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The family-friendly conference and business hotel is housed in a building dating back to 1901, and was refurbished in 2007. This is an Edwardian-style establishment offering 64 bedrooms, the DN One Bar & Restaurant, conference and banqueting facilities for up to 300 delegates, and a civil ceremony licence. The air-conditioned hotel offers guests a lobby area with a 24-hour reception, a hotel safe, a currency exchange facility, lift access, a caf� and Internet access. Room and laundry services are also available and there is parking for those arriving by car.
This hotel is set in the heart of Doncaster's busy town centre and is conveniently located near all major transportation hubs. It enjoys an ideal location for visiting all local bars, restaurants, shopping centres and businesses. Doncaster train station is 5 minutes' walk from the hotel, and the M18 motorway junction 3 is only 1.5 km away. The city of Sheffield is around a 30-minute drive and it is 15 km to Sheffield Airport.
All bedrooms have en suite facilities and are fully equipped with a direct dial telephone with modem socket, a radio, a widescreen or LCD TV with freeview, tea and coffee making facilities, a hairdryer, an iron and ironing board and a trouser press. Complimentary wireless broadband Internet access is now available in all bedrooms. A double bed and central heating are provided as standard.
The DN One Bar & Restaurant is open to residents and non-residents and serves breakfast, lunch, dinner and a Sunday carvery.
The hotel accepts cash, cheques and all major credit and debit cards including American Express, Diners Club, MasterCard and VISA.
By car: The hotel is approximately 1.5 km from Junction 3 of the M18. Leave Junction 3 at A6182 and follow the signs for the town centre.
A complimentary car park at the hotel operates on a 'first come, first served' basis. Overflow car parking (on Wood Street, 100 metres from the hotel, once the hotel's car park is full) is available at a modest charge. This hotel is completely non smoking.
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Stand up for guns
This is in response to the revealing of names of lawful and legal gun owners. I am a naturalized American, so maybe I value the Bill of Rights a little more than the people who have been spoiled by not realizing there are other, not-so-free countries.
My husband and I own three rifles, two handguns and we both have our concealed weapons permits. These guns were purchased legally and were registered by all the laws in place. The response times to our home by law officers average 12 minutes. Am I to cower and hide? I have never pointed a gun (loaded or unloaded) at another human, and I pray to God I won't have to, but I also pray to God that if I have to, I will have the courage.
I will be silent no more. Our God-given rights are being taken away one by one until we are all subjects again, ruled by mere mortals. Stand up and be silent no more!
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Gelmer shutter Edit
The Gelmer shutter is known on the Semi Shiks by Kigawa and Roll Light Ref by Ōhashi. It gives T, B, 150, 100, 50, 25 speeds. The shutter plate is inscribed GELMER at the top and GELMER Mfr. at the bottom, perhaps for Gelmer Manufacturing. The speeds are sometimes inscribed on the shutter plate and sometimes engraved on the shutter rim.[1]
Gelmer lens Edit
A Gelmer Anastigmat 75/4.5 lens is reported on the Roll Light Ref.[2]
Gelmer or Gelmar filters Edit
Filters called Gelmer or Gelmar were distributed by Eikōdō in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Advertisements dated between June 1938 and October 1943 have been observed.[3] The name is consistently written ゲルマー in katakana. The Roman spelling GELMAR appears on some advertising pictures, but some descriptions have the Roman name "Gelmer", perhaps by mistake.[4] The filters are mentioned as "made in Germany" (独逸製) from 1938 to 1940, but this mention was later suppressed.
Germa cameras Edit
The name Germa on the Baby Germa and Semi Germa cameras is written ゲルマー in katakana, this is easily confused with Gelmer. These cameras were made by Tōkyō Shashin Kōgaku and distributed by Kigawa.
Notes Edit
- ↑ On the shutter plate: Semi Shiks pictured in Furukawa, pp.7–9 of Camera Collectors' News no.261. On the speed rim: Roll Light Ref pictured in Sugiyama, item 2025.
- ↑ Sugiyama, item 2025.
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp.81 and 99–100.
- ↑ Advertisements dated June 1939 and February 1940 reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.81.
Bibliography Edit
- Asahi Camera (アサヒカメラ) editorial staff. Shōwa 10–40nen kōkoku ni miru kokusan kamera no rekishi (昭和10–40年広告にみる国産カメラの歴史, Japanese camera history as seen in advertisements, 1935–1965). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1994. ISBN 4-02-330312-7.
- Furukawa Haruo (古川保男). "Semi Sixteenth '16×2=32, 16×3=48'". In Camera Collectors' News no.261 (March 1999). Nishinomiya: Camera Collectors News-sha. Pp.5–9.
- Sugiyama, Kōichi (杉山浩一); Naoi, Hiroaki (直井浩明); Bullock, John R. The Collector's Guide to Japanese Cameras. 国産カメラ図鑑 (Kokusan kamera zukan). Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1985. ISBN 4-257-03187-5.


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Hayden Christensen gave a really good performance in this movie and proved he is a talented actor when he has a decent script to work with. This showed alot of what goes on in the life of a reporter for a major publication. A movie like this should be recommended for any aspiring writer or reporter and shows what can go wrong when the facts aren't checked.


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Why do I love this movie sooooo much. Because it is one of the most
delightful movies ever made.
