text: Subscribe to our newsletter This thingy has to be empti pwieshh Jan 31, 2018 Facebook shrinks in North America Revue Facebook reported its fourth quarter earnings today, and they showcased both the enormous strength of January 31 · Issue #73 · View online Facebook reported its fourth quarter earnings today, and they showcased both the enormous strength of its core business and the essential vulnerability of its platform. The strength manifested in revenue growth of 47 percent from a year earlier, which beat Wall Street's expectations. The vulnerability manifested in two points emphasized in two Recode headlines from today: Facebook lost daily users for the first time ever in the U.S. and Canada. People spent 50 million hours less per day on Facebook last quarter. The first story lays out a small but notable decline. Here's Kurt Wagner and Rani Molla:Facebook's daily active user base in the U.S. and Canada fell for the first time ever in the fourth quarter, dropping to 184 million from 185 million in the previous quarter.It's a very small decline in a market that Facebook already dominates. But it's also Facebook's most valuable market, and any decline in usership — even a small one — isn't a great sign. The second contains the day's second-most interesting statistic: time spent on Facebook declined about 5 percent in the past quarter. In a note to investors, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the wound was self-inflicted: Facebook reduced the amount of "viral videos" in the feed, he said in a note to investors, in the hopes that reducing "passive consumption" would make users happier over time. "In 2018, we're focused on making sure Facebook isn't just fun to use, but also good for people's well-being and for society. We're doing this by encouraging meaningful connections between people rather than passive consumption of content. Already last quarter, we made changes to show fewer viral videos to make sure people's time is well spent. In total, we made changes that reduced time spent on Facebook by roughly 50 million hours every day. By focusing on meaningful connections, our community and business will be stronger over the long term."This is one side of Facebook — the one the company has been actively promoting over the past year. This is the Facebook that is chastened by the events of the 2016 election, and humbled by the cultural reckoning over social media. This is the Facebook devoted to stronger connections with friends, bred by "meaningful interactions."But there's another side of Facebook, too — the one that expresses an existential terror when you don't visit it for a while. Here's Sarah Frier in Bloomberg:Facebook, which has more than 2 billion people logging in monthly, has never failed to grow its user base. To beat investors' expectations consistently on user numbers, it's just as important for the company to retain people like Gorantala as it is to recruit new members. People who are logging into Facebook less often—but aren't fully disconnected—are noticing more and more frequent prompts to come back, sometimes multiple times a day, via emails or text messages reminding them what they're missing out on, according to screenshots and reports from users around the world. Gorantala, who eased off his Facebook usage because of privacy concerns, said his security prompt comes "whenever I don't log in for a few days."Even with regular users, Facebook has become thirstier for posts. The social network's reminder boxes at the top of the news feed, which often show memories or anniversaries of friendship with close pals, have recently become real estate for more trivial milestones—like being tagged in 10 photos with someone or getting 100 heart reactions.If you use Facebook regularly, this likely feels familiar. No amount of Facebook usage ever seems, to Facebook, like enough. I disabled Facebook notifications on my mobile app last year, after being told, on a day that I had already checked Facebook many times, that a friend of mine had commented on his own photo. And I still have notifications turned on for Instagram, which systematically informs me about every Facebook friend who has an Instagram account, no matter how many dozens of times I ignore them. (This is how we can collectively spend 50 million fewer hours per day on Facebook and notice it not at all: it's the equivalent of one fewer viral video watched per user per day.)We're left with two Facebooks: one, the champion of meaningful interactions; and two, the world's largest producer of push notifications. At some point, these two ideas will have to meet. Facebook's stated focus on time well spent is welcome. But as Frier's story illustrates, the company's engagement-grubbing roots run deep. How Facebook reconciles that aspect of the company with the one now writing earnest notes to investors is one of the more provocative dilemmas now playing out at the company. And if it can't, the North American user base may well shrink again. Democracy Democrats slammed Facebook and Twitter's responses on the #ReleaseTheMemo campaign - Recode www.recode.net – Share Tony Romm:Beyond doubting its credibility, Democrats remain fearful that Kremlin-aligned bots and trolls on major social media platforms have sought to amplify and spread #ReleaseTheMemo — all in a bid to discredit the Justice Department's investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Earlier this month, Schiff and Feinstein wrote to demand Facebook and Twitter conduct a full investigation. On Wednesday, though, the lawmakers said they are dissatisfied with the tech giants' replies — and demanded that they look more closely. Twitter Now Says 1.4 Million People Interacted With Kremlin-Linked Troll Accounts During 2016 Campaign www.buzzfeed.com – Share Tech platform reports about Russian interference follow a similar pattern. First, the company finds no evidence. Then, it finds some evidence. Finally, it finds more evidence. Twitter has now entered the "more evidence" part of this cycle:Twitter on Wednesday said it notified 1.4 million people in the US that they engaged with Kremlin-linked troll accounts during the 2016 US election. That's more than double the 677,775 people Twitter initially said it would notify earlier this month."We have expanded the number of people notified about interactions with Twitter accounts potentially connected to a propaganda effort by a Russian government-linked organization known as the Internet Research Agency," Twitter said in an updated blog post. "Approximately 1.4 million people have now received a notification from Twitter." Court: No evidence that Twitter can be blamed for deaths in ISIS attack www.sfchronicle.com – Share "Twitter is responsible for ISIS terrorist attacks" is an extremely hot take, and it has been rejected by a California court:'ISIS may have used its access to Twitter to spread its message of terrorism and recruit new members, but that doesn't make the social media company legally responsible for the deaths of two Americans in an ISIS-linked attack in Jordan, a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Wednesday.Lawyers for the two men's widows argued in their lawsuit that Twitter had been essential to the emergence of the terror group and bore some responsibility for the deadly consequences. Tackling the Internet's Central Villain: The Advertising Business www.nytimes.com – Share Facebook talks up its ads as the very lifeblood of small businesses and, as such, a driving force in economic activity. But as Farhad Manjoo notes, there's very little oversight:But the online ad machine is also a vast, opaque and dizzyingly complex contraption with underappreciated capacity for misuse — one that collects and constantly profiles data about our behavior, creates incentives to monetize our most private desires and frequently unleashes loopholes that the shadiest of people are only too happy to exploit.And for all its power, the digital ad business has long been under-regulated and under-policed, both by the companies that run it and by the world's governments. In the United States, the industry has been almost untouched by oversight, even though it forms the primary revenue stream of two of the planet's most valuable companies, Google and Facebook. The GOP Amtrak train wreck is already inspiring YouTube conspiracy vid www.fastcompany.com – Share As usual, a catastrophe in the real world produces conspiracies online. Despite their protests to the contrary, platforms seemingly have very little idea about how to address this phenomenon:Earlier today, an Amtrak train carrying a group of Republican lawmakers hit a garbage truck, resulting in multiple injuries and at least one death. If you go to YouTube, however, and type in "GOP train crash," you may think something much more sinister happened.The very first result is a live feed from well-known conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his "Alex Jones Channel." The second is from an account called "Right Wing." The third video is titled "Train Crash ~ Attempted Assassination of GOP Congress Members?" Following that is Fox News. Facebook Pushes 'False Flag' Amtrak Conspiracies in Trending Section www.thedailybeast.com – Share Same thing on Facebook:Facebook once again surfaced wild conspiracy theories about 'commie-lib resisters' and Hillary Clinton staging terror attacks on Amtrak in a part of its Trending News section. Elsewhere Toutiao Sues Baidu For Unfair Competition Over Negative Search Results www.chinamoneynetwork.com – Share Here's some ruthless competition among big platforms in China:Beijing Bytedance Telecommunications Co., Ltd., the operator of personalized news app Toutiao, has sued China's largest search engine Baidu Inc. for unfair competition, claiming Baidu deliberately places negative news about Toutiao in top search results, according to a Toutiao WeChat post Monday night.Toutiao said its users complained that when they searched "Toutiao" on Baidu, the first result was a news article from Baidu's content platform Baijiahao about Toutiao being asked by regulator to suspend its news channel for spreading pornographic information last December. The second result showed a security alert in red under Toutiao's official website address. James Altucher, the face of bitcoin, says he's happy about Facebook's bitcoin ban www.recode.net – Share OK James Altucher!I think this is a very good move for Facebook. There are many scams and illegitimate services out there. California court swipes left on Tinder charging more for users over 30 www.theverge.com – Share Tinder charges different prices for premium features depending on how old you are, and a court now says that is illegal. And this is how they said it:We conclude the discriminatory pricing model, as alleged, violates the Unruh Act and the UCL to the extent it employs an arbitrary, class-based, generalization about older users' incomes as a basis for charging them more than younger users. Because nothing in the complaint suggests there is a strong public policy that justifies the alleged discriminatory pricing, the trial court erred in sustaining the demurrer. Accordingly, we swipe left, and reverse. YouTube TV becomes official video partner for LA's new Major League Soccer team www.theverge.com – Share Two bland flavors that taste bland together! Gfycat starts removing fake AI porn GIFs from its platform www.theverge.com – Share "Deepfakes" are pornographic images created using the help of artificial intelligence, primarily to put other faces onto the bodies of porn actors. They're the subject of a thriving new Reddit community, and platforms are now having to react to a flood of them hitting their servers. Expect more of this. Launches WhatsApp Desktop for Windows 10 is now available for download www.windowslatest.com – Share Use it to message the business of your choice! Takes Instagram Is Turning Into Facebook, and That's Bad www.wsj.com – Share Katherine Bindley makes a list of everything she doesn't like about Instagram. I'll second this emotion:I can now make it through three new posts on Instagram before seeing an ad. After that, I get one every six to eight posts.Instagram's spokeswoman confirmed ad load is up: "We've been able to do this by improving the quality and the relevance of the ads."But the ad load feels way up. According to the social advertising firm Brand Networks, clients delivered 17 times as many ad impressions on Instagram in 2017 as in 2016. The company, which works with brands including American Express Co. and Unilever PLC, expects Instagram impressions to grow by 25% in the first quarter of 2018, compared with the previous quarter. Playing to Our Strengths www.voxmedia.com – Share My boss, Vox Media Chairman & CEO Jim Bankoff, weighs in on how the company has come to reconsider the value of Facebook as a partner:Facebook has obviously changed the way billions of people around the world connect and share. However, even though the company has made efforts in the right direction, they still need to become a more reliable programming platform. A programming platform allows for brand loyal audiences to be built. Content in the Facebook newsfeed is generally consumed through serendipity, not intent, making it less natural to grow loyal audiences to any given media brand. A programming platform also enables rich and predictable ways to make money to support quality journalism and storytelling. As of now, Facebook does not offer a viable path to monetize our in-depth video work. And finally ... A single YouTube channel is flooding Bing's video search with fake news www.theverge.com – Share Like most people, you probably get most of your news from the Bing news video tab. And so you may have been surprised to learn that this tab is dominated by a single YouTube channel, which is devoted to conservative-leaning conspiracy theories and outright lies. The culprit is a seemingly innocuous design decision that was gamed by a clever YouTuber:Because of how the search engine's autofill feature works, people who visit Bing looking for news videos may be redirected to a flood of fake news videos, all generated by a single source. You can see how it works for yourself: click on the "News" tab from Bing's homepage. The page autofills the search bar with "Top stories." Now travel to any other search tab, including "Maps" or "Images" and you'll see that the search bar retains the "Top stories" query. Autofilling "Top stories" into the search bar appears to be an innocuous design decision — until you hit the "Video" tab.There, you'll see a wall of videos including "Breaking: Germany demands immediate prosecution of Obama"; "The Royal wedding in jeopardy," and "Russian is about to take out Obama permanently." 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Every few years, the good people behind the Farnborough Air Show wake up early, put on a pot of tea, and exclaim, "Oh right…we're supposed to hold an air show today. How do we do that again?" The results are chaotic and confused but, somehow, they pull it off.
Every few decades, European governments and companies wake up early, put on a pot of tea, and exclaim, "Oh right…we're supposed to create a new pan-European fighter program. How do we do that again?" The results are chaotic and confused but, somehow, they pull it off.
This year saw both. At Farnborough, the UK government and industry unveiled the Tempest, a twin-engine concept fighter plane. This is the second new European fighter concept, after the Franco-German Future Combat Aircraft System (FCAS), announced in April. Unlike FCAS, Tempest is mono-national, but, let's face it, the UK hasn't built a combat aircraft on its own since the last Lightning rumbled off the line ~50 years ago. European countries are presenting plans and requirements, aware that none of them (aside from France…more on that in a moment) can go it alone, and instead seek a place on something multinational.
These developments echo the mid-1960s and mid-1980s, when a flock of concept planes and proposals coalesced into Tornado, Eurofighter, and planes from France and Sweden. This time much has changed, while some things haven't. First, four things that are different today:
1. Trump. The first president to question the US's NATO alliance commitments is inadvertently promoting European self-sufficiency and hurting US weapons prospects. Last Farnborough, the UK announced two major contracts – P-8 and AH-64E – for US systems with minimal local content. It looked like the F-35 would meet RAF and RN needs indefinitely. This Farnborough, instead of a planned Boeing AWACS contract, the UK announced Tempest, a purely UK initiative. As Dassault CEO Eric Trappier commented, "I see the British have woken up." Similarly, a few months ago, the head of the German Air Force was forced out due to his preference for the F-35 over a Euro-solution. Thanks to Trump, European fighter sovereignty is back in vogue, either at a national or continental level.
2. Brexit. FCAS began life as a Franco-UK program. Brexit may (or may not) put the kibosh on UK involvement in pan-Euro programs; right now, nobody wants to start a program with engineers lining up for passport stamps or laborious customs checks for prototyped components. If a miracle happens by next March and we see a soft Brexit, the UK could be back in the pan-Euro fighter club. But if it's a hard Brexit, that might be good for Tempest; nationalist nostalgia and national fighter sovereignty are close (and inbred) cousins.
3. Mind the Gap. There wasn't much of a gap between Tornado and Eurofighter. The post-Eurofighter gap may be another story – the last one may be delivered in 2024, even with a proposed second Saudi tranche. Waiting until 2040 for next-gen fighter procurement dollars might be a stretch for European industry. But on the positive side, a year ago, Europe's fighter future looked like a trough to nowhere.
4. Post-Cold War European Defense Budgets. Trump's right about this. In several cases, they're laughably low. And they typically prioritize stuff that employs people, not research programs. Given its budget, Germany can't be regarded as a reliable program partner.
However, plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. These five factors remain in place:
1. Russia. The holiday from history is over. For Europe, Trump's bromance with Putin further highlights the strategic risk. That could drive defense budgets higher, even in Germany.
2. Saudi Arabia. The kingdom provided the only significant export orders for the Lightning and Typhoon and the sole export order for Tornado. The Al Yamamah Tornado deal involved tens of billions of dollars, a very big incentive for all three industrial partners. The Kingdom likely sees what Europe sees: for political reasons, a second source for combat aircraft is highly desirable. Since they want a UK-led second source, they may offer development money, particularly if they want am industrial role under Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman's Vision 2030.
3. France. Still hard to work with. They're still capable of building their own jet, a capability they'd like to keep (the UK is the only other European power with this capability, but it hasn't shown the political will to fund it). When asked to join Eurofighter as the fifth nation, France politely requested a 46% program stake. And Rafale production looks set to outlast Eurofighter production, making it easier for French industry to bridge the gap discussed above. Consider FCAS: France is taking lead on the fighter component of the project, which means Dassault will get most of the airframe and the production line. Are there any doubts about Safran taking lead on the engine, or Thales taking lead on EW, radar, and all things avionic? Where's the scope for meaningful partnerships? As an alternative, perhaps a Franco-French cooperative effort?
