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Last month's poem "Rain" worked as our first, and last, good rain of the season followed. Looks like I better come up with another rain poem quick as June already rolls on! May did remain mild to complete one of the gentler springs I can recall. It never was hot, but it never got cold either. Truth to tell, it was about right for getting the grains up and going. We finished sowing on either side of June 3rd's Full Moon and indeed, the grains all showed strong emergence. Every one of our Einka plantings popped in just 6 days. Even with the emmer we anticipate 7 days between sowing and emergence in most cases. And our early May grains are all growing fast!
June, sweet, sweet June you will return, right? The month of growth – the cooler, wetter of the summer months, no? A couple days of rain certainly would not break this farmers heart, but still and all the long daylight energizes. And those first, cooler minutes of daylight are all about birds, as are the evenings. We've swallows, meadowlarks, flycatchers, wrens, goldfinches and yes, bluebird fledglings all within sight of our back porch. Uncompromised delight, I say. It makes those early sips of coffee all the better. In the lower pond here, I've seen ducklings of mallard, redhead, and teal – both blue wing and cinnamon teal to go with the green wings. The blue wing and cinnamon are not near as common around here. Oddly, I've yet to spot any new fawns but know they are nearby; well hidden and obedient to Mamma's wishes.
There is a lot of growing to be done – most of it in many cases. After all, the growing is the fun part! It is such an intense, 60 day cycle and with some grains already half way thru, we've got to keep tending and tending. We'll irrigate as needed and supplement nutrients as tissue tests dictate. Another round of fish will go on some fields, and we likely will add some other goodies at boot-stage: Kelp meal, plant based nitrogen if needed, and our winter peas should give us a good nitrogen hit also. Funny thing, the heavier the crop, the more grain you must support properly to get the high quality we like. At this point, we can do no more except hope that Mother Nature gives our crops the real love. In the end, she always has the most to say. After last summer, we are all a bit edgy here in the Methow.
Meanwhile, school is out for the summer!! Please be careful as there will be a lot more kids biking, walking, playing around day-long. Full of summer ideas, kids may not always be watching for cars. I hope this finds you all ready for some nice summer activity as we near the years fullest light. Mountains beckon; trout streams, swimming lakes, ball parks and.. work!
Oh, and how about American Pharro winning the Triple Crown!!!
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3 Tax Deductions That Could Save You Big Money in 2016
By Brian Stoffel Fool.com
Tax deductions can be a big deal. And there's no reason for you to feel guilty for taking advantage of them: They were put in place by legislators to encourage behaviors that are largely considered pro-social -- like donating to a charity or raising a family.
It's a shame more families don't realize they could easily qualify for larger tax breaks.
Consider a household with a husband, wife, and two children pulling in about $80,000 per year. If this family takes the easy route and simply takes the standard deduction, one exemption for each member of the family, and the child tax credit -- they'll still be left with almost $50,000 in taxable income.
Income before taxes $80,000
Standard deduction ($12,600)
Personal exemptions ($16,000)
Child Tax Credit ($2,000)
Total deductions ($20,600)
Taxable income $49,400
When all is said and done, this hypothetical family would owe about $6,500 in federal income taxes. But if they took full advantage of the three tax breaks I'm introducing here, then their bill could drop all the way to $0.
Of course, not every family will be able to do this, as it requires a level of saving that few realize. The bigger point is to see how these three,even if used incrementally, can help reduce your bill come next April.
1. Open up a Health Savings Account (HSA)Not everyone will qualify to take part in an HSA, but those who are can reap a number of benefits. Unlike money in a Flexible Spending Account for healthcare, money that you put into your HSA doesn't disappear at the end of the year; you get to keep it until you use the money for a qualified medical expense.
In order to qualify for an HSA plan, however, you need to have a high-deductible insurance plan. For 2016, that means single filers must have a minimum deductible of $1,300 and maximum out-of-pocket expenses of $6,550. For families, those levels are $2,600 and $13,100, respectively.
In the year ahead, single filers can put up to $3,350 into their HSAs -- and those who are aged 55 and older can contribute an extra $1,000. Families can contribute up to $6,750, and their catch-up contribution for savers aged 55 and up is also $1,000.
I've also written extensively on how an HSA can be one of the best vehicles for saving for retirement as well, if used properly. For our family in question, if the HSA contributions are maxed out, it would reduce their taxable income by another $6,750.
New taxable income level: $42,650
2. Maxing out that 401(k)Social Security is in a tenuous position where benefits will likely be reduced down the road due to a lack of funding, while private-company pensions are disappearing. Therefore the government is encouraging Americans to take charge of their own retirement savings by allowing us to use a number of tax-advantaged savings accounts.
Some of the best options are company-sponsored 401(k), 403(b), and 457 plans. All contributions to these retirement plans are tax-deferred -- meaning you pay no taxes now, and the government will only take its slice when you actually use this money in retirement.
In 2015, an individual is allowed to put away up to $18,000, and those aged 50 or older can save up to $24,000. And every cent you put in is deductible from the current year's income.
For our featured family, this means that up to $36,000 could be deducted from their income, assuming the husband and wife both work and max out their retirement plans.Again, it's unlikely that many families can actually contribute at such levels. But the bigger point is that contributing will not only help lower your tax bill now, but give you a jump-start on saving for retirement.
New taxable income level: $6,650
3. Deductions for charitable contributionsWhen was the last time you did a thorough spring cleaning? If you're anything like my family -- and millions of other households throughout America -- then you have your fair share of "stuff" that you no longer need. By cleaning out your home and bringing these items to a charitable organization like Goodwill, The Salvation Army, or any number of shelters, you can significantly reduce your tax bill.
By law, you can deduct up to 50% of your adjusted gross income (AGI) for donations to most public charities (schools, hospitals, etc.) and private operating foundations. In order to claim the deduction, you must have a receipt for your donations with a calculation of the fair value of everything you've donated.
If you're donating countless items whose fair value is difficult to calculate, TurboTax has anappthat makes the process considerably easier.
The family in our example will have an AGI of $37,250 ($80,000 annual income, minus the maximum HSA and 401(k) contributions). This means that they can donate up to $18,625 worth of stuff and deduct all of it from their income. Of course, that would require a pretty serious level of giving, but you don't need to reach that level to enjoy the tax benefits of charitable giving.
New taxable income level: $0
For those who are curious, the couple in question could actually contribute as little as $13,000 to their 401(k)s and still reach a federal income tax bill of $0, assuming they max out their charitable contributions.
The article 3 Tax Deductions That Could Save You Big Money in 2016 originally appeared on Fool.com.
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Robert Olaf Nesheim (September 13, 1921 – July 19, 2008) was an American nutritionist for Quaker Oats. During his time he worked for Quaker he helped develop cereals such as Cap'n Crunch and Life. He worked with the brand from 1952 to 1983. He briefly taught at his alma mater, the University of Illinois, in the 1960s.

After working with Quaker, he worked on improving food guidelines for the healthcare industry and the military. Nesheim served with Nevin S. Scrimshaw and others on the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences in 1974 when the Committee on Amino Acids reported. He married nutritionist Doris Howes Calloway in 1981.

