber security arrangements. This would represent the largest GDPR fine to date.
June, 2019
Romania – UNICREDIT BANK – €130,000 (RON 613,912)
Revealed personal information such as the national identification number and the postal address of the payment issuers to the payment recipients. 337,042 individuals were affected between February and December 2018.
Netherlands – Haga Hospital – €460,000
A Dutch hospital was fined over lax controls over logging and access to patient records. In one instance, 197 employees accessed one Dutch celebrity's medical records.
The soccer league was accused of listening for piracy through its smartphone application. La Liga turned on user microphones in order to listen for sounds of the soccer game and match to any pirated stream using geolocaton. La Liga used the information to sue 600 bars for pirating soccer games.
Denmark – IDdesign – €180,000 (DKK 1,500,000)
Did not delete personal information of 385,500 dormant customers.
May, 2019
The real estate company's website easily allowed accessing other individual's information by changing the URL, making ID cards, tax notices, and other important documents available. The lack of user authentication resulted in the fine.
Norway – Bergen Municipality – €170,000 (NOK 1,700,000)
The personal data of 35,000 student accounts was stolen even after warnings were issued to the organization.
April, 2019
Norway – Oslo Municipal Education Department – €200,000 (NOK 2,000,000)
Exposed 63,000 students' information in a mobile app that was not designed or tested to secure personal information.
March, 2019
Poland – Bisnode – €220,000 (PLN 943,000)
This data process was fined because they scraped the internet for public contacts, amassing data on 6 million people. They did not inform these people that their data would be processed, and the company conducted commercial outreach to over 90,000 people, 12,000 of which objected to unauthorized use of their data.
Denmark – Taxa 4X35 – €160,000 (DKK 1,200,000)
As a result of a random audit, this taxi operator was found to have over 9 million personal records the company had stored unnecessarily. The fine came as a result of a failure to delete this unused contact information.
January, 2019
Google was fined from France's data regulator, citing a lack of transparency and consent in advertising personalization, including a pre-checked option to personalize ads.
2018 Major GDPR Fines
December, 2018
Portugal – Hospital near Lisbon – €400,000
Staff at the hospital used bogus accounts to access patient records.
October, 2018 (UPDATE May, 2020)
Austria – small, local business – €4,800
We include this small fine, since it was the first. A local business had a CCTV camera capturing too much public space.
However, in May, 2020, the company succeeded in appealing the decision, and the Austrian Federal Administrative Court annulled the administrative penalty imposed by the Austrian Data Protection Authority due to procedural irregularities.
CoreView helps companies discover and manage their SaaS vendors. As part of that effort, we work to track the GDPR compliance status of a large number of vendors, so that you can see if your vendor are compliant. And we stay up-to-date on GDPR news, too.


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Friday, December 30, 2016
Thursday, December 22, 2016
Lesson 13. The Character of Job
Sabbath School Today
With the 1888 Message Dynamic
The Book of Job
Lesson 13. The Character of Job
There are many ways to misunderstand the story of Job. One of them is to think that God looked around for someone on earth with an almost perfect character (He told Satan "there is no one like him") so He could make Job an example in order to win a bet with the devil. God doesn't use people as pawns. The point of the book of Job is that because He promises to finish the work He starts in us, He allows things to happen to us to mature and strengthen our faith.
In the conversation with the "sons of God" (Job 1:6-9), God said some very nice things about Job's character: he's "blameless," "upright," "fear[s] God," and "turn[s] away from evil." Because of these character traits, it is easy to understand that Job was respected by those who knew him. He had a seat in the "open square." Most ancient towns were built around an open area so that the walls formed protection against enemies. This protected area also served as the commercial market place for the citizens of both the town and surrounding area. To have earned the right to a seat would be an indication that the townspeople respected Job and respected his opinions in important decisions affecting the citizens. We might equate it with being a member of the city council. He was wise, honest, and fair.
To see bad things happening to such a good person didn't make sense to Job's friends, so they argued that he must not be as good as he looked. In chapter 31 Job describes all the good things about him as proof that his friends are wrong. We are told in "all this" Job didn't sin, but it isn't sin to misunderstand. The refining process is to mature our character, and God allows it because He loves us. Whether we do good things or have good character traits does not make us exempt.
