Bøger af James Scott

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"Guide de Voyage au Canada 2024" est un compagnon immersif et complet conçu tant pour les voyageurs novices que pour les explorateurs aguerris. Axé sur la fourniture d'informations à jour, de conseils d'initiés et de suggestions immersives, le guide sert de feuille de route pour une aventure canadienne mémorable. Il va au-delà du contenu de voyage traditionnel en intégrant des éléments d'exploration culturelle, d'aventure en plein air et de pratiques de voyage durables. Il adapte le voyage à l'esprit dynamique de 2024, offrant des perspectives sur les tendances émergentes et les événements incontournables. Du guide pratique sur les documents et la monnaie à l'exploration approfondie des régions diverses du Canada, le guide vise à rehausser l'expérience de voyage. Il encourage les lecteurs à partager leur voyage grâce à des stratégies efficaces sur les médias sociaux, à se connecter avec d'autres voyageurs et à inspirer d'autres personnes à explorer le Canada de manière responsable. Que l'on plonge dans la richesse géographique ou que l'on adopte des pratiques de voyage durables, ce guide est une porte d'entrée vers une exploration bien préparée, enrichissante et inoubliable du Grand Nord en 2024.

James Scott's book is a personal account of a vision he experienced during a near-death experience. Filled with hope and comfort, Heaven: A Vision provides insight into the afterlife and leaves readers with a sense of peace and understanding.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Adolescent education is corrupt and flawed. The 'No Child Left Behind' reform succeeded in little more than eliminating the last remnants of a useful education, only to be reshaped into the systematic and federally enforced dumbing down of America's vibrant youth. From mathematics to science and from philosophy to business, the standard has dropped for both academics and those charged with the task of instructing our youth. Our children are being taught by societies misfits, not academic giants, as they would have you believe. School system administrators are wannabe CEO who couldn't make it in the real world and our school boards are populated by politically motivated identity crisis victims trying to reinvent themselves. Those who have the power to elevate the standard lack the intellectual capacity to do so and those who have the intellectual capacity (such as those reading this text) lack the time to get involved. If your time is limited and you still want to make a difference, start with the education of your child. This book series has been authored with you and your child in mind. Currently, our standardized education platform that dictates the information introduced to your child is not meant to impart knowledge, rather it is meant to help them pass an annual test. This annual test is composed of mind numbingly academic questions that lack the most crucial component one is supposed to obtain through an education, knowledge. Education and knowledge are two completely separate things. Education is commoditized and redistributed by topic gate keepers selected by the establishment to instruct your child at the mediocre level that they see fit. Knowledge is the key ingredient in those 'ah ha' moments when critical thinking leads way to one's intellectual and social evolution. Nowadays, the two key contributors to survival are the two topics the school system barely touches; business and cybersecurity. Teens are graduating high school without the ability to write a business plan, let alone balance a check book or write a press release for a business. In this virtual age, our children spend a majority of their free time online, yet schools don't even cover cybersecurity. The good news is, this series covers these crucial topics and then some. Just like you, I've sat in my children's parent teacher meetings, listening to a teacher, seated with a pretentious posture, articulate, with vigor and manufactured conviction, my child's short comings in their class. Perhaps, unlike the reader, I precede to steer the conversation in the direction of having the teacher sell me on their academic and real life pedigree that qualifies them to make such statements. I ask them where I can buy a copy of their latest book and where I can download their latest whitepaper that was published by the niche hierarchy that validates them as an expert among their peers. I have yet to have one single teacher offer even one title they've published. I have, however, experienced, without fail an immediate change in posture, a mouth that was riddling my ears with my child's supposed shortcomings, silenced and a sudden insecurity that was represented every time I met with the teacher from then on. Your child is not being taught by experts. They are being force-fed regurgitated content the teacher read in a book and pawns off as their own original thoughts, nothing more. Think about it. These automatons will read the standardized education syllabus that tells them what your child needs to know in order to pass the annual standard education test and they reverse engineer the spoon feeding of this cut and paste content. Where is the scholastic mastery we've been told was present by the establishment? Where is the articulation and communicative ingenuity that wins over your child's mind so that they can elevate their intellectual capacity for critical thinking?

