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Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO)
Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) is a program that allows 10th-, 11th- and 12th-grade students to earn both high school and college credit while still in high school, through enrollment in and successful completion of college-level, nonsectarian courses at eligible participating postsecondary institutions. Most PSEO courses are offered on the campus of the postsecondary institution; some courses are offered online. Each participating college or university sets its own requirements for enrollment into the PSEO courses. Eleventh and 12th-grade students may take PSEO courses on a full- or part-time basis; 10th graders may take one career/technical PSEO course. If they earn at least a grade C in that class, they may take additional PSEO courses.
There is no charge to PSEO students for tuition, books or fees for items that are required to participate in a course. Students must meet the PSEO residency and eligibility requirements and abide by participation limits specified in Minnesota Statutes, section 124D.09. If a school district determines a pupil is not on track to graduate, she/he may continue to participate in PSEO. Funds are available to help pay transportation expenses for qualifying students to participate in PSEO courses on college campuses. Schools must provide information to all students in grades 8-11 and their families by March 1, every year. Students must notify their school by May 30 if they want to participate in PSEO for the following school year. For current information about the PSEO program, visit the Minnesota Department of Education's Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) webpage.
2018-2019 Scholarship Applications
Headstart Heros 2019 Application (January 24)
NAFEPA Scholarship (January 25)
Itasca Mantrap Youth Tour (March 8)
Friends of Sanford Health Scholarship (March 15)
P.E.O Chapter FJ Scholarship (March 31)
P.E.O Chapter T Scholarship (April 1)
Charles and Emma Hensel Kellner Scholarship (April 1)
Nevis Basketball Association (NBA) (April 15)
Gayle A. Wallace Scholarship (April 15)
Tru Star Federal Credit Union Scholarship (April 18)
Hubbard County Mounted Sheriff's Posse Scholarship (April 25)
Nevis Football Boosters Scholarship (May 1)
Nevis Federation of Teachers Scholarship (May 1)
Nevis Senior Center Scholarship (May 3)
Minnesota Region 2 Adult Mental Health Initiative Scholarship - Information & Application (May 30)
Ethel Curry American Indian Leadership Scholarship (May 31)
Mantrap Valley Conservation Club (MVCC) (June 1)
2017-2018 Scholarship Applications
Nevis Lions Scholarship (March 1)
Shooting Star Scholarship (March 30)
Disable American Veteran Scholarship (April 7)
Park Rapids Garden Club Scholarship Award (May 5)
ASVAB -- The ASVAB will be administered to all juniors on Tuesday, September 24, 8:30 a.m. This is a test to determine student strengths and interests. For questions regarding the test, students should contact Mrs. Sandmeyer.
Pre-ACT -- The Pre-ACT will be given to interested 10th and 11th grade students on Wednesday, October 9, 8:30 a.m. There is a $14 fee for the test that students paid. Students must sign up in advance on Mrs. Sandmeyer's door. For questions or additional information, students should see Mrs. Sndmeyer.
ACT -- Registration deadlines are posted in the high school office. Students planning to attend a university must take this test or the SAT. Which test is required depends on the school. Please remind your student to sign up for the writing portion of the ACT in addition to the math and reading portion. Note: the ACT is administered here at the Nevis School on Tuesday, March 24, 2020. In addition, students should begin contacting prospective colleges. For questions regarding testing, scholarships, or colleges, please contact Mrs Sandmeyer.
Financial Aid:
Federal Pin Site
Federal Stafford Loan
Federal Parent Loan
Minnesota Office of Higher Education
FinAid.org: The SmartStudentTM Guide to Financial Aid
FinAidFacts.org: Free Financial Aid Advice for Students going to College
SchoolSoup.com: Scholarships, Colleges, Student Loans and Financial Aid
College Sites:
University of Minnesota (Crookston, Duluth, Minneapolis, Morris, Rochester, St. Paul)
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Minnesota Private Colleges
North Dakota University System
Wisconsin State Colleges and Universities
Universities and Colleges in America


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I am a creature of habit. I create routines and systems around optimizing my lifestyle and accomplishing my goals, and I stick to them. On the other hand, I also consider myself an early adopter, both of technology (tools) and best practices (wisdom from experts). Despite how set in my ways I generally am, I also enjoy augmenting my life and routines with new tools and habits that further accelerate my journey towards reaching my goals.
I am constantly consuming information from industry experts and the ultra-successful in the form of books, podcasts, interviews, articles, and more. This is where those new 'best practices' come from. I'm always on the lookout for the next thing that can give me the edge - whether it's a certain workout device, sleep tracker, supplement, you name it - I'm willing to try just about anything if it's from a reliable source and within reason and budget.
When it comes to new tools, I have a trusted source give me a daily digest of tech and startup updates (otherwise it's rare that I read, watch, or listen to the "news"). This allows me to keep my finger on the pulse of new gadgets and trends. Working at a tech startup also helps with keeping me on top of what and who are new in startup-world.
