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Ramola D Reports/Report #72: Part 6–Barbara Hartwell, CIA Whistleblower: Corruption, Criminality, & Cover-Ups in the FBI & CIA

–Ramola D/Posted 6/30/2018

Preface: Massive Cyber Hacking, Sabotage, and Human-Rights-Violative DEW Targeting in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA

I’d like to preface this post describing Part 6 of my ongoing podcast conversation series with Barbara Hartwell, CIA whistleblower, with some information.

While many know that I am severely cyber-hacked and cyber-attacked on a continuous basis as I continue my writing and podcasting with absolute resolve, determined to get the true stories of the targeted and uber-surveilled and EMF-weapon-assaulted and neuro-weapon-attacked out there, so everyone can see and hear exactly what this incredibly lawless, barbaric, and inhumane Deeply Lawless State is doing, in the USA and UK and Europe, to its own citizens, in flagrant violation of all rights and laws of human decency, civility, and society—in addition to international human rights treaties and conventions–I have to note that my podcasts with Barbara Hartwell in particular, like my first podcast with Geral Sosbee, FBI whistleblower, and like my podcasts with Jeffrey Godwin, UK documentarian, activist, filmmaker, and with Dr. Eric Karlstrom, erudite and outspoken 9/11/Agenda 21/Current Power Structure researcher, have been especially severely attacked.

This is evident in the frequent interruptions on our podcasts whether I am using Zoom or GotoMeeting, in tampering with my settings on these applications, in cutting off of our meetings midway, sometimes frequently during the podcast, in introducing disruptive sound into my recordings including echoes, in disrupting the audio and video feed, in tampering with my camera settings, and in simply freezing my computer for days on end while I try to finalize and post the podcast.

This particular podcast was twice sabotaged; the recording I made on my desktop was mysteriously tampered with so as to make the file unusable: periodic static and knocks had been placed on the recording throughout. The recording on the server had had its settings switched and could not be downloaded for days. Both my computers were cyber-frozen as I tried to download the file. I spent two days with remote technical support to fix a variety of issues that had suddenly cropped up on my laptop including browsers crashing and files not opening. Then a few more days after opening the file while my pc was being frozen.

During this time of course, I was also blasted with microwaves on a continuous basis as I sat with my laptop; my chair, couch or bed vibrating with cluster ELFs, military radar flickering on my nerves, remote EEGs periodically grazing my skull (yes Virginia, I am speaking about covert, undisclosed, but highly evident-to-all-targeted remote neurotechnology, being used illegally and criminally on Americans), with the usual loony cars zooming up and down my street running their trying-to-track-and-hit DEW operations, courtesy General Dynamics Directed Energy Bio Behavioral Research field-testing-of-directed-energy-weapons contracts, Quincy city government, and the local fusion center (which is headed by Massachusetts State Police)—who have all turned a blind eye when I reported this criminal non-stop zooming activity on my street to the local DHS, via FOIA request, and asked for information. (That’s a story in itself, and I aim to be a lot more outspoken about this shortly: DHS is most definitely NOT keeping the homeland secure, it is keeping the homeland terrorized.)

In addition, small planes, large planes, helicopters crossing this block at an angle on all sides as well as flying directly over my home, extremely loud weed-trimmers and lawn-mowers, neighboring construction workers embarked on a continuous program of extremely-loud noise barrage. Again, courtesy Quincy City Government, with Mayor Thomas Koch at the helm. This is Lawless America, and local governments have completely keeled over to Military Industrial Intelligence Complex criminality, and are partaking in it. Neighbors are all bought-in via the FBI/FMJ criminality Geral Sosbee describes, and permit the carnage. They are of course, also partaking in the criminality, by so permitting—and acquiescently engaging in noise-harassment themselves. And, although I have no sympathy for their choices to permit this unlawful activity of zoomers on the street, as well as EMF weapon use on my person, all no doubt presented deceptively to them by the lying FBI/DHS as perfectly legitimate and “electronic surveillance” and part of “an ongoing investigation” (now going on for 4 years) of this writer, it is clear they have been railroaded into subservience, in other words: terrorized, lied to, co-opted.

I will also note that several houses in my neighborhood have been taken over by groups of young, transient Special Ops worker-bees on the ground for the Rothschild Mafia (and CIA/DIA/NSA black ops) operating through the FBI/DHS/DOD running both DEW operations and cyber-hacking operations really close, from just next-door. Immediate neighbors have been especially co-opted, it is clear to see, and are partaking more closely in these operations, in avid collusion with the zooming thugs who frequently park in their doorways and pop into their parlors, the easier to run their little RFID scanners, Magnetic Squids harvesting brainwaves, and through-wall radar, not to mention heat-producing Active Denial Systems to burn spines, faces, and sleep-deprive with.

We are living in KGB, Stasi, Nazi Amerika—this is how DEWs are being tested and operated on the populace, and how Americans are being lied to, duped, co-opted as they blindly support this Communism and DEW Barbarism that has invaded our communities, and do not spare a thought for the gigantic corruption and criminality—bolstered by child-trafficking, Satanism, and child-sacrifice at its core—they are actually supporting. (Because yes, the FBI/CIA/DHS operation on the ground in the USA is most definitely focusing on attacking those in communities who are not and cannot be servile pushovers for the Globalist Communist Satanist Zionist agenda AKA the New World Order AKA Agenda 21, Agenda 2030 AKA the Green UN Agenda; the first step in an intended full-on takeover of the entire World, and what they are protecting is full-on criminality, Satanism, child-trafficking, drug-trafficking, ritual abuse of one and all, dirty ops in military underground bases, and human sacrifice: your neighbors and mine should know the truth of this.)

Why Are My Podcasts With Barbara Hartwell Being So Extremely Sabotaged?

I recently put out a Call for Support of these podcasts with Barbara Hartwell, and I thank all those who sent in donations; I have sent on your donations via money-order to Barbara, I know she is grateful. Truly, she is in dire straits as the CIA has pushed her into financial destitution, and she absolutely needs our humane support.

After this experience of extreme sabotage of our latest podcast, I have been reflecting a bit on why exactly these podcasts are being attacked so extremely—I am being given every indication by the CIA and FBI (operating as goondas in my neighborhood, with both SUVs/cars and helicopters/planes at their disposal) that they are literally having panic attacks at my podcasting efforts here.

I think the answer is here: Barbara Hartwell is a woman whistleblower of absolute uprightness, conscientiousness, integrity, conscience, high-intelligence, and spine who has a powerful voice both as a writer/journalist and a public speaker, a strong anchoring in her Christian faith, and, like other brilliant Americans being nastily targeted by the Crime Cartel inside the FBI/CIA/DHS/DOD, has great spiritual and energetic power to influence, plus of course, she is an insider with an up-front attitude about her problems with the CIA, nasty agency par excellence: she is telling the truth, reporting on her own experiences, whistleblowing about actual criminal activity in the CIA/FBI, and even more importantly, she is laying bare the skin and bones of the deep-dish pie the CIA and FBI build in their layered Containment Ops, Controlled Opposition Ops, Black Propaganda Ops, Public Hypnosis Ops, Psychological Warfare Ops, Information Warfare Ops, Media Miasma Ops, you name it, as they jump through hoops desperately trying to contain the information on the Internet and protect their nodes of info-dissemination, in other words, their precious little media cutouts who stand like bastions and guardians of the InfoGate, pumping out Disinfo nonstop and keeping their nasty & not-so-little arms/drugs/human/child trafficking operations well-hidden under the Lying Umbrellas of Counter-Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism.

And Barbara Hartwell is naming names and tearing down the veils, pointing to the cutouts and pointing to the carnage with absolute, unabashed splendor, her instinct for truth unflinching, her voice brilliantly scathing: that is what they are freaking out about. Just look up her name on the Web and marvel at the incredible hatchet job done on her name; Barbara Hartwell has become the subject of a massive slander and defamation campaign stretching across Decades, which seeks to paint her as a liar and Disinfo agent, a CIA agent who destroys lives—when it is this precise species which has attacked her consistently and destroyed her own life.

The fact is, Barbara Hartwell is being slandered because what she is laying bare points to very subtle and nuanced Media and Public Mind Takeover via layered operations which include Mythologizing certain people—like famous Special Agent and top FBI man Ted Gunderson, who turns out to have been a CIA Spook—and Propping Up certain people in the Alt Media space as pillars of integrity—such as Ken Adichi and Don Stacey—also CIA plants–both of whom Barbara talks about in recent podcasts as well as this one, Part 6.

