We spend a lot of time watching what is going on in the world. One of the advantages of having a customer-based intelligence sharing program as well as a distribution of our own sensors in the wild is that we are able to watch as threats change. When new threats come into play, or when existing threats change, rules have to be created or modified. Over the next few weeks, we're going to share some of the rules we've written in response to these threats and go over why we chose to write them in the way we did. Hopefully this will help you in your custom rule-writing.
So, this rule has a couple of things worth mentioning. First, the rule is written with $FILE_DATA_PORTS. This means that we look at it over HTTP, POP and IMAP. So a PDF matching this over any of those vectors will trigger the rule. Next we have flowbits:isset,file.pdf;. This rule option checks to make sure that Snort has seen enough to know that this is a PDF file. That way, this web page won't trigger the rule.
Another thing to notice is that the content match for "NEW PDF EXPLOIT" is followed by fast_pattern:only;. Normally, Snort uses the first, longest content match as the content for the fast pattern matcher. This content becomes the triggering condition to enter full rule evaluation. The fast_pattern; option overrides that, telling Snort to use the associated content match in the pattern matcher, not the first, longest content. This rule has only one content match, so that functionality isn't important here. Instead, I used the functionality of the "only" modifier to fast_pattern to eek out a little speed increase in rule performance.
Using fast_pattern:only; instructs Snort not to look for the content during rule evaluation, as that content has already been seen during fast pattern matching. It is important to know that because the fast pattern matcher is case agnostic, any match that is marked as fast_pattern:only; acts as if it had the nocase; modifier. Also, this modifier can only be used when the content match is not associated with a relative match, because when Snort doesn't look for the content during rule evaluation it doesn't know where the content is in the packet, so relative content matches won't work. Using the fast_pattern:only; construct means that when the rule enters evaluation, the only checks are for flow direction (making sure the packet is moving from a server to a client) and ensuring that the flowbit for pdf files has been set. This makes for very fast rule evaluation.
The wild, wild west of the Internet is moving very quickly right now. In particular, exploit kits morph almost day-to-day. Having a firm understanding of how the various rule keywords work together is important to build the detection you need. Hopefully this blog post gave you a little insight into the rule-writing process. We'll be putting together more posts going forward that give slightly more complicated examples. Stay tuned!
With the recent release of Razorback 0.4.1 we decided to update the Virtual Appliance image to this release. The target audience for the appliance is people that want to test drive the system without going though the process of installing the system and its dependencies.
The virtual appliance is based on FreeBSD 9.0 (i386) and requires 4GB of RAM on your host and 20-30GB of hard disk space. We build the VM in VMWare ESXi, but it should run on any hypervisor that can import an Open Virtualization Format archive (OVA) virtual machine; in this guide I will be using VirtualBox.
Virus Total Nugget (disabled by default, requires API key).
Select the OVA file that you have downloaded and follow the prompts to deploy the machine; if you are asked if you would like to reset the VM's network cards' MAC addresses at any point you should select yes (or tick the box in the case of VirtualBox).
If you see a bunch of output related to masterNugget or dispatcher then you may just hit return and the menu should present its self.
Enter your new password and confirmation leaving old password blank. Make sure that "Change root password as well" is selected and click the "Change Admin Password" button. Now the Alert button in the top right should be solid green rather than flashing red.
Configure the interface to fit your environment (I'm using DHCP in the example) and click ok. If you are moving to a static IP configuration you will need to go the the "Global Configuration" item under network and set your default gateway and name servers.
Now you should reboot the appliance to make sure that the network configuration changes took. Select "Reboot" from the menu.
Once the machine has rebooted you should be able to log into the razorback web interface by browsing to the URL listed on the boot menu (in this case, http://10.7.1.56/).
Log into the system web interface with the admin user (whose password we set earlier). Expand the Razorback element in the tree and select "Control Nuggets".
To change the configuration items for a nugget click the spanner icon next to the on/off switch.
To turn a nugget on or off just click on the on/off button, your changes should be reflected on the razorback interface under nugget status.
To do this we need to add a capture interface to the appliance, making sure that you enable promiscuous mode for the interface.
VMWare ESXi - Change the configuration of the vSwitch and the port to allow promiscuous mode for the interface.
VirtualBox - Select "Allow All" under Advanced->Promiscuous Mode as shown above.
Add a third interface to the appliance connected to your second virtual network.
Select shell from the system console.
Comment out the lines starting ifconfig_em1 and snort_interface under the heading "TAP/Span interface on em1".
Un-comment the lines under "Inline configuration em1+em2".
Lots of people in the security space are familiar with the blog of Brain Krebs, a former Washington Post network security writer and one of a tiny number of IT security journalists who actually gets it. If you're not following him on Twitter (@briankrebs), you should be.
"Don't look now (seriously, don't unless you're ninja) but Twilight author Stephanie Meyer's site appears 2b serving up Crimepack Exploit kit"
I was just lucky enough to notice this tweet within moments of it being sent out. As someone who hates sparkly vampires, I immediately went out and did a wget of the site in question, and pulled down an awesome PCAP. Besides having bad 90s-era HTML, the site was indeed infected with a bad case of the Crimepack Exploit Kit, as Mr. Krebs had noted.
In the meantime, pay attention as you're browsing the Internet - you never know what sort of evil awaits you, even in the lamest of its corners.
This is the first in a series of blog posts about the Content IQ Test.
The rules of the test are simple: "The objective is to create a single content rule that fires on all of the Test Files but not on any of the Negative Control files. [...]Triggering on the test files' [...] filenames or MD5 hashes and stuff like that is cheating and it doesn't count. "
Let's see how ClamAV does at this.
These files are all benign, so I encourage you to download and check out how these files are crafted.
OK, we are detecting the control file and are not detecting the negative control file. Let's proceed!
Test file 2 contains the control text pasted into the body of a Microsoft Word 2011 document.
Test file 3 contains the control text pasted into the body of a Microsoft Excel 2011 document.
Test file 4 contains the control text pasted into the body of a Microsoft PowerPoint 2011 document.
Therefore, I modified the signature alerts if we see "eval" followed by "unescape" no farther than 200 bytes away, in turn followed by "('%65%76%69%6c%28%29'))" no farther than 200 away from "unescape".
Test file 5 contains the control text pasted into the body of a PDF document.
Test file 7 contains the control file compressed with Zip.
We see that a ZIP archive is treated as a container. Its contents are inflated and examined.
Test file 8 contains the control text pasted into the body of a Microsoft Word 2011 document. This Word document is compressed with Zip, then Tar, then RAR.
As with Test file 7, archive files are treated as the containers they are. Here, ClamAV recursively extracts the contents of the RAR, TAR and ZIP files.
Finally, Test file 9 contains the target string embedded in the metadata of an Excel 2011 file as a custom property.
Today we saw how ClamAV fared with the basic content test files. In the next post I'll take a look at the test files with auto-executing embedded active content.
A Document was sent to you using a XEROX CORPORACE FSX43949461.
