At the center of the Textile Photos app is a powerful tool-chain for creating private keys, encrypting personal photos, and ensuring your data remains private and secure. We've noticed that a lot of existing applications are pretty hand-wavy when it comes to explaining how their encryption works. We believe that through open source and transparent approaches we can actually build a more secure and trustworthy app.
Today, we want to share an overview of how our on-device photo encryption works. In short, Textile Photos is an end-to-end encrypted photo application. But one of our biggest goals with this best-in-class encryption, is that users don't have to notice. So for the curious, here are the 5 steps your photos go through, from import, to encryption, to sharing your captured moments with friends & family — automatically secure.
Overview of the three encryption keys used in Textile Photos and discussed below.
Okay, so this one happens before you share a photo, but it's an important step that we want to explain. Every user who downloads the Textile Photos app is provisioned a new mnemonic phrase (sometimes called a seed phrase), which is then used to generate a new public/private key pair for the user. The seed and private key are both private to the device and are never shared anywhere off the device. This all happens right on your phone.
If you've already used Textile Photos beta, you may not have seen your mnemonic or private key anywhere, but you will soon. We are working on seed-based account recovery, so if you drop your phone in a mud puddle or lose it, you'll be able to recover everything you've created. This is a work in progress, but we hope to have it released this quarter™. At that time, we'll be creating more obvious steps for users to ensure their accounts are recoverable. If you want to follow the project to update the account creation and schema, check out the project on GitHub.
Seed phrase generated using the BIP39 specification for generating mnemonic sentences (of varying levels of entropy) useful for the generation of deterministic binary seeds. This happens directly on the app installed on your device, no servers involved.
Public/private key-pair derivation uses the ED25519 signature algorithm (which uses elliptic curve cryptography). Again, to keep the user totally secure, this happens directly on the device.
Okay, now the Textile Photos app is ready for its first photo. When you go to add that first photo, the app is going to do a couple of interesting things. The first among them is that it will create — entirely on your device — a new single-use key. This encryption key will be associated only with this one single photo, and stored in your app for safe keeping. As before, it doesn't leave your phone (until you share it).
Over time, we plan to improve this setup even further. For example, we have a lot of room to explore key-based permissions, where you may grant only partial access (say by resolution) to a photo you share. If you're interested in exploring these ideas with us, feel free to get in touch, jump into our code, or just chat with us on Slack, we're happy to discuss! And for those less familiar with block ciphers and 'crypto-speak', take a look at this article on Symmetric Encryption with AES for a good starting point. Also, this StackExchange site is gold for learning about the (sometimes very confusing) world of cryptography.
Array of random bytes (44 bytes long to be exact) is generated, with 32 reserved for the encryption key and 12 for a nonce. U̶s̶e̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶p̶a̶i̶r̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶K̶S̶U̶I̶D̶s̶ ̶t̶r̶u̶n̶c̶a̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶a̶t̶ ̶4̶4̶ ̶b̶y̶t̶e̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶g̶e̶n̶e̶r̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶r̶a̶n̶d̶o̶m̶ ̶b̶y̶t̶e̶s̶.̶ ̶K̶S̶U̶I̶D̶s̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶a̶ ̶n̶i̶c̶e̶ ̶w̶a̶y̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶g̶e̶n̶e̶r̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶g̶l̶o̶b̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶u̶n̶i̶q̶u̶e̶ ̶I̶D̶s̶ ̶s̶i̶m̶i̶l̶a̶r̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶R̶F̶C̶ ̶4̶1̶2̶2̶ ̶U̶U̶I̶D̶s̶ ̶(̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶b̶e̶t̶t̶e̶r̶)̶.̶ Oop, we have now removed the time component from the securely generated random number. Again, all these steps happen right on the device, so no server ever needs to know your private keys.
Photo is read from device's storage, and decoded to remove Exif information and correct any orientation issues or format-specific encodings it might have to deal with.
If the photo is in HEIC, HEIF, or WebP format, it is converted to JPEG (for now) at a few optimized resolutions (thumbnail, preview, etc).
Bytes of the photo and metadata (as well as the phone's public key from Step 1) are encrypted using AES-256 GCM authenticated encryption — 128-bit AES block cipher wrapped in Galois Counter Mode, with a standard nonce length of 12 bytes, using the KSUID-based key.
Now that your photo (plus thumbnail, metadata, etc) is encrypted with its dedicated single-use key, the next step is to make it available on the immutable, decentralized web. At Textile, our entry-point to this decentralized web is through the Interplanetary File System, or IPFS. We've talked a lot about IPFS before, and how it changes the way we access content online. For the purposes of this post, it is sufficient to say that we use IPFS to hash the previously encrypted data to generate it's content address. This content address is essentially a cryptographic fingerprint of the underlying encrypted data, and gives your device a nice way to reference that data, regardless or where it is actually stored. With this information, your phone has a permanent address for your encrypted photo data and key, at which point Textile Photos stores these final bits of information in your private Textile Wallet. Want to learn more about the Textile Wallet? Tune in for a future blog post on the exciting world of the Textile Wallet, also coming soon™.
Raw encrypted bytes from previous step are run through a SHA256-based multi-hash hashing function, to produce a digest. This digest is guaranteed to be cryptographically unique.
These various digests are arranged in a directory-like structure as an Interplanetary Linked Data (or IPLD) store. This data structure is essentially something called a Merkle DAG, or directed acyclic graph.
A reference to the top level hash of the above IPLD hash tree is then stored in your Textile Wallet (see this article for details on hashes and CIDs).
Now you probably want to share that photo with someone? So the way this works 'behind the scenes' in Textile Photos is going to take a bit more explaining. The full explanation is part of a longer post on Textile's Thread concept, due out later this week. The short explanation is that, in Textile Photos you can create private groups (or Threads) for sharing photos, comments, etc. Each new Thread you create or join will get yet another cryptographic private/public key-pair! This key pair is generated on the device that initially creates the Thread, and is only shared with those devices that are explicitly invited to the Thread. So, who has access to your Thread's key-pair? Only the device it was generated with, and those devices it explicitly shares it with. You don't want Textile to have access? Fine by us! Keep your private stuff private, and we'll do the same.
User creates a new Thread. This thread automatically gets its own public/private key-pair, again using the ED25519 signature algorithm mentioned in Step 1. We use ED25519 here because it's fast, compact, secure, and widely used. See the EdDSA Wikipedia page for more details.
The app also automatically adds this new Thread to the user's private Textile Wallet. At this point, this information lives on-device only. Safe and sound.
User can now send that key-pair to anyone they want to invite to the Thread. This can be done directly from within the app or by sending an external invite — sending the Thread's private key, encrypted using a new invite-specific key via the AES block cipher algorithm mentioned in Step 1. They can then send that encrypted key using some external means of communication, like secure private chat, end-to-end encrypted email, etc.
Now, with the Thread keys in hand, we need to somehow get the photo set (and metadata) key to the other Thread peers. The photo is already encrypted, and has an immutable IPFS hash. So, we take those two pieces of information — photo key and hash — and encrypt them with the Thread's private key. Next, we wrap them up in a message structure, and sign this with the user's private key. The whole message and envelope is then shared with each member of the Thread via a direct peer-to-peer (p2p) communication if possible.
'Over the wire' communication (while the photo envelope is in transit), is also protected by a layer of encryption. In fact, you might call this our 'first line of defense' against would be network observers. This means that all connections use secure sessions to encrypt all traffic. Something like a TLS-like handshake is used to setup the initial communication channel, so you might think of this whole thing like an SSL session.
At the other end of the wire (on the peer end) the app accesses the signed message data, but only after they've verified the message signature with the sender's public key. Assuming the message is legitimate, they'll then decrypt it with the Thread key you shared with them before, and then decrypt all the internal photo data with the single-use key inside that package. Amazing! Again, no central servers ever knew any of those keys… just a bunch of phones! So to reiterate… who has access to your private keys? Only the device they were generated with, and those devices it explicitly shares them with. You get the idea by now.
Using the private key associated with the target Thread (from the previous step), the app encrypts the photo set hash and single-use key needed to decrypt the photo set.
The app then sends out this package — signed with their own app-level public key — to all the members of the Thread.
Over the wire, the whole message is encrypted using the secio stream security transport.
In the background, all Thread members essentially fetch the data via IPFS, and then peel back (i.e., decrypt) all the various layers of encryption with the keys that they have securely stored on their devices.
Obviously 99% of this is happening in the background, without any real user intervention. And that's really the beauty of Textile's approach here. Secure, modern photo encryption without user intervention. Just safe and easy by default. At this point, you might be scratching your head and wondering, how did the actual sharing happen? Well, you're in luck, next week we'll be taking a deep dive into the Thread concept and its underlying technology.
In the mean time, there are a few things that we're working on right now, to make this end-to-end interaction even more secure. For example, rather that just signing the Thread messages, we'll soon be encrypting the whole package. This means that not only is the photo data, metadata, keys, and other content encrypted, but all thread history will now be fully encrypted. This will make it harder for some nefarious network observer to traffic types to a specific user.
Additionally, the seed-based account recovery work that is already underway will drastically improve the way the top-level keys are generated and handled within the app. Allowing more control and better recovery options.
No post on encryption would be complete without a statement along the lines of: "The encryption framework used in Textile Photos has not yet been externally audited. Textile Photo is still in its Beta release, if your life depends on the security of our application, please use a more mature platform for now". With that in mind, we have gone to great lengths to make sure it is safe and secure.
Interested in trying some of these ideas out? Maybe you want to field-test our encryption system? Well, make sure you sign up for the Textile Photos wait-list if you haven't already, to get early access to what we're building. While you're at it, take a look at some of our previous posts on some of the underlying technology behind Textile Photos, or reach out on Slack, Twitter, or GitHub to share your thoughts, questions, or cool decentralized technologies that you are building. If this work is really your thing, hit us up on jobs@textile.io, we'd love to hear from you.
Thanks to Sander Pick and Carson Farmer.
Co-founder of Textile.io, the makers of https://textile.photos/join.