Over the past couple years, I've consumed a pretty insane amount of the above information consistently. However, I am fairly selective over what I add to my life. Below are a few of my favorite discoveries from recent memory and a brief explanation of why they're a part of my regular life now:
Inversion table - This bad boy allows me to hang upside down by my feet while in the comfort of my living room. After standing basically all day, this is a great relief to my neck and back, taking pressure off of my spine while allowing gravity to work in the opposite direction. Bonus: I feel taller after using this.
Topo Mat - Speaking of standing all day, I'm fortunate to have a standing desk at work. It is rare for me to sit for any extended period of time. This is good for my body but harder on my feet, especially with the typical hard floor surface of an office. I purchased a Topo mat to give my feet some ergonomic cushion while encouraging my body to move by the varied terrain of this mat.
Copper fit - Another tool I use while working at my standing desk is a wrist guard from CopperFit. I have my desk and monitors positioned as ergonomically as possible, but typing and clicking all day can still take its toll. The wrist guards I wear keep my wrists in a natural alignment which prevents them from getting sore in the short term, and can help prevent more serious injuries (like carpal tunnel syndrome) in the long term.
Oil diffuser - At both my desk and in my bedroom, I have ultrasonic oil diffusers. There are supposedly different benefits from the different types of essential oils you diffuse, but the jury is still out on the validity of those claims. However, I can say that subjectively, lavender oil diffused at night does make me feel calmer and peppermint (my go-to in the day) is very refreshing (dare I say, energizing?). Even if all the woo woo stuff is false, I am still getting natural, fresh scented air.
Infrared lamp - I now use this lamp every morning while I'm meditating and every evening as I'm winding down for bed. The soothing red light isn't disruptive to melatonin production like a typical light bulb or (especially) a TV or other screen, so it's pleasant to fall asleep to or wake up with. Many people use the lamp for soothing muscle aches or even increasing collagen production (and there is evidence to back both benefits), so I consider this an important tool for not just sleep health, but anti-aging as well.
Sauna - In the same vein as the infrared lamp, I have added a daily sauna practice to my morning routine (immediately after my workouts). The sauna leaves me feeling loose and relaxed, and always boosts my mood and energy. There are reported benefits of saunas aiding in detoxification and regular use is even correlated with preventing neurodegenerative diseases.
Brain.fm - For years, I have used binaural beats to aid in focusing, relaxing, or even feeling energized. Brain.fm takes this to the next level. The software creates unique "music" that is designed to help focus, relax, meditate, or sleep. I primarily use it while at work to help maintain focus. Sure, just putting on headphones and drowning out the busy sounds of an office environment make for better concentration, but I can notice more focus when I use this app as opposed to a regular playlist of music.
High altitude training mask - I'm not afraid to do or wear something that most people would consider "dorky" or embarrassing (e.g. wearing blue blocker glasses in public). However, I have not yet mustered up the courage to wear this mask to the gym for a full workout. First, it kind of makes me look and sound like Tom Hardy as Bane (maybe not a totally bad thing). The mask also makes doing anything extra difficult, and I would rather not pass out in front of a bunch of people (or ever actually). However, even just wearing this in short intervals in my living room - while swinging a kettlebell or doing push ups or air squats - can increase lung strength and capacity while improving VO2 Max.
Fat Grips - Something I'm not afraid to bring to the gym are my Fat Grips. I've been using these consistently for a few years now. Fat Grips easily wrap around a dumbbell or barbell to significantly increase the diameter of the area where you're holding on to the bar. This forces a larger grip which will take a standard weight-lifting workout and make it more challenging. They can also increase your grip strength by strengthening your hands and forearms.
Trampoline - I have a small trampoline I bounce on for a practice called "rebounding". This is another area where the benefits haven't been completely verified (at least without bouncing aggressively for a long period of time). However, I found that even a few minutes of light bouncing can loosen me up and help me feel more energized.
Human charger - At the most recent Bulletproof Conference, I stopped by the booth of the Human Charger folks who explained the product and let me try it out before I purchased one. Before stopping by, I had actually heard quite a bit about the device from Ben Greenfield's podcast as well as others like Rick Rubin who swear by it. Basically, it's a small iPod-looking device with headphone-like earplugs that emit a super bright white light into your ear canals. The photoreceptors in your ears can detect this light and basically tell your brain it's day time. This can be effective when you want to fight jet lag, lack of sunshine in the winter, or for a quick boost of energy.
Rolflex (Handheld roller/ball) - This was another goody I picked up at the Bulletproof Conference. It's a clever contraption that allows you to roll out your own muscles without getting on the floor or needing a partner's assistance. The device is built like a clamp with one side having a roller and the other acting almost like a lacrosse ball. This is great for a quick, no-hassle recovery session on your legs, arms, and back.
