text: The General Data Protection Regulation (“GPDR”) comes into force on 25 May 2018, and many businesses are beginning to prepare for its introduction. While the GDPR builds on familiar concepts and rules, it also brings about many changes. To help prepare for these changes, we have launched our “Getting Ready for the GDPR” Guide. The Guide will serve as a helpful resource for those looking to get to grips with the GDPR in the coming months.
  Organisations need to get GDPR ready by May 2018. Once the GDPR becomes law, the majority of its provisions will immediately apply. This means that organisations cannot wait to remediate issues or implement changes after 25 May 2018.
  Each of these issues are likely to be relevant to the majority of organisations to which the GDPR applies.
  While the GDPR builds on many familiar rules, it also introduces a number of significant changes and new legal concepts. The Guide explores a variety of these changes, including increased obligations around consent, greater transparency requirements for privacy notices, new security rules and breach reporting obligations, a revamped regime for enforcement, remedies and liability, and the introduction of the principles of privacy by design and default. In addition, one of the most notable and newsworthy changes is the introduction of the ability for regulators to levy significant fines in cases of non-compliance.
  Finally, the Guide explores certain roles and sectors and the relevance and impact of the GPDR in each context. In particular, the Guide provides an insight into how the GPDR will affect public sector organisations and HR managers. The Guide also analyses the impact for contracting, given the increased obligations for data processing agreements, and responsibilities around compliance and risk management, arising from the accountability principle.
  
  In celebrity news, Travis Scott (Kylie Jenner’s boyfriend) recently showed his “new face” off during the premier of his new Netflix special. The Netflix documentary will dive into Travis Scott’s rise to rap super-stardom, his transition to fatherhood, and his frustrated reaction to losing Album of the Year to Cardi B, and it will be called Netflix’s ‘Look Mom I Can Fly’ chronicles.
  Back to this new face… and when I saw full face, I mean FULL FACE! Allegedly, Travis Scott has undergone a full face lift and a nose job! Kylie’s boyfriend/child’s father totally stunned the crowd by revealing a new face – which included a reconstructed nose, skin tightening, and much more.
  Take a look at the pictures below… before and after & tell me if you think this was a dramatic change for the rapper?
  How do you guys feel about men getting plastic surgery? Let’s talk about it below. Me personally, I think plastic surgery is cool, but I do think people really take it to the extreme. Once you change your face and we can no longer recognize you… I would have to say you might not really love yourself.
  
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  Tonight I got the urge to walk to the corner store, the foggy mist was low and sky was getting dark, a beautiful night for a brisk wet stroll. I grew up without a car in my family, both my grandparents, who raised me, were relatively old and never had a need for a vehicle. So for me, that meant anywhere that I needed to go I had to walk, I didn’t complain either it was no big deal.
  Anyway, usually when I resort to walking these days it has a tendency to bring back old memories of my ventures when I was a young boy. My walks to a friends house, those nights coming home from a school dance, and my adventures to the wooded areas behind my house are some of the memories that would come flashing back.
  It’s funny how familiar we get with the paths we choose to get us to where we have to go, the rickety old fence, that big crooked tree that looks like its about to fall to the ground with the slightest touch, or maybe it’s an annoying barking dog that just wouldn’t shut up. If you paid close attention I’m sure there are things to this day that you remember from your own journeys. I sometimes would have to hop fences, stopping by the blueberry bushes would almost always distract me for a moment or two, and oh yeah, passing through the broken street light section definitely put a lump in my throat. I knew those paths like the back of my hand, I bet I could still do some of them with my eyes close, well ok, maybe not. The twists and turns I took felt like they were my own, I’m sure many people traversed the same route everyday as well, but I bet they are not writing about them today like I am, hehe.
  Walks allow me to clear my head, for that short time you forget about everything, no technology craving your attention, void of all traffic aside from the odd fellow passerby with their dog whose usually in a manic sniff leads the way. Tonight was just me and the sound of my own steps, the air was clean, the leaves sparkled orange as they change with the season, the mist was refreshing with my mind free of any ill thoughts.
  Sure, I could of gotten into my car out of the rain, driven to my destination in less than a couple minutes but no, not tonight, why make it so easy and deprive myself of such an experience. I enjoyed that walk, I felt like a young boy again, tempted by the puddles of water, curious of what was glimmering at the trailside just ahead of me, don’t get excited it was only a pop can sticking out from the ground. But a walk can do that, its always an adventure, you never know what you will see or who you will meet.
  The next time that you need to clear your head, collect your thoughts, or seek inspiration much like I did, hence this post, take a walk, go on you will thank yourself for it, trust me. A lot like me something like a walk to the convenience store doesn’t really have to be such an inconvenience.
  
  Brought first at the Eastgate Sunday service, 26th July, by David Webster. This was the first live service back in the auditorium at Eastgate following the Covid 19 lockdown.
  “I saw a picture of a modern military troop carrier filled with soldiers being taken to the front line. The soldiers are trained and equipped and ready for battle. During their journey they have been enclosed in the carrier, enjoying the camaraderie of the other soldiers, but cut off from the outside world. They know they are on a mission, a great exploit, a massive incursion into the enemies’ territory, but temporarily they are not aware of where they are and exactly where they are going. They have to trust another to know the journey, keep them secure, and take them safely to the next stage. They are hopeful and expectant but not without anxiety and nervous tension. They are mixed in age and experience of battle, the older and more mature a reassuring presence among the younger and less experienced.
  Then the vehicle finally arrives and the troops file out at their destination. They look around taking in their new vista. As they do, many other troop carriers arrive, and they realise that they have been part of a large convey of military might. This is the frontline of the battle.
  As they all gather there is a period of relaxing, even joking around. There is an air of confidence and expectation as they take in the new landscape and what begins to look like a new military deployment.
  Jesus is there, their general, clothed in splendour and glorious light, Lord of all the earth, an awesome commander. He begins to give out new orders and instructions. For some his instructions are as originally planned, though no less exciting and demanding. For others there is a change from what they had expected, a different direction to go in. I saw one particular group being drawn together to go off immediately and ambush the enemy.”
  There was a real sense that we (the church) were the troops and that the period in the troop carriers was our time in lockdown, enclosed, restricted, and our view limited. We were still going in the right direction but unsure of the journeys details, that was in someone else’s hands, who we needed to trust.
  Now perhaps, we are in the situation where we are getting out of the troop carriers and looking around. This is a good time to be resting and abiding in Christ and listening to his voice (which has of course been our teaching theme at the moment). We need to be listening carefully for his next instructions and the leading of the Holy Spirit, both individually and corporately.
  There was a general air of expectation and readiness for the battle ahead, not least of all because of the presence of Jesus in his power, majesty and awesome splendour.