The resulting ownage was classic. After briefly displaying a circa-1995-looking "Loading...Please Wait..." atop the page for a moment, the browser window went away, and the virtual machine's hard drive suddenly started cranking very heavily. Looking at the packet capture, the system immediately contacted a host in Russia, and started communicating over HTTP on port 8801; several files came down, including one named "yrkrktxzfniq.exe". A quick look at that file on VirusTotal showed that it was - surprise, surprise - malicious, and goes by the name of Worm.Cridex.
The exploit kit was easy enough to detect - SID 21108 does the job - given how blatant the obfuscation was. While we're busy working on more complex kits, such as Blackhole (see SIDs 21041 - 21045, 21141, and 21259), it's nice to be able to pick off less sneaky ones like this.
Up until this past year, I had never included any marketing materials in my slides. It never seemed to fit in with a technical presentation, even though I always believed in the Sourcefire product line's ability to defend our customers in the face of a rapidly changing landscape. Having open source solutions, backed by the VRT's ability to convert real-world intelligence into new detection, while still giving the customer the option to build their own custom detection is a powerful combination. But now our company has come up with a corporate vision and marketing message that speaks directly to how successful organizations approach security and I am really impressed.
We call it "Agile Security" and it basically describes a security cycle that is critical to keeping network defense up-to-date in a changing threat environment. It recognizes that static defenses simply can't stand up to the realities of today's security environment and that the ability to monitor dynamic networks is just the first step in a successful security stance. It also is an excellent description of how the VRT approaches converting its streams of intelligence into protection for our customers.
The concepts of Agile Security are broken up into four essential elements. The first is "See", meaning that you can't protect yourself if you don't have a current understanding of what is is you're trying to defend. With the encroachment into the network by consumer electronics in the form of smart phones, tablets and laptops along with the rapid turn over of technology in today's corporate environment this can be difficult. Organizations can use active or passive techniques for tracking changes in network topology as well as new devices as they come online, but whatever the approach it is critical to know what you're defending right now.
The second element of Agile Security is "Learn", which focuses on gathering information about vulnerabilities, exploits and malware that threaten your environment. This is where you leverage your understanding of your network to map known threats to vulnerable targets within your network. For example, Android malware is an evolving threat. Do your users use their smart phone and integrate into your network making this malware a threat to your network? This is also where you cycle information you gain by incident response teams into your cycle for evaluation by your security development teams. Have you found a new malware on your network? How did it get there? What is it trying to do? Where did your defenses fail? This information leads to the next phase of Agile Security, "Adapt".
"Adapt" is the phase where you convert your intelligence into an actionable defense. In some cases this is automatic, such as when the VRT releases a new rule or when the FireAMP system seamlessly adds detection to their cloud-based malware solution. Other times the situation is unique to your enterprise and detection can be added with custom Snort rules or ClamAV signatures. Sometimes the answer isn't in anti-virus or IDS systems. Perhaps the answer is a traditional firewall rule, application control or even a change to existing policies and procedures. Whatever the question this is the phase where you develop the correct answer for your environment.
The final phase is "Act", where the solutions developed in the "Adapt" phase are incorporated into your security stance. Often this happens automatically as your Snort and Sourcefire 3D sensors are updated with new detection content or when ClamAV and FireAMP receive new signature updates. Updates may also be custom signatures and rules created by your own organization. Sometimes changes to your security stance must occur within the policies of your environment. For example you may be subject to change controls before making firewall changes or QA checks prior to deploying custom detection. However it happens, now is when you bring your new defenses online. From here you monitor how your network and your adversaries react to your changes, and the cycle starts again at "See".
I know, that's two nice posts in a row. No doubt I'll be angry about something next time.
The Razorback team has released version 0.4.1 (yeah, we would have released 0.4, but we found some critical bugs that we really needed to fix before general release). You can find the new version of Razorback here: http://sfi.re/zQQOQ4. We've done a lot of work both on the internals of Razorback as well as a couple of new nuggets.
The first change I'd like to discuss is the concept of locality. Because of the large network traffic that could be generated by the system, we wanted to be able to take advantage of a shared file system to increase throughput and, depending on what kind of shared system you are using, reduce the amount of network traffic. To do this we've developed the concept of locality. If you share a locality with the dispatcher, you will access the data blocks directly from the shared disk system. By default, the dispatcher locality is 1. Any other locality will result in datablocks being transfered over the network in the standard way. So if you have a fast shared disk system, be it NFS or a SAN setup, set the locality in api.conf and this should increase your throughput.
Speaking of data transfer over the wire, we've added encrypted data transfer. Not surprisingly, this is fairly CPU intensive in certain cases, but depending on your needs this may be a required piece of functionality. The transfer goes over SSH/SFTP and uses the standard libssh library. We've removed transfering the datablock by putting it in the queue (this resulted in too much data in the queue) so currently this is the supported network data transfer. The username is automatically the nugget id, and this is checked against the database setup and the password is configured in the api.conf.
Another place we use the locality concept is in our new master/slave high-availability setup for the dispatcher. Dispatchers in a master/slave setup must share a locality so as they fail over they have all the datablocks that have been transfered to the dispatcher. In the master/slave setup the routing table is shared between the servers so in the case of failover none of the nuggets will need to be re-registered. Because of the queue server setup, all of the pending requests will then be handled by the new master nugget on failover. CLI commands for viewing the status of the high-availbility setup and force-failing servers have also been added.
We've added three new nuggets. Two of them, syslogNugget and razorTwit, demonstrate the new output nugget capability. As alerts and status changes come into the dispatcher, details are placed into a queue that output nuggets can subscribe to. This capability is intended to reduce the impact of database queries and to provide an alternate, installation-specific, capability for logging. See the nugget samples for more information, they are fairly straightforward.
Finally, we are introducing a beta build of the new PDFFox nugget built by Ryan Pentney. The idea behind this nugget is to provide an open-source pdf analyzer that doesn't rely and a costly commercial application to work. The project is still coming together, and you should probably run the latest from trunk, but its coming along nicely and provides solid detection.
So that is it, besides a bunch of bug fixes from 0.3. We're now working on the Q1 2012 development cycle and it entirely revolves around the Windows API and several nuggets to plug into anti-virus systems. We're also deploying our first major in-house production build of Razorback, so numerous performance tweeks are in the works. Expect information about how to tweak each of the components for maximum performance as we complete the Q1 run.
For those that use our VM, the updated 0.4.1 VM should be up shortly; Tom Judge is making a few tweaks on that side before we release it.
We want to say thanks for giving Razorback a try, let us know if you have any issues via the mailing list or #razorback on freenode.


