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queerly-autistic · 11 months ago

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I've seen a lot of OFMD fans pointing at other fan campaigns recently, especially the failed campaign to save Anne with an E, and getting disheartened by what they see, and I think something that's missing in those discussions (particularly after the weirdly negative slant at the end of that Guardian article) is that not all fan campaigns are the same.

The campaigns to save shows that started out on Netflix (Warrior Nun, Sense8, Anne with an E, Shadow and Bone, etc.) are very different to what we are facing with OFMD, because Netflix is much more protective of its IP - and yes, they even hold the IP of shows that they've cancelled tightly to their chests and very rarely let them go. Some have been able to make the jump to different platforms, but not many, and it's actually pretty hard to do so (“For most shows, shopping away from Netflix is reportedly very difficult when Netflix owns the underlying IP”).

Because of this, fans of shows cancelled by Netflix are often campaigning directly for Netflix to reverse that decision, rather than campaigning to get it picked up elsewhere. Warrior Nun (I saw people panicking at the length of effort and the numbers they had to put in before they got their success) and Sense8 were both granted final films by Netflix to wrap up their stories after long-running successful fan campaigns - they were not saved by a different platform, and likely couldn't have been because of Netflix's strict grip on its IP. So comparing ourselves to fan campaigns for shows cancelled by Netflix isn't accurate or fair to us or to those other campaigns.

It's also worth pointing out that Anne with an E was a joint venture between Netflix and CBC, and that relationship appears to have fallen apart, which may have been a factor in its cancellation (see more at this tweet). This is also likely a contributing factor as to why, despite the campaign to save it being huge, it didn't get the reprieve from Netflix that other shows have received. That is baggage that OFMD simply doesn't have.

OFMD is in a very different position to many of the shows that were cancelled by Netflix and then went on to have fan campaigns around them, in that we have confirmation from HBO Max that they are happy for it to be shopped around. HBO Max is not holding a firm grip on the IP the way that Netflix does. We are able to try to find OFMD a new home. And that's a very different sort of campaign and trajectory than trying to convince the platform that cancelled us to reverse/amend their decision (I'd also argue it's slightly easier - nothing is certain, nothing is easy, but I think we have a better chance being allowed to look for someone else to pick us up rather than relying on the company that cancelled us to show us mercy).

Yes, some fan campaigns have had many more petition signatures than us (don't sniff at 80,000 signatures in two weeks, that's huge and fast), but that is only one part of the story. Petition signatures alone won't be the thing that clinches it. There are fan campaigns with hundreds of thousands of signatures that have failed, but there are also fan campaigns with way less signatures than us that have seen their show saved. There's so many elements at play, and every single one is unique. It's very tempting to play 'like for like' with these sorts of campaigns, but it's simply not a truthful reflection of the situation.

Every show is different. Every fan campaign is different.

We have every reason to be hopeful, and every reason to keep fighting. OFMD's numbers are good, it's already incredibly marketable to other streamers, and then ON TOP of that the fan reaction has been loud enough for a lot of people to take notice.

Yes, we're in a dip right now because that's what happens - every campaign has peaks and troughs because nothing sustains at the same level forever, and, again, it's only been just over two weeks and look at what we've done - but the impact we had, and the noise we made, happened at exactly the right time and kept happening for long enough to make an impression. A lot of things will be happening behind the scenes right now that we don't know about, and there's so many factors at play that we have no control over. It's a long game.

So don't look at other fan campaigns and be disheartened by what you see. Because what you see on the surface is nowhere near close to the full picture.

Even if we don't get our S3, lets celebrate the fact that we have made a huge impression, kicked up a huge stink, and been the thorn in the side of some people who absolutely fucking needed a couple of thorns in their side. And I think that's the best legacy that our rebellious little gay pirate show could possibly have.

#ofmd #our flag means death #save ofmd #save our flag means death #renew as a crew #renew ofmd #renew our flag means death #be a lighthouse #adopt our crew

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1ddiscourseoftheday · 5 years ago

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🦠Wed 4 March 🛫

Zayn signed with a live show booking agency!!! Like is it possible that he just is always signed with someone and needed to switch it up, sure, BUT IT'S ALSO POSSIBLE HE'S GOING TO PLAY LIVE SOUND THE FUCKING ALARM! They POSTED ABOUT SIGNING HIM... maaaybe??? Wow and you thought having OT4 out there all playing shows at the same time this year was gonna be a lot OT5 are really coming for our necks (and wallets jesus.)

Lights Up video director Vincent Haycock tells us that we will never (ever ever) see the director's cut of the video. BOOOOO WTF that's terrible news! And WHY NOT? Many turned their sadness over this news to anger, asserting that it was a conspiracy on the part of HSHQ because the full length was too subversive. Well it could be, what do I know! If people wanna blame Jeff and boo him about it you know I'm always down for that. The full length video of the Howard Stern interview and performance had been posted, though (speaking of conspiracy theories) someone said it wasn't full length even though it says that ("full length"), that maybe the show had edited? Idk. And a long CBC interview (recorded last week) aired. Harry says the album is called Fine Line because it's about "the fragility of emotion and how fast that can change," and that the idea that you can't make certain kinds of music because the fans "won't get it" isn't worth limiting yourself for because (to paraphrase heavily) the fans don't know less about how to listen to music than people in the industry do.

Louis' Madrid show was added for Mar 10 ("a small show" according to Louis) but sadly the Milan show (Mar 11) was cancelled (along with all other large public events in Italy it's not just Louis.) Fuck! I hate this for Louis! It's the TOUR the biggest most anticipated thing that should be the happiest moment and this hanging over the whole thing! I mean I hate the possiblity of a global pandemic and people dying quite a bit as well, yes, but LT TOUR, COME THE FUCK ON HIGHER POWERS. Anyway some do but I don't think it's weird he added the show last minute personally. He said a while back that he'd be adding more shows probably, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if they do more very close to the dates (assuming we aren't living in some kind of post apocalyptic hellscape that prevents that by then.)

Niall posted video and pics from the Spotify singles recording, and today's HBBW song is Everywhere, yes: another single common word song title that's confusing to talk about because it isn't clear you mean the song necessarily. The lyrics today are, "you walk into the room I go quiet. I catch your eyes and don't blink an eyelid. Feels like the world locked us on an island. An island without waves." He said the lyrics he's sharing aren't his favorite ones, that he's saving those for next week, but idk if I believe him about this song, he was at least excited enough about the island part to tweet it a while back. The daily snippets are going backwards through the track list, counting down to the first song and the release, so tomorrow's is Arms of a Stranger, which we learned is the song Niall wrote in a dream! Looking forward to that one. Taylor Swift praised the Lover cover ("absolutely stunning") and you know Niall was pumped for that so he's having a good day I betcha.

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tekhattan-blog · 6 years ago

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Final Showdown: NordVPN Vs PureVPN

The Internet has become a part of our daily lives. With most of our personal data uploaded on the web, Internet privacy has become a growing concern. Honestly, Internet Service Providers track almost every bit of information that you search on the web, and then sell it to advertisers for revenue.

So, if you are someone who is glued to the Internet, you should be concerned about your privacy online. And, if you already are, chances are that you have already used VPN’s and are familiar with what they do.

The number of VPN’s – free, paid, and freemium are way too many to keep a track of! It does get a bit confusing to settle with on. We have been through the same when we first started scouring the Internet for the best VPN. And, to help you save time and effort, we will talk about two of the most renowned VPN service provider companies – NordVPN and PureVPN.

Hackers, ISPs, Governments, Corporations are all after your data. So, let’s start off by telling you a bit about the concept of VPN. If you are interested in all things Tech, you shouldn’t be missing out on Tekhattan. Subscribe to their blogs to increase your knowledge of ever-evolving technology.

What is A VPN?

A virtual private network (VPN) is a technology that improves your online security and privacy. In other words, all data transferred between your computer and the VPN server is scrambled so that no one else can read it.

In other words, it's like accessing a private network via a public network. Apart from protecting your security and privacy, a VPN even yields advanced encryption for safeguarding your financial data and other crucial information shared via public Wi-Fi. By hiding your current IP-address, it lets you surf the internet and watch your favorite restricted sites like Netflix in a way as if you're accessing them from another country.

How does VPN work?

You start the VPN client (software) from your VPN service. This software encrypts your data, even before your Internet Service Provider sees it. The data then goes to the VPN, and from the VPN server to your online destination — anything from your bank website to a video sharing website to a search engine. The online destination sees your data as coming from the VPN server and its location, and not from your computer and your location.

Why Do You Need a VPN?

It really depends on your situation, but there are many different uses for a VPN:

Surf the internet without revealing your real IP address and geo-location (online anonymity).

Add an extra level of security by encrypting your internet connection.

Prevent your Internet Service Provider (ISP), third parties, network admins, and governments from spying on your online activities (thanks to encryption).

Unblock websites and access content that is restricted to certain geographic locations.

Torrent, P2P download, and stream media in safety.

Bypass censorship by easily getting around regional restrictions.

Save money on flights and other online purchases by changing your IP address (geographic location).

Protect yourself from hackers anywhere you go – especially while using public Wi-Fi connections in cafés, hotels, and airports.

Protect your private data, such as bank passwords, credit cards, photos, and other personal information when online.

Surf the internet with peace of mind.

