Lok Sin Tong Charity Candy Campaign 2019 Singer Tsang Lok Tung Fully Supported the Fundraising Candy Sales (16 March 2019, Hong Kong) Organized by The Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society, Kowloon, the annual fundraising event "Lok Sin Tong Charity Candy Campaign 2019" will take place on 16,17, 23 and 24 March 2019. Lok Sin Tong held a kick-off ceremony this afternoon at Tseung Kwan O Plaza. Ms. Kwan Shuk Yee, Nancy, District Social Welfare Officer (Kowloon City/Yau Tsim Mong), Social Welfare Department, officiated at the ceremony. Tsang Lok Tung, the ambassador of the campaign, showed her support by singing as well as conducting charity candy sale. In addition, local famous artists Mr. Mak Cheung Ching (Mak Bau), Chan Ho Man, Benny and Cheng Sai Ho, Hoffman, also attended the ceremony to support Lok Sin Tong. Over 60 charity booths will be set up in specific MTR stations, shopping malls and outdoor locations on 16, 17, 23 and 24 March 2019. Each box of candy is sold at the charity price of HK$20. This year, Lok Sin Tong also invited the local illustrator, Miss Helen Tam, to design the candy box with the adorable image of the cartoon "Pineapple Bun Girl" in order to make the campaign more attractive. Mr. Lee Shing Put, Chairman of Lok Sin Tong, said in the ceremony that "Charity Candy Campaign" was one of the flagship fundraising events of Lok Sin Tong. Charity booths will be set up at specific MTR stations, shopping malls and outdoor locations. About 2,000 volunteers from Lok Sin Tong's subsidiary units and caring companies participated in the campaign. Funds raised will be used to support the development of Lok Sin Tong's medical, educational, elderly and social services. Chairman Lee also mentioned that Lok Sin Tong further extended the range of community services this year, including the 2nd and 3rd phases of "Lok Sin Tong Social Housing Project"; the opening of Lok Sin Tong's 3rd social enterprise – "LST RehaCare" and "Lok Sin Tong Chan Kwong Hing Memorial Primary Health Centre" at Kowloon City. The Primary Health Centre operated on a medical-social collaboration model. Moreover, Lok Sin Tong also provided "Visiting Medical Practitioner Service" by professional medical team in Kowloon City and Yau Tsim Mong areas, to improve the services for Homes for the Aged and Residential Care Homes for Persons with Disabilities. Ms. Wan Man Wai, Rowena, Chairman of the Campaign and Executive Committee Member of Lok Sin Tong encouraged her colleagues to join the candy sale as volunteers at the charity booth today. Ms Wan also mentioned that it was a good way for her staff to contribute to the community. She thanked the sponsors and caring companies for their generous donation and different kinds of support to the event. Apart the six Silver Sponsors, all the venue sponsors and volunteers from companies including Swisso Club and Hong Kong Airlines, were also supportive to the Campaign. Ms. Kwan Shuk Yee, Nancy, the Guest of Honour, officiated at the kick-off ceremony together with the Executive Committee Members of Lok Sin Tong. After that, Tsang Lok Tung performed a popular song and joined the candy sale as one of the volunteers at the charity booth. The response from the public was overwhelming. - End - About 'The Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society, Kowloon' Established in 1880, The Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society, Kowloon ("Lok Sin Tong") is one of the historical charity organizations and ranks among the six largest one in Hong Kong. The organization upholds a long tradition of the mission "Providing relief to victims of disasters, offering quality medical care and free medicine, promoting education and cultivating youngsters, caring for the old and nurturing the young". In order to meet the changing need of the community, its subsidiary units are scattered throughout the society and offering quality and comprehensive medical, educational, elderly and social welfare services. It also proactively engages in and hosts various charity and entertainment events in the society, in a way to build a better Hong Kong. Website: www.loksintong.org About "Lok Sin Tong Charity Candy Campaign" Since 1999, the Lok Sin Tong Charity Candy Campaign has been organized for 21 years. Over 1000 volunteers joined and HK$1 million donations were received every year. Funds raised will be used to finance the development of the Society's medical, educational, elderly and social services.
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Lok Sin Tong Cup 2019 (6th January 2019, Hong Kong) Jointly organized by The Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society, Kowloon and The Hong Kong Jockey Club, the annual Lok Sin Tong Cup was held today (6 Jan) at Sha Tin Racecourse. It was a 1400m race on turf "C+3" course with Class 4 prize money scheduled as Race 6. GOLDEN FOUR became the champion among the 14 horses while ROYAL RACER and ALPHA HEDGE won the 1st runner-up and 2nd runner-up respectively. As a perpetual cup race of The Hong Kong Jockey Club, the Lok Sin Tong Cup has been competed for 18 years. Mr. LEE Shing Put, Chairman of Lok Sin Tong, said in the speech that Lok Sin Tong launched various new services in recent years, including three phases of"Lok Sin Tong Social Housing Project", Lok Sin Tong 3rd social enterprise – "LST RehaCare" and "Lok Sin Tong 1st Care for Disadvantaged Group – Innovation and Technology Design Competition". Chairman Lee added that Lok Sin Tong would continue to provide quality services to the society with the support from governments, donors and our stakeholders. Guests attending the event included Professor Sophia CHAN, JP, Secretary for Food and Health, Ms. Alice LEE Nga Lai, Kowloon City District Commander and Mr. Pun Kwok Wah, JP, Chairman of the Kowloon City District Council. - END - About 'The Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society, Kowloon' Established in 1880, The Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society, Kowloon ("Lok Sin Tong") is one of the historical charitable organizations and ranks among the six largest one in Hong Kong. The organization upholds a long tradition of the mission "Providing relief to victims of disasters, offering quality medical care and free medicine, promoting education and cultivating youngsters, caring for the old and nurturing the young". In order to meet the changing needs of the community, its subsidiary units are scattered throughout the society and offering quality and comprehensive medical, educational, elderly and social welfare services. It also proactively engages in and hosts various charity and entertainment events in the society, in a way to build a better Hong Kong.
Lok Sin Tong Charity Walk 2018 Walk Together to Raise Funds for Lok Sin Tong's Services (24th November 2018, Hong Kong) The kick-off ceremony of "Lok Sin Tong Charity Walk 2018" (The Walk) was held successfully at Sha Tin Racecourse today. Director of Home Affairs, Miss. Janice TSE, JP, officiated the ceremony. Judas Law (羅凱鈴) was appointed as the "Charity Walk Ambassador". Mr. LEE Shing Put, Chairman of Lok Sin Tong, said in the welcome speech that The Walk was one of the flagship fundraising events of Lok Sin Tong since 1998. The Walk revealed the team spirit of Lok Sin Tong and generous support of participants and donors. He also mentioned that Lok Sin Tong further extended the range of services this year, including the 2nd and 3rd phase of "Lok Sin Tong Social Housing Project" and Lok Sin Tong 3rd social enterprise – "LST RehaCare" which was opened in June. Moreover, "Lok Sin Tong 1st Care for Disadvantaged Group – Innovation and Technology Design Competition" was held in response to the STEM education introduced by the Education Bureau. The competition welcomed all secondary and primary schools in Hong Kong to participate. Mr. Mok Michael Man Too, The Chairman of the Charity Walk, praised the lively character named "Something Something" for highlighting the theme of The Walk. The Walk had been supported by various companies and organizations from all generations for years. The Mok's family and a volunteer team of "Biu Chun Watch Hands & Parts Manufacturers Limited", Mr. Mok's company, also participated in The Walk for fundraising. Judas Law showed her support by performing two popular songs which drove the event's atmosphere to climax. In response to Judas's call, her supporters donated to support The Walk. The champion and the first runner-up of "Overall Company/Organization Top Fundraisers 2018" were granted to recognize their contribution. In addition, Mr. Mak Cheung Ching (Mak Bau), local famous artist, also joined the walk to showed his support to Lok Sin Tong. Led by the Dragon and Lion dance team, Miss. Janice TSE, JP, the Executive Committee Members of Lok Sin Tong and Judas Law, started the charity Walk from Sha Tin Racecourse, alongside Shing Mun River, to Sha Tin Park. - End - About "The Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society, Kowloon" Established in 1880, The Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society, Kowloon is one of the historical charity organizations in Hong Kong. In order to meet the changing need of the community, its subsidiary units are scattered throughout the society and offering quality and comprehensive medical, educational, elderly as well as social welfare services. About "Lok Sin Tong Charity Walk" Since 1998, the Lok Sin Tong Charity Walk was held in every year and encourages over ten thousand people to walk with us. All funds raised will be used to finance the development of Lok Sin Tong's medical, educational, elderly and social welfare services.