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Philippe De Gobert, Performance James Lee Byars, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1974. Video, black and white video, 00:17:22.
Documentary photographs of 'The Extra-Terrestrial' at Essen University, 1976. Photography, black and white photographs, 7 x .
James Lee Byars, Extra-Terrestrial, ICC Antwerp, 1976. Miscellaneum, one-page catalogue, white paper in black cover, 29.5 x 21 cm, 29.5 x 42.5 cm.
James Lee Byars, The Perfect Kiss, Antwerp 1976, 1976. Other, paper, 29.5 x 21 cm.
James Lee Byars, The Tomb of James Lee Byars, 1986. Object, globe consisted of lime sand brick, 100 x 100 x 100 cm.
James Lee Byars, Tribute to the New Generation, 1991. Object, a disc of golden cardboard, with an embossed spiral on one side, Ø 1.8 cm.
Unknown, The Death of James Lee Byars, Brussels, 1994. Video, 00:13:00.


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namespace std {
namespace experimental {

class executor {
 public:
  virtual void spawn(executors::work&& func) = 0;
};

template <typename Exec>
class executor_wrapper : public executor {
 public:
  executor_wrapper() = delete;
  executor_wrapper(const executor_wrapper& other) = delete;
  executor_wrapper(executor_wrapper&& other) = delete;

  // exec needs to be guaranteed to live as long as this class or bad things
  // will happen.
  executor_wrapper(Exec& exec) : exec_(exec) {}

  inline void spawn(executors::work&& fn) {
    exec_.spawn(forward<executors::work>(fn));
  }

 private:
  Exec& exec_;
};

// TODO: consider moving the free functions into the executors:: namespace.

// Small helper to create a packaged task on behalf of a given function.
// Returns tuple of {future, packaged_task}.
template <typename Func>
auto make_package(Func&& f) -> packaged_task<decltype(f())()> {
  return packaged_task<decltype(f())()>(f);
}

template <typename Exec, typename T>
inline future<T> spawn(Exec&& exec, packaged_task<T()>&& func) {
  future<T> result = func.get_future();
  exec.spawn(forward<packaged_task<T()>>(func));
  return result;
}

template <typename Exec, typename Func, typename Continuation>
void spawn(Exec&& exec, Func&& func, Continuation&& continuation) {
  // TODO: create a container which actually supports move-only objects.
  // Currently this wont move the function which is passed in, only make a
  // reference to it.
  exec.spawn([&] { func(); continuation(); });
}

template <typename Func, typename Continuation>
void spawn(executor&& exec, Func&& func, Continuation&& continuation) {
  exec.spawn(executors::work([&] { func(); continuation(); }));
}

template <typename Func>
void spawn(executor&& exec, Func&& func) {
  exec.spawn(func);
}

}  // namespace experimental
}  // namespace std

#endif

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Q: SonarQube LOC analysis limit I'm about to use SonarQube on big projects and have been searching for info about LOC limit for analysis and there is no related information on their website. Is there? if it is, what's the limit?

A: There is no hard limit, either within a single project or across the instance. However, depending on your infrastructure (e.g. disk space available for the DB) you may run into practical limits.

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He demonstrated a few tricks.
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Weather issues decimated peak milk production in Australia and NZ
October – peak dairy production in Australia – saw output down 2.1 per cent below last year. This means season-to-date production is down 2.9 per cent.
Global dairy markets are "teetering" at low milk production levels not seen since 2014, Rabobank says in its just-released Q4 Global Dairy Quarterly report.
The agribusiness banking specialist says weather-related issues have decimated peak milk production in New Zealand and Australia, while supply growth has also been stymied in the US and Europe by squeezed profit margins for producers.
This has resulted in a year-on-year global milk production deficit that is too deep to be offset by favourable milk production gains seen in South America, it says.
The report says – after nine consecutive quarterly increases – combined global milk supply growth in the major dairy-exporting regions halted in quarter three this year and will dip into negative territory in quarter four.
Report co-author, Rabobank senior dairy analyst Michael Harvey said combined quarter four milk production in the big seven dairy exporting regions – New Zealand, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, EU, US and Australia – is expected to decline by 0.3 per cent compared with quarter four last year. This will be the first quarterly year-on-year decrease since 2019.
The report said farmgate milk prices have followed commodity prices higher worldwide, with more potential upside still to come in some regions. Still, rising costs for inputs, labour shortages, unfavourable weather and questionable feed quality will limit the production response by producers, it said.
Global dairy exports have slowed in response to logistic disruptions, rising transportation costs, and elevated commodity prices.
"Global dairy exports based on product volume ran seven per cent ahead of the prior year during the first half of 2021, but slowed to one per cent in July and August," the report said.
Chinese demand
Mr Harvey said a slowdown in demand for dairy inputs from China is expected and is needed to cool global prices in the face of limited supply-side increases.
"Chinese buyers are torn between the bullish sentiment outside China and the current weak fundamentals within China to decide whether, when, and at what price levels they should return to the market," he said.
Inflation pressures
Despite rising inflationary pressures, consumers have yet to face "sticker shock" (where higher prices become a deterrent) for dairy products in most countries, the Rabobank report said, and this is supporting demand. That would not be the case in 2022, it said, as higher commodity prices from the second half of 2021 are passed through to consumers.
In addition, Mr Harvey said, new variants of Covid-19, inflation, labour and logistic challenges, along with others weigh on the global economic recovery with the potential for global dairy markets to "teeter or totter".
NZ market impact
A sluggish spring milk production peak in New Zealand – the world's largest dairy exporter – also contributed to a global supply slow down.
Mr Harvey said New Zealand milk production has only recently started to benefit from more sunshine and warmth for much of the country.
"Unfortunately, the change to more favourable weather was too late for the peak milk month of October, when collections dropped by 3.3 per cent year on year. There have now been three consecutive months of milk supply slipping backward against 2020 since August 2021," he said.
"Rabobank's New Zealand milk production forecast for the entire 2021/22 season is -1 per cent year-on-year. In a high milk-price environment and depending on cow condition, it is possible that there will be a late run to recover some of the lost production so far. But our base case assumes the weaker peak will be hard to recoup across the season – especially given lingering challenges to milk production in parts of Canterbury and in addition to high comparables to match from February onwards," he said
For Australia
For Australia, the Dairy Quarterly report said, many dairy farms had been dealing with a wet spring – particularly in Victoria and Tasmania.
October – peak dairy production in Australia – saw output down 2.1 per cent below last year. This means season-to-date production is down 2.9 per cent, Mr Harvey said.
Rabobank has lowered its milk production forecast, to -1.8 per cent for the 2021/22 season, back to 8.68 billion litres.
Mr Harvey said dairy companies in Australia's southern export region are upwardly adjusting their initial (June) announced farmgate milk prices.
"Fonterra Australia and Saputo Dairy Australia both lifted prices to AUD 7.05/kgMS or more. There is potential for further increases as dairy exporters benefit from higher commodity prices, particularly skim milk powder. But there are lingering headwinds for local dairy exporters given the weaker-than-expected spring flush and ongoing supply chain bottlenecks and disruptions," he said.
Rabobank's revised farmgate milk modelled price for 2021/22 stands at AUD 7.75/kgMS, underpinned by rising commodity prices and a weaker currency.
"Australian dairy farmers continue to enjoy good margins," Mr Harvey said "There are, though, production and margin risks beyond the weather, which will remain into the new year. Input costs have spiked for fertiliser and herbicide, with supply risks lurking in the next few months."
Mr Harvey said high water allocations and healthy soil moisture profiles for irrigated dairy farmers in the southern Murray-Darling Basin will provide good prospects for summer feed crops.
"Rabobank also forecasts another large Australian winter grain crop for 2021/22. This will be welcome news for feed purchases – but noting global prices are supporting local prices," he said.
The report says Australia's food market is once again on the road to recovery.
"The Australian economy will grow in 2022, but consumers will face rising costs of living and food inflation including in the dairy aisle," Mr Harvey said.
Australian dairy exports have remained buoyant through the nine months of the year, according to the Dairy Quarterly. Export volumes are higher across all the major commodities. Liquid milk exports have been strong, underpinned by Chinese demand with volumes 25 per cent higher. Exports of skim milk powder and butter have also performed well.