Vibe coffee - I have become quite the coffee snob over the years, so I was excited to l learn that one of my good friends started his own coffee company. My favorite is the Single Origin Medium roast from Brazil, roasted in Sacramento "with a cocoa sensation, pecan nutty undertones, and a creamy body." The coffee is tasty and exceeded my expectations. Give it a try here: https://www.vibecoffeecompany.com
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How to develop a data-driven organization
How do you develop a rigorous analytics program when your analytics team consists of you (and if you're lucky, maybe 2 other people)? How do you engage the business to use the visualizations that you create for them, to interact with the data that you have cleaned and modelled for them, and to incorporate data into their decision-making process? How do you nurture smart, driven business users who may not be particularly well-versed in technology or analytics to understand analytics and its implications, and to start driving change in their organization? How do you take the collaboration between IT and the business to a new level in order to free both sides to do what they're best at?
In short: How do you develop a data-driven organization? Join us on May 3rd at 9 CET to hear best practices developed in collaboration with some of the largest and innovative Nordic enterprises on how to tackle these issues in order to create a data-driven organization
Date: Wednesday, May 3rd 2017
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As a matter of fact, ComissionRobot, of course is not a scam. It's a fraud. There is a difference between the first one and the second one, because in the second case we are talking rather about the cheating than a fraud. And the ClickBank here is just a pretense, it's the most obvious thing in the sphere of the affiliate marketing. But let's do it step by step.
ComissionRobot is offering to their clients an automatic system for promotion the products, selling through the ClickBank. Automatic paying system for promotion. Bluntly speaking, the advertisement. But you are paying not for the advertising, but for the Pay-Per-Click, PPC. As with a Google Adwords. So, this is what ComissionRobot do. It's connecting the most developed system of Internet -affiliate marketing with the most advanced system of Internet -PPC advertising. ClickBank with Google Adwords.
What can be more easier? Paying money to the one, and getting it from another. But not in this case. Almost a few months many clients of ComissionRobot are complaining on the one simple disadvantage of this good looking system. IT DOESN'T GIVE THE SALES. It's giving the clicks, but not the sales. Of course, it seems like some one was promising the sales, but we can promise only the clicks. Don't you think that it's suspicious, when we talking about tens of affiliate marketers and thousands of invested dollars, which are giving NO returns. Of course, it looks strange. But when these affiliate marketers are trying to contact the administrator (Darren Gaudry), suddenly the strange things are happening. He is going away, disappearing, the connection is breaking out and so on... Looks like someone is busted.
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When Ford announced the Cobra Jet 428 CI V-8 engine on April 15, 1968, they were promoting it as a performance package available for the Mustang and Fairlane, and touted that with proper drag racing modifications, a 428-equipped Mustang could cross the quarter-mile in about 12-seconds. From the box, the standard 428 was modified with high-performance heads from the 427, header exhaust manifolds, a 735 CFM Holley carburetor, larger intake and exhaust ports, and 427 valve springs and dampers. It was obvious that Ford was entering supercar territory with this engine. Packing 335 HP, the Mustangs were marked by the fiberglass Power Dome atop the hood, which acted as a Ram Air system—introduce the accelerator to the floor, the Power Dome chamber door opened and the carburetor sucked air directly from the atmosphere. Costing about $420 above the price of a standard V-8 Mustang, Cobra Jets were available in coupe, fastback and convertible form, and were available with either the 4-speed manual or the Cruise-O-Matic 3-speed automatic. Differentials ranged from standard 3.50:1 to 3.91:1 to 4.30:1 gearing. The 1970 model year would mark the final chapter for the 428 Cobra Jet package, 1971 introducing a whole new Mustang with a 429 in the works. Today, thanks to limited production and a relatively high casualty rate, 428 Cobra Jet Mustangs are some of the most sought-after Fords on the planet.
This 1970 Mustang is a one-of-one as optioned, placing it among the most exclusive Mustangs built. The matching-numbers Q-Code 428 Cobra Jet engine is bolted to a 4-speed manual transmission. Repainted in the original Medium Red, the Black standard interior matches well and is in beautiful shape. The car features a shaker hood, dealer-installed chin spoiler and window slats, and a factory-installed rear deck spoiler. The hood-mounted tachometer is date-code correct. Still hosting its original glass and showing 68,580 believed-original miles, the car's one-of-one claim is supported by a Marti report.


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An unidentified man used a stun gun on an Oakwood Village police officer, then stole his police cruiser on Tuesday in Cleveland, police said.
The 11 a.m. scuffle on Lee Road, near South Miles Road, left the police officer with injuries to both legs, according to Oakwood Village Police Chief Mark Garratt.
The authorities eventually recovered the stolen police cruiser after the suspect abandoned the vehicle on Cloverfield Avenue in Cleveland.
No arrests have been made and the suspect has not been identified, Chief Garratt said.
The unnamed officer attempted to stop a car on Forbes Drive in Oakwood Village, after a license plate check revealed that it had been reported stolen.
The driver, however, drove off and the officer followed the car onto the Interstate 480 west ramp, Chief Garratt said.
The suspect got off the highway at Lee Road and clipped another car near South Miles Road. He then jumped out of his car and attempted to get into other cars, Garratt explained.
The officer gave chase him and caught him. He then used his stun gun when the suspect fought him to avoid arrest, Garratt added.
