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Hello all.
I will be hosting a free webinar on Wednesday 10th July.
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If you know of anybody who would be keen to attend this webinar I would appreciate it if you could pass this link onto them.

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Hi everyone, Katherine here again! During the planning process, there was one question that I repeatedly received that I didn't really know how to answer: "What is your wedding theme?" Or sometimes: "What are your wedding colors?"
I personally struggled with both.
I think the colors question came frequently from friends and family who had had weddings in the past few years, when having two or three main colors was the trend. And I didn't feel like I had that! My bridesmaids were in black, the groomsmen were in black tuxedos, so there was definitely a black and white theme, but I also wanted lots of silver accents, plus I wanted lots of pastel flowers (pink, peach, lavender, light blue)! How could I sum that all up?
Luckily I realized that the new trend was to have more of a wedding palette, allowing me to easily incorporate all my ideas together and not feel like I was going against the grain.
And because I didn't have that firm answer on colors, I would also be asked about my wedding theme. Sometimes a venue lends itself easily to a theme, like a rustic barn, a vintage historic house, or the beach. But if you're starting from more of a blank canvas, then it can help to have a cohesive theme to bring your vision together.
Now, I belong to a Facebook group of brides who are Disney fans and let me tell you, I have seen photos of some amazing themed wedding, ranging from Beauty and the Beast to Up to Disney World's Haunted Mansion. And there was a Downton Abbey themed wedding at my venue a couple years ago. But, while I love all of the above, they weren't themes that necessarily fit us. And apparently "cherry blossom springtime black tie optional wedding" didn't roll off the tongue well!
So I thought about all the ideas we were incorporating: some Disney (first dance song and a Disney World character autograph book as our guest book), a Lego card box, an appetizer inspired by my grandpa, Anne of Green Gables reading during the ceremony, tacos [Aaron told me to add that in for him as I was writing this!], and music from The Sound of Music played during the cocktail hour. And that last one is when our theme hit me – Our Favorite Things! We were pulling together so many aspects of our favorite things into our wedding. This way we were able to include everything!
So I'm offering this theme of "Our Favorite Things" to use however you like. Maybe you love Star Wars and your fiancé loves baseball. Or you love Harry Potter and he loves Marvel superheroes. Or maybe you actually do have a thing for bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens! (True story: Back in the day, I did imagine having a "My Favorite Things" inspired wedding and using copper kettles as vases. You know, it's not a bad idea!)
I love that this theme can encompass anything and everything that you love so that your wedding theme truly reflects your personalities!
Katherine xo
Image by Alisandra Photography
June 15th, 2017 at 11:41 am
I love the ANNE BOOKS! Please tell me what you had read at your wedding!
June 15th, 2017 at 11:42 am
What did you have read from ANNE OF GREEN GABLES?
June 15th, 2017 at 1:10 pm
It's always fun to meet another Anne fan! Here is what I had read at our ceremony. It's from the second book, Anne of Avonlea:
"Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps. . . perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath."


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Recent News
|Nozawa Onsen Races
|April 11th 2013
The last race here in Nozawa Onsen has been cancelled due to excess snow! The first slalom race went ahead yesterday and I managed to get into the flip by the skin of my teeth; the same kind of margin that kept me out of the flip in the GS races. This meant that, whilst I was unable to score a PB in GS, I did score a PB of 72 in slalom, yesterday, which was just 7 seconds off the World Cup racer who won. What a difference one hundreth of a second makes!
The fog was so dense during the second run yesterday that I could barely see the 2nd gate ahead of me. With points for the next Olympics in my head I took it a bit too cautiously and didn't finish the second run as well as the first which was very irritating.
Nozawa Onsen is a very traditional Japanese village; not purpose-built like many of the other ski resorts here. Being an "onsen" it is built on top of hot springs which run in ditches alongside all the pavements and which could prove extremely dangerous if you were to slip on the uneven surfaces (and which have an overwhelming smell of sulphur!!!) the sound of running water is permanent. It is famous for its public baths of varying degrees of sulphur, which the locals are very keen on but which we didn't feel even slightly enticed into trying. The other famous Japanese tradition is karaoke and I have to admit that I succumbed to a few Taylor Swift songs in the karaoke bar next to our hotel, whilst my mum and dad murdered Dean Martin and Abba, respectively! The other Japanese "singers" seemed very pleased with our efforts!
We have been staying in the hotel/guest house that was used by the British team during the 1998 Nagano Olympics and where Princess Anne stayed for the Games; it must have been an interesting experience for her!
Now on to the Katashina races...


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An article in the New York Times discusses "fake news" and how it relates to Evangelical Christianity
Are We in a Post-Truth Society?
KEVIN HARRIS: Dr. Craig, there is a New York Times article that has recently come out that has garnered a lot of response. From Molly Worthen. Dr. Worthen teaches at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She titles this article, "The Evangelical Roots of our Post-Truth Society." She begins this:
The arrival of the "post-truth" political climate came as a shock to many Americans. But to the Christian writer Rachel Held Evans, charges of "fake news" are nothing new. "The deep distrust of the media, of scientific consensus — those were prevalent narratives growing up," she told me.
First of all, this post-truth society – I've been hearing that that is now a phrase being coined because of all the "fake news" that is out there.
DR. WILLIAM LANE CRAIG: Right. When I saw this headline, I thought she was talking about some sort of post-modernism according to which there is no objective truth about the world – that there is only truth for me or truth for you. But according to the opening paragraph that is not what she means. She is just talking about distrust of the media and those who are typically held in positions of authority to tell us the political news. As you know, people denounce fake news. They come to distrust what the media says. That seems to be what she means by a post-truth political climate. It seems to me to be a mislabeling. It is more just a kind of deep suspiciousness of authorities, particularly news media outlets.
KEVIN HARRIS: There are whole books being published on how to spot fake news and how to tell whether something is true or false on social media. I guess it is becoming a problem. You see something on your Facebook page and everybody passes it around and forwards to you and so on, and you wonder if it is true. Sometimes it is not. Well, you just have – what? There is no easy answer to this. You have to do the hard work of digging into it and seeing if it is true.
DR. CRAIG:Yes, it seems to me that's right.
Although Ms. Evans, 35, no longer calls herself an evangelical, she attended Bryan College, an evangelical school in Dayton, Tenn. She was taught to distrust information coming from the scientific or media elite because these sources did not hold a "biblical worldview."
"It was presented as a cohesive worldview that you could maintain if you studied the Bible," she told me. "Part of that was that climate change isn't real, that evolution is a myth made up by scientists who hate God, and capitalism is God's ideal for society."
You see where she is going here – there is already been such a distrust of media elite and scientific elite among millions of evangelicals that – what? – that it could foster a post-truth type society?