In the cosmic Day of Atonement cleansing concept that Seventh-day Adventists call the "Investigative Judgment," the process is for us to cooperate with the Holy Spirit in showing us who we are, and the sins we may or may not know of so that we can let Him cleanse us and mature our faith. The 1888 message teaches that there will be a group of people at the very end of time who allow God to complete this process in their hearts and minds, but they will not be aware of it. Like Job, they won't be able to think of anything they still need to give to God.
On page 109, the "Quarterly" directs us to an Ellen G. White quotation from The Desire of Ages: "The very image of God is to be reproduced in humanity. The honor of God, the honor of Christ, is involved in the perfection of the character of His people" (p. 671). On the same page, she says that [the Holy Spirit] "first dwells in the heart as the Spirit of truth, and thus He becomes the Comforter. There is comfort and peace in the truth ... It is through false theories and traditions that Satan gains his power over the mind."
Sin came into the world in a disguised, mysterious way. It became the carrier of death when Lucifer, a created being, surrendered to the love of self and unconsciously proposed to take the place of the Creator. Adam surrendered to this same love of self in the garden, and became burdened with a terrible sense of guilt.
The human race has been searching for the right things to do in order to become free from this guilt. It has become the driving force behind the idea of righteousness by works. This is where the gospel becomes the cure. Because the gospel is the power of God, it confronts our guilt, showing us that we are guilty of the ultimate sin of wanting to take the place of the Creator. When we understand we are helpless to free ourselves of this guilt, the gospel frees us to rest in God's ability and willingness to recreate us. This is the power of God, and the power of God forgives, cleanses, and sustains the human soul.
The experience of the 1844 believers ushered in the beginning of a new covenant appreciation of the end time judgment hour. The believers were to see and understand the rebellion of the human heart against God and truth. Their enmity had remained unconscious, awaiting revelation in the final atonement.
"From eternal ages it was God's purpose that every created being, from the bright and holy seraph to man, should be a temple for the indwelling of the Creator. Because of sin, humanity ceased to be a temple for God. ... But by the incarnation of the Son of God, the purpose of Heaven is fulfilled. God dwells in humanity, and through saving grace the heart of man becomes again His temple." [1] Heaven is far more than just a material place--it constitutes an understanding, a living experience that begins here and now for God's people in this world.
The mystery of iniquity with its burden of guilt will be replaced with the mystery of godliness. Paul tells us that this mystery has been "kept secret for long ages past, but is now manifested and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading the obedience of faith" (Rom. 16:26, 26).
"What a magnificent conclusion!--It reaches from eternity to eternity. The gospel of God is the thing of the ages. ... Patriarchs, prophets and apostles have worked in unison in making it manifest; and 'in the ages to come' it will be both the science and the song of the redeemed 'of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues,' who shall gather with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of God, and will say, 'Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen." [2]
--Arlene Hill
[1] Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 161.
[2] Ellet J. Waggoner, Waggoner on Romans, p. 214.
Bible texts are from the New American Standard Bible.
Pastor Paul Penno's video of this lesson is on the Internet at: https://youtu.be/efrE1qRMMo0
Friday, December 16, 2016
Lesson 12. Job's Redeemer
Sabbath School Today
With the 1888 Message Dynamic
The Book of Job
Lesson 12. Job's Redeemer
What does Job know? By faith he knows three wonderful truths: he has a living Redeemer, this Redeemer will stand upon the earth, and Job will see Him with his eyes.
He says in effect, "I will not finally believe that the monster god is the God who made this world. I know that the God I have always feared and loved is related to me by covenant--I belong to Him and His family and His people--and in the end, even if it is after my death, I will see Him, and He will vindicate me so that it will be publicly seen that I have been a real believer with a clear conscience" (Job 19:25-27).
Job knows he has a living Redeemer. The "Redeemer" was someone tied to you by covenant, usually a relative, whose calling was to stand for you when you were wronged. One of the most beautiful illustrations of this principle is in the book of Ruth, where Boaz acts as Naomi and Ruth's kinsman-redeemer, caring for them in their widowhood and becoming for Ruth the husband she needs.
Job is confident he has a Redeemer who "lives." This Redeemer can be none other than God Himself, who stands as the Redeemer of His people.