The suspect then grabbed hold of the stun gun and used it on the police officer, before getting into the cruiser and driving away, Garratt said.
Both the police officer and a 70-year-old man who helped him at the scene were taken to Ahuja Hospital for treatment.
Police investigators later found that the stolen car had been linked to a series of armed robberies. They found a loaded gun and a box of bullets inside the vehicle, Garratt said.
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India's GDP rises to 8.2 % for the quater ending June
India's economy is racing ahead, shrugging off global trade tensions and a sharp fall in its currency.
The country's gross domestic product grew 8.2% in the quarter ended June, according to official data released Friday.
That's a big jump from the 7.7% it delivered in the previous quarter, and widens India's growth gap over other major economies, including regional rival China.
The much larger Chinese economy grew 6.7% in the quarter ended June.
The Indian government cited an expansion in manufacturing and construction as key factors in the sharp spike in growth.
India just cemented its status as the world's fastest-growing major economy, widening the gap over China.
"Indian GDP growth beat most expectations in [the latest quarter] and is likely to continue expanding rapidly over the coming months," Shilan Shah, India economist at Capital Economics, said in a note.
But it's not all good news. Inflation has been rising, prompting the country's central bank to hike interest rates twice in three months, and India's currency — the rupee — hit a new record low against the dollar on Friday. The weak currency is driving up the price of imported goods.
Analysts say Friday's GDP reading could represent a peak if global growth starts to slow as a result of the escalating trade war between the United States and China. Rising oil prices could also act as a brake on India, one of the world's top energy importers.
"The outlook for the remainder of the year is not as optimistic," Priyanka Kishore, head of India at Oxford Economics, wrote in a recent note. "Elevated oil prices and escalating global trade tensions dampen the outlook going forward."
Further economic reforms are unlikely this year, Kishore said, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi approaches an election in early 2019.
Last year's tax reform was seen as broadly positive for the Indian economy in the long run, but "the hurdles to 'big bang' reforms on land and labor could prove to be much bigger," she added.
"This year, in terms of size, we have overtaken France. Next year we are likely to overtake Britain. Therefore, we will be the fifth largest [economy]," he said in New Delhi.
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said India was expected to surpass Britain next year to become world's fifth largest economy.
"This year, in terms of size, we have overtaken France. Next year we are likely to overtake Britain. Therefore, we will be the fifth largest [economy]," he said in New Delhi.
Other economies in the world were growing at much lesser rate but India had the potential to be among the top three economies of the world in the next 10-20 years, he said.


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"I Already Know I Love You"
Our book of the week is...
"I Already Know I Love You"
by Billy Crystal, illustrated by Elizabeth Sayles
Today, we're featuring the third of five books previously featured in our "Father's Day Book Melange" in June (see here). Written by the famous, renowned, Emmy-award winning comedian and actor, Mr. Billy Crystal himself, in the book "I Already Know I Love You," Mr. Crystal has outdone himself by providing just as much creativity to this written children's book masterpiece. He has managed to entertain us all with yet another masterful perspective into the brilliancy that he possesses! There's SO MUCH to say about this wonderful storybook…
As it is beautifully stated inside the front cover of our book, this book is "based on the author's own experience… and describes the cavalcade of feelings that comes with being a grandfather for the very first time." This book is so wonderful because…
You MUST grab this book and indulge in the beautiful story that Mr. Crystal managed to capture in words, complimented by capture-esque photos by artist Elizabeth Sayles. Great job, you two (as if I've met them and told them so personally)! Haha!
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i still use a DABBY and a TinyTwin v3 with DNTV and Scheduler Pro every day for all my TV recording and listening to DAB audio and FM Radio. Great combination and very reliable.
combined with the free Plex Media Server we are able to watch all my recorded and downloaded video via our T-Box, Android TVs and smartphones and tablets right through our house.
A 7zip archive of the scripts and sample database can be found at http://billy.is-lost.org:50080/stuff/. Put your peril sensitive sunglasses on before looking at the perl scripts, otherwise the sheer dodginess of it all will make you go blind. The script is meant to run on linux and windows using either sqlite or the Windows registry as a data store, but I've chopped a lot of that out for the RPi version but parts of that flexibility remain so if you see something windows related it can be ignored.
The important stuff in the scripts etc are:
fvjson.pl - use constant state => 'Mackay'; < replace with your location as pulled out freeview.com.au's tvguide.
fta.pl - the IP address for the tvheadend server and username / password
dbUtils.pm - defines the script location as /dvbcap so create and place the contents of the 7zip file in there, or adjust our $dvbcap = join ($sep,$start,'dvbcap',''); to suit
ftaprograms - a list of programs the script has seen appear in the epg so it can produce a list of new titles into the temp directory
ftamovies - same as above for movies
ftanoaccess - list of channels to not be checked for events to record
movies - list of movies to look for and record
shows - same as above but to regular programs (maps shows to sonarr names to avoid grabbing things that sonarr already has)
tvhechannels - maps freeview.com.au channels to tvheadend services
padding - padding times start~finish in minutes
It's important to remember that absolutely none of the above is needed to use tvheadend to record programming automatically. It is very capable of that all by itself. All of the above is just to exercise it. tvheadend can use an externally generated xmltv file given that the broadcast EPG probably doesn't include episode titles etc. I have placed a basic xmltv generator on the download area too.
