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Mon Oct 19 12:47:28 EDT 2015Detroit Pastor Kills Man Who Threatened Parishioners
A pastor fatally shot a man who threatened his parishioners with a brick, NBC station WDIV reported.
The pastor tried to help the man but "things went south," according to WDIV. Authorities said the man had a history of threatening the pastor and members of the congregation.
I wouldn't even expect a pastor to be armed. (But I don't know Detroit.)'Embracing Purity': Why a Maryland Bride Signed a Virginity Certificate
A Maryland couple had their dream wedding this month. The bride wore Vera Wang, the groom wore Tom Ford [Who?], they welcomed more than 2,500 guests - and the bride presented her father with a "certificate of purity."
Boutique owner Brelyn Bowman (née Freeman) surprised her father at the reception of her wedding to gospel singer Tim Bowman Jr. with a document signed by a doctor stating she had kept her promise to remain abstinent before marriage. Their decision received a lot of attention on social media - a lot of it unkind.
Before the newlyweds flew off to their week-long honeymoon in Dubai and the Maldives, they posted wedding photos to their social media accounts. ... "I was able to present a certificate of purity to [my father] signed by my doctor that my hymen was still intact," the caption says. ....
When the Bowmans' plane touched down back home this week, they turned their phones back on and were stunned by a flood of hundreds of messages.
"We were sitting on the tarmac looking at our phones like 'What is this?!'" Tim Bowman, 28, said. Many of the messages called the virginity certificate "creepy" and sexist.
"At that moment, we had a brief meeting," Tim Bowman said. "We don't look at them like haters ... We made a decision that we were happy that people were even talking about it."
"The whole goal is to make Jesus famous and debunk the myth that living for Jesus is wack and unfulfilling," said Tim Bowman, whose song "I'm Good" is near the top of the Billboard gospel charts.
They both said staying abstinent was difficult.
The bride called staying abstinent one of the best decisions she had ever made.
"If it's really a path in your life, no one will have to push you," she said.
Tim Bowman said criticism on social media of the virginity certificate had focused on his wife, but he said he thinks he feels more pressure from others on a day-to-day basis.
"It's kind of taboo for women nowadays to make that pledge that they want to stay pure," he said. "It's that times 10 for guys. You deal with that whole stereotype like you're wack or you're weak."
He asked friends and strangers to respect their decision.
"We can have a difference of opinions, but let's respect each others' opinions and talk about them," he said.
If a woman (or a man) wants to announce at her (his) wedding a fulfilled pledge of virginity, that is her (his) life choice.
We don't all have the same values. If they choose these, and live by them, and they hurt no one else, what is the problem?A blank copy of a "commitment contract" can be downloaded from their wedding website.
Asked if the couple had remained abstinent after their wedding, Brelyn Bowman said no. "Absolutely not," the bride said with a laugh.
50 Pounds of Pot Mailed to Wrong Address
Police in a New Jersey town are asking the person who was expecting 50 pounds of marijuana in the mail to come claim the package.
The pot was delivered to a home in Hazlet and the homeowner called police because it was addressed to someone who did not live at the residence.
Police said they were trying to figure out how to find the intended recipient when they opened the packages and discovered the marijuana in sealed bags.
Police said the person is more than welcome to come to police headquarters to claim them.
In the meantime, officers are trying to find the shipper and intended recipient.
And now, the very dark side of phishing:Did ISIS Sympathizers Create Fake Facebook Page for U.S. Cop?
An unknown individual used a retired Colorado state trooper's identity to set up a fake Facebook account and friend both real cops and apparent ISIS sympathizers, officials revealed in a recent internal bulletin.
Authorities said the account was created Oct. 12, and [the Colorado Information Analysis Center, a division of the state's Department of Public Safety] contacted the retired trooper the next day. He said he was unaware of the account.
"[We assess] with high confidence that it was designed under false pretenses to gather information regarding law enforcement members," said the bulletin from the [CIAC].
Some of the individuals who accepted friend requests from the account were current law enforcement officers. Others "appear to be sympathizers of [ISIS]," said the bulletin. ....
CIAC reminded officers to be careful with their social media and with "whom they allow into their digital community. Please review the requester's entire profile and avoid relying on mutual friends to assess the legitimacy of the requestor."
Capt. J.P. Burt, director of CIAC ... said that amid rapid changes in technology, the intrusion served as a warning to everyone from cops to the public at large not to "take friend requests or e-mail at face value."
"We as a society have to be responsible and not believe everything we see on the Internet," Burt said. "You have to vet it."
Cybersecurity consultant Suzanne Vaudrinot, a retired Air Force major general who formerly headed the service's Cyber Command, said ... "It's a fact of life that it's difficult to find, but particularly difficult to prevent,"Because it's so successful, it will be widely used. It doesn't take a lot of brain power."