There's an ill will blowing across the country. The economy is tanking. The people are directionless, and politics provides no answer. And like former regimes, the militarized police have stepped up to provide a facade of law and order manifested by an overt violence against the citizenry.


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Raya And The Last Dragon Movie Critics Review
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Release Date: March 3, 2021
Genres: Animation, Action, Adventure
Average Score: 100% Positive
Reviews Counted: 5
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Review By: Neil (Critic)
The background score, especially, in the action sequences is stimulating and the best work of composer James Newton Howard. His fourth collaboration with Disney, after a long time, is definitely worth the wait. Unlike the previous Disney outings like Frozen and Moana, here the action takes precedence over music. The only song, 'Lead the Way,' (written and performed by Jhené Aiko) rolls with the end-credits.
Ratings: 3.5/5
Review By: Umesh (Critic)
The last dragon Sisu (voiced by Awkwafina), leave a gem which then divides the people of Kumandra against each other. People from six regions named after the dragon's body parts (such as Fang, Talon and more). But the gem lies with Heart protected by Raya (voiced by Kelly Marie Tran) and her father, Chief Benja (voiced by Daniel Dae Kim). People from every region want that gem, but Benja and Raya only want to unite everyone to fight to bring back the dragons.
Review By: Rohan (Critic)
Call it an act of repentance on Disney's part for throwing Kelly Marie Tran under the bus, or call it another excuse for Alan Tudyk to make animal noises for a couple of hours in exchange of equity, but nothing should take away from the fact that Raya and the Last Dragon is another step in the right direction for the Mouse House. And in a happy coincidence, it might just be the most 'unremakable' film that the studio has produced in a while.
Review By: Prahlad (Critic)
A Disney film carries considerable nostalgic baggage. That's why the studio has been mining its existing IP, instead of telling new stories. 2016 was perhaps the last great year for the Mouse House's animation outfit, having given us two gems in Zootopia and Moana. Five years later, Disney makes its first foray into creating new IP with Raya and the Last Dragon. While Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada's film is by no measure a dud, it does lack that intangible "it" factor that elevated past films to classic status.
Review By: Gopinath (Critic)
The premise that sets up the events is anything but unique. The fictional world of Kumandra is made up of five different landmasses named Fang, Talon, Tail, Spine, and Heart, and they come together conveniently to form the shape of — you guessed it — a dragon. When the people of these five kingdoms fight for the much treasured Dragon Gem, they inadvertently break it. Unluckily for them, the gem's magic is the only force that stops a plague called Druun that terrorised them a few centuries back.
Raya And The Last Dragon Launched On March 3, 2021.