Woman in the making. Companion. Assassin. Holly is all of them, and more. Los Angeles, 2031: Robotics engineers create Holly, a female android nearly indistinguishable from humans. Sent out into the world on a field trial as a housekeeper, but programmed with secret and deadly skills even she is unaware of, Holly shocks her creators by becoming self-aware, and begins to manifest the deepest human emotions. Seeking only love and companionship, Holly is unconcerned with the firestorm of ethical dilemmas her independent consciousness creates. But as a deadly plague collapses the world around her, the talents of an assassin, buried deep in encrypted files, begin to surface. Will she use them to save or to destroy? With a price on her head as she searches for the deadly foe responsible for the plague, Holly begins to realize that "something terrible is awakening within me".The Electric Woman confronts issues that may soon face us as we create machines ever more like ourselves. Sooner rather than later, we may find we share our world with machines indistinguishable from human. If that day comes, troublesome ethical issues may arise: Who will own them? What rights might they have? What will happen to them when they have outlived their usefulness? The Electric Woman explores these issues, set against a poignant love story, as Holly, unlike any machine before her, experiences love, tragedy, loneliness, and the pain of loss.

Are you perfect? If so, this book isn't for you. But if you're not perfect, if you know there are areas of your life in which you can --- and should --- make some improvements, then this book just might offer you some of the information, inspiration, encouragement, and challenge to start on a fresh journey of making some real life changes. Featuring a collection of writings about change, choices, discernment, and personal development, author Dr. James Scott, Jr., shares insights from more than 30 years as a minister and clinical therapist helping people change their lives, learn how to make better choices, deepen their discernment, and develop as persons. If you're ready to become a better you, let's begin your journey!

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Churches today are full of people who claim to be following Jesus when, in reality, many are trying to have Jesus follow them. Just look at their lives and you see a self-orientation rather than a submission to Christ. What does it take to really follow Jesus? Dr. James Scott, Jr., explores some of the answers to that question in "Following Jesus," featuring a collection of writings on the topics of faith, followership, fellowship, and obedience. This book is Volume 10 in the "Extraordinary Living" book series.

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Fortunately for all who follow Jesus as His disciples, He was remarkably clear and concise in His teaching. Take, for example, this statement of Jesus about what must happen in order for anyone to enter into the kingdom of God: "Jesus replied, 'I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God, '" John 3:3. Being a Christian, then, begins with a new birth, a spiritual birth which results in our becoming new creatures! Living life "born again" is entirely different from the life that preceded it. The purpose of this book is to offer a very eclectic exploration of that new life and what Christianity is about.

Do you love dogs as a pet? Would you like to have one around? Are you worried about taking care of your dog while you work? Do you know your dog can be more friendly than you think? Well, search no further; this book is for you. For ages, dogs have been bred to be a person's best companion. It is simpler to forge a closer relationship with your dog when you are watchful, considerate, and concerned about its well-being. Strong bonds with your dog can provide security, solace, and affection. By showing your dog consideration, attention, and kindness, you may strengthen your relationship with them.In this book, learn how to;Get off on a new startSuitable playingShow your dog friendshipSocialize your dogCare for your dogFix a poorly socialized dogand also learn how to Take care of your dog while working.These tips will eliminate the stress by knowing what to do and how to do it. An excellent book on how to bond with your dog. Grab your copy now, and you''ll be glad you did

""Unitarianism: The Essence of Vital Christianity"" is a sermon delivered by John Kenrick at George's Meeting Center in 1817. The book explores the core principles of Unitarianism, which emphasizes the unity of God and the humanity of Jesus Christ. Kenrick argues that Unitarianism represents the true essence of Christianity, and that it is a vital and relevant faith for modern times. He also addresses common misconceptions about Unitarianism and defends the faith against criticism from traditional Christian denominations. Overall, ""Unitarianism: The Essence of Vital Christianity"" is a powerful defense of Unitarianism as a faith that is both intellectually rigorous and spiritually fulfilling.Also Contains Protestant Nonconformity, Etc., Two Discourses; The Present State Of Religious Parties In England Represented And Improved In A Discourse, By Thomas Belsham; Omniscience The Attribute Of The Father Only, A Sermon, By Joseph Hutton; And Others.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

