In August 2015, Kudrow performed "Smelly Cat" live with singer Taylor Swift at the Staples Center during the final North American legs of her 1989 World Tour.

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# The one where Taylor Swift sings 'Smelly Cat' with 'Friends' alum Lisa Kudrow

Taylor Swift, seen here performing during the 1989 World Tour at Staples Center on Aug. 26, 2015, teamed up with "Friends" alum Lisa Kudrow to sing "Smelly Cat."

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It was the powerhouse duet that made us feel all the feels.

Taylor Swift ended her historic, celebrity-filled run at the Staples Center on Wednesday night with appearances by her bestie, Selena Gomez, and longtime "musical crush" Justin Timberlake.

But when coffeehouse pop star Phoebe Buffay (a.k.a. actress Lisa Kudrow) took the stage during the 1989 World Tour to sing "Smelly Cat" alongside Swift, it had us saying: could this BE any more awesome?

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And, sure, we're usually of the mindset that classics shouldn't be tampered with, but this might be the exception.

Hearing Kudrow school Swift — both with guitars — on how to sing the iconic earworm from "Friends" might've trumped the over-produced music video Phoebe is strong-armed into making in "The One Where Eddie Moves In" from Season 2.

"You'll get it; you'll get there," Kudrow says to Swift, channeling her Phoebe persona.

Kudrow was the second "Friends" cast member to appear onstage this week during Swift's set of shows in Los Angeles.

Matt "Joey Tribbiani" LeBlanc was on the guest list of her Aug. 22 show — though, he didn't sing.

That Swift would team up with Kudrow makes perfect sense.

Swift has shown that her love for cats has intersected with TV before — she has two that she's famously named after some of TV's popular heroines, Olivia Benson ("Law & Order: SVU") and Meredith Grey ("Grey's Anatomy").

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# Taylor Swift sang 'Smelly Cat' with Lisa Kudrow from Friends

Lisa Kudrow performs Smelly Cat on stage with Taylor Swift

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Out of all of Taylor Swift's show surprises, this is maybe the sweetest.

It seems that you're not a celebrity in 2015 if Swift hasn't invited you to come out on stage during her 1989 tour.

She's been joined by stars from all areas of showbiz, including Fetty Wap, Julia Roberts, Selena Gomez, Lena Dunham, Jason Derulo, the US Women's Soccer team, Cara Delevingne and Alanis Morissette.

The star also broke hearts when she dedicated a song to a four-year-old who died of cancer.

The mother was in the audience to hear the moving tribute.

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However, she sent fans into a state of near apoplexy when, during her fifth show at the Staples Center, she invited Lisa Kudrow on stage with her to sing a rendition of Smelly Cat, the song made famous by Kudrow's character Phoebe Buffay on Friends.

Back in Friends' heyday, Phoebe was the one known for playing her signature song with famous guest stars, performing it with both The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde and Chris Isaac when they appeared on the programme.

Kudrow isn't the first Friends star to appear on stage with Swift during this tour.

On Saturday, Matt Le Blanc also made an appearance along with Chris Rock and Mary J Blige.

She also wasn't the only famous face to appear on stage for Swift's final LA show.

Swift performed Mirrors with Justin Timberlake and Good For You with her best friend Selena Gomez.

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"Hello!" joked that "hitting the right notes wasn't really a concern [for the actresses] if they wanted the performance to reflect Lisa's character's dubious musical talents", while Inquisitr's Asher Bayot reviewed the duet as awkward. The performance remained Kudrow's only documented post-"Friends" "Smelly Cat" performance for several years.
 In 2014, singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat sang an a capella version of "Smelly Cat" live at a Central Perk-themed pop-up café in Manhattan, New York, which had been launched to commemorate the show's 20th anniversary. Caillat's unscheduled performanced surprised many fans in attendance, who she encouraged to sing along. Despite praising Caillat's rendition as "awesome" for "fulfill[ing] every "Friends" fanatic's fantasy", "Bustle"'s Aly Semigran criticized her for performing only half of the song. However, she believes her rendition should lead to a Phoebe tribute album, on which she should reprise "Smelly Cat". At the same pop-up, actor James Michael Tyler, who portrayed Central Perk barista Gunther, performed the first verse of the song with band The Rembrandts, who originally recorded "I'll Be There for You". Brent Furdyk of "Entertainment Tonight Canada" described the Tyler-Rembrandts rendition as "Jim Morrison-esque". A box of "Smelly Cat" kitty litter from the episode "The One with Phoebe's Ex-Partner" was displayed as part of the pop-up's exhibit.


Four of the five justices in the majority voted to do so by way of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, while the fifth justice, Clarence Thomas, voted to do so through the amendment's Privileges or Immunities Clause.

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## Analysis: state gun regulations and McDonaldThe practical effect of incorporation

Matthew Scarola | Monday, June 28th, 2010 10:24 pm

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Today's opinion in McDonald v. City of Chicago means that for the first time, state and local governments' gun regulations must comport with the Second Amendment's protection of the right "to keep and bear Arms."

Although many state constitutions have a gun rights provision, McDonald has the potential to radically reshape non-federal firearms legislation.

In this post, we discuss McDonald's likely effect on some of the most significant pieces of non-federal firearms legislation.

The description of existing firearms laws is drawn primarily from a 2008 report published by the Legal Community Against Violence (LCAV), which has a summary of firearms laws on its website.

While most state constitutions protect a right to keep and bear arms, state courts almost always deem state gun regulations "reasonable" and uphold them on that basis.

In McDonald, the plurality stressed that its holding will not end "'experimentation with reasonable firearms regulations.'"

But it left undisturbed the Court's strong suggestion in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the D.C. guns case, that a more demanding test is appropriate.

In McDonald, as in Heller, however, the Court declined to articulate the standard under which firearms regulations should be evaluated.

When discussing whether the Second Amendment applies to the States, the plurality explained that the right guaranteed by the Amendment is "fundamental from an American perspective."

That statement does not necessitate use of the Court's most restrictive test, strict scrutiny.

As Justice Stevens lamented, "today's decision . . . could mire the federal courts in fine-grained determinations about which state and local regulations comport with the Heller right . . . under a standard of review we have not even established."

Since Heller, some courts grappling with which standard to apply to laws that affect the Second Amendment have settled on "intermediate scrutiny."

Rather than simply asking whether a firearms law is "reasonable," courts using that test ask whether a law is "substantially related to an important government interest."

This standard, perhaps more so than strict scrutiny, is consistent with the plurality's reiteration in McDonald that the Second Amendment does not interfere with certain "longstanding regulatory measures," such as prohibitions on bringing guns into schools.

this – or any other – standard for review.

In the face of this uncertainty, lower courts are exceptionally likely to latch onto three, relatively concrete pieces of Second Amendment jurisprudence.

First, the Second Amendment does not afford an unlimited right to weapons ownership.

The Court explained in Heller that the Amendment's protection of the right "to keep and carry arms" is limited to weapons "in common use."

"[D]angerous and unusual" weapons "—M-16 rifles and the like—may be banned."

While the Court did not explain how to evaluate a regulation that restricts access to a weapon protected by the Second Amendment, if a weapon is not protected, a court need not select a level of scrutiny under which to evaluate it.

Second, courts will rely heavily on – and extrapolate from – the "presumptively lawful" regulations described by the Court in Heller.

Each of those presumptively permissible regulations is described below.

Third and finally, in the absence of more direct guidance from the Supreme Court, lower courts will likely view as persuasive the decisions of courts that have already applied Heller.