Job knows by faith that this Redeemer will "at the last ... stand upon the earth," "upon the dust," referring to Job's grave. There will be an eternally living vindicator standing on my grave, attesting my genuineness and justification with God.
Job knows that in the end he will see this Redeemer-God with his own eyes. Job expects this to happen after his death--"after my skin has been thus destroyed" (Job 19:26). Job will be hidden in the grave and then summoned in the resurrection to meet his God. To stand before God has the meaning of justification with God, being vindicated. Job's faith makes this future reality so vivid that it is almost as if he is already experiencing this longed-for vision of God. Job is a prophet and the Spirit of Christ within him searches and inquires about what person and time is being indicated by these longings (1 Peter 1:10-12). The deepest longing of Job's heart is to stand vindicated before the God he loves and worships.
Unless the book of Job is nonsense, it clearly indicates that Job vindicated God. Those who say it is blasphemy or near-blasphemy to recognize that converted sinners can ever have even the slightest part in vindicating the Lord and helping to resolve the "great controversy between Christ and Satan" have ignored the obvious import of Job.
The Lord staked the honor of His throne on the outcome of Satan's temptations to Job. There are links that bind Job on his dung hill with Christ on His cross.
Imagine for a moment what would have happened had Job failed the test: Satan would have trumpeted all over the universe that God is defeated, that He is wrong, mistaken, and that His plan of salvation is a failure. The fact that Job did not fail ("My servant Job" [has] "spoken of Me the thing which is right", Job 42:8) obviously means that He honored God, defended His cause, silenced Satan, got God off the hook, in short--vindicated Him.
Some say, "Only Christ could do that!" But the fact is, Job did it too! The fact that Job vindicated God does not mean he did it on his own. It was by faith ("I know that my Redeemer liveth ..."). It was righteousness imparted by faith.
Christ on His cross, Job on his dung-hill, and the saints apparently forsaken of God during the Time of Trouble, all have something in common: a practical experience of atonement. By faith they span the awful gulf of God-forsakenness that all have felt. There is no sense in the heavenly universe watching the demonstration if it is meaningless!
Christ was not afflicted with boils or leprosy. He did not lose a family or hear a wife say, "Curse God and die." He suffered no sudden, forced deprivation of wealth. But He was tempted more than Job could possibly have been. As He hung upon His cross, it was not for Him to say, "I know that My Redeemer liveth!" Rather, it was His to bear the nakedness and of pure distilled despair. No conviction of righteousness triumphantly upheld Him as was Job's privilege.
Job was "made the righteousness of God" even in his darkest moments, and rejoiced in the conviction of innocence which was imputed to him from the Innocent One. But Christ was "made to be sin," and both in appearance and in actuality, was numbered with the transgressors (2 Cor. 5:21; Isa. 53:12). The bitter cup He drained was the second death, the pain and guilt of naked sin, which He was "made to be" on our account, and which was imputed to Him. Job drank no such cup, but rather was sustained by the fruits of Christ's atonement. "The light that lighteth every man" shone in his soul.
Christ vindicated God by enduring the darkness of the second death. Had He not endured that darkness, He would have been sustained by hope, and thus His sacrifice would not have been complete. It is only when this truth is comprehended that a complete atonement becomes possible to contemplate.
The 1888 message sees Christ's sacrifice on the cross as accomplishing infinitely more than "merely deferring" the original punishment for sin. "The punishment or wages of sin--eternal death" was neither "waived," "deferred," nor "delayed," but was inflicted totally on Christ. This is the only foundation on which grace can rest. Grace that does not rest on Christ's complete sacrifice must be "cheap grace." He actually and truly paid the debt of every man's sin, and therefore fully died the second death of "every man." Thus there is no reason for any human soul to die that second death except for his own personal unbelief, his refusal to appreciate what Christ has actually (not provisionally) accomplished for him on the cross (John 3:17-19). This view of the cross may take one's breath away, but we see it as stark Bible truth.
"Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures" (1 Cor. 15:3). This was the equivalent of the second death. He made the commitment of all He had, to give Himself to death and hell forever, withholding nothing. This is the measure of His agape.
