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Well, I don’t know. I mean, how we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I’m listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That’s what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying. |
What’s your hope for Somewhere Down the Road? |
I don’t even try to over think it that much. I just try to put together a collection of songs that I feel like represented the struggle of life, the joy of life, which always goes hand in hand, especially if you are invested in the lives of other people, like your extended family. Somebody is always at the top of their... |
Family is a big part of life's journey, and of course, I heard your daughter singing with you on “Overnight.” You've said that it's about appreciating the process. Tell me a little bit more about that song. |
I’ve loved Sarah’s voice since I heard her sing for the first time two years ago, and the challenge was to find a song that we could both sing with fun and conviction, because how she feels about life at 17 is different than the way I feel about it at 49. It’s so much ahead for her, so much undiscovered. But that song,... |
Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can’t live in tomorrow, and you can’t reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what’s right there in front of you. |
What was going on behind “Better than a Hallelujah” that caused you to want to put it out as the first single? |
That song was written by Sarah Hart and Chapin Hartford. It’s the only song on the record I had nothing to do with the writing, but I had the experience that people often tell me they have with my music. I heard that song, and it found me right where I was. |
So I first heard “Better than a Hallelujah” last October. A really good friend of mine had just passed away less than two weeks before I heard that. My mom and dad had just been moved to assisted living. My mother had a severe health decline last year and has around-the-clock care... it was just a very somber time, las... |
I have known the love of God and had a relationship with Jesus since I was a young teen, probably younger, but where I really felt the impact of understanding His love. I have certainly done a lot of things poorly, but that doesn’t change His love. But I know what that feels like to not be waving pom-poms and screaming... |
The song “Come Into My World” comes across as very personal. It was one that you penned before your divorce (with Gary Chapman), and I wanted to see what pushed you to want to include it on the record. |
I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it’s a good thing. I think it’s nice to rise to the occasion, to be kind and considerate, and have self control. But, I believe that there are many days in every person’s life that – because of the circumstances of life – they’re forc... |
And going beyond dealing with our own lives, you talk about reaching out to others in “Third World Woman.” That song came out of a trip your family took to Africa? |
I had written it before that. The picture came from our trip. I had the initial idea for that song after I had visited the Red Cross headquarters in Washington. And there was a meeting there of women from across the country that are part of a group called “The Tiffany Circle.” It’s just been their most recent fundraisi... |
Bonnie McElveen-Hunter was talking to us about the next project that their really putting their muscle behind, and it was about mothers in third world countries. I can’t remember specifically what country they were making a trip to. She was showing photographs of women, and I was looking at this room filled with women ... |
The last song is a medley that includes words from "I Can Only Imagine" by MercyMe, showing the journey ending with us seeing Jesus in Heaven. What's the first thing you’re going to do when you get there? |
I don’t know. My favorite picture that has ever been tagged as that is Brad Paisely’s song, “When I Get Where I’m Going". It was written by Rivers Rutherford. |
I think it’s going to be the most incredible sense of belonging that any of us have ever known, the thing we really long for. But “I Can Only Imagine” says it better than I could babble it right now, and “When I Get Where I’m Going,” says it. |
Hannah Goodwyn serves as the Family and Entertainment producer for CBN.com. For more articles, visit Hannah's bio page. |
"What Is The Chance Of That" |
"Find What You're Looking For" |
Having long forsaken her mainstream pop roots, Amy Grant is still strumming her guitar and figuring out the complexities of life. On her latest album, six songs are new, along with re-imagined versions of favorites. This is certainly for the lovers of Grant, although there is something to offer even marginal fans. |
A Christchurch man accused of sharing the Christchurch shooter's live video with others has been denied bail. |
Philip Arps, 44, stands accused of distributing objectionable material - namely the live stream video of the Christchurch mosque shooting. |
Arps was declined bail by Judge Stephen O’Driscoll and was remanded in custody. |
He will reappear at Christchurch District Court on April 15. |
The Chief Censor's office has classified the live stream as objectionable, and under the Films, Video and Publications Classifications Act, those who distribute or possess it face a maximum jail sentence of 14 years. |
Every Disney fan knows that Disney characters are great collectibles, whether it's a stuffed doll or a high-value toy still in its box. In the past, Disney Dollars have been a favorite item for fans, since the currency can be used at Disney resorts and shops. The Disney Dollars were discontinued in 2016, although they ... |