When we think of interacting with God as His adopted children, being able to do so sounds incredible! But when we remind ourselves that the "family of God" is actually what we routinely call the "church," our thoughts might change a little ... or a lot! That's because all too often what we experience as "church" often isn't what we think God's family should be like. Pastor and Christian clinical therapist, Dr. James Scott, Jr., invites you to join him in an exploration of what being the "family of God" should or could be in his most eclectic collection of writings to date.

Right now you are in a battle to protect yourself and your family from hackers and there is no white knight on horseback galloping to your rescue. Most of the so called 'experts' in the yellow pages are upstarts who, in most cases, know just as much as you about the problem but compensate by using virus scan programs that offer the illusion of expertise. Most computers have boilerplate antivirus and perhaps some sort of firewall but this is hardly enough to thwart malicious hackers from breaching your system. The weakest link in cybersecurity is the human factor. You'll get an email that looks like it's from your boss or child's school, you'll click the link and in microseconds your computer is contaminated with a virus that incapacitates your PC and you realize you've just been Pwned! Not all hackers are bad but those who have malicious intent are typically categorized as script kiddies, hacktivists, mercenaries or state sponsored. Each group carries with it a different motivation, target to breach and data it seeks to exfiltrate. Script kiddies will typically wreak sporadic techno-chaos using cut and paste scripting methods from content they find on deep web hacker forums. Hacktivists usually target organizations of affiliates who are aligned with other organizations and affiliates that this category of hacker-activists deem ethically or economically corrupt or sided with the wrong side of group ideology. Mercenary hackers will typically be part of a criminal enterprise who seeks financial gain for their activity and can work for crime syndicates or state sponsors. And finally state sponsored hackers will work for a government and target specific organizations and data for espionage and political motivation. These organizations, though diverse in technological capability and motivation are always quick to prey on the ill-prepared and vulnerable and in many cases will pass over those with solid cybersecurity hygiene for easier targets. Solid cyber security hygiene consists of a multipronged strategy. Through the cyber-knowledge baseline you'll acquire from reading this two volume series, you'll be able to create a virtual labyrinth fortress around you, your family and business. The more difficult you make it for malicious hackers to invade your space; the less likely you are to be hacked. The intention of this series is to minimize the tech jargon that typically inhibits one's ability to intellectually digest the topic of cybersecurity and replace it with short, easy to read, simple to digest 'how-to' chapters. This book series has been authored to intentionally highlight the basics that are most relevant in the current evolutionary condition of cybersecurity in order to have the most impact on the real life vulnerabilities faced by the reader. You will 'Quickly' learn how to discover potential insider cyber threats in your workplace, how to thwart cloud computing threats, dealing with advanced persistent threats, how to respond to Botnet attacks, protecting against mobile device and wireless network attacks and much more. The knowledge you'll gain from this book series will help you protect your PC and data from hackers while simultaneously defining tech language that will act as instructional building blocks in these rapidly evolving cyber-times.

Odes On Several Subjects By James Scott (1761) is a collection of poems written by James Scott. The book contains a total of 24 odes, each dedicated to a different subject. The subjects range from love, nature, and friendship to war, politics, and religion. The poems are written in a lyrical style with a focus on the beauty of language and imagery. Scott uses a variety of poetic devices such as metaphors, similes, and allusions to create vivid and powerful images in the reader's mind. The book is divided into three parts, each containing eight odes. The first part deals with the themes of love, friendship, and nature. The second part focuses on war, politics, and the human condition. The third and final part deals with religious themes such as faith, redemption, and the afterlife. Overall, Odes On Several Subjects By James Scott (1761) is a beautiful collection of poems that showcases the author's mastery of the English language and his ability to create powerful and evocative imagery through his writing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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With the hospital and health sectors attack surface wide open it's surprising that more isn't being done to educate staff on proper cybersecurity hygiene. The attack surface is compounded by the exponential expansion of the IoT and lack of up to date BYOD protocols. HIPAA and patient record privacy are a moot point when unpatched vulnerabilities in applications are exploited by bad actors. The healthcare industry as a whole needs to move toward a more cybersecurity-centric culture as the physical and cyber environments continue to merge. The point of this easy to intellectually digest book series is to introduce basic cybersecurity with nursing informatics, hospital information technology, HIPAA compliance and health IT. When health sector staff can more easily identify spear phishing, spoofed browsers and other malicious enticements by hackers, each organization will be less prone to breaches. Bad actors are becoming more targeted, stealthy and creative with their exploit kits and zero days. Ransomware, RATs, Droppers and drive-by downloads are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the adversaries attack arsenal for invading the healthcare division of our Nation's critical infrastructure. The reader is encouraged to make all five volumes of this book series part of their professional library to enhance their ongoing professional development. This series shows how to be vigilant about cybersecurity without being Orwellian while brushing up or being introduced to health IT and healthcare informatics.