NordVPN vs PureVPN – Which is Better?

NordVPN has gained a lot of supporters over the years of its work, so it is among the top five most popular VPN services. In general, NordVPN allows its users to secure the transmission of their data over the Internet through public networks, bypass geographic blocks for some content and make online activity completely private.

PureVPN has a huge number of functions and features. More precisely, there are thousands of servers around the world, many tunnel protocols of any choice, and sufficiently reliable encryption. PureVPN provides access to Netflix, ability to secure streaming and torrenting and other useful additional services.

NordVPN owns one of the largest server systems, which includes more than 5000 servers located in 62 countries. On the other hand, PureVPN has 2000+ VPN located in 140+ countries.

When it comes to PureVPN, one of the coolest feature is web filtering which enables the parents to keep family oriented content available for their children. Another worth-mentioning feature is app filtering which enables you to choose which apps should run with the VPN configured.

Again, NordVPN provides a dual encryption service if you need additional protection. This means that your internet traffic will go through two VPN servers. It also gives you the ability to get a dedicated static IP address that will be tied to your personal account.

We recently read a comparison on https://tekhattan.com/blog/security/purevpn-vs-nordvpn/. It speaks at great length between the features of both service providers and is a good read if you are stuck on selecting the best VPN for your personal security.

PureVPN offers a lot of valuable features such as an antivirus that helps protect data against different forms of malwares and viruses. It also offers an IDS/IPS, Intrusion detection system and intrusion prevention system which respectively checks for suspicious activities and denies access to the system. This way no ransomware can harm your files or take over your device. Plus, you get an Adblocker to stop those annoying ads all the time when you surf the Internet.

If you opt for NordVPN, you will get Super secure encryption (OpenVPN, SSTP, PPTP, L2TP / IPsec and IKEv2 / IPsec protocols). The AES-256-CBC is equipped with a multi-node connection, which allows you to access the dual NordVPN network. Moreover, NordVPN works on the Anti-DDoS server, which in turn, provides an uninterrupted connection and minimizes the probability of disconnection, which can cause data leakage.

The point is that each VPN service provider offers a lot. It is you who has to make a decision on what best suits your requirement. You will want to opt for a sufficiently convenient and reliable VPN service, the main advantages of which should be the high level of encryption of transmitted information and no logs policy.

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jessekg · 6 years ago

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'Boys have role models, why shouldn't we?' How female superheroes like Captain Marvel are filling a void

There's a scene in the new film Captain Marvel in which the titular Captain, played by Brie Larson, is facing certain adversity. To draw strength, she experiences a flashback to all the times in her life when she was knocked down and told to quit because, well, she was just a girl.

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You can also see the moment in a teaser trailer, which shows the young character getting knocked down over and over again, only to turn and give the camera that defiant superhero stare: a look that says, no matter how big the odds stacked against the character, they will overcome them. It's an image we've all seen before, but for such a cliché, it's a scene we don't see given enough to women onscreen, let alone female superheroes.

"You don't often see a movie in general with such a strong female lead, so seeing that really hit home for me," says Saara Chaudry, 14, a contributor to CBC Kids News who saw an advance screening of Captain Marvel. "It made me feel warm, knowing that women were being represented in this light, but at the same time it spoke to personal experiences that I've had. It had me on the edge of my seat really just thinking about every time that I've been knocked down."

That sentiment was certainly intentional, according to Anna Boden, who co-wrote the film with Ryan Fleck. "As she gets to know herself and embrace what makes her her, she really achieves her true power," Boden told the New York Times, of the character. "Part of that means rejecting the voices of people who tell her she's not strong enough and doesn't belong. I feel like a lot of people will be able to relate to that, particularly women."

Captain Marvel is the 21st movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and yet is only the first film to be centred around a female superhero. DC Entertainment beat Marvel to the punch by two years with Wonder Woman, the Gal Gadot-starring box office and critical juggernaut that is still one of the top-grossing films to come from the DC Universe (a sequel is already slotted for 2020).

Two films in two years may not seem like a lot — it's not — but to put it into perspective, it was only in 2015 that a leaked email from Marvel chairman Isaac Perlmutter revealed his distaste for female superhero films, citing Supergirl (1984), Catwoman (2004) and Elektra (2005), blaming them for poor box-office performances and calling them a "disaster."

Wonder Woman's success certainly helped to open the door a crack, but the fact is, in the 10-plus years that we've been immersed in the current superhero boom, the lack of films centred on female characters has had a negative effect on young women.

SuperPowering Girls

In a study published last year called "SuperPowering Girls," conducted by the Women's Media Center and BBC America, researchers found that representation on film matters, especially when it comes to superheroes. Seeing female superheroes makes girls feel more "strong, brave, confident, inspired, positive and motivated," it states. Almost 2,500 participants were surveyed, male and female, including kids between the ages of 10 and 19 and parents of children aged five to nine, who answered on behalf of their children.

Among young boys, almost half (49 per cent) cited male sci-fi/supeheroes as a top role model. For girls, that number dropped to just 21 per cent. And yet, outside of the family, parents of young girls said they were most likely to look to superheroes as role models, with Wonder Woman being the top choice for girls, followed by Supergirl. A full 65 per cent of girls said there were simply not enough female superheroes. In fact, one question that both boys and girls overwhelmingly agreed on was that there needs to be more female heroes.

Big heroes, small screens

While the big screen has been slow to give female heroes their spotlight, it's a different story on the small screen. DC's Supergirl has been on the air since 2015, and is currently in its fourth season on the CW Network. Batwoman, another CW show, is also in the works, while Marvel's Jessica Jones will see its third and final series air on Netflix this year.

While all those shows appeal to a decidedly older audience — anywhere from young adult to adult — an animated series geared towards even younger fans has been successfully running on YouTube since 2015. DC Super Hero Girls features short episodes, often under five minutes, focused on the young lives of various female heroes, such as Wonder Woman, Batgirl and Supergirl, as they navigate their way through school. On March 8, DC Super Hero Girls will relaunch as a full-length series on the Cartoon Network, created by Lauren Faust (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, The Powerpuff Girls).

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Tara Strong, who was born in Toronto but lives in Los Angeles, has been a voice actor on the show since the beginning, and will voice Batgirl and Harley Quinn for the series relaunch.

"I was always drawn to these strong female characters, so it feels like such an honour to be able to play them and inspire young girls and boys," she says. "These are super strong characters that are smart and conscientious and care about friendships and, you know, use their brains."

I remember loving the Wonder Woman show with Lynda Carter, I loved the Wonder Twins cartoon, and I remember that what we had was good, but it's so nice to have what we have now.- Tara Strong, voice actor for DC Super Hero Girls

Strong says that representation of female heroes has come a long way since she was a kid, and points to the current boom as having a positive effect on young fans.

"I remember loving the Wonder Woman show with Lynda Carter, I loved The Wonder Twinscartoon, and I remember that what we had was good, but it's so nice to have what we have now," she says. "It's a huge improvement, especially on the female empowered characters."

Related: Tara Strong on living with Batgirl and Harley Quinn in her head

Strong adds that female superheroes have "become more sophisticated" over the years, and "as a whole been given a lot more to do, more powers, more voice in everything that they're doing. I think it's just sort of how the times have changed. DC has always been pretty conscientious about changing with those times."

While DC was certainly the first to give more screen time to prominent female heroes, if Captain Marvel is also a success, we can only expect to see more from that camp as well. Judging by future projects, the studio already seems to be banking on female heroes for its post Avengers: End Game rollout, hiring director Cate Shortland to helm a long-rumoured standalone movie for Scarlett Johansson's character Black Widow, which includes a script from Jac Schaeffer, one of the women on the writing team for Captain Marvel.

For young women like Chaudry, it couldn't be soon enough.

#Captain Marvel #Movies #Film #Feature #brie larson #Marvel

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freifraufischer · 2 years ago

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An update from my latest deep dive into youtube has yielded. I haven’t watched any of it yet (i have a to watch list) so can’t really comment on any of it yet for content.

2019 - Asian Championships Aurora Games

2018 - Looks like we lost the 2018 Commonwealth Games vault final which was the only part of that competition we have. It’s a good time to point out again that the Commonwealth Games are incredibly aggressive only behind the Olympics about striking videos. If you haven’t watched the current year competition yet and you want to you should make it a priority.

Added the 2018 Asian Games UB Final. Don’t have anything else from this.

CBC version of the 2018 Worlds AA

2017 - South East Asian Games EF

The Chinese National Games

The CBC version of the Worlds AA. Or in other words the Ellie Black is Really Nifty version.

2015 - South East Asian Games

The CBC versions of the World TF and World AA

2014 - Asian Games UB Final

CBC version of the Worlds AA

2013 - The Chinese National Games

2009 - The Chinese National Games

2008 - The BBC version of the Euros TF (and the FX final). Can’t wait to hear how they react to the worst camera angles for gymnastics ever.

2006 - The Beam Final from the Asian Championships... (not to be confused with the Asian Games)

Qatari (no commentary) coverage of the WAG TF from the Asian Games.

2005 - The Australian version of the Worlds AA. This makes the fifth version of this final I have and that kind of amuses me (the other four are BBC, Eurosport, WCSN/American, and Spanish).