So while the Court did not endorse a standard of review, its failure to specify a standard reserves influence for lower courts that have directly addressed the standard-of-review issue.

LCAV describes assault weapons as "a class of semi-automatic firearms designed with military features to allow rapid and accurate spray firing."

At least some form of assault weapon is banned in California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York.

Minnesota and Virginia regulate, but do not ban, assault weapons.

State courts have upheld bans on assault weapons, generally holding that the gun rights protected by state constitutions were adequately protected by the availability of alternative firearms.

The Court's opinion in Heller, however, rejected the District's argument that handguns may be banned under the Second Amendment "so long as the possession of other firearms . . . is allowed."

There are nonetheless two reasons why narrowly-defined bans on assault weapons are likely to be deemed consistent with the Second Amendment.

First, those weapons may be deemed "dangerous and unusual," and thus outside the Amendment's protective scope.

Second, when the Court rejected the District's argument in Heller, it stressed that "the American people have considered the handgun to be the quintessential self-defense weapon" – language cited by the Court in McDonald.

If true, that statement is a reasonable response to an argument that other weapons are legal: quintessential weapons are, after all, atypically difficult to replace.

The argument has less salience when adequate substitute firearms are readily available.

In Heller, the Court rejected the District's functionally complete ban on "handgun possession in the home."

In McDonald, the Court directed a lower court to apply Heller's protections to the non-federal laws at issue, and required that every state and local law comply with those protections.

But some ban particular types of handguns, such as so-called "junk guns," which LCAV describes as "cheap, easily concealed, and more likely to misfire or malfunction than other firearms."

These handgun bans may survive scrutiny – at least less-than-strict scrutiny – even if the Second Amendment inhibits their regulation.

But these bans highlight a line-drawing problem within the Court's Second Amendment jurisprudence, and provide a potential source of future disagreement amongst the lower courts.

In Heller, the Court held that the Second Amendment only protects weapons "typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes."

To determine whether a type of weapon is "typically possessed," a court must first select the level of generality at which it will characterize a weapon.

If a "junk gun" is characterized only as a handgun, it is a type of weapon to which the protections of the Second Amendment extend.

Second Amendment advocates will press that characterization because such prohibitions have the paternalistic feel of measures intended to protect owners rather than the public, and perhaps to limit firearms' possession.

But if it can be defined more narrowly, then its ownership for lawful purposes may be far less typical, and its protected status far more dubious.

Gun control advocates will argue this view, in part because as LCAV notes, such guns are "disproportionately associated with criminal misuse."

Because there is no "correct" level of generality, courts may disagree about whether the Constitution inhibits bans on particular types of handguns.

Because courts will rely heavily on arguments that a type of weapon is not protected by the Second Amendment, this seemingly abstract dilemma may soon pose concrete difficulties for state courts and legislatures.

Child protection (including trigger locks and storage requirements)

In a brief submitted during the McDonald litigation, the City of Chicago and the Village of Oak Park expressed concern that incorporation would prompt a challenge to – and possible defeat of – regulations that protect children.

They noted that "one survey shows 27 States impose criminal or civil liability for improperly storing firearms or allowing children to access or use them," and that "[s]ome require firearms to be secured with a trigger lock, placed in a locked container, or stored in a secure, inaccessible location."

Moreover, they worried, such regulations would be jeopardized by applying Heller to the states, because in Heller, the Court struck down the District's "prohibition against rendering any lawful firearm in the home operable for the purposes of immediate self-defense."

McDonald's application of Heller to the states will not necessarily jeopardize these sorts of regulations.

Heller addressed a prohibition on rendering a firearm operable in the home.

A complete ban on operability is quite different from an impediment to operability.

The Court stated quite plainly in Heller that its opinion "did not suggest the invalidity of laws regulating the storage of firearms to prevent accidents."

Interpreting the word "immediate" in "immediate self-defense" to bar every measure that sought to prevent accidents would ignore the Court's insistence that the right to bear arms is not unlimited.

Again, such a result is not guaranteed if courts adopt a very stringent standard for review.

But we believe most courts are unlikely to strike down such laws unless compelled to do so by the Court, particularly given that four members of the Court are committed to not recognizing any such right at all.

Barring certain individuals from gun ownership

Under the laws of almost all states, certain persons are ineligible to purchase or possess firearms.

In Heller, the Court deemed "presumptively lawful" the "longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill."

Courts have relied on that passage in upholding the convictions of felons charged under federal law with illegally possessing firearms.

As the Court appears to have intended, these types of restrictions are unlikely to be struck down.

But some similar restrictions are of much more recent origin.

A federal law passed in 1996, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), prohibits the possession of firearms by any person "who has been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence."

Since Heller, courts have disagreed about whether that prohibition is "presumptively lawful."

Sentencing Law and Policy's Douglas Berman and Eugene Volokh of the Volokh Conspiracy have expressed skepticism about the reasoning employed by the Eleventh Circuit in rejecting a challenge to the law in United States v. White.

Many state-law prohibitions go beyond even this federal law.

In California, Colorado, New Jersey, New York, Texas, and Virginia, for example, courts may prohibit gun possession by persons merely charged with a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.

LCAV notes that "[t]welve states require . . . law enforcement to remove at least some firearms at the scene of a domestic violence incident," and that six "authorize, but do not require" such removals.

McDonald's requirement that these laws be consistent with the Second Amendment does not necessarily entail their rejection.

But in the near future, at least some state courts will almost certainly strike down laws, created to protect victims of domestic violence, that arguably offend the right to keep and bear arms.

Indeed, the Court's failure to articulate a standard of review is likely to have particularly strong consequences when courts evaluate these types of regulations.

First, the weapons affected, like handguns, will often qualify for the Second Amendment's protection.

Second, though the regulations are similar to some "presumptively lawful" regulations, an analogy between these laws and disarming convicted felons is somewhat attenuated.

Third, courts that have addressed this sort of question have not done so uniformly; even merely persuasive authority cuts in different directions.

In McDonald, the court left this area of the law in turmoil.

Today's McDonald decision involved a Chicago law requiring would-be firearm owners to comply with the City's extremely onerous firearm registration regime.

The Court today held that Chicago's law must comport with the Second Amendment, but left to a lower court the question of whether the particular law at issue is unconstitutional.

LCAV reports that "[s]even states and the District of Columbia require registration of some or all firearms."

It further notes that "[a]though registration laws vary, they typically require gun owners to record the ownership of their firearms with a designated law enforcement agency."

Most extant state registration regimes are likely to be upheld.

California, Connecticut, Maryland, and New Jersey "have banned assault weapons[,] but allow continued possession of such weapons if they were lawfully owned on a specified date and are registered."

Louisiana similarly imposes a limited registration requirement.

Courts will uphold these laws insofar as they affect "dangerous and unusual" weapons not protected by the Second Amendment.

But although the Second Amendment does not shield every weapon from regulation, laws requiring the registration of all firearms assuredly affect weapons within the Amendment's protective ambit.

A registration requirement applicable to all firearms – like Hawaii's – must therefore withstand a court's scrutiny, whatever that may entail.

In a decision that courts looking for guidance may find persuasive, a federal judge in the District of Columbia has already applied intermediate scrutiny to one set of such requirements.

SCOTUSblog's Lyle Denniston described the court's opinion, in which the judge upheld the entirety of the District's extensive registration regime.

Lyle explained that a person seeking to register a weapon in the District must:

submit fingerprints and two photographs, show knowledge of local gun laws, have visual capacity sufficient to get a vehicle driver's license, prove completion of a gun-use or safety course, show how the gun will be used and where it will be kept, and notify District police if the gun is stolen, transferred, sold, lost or destroyed.