You've heard of the Great Commandment. You may have heard of the Great Commission (although 51 percent of churchgoers say they don't know what it is). But you rarely ever hear anything about The Great Appointment. You can't adequately understand your role in God's great mission without understanding the Great Appointment. This book is an exploration of the Apostle Paul revealing and explaining the Great Appointment - God's design to use you in His great mission and for His kingdom.

At a time when people have a vast assortment of sources for news about what's happening on this planet, it seems scandals of some sort are routinely topping headlines. From secular society, to inside the church, integrity seems to be in short supply. What does it look like to be a person of integrity? In this book, Dr. James Scott, Jr., minister and Christian clinical therapist, explores the topics of character, ethics, trust, and values to help us gain a better understanding of what it means to be a person of integrity. This book is Volume 7 in the "Extraordinary Living" book series.

Take a moment to consider the educational system as a whole. The very system itself is fractured and broken and has been taken over by chaos; this includes the academically splintered cell in which your children are educated. The school board, principle, vice principle and the teachers for the most part have arrived in the field of education due to their incapacity to make it in the real world. Look at this flawed reality in which your children are forced to populate. Your children are under the restriction and virtual imprisonment of this institutional mechanism for virtually half of their lives up to the age of 18. Have you ever investigated the aptitude of even one teacher who has regurgitated textbook ideologies and philosophical notions into your child's mind? Surely you've looked into their academic pedigree. No? How about that of their principle? If you're like most parents, you have no clue who the strangers rearing your children are and just assume they are experts in the field in which they teach. As a society, we've been conditioned to trust those the government deems 'worthy', no questions asked. The sad reality is it is highly unlikely that your child's teacher is an actual expert. Experts grace the upper echelon of their field of expertise and their pedigree is supported by published papers and books that dictate the current of their niche. In parent and teacher meetings, after your teen's history teacher pretentiously serves you a laundry list of your child's short comings, how do you respond? Have you considered changing the conversation to finding out what qualifies this 'instructor' to make such statements? What qualifies them to pick apart the way your child responds to the facts and fictions this teacher tosses about in the classroom. If they are an expert, surely they can ramble off a list of books and white papers they've authored to dictate the current of this field they claim as their domain. What research have they facilitated that has transformed the face of their niche subject? If they are like 99.9% of academics teaching grades 1 through 12, they have no publications to their name and are virtually nonexistent in the halls populated by niche genre experts. They are, for lack of a better term, wannabes. Our children are being taught and held hostage daily by automatons and imposters. That high school science teacher is not a scientist. He's a social misfit who couldn't cut it in the competitive scientific arena so he did exactly what others do when they are cast aside as industry rejects; he became a high school teacher. Yeah, sure, they'll tell you that they 'love' to teach and that it's their passion. They have simply come to grips with the reality that no one is going to hire them and they are more equipped to lecture to children who haven't the courage to debate them in the classroom. Expect more from your school district and demand quality. One pivotal aspect of a quality education is the district's attention to prepare teens with applicable skills. It's shocking how many teenagers graduate high school without the ability to balance a checkbook or apply philosophical thought to real world debates. There are two places your child will get the education that entails the true knowledge they will need in the real world, and school is not one of them. Home and curriculum like this book you are reading right now combined with real life experience will give your child the tools they need to succeed. In this book, your teen will learn how to present an idea to an audience of investors, the ins and outs of Botnets and basic network device security configurations, how to write a business plan that will yield results and much more. This book will give your child the tools and resources they will absolutely need but is ardently lacking in the school system. This series will ignite a level of confidence and willpower that you may not have seen in your child before.