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It is time for Congress to listen to the doctors, nurses, hospitals and patient groups calling for them to put patients over politics and begin working in a bipartisan manner to reduce health care costs and increase coverage. If Congress remains committed down the path of repealing coverage, let this be a notice that when we fight for our patients, we fight to win.


Courtesy of the Merriam-Webster Word of the Day, I just learned that hypocorism is a linguist's term for pet names, including "baby talk", and endearing terms. I would include nicknames and terms of lack of endearment. Traditionally that is in the personal sense, but pet names and nicknames are all too common in computing technology and other fields. Common enough that glossaries and term definitions should include them to be able to more completely capture all references to an entity, concept, term, or topic. I would include jargon, techspeak, euphemisms, and "hacker slang" as well. A key criteria is that the term have a relatively widespread usage as opposed to being used by only a very small and unknown group or single individual for their local environment.
In fact, it might be interesting or amusing to have a glossary consisting only of hypocorisms in computing. There is in fact something called The Jargon Lexicon, but it is a more narrow collection of terms used primarily by "hackers."
I am not yet comfortable with using this relatively unknown 10-gallon term for such a simple concept. For now, I may stick with nickname as my preferred sobriquet for hypocorism.
Note that there should be a semantic distinction between alternate names, synonyms, acronyms, and nicknames. Another key aspect of a nickname is that its usage is quite informal.


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BUSINESS Nissan says 'in no way' considering dissolving alliance with Renault
Nissan says 'in no way' considering dissolving alliance with Renault
TOKYO, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Nissan Motor Co. on Tuesday said it is in "no way" considering dissolving its alliance with Renault SA and Mitsubishi Motors Corp., after reports the automaker may have been planning for a split.
Renault and Nissan automobile logos are pictured during the Brussels Motor Show on January 9, 2020 in Brussels. (Photo: AFP)
"The alliance is the source of Nissan's competitiveness. Through the alliance, to achieve sustainable and profitable growth, Nissan will look to continue delivering win-win results for all member companies," Nissan said in a statement.
The Yokohama-based automaker's statement comes following media reports that executives at the firm had been expediting plans for a possible split from its French partner Renault.
Tensions have long-been reported between Nissan and Renault and have been punctuated by former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn's arrest in 2018 for financial misconduct and subsequent escape to Lebanon last month while on bail.
Ghosn forged the alliance between the two automakers and Mitsubishi Motors, rescuing Nissan from near-bankruptcy around 20 years ago.
Now considered a fugitive for jumping bail, Ghosn, a once-feted business heavyweight who holds Brazilian, French and Lebanese citizenship, was widely credited as the force behind Nissan's rapid turnaround from near-bankruptcy since 1999.
In 1999, Ghosn was sent to Nissan and served as the chief executive officer following the Japanese automaker's capital alliance made with Renault.
He served as Nissan's president from 2000 and its chief executive officer from 2001 to 2017 and oversaw the auto group becoming the second-largest of its kind behind Volkswagen AG, according to figures for 2018.
He lost his chairmanship posts at all three automakers after his arrest in 2018.
Renault-Nissan president denies reports of potential split
File photoThe partnership between Renault and Nissan is "not dead", the alliances president has insisted, after reports of a potential split in the wake of the Carlos Ghosn scandal.Jean-Dominique Senard said that reports Nissan is mulling plans for a possible break-away had "no connection to the current situation of the alliance"."The Renault-Nissan alliance is not dead! Soon we will show you why," he said in an interview with Belgian daily LEcho published Tuesday."I ask myself, where does this sort of information come from? I am not sure it comes from a place of goodwill," Senard said.Britains Financial Times, citing "several people with knowledge of the matter", said on Monday that senior executives at the scandal-hit Japanese automaker were speeding up work on secret plans for a potential divorce with French partner Renault.In early trading in Tokyo on Tuesday, Nissan fell 1.77 percent, while Renault stocks finished 2.8 percent lower in Paris.The reports come after former alliance chief Ghosn jumped bail and fled Japan, where he was awaiting trial on financial misconduct charges.His shock arrival in his native Lebanon prompted outrage from the Japanese government as well as from Nissan.Ghosn alleges the charges against him were cooked up by disgruntled Nissan executives opposed to his plans to more closely align the Japanese firm with its French partner.At a press conference in Lebanon last week, he slammed the state of the alliance he once led, saying it had been gutted and left directionless.The 20-year partnership between Nissan and Renault, whose alliance is based on cross-shareholdings without a joint structure, has been badly shaken by the scandal.But Senard said the alliance was "nowhere near" the point of collapse and insisted its leaders were busy "recreating its original spirit" and planning future investments.On Tuesday, a Nissan spokeswoman declined comment, saying: &...
France's Renault reports decline in 2019 sales
File photo: CGTNPARIS, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- French carmaker Renault on Friday announced that its sales fell by 3.4 percent compared with 2018 result after providing world markets with 3.75 million vehicles.The group said it had consolidated its positions in its core markets. In Europe, it offered 1.3 percent more units to 1.24 million, while its sales in Russia grew 2.3 percent and its market share stood at 29 percent, up by 1.4 percentage points.In Brazil, where Renault became the fourth brand, gaining two positions, sales volumes rose 11.3 percent to 239,174 vehicles and market share reached a record 9 percent, up by 0.3 percentage point thanks to the good results of Kwid model, the carmakers data showed.Meanwhile, sales fell 17.2 percent in China and by 19.3 percent in Africa, Middle East, India and the Pacific region."In 2020, we will benefit from full-year sales of our best-selling New Clio and New Captur, as well as the acceleration of our electric and hybrid offensive, notably with New ZOE, Twingo Z.E. and E-Tech technology," said Olivier Murguet, Sales and Regions Executive Vice President of Groupe Renault."We will continue to improve our price positioning initiated in 2019, supported by the quality and attractiveness of our new products," he added.
Rehashing Cold War cannot Band-Aid alliance
NATO.Turkey.Russian.