4. Too Many Companies. There's been a surprising lack of consolidation in European fighter companies. Even Saab is still around as a prime. This month Airbus CEO Tom Enders proposed a BAE/Airbus fighter merger. This has been tried before, and it would only make a Franco-German fighter more problematic.
5. US Planes Are Still Attractive. Despite efforts to go it alone, the F-35 offers an appealing off-the-shelf solution, just as the F-16 and F/A-18 did. While four NATO countries bought Eurofighter, eight NATO countries bought US planes. If Trump is followed by a pro-NATO US president, that could kill any new Euro-initiatives.
There's my overly-simplified guide to the new European fighter landscape. This is why Teal Group mostly provides ten-year forecasts; all this stuff is still far off in the land of speculation.
Yours, 'Til The USAF Gets Su-57s After Putin Makes An "Incredible Offer,"
Richard Aboulafia
© Richard Aboulafia 1997-2006, All rights reserved.


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California Supreme Court Clarifies Scope of De Novo and Substantial Evidence Standards Of Review In CEQA Cases
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In Sierra Club v. County of Fresno (S219783), the California Supreme Court unanimously reaffirmed that the substantial evidence standard of review does not always apply when a lead agency prepares an environmental impact report ("EIR") for a development project. Rather, the court determined that the less deferential de novo standard applies if the EIR's discussion of a potentially significant impact has been omitted or is factually insufficient. In other words, while a lead agency has considerable discretion as to the methodology and analysis it employs to analyze a potentially significant impact, an EIR must reasonably describe the nature and magnitude of the impact (i.e., include a meaningful explanation of why an impact is significant or not) if it is to survive judicial scrutiny. In County of Fresno, the court employed the de novo standard and held that the EIR's air quality analysis was inadequate because it did not explain the connection between the project pollutants and negative health effects or explain why it could not make such a connection.
While some may view this decision as narrowing the scope of the substantial evidence standard, the court's analysis relied heavily on existing precedent, including Laurel Heights Improvement Ass'n v. Regents of Uni. of Cal. (1988) 47 Cal.3d 376 and Sierra Club v. State Bd. of Forestry (1994) 7 Cal.4th 1215. Following the rationale in these cases, the court in County of Fresno furthered the fundamental principle that, if an EIR omits basic information necessary for informed decisionmaking and public participation, that failure is prejudicial.
It is unclear how project opponents will attempt to exploit County of Fresno, in particular its discussion of the two standards of review: de novo and substantial evidence. Going forward, CEQA practitioners will not only need to ensure that the air quality analyses in EIRs (and perhaps, to some extent, in initial studies) include meaningful discussions of how project pollutants would affect people, but also consider whether other project impacts (e.g., construction noise) implicate human health and require similar discussion. In the meantime, we recommend the following best practices:
Do not assume you can rely on the substantial evidence standard of review if your EIR includes insufficient information or analysis of a project impact. An impact analysis that does not disclose the nature and magnitude of the impact will likely not survive de novo review if challenged, even if the EIR concludes that the impact would be significant.
Your EIR should make a reasonable effort to connect a project impact with its likely health consequences, at least with respect to air quality. If it is not scientifically possible to demonstrate fully the connection, the EIR should explain why.
The air quality analysis in your EIR should (a) provide a description of the impact each pollutant would have on human health and (b) provide the concentration levels at which pollutants would trigger the identified symptoms. However, a full-blown health risk assessment is not necessarily required.
If a proposed mitigation measure would "substantially mitigate" a significant project impact, or mitigate it to a level of insignificance, your EIR should explain why, in quantitative terms (e.g., quantified reduction in pollutant levels) where possible and qualitative terms otherwise.
A more detailed analysis of the case follows.
In 2011, the County of Fresno approved the Friant Ranch project, a master-planned, pedestrian friendly community with 2,500 single-family and multi-family residential units, 250,000 square feet of commercial space and 460 acres of open space on a 942-acre site (the "Project").
The petitioners challenged the County's certification of the EIR on several grounds, including that: (1) the EIR was inadequate because it failed to include an analysis that correlated the Project's emission of air pollutants to its impact on human health; (2) the mitigation measures for the Project's long-term air quality impacts were vague, unenforceable and lacked specific performance criteria; and (3) the statement that the air quality mitigation measures would substantially reduce the Project's significant air quality impacts was unexplained and unsubstantiated.
The trial court rejected all of those claims, but the Court of Appeal reversed. The Supreme Court granted the developer's petition for review and framed the issues as follows:
The standard of review a court must apply when adjudicating a challenge to the adequacy of an EIR's discussion of adverse environmental impacts and mitigation measures.
Whether CEQA requires an EIR to connect a project's air quality impacts to specific health consequences.
Whether a lead agency impermissibly defers mitigation measures when it retains the discretion to substitute later adopted measures in place of those proposed in the EIR.
Whether a lead agency may adopt mitigation measures that do not reduce a project's significant and unavoidable impacts to a less than significant level.
The Court's Decision
Standard of Review
The court first discussed the appropriate standard of review. Under CEQA, a lead agency can abuse its discretion either by (1) failing to proceed in the manner required by law (i.e., in the manner CEQA provides) or (2) by reaching factual conclusions unsupported by substantial evidence. The court recognized that "[j]udicial review of these two types of errors differs significantly: While we determine de novo whether the agency has employed the correct procedures…we accord greater deference to the agency's substantive factual conclusions."
The court found that whether an EIR provides sufficient information is a mixed question of law and fact that requires courts to apply the less deferential de novo review. According to the court, the key question when determining whether an impact analysis contains sufficient information to satisfy CEQA is whether the EIR includes "sufficient detail" to "enable those who did not participate in its preparation to understand and to consider meaningfully the issues raised by the proposed project."
The court noted that, if an agency omits a required discussion or provides a "patently inadequate one-paragraph discussion devoid of analysis," the EIR will be inadequate as an informational document. Similarly, an EIR with a conclusory discussion of a significant environmental impact that does not disclose the nature and magnitude of the impact can be determined by a court to be inadequate as an informational document without reference to substantial evidence. The court rejected the developer's argument that the de novo standard should only apply if a required discussion has been omitted altogether, while the substantial evidence standard should govern if the claim is that a required discussion is insufficient, and held that the de novo standard applies in either case. Simply put, if the analytical discussion itself is insufficient, the more deferential substantial evidence standard cannot be employed.
The court confirmed, on the other hand, that the substantial evidence standard would continue to apply to (1) an agency's decision to determine the manner of the discussion of the potentially significant impacts in an EIR and (2) an agency's decision to select (or reject) a particular methodology to analyze a project impact, which are factual questions that warrant more deference.
The court reiterated past precedent that "technical perfection or scientific certainty" is not required and that "[a]n agency has considerable discretion to decide the manner of the discussion of potentially significant effects in an EIR."
Air Quality and Specific Health Impacts
The court then applied the de novo standard to assess the sufficiency of the air quality discussion in the EIR. It acknowledged that the EIR described the types of pollutants and tons per year and provided a general description of each pollutant and how it affects human health (including symptoms).
The court held, however, that this was not enough. It stated that the EIR failed to disclose the nature and magnitude of the significant impact by failing to correlate the increase in Project emissions with the adverse impacts on human health. The court determined the EIR should have provided the concentration levels at which pollutants would trigger the identified symptoms. In addition, even though the EIR provided some detail about ozone concentration levels, it did not provide the anticipated parts per million that would have resulted from the Project. Without this, the health impacts disclosed could not meaningfully inform the public of the Project's impact on human health.
As the court succinctly put it, "after reading the EIR, the public would have no idea of the health consequences that result when more pollutants are added to a nonattainment basin."
The County and the developer attempted to explain why the connection between emissions and human health could not be provided, given the current state of environmental science modeling. That might be true, the court somewhat glibly stated, but that explanation belonged in the EIR, not court briefs. The upshot is that, if an environmental impact cannot be analyzed, or fully analyzed, in an EIR, the EIR needs to say that and explain why. The EIR "must adequately explain what the agency does know and why, given existing scientific constraints, it cannot translate potential health impacts further."