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Sheldon Adelson dead at 87 – Las Vegas Sands Corporation founder and GOP megadonor passes away after illness
LAS Vegas Sands Corporation founder Sheldon Adelson has died at 87 years old.
His wife, Dr Miriam Adelson, confirmed the news on Tuesday morning.
"It is with unbearable pain that I announce the death of my husband, Sheldon G. Adelson, of complications from a long illness," she said in a statement.
Adelson was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2019 and recently resumed treatment.
She dubbed the casino mogul as the "love of my life" and her "soulmate," before saying he is "utterly irreplaceable."
Adelson is survived by his wife, five children and grandchildren.
President Bush released a statement in tribute to his "friend" Adelson, who he praised as an "American patriot."
"Sheldon battled his way out of a tough Boston neighborhood to build a successful enterprise that loyally employed tens of thousands – and entertained millions," the statement read.
Donald Trump's eldest son, Don Jr, also paid tribute to the casino giant, saying: "He treated his employees like family. His philanthropic generosity changed countless lives."
According to Forbes, Adelson had a net worth of $35.6billion as of Monday.
He started out in the casino business in 1989 when purchasing the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas for $128million.
In 2007, he opened Venetian Macao on the Cotai Strip in the region of the People's Republic of China.
Three years later, he opened Marina Bay Sands resort in Singapore.
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Schwarzes Feuer auf weißem Feuer (אש שחורה על גבי אש לבנה 'eish sheḥorah 'al gabei 'eish levanah) ist eine Metapher aus der jüdischen Tradition. Sie besagt, dass der heilige Text (Tora) neben dem Literalsinn eine unendliche Bedeutungsfülle in sich birgt. Er kann deshalb ganz unterschiedlich gelesen werden, und diese verschiedenen Sinngebungen sind legitim.

Geschichte
Jüdische Schriften der Spätantike enthalten die Vorstellung, dass die Tora, heute materiell vorhanden als schwarze Tinte auf weißem Pergament, bereits vor der Schöpfung existierte (Tora keduma), und zwar als schwarzes Feuer auf weißem Feuer, אש שחורה על גבי אש לבנה 'eish sheḥorah 'al gabei 'eish levanah: "Die Tora, die der Heilige, gepriesen sei er, gab: das Pergament, auf dem sie geschrieben war, war weißes Feuer. Die Buchstaben, die darauf geschrieben wurden, waren schwarzes Feuer. Sie ist Feuer, umgeben von Feuer, geschrieben in Feuer, und gegeben in Feuer, [gemäß dem Schriftvers 5. Mose 33,2:] mit flammendem Feuer in seiner rechten Hand." (Jerusalemer Talmud, Traktat Sota 8, 3, 37a)Diese Metapher wurde im Mittelalter "stark mit Bedeutung aufgefüllt", bis hin zu dem Midrasch Aseret haDibrot, der den Gedanken entwickelt, Gott habe die Welt geschaffen, indem er die Buchstaben der Tora mit schwarzem Feuer auf seinen Arm (dem weißen Feuer) tätowiert habe. Hier verschiebt sich das Interesse vom "schwarzen Feuer", also den Buchstaben, der Heiligen Schrift, hin zum "weißen Feuer", dem mystischen Leib der Gottheit. In der Kabbala ist das Betrachten der Muster, die sich aus der Form der hebräischen Buchstaben auf dem weißen Hintergrund ergeben, eine Meditationstechnik. Deshalb ist es für sie wichtig, dass der Text unpunktiert ist.

Die für den Mystiker faszinierenden weißen Zwischenräume sind aber nur vorhanden, weil es die schwarzen Buchstaben, die schriftliche Tora, gibt (und mit ihr die Welt der Mitzwot, die auch für den Mystiker in Geltung bleibt).

Rezeption
Die Metapher "Schwarzes Feuer auf weißem Feuer" findet heute sowohl in der jüdischen wie in der christlichen Bibelauslegung Interesse.

Sie kann so verstanden werden, dass die Zwischenräume des Textes kreativ gefüllt werden, in einer biblischen Erzählung unsichtbare Personen (z. B. Frauen) sichtbar gemacht werden und ein moderner Midrasch erzählt wird (Bibliodrama, Bibliolog). Oder das schwarze Feuer gilt als das Textverständnis, das durch Analyse gewonnen werden kann, das weiße Feuer als der Raum assoziativer, emotionaler und unbewußter Reaktionen des Lesers auf den Text; beide Zugänge ergänzen sich.