DR. CRAIG:She doesn't say that, though that is what the headline suggests. I think that would be way out of proportion with the size of the evangelical subculture to think that dissatisfaction with the media and fake news is the result of the evangelical subculture's suspicion of the current scientific Darwinian paradigm in biology and things of that sort. But I think she is right in observing a phenomenon that within the evangelical subculture there is, I think, a deep suspicion and distrust of the sort of standard paradigm or scientific worldview that is conveyed to us.
KEVIN HARRIS: She says that this has provoked deep conflict among evangelicals themselves.
Conservative evangelicals are not the only ones who think that an authority trusted by the other side is probably lying. But they believe that their own authority — the inerrant Bible — is both supernatural and scientifically sound, and this conviction gives that natural human aversion to unwelcome facts a special power on the right. This religious tradition of fact denial long predates the rise of the culture wars, social media or President Trump, but it has provoked deep conflict among evangelicals themselves.
That innocuous phrase — "biblical worldview" or "Christian worldview" — is everywhere in the evangelical world. The radio show founded by Chuck Colson, "BreakPoint," helps listeners "get informed and equipped to live out the Christian worldview." Focus on the Family devotes a webpage to the implications of a worldview "based on the infallible Word of God."
O.K. The phrase (a "biblical or Christian worldview") whether it is true or not doesn't seem to be the issue. It is not what is the true worldview.
DR. CRAIG:Except that she says it leads to fact denial which already begs the question that the biblical worldview is false and that the worldview against which it arranges itself is true. There is a kind of undercurrent throughout this whole article that these Christians are deluded. I even wonder whether she believes in worldview thinking at all. She seems to think of this almost as a kind of sinister phrase, but to think in terms of worldview is just to think of having a kind of philosophy of life, if you will – a world and life view. It would be to have a position on whether God exists, on the nature of human beings, do we have a soul? Are we just material entities? Is there life after death? Are there objective moral values and duties or is everything relative to one's evolutionary and social conditioning? There are just all sorts of big questions in life that would go to make up a worldview. It seems to me that the encouragement of worldview thinking on the part of these various Christian ministries is a very positive thing. It is asking people not to live fragmented lives in which their faith is irrelevant to other parts of what they believe, but to have an overarching philosophy of life that will include the deliverances of the sciences, of literature, of history, psychology, the Bible, and all these other facets of knowledge. The idea of worldview thinking, I think, is very positive and indeed unavoidable. Those who emphasize the importance of worldview will often insist that those who claim not to have a worldview in fact really do but it will be a worldview of which they are unaware, one which they have just absorbed uncritically while studying, for example, at the university. These are the persons that are most in danger of being misled by their worldview in the way they interpret the facts.
KEVIN HARRIS: It is really pretty unavoidable isn't it? Whether to have a worldview or to say, I don't have a worldview. I'm a free-thinker . . . Isn't this what the German theologians meant by Weltanschauung?
DR. CRAIG:Right! Yeah, when I was in college, that was the word that they used to encourage this type of synoptic thinking – to have aWeltanschauung, a way of looking at the world. A world and life view. As a Christian philosopher, it seems to me that this is what Socrates talked about when he said the unexamined life is not worth living. You ask the big questions in life and try to develop a framework or interpretation of reality that makes the best sense of the evidence.
KEVIN HARRIS: She has kind of given away her hand here by saying, There are facts and then there is the biblical worldview that can inoculate you from the facts.
DR. CRAIG:Yes, I think she is.
KEVIN HARRIS:It sets up a shield against mainstream science, politics, and all things secular and this bubble called a Christian worldview will keep the facts from you and you will live in it. Would you say a lot of question-begging going on here in a sense?
DR. CRAIG:It is question-begging insofar as she simply assumes the other worldview is correct. I noticed with interest on the last page of the article she says, "the worldview that has propelled mainstream Western intellectual life and made modern civilization possible is a kind of pragmatism." She seems not to be saying that we should have no worldview but that we should have a worldview of pragmatism! That in itself needs to be critically examined and thought of. Pragmatism, classically, means that whatever works is true. So if it works then that makes it true. That is very scary when you think about it.Maybe national socialism might have worked very well in Germany, especially if they had won the war. But does that make it true? Does it make it acceptable? I tremble when I hear her saying, This is the worldview that has helped to make modern civilization possible – this sort of pragmatism. On the other hand, she goes on to describe it as an empirical outlook that revises its conclusion based on evidence. I don't think that that is inimical to a biblical worldview. A biblical worldview should want to take account of what the deliverances of modern science are. When I read theologians, they will very typically say that in light of the deliverances of science one might need to change one's interpretation of some biblical passage. They are quite open to revision in light of the evidence. But what they are skeptical about is unexamined assumptions. For example, the truth of naturalism that tends to undergird Darwinian theory. They will be skeptical of that, and they will want to demand good evidence in favor of it. I don't see anything the matter with that.
KEVIN HARRIS: She says,
Do you see a conflict there?
Ever since the scientific revolution, two compulsions have guided conservative Protestant intellectual life: the impulse to defend the Bible as a reliable scientific authority and the impulse to place the Bible beyond the claims of science entirely.
DR. CRAIG:No, I don't see any conflict. That is not to endorse these impulses, but I don't see any conflict. She seems to be saying that within the evangelical subculture people wanted to treat the Bible as reliable on matters of science. The Bible is not just reliable when it speaks to matters of faith and theology and ethics, but whenever it touches on scientific matters it also is reliable. I think that is an assumption that has been widespread in the evangelical subculture. I think it is increasingly called into question today. I think a good many evangelicals today would say that the purpose of the Bible is not to serve as a scientific textbook and that it was written within the scientific understanding of the world as was the case when the authors wrote and that we shouldn't turn to the Bible to find scientific information. But nevertheless, she is right. I think that this has been an assumption of the evangelical subculture. I think what she means by "the impulse to place the Bible beyond the claims of science" is you take the Bible to be authoritatively true and that it cannot be overthrown by scientific findings. You cannot falsify the Bible through scientific findings. What she doesn't realize, though, is that evangelicals have shown a real openness to revise their interpretation of the Bible on the basis of scientific findings. They wouldn't say the Bible has been falsified, but they might say,Well, it showed that my interpretation of the Bible was false, and I need to rethink what it really is teaching here. There can be openness to revision in light of scientific facts.
KEVIN HARRIS: I did notice that one of the respondents to The New York Times wrote that much of what she is talking about in evangelicalism is actually extinct – nobody holds to those.
DR. CRAIG:Oh, that is clearly false. Look at all the young Earth creationists.
KEVIN HARRIS: Which she brings up.