Nesheim retired in 1998. He suffered from prostate cancer for several years. Nesheim died on July 19, 2008.

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3) Heat the double cream in a pan with the orange zest, once warm, add to the egg mixture, then pour back into the pan, stirring continuously until a light custard consistency is reached.
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One Friday morning in mid-May, Bill Hartin was sitting inside his house in central Eureka when he saw a woman get out of a little white car with a City of Eureka logo and walk over to the polished blue '85 T-bird he and his wife, Arlene, own.
"It was 9:58 in the morning," says Bill Hartin. He and Arlene are at home this mid-June afternoon, retelling the story. A bright yellow rectangle of paper is on the table between them; it's a notification that says if they don't move their car within 72 hours, they'll get fined $30, and if it's still not moved within 10 days after that, it'll be towed.
"That law" is part of Eureka's vehicle code — and state law — and it says if a car has been parked in the same spot on the street for 72 hours without being moved it can be towed. It doesn't matter whether or not the car is registered, insured, wanted or operable.
If the car is obviously not in working order — say, up on blocks or with smashed windows, junk piled to the ceiling light and rats running around in it — it's considered a health and safety hazard and can be towed without notice, says Lt. Murl Harpham, a former Eureka Police Department captain and current public information officer. If it looks operable, it gets the courtesy notice.
While it's an old law, Harpham says the EPD's new chief, Garr Nielsen, has ramped up enforcement of it in response to complaints from residents.
In the past, the department might mainly respond to specific complaints. But now five of the EPD's nine PSOs — public services officers — cruise around specifically looking for abandoned or overly-long parked vehicles (amid other duties).
Ken McCauley, a semi-retired EPD officer who runs the abandoned vehicle program, says the department wrote 2,064 courtesy notices in 2007, and ended up towing 440 vehicles. So far in 2008, the department's written 1,225 courtesy notices and towed 115 vehicles. McCauley can't provide figures from past years, because the book containing the stats on notices and tows from 1986 to 2006 has been missing since the January remodel of the EPD's headquarters.
Hartin likes the new chief, but he hates the law that caught his T-bird — which, he allows, had sat on the street a long time while he tried to sort out a mechanical problem. (He recently fixed it, and Arlene's been driving it some to keep it legal.) He and Arlenesayat least four of their friends have also received the courtesy notices on perfectly fine vehicles.
The last time his truck was towed, it was a Friday and it stayed the weekend at the tow yard. Reece says it took him a while to find out what happened to it because the EPD didn't have a record of its being towed.
"So, basically, you don't know if your car has been stolen, or what," he says.
McCauley says once a car has been towed, the EPD mails a certified letter to the owner. There is no phone call or other contact, and once it's towed it's in the tow company's hands.
A neighbor who happened to see Reece's truck towed told him to check Humboldt Towing, and that's where he found it. He says Humboldt Towing's owner, Leroy Hoffman, felt sorry for him and waived half of the roughly $300 in storage fees. Reece had to pay the tow fee, however. He says Hoffman told him he'd been towing a lot of registered, non-abandoned cars lately, and that he "hated it." Humboldt Towing is one of several tow companies the EPD uses.
What's crazy, he says, is there is a truly abandoned vehicle in front of his house that's never been towed. "I think they don't want to tow abandoned vehicles, because there's no money in it," Reece contends. Either that, or maybe they're targeting certain people.
Harpham says no one's being targeted.
When a car is towed, the EPD pays the towing bill — about $50 — if the car goes unclaimed. The EPD gets reimbursed for such tow fees, as well as for postage to send the certified letters and for McCauley's salary, through the state Abandoned Vehicle Abatement program, which is funded by a $1 fee on all Department of Motor Vehicle registrations.
McCauley says the reimbursement, calculated with a formula using population, geographical area, number of tows and other factors, often doesn't cover all of the expenses and the department has to draw from the general fund.
If a car owner claims his car, he pays the towing and storage fees.
Hoffman, at Humboldt Towing, says only one out of every 10 cars they tow under the abatement program gets claimed by its owner. The rest get junked — and often that means a trip to the dump, first, to empty out loads of crap, and then to John's Wreckers. The EPD reimburses the tow company for those costs.
Reece says he told City Councilmember Larry Glass there should be a sticker that a homeowner can place on his car that allows him to park it in front of his house as long as he needs to.
Glass says he's been trying to interest the city manager and the police chief in just such a program.
For now, the EPD's McCauley says he keeps a list of people, including senior citizens, who've called to say they have no other place to park their car and they won't be able to move it for a while.
Hartin thinks the law should be changed. He does have a place off-street to park the old T-bird, in fact — a garage. He just doesn't think he should have to, especially because that might tell burglars they're not home.


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The HomeLight Foundation Series Season Has Kicked Off | These Are the Young Athletes to Watch Out For
SnowBrains | November 19, 2021 |
Credit: HomeLight
The first stop on the HomeLight Foundation Series, the U.S. leg of the FIS NorAm for both alpine and freestyle skiing, is currently underway at Copper Mountain, CO, bringing some of the best up-and-coming talent to the slopes.
The HomeLight Foundation Series is the most prestigious North American series for all four skiing disciplines and has historically kickstarted the careers of the nation's top up-and-coming athletes. Each event provides athletes a pathway toward elite-level competitions, such as Junior Worlds Europa Cups and FIS World Cups for alpine and freestyle, and Junior Worlds, FIS World Cups, and the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix for freeski and snowboard. HomeLight's support of the critical grassroots event series demonstrates the company's commitment to growing the sports at the developmental level.
Related: 2021 HomeLight Killington Cup Entertainment Lineup to Feature O.A.R., DJ Z-Trip and G Love
After the slalom and GS races in Copper this weekend, The alpine HomeLight Foundation Series heads to Burke Mountain, Vermont; Whiteface Mountain, New York; and Sugarloaf Mountain, Maine. Freestyle HomeLight Foundation Series Events kick off in Winter Park, Colorado with Selections and moves on to competitions at Deer Valley Resort, Utah; Killington Resort, Vermont; and the Utah Olympic Park.
A few up and coming U.S. alpine athletes to watch this season:
Now skiing for Dartmouth College, 20-year-old Allie Resnick grew up racing for Vail and was the second junior and fourth overall at U.S. Nationals in her first-year FIS, ranking eighth in the world for her age in slalom. She's excited to bring her skills back to the HomeLight Foundation Series after a season-ending injury in 2020. In the race today, Allie finished in an incredibly impressive 8th place, with the fastest race time out of any women on the U.S. team.
Isaiah Nelson is the U16 National Champion in GS and super-G, as well as the U19 NPS Overall Champion. Following in the footsteps of many accomplished U.S. Ski Team athletes before him, Isaiah skis for Buck Hill in Minnesota.
This is the first NorAm event for 19-year-old Tryon native Nicola Rountree-Williams. A current skier on the Loveland Ski Club in Vail, CO, who represented the U.S. at the 2020 Youth Olympic Games, achieving top 100th world rank in both SL and GS.
Zoe Zimmerman comes from a long family line of ski racers. She's currently a senior at Burke Mountain Academy, and this past season was her first year as a FIS athlete, as well as her first year as a member of the U.S. Ski Team. To kick off her first NorAm result, Zoe put in a strong effort, finishing in 21st place on the first day of slalom races in Copper.