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Home › Political › Benghazi – Who Issued the "Stand Down" Order?
Benghazi – Who Issued the "Stand Down" Order?
By garnet92 on November 2, 2013 • ( 6 )
Some of you may have already seen this piece. Written by an individual who has some credibility in the area, it was posted as a comment in response to the CBS News 60 Minutes report. It was also previously published by PJ Media on November 2, 2012. Please be aware that this is long, but worth the read.
By Matt Bracken October 27, 2013 9:06 PM EDT
I was writing about this within days of the attack. This is the start of my piece published in PJ Media. The Benghazi debacle boils down to a single key factor — the granting or withholding of "cross-border authority." This opinion is informed by my experience as a Navy SEAL officer who took a NavSpecWar Detachment to Beirut.
Once the alarm is sent–in this case, from the consulate in Benghazi; dozens of HQs are notified and are in the planning loop in real time, including AFRICOM and EUCOM, both located in Germany. Without waiting for specific orders from Washington, they begin planning and executing rescue operations, including moving personnel, ships, and aircraft forward toward the location of the crisis. However, there is one thing they can't do without explicit orders from the president: cross an international border on a hostile mission. That is the clear "red line" in this type of a crisis situation.
No administration wants to stumble into a war because a jet jockey in hot pursuit (or a mixed-up SEAL squad in a rubber boat) strays into hostile territory. Because of this, only the president can give the order for our military to cross a nation's border without that nation's permission. For the Osama bin Laden mission, President Obama granted CBA for our forces to enter Pakistani airspace.
On the other side of the CBA coin: in order to prevent a military rescue in Benghazi, all the POTUS has to do is not grant cross-border authority. If he does not, the entire rescue mission (already in progress) must stop in its tracks.
Ships can loiter on station, but airplanes fall out of the sky, so they must be redirected to an air base (Sigonella, in Sicily) to await the POTUS decision on granting CBA. If the decision to grant CBA never comes, the besieged diplomatic outpost in Benghazi can rely only on assets already "in country" in Libya — such as the Tripoli quick reaction force and the Predator drones. These assets can be put into action on the independent authority of the acting ambassador or CIA station chief in Tripoli. They are already "in country," so CBA rules do not apply to them.
How might this process have played out in the White House?
If, at the 5:00 p.m. Oval Office meeting with Defense Secretary Panetta and Vice President Biden, President Obama said about Benghazi: "I think we should not go the military action route," meaning that no CBA will be granted, then that is it. Case closed. Another possibility is that the president might have said: "We should do what we can to help them … but no military intervention from outside of Libya." Those words then constitute "standing orders" all the way down the chain of command, via Panetta and General Dempsey to General Ham and the subordinate commanders who are already gearing up to rescue the besieged outpost.
When that meeting took place, it may have seemed as if the consulate attack was over, so President Obama might have thought the situation would stabilize on its own from that point forward. If he then goes upstairs to the family quarters, or otherwise makes himself "unavailable," then his last standing orders will continue to stand until he changes them, even if he goes to sleep until the morning of September 12.
Nobody in the chain of command below President Obama can countermand his "standing orders" not to send outside military forces into Libyan air space. Nobody. Not Leon Panetta, not Hillary Clinton, not General Dempsey, and not General Ham in Stuttgart, Germany, who is in charge of the forces staging in Sigonella.
Perhaps the president left "no outside military intervention, no cross-border authority" standing orders, and then made himself scarce to those below him seeking further guidance, clarification, or modified orders. Or perhaps he was in the Situation Room watching the Predator videos in live time for all seven hours. We don't yet know where the president was hour by hour.
But this is 100 percent sure: Panetta and Dempsey would have executed a rescue mission order if the president had given those orders.
And like the former SEALs in Benghazi, General Ham and all of the troops under him would have been straining forward in their harnesses, ready to go into battle to save American lives.
The execute orders would be given verbally to General Ham at AFRICOM in Stuttgart, but they would immediately be backed up in official message traffic for the official record. That is why cross-border authority is the King Arthur's Sword for understanding Benghazi. The POTUS and only the POTUS can pull out that sword.
We can be 100% certain that cross-border authority was never given. How do I know this? Because if CBA was granted and the rescue mission execute orders were handed down, irrefutable records exist today in at least a dozen involved component commands, and probably many more. No general or admiral will risk being hung out to dry for undertaking a mission-gone-wrong that the POTUS later disavows ordering, and instead blames on "loose cannons" or "rogue officers" exceeding their authority. No general or admiral will order U.S. armed forces to cross an international border on a hostile mission unless and until he is certain that the National Command Authority, in the person of the POTUS and his chain of command, has clearly and explicitly given that order: verbally at the outset, but thereafter in written orders and official messages. If they exist, they could be produced today.
When it comes to granting cross-border authority, there are no presidential mumblings or musings to paraphrase or decipher. If you hear confusion over parsed statements given as an excuse for Benghazi, then you are hearing lies. I am sure that hundreds of active-duty military officers know all about the Benghazi execute orders (or the lack thereof), and I am impatiently waiting for one of them to come forward to risk his career and pension as a whistleblower.
Leon Panetta is falling on his sword for President Obama with his absurd-on-its-face, "the U.S. military doesn't do risky things"-defense of his shameful no-rescue policy. Panetta is utterly destroying his reputation. General Dempsey joins Panetta on the same sword with his tacit agreement by silence. But why? How far does loyalty extend when it comes to covering up gross dereliction of duty by the president?
General Petraeus, however, has indirectly blown the whistle. He was probably "used" in some way early in the cover-up with the purported CIA intel link to the Mohammed video, and now he feels burned. So he conclusively said via his public affairs officer that the stand-down order did not come from the CIA. Well — what outranks the CIA? Only the national security team at the White House. That means President Obama, and nobody else. Petraeus is naming Obama without naming him. If that is not quite as courageous as blowing a whistle, it is far better than the disgraceful behavior of Panetta and Dempsey.
We do not know the facts for certain, but we do know that the rescue mission stand-down issue revolves around the granting or withholding of cross-border authority, which belongs only to President Obama. More than one hundred gung-ho Force Recon Marines were waiting on the tarmac in Sigonella, just two hours away for the launch order that never came.
I read another individual's comment that summed up my initial reaction, "I don't know which is worse, the Islamists who killed our people in Benghazi or the people in the White House who tried to cover it up."
But then, after digesting that statement, my gut tells me differently. The "cover up" is far worse.
We expect terrorists to do what they did, kill Americans, burn our flag, etc. They're terrorists – it's what they do.
We don't expect our government's leadership to prevent any chance of saving American lives, to lie about what happened and why, and to cover it up for political expediency.
I believe that the White House's fingerprints are all over the Benghazi cover-up. I believe that purposely not granting cross-border authority had the effect of a "stand down" order without one actually being stated – thus providing the plausible deniability implicit in the statement that "no stand-down order was given by the White House." While that may be true literally, the effect was that of issuing such an order.
And that kind of activity, my friends, is NOT what we expect from our "leadership" and is both despicable and, in my opinion, treasonous.
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jcpickard527
Great reporting of the facts as known by those in the Military.
garnet92
Thanks for stopping by jc, I was impressed by Matt Bracken's credentials and how he broke down the likelihood of what really happened – I tend to believe it happened just like he says.
Pepp! So good to "see" you out and about again. I hope that this indicates that you are surviving and beginning to overcome the loss of your soul-mate. I hope that my little contribution helped you to think of something other than Gos' passing for a little while. I'll be looking forward to your return to writing. Thanks for visiting.
pepperhawk
Garnet, thank you kindly. I am just testing the waters a little bit. I'm not up to writing an article yet, but I thought slowly I'd try to get around a little to others' blogs. I've had wonderful neighbors who are bringing me food. I've had something every night someone brought me.
i can't say I've overcome Hawk's loss. It's such a blow. I miss him dearly, but I'm trying to get used to being alone again and I have Merlin, my ferocious shepherd who is protecting me very well. And he is so lovable and loyal to me. That helps a lot.
Best of all are my Amish neighbors who have been so kind. I'm still without my car as it broke down on me on the way to the hospital to be with Ron, his last night before they took him to Hospice where he died two days later. I'm on my 2nd mechanic now trying to find out what is wrong. This on top of Hawk's death has been so stressful. And I don't know what the cost will be. It may be too much for me to have it fixed and I'd have to use Hawk's 1981 Jeep. I've never driven it, but I always drove a stick so I should figure out how to drive it. I've been in financial mess you wouldn't believe. But, somehow, some way I'll get something going to get out of here. I'm in such an isolated place but there are some people who give rides to those who have no transportation. The town is about the friendliest you can imagine.
I saw where you also commented at 'Nox & Friends too – it is probably good to "get out" a bit – I think that it'll help your emotional well-being. Thank God for Merlin, I know that he must be a comfort. Dogs seem to sense our emotions and respond accordingly – he'd probably fix your car if he had thumbs. And it's so neat that your Amish neighbors are being so supportive of you. From what I know, you are a good person who would do the same for them if it were necessary. If I can ever help, let me know.
It's treason, pure and simple. I always thought it was. A number of high ranking retired officers stated only the potus gives the order. End of story. Period. He should be hanged.
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WEDNESDAY KEYNOTE
Ralph Losey
Shareholder and National eDiscovery Counsel, Jackson Lewis P.C.
Ralph Losey is the National eDiscovery Counsel for Jackson Lewis P.C., a US labor and employment law firm with over 800 attorneys in 52 offices throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Since 2006, Mr. Losey has dedicated his law practice to ediscovery-related topics and has experience in Commercial Litigation as a practicing lawyer since 1980. He is an author and frequent speaker at ediscovery CLEs around the world, and is a leading contributor in the field of legal search, including recent landmark decisions on the use of predictive coding, and scientific experiments testing various predictive coding methodologies.
The Transformation of your Practice: Looking into the Crystal Ball
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THURSDAY KEYNOTE
Mike Lipkin
Founder and CEO, Environics/Lipkin
Mike Lipkin is the founder and CEO of Environics/Lipkin, the Motivation Company in the Environics Research Group. His mission is to give people the insights that excite them into powerful action.
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Tom Howe
Electronic Discovery Lawyer, Howe & Associates
Tom Howe has consistently been one of the highest-rated guest speakers at previous Technology in Practice conferences due to his unique ability to teach complex technical issues in a manner that is meaningful and relevant for lawyers.
He is a regular keynote speaker at legal and technology conferences and CLE's across the United States and Canada, and has spoken at over 50 software-programming conferences worldwide (US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia). He has authored five books on law and technology including Electronic Discovery Technologies: Practical Tips and Tools for Electronically Stored Information (currently revising). He has also written major software systems for ediscovery vendors, law firms, and corporate clients.
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George Socha
President and Founder, Socha Consulting LLC
George Socha is the president and founder of Socha Consulting LLC, an electronic discovery consulting firm; co-founder of ABIKOS; co-founder of Apersee; and co-founder of EDRM. In 2003 he and Tom Gelbmann launched the Socha-Gelbman Electronic Discovery Survey, now Apersee (apersee.com) and in 2005 they started EDRM (edrm.net). In 2014, George and David Kittrell formed ABIKOS, an e-discovery consulting and technology firm.
Mr. Socha is an advisor and expert witness who focuses on the full range of electronic discovery activities. His clients include corporations, governmental agencies, legal vertical market software and services providers, investment firms and law firms. Before launching his consulting firm, George spent 16 years as a litigation attorney in private practice. He received his law degree from Cornell Law School and his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Martin Tuip
Executive Director, Information Governance, ARMA International
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With almost 20 years of IT-related experience, Mr. Tuip is widely known and well-regarded as a technical expert and speaker on information governance and archiving. In his career he has helped organizations around the globe plan and deploy large-scale enterprise messaging systems and standards and archiving environments. He is also a published author and ten-time Microsoft MVP for Exchange Server.
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Kelly Bernard
Manager, Legal eDiscovery, BMO Financial Group
As Manager of Legal eDiscovery at BMO Financial Group, Kelly Bernard implements strategies to maintain appropriate legal hold risk controls while also ensuring efficient and cost effective management of electronic records needed in response to litigation and/or regulatory investigations. Kelly leads an eDiscovery Team in identifying the best solutions to meet the Bank's discovery obligations (people + process + technology).
Kelly has 20+ years of experience in litigation with a focus on cases with voluminous electronic records. She has an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree (with distinction) from the University of Toronto and has been certified as an eDiscovery Specialist. Kelly is a member of the Association of Certified eDiscovery Specialists (ACEDS) and a member of the Institute of Law Clerks of Ontario (ILCO).
The Hon. Colin Campbell, Q.C.
Neeson Arbitration Chambers
The Hon. Colin L. Campbell, Q.C. has established his mediation, arbitration and case management practice at Neeson Arbitration Chambers following a distinguished career as litigation counsel and 15 years as a judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Prior to his appointment to the Superior Court in 1998, Colin trained and practised in both mediation and arbitration and was a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada.
As a judge Mr. Campbell chaired the Task Force on Discovery in Ontario and is a member of the Joint Task Force on Discovery and Trial Reform of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the Institute for Advancement of the American Legal System. Colin is a founding member of what is known as Sedona Canada and a founding Director of Pro Bono Law Ontario and a member of the Board of the Canadian Conference of Judicial Mediation.
Dominic Desbiens
Manager, Application and Training Services, Dentons LLP
Dominic has more than 15 years' experience in Information Technology in the legal industry. Throughout his career, he has been heavily involved in software evaluation, selection and implementation including being instrumental in the selection and deployment of numerous litigation support platforms at large Canadian and Global law firms. Dominic has a strong reputation as a dynamic and progressive leader in several areas including project management, IT Operations, Applications and Training management
Steve Dudgeon
Project Manager, Law Group at RBC
Mark Eklove
General Counsel and Director, Law & Privacy, Allstream
As General Counsel, Mark takes pride in being a business-minded lawyer who works collaboratively to provide clear and practical legal advice on all aspects of Allstream's business. He and his team advise on a broad range of legal, privacy and business issues to help the company achieve its objectives in an increasingly competitive marketplace. He joined Allstream's Law Department in 2006.
Prior to his career with Allstream, Mark held progressively senior legal positions at The Citadel General Assurance Company, ultimately serving as Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary. He began his career in private practice. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from York University and an LL.B. from the University of Ottawa and was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1993.
Martin Felsky PHD, JD
National E-Discovery Counsel, Borden Ladner Gervais
Martin Felsky is the National eDiscovery Counsel at Borden Ladner Gervais. Martin provides the leadership, supervision and coordination of ediscovery projects from inception to completion, including planning, data collection, processing, review, and quality control on a national basis.
Martin has advised clients and counsel in all types of legal proceedings including commercial litigation, class actions, arbitrations, investigations and public inquiries. Martin helped draft the Sedona Canada Principles, which are referenced in the Ontario Rules, and has worked with courts in Ontario, Nova Scotia and Manitoba to develop electronic discovery rules in civil litigation. He has recently been appointed as an auditor for the Alberta Government's document imaging program.
Kelly Friedman
Partner, Davis LLP
Kelly Friedman is a partner in Davis LLP's Toronto office and is an experienced litigator with unique expertise in electronic information issues, including electronic discovery (ediscovery), data security and privacy. Kelly is known for her efficient, no-nonsense approach to problem solving and dispute resolution. In 2011, Kelly was named as one of Canadian Lawyer's "Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada" and she is a frequent contributor to the "D: Drive", a Davis LLP blog on "E-Discovery, Privacy and All Things Data".
Anne Glover
Partner, Blake Cassels and Graydon LLP
As head of the Blakes eDiscovery and Document Management team, Anne advises clients on all aspects of ediscovery and has led some of the largest and most complex document production cases in Canada. She has extensive experience dealing with the Canadian Competition Bureau and is an expert in responding to supplementary information requests (SIRs).
Anne also provides advice to clients on document management and retention issues. She helps clients determine how long they need to keep classes of documents, develop implementation plans and be "ediscovery ready" for when they need to produce documents in response to litigation or an investigation. As an advocate, Anne represents clients in court on e-discovery issues.
David Greetham
Vice President of eDiscovery Operations, Ricoh Legal USA