DR. CRAIG:Yeah, it seems to me that they very clearly hold the Bible to be a reliable scientific authority and that the Bible's teachings about the creation of the world a few thousand years ago in six consecutive 24-hour days cannot be falsified by modern science. I don't see where that person would come off saying that this view is extinct. This is very much alive today.
KEVIN HARRIS: She says,
The second impulse, the one that rejects scientists' standing to challenge the Bible, evolved by the early 20th century into a school of thought called presuppositionalism.
DR. CRAIG:Yes.
KEVIN HARRIS: She says Cornelius Van Til . . . what, Bill? Most point to him as kind of like the main guy on presup?
DR. CRAIG:Yes, I think that would be fair to say.
KEVIN HARRIS: He said, "We really do not grant that you see any fact in any dimension of life truly,"
DR. CRAIG:That sentence is obviously taken out of context. We want to know what the context was. If we understand presuppositionalism, I think what Van Til would be saying there is that apart from Christian presuppositions we do not grant that you see any fact in life truly. It is only within the presuppositions of Christianity that facts can be truly and accurately seen. She would obviously disagree, I think, with Van Til.
KEVIN HARRIS: She goes to the Nazarene Church.
DR. CRAIG:Yeah, that is very interesting.
KEVIN HARRIS: She says that in their churches and in their universities there seems to be a kind of a conflict right now between mainstream . . . like the quote here, "how you can teach 'Christian journalism' any more than you can teach 'Christian mathematics.'" There is not a Christian journalism any more than there is a Christian mathematics.
DR. CRAIG:This is sort of a repudiation of worldview thinking in a sense. I am more inclined to agree with Reformed thinkers that all knowledge needs to be seen within the context of a worldview and that being a Christian can make a difference even for mathematics. My work on God and abstract objects illustrates that so well, I think. How you view mathematical entities is going to depend upon your metaphysical worldview. For Christian journalism, it would seem to me obvious that your ethics on how you do journalism would be guided by whether or not you believe there are objective moral values and duties in carrying out your journalism. I am worried by what she reports. I have to say in my own experience I have been troubled by some of the things that I've heard said by professors in Nazarene colleges or universities. In my mind, I tend to associate the Church of the Nazarene with ultra-conservative – almost Mennonite – sort of subculture. No makeup. Very, very simple. But, honestly, when you look at what some of their professors are saying – and they quote some in this article – some of these folks have come to be detached, I think, from orthodox Christianity. This is, I think, one of the dangers of pietism and the holiness movement out of which the Church of the Nazarene springs – a downplaying of doctrinal accuracy and of the importance of doctrine in favor of considerations of lifestyle and experience. In Germany, pietism was followed by theological liberalism.
KEVIN HARRIS: Then she goes to the example of Answers in Genesis and one of the staff there who has a PhD in cell and developmental biology from Harvard, but goes on and uses this as an example of obviously saying that what Answers in Genesis teaches and believes is wrong and at odds but there is a protective bubble around them. They've learned to work by going to these secular institutions themselves.
DR. CRAIG:I found this part of the article to be bewildering, frankly. She is referring to Nathaniel Jeanson who is a research biologist with, as you say, a PhD in cell biology from Harvard. The man sounds eminently qualified, and yet he is a Creationist. She even gives an example in the article of where he revised his ideas about cancer based on the evidence. He gave up his old ideas. He said, "This is the way science works." It caused him to revise his views. Then she says,
when his colleagues refuse to read his creationist papers and data sets, he takes their snub as proof that they can find no flaws in his research. "If people who devote their lives to it can't point anything out, then I think I may be on to something," he said.
I see nothing objectionable about that. If the man submits his creationist papers to colleagues and so forth and they can't show him any errors in them, why shouldn't he suspect that he may be on to something? She has such an attitude of condescension toward this man who sounds like a qualified cell biologist. I haven't seen his papers, but why shouldn't they be given an open-minded reading to see what he says?
KEVIN HARRIS: He says when his colleagues refuse to read – to even read – his papers and data sets that he takes that snub as, Well, that's because you can't answer.
DR. CRAIG:Let me just draw attention to one thing in the article that I found again odd. She says,
the worldview based on biblical inerrancy gets tangled up in the contradiction between its claims on universalist science and insistence on an exclusive faith.
What is the contradiction supposed to be? The contradiction is between "its claims on universalist science and insistence on an exclusive faith." I don't see the contradiction there. They think that on the basis of their biblical worldview they have the correct scientific view of the world, and they think that this is exclusively true and the views that disagree with this are wrong. That is what everybody thinks who holds to a particular view. Those who are Darwinian evolutionists think that non-Darwinian theories are false. Where is the contradiction? It is bewildering to me exactly what her point is.
KEVIN HARRIS: She said that we are all divided into tribes these days and you protect your tribes. Tribalism. I hear a lot of conservative talk show hosts talking about this – this problem of tribes. Wrong or right, I hang with my tribe, and your tribe insulates you from the truth or allegedly the truth.
DR. CRAIG:If that is her point, maybe this is her point – one ought to question one's own assumptions and be ready to revise one's worldview in light of countervailing evidence. I think that is fine. That is right. The same would be true for those who hold to a secular worldview – those who hold to a naturalistic worldview need to also be ready to examine their assumptions and presuppositions and revise when necessary based upon the evidence. I do think that there is objective evidence that can cause one to revise one's worldview. I don't buy into this sort of relativism that she says presuppositionalism is uncomfortably close to where your worldview is so all-determining that it insulates you against contrary evidence. It seems to me that that is simply false. Evidence can accumulate to such a degree that the anomalies in one's worldview are so extreme that they can cause you to revise that worldview. That is true regardless of whether it is a theistic worldview or a secular worldview.
(This podcast is by Reasonable Faith / William Lane Craig. Discovered by Christian Podcast Central and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Christian Podcast Central, and audio is streamed directly from their servers.)


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It's been a while since the leader of a stagnating global smartphone market last discussed specific sales numbers of one of its flagship models, but if the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge keep their reported box-office pace up, we may get official confirmation as soon as they cross 20 or 30 million shipments.
And they probably will before long, considering how little it took them to reach 9.5 mil. Namely, three weeks, or even less if we count the time the microSD-enabled heroes have been up for grabs worldwide.
Samsung launched the GS7 duo in North America and a large chunk of the old continent on March 11, with market analysts estimating shipments totaled 9.5 million units by the end of the month and fiscal quarter.
That's a lot better than the 7 million Samsung was initially expected to sell in March, and it's mostly due to surprisingly low prices and enticing promotions. Also, "no serious competition" besides the aging iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, as the LG G5 needed more time to transition from a formal announcement to commercial release.
