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Smooth elevator music, the Antichrist made manifest through sound, echoed on it's way up to Oliver MacAllister's office. After around twenty seconds of the terrible choice in music, a soft chime was heard and the elevator door was opened, a white-haired college student collapsing on the ground as if he was leaning on the door in exhaustion. Considering who it was, however, the tired form was likely mental from lack of sleep and constant training.
Groaning, Shane dragged himself over to a chair across the desk from his boss and hauled himself into it, looking Oliver in the eye and immediately breaking into a status report. "Well, I've been in the training room for the last two months straight, but I've managed to learn a few new tricks. The max gravity setting is basically a joke, I beat that damned chess computer in four moves, and I've polished most of my other skills, too. Also...I managed to learn a new trick. You may want to replace the training room, though. The door is falling off it's hinges, and the room itself stopped working around five minutes ago. Anything I missed?"
While Shane was being very casual about the last two statements, it would likely come as a shock, considering the training room was practically a pocket universe in and of itself. The twenty-one year old himself looked much more ragged than an invincible being should, and gave off an entirely new sensation of danger, as if the leftovers from some massive amount of power were still lingering.
Oliver was sitting at his desk when the door to the elevator opened and out came his young apprentice. He looked very rough for wear, but it was obvious he had been putting his all in the training room. He had actually just been checking up on the boy via video monitors when he saw him exit the chamber, doors practically falling off. He would need to fix that sometime. But for now he had much more pressing matters to attend to. "I know you've been training quite diligently. Much has happened in the outside world while you were growing stronger though. I was attacked by someone from my past and was nearly killed. This however unlocked a power I did not know that I held. It brought about a being known as Deus, which resides in my soul. This being is what many would call God or the Universe. Along with this I gained all of his abilities. Though I am still working on mastering their use, I am now unable to directly involve myself in anything that doesn't threaten the well being of the Multi-verse. So, you will be taking a much more critical role in all of this, If you are up for it that is. We will get to that in a moment though, for now, I will continue filling you in. I was later attacked in my office by a very ancient super that calls himself Kosuke. He appears by every means as a normal human, but can keep up with me with ease. He did not seem to cause much harm, but he seemed to leave without gaining anything which makes me cautious. There was another super in Las Vegas that took down one of our best squads in the Anti-Super Taskforce that I have been running for the past few years. But this Kosuke figure also killed one and I have intelligence suggesting he has made his way back into New York. If you are willing, I would like for you to track him down and either capture him or convince him to ally with you. I have a sinking feeling there is a storm coming and even we will need all the help we can get." With his piece said, he would look back to Shane to see what the boy thought of all this. No doubt his tactical mind seeing the benefits of all the powerful people being on a singular alliance could have, or at the very least having tabs on them.
Blinking, Shane's mind began running overtime and his exhaustion vanished in the face of the new revelation. Running risk evaluation, judging his new abilities against what could possibly be one of the oldest Supers, and coming to the same conclusion as his mentor, the student nodded his head once.
Eyes meeting Oliver's once again, the white-haired man would speak his mind. "With a name like Kosuke, I'm sure that he would most easily be found in Japan. One of the issues with that, however, is that currently Japan is under Squad Zero's purview. Frankly, the only reason they haven't come after us here is likely due to your own previous service. With a fight between two unknown Supers, they are almost guaranteed to step in. I would suggest having the Anti-Super Task Force ready to evacuate anyone who needs it in a heartbeat, although given the situation I believe it might be prudent to at least attempt to bring along one member of their team so that everyone is on the same page. Which one would you suggest?"
Shane's mind had already pulled his memories of their files from their archives, and were going over them individually. Quiver was the most likely to understand the situation, although Deadnite may be willing to speak as well so long as he got a good fight. It was Oliver's decision, however.
Hm, he hadn't thought of his old team being in Japan on duty recently. He supposed that Quiver would be the most diplomatic among them, though she could hold her own in a fight as well. He knew where Kosuke was living in Japan now, so he would be able to clear a large area to protect civilians. "I will send word to the squad and have Quiver meet you at a rendezvous in Japan. the ASTF will clear a ten block radius around the homestead Kosuke is living in currently and you two will be able to go in and do what needs to be done without worry about civilian interference. The other members of the squad will be asked to maintain distance, as they aren't exactly the types to let someone live after a fight if they can help it."
With all that said, Oliver would send a message to Heather and to General Hammond of the ASTF. They would be prepared for this ever so delicate mission as soon as they could. "They will be ready for you. Remember, this is mostly a diplomatic mission, though if things go sideways do your best to capture the target alive."


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Italian Hebrew or Italki Hebrew refers to the pronunciation system for liturgical Hebrew traditionally used by Italian Jews.

Features
The Italian pronunciation of Hebrew is similar to that of conservative Spanish and Portuguese Jews.  Distinguishing features are:
 beth rafe is pronounced ;
 he is often silent, as in the family name "Coen";
 vav is normally  as in most Hebrew dialects, but can become  in diphthongs (as in the family name "Anau").  Thus, in construct masculine plurals with male singular possessive suffix יו-, the pronunciation is not [- but [-;
 zayin is often pronounced  like Italian voiced "z";
 ayin is pronounced  (like English "ng" in "sing").  In some dialects, like the Roman, this sometimes becomes , like the Italian combination "gn";
 final tav is pronounced ;
 speakers in communities south of the La Spezia isogloss, and Jewish communities transplanted north of this, pronounce dagesh forte as a true geminate sound, in keeping with the pronunciation of double letters in Italian.

This pronunciation has in many cases been adopted by the Sephardi, Ashkenazi and Appam communities of Italy as well as by the Italian rite communities.

References

Hebrew
Italki Jews topics
Languages of Italy

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If I were you I would edit the original posts in your topics as many won't bother reading most of our posts, so add the main stuff like our progress and quest ideas to draw support I think it would work.
Though if you insist I will try to make them shorter. As for the progress, anyone can see it if they visit the progress forum.
Sorry but i meant maybe post AnonDraco and urwys links and pics on the first post i the nexus forums topic, i never said your posts were long but your thread is ! Nobody is going to read 40+ pages ! So maybe update the original post with progress for the poeple how only just found it ! Do you understand me ?
I will definitely modify the First Topic on the forums as soon as i can.
Hey MCBM, the nexus topic has grown alfully long, i think you should start a new one. Gather all the important info in first post.
57 pages may scare ppl away..... and they won't bother to read through all that.
yeah true. I'll see to it.
yeah totally, bro. Its hard to type how i would speak aloud as i do it without thinking. and when i speak i drop ma h's so.. 'ello, im from 'ull . oh 'ow i like the 'otdogs from 'ull city center.
i do say why good chap! would you care to come round to my fine establishment for some tea and scones?
MCBM have you created a new topic on nexus yet?


Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov held several meetings at the National Congress of Chile on the sidelines of his official visit to the country, the Foreign Ministry told AzVision.az.
At the meetings with Jaime Quintana, the President of the Senate of Chile, José Miguel Insulza, the President of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, Francisco Chahuán, head of the Chile-Azerbaijan Inter-parliamentary Friendship Group and with the other members of the Group, the development of the friendship relations between Azerbaijan and Chile and the activity of the mutual diplomatic representations were highlighted. The existence of great potential for development of relations in economic, trade, energy, agriculture, investment, transport, humanitarian-cultural, education and other spheres was noted and the importance of inter-parliamentary friendship groups for strengthening of ties between our nations was underlined.
Minister Mammadyarov noted that Azerbaijan and Chile actively cooperate within international organizations and the positions over many issues of international agenda coincide. In this context, the membership of both countries to the Non-Aligned Movement was stressed and the invitation of Chile to the summit meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement to be held this October in Baku was highlighted.
The ministrer also participated at the daily session of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile and met with the chair of the Chamber of Deputies, vice-chair of the Chile-Azerbaijan Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group Pablo Vidal and other members of the Group. Presenting wide information on Azerbaijan at the meeting, Foreign Minister went through all aspects of bilateral relations and noted the existence of enough potential for developing the cooperation. Also, he spoke about cooperation of Azerbaijan and Chile within international organizations, including the Non-Aligned Movement and noted in this regard the capital Baku to host the XVIII summit meeting of the Movement.
At the meeting Mammadyarov gave information on the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and continuing occupation policy of Armenia against Azerbaijan, which is a serious threat to security in the South Caucasus region, emphasized the necessity of the settlement of the conflict based on the sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability of internationally recognized borders of Azerbaijan and return of the internally displaced persons to their homelands in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council.
Minister Mammadyarov expressed his gratitude to the Chamber of Deputies of Chile for its support to the just position, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and the relevant UN SC resolutions with regard to the settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.