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/774812.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]
A pastor fatally shot a man who threatened his parishioners with a brick, NBC station WDIV reported.
The pastor tried to help the man but "things went south," according to WDIV. Authorities said the man had a history of threatening the pastor and members of the congregation.
I wouldn't even expect a pastor to be armed. (But I don't know Detroit.)'Embracing Purity': Why a Maryland Bride Signed a Virginity Certificate
A Maryland couple had their dream wedding this month. The bride wore Vera Wang, the groom wore Tom Ford [Who?], they welcomed more than 2,500 guests - and the bride presented her father with a "certificate of purity."
Boutique owner Brelyn Bowman (née Freeman) surprised her father at the reception of her wedding to gospel singer Tim Bowman Jr. with a document signed by a doctor stating she had kept her promise to remain abstinent before marriage. Their decision received a lot of attention on social media - a lot of it unkind.
Before the newlyweds flew off to their week-long honeymoon in Dubai and the Maldives, they posted wedding photos to their social media accounts. ... "I was able to present a certificate of purity to [my father] signed by my doctor that my hymen was still intact," the caption says. ....
When the Bowmans' plane touched down back home this week, they turned their phones back on and were stunned by a flood of hundreds of messages.
"We were sitting on the tarmac looking at our phones like 'What is this?!'" Tim Bowman, 28, said. Many of the messages called the virginity certificate "creepy" and sexist.
"At that moment, we had a brief meeting," Tim Bowman said. "We don't look at them like haters ... We made a decision that we were happy that people were even talking about it."
"The whole goal is to make Jesus famous and debunk the myth that living for Jesus is wack and unfulfilling," said Tim Bowman, whose song "I'm Good" is near the top of the Billboard gospel charts.
They both said staying abstinent was difficult.
The bride called staying abstinent one of the best decisions she had ever made.
"If it's really a path in your life, no one will have to push you," she said.
Tim Bowman said criticism on social media of the virginity certificate had focused on his wife, but he said he thinks he feels more pressure from others on a day-to-day basis.
"It's kind of taboo for women nowadays to make that pledge that they want to stay pure," he said. "It's that times 10 for guys. You deal with that whole stereotype like you're wack or you're weak."
He asked friends and strangers to respect their decision.
"We can have a difference of opinions, but let's respect each others' opinions and talk about them," he said.
If a woman (or a man) wants to announce at her (his) wedding a fulfilled pledge of virginity, that is her (his) life choice.
We don't all have the same values. If they choose these, and live by them, and they hurt no one else, what is the problem?A blank copy of a "commitment contract" can be downloaded from their wedding website.
Asked if the couple had remained abstinent after their wedding, Brelyn Bowman said no. "Absolutely not," the bride said with a laugh.
50 Pounds of Pot Mailed to Wrong Address
Police in a New Jersey town are asking the person who was expecting 50 pounds of marijuana in the mail to come claim the package.
The pot was delivered to a home in Hazlet and the homeowner called police because it was addressed to someone who did not live at the residence.
Police said they were trying to figure out how to find the intended recipient when they opened the packages and discovered the marijuana in sealed bags.
Police said the person is more than welcome to come to police headquarters to claim them.
In the meantime, officers are trying to find the shipper and intended recipient.
And now, the very dark side of phishing:Did ISIS Sympathizers Create Fake Facebook Page for U.S. Cop?
An unknown individual used a retired Colorado state trooper's identity to set up a fake Facebook account and friend both real cops and apparent ISIS sympathizers, officials revealed in a recent internal bulletin.
Authorities said the account was created Oct. 12, and [the Colorado Information Analysis Center, a division of the state's Department of Public Safety] contacted the retired trooper the next day. He said he was unaware of the account.
"[We assess] with high confidence that it was designed under false pretenses to gather information regarding law enforcement members," said the bulletin from the [CIAC].
Some of the individuals who accepted friend requests from the account were current law enforcement officers. Others "appear to be sympathizers of [ISIS]," said the bulletin. ....
CIAC reminded officers to be careful with their social media and with "whom they allow into their digital community. Please review the requester's entire profile and avoid relying on mutual friends to assess the legitimacy of the requestor."
Capt. J.P. Burt, director of CIAC ... said that amid rapid changes in technology, the intrusion served as a warning to everyone from cops to the public at large not to "take friend requests or e-mail at face value."
"We as a society have to be responsible and not believe everything we see on the Internet," Burt said. "You have to vet it."
Cybersecurity consultant Suzanne Vaudrinot, a retired Air Force major general who formerly headed the service's Cyber Command, said ... "It's a fact of life that it's difficult to find, but particularly difficult to prevent,"Because it's so successful, it will be widely used. It doesn't take a lot of brain power."
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/774812.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]