Of course, the G5 is tipped to barely achieve the 10M milestone towards the end of the year, so clearly, the Galaxy S7 is shaping up to be by far the biggest Android blockbuster of 2016. Will it return Samsung to record-breaking profit form though? Hard to say right now, with the upcoming Q1 financial report likely beating predictions, but not by very much.
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The threat and roots of terrorism, such as Takfirism spread and sponsored by certain countries, have created a crisis in the entire region and pose a big obstacle in the way of Muslim states' growth and development, said the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council.
Speaking in a meeting with Azerbaijan's Interior Minister Ramil Usubov and his accompanying delegation in Tehran on Monday, Ali Shamkhani stressed that Iran must find the foreign roots of Saturday's terrorist attack on a military parade in southwestern Iran that killed at least 25 people, IRNA reported.
Condemning policies adopted by the US and Israel to create discord among neighboring countries in the region, he urged for greater awareness as well as constructive interactions and talks to foil plots by ill-wishers who seek to create conflicts and spread pessimism among regional states.
Shamkhani said joint investments by Iran and Azerbaijan aimed at developing mutual ties will help them strengthen their national securities and make greater progress in view of their cultural, historical and civilizational commonalities as well as numerous joint interests and opportunities for expanding relations.
Describing common borders between the two states as boundaries of 'peace and friendship', the top Iranian official noted that the ground is prepared for Iran and Azerbaijan to take a huge leap in term of expanding their all-out relations, particularly in different economic sectors, as they possess all the capacities to this end.
Slamming Washington's unilateral sanctions on Iran as illegal, he described them as a tool in the hands of US President Donald Trump to take personal revenge from different nations.
On May 8, Trump pulled the US out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, signed between Iran and P5+1 in July 2015, and reimposed Washington's unilateral sanctions on the Middle Eastern state.
Shamkhani added past experience shows that such a behavior will fail to be effective and will solely lead to US greater isolation within the international community.
Addressing the same meeting, Usubov denounced the recent act of terror in southwestern Iran and expressed regret over the martyrdom of a number of Iranian citizens in the tragic event.
Describing as effective his talks with Iranian officials, he voiced Azerbaijan's willingness to increase interactions and all-out cooperation with the Islamic Republic.
Shifting to common threats posed on all countries by terrorist and Takfiri groups, the Azerbaijani minister said Iran has valuable experiences in the field of fighting terrorism which Baku is interested in using to encounter possible future threats.


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We did a CTF at work.
I have to say it was loads of fun – I've never really participated in a CTF before, so it was really good to test my hacking skills against my new colleagues.
We had one instruction from my manager – "don't let the interns beat you". I was determined to make sure that didn't happen, but I was also determined to share as much knowledge and excitement for InfoSec as possible. This meant that once or twice, I may have egged an intern on in the face of the fact that they were about to discover it anyway, and it just seemed like a really good way to keep them interested.
This is not that story.
This is about me turning the corner from knowing about a security failure, to understanding how it works. Let's see if I can help you guys understand, too.
Tales from the Crypto
That's the title of my blog, and there's not a whole lot of cryptography here. It's just a play on words, which was a little more relevant when I first started the blog back in 2005. So here's some crypto, at last.
There's several aspects to cryptography that you have to get right as a developer:
- Identify whether you're doing hashing, signing, encryption, encoding, etc.
- If you have a key, create and store it securely
- Pick correct algorithms – modern algorithms with few known issues
- Use the algorithms in a way that doesn't weaken them
Having tried to teach all of these to developers in various forms, I can tell you that the first one, which should be the simplest, is still surprisingly hard for some developers to master. Harder still for managers – the number of breach notifications that talk about passwords being "encrypted" is a clear sign of this – encrypted passwords mean either your developers don't understand and implemented the wrong thing, or your manager doesn't understand what the developer implemented and thinks "encrypted sounds better than hashed", and puts that down without checking that it's still technically accurate.
Key creation (so it's not predictable), and storage (so it can't be found by an attacker) is one of those issues that seems to go perennially unsolved – I'm not happy with many of the solutions I've seen, especially for self-hosted services where you can't just appeal to a central key vault such as is currently available in all good cloud platforms.
Picking correct algorithms is a moving target. Algorithms that were considered perfectly sound ten or twenty years ago are now much weaker, and can result in applications being much weaker if they aren't updated to match new understanding of cryptography, and processor and memory speed and quantity improvements. You can store rainbow tables in memory now that were unthinkable on disk just a decade or two ago.
Finally, of course, if all that wasn't enough to make cryptography sound really difficult (spoiler: it is, which is why you get someone else to do it for you), there are a number of ways in which you can mess up the way in which you use the algorithm.
Modes, block-sizes, and padding
There are a large number of parameters to set even when you've picked which algorithms you're using. Key sizes, block sizes, are fairly obvious – larger is (generally) better for a particular algorithm. [There are exceptions, but it's a good rule of thumb to start from.]
There are a number of different modes available, generally abbreviated to puzzling TLAs – ECB, CFB, OFB, CBC, GCM, CTR, and so on and so forth. It's bewildering. Each of these modes just defines a different order in which to apply various operations to do things like propagating entropy, so that it's not possible to infer anything about the original plaintext from the ciphertext. That's the idea, at least. ECB, for instance, fails on this because any two blocks of plaintext that are the same will result in two blocks of ciphertext that are the same.
And if you're encrypting using a block cipher, you have to think about what to do with the last block – which may not be a complete block. This requires that the block be filled out with "padding" to make a full block. Even if you're just filling it out with zeroes, you're still padding – and those zeroes are the padding. (And you have to then answer the question "what if the last block ended with a zero before you padded it?")
There's a number of different padding schemes to choose from, too, such as "bit padding", where after the last bit, you set the next bit to 1, and the remaining bits in the block to 0. Or there's padding where the last byte is set to the count of how many padding bytes there are, and the remaining bytes are set to 0 – or a set of random bytes – or the count repeated over and over. It's this latter that is embodied as PKCS#5 or PKCS#7 padding. For the purposes of this discussion, PKCS#7 padding is a generalised version of PKCS#5 padding. PKCS#5 padding works on eight-byte blocks, and PKCS#7 padding works on any size blocks (up to 256 bytes, presumably).
So, if you have a three-byte last block, and the block size is 16 bytes, the last block is ** ** ** 0x0d 0x0d 0x0d 0x0d 0x0d 0x0d 0x0d 0x0d 0x0d 0x0d 0x0d 0x0d 0x0d (where "**" represents the last three bytes of data, and 0x0d represents the hexadecimal value for 13, the number of bytes in the padding). If your last block is full, PKCS#7 covers this by making you create an extra 16-byte block, with the value 0x10 (decimal 16) in every byte.