I recognize that as an interviewer and writer myself, I need to explore these characters a little deeper myself, to fully understand what exactly is going on in this mad mad world of CIA Disinformation, non-stop Spookdom, and extreme slander. I have come to know—as I think many viewers too have come to know—Barbara Hartwell pretty well recently through these podcasts, and also through exploring her website. I’ve learned for one that we are sister spirits, we are alike in our interest in learning the truth, in speaking our minds, in writing our thoughts—no holds barred. I am appalled at how she has been treated by the CIA after she left. I am both horrified and very surprised at the slander operations directed against her. And I am keen to get to the bottom of this and to learn and write more about the people she speaks about as well as the operations she points to. What for instance is the real truth about Edgar Hoover Right-Hand Man Ted Gunderson?

On this note, I thank investigative journalists Sherri Kane and Len Horowitz for their work in addressing these very subjects. I hope to highlight their work here as I go forward, and I will write more on these subjects myself as I learn the truth for certain. I also recommend to one and all these six podcasts Barbara Hartwell has graciously done with me: they truly help in reviving these old and prematurely-buried-by-slander stories, laying bare the current scenario regarding Psy Ops and Info Warfare being waged on all of us, and in returning to the world the very necessary and essential voice of Barbara Hartwell.

Corruption, Criminality, and Cover-Ups in the FBI and CIA

In this continuation of our earlier conversation on the practices of extreme and abusive retaliation against whistleblowers practiced by the FBI and CIA, as experienced in particular by CIA whistleblower Barbara Hartwell and FBI whistleblower Geral Sosbee and involving the “Black Propaganda” methods of character assassination, slander, defamation, and libel, Barbara expands further on these subjects.

Calling on her own experience of retaliation as well as Geral Sosbee’s in being so hounded and persecuted by the FBI and CIA over the years as to be prevented from finding a place to rent or living a normal life free of stalking, harassment, financial takedown, blacklisting, and poverty, Barbara Hartwell also mentions the cases of Jeffrey Sterling, still in prison after two years, and Kevin Shipp, whose home and family were targeted.

Bringing the situation to the present day, we discuss the identical targeting now being meted out to hundreds of thousands of (outstanding, high-IQ, high-integrity, highly accomplished, morally upright, conscientious, patriotic, critically-thinking, absolutely innocent) American citizens who have been placed not merely wrongfully but criminally by the FBI and local fusion centers on watchlists and terrorist lists, named glibly by the corrupt FBI as terrorists, extremists, potential terrorists, and other such Patriot Act confections, character-defamed in fabricated diagnoses as mentally unstable to their neighbors and communities, ostracized, surveilled, and then trafficked into military Electromagnetic weapons-testing and neuro-experimentation contracts, under which they are now all reporting physical torture and extreme bodily, psychological, and daily-life abuse—all for being awakened people who care enough about their country and community to speak out and take action against corruption or environmental damage or animal cruelty.

What this points to clearly is a complete failure of government and a complete failure of American communities both, where people have forgotten their innate rights or just hand them over freely to the corrupt State who comes knocking on their doors to “inform” them or “question” them and then co-opt them regarding their neighbor, who has been, Nazi-style, “put under investigation” for any number of fabricated reasons and always for an indefinite number of years. We have rights, notes Barbara, that are God-given and inherent, that should not be handed off when the FBI comes knocking.

She also notes the methodology being followed today is classic counterintelligence protocol, yet it is not legitimate counterintelligence, since the people being COINTELPRO’d are ordinary citizens with no links to espionage or terrorism. Further, she notes that those Americans who refuse to exercise their rights but cower in fear when the JTTF or FBI or other members of the bullying Police State approach with their slather of lies about a neighbor, and willingly comply with the surveilling and harassment instructions they are given, are indoctrinated to view the FBI as morally upright defenders of the Constitution when the opposite is true; these agencies (FBI, CIA) have currently become “lapdogs” to the Clintons and globalists who care nothing for the USA but seek centralized power through a One-World government. “The Government currently is essentially comprised of criminals.”

As always, Barbara illustrates the methodologies of containment, slander, persecution, and desperation practiced by the FBI and CIA with vivid stories from her own experience of being pursued and harassed by cut-outs and agents such as Tim White who harassed others including Geral Sosbee, and Don Stacey, and from her analyses of others’ experiences, including Constitutionalist Rick Stanley. As on her website, Barbara notes the importance of naming the names of the persecutors; we are in a war, she says, and we are fighting for our lives. Whistleblowers and targets know this. The path forward to justice is exposure, naming names, recovering your rights, and speaking out to combat the criminality.

Please support these ongoing conversations which bring alive in the current day the very important voice of a CIA woman whistleblower whose testimonial and insights are vital to the understanding of the Deeply Lawless State.

Please visit Barbara Hartwell’s website at http://barbarahartwellvscia.blogspot.com/ for more information.

My call for support of this series with links for donations is here: https://everydayconcerned.net/2018/06/21/call-for-support-please-support-my-ongoing-video-conversation-series-with-cia-whistleblower-barbara-hartwell/

Ramola D Reports can be supported on an ongoing basis via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RamolaD

I ask all reading to please share this page widely. If you appreciate my candor, my voice, and my work, please support my journalism with a regular subscription at Patreon (link above) or via Paypal here (link to the top right). Patreon subscription starts as low as $3 per month; I’d appreciate $15 per month. Tech support is a large part of what I absolutely need funding for; I truly appreciate all subscriptions. With your help, I will keep writing and podcasting and belting out the truth. For donations to Barbara Hartwell via my links, just write me a note mentioning the donation is for her, I will send on to her. Thanks! Ramola

PS: Any other CIA/FBI/NSA/other agency whistleblowers reading this and contemplating further truth-telling, please email me at ramolad@hushmail.com and consider doing a podcast or print interview, I will be honored. Just remember, to end the carnage, we have to collectively expose the Deeply Lawless State.

Jeffrey Sterling Update: John Kiriakou/Truthdig: “Our Grass-Roots Pressure May Be The Only Thing That…Could Save His Life”

Sep 22: Jeffrey Sterling has suffered a heart attack in prison, John Kiriakou writes Sep 21 in Truthdig:

Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling Appears to Have Suffered a Heart Attack in Prison

Excerpt, urging concerned communities to engage, take action, pick up the phone and call the Warden or Bureau of Prisons, or send an email message:

“Holly Sterling has been tireless in her work to get her husband to a cardiologist. She asked Jeffrey’s sentencing judge, Leonie Brinkema, to intervene. Brinkema refused. She then enlisted the support of Norman Solomon’s Roots Action, which has asked supporters to call Warden Deborah Denham at 303-763-4300. In addition to the warden, Solomon recommends contacting the Bureau of Prisons’ North Central Regional Office by calling Sara M. Revell at 913-621-3939 or writing to her at ExecAssistant@bop.gov. Our grass roots pressure may be the only thing that gets Jeffrey Sterling to a cardiologist. It could save his life.”

Please read the Truthdig article in full to discover how exactly the prison system has been structured to prevent outside interference and permit bureaucratic mayhem, as per the Administrative Remedy Process which all prisoners are supposed to go through if they need immediate medical attention or have a complaint, a “Process” involving paperwork, delays, and weeks/months/up to a year of processing. For immediate medical attention, it looks like prisoners need our help from the outside; we need to make those calls and write those emails immediately.

Sep 21: Please write, call, or email to speak on Jeffrey Sterling‘s behalf, to ensure timely and urgently needed medical treatment for him in prison. Jeffrey Sterling as you may know is the CIA whistleblower who had sued the CIA for discrimination related to employment issues and was later charged under the Espionage Act for leaking of classified information regarding the CIA’s “bungled” undercover operations in Iran to James Risen of the New York Times. More on his story may be found at this Nation article. RT covers the urgent call for humane treatment and urges treatment of his heart condition. The Intercept calls this week for a pardon of all whistleblowers. Roots Action features this call from his wife Holly Sterling to all Americans and citizens worldwide of conscience: please speak out to assist this CIA whistleblower, whose health from all accounts needs immediate attention. Source: Email/Roots Action.

Sep 17, 2016

Hello Friends,

During this morning’s telephone conversation with Jeffrey, he informed me there was a date he was to see the medical specialist. Sadly, that date has come and gone. I remain in complete and utter disbelief that Jeffrey’s dire medical issues continue to be blatantly ignored to the point of medical negligence by the prison.

To cause further angst, Jeffrey told me a fellow individual recently requested to report to sick call immediately. His request was denied by the corrections officer as it was prior to the “official” sick call time. Tragically, he died a couple hours later. The cause of death, a HEART ATTACK!