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Same old grievances as Zim enters election season – Zimbabwe Independent
an elderly person being assaulted and interrogated in Murehwa .
THE year 2023 is an election year for Zimbabwe.
Political analysts say the election will centre around the same old grievances that have been plaguing the country.
At the end of last year, Zimbabwe topped the World Bank's world food inflation list with 353%.
Although elections often bring with them hope, political analysts have said that the upcoming elections in Zimbabwe will focus on the same old grievances — unemployment, corruption, healthcare and economic growth.
At the end of last year, the World Bank's world food inflation list indicated that Zimbabwe had the highest food inflation of 353%. It was well ahead of Lebanon, which was in second place with 240%.
Despite government's promotion of the use of local currency, goods and services in the southern African country are sold in US dollars.
It makes life hard for most workers, both in the public and private sectors, who are forced to buy dollars on the black market so that they can buy goods such as fuel.
The situation in the country has inspired leading local musician Winky D to write two songs: Ibotso, which is about wanting better living conditions and a corruption-induced poverty, and Dzimba Dzemabwe, a song about daily struggles.
In the latter, Winky D raps: "Night and day, my heart is bleeding when I look at the poor and the needy; everything has gone with the greedy; we need a national healing."
But those aligned to the ruling Zanu PF party said his lyrics were not true. They didn't like that Winky D evoked emotions.
As a result, the Economic Empowerment Group (EEG), an outfit of mostly young, privileged entrepreneurs and dealers linked to Zanu PF, called for Winky D's music to be banned.
EEG secretary-general Clifford Hlupheko said at a Press conference: "Most of the contents are meant to sow seeds of despondency and anarchy mostly to the youth population. We don't welcome that."
They also called for the music to be banned from the national radio station and for Winky D to be banned from performing in Zimbabwe.
According to World Bank data, Zimbabwe's youth — those born after the country's independence in 1980 — constitute more than 60% of the total population.
Like in Zambia, the youth could play a key role in the upcoming elections.
There are fears that the youth will vote for the opposition.
The storm cooked up by EEG over Winky D's music drew the attention of the biggest opposition party, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC). Its leader, Nelson Chamisa, called Winky D "the Greatest Of All Time (GOAT)".
Political analysts have said the upcoming election will centre around the same old grievances: Employment creation, fighting corruption, economic growth, and healthcare.
The only time that Zanu PF lost total power was during the government of national unity of 2009 to 2013, which brought together the Movement for Democratic Change's (MDC) Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's all-time strongman Robert Mugabe, and splinter MDC leader Arthur Mutambara.
Tsvangirai had beaten Mugabe in the first round of polls, but fell short of the 50%+1 vote majority.
An election re-run was set up and because of political violence, Tsvangirai withdrew from the race, leaving Mugabe alone.
However, negotiations at the behest of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) saw former South African President Thabo Mbeki's "quiet diplomacy" bringing together the three principals to share power.
Zanu PF does not want history to repeat itself.
In his New Year's Eve speech, President Emmerson Mnangagwa called for peace ahead of and during the elections.
He said: "We will be holding the general elections mindful of the fact that we are a diverse but one people, united by one flag.
"I urge each of us to continue being peace-loving and politically mature citizens."
But while he's on leave, political violence has flared up with video footage taken in Murehwa, 75km northeast of the capital Harare, showing elderly people being assaulted and interrogated for attending a CCC gathering last week.
Amnesty International (AI) called the violence outrageous.
"This callous, politically motivated attack against older people who had simply attended a gathering for a political opposition party is outrageous.
"Such cruel acts of violence, which have repeatedly marred Zimbabwe's political landscape in the past, gravely threaten the rights to freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly," said Flavia Mwangovya, AI's deputy director for east and southern Africa.
While acknowledging the reality of violence, Zanu PF distanced itself from the perpetrators.
"It is, therefore, presumptuous, hasty, and even sinister to rush to brand them as Zanu PF members, given that we are in an election season often fraught with all sorts of chicanery," said Daniel Garwe, the party's Mashonaland East provincial chairperson and National Housing minister.
He also claimed that it could have been stage-managed violence by the CCC so that the blame would be put on Zanu PF.
— news24.com
Same old grievances as Zim enters election season – NewsDay
Tech entrepreneur building a dynasty – Newsday
BURRILLVILLE – Music at the Farm will present a Valentine's Day concert on Sunday, Feb. 12, at 2 p.m., at Grace Note Farm, 969 Jackson Schoolhouse Road, Pascoag.
The concert "Ah, The Birds" will feature flutist Virginia Sindelar and pianist Elias Dagher. They will perform "Martinu's First Sonata," "Mozart's Sonata in B-flat," "Joueurs de Flute" by Albert Roussel, "Vivaldi Concerto in C Major" (Goldfinch), Massiaen's "The Black Bird" and Jules Mouquet's "Pan and the Birds."
Positive signs are emerging that the West is willing to provide more, and better, weapons to Ukraine. But with the first anniversary of the conflict fast approaching, there are fears that Ukraine and Russia could remain locked in stalemate over the next year.
Professor Michael McFaul, a former US ambassador to Russia, has warned in an essay for Foreign Politics that "incrementally expanding military and economic assistance" – as the West is doing currently – "is likely to only prolong the war indefinitely".
He wrote that Ukraine's allies should start rapidly expanding their weapons deliveries and sanctions on Russia to support a "breakthrough" in the conflict.
"Even though Putin must understand by now that Ukrainians are willing to fight for as long as it takes to liberate their country, he still believes that time is on his side. That is because Putin expects Western governments and societies to lose their will and interest to keep helping Ukraine," he said.
Professor McFaul said the support should be provided "swiftly" – and could even be part of a "Big Bang" to mark the anniversary.
"Rather than providing ATACMs in March, Reapers in June, and jets in September, NATO should go for a Big Bang," he said.
"Plans to provide all these systems should be announced on February 24, 2023, the first anniversary of Putin's invasion.
"An announcement of this size will produce an important psychological effect inside the Kremlin and Russian society, signaling that the West is committed to Ukraine's ambition to liberate all occupied territories."
He acknowledged there were risks to providing more support, but said there were also risks to taking no action.
For example, he said fears that Vladimir Putin could escalate the war have so far not come to fruition.
"The reason is simple: Putin has no good way of doing so," Mr McFaul said.
"He is already using very expensive cruise missiles to attack apartment buildings. He cannot attack NATO, lest he risk a broader war that Russia would lose quickly. That leaves him with only the nuclear option, but even that would not serve him well."
He added that if the war drags on for years, many more people will die – and this would be "the cost of incrementalism".
Beyonce (GETTY IMAGES)
Beyoncé is taking her "Renaissance" global — the superstar will start a world tour in Sweden in May with stops throughout Europe and the United States.
The highly anticipated tour announcement she made on Instagram and her website Wednesday comes days before the Grammy Awards on Sunday, where the global superstar is the most nominated artist and could make Recording Academy history.
Beyoncé, the most decorated woman in Grammy history with 28 wins, could break the late Hungarian-British conductor Georg Solti's record for most awards won if she wins four awards.
Her 2022 album "Renaissance" is a celebration of dance music and is nominated for album of the year. Her tour will make stops in London, Paris, Barcelona and Toronto before ending Sept. 27 in New Orleans.
There were hints that she might tour again after she performed an invite-only show in January in Dubai at the Atlantis The Royal Resort, her first show in four years. Her last solo tour was in 2016, but she went on tour with her husband Jay Z in 2018.
Ticketmaster said in a release that sales will begin Feb. 6 and fans will need to register through their Verified Fan system. Sale times will vary based on city.