Tying this in to the CTF
It's not at all unlikely that you wind up with the scenario with which we were presented in the CTF – a service that communicated with AES encryption, in CBC mode, using PKCS#7 padding. The fact that this was described as such was what tipped me off in the first place. This is the perfect setup for a Padding Oracle attack.
An Oracle is simply a device/function/machine/system/person that you send a request to, and get a response back, and which gives you some information as a result. The classical Oracles of Ancient Greece & Roman times were confusing and unhelpful at best, and that's really something we want from any cryptographic oracle. The term "Random Oracle" refers to a hypothetical system which returns random information to every query. A good cryptographic system is one that is indistinguishable from a Random Oracle.
Sadly, CBC with PKCS#7 padding is generally very different from a Random Oracle. It is a Padding Oracle, because it will tell us when the padding is correct or incorrect. And that's our vulnerability.
At this point, I could have done what one of my colleagues did, and download PadBuster, choosing parameters and/or modifying code, to crack the encryption.
But… I've been attacking this CTF somewhat … non-traditionally, using tools other than the normal ones, and so I thought I'd try and understand the algorithm's weaknesses, and implement my own attack. I wrote it on the bus on my way into work, and was pleased to see when I got in that it worked – albeit slowly – first time.
How CBC and PKCS#5/7 is vulnerable
When decrypting each block using CBC, we say that PN = DK(CN)⊕CN-1 – which is just a symbolic way of saying that the recipient Decrypts (with key "K") the current Ciphertext block (block N), and then XORs the result with the previous Ciphertext block (the N-1th block). Let's also assume that we're only decrypting those two blocks, N-1 and N, with N being the last block provided to the recipient.
In other modes, the padding check may not deliver the helpful information we're looking for, but CBC is special. The way CBC decrypts data is to decrypt the current block of ciphertext (CN), which creates an intermediate block DK(CN). That intermediate block is combined with the previous ciphertext block, CN-1, to give the plaintext block, PN. This combining of blocks is done using the XOR (exclusive-or) operation, which has interesting properties any developer should be familiar with. Particularly, it's important to note that XOR (represented here as "⊕") is reversible. If X⊕Y=Z, you know also that Z⊕Y=X and Z⊕X=Y. This is one of the reasons the XOR operation is used in a lot of cryptographic algorithms.
If we want to change things in the inputs to produce a different output, we can really only change two things – the current and the previous block of Ciphertext – CN and CN-1. We should really only alter one input at a time. If we alter CN, that's going to be decrypted, and a small change will be magnified into a big difference to the DK(CN) value – all the bytes will have changed. But if we alter CN-1, just a bit, what we wind up with is a change in the plaintext value PN which matches that change. If we alter the 23rd bit of CN-1, it will alter the 23rd bit of PN, and only that one bit. Now if we can find what we've changed that bit to, we can then figure out what that means we must have changed it from.
If we change the last byte of CN-1, to create C'N-1 (pronounced "C prime of N minus 1") and cycle it through all the possible values it can take, the decryption will occur, and the recipient will reject our new plain text, P'N ("P prime of N") because it is poorly formed – it will have a bad padding. With one (two, but I'll come to that in a minute) notable exception. If the last byte of the plaintext decrypted is the value 0x01, it's a single byte of padding – and it's correct padding. For that value of the last byte of C'N-1, we know that the last byte of P'N is 1. We can rewrite PN = DK(CN)⊕CN-1 as DK(CN) = CN-1⊕PN – and then we can put the values in for the last byte: DK(CN)[15] = C'N-1[15]⊕0x01.
Let's say, for illustration's sake, that the value we put in that last byte of C'N-1 was 0xa5, when our padding was accepted. That means DK(CN)[15] = 0xa5 ⊕ 0x01 = 0xa4. Note the lack of any "prime" marks there – we've figured out what the original value of the decrypted last byte was. Note that this isn't the same as the last byte of the plain text. No, we get that by taking this new value and XORing it with the original last byte of the previous block of ciphertext – that's CN-1[15]. For illustration, let's say that value is 0xc5. We calculate PN[15] = DK(CN)[15]⊕CN-1[15] = 0xa4⊕0xc5 = 0x61. That's the lower case letter 'a'.
OK, so we got the first piece of plaintext out – the last byte.
[Remember that I said I'd touch on another case? If CN is the original last block of ciphertext, it already contains valid padding! But not necessarily the 0x01 we're trying to force into place.]
Let's get the next byte!
Almost the same process is used to get the next byte, with a couple of wrinkles. First, obviously, we're altering the second-to-last byte through all possible values. Second, and not quite so obvious, we have to tweak the last byte once as well, because we're looking to get the sequence 0x02 0x02 (two twos) to happen at the end of P'N. The last byte of C'N-1 to achieve this is simply the last byte of C'N-1 that we used to get 0x01, XORed by 0x03 (because that's 0x02 ⊕ 0x01). In our illustrative example, that's 0xa6.
And the next, and the next…
Each time, you have to set the end values of the ciphertext block, so that the end of P'N will look like 0x03 0x03 0x03, 0x04 0x04 0x04 0x04, etc, all the way up to 0x10 … 0x10 (sixteen 16s).
Code, or it didn't happen
So here's the 200 lines or so that I wrote on the bus. I also wrote a test harness so that this would work even after the CTF finished and got shut down. You'll find that in the same repo.
I've massaged the code so it's easier to understand, or to use as an explainer for what's going on.
I plan on expanding this in a couple of ways – first, to make it essentially command-line compatible with 'PadBuster', and second, to produce a graphical demo of how the cracking happens.
And in the next post, I'm going to talk a little about how I optimised this code, so that it was nearly 15x faster than PadBuster.


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The authors investigate light absorption in organic solar cells in which indium tin oxide (ITO) is replaced by a new metallic architecture (grating) as a transparent electrode. Different from typical metal nanowire gratings, our gratings consist of metal nanowalls with nanoscale footprint and (sub)microscale height [Adv. Mater. 23, 2469 (2011)], thus ensuring high optical transmittance and electrical conductivity. Simulations reveal that a broadband and polarization-insensitive light absorption enhancement is achieved via two mechanisms, when such silver nanowall gratings are employed in P3HT:PCBM based solar cells. Overall absorption enhanced by ~23% compared to a reference cell with ITO electrode.
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During an appearance at this weekend's Hollywood Film Awards, "Hateful Eight" star Kurt Russell was pressed on director Quentin Tarantino's anti-cop rhetoric at a recent anti-police hate rally in New York. Russell not only expressed his support for the police, he said of Tarantino's comments specifically, "You don't have to agree every time with everybody to like working together."