Weblinks
 Sefaria: From the Context of Torah to the Torah of Context (Sammlung von Quellentexten)
 Bibliodrama (Peter Pitzele): White Fire, Black Fire, and Midrash
 bibliologberlin: Schwarzes Feuer – weißes Feuer (black fire – white fire) im Bibliolog …

Literatur
 Gerhard Langer: Midrasch (UTB 4675), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8252-4675-4
 Moshe Idel: "Schwarzes Feuer auf weißem Feuer", Text und Lektüre in der jüdischen Tradition, in: Aleida Assmann (Hrsg.): Texte und Lektüren. Perspektiven in der Literaturwissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main 1996, S. 62–79.
 Betty Rojtman: Black Fire on White Fire, an Essay on Jewish Hermeneutics, from Midrash to Kabbalah, University of California Press 1998
 Nathan Cardozo: The Written and Oral Torah. A Comprehensive Introduction, Rowman & Littlefield 1997

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Judentum
Bibel
Bibelstudium
Feuer in der Religion

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Virat Kohli reveals big reason behind no centuries this World Cup, identifies new role for himself
The Indian skipper has scored 5 consecutive 50s but has not been able to convert them into triple digit scores which is certainly a point to be discussed.
There is a process to everything Virat Kohli does. He is intense while training, methodical while batting, and focused while pacing an innings. Combine them all and he becomes a batting machine. But then, Kohli has not scored a century in the World Cup and he has not gone past the triple-digit score in his last 10 ODI innings. This is an aberration, a point of discussion for the rest of the world, but for the skipper, he is at peace.
"It's been a different kind of role I have played in this World Cup," Kohli told reporters at Old Trafford.
"Personal milestones do not matter'
Virat Kohli, Rohit SharmaTwitter/Cricket World Cup
"It's great that Rohit has been scoring so consistently, which means that coming in the later half of the innings, you have to play a different role, which is controlling the middle overs and letting guys like Hardik (Pandya), Kedar (Jadhav), MS (Dhoni) and Rishabh (Pant) express themselves," he further added.
The skipper said that he is very comfortable settling into this role where he holds one end up which allows the other stroke-makers to come in and attack the bowling and rattle along at a strike rate of 150.
He has often said in the past that personal milestones do not mean anything for either him or the team and that the interest of the side takes precedence over anything else.
"Rohit said the same thing the other day, that he's trying to do the best for the team. In that process, special things happen. I'm very happy for him and hope he gets two more (centuries) so we can win two more games," said Kohli.
He once again beamed when he said that he believes Rohit is the best ODI player in the world currently.
Kohli also said that his side prides themselves on flexibility and this approach has helped them a lot in the recent past. Well, they have dropped just one match out of the eight matches played in the group stage. Hence, the skipper said that if the situation does arise, he would never hesitate in dropping himself from the preferred number three position if it benefitted the side.
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News & Insights / Alantra partners with Sofina, Peninsula and Florac to boost SALTO Systems' growth through the acquisition of Austrian Gantner
Alantra partners with Sofina, Peninsula and Florac to boost SALTO Systems' growth through the acquisition of Austrian Gantner
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Madrid – Alantra Private Equity has supported SALTO Systems ("SALTO"), a leading manufacturer of electronic access control solutions, to acquire Gantner Electronic Austria Holding GmbH ("Gantner"). Gantner is a specialist in electronic access, ticketing and billing systems as well as smart locks for lockers.
The transaction was financed by a combination of capital increase, bank financing and cash. The agreement entails (i) the divestment of Alantra's existing stake in SALTO and (ii) the subscription of a €125 million capital increase to finance the acquisition of Gantner. The transaction has been subscribed by ALANTRA (through Alantra's latest fund ALANTRA PEF III) and new investors such as SOFINA, PENINSULA CAPITAL, and FLORAC. Financial investors will hold a combined 30% stake in SALTO, with the remainder retained by SALTO's founding members and managers (60%) and private investors (10%).
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Android app apathy: Why developers still aren't smitten with Android
By Geoff Duncan	 March 21, 2012 11:47AM PST
A new survey of mobile developers conducted by Appcelerator and IDC has turned up some interesting results. No doubt spurred by the death of mobile Flash, developers are rapidly embracing HTML5 for building apps. Similarly, developers seem to be embracing Google's social efforts more than, perhaps, everyday users might be. However, another finding jumps out: Developer interest in the Android platform seems to be slowly eroding. Apple's iOS remains the top target of mobile developer efforts, with 89 percent of respondents indicating they're very interested in developing for the iPhone, and a nearly equal number (88 percent) saying they're very interested in the iPad.
Android holds a strong second-place ranking: some 78.6 percent of developers say they're very interested in developing for Android phones, and 65.9 percent say they're very interested in Android tablet. But here's the thing: the Android phone figures represent a 4.7 percent quarter-to-quater decline. Similarly, the Android tablet figures are 2.2 percent lower than from the last survey.
Fewer Android developers means fewer top-drawer applications for Android — and could mean users will eventually begin leaving the platform for one with better software. Why are some developers turning way from Android, and what can be done to keep them on board?
Is Ice Cream Sandwich melting on the shelf?
The results of the Appcelerator survey seem to fly in the face of comments from Google chairman Eric Schmidt, who forecast that the release of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich would spark developer interest, and perhaps make Ice Cream Sandwich some developers' preferred deployment platform by mid-2012. As the first release of Android to be optimized for use on both tablets and smartphones, ICS was supposed to overcome longstanding concerns of Android platform fragmentation and give developers a solid, sure target for their apps.
Android's future would seem to be rosey: In late February at Mobile World Congress, Google's Android chief Andy Rubin claimed that there were more than 300 million Android devices out in the wild, including 12 million tablets. Furthermore, Google was activating some 850,000 new Android devices every day. That would seem to be a pretty ripe plum for developers looking to get their mobile apps in front of a large audience.
However, developers seem to be taking a cautious wait-and-see approach to Ice Cream Sandwich. Google's latest and greatest Android operating system was initially only available on a single device — the Samsung Galaxy Nexus — and while device makers and carriers are gradually getting ICS out to a number of recent devices, progress has been slow. A surprising number of Android devices on the market are still running Android 2.2 (Froyo) or earlier. Many will never get upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich: Some users will only upgrade when (and if) they buy a new Android device. Right now, the most widely installed version of Android seems to be version 3.0 Gingerbread, which had a slower rollout than any previous version of Android. So far, Ice Cream Sandwich seems to be experiencing an even slower introduction — check out Chris Sauve's analysis of Android versions and fragmentation for an idea. When building an app for Android today, developers still face a serious question: Do I target Ice Cream Sandwich and hope the market catches up with my app? Or do I target Gingerbread (or perhaps even earlier versions of Android) to reach the most people?
Still, Android doesn't have it so bad. The same survey found developer interest in Research in Motion's BlackBerry platform has dropped from 20.7 percent last quarter to 15.5 percent this quarter. And, despite underwhelming sales to date, developer interest in Microsoft's Windows Phone platform is holding steady at 37 percent. That basically puts Microsoft's nascent smartphone platform in the number-three position, albeit distantly. Furthermore, an essentially equal number of developers report being very interested in making apps for Windows 8 tablets.
As intriguing as the survey results are, it's important to note they don't represent scientific fact. The results are based on surveying some 2,173 Appcelerator Titanium developers in late January 2012, and then following up with 484 in late February. There's no way of telling if developers who use Appcelerator's development framework are in any way representative of Android developers in general. Both Appcelerator and IDC note that the figures for the erosion of developer interest in Android aren't far from the margin of error for their survey. So it could all be a hill of beans.
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Android fragmentation is likely only part of some developers' concern over building Android apps. Another appears to be workable revenue models for Android applications. Simply put, making a quality Android app that generates significant revenue seems to be significantly different than making a quality app for iOS that generates significant revenue. Developers prefer to design and build one application, then bring versions to different platforms. However, the reality is that an app design and revenue model that works for iOS may not work for Android, and vice versa. While not yet common, some developers are finding themselves in a position where it makes sense to drop their Android development efforts — a recent example is Mika Mobile. And doing business with Google's Android Market, now Google Play for Android, can be quite a lot different than doing business with Apple: Game developer Retro Dreamer says it doesn't build paid Android apps because the international tax situation is too complex — an issue it doesn't have with iOS.
Last November, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Muster raised eyebrows by opining that the overall revenue generated by Android applications was a mere seven percent of that generated by iOS apps. Many criticized Munster's analysis as incomplete, noting the figures did not seem to account for so-called "freemium" games that are free to download but that require payments to full activate or that make additional features or content available through in-app purchases. A key difference in the Android and iOS app revenue models is that Apple's iTunes App Store is built on Apple's iTunes Store, which has been accumulating accounts (and associated credit cards) for nearly a decade. Apple had (and retains) an enormous number of customers who are accustomed to paying for digital content a la carte. Google didn't have that, and many successful Android app developers have eschewed the traditional pay-to-download model and embraced freemium and in-app purchases as a way to generate revenue. Of course, a tremendous variety of applications also derive their revenue from in-app advertising — another revenue source that wouldn't have been factored in to that dreary seven percent solution.
Nonetheless, the revenue disparity between Android and iOS apps seems very real. Last December, Flurry Analytics found that if an app is available for both iOS and Android, the Android version will generate on average less than one quarter of the revenue of the iOS app. Flurry attributed the discrepancy to an Android users' ability to pay: With Apple, nearly every user is a potential paying customer, where Google Checkout is used by far fewer Android users.
Free apps that rely on in-app advertising to support their development also have their downsides. A recent study from Cambridge University found that 80 percent of free applications in the Android Market were supported by in-app advertising. More than 70 percent of free apps request "dangerous" permissions to access things like user's messages, email, location, contacts, phone number, and unique device identifier. The price of "free" apps in many cases seems to be a loss of privacy and disclosing personal data. As consumers become increasingly aware of online and mobile privacy issues, the free-with-ads revenue model may be inhibiting consumers adoption of Android apps.
Can Google and developers cope?
Android is not facing an imminent crisis amongst developers. But, looking out over the next two years, Android (and Google) are clearly going to have to move application development and revenue generation to the same priority level as OEM adoption and device activations, or face a stagnating software and content ecosystem. Here's where we expect Google to focus its attention:
Expand in-app purchasing beyond games
Currently, most in-app purchases on mobile platforms are limited to games, and are fueled by a handful of dedicated gamers buying virtual goods and content add-ons. Google only enabled in-app billing features in March 2011: Both Google and developers need to leverage this capability to create revenue models that work beyond games. This will have to include support for subscription billing — something Google has yet to enable — so users can subscribe to regular content updates from magazines, newspapers, and other publishers. Moreover, subscription billing will have to be as painless as possible to consumers. If it's a difficult chore, it won't be embraced.
Put user privacy ahead of in-app advertising
A tremendous number of companies offer in-app advertising services for Android (and iOS) applications: Developers typically sign up for the service, implement the ads as drop-in libraries, and hope for a check. Although there are ethical ad networks out there, in most cases app developers aren't aware of what information ad networks are gleaning from their users' devices, and how that information is being used. Google cannot police third-party advertising networks. Heck, Google has exhibited very little interest in policing its own app marketplace. However, Google can build privacy controls into Android that put users in charge of how much information about themselves they are (and are not) comfortable disclosing to apps. Does a comics app really need to have access to location data? Probably not, but advertisers dearly want to know where people are located. Putting users in charge of their personal data may put a crimp in the existing ad-supported app model, but it will mean consumers will be far more comfortable with that model going forward. Privacy safeguards could have a similar effect for so-called "incentivized installs," which lure users into downloading advertisers' apps in exchange for in-game or in-app content.
One reason consumers may not be embracing Android apps as strongly as iOS apps? Google's market is (still) a mess. The unmoderated nature of the Android Market has always attracted a large number of apps that infringe on copyright and trademark, as well as instances of outright malware. Google is attempting to address the threat situation with Bouncer, a new automated system that attempts to reject malware and other threats before they ever reach consumers. But it doesn't take more than a search for "Pokemon" or "Batman" to see some rough edges. Google has attempted to expose reputable apps and publishers through its editorial choice lists and charts ranking top apps, but there's always a sense with Android Market — sorry, Google Play — that you're just a tap from a mistake. If users have confidence in a marketplace, they're more likely to become paying customers.
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In 2002 Mencap produced a report, The Housing Timebomb. It detailed how nationally provision had not and was not being planned for those with Learning Disabilities (LD), whose life expectancy increase now meant they were outliving their parents and carers in larger numbers. Forward to 2016 and a group of angry parents and carers in West Berkshire feel this matter is still being ignored and no suitable plan is in place. Today Healthwatch West Berkshire (HWWB) is launching a report, produced jointly with West Berkshire Mencap (WBM) and the West Berkshire Learning Disability Partnership (WBLDP), called The Final Transition – When Parents and Carers Can No Longer Care. Created during a number of meetings with parents and carers, it highlights the broken promises and initiatives offered as potential solutions to this potential crisis, none of which have ever been delivered.
Media Coverage of The Final Transition Report Launch and coverage of continuous to cause of debate across the West Berkshire.