Importantly, the court recognized that CEQA does not mandate an in-depth health risk assessment for all projects. However, it remains to be seen how far much information and analysis regarding human health impacts will be "enough." It also remains to be seen if the court's reasoning will be applied to other impact analyses that may affect human health, such as noise and vibration, greenhouse gas emissions and hazards. Project opponents may also attempt (wrongly, we believe) to apply the court's reasoning to the more limited analysis in an initial study supporting a mitigated negative declaration.
Mitigation Measures
With regard to the Project's significant air quality impacts, the EIR stated that the proposed mitigation measures would "substantially reduce" that significant impact, but not to a level that was insignificant. This "bare conclusion" was not supported by any explanation or factual support. The court determined this was unlawful because it did not satisfy CEQA's disclosure requirement.
The court rejected three other claims relating to the air quality mitigation measures. First, it addressed whether the County impermissibly deferred mitigation, based on a mitigation measure that partially reduced impacts and included a clause for the County to substitute new measures as "new technology and/or other feasible measures become available." The court held that "[a]llowing future substitutions for equal or more efficient technology to mitigate a project's acknowledged significant effects promotes CEQA's goal of environmental protection and is not an impermissible deferral of mitigation or an abuse of discretion."
Second, the court determined that the County did not violate CEQA by including mitigation measures that would not reduce significant environmental impacts to a less-than‑significant level. It affirmed that a public agency may approve a project with unmitigated significant impacts after adopting all feasible mitigation measures and a statement of overriding considerations.
Finally, the court turned aside the petitioners' claim that mitigation measures requiring installation of HVAC systems and tree planting were vague and unenforceable. It found the measures sufficiently enforceable since the HVAC measure specified the brand and feasible cost of the units and the tree planting measure provided guidance to select appropriate shade trees.
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Sum up the Self in a line if you could.
Divided: Whole
What made the girls come out of the woods in your eponymous anthology of poetry?
'These days even the chairs have opinions on mortality,' you write. How do you stay clear of social noise?
I read books.
You've found poetry in burglary. Which of the two has stolen more from you?
It's not about which stole more, rather, which was more palatable? Obviously poetry. I'm happy to be repeatedly robbed by poetry. Whereas that thief who stole all my money from the green room in Amsterdam…I want you to know, I got you by the karmic neck.
Three ways in which a poet can turn a howl into a song.
Mastering pitch, not jumping to crescendo to soon, remembering to keep warm.
How successfully have you been able to inch up to your own reflection of the self?
It remains an exercise of renewal and futility.
One city that has impacted you most deeply.
Three strains you're sure you inhabit, in body and/or mind.
Optimism, restlessness, earnestness [this last one being somewhat unfortunate].
Your thoughts on celebrity vs. anonymity.
The ideal combination of this is to be a mildly famous author, where most people don't know who you are but your fans know you. This seems to be most pleasing.
Why do you do what you do?
Because I can and there is nothing else I'd rather do.
Your first memory of writing.
Crouched in the damp grass over the garden wall in Kodaikanal. I am writing in my diary. It is all very self-indulgent and self-pitying, but I am so enjoying it.
What was your first job?
First and final fulltime job – advertising assistant for Harpers & Queen magazine, London.
Favourite thirst quencher?
Coconut water
The best thing to spread on toast.
Butter and honey
The strangest thing you've seen by home sea.
A moray eel strangled with a blue fishing rope
One ritual you cannot do away with.
Reading in bed
What makes you feel...
Sexy – salt air plus sun plus sea
Mad - plastic, environmental degradation, the news
Dumbstruck – the entire industry of advertising
What inspires you?
Two artists you deeply admire...
Virginia Woolf
The one label a person from the 31st century writing [or coding] about us would use to describe humanity today.
A most inconsistent species
Three most significant steps or memorable experiences in your journey thus far.
Leaving home two months shy of 18 and arriving in Charlotte, North Carolina, for college.
Arriving in Italy at the age of 21. Discovering wine. Discovering beauty, and opening the door to a new life.
Coming back to India at 26. All journeys. All made at the right time.
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I have loaded the 2.2.16-4.lfs rpm and it boots up using the kernel fine. I still can't use file sizes bigger than 2GB. I am using
Solaris 2.7 tar (large file size capable in which I have created 6 GB tar files on Solaris 2.7) to make a 4GB tar file writing to my
Redhat linux 6.2 system via nfs mount. The tar file stops at 2,147,481,600 bytes just like it did before the 2.2.16-4.lfs rpm was added.
I have scsi disks and did the mkinitrd command.
Why is there such a limitation in file size for Redhat? I would like at the very least to use 4GB files sizes and I would prefer 8 GB file
sizes if I can. How do I do this? I would like to use my Linux computer for a backup server in which I want to write dump or tar files to
my Linux system. I know I can make smaller dump or tar files, but then I have to check more closely on the 30 servers that I am backing
up that no one file size is bigger than 2GB. It would be easier to have the bigger file size capability.
Why didn't the 2.2.16-4.lfs rpm work?
Thank you for your help.
Jim LaGore
717-441-3300 ext 26
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April 2014 Net Worth: 489,000 (+0.3%)
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What drove my net worth performance this month?
Before I have outlined in a little bit more detail the positive and negative factors which affected my net worth performance this month
- Positive factors
- I managed to reduce my credit card debt balance slightly this month which I was pretty happy about. Note that all of this expenditure is still within the interest free period which is why it is not paid off completely. It is a high balance but I had significant cash flow constraints this month which is explained in my expenditure tracker
- My superannuation fund actually saw a rather nice increase for the month which was in contrast to my personal share portfolio. I do tend to hold a much more conservative portfolio within superannuation so this tends to perform better in softer markets
- I continued to save into my Employee Share Plan. I've said it before but I'll say it again...enforced savings plans are one of the best things you can do
- Negative factors
- I had to draw down on some of my savings which I haven't done for a very long time - this is because I had to fund significant expenditures (including an unexpectedly large car maintenance bill) which you can see further details on below
- My share portfolio was down 1.5% for the month driven by a higher A$ (versus the US$). I have quite a few investments in US$ investments which have been benefiting from the falling A$ but this month the increase in the currency really hurt me. In addition several of my cyclical stocks were down for the month which doesn't worry me in the short term but which affected my returns
What is my outlook for next month?
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As Brooklyn natives, camping was not their forte. However, they agreed to a family camping weekend with their Boy Scout son. While at the communal dinner their daughter reported that a raccoon went into their tent. So when they returned to the tent, a canvas stand up with two cots, they looked around and, not finding anything, went to bed.
In the dark it became obvious that they were not alone. The woman screamed, the man shouted and they crashed around. "Get out of here, you animal." the man shouted while the woman continued to scream. The raccoon dodged and hid and after ten minutes of noise and chaos, the raccoon finally ran out. No one came to help or ask about the commotion.
In the morning, again no one mentioned the incident which seemed to have been too loud and long to ignore. Finally one of the women approached the mother on the sly and said, "I can't believe he would talk to you that way, 'Get out of here you animal.' She assured her that they were not having a fight and that he was screaming at an actual animal. His reputation was restored and the mystery was solved.


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H' House by Wiel Arets Architects
Another contemporary wonder by Netherlands based architecture company, the H' House by Wiel Arets Architects is a unique collaboration between the garden exterior and artistic white interior. Let's inspect the house closer!
White Maastricht House
The H'House is located in Maastricht, Netherlands in the preexisting formal garden, and you can imagine its view, especially in the summer. The house is a two storey building, with walls are mainly from glass, which allows in a lot of light and welcomes the greenery of the exterior. It features 130 square meters of purely white interior, that was made up by a team of designers, including Satoru Umehara, Harold Herman, Daniel Meier, and others.
The house was designed for an artistic couple, one a dancer another an actor, who surprisingly both are architects. The interior of the house presents a loft like space with a central mezzanine. There are two independent volumes, the bathroom and the entrance. The shape of the house is really unique, as it offers unusual angles of the exterior view. Of course the glass walls have different shades of opacity, offering needed level of intimacy and privacy.