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୧୨ A cup of coffee for you!
୧୪ A barnstar for you!
୨୦ Gup chup for you!
୬୩ 27 Communities have joined WAM 2018, we're waiting for you!
ଆଇ ଜି ପାର୍କରେ କାଲି କେତେବେଳେ ହବ ମିଟିଂ ଆଉ କିଏ ସବୁ ନୂଆ ଆସୁଛନ୍ତି ?
Here are some recent updates for you, and as always, let me know if you have any idea, thought or question.
IMPORTANT: Asian Language Wikipedia will exclude the language speaking country from the Asian Month so we can encourage editors write something about other part of Asia. E.g., Chinese Wikipedia will exclude Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. Indian language Wikipedia will exclude India. If you have problems with that, please let me know.
I've posted the tool instruction and newest postcard rules on each Wiki' event page. Make sure you translate it. In short: 4 articles get one card, 15 get another one (Special one), and the Ambassador gets another one.
We will still allow two Ambassadors if top and second contributors have more than 30 accepted articles, just like last year. Please send this information to high-quantity participant to encourage them.
Please create this talk page template and linked in Wikidata. Judging tool will add this template to submitted articles automatically.
The judging tool should work fine. If not, talk to me.
Optional: Judging Tool Interface may not available in your language. If you feel needed, you can translate the interface at here.
Invite some active contributors from your wiki to participate. And please encourage editors who can speak more than one language participate to other WAM edition.
Indic Community: CIS-A2K will provide fund if you would like to organize an offline event of Wikipedia Asian Month. Apply at here.
Additional souvenirs (e.g. Stickers, bookmarks) will sent to Ambassadors and active organizers.
I'm doing some basic statistics at Result page every week, in case you are interested.
International organizers will double check the top 3 users' accepted articles, so if your articles are not fulfilling the rules, you might be disqualified. We don't want it happened so please don't let us make such a decision.
Rest of Global top 10 users will also get some WAM souvenirs.
As many of you may notice, that the judging tool has came back to normal.
I've set up a result page with some numbers in it. It may not accurate, just as a reference at this time.
WAM should get more media coverage. If you can help (either locally or internationally), please let me know!
Please considering start judging articles if you have not yet. it's really important to give feedbacks to participants so they can improve articles or get motivated.
With your help, I may start the first round of address collection before WAM ends for who already have four accepted articles and organizers, as I promised to improve the postcard sending process this year.
Feel free to reach out to me for any question! At my meta talk page.
Congratulations! The Wikipedia Asian Month is almost ending and you've done amazing work of organizing. What we've got and what's next?
If you can not submit articles via judging tool, use this meta page to do so. Please spread this message with local participants.
Make sure you judge all articles before December 5th, and participants who can improve their contribution (not submit) before December 10th.
There will be three round of address collection scheduled: December 2nd, December 7th, and December 20th.
Please report the local Wikipedia Asian Ambassador (who has most accepted articles) on this page, if the 2nd participants has more than 30 accepted articles, you will have two ambassadors.
I will announce the name of Wikipedians who will able to pick a Wikimedia T-shirt from Wikimedia Store for free after I re-check their contributions.
It could be a case that local organizer does not agree on an article if shall accept it or not. In this situation, the judging tool will highlight the conflict articles in the "article's list". Please review other's opinion, and resolve the conflict by changing your decision or discuss with other judges.
We are starting collecting address! Please fill this form to receive an additional postcard as being a WAM organizer. You may receive this message because you on the receipt list. You don't have to fill the form if you are not organizing this year. This form is only accessed by me and your username will not distribute to the local community to send postcards. All personal data will be destroyed immediately after postcards and other souvenirs are sent. Please help your local participants in case they have any problem understanding the survey. If you have any question, feel free contact me on my meta talk page. You can remove yourself from the list at this page.


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James Madison Project v. Department of Justice
United States District Court, District of Columbia
JAMES MADISON PROJECT, et al., Plaintiffs,
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, et al., Defendants.
INDICATIVE RULING AND ORDER AS TO PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION
AMIT P. MEHTA UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE.
Once more, this court is called upon to opine on the legal consequences of President Donald J. Trump's declassification of information concerning the "Dossier"-the 35-page compilation of memoranda prepared by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele concerning Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election and alleged ties between Russia and then candidate Trump. Cf. BuzzFeed, Inc. v. U.S. Dep't of Justice, Case No. 17-mc-02429-APM, 2018 WL 3719231 (D.D.C. Aug. 3, 2018). In this case, the court must decide whether the February 2018 public release of two congressionally drafted memoranda-popularly known as the "Nunes Memo" and the "Schiff Memo"-vitiates Defendants' Glomar responses to Plaintiffs' demand for records concerning a "two-page synopsis" of the Dossier.
The court initially granted summary judgment in favor of Defendants. See generally James Madison Project v. Dep't of Justice ("James Madison I"), 302 F.Supp.3d 12 (D.D.C. 2018), appeal docketed, No. 18-5014 (D.C. Cir. Jan. 25, 2018). It held that neither the President's tweets and other public statements, nor the public statements of other high-ranking government officials, constituted a public acknowledgment that the documents sought by Plaintiffs James Madison Project and Josh Gerstein in fact exist and are possessed by Defendant agencies. See Id. Plaintiffs then filed a notice of appeal, but shortly after moved for reconsideration in light of the Nunes Memo's release. Plaintiffs' notice of appeal, however, divested the court of jurisdiction over this matter. See United States v. DeFries, 129 F.3d 1293, 1302 (D.C. Cir. 1997) (per curiam) ("The filing of a notice of appeal . . . 'confers jurisdiction on the court of appeals and divests the district court of control over those aspects of the case involved in the appeal.'" (quoting Griggs v. Provident Consumer Disc. Co., 459 U.S. 56, 58 (1982)). Accordingly, Plaintiffs now ask the court to indicate, under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 62.1, that it would grant their Motion upon remand. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 62.1(a)(3). Defendants assert that reconsideration is not warranted and urge the court to deny the Motion.
For the reasons that follow, the court finds that the disclosures contained in the Nunes and Schiff Memos do constitute a public acknowledgement of the existence of the records sought by Plaintiffs from Defendant Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") and that the FBI therefore may no longer maintain its Glomar responses. Accordingly, the court indicates that, upon remand, the court would grant Plaintiffs' pending Motion for Reconsideration as to the FBI. Plaintiffs' Motion as to the remaining agency Defendants, however, is denied.
The court already has written extensively about this matter, and so only will summarize the relevant facts and procedural history here.
In January 2017, Plaintiffs submitted a Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") request to four federal agencies-the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency (collectively, "Intelligence Community Defendants"), and the FBI-for the following information:
(1) The two-page "synopsis" provided by the U.S. Government to President-Elect Trump with respect to allegations that Russian Government operatives had compromising personal and financial information about President-Elect Trump ("Item One");
(2) Final determinations regarding the accuracy (or lack thereof) of any of the individual factual claims listed in the two page synopsis ("Item Two"); and
(3) Investigative files relied upon in reaching the final determinations referenced in [Item Two] ("Item Three").
James Madison I, 302 F.Supp.3d at 17. These responses remained unanswered at the time Plaintiffs filed this action. See Id. 17-18.
Thereafter, within the context of this litigation, Defendants responded to Plaintiffs' FOIA demands. All Defendants asserted Glomar responses as to Items Two and Three-that is, they refused to admit or deny whether any responsive records even exist. See Id. at 18. As to Item One, only the FBI advanced a Glomar response, while the Intelligence Community Defendants admitted the existence and their possession of the "two-page 'synopsis'" but invoked FOIA Exemptions 1 and 3 to justify withholding the document in its entirety. See Id. Defendants then moved for summary judgment, which the court granted in full on January 4, 2018. See Id. at 17. The court held that: (1) Defendants' Glomar responses to Items Two and Three were proper, see Id. at 31- 35; (2) the FBI's Glomar response to Item One was appropriate, see Id. at 29-31; and (3) the Intelligence Community Defendants' withholding of the two-page synopsis was justified, see id. at 35-36. Plaintiffs then noticed an appeal from the court's ruling. See Notice of Appeal, ECF No. 38.
         But then the ground shifted. On February 2, 2018, President Trump authorized release of a memorandum prepared by the majority staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, commonly referred to as the Nunes Memo. See Pls.' Mot. for Recons., ECF No. 40 [hereinafter Pls.' Mot.], Ex. 1, ECF No. 40-1 [hereinafter Nunes Memo]. Among other things, the Nunes Memo revealed that former British intelligence operative Christopher Steele drafted the Dossier; that, in October 2016, the FBI relied in part on portions of the Dossier's contents to secure a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ("FISA") warrant as to Carter Page, a former campaign advisor to then-candidate Trump; that, in parallel with pursuing the Page FISA warrant, the FBI was undertaking efforts to corroborate the ...