That opinion is no guarantee that other courts will reach similar conclusions.

But its breadth strongly suggests that the more limited registration requirements elsewhere imposed on protected weapons – like handguns – have a good chance of being upheld.

Licensing requirements (including concealed weapons)

LCAV reports that "[f]our states require licenses for all firearm purchasers or owners, while seven states license all handgun purchasers or owners."

The organization explains that two types of licensing regimes predominate.

The first, a "permit to purchase" scheme, requires would-be gun owners to "obtain a permit or license prior to purchas[ing]" certain weapons.

The other regime requires a license as a condition of gun ownership.

In Massachusetts, for example, firearm possession requires "either a Firearm Identification (FID) card or a Class A or B license," all of which entail an application process.

That process includes a background check, safety training, and gives the state forty days to make a decision.

Each card or license is valid only for six years, and costs one hundred dollars to obtain.

Some jurisdictions, including Massachusetts, employ both approaches.

In Heller, the Court explicitly declined to address the District of Columbia's licensing scheme.

In so doing, it left open the question of whether – and which – licensing requirements are acceptable.

Licensing requirements targeted at guns outside the purview of the Second Amendment will by definition be upheld.

Whether other requirements survive court scrutiny depends, in part, on the impediment that such requirements pose to protected gun ownership.

A variety of factors may suggest that a licensing requirement constitutes a constitutional or instead impermissible limitation on the right to keep and bear arms.

Cost, delay, and discretion will relate inversely to the probability that a court will uphold a licensing regime.

Courts are, however, very likely to uniformly uphold licenses that restrict the carrying of concealed weapons.

The Court stressed in Heller that the Second Amendment does not afford an unlimited right to keep and bear arms.

Providing an example, it noted that "the majority of 19th-century courts to consider the question held that prohibitions on carrying concealed weapons were lawful . . . ."

That line will heavily influence state courts nationwide.

McDonald's extension of the Second Amendment to state and local gun regulation will undoubtedly prompt a flood of firearm-related litigation – especially because the Court did not specify a standard of review.

The above list of potential controversies is not exhaustive.

In the brief period of time since Heller, litigants have already challenged a ban on armor-piercing ammunition and large-capacity magazines, to provide only a few examples.

Some challenges will be quickly dismissed.

Courts will likely uphold regulations that the Court deemed "presumptively lawful," including "laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings," and some "laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms."

But McDonald is unquestionably a landmark case.

Its impact will be felt in every state, and especially in cities that more tightly restrict firearms than the states in which they are contained.

By affecting the scope of permissible limitations on firearm possession, the decision may also redefine the types of searches and seizures that states may reasonably conduct.

Today was the last day this Term that the Court will hand down opinions.

And while the Court's decision in McDonald comes at the end of Justice Stevens' career, it almost certainly marks the beginning of – as he put it – an "avalanche" of litigation to determine what exactly the decision entails.

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On June 28, 2010, the Court in "McDonald v. City of Chicago", 561 U.S. 742 (2010), held that the Second Amendment was incorporated, saying that "[i]t is clear that the Framers and ratifiers of the Fourteenth Amendment counted the right to keep and bear arms among those fundamental rights necessary to our system of ordered liberty." This means that the Court ruled that the Second Amendment limits state and local governments to the same extent that it limits the federal government. It also remanded a case regarding a Chicago handgun prohibition.


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# Former Forest Preparatory School pupil wins silver for Team GB at Rio Olympics

Former Forest Preparatory School pupil James Guy is now an Olympic medallist, after winning silver for Great Britain in the Men's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay Final last night at the Rio Olympics.

The Olympic medal adds to his current haul of two gold medals from the 2015 World Aquatic Championships in Russia, as well as a gold and a bronze at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

James is also European and World Junior Champion in the 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay, and holds the World Junior record in this event.

In February this year 20-year-old James, who received a scholarship from the prestigious Millfield School when he was 13, took time out of his hectic schedule to pay a visit to pupils at his former primary school, Forest Preparatory School in Altrincham, Cheshire.

Rick Hyde, Headteacher at Forest Preparatory School, said:

"We are extremely proud of James and are delighted that his hard work in the pool from such a young age has led to this fantastic achievement.

At Forest we take pride in all areas of PE and sport, striving to provide a platform from which our children can pursue existing talents, nurturing them and encouraging them to achieve their full potential."

Rick added: "We wish James all the best for his future endeavours and hope that he will come back in to see us in school on his return from Rio to inspire our future Olympians!"

The school is keen to develop and celebrate swimming, with all children from Year 1 to Year 6 undertaking swimming lessons on a weekly basis.

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KSR had undertaken full restoration on the operational side in late 2015, as well as re-finishing the cabinet (strip, stain & wax) – every aspect of the synth was been addressed, including re-capping and deep-cleaning all the controls etc., so the synth plays beautifully.

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Known as electromagnetic fault injection (EMFI), this class of attacks has been investigated before, but Cui and Housley’s new technique, known as “BadFET," is adapted to exploit modern computers and embedded devices, by impacting multiple components within these devices at the same time.

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When you think of a standard hacker toolkit, software vulnerabilities and malware come to mind.

But a pair of researchers are testing a different type of instrument: a physical tool that can break into devices with a wave of your hand.

At the recent REcon computer security conference, Red Balloon Security founder Ang Cui and research scientist Rick Housley presented a new approach to hacking a processor that uses electromagnetic pulses to produce specific glitches in hardware.

By disrupting normal activity at precise intervals, the technique can defeat the Secure Boot protection that keeps processors from running untrusted code.

Researchers have experimented with "fault injection attacks"—hacks that cause a strategic glitch, which in turn triggers abnormal, exploitable computer behavior—for decades.

Those attacks, though, typically require physical access to a target's components.

"The advantage of this technique is that it's physically noninvasive.

You don't have to touch the device, and you don't leave any physical marks behind," Cui says.

"There's no exchange of data at the electromagnetic pulse stage, so this would never be caught by a firewall."

Red Balloon specializes in internet-of-things-intrusion defense; think of it as antivirus software for IoT.

But the company has run into problems putting its security tool on IoT devices guarded by Secure Boot.

Red Balloon's products don't undermine this safeguard; the company works with vendors to make its software compatible.

But the dilemma got Cui and Housley interested in the theoretical question of whether a fault-injection attack could circumvent Secure Boot on locked-down IoT devices.

They started experimenting with the Cisco 8861 VoIP phone model that they had tried and failed to equip with their security product.

(Cui also has a history of hacking Cisco phones.)

The two found that if they poked the phone's flash memory with a charged wire at the right moment while it booted up, they could cause a glitch that stopped the boot process.

Instead, the phone surfaced access to a command-line interface that Cisco normally uses for debugging.

Cui and Housley also found vulnerabilities in the TrustZone security scheme of the phone's processor that allowed them to write code on processor memory that was supposed to be protected.

(They disclosed these bugs to Cisco in April 2016.)

Once they had access to the troubleshooting portal during boot, the researchers could load and execute their own code in a secure part of the processor to override Secure Boot.

All of which makes for a complicated hack, and one that requires cracking a phone open when you have a charged wire handy.

But Cui and Housley wanted to take the attack a step farther, and realized that a well-timed EMP blast could trigger the same fault.

They could execute the whole hack without needing to tamper with the components of the phone.