David Greetham has testified as an expert on numerous occasions both nationally and internationally. Notably, David provided testimony in the landmark Coleman Holdings v Morgan Stanley case. He is a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and is a Certified Computer Crime Investigator by the High Tech Crime Network. David is a Certified Fraud Examiner and is also a former member of the Association of British Investigators and Digital Forensic Research Workshops (DFRWS). He is a frequent speaker for Bar Association meetings and continuing legal education events.
David completed his Masters of Science in Forensic Computing from Cranfield University, considered as one of the top five technical universities in the world, which is based at the Defense Academy of the United Kingdom. In addition, David is the inventor and developer of Remlox™, a patent pending, forensically sound "remote collection" tool which has already been used in 36 countries throughout the world.
Peter Gutelius
Assistant General Counsel, Royal Bank of Canada
Marlon Hylton
Project Management Lawyer, McCarthy Tetrault LLP/Wortzmans
Marlon Hylton is an eDiscovery and Information Governance lawyer at McCarthy Tetrault LLP. He provides advice and direction at every stage of the ediscovery process to ensure legal defensibility and to control ediscovery cost for our clients. Mr Hylton also provides legal and technical advice to our clients on defensible information governance systems, including records management, legal hold, email usage, instant messaging, social media, and other related policies.
Mr. Hylton has extensive project management experience in electronic document review initiatives, and has supervised extensive review projects, including those occurring in multiple jurisdictions. He is proficient in numerous electronic data collection and processing techniques and with multiple electronic evidence management and review tools.
Kelly Inglese
Director, Litigation Support Services, Fasken Martineau
With more than 20 years experience in the legal industry, Kelly is using her experience to build the legal practice support group at Fasken Martineau. Kelly's focus is on the use of technology in litigation and her current role marks the third time that she has been engaged to build a litigation practice support team in a major Canadian law firm. Her knowledge and understanding of the importance of litigation specific technology, client service and a collaborative approach to change have made her a recognized leader in the legal technology industry both in Canada and internationally.
Monique Jilesen
Partner, Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP
In her extensive litigation practice, Monique acts as counsel in highly complex proceedings – in both subject matter and legal scope – from inception through to trial. She has extensive experience in the emerging area of ediscovery, working with third-party vendors to ensure that complicated files are managed efficiently and effectively.
Monique is the Chair of the Gale Cup Moot Committee, which oversees one of Canada's most prestigious bilingual law school mooting competitions (sponsored by Lenczner Slaght and the Canadian Bar Association). She is an adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School teaching in the Trial Advocacy program. She is a Team Leader in the Intensive Trial Advocacy program and teaches in continuing legal education programs sponsored by The Advocates' Society.
Jessica Kimmel
Partner, Goodmans LLP
Jessica Kimmel has significant experience in commercial disputes and class action defence work. Her expertise extends to corporate/commercial and securities litigation, including shareholder remedies, professional negligence and product liability.
Jessica has represented companies and individuals in complex commercial arbitrations and litigation and in major securities, competition and product liability class actions and has appeared at all levels of court in Ontario and in the Supreme Court of Canada. She has also acted for significant participants in public and private take-over/oppression litigation and in matters before the Ontario and British Columbia Securities Commissions.
Seth Magaw
Regional Digital Support Project Manager, Ricoh Legal USA
Seth started his career as a civil litigation paralegal. During this time, Seth assisted with all aspects of civil litigation including drafting motions and pleadings, preparing document discovery requests and multiple trials. He specializes in end-user litigation support consulting for multiple litigation support programs.
Seth has worked at Ricoh for ten years on all facets of discovery requests including large forensic collection projects, ESI and hosting projects. He was named the project manager recipient of the Circle of Excellence Award at Ricoh. Seth has spoken at many different events on electronic discovery including at an event for the Massachusetts Paralegal Association, the University of New Orleans paralegal program, and the ILTA Statewide meeting for Ohio Litigation Support Professionals. Seth is an active member in both EDRM and ACEDS and has a Bachelor of Science from Northeastern University.
Silas McCullough
General Manager Legal Services, mindSHIFT Technologies, a Ricoh Company
Silas joined mindSHIFT Technologies in 1999 and has over 20 years of experience in the IT field. He manages the Legal Professional Services team, which delivers IT systems upgrades and new implementations for law firms. Additionally, his team provides a Private Cloud solution for law firms. His areas of expertise cover both managerial and technical. He has provided high-level IT consulting to law firms by leveraging his technical expertise including Microsoft Windows Server and Desktop, Active Directory, and Exchange.
Prior to joining mindSHIFT, Silas was a senior systems engineer at SRA International, legal services division. While there, he worked on several projects at law firms ranging from a multi-office Windows NT server rollout to an e-mail migration from MS Mail to Exchange for a 2,000 person multi-national firm.
Manager of Litigation Support & eDiscovery, Cassels Brock and Blackwell LLP
Deborah Miller oversees and supports all litigation and technological service requirements for the Advocacy department that involve electronically stored information and eDiscovery. She combines her 22 year career as a Commercial Litigation Law Clerk and her exceptional skills as a project manager with her flair for technology to develop recommendations, project plans, budgets, procedures and specifications for case-specific ediscovery projects or matters involving technology.
As a Certified eDiscovery Specialist with ACEDS, the Association of eDiscovery Specialists, she provides strategic advice to counsel on ediscovery matters and consulting services to case teams and clients regarding the delivery of litigation support services and best practices for ediscovery case management that are defensible and cost-effective.
Edwina Podemski
Counsel, Alberta Justice
Christopher Purdon
Litigation Support Manager, McMillan LLP
Christopher Purdon is McMillan's Litigation Support Manger. Chris works with lawyers and directly with clients and their legal teams on all manner of ediscovery and records management projects. Chris advises McMillan lawyers and firm clients as they work through the various ediscovery phases from identification and collection through to review and production, utilizing his deep experience in management of such complex projects to ensure timely and accurate production of electronic records.
Chris works extensively with McMillan's litigation, regulatory and competition law practices assisting on ediscovery projects that require the management of large volumes of electronically stored information. His technical knowledge is invaluable to help deal with the challenges posed by today's technology and the often massive volume of data being managed by clients.
Angelique Rebelo
Dispute Management Team Project Coordinator, RBC Law Group
Steve Thacker
National Director of eDiscovery Consulting, Ricoh Legal USA
Steve Thacker is the National Director of Electronic Discovery Sales & Consulting for Ricoh USA, Inc. a global technology and litigation services provider, where he leads the national eDiscovery consulting team in developing and delivering solutions for both corporate and law firm clients to meet their strategic needs. Stephen provides subject matter expertise and strategic consultation to clients preparing for litigation or responding to investigations or regulatory requests. Leveraging his strong understanding of industry trends, his practical legal experience and his deep roots in technology, he optimizes technology to increase overall efficiency and mitigate cost and risk.
Tiana Van Dyk
Manager, Litigation Support and eDiscovery, Burnet Duckworth and Palmer LLP
As the Manager of eDiscovery and Litigation Support, Tiana has worked on developing in-house policies and procedures to streamline eDiscovery and control costs. She works closely with clients to facilitate all matters of eDiscovery, while finding creative solutions to manage the various phases of document production. Tiana continues to work on developing a project management model that meets BDP's needs and provides cost effective services that are aligned with clients' interests.
Tiana is an active member of the EDRM, which looks to create practical resources to improve eDiscovery and Information Governance. As a contributing member of the Maturity Model group, she has worked with industry leaders to develop tools that allow firms, corporations, and departments to assess their eDiscovery proficiency.
Lynne Vicars
Senior Legal Counsel – Legal Practice Management & eDiscovery, Scotiabank
Lynne Vicars is responsible for optimizing the Scotiabank's Legal Services "spend", both internally and externally, championing Scotiabank's Lean Six Sigma continuous improvement strategy for legal services and managing the Bank's external counsel relationships.
Lynne is also responsible for Information Governance and heads the Bank's eDiscovery team, which designs, implements and improves the Bank's electronic case management systems for litigation and e-Discovery strategy worldwide. Lynne is pivotal in the development and maintenance of Scotiabank's records retention policies, email retention technical standards and its litigation hold protocols. She is also responsible for providing the Bank with advice and counsel on legal issues relating to records retention, third party demands for record production, mutual legal assistance treaties, privacy, reputational risk and corporate security.
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Kevin Crosbie
Principal Security Architect, Symantec
Kevin Crosbie is a Senior Security Specialist with Symantec supporting the financial services industry within Canada. He has an extensive amount of experience in key security areas such as data loss prevention, mobility, and anti malware. In addition, Kevin's experience extends to Symantec's archiving and eDiscovery solutions
Brandon D'Agostino
National Manager, Information Governance Solutions, Symantec
Doug Kaminski
Senior Director for Information, Huron Consulting Group
Doug Kaminski has a deep base of knowledge in intelligent information governance and eDiscovery from both the legal and technology aspects. He is a frequent speaker and author on the subject based on practical experience with over 300 corporations worldwide.
Betty Montoni
Litigation Product Specialist, Thomson Reuters, eSolutions
Steve Moore
Vice President of Client Strategy, Ipro Tech
Steve Moore joined Ipro in January of 2011 and is responsible for managing Ipro's review platform, Eclipse. Prior to joining Ipro, Steve co-founded Lex Solutio Incorporated (now Encore Discovery Solutions, an Eqiq Company) and most recently held the title of Sr. Vice President of Web Solutions for the company. With over 20 years in the legal industry, Steve has extensive skills and experience in data management databases, electronic discovery, document imaging, and trial consulting as well as a strong overall knowledge of the legal workflow process.
Constantine Pappas
Product Specialist, kCura
Mike Schubert
Vice President of Software Development, Ipro Tech
Michael Schubert holds responsibility for managing the development and design of Ipro products to optimize the Ipro user experience. Having spent over 10 years in the litigation support industry, Michael has held senior leadership positions at litigation service providers and software companies, including Vice President of Production and Operations at Encore Litigation Solutions. He graduated from Marquette University with a B.S. in Business Administration and Information Technology.
Jamie Weissglass
Business Development, Huron Legal
In her practice at Huron Legal, Jamie Weisglass specializes in providing Fortune 500 Corporations and AmLaw 200 Law Firms with comprehensive electronic discovery and document review solutions for complex legal matters. She concentrates on discovery consulting and helping clients to comply with discovery and production requests in government investigations and a wide range of large scale litigations. Through the delivery of integrated forensic data collection, electronic discovery, data analytics, document review, production and project management, Jamie is able to offer her clients a cost-certain alternative fee structure and include an optimized document review process that is substantially faster, more accurate and less expensive than more traditional review services – typically by a margin of 50%. She strives to bridge the gap between lawyers and technologists while assisting in-house and outside legal counsel in understanding the most effective processes and technologies to manage complex workflows and generate maximum quality, accuracy, cost reduction and return on investment. Jamie is also licensed to practice law in New York and New Jersey.
Debbie Westwood
Solutions Consultant, Ipro Tech
Deborah Westwood is a Solutions Consultant with over 15 years in the legal industry. Since joining Ipro in 2011, Deborah has provided onsite training and implementation of several Ipro solutions, including Eclipse and Eclipse SE for clients ranging from small to large law firms. She is currently acting as Ipro's project manager for a mid-sized law firm who are migrating their current Eclipse environment to new hardware.
Debbie is a member of Women in eDiscovery, Toronto eDiscovery Canada, and the Association of Litigation Support Professionals. She currently resides in Bethlehem, PA where she enjoys exploring the local town and countryside on foot, discovering local farmers' markets, and cooking the best Indian food to be found west of her native England. When not in the kitchen, Deborah can usually be found online taking another technology class, keeping her technical skills sharp.
Session Moderators
Karen Brookman
President, Commonwealth Legal, A division of Ricoh Canada
As President of Commonwealth Legal, now a division of Ricoh Canada, Karen is responsible for the overall strategic planning and direction of company performance, while leading all initiatives related to business development and operations in accordance with the corporate vision and mission. In her role as President, she is instrumental in identifying and developing business partnerships and alliances and new technology offerings that drive growth and expansion in key markets. Working with clients in Canada, the US and Europe, Karen draws on more than ten years of industry experience in litigation support and evidence management for the planning and fulfillment of complex litigation projects and project management contracts involving a variety of leading software solutions.
Vice President, Commonwealth Legal, A division of Ricoh Canada
As the Vice President of Commonwealth Legal, now a division of Ricoh Canada, Jennifer is a powerful contributor to company strategy, client services and business results. Jennifer is responsible for the leadership of significant corporate initiatives which include developing new service models and offerings that meet client needs in a unique, effective and innovative way. She is dedicated to developing sustainable competitive advantage and to forwarding the marketplace in ways that enhance service value to clients while strengthening Commonwealth Legal's brand and reputation in the marketplace. Her responsibilities include working closely with the management team members to ensure the company executes on client commitments, delivering superior levels of quality, efficiency and customer service. Jennifer upholds Commonwealth Legal's strong corporate culture and exemplifies the company's values, work ethic, and commitment to performance excellence.
Andrea Williams
Vice President of Client Services, Commonwealth Legal, A division of Ricoh Canada
Since joining Commonwealth Legal in 2005, Andrea has worked closely with the company's most prominent clients as a relationship-driven professional leveraging her in-depth experience in sales, service delivery, project management and the design/delivery of litigation technology solutions. Through her diverse background and experience, she is adept in leading the client project team in the architecture and fulfillment of complex, large-scale and time-critical eDiscovery projects. She is adept at balancing the multiple stakeholder needs for technology, strategy and budget, and takes great pride in her ability to design strategies and workflows to engage all resources on a case in a meaningful way.
In her current role, Andrea is responsible for overseeing web-hosting, project management and managed services contract fulfillment by leading a highly skilled and knowledgeable professional services team in order to advance the company's operational goals to drive efficiency, quality, maximized capacity/ROI and customer service.
Chris Plauschinn
Sr Director of Enterprise Infrastructure and IT, Commonwealth Legal, A division of Ricoh Canada
Chris has been responsible to oversee the fulfillment of large, complex litigation projects including but not limited to document scanning, coding, unitization, database management, data integration services and web-hosting. Chris has been instrumental in developing and implementing workflow processes, quality control procedures and monitoring productivity levels to ensure projects are completed accurately and in keeping with client timelines. Chris is involved in the company's ISO certification committee. He has extensive knowledge of the principles of document management which has been beneficial in positioning him as a qualified leader within the operations team.
Natasha Doucas
Director of Professional Services, Commonwealth Legal, A division of Ricoh Canada
Natasha is a bilingual trainer who is certified in several industry-leading litigation support applications. Her experience in both a law firm environment and in working with Commonwealth Legal, gives her a unique perspective on the needs of legal professionals using litigation support technology. Natasha has extensive experience as a Project Manager of multifaceted evidence management projects incorporating eDiscovery, searching/culling services, near-duplication tools and web hosting. Her collective experiences enable her to facilitate the development and implementation of effective evidence management strategies and solutions for our most prominent clients.
Ceyda Tocsoy
National Director of Litigation Support & eDiscovery Services, Ricoh Canada
Ceyda's industry experience as the Manager of Litigation Support & Technology Services for an international law firm combined with her experiences at renown litigation support and ediscovery service bureaus have contributed to her more than 25 years of experience in the legal industry. Through her current role, Ceyda is responsible for designing, building and implementing services nationally while consulting on complex ediscovery projects and giving best practice advice on variety of litigation support issues. Ceyda is a member of the Humber Paralegal Studies Advisory Board, former member of ILTA Practice Support Steering Committee and an active member of several national and international litigation technology associations. Ceyda regularly speaks at conferences, seminars and at colleges throughout North America.
Richard Wessel
eDiscovery Technology Consultant, Commonwealth Legal
Richard's history with Commonwealth Legal spans over five years. His relationship with the company started initially in a client capacity working on a large scale eDiscovery project. Over the past 2 years, Richard has been actively consulting with clients and project management to support Commonwealth Legal's eDiscovery initiatives while taking a leadership role on the company's key Information Technology initiatives. Richard has also been involved in managing and executing the eDiscovery components for a number of large legal projects utilizing the same IT related tools that clients are using today. As a member of the technology team, Richard brings with him over 15 years of Information Technology (IT) experience in the following areas: Network Administration; Email Management; Document Management / Records Retention; Lotus Notes Expertise, Project Management; and Application Development in a number of business sectors.