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Dr. Randall T. Bellows earned his M.D. degree from Northwestern University and a clinical trials degree from the University of Chicago. He was the editor of two leading ophthalmic journals and collaborated with many of the leaders in ophthalmology for 40 years. After leaving private practice he began researching nutritional therapy for common ocular diseases.
Dr. Randy Bellows returns to The Wizard of Eyes to discuss his degree in Clinical Trials from the University of Chicago and how it influences our interpretation of vision research.
Dr. Bellows and host, Dr. Robert Abel, Jr., analyze the major Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) for accuracy and effects on the practice of Ophthalmology.
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It is considered as one of the most important Islamic sights. It is an octagonal building in the middle of it lies the Rock. The rock is about 1 and half meters high above the ground of the building. The octagonal shape of the dome has two rows of pillars. Each row has a great number of building blocks and a number of small cylindrical marble pillars. There are eight building blocks in the outer row underlying the main building.
It is one of the most important sites of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, Palestine. It dome is considered one of the most supreme Islamic architectural features. It is also considered the oldest Islamic building that preserved its shape and decoration. Caliph Abdul-Malik Bin Marwan started building the dome and 66 Hijri\ 685 AD. He completed in 72 Hijri\ 691 AD. The engineers Raja' Bin Hayawa Al-Kindi, one of the famous followers of Prophet Mohammad (pbuh), and Yazid Bin Salam, the sire of Abdul-Malik Bin Marwan, supervised building the dome of the rock. The dome of the rock is an octagonal-shaped building that has four doors. Inside, there is another octagonl shape established on cylindrical pillars and columns and the the Rock lies in its center from which Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) ascended to heaven during his Israa and Mi'raj journey.
The Rock is about 1.5 meters high from the ground of the building. It has an irregular shape with a diameter of 13 and 18 meters. On the top of the Rock, a circular dome is centered with a diameter of 20 meters. From the outside, it is covered with gold plates that are 35 meters high, on top of it there is a crecet which is 5 meters hight.