Friends, I cannot and will not let Jeffrey suffer the same tragic consequences. I am requesting your help once again to get my beloved husband the medical treatment he is inherently entitled to as a human being.

Every day I am plagued by unimaginable fear when my telephone rings, as when the caller ID says “private,” I am terrified if it is going to be Jeffrey’s voice on the other end or that of a prison employee with terrible news.

Please help us:

**  You may once again email or phone the Warden, Deborah Denham, demanding that Jeffrey receive the necessary and proper medical care. You can contact her at ExecAssistant@bop.gov or call 303-763-4300.

In addition to contacting the Warden, please email or call the North Central Regional Office that is responsible for oversight and support to FCI Englewood and other prisons in its jurisdiction. You may email Sara M. Revell at NCRO/ExecAssistant@bop.gov or call 913-621-3939.

**  Chances are you’ve already signed the petition for President Obama to grant Jeffrey an immediate pardon. Now I hope you’ll encourage others to sign it as well. Mindful that the president will be vacating his office soon, I will be making my way back to DC for a final plea.

**  Your help for the Sterling Family Funddonating here — would assist with me hiring a lawyer, as it currently appears that may be the only way for Jeffrey to receive proper medical care. The Fund also continues to allow me the privilege to visit with Jeffrey, and I pray my recent visit will not be the last.

**  Lastly, please continue to send words of encouragement to my dear husband Jeffrey. You may write letters and/or send cards to him at the following address:

Jeffrey and I remain grateful and humbled by your actions and support standing in solidarity to get him the medical help he is entitled to. We honestly could not continue without your support and help, as tragically our government continues to demonstrate how powerful and evil it truly can be. We wish all of you health, happiness, and peace to you and your families.

Holly Sterling

>>  AFP: “Pardon Sought for Ex-CIA Officer in Leak Case”
>>  Marcy Wheeler, ExposeFacts: “Sterling Verdict Another Measure of Declining Government Credibility on Secrets”
>>  Norman Solomon, The Nation: “CIA Officer Jeffrey Sterling Sentenced to Prison: The Latest Blow in the Government’s War on Journalism”
>>  Reporters Without Borders: “Jeffrey Sterling Latest Victim of the U.S.’ War on Whistleblowers”
>>  ExposeFacts: Special Coverage of the Jeffrey Sterling Trial
>>  BBC News: “Jeffrey Sterling’s Trial by Metadata”
>>  Documentary film: “The Invisible Man: NSA Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling”

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Luis Vas de Camoes (1524-1580)
Lusiad (Os Lusiadas) (1572), Portuguese.
The Lusiad describes Vasco da Gama's voyage all the way round Africa to India, which was pretty clever, at least until they invented the Suez Canal. Highly rated if you can read Portuguese, but since that means you probably are Portuguese, or at least Brazilian, we won't trust your judgement on grounds of bias.

Ariosto Ludovico (1474-1533)
Orlando Furioso (1532), Italian.
Orlando Furioso is highly rated, about the crazy adventures during the crusades of mad Orlando. It also features someone riding a hippogriff to the moon, a hippogriff being 1/4 lion, 1/4 eagle and 1/2 horse, but not having any cow in the mix, it didn't jump over said lunar object.

John Milton (1608-1674)
Paradise Lost (1674), English.
Paradise Lost contains some of the greatest poetry in the English language, but is by and large totally unreadable. This is despite being one of the few epic poems based on a story anyone has ever heard, the early part of Genesis. Milton was blind, long-winded and a puritan, but also a campaigner for a free press (about which he wrote Areopagitica, possibly the best ever title for a pamphlet in defence of a free press, named for the hill where the Athenian Supreme Court met, Areopagos). Milton is most famous for being, according to William Blake, a satanist and thus a poet*.

Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)
Rinaldo (1562), Gerusalemme liberata (1575), Italian.
Alliterative names are always cool, and he sounds sort of like Torquemada, boss of the Spanish Inquisition. On the negative side, he was a big influence on Edmund Spenser. Also big on crusades.

Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599)
The Faerie Queene (1596), English.
In the entire 5 million years since our ancestors climbed down from the trees no one has ever read The Faerie Queene, not even Spenser, who left it unfinished. It is believed to be an epic poem about the wonderfulness of Queen Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen (although it is not intended as a slight on her sexuality, the epithet "faerie" referring only to male homosexuals). It is written in stanzas of 9 lines, about 8 more than most readers can manage.

Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70 BC-19 BC)
Aeneid (19 BC), Roman, wrote in Latin.
Not a Renaissance poet, but the poet every Renaissance epic poet wanted to be. He set an excellent precedent by demanding his relatives destroy his epic poem about the founding of Rome. However, they in turn set a different kind of precedent by refusing his wishes.

*Not strictly true. "The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true Poet, and of the Devil's party without knowing it." The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake (admittedly words spoken by Satan, whose impartiality is in doubt).

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Re*ver"sion*a*ry (?), a. Law

Of or pertaining to a reversion; involving a reversion; to be enjoyed in succession, or after the termination of a particular estate; as, a reversionary interest or right.

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Re*ver"sion*a*ry, n. Law

That which is to be received in reversion.

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Shi"ah (?), n.

Same as Shiite.

© Webster 1913.

Shi"ite (?), Shi"ah (?), n. [Ar. shi'aia follower of the sect of Ali, fr. shi'at, shi'ah, a multitude following one another in pursuit of the same object, the sect of Ali, fr. sha'a to follow.]

A member of that branch of the Mohammedans to which the Persians belong. They reject the first three caliphs, and consider Ali as being the first and only rightful successor of Mohammed. They do not acknowledge the Sunna, or body of traditions respecting Mohammed, as any part of the law, and on these accounts are treated as heretics by the Sunnites, or orthodox Mohammedans.

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When one thinks of a cart wheel, one is thinking of a wheel for an old-fashioned cart for a horse. The wheels are quite big, so as to lift the cart far enough off the ground to 1) tether comfortably to the horse, 2) avoid rocks in the road, and 3) still retain height for the cart when the wheels go down into the ruts in the road. The wheel is made of hard wood or metal, with a hub in the middle and a hole for the axle to stick through, a big circle on the outside, and long spokes to connect the hub and circle together. The big circle turns around on the ground as the cart is pulled forward.

A cartwheel is the name for a gymnastics movement which looks like a circular cart wheel going around. You start in a standing position, turn over in a circular movement sideways with your arms and legs out wide like cartwheel spokes, and end in a standing position again. A person well practised in cartwheels can continue going over and over, turning multiple cartwheels in a row and ending up a fair distance to the side of where they started.

The movement for a cartwheel should be fairly quick as it requires momentum to achieve succesfully. Say you are going to do a cartwheel to the left. From a standing position, take a step to the left side with your left leg, start to lift your right leg up sideways to the right, put your left hand down on the left side with your fingers pointing towards the back. Use the momentum created to also lift your left leg up in the air as your right hand is placed on the ground to the other side of your left hand. Your legs continue up and over; in the middle of the movement, it will look like a snapshot of a handstand with your legs straddled wide. Then as your leading leg starts to come down on the other side, your first hand (left) lifts up, your first leg (left) touches the ground, your second hand (right) lifts up and your second leg (right) touches the ground. Ta da! One rotation of a cartwheel performed successfully.

A fellow noder has sent me a message, questioning the above instructions. There is apparently another way to perform a cartwheel, and that is to start forwards and end facing backwards. I learnt the side way, and did a bunch of them while writing the above to make sure I described it properly. The advantage of the side way is that the flow of multiple cartwheels is better and more continuous. The advantage of the forward way is a cleaner movement and less chance of falling over.

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Memory expansion hack for the BBC microcomputer. Not to be confused with sideways RAM (and certainly not with sideways ROM), this would essentially page the top 20K of RAM, which was used for the display. Of course, the 6502 (and 65c02) used in the beeb had nothing remotely like page mapping. Instead, the following clever hardware scheme was used:

  • Well-behaved programs only accessed the screen via the OS, by calling the video driver.
  • The OS was always in the address range &C000-&FFFF.
  • The hardware switched the shadow RAM in and out. When PC (the program counter) was in the OS range, shadow RAM was out; when it was in the application range, shadow RAM was in.

Of course, games and the like weren't well-behaved applications, so you'd need to switch off (in software, of course) the shadow RAM before running. But a surprising number of applications (and even sideways ROMs!) worked with shadow RAM.

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The effects of a government subsidy (defined by Webster 1913 as "A grant from the government, from a municipal corporation, or the like, to a private person or company to assist the establishment or support of an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public") can be drawn on a simple supply and demand curve.