The Chinese National Games... and I mean a LOT of it. It’s broken in parts so it’s missing at least one bit of one sub from qualification but otherwise it’s largely complete with qualification, team final, AA, and EFs.

2004 - A little over half of Athens qualification (2 full subs, half of another though nothing from the American sub), a bit of the Athens team final from the BBC, 3 rotations of the AA from the BBC, and the entire AA from Brazilian TV.

Unfortunately it looks like the only copy of the Athens FX EF was nuked. In trying to see if there was any other version of it still on youtube I found some partial coverage from NBC and have put it in it’s place. It’s not ideal but I really can’t tell you how much building an olympics from youtube coverage can be a bit like filling the holes in swiss cheese.

2003 - Universiade Team Final

A full length no commentary version of the Worlds TF ... but it is deeply potato.

2002 - Asian Games AA - I don’t know how I missed this one the first time because i grabbed the team final and event finals from the same source.

2001 - East Asian Games AA

2000 - The English Eurosport version of the Euros EFs. Previously I had a version in French only.

Canadian junior and senior championships. This is video from the stands which I often pass on but I make exceptions and non-US championships is often something I’ll go with if it seems complete which this does.

Canadian Olympic Trials (from the CBC).

The Australian version of the Olympic TF.

1999 - Russian Cup

1998 - English Eurosport coverage of the Euros EFs

Japanese (I think) coverage of the Asian Games.

1997 - French Eurosport coverage of the European Masters of Gymnastics. I had the ABC version of this before but that is 30 minutes long and this version is almost 3 hours long. Ahh editing to fit a time slot. The European Masters of Gymnastics is a now defunct meet format that involved teams of WAG/MAG/RG not unlike USAG’s 3 on 3 but... also so much more complicated.

The East Asian Games.

1992 - Two versions of the Worlds semi finals (both are Eurosport so likely only differ in commentary one in english and one in I believe dutch). Canadian Olympic Trials. The Spanish version of the Olympic AA final.

1991 - The ABC version of the European Cup AA. Because why not edit a 2 hour AA down to half an hour? At least it’s Bart and Kathy.

The CBC version of the Worlds AA.

1985 - The Eurosport version of the 1985 Worlds EF and a more complete version of the 1985 Worlds EF from ABC (it has Fahnrich’s bars but you know how cares about showing the vault final...)

1982 - Asian Games Team Final

1980 - 21 minutes of the Moscow AA with Japanese commentary. It’s in 3 parts but I suspect that is all of that one since that is about the length the sometimes would edit down an AA.

1976 - 8 of 10 parts of the Olympic AA. As is the general rule if something was uploaded in a million parts more than a decade ago some amount of it is missing.

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valeriemperez · 7 years ago

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Ultimate fanboys P@gey+Em3rgency Awesom3 think the Purple Lightning used for Iris as Flash in 4x16 is solely for contrast and has no connection to the Tornado Twins. However, parallel+symbolism are big on ⚡️In FP when Wally+Barry fight the Rival, Cisco specifically mentions (2) distinct funnel patterns, tornadoes 🌪 measuring f13 on the Fujita scale. They were Purple like the outfits that the original TT wore. It was a nod to WA’s Twins. I think the lightning is too!

I also agree the purple is in connection to the Tornado Twins and Jenni, and I’m hard-pressed to understand how anyone could think otherwise lol.

I’m not really sure what to tweet for Run Iris Run but if I retweet & like everything I see will that help keep the momentum going and help improve the overall sm presence??

It’ll certainly help! But if you’re at a loss for what to tweet, just quote every tweet you like and add “#RunIrisRun #TheFlash” to your quote haha. That way you’ll get our interactions and unique tweets up.

I’m so excited for Run Iris Run. Candice will kill it with her performance as usual and her fans are going to show up in huge numbers but I worry a bit about the writing. If the writing falls through the episode may not be good. I don’t want too much forced humor. Honestly how much faith do you have in Eric Wallace?

He seems a very versatile and self-assured writer with a strong sense of narrative. I liked 4.01 and 4.07 a lot, and he was the connecting link between those two. Granted, this is his first Flash episode alone but he’s far from an inexperienced writer.

Now I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up but…. yvrshoots has reported that flash has been filming at the CBC building Thurs and Fri. CBC by the way is a Canadian television news station. And Kate confirmed CP is filming there today and she was probably there yesterday. Shall we be seeing news reporter Iris soon 👀

I want this so badly, but I’m totally with you on not getting hopes up. At least we know Candice has been filming a good amount.

I’m a bit confused, after the intense WA kiss in 4x15 was Iris starting to sweat or was that Barry’s sweat transferred to her because he kissed her so hard. I’m wondering because it would be an interesting note if Iris can stay in flashtime for that length of time & not sweat or get tired like the others.

I’m pretty sure that was his sweat sticking to her face, lol. Both her 4.10 and her 4.15 scenes showed her in Flashtime for much longer than the others, so I’m pretty sure she’s meant to be able to withstand it longer.

I think KF is going to be a little bad for next season L

I feel like she’ll either become one with Caitlin for good… Or the reverse will happen.

Do you, by chance, have a theory on why all of a sudden CS can remember what KF does? Could it be connected somehow to DeVoe? Also, I’ve noticed lately that DP+TC have had a lot of scenes together lately. Do you think the EP’s changed their mind about hooking up CS and Wells?

I think the wall between them was only ever something Caitlin’s psyche threw up to protect her from herself, it’s not that KF is physically a different person from Caitlin. So this is them becoming one, and right now it seems like that’s a good thing.

As for Snowells… They’ve now brought up Wells moving on from his wife, and Caitlin has tried several times to move on from her husband. So.. Maybe?

@eboniangelvibez said:

Courtney Ford (Nora) and Brandon Routh (Ray)are married in RL. If their chemistry was off, it would be bad…

LOL! Chemistry onscreen is not always indicative of relationship offscreen, but I take your point.

giphy(.)com/gifs/fQYdEoAbvuHdgPrBhm Me with the CP and Iris hatred after 4 seasons.

Love it!

I can’t recall, do all speedsters, except Savitar, have the same color lightning? Do you think they’re going to explain why Iris’ lightning is purple?

Trajectory’s was blue because of the Velocity 9. Honestly, it’s as possible that they’ll give some bogus explanation as it is that they’ll just mention it offhand.

To add to that, Westallen’s story is not over, despite being married. They have a legacy to build.

Accurate!

#the flash #eboniangelvibez #anonymous #tatiana's thoughts #more asks under the cut #long post for ts #c snow