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Mythic Quest's new special concentrates all the show's strengths into one sweet LARP
This is how every office should welcome us back to work
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At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, workplace sitcoms leapt into our ambiguous, strange new normal with a slew of quarantine specials — experimental one-off episodes that mostly made easy jokes about working with other people on Zoom. The best of these came from Mythic Quest, Apple TV Plus' comedy about a game development studio whose producers found a way to remotely produce a special episode. That one-off "Quarantine," is full of sight gags, punchy chemistry, and a genuinely moving exploration of the unique isolation and fear of the early pandemic months. Now, just ahead of its season 2 premiere, Mythic Quest is returning with another special episode, Everlight, aimed squarely at the anxieties around returning back to work one year later. But instead of focusing entirely on video calls, this time the special gimmick is live-action roleplaying.
LARPing is more or less interpretive dance for tabletop gaming. LARP normally isn't a part of Mythic Quest, but writer Ashly Burch (who also plays Rachel, a game tester in the show) finds an organic way to get the characters to dress in medieval fantasy garb and engage in stage combat. In the fiction of the MMO Mythic Quest (which the cast of Mythic Quest is producing) Everlight is a holiday meant to signify moving on after a bad season and embracing a bright new future of optimism. Every year, the Mythic Quest team celebrates that holiday by LARPing the celebration in their office, the central event being a tournament where the staff members "fight" for the honor of pulling an enchanted sword from a tree and bringing light back to the land.
It's honestly all very sweet. Even though Mythic Quest comes from many of the same creators as the profoundly mean show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, both the regular season and the Everlight special are genuinely enamored with the people who make and play video games. With Everlight's focus on LARPing, the show's heart gets just a little bigger. The series is extremely dedicated to making the hobby look fun and engaging, even going so far as building a dramatic confrontation that uses special effects to slip into the characters' imaginations and depict a gripping fantasy battle. It rules.
But what makes Everlight sing is the way it's all rooted in something particularly real — the anxiety around returning to work and putting on a brave face for a "normal" that isn't even entirely here yet. Throughout the special, co-leads Ian Grimm (Rob McElhenney) and Poppy Li (Charlotte Nicdao) debate the purpose of the Everlight LARP — Ian says it's for morale, and Poppy thinks it's for pure competition. They don't find an answer until they stop being bosses and start being colleagues, participating for the same reason their employees do: because it's fun, and because it allows people to connect with one another.
Everlight is Mythic Quest in microcosm, choosing one aspect of gaming culture to dial up to 11 and spinning comedy out of it that ultimately has very little to do with gaming, and everything to do with people. The last year was hard, and we could all use a win. It's entirely possible that the world won't give us one, but if we all come together, maybe we can LARP our way to that win, and build a better, newer normal.
Mythic Quest: Everlight is now streaming on Apple TV Plus.


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First Book in a new Standalone Series from C.G Miller Coming 2021
Title Reveal and Cover Reveal coming V-Day! 02/14/2021
Get ready for something dark and twisted!
Faded will take you on a whirlwind of ups and downs as Adlind Tuxton's mind deprives her of the truth and makes her second guess herself. An inheritance laid out under strict terms has her fighting to understand who she is and where she comes from. James Specter and eager businessman who wants Adlind and Kai Rucker the bad boy who will sweep Adlind off her feet the minute James is out of the picture. One is head over heels, the other the devil in disguise. Who will she choose, and how many people will die before she finally figures out the truth?
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The Guilty Pieces
Sometimes fate has a way of stepping in at a most critical time in our lives. Brecklund Avery had just turned twenty-one and her brother talked her out of her shell to go out. Three days later, she wakes in a hospital to the most unimaginable, leaving her mentally broken. Fate has other plans for her when a stranger comes into her life that calms the storm in her mind. He carries just as much guilt forcing him to walk away. Forced to live without the man that calms her mind, Brecklund becomes a silent ticking bomb that will eventually blow just to finally find happiness.
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Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen on Their New Album, Playing L.A., and the 11 Worst Records in Circulation
Nearly a decade ago, The Walkmen burst onto what was then a nascent indie-rock scene, sporting a wistful, moody and beautiful blend of piano, guitar, drums and bass. Their debut, Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone, was nearly universally lauded while their four albums since have each proved inventive and a study in creative composition that has the potential for widespread appeal.
The Love Language @ The Echo, 2/24/11
Love is hard. So is creating anything original that touches upon a subject Shakespeare, Beethoven and Elliott Smith all emptied their hearts for. But people keep trying to successfully send up life's most vexing problem, and to varying degrees of success and originality. Enter The Love Language, and the triumph of lo-fi, power-pop, blues inspired punk rock that reaches for the stars and often graces the heavens. Their raw mix of ingredients, their rock &...
Obama in L.A: Moving America Forward?
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It would never be this empty again: "Four Level, Hollywood Freeway," by Richard C. Miller | 1950, with Los Angeles City Hall in the background. (Richard C. Miller / Craig Krull Gallery) He took man-made behemoths, turning them into art, and on Friday, the world said goodbye to Richard Crump Miller, famed photographer who profiled the city's rise from farm to concrete jungle taking time to also shoot the glitteratti. He was 98. "Miller's...
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On behalf of Janet L. Goehle, Attorney at Law posted in Divorce on Thursday, November 24, 2016.
In Minnesota, it is not uncommon for couples to split and file for divorce once their children reach a certain age. Legal separations are often seen as less damaging to older children. Younger kids are often the focus for many counseling and therapeutic resources, not older children. However, older kids even those who are well into adulthood are still impacted by their mom and dad's decision to go their separate ways.
Many older children of divorcing parents find themselves questioning their own relationships. For example, they may feel that because their parent's relationship did not work out then theirs will not. Also, parents tend to bring their children into the situation, often forcing them to choose sides for emotional support. This can lead to ambivalent feelings from their kids because they are still trying to figure out why their parents have decided to split up after so long.
According to The Guardian, divorce to older children is like death. They do not understand everything that is happening because they still believe in absolutes and black and white. To them, there are no gray areas or in-betweens.
There are several reasons why many couples wait until their children are older before initiating divorce. They may be trying to avoid the awkwardness the situation creates with visitation and living arrangements. They may also do so because they believe their kids are more mature, emotionally stable and equipped to understand and deal with the situation. However, what many parents who take this approach fail to realize is their kids have watched their relationship during their formative years. Now they have to struggle with the reality that their parents are not going to be married forever.
Divorce can be tough for children to deal with at any age. Parents who are contemplating divorce should evaluate their situation and consider discussing with a professional how they can reduce the impact of their decision on their kids.