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aly & fila, ann clue, armin, armin van buuren, boris brejcha, elevation, ELEVATION 002, evenko, Frontrite, hntr, kev sunshine, Loud x Clear, marlo, mike larry, Monkey Buzinezz, montreal events, mortiz hofbauer, NEON, nifra, ruben de ronde, techno, trance, uppercut - September 15, 2022
[Event Recap] Worlds Collided at ELEVATION 002
In true Canadian fashion, we always look forward to the Labour Day long weekend. It's a time to reconnect with the people and the things we appreciates most. For us, we find happiness in sharing moments with likeminded individuals and in our passion for music. We couldn't wait to tie these loves into our early September plans...
As fate would have it, we stumbled upon the most perfect event to satisfy our greatest desires: ELEVATION 002. We had the honour of covering the debut edition earlier this year; therefore, we were eager to see how evenko, NEON, Loud x Clear, Frontrite and Monkey Buzinezz would top the previous successful event; and ultimately, send off the summer in the best way possible.
Our expectations were high as we reminisced about the magic we experienced at ELEVATION 001. In case you missed it, you can check out our exclusive event recap here. To add to our already high anticipations, when we first caught wind of the lineup, we instantly had no doubts that the second occasion in the series would be anything short of spectacular!
Back in March, during the event's official launch, we were truly blown away by the overall production. In all honesty, we were perfectly content with the one stage as it included all of the key points ravers are known to adore: an amazing sound system, impeccable visuals, etc. The second event promised a whopping two stages designed to distinguish the beloved worlds of trance and techno.
We couldn't wait to see how the organizers would double the production value. In fairness, we knew they would live up to our wildest presumptions as two legends were announced to hold down the esteemed slots amongst the programming. The trance stage would be headlined by none other than Armin van Buuren, while Boris Brejcha would headline the techno stage.
Luckily, it took no time for the long weekend to roll around. The moment we had been waiting for had finally arrived! With a suitcase packed with techno gear and a stomach full of butterflies, we began our road trip to Montreal for ELEVATION 002. We expressed to our friends that this event was a marathon and not a sprint due to the 10-hour timeframe - which seemed fitting as it would take place at the Olympic Stadium.
Decked out in a black monochromatic outfit and chains, we made our way to the Olympic Park. It seemed as though we weren't the only ones who shared in the mindset to arrive early as many partygoers flocked to the entrance. Despite the wave of attendees, the line's wait times were more than reasonable. The security team conducted a thorough search before we walked through metal detectors. Like before, we instantly felt safe and well looked after.
One of our favourite moments was witnessing our friends' reactions while they approached the main room. It triggered our own memories from earlier this year when we first experienced the same moment. Hearing the bass and seeing the glowing lights in the distance was simply sheer bliss. We couldn't wait to begin our newest adventure, especially with this particular group of music enthusiasts...
Upon arrival, we began to take in our surroundings. We quickly noticed some admirable upgrades and changes were made since the previous edition. The overall layout seemed to flow much better. For example, the portable toilets were in a new location and even additional ones were spread out to allow for the attendees to waste less time walking away from the stage.
On the topic of the venue's rework, we spotted various bars and vendors booths expertly spread out throughout the space. Previous attendees could certainly gather that the organizers truly took the time to listen to all of the feedback post-event, whether it may have been positive or negative. The modifications we witnessed were fantastic and unquestionably added to the best experience possible. That said, a wave of gratitude overcame us...
While we were soaking up the atmosphere, one of the things that stood out to us was the influx of balloons. They really added to the general vibe of the space. Adorable and funny characters soared above, adding another visually pleasing aspect in addition to the lasers beaming throughout the room. Props to those who brought them - you all added a special element to the night!
The techno beats were thumping and reverberating off the walls. The talented openers were warming up the crowd nicely. Our curiosity overcame us - we wanted to explore the trance stage; and that's exactly what we did! Just a short walk past the techno stage lead into the other room. We felt a rapid shift from the fast-paced genre to the often melodic realm of trance music. It unequivocally awoken all of our senses...
Throughout the night, we bounced back and forth from the stages as if we were a bouncy ball. We wanted to catch as many sets are possible as the level of talent on the bill was sincerely jaw-dropping. Each artists delivered a memorable set, unleashing their distinct sound and commanding the decks as if it was in their coding. We were sincerely blown away by the various performances!
Some of the highlights for us at the trance stage was karl k-otik working through technical glitches to still deliver a commendable set, Nifra's powerful stage presence, Ruben de Ronde holding the Quebec flag and radiating positive vibes, MaRlo's entertaining visuals matched with his charismatic energy, Aly & Fila's army of dedicated fans chanting their anthems, and Armin van Buuren's dynamic set full of old and new-school bangers!
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As for the techno stage, some of our favourite moments included when Ann Clue dropped everything from deep dark melodic to acid and strong basslines, Moritz Hofbauer's physical movements reminded us of Avicii's iconic arm gestures, HNTR played 'Opus' that was masterfully mixed with a filthy techno drop for the ages; and of course, when the sensational Boris Brejcha took the decks to deliver one of the most captivating performances we had ever seen!
Although there were many noteworthy high points throughout ELEVATION 002, the one that unquestionably stood out amongst the rest was observing two of the most beloved music genres in dance music colliding. It was incredibly special to see even the most devoted of fans smiling from ear to ear in appreciation for music as a whole. We feel blessed to have lived this experience and are counting down until the next one...
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Islanders Open Post-John Tavares Era Looking for Improvement
Despite no longer having John Tavares, the New York Islanders believe they can be better in 2018-19.
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NEW YORK — As they begin their first season without John Tavares, the New York Islanders are certain to be a different team. They believe they can be better, too.
There's new leadership with Lou Lamoriello running the front office and Stanley Cup-winning coach Barry Trotz behind the bench. And even without their former captain, the Islanders still have plenty of offense with Mathew Barzal, Josh Bailey and Anders Lee leading the way.
After guiding Washington to the championship in June, Trotz is being counted on to turn an Islanders team that has just one playoff series win since 1993 into a winner.
''It's a process, it's not going to happen overnight,'' he said. ''We want to build a consistent contender, that's plain and simple. Once you get to the status of being a consistent contender, you get into the (playoffs) every year and you have a chance to win the Cup.''
The Islanders have missed the playoffs the last two years and eight of the last 11. Last season, they finished 17 points out of a postseason spot after losing 30 of their final 45 games. The struggles led to the change in leadership that has also brought new optimism if not high expectations.
''If people say we're underdogs, that's fine, you just take it game by game,'' defenseman Johnny Boychuk said. ''When you miss the playoffs, you obviously don't want to miss it again. ... That's the goal for our team, to make the playoffs and ultimately win.''
Young Stars Eager to Show How Far USA Hockey Has Come
Barzal is coming off a stellar debut season in which he earned the Calder Trophy as the league's top rooking after leading the Islanders with 85 points (22 goals, 63 assists). With Tavares gone to his hometown Maple Leafs, Barzal knows he will be counted on to step up.
''John is a great player, it's tough to replace him,'' Barzal said. ''But now that it's over with we have to look ahead. I'm excited for the challenge. We got a lot of other guys here I'm assuming are excited to fill a bigger role.''
Barzal isn't the only scoring threat on a team that finished eighth in the NHL with 261 goals. Lee had the franchise's first 40-goal season in 11 years, Josh Bailey had a career-high 71 points (18 goals, 53 assists), and Jordan Eberle added 25 goals and 34 assists.
HOMES SWEET HOMES
Just 3 1/2 years after seemingly playing their last game at the Nassau Coliseum, the Islanders will be back on Long Island for nearly half their home games. The team will play 21 games at Brooklyn's Barclays Center, their home since the start of the 2015-16 season, and 20 at the Coliseum under an arrangement could last three seasons until their new arena is built next to the racetrack at Belmont Park. Many players live near the old facility.
''It's going to be a lot easier for the guys, as far as commuting goes,'' veteran forward Cal Clutterbuck said. ''Hopefully people are as excited to have us back as we are to be back.''
IMPROVING THE DEFENSE
Hampered by injuries to some key players, the defense gave up league-worst numbers in goals and shots allowed, and the Islanders were also last in penalty-killing. However, Ryan Pulock and Adam Pelech established themselves as solid young defensemen and will be counted on to steady a unit that lost Calvin de Haan and added only Luca Sbisa. Improvement will have to come from Trotz's system.
NEW CONTRACTS?
After enduring the uncertainty of Tavares' contract situation all last season, the Islanders could face similar questions again as several players - including Lee and Jordan Eberle - are in the final year of their deals. Others who could be unrestricted free agents include Brock Nelson, and newcomers Valtteri Filppula, Tom Kuhnhackl, Jan Kovar and Robin Lehner.
''Everyone's unique in their own situation, everything is going to fall into different spots for individual guys,'' Lee said. ''I was able to watch and learn from (Tavares' situation), but our cases are different.''
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BETWEEN THE PIPES
Thomas Greiss and Lehner go into the season as the primary goalie tandem. Greiss, who split time with Jaroslav Halak (now in Boston) most of the last three seasons, dealt with an injury down the stretch last year and finished 13-8-2 with one shutout and a 3.82 goals-against average. The 26-year-old Lehner was signed as a free agent after spending the previous three years in Buffalo. He was 14-26-9 with three shutouts and a 3.01 GAA for the last-place Sabres last season.
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By Dan Falkenheim
Q&A: Doug Weight on the coaching the Isles
Doug Weight likes to write notes, a practice he used as a player and offered to his charges on the New York Islanders. He hopes it helps youngster Mathew Barzal and veteran John Tavares alike.
By Alex Prewitt
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Islanders' center John Tavares is out for Saturday's game against the Devils.
John Tavares gets win vs. old Islanders teammates
In a potential Stanley Cup Playoffs preview, John Tavares led the Maples Leafs to a road win against his former Islanders teammates.
John Tavares wins game in double overtime
Islanders captain John Tavares forced overtime against the Panthers with a goal in the final minute of regulation, then won it in double overtime to send New York to the second round of the playoffs.
Barzal takes the reins to usher in post-Tavares era
There are two sides to Mat Barzal: the playful, lovable kid who doesn't know how to operate a Keurig machine and the fierce competitor who has taken up the task of leading the Islanders in the wake of Josh Tavares's departure.
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John Tavares's two clutch goals on Sunday night sent the Islanders past the Panthers in Game 6 and into the second round
By Jeremy Fuchs