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bloojayoolie · 7 years ago

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She's an adorable low-rider for sure, but it's what's on the inside that counts. Thanks to her calm nature, friendly manners with all species, sizes and sexes, and the promise of a playful side (she likes squeaky toys!), this tiny charmer has proven she's beautiful both inside and out. She knows how to sit on command, mouths treats very softly and walks wonderfully on leash, and though not clamoring for snuggles, she accepts all handling with a quiet, gentle grace. Lovable with a capital L, Storm deserves only the best for the rest of her long, happy life and we're all hoping that she finds it soon in the arms of a new forever family. STORM@MANHATTAN ACC Hello, my name is Storm My animal id is #18507 I am a female gray dog at the Manhattan Animal Care Center The shelter thinks I am about 3 years old, 41 lbs Came in shelter as owner surrender Jan. 17, 2018 Reason Stated: Animal health - will need ongoing vet care Storm is rescue only Storm is at risk due to medical condition. Storm may have possible kidney or renal disease, but further diagnostics will be necessary to determine diagnosis and treatment plan. Storm has been fearful in care center and should go to an experienced pet family. My medical notes are... Weight: 41.4 lbs Vet Notes L V T Notes 17/01/2018 [DVM Intake] DVM Intake Exam Estimated age: 3 Microchip noted on Intake? Microchip Number (If Applicable): History : Owner surrender. Owner indicated a history of weight loss. Also noted that this dog had been "possibly" diagnosed with hyper-thyroidism by another vet in the recent past. Subjective: BAR, Observed Behavior - timid but gentle on PE Evidence of Cruelty seen - n Evidence of Trauma seen - n Objective T = 101.8 P = 100 R = UR BCS = 3.75/9 EENT: Eyes clear, ears clean, no nasal or ocular discharge noted Oral Exam: PLN: No enlargements noted H/L: NSR, NMA, CRT < 2, MM - pink Lungs clear, eupnic ABD: Non painful, no masses palpated U/G: UR MSI: Ambulatory x 4, skin free of parasites, no masses noted, healthy hair coat CNS: Mentation appropriate - no signs of neurologic abnormalities Rectal: Assessment: Poor body condition but apparently healthy Prognosis: Good Plan: Perform CBC/CHEM + T4 SURGERY: Temporary waiver until blood work is complete 17/01/2018 CBC/CHEM S/O - Mild elevation in Creatinine (2.0), Uremic (39), and electrolyte imbalance (Na 167, Cl 124) T4 - NOT HYPOTHYROID A - Acute renal injury, kidney disease, uroliths P - collect urine and conduct urinanalysis and USG 17/01/2018 [Spay/Neuter Waiver - Medical Condition] Your newly adopted pet has been diagnosed with UTI and the staff veterinarians are issuing a temporary waiver from the spay/neuter requirements of the City of NY. Follow up care at your regular veterinarian is recommended to ensure continued treatment. Your veterinarian will advise you if surgical sterilization is appropriate. 18/01/2018 Hx: owner surrender with history of being underweight; owner reported that she was diagnosed with "hypothyroidism" and has history of being underweight; blood work on intake revealed mild azotemia (crea 2.0, BUN 39) but T4 was normal S/O -QAR, docile, allows all handling -mm pk, tacky; CRT <2 sec -no nasal discharge or sneezing -eupnic, heart/lungs WNL -soft abdomen, no palpable abnormalities; bladder too small to palpate. A 1. Azotemia, r/o pyelonephritis vs dehydration from other systemic illness vs leptospirosis vs chronic renal disease 2. Underweight P -place IVC, start normosol at 60 ml/hr -clavamox 375 mg PO BID x 14 days -recommend recheck renal values in 2 weeks after clavamox is completed; if still persistent, then recommend further work up including urine culture, rickettsial panel +/- abdominal ultrasound 18/01/2018 2 view abdominal radiographs available for review: no radioopaque urinary stones noted, ingesta in stomach, soft/normal fecal material in colon; unable to visualize bladder but was too small to palpate prior to xray; there is decreased detail in the area of the bladder A 1. Decreased detail in area of bladder-r/o secondary to underweight vs inflammation vs focal ascites? P -abdominocentesis negative 19/01/2018 Hx: owner surrender with history of being underweight; owner reported that she was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and has history of being underweight; blood work on intake revealed mild azotemia (crea 2.0, BUN 39) but T4 was normal IVF and Clavamox started yesterday. Eating well overnight. Normal eliminations reported S/O -QAR, docile. Nervous but allows full exam -mm pk, moist; CRT <2 sec -no nasal discharge or sneezing -eupnic, heart/lungs WNL -soft abdomen, no palpable abnormalities; bladder too small to palpate BCS 3/9, MCS 2/3 A 1. Azotemia, r/o pyelonephritis vs dehydration from other systemic illness vs leptospirosis vs chronic renal disease 2. Underweight P cw Normosol at 60 ml/hr cw clavamox 375 mg PO BID x 14 days consider tapering fluids on 1/20 or 1/21 for full 48-72 hour IVF diuresis Details on my behavior are... Behavior Condition: 2. Blue Behavior History Behavior Assessment Upon intake, Storm walked away when I approached her to scan for a microchip. Storm would also back away when I tried to place a leash on her. Storm allowed me to collar her and pet her on the head. After her owner left, and once she was by my side for a few minutes, she allowed me to pet her and carry her into her kennel. Date of Intake: 1/17/2018 Basic Information:: Storm is a 3 year old female gray and white medium mixed breed dog. Storm lived with previous owner for about 1 year. Storm was surrendered because she has ongoing medical concerns that her owner could no longer take care of. Storm has no injuries but may have hyperthyroidism. Previously lived with:: Storm previously lived with 2 adults and 2 children. How is this dog around strangers?: Storm is shy around strangers but will warm up after a few minutes. Storm will allow strangers to approach her and pet her. How is this dog around children?: Storm previously lived with two children aged 3 and 6. Storm is described as being friendly, affectionate and will allow pets. Client noted that Storm's behavior with his children changed in the past month possibly due to her medical condition. Client noted that Storm would snap at his children when they tried to pet her. How is this dog around other dogs?: Storm has interacted with small and large dogs and both male and female dogs. Storm is described as being playful, respectful and tolerant of the other dogs. How is this dog around cats?: Storm has previously interacted with a cat. Storm will sniff the cat but is described as being uninterested and will walk away. Resource guarding:: Storm is not bothered when her food or bowl is touched while she is eating. Storm is also not bothered when a bone, treat or object is taken away from her. Bite history:: Storm has once bitten a family member before. The previous owner noted that this happened about a year ago when he first received Storm. Storm was very shy and growled at the person who was trying to pet her. The person did ignored her growl and tried to pet her anyways and she bit him breaking skin and drawing some blood. Housetrained:: Partially Energy level/descriptors:: Storm has a medium energy level Other Notes:: Storm has never been pushed or pulled off of furniture, been held or restrained, or been bathed. Storm is has only had her nails trimmed at the groomers. Storm is not bothered when an unfamiliar approaches her and her owner. Has this dog ever had any medical issues?: Yes Medical Notes: Storm's previous owner stated she was diagnosed with hypothyroidism in August of 2017/ For a New Family to Know: Storm is a friendly, mellow, and independent dog. When at home, Storm will follow you around an likes to be in the same room as you. Storm likes squeaky toys but is known to destroy them all. Storm was kept as an indoors only dog and was fed a raw diet once a day. Storm was being fed around two pounds of raw food a day. Storm is mostly house-trained. Storm will go outside to potty but a few times a week will urinate inside the house. When left alone, Storm is well behaved and can be left inside of her crate for about 3 hours. For exercise, Storm is taken out for slow walks on the leash about 3 times a day. When off leash, Storm will stay close by your side. Date of intake:: 1/17/2018 Spay/Neuter status:: No Means of surrender (length of time in previous home):: Owner Surrender (In home for 1 year) Previously lived with:: Adults and children (ages 3 and 6) Behavior toward strangers:: Shy at first then warms up. Allows strangers to pet her. Behavior toward children:: Was friendly and affectionate but has recently began to snap when the pet her Behavior toward dogs:: Playful, respectful, and tolerant Behavior toward cats:: Uninterested in them Resource guarding:: None reported Bite history:: Yes, about a year ago a family member reached to pet Storm and she growled. He continued to reach to pet her and she bit his hand, breaking skin Housetrained:: Partially Energy level/descriptors:: Storm is described as friendly, mellow, and independent with a medium level of activity. Summary:: Storm has not yet received a handling assessment due to brief length of stay. While wanting to give adequate time for her to acclimate to the shelter environment before the assessment, her medical condition is pressing and we need to expedite her leaving the shelter for further medical evaluation. This comment is being made to indicate that the lack of SAFER assessment is not due to an inability to handle but rather due to the urgency of addressing the medical condition. Storm has allowed some handling with a slow approach in the care center. Summary (1):: 1/18: When introduced to the male greeter dog on leash, Storm appears overall fearful in the environment and turns away from approach. Date of intake:: 1/17/2018 Summary:: At first, Storm backed away from the counselor. After a little bit, she allowed handling. Date of initial:: 1/17/2018 Summary:: Storm was timid but allowed handling. BEHAVIOR DETERMINATION:: NEW HOPE ONLY Behavior Asilomar: TM - Treatable-Manageable Recommendations:: No children (under 13),Place with a New Hope partner Recommendations comments:: No children: Storm is reported to snap at the children in the home when they tried to pet her. In order to keep children safe and respect Storm's comfort level, we are recommending an adult-only home. Place with a New Hope partner: Due to Storm's bite history and willingness to escalate in situations in which she is uncomfortable, we recommend placement with a New Hope partner who can provide behavior modification before placement into a permanent home. We recommend only force-free, reward-based training for Storm; more aversive methods are likely to increase fear and increase the risk of future aggression. Potential challenges: : Fearful/potential for defensive aggression Potential challenges comments:: Storm has been timid in new situations in the care center, which matches reports from her previous home. Storm's bite history indicates that when uncomfortable she may escalate to a bite. STORM IS RESCUE ONLY…..TO SAVE THIS PUP YOU MUST FILL OUT APPLICATIONS WITH AT LEAST 3 NEW HOPE RESCUES. PLEASE HURRY!!! IF YOU CAN FOSTER OR ADOPT THIS PUP, PLEASE PM OUR PAGE FOR ASSISTANCE. WE CAN PROVIDE YOU WITH LINKS TO APPLICATIONS WITH NEW HOPE RESCUES WHO ARE CURRENTLY PULLING FROM THE NYC ACC. PLEASE SHARE THIS DOG FOR A HOME TO SAVE HER LIFE.

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Gene Simmons recipes about a brand new songs festivity in Grand Forks, B.C., and also his deeper affection of catsup|CBC Headlines

When you consider the small southern Inner parts B.C. urban area of Grand Forks, Gene Simmons is actually most likely certainly not the very first person that happens to mind.

That might transform since the Kiss performer as well as bassist is releasing a rock-and-roll event, Titans of Stone, there this summer season along with Canadian developer Chuck Varabioff.The brand new festival operating Aug. 6 to 8 will definitely change CannaFest, a popular music celebration Varabioff made use of to include the area every year, which has showcased simulate the Beach Boys, Bret Michaels, Vince Neal and also Affordable Technique. Simmons met Varabioff when he did

with The Genetics Simmons Band at CannaFest in 2018, and also they reached work intending Titans of Stone together. The lineup won't be announced for yet another handful of times, yet the Smooch rocker claimed they're expecting 40,000 people to go to the three-day celebration, which he is actually prepared to hold.

Simmons called range Sarah Penton Thursday mid-day to chat about Grand Forks, the festival as well as a number of his "peculiar" eating routines.

There are actually any kind of lot of locations throughout North The United States you can possess released this festivity. Inform me a little bit of bit much more regarding why Grand Forks?

About a year as well as an one-half ago, Smooch took some opportunity off and I failed to would like to cease playing, so I come up with [The Genetics Simmons Band] and our team messed around. And I happened to play there certainly, our team headlined on some of the days. I possessed such a terrific time, more precisely Chuck and also I linked.