From the opening shots of Dame Maggie Smith and her aged mother (Liz Smith) jostling for space on the Wurlitzer seat to the closing shots of Michael Palin and Richard Griffiths looking sadly at Betty on the platter this is a movie where every scene has something new.
The contents of Michael Palin's lunch box, Richard Griffiths popping his little trotter over the edge of the chair to get a chocolate for Betty, Liz Smith checking her nightgown for malodorous fumes, Bill Paterson and his wonderful artistry with green paint ( don't miss this line its great), Michael Palin's overt Pythonesque chiropodist sign, and Liz Smiths startled look watching him clean it, these are just a taste of the subtle visual and aural moments that make this movie magic (moments that obviously went completely over the head of a previous reviewer).
Alan Bennetts plot is original and actually believable, as snobbery of all kinds can be found alive and well in any nation in the world at any time, and Denholm Elliot and Dame Maggie Smith would have to be crowned the King and Queen of snobbery for their efforts in this.
Many people read some books over and over This is a movie I watch over and over. I have this movie on Video and I shall definitely be buying it on DVD as well
This is one of those very droll, and sometimes bizarre British comedies that is absurdly funny. The plot centers around a couple in the days right before Elizabeth II's coronation and the machinations of a social climbing Maggie Smith who equates pork with prestige. She manages to get her henpecked husband (Michael Palin) to kidnap a pig, and well the rest just needs to be experienced. I thought the movie was hilarious, but I have known others who found it just plain ridiculous. Those who disapprove of bathroom humor need not see this one.
This movie already had everything to please me before I even started
watching it. Knowing that this was a British comedy, was already enough
for me to decide that I wanted to see it, but that it was situated in
the first post-WWII years, only made it even more interesting for me.
I'm very interested in that time period, but in my opinion there aren't
enough good movies about it. However, it's not because I think that
I'll like a movie, that I'll automatically give it a good rating. I
still need to watch it first.
"A Private Function" is situated in a small town in England in 1947. Even though the war is over for about two years, there still is a rationing of meat and more in particular of pork. The butchers and farmers are severely controlled in order to prevent the start of a black market, but the rules aren't always obeyed. When Princess Elizabeth is going to marry, a local group of businessmen and notables are organizing a party to impress the local government. They have a pig illegally raised and want to slaughter it for the event. But just before the party, the pig is stolen by Gilbert Chilvers on the instigation of his wife and his mother-in-law, who can't live with the idea that they no longer belong to the notables of the community and therefore can't get more meat...
If you like the typical British humor, than this is definitely a movie you shouldn't miss. Especially when they keep the pig in their own house, you can be sure of some hilarious scenes. One reviewer said that you shouldn't watch it when you don't like toilet humor. I'm afraid I can't follow him in that opinion. I don't like that kind of humor at all, but it never was shown in this movie either. It's just insinuated and that's why I could live with it without any problem. Another good reason why you should give this movie a try is the acting. Michael Palin is excellent as the somewhat quiet, but lovable husband who does everything his wife - Maggie Smith plays that role really very well - wants him to do. But the other actors, even though most of them aren't very famous, are very good and interesting to watch.
All in all this is a comedy that deserves a lot more attention than what it has received so far. I really enjoyed watching it and regularly had a good laugh. What more can you possibly want from a comedy? A good story and some fine acting? They are all in it as well and that's why I give this movie a 7.5/10.
The 1980s were dark days for the British film industry and productivity
was at an unprecedented low. That doesn't mean that there weren't a
number of very fine films made during this time. It does mean that they
tend to be rather forgotten in what is often described as a period of
wilderness for British cinema. This is rather unfair, as there are a
number of fine films made during this decade that don't get the
attention they should. A Private Function is a case in point.
The cast assembled for the film is simply one of the best I have ever seen in one movie. Look at the cast today and you would say it was star-studded; actually, many of these actors were not especially famous at the time (only Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott and Alison Steadman were really famous actors). Most of the others (Richard Griffiths, Pete Postlethwaite, Jim Carter, Liz Smith, Bill Paterson, Tony Haygarth) have achieved more recognition since. Their obvious talent and future potential was clear to see in this movie. As the fortunes of British films have improved since, their careers have duly flourished.
If the film has a weakness, it is that it is supposed to be a star vehicle for Michael Palin, and yet his character is utterly dull and boring. Palin has proved he is a very capable actor elsewhere and might have impressed more if the kind of effort Bennett put into developing the other characters had also been afforded to Palin's role. This is a minor point though, because the rest of the characters are so well scripted it doesn't seem to matter too much. Palin would probably be the first to admit that the film works because of the script's overall quality (Alan Bennett is simply one of Britain's most incisive comic minds) and because of the wonderful supporting cast, not because of the strength of his own character.
A Private Function is a relatively low budget and uniquely British film. The writing and the acting represent the very best of British cinema. It's a shame it doesn't get more recognition but the gentle wit, eccentric characters and lack of glamour and romance, plus the state the British film industry was in at the time it was made, probably meant that it was never destined to be a blockbuster. It does remain a very funny and at times quite barbed portrait of a particular period in 20th century British history.