When executed, the virus searches for .dll and .exe files with an "NE" stamp and OS/2 marker in the NewEXE header. The virus then finds the number of the entry point segment and makes it larger by shifting down the other segments. Arelocs then writes its code there. /it then fixes the name and relocation tables and returns control to the host program.
(C) 1995 American Eagle Publications Inc., All rights reserved.
Text found within the virus indicates it is a creation of American Eagle Publications (from which it gets one of its aliases, AEP) of Show Low, Arizona in the southwest United States. The owner of this publishing company, Dr. Mark Ludwig, had published the source code for many viruses in several books, many of them his own creation.
At the time of Arelocs's discovery, there were so few OS/2 viruses that they could be counted on one hand. The other two relatively well-known ones were Jiskefet and Myname. One of its aliases, Aep, is shared by another virus for 16-bit Windows.


The most important results to be obtained through pursuing the truth are genuine obedience and devotion to God. Those that are truly able to obey God are also, at the same time, those that are devoted to God. If you do not obey God, you are also not devoted to Him. Only by being obedient to God can you be devoted to Him. A man's devotion simultaneously reveals a man's obedience. If you possess true obedience, you will also possess devotion at the same time. This is the relationship between devotion and obedience. All those who genuinely obey God are also devoted to Him. However, just because you are devoted to God doesn't mean that you understand a lot of truth. The majority of the prophets and apostles throughout the ages were devoted to God. Some were persecuted to death. They were martyred for God without any complaints. This was their testimony of devotion. If a man does not understand a lot of the truth, but possesses devotion and obedience to God, this kind of man is someone that has been saved. Presently, we are required to pursue the truth; what are the results that we are to attain in the very end? Precisely speaking, we should at the very least enter into the realities of truly obeying God, being devoted to God and being honest people. What is the relationship between devotion, obedience and honest people? If someone that pursues the truth is devoted and obedient toward God, it can be said that he has become an honest person. Has this person's life disposition changed? Of course, their life disposition has changed. Therefore, the result that will be attained in the very end through pursuing the truth is a change in one's life disposition. Once someone's life disposition has changed, he will be able to put the truth into practice, enter into the reality of God's word, be a person that is obedient and devoted to God and be an honest person. These are the results that can be attained through pursuing the truth. Attaining perfection through pursuing the truth is an even higher result. At this point, one will have genuine knowledge of God. This knowledge will bring about a change in one's life disposition and one's perspective on things will also change. In the very end, this person will be able to bear witness to God, God's work and God's deeds. This is a person that has been perfected by God. There are some people who are unable to become people that bear witness to God. However, they have borne beautiful testimonies when faced with all sorts of trials and refinement. Their testimonies are born out of their reality, obedience and devotion, which also serve as testimonies to God. However, these people's testimony of entering into reality and being devoted to God to the end is not the same as the genuine testimony of having knowledge of God. Both are beautiful testimonies, but the testimony of knowing God is even deeper. The testimony that ordinary saints, the people of the kingdom, live out is the testimony of being both devoted and obedient to God. The testimony of those that have been perfected is the same as the testimony of Peter. These two kinds of testimonies are somewhat different in nature, and their results are a bit different, but both are approved by God.
What are the manifestations of obeying God? How can this be put into practice? These are crucial questions. First, we must fulfill our duties according to God's words and according to God's requirements. Second, we must fulfill our duties, eat and drink God's words and seek to enter into the reality of the truth in accordance with the work arrangements from the above. Those that can practice in this manner are people that are truly obedient. Upon this foundation of obeying God, as one's knowledge of God gradually grows deeper, and their understanding of the truth gradually grows clearer, they will start to manifest devotion. Once they are devoutly obedient to God, it can be said that this person's spiritual stature has matured. He is now capable of obeying God in a devoted manner. What does devotion mean? It means that nobody can influence you. You cannot be constrained by any person, event, or thing. You are staunchly immovable in things that God has entrusted you with. This is someone that is devoted to God. Those that truly obey and are devoted to God are people that God approves of. No matter what trials and disasters these people face in the future, they will have God's protection. Even if they want to die, they cannot, because God wants to bring these people into the next age, into His kingdom. According to this fact, what would you say are the results that should be attained through pursuing the truth? At the minimum, one should be able to truly obey God, act by God's words and fulfill one's duties according to God's requirements. Additionally, one should also be able to obey the work arrangements from the above. If you pursue the truth and fulfill your duties in this manner, you will be someone that obeys God. If you understand even more truth so that your obedience is not a momentary obedience but an obedience that is not affected by any person, event, or thing under any sort of circumstances, then your obedience has devotion within or in other words, your obedience has devotion as part of its composition. If you are able to unwaveringly be devoted to God and none other, then you are a person who has met the criteria for salvation. If someone does not have any obedience for God, not to mention devotion, this person cannot be saved. If you can't be saved, what can you do? You must still pursue the truth. Now, what should you focus on in regard to pursuing the truth? You should strive to obey God. You should always be pondering, "What truths must I possess in order to attain obedience to God? How can obedience to God be put into practice?" After a period of hard work, if you can understand the truth of obeying God, how to put it into practice to have the reality of obeying God and how to practice it to satisfy God's requirements, then you are on the correct path in regard to pursuing the truth. Notice how some people persistently read God's words when they pursue the truth. Afterward, when they encounter a situation, they persistently contemplate, pray and fellowship. The result is that they come to understand this aspect of the truth in a couple months of time. This is what it means to be a person that pursues the truth. This is a manifestation of pursuing the truth. Now, if someone does not know the spiritual stature he has attained through believing in God, if he does not know whether or not he can be saved after a few years of believing in God and if he does not know how to pursue the truth, isn't this person's faith a confused faith? His faith in God has no objective and he does not know what the results of believing in God are. He does not know in which aspects he should change, which aspects of the truth he should enter into and which realities he should live out. This means that his faith is a confused faith. Now, are you able to distinguish which people have obedience and devotion in the fulfillment of their duties? If you are able to distinguish clearly this matter, that means you have a path to enter into the truth and you are able to put it into practice. If you cannot see this matter clearly and are unable to distinguish, this indicates that you do not understand the truth. There are some people presently who do not have any obedience. No matter what you say, they pay no attention to you. They resist when you deal with and prune them and their hearts are full of resentment for you. They do not take seriously any work that you arrange for them to do. They adhere to this view: "I will do whatever I want to do. Don't mess with me." They believe, "Don't bother me about the way I do things. As long as I fulfill my duties, that means I am obeying God and I am after God's heart." Are these words tenable? What is your method of doing things based on? Let's analyze this matter. For what purpose do some people forsake everything and fulfill their duties? It