Disney Dollars are a special form of currency used at stores and theme parks in the Disney World and Disneyland resorts that were made in denominations of $1, $5, $10, $20 and $50. In the past, the designs changed year to year, and they often featured various Disney characters, such as Mickey Mouse and Goofy. Disney Do... |
Although Disney no longer sells Disney Dollars, you may still use previously purchased Disney Dollars at Disney World, Disneyland and at select Disney Stores in the United States. At Walt Disney World Resort, use your Disney Dollars at ticketing locations, food and beverage venues, on-site shopping and recreation estab... |
Today, Disney prefers gift cards over Disney Dollars and recommends gift cards as presents. Purchase a gift card online or at a Disney Store in your preferred amount. Hundreds of different cards are available, many featuring favorite characters or films. Gift cards can be sent as e-cards. They’re redeemable at Disney r... |
Now that Disney Dollars are discontinued, they are often traded and collected online. Many sellers offer the currency on eBay, and numerous fans search for particular bills from specific years. If you’re interested in scoring some Disney bucks, search online. |
Some of the currency sells for more online than it’s actually worth in the theme parks or Disney shops. |
Zemler, Emily. "About Disney Dollars." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/disney-dollars-10687.html. 30 March 2018. |
NEW YORK—Touting its mission to advance the interests of democracy by keeping Americans informed ahead of the Nov. 6 vote, an election-crazed New York Times announced Tuesday an expansion of its poll coverage to 18.5 million more races in 371 additional states. “We’re proud to say we’ve dispatched teams of reporters to... |
Can Jonathan Trull close the state's security gaps with a few thousand dollars? |
Before Jonathan Trull took over as Chief Information Security Office for the state of Colorado in 2012, he had already been working in the Colorado Office of the State Auditor for a decade. As the Deputy State Auditor, he was responsible for overseeing annual audits of the state's systems. |
It was during that time that Trull said he became concerned with what he observed as repeated mistakes and violations that were not addressed, and even took part in a penetration test on state systems with results he says were "horrifying." |
Trull recently spoke with CSO about his new role, and how he hopes to create effective change in Colorado's security infrastructure—even on a miniscule budget. |
CSO: You have an interesting story about how you came to the position of CISO of the state of Colorado. Tell us about it. |
Jonathan Trull, State of Colorado: One of the catalysts was that I was doing the audit work in my previous position, and I came to a point where I was concerned about the seriousness with which people took the audit findings. A typical audit finding might be "your password complexity is not sufficient." It's pretty bor... |
But, after a while, you see enough of those and there didn't seem to be a lot of progress in areas that I thought were critical—significant to the prevention breaches. We seemed to do well on compliance issues: check-box sort of stuff like "I've got this policy or procedure in place." But the question was: Has it been ... |
To test that in 2010, my team and I did a covert penetration test against the state systems. The only person that knew was one person in the governor's office. We also wanted to test our security staff's ability to detect and respond to attacks. |
The results were fairly horrifying. Really pretty bad. Significant breaches were accomplished by our team. We were able to steal thousands of confidential records of taxpayers, citizens. Shortly after that, the CISO in place left for another job and they asked me to come in and fix what I found. |
The SANS 20 critical security control seemed, to me, from my experience with doing pen tests myself, to be the best place to start. When I starting going through the list I thought "These will prevent the majority of how we got into our systems." Then it became a matter of prioritization. |
It felt like a no brainer for me to focus on those areas first. |
But I've got a very limited budget. I've got about ten staff across 17 departments, executive branch agencies and our operational budget for this year was $6,000. |
In the state we divide our dollars between personnel (salaries) and operating (software, tools, professional services, et cetera). Our fiscal year runs July 1 to June 30. The total operating budget available for the year was probably around $35K. Our fiscal year runs July 1 through June 30, and $6,000 was what we had l... |
The question became: how can I make the most impact quickly? |
I'm shocked at your budget figures. Are you anticipating more in the future? |
We are in the middle of fighting for a budget of between $1.1 and $1.7 million a year. We feel strongly that with that we will be able to implement the first five critical controls. The majority of the other 20 we plan to then implement within a three-year period of time, but we definitely want to keep our operational ... |
How are you working with such a meager budget now? |
For now, our strategy is to do the best with what we've got. We are using existing technologies. For example, application whitelisting. We have Microsoft products in place. It's not a perfect scenario, but there are some other representatives in the NSA (National Security Agency) doing it and we are trying to put it in... |
We are doing a lot with open source and other tools, and features that are already built into our existing software. A lot of this stuff isn't perfect and not as robust as some of the tools that are available, but, for example, Active Directory should keep a good list of the systems that are in your environment. There ... |