Lab-grade EM pulsing equipment costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, so instead the researchers built their own system for about $350 using a 3-D printer and readily available components.

They plan to release open source schematics of the setup so other researchers can use it too.

Eventually, Cui and Housley worked out that delivering a 300 volt pulse to the phone's RAM 4.62 seconds into startup reliably created the glitch they wanted.

With access to the debugging portal, they could use the phone's console port—an auxiliary port on the back of the phone—to load in and run their Secure Boot override protocol within five seconds.

"The attack's principle is clever," says Jean-Max Dutertre, a hardware security researcher at École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne in France.

"Finding a way to bypass timing and spatial resolution issues is always highly effective."

The system can currently deliver the pulse from 3 millimeters away from the phone, so while the hack doesn't require physical contact, it does need proximity.

Still, an attacker could cause the crucial fault by, say, waving their hand over the device while holding a tiny electromagnetic pulse generator—a subtler action than opening up the phone and sticking a wire into it.

"With any hardware attack you need to be physically present, so that's already a huge barrier," says Jasper van Woudenberg, the chief technology officer of Riscure North America, a firm that tests hardware and software security.

"But this is a nice proof of concept to show that if you don't take care of these attacks, they could actually happen."

What makes the attack so challenging is, in part, the Broadcom multicore 1Ghz ARM processor it targets.

Modern processors pack transistors in densely and have high clock speeds, making it difficult to discharge EM pulses quickly and accurately enough to impact one specific process on a chip without collateral damage.

But by thinking of the interconnected components in a device (like the processor, flash memory, and RAM) as a network of computers in and of themselves, researchers can create fault injection strategies that are more like network hacking—attacking a system's weakest point to compromise the real target, in this case the powerful processor.

"We wanted to look at the second-order effects of an electromagnetic pulse, as it affects not just a single machine but a complex network of interdependent components," Cui says.

"So that allows us to sidestep the traditional electromagnetic fault injection limitations, and use electromagnetic pulses to predictably change the way computers compute."

As electromagnetic fault injection hacking becomes more robust, it will in turn become more important to protect components from physical, noninvasive hacks.

Some ultrasecure devices already include such defenses, because further refinement would put not only IoT devices at risk but also full-service computers.

"This kind of attack could be devastating because it is relatively easy to perform," Dutertre says.

And while Cui and Housley's research exists strictly as a proof of concept, they caution that other groups may have capabilities that far exceed academia's.

"We don't think we're the farthest along in this research," Cui says.

"We've been doing this on our off time as a side project.

If somebody wanted to put significant resource into this, they would certainly be ahead of us."

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At the 2017 REcon security conference, Cui and security researcher Rick Housley demonstrated a new method for hacking processors through the use of an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP.


Hangzhou (Mandarin: [xǎŋ.ʈʂóʊ] (listen); local dialect: /ɦɑ̃.tse/), formerly romanized as Hangchow, is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang Province in East China.

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# Iran, world powers strike historic nuclear deal

## Landmark agreement the product of almost two years of negotiations to address dispute between Tehran and the West

Iran and six world powers announced a historic deal Tuesday morning that places limits on Tehran's nuclear program in exchange for relief from international sanctions, a development that represents the most significant diplomatic milestone in a dispute that has lasted for more than a decade and could significantly alter geopolitics in the Middle East.

The fraught last stretch to finalize the agreement — which took more than two weeks of almost constant negotiations in Vienna — was the result of months of tough shuttle diplomacy after a provisional agreement was reached on April 2.

A number of major hurdles remained after that framework deal, including the timing of and mechanisms for enacting sanctions relief, the caps to be placed on Iran's future nuclear activities, an inspection regime to monitor compliance of the deal, and a thorny 11-hour kerfuffle surrounding the lifting of an international embargo on selling conventional arms to Iran.

But after weeks of intense negotiations extending beyond an original, self-imposed June 30 deadline, those remaining difficulties — along with a series of technical annexes to the agreement concerning complex scientific and logistical issues — were overcome in a final agreement document that came in at more than 100 pages.

The accord will keep Iran from producing enough material for a nuclear weapon for at least 10 years and impose new provisions for inspections of Iranian facilities, including military sites.

And it marks a major shift since 2002, when the international community first discovered that Iran had covertly built nuclear facilities at Natanz and Arak.

That same year, George W. Bush, in an infamous State of the Union address, labeled Iran a member of so-called "axis of evil."

Speaking at the White House on Tuesday morning, President Barack Obama said the deal had "achieved something that decades of animosity have not."

"This deal is in line with a tradition of American leadership," he said.

He added, "No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East."

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was hopeful that the deal could help stabilize the Middle East.

"I hope — and indeed believe — that this agreement will lead to greater mutual understanding and cooperation on the many serious security challenges in the Middle East," Ban said in a statement.

"As such it could serve as a vital contribution to peace and stability both in the region and beyond."

"This is a historic moment," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said as he attended a final session alongside his international counterparts in Vienna on Tuesday morning.

"We are reaching an agreement that is not perfect for anybody, but it is what we could accomplish, and it is an important achievement for all of us.

Today could have been the end of hope on this issue.

But now we are starting a new chapter of hope."

The formal announcement of the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was made after the meeting.

Diplomats said Iran agreed to the continuation of a U.N. arms embargo on the country for up to five more years, though it could end earlier if the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) definitively clears Iran of any current work on nuclear weapons.

A similar condition was put on U.N. restrictions on the transfer of ballistic missile technology to Tehran, which could last for up to eight more years.

Another significant compromise in the agreement concerns access to Iranian military sites.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei had previously ruled out inspections at the sites by U.N. nuclear inspectors, but Tuesday's agreement provides stipulation for inspectors to press for military locations as well, though the access is not guaranteed and the timing could be delayed.

Federica Mogherini, the European Union foreign policy chief, called the plan "a sign of hope for the entire world."

Hassan Rouhani, the reformist president of Iran, tweeted, "#IranDeal shows constructive engagement works.

With this unnecessary crisis resolved, new horizons emerge with a focus on shared challenges."

Tuesday's deal could prove to be one of the most consequential international diplomatic agreements in a generation, and marks a defining international achievement for President Barack Obama in a region where a multitude of political crisis and violent conflicts have stymied his policy goals.

While the agreement reached on Tuesday was concluded under the multilateral auspices of the P5+1, representing the permanent five members of the United Nations Security Council — United States, Russia, China, France, Britain — plus Germany, the ability to reach an agreement was largely a function of a diplomatic opening between Washington and Tehran that began in earnest in 2013, after the election of Rouhani in June of that year.

Rouhani was elected in part on a platform of renewed engagement with the West as means of overcoming Tehran's international pariah status and trying to end a crippling international sanctions regime imposed on the nation.

Khamenei backed Rouhani's efforts to restart negotiations with the West that had largely proved ineffective during the president's predecessor, the hawkish Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

For its part, the Obama administration and its P5+1 partners seemed eager to again come to the table after nearly a decade of sanctions on Iran not only failed to curb Tehran's enrichment activities but saw the program grow markedly larger since the first United Nations Security sanctions were imposed in 2006.

The new diplomatic opening lead to the signing of a Joint Plan of Action (JPOA) between Iran and the P5+1 in November 2013 in Geneva.

The interim agreement froze Iranian nuclear enrichment in exchange for modest sanctions relief, after which the parties set out to conclude a long-term agreement which would target the removal of all sanctions for across the board limits to Iran's nuclear activities.