Christ's atonement is infinitely more than we have been ready to understand. Every human being is involved: "Jesus, the world's Redeemer, stands between Satan and every soul. ... The sins of everyone who has lived upon the earth were laid upon Christ, testifying to the fact that no one need be a loser in the conflict with Satan." (Ellen G. White, Review and Herald, May 23, 1899).
What good news! And how the world hungers to hear it!
--Paul E. Penno
Friday, December 9, 2016
Lesson 11. Out of the Whirlwind
With the 1888 Message Dynamic
The Book of Job
Lesson 11. Out of the Whirlwind
In our essay this week we would like to focus on Thursday's lesson, "Repenting in Dust and Ashes." Our lesson author makes the statement that Job, after being "overwhelmed by what God had shown him," "saw himself for what he really was, ... abhorring himself and repenting in dust and ashes."
Wrote Ellen White, "'The Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind' (Job 38:1), and revealed to His servant the might of His power. When Job caught a glimpse of his Creator, he abhorred himself and repented in dust and ashes. Then the Lord was able to bless him abundantly and to make his last years the best of his life." [1] This reminds us of a similar statement in reference to His people in modern times:
"Unless the church which is now being leavened with her own backsliding, shall repent and be converted, she will eat of the fruit of her own doing, until she shall abhor herself. When she resists the evil and chooses the good, when she seeks God with all humility, and reaches her high calling in Christ, standing on the platform of eternal truth and by faith laying hold upon the attainments prepared for her, she will be healed. She will appear in her God-given simplicity and purity, separate from earthly entanglements, showing that the truth has made her free indeed. Then her members will indeed be the chosen of God, His representatives." [2]
Ellet J. Waggoner, one of the 1888 "messengers," has written that "wherever in the Old Testament it speaks of any one being broken to pieces by the Lord, we find coupled with that repentance, submission, or bitterness of soul, dust and ashes. When they humbled themselves before the Lord, they put dust on their heads. What was signified in this? I am nothing but dust. In the fifty-first, the penitential Psalm, it says near the close: 'The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.' That word 'contrite' means rubbed together until it is dust. The Lord, then, does not despise dust; because he can do a great deal even with dust. A good workman does not despise his material. Dust is one of the things which the Lord takes to do everything. Out of dust he made all things to grow. Out of dust he made man to rule over the works of his hands, therefore the Lord does not despise dust." [3]
Could this Old Testament "story," and the writings of Ellen G. White and one of God's "messengers," be pertinent to us, who are living in the "last days"?
Very prominent in the 1888 message is the idea of ceasing to resist our Lord. Ellen White caught it. Not until after the 1888 Conference did she state it clearly: "The sinner may resist this love, may refuse to be drawn to Christ; but if he does not resist he will be drawn to Jesus ... in repentance for his sins." [4] Therein is the essence of the cleansing of the sanctuary!
The 1888 idea of the cleansing of the sanctuary imparts a new motivation for following Christ. The truth of agape supplies the strength--"the agape of Christ constraineth us" (2 Cor. 5:14). Fear of the "investigative judgment" is "cast out." This is part of the cosmic Day of Atonement--a time for at-last-realized one-ness with Christ. That delivers from fear as much as He Himself was delivered from fear in His life on earth.
The Sanctuary truth leads directly to the Bride of Christ making herself ready. That "oneness" is further delineated in Scripture as a development that has never taken place in all past history: "the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready." A special blessing is pronounced on those who are invited to "the marriage supper of the Lamb" (Rev. 19:6-9). As individuals, all (including those of the last days) are "guests at the wedding." But as a corporate body, the church of the great Day of Atonement becomes the Bride of Christ.
In order for the dilatory Bride to "make herself ready" for the "marriage of the Lamb," she must welcome the disclosure of her true need. The Bride is a corporate body, therefore her repentance is a corporate repentance.
Such repentance is not only sorrow for sin and its results, but a genuine abhorrence of it. It produces an actual turning away from the sin. The law can never do this for anyone; the miracle is administered by grace. "The law worketh wrath," imparting only a terror of judgment, but grace works a repentance that makes "old things" pass away; "behold, all things are become new" (Rom. 4:15; 2 Cor. 5:17). Sin that was once loved is now hated, and righteousness that was once hated is now loved. "The goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance" (Rom. 2:4).