Even in the face of budget restrictions, have you made any significant changes yet worth highlighting? |
I'm really pushing my staff to use a risk-based approach even in this deployment. Not all of our agencies are created equally. Some have much more sensitive data than others and we would be silly not to focus on those. It's the same as a persistent attacker who is going to do their homework and know what they are going... |
One thing that I did when I took over was put a stop on all security products. We were getting different requests for things like Splunk and ArcSight - requests all over the map. I didn't even know what I had yet. So I put a stop on all buying. |
Once I did an inventory of all of the security products we owned, and all of the licensing and contract terms, I found we had a lot of shelf ware; things purchased years before that were now not being utilized. Excess licenses were everywhere. |
Honestly, part of this is going to be a return on investment for eliminating products no longer being used or focusing on new ones we are going to actually put to use. |
What specific goals are you bringing before lawmakers to make the case for getting that budget figure you mentioned earlier? |
We're tying all of this to a three-year initiative that I am calling "Secure Colorado." The focus is on the SANS critical security controls in terms of our operational security posture. As I said before, we're focusing on the first five within 12 months, and, over the next three years, we will deploy the rest of the 20... |
Other goals include using our existing vendors as partners to help us get this done. One of the things we saw in the past is a lot of activity during the time of renewal—and then everyone disappears until it's time for renewal again. We just can't tolerate that anymore. We are really trying to build in to our contracts... |
We are also working on building the next generation of security workforce. We just started a cybersecurity internship program. Our first two cybersecurity interns started in January. College students. We are working with the different universities on that. |
Those are the big areas. The successful implementation of the controls, the public and private relationships and building the workforce. |
The data itself is proving quite useful in making our case, too. The number we get, in terms of our network, is it's getting hit 600,00 times per day by some kind malicious event. Whether its scanning viruses or malware, we can show the escalation in that as well. When you couple that with the stagnation of the funding... |
If so, what will be solid progress in a year? What will be some of the benchmarks you point to as proof of success when you need to go back and make the case for funding again? |
We have a few benchmarks we set up that we will track closely. I wanted to put those in place before we even started because I knew we would be accountable. |
We put together a scorecard, a security-metrics scorecard. It includes tracking the percentage of our systems that are under management. The way we define that is basically from a central location, the number of systems that I can view and observe their current risk and security status within a 48-hour period. |
Other metrics include the percentage of critical or high vulnerabilities per every host. We are also looking at the number of successful malware infections and the number of computers that we have to reimage because of that. That number should really go down. |
Those are our outcomes-based measures. We have other input-based measure we are looking at, too. They include number of hours per staff activity. The idea is the more we get things under control, the less time our staff should be spending on reactive-type issues. We should have a much less running around, putting out f... |
The other thing is mean time to resolve an incident. We are looking for that to go down significantly as well. |
Ljubljana, 30 December - The weather will be perfect for outdoor New Year's Eve celebrations on Monday. Starting out cloudy, it will clear up by the afternoon as a moderate northerly wind disperses the morning fog and low-lying clouds. |
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For the last ten years, politicians and business leaders have been hammering out the largest trade deal in US history. Very few people have actually seen what's in it, and WikiLeaks wants to change that. |
The document-leaking website, run by Julian AssangeTM, is offering a $100,000 (£65k) reward for the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Three of the 29 chapters of the trade deal have already been leaked, and WikiLeaks will pay big bucks for the other 26 so it can display them to the world. |
"The transparency clock has run out on the TPP. No more secrecy. No more excuses. Let’s open the TPP once and for all," said AssangeTM. |
Of course, WikiLeaks doesn't actually have $100,000 just lying around. After it was blockaded by the payment industry following the leak of US State Department cables supplied by Chelsea Manning, the organization has been chronically short of cash. So, it is crowdfunding the reward, and has brought in nearly $38,000 in... |
That's a sizable chunk of change to be raised so quickly by a group whose leader is effectively hiding in an Ecuadorian broom cupboard in London. Clearly a lot of people are riled up about the TPP, but what is all the fuss about? |
The TPP is billed as a free trade agreement between 12 countries with borders on the Pacific, the world's largest ocean: these nations are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam. Other than that we know very little – there has been no offi... |