A skiing and surfing athlete, 19-year-old Ava Sunshine Jemison grew up skiing for Vail Mountain Academy and now skis for Burke Mountain Academy. Right behind Allie, Ava landed a 10th place result at the slalom on November 18th.
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Hyper-fast star ejected by supermassive black hole
(Nanowerk News) Astronomers have spotted an ultrafast star, travelling at a blistering 6 million km/h, ejected by the supermassive black hole at the heart at the Milky Way five million years ago. The discovery is described in a new paper in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ("Discovery of a nearby 1700 km/s star ejected from the Milky Way by Sgr A*").
The discovery of the star, known as S5-HVS1, was made by Sergey Koposov from Carnegie Mellon University as part of the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S5). Located in the constellation of Grus – the Crane – S5-HVS1 was found to be moving ten times faster than most stars in the Milky Way.
An artist's impression of S5-HVS1's ejection by Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of the Galaxy. The black hole and the captured binary partner to S5-HVS1 are seen far away in the left corner of the picture, while S5-HVS1 is in the foreground, speeding away from them. (Image: James Josephides, Swinburne Astronomy Productions)
"The velocity of the discovered star is so high that it will inevitably leave the Galaxy and never return", said Douglas Boubert from the University of Oxford, a co-author on the study.
Astronomers have wondered about high velocity stars since their discovery only two decades ago. S5-HVS1 is unprecedented due to its high speed and close passage to the Earth, "only" 29 thousand light years away. With this information, astronomers could track its journey back into the centre of the Milky Way, where a 4 million solar mass black hole, known as Sagittarius A*, lurks.
An animation of artist's impressions of the ejection of the star S5-HVS1 by the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. (Animation: James Josephides, Swinburne Astronomy Productions)
"This is super exciting, as we have long suspected that black holes can eject stars with very high velocities. However, we never before had a clear association of such a fast star with the Galactic Centre," said Sergey Koposov, the lead author of this work. "We think the black hole ejected the star with a speed of thousands of kilometres per second about five million years ago. This ejection happened at the time when humanity's ancestors were just learning to walk on two feet."
Superfast stars can be ejected by black holes via the Hills Mechanism, proposed by astronomer Jack Hills thirty years ago. Originally, S5-HSV1 lived with a companion in a binary system, but they strayed too close to Sagittarius A*. In the gravitational tussle, the companion star was captured by the black hole, while S5-HVS1 was thrown out at extremely high speed.
The location of the star on the sky and the direction of its motion. The star is flying away from the Galactic centre, from which it was ejected 5 million years ago. (Image: Sergey Koposov)
"This is the first clear demonstration of the Hills Mechanism in action," said Ting Li from Carnegie Observatories and Princeton University, and leader of the S5 Collaboration. "Seeing this star is really amazing as we know it must have formed in the Galactic Centre, a place very different to our local environment. It is a visitor from a strange land."
The discovery of S5-HVS1 was made with the 3.9-metre Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, coupled with superb observations from the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite that allowed the astronomers to reveal the full speed of the star and its journey from the centre of the Milky Way.
"The observations would not be possible without the unique capabilities of the 2dF instrument on the AAT," said Daniel Zucker, an astronomer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and a member of the S5 Executive Committee. "It's been conducting cutting-edge research for over two decades and still is the best facility in the world for our project."
"I am so excited this fast-moving star was discovered by S5," says Kyler Kuehn, at Lowell Observatory and a member of the S5 Executive Committee. "While the main science goal of S5 is to probe the stellar streams — disrupting dwarf galaxies and globular clusters — we dedicated spare resources of the instrument to searching for interesting targets in the Milky Way, and voila, we found something amazing for 'free.' With our future observations, hopefully we will find even more!"
Source: Royal Astronomical Society
Stars need a partner to spin Universe's brightest explosions
On the hunt for primordial black holes
Stellar heavy metals can trace history of galaxies
Hubble detects smallest known dark matter clumps
Astronomers uncover first world with two stars
NASA planet hunter finds its 1st Earth-size habitable-zone world
Fast radio burst observations deepen astronomical mystery
Astronomers find wandering massive black holes in dwarf galaxies
Massive gas disk raises questions about planet formation theory
Fermi Mission links nearby pulsar's gamma-ray 'halo' to antimatter puzzle (w/video)
New space image reveals cosmic 'candy cane'
Of harps, Christmas trees, a wandering star and the mysterious streams of cosmic rays
The 'cores' of massive galaxies had already formed 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang
Distant Milky Way-like galaxies reveal star formation history of the universe
Carbon cocoons surround growing galaxies
A galactic dance
Simulations attempt to reconstruct one of the most explosive events in the universe: A neutron star merger
Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov swings past sun
Astronomers confirm planet-mass objects in extragalactic systems
Revealing the physics of the sun with Parker Solar Probe
Is there dark matter at the center of the Milky Way?
Astronomers spot most distant dusty galaxy hidden in plain sight
Water common - yet scarce - in exoplanets
How did supermassive black holes grow so fast?
Astrophysicists discovered a neutron star with an unusual magnetic field structure
How planets may form after dust sticks together
Astronomers find further evidence for a population of dark matter deficient dwarf galaxies
How to build a 3D map of the universe - and why
Signs of life: New field guide aids astronomers' search
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Contagion (2011) Review: Howie Mandel's Gonna Be Gripping His Purell Like It's Goin' Out Of Style
Yell! Magazine's review of Contagion:
Contagion is the type of movie that might rub quite a few people the wrong way just because of the manner in which it shamelessly bares its premise. It's the type of film that may as well have been conjured up by the masterminds down at the hand-sanitizer factory, because their latest sales plan involving a certain… illness (involving hogs) has finally managed to die down. It aims straight for our tendency to panic ourselves into a stupor and trample over one another like Wal-Mart shoppers during the Holiday Season.
It's an easy sell, and it'll sell even more "top 10 ways not to bring home diseases from school" articles to the local papers. People will see it, and afterward they'll likely tell you not to touch your face every time you unconsciously brush your nose. Then they'll stroke their chin as they soak in some juicy self-satisfaction.
Obvious pandering aside, Contagion remains a slick, well-paced action-thriller that tells the more subjective and humane side of a world-wide pandemic that amounts to what is basically a zombie movie, sans the zombies. The dying walk the Earth and risk contaminating those who've already struggled enough to live another day. One wayward sneeze, one cramped elevator, one indirect kiss and like magic, you've become part of an already unsolvable problem.
It begins with a business trip taken by Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) and we see her weave through a slew of sharp-suited businessmen in a swanky, upscale bar in Hong Kong. In the first of several shots that seem to satirize themselves later on, we're given glimpses of dastardly bowls of beer nuts and the corrupt façade put forth by a seemingly innocent elevator button. As this unleaded paranoia fuel sets in, we're given back-and-forth flashes of several other apparently infected characters as they go about their day, and die.
As Beth transports the deadly virus back home to Minneapolis and decides to have a quiet night with her husband Mitch (Matt Damon), she too succumbs to her illness and quickly ends up dead. (It's not a spoiler if it takes place in the first 10 minutes of the movie.) Like clockwork, Mitch's stepson bites it too, and soon he's left as the film's everyman who must protect the last shred of his family from a world about to go bonkers.