Far from being a negative experience, such repentance is the foundation of all true joy. As every credit must have a corresponding debit to balance the books, so the smiles and happiness of life, in order to be meaningful, must be founded on the tears of Another upon whom was laid "the chastisement of our peace" and with whose "stripes we are healed" (Isa. 53:5). Repentance is not our tears and sorrow balancing the books of life; it is our appreciation of what it cost Him to bear our griefs and carry our sorrows (vs. 4).
Ellen White says, "At every advance step in Christian experience our repentance will deepen. It is to those whom the Lord has forgiven, to those whom he acknowledges as His people, and He says, 'Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight'" (Ezek. 36:31). [5]
A repentance like this is beyond us to invent or to initiate. It must come as a gift from above. God has exalted Christ "to give repentance to Israel" (Acts 5:31). And to the Gentiles also He "granted repentance unto life" (11:18). Is He any less generous to us today? Such an experience seems almost wholly out of place in these last days. Can a sophisticated church ever receive it?
Laodicea's repentance will go down to the deepest roots of this natural "enmity against God." This deeper phase of repentance is repenting of sins that we may not have personally committed, but which we would have committed if we had the opportunity. [6] The root of all sin, its common denominator, is the crucifixion of Christ. A repentance for this sin is appropriate because the books of heaven already record this sin written against our names:
The Laodicean call to repentance is the essence of the message of Christ's righteousness. Whatever sins other people are guilty of, they obviously had the "opportunity" of committing them; somehow the temptations were overmastering to them. The deeper insight the Holy Spirit brings to us is that we are by nature no better than others. Christ's righteousness is 100 percent imputed to us; we don't have even 1 percent that is ours by nature. When Scripture says that "all have sinned," it means, as the New English Bible translates it, "all alike have sinned" (Rom. 3:23). Digging down to get the roots out--this is now "present truth."
There is no way that we can appreciate the heights of Christ's glorious righteousness until we are willing to recognize the depths of our own sinfulness. A confession of sin that only scratches the surface can produce only a surface or veneer forgiveness. And that, of course, produces spiritual lukewarmness.
Does the Seventh-day Adventist Church have something to repent of in "dust and ashes"? Yes, Ellen White writes, "Upon all rests the guilt of crucifying the Son of God." [7]
--From the writings of Robert J. Wieland
[1] Ellen G. White, Prophets and Kings, p. 164.
[2] Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 8, pp. 250, 251.
[3] Ellet J. Waggoner, "Studies in the Book of Hebrews, No. 5," Feb. 14, 1897.
[4] Ellen G. White, Steps to Christ, p. 27.
[5] Ellen G. White, Christ's Object Lessons, pp. 160, 161.
[6] Ellen G. White Comments in the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 5, p. 1085 (Signs of the Times, July 31, 1901).
[7] Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 745.
Pastor Paul Penno's video of this lesson is on the Internet at: https://youtu.be/rWjQaImAJPw
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Friday, December 2, 2016
Lesson 10. The Wrath of Elihu
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The Book of Job
Lesson 10. The Wrath of Elihu
Have you ever felt a "righteous indignation" about the 1888 message? Why doesn't the church recognize the latter rain message that ripens the harvest for Jesus to come? Have you ever been "angry" about that?
It's not fair is common and deeply felt. We are hard-wired with a sense of justice that ought to be done. We overturn governments because they are unjust or corrupt. We expose corruption and injustice in high places and expect it to be put right.
Job has made the accusation, "God is not fair!" He is not merely speaking of corruption in high places but of corruption in the Most High Place. If there is not justice in the universe, what hope is there for us? On a personal level, if I feel that God has not treated me right, in my health, my upbringing, my abilities, my relationships, my work, or in a failed relationship, a bereavement, a sickness, or a psychiatric disorder, then my faith will be harmed, my obedience will become reluctant, my hope will be destroyed, and my joy will be poisoned. The very first temptation in the garden in Eden was to believe that God is not fair. We are reminded as we meet Elihu that the justice or fairness of God lies at the heart of the book of Job.
When the three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes, then Elihu burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God. He burned with anger also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong (Job 32:1-5).
Elihu is angry first with Job "because he was righteous in his own eyes" (vs.1) and "because he justified himself rather than God" (vs. 2). He is angry that a mortal man should claim to be in the right in a way that suggested that God must be in the wrong for causing him to suffer.