What we do know from leaks is that the treaty isn't just about trade. According to WikiLeaks, only five of the 29 chapters cover trade, while the rest are a series of things business has been demanding for years. |
For example, it seeks – or at some point in an earlier draft sought – to extend American copyright laws to participating nations, possibly even going so far as to make ISPs responsible for any copyright infringement by their users, and impose criminal charges on downloaders. |
Anti-piracy mechanisms – so-called digital rights management – is also a key part of the treaty, according to the EFF. The TPP seeks to criminalize any circumvention of DRM in products, although apparently there are exceptions to this. |
It also seems that the treaty will contain most of the provisions of the much-hated Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which was stopped by mass protests and European politicians balking in response. |
What's most troubling for many people is that the TPP would trump domestic laws. Under the terms leaked so far, transnational corporations would have the right to sue governments for loss of earnings if they pass laws that hurt their profits. Cigarette companies are already using similar laws to sue countries that rest... |
Have Occidental's Executives Called a Cease-Fire? |
Could this calm among Occidental's top brass finally lift shares? |
In the following video, Fool.com energy contributors Tyler Crowe and Aimee Duffy discuss a recent cease-fire within Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY) between the company's chairman of the board and former CEO Ray Irani, and the current CEO Steve Chazen. While Irani was rumored to have been looking to replace Chazen, supp... |
Here we are in the middle of a polar vortex and it is difficult to find ice melt for our sidewalks, fire starters and wood bricks for the fireplace, and all the necessary items we need to get through the winter. What are we finding in retail stores? Grills for summer picnics, bicycles, summer porch furniture and seeds ... |
Last week’s Sound-off suggestion to use water funds for “other purposes” must be addressed. The Water Department is an Enterprise Fund. Ohio law strictly forbids using enterprise funds for anything other than the use for which they are collected. If the suggestion were followed, Warren would face significant liability ... |
This is something that really irritates me: Why is it so difficult for people to say Thank You? I gave two gift cards as Christmas gifts and never got a thank you. How thoughtless can one be. There’s is no excuse! These two individuals will never get another gift from me again. |
The City of Akron had to issue an apology to its citizens for the terrible job of snow removal. I can’t imagine it being any worse than Warren. The taxpayers of Warren deserve an apology! |
I see Rep. Tim Ryan made another visit to the marijuana grower. Seems that he and former Speaker of the House John Boehner have a bipartisan interest. I didn’t see him showing up at the three GE plants, WCI / RG Steel, CSI and multiple other businesses that shut down under his “watch.” The best social program is a good... |
After reading Warren Board of Education’s dismissive response to the public and police requests for action respecting the rule of law, academia’s elitists were unmasked for their snobbery and disdain for questioning their behavior. Just because they said it’s over, it’s over? Scary to think what they are teaching our c... |
It is nice to hear that WRTA was offering free rides due to extreme cold. Too much of news these days is negative, so it’s refreshing to read something so positive. |
Feb. 7 will mark the one-year anniversary of my wife’s near fatal automobile accident. Her vehicle was broadsided on the driver side by a snow plow at the intersection of Ridge Road and Fairview Avenue. We are both sincerely grateful to the Howland EMTs who quickly arrived and undoubtedly saved her life. God is good. |
Snow-covered sidewalks encourage people to walk in the street. The many I have passed are dressed in dark clothes and don’t even think to step to the side. If using the street as a sidewalk at dusk or dawn, walkers should dress in reflective outerwear or light or neon colors and carry a flashlight. With poor weather co... |
I am fed up with people who turn their phones on during a show when the lights are down. The constant flash of screens off and on during the show is really annoying. Are they so addicted that they can’t turn them off even when the announcer states no phones or pictures? Please respect other peoples attempt to enjoy the... |
While at the recycling boxes in Hartford, I noticed a filled plastic bag and a cardboard box which had not been broken down. Plastic bags are not supposed to be placed in the boxes and cardboard should be flattened. Please follow the rules, or we might be losing the recycling boxes in Hartford. |
Some people have no regard or respect for other’s property. Our property and our neighbors’ are posted for no hunting and no trespassing. That seems to have no meaning. We find pop cans, we have chased hunters out and we see people on trail cameras. Our signs are torn down or shot. We were awakened by dogs barking near... |
Hartford trustees recently increased police officers’ pay from $11.75 to $12.75 per hour with a 25 cents per hour increase every 5 years. These individuals unselfishly put their lives on the line every day to rescue people in emergency situations, protect us from physical harm and deal with so many of today’s social pr... |
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