Despite horror's omnipresence in cinema, British television has been somewhat deprived of jump scares. Every couple of years there's an anomaly, such as Sky's The Enfield Haunting or ITV's Marchlands, but nothing has caught the public's imagination – not since the innovative but controversial one-off Ghostwatch. Enter the BBC and Netflix with their new six-part series Requiem, promising to be the most terrifying show ever broadcast on the Beeb.
Either the worst is yet to come, or the terror bar has been set very low; episode one brought little innovation and even less tension. There were the obligatory bangs in the night, interference on the radio, mysterious deaths, but nothing to nudge the heartbeat above resting.
We were introduced to Matilda Grey (Lydia Wilson), your average twenty-something hipster cellist, who passes her days swiping Tinder and headlining concert halls. After a last-minute brunch with her lonely and obsessive mother Janice (Joanna Scanlan, pictured below), she popped to soundcheck for her big opening night. But poor mum was paid a visit by the static ghost that skips your CD and makes you commit suicide. After a creepy but PG sequence involving a kitchen knife, Matilda was left traumatised and motherless.
Soon, Matilda and her accompanist Hal (Joel Fry) were on the road to rural Wales, looking for answers after finding a box filled with old news clippings about a missing girl. However, the village is coming to terms with its own mysterious suicide, and now Matilda's shacking up in a spooky yet familiar mansion.
There's a fine art to a terrifying ghost story, evident from The Haunting (1963) to The Conjuring (2013): take time to invest in the characters; extend sequences to build tension; and ration out the jump scares. These rules are all linked to the pacing of the story, and Requiem is a perfect example of why they struggle to translate to television; episode one has an hour to introduce the concepts, engage the viewer, offer some genuine thrills, and keep enough back for five more episodes. The horror staples appear incompatible with television viewing – the characters feel underdeveloped and the tension flatlines. The haunting scenes are too brief, with little incident or imagination. A knock here, a stereo detune there, it's all a bit pedestrian. Just when it looks like we're about to see something chilling, it cuts to the next scene. There's an air of menace around the following suicides, but nothing to keep you up at night.
That's not to say that there are no signs of promise. The cast is uniformly excellent, with lead Lydia Wilson finding a solemn determination in Matilda. There is also a genuinely interesting mystery among all the ghostly bumps – what went down in 1994 before Carys Howells went missing?
Requiem sets its stall firmly in supernatural territory; there's little comedy, and the script falls into exposition too easily to compete with high-end drama. The only problem is: it's not really scary. But with everything established, maybe it can now settle into providing some real chills. The whole series is now available on BBC iPlayer – perhaps give one more episode the chance to sink its claws into you.
Great loved it but the ending four graves not five, is there going to be more than this series?
That's six hours of my life I'll never get back. The ending was silly. Plain silly. I stuck with it because I had hopes. Oh well.
Lots of long atmosphrtic sceens with nothing happening, could have been done in 4 episodes. Predictive plot so no suspence or horror value. right up to the rather silly ending.
Doesn't seem remotely scary to me - too much Hitchcock style plagiarism ( birds, showers etc.) . Not a patch on Trauma on ITV - now that has real tension and drama.
Very silly all the way through. The most spooky part was the self cleaning blue coat- where can you buy one of those?
Overindulgence, trying to encapsulate too many genres & overuse of special effects tried to compensate a weak storyline. A promising start rapidly disintegrated into mediocrity because a Welsh-based drama tried morphing with Shetland & Merrily Watkins. Keep it simples!
Complete trash. Please do not go to season 2.