Was Elihu's anger justified? Was it what we would call "righteous indignation"? Jesus displayed righteous indignation over the misrepresentation of His Father's house (see Luke 19:46). And here we have a rare example of seeing Jesus when He was "with anger." He heals somebody when He was angry! We would naturally think He would want to cool off before He heals someone; but no, His "anger" was justified, holy, and righteous.
We should think carefully before we display our anger. Time and place and choice of words are always things we need to think about when we speak critically. Should we express some "righteous indignation" over Laodicea's refusal to receive the latter rain of the 1888 message?
Could Jesus sometimes be angry when He is present by the Holy Spirit at our own worship services? If we preach, sing hymns or gospel songs, pray public prayers, while we have "hard hearts," we run the risk of angering Him. His patience is never said to be infinite, and we are getting down close to the end. If someone has wronged us in an unjust way, we have a right to some "righteous indignation," but never should we permit our hearts to become "hard." We can be "angry" with a soft heart that still loves our opponent!
Suppose the Holy Spirit has responded to the pastor's earnest prayer for His blessing in leading the worship service and bringing us a message from heaven, and we sit there nursing a hard heart and then go home utterly impervious to the ministry of the Holy Spirit—don't ever let more than one Sabbath pass like that. When Jesus gets angry (He still does!), He doesn't throw a temper tantrum and break dishes or scream at us. He simply walks away sad, and leaves us alone. When that happens to us, we are most miserable and we have lost the consciousness of our misery. It's hardly a step from hell.
These people Jesus was ministering to in Mark 2 and 3 thought they were the "true church" which kept the commandments of God. Their parallel with us was uncomfortably close. Times almost without number Ellen White compared the church to them. In respect of "1888" alone, she said many times that we acted "just like the Jews."
Dr. Arnold Wallenkampf, formerly of the Biblical Research Institute of the Seventh-day Adventist General Conference, frankly acknowledges that our forefathers' sin in the 1888 era was a repetition of that sin of the Jews:
"It staggers one's imagination that delegates to a Seventh-day Adventist General Conference session could treat the Holy Spirit shamefully, insult and injure Him, and even figuratively crucify Jesus in the Person of the Holy Spirit. ... It was but natural for the majority of the ministers to follow their revered leaders. ... Many of the delegates ... became accomplices in the sin of rejecting the message of righteousness by faith, through action according to the laws of group dynamics." [1]
The sin of blindly following leaders, of drifting with the tide, of being afraid to stand alone for truth, is what Wallenkampf means by his term "group-dynamics." It is simply a synonym for corporate guilt.
What poses a unique problem is Ellen White's statements that "we" repeated the sin of the Jews in rejecting Christ in the person of His "special messengers." They are long since dead. How do we go about making that right?
Can Jesus be satisfied with an apology voted by our official committees? Or can the Holy Spirit accept a mere invitation to overlook "our" "insult"?
God is too big to be satisfied with such a veneer confession. We can't drag Him down to our judicial judgment levels. He is not concerned about His personal feelings (although He certainly has them!). He wants no financial indemnity or public convention-apology. His anger is not selfish; it is white-hot righteous indignation because a world has been deprived of "a most precious message" that He "commanded" should be proclaimed. And He still "so loves" that world for which He gave His only begotten Son! He forgets Himself in His concern that this message be proclaimed, that people dying for want of it may hear it.
In our 1888 era "we" as church leadership brought upon ourselves a solemn indictment in full sight of the watching universe. It is inevitable that the world also must know the truth:
"An unwillingness to yield up preconceived opinions, and to accept this truth [the moral law in Galatians], lay at the foundation of a large share of the opposition manifested at Minneapolis against the Lord's message through Brethren [E. J.] Waggoner and [A. T.] Jones. By exciting that opposition Satan succeeded in shutting away from our people, in a great measure, the special power of the Holy Spirit that God longed to impart to them. ... The light that is to lighten the whole earth with its glory was resisted, and by the action of our own brethren has been in a great degree kept away from the world." [2]
There is something we can do to make matters right with Heaven and with the world: Accept the message that we "in a great degree" rejected. That is still possible, but it involves humbling our souls. Give it to the church, clearly, powerfully, unequivocally. Allow the "Lord's delegated messengers," His "special messengers" in the 1888 era, to speak to the world church.