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Old Divisions Persist After Bosnia's Elections
October 04, 2010 05:14 GMT Updated October 04, 2010 16:17 GMT
Presidential candidate and son of wartime Bosniak leader Alija Izetbegovic
Elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina appear to have perpetuated the country's persistent ethnic divisions.
With the votes counted, results show that in the contest for the tripartite presidency, Muslim and Croatian voters have chosen moderates who favor cooperation. But in the Serbian entity, the winning candidate stands for separatism.
RFE/RL's Election Day Coverage
In a complicated day at the polls on October 3, Bosnians voted not only for the country's thee-person joint presidency, but also for the central parliament, several regional parliaments, and the Bosnian Serb presidency.
As full preliminary results emerged on October 4, attention has focused on the tripartite presidency -- and it appears that the frail Bosnian federation has not been able to overcome its deep ethnic divisions.
Both the Bosniak and the Croatian seat have gone to moderates who believe strongly in a unified Bosnia. They are Bakir Izetbegovic, son of late wartime President Alija Izetbegovic, and the present incumbent Croatian member of the presidency, Zeljko Komsic.
Both these politicians spoke optimistically about the future in remarks to reporters before the results were known.
"We are going, in my opinion, to stabilize the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to bring a better future to citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina which means peace, better conditions for development of the economy," Izetbegovic said.
The reelected Croatian member, Komsic, told voters that he would not fail them.
Old Fault Lines
But the chance of a new start, avoiding the mistrust of the past, has been eclipsed by the victory of incumbent Nebojsa Radmanovic, who backs Bosnian Serb separation, in the vote for the Serbian presidential member.
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Correspondents say that Radmanovic's reelection means that the old ethnic fault lines will persist in the Bosnian leadership, foreshadowing further political stagnation at home and dimming the prospects for eventual membership of the European Union and NATO.
The EU has told Bosnia that admission is contingent on a stronger central government.
Lengthy EU- and U.S.-led negotiations over constitutional changes that would simplify and centralize the political setup were put on hold earlier this year in hopes that it would be easier to find a compromise after this weekend's elections.
U.S. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley urged the newly elected leaders of Bosnia-Herzegovina to find "common ground" as they look to the future.
"We look forward to the formation of a government which is committed to tackling the outstanding constitutional and other issues needed to place the country on a firm path to Euro-Atlantic integration," Crowley said.
In the Republika Srpska, the Serbian entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik enjoys a large lead and appears headed for election as president according to initial returns. Dodik, a hard-line nationalist who is currently the prime minister, threatened secession from Bosnia during the election campaign.
Turnout in the vote -- the sixth general elections in Bosnia since the end of the 1992-95 war -- was some 56 percent, the highest since 2002.
The AFP news agency reported that international observers today praised the overall conduct of the weekend voting in Bosnia, but expressed concern at the "unusually high" percentage of invalid votes in the Serbian entity.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said there was "a need for investigation" of reports from the Central Election Commission that the number of invalid ballots in the Serb-run part of Bosnia was around 10 percent.
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USA: Netflix Has Been Indicted By A Grand Jury Over The Controversial French Film "Cuties" Which Has Been Dubbed "Child Pornography" By Lawmakers And Many Viewers.
BREAKING: NETFLIX INC. HAS JUST BEEN INDICTED BY A GRAND JURY IN TEXAS FOR HOSTING PEDO-FILM "CUTIES" ON ITS PLATFORM. https://t.co/ClbIawvN1c
— Mike Coudrey (@MichaelCoudrey) October 7, 2020
Netflix has been indicted by a grand jury over the controversial French film "Cuties" which has been dubbed "child pornography" by lawmakers and many viewers.#SaveTheChildren https://t.co/C8REtnL1pB
— TONYA {K}🌸 (@TBeansprout) October 7, 2020
Grand Jury Indicts Netflix Over 'Cuties' Film, Widely Accused of Being 'Child Porn'
Wednesday October 7, 2020
Netflix has been indicted by a grand jury over the controversial French film "Cuties" which has been dubbed "child pornography" by lawmakers and many viewers.
The charge, which was filed in Tyler County, Texas, states that the film "depicts the lewd exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of a clothed or partially clothed child who was younger than 18 years of age at the time the visual material was created, which appeals to the prurient interest in sex, and has no serious, literary, artistic, political, or scientific value."
Cuties focuses on the life of an 11-year-old Senegalese girl living in France who joins a dance troupe in which she and three other scantily clad, prepubescent girls perform highly sexualized dance routines.
Following its Sep. 9 release, the popular streaming platform received a barrage of backlash and saw a higher-than-normal spike in subscription cancellations.
And the rate of cancellations could continue, as the hashtag #CancelNetflix has remained a top trend on social media.
Netflix maintains that the movie is a "social commentary against the sexualization of young children. This charge is without merit and we stand by the film."
But, others see the film as demoralizing to young girls and offensive to women.
CBN News recently reported that 34 House Republicans signed a letter sent to US Attorney General William Barr calling for him to prosecute Netflix executives for streaming Cuties.
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) along with Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) have called on the US Department of Justice to take "swift" legal action against Netflix.
Cotton said in his memo to Attorney General Barr there is "no excuse" for the "sexualization of children," calling the movie "disgusting at best and a serious crime at worst."
"The film routinely fetishizes and sexualizes these pre-adolescent girls as they perform dances simulating sexual conduct in revealing clothing, including at least one scene with partial child nudity," said Cruz. "These scenes in and of themselves are harmful. And it is likely that the filming of this movie created even more explicit and abusive scenes, and that pedophiles across the world in the future will manipulate and imitate this film in abusive ways."
Rep. Jim Banks, who led the letter signing, said, "Cuties is child porn and Netflix should be prosecuted for distributing it. The vast majority of Americans agree with me, which is why Netflix's cancellation rate has skyrocketed."
Tyler County District Attorney Lucas Babin said in a statement he "knew there was probable cause to believe it was criminal" after viewing the movie.
Statement released by Tyler County District Attorney's Office on #Cuties Netflix indictment: pic.twitter.com/D8uwHravdD
— Matt Schaefer (@RepMattSchaefer) October 6, 2020
According to the US Department of Justice, child pornography is defined "as any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor (persons less than 18 years old). Images of child pornography are also referred to as child sexual abuse images."
👇 PRIOR TO THIS NEWS 👇
As a father of three young daughters, I find "Cuties" sickening. Glad to join @SenTomCotton in calling on the DOJ to bring charges against Netflix for distribution of child pornography. https://t.co/xmHO3b1yLN
— Jim Banks (@RepJimBanks) September 11, 2020
BREAKING: After days of silence following outrage over "Cuties," Netflix defends "Cuties," calling it a "social commentary against the sexualization of young children" an "award winning film" and "a powerful story."
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) September 11, 2020
Why would they feel the need to zoom in on genitals and butts? Why is there a disclaimer saying it shows an 11 year olds breast? Why is there a scene of an 11 year old in her underwear having water thrown on her while they film her butt? Why are they grabbing their crotch?
— the abominable bro-man (@JustinHargrav17) September 11, 2020
Soooo releasing a film that sexualizes children is somehow fighting against the sexualization of children? Is that some sort of Orwellian 'war is peace' type doublespeak fuckery?
— Moni~B (@Monica9707) September 11, 2020
ah yes, It's a "social commentary" on pedophilia
So if I were to commit a murder, film it, and then put it on netflix and call it a "social commentary" on murder, then it wouldn't be murder?
is this the logic we are going for here?
— NotMyRealName's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld (@CalihanJohn) September 11, 2020
Netflix bans "Gone With the Wind" ...
... but airs "Cuties", sexually exploiting 11 year old little girls.
Cancel Netflix.
— Sheri - THE BEST IS YET TO COME!🇺🇸 (@Females4DJT) September 11, 2020
If they consider 7 years old "coming of age" then they're as sick as everything else about this movie.
— Bob Lumby (@BobLumby) September 10, 2020
He deleted this tweet but the Internet remembers. pic.twitter.com/IvQ1xDsDqt
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 10, 2020
They like little girls rubbing their crotch like J-Lo did in her Superbowl halftime performance.
— Global Awareness 101 (@Mononoke__Hime) September 13, 2020
A gif for the kids pic.twitter.com/xa5ADyfyLq
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) February 3, 2020