As people begin dropping like flies, Dr. Ellis Cheever (Laurence Fishburne) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sends forth Dr. Erin Mears (Kate Winslet) — an epidemic Intelligence Service Officer — into the fray and she quickly becomes the one character who can basically be called the "hero" of this tangled web of subplots. As she labors over finding a cemented set of symptoms to the virus, Dr. Leonora Orantes (Marion Cotillard) of the Department of Homeland Security is sent on a trip to Hong Kong to gain more information and winds up in a fine mess to call her own. Evil-Man-From-The-Internet, Alan Krumwiede (Jude Law) makes a living as a muckraking blogger who's hell-bent on proving the conspiracy that the government is in bed with pharmaceutical companies, and they're out to make a pretty penny off the panic-stricken public in need of a good vaccination.
Poor Marion Cotillard's subplot doesn't even go anywhere.
Hitchcock once mentioned that a thriller is only as strong as its main antagonist, and this rings ever true when your villain has taken the form of an invisible cloud of bacteria and the mass hysteria of a population with nowhere to turn. As subplots interweave, the one true story we follow is that of the virus, dubbed MEV-1, as it goes from a curious viral outbreak that claims a few lives to a full-on eradicator of worlds that causes the halt of modern civilization.
And despite its international flavor and terse but almost unnoticeable soundtrack, Contagion tells a very compassionate tale by raising some important questions. Consider the following: You work for the CDC and your wife is in a town that's about to be quarantined, which will probably result in a superabundance of gangbangers prowling the streets, punctuated by the odd costumed vigilante. Do you calmly tell her to get out while she still can, thus taking advantage of your position, or do you be a professional-man-in-a-suit and collect your paycheck as the gangbangers get to bangin'? Hmm, what's that? You say you'll tell her to make like a tree and GTFO?
Alright, Sherlock, riddle me this: What with her innate, yet skewed sense of empathy, she'll probably let her friends know about the how everyone's going to be shut-off from everything, and BAM — widespread panic and a solid tea-bagging from the higher-ups who very clearly asserted that you not let any annoying emotions get the best of you. Now you're down on your luck and addicted to drugs. Or something. Take this type of idea and mix it in a big jug with what other moral complications you can think of and you've got yourself one hell of a lesson in ethics that will leave you with an undeniable fear of doorknobs.
"I am Jude Law. I come from the Internet."
Which isn't necessarily an exaggeration, because Contagion is the type of movie that works best in theaters because it shocks you into an awkward sort of self-consciousness. Suddenly, you're alarmingly aware of the fact that you're the umpteenth person sitting in your current seat parked in front of the big screen, sharing an enclosed room with a hundred or so people all in the same situation.
As you shove fistfuls of buttery, decadent popcorn into your mouth, you ponder back to every surface you've managed to touch in between the last time you washed your hands and this very moment.
If you had to take the bus, then God have mercy on your soul. A man to your left coughs, and you strain yourself, trying your best not to void your bowels.
The woman to your right clears her throat, and you see someone in the front row dash for the fire exit.
In one liminal moment, the popcorn that you share with your date becomes a hell of a lot more unappealing, as does the idea of leaving the house in general.
And like magic, film criticism jumps straight up to the rank above deep sea welding in the list of "worlds most dangerous jobs" — a thrilling venture, but a little too hazardous.
Matt Damon.
I wouldn't necessarily call it an action thriller, but more of a drama thriller. Don't let the flaccid appellation "drama" put you off, because Contagion hits hardest in its quiet moments. You'll definitely be thrilled, and you'll definitely wash your hands. Questions will bubble up in your head bones as the choices the characters make lead you into subconscious self-reflection. "What would I do if grandpa got infected? Push him down the stairs? Stay with him and risk infection to make his last moments fulfilling? Meh, probably not.
And what about the high rise in crime? Would I protect the weak, or join in on the looting and pillaging? A guy's gotta eat after all… Maybe I'll go to the pet shop and eat the hamsters." Depending on your inclinations, this may lead you to questioning a few of the loose ends that failed to be tied up in the third act, but it's not nearly enough to detract from the whole experience. By the closing credits, you could hear a pin drop in the theater on opening night.
The Verdict: [rating:4]
Is a movie that advocates personal hygiene really all that bad? Not exactly. Unwarranted panic attacks — yes — but a healthy dose of caution — no. If you don't look at it as the soapbox for writer Scott Z. Burns, Contagion is undeniably one of the better films out this season, and is definitely worth the watch. You'll have a strange urge to shoot up with some disinfectant after a screening, and you may freak out the next time your son blows out the candles on his birthday cake — but don't worry, these odd compulsions will pass with time.
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I want this book and I want it now, come on May, hurry up!
I don't know about you but I've never read a book about a character slowly going blind before so that already sounds truly intriguing to me. Also, a list of fears that Hailey wants to tackle before everything goes dark? That sounds brave, probably braver then I would be so I really can't wait to see how that plays out in the story. I also really like the simplicity of the cover which makes it stand out for entirely different reasons then those book covers filled with colors and faces, you know which ones I mean.
All in all I'm really excited for this one and cannot wait to read it!


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I have always loved wildflowers. Mostly they are classified as weeds and we mow them down, tug them out by their roots, and exterminate them with chemicals. I understand that reasoning in certain places—like a well kept yard. I have pulled and cursed at my share of those nasty, persistent weeds ruining my gardens over the years.
In Arizona, some neighbors across the street had bland, beige rocks in their front yard. For fifty weeks out of the year, I would witness this sleepy, humdrum sight. Then in the spring, up through those rocks, emerged a glorious, radiant sea of color. A wavy rainbow of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. A mass of dazzling shades and hues.
More and more popped up every day until after just two short weeks, the flowers would wilt, wither, and die. The neighbors would spend a couple days removing all the ugly remains and their yard would return to that same old monotonous pile of vanilla stone. Even with all the work required, they somehow felt it was worth the extra effort to display that flood of color, no matter how brief.
I have never lived in a small town. But, I find myself in one now. I recently went for a walk around our humble abode which is in the middle of nowhere, and I found myself surrounded by the most gorgeous wildflowers. Purple, yellow and white emblazoned across the otherwise muted desert.
Reaching to pick some of those lovely blossoms to place on my table, I soon discovered the stalks were covered with huge sharp thorns. So much beauty encircled by an abundance of menacing prickles. The floral petals were delicate and magnificent, but were positioned against barbed wire fences, sharp cactus, and an underbrush full of snakes, beetles, and scorpions. Only a few steps could inflict much discomfort. Yet, these most wonderful, resplendent flowers sprang up to stand tall amongst all their surrounding adversity.
The more it rains, the more the blooms grow. They multiply. And, they fight to advance in the oddest most impossible places. Wildflowers are resilient! We have become used to thinking of weeds as a nuisance, because somehow they inevitably return. Always reaching for the warmth of the sun and the cooling of the breeze.
We face a dichotomy. Do we pick the flowers OR let them flourish?
Pluck something so beautiful to hold in our possession for only a brief time or enjoy its existence by allowing it to remain attached to what supplies fuel for its life.