is for their individual status, reputation and the rewards and blessings they can receive in the future. Now, if a man has these kinds of intentions, does it represent his obedience and devotion to God? Just having these kinds of intentions is incorrect because it is not in accordance with the truth. You are not willingly fulfilling your duties for God and you are not devoted to God. You are seeking rewards and blessings for yourself. That is why, even though you have forsaken everything and you are fulfilling your duties, you are not genuinely obeying God, because your intentions are incorrect. If your intentions are incorrect but you are willing to fulfill your duties, this is still good. However, you must pursue the truth, you must pursue to be cleansed and changed. Once you understand the truth, the incorrect intentions within you will be cleansed, and your life disposition will change. At that point, you will not be after blessings and rewards. Instead, you will be utterly loyal to God's entrustment and offer up yourself to do God's will. If someone has this kind of change while pursuing the truth, if in the future, he is completely devoted to God in his fulfillment of duties and that is devoid of his individual intentions and transactions, then this person is someone that has obtained the truth. This is a person whose life disposition has changed. Since this person has obtained the truth, his intentions have changed and the way he sees things has changed. The motives and intentions behind his expending for God are correct and they are completely in accordance with God's will. In the future, his duties will all be done in accordance with God's words, God's requirements and the work arrangements from the above. Through prayer, he is willing and glad to do them like this in order to satisfy God. In the future, his duties will be done with obedience and devotion to God. This is the type of person who will be saved by God in the end. When people first start to believe in God, they all are tainted with impurities. However, those that pursue the truth later experience a change in the way they see things, their view of God also changes and they have a true knowledge of God. Then, they devotedly expend themselves for God, they offer themselves up to God in order to satisfy God, they live for God and they live to do God's will. So, haven't their outlook on life and their values changed? Their outlook on life and their values have changed. These are the results that can be attained through pursuing the truth. If someone is not a person that pursues the truth, they will expend themselves for God in order to receive blessings and rewards, and their intentions will be similar to those of Paul. If their intentions remain the same from the beginning of their faith until the very end, what will be the ending for this kind of person? They will not be approved by God. If they do many evil things, they will also be punished. Now, would you say pursuing the truth while experiencing God's work is essential? Can a man's destiny be changed through pursuing the truth? Pursuing the truth is extremely essential. Through pursuing the truth, a man's destiny can be changed, and the way he views things and his values can be changed. Additionally, it can also cause a man's disposition to change and cause a man to obey God, be devoted to God and have genuine love for God in his heart. That is why through pursuing the truth a man's destiny can be changed. This is a certainty. Presently, there are some people who do not pursue the truth. In their hearts, they know that pursuing the truth is meaningful, yet they do not do it. Why do they not pursue the truth? The main reason is that their hearts do not love the truth. When they see the truth, that gives them a headache. When they see the truth, that saps their energy. This is because they do not love the truth. That is why, even though they know the truth is good, it is useless. Even though they understand some of the meaning of pursuing the truth, they still do not pursue it. This is determined by their nature that does not love the truth. Those that love the truth always communicate the truth. The more they communicate, the clearer their understanding of the truth. Unconsciously, the way they see things changes. Unconsciously, the incorrect intentions and ways of pursuit and their erroneous understanding change. This is how the truth changes people. Now, if you are allowed to live the way that unbelievers do, you will feel there is no point in it and you will feel that it is without meaning. Isn't this change? This is change. After some more years of pursuit, you will have spiritual stature, your viewpoints on things will all change and your life disposition will change. Whoever deals with and prunes you, you will accept it effortlessly. It will be very easy for you to accept and obey. Your heart will lack resistance. These are the results that can be obtained through pursuing the truth. Tell me, which would be more meaningful and have more value—living with the truth or living in the way that unbelievers do with Satan's disposition? If you rely on Satan's disposition to live, your entire life will have no meaning. Without the truth, whatever you do and however you pretend, you will feel very silly and hollow. That is why relying on the truth to live and obtaining the truth is a priceless treasure. Whenever you think about the sense, the likeness, the obedience, the loyalty and love for God that those with the truth live out, you feel they are valuable. Whenever you consider the true human likeness they live out, you feel it has meaning. Therefore, what is the highest result that one can attain through pursuing the truth? It is to live out a true human likeness and to live out the most meaningful life. Now, wouldn't you say that the devotion and obedience to God that attaining salvation requires depends on pursuing the truth? This depends on pursuing the truth. Now, if you do not pursue the truth, you cannot attain genuine obedience and devotion to God. Notice how when people first start believing in God, they rely on their zeal and are able to leave their family and everything else in order to expend for God. Now, do you think they possess genuine obedience and devotion? Why is it that some people unconsciously change as they fulfill their duties? They become more and more fervent, they are willing and glad to forsake everything and they have no regrets in doing so. How can this be attained? This can be attained through pursuing the truth. As they pursue the truth, their life disposition changes. That is why they feel, "I have left my family and I have forsaken everything else to expend for God. This is great. This is my reward." Even though materialistically, they are poor, however, spiritually, they are rich. If they are spiritually rich, in the future, they will have everything. When God's kingdom is realized, would you say that these people will still be poor? As long as we are able to sincerely expend for God in the present moment and become people that are genuinely obedient and devoted to God, then God's blessings for us will be beyond description. God's blessings will be so great and so plentiful that you cannot even imagine it. Through pursuing the truth a person's destiny can be changed and everything about a person can be changed. Some people are short-sighted. They always haggle over minor issues that are right before their eyes. Aren't these people very silly? They do not have understanding. There are some people now that expend for God by fulfilling their duties that lack the truth and do not have obedience. If someone deals with and prunes them, they disobey and resist them and their demonic nature emerges. You have to negotiate with them or humor them so that they will fulfill their duties. Don't these people lack the truth? Some people reluctantly fulfill their duties. They only fulfill their duties if they have spare time or when they have nothing else to deal with. They only spread the gospel or look for gospel targets in their spare time if it does not interfere with the interests of their family. If there is an issue with their family, they immediately place matters concerning God's family and fulfilling their duties into 2nd place, 3rd place or even 4th place. No matter how insignificant their matters are, they are ranked as number 1. Now, is this type of person devoted in the fulfillment of their duties to God? They are not devoted and definitely not obedient. They lack both devotion and obedience. They just want to fulfill some duties in their spare time so that they can receive blessings. What do you think of such people's view? Do they have the truth? They do not have any truth. They are very childish and ridiculous. Some people, when fulfilling their duties, always want other people to regard them highly and want to please them. They want to please the leaders. They want the leaders to regard them highly. They want everyone to be good to them. Is the fulfillment