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Doug Engelbart first envisioned his work in the 1950s, published it in 1962 with a call to "augment the human intellect", and hired a small team of researchers to develop a demonstration hyper collaborative knowledge environment system called NLS (for oNLine System), first published and publicly demonstrated in 1968 (see the Mother of All Demos), and continued to evolve it under real world usage with a team of up to 47 researchers in his now legendary lab at SRI (Stanford Research Institute, now SRI International), cultivating a networked community of early customer IT pioneers (called "KWAC" for Knowledge Workshop Architect's Community, the first intentional NIC) via the newly formed ARPANet.

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Note that the basic funcitonality of NLS was envisioned at a time when the nearest computer was 3,000 miles away, and implemented at a time when the human-computer interface consisted of punch cards and teletypes, with clumsy line editors to support elite scientific and mathematical applications. So Doug's lab had to prototype much of the underlying technology – for example they pushed the frontiers in display technology and invented their own high-performance pointing devices (thus was born the Mouse, invented by Engelbart in 1964), and participated in launching the first computer network so they could leverage network technology for their collaborative applications –as well as needing to develop their own paradigm and vocabulary for this work.

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Operation Snow White was a systematic attempt by the Church of Scientology to infiltrate and steal classified files on Scientology from governments all over the world. Its exposure by the FBI in 1977 led to the arrest and imprisonment of the senior leadership of the Church's intelligence agency, the Guardian's Office, in the US and Canada.

The program consisted of a number of sub-programs ("Snow White Operating Targets" or "SWOTs"), each with a different codename, aimed at targets in particular countries or international organisations. The original aim of the program was to expose and legally expunge "all false and secret files of the nations of operating areas" and to enable OTC (the Panamanian-registered front organisation for the Sea Org), the Apollo (the Sea Org flagship) and L. Ron Hubbard himself to "frequent all Western nations without threat." Crucially, the word "legally" was later removed to enable this goal to be met through clandestine (and illegal) operations.

In 1989, a letter came to light from a member of the Office of Special Affairs, the body which replaced the Guardian's Office in the early 1980s. Elaine Siegel described herself in the letter as "Snow White Programs Chief" in the Office of Special Affairs United States and went on to describe her functions and those of the "Snow White Unit".

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>>Think NK.

>>What was told re: NK during the past 8 years?

North Korea is a major trouble area, especially regarding nuclear weapons and threats of military action. Not long after Obama took office North Korea elbowed its way back onto the international stage after a period of relative quiet, drawing accusations of planning a new long-range intercontinental ballistic missile test weeks after Obama was sworn in and performing an unannounced nuclear warhead and missile testing in late May 2009 to the disapproval of the State Department. Relations were further strained with the imprisonment of American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling for their alleged illegal entry into North Korean territory on assignment for a media organization although both women were later released on August 5, 2009. Later that year, Pyongyang announced its intention to terminate the 1953 armistice ending hostilities in the Korean War on May 28, 2009 effectively restarting the nearly 60-year-old conflict, and prompting the South Korea-United States Combined Forces Command to Watchcon II, the second-highest alert level possible. In 2010, two more major incidents with North Korea occurred: the sinking of a South Korean Navy Ship that actuated new rounds of military exercises with South Korea as a direct military response to sinking and the Bombardment of Yeonpyeong prompting the US aircraft carrier USS George Washington to depart for joint exercises in the Yellow Sea with the Republic of Korea Navy, to deter further North Korean military action. In light of the geopolitical developments with North Korea, the Obama Administration had called the U.S.–South Korean alliance as a "cornerstone of US security in the Pacific Region." During Obama's presidency North Korea's nuclear-weapons and missile programm had become "steadily more alarming", with his failure to stifle it being described as "glaring."