Under the terms of the JPOA, the time period by which a final agreement was to be concluded was extended twice, leading to the breakthrough in the Swiss city of Lausanne on April 2015, whereby Iran and the world powers outlined a provisional framework that would guide the final stretch to codify a final agreement.

Since then, negotiators have worked out a number of technical details pertaining to the implementation of a deal agreed to by six nations and involving multiple international organizations, all while remaining cognizant of political realities threatening to derail an effective agreement.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), of which Iran has long been a signatory, allows nations to pursue civilian nuclear power programs, but the U.S. and members of the P5+1 have long feared that Tehran could use infrastructure permitted under the NPT to create fissile material to build nuclear weapons should it break out of that treaty.

For its part, Iran has always denied that it seeks nuclear weapons and that its program was for civilian nuclear energy purposes.

Because of the covert nature of Iran's nuclear development, Western powers have long wanted Iran to accept restrictions beyond those required by the NPT, in order to strengthen safeguards against any "breakout" toward weaponization, but Iran has variously seen such efforts as an affront to its dignity and national rights.

Tuesday's agreement managed to, for the first time in over a decade of on-and-off negotiations, allay those dueling concerns and pave the way for what hopes to be a long-term accord.

But in addition to the difficulties between the parties themselves in concluding the agreement over the last year, diplomatic efforts to finalize a deal have not been without vociferous critics, including hardliners in both the U.S. and Iran, as well as among regional U.S. allies in the Middle East, including Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been a forceful critic of engagement with Iran and led a long and public campaign against a deal, capped off with an address to the U.S. Congress in March warning of its dangers.

On Tuesday, he called the nuclear deal a "bad mistake of historic proportions."

Saudi Arabia and its regional allies have levied less overt public criticisms, but the united regional bloc against Iran reached its apex in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, and Gulf Arab fears about Iran's intentions in the region rose in parallel with the resumption of the diplomatic process with Iran in 2013 and took on increasing urgency as a deal's likelihood grew.

Despite Tuesday's announcement, the deal's implementation still faces at least one sizable hurdle in the immediate future — the U.S. Congress.

Lawmakers skeptical of the emerging contours of an Iran deal voted in May to tie any final agreement to a subsequent Congressional review, a bill that Obama reluctantly signed after it seemed as if there were enough votes to overcome a presidential veto.

Under that legislation, Congress now has 60 days to review the deal before Obama can lift U.S. sanctions on Iran.

But even if Congress were to vote against the deal, Obama promised on Tuesday that he would exercise his veto.

Any effort for a Congressional override would require 67 votes in the Senate, a number that would be difficult to muster.

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 Since 2005, Iran's nuclear program has become the subject of contention with the international community, mainly the United States.  Many countries have expressed concern that Iran's nuclear program could divert civilian nuclear technology into a weapons program. This has led the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions against Iran which had further isolated Iran politically and economically from the rest of the global community. In 2009, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence said that Iran, if choosing to, would not be able to develop a nuclear weapon until 2013.
 As of 2009, the government of Iran maintains diplomatic relations with 99 members of the United Nations, but not with the United States, and not with Israel—a state which Iran's government has derecognized since the 1979 Revolution. Among Muslim nations, Iran has an adversarial relationship with Saudi Arabia due to different political and Islamic ideologies. While Iran is a Shia Islamic Republic, Saudi Arabia is a conservative Sunni monarchy. Regarding the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the government of Iran has recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Palestine, after Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.


The Lockheed Martin Compact Fusion Reactor (CFR) is a proposed nuclear fusion reactor project at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works.

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Simulations indicate trouble for cone-guided fast ignition

Oxygen plays key role in Deuterium-binding of lithium coated carbon walls

PPPL joins forces with NFRI on K-DEMO project

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# UFC San Antonio Results: Raquel Pennington Snaps Skid with Split-Decision Win Over Irene Aldana

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## Raquel Pennington battled to a tough split-decision victory over Irene Aldana at UFC San Antonio, ending her two-fight losing streak.

Raquel Pennington was coming off of back-to-back losses ahead of UFC San Antonio.

Those losses came to Amanda Nunes and Germaine de Randamie, with the first of those being for the UFC bantamweight belt.

In the following bout with de Randamie, Pennington missed weight for the first time in her career.

She tried turning things around against a fighter in Irene Aldana on the other end of the fight-streak spectrum.

Irene Aldana had won three consecutive fights coming into her bout with Pennington.

Her most recent victory came at UFC 237 against another former title-challenger, when she finsihed Bethe Correia in round three with an armbar.

The women's bantamweight division is lacking top-end depth right now.

The chance at four consecutive victories in San Antonio was a great opportunity for Aldana to stand-out and find a way into the title-picture.

It was a feeling out process early in round one, with Pennington finding the range a bit better than Aldana.

Aldana continued to pressure, and absorb strikes from Pennington whenever she got into range.

Pennington looked calm and confident, doing well defensively throughout the first round.

Aldana was the more active, but landed less and expended more energy than Pennington in the first five minutes.

Aldana landed a good right hand in the opening seconds of the second round, which were followed by a couple of strong leg kicks.

Pennington responded with a few leg kicks of her own.

Pennington came out a bit more aggressive in round two, but Aldana was able to continue to pressure from the center of the Octagon.

Aldana seemed to have found the range halfway through round two, but Pennington was able to land fairly consistently as well.

Pennington then forced Aldana against the cage with around a minute left in the round.

But, she was unable to secure a takedown.

Aldana briefly got the fight back to the center of the Octagon.

It wasn't for long though, as Pennington pushed Aldana against the cage for the closing seconds of the round.

Pennington grabbed the momentum early in round three, landing her first takedown of the night.

With Aldana on the ground, the Mexican worked for a heel hook, keeping Pennington out of an advantageous position.

Aldana eventually took the back of Pennington.

There, the position would stall, before Pennington worked into top position and worked for an arm-triangle submission.

The fight ended with both fighters on the ground and the close decision going to the judges.

Result: Raquel Pennington def. Irene Aldana by split-decision (29-28×2, 28-29)

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She won the fight via unanimous decision.
 Aldana was scheduled to face Bethe Correia on August 4, 2018, at UFC 227; however, the bout was pulled when Correia withdrew due to injury. Instead, Aldana faced Lucie Pudilová on September 8, 2018, at UFC 228, winning a close fight via split decision and earning her and Pudilova Fight of the Night award.
 Her bout with Bethe Correia was rescheduled and is expected to take place on May 11, 2019 at UFC 237. At the weigh-ins, Correia weighed in at 141 lbs, 5 pounds over the bantamweight limit of 136 lbs. She was fined 30% of her fight purse and the bout proceeded at catchweight.  She won the fight via submission in round three.
 Aldana faced Raquel Pennington on July 20, 2019 at UFC on ESPN 4.


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# How NationBuilder's platform steered Macron's En Marche, Trump, and Brexit campaigns to victory

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There's a good chance that you've never heard of NationBuilder even though it might be one of the most influential services on the internet.

The political software and platform is used by politicians of all stripes to build their websites, manage email campaigns, and raise money.

One of its more notable clients is President Donald Trump.

Indeed, the company is making a massive impact on U.S. politics.

But over the past year, it's also been playing a growing role in European politics, having been notably used in the Brexit campaigns.

And, capping a remarkable run on this side of the Atlantic, NationBuilder recently played a central role in helping Emmanuel Macron's insurgent political party "La République En Marche!" secure a legislative majority that was as improbable as it was massive.

"France took us a little bit by surprise," said Toni Cowan-Brown, vice president of European Business Development at NationBuilder.