Let this "most precious message" vitalize our "29 doctrines," let it saturate our every radio and TV presentation, our public evangelistic campaigns, and all our magazines and publications. Proclaim it to the world without a trace of old covenant legalism mixed in. Only then could the Lord say of us what He said of Mary Magdalene's offering at Bethany: "She hath done what she could."
It will prepare God's people for translation. Don't kid yourself: Satan will oppose that message hell-bound. But "the grace of God" will be much more abounding. God's people will respond to their High Priest.
—Paul E. Penno
[1] Arnold V. Wallenkampf, What Every Adventist Should Know About 1888, Review and Herald, 1988, pp. 43-45.
[2] Ellen G. White, Selected Messages, book 1, pp. 234, 235.
Pastor Paul Penno's video of this lesson is on the Internet at: https://youtu.be/f28SPMWZweg
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Sun's OpenID IdP: Real vs Fake. The thinking behind Sun's decision to allow users of their OpenID provider to pick fake names and assign personal e-mail addresses. # 25th September 2007, 10:39 pm
Sun's OpenID IdP: Data Governance. Lauren Wood explains the checklist used to ensure Sun's OpenID provider adequately respected user privacy and data governance (what happens to the data that is stored). # 22nd September 2007, 8:50 pm
Sun OpenID IdP: protocol and implementation review. Sun employees are posting lots of useful insights gathered during the implementation of their OpenID provider. # 22nd September 2007, 8:22 pm
The Rubinius Sprint. Sun are throwing a ton of resources at Ruby, because as Tim Bray says, "it's not fast enough". Imagine where they'd be if they'd invested this kind of support in Jython five years ago... # 21st September 2007, 11:32 pm


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When the supplies finally arrived at MBH, Dr. James Brown, a general surgeon at MBH, sent this email:
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Pragjyoti International Dance Festival (PIDF), an annual classical dance extravaganza organized by Kalpa, a Society for Promotion of Literature, Art, Culture and Social Harmony, is celebrating a decade of its glorious cultural journey this year. The 10th edition will be a four-day classical dance extravaganza and will be held in three different places across Assam.
National award winner, Dr Anwesa Mahanta, a renowned a Sattriya danseuse who is the Festival Director of PIDF said, 'Each and every year, we try to reach out to people with various dimensions and perspectives of dance. Dance is a holistic art form encompassing range of expressions. The festival is curated in such a way where each participant both in the form of performer and audience takes back home a rich experience of the heritage of dance.'
On 25th November, 2018, the curtain raiser will be held at Madhavadev International Auditorium in Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra, Guwahati. It will feature internationally recognized Ananya Dance Theatre, a contemporary Indian dance company based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. The Guwahati edition of the festival will be in collaboration with the Kri Foundation, Ford Foundation, Ananya Dance Theatre. Another highlight of the Guwahati edition will be the presence of reputed Syrian curator and cultural expert Alma Salem, who will interact with the students of Gauhati University on the situation of Syria and how the artistes are responding artistically.
After the curtain raiser in Guwahati, the PIDF team will travel to Jorhat, where the artistes will interact with the school/college students of the city in the morning hours of 27th November. In the evening on the same day, PIDF will showcase the performances by reputed international artistes from Italy and Russia along with many other artistes from various parts of India and local artistes of the region at Jorhat Stadium. The Jorhat edition of the festival has been organized in association with the District Administration, Jorhat and Pratah Bhraman Committee.
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Telemarketing EmploymentWritten by Adam Blau
Telemarketing employment makes up a significant portion of many companies' staff these days. Many tasks that used to be the exclusive domain of in-store and door-to-door salespeople are now being supplemented or replaced by telemarketers. The relatively recent phenomenon of telemarketing employment can be beneficial both to companies and prospective employees.
Telemarketing Employment: the New Door-to-Door Salespeople
You may remember a long-ago time when traveling salesmen and women would knock on doors selling and demonstrating various products for interested consumers. Some companies liked this personal, one-on-one approach for their sales. The salespeople would give a voice and name to what might otherwise be perceived as a large, faceless corporation.
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