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In the first of this two-part series, our blogger shares interesting insights in Cluster Analysis, and advancements that are powering this technology to handle Big Data with ease. Understand all about the technology's growth, how Cluster Analysis can help tackleissues of cyber-attacks and malware better and more.Machine learning is … (Featured image is for representational purpose and has been sourced from https://pixabay.com/en/hacker-attack-mask-internet-1872291/)
In the first of this two-part series, our blogger shares interesting insights in Cluster Analysis, and advancements that are powering this technology to handle Big Data with ease. Understand all about the technology's growth, how Cluster Analysis can help tackle issues of cyber-attacks and malware better and more.
Machine learning is being touted to become bigger than what social media was in the previous decade. Advances in machine learning are expected to transform day-to-day life. According to a study by IDC Futurescapes, two-thirds of Global 2000 Enterprises CEOs will center their corporate strategy on digital transformation using machine learning solutions. Cluster analysis is one of the most widely used techniques of machine learning.
Cluster analysis means grouping a set of objects in such a way that objects in a particular group (called a cluster) are similar in nature. Clustering of data is intuitive and inherent to the human brain. However, the human capacity to cluster data is limited as amount of data involved in modern clustering problems is too huge for humans to process.
The cluster analysis attempts to identify hidden structures in unlabeled data without using an initial classification as a training set. In itself, cluster analysis is not a single algorithm but a problem which is solved by various algorithms depending on the implementation. Various methodologies include hierarchical clustering, density-based clustering, centroid-based clustering, grid-based clustering, etc. Cluster analysis finds application in computer science, social sciences, medicine, business intelligence, education, criminal study, etc. to name a few.
Research and IP Trends
Cluster analysis became popular in the 1990s when, empowered by newly acquired computational capacity, work in machine learning shifted from knowledge-driven approach to data-driven approach. Scientists started creating computer programs to analyze large amounts of data and draw conclusions — or "learn" — from results. This trend is seen in both patent filings and non-patent search on Google Scholar.
The interest in the field grew steadily up to 2008 after which it saw a period of stagnation till 2011. After a series of huge investments from the U.S. government and major institutions in Big Data, research and filing picked up pace again in 2012.
Application Areas
Information retrieval is the application that has attracted the most attention from cluster analysis. Search engines apply cluster analysis to retrieve relevant data at quick speed, considering the large quantity of information stored. This apart, cluster analysis is also largely leveraged by knowledge-based systems, medical and bioinformatics, pattern recognition and computer science applications.
There has been a significant increase in more sophisticated application areas such as cybersecurity, fuzzy systems, text processing and knowledge-based systems since 2015. While mathematical and statistical systems, speech recognition and computer science were leveraging cluster analysis greatly in the past, recent patent filing trends show a drop in these areas.
Cyber-attacks are constantly becoming more dynamic and stealthy. This makes them extremely difficult to detect. Cluster analysis can reveal hidden patterns of compromise, leading to even identification of benign or dormant malware. Similarly, medical history of hundreds of people can be used to distinguish between healthy people and people suffering from a specific condition.
Clustering is an unsupervised machine learning approach, to gain insights in the world of Big Data. Clustering could offer insights to improve forecasting, production planning, sourcing decisions, profit optimization, root cause analysis, and other areas that require decision making.
In the next article of this two-part series, we will discuss advancements in cluster technologies and the top players in this segment.
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Published by Dial Books for Young Readers
Summary: Cynthia Moss was never afraid of BIG things. That's the recurring refrain in this story of scientist Cynthia Moss, who grew up riding horses in Virginia and went on to become a journalist. An invitation from a college friend sent her to Africa, where she got a job photographing elephants for a zoologist. This ignited a passion, and she began to recognize individual elephants and their families. She went on to found the Amboseli Elephant Research Project and made many new discoveries about elephant behavior. Eventually, concerned about the decline of elephant populations caused by poaching, Cynthia became an activist, working to get a global ban on the sale of ivory in 1990. Her work continues today, both researching and protecting the elephants she loves. Back matter includes further information about Moss, further reading, and additional sources. Grades K-3.
Pros: An inspiring biography of a scientist who has made a difference. Less well-known the Jane Goodall, Cynthia Moss's career parallels hers, in her long years studying animals in Africa and her work around the world to protect them. The colorful illustrations would make this a great read-aloud to share with kids.
Cons: The most recent source listed in the additional resources is from 2010.


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Travellers looking for beach, sun & sand? Picturing silky sandy beaches, tanning with the view of the Gulf Sea in front and Burj khalifa at the back? Well, we got you covered. We have selected only the best things to do and places to stay for all you beach, sun & sand addicts.
Day 1: Arrival to Dubai
Arrive at Dubai International Airport. You will be greeted by your own personal Meet and Assist staff who will escort you to a private transfer to the hotel for check-in. You have the rest of the day at your own leisure.
Day 2: Above and Below
Today see Dubai from one of the world's highest observation decks on the 124th floor of the 800 meter tall monumental skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa. 'At the Top' takes the concept of sightseeing to a whole new level as you get to admire the beautiful city and its breath-taking views such as the Palm Jumeirah, the sparkling ocean and the glitzy buildings and yachts of Dubai Marina from the highest point.
After the trip to Burj Khalifa, we will take you for a drive down the coast of the gulf. Enter the thrilling high speed boat ride. Explore the nature and wonders of Dubai from sea as you travel across the Marina coast through Palm Jumeirah and then to the coast near Burj Al Arab. Sightsee the mesmerizing city skyline from the sea, manoeuvring at high speed, embrace yourself as adrenaline gets pumping through your veins. There is a pause near the Atlantis the Palm to have a perfect picture spot of the magnificent architecture.
After much adrenaline fun, we head back to the hotel.
Day 3: Riva Beach Club
After Breakfast, a private transfer will pick you and up and drop you at the Riva Beach Club at the Palm Island. This club is one of the best beach clubs in the city which offers chilled out, stylish and relaxing atmosphere in addition to giving guests an ever evolving selection of à la carte facilities. Riva houses an exceptional Restaurant serving some of the most authentic fresh and homemade Italian dishes in Dubai, as well as boasting an outdoor poolside gazebo bar with its own ambience and décor. RIVA's own stretch of private beach features more than 300 luxury sun loungers and the climate controlled pool keeps visitors cool even during the hottest months.
Day 4: Private Island Escape
After breakfast, we leave towards Jumeirah Harbour where a boat will be waiting to take us to a private island off the shore of Dubai. This exclusive Island is situated inside the famous man-made Worlds Island. You will enjoy the exclusivity, breath-taking and stunning scenery of Dubai city skyline. The Island has a private beach club, which includes an international restaurant offering outdoor and indoor dining experience. You have the full day beach access, swimming pool and sporting activities such as Kayaking, Volleyball and Football to enjoy.
Day 5: Seaplane Journey
There are boats and then there are planes. Ever thought about combining the two? Today Seawings Dubai will take you on a 40 minute adventurous flight on their state-of-the-art seaplanes. Sit back and enjoy as you take off from the pristine waters and soar into the skies where your eyes meet the astonishing views of the city's coastlines. Embrace yourself to stunning aerial view as you fly by the Atlantis, Burj Al Arab, the Palm Island and Burj Khalifa. Witness the historic architecture as you glide through the waters where trade ships and dhows sail all around the Gulf and Asia.
Day 6: Atlantis Experience
A private transfer awaits you after breakfast to transfer you to the Atlantis. There you will be guided and dropped to Aqua Venture. It is a no. 1 water theme park in the Middle East and Europe, covering over 42 fun-filled acres. Experience adrenaline pumping waterslides that catapult you through shark filled lagoons or scream through the planets largest slide! Fly high on the longest zip line in the world or just enjoy and relax at the Atlantis private beach, surrounded with lush tropical landscapes.