A near classic; like something Ealing might have done if, perhaps,
raunchier though not necessarily darker. Set at the time of the present
Queen Elizabeth's wedding to Prince Phillip, it's about the petty
jealousies of the ostensible middle-classes of Northern ration-book
Michael Palin is Gilbert, a mild-mannered chiropodist, looked down upon, in all senses, by the local community who finds his trump card and way into society in the form of a pig that is being fattened for the private function of the title, a dinner for local dignitaries in celebration of the royal wedding. Maggie Smith is his genteel wife who turns into Lady MacBeth in pursuit of her dreams of fitting in and that great character actress Liz Smith is her slightly dotty mother. Scriptwriter Alan Bennet's depiction of the milieu of false noblesse oblige is as sharp as ever and the entire cast rise to the occasion.
This is one of those priceless British films where the comedy is so delightful. Maggie Smith, as usual, is perfect in her role of the snobbish woman. Michael Palin is equally perfect as her befuddled hen-pecked husband. The humor is absolutely top-notch.
Life after WWII was bleak in England. Rationing was hitting hard, but spirits were lifted by the forthcoming royal marriage of Elizabeth and Philip. This slice of village life takes a poke at stiff England and the trials and tribulations of getting a slap up feast on the table for the local VIPs to celebrate the marriage. Michael Palin is the wimp, and marvellous Maggie Smith is the "trousers" in the relationship. Lots of lovely one-liners to treasure.
One of the funniest comedies to come across the Atlantic in a long, long time. Maggie is magnificent. This movie will go right over the heads of teenie booopers with less than a high school education, but for the enlightened world this is a gem.
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
One day some clever movie club organizer will realize that he could
make a very enjoyable evening of two films dealing with an event from
1947. They are ROYAL WEDDING and A PRIVATE FUNCTION. Both deal with
events tied to the marriage of Philip Mountbatten (today Prince Philip)
and Princess Elizabeth Windsor (today Queen Elizabeth II). The 1951
film musical (with Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford, Sarah
Churchill, and Keenan Wynn) has a dignified, picture postcard view of
the actual events in Westminster Abbey the day the future Queen and her
future consort married. This was to be expected on both sides of the
Atlantic in 1951, as Sarah Churchill's father (who probably gave the
film his blessing and cooperation) was Sir Winston Churchill, the Prime
Minister of England in World War II and now again Prime Minister until
Leave it to the British to undercut the respect an American based production on the royal marriage created. For 33 years after ROYAL WEDDING, along came A PRIVATE FUNCTION. Unlike ROYAL WEDDING it does not deal with events in the British capital, and it does not not have characters with some type of fictional prestige (Astaire and Powell are a brother and sister performing act like Fred and Adele Astaire years before, and Powell is being romanced by Lawford - a member of the aristocracy). No, A PRIVATE FUNCTION was about how a small coterie of local snobs in a midland city of England decided to properly celebrate the first "return of glamor" to Britain after World War II.
In this midland city the nobs (Denholm Elliott, Richard Griffiths, John Normington) are planning a massive celebration for only those with proper social credentials (no working class types, except for a butcher, no dark skinned types, no Jews). The central key to their plans is an illegal pig. A what? Well, it is still a period of rationing in Post-War England, and the black market of meat is very strong. A special pig has been housed and bred by the butcher (Pete Posthlewaite) illegally at a farmer's secret shed (the farmer, by the way, is invited too). Posthlewaite has been improving his own business by tipping off the local meat inspector (Bill Paterson) about black market acts by competitors, but Paterson is aware that no butcher is above suspicion, and he is also aware of rumors concerning a super feast with illegal pork being planned.
Into this mix comes a chiropodist (Michael Palin), his socially starved and pretentious wife (Maggie Smith) and her mother (Liz Smith). Palin is trying to get his position in town set by renting a store front, but one of the nobs is Elliott who resents competition from Palin. So Palin finds the going tough (the deal for the store front falls through, and his car and traveling chiropractic shed are purposely wrecked by Elliott). But in repairing his car Palin is near the farm the pig is hidden at. Subsequently, after another argument with Smith about their precarious position in the town, Palin steals the pig. And all hell breaks lose.
The social nobs and the butcher and farmer are trying to find the missing porker. Without it their plans are in ruin. The meat inspector is aware of a possible illegal pig and starts prying into all kinds of places. His lack of a sense of smell due to a war injury prevents his inquiries from going the full way. Palin and Smith struggle to hide the pig in their home - and discover how filthy pigs really are. As for poor Liz Smith, she is repeatedly told that she is imagining the foul odors and pig refuse around the house - that it is proof she is going senile. She ends up frightened, repeating "No pig, no pig!!" as reassurance that she is not mad.
Eventually things do right themselves out - though not totally the way all the players hope or wanted.
Denholm Elliott was always a fine actor, and here plays possibly his most obnoxious character - a snob, a racist, a malicious competitor, and one who sees nothing wrong with farting while having lunch in a friend's house. Maggie Smith makes an art of pretension, ever since her finest role as Jean Brodie, but here it is undercut by the economic realities presented by Palin. Michael Palin is a basically good person married to an unrealistic woman, and fighting a coterie of really nasty types. His kidnapping of the pig happens to be a long term disaster, but one cheers his short term victory. Of the others in the film, my favorite is Richard Griffiths, who turns out to be a decent person too - and one who finds a new common purpose with a better friend than Elliott.
When it came out in 1984 A PRIVATE FUNCTION was considered one of several films that seem to revive the great Ealing Comedies of the 1950s. It certainly deserves comparison to those classics, and I urge you to try to see it some time...with or without a pet pig.