£+  \   /S1 /S2
 +   \ /   /
 +  A x   /
 +   / \ /
 +  /   x B
 + /   / \
 +    /   \D1
0                      QTY

As the subsidy results in some of the production costs being paid for by the government, the producers will be happy to increase their output. This is shown by the expansion of supply from S1 to S2. Assuming that demand remains constant at D1, the equilibrium position will shift from A to B, leading to a lower equilibrium price and higher equilibrium output.

An example of a subsidised industry is farming, where the EU will subsidise uncompetitive farmers to keep them in the market, preventing urban migration.

(thanks to dann for help!!)

”Imputing a subsidy, especially if laws are passed to force its mixed use, to lower the price already signals that this is distorted and therefore, economically inefficient.” (Tito F. Hermoso, Business World magazine columnist)

A subsidy is government aid given to a business or economic sector to artificially increase its chance of success. If random product was selling at 50 cents a bushel, the government would come in and pay an additional 50 cents per bushel to Mr. Farmer. This increases the likelihood of said farmer to grow more of that particular product.

Also known as a subvention.

    There are many types of subsidies, including:
  • Direct and indirect subsidies
  • Labor subsidies
  • Tax subsidy
  • Perverse subsidies
  • Production subsidies
  • Regulatory advantages
  • Import tarrifs as trade protection, and export subisides as trade promotion
  • Procurement subisides
  • Consumption subsidies

A position against subsidies
Subsidies destroy the free market, are anti-capitalism in nature, and artificially inflate a product that may not even be cost effective in the first place.

Subsidies in the USA raise prices globally
In recent years, extreme controversy has created a row over subsidies for products like biofuels, corn (for ethanol), fish, wheat, rice, soy, etc. Foods that would normally be consumed, are now being used as fuel. The United States’ production on corn especially has increased phenomenally. The problem is this, corn is being turned into ethanol, but it takes five times as much energy to get a tank of fuel out of corn than it does from normal gas. “The price of corn has more than doubled, since it is now a competitor to oil rather than food grains, putting ranchers, hog farmers and other feed users under enormous pressure.” (Ruannalls)

Additionally, production of the “green” fuel is not necessarily better on the atmosphere. Then the price of corn goes up, but only for the purpose of ethanol, and most likely not for eating purposes. The price of corn is affected worldwide, however, it would take an economist to explain why, as all of this corn production is domestic only, and they tariff inbound corn. Either way, farm subsidies in first world countries depress world food prices so much that local farmers in third world countries cannot afford to sell on the international market (or even the local market), pushing them out of business. Raising world food prices through biofuels will cause some people to starve, but may be a major economic boon for many local farmers around the world, for better or worse. “While a growing use of grain as feedstock for biofuels could boost food prices beyond current levels, the trend could also exert additional stress on already highly exploited land and water resources worldwide.” (Birmingham Post) The US will have to increase crop lands beyond capacity, and worldwide prices on food will continue to go up. Add this to all the other food related subsidiaries, and you have a serious food shortage on your hands. Many foods are being turned into fuel, instead of being consumed. “The International Monetary Find also warned that an increasing global reliance on grain as a source of fuel could drive up food prices in poor countries.” (Birmingham Post)

The fatal conceit of the government (and legislators) is that they think they can make predictions of what people will need in five years and the price they are willing to pay for it without sacrificing wealth to inefficiency. Or so postulated the Nobel-prize winning economist, Friedrich Hayek. And so we have the enaction of the law of unintended consequences, almost always adverse, where a few hundred legislators are deemed wiser than the nearly infinite number of nuanced economic decisions made by millions of their constituents. Which is essentially, the market.

Free trade of goods is the only efficient way of matching supply and demand. It is the only way to efficiently determine how much of a good is desirable for a given price.
That's why subsidies are distorting to this efficient functioning of markets. Subsidies create opportunities for those who cannot sell their goods in a fair and free market by tapping the coercive and redistributive forces of the government. Subsidies make uncompetitive goods artificially attractive by raising the price gap. Subsidies create an opportunity for manipulation of the government by special interests and lobbies, and all at the general public's expense. This damages any social welfare agenda because favoring a subsidy on one sector disadvantages another. Instead of giving consumers the best goods at lowest cost, the subsidized and previously overpriced good now becomes viable at the cost of the money used to subsidize it being taken away from more important uses.” (Hermoso)

As Hermoso explains, subsidies are destroying the free market. Giving an advantage to one market hurts another, but not even just domestically. “The UK's biofuels industry is under threat from subsidised fuels from the USA” (Farmers weekly)

Furthermore, if the government doesn’t remove subsidiaries now, they never will be able to; the government is getting trapped into a no exit policy. Those receiving the subsidies will gain market control. Then removing the subsidies would completely destabilize the market again. Which is a lesser evil, considering the brink point is capable of being reached only when foods are going to energy instead of consumption.

Sadly the fact of the matter is, subsidies don’t even obtain their goal. “Biofuel subsidies are not a cost-effective means of improving the environment.” (Kamalick)

Lou Dobbs effect
Artificial stimulation has caused the Lou Dobbs effect, a gold rush so to speak, in the biofuels market. "The US imposed a tariff on imports of ethanol, ensuring that local ethanol gains market share." (Hermoso) Lou Dobbs is a CNN commentator who often calls democrats to action, or even congress. When something sounds good and its advertised, regardless if its actually wholesome, people will want it.

“So how can we create a policy framework to support sustainable biofuels? Well, it will only happen when the federal government gets out of the business of picking technology winners with taxpayer money and instead creates greater parity in the use of incentives to reward genuine climate-friendly technologies” (Samson) It’s pretty clear that subsidies are being piled one on top of another without real market analysis. Congress is making decisions without consulting economists. The impact to the environment and the economy is not being analyzed, or even is being suppressed. It just doesn’t make sense to keep producing ethanol when a similar fuel made from sugar beats in Brazil is more cost effective and receives better results. The United States will lose soft power, if nothing else, from the situation when we cause poverished nations to go hungry.

We should go after oil shale, instead of green fuels that require subsidies that really destroy the whole point of capitalism, the free market.

Hermoso 2007 (Tito F. Hermoso, Business World, February 7, 2007, Biofuels: Subsidies and false economies)
Birmingham Post 2007 (Biofuels bandwagon is running short on energy; ENERGY October 25, 2007, Thursday)
Samson 2007 (Roger Samson is executive director of Resource Efficient Agricultural Production-Canada, a member of McGill University's Biofuels Network.)
Farmers weekly 2007
Ruannalls 2007 (David Runnalls is CEO and president of the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Subsidizing biofuels backfires, March 14, 2007 Wednesday)
Kamalick 2006 (Group urges US to end subsidies for biofuels)

Sub"si*dy (?), n.; pl. Subsidies (#). [L. subsidium the troops stationed in reserve in the third line of battlem reserve, support, help, fr. subsidere to sit down, lie in wait: cf. F. subside. See Subside.]

Support; aid; cooperation; esp., extraordinary aid in money rendered to the sovereign or to a friendly power.

They advised the king to send speedy aids, and with much alacrity granted a great rate of subsidy. Bacon.

Subsidies were taxes, not immediately on on property, but on persons in respect of their reputed estates, after the nominal rate of 4s. the pound for lands, and 2s. 8d. for goods.

Specifically: A sum of money paid by one sovereign or nation to another to purchase the cooperation or the neutrality of such sovereign or nation in war.

A grant from the government, from a municipal corporation, or the like, to a private person or company to assist the establishment or support of an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public; a subvention; as, a subsidy to the owners of a line of ocean steamships.

Syn. -- Tribute; grant. -- Subsidy, Tribute. A subsidy is voluntary; a tribute is exacted.

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It was the feel-good scene of the century. Or at least of two seasons of This Is Us.

In the season 2 finale of the NBC family drama, deep inside the subconscious of Kate (Chrissy Metz), viewers received something they could only dream of: Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) was alive and very well, showing no sign of smoke inhalation, standing proudly with his wife Rebecca (Mandy Moore), who in this alternate version of reality only knew Miguel (Jon Huertas) as best friend of Jack, not as second husband. Together, they celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary while the Big Three looked on lovingly.

Yes, the daughter who was angst-ridden about having to walk down the aisle without her dad had been conjuring this all-the-feels-and-then-some! scene every night for several weeks. There was Jack — with glasses and some gray hair — beaming as he delivered his umpteenth classic Jack speech, explaining that the highlight of his day for 22 years was the note that his wife would pack in his lunch every day, and then when the couple started Big Three Homes together (yes, the very business they were dreaming about the night of the fire), she stopped the ritual. But it didn’t matter because he had “the highlight of my day right there, sitting by my side every day.” At this glittery-glowy 40th reception, Rebecca sang “Moonshadow” to her husband, the song she was performing when these two had that first unlikely and charged encounter. As icing on this multi-layer cake, father and daughter had a chance to dance, something she wouldn’t get to do at her actual wedding.