Suddenly, the parallel becomes obvious! A striking comparison. An amazing representation of both the pain and the beauty of nature and of our lives.
Life is thorny. Life is beautiful. Life delivers the unexpected—some joyous and some challenging.
We grow through our struggles. When it rains in our life, we learn to become stronger and more robust. We bask in the gentleness of the sun and the caress of the breeze as we recognize the limited number of years in our short lives.
Our dichotomy. Do we avoid the risk OR let our passion bloom?
Hold ourselves back until we perceive the timing is perfect or embrace the courage needed to pursue our dreams which we may have believed were unattainable.
There will be plenty of time for the flowers to wither away, but for now, enjoying the beauty that THEY hold and that WE hold is essential. We may be thorny and prickly, but allowing our colors to shine for however long we are blessed to be on this planet, is our gift to those around us.
May we all have the resilience of these wildflowers, thorns and all. Because in choosing to flourish, we posses unparalleled uniqueness, singular passion, and share with the world the most breathtaking vision of all—the beauty of who we are.


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Calvin Harris is three-for-three on Funk Wav Bounces singles so far, and he looks to continue his streak with the latest single, "Feels" featuring Pharrell, Katy Perry and Big Sean. This is the second Harris track Pharrell is on after "Heatstroke" with Ariana Grande and Young Thug.
Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1 is lined up for June 30 release, and Harris previewed snippets of every song in a short video on Twitter this week. In addition to "Slide" with Migos and Frank Ocean and "Rollin" with Future and Khalid, the album will also see features from ScHoolboy Q, Travi$ Scott, D.R.A.M., Nicki Minaj, PARTYNEXTDOOR, Snoop Dogg and more.
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The pattern is a secret code of sorts for loyal users of two Chinese social media apps to identify themselves. Honk the signal while idling at a red light, and if you hear it in response, then you know a fellow fan is near.
This week, though, China's top media regulator closed one of those apps. Officially, the app, Neihan Duanzi, was shut down for hosting "vulgar" jokes and videos. But it and another app, Douyin, which helps users make goofy music videos, have brought together legions of fans who make themselves known to one another in the real world.
That has led some to wonder whether the platform's tightknit user community, with its own subculture and obscure vocabulary, had angered the authorities. China's ruling Communist Party has a history of cracking down on groups that seek to organize citizens outside its sphere of control.
Users of both apps put decals with the apps' names on their car windows. They hold meet-ups where they chant invented slogans — "Sky king covers earth tiger, stewed chicken with mushrooms!" one goes — and do things like arrange their cars to spell the name of their city.
They also honk rhythmically at crowded intersections, prompting rebukes from the police in several Chinese cities recently.
No ideology appears to link the apps' fans, although their online videos suggest that sports cars and community service are common enthusiasms.
In one clip, a column of cars parades down an empty highway, headlights flashing.
In another, a bronze sports car drifts and does doughnuts at an abandoned intersection.
One popular Chinese variety show this year also chronicled some of the good acts done by the fans. In China's sparsely populated west, one group pitched in to help the elderly and entertain children. On Chinese social media, enthusiasts from other parts of the country posted photos after donating blood and sending secondhand goods to remote schools.
China has undergone dizzying social change over the past decades. The internet has become a place for many people to seek out personal connections and community.
"I'm truly sad. My friend and I both cried while talking about it," Liu Wei, 23, an aspiring R&B composer in Shanghai, said of Duanzi's closing. He had been a user of the app for more than five years.
Bytedance, the company behind both Duanzi and Douyin, has become one of the most highly valued technology start-ups in the world. But it has to manage the material on its platforms carefully in order to stay on the right side of China's censors. Two more of the company's popular platforms have been pulled from app stores in the past week.
"As a start-up developing rapidly in the wake of the 18th National Congress, we understand deeply that our rapid development was an opportunity afforded to us by this great era," Mr. Zhang wrote, referring to the 2012 Communist Party confab at which President Xi Jinping took office.
China's highest media regulator, the State Administration of Radio and Television, did not respond to a faxed request for comment about whether Duanzi's fans were a factor in the app being shut down.
But in recent days, the authorities in China have instructed news outlets to suppress information about fan gatherings, according to censorship orders reviewed by The New York Times. Any mention of "revolt" in connection with Duanzi fans has been ordered scrubbed. Outlets have also been told to censor photos, videos and articles attacking the media regulator or calling for protests.
Internet crackdowns are nothing new in China. But the latest seems more specifically aimed at making sure there is not too much online that might vie with the government's messaging for people's attention, Mr. Rosenzweig said.
Raymond Zhong and Paul Mozur reported from Shanghai, and Iris Zhao from Beijing.


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School shootings – A global crisis
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How to Prevent School Shootings (Applying Preventive Measures to School Shootings)
1. Use of public mental health approach to domestic (family) violence and school shootings
Reducing Domestic or family or home violence
Acclimatizing and nurturing of the school environment with healthy social and emotional behaviours and habits
Encouraging whistleblowing and Threat assessment
Dealing with obsession with firearms
Meting out appropriate disciplinary actions and exclusionary practices
Gun violence and firearms restraining orders (red flag laws)
2. Banning violent video games
3. Banning assault weapons and firearms
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Statistics of World's School Shootings from 1st January 2009 to 23rd May, 2018
US dominate school-shooting incidents; Kenya recorded the deadliest single school shooting ever; Central American countries record highest rate in gun-related homicide
– The U.S. has had 288 school shootings, 57 times as many school shootings as the other major industrialized nations combined. Mexico is second with 8
– Europe has recorded 5 incidents – 2 in France, 1 each in Russia, Germany and Greece
– Honduras has the world's highest gun-related homicide rate in the world, In 2013, Honduras saw 5,630 firearms-related homicides amidst a population of 8.65 million; the United States saw 11,208 such homicides amidst a population of 316 million and El Salvador experienced 1,618 gun homicides amidst a population of 6.2 million that same year.
– Kenya recorded the only and deadliest single school shooting by Al-Shabaab militants on Garissa University College which left 148 people dead in April 2015. Taliban militants killed same number which included 132 schoolchildren at the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan four month earlier.
Applying corrective measures to contain a school shooter in an emergency or lockdown classroom is more like 'flogging a half-dead horse' to me but going to the schools and communities to arm them with preventive resources has its backing on the research-based approach to violence prevention and response with unprecedented support from many academic professionals and experts in various fields of endeavour.
It is high time homes (families) and schools cultivated social and emotional health education, (Social and emotional learning), connect to community resources and responses as key factor so as to improve social and emotional health, particularly, to troubled students to make homes happier and schools safer. Public mental health approach to gun violence offers a good number of preventive solutions to school shootings:
54% of the 156 mass shootings that occurred between 2009 and 2016 were related to domestic violence. This strongly supports domestic violence as a predictor of violent behaviour.
Many researchers believe the best way to dissuade abuse is to, firstly, stop people from becoming abusers. This is a problem area social and emotional learning in physical and health education seeks to address
Plentiful factors knit to lead an individual from showing violent behaviour up to shooting up in a school, the often deadly combination of domestic violence and easy access to guns should not be overlooked.