Full anamorphic widescreen, DTS and Dolby sound plus an audio narration by Alan Bennett, Malcolm Mowbray (director) and Michael Palin. Gorgeous! It's taken many years for Anchor Bay to get this film on DVD, but now I can relegate my VHS to the bin. The sound is so clear not you can hear all those one-liners clearly again!
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Apple's iPhone sales are still falling but at a much slower pace. We could see this reverse once the iPhone 7 is released. iPhone sales will inevitably rebound thanks to very strong demand fueled by customers switching from Android and Apple's plans to grow in emerging markets. Stock is priced at a gigantic discount to intrinsic value thanks to extremely overly pessimistic analysts that expect nothing but the worst from the iPhone segment going forward.


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Checkout this recent Washington Post from Tom Toles on the art of waiting, or rather the somewhat funny and ugly truth of it. According to Toles, at least for him, waiting causes a break in his equilibrium. His solution? Practice meditation. A good book on Buddhism might help as well.
I'm tired of waiting. Are you the type who does not like waiting? I turn out to be that type. I'm uncertain whether or not there are people who actually LIKE to wait, but I have discovered that there are people who are really BAD at it and I am one of those. I think not liking to wait has a name and that name is impatience, and impatience is not generally regarded as a virtue.
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1967 Pontiac Safari (1958-1991 Era)
General Motors discontinued its unique sport wagon body at the end of the 1957 model year, and hence forth, all full-size station wagon models produced by Pontiac would be named for their series, and as Safaris. While a two-door Safari was fielded in 1958 in Pontiac's Chieftain range, it shared its body with Chevrolet's price leader Delray station wagon. Both models came with few features and were popular with tradespeople and small businesses.
Many Pontiac models fielded Safari labeled variants including the Astre, Bonneville, Catalina, Executive, Grand Ville (Grand Safari), LeMans/Grand LeMans, Parisienne, 6000, Sunbird, and Tempest.
The last Pontiac to carry the Safari name alone was the late 1980s station wagon version of the full-size Parisienne. After Parisienne sedans were discontinued in 1986, the station wagon continued on for three more model years renamed and sold as simply Safari.
1989 was the last year Safari was sold as its own Pontiac model but not the last year the Safari name was used. The 1991 6000 station wagon, sold as the Pontiac 6000 LE Safari, was Pontiac's last model to carry a Safari designation. Also, GMC continued to use the Safari name for its minivan model through 2005.
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Rita Hayworth was a true femme fatale in the 40s, but we've already known about it, right? But when exactly did the shy girl, named before Rita Cansino, become a sex simbol and inspiration? The year was 1946 and the film that transformed her into a star, Gilda. I watched it last weekend, in fact on Sunday morning, and I fell in love with the film. The costume design is stunning and Rita (or maybe Gilda?) seems very confident and seductive during the film. Ok, let's go to the plot. Johnny Farrell is a gambler who wanders Buenos Aires in search of fortune in bets. One day, his life is saved by a mysterious man, Ballin Mundson, owner of a casino. The friendship between them increases and Ballin introduces to him, his wife Gilda, an old affair of Johnny. In the cast are Glenn Ford and George Macready, besides Hayworth, of course. I couldn't resist and I put in the end of this post, Rita singing the classic Put The Blame On Mame. I love this scene!
Nunca houve uma mulher como Gilda. E não é verdade? Diva e digna. Beijos <3
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A huge number of contenders appeared in the NTPC graduate exam and now they all are waiting for the exam result.
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Predominantly all reputed B schools looks for graduates with 3+ years of work experience ,however there are some schools which accepts students profile without work experience. However securing MBA admission from good school also depends on factors like GMAT & IELTS/TOEFL score, strong academic background, Extra Curricular or Co curricular activities, justifying and inspiring SOP /LOR that you should submit to the University.
Most of the Fresher's MBA duration would be 2 years. 1 Year MBA program is basically an Executive MBA offered for applicants who has minimum 5-10 years of work experience on their resume.
It is advisable to apply for MBA after gaining some work experience as you would bind to get much more out of your eventual MBA program if you have real professional working experience. If you don't have work experience, then opt for courses like MS in Management related courses.
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The C100 Z-Finder Pro is an optical viewfinder, specifically designed to attach to the Canon C100 cinema camera LCD. This Z-Finder will magnify the LCD screen by 1.8x and has a diopter for specific focus tuning. It cuts out any extraneous light and offers an initial point of stability by pressing your eye against the large eyecup. The C100 Z-finder Pro comes with a 40mm diameter Zacuto optical lens, anti-fog coated protective covers, and all necessary additional accessories for the Canon C100. The diopter allows you to dial in the focus to match your eye. If you need extra focal points you can use the included Z-Finder Extender Frames. These are semi-permanent stackable frames that attach to the body of the Z-Finder Pro and extend the Z-Finder glass further away from the LCD screen for people who are farsighted.
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- Try to avoid leaving your portfolio with a client.
- If you do have to leave your portfolio with an agent or client, protect your copyright, and get a consignment receipt signed.
- Make sure that you have copies of all images and portfolio content in case they get lost or damaged.
Be selective.
- Your portfolio represents you – make sure that it is representing you well, inside and out.