This module requires students to produce a dissertation under the guidance of a supervisor extending the skills developed in the Advanced Practical module. The dissertation may take the form of a literature review or other extended written report, the production of a web page or podcast, or other agreed format.
(1) To allow students to apply previously learned skills in a more open ended context. (2) To develop students abilities to manage their own learning. (3) To develop students abilities to present their work in written format.
Communicate the results of an open ended investigation with clarity, both verbally and in writing, using appropriate scientific terminology.
Manage personal study time effectively.
The course will comprise preparation of a Dissertation: - Completion of an extended piece of written work. - Fortnightly meetings with supervisor(s), either independently or in groups. - Submission of the dissertation report.
Short lectures will be used to present the key objectives of the course and to provide a general framework for the presentation of an independent research review. Supervisory meetings to devise dissertation subject, set milestones, and review progress.


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Reporters on the Job
AFGHAN ADVENTURE: Just getting to Mazar-I-Sharif for today's story (page 7) was a major production for Scott Baldauf and the photographer. At the office of Ariana Airlines, the rickety state-owned carrier, they discovered there was a flight leaving at 10:30 a.m. But they had to persuade the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs to give them permission to travel. "One Taliban bureaucrat told us that such permission was impossible on such short notice," Scott says. "We argued our case - we were here to cover the very humanitarian crisis the Taliban claimed the West was ignoring," Scott says.
The bureaucrat relented. Then they had to rush back to Ariana Airlines to purchase their tickets. There, they were told the flight had already left. "Nope, sorry, it was still on the ground," Scott says. Ariana agreed to hold the departure for them. So they rushed back to the state-owned hotel to pack their bags, check out (in US dollars, please), and drive to the airport - escorted by their Taliban-assigned translator. When they finally boarded the plane, they were told they were lucky to be on this flight.
"This was the same plane that was hijacked to Moscow a year ago," one passenger told them. "That means this plane was actually given a good servicing by trained mechanics." He winked.
CULTURAL SNAPSHOT
ROYAL ROW: Sophie Rhys-Jones, wife of Queen Elizabeth II's youngest son, Prince Edward, said yesterday that she was quitting her job as chairman of a public relations firm after being caught by what she called newspaper "entrapment."
Formally known as the Countess of Wessex, Ms. Rhys-Jones made the announcement after a British newspaper published transcripts of disparaging comments it said she made about British politicians and the royal family to a reporter who posed as an Arab sheikh.
"I am deeply distressed by the carrying out of an entrapment operation on me and my business, but I also much regret my own misjudgment in succumbing to that subterfuge," Rhys-Jones said in a statement.
Separately, the palace said the queen "deplores the entrapment, subterfuge, innuendo and untruths" to which Sophie and Edward had been subjected. It said the queen fully supported them in their efforts to mix their royal duties with working careers.
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"This is Euphoria" () is a single released  by Ruslana, featured on her 2013 studio album My Boo! (Together).  The arrangement and recording were done in Stockholm, Sweden.