What do you assume it'll feel like having a festival of the measurements in a location like Grand Forks?

It is actually a much better place than Woodstock was, that remains in the backyard of a farmer who allowed his pigs take poops in the industry. Straight? Woodstock was nowhere. You couldn't get certainly there. It was actually a one-lane motorway, half a thousand individuals turned up. I as if the mayor, as well as the neighborhood folks, and also since the folks at Grand Forks are actually creating it financially possible our experts may do the celebration for money on the buck than it will an ordinary celebration. So you do not need to, as they point out, acquire gouged due to the rates or even the cost of meals or accommodations or even just about anything, but clearly first-come, first-served.

This is actually heading to be actually taking place throughout a rest from the Kiss excursion and also this is actually a huge, lengthy excursion. Just how arrive you don't take additional pause to sit by the swimming pool or walk in attribute?

That is actually for loss. Champions as well as leaders of field, if you have actually received the DNA in your heart, if you're an A-type character, you don't prefer to sit still. You're simply standing by to pass away. Doctors will certainly tell you, regardless of whether you are actually sitting all around by the pool acquire up off your idle butt and pump that center. On the days when your heart's not pushing you are actually refraining from doing on your own significantly good.

Are you performing it since you like it, due to the fact that you feel you should, or both?

Effectively, both. I am actually a quite blessed fella. I have actually received as they state, the lifestyle of Riley, I don't need to carry out anything. Therefore what? Stand up. Carry out philanthropy. Go range that hill. Generate projects as well as perform things, especially if you don't need to. You recognize, I do not have a problem going to sleep given that my cardiovascular system always keeps pumping and afterwards at evening I'm tired. Can not stand by to go to rest.

Anybody else placed ice in their cereal? > pic.twitter.com/lfvZr5lBjk

—I need to ask you concerning the ice cubes and also>&grain

. The length of time have you been carrying out that for? I had not been birthed in The United States, I stemmed from Israel and also when I concerned The United States as a child of eight-and-a-half years of age, I never ever possessed grain and also I loved it, but the milk just never ever got cold enough. Consequently because I never ever savored ketchup until I was actually eight-and-a-half or nine years old, I am actually additionally peculiar regarding catsup I am actually told, yet I understand what I as if. Why are you uncommon regarding ketchup? Well, I have tuna sandwiches and placed catsup on that. When I first involved United States I made use of to

have catsup club sandwiches. Our company made use of to possess Miracle Bread, which was only mushy, type of closer to birthday cake than bread, and I just put catsup and salt as well as I would certainly eat that. I will have scurried eggs with catsup on it. I place ketchup on every little thing. And when I went off on my very own, and was actually hunting about simply to foot the bill and also every thing, I utilized to possess-- prepare yourself for this-- ketchup soup. I assumed I was actually the just one that did that, yet my Newfie better half claimed she performed specifically the same trait. This meeting has actually been revised for span as well as clarity.

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Jane’s World: Joni Mitchell’s The Hissing of Summer Lawns

Hi. It’s JF.

Jane is on vacation. She planned a quick blogpost about Joni Michell’s 1975 album, The Hissing of Summer Lawns. This is how it started:

“It’s still summer, and I have p-t-o to burn. So I’m going to post a quick thing about a seasonally-titled record with which I’m not super familiar by an artist of whom I’m enamored (big caveat coming), and head out on vacay. A girl needs fresh air with her pal and her pups.

Joni Mitchell is a legend. She’s also a bitch. Which is cool. I’m a bitch. But I’m also something that Joni is not: A proud feminist.

In a 2013 CBC interview with Jian Gomeshi (a real piece of human shit, who got canned in 2014 for sexual assault of his gf, which he conveniently documented on his work phone – call him patient zero of #metoo), Joni distanced herself from the movement. Here’s the exchange, cut and pasted from her archive:

JG: Well, do you feel like – do you feel then, and especially doing this all as a woman too and what you just talked about in terms of the terms of your contract that Neil and others were followed in your footsteps, do you accept that you were a pioneer?

JM: Oh, yeah. Sure. I blazed a lot of trails. Mm-hmm. Self-publishing. A lot.

JG: And a lot of that as a woman but you don’t like to be called a feminist, correct?

JM: I’m not a feminist.

JG: Where’s that line for you?

JM: I don’t want to get a posse against men. I’d rather go toe to toe myself. Work it out.

Hm. Decontextualized, that’s ok. Fight your own fights, sure. She doubled down, though: ‘I’ve got a lot of men friends. Too many amazons in that community. The feminism in this continent isn’t feminine, it’s masculine. Our feminism isn’t feminism, it’s masculinism.’

That’s problematic.”

Agreed. And explaining why was also problematic. That’s the wrong word. It wasn’t problematic; it was time-consuming. Jane and I discussed the post at length. She was passionate and articulate and funny, as always. (She’s LN Executive Editor for a reason.) Her rebuttal of Joni’s statement would have been long, and challenging – bell hooks, difference theory, intersectionality, and other vital theoretical and real life points (like how maybe office fave Joan Didion might not be a feminist, either, so we should reconsider the lobby placement of the near-lifesize pic of her next to the Corvette) that deserve to be discussed. Together, we decided that maybe making her flight, rather than her self-imposed deadline, was more important. And she decided that I should just cover this record like any other. This is a music blog, so focus on the music?

Right on. Let’s talk about summer and grass.

Joni Mitchell was riding high in 1975. Her 1974 album, Court and Spark, was nominated for four Grammys. She won one – Best Arrangement, whatever that means. Court and Spark is one of the best adult (an adjective that wasn’t as pejorative then, as it is now) records of the ’70s. Impeccably produced, for sure. Critically received, for sure. And popularly consumed. Cooler than Seals & Crofts, and more cerebral, but in the same general ballpark. If you were a kid back then, you heard the single “Help Me” regularly on AM radio. And the record is one that your cool aunt and uncle had in their vinyl collection to play on the hi-fi for the grownups smoking crooked cigs during fondue or curry parties, while you and your cousins were screwing around in the back yard and didn’t notice. Court and Spark was/is foreground and background, depending on your situ and mood. It’s aggressively L.A., like the Eagles’ Hotel California, but totally different. (The culture-change from ’74 to ’76 was seismic. I was there, and I could tell.)

Court and Spark laid a foundation for Joni to explore even further her version of proto-adult-contemporary. Some people call her stuff from this period jazzy – mostly because there are jazz instruments backing her, I think. What’s jazziest, though, is her vocals. Her approach is sui generis. Joni’s most famous song, “Big Yellow Taxi” from 1970’s Ladies of the Canyon, follows a traditional verse-chorus-verse pop-rock structure. So do “California” and “A Case of You” from 1971’s all-time classic Blue. Much of her output from the mid-70s, however, is an extended argument against that form.

Take a sorta well-known track like “You Turn Me on I’m a Radio” from 1972’s For the Roses. It’s a vocal riff over a strummy guitar and harmonica background. The melody stays the same, but she refuses to give us anything lyrically to grab and hold. Nothing repeats. She sounds like she’s making shit up in a heady, controlled way. (A compliment, not a slam.) She never scats; her words in her voice are just light as air, and they float like the sound from a sax or a trumpet. The Hissing of Summer Lawns isn’t the culmination of that style (her 1978 album Hejira, featuring bass virtuoso Jaco Pastorius, probably is), but it’s a statement of purpose. As in, you guys liked “Help Me”? Well here’s more of that, only weirder. Light up and sit back. She’s got you.

I’ve grown to love this record. I’ve listened it at least ten times for this post. It’s not as good as Blue or Court and Spark. (On a road trip last weekend, my best friend checked out on THoSL around the middle of what would’ve been side two.) But it’s more interesting, and it’s thematic for our purposes here – whose lawns aren’t hissing for more water in late August? Worth a spin. Key tracks: “In France They Kiss on Main Street,” which is a deeper dive in to the vibe of Court and Spark‘s “Free Man in Paris;” “The Jungle Line,” which samples field recordings of drummers from Burundi; the title track, which oozes cool; and “Harry’s House – Centerpiece,” which is a single-track song-cycle that’s almost indescribable. Anyway, here’s the widget.

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Week 6

++ the stack grows up ++

Don’t mix data and control – v v bad idea, then you have access to everything

AES – advanced encryption standard

The process of selecting a new algorithm was open to the public to allow full analysis and scrutiny. The algorithms were judged based on their ability to

resist attack (most importantly )

their cost – efficient both in terms of computation and memory

their implementation – flexibility, sustainability in hardware and software, simplicity

Rjindael Cipher was chosen

A block cipher used to protect classified information – encryption of electronic data

There are 3 block ciphers each of 128 bits, but with different key lengths – 128, 192, 256 bits

It is a symmetric-key algorithm i.e. the same key is used for encryption and decryption

All of the key lengths are sufficient to protect information up to the “Secret” level (see wk 2 Bell LaPadula) but “Top-Secret” level documents require 192 or 256 bit keys.

Data is storied in an array before being put through a series of rounds consisting of substitution, transposition, mixing of plain text and transformation into cipher text. The number of rounds differs depending the key size.