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Richard Michael Pirrie (6 June 1920 – 6 June 1944) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Family
The son of Richard Francis Pirrie (1879–1962), and Isobel Agatha Pirrie (1897–1982), née McGuire, Richard Michael Pirrie was born in Hawthorn on 6 June 1920.

Education
He attended St Patrick's College, East Melbourne.

Football
His father, also known as "Dick" Pirrie, and his brother, Kevin Pirrie also played for Hawthorn.

His nephew, Kevin's son Stephen Pirrie, played with Richmond, St Kilda and Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and with Port Melbourne in the VFA.

War service
Following the outbreak of World War II, Pirrie enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), on 8 September 1941 and was given the service number PM/V77.

Acting Sub-Lieutenant Perrie was posted to Britain, for training in amphibious landings. He was assigned initially to Royal Navy shore establishment, HMS Quebec, which was a part of the British  Combined Operations Training Centre, on the banks of Loch Fyne, Scotland.

By mid-1944, Pirrie had been posted to a shore establishment on the River Hamble, Hampshire, HMS Cricket, where a component of the expeditionary force for the Allied invasion of North West Europe was being assembled.

On D-Day (6 June), he was attached to the crew of a British LSI HMS Invicta, which landed part of the 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade at "Juno Beach", near Courseulles-sur-Mer. Pirrie was killed when Invicta received a direct hit from a German shore battery. He was the first member of the RAN to be killed in action on D-Day. He was mentioned in dispatches (MiD): "For gallantry, skill and determination and undaunted devotion to duty during the initial landing of Allied Forces on the coast of Normandy".

See also
 List of Victorian Football League players who died in active service
 List of Australian rules football families

Footnotes

References
Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

External links

 Dick Pirrie, australianfootball.com.

1920 births
1944 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
Hawthorn Football Club players
Australian military personnel killed in World War II
Royal Australian Navy personnel of World War II
Australian Roman Catholics
Royal Australian Navy officers
People from Hawthorn, Victoria
Military personnel from Melbourne


30 Freaky Glitches In The Matrix… #17 Can't Be A Coincidence.
There is so much life on our world, do you really think every being is one of a kind? As much as everyone likes to believe they're the only one that looks like themselves, they're most likely not.
Our world is filled with dopplegangers of all sorts. Most commonly, a person may look like another person they have no biological relation to. However, a person can sometimes resemble an animal or even a fictional animated character. An inanimate object can resemble a person. There is no limit to how many things can look like other things.
#1. Toothless from How to Train a Dragon.
#2. Fashion and a feather duster.
#3. Chewbacca from Star Wars.


Google is once again showing off their Jump camera rig, this time teaming up the White House to give you a 360-degree holiday virtual reality tour.
Back in November, Google showed us early Jump camera footage that was created in collaboration with six different creators to capture their world in stunning VR video. Google Jump is a 16-camera circular array rig that when combined with the "Jump Assembler" creates a single 360-degree 3D video file. Google is promising seamless stitching with Jump when it comes to compiling all the different camera angles together, a major pain point when shooting 360 video today.
The five-minute 360-degree video takes you on a tour of the White House, ushering you between rooms. From the library to the Green room to the 18-ft tall White House Christmas tree, there is plenty to see and learn with your newfound access. Throughout the video there is a voice-over educating you during the tour as some calming Christmas music plays in the background.
Not only was the 360 tour uploaded to the White House's YouTube channel, the tour experience will also be incorporated into Google's Expedition program. The Expeditions Pioneer Program was kicked off earlier this year to allow participating teachers to take their students on virtual field trips with Google Cardboard viewers.
Interested in checking out the other Google Jump VR videos? Six different creators shared their early footage from around the world in the playlist below.