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Barnsley prepares to welcome new Mayor for 2019-20
Barnsley Council is looking forward to welcoming Councillor Pauline Markham as the borough's new mayor for 2019-20 at their annual full council meeting on Friday, 17 May at 6pm. The official Mayor Making Ceremony will take place at Barnsley Town Hall, where Cllr Markham will be formally elected as the Mayor of Barnsley.
Incoming Mayor, Cllr Markham has represented the Darfield Ward as a local councillor since May 2010 where she'll stay in office until at least May 2022. She currently serves on the general licensing regulatory board, planning regulatory board and South Area Council.
Joining the new Mayor will be her husband, Mr Larry Markham who'll take on the role of the Mayor's Consort. During her year in office, Cllr Markham has chosen to support and raise money for Age UK Barnsley and Barnsley Independent Alzheimer's and Dementia Support (BIADS) as the official Mayor's Charity for 2019-20.
Cllr Markham, said: "I'm delighted to be taking on the role of mayor for my home town, Barnsley - it's a great honour and I'm very much looking forward to the year ahead. I've decided that my mayoral theme for the year will be 'loneliness' – not just amongst the elderly but across all generations. I feel strongly about addressing loneliness within our communities and drawing on our amazing community spirit to tackle this problem together. I'm also pleased to have the opportunity to carry out charity work to raise money for my chosen charities and hope I can do them both proud."
At the ceremony, retiring Mayor and Mayoress, Cllr Steve Green and Mrs Tracey Green will be thanked for their hard work, dedication and services to the borough over the last year. In recognition of the council's appreciation, they'll be presented with replicas of their medallions attached to the chain of office for the year 2018-19. Cllr Green will continue his role as local councillor representing the Monk Bretton Ward where he'll remain in office until at least 2020. He'll also continue to sit on a number of boards and looks forward to his ongoing involvement and commitments across the borough.
Retiring Mayor, Cllr Green said: "I've had the most wonderful year as the Mayor of Barnsley and feel honoured to have had the opportunity to take on this role. Some of my highlights throughout the year have included Remembrance Sunday commemorations, official opening of the markets, my charity concert featuring Grimethorpe Colliery Band and finally hosting the Civic Reception for Barnsley Football Club after their amazing promotion to the Championships.
"I'm also delighted to have been able to raise such a lot of money for two wonderful charities. I'd like to wish Cllr Markham a fulfilling and rewarding year in her new role as the Mayor for 2019-20 and say a big thank you for all the support I've received from residents and colleagues."
Residents are welcome to view the live webcast which will be streamed on Friday evening.
This news is linked to #TownSpirit, our new way of working better together. We believe, that if everyone in Barnsley does just one thing, we can make our borough a more welcoming place to live, work, invest and visit.
We're committed to #ImagineIt by working to make Barnsley a place where people love to live and work, and where they can see a brighter future for themselves and their families. #OwnIt by supporting the Mayor and her charities.
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Choosing to go to university in London and deciding to move there can be an exciting and nervous experience for any new student.
However, sometimes the thought of budgeting and 'being an full adult' can be daunting, since the average student in London will spend about £80 – £160 on food, around £700 (depending on which student accommodation you are with) on rent and about £60 on travel per month, leaving the rest of their student loan on other luxuries such as a gym membership, eating out and the big one, clothes.
With London being one of the biggest fashion capitals in world, it's hard not to be creative and experiment especially with the plethora of shops that London has to offer. Although saying that, the many sales and offers that clothes shops present to tempt potential customers in can be a trap for a London student! As before you know it, you have spent more than your budget for the month and you're then limited on what you can buy whilst on your food shop.
There is no one that would ever say that a commendable sale, offer, or discount that we as consumers cherish, is one hundred percent is a terrible concept. However these sales can be damaging to your bank balance, but don't sweat! If you still want to look and be apart of London's fashion manifestation (especially if you study a fashion course) – at a reasonable and affordable price, then I have two words for you fashion lovers – CHARITY SHOPS!
It's so simple and you're always destined to find an item of clothing or accessories at a feasible price. If you head to the more 'posher' places in london, such as Chelsea, you can find designer brands from Channel to Vivienne Westwood to Tom Ford that you can add to your collection. Regardless of where you go, don't forget about your local charity shop as they might have some incredible finds for you too! One of the best parts about shopping at a charity shop is that not only do you manage to save a fortune from the original retail price but you're also giving back to a good or local cause and therefore your fabulous styles becomes a bit more than just fashion. As charity shop worker, Matthew agrees!
A great example of a bargain found by a student from the London College of Fashion was a pair of 875 Moc Leather Booths (Red Wing Shoes) which at retail price at Mr Porter or John Lewis costs £240 and he found the same pair at a Oxfam Charity shop on Marylebone high street for an astonishing £50!
With London's array of clothing shops, there's bound to be a place for you with your style in mind. From West Hampstead to Shoreditch, you can find some of the best buys that might just make your wardrobe! There are several articles online that give you a list of London's best charity shops and vintage shops that you should give a visit.
For more information on how you can grab a bargain and look you can visit the Save The Student website or check out the University College London 'guide to charity shop bargains'.


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Q: How to represent infinite date in classic ASP? Just a simple question.  I want to pass some string to CDate that represents infinite date.
Are there any ways to do like this? :
date = CDate("INFINITE FUTURE")

A: There is no infinite date in VBScript. There are upper and lower limits on what a Date can be.
However you could use Dec 31 9999 to represent infinity. For all practical purposes it is so large it may as well be infinity.
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these two crack me up. it was really hot two nights ago, so we had the windows open and several fans running in an effort to cool down our house. i found ryan and leko both in bed watching tv while trying to cool off by the open window and the fans. it was so cute how they were both fixated on the tv, i just couldn't resist snapping a picture on my phone.


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Q: Dataset strings replace not speeding up with threads I was recently getting into Natural Language Processing for a university project and, given a list of words, I wanted to try and delete all those words from a dataset of Strings.
My dataset looks like this, but much bigger:
data_set = ['Human machine interface for lab abc computer applications',
         'A survey of user opinion of computer system response time',
         'The EPS user interface management system',
         'System and human system engineering testing of EPS',
         'Relation of user perceived response time to error measurement',
         'The generation of random binary unordered trees',
         'The intersection graph of paths in trees',
         'Graph minors IV Widths of trees and well quasi ordering',
         'Graph minors A survey']

The list of words to delete looks like this, but again, much longer:
to_remove = ['abc', 'of', 'quasi', 'well']

Since in Python I didn't find any function to directly delete words from strings, I used the replace() function.
The program should take the data_set and, for each word in to_remove, it should call a replace() on a different string of the data_set. I was hoping that threads could speed things up, but unfortunately it takes almost the same time as the program without threads. Am I correctly implementing threads? Or did I miss something?
The code with threads is the following:
from multiprocessing.dummy import Pool as ThreadPool

def remove_words(params):
    changed_data_set = params[0]
    for elem in params[1]:
        changed_data_set = changed_data_set.replace(' ' + elem, ' ')
    return changed_data_set

def parallel_task(params, threads=2):
    pool = ThreadPool(threads)
    results = pool.map(remove_words, params)
    pool.close()
    pool.join()
    return results

parameters = []
for rows in data_set:
    parameters.append((rows, to_remove))
new_data_set = parallel_task(parameters, 8)

The code without threads is the following:
def remove_words(data_set, to_replace):
    for len in range(len(data_set)):
        for word in to_replace:
            data_set[len] = data_set[len].replace(' ' + row, ' ')
    return data_set

changed_data_set = remove_words(data_set, to_remove)