- It looks unprofessional if you have beautiful, creative work in an old, scruffy and worn-out case. "A packaging designer presented his work to one of our commissioning clients, the guy had a smart case and we knew his designs were great. However, turning the cover revealed fabulous designs, but these were placed in plastic, scratched sleeves. For a freelancer applying for a packaging contract the fact that his own designs were so poorly packaged did not work in his favour. Don't be lazy, and always make that extra effort to look as professional as possible." (Manchester Design Initiative)
- If you are not sure whether to include work, get advice from other designers, mentors and friends. Don't show work if you really don't like it. Show work that you feel proud of and are happy to present, as this will increase your self-confidence.
- Make sure that you have variety in your portfolio that is relevant to the client you are meeting.
- Try not to update your portfolio the night before a presentation – things could go wrong and it is too last-minute.
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- If you have any press exposure, take this along with you – again, be selective. Always include a design CV in your portfolio, and have spare copies available to leave behind.
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William Binney (U.S. intelligence official)
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Binney at the Congress on Privacy & Surveillance (2013) of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
|William Edward Binney
September 1943 (age 73)
Pennsylvania, U.S.
|Pennsylvania State University (B.S., 1970)
|National Security Agency (NSA)
|Known for
|Cryptography, SIGINT analysis, whistleblower
William Edward Binney[3] is a former highly placed intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency (NSA)[4] turned whistleblower who resigned on October 31, 2001, after more than 30 years with the agency. He was a high-profile critic of his former employers during the George W. Bush administration.
Binney continued to speak out during Barack Obama's presidency about the NSA's data collection policies, and continues to give interviews in the media regarding his experiences and his views on interception of communication of American citizens by governmental agencies. In a legal case, Binney declared in an affidavit that the NSA is acting in deliberate violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Binney grew up in rural Pennsylvania and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the Pennsylvania State University in 1970. He said that he volunteered for the Army during the Vietnam era in order to select work that would interest him rather than be drafted and have no input. He was found to have strong aptitudes for mathematics, analysis, and code breaking,[5] and served four years from 1965–1969 at the Army Security Agency before going to the NSA in 1970.
Binney was a Russia specialist and worked in the operations side of intelligence, starting as an analyst and ending as a Technical Director prior to becoming a geopolitical world Technical Director. In the 1990s, he co-founded a unit on automating signals intelligence with NSA research chief Dr. John Taggart.[6] Binney's NSA career culminated as Technical Leader for intelligence in 2001. Having expertise in intelligence analysis, traffic analysis, systems analysis, knowledge management, and mathematics (including set theory, number theory, and probability),[7] Binney has been described as one of the best analysts in the NSA's history.[8]
After retiring from the NSA, he founded, together with fellow NSA whistleblower J. Kirk Wiebe, Entity Mapping, LLC, a private intelligence agency to market their analysis program to government agencies. NSA continued to retaliate against them, ultimately preventing them from getting work, or causing contracts they had secured to be abruptly terminated.[9]
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In September 2002, he, along with J. Kirk Wiebe and Edward Loomis, asked the U.S. Defense Department Inspector General (DoD IG) to investigate the NSA for allegedly wasting "millions and millions of dollars" on Trailblazer, a system intended to analyze mass collection of data carried on communications networks such as the Internet. Binney had been one of the inventors of an alternative system, ThinThread, which was shelved when Trailblazer was chosen instead. Binney has also been publicly critical of the NSA for spying on U.S. citizens, saying of its expanded surveillance after the September 11, 2001 attacks that "it's better than anything that the KGB, the Stasi, or the Gestapo and SS ever had"[10] as well as noting Trailblazer's ineffectiveness and unjustified high cost compared to the far less intrusive ThinThread.[11] He was furious that the NSA hadn't uncovered the 9/11 plot and stated that intercepts it had collected but not analyzed likely would have garnered timely attention with his leaner more focused system.[8]
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After he left the NSA in 2001, Binney was one of several people investigated as part of an inquiry into a 2005 The New York Times exposé on the agency's warrantless eavesdropping program. Binney was cleared of wrongdoing after three interviews with FBI agents beginning in March 2007, but in early July 2007, in an unannounced, armed, early morning raid, a dozen agents armed with rifles appeared at his house, one of whom entered the bathroom and pointed his gun at Binney, who was taking a shower. The FBI confiscated a desktop computer, disks, and personal and business records.[12] The NSA revoked his security clearance, forcing him to close a business he ran with former colleagues at a loss of a reported $300,000 in annual income. The FBI raided the homes of Wiebe and Loomis, as well as House Intelligence Committee staffer Diane Roark, the same morning. Several months later the Bureau raided the home of then still active NSA executive Thomas Andrews Drake who had also contacted DoD IG, but anonymously with confidentiality assured. The Assistant Inspector General, John Crane, in charge of the Whistleblower Program, suspecting his superiors provided confidential information to the Justice Dept (DOJ), challenged them, was eventually forced from his position, and subsequently himself became a public whistleblower. The punitive treatment of Binney, Drake, and the other whistleblowers also led Edward Snowden to go public with his revelations rather than report through the internal whistleblower program.[13] In 2012, Binney and his co-plaintiffs went to federal court to retrieve the confiscated items.[14]
Allegations on intercepts[edit]
During interviews on Democracy Now! in April and May 2012[15] with elaboration in July 2012 at 2600's hacker conference HOPE[5] and at DEF CON a couple weeks later,[16] Binney repeated estimates that the NSA (particularly its Stellar Wind project[17]) had intercepted 20 trillion communications "transactions" of Americans such as phone calls, emails, and other forms of data (but not including financial data). This includes most of the emails of U.S. citizens. Binney claimed in an affidavit for Jewel v. NSA[18] that the agency was "purposefully violating the Constitution".[7] Binney also notes that he found out after retiring that the NSA was pursuing collect-it-all vs. targeted surveillance even before the 9/11 attacks.