Although Jack’s absence loomed large on her big day with Toby (Chris Sullivan), Kate made peace with her guilt in a conversation with her dad’s ashes in the woods outside the family cabin. She explained she had to let go of him a little bit so she could let Toby in. Of course, Jack isn’t going anywhere; on this time-tripping show, his spirit is everywhere. Before the band stops playing and the six-month countdown until season 3 begins, why don’t you grab a cone of banana pudding ice cream, sit on this lovely stump, and read what Ventimiglia has to say about that magical moment in “The Wedding.”

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: It’s the ultimate wish fulfillment for fans to see Rebecca and Jack together in the present day, albeit in a dream. If I remember correctly, there was talk of putting you in old-age makeup almost from the beginning. What were your first thoughts when you found out this context for it?
MILO VENTIMIGLIA: I was excited about it. I was happy about it. For several reasons. One, I get to experience what Mandy or Jon Huertas go through. I get to stand next to Mandy dressed as my aged version of Jack. Which I think is not only cool for the audience, but really cool for us just to think about what the life lived could have been. And then beyond that also, selfishly for me, I got to share the stage with actors I don’t get to usually spend time with — i.e., Justin [Hartley] and Chrissy and Sterling [K. Brown] and Susan [Kelechi Watson] and the kids, Eris [Baker] and Faithe [Herman]. It was fun, it was exciting, and I’m grateful for the opportunity that [creator Dan] Fogelman and the writers give me and all of us to be able to play those different possibilities for the characters.

You looked good for a 73-year-old man, by the way.
Thanks, man. Thank you. When the whole process was going down, [TIU makeup artist] Zoey Hay and our effects team, they wanted to see photos of my father, who was close to Jack’s age, even though he was younger. So I sent photos of my father from different angles and they imagined this idea of what I would look like in my seventies, and it was a whole three-hour process, with a wig.

The salt-and-pepper goatee was nice, but were you initially thinking he’d get a new facial hair look in this time period?
[Laughs.] No. Once Jack hits his fifties and he was with the goatee, it’s kind of a continuation. It’s like seeing photos of men in their fifties [and their look] pretty much continued into their older years. It was the easiest. We knew that look. We knew what we were doing, so to age it was more simple than to develop something new.

What was it like to shoot those scenes? Chrissy mentioned it was hard for you to laugh in the prosthetic.
I mean, any time I’m in a fake beard, a fake goatee — anything but the mustache — I have a hard time laughing. My mouth opens wide, my face gets animated when I laugh personally, so being on set with the adult Big Three — that’s an entirely different set. There’s a lot of laughter, there’s a lot of back-and-forth, and they’re doing things that are just cracking me up, so I wasn’t really able to laugh too big with them, because I didn’t want to ruin this wonderful makeup that our effects team and Zoe had put on me.

I know you’re a proud Pearson papa, so what was it like to have a father-daughter dance with Chrissy and close the circle on the adult Big Three moments? You’ve now had scenes with Justin, Sterling, and Chrissy….
It was great. Much like the other cast that I’ve worked with, Chrissy and I were just kind of savoring it, enjoying it. There were a lot of looks that Chrissy and I shared throughout that. Mostly because it was her sequence, and of course there’s the dynamic in the relationship between Kate and Jack. But that was her vision and her dream of what could have happened or idea of Mom and Dad’s wedding-vow renewal. So I wanted to respect that and make sure that that’s from her point of view, so the connection would be — everything is going back to Kate.

It’s been quite a journey for Kate to forgive herself for Jack’s death. Can we say that the finale gives the closest thing to closure on that pain as she moves forward into marriage?
Yes. One hundred percent. It was needed. She was the one that was literally carrying Jack’s death around with her, keeping his urn on her mantle, so it was needed for her, and, as exactly as she said, to make room for Toby. It was a really beautiful transition to that next part of her life.

How did you approach playing Jack at that period in his life? How much thought did you put into that?
There wasn’t a whole lot of thought. Looking at the history of Jack and how he had lived his life in a very simple way — I feel like a broken record saying he loves his wife and he loves his kids, but I feel like that is expanded when you get to your seventies. He felt like a man that was probably interested in slowing things down as best as he could, just to hang on to the moments. Almost in a way reflecting what William [Ron Cephas Jones] had said before. Knowing that he was dying, he said, “You just hold on to these moments as best you can.” Jack in his seventies would slow time down to a crawl just so he could embrace his family as much as he could.

It was striking to see Rebecca not carrying around a weight of sadness that she has. Did that resonate with you, seeing how happy and light she was?
It absolutely did. It wasn’t lost on me. Every time I see present-day Rebecca, it breaks my heart, because Mandy carries her with such weight and life lived that it was nice to see her not have to shoulder that anymore. She almost stood taller. She had her shoulders back. She was easier to smile. The tears were happy tears; they weren’t anything different than that.

Does this scene make it harder for Miguel? The writers have already had to dig him out of the hole with the audience because he’s not Jack, and now fans get to see Rebecca and Jack together in the present, and they’ll surely say, “We want more of this please.”
[Laughs.] You’re going to have ask Dan or Isaac [Aptaker, executive producer] or Elizabeth [Berger, executive producer] that question. I’ve always tried to back up Miguel, and that whole relationship, and I think people need to give him a chance. Even Miguel said, “There was always just Jack and Rebecca,” so I don’t think he’s there to diminish that or take away from that. There is this reality that people need to accept loss and accept it in a graceful way that they can move on from, and it shouldn’t diminish things that come after. It shouldn’t at all. Because life moves on. And if you’re stuck in the past, then you’re stuck in sadness or regret or anger, and it’s not good to do.

To read what This Is Us executive producer Elizabeth Berger had to say about the finale’s three time-jumping cliffhangers, click here.

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This venerable tradition of The Explorers Club goes back to the founding of our club and a fine history of it can be found in the forward that George Plimpton wrote for As Told At The Explorers Club.

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New and old members will mingle and the stories will flow along with good cheer.

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This event will be streamed live. Please visit our Live Stream page at 7pm on the evening of the event to view the lecture for free.

Black holes are a fascinating prediction of Einstein’s general relativity theory. Over the last 10 years or so, astronomers have accumulated convincing evidence that black holes not only actually exist, but are ubiquitous in nature. They are found to reside at the center of every galaxy, some close enough to study in detail. Extremely large black holes, several billion times heavier than our own Sun, are also known to have formed already within a mere 700 million years after the Big Bang. The rapid assembly of such large black holes is currently an unsolved puzzle in astrophysics.

I will describe a possible solution to this puzzle, based on our current understanding of how the first stars formed a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. These stars were very different from the stars that occupy galaxies today, 14 billion years later. They were much more massive, leaving behind small “stellar-mass” seed black holes at the end of their lives. These small black holes can later gain weight by the gas that spirals into them, and can build up bigger black holes by merging frequently.

Remarkably, the formative era, in which these first cosmic objects formed, is not hopelessly beyond our current horizon of astronomical observations, and may be revealed by future telescopes. In addition to normal electromagnetic radiation, during their merger, a black hole pair emits copious amounts of gravitational waves. These gravitational waves can also be detected by future space-based detectors, and serve as an alternative test of our cosmic structure formation theories.

Zoltan Haiman is a theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist at Columbia University. He was planning to become an architect, but as an undergraduate at MIT, he became fascinated by the many open questions in astrophysics and cosmology. In his PhD research at Harvard University, he pioneered the basic theoretical understanding of how the first generation stars formed in the universe, a subject that has since developed into a major research area in cosmology. As a postdoctoral fellow at Fermilab and at Princeton, and now as a professor in the Astronomy Department at Columbia University, he has continued working on a broad range of theoretical problems in astrophysics and cosmology, including the assembly of the first galaxies and the end of the cosmic dark age; the nature of dark matter, dark energy, and the acceleration of the universe; and, most recently, understanding the process of mergers between supermassive black holes. He was named as one of the top 10 young scientists in the U.S. by Popular Science magazine in 2002, and was a winner of the 2010 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists from the New York Academy of Sciences for "highly innovative, impactful, and interdisciplinary accomplishments in the life sciences, physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering". Together with his students and collaborators, he has co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers.