The school environment, affects students' mental and emotional health and academic success. It defines the quality of relationships among the students and the staff in a school. It is affected by the school's approach to discipline and behaviour, the availability of professionals like counsellors and social workers, as well as any social-emotional learning in the classroom. The role of acclimatization and nurturing of the school environment with healthy social and emotional behaviours and habits lies with the teaching staff, counsellors, psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers, both in the school and in the community.
Promoting desirable social and emotional behaviours will remove the major "environmental hazard" in a child's mindset that contributes to domestic and gun violence. Applying such behavioural and habitual pattern in prevention of school shootings addresses both homicide and likely self-harm (suicide). Suicide is just behind homicide as a leading cause of death for teenagers in US.
It will also shut down bullying, discrimination and harassment in the school. In Canada, Chile, Israel, Kosovo and even US, kids and students who brought weapons to school had reported a lot of victimization and might have been hated and upset.
Encouraging whistleblowing kids to report any sight of weapon in school or held discussions, handwritten, drawn or online post hints from students about violent intentions known as threat assessment offers the chance to decelerate conflict before it begins.
In US, 20 to 30 per cent of students above the elementary level consistently report seeing a weapon of some kind at school at least once during the year. Figuring out and assessment of a source of threat becomes easier when the idea is shared. Almost all students who committed homicide had told someone of their intentions.
By encouraging these whistleblowing students to speak up about potential violence threat and listening to them, we learn that there are many weapons on school grounds and students know about them. The students' knowledge of weapons in their school is the rumbling before the earthquake.
Nikolas Cruz's mass shooting at a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Florida US, might have been prevented if students and teachers were trained to identify and dislodge any intended gun attack after he had posted threatening messages on his Instagram account about killing himself and others. Similar strategy was used in Germany as a pilot program to leak planned students' gun violent attack and within seven months of the program, at least 19 high-risk cases were identified across the country, and necessary help was offered to the students.
A threat assessment and response team which can consists of the principal, school counsellor, school psychologist and a school-based police officer can be set up to investigate a threat report. At each social level — friends, teachers, principals, parents, neighbours and law enforcement — there needs to be a response when an individual tells others of a plan to kill or harm, shows weapons, makes threats, has a method or has a target in mind. The threat assessment and response team talks to the people and any witnesses involved and try to figure out how serious the threat is in terms of target particularity, detailed plan of engagement, associated weaponry, etc.
The team will take precautionary measures and remedial actions to avert the intended catastrophe like protecting the envisioned victims, notifying parents, questioning, referrals to social and mental health officers, and the likes. The team should have the capacity to offer support and protection to whistleblowing students.
One other factor that will encourage witnesses reporting gun violence in school amidst the fears for their safety even if there is no constituted threat harassment and response team in the school – a situation where nothing will be likely done is strong students – teachers (school staff) relationship.
Obsession with firearms is a warning signs of a potential threat. Many mass shooters in school shootings are obsessed with firearm arsenals prior to the shootings and mass murders.
Healthy social-emotional behaviours and habits in schools is a viable public health strategic tool to eliminate obsession with firearms.
The constitutional standing of the Second Amendment in US should neither protect nor get in the way of regarding those who openly express obsessions with firearms arsenals and confess the willingness to kill others as exhibiting social-emotional misbehaviours and as such are dangerous to health.
Expressing a constitutional right of privacy of a citizen should not be detrimental to others' lives. School professionals, public health workers and law enforcements agents should be properly guided.
Stringent background checks should not be limited to licensed firearms dealers as in US but should be universal Anyone with a demonstrated record of criminal violence or misuse of guns or mental health issues who threatens others with gun or firearms should be prohibited from any form of gun possession and access to assault firearms.
Much more effort needs to be made to ensure that these individuals are recorded into the background check system to prevent future purchases and their current weapons taken away
In as much as cultivating healthy social-emotional behaviours will reduce the rate of disciplinary actions, schools should not hesitate to suspend or expel a students with gun violent or mass murder motive and recommend that full social and emotional learning be done for the student until he can be ascertained to be able to maintain satisfactory level of social-emotional behaviours suitable to ensure public health safety.
Such will deal with any psychological effect that student suffers due to the exclusionary practices.
Red flag laws colloquially known as Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs) in US allow family members and law enforcement agents to restrict or temporarily remove a person's access to firearms by ordering the seizure of weapons when their behaviour suggests that they pose a violent threat to themselves and others.
I have taken my time on several occasions to observe children's reactions as aftermath effect of seeing violent video games and action movies. They tend to practise what they see on media at homes, in the classroom, as the captivating imagery of the actions replay in the memory.
So, I quite agree with US President, Donald Trump who has tried to blame incidents like mass shootings by young perpetrators on violence in media despite lack of research evidence and US Supreme Court in 2011 against a law suit based on the assertion that violent video games promote real-life violence.
Banning violent video games is unlikely to happen in many modern societies but children learn more and better by what they see (Observational learning). The question is how could a mass shooter have perpetrated mass shooting well enough to kill a handful of persons when he hadn't seen mass shootings anywhere in his life?
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Citizens of a few countries of the world have constituted rights to keep and bear arms with certain proviso. Switzerland, Czech Republic and UK legalised the bearing of firearms with certain stipulations. Two of the five countries that legalised bearing of assault weapons – US and Mexico have recorded the highest number of school shooting incidents from 1st January 2009 to 23rd May, 2018 – both totalling 296 incidents. 288 of those incidents came from US and it is the only country that legalised arm-bearing that does not include explicit restrictive conditions.
Many in US see banning assault weapons an appropriate first step to keeping the highly lethal weapons beyond reach for good and bad actors equally. It is to me the best preventive measure of school shootings internationally. It keeps the society safe even when every other preventive measure fails. In simple terms, ''You can't use arms when you don't have them.''
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The question "Should Christians give up on the Religious Right?" is strikingly similar to "Have you stopped beating your wife?" Any response is a self-inflicted indictment.
First, I do not accept the media-invented "Religious Right" label as a correct description of believers who obey Christ's admonition in Matthew 5:13–16 to be salt and light in this darkened world. As I see it, the topic would be better titled "Should Christians give up on obeying the Lord?"
For 2,000 years, Christians have let their lights shine as soul winners, church planters, and missionaries to the world. At the same time, as the salt of the earth, they have been the conscience of the culture. That is what salt and light are designed by God to be and do. We build churches, and, from the same pulpits and pews, we concurrently oppose slavery, injustice, abortion, and immorality.
Second, the triumphant church of Christ never "gives up" on its divine mission. Neither minority status, temporary losses, defections by weary saints, "nor any other creature" cause the church to retreat. Bible students know how it all ends. We win.
Because the culture is rotting, the church does not give up. To borrow the words of President Clinton's chief spinner, James Carville, this is a time for war—spiritual war, of course!
Christians who are openly pro-life, involved in supporting the biblical family as the only model, and politically conservative are often wrongly portrayed by their Christian and secular critics as neglecting their "light ministry." This is usually a bum rap.


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For the last three years (apart from a break of a few weeks) one of my photos has been used as a prompt for Sunday Photo Fiction, but with changes to my circumstances, I am now taking donations for the challenge.
This week's photo is the first of the donated ones.