Binney was invited as a witness by the NSA commission of the German Bundestag. On July 3, 2014 Der Spiegel wrote, he said that the NSA wanted to have information about everything. In Binney's view this is a totalitarian approach, which had previously been seen only in dictatorships.[19] Binney stated that the goal was to control people. Meanwhile, he said that it is possible in principle to survey the whole population, abroad and in the U.S., which in his view contradicts the United States Constitution. In October 2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, the NSA began with its mass surveillance, he said. Therefore, he left the secret agency shortly afterwards, after more than 30 years of employment. Binney mentioned that there were about 6000 analysts in the surveillance at NSA already during his tenure. According to him, everything changed after 9/11. The NSA used the attacks as a justification to start indiscriminate data collection. "This was a mistake. But they still do it", he said. The secret agency was saving the data as long as possible: "They do not discard anything. If they have anything they keep it." Since then, the NSA has been saving collected data indefinitely. Binney said he deplored the NSA's development of the past few years, to collect data not only on groups who are suspicious for criminal or terrorist activities. "We have moved away from the collection of these data to the collection of data of the seven billion people on our planet." Binney said he argued even then, to only pull relevant data from the cables. Access to the data was granted to departments of the government or the IRS.[19]
In August 2014 Binney was among the signatories of an open letter by the group Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity to German chancellor Angela Merkel in which they urged the Chancellor to be suspicious of U.S. intelligence regarding the alleged invasion of Russia in Eastern Ukraine.[20][21][22] In the open letter, the group said:
[A]ccusations of a major Russian "invasion" of Ukraine appear not to be supported by reliable intelligence. Rather, the "intelligence" seems to be of the same dubious, politically "fixed" kind used 12 years ago to "justify" the U.S.-led attack on Iraq.[21]
In September 2015 Binney and 27 other members of VIPS steering group wrote a letter to U.S. President Obama challenging the recently published book Rebuttal: The CIA Responds to the Senate Intelligence Committee's Study of Its Detention and Interrogation Program,[23] that claimed to rebut the report of the United States Senate Intelligence Committee on the Central Intelligence Agency's use of torture.[24]
Documentary film[edit]
Binney's story is recounted in A Good American, a sympathetic 2015 documentary.[25]
See also[edit]
- PRISM (surveillance program)
- Mark Klein
- Thomas Tamm
- Russ Tice
- Perry Fellwock
- Targeted surveillance
- Citizenfour – a 2014 documentary
- A Good American – a 2015 documentary
- ^ "For Immediate Release: Callaway Awards Tuesday November 13, 2012". The Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Justice. 2012-11-13. Retrieved 2013-07-01.
- ^ Hannah Borno (23 January 2015). "NSA whistleblower William Binney wins 2015 Sam Adams award". International Business Times. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
- ^ Video-Interview by Thomas Drake (2011-10-26). "William Edward Binney Collection" (Video; 25 Min). Veterans History Project. American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. Retrieved 2013-06-29.
- ^ "Three NSA Whistleblowers Back EFF's Lawsuit Over Government's Massive Spying Program". Electronic Frontier Foundation. July 2, 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2013.
- ^ a b "Keynote Address: William Binney". Schedule – HOPE Number Nine. 2600 Enterprises. 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2013.
- ^ "The Government Is Profiling You". MIT Center for Internet and Society. November 12, 2012. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
- ^ a b "Sworn Declaration of Whistleblower William Binney on NSA Domestic Surveillance Capabilities". Public Intelligence. July 16, 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2013.
- ^ a b Mayer, Jane (May 23, 2011). "The Secret Sharer: Is Thomas Drake an enemy of the state?". The New Yorker.
- ^ "NSA Whistleblowers William (Bill) Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe". Government Accountability Project website. Retrieved June 9, 2013.
- ^ Shorrock, Tim (April 15, 2013). "The Untold Story: Obama's Crackdown on Whistleblowers: The NSA Four reveal how a toxic mix of cronyism and fraud blinded the agency before 9/11". The Nation.
- ^ "NSA Whistleblowers William (Bill) Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe". Government Accountability Project. Retrieved May 11, 2013.
- ^ "Exclusive: National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ Hertsgaard, Mark; Kasten, Felix; Rosenbach, Marcel; Stark, Holger (22 May 2016). "Blowing the Whistle: Former US Official Reveals Risks Faced by Internal Critics". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
- ^ Bronner, Ethan; Charlie Savage; Scott Shane (May 25, 2013). "Leak Inquiries Show How Wide A Net U.S. Cast". The New York Times.
- ^ Goodman, Amy; Juan Gonzalez (Apr 2012). "National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney". Democracy Now!. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
- ^ "Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The National Security Agency and the Constitution". DEF CON 20 Hacking Conference: Speakers & Presentations. 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2013.
- ^ Bamford, James (March 15, 2012). "The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)". Wired. Retrieved May 11, 2013.