Substitution table -> shift data rows -> mix columns -> …. -> XOR operation on each column using a different part of the key …

Based on substitution-permutation network

Buffer Overflow Vulns

A buffer overflow is when more data is put into a fixed length buffer than the buffer can handle. The additional data overflows into adjacent memory, overwriting the data stored there. In a buffer overflow attack, the data is intentionally made to overflow into areas where important executable code is stored, where it can be overwritten with malicious code, or altered to change a program’s behaviour.

In C, there is no built-in protection against accessing data outside of certain boundaries, so it is essential to implement boundary checking when dealing with arrays.

Canary -> space deliberately left between buffers which look for actions written into them

DON’T USE gets()

Block Cipher – to secure a msg (encrypt / decrypt)

An algorithm which takes a fixed-length of bits called a block and applies a symmetric key and cryptographic algorithm (rather than applying it to one bit at a time – stream cipher). The previous block is added to the next block so that identical blocks are not encrypted the same. (I think this is not true of all block ciphers but good ones do this - ECB doesn’t that’s why it sucks) An initialisation vector also help prevent identical ciphertexts – they are a randomly generated set of bits, added to the first block and key.

Block Modes – for authentication

An algo that uses a block cipher to provide confidentiality / authenticity. It describes how to repeatedly apply a single-block op to securely transform data greater than the size of a block. They usually require an IV which must be non-repeating. Data greater than a single block is padded to make it a full block size – some modes don’t pad they act more like stream cipher.

ECB – Electronic Codebook: The simplest. Do not use for cryptographic protocol

Each message divided into blocks and encrypted separately -> this means identical plaintext becomes identical ciphertext leaving it vulnerable to pattern searching attacks. It is also susceptible to replay attacks as each block is decrypted the same way

CBC – Cipher Block Chaining

In cipher block chaining each message is XOR-d with the previous block (kind of like Merkle-Damgard ?) This makes it more secure than ECP mode as you cannot decrypt individual blocks – they are all dependent on the previous block. The initialisation vector is unique for every message, it does not have to be secret but keeping it secret probably adds a bit of extra security

CTR (Counter Mode)

CTR mode changes a block cipher into a stream cipher (i.e every bit is encrypted rather than every block). Kestream blocks are generated by encrypting a nonce with a counter ( I think - come back to this )

Moore’s law

Processor speeds will double every 2 years – i.e. the number of transistors on an affordable CPU double. This was a prediction made in 1965 and despite many others predicting this rate would slow, so far it has been pretty accurate

Cold Boot Attacks

A side channel attack used to gain access to the encryption keys of an OS. The attacker needs physical access to the computer to perform a cold reboot to restart the machine. After a computer is switched off there is a small window where the RAM holds onto data. In a cold boot attack, the contents of the RAM can be copied to an external drive in this time.

Attackers can also lower the temperature, giving them more time before the RAM fades due to lack of electricity. The computer must be forcibly turned off so that the processor does not dismount important data. Most modern systems wipe memory early in a boot process to help prevent these attacks. Of course this attack can be stopped entirely by remaining with your computer for a few minutes after it’s switched off, ensuring no one has access to your machine.

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heymambomamboitaliano-blog1 · 5 years ago

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Block Modes:

From Richard: Read up on block modes - ECB, CBC, CTR. These are define ways of joining blocks of data like in Merkel-Damgard.

Block cipher modes: since DES and AES only take 64 and 128 bit size blocks respectively, we use Block Cipher Modes to divide files (greater than 128 bits) into chunks so they can be encrypted.

Electronic Code Block (ECB) - a simple ‘divide a file into blocks of 128 bits and then encrypt them all separately’ method.

why this sucks: since we are encrypting chunks as individual blocks, that are not mixed in with each other, the same block of plaintext repeated in a message will lead to repeated blocks of ciphertext. This is like with vignere when the key repeats and the text and key line up so you can start to do analysis to break the key.

This is why, in the penguin picture, large chunks of the photo with the same colour get encrypted to the same “cypher colour”, since the original colour is repeated.

Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) - fixes the problem with ECB by encrypting 1 block, then including that in the next block’s ‘plaintext’ which is then encrypted as all one chunk and repeated until the final block emerges.

This means every block is a result of all the blocks before it

Unfortunately must be sequential and so is inefficient

Counter Mode (CTR) - generate a random NONCE as well as counter value, then encrypt those 2 things to get a long stream of pseudo-random bits. These random bits are then used in stream-cipher fashion in that they are XOR’d with the plaintext to get the final cipher for that block.

The uniqueness of the counter means that, with diffusion in AES, there is no repetition problem that occurs with ECB

The fact that blocks are calculated separately means this method is able to be done with parallelism and so is faster than CBC.

Solving the activity:

Here’s a demo of some analysis and skills:

- Since CTR acts like a stream, it’s length should respond to the input steam length, hence this is cipher 2 (correct)

- Next, if you keep pressing keys, it takes 16 keys for a new block to occur, so then by writing a 16 key string twice, you should be able to see what gets repeated and hence find the ECB blocks, my string will be:

I have crippling (with no space at the end), which gave me my answers:

So you can see the repetition in ciphers 5 and 1 (highlighted for convenience) so they are ECB while 3 and 4 are not repeated so they are CBC.

HOORAY that was correct!

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Things to do this week in Toronto

What's happening in Toronto April 15-19, 2019

MONDAY, APRIL 15

3rd Monday Nights Free at the Royal Ontario Museum: Bring family and friends to the ROM on the 3rd Monday Night of each month and enjoy free admission from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm.

Education Town Hall with Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath: Discuss the impact of Doug Ford’s education changes. This is a free event and the venue is accessible. Light refreshments will be served.

TechTO April Edition at RBC WaterPark Place: Join the TechTO Community to meet and learn from Toronto’s technology leaders, innovators, and enthusiasts.

Pop Music : Better Now or Better Then? Is music better now or was it better back in the day? We play a new number one hit, then pick a random year out of a hat and play the number one hit from that year and let the audience decide: better now or better then?

Etobicoke Camera Club presents Rob Stimpson: The Challenges (and Rewards) of Travel Photography: professional photographer, Rob Stimpson, will discuss capturing images on the go focussing on the challenges and rewards of travel. Guest fee of $10.00 in effect for non-club members.

Jaymz Bee's Caravan of Music at Old Mill Toronto: Jaymz Bee’s Caravan of Music is a four hour event where you can explore the various rooms at Old Mill Toronto. Experience 20 bands in 10 rooms. Proceeds will support the Unison Benevolent Fund.

Eric Andersen and Scarlet Rivera: Performing at Hugh's Room Live. Doors open at 6 p.m., concert at 7:30 p.m.

'This Is Me' at Fairview Library Theatre: showcases talented artists from Centennial Colleges PAFS before they make their leap into stardom.

TUESDAY, APRIL 16

Humber Docs Film Screening at The Assembly Hall

Humber College School of Media Studies and IT would like to cordially invite you to the annual Humber Docs Screening, showcasing the documentary film work of the Third Year Bachelor of Film and Media Studies Students. Free admission.

ALSO ON TUESDAY

Toronto Lit Up: Alexandra Kimball at The Ossington: Alexandra Kimball is releasing The Seed: How the Feminist Movement Fails Infertile Women and will be celebrating its publication with a Toronto Lit Up book launch.

Canadian Children's Opera Company's Junior Open House: Does your child love music, drama, and theatre? The CCOC is just who they're looking for. Join them to find out what a CCOC music education looks like and learn about our programs for kids aged five and up.

F*ck Sh*t Up: Trans + Non-Binary Cabaret: A night of performances by trans and non-binary artists and performers! Featuring M A N G O S A S S I, Ravyn Wngs, Robbie Ahmed, Ben Agiter and Velvet Earl. Hosted by Babia Majora and Fluffy Soufflé.

Pro-Case Tuesdays at Absolute Comedy Toronto: Event features headliner Tommy Savitt and host Alastair McAlastair, with Joe Vu, Noor Kidwai, Perry Perlmutar, Rhiannon Archer and Sam Feldman.

Kelvin Wetherell at Cafe Mirage: Cafe Mirage Grill and Lounge presents Kelvin Wetherell on Nov 6. The performance runs between 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm in the evenings with a 15 minutes break in between. Cafe Mirage is one of the leading restaurants in Scarborough.

Hot Breath Karaoke at The Handlebar: Ridiculous game show style karaoke, with prizes.

Westway Christian Church Food Bank: The Westway Christian Church Community Food Bank is open for clients to receive food on Tuesday evenings from 5-7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17

Caught in the Net by Ray Cooney

Teens Gavin and Vicki happen to meet surfing the internet. They are attracted to each other and yet are amazed by all the coincidences — each having a father with the same name, same age, and same occupation. Why? Find out in this farce.

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Abnormal Uterine Bleeding – Currae Hospitals

Today, We are going to talk about a very common topic, for which we see the patients in the OPD, that is abnormal uterine bleeding. Now, what is abnormal uterine bleeding? Abnormal uterine bleeding is when there is an abnormality in the duration of the cycle, the menstrual cycle, amount of flow and the cycle length.