"Even just a month before the legislative elections, En Marche! didn't have the names of all their candidates."

On June 18, En Marche!, a party that didn't exist a year earlier, won 361 seats in the 557-seat parliament.

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Certainly NationBuilder can't take all the credit for that win.

But its work with En Marche! offers a good peek into how political campaigns are continuing to evolve in the internet age.

If you recall, President Obama won huge kudos for the digital savvy of his 2008 campaign.

Los Angeles-based NationBuilder was founded in October 2009 by CEO Jim Gilliam with the notion of making many of those same tools more widely available.

The platform launched in April 2011, and by last year it seemed to be everywhere, as the internet, email, and texting have become de facto tools.

For many candidates, particularly those who lack staff or technical skills, managing a digital presence can still be a big chore.

So NationBuilder offers what is essentially a turnkey solution.

The company's tools help campaigns put up a website quickly, build a database through registrations, send targeted newsletters and email blasts, and leverage micro-donations.

In 2016, NationBuilder says it was used by about 40 percent of all contested elections at the state and national level in the U.S.

That included 3,000 political campaigns.

Since its founding, the company has helped campaigns raise $1.2 billion.

By late 2016, NationBuilder had helped its clients raise $350 million through the third quarter of that year.

It enabled these campaigns to scoop up huge sums through small donations, which averaged around $77 during one month.

"If you give the right tools and the right opportunity to the key people on the ground, the reach is much wider," said Cowan-Brown.

Meanwhile, NationBuilder had begun building a nascent operation in Europe, where rules around campaign finance and data privacy had made the use of digital tools more limited and cumbersome.

Still, the company made a big impact with the Brexit campaigns, and with the previous U.K. elections.

It then began wading into the French presidential contest that gathered steam in late 2016.

Over the course of the presidential campaign, NationBuilder was used by seven presidential candidates and several of the parties.

Despite Macron's big win in the second round of presidential voting, political pundits in France were dubious that his new party could attract enough candidates for the legislative elections to secure a majority.

The assumption was that France would have a split government and likely be facing a political stalemate for years.

Macron made his own task even more difficult.

He insisted that half of En Marche!'s legislative candidates be women and that half be political novices who had never held office.

NationBuilder helped En Marche! launch a network of more than 400 websites in just a few days, one tailored for each candidate.

The company has called the size and speed of the rollout "almost unprecedented."

The websites were at once personalized with information on each candidate and yet standardized with a common look and En Marche! information to communicate the party's larger branding.

Now that the election's been won, Cowan-Brown said she will be watching to see what En Marche! does next with this political infrastructure.

After Obama's 2008 victory, many pundits thought he would use digital tools to transform the process of governing, he had changed the nature of campaigns.

Likewise, President Trump using digital tools to win without the traditional infrastructure of a campaign.

But those tools are proving to be less effective at helping him govern.

"I'm hoping with all that will all that infrastructure in place, En Marche! will keep it going," said Cowan-Brown.

"We built this huge thing with them in a short period of time.

It's just a foundation, but it's a pretty solid foundation."

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# Now You Can Run For Office Thanks To New Software

Local elections are often a game of out-hustling your opponent.

Candidates battle to build enough name recognition and awareness among constituents to lock in their votes, come Election Day.

Only by knocking on doors, shaking hands, and calling up constituents, can local politicians hope to win over voters.

NationBuilder, a new community-organizing platform, aims to move that game into the 21st century by enabling politicians to run smarter, more effective campaigns.

Through the platform, candidates can create fully customizable webpages with the behind-the-scenes analytics needed to run a targeted and strategic campaign.

The platform is a content management system and a customer relationship management system in one, essentially making people and content inextricably linked.

Candidates can keep track of anyone who interacts with their content on the web, creating a database of prospects to mine for votes, donations, and potential volunteers.

Most enticing of all, the site provides easy access to voter files, which can be hard to pin down and difficult to parse.

The software makes it easy sort the files by demographic information and party registration.

Additional information on donor history, voting records, home values and income levels are also available, allowing candidates to strategically recruit and organize volunteers, among other things.

NationBuilder functions as the central communications hub for a campaign, streamlining all email, text, and social media outreach.

Candidates have access to social intelligence data, which ranks people by their Klout score and allows campaigns to target communications at social media influencers.

"At the end of the day, this is about getting as many people into your database as possible, and understanding what they're interested in and what they're contributing, so that you can get them more activated to support your campaign," says co-founder Joe Green.

Since launching in April of last year, the startup has generated significant buzz and recently raised $6.3 million in funding from some of Silicon Valley's top investors, from Sean Parker and VC firm Andreesen Horowitz, to backers at Facebook.

The L.A. based company was founded by documentary filmmaker and internet activist Jim Gilliam and Joe Green, Mark Zuckerberg's former college roommate (the one who walked away from Facebook), and the man behind Causes, a popular Facebook app for fundraising and advocacy.

Jesse Haff is also co-founder and lead designer of NationBuilder.

Green hopes that the software will forever change the political landscape.

"I think the effect of it is not just that different people are able to win, but also that different people are willing to run.

Because the thing about running in a grassroots fashion is that you empower volunteers.

And once you get elected, they're not just going to go away.

The growing client list includes Ken Livingstone, who used the software during his run for mayor of London; Linda Lingle, governor of Hawaii; and Kirk Torrence, of the Scottish National Party which, after using NationBuilder, rose 15 points in the polls and quintupled their volunteer base, eventually winning not just the election but the first majority in the history of the Scottish Parliament.

When it's all said and done, the internet's biggest impact on politics will be felt at the state and local level, says Green.

"Most of what's been written about the internet and politics totally misses the point.

It's mostly been written about the Obama campaign.

Certainly they did some interesting stuff, but the internet and organizing are not going to win or lose a presidential election.

The unemployment rate will have far more of an effect on that."

That's why he believes NationBuider has its eye on the right target – local campaigns.

"When the book is written on what effect the internet and software have on politics, it's going to be about these local races that are slogged in the back."

And perhaps, we're only beginning to see how tech can revolutionize politics.

With new software that makes it easier to mount a campaign, we may start seeing new kinds of politicians, springing from unlikely places.

Hopefully this will not only bring a much needed infusion of fresh faces and new ideas into politics, but a more transparent system of governance.

With New Funding, Startup NationBuilder Aims To Make Political Campaigns Truly Social

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NationBuilder was founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Jim Gilliam and Joe Green and it was launched in 2011.
 Gilliam was previously a movie-maker who co-founded Brave New Films with Robert Greenwald and had sought funding for his films through crowd-sourcing. Green, who studied organizing at Harvard and was Mark Zuckerberg's roommate, is also the co-founder of the Causes Facebook app; he left NationBuilder in 2013. They both claim that NationBuilder is strictly nonpartisan.
 Since its founding, the company has helped campaigns raise $1.2 billion. In 2012 the NationBuilder announced than 1,000 subscribers have used its software to amass 2.5 million supporters and raise $12 million in campaign donations.  In 2015 it has helped raise $264 million, recruit over one million volunteers and coordinate some 129,000 events. By 2016, the company said its software was used by about 40 percent of all contested elections at the state and national level in the U.S., which included 3,000 political campaigns.


Upon the release of the album, the track charted at number 91 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 and disappeared from the chart afterwards until making a re-entry at its peak position of number 89 on September 14, 2013.

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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Ray Dalton

My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)

Blake Shelton Featuring Pistol Annies & Friends

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Mary Lambert

DJ Khaled Featuring Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne

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The city can be divided into several sections: Honey Pot (northwestern Nanticoke), Downtown (northern and central Nanticoke), and Hanover Section (southeastern Nanticoke).