In recent years the volume of hospitals and the health sector entities that that have fallen victim to hackers has continued to rise at an alarming rate. With each breach there are empty promises and finger pointing while the organizations attempt to attribute the hack to a bad actor like Deep Panda based off of exploit kit components that were used in a previous breach. Where are they getting their information? Who knows and who cares because it's almost always wrong and attribution is typically a waste of time as it is an attempt to take the responsibility and public outrage off of the hospital or healthcare organization's lack of proper cybersecurity hygiene and non-existent cybersecurity culture. When one takes a closer look at the actual problem in order to remedy a scalable solution the most profound reality is the pure lack of cybersecurity training in perfectly applicable environments where students are learning health IT, healthcare informatics, nursing and HIPPA. The fact that cybersecurity hygiene is an afterthought rather than an academic course in the health sector should have the victims of these breaches rioting in the street, yet there is a deafening silence on this topic of educational reform. I'm not saying that a full on curriculum covering Advanced Persistent Threat intricacies such as hacker tool kits, exploits, droppers, remote access trojans or how to forensically investigate code. But, perhaps it may be useful, while studying a technical topic to add a few ingredients of cybersecurity to, keep tens of millions of innocent people from having their health records exfiltrated by bad actors wishing to do them harm. This book series is intended to introduce the reader to healthcare informatics, health IT and HIPAA while simultaneously enhancing this information with cybersecurity content. Cybersecurity hygiene and an active and thriving cybersecurity-centric culture should be the foundation of patient record privacy and information security training in the health sector work place.

As a crucial component of our Nation's critical infrastructure, the health sector is an obvious and wide open target for bad actors. Hackers, both state sponsored and mercenary have been effortlessly pummeling our health sector networks while organizations do little to stop them. A firewall and anti-virus software will do little to stop intruders yet little, if anything, is being done to create standards to thwart a breach. Cybersecurity-centric components must be included in the curriculum of anyone studying health IT, HIPAA and healthcare informatics as these are the first victims that will be under cyber-attack in any organization in which they are employed. Xerox State healthcare, Anthem, AvMed, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, The Nemours Foundation and others experienced breaches that have affected millions of innocent victims but little is being done to solve the issue of educating gatekeepers of the information. Sloppy cybersecurity hygiene stems from minimal standards for information security in the workplace. The kneejerk reaction to a breach is typically restricted to chaotic chatter while actual strategies to thwart future attack are hardly mentioned therefor the attack surface continues to go unprotected as the IoT (Internet of Things) continues to evolve. Sophisticated and determined bad actors such as PLA Unit 61398, Topsec, Blackvine and Hidden Lynx are only a few of the multitude of Chinese initiatives to infiltrate, exfiltrate and corrupt the networks of America's healthcare sector. The shocking truth is that we are virtually voluntary victims as there is no cybersecurity hygiene and zero cybersecurity-centric culture being taught in hospitals, insurance companies, nursing schools or text books. Cybersecurity basics should be taught in every nursing school and healthcare informatics class yet this topic remains eerily absent from current curriculum. The topics of Healthcare IT, health informatics and cybersecurity go hand in hand yet academia has yet to merge these concepts in their lectures, certifications and degree programs. This book series merges these crucial concepts to expedite the reader's path to proper cybersecurity hygiene which is intended to enhance their work place cybersecurity culture. The reader will find that traditionally intimidating technical concepts have been authored in an easy to understand manner.