Music video
The music video differs from all the previous clips of Ruslana as she attempts to raise awareness about the social problems of Ukraine, especially the lawlessness.
The action is set in the near future of the country when the lives of every citizen is affected by the corrupt judicial system. Ruslana is thrown into jail on political reasons but she doesn't give up and fights until she brakes out thanks to her state of euphoria.
The video was shot inside a former political jail located within the Kyiv Fortress.

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From an episode of Breakfasters∙Presented by Sarah Smith, Daniel Burt and Geraldine Hickey
Breakfasters: Alex Rance Tells Us About His Kids' Book
"I think you never really know completely who you are; life's a journey." Former Richmond player Alex Rance has turned his real-life experience of being injured and rediscovering his identity into a childrens' book, Monkey's Tail. He tells the Breakfasters how he came up with the idea, the importance of being "more than a jock", and more.
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Top rated perfunctory movies that are also challenging
Check out today's highest ranked perfunctory and challenging movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are perfunctory and challenging, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country. Maimovie provides context-aware recommendation based on extensive data gathered and analyzed by AI.
1 Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares to do battle with the First Order.
2017-12-13 | Science Fiction / Action
Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher
fresh and exciting
mopey
unexpected plot
2 The Circle (2017)
A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation concerning privacy, surveillance and freedom. She comes to learn that her decisions and actions will determine the future of humanity.
2017-04-27 | Drama / Thriller
Emma Watson, Tom Hanks
important topic
grand vision
feeling incomplete
3 Molly's Game (2017)
Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.
2017-01-01 | Crime / Drama
Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba
scaled back
quick-witted liner
highly engaging
4 Rocketman (2019)
The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
2019-05-22 | Music / Drama
Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell
amazingly talented director
like surreal dream sequence
5 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.
Felicity Jones, Diego Luna
well-developed character
feeling a little rushed
expositional dialogue
6 Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally and an enhanced super soldier to stop the deadliest Terminator yet.
Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger
such high hopes
unrelenting
bitterly disappointing
7 13 Assassins (2010)
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
2010-09-09 | Adventure / Drama
Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada
epic battle sequence
beautifully composed
build up of tension
deserving nods from Oscars
eccentric genius
accurate depiction
9 There Will Be Blood (2007)
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.
2007-12-28 | Drama
Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano
flawless performance
sheerly brilliant directing
incredibly talented directing
10 Iron Man 3 (2013)
Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow
much more realistic
stepping beyond
rejoinder lines
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What are recommended movies of Top rated perfunctory movies that are also challenging?
The recommended movies of Top rated perfunctory movies that are also challenging are Star Wars: The Last Jedi, The Circle, Molly's Game, Rocketman, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Terminator: Dark Fate, 13 Assassins, A Beautiful Mind, There Will Be Blood, Iron Man 3.
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According to the review analysis on Maimovie, movies in Top rated perfunctory movies that are also challenging list are rated as fresh and exciting, non-existent character development, zero character development, experienced director, ticked off, last hurrah, perfunctory, weak script, more developed, thrilling climax.


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