... and one last thing. I noticed random transport packet problems after I connected my RPi 2B system to my roof antenna that produces 100% clean on a Windows machine and tracked it down to a problem with kernel 4.9 that causes with USB on the RPi where random USB packets just go missing.
raspbian is moving to kernel 4.14.x but it's possible to install the non-stable version they are testing with by running
sudo BRANCH=next rpi-update
So far 4.14 is producing clean transport streams again.
Wow, how good is that ! I have a bunch of TinyUSB2's so beaut !
I'll be trying this out when work becomes less demanding (retiring mid year).
Thank you so much for explaining how it's done.
Might have to revise that slightly. The tinyusb2s do work but time has taken its toll. At a guess I'd say it may be failing capacitors. They still have really good noise immunity, better than the ebay realteks, but when cold they all report low signal level (37%-ish) which is hardly surprising given the antenna is sitting on a box, but after they heat up the signal level starts bobbing around but has an overall upward trend reaching around 76%.
Still not bad considering their age.
One thing I have noticed is that the driver for the tinyusb doesn't seem to flush the device's buffer which can result in old / unrelated transport packets appearing at the start of a recording. For most purposes this doesn't cause a problem but things like projectx will get upset and complain about being unable to sync the audio and video whilst videoredo will take a while to scan the file and work out what is going on.
tvheadend has a solution, just set Skip Initial Bytes in the configuration > dvb inputs > tv adaptors page. I set it to 15000, but that's probably massively excessive and equates to about 80 transport packets.
A little more info on the elcheapo ebay tuners if anyone else is considering going down that path. I mentioned above that they aren't as good as the tinyusb2 when it comes to impulse noise. Even when connected to my roof antenna which, according to the test meter has excellent reception stats, the ebay tuners could still occasionally produce bursts of broken/missing transport packets.
Muppet Labs testing by causing some local arcing near the tuners readily produced errors. It turns out these things have absolutely no shielding at all, not even provision for a tin can that has been left out to lower costs. A layer of alfoil enclosing the tuners and making contact with the coax shield was the answer. They still can't produce the 100% clean transport streams that the tinyusb2 does when connected to an antenna sitting on a box in the workshop, but from the roof antenna they are now squeaky clean.
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Katmai Alaskan Wildlife and Landscape Adventure
Katmai Alaskan Wildlife and Landscape Adventure
Sept 26 - Oct 2, 2018
Cost - $6,900
$1,000 to reserve. Remainder of payment due 30 days prior to workshop. If attending the workshop with a partner we can apply a 25% discount for the second person (email us to receive the coupon code).
Instructor - Paul Taggart
Come on an Alaskan adventure, exploring the Katmai coast. You'll arrive via float plane to our boat, the M/V Ursus, which will already be anchored off of Shelikof Strait. The Ursus is a 106-foot Alaskan crab boat that has been retrofitted with additional cabins for tours. This is no luxury cruise ship, it's a comfortable but rustic vessel perfectly suited for the exploration of the Katmai coast. We will explore the coast with frequent trips into a number of bays. Along with a guide, we will launch skiffs to the coast for bear viewing photography and landscape hikes. There will be daily critique sessions and one-on-one instruction. The voyage will conclude in Kodiak.
Paul has traveled all over the world as a photojournalist, working everywhere from Antarctica to Congo. He will share his passion for photography and his love for Alaska, sending you home with great images as well as a new found excitement for your own photography.
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September 26, 2018
Arrive in Homer, AK. Explore Homer and get acclimated to the time change. There will be a group dinner in town, allowing everyone to get acquainted with your photography instructor. We'll be able to address any specific desires you have for the trip and allow your instructor to get familiar with your photographic goals for the coming days.
September 27, 2018
Meet at the Beluga Lake Seaplane Base. We will be taking two float planes to Geographic Harbor in Shelikof Strait, where our 106 foot boat, the M/V Ursus will be anchored. After everyone is settled into their cabins, we will have a group dinner, look over charts showing the detailed plans for the voyage based on current weather conditions. We'll stay in Geographic Harbor overnight and the skiffs will be available to explore the area. The unique landscape of Geographic Harbor is spectacular, with a prehistoric, jurassic feel.
September 28, 2018
In the morning we will travel to Kinak Bay, where we will launch the skiffs and give everyone the opportunity to tour the bay and photograph the area. This will be the tail end of the bear season but this is an ideal location to potentially photograph brown bears. We will have a trained guide to help us find wildlife as well as keep everyone safe. For those more interested in landscape photography, Kinak Bay has plenty of opportunities.
September 29, 2018
In the morning the boat will travel to Kuliak Bay where we will explore the inlets via skiff with our guide. You'll be able to go to the shore if you would like to hike inland.