of their duties in accordance with God's will? They fulfill their duties so that others will regard them highly, so that they will benefit from others, so that they will please others and so that they will get a smile. Their hearts do not have a place for God. The fulfillment of their duties is not based on their obedience and devotion to God. The fulfillment of their duties does not have any meaning, it is not worth anything, it has no value, it is futile and it is just their rendering of service. If you fulfill your duties in order to obey God and in order to satisfy God, why do you look at other people's faces? Why do you ingratiate yourself with other people? Why do you care whether other people will regard you highly? What is the value of this? Is this in line with the truth? Look at these people's intentions, look at these people's deceitfulness, and look at how slick and sly they are. They are truly selfish and despicable. They have no knowledge whatsoever. They only care about benefiting from other people. If you are truly someone that obeys God, no matter how workers and leaders treat you, you will feel, "I obey God. I am someone that obeys God. I will not be subject to the constraint of any person, event or thing." This kind of person obeys God. If a person is devoted to God, how will he handle this? "Regardless of how others treat me, regardless of how others obstruct me from fulfilling my duties, I must be devoted to God. I will not be subject to the constraint of other people." This kind of person has the truth in his heart. He puts the truth into practice and he obeys God. He is not subject to the constraint of anyone else. This kind of person has truly entered into reality. Presently, you can see that there are some people who are always tainted with their ulterior motives when fulfilling their duties and they remain unchanged. They are always living for their own status and for their own reputation. They strive to win credit and have others regard them highly. Does this kind of person obey God through the fulfillment of his duties? If you are someone that truly obeys God, you will pray to God with your heart, you will practice obedience to God, you will fulfill your duties in order to satisfy God and repay God's love without being tainted by anything impure. You will only desire to fulfill your duties to repay God's love. You should have this kind of intention before God and this kind of practice: "I will not be constrained by how others regard me. I do not care. I will only accept God's examination. If I have disobedience or corruption, I am willing to throw them off and repent. I am willing to live out the likeness of a genuine human being." This is what it means to be a person that pursues the truth. If you see that someone's satanic disposition is very fierce and very deceitful, and what they say is nice to listen to, but when they do things, they arbitrarily take reckless actions, they do not think about the interests of God's family and they do not think about the work of the church, is this person someone that obeys God? This person is someone that resists God and does not have obedience. There are people in the church who, once they fulfill duties or do any other work, bring a lot of difficulties and troubles to their brothers and sisters. When other people see the way they do things or fulfill their duties, they shake their heads, they feel awful and they find it difficult to bear. Now, what kind of problem is this? The fulfillment of their duties is not up to standard. If the fulfillment of their duties is capable of satisfying God, God's chosen people will see it and also feel that it is suitable. When you take a look at the way they fulfill their duties, you will see that first, they are defending God's work and the interests of the church, second, in everything they do they are obedient and are held in check and not lax, and they do not act arbitrarily, and third, the duties that they fulfill all have results. When other people see them fulfill their duties, they will feel that the attitude with which they fulfill their duties has changed, that they fulfill their duties better than before and do them conscientiously, and that the normal humanity is embodied in the fulfillment of their duties and it is up to standard. From the fulfillment of their duties, people can see that their disposition has changed and they can see the results of the fulfillment of their duties. These people are those that genuinely pursue the truth. There are some people who fulfill their duties in such a way that it causes other people to feel troubled by it. When they fulfill their duties, they bother the church and their brothers and sisters, who have to do this and do that for them. It is as if you need to exchange many people's labor for their performance of duties. There are other people who are completely out of control in regard to the fulfillment of their duties. They mix their own methods, intentions and objectives into the fulfillment of their duties. Isn't this causing interruption and disturbance? Aren't these evil-doers? Where is their true obedience and devotion to God? The fulfillment of their duties is the same as doing evil. When we fulfill our duties, we must do so according to God's requirements. If you want to do evil, you better not fulfill your duties, for it would be meaningless and you would be even unworthy to render service. Presently, there are some people who fulfill their duties in such an awful way that you can hardly bear to see it. Once you watch it, you start to detest these people. These people boast and they deceive. They do not do anything practical. If they pay a price, they want to receive wages and want God's family to give them a reward. If they do not get a reward, they want to receive fame. These people do not fulfill duties in order to satisfy God. Instead, they do so in order to gain some benefit for themselves. They try to enter into a business transaction with God. Aren't these people evil? These are typical evil people. What kind of people are able to attain God's salvation and be brought into the kingdom by God in the end? Those who are completely devoted to God. Those who are devoted to God to the end. These people can be brought into God's kingdom by God. Presently, what results should we attain through pursuing the truth? We should have true obedience to God. Upon a foundation of true obedience, we should have devotion to God. What are the manifestations of true obedience? Pray to God about the reason for fulfilling your duties, and fellowship clearly about this. Resolve your intentions and objectives first, and have a heart that genuinely expends for God. When your attitude is completely correct, then start to fulfill your duties. During the process of fulfilling your duties, see what requirements God has for people that fulfill duties. Keep these requirements in your heart and afterward, fulfill your duties according to these requirements. By doing this, your intentions and objectives for fulfilling your duties will be correct. Moreover, you will be able to fulfill your duties according to God's requirements. This is what it means to be a person that genuinely obeys God. When a person that obeys God fulfills their duties, if they express any corruption or if they are tainted by anything corrupt they can reflect upon it, or if their brothers and sisters find any problems in their performance of duties and deal with, prune, or criticize them, they can accept it. They can come before God and repent, and they can renew their vows before God and resolve again to satisfy God. This kind of person is someone that genuinely obeys God. If someone does not have God in their hearts while fulfilling duties, does not truly pray to God, does whatever they like, and stops fulfilling duties if they are not willing to do so—if first, they do not have real communication with God, second, they do not pursue the truth, and third, they do not accept dealing and pruning, then this kind of person is hopeless. If they still do not pursue the truth, they will be punished. How can you genuinely obey God in the fulfillment of your duties? You must pursue the truth and you must have real prayer to and communication with God. You must be able to fulfill the duties you ought to fulfill based on a foundation of understanding God's will. You must fulfill your duties in order to repay God's love. Your fulfillment of duties must not be like a transaction and it must not be tainted with your individual intentions. If you fulfill your duties in this manner, it will be for the satisfaction of God and not for the satisfaction of yourself. A person's fulfillment of duties must attain this level of purity. Only then would it be in accordance with God's will. If when you fulfill your duties, you always have your individuality mixed up with it and if you always have your own objectives or seek your personal interests, then the fulfillment of your duties is pretty much the same as doing evil deeds.