Right now, this very moment, you don't know it, but you are at war and the adversary is winning. Script kiddies, malicious hacktivists, state sponsored hackers and cyber mercenaries pose a critical and life altering threat landscape targeting you and your family. This isn't some doom and gloom fear mongering enterprise; this is the new reality. Your social security number, banking information and even your health records have tremendous value and you're offering all of this up on a silver platter to those with a malicious intent for its use. What cybersecurity mechanisms do you have in place at home to protect your family and at work to protect critical data? Do you suffer from Nephophobia? Do you know what that is? How do you analyze a link and automatically know if it carries a virus that will corrupt your computer for easy access to hackers? What is spear phishing? Is your business a potential victim of a DDoS attack? You've heard about Zero Days but what are they? This book covers this and much more in an intentionally easy to read and recall format so that your online activity from email and password creation to web browsing and filling out online forms can be done in a secure manner. After reading this book series, basic cybersecurity will be second nature and your newly found cybersecurity hygiene will rub off on your family and peers. This book covers topics such as: how to defend against Pwning, common Nephephobia, how to avoid being a victim to phishing attacks, overcoming DDOS attacks, how to block Zero Day exploits, how to thwart clickjacking, how to detect and protect against Malware and much more. Online courses that cover the topics in this series sell for $100's of dollars. The author will take your hand and walk you through these technical topics so that on the conclusion of each book, you'll have a working and virtually automatic comprehension of its contents. The internet is here to stay and will continue to evolve. With the introduction and chaotic accelerated growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) online threats will only become more sophisticated and malicious. A baseline comprehension of 'cyber self-defense' is paramount and proper cybersecurity hygiene is essential to protecting yourself, your family and business from hackers and to thwart virtual threats that have gone viral. The technical components of cybersecurity can be tedious and intimidating but this book series is authored for those who aren't tech gurus and need to learn powerful cybersecurity techniques quickly and easily without the intimidation of tech jargon or lofty terminology.

Being human is an extraordinary experience, perhaps even more so whenever you put two or more humans in close proximity to each other. Figuring out how to "do life together" is a challenge of a lifetime! Using a collection of writings spanning the topics of relationships, friendship, marriage, and human behavior, Dr. James Scott, Jr. uses this eclectic compilation to explore the different ways people connect in life --- successfully and otherwise. "Doing Life Together" is Volume 3 in the "Extraordinary Living" book series featuring a variety of writing collections from the popular "Extraordinary Living" blog.

What does it mean to live an "extraordinary life"? Preacher Smith Wigglesworth had a concise answer for that question: "To be saved by the power of God is to be brought from the ordinary to the extraordinary." This book, the 12th and final volume of the "Extraordinary Living" book series, features a miscellaneous collection of writings from the "Extraordinary Living" blog that explores this experience of living life extraordinarily as a disciple of Jesus Christ.

As hospitals and the health sector as a whole continue to take advantage of the conveniences provided by the latest IoT (Internet of Things) technologies, little attention is focused on the expansive and virtually completely unprotected attack surface evolving from use of these technologies. A cybersecurity-centric culture and an evolving enforcement of proper cybersecurity hygiene are mandatory to create even the most basic secure environment. Conversations and training centering on HIPAA, health IT and healthcare informatics must include cybersecurity, sadly it rarely does and the victims are typically the patients. Strangely, cyber-attacks such as Anthem and others like it were not technically sophisticated rather the exact opposite. Spear phishing, spoofed URLs and watering hole attacks are the primary means of obtaining legitimate admin credentials, thus offering up one's entire network to hackers on a silver platter. Including the position of CISO is pointless unless the staff is properly trained to identify the ingredients of basic social engineering and a malicious attack. This series is meant to introduce cybersecurity into the curriculum of those studying HIPAA, healthcare IT and health informatics as the topics go hand in hand, yet the health sector and academia as a whole have continued to ignore this reality therefore continue to be an easy target for hackers and bad actors. A cybersecurity-centric culture must be injected into every aspect of the health sector. Precise and determined effort must be introduced to initiate a mandatory cybersecurity hygiene standard throughout this crucial component of our Nation's critical infrastructure. This series has been authored to intentionally introduce cybersecurity and health IT simultaneously in hopes that the health sector will enforce the same concept to its academic partners.