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Nellie Eickenhorst Whips Her Husband As Crowd Looks On – New York, 1927
FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 2): White Plains, N. Y., Sept. 20. – Mrs. Nellie Eickenhorst, 42 years old, of 145 West Lincoln Avenue, Mount Vernon, took the law into her own hands this morning, and horsewhipped her husband, frank, 40 years old, in an effort, she said, to make him awaken to a sense of his responsibility toward her. The whipping occurred when she met him in front of Police Headquarters.
A charge of abandonment preferred against Eickenhorst by his wife was dismissed by City Judge Bernstein in Special Sessions Court this morning when Mrs. Eickenhorst admitted that their husband was living at her home. He would not work and support her, she said, and she had been compelled to work as a saleswoman.
Following the dismissal of the charge, Mrs. Eickenhorst went to a hardware store where she purchased a three-foot whip. With this she slashed her husband about the face and body when she met him in Valentine street. Policeman Charles Roehl ran from headquarters and warned the woman to stop. She continued to beat her husband, and finally struck him in the face partly blinding him.
By this time a crowd had gathered, by the sight and by the cries of Eickenhorst, who endeavored to protect himself from his wife's blows by covering his head with his arms as he lay on the ground before her. Mrs. Eickenhorst was persuaded to stop and surrendered her whip, after which she was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct. She was released in bonds of $250 for hearing tomorrow morning.
["Whips Her Husband As Crowd Looks On – Wife Beats Man Near Police Headquarters in Mt. Vernon Till He Is Partly Blind. – Then Is Freed In $250 Bail – Abandonment Charge Brought by Her Had Just Been Dismissed – She Says He Will Not Support Her." New York Times (N.Y.), Sep. 21, 1927, p. 30]
FULL TEXT (Article 2 of 2): FULL TEXT: White Plains, N. Y., Sept. 21 – City Judge Jacob Bernstein gave a suspended sentence this morning to Mrs. Nellie Eickenhorst, 42 years old, in front of Police Headquarters yesterday morning.
Mrs. Eickenhorst was warned by Judge Bernstein that her activity with a whip must cease.
The whipping followed the dismissal in court yesterday of a charge of abandonment brought by Mrs. Eickenhorst against her husband. she had admitted that he was living with her but asserted she was forced to support herself and that Eickenhorst sat around the house all day. When the case was dismissed she appeared upset and left the court room, going to a nearby store where she a very heavy dog whip.
Meeting her husband she warned him that although he might escape punishment in court he would suffer at her hands and lashed him about the face and body.
Mrs. Eickenhorst appeared penitent this morning in court. Eickenhorst said he was not anxious to press a charge against his wife.
["Husband Whipper Freed. – Mount Vernon Wife Appears Penitent – Man Refuses to Press Charge." New York Times (N.Y.), Sep. 22, 1927, p. 12]