The Associated Press buries the lede:
Another hot-button honoree Sunday was Quentin Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight." Police associations have urged boycotts of Tarantino's movies after the filmmaker said he was "on the side of the murdered" during a recent rally against police brutality in New York.
"We all have a tremendous respect for what police do every day, putting their lives on the line, OK? And I know Quentin feels that way too," said Kurt Russell, who stars in Tarantino's Western, out December.
"Now when it comes to his comments on policemen that's his to comment on," continued Russell. "You don't have to agree every time with everybody to like working together."
The exploding boycott against The Weinstein Company's "Hateful Eight" appears to have overshadowed what should have been a big public relations victory after the film won Best Ensemble. After the award show ended, TMZ grabbed this video.
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So this week's post is late. But that lateness, coupled with my continuing inability to keep up with the log reading pace, has started to get some nice lessons through my thick skull!1
This week we are up to 75 entries, 11 more than the last. While I honestly believe the past two weeks were far more busy for fiat esthlos than usual, I'm still planning for the worst. So the new plan is two per day, which should be far more sustainable. And anyways, the plan for my reading to speed up simply didn't happen. As Mircea intuits, the logs are information dense2 , and the brain can only process at such and such a rate. My attempts to read faster simply resulted in confusion.
Next week I'll try giving some highlights in the log reading update. Until then!
- Here are a few. (1). It's not enough to vaguely plan things out and hope I get done what needs to be done. I need to lay out everything that needs to be accomplished well before the deadline. (2) Things need to be prioritized. Just because one Emacs keybinding is broken doesn't mean that I need to deal with it now. (3) There must be time allocated to the unanticipated and fuckups in general. (4) Plans and scheduling follow through to the end. If I just plan to finish my weekly log reading on Sunday, then guess what: there won't be time for a post! Truly, it's remarkable that I managed to get this far in life while not understanding these kind of things! [↩]
- Though I have read enough at this point to have an opinion on this density, and I think an unfortunate that much of it results from people not considering the minds of others and making unnecessary assumptions on all kinds of things. [↩]


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C. Scott NicholsC. Scott Nichols Clark Hill
C. Scott Nichols
C. Scott Nichols counsels health care providers regarding development of strategies to maximize reimbursement and compliance with applicable state and federal laws. Scott advises providers regarding development of processes to handle RAC/CMS/Medicare audits and appeals and represent them throughout the appeal process. Scott also represents health care providers, including physicians and hospitals, in connection with medical staff credentialing and peer review matters. He represents providers who are the subject of fraud investigations including by the OIG, state and federal, and insurance company SIU's (special investigation units).
For over 20 years Scott has represented providers in professional liability/medical malpractice litigation and before their state licensing boards, including the Texas Medical Board. Finally, he regularly works in tandem with the attorneys at Clark Hill Strasburger who are health care transactional lawyers to meet the needs of our health care clients.
Scott has represented physicians and others before the Texas Medical Board in connection with a variety of issues. Noteworthy successes include two complete dismissals based on written responses only, dated August 31, 2012, obtaining an unrestricted license for an out-of-state doctor after his license had been initially denied and defending a physician's license before the Board after a patient complaint.\n\nScott recently obtained a $4.5 million settlement for a provider client against a major health care insurance company in a reimbursement dispute.
Additionally, Scott represented a hospital in connection with a complex medical staff dispute, including investigation of a physician, summary suspension of the physician's privileges, the physician's resignation, and evaluation of the physician's re-application for privileges post-resignation.
Scott has tried cases in multiple jurisdictions, including California, Washington DC and Texas. He is admitted to practice law in California and Texas. He was one of the lead trial lawyers in Kelly A. v. NME, Inc., et. al., chosen by The National Law Journal as 1999's biggest defense win in civil cases nationally. In that case, he successfully defended a subsidiary of a national hospital corporation in the lawsuit which included allegations of fraud and conspiracy and a request for $150 million in punitive damages.
- Fighting for Reimbursement, Healthcare Financial Management Association, Lone Star Chapter Annual Conference (August 2012)
- False Claims Act and ERISA Payment Disputes, Southern Medical Association Annual Medico, Legal Aspects of Medicine Conference, Emerging Policy Issues (March 2012)
- Communication of Medical Errors, Why, When, and Who, Southern Medical Association Annual Medico, Legal Aspects of Medicine Conference in Conjunction with Auburn University PEMBA Program (March 2010)
- Guest Lecturer, Legal Aspects of Healthcare Administration Graduate Course, University of Houston - Clear Lake
- Medical Records Law In Texas: Maintaining Records and Responding to Subpoenas, Lorman Education Services (February 2008)
- Disclosure of Unanticipated Outcomes-Why, When, Who and How?, Strasburger Health Law Counsel Series (October 2007)
- Medico-Legal Issues in Health Care for Diverse Populations, Texas Healthcare Diversity Summit (May 2007)
- Advanced Technology: Does it Advance the Ball? Electronic Charting and e-Discovery Seminar (March 2007)
- Communication, Disclosure, Litigation, and Juror Attitudes (February 2007)
- Ethics / Professional Development: Avoiding Liability and What to Expect if Litigation Ensues (November 2006)
- Do You Follow the Standards of Nursing Practice? (February 2006)
- HIPAA CLE Course (2004)
- Closing Arguments: Defendant's Perspective, Texas State Bar CLE Advanced Medical Malpractice Course (2002)
- A New Option - Periodic Payments and Texas Tort Reform, Health Industry Online Newsletter (April 2006)
- Physician "I'm sorry" Bills Continue to Spread, The National Law Journal (April 2007)


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Great ways to Start a StoryFantastic ways to start a story
Which are the best ways to write a story?
There is the issue of how to start to write, for which most people would suggest making a project. There are even'pants' - people who would rather miss the fit of their trousers than make a map - who would tell you that you need to have a rational notion of where your story is going (or at least WHAT your character wants).
You may be able to easily outline your personalities in your plans, but you need to become established: Your action plans give you a sense of what your character's voyage will look like and how your story might evolve to best suit this arch of your personality. Then... it's killing season.
You' ll almost certainly come back to work on your initial opening, rewrite or even delete it altogether... but a powerful start will really help you get the bal on your first outfit. These are some great ideas for opening a new Reedsy article[1]: Start with the unexpected:
There you start with an ideas or an impression that is totally out of the ordinary. Begin with action: If you want to grab your reader from the first page, you can drop them directly into the story and immediately set the use of the story. I don't mean by act that it has to be a shooting: you just want to present your protagonists who do something more interesting than wake up and have a nice glass of coffe.