If you want to have a go yourself, then click on the Sunday Photo Fiction image. If you want to read what others have written, then click on the blue frog image, and if you want to donate a photo for the challenge, click on the photo submission image.
Perry looked out at the boat anchored in the centre of the lake He eyed it as he had for the last seven days. The little boat behind it intrigued him. It was always in a different place even though there seemed to be nobody on the bigger boat.
He hired a small boat and prepared to row out to it and look for himself. The boat custodian tried to advise him against it, telling him he regularly told people not to go, but nobody listened to him.
Perry chuckled and started rowing out when he noticed the smaller boat seemed to be missing. Thinking it sat on the other side of the boat, he moored the little one on the near side. He climbed aboard, glanced over the other side, and frowned when he saw no other vessel.
He walked to the wheelhouse and found the key in the ignition. He turned it and a bright flash blinded him for a few seconds. Shielding his eyes, Perry walked out onto the deck and looked for his boat, now moored to the rear. Looking to the shore, he saw a different landscape. A very much older landscape.
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I'm afraid we will never know.
Now that is a shame!
Al – you are an awesome writer. You can produce a book of your blog posts and sell on Amazon if you wanted too. Never put yourself down. Flash fiction is huge!
Very neat, it teleported him into the past. Will he be able to return to his own time?
I wonder. And will any of the other people he warned be there, or did they go to different timelines?
Who would guess an otherwise inconspicuous boat on a lake could be a portal to an alternate universe? Ingenious, Alastair! You already have a great story line, so please expound on it.
Thanks Alejandro. I have tried expanding on other stories, but I am not that good at writing anything longer than about 2-300 words.
Al–What you do (exceedingly well) is called "Flash Fiction." Check out all the links (especially the first one, the Wikipedia definition).
You're too kind. I had a look at the first link. Six word story. I can write a story in under ten words.. "Parachute for sale. Used once. Never opened. Slight stain" Made me decide to create a twitter account for Sunday Photo Fiction so I can share the brilliant stories everybody else writes.
Ooh, very intriguing! The boat custodian did warn him not to go. I'm thinking he's the kind of guy who does whatever he wants to no matter what the rules are — and it finally caught up with him.
As far as donating photos goes, have you tried looking for free photos online, e.g. on Flickr or Pixabay? For the photos I use on my blog, I usually start at Creative Commons (https://search.creativecommons.org/) to be sure that all the images that pop up are free to use. But there are many other sites too. There are some amazing photos to be found out there!
I will warn you, if you haven't explored those sites before, that it is very easy to get caught up in all the interesting photos and in choosing which ones to save for later… and then suddenly realize the whole morning has slipped away!


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There must be something about the sight of the Saint Joe's logo that makes the basket look extra big for Marah Strickland. After setting a career-high with 31 points against the fellow Jesuit institution a few weeks ago, the graduate student exploded for 22 points on Saint Joe's home court in the Atlantic 10 Quarterfinals, leading Fordham to a 65-48 victory over Saint Louis.
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To clarify my reasons for writing the following: I'm an enthusiastic supporter so far of the nonviolent Egyptian revolution, who is dismayed by the U.S. launch of yet another Middle Eastern war against Libya.
More specifically: I am neither a heart-led romantic who thinks thousands mass in the streets spontaneously without help, nor a heartless cynic who thinks that former State Department officials like Jared Cohen have no right to try to change the world.
What concerns me here is that power corrupts, and the power of a few in America to quietly help make a nonviolent revolution in Egypt seems to have led very swiftly to heavy missile attacks against Libya.
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If you follow Movements.org at all, you've noticed that our network is made up of grassroots activists from around the world. At our summits, and here on this site, the goal is for people to share information with each other so that they can more effectively tackle campaigns for social change. Much of what I do is work on improving these training resources and facilitate the sharing of best practices among activists. As an example, on our private listserv there have been some questions lately out of Cameroon and Nigeria about how best to set up a campaign to monitor elections. On the list, we—me, Mark Belinsky of Digital Democracy, Ken Banks of Frontline SMS, Juliana Rotich of Ushahidi, and a few others—were able to get some helpful information out to these folks. Movements.org is first and foremost about making it easier for activists to connect with each other and get the information they need.
The Shabab April 6 Movement, which was at the inaugural summit [in New York City of the Alliance of Youth Movements] in 2008, is one of the grassroots groups that has played a role in this network of activists. As is mentioned in a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks and cited this week at The Nation, Newsweek, the New York Post and ABC News, April 6 was able to connect with other grassroots activists – who they remain connected to – at this event. That gets at the real value (hopefully!) of this website and the annual summit: helping activists to learn from each other by providing a platform and offline events that facilitate information sharing.
At the 2008 event in NYC, members of the Obama campaign new media team shared what they had learned with activists….
"In the same way Policy Planning works by bringing together a lot of stakeholders in government, out of government, and across different sectors, so, too, will Google Ideas do something very similar," Cohen said.
"It's not designed to be, 'Let's pool all of Google's resources and tackle global challenges,'" the former State Department official told Foreign Policy.
Cohen said challenges Google Ideas may focus on include "hard challenges like counterterrorism, counterradicalization, and nonproliferation, to some of the ones people might expect it to focus on, like development and citizen empowerment.
Jared Cohen, a high-profile advocate of the State Department's forays into "21st-century statecraft," is leaving Foggy Bottom for New York….
There have been diverse consequences so far of the Egyptian revolution.
3) "Libya: No End in Sight" — On March 19th, an American president commences bombing in order to destabilize a dictator in a far-away region of the world. Our goals are to prevent him from harming his own people, to prevent his actions from spreading chaos in a region and to see regime change in his country.
In 2003, it was George W. Bush initiating our conflict in Iraq. In 2011, it was Barack Obama committing to a no-fly zone above Libya. The approach toward international collaboration has been different and the stated scope of this mission is different, but there is also a shiver that runs up my spine about what is the same: We're entering a military conflict in the Arab world and don't know our end goal.
10 Global Post, February 21, 2011, http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/egypt/110221/egypt-facebook-wael-ghonim.
12 Justin Krebs, "Libya: No End in Sight," http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/its-free-blog/2011/mar/21/libya-no-end-sight/.