Day 7: Departure
After Breakfast, your driver will meet you at the hotel for transfer to Dubai International Airport.
- 6 nights at Sofitel the Palm Hotel
- Private Transfers
- Daily Breakfast
- Tours & Excursions as per itinerary
- Meals mentioned in the Itinerary
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TOKYO — The mix of modern and traditional lifestyles in Japan is one of the most remarkable facets in the Japan experience — facets that incorporate some of the most sophisticated facilities and amenities in the world today with a lifestyle that is more than a thousand years old...and remains emotionally, intellectually and spiritually fulfilling to an amazing degree.
There are, in fact, many extraordinary things about Japan that the rest of the world generally knows nothing about. One of the most interesting of these things is the fact that Japan had the world's first nationwide network of inns for travelers…a network that appeared virtually overnight in the late 1630s.
Furthermore, all of the inns in the network — altogether numbering over 6,000 ordinary inns and over 400 luxury inns — were located specific distances apart on all of the major roads in the country, at "post stations" which in effect were small villages or towns…most of them built around the newly constructed inns to provide a variety of other services for travelers.
This extraordinary phenomenon began in 1635 when the recently established Tokugawa Shogunate government in Edo (Tokyo) decreed that some 250 of the clan lords, whose fiefs were spread around the country, would spend every other year in Edo in attendance at the Shogun's Court.
This security measure required that the clan lords maintain residences in Edo; that they keep their wives and children in Edo at all times; and that on their semi-annual treks to Edo they would be accompanied by a designated number of samurai warriors and attendants, based on the size and wealth of their domains.
The Maeda lord, the richest of the fief lords, maintained four mansions in Edo with a combined staff of 10,000 people, and on his trips to Edo brought an additional 1,000 warriors and attendants with him.
These extraordinary troops of lords, clan staff, samurai warriors and personal attendants were known as Daimyo Gyoretsu (die-m'yoh g'yoh-rate-sue), or "Processions of the Lords." The dates of their travel to and from Edo, the routes they took and when and where they stopped overnight were all fixed by the Shogunate.
When on the road the colorful, coordinated processions had the right of way. Ordinary people on the roads and in the villages and towns they passed through were required to get off of the road and bow down as the processions passed. Anyone failing to abide by these strict rules could be cut down by the lords' samurai warriors.
This shogunate mandated system continued for some 240 years (until the1860s), and was a primary factor in the political, social and economic life of the Japanese for all those generations!
Keeping the inns supplied with staff, food, drink and other items to accommodate the lords and their entourages — plus the hundreds of thousands of other regular travelers (businesspeople, salesmen, sumo wrestlers, entertainers and gamblers) who quickly took advantage of the network of inns, and keeping the inns and post stations in repair, was second only to agricultural in the Japanese economy.
On just the Tokaido (toe-kie-doh), or "Eastern Sea Road," between Kyoto and Edo, there were 111 honjin (hoan-jeen), or luxury inns for the lords and other high-ranking guests, 68 waki-honjin (wah-kee-hoan-jeen), or semi-luxury inns for the next level of travelers, and 2,905 hatago (hah-tah-go) inns for ordinary travelers.
A few of these historic inns still exist, and hundreds of others have survived in a succession of reincarnations.
No one can say they have fully experienced Japan until they have spent several days and nights in a traditionally styled Japanese ryokan (rio-kahn), or inn — especially one in an area that is so scenic it is spellbinding.
Editor's note: Boyé Lafayette De Mente (1928-2017) first came to Japan in 1949 as a member of the occupation forces. He held a degree in economics and Japanese from Tokyo's Sophia University, and a BFT from the American Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, Arizona.
He was best known as the author of a highly successful series of books on social and business customs in Japan, China, Korea and Mexico. As a journalist with the Japan Times, and later on as editor of 'The Importer Magazine,' he witnessed at close hand the rapid growth of Asia's 'tiger' economies. His guidelines to westerners wishing to do business in the new post-war Japan were widely recognized as ground-breaking.
For a complete list of De Mente's books in print or online as digital editions, please go to Amazon.com. Learn more about his fascinating career at http://arts.searchbeat.com/boye.htm.
I am indebted to Mr. De Mente for sending the above article to republish here in Japan Perspectives.


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As the Orioles' pitchers and catchers report to good ol' Sarasota, we here at the B-More Opinionated podcast are brushing off the dust and kicking off a new season of relentless venting about our favorite birds of Baltimore!
Jason and Jerry delve into an early preview of Spring Training, and run down some of their hopes and goals for this team (spoiler alert: they're pretty low). They talk about the O's chances to enter a rebuild with a new young core, as well as the seemingly constant frustration with those in the Warehouse (Hi, guys!)
Then, we bring in Jon Heyman of FanRag Sports and MLB Network to help bring some perspective to the Orioles' conversation. Heyman has been breaking news about the O's more than anyone in the last year, and he discusses the handcuffs of ownership, the chances the birds spend or rebuild, as well as Dan Duquette and Buck Showalter's futures in Baltimore.
And as always we have Adam's homework, Jason's Married Guy Rant, and much more!


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Welcome to the Flying Hawaiian Basketball Showcase. This incredible event is unlike anything else out there. You can go to Basketball camp anywhere. There are some really good ones. THIS IS NOT A TRADITIONAL BASKETBALL CAMP where you play basketball 8 hours a day 7 days a week. This is so much more.
You will depart from your gateway airport early Tuesday morning. Upon arrival at Honolulu International Airport you will receive a traditional aromatic fresh flower Hawaiian Lei greeting! We will whisk you and your teammates to our host hotel ( scheduled to be Hyatt Place Waikiki) via private coach. You will enjoy a picnic lunch that night on the beach followed by a new favorite- The Great Hawaiian Scavenger Hunt ! Your time in the enchanted South Pacific will be filled with whirl winds of activity & opportunity centered around the annual Flying Hawaiian Basketball Showcase. This prestigious, one-of- a- kind event has played host to both national & international players and includes both girls and boys teams, each having junior and senior divisions. This will make the event as competitive as possible & give you an opportunity unlike any other.
Our first adventure planned will have you become witness to the stoic & somber USS Arizona Memorial where you can shake hands & talk with some of the actual Pearl Harbor heroes. These men were survivors of that terrible day back in 1941 that launched our great nation into WW2. This is a lifetime memory that both our athletes & families(especially the Grandparents that travel with us) have told us this is the single most MEMORABLE & MEANINGFUL portion of the trip.
Other planned excursions include visiting the golden SUN KISSED Hawaiian beaches with world famous surf spots framed against the endless warm crystal aqua blue water and rolling waves of the South Pacific Ocean. (Many get the urge to try surfing after seeing this- so be prepared)! Further up the coast you will see lush green tropical rainforests bursting with vibrant colors of exotic plant life & birds native to the tropics of Hawaii. A short time later we will be high in the Ko'olau Mountain Range that is set against an endless Pacific Ocean view from high atop blustery & windy Pali Lookout(TIP: don't bring your favorite hat here as it will blow off your head – & yes, I have seen it happen).
We will indulge you with a shopping spree - Hawaiian Style at Aloha Stadium (home of the NFL Pro Bowl), & host to the largest open air market in Hawaii(TIP: You want to get most of your souvenirs at the Aloha Stadium Market as the values are unmatched). The rest of Wednesday afternoon is yours to explore the beach & Waikiki area. Have a great time & remember curfew is at 11:00PM when our staff has you sign in.
On Thursdays we have scheduled practice sessions for your teams. Our staff will put you through a brisk and intense workout before we break off into individual team practices. As always our collegiate athletic trainer and his staff will be on site to attend to any of your medical needs. At the conclusion of practices we will return to the hotel where you can spend the rest of the afternoon trying a little Beach Volleyball, catching some rays, watching the surfers & boogie boarders, or trying it yourself.
This amazing day ends with a breathtaking Polynesian Cultural Experience. Imagine seeing the orange sun slipping lazily down behind the golden horizon in the endless South Pacific & giving you the most incredible sunset view. You will dine like Hawaiian Royalty while watching an incredible Hula show that you will be talking about for the rest of your life.