- ^ "Jewel v. NSA". Electronic Frontier Foundation. 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2013.
- ^ a b "Untersuchungsausschuss im Bundestag: US-Informant vergleicht NSA mit einer Diktatur". Spiegel. Spiegelonline GmbH. 3 July 2014. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ^ "US-Geheimdienst-Pensionäre warnen Merkel vor Fehlinformationen" (in German). Der Tagespiegel. 2014-09-04.
- ^ a b "The State Department Says Russia Is Invading Ukraine—Should We Believe It?". The Nation. 2014-09-02. Retrieved 2015-09-28.
- ^ "US-Geheimdienst-Pensionäre warnen Merkel vor Fehlinformationen", Der Tagesspiegel (in German), September 4, 2014
- ^ Rebuttal: The CIA Responds to the Senate Intelligence Committee's Study of Its Detention and Interrogation Program, US Naval Institute
- ^ Andy Worthington (2015-09-15). "28 Veterans of US Intelligence Fight Back Against CIA Claims That the Bush Torture Program Was Useful and Necessary". Retrieved 2015-09-28.
- ^ Kenigsberg, Ben (2 February 2017). "Review: In 'A Good American,' Examining Sept. 11 and Data Collection". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
External links[edit]
|Wikiquote has quotations related to: William Binney
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to William Binney.
- The Future of Freedom: A Feature Interview with NSA Whistleblower William Binney, February 2015
- William.Binney.HOPE.9.KEYNOTE.Part1, related to ThinThread development
- William.Binney.HOPE.9.KEYNOTE.Part2, related to ThinThread development
- "Who's Watching the N.S.A. Watchers?: Giving In to the Surveillance State", Shane Harris op-ed in The New York Times, 22 August 2012
- "The National Security Agency's Domestic Spying Program", Laura Poitras opinion piece in The New York Times, 22 August 2012
- 'The Program' – a video by Laura Poitras for The New York Times, 22 August 2012.
- William Binney on IMDb
- O'Brien, Alexa. "Retired NSA Technical Director Explains Snowden Docs".
- Web site for documentary A Good American


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Perhaps the music industry should think twice before alienating some of its highest profile customers
While the independent music industry and small labels are largely thriving, the major label music industry is down on its luck. Big artists like Jay-Z, Britney Spears, and Metallica just aren't selling as many albums as they used to. The major labels blame this on pirates. They have banded behind a thuggish organization by the name of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which has tried to
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Approximately one in 10 of the people freely admitted to using sites like The Pirate Bay or filesharing utilities to download music illegally. Ironically, though the pirates appeared to be the most enthused about music and the biggest legitimate buyers of music as well. Of the pirates 8 out of 10 said they bought CDs, vinyl and as MP3s legally.
The pirates estimated their yearly purchases at £77 ($126) on average, versus a mere £44 for non-pirates ($72). Thus it appears that the industry's current "collection" tactics may be risking alienating its own biggest customers that in theory amount to over 16 percent of their total revenue.
The survey also offered other interesting insight into online music use. Approximately half of those responding said they had accessed music via YouTube. And almost 22 percent listened to internet radio. Meanwhile, the study showcased
fall from relevance. The former P2P giant-turned legit business was only used by 4 percent of those responding, and 21 percent had never heard of it. Spotify, a streamed peer-to-peer music service with DRM (you can't put files on your MP3 player), on the other hand showed traction, with 9 percent saying they had used it.
The survey indicated more would buy MP3's legally, but that they are currently priced to high. Approximately 75 percent said they would buy tracks for 45 pence (approximately 73 cents), but that current rates (of a dollar or more) were too high. This makes sense as many stores like iTunes charge rates on par with their physical equivalents, but without the perks of the physical purchases, such as album art and liner notes (some of this is now being offered -- but only with full album purchases).
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Stated a spokesman for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, a government organization currently headed by Labour Party appointees, "The scale of unlawful file-sharing poses a real threat to the long-term sustainability of our creative industries. While surveys asking people about unlawful behaviour should be treated with caution, it's encouraging that the findings signal that the three-pronged approach set out by the Government this week - a mix of education, enforcement and attractive new commercial deals - provides the best way forward for industry and consumers."
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THE WORLD; The Negotiations With Japan Get Personal
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
Published: April 1, 1990
TOKYO— LIKE squabbling marriage partners, Japan and the United States have tried one idea after another to overcome their differences, falling each time into a new round of recrimination. This year it finally seemed that they had decided to get some meaningful therapy. The trouble is that each country has hired the other to do the psychoanalyzing.
Last week it was disclosed that Washington recently presented 240 suggestions to Japan on how to reduce the two countries' persistent $50 billion trade gap. But none was aimed at getting Tokyo to import specific American products. Instead, the United States wants Japan to change ingrained practices - like the dominance of huge business cartels - and adopt other means of improving access to Japanese markets.
Not to be outdone, the Japanese Government responded with 80 suggestions of its own, urging that the United States reduce its Federal budget deficit, increase its pool of savings, curtail the use of credit cards, raise gasoline taxes and spend more on education, and on research and development. These steps would theoretically improve American industrial competitiveness, leading to products that Japan might want to buy.
The ideas on both sides are so sweeping and unrealistic that many experts think that efforts to define and eliminate so-called structural impediments to trade may be aggravating tensions instead of easing them. ''We've become like two neighbors stepping into each other's kitchens, free to criticize what we think is wrong,'' said a senior Japanese negotiator. ''That sort of exercise would test the strength of any friendship.''