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Poly(2-oxazoline)s: the versatile polymer platform
Poly(2-oxazoline)s (commonly abbreviated as PAOx, POx, POXA or POZ) are an extraordinary polymer platform with unparalleled tunable properties and versatility. Polyoxazolines allow a high degree of functionalization while the properties of the polymer can be accurately tuned by modifying the polymer side-chains. Polyoxazolines are also biocompatible, and as such constitute an ideal platform for biomedicine.
Poly(2-oxazoline)s Versatility
The living cationic ring-opening polymerization of 2-oxazolines enables the synthesis of a wide range of polymer architectures with a variety of end-groups. The versatility of this living polymerization method allows the preparation of well-defined polyamides with tunable properties.
The hydrophilicity, hydrophobicity, stimuli-responsiveness, as well as the macroscopic behavior of the final material can be adjusted by simply varying the 2-substituent of the monomer.
Poly(2-oxazoline)s Features
Facile introduction of functionalities in both polymer chain-ends and along the polymer side-chains.
Living Polymerization: Straightforward access to block copolymers by sequential monomer feeding.
Highly defined and narrow molar mass distribution.
Accurate control over the polymer physico-chemical properties.
Pseudo-polypeptide structure: stealth behavior, biocompatible.
Ideal platform for biomedical applications.
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Tunable properties
Hydrophilicity – Poly(2-oxazoline)s hydrophilic/hydrophobic balance can be finely tuned.
From more hydrophilic than poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) via thermoresponsive to hydrophobic
By varying the polymer composition, the transition temperature can be selected between 0 and 100 °C.
Ideal platform to develop smart materials.
Control over the polymer thermal properties
Amorphous and crystalline polymers.
Tg = 80 °C (PMeOx) to -10 °C (PnHexOx).
Ideal properties for applications in formulation, tissue-engineering, drug delivery or separation technologies.
Biodistribution studies with radiolabeled 5 kDa PMeOx and PEtOx have demonstrated rapid blood clearance (mostly after the first renal passage) and remarkably low uptake in the organs of the reticuloendotheliary system. Circulation times could be controlled by tuning the polymer chain length with no accumulation of polymers with molar mass below 40 kDa.
Poly(2-oxazoline)s are biocompatible and non immunogenic.
Stealth behavior: Poly(2-oxazoline)s are not recognized by the immune system.
The polymer residence time can be controlled by the chain length.
First PAOx/POZ therapeutic in Phase-I clinical trials.
Poly(2-oxazoline)s are being investigated in many areas including: Half-life extension of biologicals, stability and solubility improvement, immunogenicity prevention, targeted drug release, antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), subcutaneous drug depots for sustained release, etc.
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Our patented technology allows the introduction of multiple functionalities along the polymer chain, with high potential in biomedicine: from medical devices, to polymer therapeutics.
Total control over the polymer hydrophilicity, length, and number of functionalities.
Side-chain functionality tailored to your API.
Tailored linkers: stable or biodegradable with controlled degradation kinetics.
Enables high drug payload for advanced drug delivery systems (sustained, targeted) including next generation ADCs.
Optimal platform for cross-linked hydrogels of interest in regenerative medicine or medical devices.
Our technology is already the basis of highly effective hemostats and a general adhesive tissue tape: a disruptive new medical device by GATT Technologies.
Ultra-defined polymers
Highly defined, high molar mass poly(2-oxazoline) synthesis has been, until recently, believed to be unattainable. We have developed proprietary methods to obtain these ultra-defined polymers that enable the introduction of high molar mass polyoxazolines in biomedicine.
Dispersities (Đ) typically below 1.10.
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Polyalkylene imines
Linear polyethylene imine (L-PEI) has found widespread use in gene delivery, particularly as it overcomes the cytotoxicity issues related to the use of its branched counterpart, regarded as the gold standard in gene transfection.
L-PEI is synthesized by hydrolysis of poly(2-oxazoline)s. We have strong expertise producing high-quality linear PEI and also patially hydrolized derivatives for applications spanning gene delivery to antimicrobial coatings.
Some of the UltraPEI® L-PEI features:
Introduction of functionality (azide, alkyne, allyl, primary amine…) at the polymer chain ends.
Optimized polymer chain length for transfection and delivery.
Absolute control over the degree of hydrolysis for PAOx-PEI/POZ-PEI copolymers.
Ultra-defined polymers (Đ < 1.1).
We have put together a selection of scientific publications and references so you can explore further into the fascinating field of poly(2-oxazoline)s and polyalkylene imines.
General Reviews on poly(2-oxazoline)s
K. Aoi, M. Okada, Prog. Polym. Sci. 1996.
R. Hoogenboom, Eur. Polym. J. Special Issue. 2017.
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Now, especially thanks to Thomas Hogan's November 6, 2015 Section 702 certification approval opinion released last week, we have a fair amount of detail about opinions addressing 50 U.S.C. §1809(a)(2) violations written before October 3, 2011 (this post and this post lay some of that out). These are the three possibilities to explain what that prior memo is.
One possibility is that the May 13, 2011 opinion titled "Opinion and Order Requiring Destruction of Information Obtained by Unauthorized Electronic Surveillance" (see page 57), described in that Hogan opinion, is that opinion. NSA left unredacted Hogan's description of a "Title I collection in a particular case," and made it clear that in that individual case, NSA collected data it was not authorized to collect. Hogan did not identify the problem as an upstream violation, though it would be unremarkable for every individual electronic surveillance order to include upstream surveillance, to collect the online behavior of a target outside of PRISM producers, as it would be equally unremarkable to target jihadist forums and the like using upstream surveillance. An order using multiple methods to target the same identifier might explain why Bates described the opinion as relating to "among other things, certain data acquired by NSA without statutory authority through its 'upstream collection.'" But the timing would be particularly curious, given that NSA submitted the first clarification letter revealing its upstream 702 violations on May 2, before the final opinion in the individual case got finalized.
If that's the opinion that NSA said would cause grave damage to national security, it seems odd that less than a year after Collyer's ruling, NSA decided they can now segregate information from the opinion (I assume they didn't mean to leave the title of the opinion unredacted, but as far as I know NYC has not collapsed as a result).
Another possibility is that the redacted opinion is the July 2010 John Bates opinion that spends its last 18 pages (98-116) discussing the application of 50 USC §1809(a)(2) to NSA surveillance. A December 2010 opinion leading up to the May 13, 2011 one cites from it at length (Hogan cites from that opinion at 57), and Hogan himself cited from it at length two more times (73 fn 54, 76 fn 56). In 2013, I assumed that's what Bates' later reference was to, and I still think it most likely, as it has become clear that that July 2010 opinion is the base opinion laying out how FISC applies 50 USC §1809(a)(2) to NSA surveillance that has gotten a little bit out of hand. In any case, those 18 pages are what EFF was looking for in the first place, the opinion on how NSA applies this law; they just somehow missed it in a critical opinion on PRTT.
The counterargument that this is the opinion in question is three-fold. First, Bates says that the memo he was citing from pertains to upstream surveillance, and we've been led to think of the Internet dragnet as a simple pen register.
Except that we know it is a "pen register" applied to telecom switches. There are few explicit explanations of this in officially released NSA documents, but in places — such as when Bates explains his inconceivable approval to expand this collection after railing about 5 years of violations — he makes clear that "Acquisition of particular forms of metadata (described in Part II, supra) is authorized for all e-mail [redacted] communications traversing any of the communications facilities at the specified locations." (81) It's more clear that upstream surveillance expanded on this PRTT collection from application documents (see DOJ's supplemental memorandum at PDF 93) to conduct upstream collection to replace Stellar Wind, which cite Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's 2004 PRTT opinion finding telecom switches were a facility under the term of the FISA pen/trap and trace provision, though the reference to switches seems to cite from this paragraph, which is redacted in the original.
Bates even makes it clear this PRTT collection can involve the collection of content when he talks about criminal decisions on whether the government could collect and then delete Post Cut Through Direct Dial content from a Pen Register (though curiously he may not cite earlier 2009 FISC discussions about its own permission to collect then minimize such information).
This discussion makes two things clear: first, PRTT is upstream collection; it's what upstream content collection pointed to as precedent for switches being treated as FISA "facilities." But in its public releases, NSA has tried to hide the fact that is is. I'll come back to that.
Another counterargument that this is the opinion is that it has already been released!!! The opinion was released in response to an EPIC FOIA in November 2013 and EFF started suing for it in May 2014 (it was "randomly" assigned to Collyer, who started service as a FISC judge in March 2013, in June 2014).
It is not without precedent for the government to play funny games with FOIAs. I've noted how the NSC withheld the Memorandum of Notification underlying the war on terror without ACLU realizing, at first, that's what they were arguing over. A more exact analogy is is how, in another ACLU FOIA, the government has pretended that the Special Procedures for Communications Metadata Analysis have not been released (though they were released again yesterday, along with some of the underlying language they're trying to hide from ACLU) so as to avoid having to release the underlying justification memo.
Of potentially critical import, along the way (I believe in early 2015), EFF agreed not to ask for the docket information or date of the opinion.
Plaintiff narrowed its challenges here to exclude (1) docket numbers, certification numbers and the like, (2) all withholdings pursuant to exemption (b)(6), and (3) names or descriptions of surveillance targets, all that remains in dispute are withholdings of classified intelligence sources and methods and law-enforcement procedures and methods that are exempt under (b)(1), (b)(3), and (b)(7).
The government is, after all, hiding both the docket number and date of the July 2010 memo (significantly, they're also hiding the dates of the 2009 PRTT violations that resulted in a shut-down of PRTT collection at moments that coincide in key ways with EFF's challenges to the NSA program). The only thing they'll tell us that it was shut down and (they claim, though even NSA's IG couldn't entirely verify this) purged all the data very quickly in the weeks after Bates ruled the upstream collection was unconstitutional in 2011. So there's no way we can prove (except for basic analysis and the fact they accidentally released the July 2010 date to Charlie Savage in a FOIA) that the PRTT opinion, which is technically upstream collection, predates the October 3, 2011 one. And the government can avoid having to convince Collyer that these dates and dockets are a key operational detail (which they're not) even while they withhold the few tidbits that would make it clear the July 2010 memo is the one responsive to EFF's FOIA.
The final counterargument for why the July 2010 memo is not the one in question is that it would make Bates' syntax about the "government's proposed use of, among other things, certain data acquired by NSA without statutory authority through its 'upstream collection'" rather curious. All the data he ruled against the use of was acquired from switches, although some of it was legal. Moreover, unless the category violations of Kollar-Kotelly's 2004 order were far broader than what Bates approved in his July 2010 opinion, then he ultimately found they had the statutory authority, just not the authority granted by the court (effectively because Bates redefined Dialing, Routing, Addressing, or Signaling information more broadly in 2010).
Of course, there's a third possibility, that the opinion in question is a third one, one we've never heard of yet. The biggest reason I think that unlikely is that July 2010 does appear to be the base discussion of 50 USC §1809(a)(2) (it doesn't, for example, cite any earlier discussion). Which would mean any other 50 USC §1809(a)(2) opinion would come in the fairly narrow window between July 2010 and October 2011. That'd be a lot of opinions (along with the May 2011 one) finding that NSA was illegally wiretapping Americans. Moreover, I would think a third opinion ruling what is technically upstream collection illegal would get even more discussion in Bates' 2011 opinion.
As I said, I think it's most likely that the government — with Collyer's assistance — is hiding the fact that that 2010 opinion is the one Bates cited in his 2011 opinion. Sherman's explanation that the information was classified "in the context of this case … given the nature of the document and the information that has already been released" would support an understanding that NSA refused to tell EFF that the already released 2010 opinion is the one they were looking for all along so as to hide the fact that PRTT is nothing more than upstream collection. In that case, the opinion itself wouldn't be classified, just acknowledgment that that's what Bates meant as precedent when he found other kinds of upstream collection unconstitutional in 2011.
There is a very obvious reason why they'd want to do that. The government has argued in EFF's suits that upstream 702 collection does not infringe on the rights of Americans because the telecoms sort it before they hand it over to NSA. The only things that get handed over are transactions including the selector in question; the selectors are by definition foreign; and the switches from which they collected are supposed to be foreign facing. Crucially, the government has argued that because the telecoms and not the government does the upstream search, it doesn't amount to governmental violation.
None of those things are true of PRTT collection. Even in 2004, when Kollar-Kotelly limited collection to switches that were more likely to include terrorism traffic, the collection was designed to include all the metadata of Americans' international conversations from those switches. In 2010, Bates expanded the number of switches NSA collected from, affecting a far greater percentage of Americans. He also expanded what could be collected from a packet to include stuff that is technically content (though the violations revealed in 2009 make it clear NSA was always collecting what is technically content under the Internet dragnet, and that's probably why it was such a problem under Stellar Wind). Furthermore, when NSA did intake for bulk collected metadata — as distinct from when they intake content — they put everything into a table of relationships. The analysts will never see the majority of this data, but effectively, the first thing the techs did on intake of PRTT data was conduct a search of every single record they obtained.
I strongly believe this is why NSA did not permit its IG to review the intake part of the PRTT process when they destroyed it all in 2011, because it might have revealed that they were effectively illegally searching content-as-metadata from all Americans as part of the intake process.
EFF may not win their argument that upstream content collection is an illegal search. But (perhaps counterintuitively) they should be more likely to make that argument for PRTT, not least because NSA shut it down entirely on two different occasions, at least the first time and quite possibly the second because it was violating FISA orders.
And that is why I believe NSA wants to avoid admitting that that 2010 PRTT opinion is technically about unlawful upstream collection: because it would make it far easier for EFF to win their lawsuits against the government. They were granted discovery in February, so hopefully they can get to this information in any case. But I strongly suspect the NSA withheld a document it had already released only to make it harder for EFF to prove that even after PRTT moved under FISA's oversight, it continued to be illegal collection for 5 years and then one more year, even as determined by John Bates.
And NSA did all this with the cooperation of a FISA judge they happened to "randomly" pull for this case, one who should have known enough by the point she ruled to understand the stakes. That is why I think Collyer will be a crummy FISC judge. Even if this FOIA suit was about the May 2011 opinion, it clearly was improperly withheld. But if it was about the already released July 2010 one, then it suggests a real abuse of authority.
Two years ago, I noted that we effectively have gotten to the point where we have a one (wo)man national security court, because the presiding judge (and maybe one or two other DC-based judges) sit on the big programmatic cases. That's particularly problematic when, as now, we have a particularly crummy judge from a constitutional perspective.