Oh - and if your story ever begins with your lead ever awakening and sounding the alarm bell, consider restarting. Begin with a question: arouse your reader's interest from the very beginning. When you can let your readers know who your people are, what they're doing and where the story is going, then you're off to a good start.
There' re many ways to start a story. But I find it much more easy for the author to be more precise in her writings with an inauguration that defines the character, their intention and the uses of the story. Begin with one vote. They can start with other items, but the vote is the most important part, and to build everything on the vote is your best wager for good notion.
Many authors spends years trying to find the right words, then only a few month to write the work. For about nine years Franzen used to find a vote for "freedom," and then everything else came out of it. Begin with a single vote, find the person she is a part of, and then find the story they are in. If you could just reread a textbook, what would it be about?
Grab the objects and mix and match them in an interesting way. You can see how many you can put into a story concept. Then, try to make the most unlikely combination you can find when you find ways to work them together that really work well. After all, you will really get an inspiration and your juice will flow, and once those fluids flow, it's difficult to write a story.
From my experiences, this is the best indication of how good an ongoing work will turn out - how diligently I do it. If you have made the second one, go through it often, go through the whole thing and make sure you don't do those things in your letter. One could also look up one of the many great story formulae ("formula" is not a snide term in this context) and see if one of them gets you going.
"Recently,riting Excuses " has made a great story about the Hollywood formula: http://www.writingexcuses. com/po....As with all tips for typing, take these as proposals, not as guidepost. There are only three general principles of good typing, as far as I know: you have to spend a great deal of time reading, a great deal of time reading, and careful consideration of everything else.
The development of typing and brainstorming practices will save your own valuable hours and make the typing experience more efficient. They should create their own processes and decide what works for them.... but here is a method I use: The authors often do not know where to start. Staring at the monitor or the piece of hardcopy without knowing what to put on, they spend a lot of valuable head space on a wonderfully smart notion.
Prevent typing with empty hands. When you read a blogs or news feed and see something you can post about in the near term, take cognisance. If you do this, it will usually be much simpler for you to start typing. However, before you continue to create a funny intro or long paragraph, you should schedule your story by outlining it.
Take a note or two about what you need to say at the beginning, note down some important points of action and then think about what the deduction might be - in the knowledge that the story could evolve differently over the years. A structure will help you keep to the point and prevent you from spending your own precious little or nothing at all.
Don't confuse research and editorial work with the letter. Search all the information you need before you start to write. Do not research and write at the same time - this can cause distractions and delay. Do not look up words or phrases while you are typing; it limits your thinking about them.
When you think there is a better term than the one you just entered, mark it and continue with it. When you polish the story, you can recall the phrase later. For me, these customs work when I create a story or any kind of work. Best of luck in making an astonishing story!
Just the thought intellect has a passions like the letter of a certain thing. Making a story is no small job, because we think. One topic is something that history absolutely wants us to know - something that can help us in our own life. The plot is often about an argument or a fight that the main protagonist undergoes.
It can be with another person, or with the way things are, or with something within the person, similar to the needs or feelings. To start, jump directly to the activities. Towards the end, turn up the story quickly. One of the things that makes the story different is its history. You should know your personalities well before you start to compose.
You should be someone who is feeling exactly the same as you, or maybe even thinking about it. Put your story in a place and a period that will fascinate you or make you known. Choose a vernacular that will make your story sound like it. These are just the few suggestions to make your history.
However, several letters related to useful website will give you full credentials. It is Joyce Carol Oates' suggestion to start with a personality. She will start to take lives at some point in the protagonists, she will say something unforeseen or show a certain quality, relate to another period, offend, confirm or disown someone, in this instant the story is made.
Allow your characters to tell the story. A further proposal is to open several rows from different tales before you start to type. It will definitely give the wish to type and inspire to start at least one sequence. Type a'pastiche', mimic your favourite writer, that makes you start typing, at some point your own vote (or your character's vote) takes over.
There are times when you're busy with other things, but one big opening line is all it took to start a story. In order to write a story, you have to go in the right directions. These are the 10 ways that can help you write a good note. First of all, the opening rules are that they should have most of the single handicraft items that make up the story as a whole.
A line of opening should have an unmistakable vocal, a point of position, a basic storyline and a touch of character. When you start to write at the most tragic or strained moments in your history, you can only go south. You can open your story accordingly. The simplest way to start a story is to start with an opening line that is puzzling at first read, but that makes complete sense when readers learn more information later in the story.
Begin with a little puzzle. When you are forced to start a story with dialog, remember that you plunge your reader directly into a whirlpool where it is simple to loose them. A way around this is to start with a line of dialog and then withdraw and provide an extra shortcut before continuing with the remainder of the call - a seldom case where sometimes launching from proximity and then delivering a view works.
However, long dialogues at the beginning of a story are usually hard to understand. Like any other part of the letter, apertures are their own artistic expression - and dealing with the masterpiece of others is one of the best ways to teach. At times a story develops so significantly during the write that an opening line, however bright, no longer matches the following story.
Only way to know this is to rethink the opening movement, like the heading, once the definitive design of the story is finished. Ten super-light points for creating a gripping story: Become an insatiable reader - just reading a bit. You can, for example, browse through papers, news stories, fiction, high-quality essay material, etc.
As more you browse, the more you get a smooth and error-free production. An easy-to-remember headline - The reader gets a first glimpse of you as he reads the first two rows of your letter. You' ve got to do it right because they choose Latin to just through it.
Have a firm central concept - if your concept is near to your own hearts, it will of course come out of you because you just have a good understanding and interest in it. Make the River - The most important thing in story telling is not to be coy. Continue to write what comes to your minds as long as you don't harm anyone.
Attempt to think differently than usually and the reader will be starving to do so. Conclusion - At this point your story will separate from the reader. Keep checking your story. You' ll have a tendency to correct mistakes and also make more attractive thoughts that flow in this work.
As Ernest Hemingway once said, "Write drunken, work soberly". In this connection, drunken does not mean that you drink whiskey to improve your writing, but you let your fantasy and creativeness run wild and blossom on pen.


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Elizabeth Lanyon
Associate Director of Philanthropy
With more than a decade of non-profit fundraising and social justice work, Elizabeth joined NCLR in 2016, bringing her passion for justice and equality to our development team.
Focused on grassroots organizing, strategic relationships and cultivating new leadership, Elizabeth served as the Co-Chair for the San Francisco Dyke March from 2013 to 2017. As a leader for one of the largest marches for lesbian visibility, she has helped foster local community partnerships and helped set the groundwork for the future of Dyke March as a vibrant feminist platform for our movement. In alignment with her commitment to grassroots organizing, Elizabeth co-founded the San Francisco Women's March in 2017. Today, she continues to mentor leaders and organizers to ensure the local Women's Movement is representative of all intersections and works to build coalitions among other organizers committed to resistance and resilience in a time of great change.