2.3.2 Need for a new protocol?
For more information, see: Internet Protocol Suite.
The Internet Protocol (IP) is a protocol, or set of rules, used for communicating across a heterogeneous network. It is the protocol on which the Internet is built. This article puts the major versions and sub-versions of the basic protocol into a historical context; see Internet Protocol version 4 and Internet Protocol version 6 for the details of design. Presented here are the common aspects of designing a protocol for the internetworking layer of the Internet Protocol Suite.
While there were earlier laboratory versions, the first deployed version of the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) was specified in January 1980, but, for reasons dealing with locators discussed below, that first specification proved inadequate in under two years.  A slight variation bought about a decade of utility, before serious limitations became obvious , and has been the standard for many years, but Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the newer standard.
It was a basic Internet architectural assumption that the intelligence should be at the edges of the network, while the internal forwarding elements should have no memory of previous packets or connections, and use the IP level to decide simply how to forward a packet one hop closer to the destination. The lack of memory, or statelessness, is very different than the assumption of classic telephone networks, which are more concerned with committing resources to a call, and verifying an end-to-end path exists, than forwarding information on that path.
Experience showed that the ideal lies somewhere in the middle. IP can remain stateless, and the decision of whether an end-to-end service is stateful or not is a decision for each application. IP, however, is a hop-by-hop, not an end-to-end, protocol.
Addresses are 32 bits long in IPv4 and 128 bits long in IPv6. Computers process them as strings of bits, but the human-readable notation for the two versions is different. The only common characteristic is that the address alone is not enough for most purposes; there also must be a second value that specified how many bits of the address, starting from the leftmost or most significant bit, should be treated as prefix. At various times in the life of a packet, relatively more or fewer bits will be evaluated as prefix, just as different amounts of physical information is needed to fly from city to city than is needed to drive to a specific building.
An IPv4 address might, then, be written 128.0.2.1/24, while an IPv6 address might be written 2001:0db8:0001:1001:0000:0000:0000:0001/64.
Every IP packet has a source address and a destination address. Within the routing domain in which these addresses are used, the addresses must be unique. In the global Internet, blocks of addresses are delegated from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which further delegates blocks of addresses to Regional Internet Registries at a roughly continental level.
By analogy, a locator tells how to get somewhere, such as a street name in geography, or country and area code in telephony. Routers make decisions based on the locator, until they are on the final "street" and need to look for the "house number".
That was indeed the assumption of the first IP standard,  in which a fixed 8-bit locator field was assigned.
For purposes of understanding, let us consider some slightly different concerns that came up very soon after the original specification. Assume that there were a very few intercontinental links, and the intercontinental routers really only needed to look at the first three bits of the prefix to know which line to use for an outgoing packet. Three bits give 8 possible values, which is more than the number of continents — and the penguins were not likely to be on the ARPANET (Linux had not yet been invented), so the Antarctica code might be assigned to North America, which had most of the computers, and the 8th code could go to whatever continent first had more than 32 computers.
Further, breaking up the prefix by content allowed delegation of the assignment of the computer number within the continental block. Let us call the continental-level administrators Regional Internet Registries.
Before long, however, it became obvious that there would be many more computers, even per continent, than 255. Unfortunately, the address length was already fixed at 32 bits. It was possible to stay with the existing length, at first, by playing some number assignment tricks, the details of which are not important here.
What is important is that there could be three classes of fixed prefix length, one for the small number of institutions with very large quantities of computers (i.e., needing 24 identifier bits), one for the larger number of organizations that did not have as many computers and could get by with a 16 bit identifier field, and one for the even more common case where 8 identifier bits were enough. We now use a convention to refer to the length of the prefix by suffixing /prefixlength (decimal) to the address, so we created /8, /16, and /24 address classes; This is now considered an obsolete technique of classful addressing and routing.
One of the original architectural principles of the Internet, the local versus remote problem comes up in this context. If the host to which you want to send has the space prefix, you are on the same L2 link and can communicate with it, once you know its layer 2 address. If the destination has different prefix, you must use a router to reach it.
L2 addressing is trivial on point-to-point links; there is only the 'other end". On broadcast-capable local area networks, the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) provides the solution in IPv4 networks: the client broadcasts the IP address of the desired destination, in a frame with his L2 address as the source; the destination hears it, and sends back an ARP reply with its MAC address.
There is no absolutely general mechanism for a nonbroadcast multiaccess (NBMA) medium or transmission system, such as frame relay and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), which may be set up as a hub-and-spoke topology , with only the hub available for broadcast if broadcast (or multicast) is available if it is available at all. A common method is to configure a manual L2-L3 mapping, although there are inverse ARP protocols for some NBMA media.
IPv6 takes a different approach, neighbor discovery, where a host can learn passively from the announcements of all hosts sharing the link.
3 exchange (a locality within a reasonably small area, such as a city); a physical telephone switching office will rarely contain the switches for more than five exchanges. Exchanges are unique within area codes, but each area code can have a 945 exchange.
4 line, unique within the address. Every exchange can have a line 1212.
When telephone switches look at only the international part of a number, they are aggregating all exchange and line numbers, or national equivalent. Different national numbering plans have different structures, but the international switch does not need to understand it.
In an analogous manner, major Internet routers do a great deal of prefix aggregation. They try to make decisions on a relatively few bits starting at the left, which might identify a large service provider or enterprise. Once the Internet routers deliver packets to the destination indicated by the aggregate, the routers in that location now look at more bits of the prefix, just as once an international telephone call reaches a country, the national switch looks at the next level of detail, area code in North America. Only when the call reaches the area code level of switch does the telephone routing process look for the additional information pointing to an exchange. Only at the final exchange does the switch look for the specific line.
The example used at the very beginning of the locator section, with a fixed-length /8 prefix field, had the actual implementation used the continent-country split, could have aggregated addresses: the continental link could be selected just on the /4 high-order bits of the address. Just looking at the high-order bits is called aggregation, collapses the "phone number toward the left" Aggregation, especially in the set of IPv4 techniques (to be discussed below) called classless inter-domain routing (CIDR), conserves space in routing tables and processing required to maintain them. For CIDR to work, the prefix length to be evaluated on a specific address, a length that could vary with context, there had to be a way to convey the prefix lengths between routers. Since this could not be done in the address itself, routing protocols were modified to be classless, such that they carry length information along with every address. By putting the length information into the routing protocol rather than in every address, overhead was not unreasonable.
The true length information had to be sent through the Internet, so one of the major changes in the current version 4 of the Border Gateway Protocol was CIDR support; all addressing information transported by BGP is coupled with context-dependent prefix length information.
Originally, the assumption was that any given site or organization would be happy with a single large "flat" address space, managed by a single large mainframe computer. This assumption was shattered by several innovations: personal computers and servers needing at least enterprise-unique addresses, local area networks needing prefixes that could be part of the prefix seen by the rest of the public Internet but needing uniqueness within the enterprises, and organizations having multiple sites with direct connections (i.e., not accessible via the public Internet) between them.
For simplicity, assume that the institutions that needed to create extended prefixes, called subnets, all had an /8 prefix. Further, assume that their needs all could be met with 8 bits of extended prefix (i.e., giving them 255 separate media seen only inside the organization, and none of those media needed more than 8 bits of identifier. That is a simplification of the technique actually adopted, called fixed length subnetting. Since addresses have no way to carry the length of the subnet field, it was necessary to have it statically defined within routers; the early classful routing protocols had no way to carry the subnet length to other routers.
Originally, the number of bits in the subnet extension were fixed, just as the number of prefix bits in the three clases were fixed. This led to inefficiencies, the most extreme being that if the subnet field were 8 bits, allowing 254 hosts (the all-zeroes and all-ones values have special purpose), 252 addresses would be wasted on every point-to-point line that needed a unique prefix.
Analogously to CIDR, techniques were developed so that different subnet lengths could be used within the same routing domain. Static definition was not enough; interior routing protocols, not just BGP, were modified to carry lengths.
Think of a basic locator address as a street, and the identifier as the house name on it. In IPv4, the numbering may be static (i.e., administrator defined) or dynamic (i.e., next available number from a pool). IPv6 also has static and dynamic identifier assignment, but its much longer identifier field length allows autoconfiguration using a physical identifier defined as unique. This identifier, on local area networks, is the 48-bit medium access control address.
One of the problems of Internet Protocol development was that it started as a research project, when there were no local area networks and no personal computers. The first version of the Internet Protocol could interconnect 255 sites, more than anyone thought would be necessary. Large computers at the sites were expected to know the locations of thousands of computers.
Since the original IP had no way to indicate the prefix length, various administrative conventions were used to infer the length from the value of the first few bits, but, by the early 1990s, this relatively inflexible structure was wasting a great amount of address space. Allocations tended to be of two sizes: too large and too small. In particular, the Internet was running out of /16 prefixes.
An alternative was to give out more /24 prefixes, and give organizations as many as they needed as long as they could not justify a /16, but this strained what was then a precious resource: memory space in the routing table of routers. Each unique global prefix needed its own "slot" in the table. There was a race between running out of /16 prefixes to assign, and assigning more /24 prefixes than the existing routers could carry in their tables. The great mass of /24 addresses, which took up about half of the global routing table, was informally called the "Swamp".
It also was observed that about half the swamp significantly underutilized their identifier space, having 16 or fewer computers. That part of the Swamp became known as the "Toxic Waste Dump".
Need for a new protocol?
It was not, at first, a given that an entirely new Internet Protocol was needed. after various user communities expressed their needs, four main proposals emerged, with two combining into what became the new Internet starship, IP version 6.
One of the proposals to deal with the problem was relatively modest: IPv4 with larger addresses, called TUBA (TCP and UDP with Bigger Addresses).  The design finally accepted, however, merged two of the four proposal, removed some obsolete IPv4 features, and added others needed for more modern networking.
By 1993, it was clear that IPv4 was reaching its limits, not only from the address size. Aspects of the header were harder and harder to process at increasing line speed. The first IPv6 specification was published in 1995, but the Internet research and engineering communities continue to refine it, and it is only in limited deployment, with some outstanding issues, in 2009. The cited first specification has been superseded; see Internet Protocol version 6 for more current work.
The much larger 128 bit addresses, in IPv6, are not so large because we expect to have 128 bits' worth of unique computer addresses. IPv6 addresses are so long because lengthening the address greatly simplifies the work of separating the locator from the identifier, and having a hierarchy of levels of locators/prefixes.
The scope of an address describes the area in which it must be unique..
Intranets have no need to have addresses unique with respect to the global Internet, and, indeed, there are blocks in IPv4 and IPv6 that are defined not to be routable in the global system. One way to extend the lifetime of the increasingly scarce IPv4 address space is to use "registered" IPv4 addresses only on the Internet-facing side of network address translators, and use private space in the enterprise side.
Extranets may use private space if the address administration does not become overwhelming; extranets of the size of U.S. military networks such as NIPRNET, SIPRNET and JWICS have unique address space that is delegated by military administrators. In practice, there is no conflict even if every address on the public Internet were duplicated, because the secure networks have an "air gap" to the Internet; there is no direct connectivity at the IP level.