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If you belong to a Manitoba union it is a safe bet that a portion of your dues is going to the NDP. If a member does not agree he or she is simply out of luck. The only recourse is to donate your dues to a charity, but that means you are no longer entitled to "protection" from the union. I still seethe at the thought that my dues went to support Greg Selinger or former MP Pat Martin. I'm sure there are a lot of unionists having nightmares about NDP "leader" Wab Kinew benefiting from their dues. Premier Pallister should go "full steam ahead" and rectify that. The political contributions of unions should not be directed to parties or politicians that individual members oppose. Certainly union bosses will cry foul, because they "vote" on these matters. Unfortunately those votes always favour the NDP. That needs to change.
Union dues should be used to benefit members, not as a political lobbying fund.
When Canada has private domestic and external sectors that want to net save, then the national government must compensate for a consequent reduction in spending. Appropriate deficits are required to close the demand gap, or the economy will spiral downwards. Canada already has over one million people actively seeking work. Wasting the talents and contributions of this potential workforce is the real social and economic problem — not meeting arbitrary fiscal limits that have no true justification. A country with a sovereign currency like the Canadian dollar can always spend any amount required to stimulate the economy and put people back to work.
We are in what would be considered "good" economic times, what would they do as far spending and growing our debt in bad economic times? The debt burden has jeopardized future generations with a massive tax burden.
Nov. 19 has been declared World Toilet Day by the UN. This will mean very little to most Canadians, who take decent toilets, sanitation and drinking water for granted. Around the world, however, over 2.3 billion people do not have these decent services. Bad sanitation leads to a multitude of diseases, discriminates against girls and young women, and reduces economic potential. But it can be tackled with determined action. Unfortunately, only a small proportion of Canada's aid budget is spent on clean water and decent sanitation. For World Toilet Day, I ask everyone to work towards increasing Canada's commitment.
The goal is laudable, unfortunately so many UN led initiatives don't show meaningful results.
Now our government wants to cancel a huge order of arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Harper called these vehicles trucks and Trudeau called them jeeps. Now they are called arms even though there are no weapons being sold. No guns, missile launchers or rocket launchers. This cancellation will cost Canadians about one billion dollars because the Saudi's killed a Saudi journalist in Turkey. The Saudis will simply buy these vehicles from another country so the cancellation will not hurt the Saudis but will hurt Canada. Why not stick to the sale agreement but stop buying their oil?


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