Friday is always a special time as it is YOUR DAY because you are in charge. We have those who will test their skills at one of the panoramic Golf courses throughout Oahu, while others options include surf lessons, Parasail, hike Diamond Head Crater, jet ski, go deep sea fishing, take a sunset harbor cruise, swim with the Dolphins, or get a bird's eye view with a helicopter tour. We do have something for those adrenaline junkies: Dive with the sharks in a protected shark cage! Some just want to hang on the beach, work on tans & check out the local Waikiki scene. The day will be yours to create your own ADVENTURE(Tip: Snorkeling at Hanauma Bay is incredible & also relatively inexpensive)!
. The competitions begin Saturday while Sunday is known as Flying Hawaiian Championship Day. Typically you will play 2-3 games per day.
We only utilize certified Basketball officials, most of whom are COLLEGIATE OFFICIALS. We make sure everything is in place, so YOU WILL have the opportunity to PLAY YOUR BEST BASKETBALL.
Many STUDENT ATHLETES & PARENTS tell us that they maximized their true skill set in Hawaii.
I can play my best here. Why? Simple: You are truly relaxed and having the time of your life with NO outside DISTRACTIONS. Think of the best you have ever played and almost always it is when you are in a relaxed and peaceful state of mind. Imagine for a moment and could you see yourself playing great and having the time of your life. We see it every year.
This truly is the exposure opportunity & adventure of a lifetime.
This event has grown where we can only accommodate a limited amount of student athletes. There are also quite a few family members that will travel with us and this becomes a memory that your family will collectively cherish the rest of their lives.
In this uncertain world(and getting crazier by the day), we take memories for granted. Are there really many things more important than opportunities & experiences that you have or that your family is there to share with you?
Many student athletes receive this experience as a CHRISTMAS GIFT or in some cases a GRADUATION present. This is an amazing gift to both get and to receive.
We urge you to deeply consider everything in this letter and to visit our website at: www.playforcollegecoaches.com or contact Coach Waldrop at email@example.com I will call you back personally. Our staff processes the applications on a first come-first serve basis and typically our turnaround is less than a week. We are looking for coach-ability & a passion for the game in addition to athletic & academic achievement. We will notify you with either a letter or an email with a link to REGISTER upon selection.
The application process is FREE – so you have nothing to lose and a world of OPPORTUNITY, EXPOSURE & ADVENTURE to gain. So what are you waiting on??
It's YOUR time to OPEN THE DOOR to a whole new world & just maybe a whole new you.
Your investment? EVERYTHING – round-trip air to Hawaii, 7 full days – 6 nights lodging, all ground transportation, tours, shopping spree, Luau, Pearl Harbor, game uniform, T-Shirt, game fees, several meals, lei greeting at airport, collegiate level coaching(college recruiting seminar – a $1000 value by itself), optional Sunday devotional service Could you use some help paying for the trip? We even have an unbelievably easy T-Shirt . Please see the site for the most updated pricing structure. Fundraiser that students have paid for THEIR ENTIRE TRIP with.
WAIT – I know as you are reading this letter thinking COULD I really play the best basketball of my life in Hawaii? Remember this is not just another AAU tournament or some basketball camp put on by some guy or some company that has no proven track record. Our experience is run by current & former college coaches for the student athletes. This is how we are different & this experience -You will remember the rest of your life. I GUARANTEE IT.
You will have all day Monday to explore Oahu before departing that night on a flight back to the mainland. You will arrive back on Tuesday as it is an overnight flight.
We are registering athletes for the upcoming season now. Apply today at: www.playforcollegecoaches.com . You can give us a call. Do it now, and I will talk to you and your family personally about the Showcase and answer any questions you may have.
Tired of waiting for others? YOU take control and MAKE THE DECISION & APPLY TODAY Remember you miss 100% of the shots you don't take. We just passed it to you. YOU TAKE THE SHOT. The ball is in your hands!
Mahalo, and thanks for checking us out!
Email us or give us a call if you have any questions. You can contact Coach Waldrop directly at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Paradise Sports is a Christian based company and believes:
That Jesus Christ is the one and only Son of God who died for our sins and arose from the dead. (1 Cor 15:1-8)
That forgiveness of sins and the promise of eternal life are available to those who trust Christ as Savior and Lord. (Jn 3:16)
Terry Waldrop, former National College Basketball Coach of the Year, served for 13 seasons as Head Basketball Coach at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth TX where he averaged 24 wins per season, won 4 conference crowns and the only National Title in the history of the school. He has years of experience in NCAA Division I, II, NAIA Division I and Junior College.
Waldrop has served as a Collegiate Athletic Director and an NCAA Compliance Director.
He has also been a high school coach whose duties included Tennis, Golf, Football and Baseball. Waldrop also has served as member of the Distance Learning Faculty at the United States Sports Academy in Daphne, AL and has extensive training in Sports Marketing and Sport Management instruction.
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High-speed hovercraft transport company Blackbird Hovercraft joins Fishers Island Ferry District (FIFD) offering an exhilarating 20 minute commuting alternative to Fishers Island from the New London Terminal.
The Fishers Island Ferry District has partnered with Blackbird Hovercraft to provide passenger service to the Island this May through November.
Hovercrafts fly on a cushion of air and travel time is 20 minutes from New London's City Pier to Silver Eel Cove on Fishers Island. NOTE: Access to and from the hovercraft at Fishers Island's Silver Eel terminal is by ladder only.
Scheduled trips for up to 6 passengers will be Thursday PM, Friday PM, Saturday AM, Sunday PM, and Monday AM.
- Reservations are available online at the Fishers Island Ferry District website or the ticket desk in New London (if seats are available) for our regularly scheduled trips.
- Online at fiferry.com home page > click Book Travel >click Passenger Only – Blackbird Hovercraft
- $35/one way with a reservation booked online on scheduled trips to Silver Eel Cove
- $40/one way when tickets are purchased at the Ferry District's ticket counter.
- Reservations are available up to 3 hours prior to departure, then standby only.
- Reservations made in advance cannot be changed within 48 hours of scheduled trip.
- No refunds.
- Passengers will need to pick up their ticket at the Fishers Island Ferry District's New London terminal and walk over to City Pier to access the Hovercraft.
- OR, Passengers who booked online may print out their reservation and use that as their ticket – then go straight to City Pier and avoid going to the New London Ferry Terminal.
Charters for 1-6 passengers are available anytime and can be booked by clicking the link on the Fishers Island Ferry District website or calling the direct cockpit cell number (516) 580.1543
- $200 per one-way chartered trip, to or from New London to Fishers Island's Silver Eel Cove
(or other Fishers Island locations) for 1 to 6 passengers.
Up to 12 passenger travel service per boat coming soon.
The Blackbird Hovercraft cruises at 30 knots, 18″ above the water and has independent adjustable forward seating, with Bose headsets for cell phone use and listening to music. The enclosed, fully air-conditioned cabin has 2 gull-wing doors and room for luggage.
This partnership is an exciting new way to access Fishers Island quickly and provide more flexible scheduling for passengers. Suggestions for added scheduled trip times accepted. See the ticket desk or call the ferry with suggestions.


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Personal Training in Villa Park takes a new turn
Have you tried to tone up your hips & thighs, and flatten your stomach…but nothing you ever do seems to really work?…Then read this page, I know how you feel…
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As a Personal Trainer in Villa Park I have trained many clients who, up until they met me, would actually spend too much time on their workouts. See, the secret to having a real fat-burning workout is to constantly be moving. But if you go to your local gym you'll probably see 2 types of workouts taking place – either cardio OR resistance training.
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So far I have a 100% success ratio with my Villa Park Personal Training clients, and if you want to be the next one all I ask from you is to truly desire to look great in a bathing suit. Desire is always the starting point of success, and I am hesitant to accept any clients that aren't willing to fully go for it.