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Q: Updating Table2 when data found in table1 Forgive me if I make a fool of myself but still fairly new to mysql queries beyond the "basic" kind. Currently I have two tables of data.
Table 1 has data parsed into it using a LOAD INTO and Table 2 has data manually entered for user information. This is pulled automatically from a | delimited file twice a day.
The following are columns are in Table1 that have the data I need to verify against (there are more columns than just these):
sendID |  recID | transAmt | transDate | transStatus

And the following columns are from Table2:
userID | userName | currentCapacity | maxCapacity

What I'm trying to do is run an update where the userID curentCapacity is increased by one, when the userID is found in sendID or recID but only when the transStatus = Active. I've tried the following:
UPDATE table1,table2
SET table2.currentCapacity=table2.currentCapacity+1
WHERE ( table2.transStatus="Active" AND (table2.userID = table1.sendID OR table1.recID))

This works and the currentCapacity is increased by 1, but it is ONLY increased by one. The effect I'm going for is to set the currentCapacity to equal the sum of all transStatus="Active".
I tried the following and it returns "#1111 - Invalid use of group function" error:
UPDATE table1,table2
SET table2.currentCapacity=SUM(table1.transStatus)
WHERE ( table2.transStatus="Active" AND (table2.userID = table1.sendID OR table1.recID))

Any suggestions or guidance?

A: give this a try if it gives your desired result, (not manually tested)
UPDATE  table2 b
        INNER JOIN
        (
            SELECT  ID, SUM(transStatus = 'Active') total
            FROM
                    (
                        SELECT  sendID ID, transStatus FROM table1
                        UNION ALL
                        SELECT  recID ID, transStatus FROM table1
                    ) x
            GROUP   BY ID
        ) a ON b.userID = a.ID
SET     b.currentCapacity = a.total

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While the upcoming series The Chronosmith Chronicles jumps off from Seasons of War: Gallifrey, we make sure to note that Gallifrey is not required reading for the new books. And that's completely true! While readers of the charity novel might catch some things that new readers won't, the new books will be completely stand-alone and enjoyable on their own.
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Q: Keep one zero and remove rest from the beginning if there are multiple leading 0 How can I keep one zero and remove rest from the beginning if there are more than one leading zero.
The below regex if removing all the zeroes and not keeping the last 0
df.withColumn("strip_code", regexp_replace($"codes", "^0*(?!0[1-9]+)([0-9]*)", "$1"))

+----------+----------+
|     codes|strip_code|
+----------+----------+
|    541100|    541100|
|     54110|     54110|
|     05810|      5810|
|    581200|    581200|
|     58140|     58140|
|     54110|     54110|
|     48140|     48140|
|    481400|    481400|
|    723000|    723000|
|     52000|     52000|
|1234AZSHND|1234AZSHND|
|          |          |
|    001234|      1234|
|    034567|     34567|
|     00742|       742|
|     00763|       763|
|     00780|       780|
+----------+----------+

A: doing the following should work for you
df.withColumn("strip_code", regexp_replace($"codes", "[0]*(0\\d+)", "$1"))


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3 FASB Accounting Standard Update No. 2016-09, Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting, March 30, 2016.
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