It now looks as though Japan will respond to the criticisms with a modest package of revisions that are considered unlikely to have much impact on the trade balance. But the recent discussions might have a much deeper significance. They represent the first systematic attempt by the United States to decide how it should think about Japan.
The effort is long overdue and could help to clarify some of the confusion about a nation that is both America's greatest ally and its greatest rival. Few nations inspire such sharp disagreements among experts over basic assumptions. Public policy discussions echoing with empty slogans like ''the triumph of capitalism'' and the need for a ''level playing field'' have helped little now that the challenge is less one of Communism than of a system of capitalism operating under unaccustomed ground rules.
''Americans are deeply confused because Japan is an intellectual problem as great as the U.S.S.R. ever was,'' said Chalmers Johnson, professor of political science at the University of California at San Diego and an expert on Japanese industrial policy. ''Our whole approach is premised on the idea that we and Japan are becoming more like each other. I always thought that was an especially stupid idea.''
American ambivalence seems further complicated by the uncertainties of the post-cold-war era and a loss of American confidence in the ability of the United States to compete. People wonder whether Japan is an unstoppable mercantile power aspiring to global dominance and refusing to play by free-market rules, or an unswerving ally that is opening its economy to imports, assuming new responsibilities and becoming sensitive to issues of global interdependence.
In trying to change what it sees as ingrained barriers to trade, the United States also has an ulterior motive. If Washington can persuade Japan to use its huge pool of investment capital to build roads and houses in Japan, there will be that much less money for buying hotels, golf clubs and banks in the United States.
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On the other hand, the exercise is peculiar because it is almost as if the United States is trying to make Japan into a country more like itself - with K Marts, big highways, big cars, big houses filled with consumer products, preferably made in America. Japan is also being asked to free up more land for housing and commercial use, spend more on public works, deregulate a retail distribution system protecting small shopkeepers that do not carry foreign products, and eliminate cartels and other anti-competitive practices by big Japanese businesses.
''It's hubris on the part of the United States to make such demands,'' said Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr., the former Reagan Administration trade official who has become a critic of American policies toward Japan. ''For Japan to meet the American suggestions would require a social revolution. It's not going to happen.''
As they have in the past, the Japanese assert that the difficulty of changing their system is that the practices are embedded in cultural traditions. Michael H. Armacost, the United States Ambassador in Japan, observed recently that ''American political culture is highly individualistic,'' while Japan is a Confucian society that ''accords a higher priority to the community'' with ''a considerable autonomy and respect'' for people of high rank. This view holds that Japanese people find it easy to invest their faith in the powerful corporate conglomerates that have charged high prices at home in order to undercut competitors abroad. The rewards of that faith are the envy of all the world.


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Rights group Amnesty International said Friday investigations into Shell oil spills in Nigeria were a "fiasco," alleging the company repeatedly blamed sabotage in an effort to avoid responsibility.
"No matter what evidence is presented to Shell about oil spills, they constantly hide behind the 'sabotage' excuse and dodge their responsibility for massive pollution that is due to their failure to properly maintain their infrastructure," Audrey Gaughran, director of global issues at Amnesty, said in a statement.
She said that "the investigation process into oil spills in the Niger Delta is a fiasco," referring to the oil-producing region that is home to Africa's largest crude industry.
The London-based rights group accused the Anglo-Dutch oil major of ignoring evidence that the latest spill in the Delta's Bodo Creek area, discovered in June, was caused by pipeline corrosion.
Bodo Creek saw two major oil spills in 2008 over which the Anglo-Dutch petroleum giant is being sued in a London court by 11,000 Bodo residents.
An official from Shell's Nigerian subsidiary told AFP the company was not ready to comment on the latest allegations.
In the statement, Amnesty said it hired the US company Accufacts to examine pictures of the Bodo Creek pipeline over the June spill.
According to Amnesty, the company said it noticed a "layered loss of metal on the outside of the pipe," which is "a very familiar pattern" consistent with corrosion.
"Shell have said locally that the spill looks like sabotage, and they completely ignore the evidence of corrosion," said Stevyn Obodoekwe of the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development, which co-authored the Amnesty statement.
"This has generated a lot of confusion and some anger in the community," he added.
Sabotage is a worsening problem in the Delta, where oil thieves often blast into pipelines and siphon off crude for sale on the black market.
Some estimates suggest Nigeria loses 150,000 barrels of crude per day to oil theft, known locally as bunkering.
Shell has admitted liability in the 2008 disaster in Bodo, although there remain significant disagreements over the amount of oil that poured into the creeks.
Claims of the amount spilled have ranged from 1,640 barrels to more than 60 times that amount.
Nigeria last month hit Shell with a $5.0 billion (four billion euro) fine over a December leak at the Bonga oilfield that spilled roughly 40,000 barrels of crude into the Gulf of Guinea.
The company is contesting the fine and has insisted there was no basis for it since it had acted quickly to contain the spill.
A landmark UN report last year set out scientific evidence for the first time of devastating pollution in Ogoniland, part of the Niger Delta and where Bodo is also located.
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Shell faced criticism in the report, which said "control and maintenance of oil field infrastructure in Ogoniland has been and remains inadequate ..."
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