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The Honey Pot section of Nanticoke is one of the most remarkable "hidden villages" in the Wyoming Valley.

According to lore, the residential settlement derives its name from the abundance of wild bees that grew in the northwest corner of Nanticoke in 1894.

Imagine an Alpine Village and that is the impression you will derive looking upon Honey Pot after a good blanket of snow has covered the hillsides and homes.

At any given moment, you might expect a one-horse sleigh to round the corner, carrying singing children on their way to a visit with the grandparents.

Someone not familiar with the area once described it as akin to "finding a town in the hollow of a tooth," after observing it nestled in a mini valley between Nanticoke City and the hills hiding it from view of the Susquehanna River.

Pikes Peak overlooking the Susquehanna River was named after the famous mountain in Colorado.

The Peak was also known as "Eagles Nest" as late as the nineteen twenties and it was said you could see as far as the Courthouse in Wilkes-Barre on a clear day.

Honey Pot is also famous for the many baseball players who made names for themselves in the sport: Steve Bilko, Al Cicocki and Ted Hiller, for which Ted Hiller Park is named and is the home of the Nanticoke Teener League.

The Honey Pot Volunteer Fire Company is one of only three remaining fire companies in Nanticoke City, created out of necessity because companies from the city often found it difficult, if not impossible, to reach fires in the community in the early part of the Twentieth Century.

This Honey Pot curiosity intrigues every visitor to the community.

The streets of Honey Pot can be an ordeal for the unwary stranger.

There are no straight paths and the roads curve and twist upon each other in such a way that it is easy for the uninitiated to lose track and not know that he has left one street and entered another.

Nanticoke is a city in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 10,465, making it the third largest city in Luzerne County. It occupies 3.5 square miles of land.


During his career he has served a number of overseas posting and was involved in a number of conflicts including the Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War.

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# Senior military officers support London Pride

The three most senior warrant officers from the Royal Navy, British Army and RAF attended the UK's biggest LGBT pride event in London for the first time, supporting more than 200 defence personnel taking part in the parade.

The Royal Navy contingent march through London during the London Community Pride parade.

Warrant Officer Steve Cass of the Naval Service, Warrant Officer Glenn Haughton of the Army, and Warrant Officer Clive Martland of the RAF attended the march, 15 years since the ban was lifted on LGB personnel serving openly in the Armed Forces, signifying a united senior commitment to diversity and inclusion in the forces.

Fittingly, the theme of this year's parade was heroes and saw the largest contingent of Defence staff ever, with 216 uniformed military personnel and civil servants in attendance.

The Army contingent prepare to march through London during the London Community Pride parade.

Speaking at the LGBT Pride march, Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Penny Mordaunt, said:

It gives me immense pride to see the great strides made to advance diversity and inclusion across the Armed Forces over the past 15 years.

More than 200 Royal Navy, British Army and RAF personnel marched proudly in uniform in today, on Armed Forces Day.

And with all three services named in the top 100 LGBT-friendly employers in the UK by Stonewall recently, the progress made over a relatively short amount of time is truly impressive.

The Armed Forces have participated in London Pride since 2008 and today, the rainbow pride flag flew over the Ministry of Defence as a public declaration of support for the LGBT community.

Ministry Of Defence Main Building in London flies the Rainbow Pride flag from its mast in London.

Read Commander Land Forces Lt Gen James Everard's blog post following the latest Army LGBT conference, and click here to find out more about the UK Armed Forces rank in Stonewall's top 100 index.

Second Sea Lord Jonathan Woodcock (centre rear), flanked by Air Vce Marshal David Stubbs (to left) and Lieutenant General James Everard (to right) with the Warrant Officers of the three services and personnel from the services contingents prior to the London Community Pride parade.

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They formed in 1998 after Fitzgerald left Kitchens of Distinction and Berry left 4AD, which had released three of her albums after her appearance on This Mortal Coil's 1991 album "Blood".

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SIGNED COPIES HAVE NOW SOLD OUT"The Lost Girls could have been just that, lost.

On the evidence of this collection of their work, that would have been criminal."

8.7/10 - Backseat Mafia"an embarrassment of previously unreleased riches"

4/5 - Record Collecto"A stunning collection of songs"

Scottish Express"Lost indeed: feisty folk-rocking gem from 1999 finally released - some of the finest music of either's career"

4/5 - Mojo "I'm so glad these songs at last get to be heard – ragged and raw, done and undone, whatever, they were loved and not at all Lost after all."

"Over a wasted, civil war-style landscape comes a vocal that sounds like some daughter of Tim Buckley intoning a lament for the dead - I know nothing about Lost Girls; all I know is the world should know more about them."

In 1997, Patrick Fitzgerald had left Kitchens of Distinction, his band of 10 years, and Heidi Berry had left 4AD for whom she had recorded three albums following being invited to sing on the This Mortal Coil album 'Blood'.

Following a speculative phone call, they got together in 1998 to work out their frustrations and re-imagined what they could do.

And over the next few months songs came together.

They played some live shows, including supporting John Martyn, and the duo of Lost Girls became a five piece group with the addition of Ashley Wood on guitar, drummer Dave Morgan (The Loft, Primal Scream, Rockingbirds) and bassist Kim Smith.

They reworked the songs as a group and put them out to tender and waited...

A single, Needle's Eye, was self-released in 1999 but otherwise the recordings sat gathering dust... until now!

Dusted off and brightened up, the long-lost Lost Girls album is released as a 2CD set featuring all the recordings made by the duo and the group and the 21 tracks here are split into the originally intended album (CD1) and bonus material (CD2).

18. 7 Opiated Self Help Song (Band Version)

Lost Girls is a band that primarily consists of Patrick Fitzgerald and Heidi Berry.


As a Western country, Israel has adopted the custom of pranking on April Fools' Day.

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# From the JTA Archive: April Fools' Day lessons for Jewish pranksters

Seeking inspiration for mischief, we found more than a dozen examples of Jewish April Fools' Day pranks documented in the JTA Jewish News Archive, which will launch May 3, making available online more than 90 years of JTA reporting.

Here are some highlights of our fake coverage (and that of others) from the JTA Archive:

LONDON – Two Cambridge University engineers have come to the conclusion that the manna eaten by the Israelites during their wandering through the Sinai was a single cell protein produced by a machine from outer space.

Rodney Dale and George Sassoon, both well-respected in the field of engineering research, air their theory in the equally respected magazine New Scientist.

They argue that in the Kabbala the miracle in the wilderness is attributed not to the Almighty but to "the ancient of days."

From the Kabbalistic description of "the ancient of days."

They deduce that it might have been how a primitive culture would have described a sophisticated machine.

The article appears tomorrow–April Fools Day.

In 1946, a Tel Aviv newspaper had fun with their audiences, who apparently didn't get.

Palestine Quintuplets Were April Fool Joke of Tel Aviv Newspaper

Jerusalem – Palestine's first quintuplets, reported to have been born in Tel Aviv yesterday, turned out today to be an April Fool joke perpetrated by the Tel Aviv newspaper "Haerev."

In 1971, Israeli drivers were the butt of the joke:

April Fools Day – Israeli Style; Traffic Signs Changed but No One Notices

JERUSALEM – An April Fools prank caused a major traffic snarl outside of Jerusalem today.

Practical jokers, as yet unapprehended by the authorities, switched the direction of the arrows on traffic lights at the entrance to Jerusalem.