To get started I can offer you a first session at the cost of $1. If you like my style of Personal Training and you feel it would be a good fit for your needs, we can take it from there. However, I'd understand if you want some more information, so to read more testimonials or find out what it is you REALLY get with my Villa Park Personal Training, visit:
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Many Villa Park residents may work close to home in nearby cities. Therefore we can also provide you with one of our elite Placentia Personal Trainers.
Villa Park is one of my personal favorites to perform my Personal Training. With many other cities, limited space may force me to meet up with clients at local gyms or parks – which are awesome as well – yet with my Villa Park Personal Training program I often have the luxury of delivering my Personal Training in my clients' front yard or even driveway for that matter. Up until this very day I have not failed on any of my Villa Park Personal Training clients, which is greatly due to their everlasting persistence in working out hard and listening to what I tell them to do. In Villa Park it seems results come faster than average, which is why I am expecting to see many more testimonials and before/after pictures come from Villa Park exclusively in the nearby future.


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MycoKey : the species Ascocoryne sarcoides
Ascocoryne sarcoides - DK: rødlilla sejskive, UK: Purple Jellydisc
These pictures are part of the MycoKey project. You can use this link to view larger versions and more information in the MycoKey online version. You can also download and install the full MycoKey project to get thousands of pictures along with detailed generic descriptions, references and interactive, synoptical (multi-access) keys to genera of fungi in Northern Europe.


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One year ago Alain Guerin was killed while riding his bike, just down the hill from here.
Tonight, cyclists from the Mansfield Mount Buller Cycling club and members of his family took time out to remember the life of a very special person, by visiting his ghost bike.
Rest in peace Alain.
More pics to come...


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Firefox crashes
i open around 10,12 windows . i have 4 gb of ram, memory , firefox takes more memory resources , its hangs up then crashed more often no idead what shuld i do ??
dont no how to add my crashed report here plz help!!!
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Note: Windows users should download the ActiveX for Internet Explorer. and the plugin for Plugin-based browsers (like Firefox).
Note: Windows 8 and Windows 10 have built-in flash players and Adobe will cause a conflict. Install the plugin only. Not the ActiveX.
Flash Player Version: Version 184.108.40.206
https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ Direct link scans current system and browser Note: Other software is offered in the download. <Windows Only>
https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/ Step 1: Select Operating System Step 2: Select A Version (Firefox, Win IE . . . .) Note: Other software is offered in the download. <Windows Only> +++++++++++++++++++ See if there are updates for your graphics drivers https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/upgrade-graphics-drivers-use-hardware-acceleration
Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} by holding down the <Shift> (Mac=Options) key, and then starting Firefox.
A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh). Is the problem still there?
While still in Safe Mode,
In the address bar, type about:crashes<enter>. Note: If any reports do not have BP- in front of the numbers/letters, click it to submit them.
The crash report is several pages of data. We need the report numbers to see the whole report.
Using your mouse, mark the most recent 7 - 10 crash reports, and copy them. Now go to the reply box and paste them in.
For more help on crash reports, see; https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-crashes-asking-support
This isn't an immediate fix, just a thought for later: but with 4GB of memory, it might be better to switch back to 32-bit Firefox. Even though your system meets the minimum for 64-bit, I think it may use more memory.


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After a nine-month long dispute over licensing terms, Warner Music Group Corp has finally agreed to return its tracks and music videos to the Google-owned online video platform YouTube, according to media sources.
The two companies are reportedly planning to pen a new deal that would include sharing advertising revenues with YouTube on music videos offered by Warner Group from various artists including Michael Buble and Red Hot Chili Peppers, along with songs uploaded by users.
Back in December last year, Warner Group pulled its songs and music videos from the website, claiming the payments didn't reasonably compensate the label or its songwriters and artists.
As per the new arrangement, Warner Group will have a larger share of advertising revenues, simply because it's also taking the onus of selling ads via third party agencies.
Artists will now have their own separate channels that will pave the way for enhanced fan interaction. In addition, it will further let marketers to target a better-defined customer group.
This reported move comes as a huge relief for the fans of Alanis Morissette, Regina Spektor, and Red Hot Chilli Peppers, who have been missing their favourite stars on world's topmost online video platform. However, an official declaration over such a deal is yet to be made.
Our Comments
Good news for everyone from the songwriters to the copyright owners. It is not known how much money will flow in the coffers of the artists but you can be sure that Google and Youtube will be laughing all the way. Youtube is fast becoming as essential for music moguls as television.
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February 1 – ODC milonga with live music by Hombres de Tango (Seth & Marcelo). The usual room's lights weren't dimmable, so they moved us to another room, which was stuffy and sweltering. The dancing was OK, despite the site issues.
February 3 – Brigitta Winkler workshops in Palo Alto. The first workshop was "Wind & Unwind: The Power of the Spiral." We began with disassociation exercises (top of body, lower body, then adding left foot and right foot forward and turning body to left and to right, then with left foot and right foot back and turning body to left and right). We also did breathing exercises (up and down, in and out). Step 1: Follower steps left foot forward to outside right of leader (like for molinete), really practicing the spiral in the chest for leader and follower. Step 2: Leader paradas follower, then walks around her. Follower footwork remains planted on ground, but upper body torques (spirals) from one side, to neutral, and then to other as leader is walking around her. Resolution: follower steps forward with left foot.
The second workshop was "Nuevo Milonguero." We began with walking exercises to get our heads in a different place (not line of dance, in arbitrary way with no pattern, then trying to shake hands with people as we passed, then a slow walk, then walk looking at the ceiling). Since this was a milonguero workshop, we did close embrace connection exercises (accepting the other person in the embrace; feeling Follower's breath in their rib cage as leaders embrace them). The sequence built on what we learned in the Spiral workshop: Ocho cortado with Leader sacada. Leader catches Follower's left foot and raises it, then places it back on floor (either straight up and down or lifting it over and to side, slightly forward). Leader option: place the foot down, then step through (sacada) deeper again, then turn her body slightly sideways to force Follower's right leg to gancho leader's right leg. Follower technical point: pay attention to the quality of the gancho – imagine your free leg is like the trunk of an elephant or other animal that has good gancho-like qualities (giraffe, mantis [sharp], snake). To reiterate the concept of the connection of the feet, we experimented with a connection exercise using our hands, where one person's hand would go up and down and side to side on the beat of the music, and the other person would try to catch it, connect with it, and left it up.
Brigitta is an awesome teacher (with much focus on concepts, and a different way of looking at them and teaching them); I wish I had gone to more of her workshops. Interestingly, she said that Berlin (where she is from) is 2nd in the world for Argentine Tango, after Buenos Aires. Funny, I had heard San Francisco was 2nd in the world! This was one of the last events at the Elks Club Palo Alto because it will soon be torn down. :o(
February 3 – Studio Gracia milonga. I had an excellent time. I danced so much that day, I actually got a blister.
February 8 – Ferry Building Milonga (be there or be square, it's FREE, close to Embarcadero BART/MUNI, starts @ 5:30 p.m.); maybe Monte Cristo after if I am ambitious (8:00 p.m. lesson is sacadas for women and men, with guest teacher Kat Kwan MacDonald). I should probably go to this, as I do hesitate doing sacadas, even though the leader is clearly leading me to do it.
February 9 – Gustavo & Jesica Sausalito milonga and lesson (topic: sacadas, boleos, and volcadas).
February 10 – Tango: A Romantic Ritual Stage Show, followed by Belrose Matinee Milonga. If Jamie and I are maniacs, then Studio Gracia that night as well, where Trio Garufa will play (their first time back in many years).
February 11 – La Cumparsita Milonga @ Slovenian Hall. Gustavo Benzecry Sabá & María Olivera from BsAs teach the lesson.
February 12 – Maybe Ney Melo's class.
February 13 – CCSF Classes. Really better go to class. I've missed the last two weeks.
Of Tango and Life: lessons on adapting - Last year I was a Tango Salon contestant in the first Official USA Argentine Tango Competition. That experience had been both exciting and "challenging" ...
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