September 30 - October 1, 2018
Depending on weather, our route may alter but we plan to travel to Kukak Bay for wildlife and landscape photography opportunities, including seeing seals and great hiking. We will cross Shelikof Strait to the western side of Kodiak Island, voyaging through Kupreanof Strait, passing Raspberry Island and docking in Kodiak. In Kodiak, you will have time to explore the city and meet up in the evening for a group dinner off the boat. Your instructor will be available all day to meet one-on-one to discuss your photography and help with any image editing.
October 2, 2018
We'll supply transportation to Kodiak Airport for your return flight home. For an additional fee, the tour can be expanded on land around Kodiak Island or via sea in a smaller vessel)
Whats included: Float plane flight from Homer, AK to The M/V Ursus. All lodging and meals while you're on board the M/V Ursus. In-town group dinner in Homer and in Kodiak.
What's not included: Your flights into homer and departing Kodiak. Your transportation to the Beluga Lake Seaplane Base. Travel insurance, we recommend you purchase travel insurance for the workshop.


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Think Porsche constructs just expensive unique variations of its center 911 Carrera lineup? Certainly, the GTS and the Turbo, and in addition track specials, for example, the GT3, cost a lot. At the point when base 911s are just shy of $100K to begin, the more blazing stuff is normally going to cost more. In any case, the 2018 Carrera T is the uncommon 911 extraordinary that stands separated from ordinary Carrera and Carrera S models but then doesn't cost a fortune.
The T settles between the 370-hp Carrera and the 420-hp Carrera S in the cellar of the 911 lineup. It utilizes the previous' 370-hp twin-turbocharged level six yet goes up against the versatile suspension (PASM Sport in Porsche-talk) from the Carrera GTS, a Sport Exhaust framework with dark fumes tips, a shorter 3.59:1 last drive proportion, a constrained slip raise differential (on renditions outfitted with the seven-speed manual transmission), and a "lightweight" form of the 911's Sport Chrono bundle that keeps the dynamic motor mounts and guiding wheel-mounted driving-mode selector yet abandons the standard dashtop measure (in spite of the fact that that can be included back in for $320).
Lightweight Measures
An arrangement of rocker-board stripes and side mirrors completed in Agate Gray and 20-inch Carrera S wheels painted Titanium Gray finish the look, while lightweight glass rearward of the B-column, nylon pull ties rather than inward entryway handles, and the stripping of some stable protection shed an asserted 11 pounds from the essential Carrera's control weight.
Porsche says this is the lightest production line 911 variation you can purchase. For those of you extremely genuine about weight funds, the organization offers settled back basin seats for $5200 that can just slide (physically) fore and behind and necessitate that the back seats be erased, as well, hoisting the T's general weight reserve funds to an asserted 44 pounds. The T is the primary non-GT 911 accessible with these bad-to-the-bone seats, which are as extreme as any seat offered on a road legitimate vehicle in the United States. Shockingly, the cans are middle of the road for short excursions as well as whole deals also, in spite of the fact that they make notwithstanding going after a satchel hurled in back a flexible performer undertaking. The whole of the T's redesigns and mass decreases is a base 911 that is pressed with the go-quick things you need and none of the non-speed-related additional items you don't, with extra crudeness sprinkled over the driving knowledge for good measure because of the more slender glass and missing sound-stifling material.
Similarly as with a large portion of Porsche's lightweight specials, the Carrera T's reductive component include results added substance valuing—however not incredibly so. At $103,150, it falls just $3000 short of the Carrera S, which accompanies 50 more torque, all that could possibly be needed to balance the T's lighter check weight. We couldn't mind less. There is verifiable curiosity in a base 911 made, well, base-er and pressing must-have execution choices.
We tried two Carrera Ts, one with the standard seven-speed manual transmission and another with Porsche's seven-speed PDK double grip programmed. The previous model accompanied a microsuede-wrapped guiding haggle handle ($910) and the previously mentioned lightweight container seats ($5200). The two autos were furnished with Porsche's discretionary back wheel guiding ($2090). Including the PDK costs $3730, and the T so furnished additionally accompanied $700 warmed front seats. Other than their transmissions and minutely contrasting inside trim, the significant distinction between the two autos was their paint hues. The manual-transmission auto was Racing Yellow, the PDK-prepared model Guards Red. Other than the ketchup-and-mustard hues, Porsche additionally offers Lava Orange, Miami Blue, GT Silver, Carrara White, Jet Black, and gleam white or dark. Material seating surfaces are standard, and for some additional cash, you can have differentiating shading sewing in red, yellow, or silver, with the safety belts and texture entryway pulls in a similar tone.