To know what is abnormal, you should know what is normal first. So, what is a normal menstrual cycle? There’s a lot of doubts in the people like, you know, when they start, what is the normal menstrual cycle has to be? A normal menstrual cycle lasts somewhere between 4 to 6 days, the cycle length that is the duration of the cycle should be between 21 days to 35 days, and the blood loss should not be more than 30 to 35 cc. Now, when it is abnormal is when the cycle length, the length of the cycle is less than 21 days or above 35 days, if the bleeding is above 80 cc, i.e. more than 80 cc of blood loss, and the duration is more than 7 days. So, this is basically what we call as an abnormal uterine bleeding.

Now, there are a few terms which you must be noticing it when you come to an OPD or when the doctors discuss your case, i.e. dysmenorrhoea. In the day-to-day life, you know, you must be listening to terms like dysmenorrhoea. What is dysmenorrhoea? Dysmenorrhoea is painful menses or painful menstrual cycle, same way, polymenorrhea is when the cycle length is short, i.e., it is you get menses in less than 3 weeks. Menorrhagia is other term which usually we hear is when the flow is more, i.e. more than 80 cc of blood loss or more than 7 days of bleeding. Amenorrhea that means there is no periods at all. And metrorrhagia, i.e. in between periods when you get bleeding, that is these are the common terms which I used.

Now, what are the causes of abnormal uterine bleeding? We always think that now, according to the age, the causes of bleeding have been divided. A young girl, i.e., she is in her puberty can come with menorrhagia. Menorrhagia means heavy flow or abnormal uterine bleeding. Puberty menorrhagia what we call as… so, these girls basically have got a history of early menarche that means they start their periods less than 10 years of age or they have got precocious puberty that is early puberty, so their management is accordingly. The second thing is when it is in the adolescence that means they get their periods at the normal age, mean when they menarche that is around 12 to 14 years of age, but they have heavy periods. Now, why, what are the causes? What we suspect is that either they are anovulatory cycles, i.e., because the hormonal axis is not yet developed, so these girls deal a lot, or the other causes are any coagulation defect. Some girls have got or some families have got genetic history of, you know, bleeding dyscrasias, so these patients have to be treated accordingly.

The other age group is again the reproductive age group. So, in reproductive age group, they can be abnormal uterine bleeding as a cause of complication of pregnancy, like either abortions or ectopic or other conditions like either fibroids or adenomyosis, polyp, and dysfunctional uterine bleeding, i.e., an abnormal hormonal cycle.

In perimenopausal age group that means around 40 to 60 years of age, again, the patient presents to us with abnormal uterine bleeding. So, in these patients, what we suspect is, first of all, a dysfunctional uterine bleeding, i.e., hormonal imbalance or endometrial hyperplasia that means the endometrium formation is more. Other conditions like either fibroid or adenomyosis, polyps, and even carcinoma to that matter.

In postmenopausal ladies, again once the menses are stopped, we are not supposed to bleed. At least when we label the patient as menopause that means 1 year there is no period and then again she starts bleeding that is a matter to be worried about. These patients have to be definitely assessed with regards to their endometrial hyperplasia, carcinoma, polyp, so and dysfunctional uterine bleeding.

And last but not the least, is iatrogenic that means some factor which is causing problem introduced by yourself. For example, if you have Copper T or an intrauterine device which can cause an abnormal uterine bleeding. For example, now the festive season is coming up, so most of the ladies come to our OPD, we want to postpone our periods, so some medicines that is oral and injectable steroids; or inbuilt medications like psychotropic drugs or patients who are already on medications, they also can present with abnormal uterine bleeding.

Now, what is the commonest cause of abnormal uterine bleeding, that is DUB, dysfunctional uterine bleeding. Now, what is the DUB? DUB is a bleeding condition when there is no organic pathology involved. Organic pathology, as in there is no fibroid, polyp, or any other inbuilt cause which is involved. There is just a hormonal imbalance. There is no iatrogenic factors like any Copper T or any medicines, which are on, or any other, other hormonal problems like thyroid, you know pituitary causes and all that. So, commonest causes are hormonal imbalance that is DUB. Now, in DUB, in 90% of the patients, it is either anovulatory cycle that is where the oestrogen which is the hormone, which supports the whole menstrual cycle, is produced in excess and there is no progesterone support to it. In such patients what happens, the patient starts bleeding and she continues to bleed because there is no support of progesterone which is there. And the other 10% have got ovulatory cycles, where they have excess of progesterone, where the progesterone is irregularly supplied in their body and that causes irregular bleeding or excessive bleeding because of irregular shedding of the endometrium.

The other causes are thyroid disorders, which is again one of the causes for abnormal uterine bleeding where the patient does not even realize whether the patient has thyroid or not, unless a blood test is done. When the patient comes to our OPD that is the first time when a thyroid has been sent and it comes to a very high level. Only correcting the thyroid can make her periods normal. So, that is thyroid or pituitary conditions.

Secondly, the most most most common is PCOD. Nowadays, 20% of our OPD patients come with complaints of PCOD. They usually present with complaints of amenorrhea that is no periods at all for 3 to 4 months, but once they start bleeding, they bleed a lot. They bleed for 15 days, 20 days continuously at stretch, which is not good. Now, PCOD that is polycystic ovarian disease is a condition where there is a hormonal imbalance in the patient and these patients have anovulatory cycles. So, these patients usually present with the symptoms of obesity that is excessive weight, more than the BMI. They have features of acne, hirsutism, and irregular cycles. Obesity, one more major factor for periods becoming irregular and with heavy bleeding in between, like they have amenorrhea of 3 to 4 months and then they again present with… when they start bleeding, they bleed, profusely they bleed. So, obesity also has to be controlled. I will be talking about the management later.

Now, when the patient comes to the OPD, first of all, we have to do an examination, a general examination, which includes weight, as I said, obesity is one of the factors for heavy periods. We have to check her BMI. What is her BMI? If she is in the high BMI then accordingly lifestyle modification has to be advised. Similarly patients with PCOD, when they come, they have to be counselled about weight loss, about lifestyle modifications, about maintaining a healthy lifestyle, losing weight. Acne, hirsutism is for cosmetic reasons, but for the Gynaec point of view, we have to monitor their weight.

Other features like thyroid problem or any other blood tests, blood tests have to be sent, of the patient. Haemogram , to know their basic CBC that is the basic haemoglobin of the patient. A proper history is the most important thing. When the patient comes to our OPD, they have got a very vague complaint, that I bleed every month but I bleed for a longer period of time. Now, the history what the patient presents is very subjective. For a patient, bleeding for 2 days, maybe she is bleeding for 2 days but maybe she is using maybe 8 to 10 pads in a day. When I take the history of the patient, I just don’t go by the days of bleeding because we Indians have usually take it for granted that it’s good to bleed. No, it is not good to bleed. We don’t have to have a heavy flow or passage of clots because that invariably makes us anaemic. So, when a patient comes in the OPD with saying 2 days of bleeding, I have to definitely ask her about the amount of pad she is using every day, how much is the bleeding, how many pads does she use, does she pass clots or not, how many days does she bleed. So that gives me a basic idea about how much is the blood loss of the patient. The external feature of the patient, she might be looking pale, she might be white as, you know, she must be just pale, too pale, but she says that no, that much, that is a regular menstrual cycle. So, a Haemogram that is a CBC tells me about how much is the blood loss that she is having.

Similarly, with the sonography, sonography usually tells me… after examination, history, investigations; after the CBC, a thyroid profile; in young girls of PCOD, maybe a hormonal profile, and a prolactin level, and a sonography. A sonography tells me about her inbuilt pathology, if any, like a fibroid or a polyp or any other adenomyosis, which is the cause of bleeding. See, if the cause is known, the treatment of the cause is most important.

Similarly, after sonography, there are other procedures like hysteroscopy. Once the cause is detected like a polyp or a fibroid. A hysteroscopy can be both, it can be either a diagnostic hysteroscopy where a scope is introduced through the vagina into the uterine cavity and we have a generalized look, whether there is a polyp involved or any adenomyosis and a submucous fibroid which is causing a bleeding. Similarly, if the cause is ruled out that is there is no clinical cause then we can treat her only with hormonal medicines. At the same time, hysteroscopy also helps us to treat the cause. For example, when we do a hysteroscopy, there is a polyp which is there, we can immediately remove it. If there is a fibroid, we can immediately remove it and send it for testing.

Other things are endometrial biopsy. Whenever we take a patient for hysteroscopy, it is always associated with a hysteroscopy-guided endometrial biopsy because in patients who are perimenopausal or who are postmenopausal, a biopsy always is sent for histopathological examination and it gives us the result whether there is a carcinoma or just a hyperplasia. So our line of management changes accordingly.

Now, if there is some other pathology which is involved, the treatment options I will be going ahead with, first of all, just general haematinic which are given to increase the haemoglobin of the patient because a pale patient or a patient who has bled a lot generally has complains of weakness or you know loss of interest in doing daily activities. So, these patients definitely have to be prescribed with haematinics. A patient with PCOD has to be explained about lifestyle management. Whatever the patient comes, we have to treat what is bothering her more. Most of the patients, when they come, they are not worried about their period, how much is the flow of the period, they are just wanting that it just becomes regular [ki bus regular ho jaye]. They have to be treated according to what is their requirement at that time. If she is a young girl, she is in her puberty and she is bleeding a lot, so right now, the concern for the parents is to control the bleeding. Once all the tests are done and there is no problem, we have to treat her. If she has a coagulating disorder then we have to treat her accordingly. Same thing is with adolescent girls, if she is bleeding continuously, we just can’t leave her like that, we will have to support her with progesterone. So, the hormonal management comes into play where we put her on hormones and we have to control, at the same time, give her something to build up her haemoglobin, so that because these are young girls, they are growing girls.