IP address management (IPAM) has become a commercial term for a problem that large networks, both IPv4, and IPv6, have faced for years. The problem covers the limited set of cases where manual assignment of addresses remain necessary, the most common scalable method using the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, and a new technique peculiar to Internet Protocol version 6, stateless address autoconfiguration (SLAAC).
There are several levels of IPAM, at an Internet-wide resource management level, at a deployment, and operational support perspectives. It is not always practical to keep a given address even at the address block level; renumbering is often a problem. One of the first industry specifications to formalize, in an Internet Protocol version 4 context, was RFC 2071, "What is network renumbering and why would I want it?" . The immediate driver for this guide was an interim shortage of IPv4 address space through inefficient usage, as opposed to the true exhaustion of new address space expected around the year 2011.
Different renumbering concepts and techniques apply at the administrative, application server, infrastructure server, end user host computer level, router, and security levels. RFC 2072 dealt with the specific case of IPv4 router renumbering and things directly affected from it; it is primarily concerned with manual methods. RFC 4192, which updates 2072, focused on IPv6, described more automated methods, and gave more consideration to devices besides routers.
IP architects call it "agnostic" as to the underlying medium access control that manages shared access to the medium, the physical layer protocol managing the access of single devices to the medium, and to the transmission medium. It commonly runs over multimegabit or gigabit links, but has been demonstrated to operate, in conjunction with the Transmission Control Protocol, over avian media (i.e., carrier pigeons).  IP provides computers with communicable addresses that are globally unique.
IP is a connectionless protocol and provides best-effort delivery for its data payload, making no guarantees with respect to reliability. Without notification to either the sender or receiver, packets may become corrupted, lost, reordered, or duplicated. This design reduces the complexity of Internet routers. When reliable delivery is needed, the Internet Protocol Suite has mechanisms at the end-to-end (e.g., Transmission Control Protocol) or application (e.g., Hypertext Transfer Protocol) levels.
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'Game of Thrones' TV Run Wasn't Good For Author George R.R. Martin's Books Or His Life
By Tanzim Pardiwalla 5 months
Writer George R.R. Martin is getting tired of the ongoing barrage of criticism that the post Game of Thrones world continues to be occupied with. Months after the HBO show's Season 8 finale, fans and viewers are still finding new reasons to hate the show. Showrunners David Benioff and DB Wiess received so much flak for the show that they just might be dubbed as the worst writers of TV for years to come. The monumental show that Game of Thrones was, had millions hooked to the screens during its final season and Martin wasn't around to oversee the production. Naturally, fans expect the author to explain himself as some accusing eyes followed every appearance he made after that finale episode. And now, talk of the heavy criticism have surfaced yet again.
George R.R. Martin, in a chat with The Guardian talked about the liberating experience that the end of the show was. We've talked about the author heaving a sigh of relief and being in no hurry to get on with the rest of the books in line. While fans are vying for more books impatiently waiting to get the original ending (the ending they deserve) to the series, he isn't rushing the next two novels. And he's ready to openly admit the damage the show has done to his life and his career.
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"I don't think the TV series was very good for me,"..."The very thing that should have speeded me up actually slowed me down. Every day I sat down to write and even if I had a good day … I'd feel terrible because I'd be thinking: 'My God, I have to finish the book. I've only written four pages when I should have written 40'." - George R.R. Martin
Game of Thrones Season 8 finale, however, did nothing to change the way the books end. Judging from fan response, one would think that Martin would rethink the course of the story if it all was planned to be similar to the one that the show got. But he remains unaffected by the course the show took. He's out to seek his own creative satisfaction and only that!
"No, it doesn't. It doesn't change anything at all … You can't please everybody, so you've got to please yourself," - George R.R. Martin
He's also been trying to steer clear of the winds of speculation. It can be real hard work being under the scanner by fans all over the world the author has decided he cannot let it get to him.
"I took myself out of all that,"..."Some of [the theories] are right and some of [the theories] are wrong. They'll find out when I finish." - George R.R. Martin
SEE ALSO: George R.R. Martin Just Spilled Hype-Worthy Details About the 'Game of Thrones' Prequel!
More importantly, what about the Game of Thrones prequels? The prequel that has long been dubbed as The Long Night is in production under the working title 'Bloodmoon'. The series doesn't have a release date yet with a possible 2021 launch. Book fans are currently waiting for George R.R. Martin to finish the next book 'Winds of Winter'.
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1/1/1999 | 6 MINUTE READ
Racking Up a Success Story
Steel King installed a powder coating system and realized many benefits...
Powder coating system with recovery system.
Shelving exits the powder coating system and goes to the oven where it will cure at 375F for 25 min.
At Steel King, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, the industry's largest full-range racking-storage-container manufacturer, the goal is to ensure customers receive the exact racking system products they want, when they want them. Products that are innovative, durable and attractive, as well as affordable and readily available. Steel King's products range in size from 40 inches to 40 ft, come in a variety of shapes and configurations and are coated using one of a dozen or more common and special-order colors. Once powder coated, they are quickly loaded onto trucks, shipped to a customer's site, unloaded and assembled on-site.
Until 1996, Steel King used a manual, high-solids enamel liquid paint operation with a push-and-shove conveyor system. It produced more than 50,000 racking/shelving parts in as many as 15 different colors each month. This labor-intensive production schedule was difficult enough to maintain, let alone keep pace with the increasing demands of the company's steadily growing customer base. In addition, waste and VOCs (and their associated disposal costs) had to be eliminated.
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Today, Steel King's built-to-order business is booming. Two shifts per day keep pace with growing demand and only four operators are needed, not 24 as with the old liquid system. Multiple colors are used routinely. Efficiency runs steady at 97%, with virtually no VOC waste. Rejects are down while quality has soared. And customers are more than satisfied. At the center of this successful operation is a powder coating system that is still capable of handling 2-1/2 times current production levels to accommodate future growth.
Selecting a system for success
Two years ago, Steel King decided an automated system was needed to meet its customers' exacting specifications and critical deadlines—without sacrificing quality. The company focused primarily on a 54,000-sq-ft addition to its New London, Wisconsin, production facility that would house a new paint operation.
"The success of our operation is all about painting," said Steel King plant manager Steve Krueger. "From a marketing perspective, it is essential that we offer a complete selection of colors that will look good for a long time, despite use and abuse in their environment. But from a production standpoint, our entire operation must run smoothly, efficiently and safely, while providing us with the flexibility we need to coat multiple colors on any given day."
In light of short- and long-term objectives, Steel King analyzed several options, including waterbornes, two-component liquids and baked enamels. However, the company's goal to eliminate VOC problems soon led to powder as the most viable choice.
"We looked at three powder system vendors, reviewed capabilities, conducted trials and evaluated existing systems in the field," said Steel King vice president of manufacturing Gary Rosenberg. "And we were quite impressed with what we learned. However, color change still concerned us, since significant material waste is typically associated with that process, and any waste impacts the bottom line." A demonstration of Cyclo-Kinetic® technology by Nordson Corporation convinced Steel King it had found the solution.
The system in action
With the completion of the new expansion in March 1996, Steel King installed three independently run Cyclo-Kinetic (CK) booths, each with 20 Versa-Spray® II automatic guns. The push-and-shove conveyor system was replaced with a highly sophisticated, fully automated power-and-free conveyor system. The new conveyor system required 15 miles of control wire within the new building, as well as two different computer systems to effectively merge all incoming information and track carriers through each stage of production.
Using a standard production flow pattern, Steel King's products enter the powder coating operation by way of a new prep and pre-wash system. A 168-ft washer easily accommodates even the largest parts. The three-stage process includes a heated wash, iron phosphate, rinse and final rinse cycle. The conveyor then moves parts into a dry-off oven, for an eight-minute dry-off at 225F, followed by a short period in a cool-down zone.
Once inside the environmental room, two system control devices identify the parts and select parameters for gun triggering and powder flow rate. The automatic guns trigger as the parts arrive and shut off as the final parts pass through. The booths continuously ramp up and down as groups of parts enter and exit the booth.
Parts next enter a 2,500-sq-ft cure oven for 25 minutes at 375F. Finally, parts are cooled and conveyed into the packaging area for immediate shipment or short-term truck storage.
Coating operation sets production schedule
"Because all products are built-to-order and shipped directly to the customer for assembly, getting parts through the paint system used to be the most significant issue in our scheduling process," explains Mr. Krueger. "But with the new operation in place, manufacturing and shipping are now being challenged to keep up with our coating capability." The entire coating process, from product leaving the welding tables to its arrival at the packaging area, now takes less than two hours.
"The booths give us the flexibility we need to change colors continually, without the waste and expense," said Mr. Rosenberg. The booths use a series of small, horizontally positioned separators to remove oversprayed powder particles from the air stream, offering a viable alternative to spraying color to waste. "This technology was designed specifically to run fast, allow for multiple color changes and remain efficient. That's exactly what we needed."
Powder system's benefits
"It's a win-win situation all the way around," Mr. Krueger stated. "The CK system gives us better coating quality and efficiency, and gives our marketing group the ability to offer a broad color selection. The guns are equipped with ion collectors that help overcome Faraday-cage effect for better transfer efficiency. And because product size varies so dramatically, dual flow rate control lets us increase or decrease powder flow only when necessary to reach into corners that are otherwise difficult to coat with the stationary guns. This gives us more precise control for depositing powder where it is needed for optimal coverage and with virtually no waste."
Mil thickness averages 3.5 mils. With improved coating durability Steel King estimates it now saves more than $300,000 per year in protective packaging material that was once required to separate parts during shipping. Today, packing material is used only to separate strapping from product surfaces.
And better coating quality has virtually eliminated the 1.5% customer reject rate from fisheyes, drips and runs. Since repainting a job on-site typically costs between $30,000 and $50,000, the company also saves an additional $375,000 annually.
Exceeding tomorrow's goals today
Total annual powder use is approximately 360,000 lbs, or the equivalent of 1.6 million gal of liquid paint.
"We track every pound of powder that goes in and out of our booths, as well as the filter systems," said Mr. Krueger, "and our efficiency is running steady at 97%. Our liquid system was only 40 to 60% efficient at its highest.
"Equally important, we can powder coat any color a customer requests," Mr. Krueger continued. "In fact, we now have more than a dozen standard colors in inventory, 10 of which are applied frequently. And we anticipate adding more colors." Currently, all three booths in the New London production facility run a different color every day, with one or two scheduled color changes.
Initial reaction to Steel King's introduction to powder coating couldn't be better. Steel King employees are buoyed by the leap to leading-edge finishing technology, and customers are more than satisfied with the difference in finish. After running only two years, there have been zero finish quality problems in the field.
All objectives Steel King specified at the onset of its painting conversion process were achieved: paint multiple colors efficiently, eliminate VOC waste, and reduce labor costs. "Beyond these accomplishments, what is most gratifying," Mr. Krueger offered, "is that we ended up with a whole laundry list of other benefits too, ranging from significantly reduced packaging costs to enhanced product finish appearance and reduced customer rejects.
"With this powder coating system, every Steel King customer gets exactly what it orders, when it wants it. And in our business—in any business—is there a better formula for success?"
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Apple Updates Its Bug-Hunting Bounty Program
Published Dec 23, 2019 11:25 pm UTC
Apple has recently updated its bug bounty program to cover everyone. Before, it was an invite-only affair that attracted criticism but now has been changed to be open for all.
In the last bounty program iteration Apple has increased its 'bounties' due to low reward complaints, which also presented a backlash that individuals will earn more if they sell the found vulnerability on the black market.
The recently set microsite contains all Apple Bug Bounty program details and eligibility requirements. Apple has also set payout ranges from $100K to a million dollars, although the maximum payout for discovering a vulnerability on beta versions is $1.5M, with the same figure being donated to charity.
Apple has a separate page for lists of sample payouts. To be eligible for the bounty reward, the vulnerability must be on public versions of iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, macOS and iOS, and on publicly available Apple products.
The Cupertino-based company has also recently published its Platform Security guide for 2019.