Execution: Objective and Subjective
With regards to the T's legacy—it remains for Touring and was first connected to the 1968 911T to signify it as the lightest production line 911—both Carrera Ts are the lightest normal review current-age 911s we've tried, if just barely. The manual-transmission auto weighed 3221 pounds, eight pounds short of a 2017 911 Carrera manual; at 3290 pounds, the PDK-prepared auto was just 13 pounds lighter than a 2017 911 Carrera PDK we tried already. The two autos' execution, also, shades their non-T partners. The PDK is the speedier of the two, hitting 60 mph in 3.5 seconds, or 0.1 second behind the Carrera PDK. Shading us shocked by the Carrera T manual, whose 3.7-second rushed to 60 mph speaks to a 0.3-second change over the manual-transmission 2017 Carrera. Something else, creating 1.05 to 1.06 g of sidelong hold on the skidpad alongside 142-and 144-foot preventing separations from 70 mph covers an area trod by different Carreras. It's quite rarified domain yet not new-to-the-911 region.
Missing noticeable seat-of-the-pants execution gains, what is the Carrera T purchaser left with? Indeed, with less solid lessening under their seats and more slender window glass behind them, those drivers are liable to an unfaltering congruity of tire sizzle and slap and suspension pounding. The speedometer serves as a volume readout, in that the quicker you go, the more racket advances through the Carrera T's more slender shell. Street blemishes going underneath the tires declare themselves as commandingly by feel as they do aurally, attributable to the PASM Sport's stiffer tune with respect to the general Carrera's.
In some other auto, these progressions would be classified as having compounded the basic vehicle. Here, it's the general purpose. In evacuating a portion of the 911's facade of refinement, Porsche has figured out how to bring a portion of the GT3's crudeness into the passage level Carrera. This GT-auto rub-off gives the Carrera T's driver a more striking association with the auto, the controls apparently jerking with more noteworthy criticism than the 911's chatty standard. It resembles when your arm nods off and is shivering back conscious as the blood stream returns and its nerve endings start back to consideration—the sensations are crisp, despite the fact that in your mind you know it's a similar sweet-driving 911.
It's Not for Everyone
In the event that you figure you may get hung up on the Carrera T's more honed edge or its—swallow—material seats, you're overlooking the main issue. This auto is for the individuals who long for more granular street feel and the opportunity to punch a Porsche level six to redline for the pops and burbles on invade that penetrate the lodge. For them, seats enclosed by material can be defended any number of ways: It's grippier than calfskin, fabric isn't broadly accessible as an upholstery decision in the 911 lineup, perhaps it weighs not as much as cowhide. What difference does it make? It's extraordinary, and it features the T's low-ornaments, low-weight explanation behind presence.
The experience-over-substance approach works best when matched with the manual transmission. The abbreviated change switch is a joy to muscle through the gears, its activity notchy and solid. Despite the fact that the grip pedal requires all around quadricep quality, the reward is, well, full-body commitment. The exercise you'll get when activity growls to an unpredictable quagmire suits the Carrera T's hard-route intentionally identity. This isn't to state the PDK isn't as brilliant here as it is in each other Porsche sports-auto application. It just appears to be sluggish. In addition, you'll need the diversion of choosing your very own riggings when your ears and buns are being ambushed by everything that street and fumes clamor, the merciless ride, and those discretionary settled back pail seats.
By stripping the 911 to its center, Porsche has taken advantage of the equivalent outlandish power that drove its clients to resistance when the most recent 911 GT3 quickly lost its manual-transmission choice. The PDK transmission is a superior track-day apparatus, moving more freshly and conveying faster speeding up than a human working a move switch and a third pedal ever could. Yet, for some Porsche clients, the experience, regardless of its impact on by and large execution, matters more. The Carrera T answers that call, with a select element blend and even in the corruption of its ride solace and refinement. Notwithstanding the manual T's shorter last drive proportion and lighter weight, it accompanies no genuine execution gain that can be identified without a stopwatch. However by some wonder, this exceptional release 911 likewise comes without an insane high cost. That makes it the best experiential incentive in the 911 lineup today.


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Joey Strickland, director of the Arizona Department of Veterans' Services, was giving a nice little speech about how Arizona supposedly is getting better at helping out returning (from Afghanistan and Iraq) vets and their families.
Suddenly, the director, a retired Army colonel, veered briefly from his prepared remarks to speak about a recent trip to his native Louisiana.
Strickland described how untold numbers of people told him that they would vote for Arizona governor Jan Brewer for President of the United States. (Of course, that's Brewer in the photo).
Some in the audience chuckled loud enough for Director Strickland to hear.
Was he serious?
"It's true," Strickland said, "and I'm going to tell her when I see her."
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In the back of the big room, a uniformed soldier (he's in the Arizona National Guard) turned to us with a mock-frightened expression on his face.
"Jan seems like an okay lady," the young soldier whispered, "but give me a break. I think I'd end up voting for what's his name."
Barack Obama?
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Photo Above: In the Water Droplet Journey game, students flip a "dice" high into the air. The result will tell them where to go next in the water cycle.
Youth Field Days engage local students in their watershed, while addressing topics from natural resource issues to community sustainability. The topic for this year was Transportation, and students tackled the issue through stations on Seed Dispersal, Navigation, Mule Packing, Water Droplet Journey, and Journaling.
Photo Above: Students practice their observational skills before journaling on the banks of the Clearwater River.