Elizabeth's experience in non-profit development is vast, having held fundraising roles in a variety of organizations commitment to social change. Examples of her work include youth education, workforce and leadership development, and women's economic empowerment through starting and building small businesses. In addition to her professional experience, Elizabeth has been active in a variety of community boards including the Association of Fundraising Professionals Golden Gate Chapter, the Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club, and has served as a board member for San Francisco Pride for 2 years. In 2017, she was nominated for Curve Magazine's Pride List for her activism and community organizing, and recognized by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her Women's March leadership.


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A difficult time, that is what it was. My ex (my partner then) had used a condom but I was not on any contraception. When I got to know I was pregnant, I told my partner who broke up with me and told my friends and classmates in college who just judged me. I was alone and scared to tell my parents. I got a medical pill abortion; the day I got to know I had been admitted into Oxford – my dream college. I don't regret my decision. I chose to pursue studies and I just wasn't ready to be a mother then. It was my choice. What was pitying was the way my peers judged me.
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Branding concepts bear the great burden of relaying the message and the values of a company to its market clients. What the company stands for should constantly be reiterated to achieve a solid identity. A great example is the branding project of The Chopping Board creating by Chris Wood, a graphic designer from Melbourne, Australia.
About the Designer
Chris is a designer from Melbourne, Australia who has been working in freelance and studios. You can find out more about him in his Behance and website.


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Mindfulness-based Behavior Change Facilitator Training Course
© 2018-2019 MindSciences®
Learn how to accelerate behavior change
Behavior change facilitation is an evidence based approach that combines a digital therapeutic (app-based training) with in-person facilitated sessions to address unwanted behaviors and bad habits at their source: in the brain.
Using a "flipped classroom" model, patients/client receive targeted mindfulness training in 5-10 minutes per day delivered via an app for conditions like smoking, binge eating, or anxiety. They can practice and develop their skills at home with digital training, and then come to see you in an individual or group setting for specific guidance around their experiences from the prior week.
This approach maximizes both effectiveness and efficiency for the client and for the clinician or coach.
Course Details
Describe how habits are formed and perpetuated with regard to emotional eating, smoking, anxiety and beyond.
Describe how mindfulness affects brain processes.
Discuss how mindfulness approaches can help change addictive habit patterns
Describe the "flipped classroom" learning model
Demonstrate facility with mindful inquiry skills noticing, dialoguing and linking and facilitation in group and/or individual settings.
Observe how mindfulness skills and knowledge of operant conditioning are implemented with group participants by experienced facilitator trainers in weekly online web group check-ins.
Evaluate trainer adherence to principles of the Mindfulness-Based Intervention Teacher Assessment Criteria (MBI-TAC) in weekly online web group.
Discuss observations/insights of weekly online web group in a training group setting.
Communicate with online community members, utilizing mindfulness skills and knowledge of operant conditioning.
Rolling application window:
Dec 15, 2019 - Jan 15, 2020
Registration fee due (accepted applicants):
Feb 1, 2020
Program begins
March 11, 2020
(NOTE: you must have completed program on which you're training by this date.)
Step 2 Training:
Begins upon completion of Step 1
Step 1: $500
Step 2: $500 (includes certification)
Completion of a mindfulness training program (MBSR or equivalent)
Daily personal meditation practice (minimum 1 year)
Completion of Eat Right Now, Unwinding Anxiety, or Craving to Quit programs (can be started prior to course)
Fill out an application form (click button below) and the course instructors will contact you.
Accelerate behavior change in your patients and clients using a combination of digital guidance and in-person facilitation.
What: The Behavior Change Facilitator Training Course is an 8 to 16 week online program that teaches participants how to facilitate "flipped classroom" behavior change sessions in combination with a digital therapeutic app.
Why: many healthcare professionals have experienced the benefits of mindfulness through personal practice but are unsure how to introduce evidence-based mindfulness practices to their patients or clients, or they don't have time during their existing weekly sessions to provide adequate training or guidance.
The "flipped classroom" model uses an app to deliver training, and frees the clinician to deliver customized support in weekly sessions.
Who: healthcare professionals & coaches who have a background in mindfulness and wish to develop and pair their skills with digital therapeutics to bring mindfulness-based behavior change into their work with individuals and/or groups.
This includes physicians, psychotherapists, psychologists, nurses, dieticians, health coaches, and other healthcare professionals, as well as existing mindfulness/MBSR instructors who wish to broaden their ability to address habits and unwanted behaviors.
Where: All training is delivered live and on-line via a Zoom platform.
The Facilitator in Training (FIT) program consists of a multi-step process to ensure facilitators are teaching from their own experience. Facilitation centers around helping individuals identify their "habit loops" that perpetuate stress and unhealthy mental and physical behaviors.
In this course, you will learn how to use a "flipped classroom" model with your patients or clients. Your patients will use a "digital therapeutic" app which combines 5-10 minutes of daily training via the Eat Right Now app (binge, emotional and overeating), the Unwinding Anxiety app, or the Craving to Quit app (smoking cessation).
Step 1: (8 sessions)
Facilitators-in-training (FITs) begin by learning the core scientific concepts of habit formation and behavior change as applied to their own lives and those of others through attending a weekly (Wednesdays 12:00 -1:00 pm) on-line flipped classroom facilitated by Drs. Brewer and Boudette. FITs then immediately move into group training in which this live group material becomes the basis for discussion and learning (Wednesdays 1:00-2:00 pm EST). Focus is placed on developing process and inquiry skills through direct group discussion as well as short small group break-out practice teaching sessions. Cohorts for Step 1 begin at the same time, yet individuals can pace themselves to account for time away (e.g. the 8 sessions are not required to be completed sequentially).
Step 2: (8 sessions)
After completing Step 1, FITs will be begin facilitating the habit change programs within a group context or individual sessions in their own clinical setting. They will continue to attend weekly group training and begin peer training. Once they have started teaching, they record an initial session. This is reviewed by a peer and trainer who provide feedback to the FIT. After receiving feedback, they then record a second session. This is reviewed a second time by a peer and a trainer. The training includes both getting and giving feedback. When the appropriate abilities and skills in teaching and facilitation are demonstrated, typically after the second recording, they then can submit their materials to become a qualified Behavior Change Facilitator.
Up to 28 continuing education credits are available through our collaboration with International Seminars Group (ISG). ISG is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to provide continuing education credits to psychologists. ISG is also an approved Continuing Professional Education (CPE) provider with the Commission on Dietetics Registration (CDR). ISG maintains responsibility for its programs and content.