Same way, in a patient who are in the reproductive age group, if she has complaints of bleeding, first of all, rule out the cause like any iatrogenic cause like a Copper T or a medicine what she has taken, for example, an I-Pill or any other hormonal medicines to postpone the periods, so that has to be removed, regularize her cycle. If she is in the reproductive age group, not wanting for a pregnancy but wanting regular cycles, we can even put her on hormonal medicines that is oestrogen-progesterone combination all birth control pills. Same way, if the patient is bleeding continuously that is an anovulatory cycle where there is a constant oestrogen supply which is there, we have to support it with progesterones. Now, progesterones can either be given in a continuous manner or in a cyclical manner.

If a patient in a postmenopausal age group comes with complaints, we do an endometrial biopsy, there is only hyperplasia, we can wait or advice for a hysterectomy. Same way, we rule out any carcinoma because if there is any carcinoma then the line of management is an extensive surgery. If a patient comes with complaints of fibroid or polyp or adenomyosis on a sonography then the fibroid has to be removed, now that we can do it either laparoscopically or hysteroscopically, which has got a very good patient compliance and much faster recovery.

If the patient is a young girl, family complete, but still she is bleeding, we cannot do a hysterectomy for this patient. So, in such patients, we advise them for progesterone intrauterine device that is Mirena or levonorgestrel IUCD, which gives continuous release of progesterone and that regularizes your cycle. So just an intrauterine device, a progesterone supportive intrauterine device which can be inserted and the bleeding can be controlled, that will give a dual protection, she will have contraceptive help also as well as her uterus is conserved.

If she is in the elderly age group, if the patient is about 45-50 and the family is complete, she is bleeding. On the endometrial biopsy, there is only hyperplasia and she is not wanting to keep her uterus then in such patients, we advise them for a hysterectomy, which can be done again either laparoscopically or an open hysterectomy.

So, whenever we treat a patient, it has to be what the patient wants, it has to be depending upon what is the cause which is causing the abnormal uterine bleeding. If there is just hormonal imbalance, just supporting her in that time or just regularizing her cycles with maybe 1 or 2 cycles of hormones can make her bleeding regular. If there is a thyroid problem, treat her with the thyroid medicines; she does not need any hormones, only correcting the thyroid can make her periods regular. At the same time, if the cause is removed, like a fibroid, polyp or adenomyosis. So, you always treat a patient what she wants, whether it all depends upon what is her lifestyle, what is her reproductive… whether she is in the reproductive age group, what is her family, what does she want.

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According to CAAM, it was up 8% year on year.

One problem with Chinese batteries is chemical reaction.

LG and Samsung are producing lithium nickel manganese cobalt (Li1-x(NiMnCo)O2)(NMC)

As mentioned earlier, most Chinese battery manufacturers use lithium phosphate (Li1-xFePO4)(LFP)chemistry.

China has locked in the supply of raw materials for cobalt and lithium. Tesla\'s NCA and LG and Samsung\'s NMC batteries use cobalt in chemistry.

Most of China\'s production is ore and partially refined cobalt imported from Congo (Kinshasa).

China\'s supply has also benefited from domestic inventories of cobalt materials.

China is the world\'s largest consumer of cobalt, and the battery industry accounts for nearly 75% of its consumption. Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (NYSE:FCX)

On May 9, 2016, the company announced that it had reached a final agreement to sell its interest in TF Holdings Limited to China Molybdenum. , Ltd. (CMOC)for $2. 65 billion.

In addition, FCX agreed to negotiate exclusively with CMOC to reach a final agreement to sell its interest in cobalt in Freeport, including the Kokkola Cobalt Refinery in Finland, for $100 million, kisanfu exploration project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is $50 million.

The purchase of Tenke mines illustrates how Chinese companies now dominate the field of battery materials, as they do with solar and rare earths.

If Tenco is acquired, Chinese companies will account for more than 60% of global refined cobalt production.

The price of the original cobalt is the main component of the Tesla/Panasonic NCA battery, and the current price is $26. 26 per kg.

The weight of the cell is 318 kg.

In compounds, the weight of Co accounts for 32% of the chemical measurement of the compound.

That means $3.

30/Wh is only for Co Cost of cathode.

However, the Co content of some ingredients is only 10%, which makes the price drop to $1. 00/Wh for Co.

With Chinese battery manufacturers from LFP (

I will discuss the reason in the article later)

For NCM without cobalt, we can expect the price of cobalt to rise.

In terms of lithium, sales of electric vehicles in China were higher than expected, causing lithium prices to triple between 2H15 and 2H16, although prices have slowed since then.

At present, China\'s lithium mainly comes from the Changtang plain in western Tibet.

The U. S. Geological Survey has set the country\'s lithium reserves at 3,500,000 tons.

China is taking action to expand the supply of lithium, just like cobalt.

China\'s Tianqi Lithium industry will build a $0. 306 billion factory in Australia, which is scheduled to open by the end of 2018 to expand its hydrogen oxide production for electric vehicles.

The green bush mine is operated by Talison Lithium, co-owned by Tianqi and lithium producer Albemarle, which accounted for more than 35% of global supply last year.

In 2012, Apocalypse defeated Rockwood Holdings, which controls Talison Lithium, which owns Australia\'s green bush mine.

However, it subsequently sold 49-

The company\'s percentage of interest on Rockwood now owned by Albemarle.

Like Apocalypse, Ganfeng is also buying lithium companies outside of China. It owns a 14. 7-

The shareholding ratio of junior lithium company International Lithium industry.

Ganfeng Lithium Industry Co. , Ltd.

Has agreed to purchase 100% of lithium from-

However, in the \"Marion Mountain Project\" in Western Australia, new metal resources have not yet been developed.

According to the new metals news, the annual output of Mount Marion will reach 5,500 tons, exceeding China\'s output (5,000 tonnes)

All the time in 2014In mid-

2016, Champlain Mineral received a large sample order from an unnamed Chinese mining company.

According to CBC News, the Asian company ordered 10,000 tons of lithium, equivalent to 340 containers, and the company expects to be able to ship by the end of October.

Chile has a large reserve of natural resources, and Chile\'s Quimica y Minera (ADR)(NYSE:SQM)

There is a large amount of foreign exchange reserves in northern Chile.

A Chinese company in CITIC Lyon Securities capital market has said it is interested in buying a 88% stake in Papa calihella, which holds a 20% stake in SQM.

China will have twice as much lithium as China.

As of 2020, the production capacity of ion batteries was the United States.

Nearly 70% of the world\'s demand for raw materials comes from China, the world\'s leading producer of lithium.

Ion battery manufacturers continue to expand capacity with the goal of becoming the lowest battery manufacturer in the worldcost producer.

The Chinese electric vehicle battery company originally used LFP chemistry, but is now changing to NCM.

Five of the top 10 are the best.

The electric passenger car models sold in China are NCM models. market.

Lee Shin, CATL, Day, Lee myung-bak has shipped NCM electric car batteries. Guoxuan Hi-

Technology and BYD will soon have them.

NCM battery in China is expected to be 1-

In terms of energy density, consistency, production automation and cost, Korean and Japanese products are 2 years behind.

Overall, compared with its Korean/Japanese counterparts, China Electric Vehicle Battery companies are not competitive in the international market.

Electric vehicle companies are making significant investments in their business: the Chinese government has made great efforts to launch and expand the electric vehicle industry.

Subsidies for electric vehicles are provided by central and local governments, although they may soon be revised.

The central government spent 28 yuan.

According to the State Council, green car subsidies were 4bn from 2013 to 2015, during which local governments spent 20bn.

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Innovation is highly emphasized in the annual plan, but the slowdown in China\'s economic growth has led to weaker efforts.

Both LG Chem and Samsung SDI have set up factories in China to produce NCM-based batteries.

It is believed that the South Korean government has decided that Korean companies may threaten Chinese companies by supplying batteries at half the price of Chinese products.

It is suspected that the Chinese government may be interested in excluding major battery manufacturers in South Korea and Japan, giving Chinese companies more time to catch up with their advanced rivals.

China\'s battery makers are still using outdated LFP chemistry, lagging behind in the new NCM chemistry and now have no threat to Korean and Japanese battery manufacturers.

But efforts to create more advanced technology batteries will soon make them better than non-batteries

China\'s competitors are based on how the Chinese dominate the highTechnology industry.

They did that in solar, and now they make technology-enhanced, efficient solar panels that dominate the industry as a whole.

In addition, China\'s efforts to lock

In the supply of raw materials, that is, cobalt and lithium, it will also affect the non-

Future Chinese battery manufacturers.

They do so in the rare earth industry, limiting opportunities in the non-rare earth industry

Rare earth manufacturers in China compete because their products are limited and the Chinese have raised their prices.

Over the next few years, I expect Chinese manufacturers to provide better electric vehicle batteries than their competitors, while their strategy with the Chinese government will hinder the development of non-electric vehicles.

Electric vehicle battery manufacturers in China

TSLA then needs to make some significant decisions about models outside of Model 3.

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