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I had the excellent opportunity to attend the 2-night Veritas Forum at SMU this week. It was the first time SMU has brought VF to campus, but the intellectual nature and interesting spiritual climate of the school make Veritas a perfect fit. The first night included a multi-faith panel, where each participant presented the key beliefs of each of their traditions. Then last night Os Guinness spoke, urging students to ask the deeper questions of life – and seek answers.

It’s hard to explain how it all worked together, but it honestly did – especially in light of the unique aspects of SMU.

(The SMU “Daily Campus” front-paged their coverage after the first night; see that article here.)

I’m not sure if Veritas Forum ever came to Texas A&M while I was there, but my most recent previous interaction came on the big trip. That cool experience involved seeing Tim Keller speak (with Q&A following) at Berkeley and Stanford on back-to-back nights. (You can read about that here.)

Some of you may be familiar with Veritas, but I would imagine plenty of you may not be. I don’t think they are all that well-known beyond campuses that have held a Forum. But Veritas seems to be growing, and in fact they’ve got 29 scheduled visits for this semester (and one more TBA at UCSF).

I encourage you to take a look at their info; they actually do a really good job of relating who they are and what they’re about here. And you can check out the calendar to see if a Forum is coming to a campus anywhere near you. You can also click on the various campuses to see presenters and other info.

One look at the various campus presenters will give a glimpse of the breadth in the Veritas Forums. Every campus has a different speaker or speakers, presumably chosen based on the campus and/or topic being discussed. Last night was Os Guinness at SMU; now Shane Claiborne and Lauren Winner (with a host of others) are up at Harvard; next week William Lane Craig and friends are at Columbia. And the list goes on.

Tomorrow, thoughts on why I like Veritas Forum as a college ministry, based on very little information (you’ll see).

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Phoenix Children's Hospital and Mayo Clinic Complete Valley's First Pediatric Liver Transplant in More Than Two Decades

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PHOENIX, -- /EPR NETWORK/ -- In what is a first for the Valley in more than two decades, a 17-year-old girl from Glendale, Ariz., became the recipient of a pediatric liver transplant on Dec. 6, the result of collaboration between Phoenix Children's Hospital and Mayo Clinic in Arizona. It is also the first living donor pediatric liver transplant in the Valley.

The milestone surgery was all the more unique in that it was a living donor liver transplant, meaning that a donor offered to give up part of her liver to be transplanted into the recipient. Both the donor and the recipient livers will regenerate within a matter of weeks. The donor, a 35-year-old woman from Oklahoma, underwent comprehensive medical and psychological testing to be qualified as a match for the recipient. The donor is the godmother of the recipient, and has known her since she was born.

The first surgery began at Mayo Clinic Hospital at 7:30 a.m. when part of the donor's liver was removed in a 3½ hour procedure led by David Mulligan, M.D., Director, Transplant Center, Mayo Clinic in Arizona. The partial liver was put on ice and transported to Phoenix Children's Hospital, where it was transplanted into the recipient.

Pediatric liver transplants are primarily done when the child has primary liver disease that may progress to death, with the risk of death that outweighs the risk of transplantation.

The recipient's surgery was led by Winston Hewitt, M.D., liver transplant surgeon at Mayo Clinic and surgical director of the Phoenix Children's Hospital Pediatric Liver Transplant Program. Medical director of the program is Tamir Miloh, M.D., Phoenix Children's Hospital.

Both patients were reported to be doing well following the combined 8½ hour surgeries. The program marks the only such pediatric program in the Phoenix area for pediatric patients. Previously, patients had to travel to Tucson or out-of-state for the surgery.

Certification for the Phoenix Children's Hospital Pediatric Liver Transplant Program was granted by the United Network for Organ Sharing in March 2012, paving the way for the first such program in Arizona to provide an integrated, child-centered liver transplant program that takes place within a dedicated pediatric hospital.

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#52 Why Am I Thinking This?

Well, hello there fellow readers! Wherever you are in this world! (Yeah, I’m that optimistic, I believe you guys could possibly be somewhere in the North Pole, or somewhere in Tromso, or even in Sousse Tunisia, chillin with your family, might be in Vallejo playing with your kids, or in Cardiff, having some steak in Wheterspoons!

Anyway, yes, I’m so stuck in writing my articles for LiteFM, I might just spill some here. So here it goes.

I woke up feeling weirdly neutral, Alhamdulillah. Well, you might be thinking, then what do you feel everyday else? I know right, I question that too! But today it’s a bit different.

It’s not that long now for my big day, and yes, I am becoming a wife, a partner, a lover, someone’s other half, a co-pilot, a team player and eventually a mother and well, of course, I’m overwhelmed, but it’s a good one, a good overwhelmed. Like, I am preparing myself for it, emotionally and psychologically and it feels amazing.

As much as I am confident with myself, I have some insecurities that have been part of me since I was a kid. Like, yes, okay, I have to do this and that and how to do it so I can get it. I’m so used to be striving for me, like for my best interest, and now, I still am, duh, but with someone else, together with me in this journey.

Like the dynamic change. Of course, you want to be the best version of yourself (read: I’m in love) and you’ll try your very best to be the best person for both of you. Alhamdulillah, as for now, despite everything, I am very much grateful and will always be.

I’ve always wanted this, and believe it or not, it is as dreamy as I imagined it to be. If not, even more, way way way more amazing than what I can imagine as  Allah has sculptured it so well so masyaAllah well and you feel humbled and thankful, and subhanAllah, I must have done something right to get this.

As for now, everything is flowing and one thing at a time. I might get an art project (be it a video or idk, something…)

Okay, that’s about it for now. I’m applying Chevening as well, pray for me ya. And 3 documentary master courses in UK, In Cardiff, Sussex, and Liverpool.

Hey, thanks for reading! You know who you are.

❤ Ezzah Mahmud

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Why should you migrate to cloud hosted infrastructure? Or why not?

In addition to big sign that says – Save Money! (could not have hammered the point better in my opinion), here are a couple of reasons why we moved from a very highly invested server farm to cloud servers.
Firstly, we had the option of using www.Rightscale.com to manage our cloud infrastructure – the management of it all via Rightscale helped us a lot. Cannot stress this fact (especially if you have a multi-tiered/complex server deployment architecture).

One of the most important point was the ability to ‘transition’ your cloud server from one provider to another (which is a feature though used less, but can save 100s of hours if migrations are to be an issue or something you do frequently). If a Cloud provider X for some reason terminates your server – say due to a DDoS attack or whatever reason, you can easily migrate that virtual server to another Cloud provider Y very easily.

Another example that is more pragmatic is costs, if costing on Provider A is higher and you want to migrate to Provider B, the migration/transitioning between cloud providers is a god send no less.

By having a large physical server farm, we were wasting lots of CPU cycles, Hard Disk space and memory (RAM). When we moved to the cloud, we start with average or minimal sizes, and looked at the performance metrics of our virtual servers (again something easy to do with all the various cloud tools out there on a single desktop screen). We then adjusted our cloud server sizes to match optimal server size and saved over 45% (vs the physical servers) and this was a cost saving of over 60% (if you believe it).

CPU and Storage are two of the greatest elements that are wasted, and by shrinking it down, the savings were tremendous.

One definitive advantage of the cloud was the ability to quickly deploy more machines as and when required (on-demand) and release them – once the demand subsided (this was true in a very few cases, but important nonetheless). Elastic computing in its truest sense.

Server images are another huge plus. You can take a server image literally by a right click and save it on cloud storage for future use. We also found that building a ‘template’ of a server is a great time saving exercise. For example if you will deploy a Linux Server and then put on Squid Server on it, etc. you can simply do this exercise once and then save it as a template, should you ever want to deploy the same server again, just deploy off the template, and your server + apps are ready to do. Only an IP change is required in the .config files and you are up and running in a jiffy.

Most of the cloud providers provide features like on-demand load-balancers, firewalls, IDS, additional storage, that can be deployed instantaneously. Can’t do that with the physical server world. And all these instantaneous deployments will have little or no impact on your service offering in terms of downtime, etc.

OS reloads is something you will love on cloud servers. Don’t like the OS, or messed up, simple reload again and in a few minutes (15-30 minutes) your new OS is up and running again, again, a huge advantage over traditional server offering.

IaaS/PaaS have achieved an economies of scale, where by every CPU core or memory is sold, as their are mostly likely a buyer for it out there. This results in excellent pricing model and allos you to save up a lot.

3rd party apps for monitoring, server management, quick/rapid deployments, etc are now plenty out there. The image libraries have improved drastically. For example if you were to take a traditional LAMP environment and strap on WordPress on it and then configure it with cPanel, etc. it can take quite a few hours to have this up and running. Many providers (especially Amazon) have an image that will take care of this and you will be up and running with a LAMP server, running cPanel/WordPress in under 30 minutes.