The Book on Healthcare IT: What you need to know about Health Informatics, Hospital IT, EHR, HIE and Healthcare Information Technology Volume 2 brings you a complete and up-to-date overview of the key issues related to the adoption and use of information technology, communications and healthcare, with detailed practical information to support students, professionals and other stakeholders in the field of healthcare. Health Informatics, an evolving specialization, strives to improve the quality and safety of patient care. This book addresses the concepts, tasks and skills that professionals need to achieve the nation's targets for health care, and cover several aspects of healthcare operations, broadly - privacy, security, ethics, new technologies, mHealth, best practices and quality improvement. You will find detailed discussions about the best practices followed in the healthcare industry towards achieving the goal of better care and "meaningful use." Several strategies for prevention of data breaches are offered as the move towards EHRs and HIEs has opened up additional fields of concern, mainly related to the storage and sharing of digital data with the risk of loss of privacy and security of patient information. This book discusses ethical issues and ways of mitigating the risks involved concerning outsourcing and sharing information as the healthcare industry is now outsourcing certain services to focus on their core competency and to provide better care to patients. With Health Informatics, hospitals are rapidly moving towards implementation of newer technologies that support their functions more effectively and efficiently. Read about the use of third platform technologies such as clouds and mobile devices, telephone channels and the Web, along with use of Big Data and Analytics capabilities. All these fields are extremely important individually, and this book effectively discusses how their uniform use helps improve modern health care. Learn about different architectures used by information systems. Moving forward, this helps in understanding how hospitals are using different tools and strategies for improving the quality of healthcare they offer patients as the industry moves towards the post-EHR era with Evidence Based Medicine.

Hospitals and the healthcare community as a whole have become the most common and lucrative target for cyber-attack. Many breaches are targeted and sophisticated while others are surprisingly random and simple. The Internet of Things has increased the attack surface with a host of new vulnerabilities and an alarming number of organizations lack even the most basic cybersecurity hygiene, yet everyone is surprised when there is a breach and sensitive information is exfiltrated. Bad actors come in all forms with a multitude of methods, motivations and exploits but virtually all of them start with a phishing attack. All it takes is one click on a malicious link and an entire organization can be infected. The initial goal of a hacker is to obtain legitimate admin credentials then move laterally throughout a network escalating the level of privileges for access. Exfiltration of sensitive information and injecting falsified content are easy with the right access. Strangely, the health sector as a whole offers virtually zero training on social engineering or even basic standards for a cybersecurity-centric organizational culture. Continuous education on the latest exploits and techniques used by hackers is a mandatory prerequisite to initiating an environment conducive to security. Regularly patching vulnerabilities in applications used industry wide are crucial as vulnerabilities lead to exploit kits designed to infiltrate and corrupt distracted organizations. The most organized risks to the health sector in the United States come from State Sponsored and Hacker for Hire groups, primarily out of China. Platforms such as Elderwood offer a plethora of new Zero Days to organizations such as Deep Panda, Axiom and Hidden Lynx etc. whose sole purpose is to breach networks, exfiltrate data and corrupt critical infrastructure networks. The intention of this series is to introduce the basics in both Healthcare Informatics and Cybersecurity as a proper comprehension of both is the first step to a more secure environment. Cybersecurity should be part of the curriculum for students studying healthcare informatics and healthcare as a whole but sadly Academia has yet to catch up with the fast paced initiatives of hackers. True patient health record privacy and network security can only be realized if hospitals and the health sector take an aggressive and blatant approach to a cybersecurity-centric culture with continuous attention to proper cybersecurity hygiene.

The church is the bride of Christ, literally the family of God! Yet, the church in the West is in decline. Something important is missing ... "In my more than three decades of serving in the church, it's my opinion that the one highly critical aspect that is missing in today's church is the love of Christ. For too many who profess to be Christian, we fail to care," claims author, Dr. James Scott, Jr. "Real Christians Care" is an eclectic collection of writings by Dr. Scott on this vital topic of caring, as well as related topics of compassion, generosity, kindness, selflessness, and serving. As you explore these topics, one thing becomes abundantly clear --- real Christians care! This book is Volume 6 in the "Extraordinary Living" book series.