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MI5 wants secret court session over IRA informant's lawsuit
May 7, 2013 by Joseph Fitsanakis 9 Comments
Britain's domestic intelligence agency, MI5, has requested a secret court hearing to deliberate a lawsuit from a high-profile spy who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army, commonly known as IRA. The mole, Martin McGartland, of Belfast, Northern Ireland, was recruited by the Special Branch of the Royal Ulster Constabulary in the 1980s. The information he supplied to the security agencies over several years is widely credited with having saved the lives of at least 50 British police officers and soldiers. His autobiographical experiences formed the basis of the 2008 motion picture 50 Dead Men Walking, written and directed by Kari Skogland and starring Jim Sturgess as Martin and Ben Kingsley. McGartland's cover was dramatically blown in 1991, when the IRA began suspecting that he might be an MI5 mole. After several hours of interrogation by the IRA's Internal Security Unit, McGartland managed to escape his captors and throw himself out of a third-floor window. He survived serious injuries and was taken into hiding by MI5, living in a series of safe houses across Britain for nearly a decade. However, in 1999 the IRA caught up with him at an MI5 safe house in North Tyneside, in the northeast of England, where he was shot by an IRA hit team while walking to his car one morning and left for dead. McGartland is now suing MI5 and its institutional patron, the British Home Office, claiming that they failed to support him after he was shot by the IRA. In his lawsuit, McGartland claims that government funding he was receiving for treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder was withdrawn after he publicly criticized the British government's counterterrorism policies. But on Monday, it emerged that Home Office solicitors had filed a formal request to hold the trial as a Closed Material Procedure (CMP) hearing. This type of practice, which recently became law under the 2013 Justice and Security Act, allows the court to decide a case without giving the plaintiff party any details of the information against them. In many cases, the government resorts to CMP ostensibly to protect 'sources and methods'. But McGartland's legal team said yesterday that the secret hearing was designed "solely to cover up [MI5's] own embarrassment and wrongdoing and not, as the Government has been claiming, to protect national security". British newspaper The Independent, which broke the story, spoke to the Home Office and was told by a spokesman that "there are ongoing legal proceedings in this case and therefore it would be inappropriate to comment".
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M. says:
Realistically, since I'm not an expert in British government, what, if any obligations do these intelligence organizations have to their informants/ sources after they complete their service or it has ended? I think you know the danger you are getting in when you take the job. You take the job because of patriotic, personal, or similar reasons, not because of the compensation. I give credit to all those that serve but I think people would agree that its a hazardous job and shouldn't blame the government because you weren't compensated adequately.
Most of the time your government will hang you out to dry any time they view you as a liability. You can sometimes trust your friends but it is never wise to trust institutions.
Just goes to prove the covert adage that truth can be stranger than fiction in the spy game. "Harry's Game" was an earlier excellent addition to the undercover IRA genre. Here's the "50 Dead Men Walking" trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inc3z-YWE-M .
Charles Edward Frith (@charlesfrith) says:
Like all spooks. The terror is run by them. It's just one of those facts nobody talks about.
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The Justice and Security Bill 2013 is a UK charter of cover-up so that MI5 (British Security Service), the British Government (including its corrupt Home Office) can conceal their own wrong doing. How do we know this? The latest news paper reports concerning former British Agent Martin McGartland has confirmed that MI5 is going to apply for a closed hearing, a secret hearing in the McGartland case. The McGartland case, as the the reports confirm, have nothing at all to do with 'National Security'. The case relates only to MI5 case officers incompetence, those MI5 case officers withdrew medical support from Martin McGartland after he was blasted up to 7 times by PIRA terrorists. MI5 recklessness withdrew the treatment even after they had received 2 separate medical reports stating that McGartland required between 3 and 5 years further treatment. MI5 ignored the medical advice and Martin McGartland was left for 9 years without any type of treatment or medication. Both of witch MI5 stopped (withdrew) overnight. The end result was that McGartland's health seriously deteriorated during that period. This is an important case because it relates to nothing at all more that a very straightforward case of negligent, a failure by MI5, Security Service, a breach of duty of care. MI5 are now going to use closed material proceedings (CMP) in the Martin McGartland case so that they can Lie to the court (in secret of course) and so that they can cover-up their own wrongdoing; http://www.scribd.com/doc/142524339/MI5-Security-Service-Bids-to-Have-Provo-Spy-s-Case-Heard-in-Secret
MI5 allegedly applies for secret court session after informant sues for being denied protection:: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mi5-allegedly-applies-for-secret-court-session-after-informant-sues-for-being-denied-protection-8605107.html
Jeff Anderson says:
Martin McGartland's solicitor, Nogah Ofer, has been speaking on the BBC about this case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgaUnXL_ti8


Over Christmas I have been playing around with a simple modification that transforms the QCX into a Class-E driven SSB transceiver. With this setup I have been able to make several SSB contacts and FT8 exchanges across Europe and so far this experiment is working reasonable well. It can be fully-continuous tuned through bands 160m-10m in the LSB/USB-modes with a 2200Hz bandwidth, provides up to 5W PEP SSB output and has a software-based full Break-In VOX for fast RX/TX switching in voice and digital operations.
The SSB transmit-stage is implemented in a completely digital and software-based manner: at the heart the ATMEGA328 is sampling the input-audio and reconstructing a SSB-signal by controlling the SI5351 PLL phase (through tiny frequency changes over 800kbit/s I2C) and controlling the PA Power (through PWM on the key-shaping circuit). In this way a highly power-efficient class-E driven SSB-signal can be realized; a PWM driven class-E design keeps the SSB transceiver simple, tiny, cool, power-efficient and low-cost (ie. no need for power-inefficient and complex linear amplifier with bulky heat-sink as often is seen in SSB transceivers).
An Open Source Arduino sketch is used as the basis for the firmware, a hardware modification bypasses the QCX CW filter and provides a microphone input in-place of the DVM-circuit; the mod is easy to apply and consist of four wires and four component changes and after applying the transceiver remains compatible with the original QCX (CW) firmware.
The following code can generate SSB modulation just by controlling a PLL carrier. I have applied this method on the RapsberryPi PLL, and made several contacts on 40m and 20m band with my RaspberryPi.
The original idea (as seen above) was to implement a complete SSB modulator and demodulator with software in a ATTINY45 micro-controller chip and a AD9834 as DDS. The software samples microphone signal with ADC and then derives the amplitude and phase of the audio signal. The amplitude and phase extraction is derived from the in-phase microphone signal and its 90 degree phase shifted quadrature signal (created by a Hilbert transform on the in-phase signal). The resulting phase is replicated on the oscillator signal of the DDS, and the amplitude information is used to change the drive-strength (current) of the DDS. The output of the DDS is representing a clean single side-band output SSB near the configured frequency.
To proof this idea is working, I implemented the algorithm on a RaspberryPi. In the RaspberryPi setup there is no DDS, but there is a digital-PLL on the micro-processor SoC which we can use for RF generation. By manipulating the Integer and Fractional dividers, a frequency can be generated from 0 to 250 MHz on GPIO4 pin with a resolution of about 20 Hz at 7 MHz. By alternating the Fractional divider between two nearby values, the resolution can be further increased to micro-Hz level; for this a 32 bit clock at 32 MHz is used to generate a PWM alike switching pattern between the two Fractional divider values.
The PLL oscillator can be phase modulated by short manipulations of the configured frequency. Increasing the frequency temporarily and then restoring to its original frequency, will shift the phase upwards, while decreasing the frequency temporarily will decrease the phase of the signal.
The amplitude signal can be applied by changing the drive-strength of the GPIO4 port, which has 8 levels with a dynamic range of about 13 dB. After some experimenting, amplitude information can be completely rejected, instead the frequency must be placed outside the single side band (e.g. placed to center freq). In this case single side band is generated wihout suppressed carrier, i.e. a constant amplitude envelope is applied (good to prevent RF interference). In this case the audio quality does not seem to suffer from this constant amplitude, and the audio quality becomes even better by applying a little-bit of noise to the microphone input. My impression is that using SSB with constant amplitude increases the readability when the signal is just above the noise.
#define RESET 15 // Pin - connect to reset pin (RST).


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