Do not be concerned that the virtual/cloud environment is exclusively for the Linux platform. Windows offering on the cloud is plenty and runs very smoothly. Most Window instances will sometimes even run on a single core, with 1.5GB of RAM – without issues (this all depends on what you run on the server itself).

Now, even providers like Amazon and Softlayer, do not charge you for incoming bandwidth (its free), so you now have additional cost savings. Albeit, the only drawback with Cloud providers is for people who want “unmetered” servers. No such thing as unmetered on cloud servers yet.

As with Aamzon, Rackspace and Softlayer, their cloud offerings tie in seamlessly with their Cloud Storage offering and their CDN (Content Delivery Network) offering.

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Are you a buff for All-Things-Bollywood? If you are, we are sure you have been waiting to catch up on all the action our Bollywood Divas have been stirring up in the French resort town of Cannes!

Your wait is finally over as we bring you all the details and outfits adorned by our Bolly Beauties in the Cannes Film Festival! We saw a parade of the perhaps the best Dresses and Gowns falling oh-so-perfectly on these celebrities!

Shop our range of Red Carpet Dresses and Gowns here.

Read on to find out who wore what and which actress won the Red-Carpet with her style and elegance!

Amy arrived at Cannes in an all-white look! We loved the contemporary resort styling completed with her reflective sunnies and wide-rimmed hat! But our favourite part of the outfit has to be the nude Christian Louboutin shoes!Untitled design (74)

For her first night at Cannes, the actress chose to don a strapless Falguni & Shane Peacock creation that came with a thigh-high slit. The sheer blue of the gown looked stunning in comparison to the blue waters of the French Riviera.Untitled design (71)

Next Amy was spotted in attendance at a luncheon hosted by the British Film Institute, she chose to wear a printed pantsuit with a plunging neckline by Plakinger. Nude heels and pulled back hair complemented her attire.Untitled design (73)

Lastly, she attended the De Grisogono Party wearing a high-low, bell-shaped Ashi Studio dress with a neckline that plunges down till her waist! Untitled design (72)

Mallika wore an Emilio Pucci gown for the photocall of her upcoming film – Time Raiders and looked elegant in the blue-black outfit with the much in-trend “X-Neckline”.Untitled design (71)

For her red-carpet appearance, Mallika went for silver! She wore a Georges Hobeika ballgown, accessorized with De Grisogono jewellery.Untitled design (72)

Spotted at the screening of Woody Allen’s much talked about movie – Cafe Society, Mallika again chose to wear a strapless Georges Hobeika gown and a diamond neckpiece from Mellerio. Untitled design (73)

Lastly, she attended the UNICEF annual dinner in a Alexis Mabille ombre gown. Breaking out of her bold reputation, Mallika has been playing safe this year at Cannes with her outfit choices. Change of heart eh, Mallika?

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For her first press interaction with the Cannes’ press, the actress was seen in an edgy Anamika Khanna creation that she paired with bright pink lips. Untitled design (73)

The fashion diva turned up the heat in a black and blue sari by designer Rimzim Dadu, with fuchsia lips, neatly tied bun and a striking black collar necklace for the press interaction on Sunday.

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Sonam at the screening of the film Mal De Pierres wearing a stunning sari-inspired Ralph & Russo creation. The silk crepe dress has embroidered silver threadwork, silver bullion, beads and crystals.

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Yet again, Sonam channelled her inner ballerina in a chic black with a linear pattern by Ralph and Russo for a Monday morning full of press interviews. Adding a dash of colour was a bright pink lip colour, and double-lined pink eye pencil to give a flirty look to the eyes. Untitled design (72) copy

The actress again opts for Ralph & Russo for yet another showstopper look! Like they say “Black never Fails you”, Sonam looked stunning in this strapless poof gown with lace gloves! Don’t forget the statement necklace, courtesy Chopard Jewels.Untitled design (71) copy

Lastly, Sonam walked in a champagne colored Ralph & Russo outfit yet once more. It had a exquisite detailed floral cape which finished the look of her outfit.Untitled design (71)

Richa was spotted on the red-carpet for the screening of her film – Sarbjit. She chose to wear a pale gold Sabyasachi saree with a neatly done up bun and jewellery from Amrapali.Untitled design (72)

The actress opted for a head to toe Hermes look with Dior shoes and ear-studs for a press meet in the French Riviera

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Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan marked her 15th year at the Cannes Film Festival with a touch of elegance and grace in a golden Ali Younes Couture gown. She had lined her upper lid with a bold turquoise blue liner, adding a dash of glamour!Untitled design (73)

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan upped the ante with a gorgeous red gown from Naeem Khan‘s Resort 2016 collection on Day 2 of the festival. This is what we call Red Hot!Untitled design (71)

At her third appearance, Aishwarya looked stunning in an embellished pink-gold Elie Saab gown, turning heads on the red carpet while attending the premiere of Steven Spielberg’s The BFG. Untitled design (74)

The gorgeous Aishwarya proved her mettle with her latest, extremely controversial look at the Cannes. She wore a pretty Rami Kadi floral gown, but what stole show was the diva’s daring purple lips at The Land Of The Moon premiere.Untitled design (72)

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Jump Ship

Oh look, another three weeks have passed without a single post. I’ve got no apologies, no excuses, and certainly no new ideas to help me get back in the swing of things.

So what’s the point of sitting down to write this post now? I haven’t a clue.

Over the past few days, I’ve contemplated several different ideas for posts (and obviously scrapped them). I’ve also considered deleting this blog completely and starting over. Or not starting over at all. Lately I’ve been rather apathetic to the whole idea of writing, mostly because I’ve been feeling completely uninspired.

Last summer, I loved doing this. I loved squeezing in time to write before or after work, polishing the posts until I was certain I loved the way it flowed, finding the perfect image to represent it. I could be out running errands or waiting in lines when I’d be struck with an idea that I’d quickly jot down. Before I knew it, I’d have half a post written in the notes of my phone. I was constantly thinking about what else I’d like to write or how I could take better pictures. It didn’t matter how many other responsibilities or stressors I had because I had this one space that was all my own.

I can’t say there’s been a particular moment when that changed. I didn’t suddenly start dreading the idea of writing or feeling pressured to constantly improve. In all honestly I just stopped caring. It’s been difficult for me to even pinpoint the feeling or find where it stems from. I felt disappointed in myself for wanting to give up, but more importantly, confused about how to keep going.

I draw inspiration from life. I observe my relationships with others, how others respond to their own relationships, and about generalizations as a whole. I observe, I feel inspired, I write. So maybe it does make sense that when my life slowed down, I stopped thinking it was something worth observing, and I lost inspiration.

So do I jump ship now or do I keep going?

The best way for me to go forward is to write about what I know best: myself. This began as my online diary, and maybe that’s what I need to start loving writing again. I valued this blog to be a place where I wouldn’t have to worry about censoring myself or filtering my actual thoughts. For some reason, I forgot that and started restricting myself from writing about certain things that I feared would sound petty or shallow once they’d been typed out. I was afraid that the ideas and opinions I’d thought I felt strongly about, wouldn’t be able to hold up to my own scrutiny once I’d examined them a little closer.

So rather than whining about the lack of sources of motivation, I decided to look a little closer to home. In my first post I wrote:

There’s a very good chance this will all be lost in the vastness of the internet, but it feels good to put a little bit of myself out there anyways.”

At the end of the day, that’s what I need to be doing. Putting a little of myself out into the world, even if it risks all sorts of change. I’m not jumping ship, I’m staying aboard.

But I am going to jump ship on this post now before I get too deep in sailing metaphors.

– S.

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Jatan Sansthan Project

Friends of Foster Care India is pleased to announce that we have awarded a grant to Jatan Sansthan, a not for profit organization in Udaipur, India. Jatan Sansthan has FCRA status in India, which means they are able to accept US based donations, and thus our grant is being used to directly support children in family based foster care in India.

With your help, we would like to award a second grant to Jatan Sansthan of $5000. This next grant will allow the organization to provide support for several children in foster families in Udaipur during this next year. Information about Jatan Sansthan is available on their web site. www.jatansansthan.org

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Focusing on the long tail of cybersecurity

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When the Department of Homeland Security announced the formation of a new National Risk Management Center in July to handle cybersecurity threats and engage with the private sector, some wondered how the center's mission would overlap or conflict with another DHS organ, the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center.

Matthew Travis, deputy undersecretary of the National Protections and Programs Directorate, elaborated further on how DHS views the differing missions of the NCCIC and the NRMC while giving a speech at an Aug. 28 conference in Washington D.C.