Hundreds of unsuspecting motorists made the wrong turn creating a jam that took police several hours to unravel.

Drivers said they didn't question the reversal of the arrows because they were used to seeing detour signs on the Jerusalem highway that seems to be constantly under repair.

Traffic jams are nothing compared to the diplomatic train wrecks that resulted from these radio pranks in the mid-1980s:

TEL AVIV -Two April Fool's day pranks, one by a soldier in the Israel Defense Force intelligence corps and the other by Israel Radio journalists, caused severe embarrassment to the IDF and the Defense Ministry and touched off a panic among Israelis who have accounts in Swiss banks.

The soldier, not immediately identified, was promptly sentenced to 35 days in a military jail for perpetrating a hoax that Nabih Berri, leader of the mainstream Shiite faction in Lebanon, had been gravely wounded in an assassination attempt Tuesday.

Why the soldier thought this was "funny" could not be ascertained.

But his joke had fairly serious consequences.

The report of the fake assassination attempt appeared on official IDF stationery.

The army passed it on to the Defense Ministry Yitzhak Rabin who was appearing before the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Security Committee.

Rabin accepted the report as authentic and commented on it to the committee.

The media obtained a copy and the report was broadcast by Israel Radio along with a lengthy commentary by one its Arab affairs experts on the implications of the alleged assassination attempt.

The hoax was discovered only later and Rabin personally ordered the perpetrator punished.

Meanwhile, it is not clear what punishment may be meted out to the Israel Radio journalists who broadcast a report Tuesday that the Israeli and Swiss governments had signed a secret treaty under which the Swiss agreed to disclose the numbers of bank accounts held by Israelis in Swiss banks.

Israel Radio telephones were immediately flooded with calls, many from local bank managers who said their clients told them that if the reports was true they would emigrate from Israel immediately.

Not all attempts at humor are good for the Jews:

ADL Assails Student Newspaper Article Mocking the Holocaust

The Anti-Defamation League of B'nat B'rith has lodged a complaint with Dr. Lloyd N. Peak, school superintendent in Watkins Glen, New York, objecting to a student newspaper article mocking the Holocaust.

According to Beth D. Randall, ADL's New York State director, the reference about Jews in the April Fool's issue of "Echo," student paper at Watkins Glen High School "surpass the realm of a joke in bad taste" and serve as "examples of raw anti-Semitism."

A news item in the school paper featured a new fast food menu consisting of "Beans Anne Frank," "Holocaust and Cheese," "Fruit Jews," and "Straight Jews."

It also offered "a free swastika patch" and "a toy gas mask (while suplies last)."

Ms. Randall said that to poke fun at the Holocaust in the paper "seems to give blanket approval to anti-Semitism among the students.

Anne Frank was only slightly younger than most of the students when she was marched off to the gas chamber of Auschwitz.

It is difficult to understand the humor in that act."

Inquiring what action has been taken in response to the bigoted article, Ms. Randall suggested that Peak propose a course of study in the Watkins Glen district.

"It is essential, "she observed, "that the school system take a stand in order to set the tone of brotherhood rather than bigotry."

This sobering bulletin from Berlin in April 1935 paints a complex portrait of pre-Holocaust anxiety about how Jews were being received in Germany:

Force Jewish paper in Reich to Drop "German"

Berlin – Following the policy of isolating the German Jews to a ghetto life, the Ministry of Press and Propaganda of which Dr. Goebbels is the head ordered today a change in the title of the German Jewish newspaper Central Verein Zeitung, the official organ of the Federation of German Citizens of Jewish faith.

The order instructs the newspaper to eliminate the word "German" from the subtitle of the paper.

The subtitle must read "A General Newspaper for Jewry," instead of "A Journal for Germandom and Jewry," the order says.

Reports that the entire German press in Pomerania has decided not to accept Jewish advertisements were denied today in the Pommersche Zeitung which appears in Stettin.

These reports, the paper says, were nothing but April Fool stories.

The non-party newspapers are continuing to accept Jewish advertisements as usual.

In connection with this it was also pointed out today that Goering's newspaper Essener National Zeitung published an article warmly greeting the Pomeranian newspapers for their alleged ban on Jewish advertisements in their pages.

Historical context is important when considering pranks, which is why Libya ought to be off limits this year.

Fortunately, this wasn't the case in 2000, so we leave you with something to chuckle at in the face of the uncertain military and political situation unfolding overseas:

Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi dismissed reports that Libya had invited a senior Israeli politician to visit as an April Fools joke.

His comment came after the secretary of Israel's Labor Party, Ra'anan Cohen, said he was invited to visit Libya by the head of the Libyan delegation at a conference of legislators from Mediterranean states that met this week in Marseilles, France.

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The most views for the blog in one day was 42,085 on May 6, 2009 when student Johanna Justin-Jinich was murdered inside the campus bookstore.

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#### September 5, 2011, by Benjamin Soloway, Featured Editor

Woe upon you who doesn't read Wesleying—campus life has been passing you by.

Unless you're a freshman, this doesn't apply to you; of course you read Wesleying.

But if you're new in town, and you haven't found your way there yet, take heed.

Wesleying.org is an independent, student-run blog that covers "real student life at Wesleyan University."

By no means comprehensive, the blog usually relies on student groups to submit their own events.

Zach Schonfeld '13, who has managed Wesleying since last fall, calls it a "loosely affiliated collective of student bloggers who are all involved in and enthusiastic about different segments of student life at Wesleyan."

Although Schonfeld administrates the blog, it mostly runs itself.

"There's no formal hierarchy of editorial staff," he said.

"The purpose of the blog is to provide a voice about student life, strictly by students; to unify different segments of student life; and to be a source of information, news, and some degree of commentary and humor and irreverence in a distinctly Wesleyan way."

In the view of Wesleying contributor Anwar Batte '13, whose distinctive posts often take on a recognizably unhinged tone ("That's what happens when you're criminally insane: people can tell," he said), Wesleying serves several simultaneous roles.

"It can be as narrow as an events billboard," Batte said.

"But a lot of people like it as a features thing with interesting links."

According to a recent post titled "Westrospective: Wesleying's Founding, Five Years On," prepared this past August by Schonfeld and Batte, the blog was founded in August 2006 by Xue Sun and Holly Wood, both '08 (real names).

Their first post ended with a two-pronged ultimatum: "1) Biatch, we do what we want, and 2) We just might be hyperactive enough to be everywhere at once."

Sun and Wood—who are now graduate students at Yale and Harvard, respectively—quickly found that they had filled an important niche, and traffic began to grow.

Since early 2009 alone, the blog has been viewed 4,528,404 times, with an all time daily high of 42,085 on May 6, 2009, the day Johanna Justin-Jinich '10 was murdered.

"We have the capacity to publish news as it breaks, so when urgent things are happening, students often turn to Wesleying for updates," Schonfeld said.

"That's one of the main roles the blog plays."

Many students began reading the blog before arriving on campus or during orientation.

"I found it before I applied when I was searching for information about Wesleyan," said Silvia Miteva '15.

"Before you apply to a school, you have to know something about it."

Wesleying is at the heart of student life on campus, and we recommend that you read it, and have your mother read it too: she'll feel "in the loop" without your telling her anything.

"I heard about Wesleyan for the first time in an article about MGMT," said Rachel Pincus '13.

Disclaimer: This reporter has contributed to Wesleying.

Wesleying tends to get anywhere from 7,000 to 9,000 views per day during the semester, hitting 10,000-12,000 views on extremely busy days. The most recent record number of views in one day was 16,748 on October 29, 2012.