The NCCIC, Travis said, will still serve as a threat and information sharing hub designed to react to problems and facilitate cooperation with state, local, private and critical infrastructure sectors in the face of immediate threats, like the ransomware attack that hit Atlanta earlier this year or the 2017 WannaCry attacks. The center will continue its role sharing threat indicators, conducting trainings, providing malware analysis for specific incidents and sending out technical advisories about emerging threats.

"With NCCIC…we have situational awareness of what is going on in cyberspace, what's going on in the dot gov domain through programs like EINSTEIN and the federal dashboard, and through liaisons who sit on the NCCIC floor to share information when something happens," Travis said. "There's nothing trivial about ransomware attacks or other types of attacks…but some of them are not going to rise to the level of national critical functions."

The NRMC, Travis said, will be more geared toward tackling longer-term, systemic cyber threats that affect the public, private and critical infrastructure sectors. He pointed to issues like shoddy technology supply chain protocols and formulating long-term strategies for protecting the electrical grid and election infrastructure as examples of issues that will define the center's purview. The NRMC is currently developing a list of national critical functions.

While the NCCIC floor has made use of liaisons from the private sector, their participation is often limited to facilitating communication between their respective industry and government in the immediate wake of an attack. The NMRC will take that a step further, detailing analysts from different private and critical infrastructures with federal agency personnel using "whiteboards and advanced analytics" to map out solutions to longer-term problems.

"We're going to be taking analysts from the private sector, from those banks on Wall Street that are targets of these nation states, from electric companies that help maintain the power grid," Travis said. Those experts will then work with "our analysts at DHS or the Pentagon or [Department of Energy] or Treasury, sit in the same room, roll up our sleeves and... try to understand those interdependencies across sectors."

Scott Tousley, deputy director of the Cyber Security Division of the DHS Advanced Research Projects Agency, said U.S. organizations focus too much on addressing the pressing threats of the day at the expense of more niche or systemic issues that will leave them exposed down the line. Those are the problems the NRMC was created for.

"Think about a major organization," Tousey said. "You're fighting today's issue, today's challenge, today's hack, today's vulnerability risk, today's IG finding, but everything else that others are seeing…will come back to find you."

After the event, Travis told FCW that creating a distinct mission for the NRMC was easy. Without operational or regulatory powers, the challenge lies in figuring out ways to nudge industry and critical infrastructure towards better security practices without some of the traditional carrots and sticks that most agencies rely on. One way to make an impact is using that collaboration to identify gaps in legal or policy authorities to pass on to Congress.

"We don't have any [reorganization] authorities … but we do have the authorities to bring in private sector analysts, which we weren't really doing," he said. "That [process] is still being worked out but I think surely as we get into some of these issues like supply chain risk management, there may be authorities we think we need, or industry may say we think we need to do this and it will be a collaborative effort."

About the Author

Derek B. Johnson is a senior staff writer at FCW, covering governmentwide IT policy, cybersecurity and a range of other federal technology issues.

Prior to joining FCW, Johnson was a freelance technology journalist. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, GoodCall News, Foreign Policy Journal, Washington Technology, Elevation DC, Connection Newspapers and The Maryland Gazette.

Johnson has a Bachelor's degree in journalism from Hofstra University and a Master's degree in public policy from George Mason University. He can be contacted at, or follow him on Twitter @derekdoestech.

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Almond and Orange Cake

This new year’s eve, we were going to visit a friend in the neighborhood. As always happens, it strikes you at the last minute that you must take something after all it’s New year’s eve!  I had all the listed ingredients at home and what better way to enjoy citrus burst of the season along with the goodness of almonds! Needless to say I made this cake in a jiffy and my friends became its fan, so here we go with the recipe…

Breadcrumbs – 45 g
Ground almonds – 100 g
Castor sugar – 200 g
Cooking oil – 200 ml
Baking powder – 1 & 1/2
Eggs, beaten – 4
Finely grated zest of 1 orange
Zest of 1/2 lime

For Syrup:

Juice of 1 orange

Juice of half a lime

Sugar – 2 tbsp

Cinnamon stick – 1/2 inch

Cloves – 5 to 6

Cointreau – 1tbsp, if you like!

  • Mix all the ingredients together and beat well.
  • Pour the mixture in a greased and lined cake tin.
  • Place it in the cold oven and start the oven (Yes, you put it in the cold oven!). Set the oven to 180 C and bake it for 40-45 mins until golden brown or skewer comes out clean.
  • In the meantime, to make the syrup put all the ingredients in a pan and bring it to boil on low flame/heat.
  • Simmering  for 3-4 minutes, turn off the heat and allow to cool.
  • Once cake is done, remove from tin, prick with fork and slowly pour the syrup over the cake using a spoon. You need to  evenly soak it in the syrup.

Enjoy with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

Serves: 10-12

Almond and Orange Cake

First time I made this cake was about 6 years ago. I kept making various desserts for my guests and family and almost forgot about this one. Recently when my kids asked me to make something fruity and flavorful I opened my old diary where I use to make note of each and every dish that I would serve to my guests while I was in Sri Lanka, and guess what I stumbled upon this one. Now in past two weeks I have baked it three times and I guess it is high time that I share it with you.

50g breadcrumbs

200g castor sugar

l00g almonds, ground

1 ½ tsp baking powder

200 ml sunflower or vegetable oil

4 eggs

zest of 1 large orange

zest of ½ a lemon/ lime

Juice of 1 orange

Juice of ½ lime

80g sugar

2 cloves

1 piece of star anise

Cooking time: 40 – 50 minutes

Preparation time: 10 -15 minutes

Note: For this recipe do not preheat the oven.

Temperature: 190oC or 375oF or Gas mark 4

  • Grease and line a cake tin (8 inch or 20cm)
  • In a large bowl, mix the breadcrumbs with the ground almonds, sugar and baking powder.
  • Add the oil and eggs to the mixture and beat well.
  • Stir in the orange and lemon zest.
  • Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin.
  • Put into a cold oven and set to heat to 190C (375F /gas mark 5).
  • Bake for 35 to 40 minutes until the cake is a rich brown and a skewer/ fork inserted into the center comes out clean.

Remove from the oven and cool for 5 minutes in the tin then turn out onto a plate.

Method to prepare syrup:

  • Bring all the ingredients gently to the boil in a pan stirring until the sugar has dissolved.
  • Simmer for 2 minutes.

You can prepare the syrup while cake is baking.

  • Pierce the cake with a skewer/ fork while still warm and pour the syrup over it.
  • Leave to cool spooning the syrup over the cake every now and then until it is all soaked up.

Serve it with whipped cream.


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Tangy Warm French beans Salad

I grew up on farms as my father worked as an Agriculture scientist. My father is very fond of gardening and we always had a kitchen garden where he would grow all sorts of seasonal vegetables, free of any chemicals. I still remember we used to get French beans only in winter season. My father would pluck them fresh from the garden and my mom would cook them with potatoes as a curry (which my brother and I didn’t like much).

Later, when I travelled to Europe I learnt that French beans could be prepared in so many different ways. I liked slightly blanched ones, seasoned and topped with butter (simple and my all time favorite). Apart from that they can be used in various salads, and of course there are so many versions in salads as well.

Much later in Sri Lanka I learnt completely different way of cooking them, in coconut milk with lots of spices, as fragrant hot curry, which I would like to share with you some other time.

Recently I got my hands on two big bundles of very fresh French beans, so delicate and full of flavor that couldn’t think of any other recipe but this tangy salad, which can be used as entrée or a side dish.

Tangy Warm French beans Salad:

500g tender French beans, topped and tailed

2 tbsp olive oil

1 tbsp honey

2 tbsp yellow mustard paste or half and half yellow and English mustard

1 tbsp White wine vinegar (or any other natural vinegar)

2 tbsp capers

1 medium red onion, thinly sliced

2-3 cloves of garlic, crushed (I like a lot of garlic)

1 tsp freshly ground black pepper

Handful of fresh basil, torn with hands

Salt to taste

  • Mix all the ingredients of dressing in a large bowl and keep it aside.
  • To blanch beans bring 3/4th pan of water to boil (in a large pan) with half teaspoon of sugar and 1 tsp salt.
  • Add beans to the boiling water, stir well.
  • Bring it to boil once more on full heat and let it blanch for a minute or so.
  • Drain all the water through colander. Add to the bowl with dressing, mix well.

Serve as you wish, warm or cold, great as side dish with roasted or baked chicken.

P. S.: Sometimes I also add a piece of boiled chicken breast, torn into small pieces with hands and just thrown in. And voila – a wholesome meal is ready to be enjoyed!