CFWEP Curriculum Coordinator Rayelynn Connole led the Journaling station, where students learned to describe nature in their watershed, just as Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery observed and documented the American northwest. CFWEP AmeriCorps VISTA Lorna McIntyre and Janel Evans, Montana Tech AmeriCorps Team Leader, immersed students in the water cycle through the Water Droplet Journey game. Playing the role of a drop of water, students learn the varying pathways a water molecule can take through the water cycle. By learning only a small amount of water is available for human use, student gain a greater appreciation for their watershed and the value of clean, healthy water. And in the Blackfoot Valley, clean water and watershed stewardship will maintain the natural beauty of the Blackfoot River ecosystem well into the future.
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Its almost that time of year again! The holidays where Christmas shopping is in full force!Thanksgiving Day has become one of the biggest shopping days of the year at many retailers – both online and in-stores. The Black Friday shopping madness starts earlier and earlier every year.If you're planning to do some shopping on Thanksgiving Day, … [Read more...]
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How Muslim Clerics Stirred Arab World Against Denmark
Newspaper Cartoons Unite Religious, Secular Forces; Dossier Fans the Flames
COPENHAGEN – When Flemming Rose, the cultural editor at Denmark's leading newspaper, published cartoons of the prophet Muhammad late last September, he got an angry telephone call from a local Muslim news vendor who said he had removed the paper from his shelves in protest.
The complaint didn't cause much alarm. "We get calls every day from people complaining about something," recalls Mr. Rose. Anger over the cartoons, he figured, would flare out in "two or three days."...


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1954 Nash Ambassador LeMans Country Club/
Rebuilding cars like a tri-five Chevrolet or a Ford Mustang is made much easier by the fact that virtually every part for those cars is being reproduced. So what drives someone to restore a vintage car with parts that are next to impossible to find? "Everybody has '55 Chevies, Camaros and Mustangs. So I decided to do something different."
Those are the words of Daryl Frank who restored a 1954 Nash Ambassador Country Club and shared his story of bringing this car back to its original beauty. And boy did he ever, but first he had to find four other donor cars to complete this one car. But to see this car it's worth all the trouble he went through.
Like many owners of vintage cars, Daryl bought this one in response to an advertisement and was under the impression that it wasn't all that bad. Once he got the car home, he realized it was going to need a lot more work than he had thought. He bought the car in 2008 and the last registration was in 1961 when the car was parked in a field after a rod went through the engine block. It got parked in that field and didn't move until Daryl took delivery of it.
Unlike some other brands, Nash cars were built using a unibody design where the body and frame are essentially one welded unit. The advantage of this kind of construction is that the car is lighter and stronger plus you can build a lower and more streamlined design. The disadvantage is that sheet metal panels are structural and nobody builds replacement unibody parts for these Nashes.
So the first thing that had to be done was to fabricate replacement panels to put the structure of the car back on track. The car was in a shop for over a year and two months in Denver with these panels being fabricated and welded into place.
"It's not like on TV where it takes two weeks!"
Nope. And these kinds of things cost real dollars as well so as the work progressed, the budget was further and further stretched until it broke. At this point comes decision time - you've already invested in the car so you can either cut and run or keep going. Fortunately Darly persisted.
Among the reasons to keep going on a car like this is its rarity. In 1954 Nash only made 3,581 of this body style - a two-door hardtop. Of those the vast majority were made in Kenosha, Wisconsin which is where Nashes were built. But they also had an assembly plant in the seaside city of El Segundo, California and this one is one of only 213 of this type that were assembled there.
Plus the Ambassador Country Club is sort of a working man's Cadillac, according to Daryl. Who would argue - with styling help from the famed studio of Pinin Farina in Italy the car was both beautiful and fairly advanced. You see the influence in things like the curved armrests and padded dash insert, which was a safety feature.
And this Nash shares many of the advancements including factory seat belts. But only on the passenger side - the thinking at the time was that the steering wheel was all the seatbelt the driver needed.
And even decades later these cars remain strong, reliable performers. Originally the car had the 252 inline six-cylinder engine but, as mentioned, someone had driven a rod through the block so Daryl found an engine from a Nash Ambassador LeMans which sported two side-draft carburetors for an additional 10 horsepower and that's what moves this big car today. It's bolted to a GM four-speed Hydramatic transmission which was an option back then.
And while on the subject of options, this one has the famous bed-in-a-car which was a $14.50 option. Yep, you can fold down the front seat such that it creates a bed with the back seat. Fathers didn't want their daughters going to drive-in movies with guys who had Nashes for obvious reasons.
This also has the fancy speakers on the dashboard which was a pricey $78.82 option at the time. Oh, and you could get mosquito netting for the windows and even an extra mattress to put on top of the seats so this isn't just a car - it's almost an RV.
The El Segundo plant was a second assembly line that was to help them satisfy demand following WWII when demand on the left coast was skyrocketing for new vehicles and appliances. With all the aerospace workers in the area, Nash bought a 475,000 sq. ft. building from the government's War Assets Corp. for $1.5 million.
Combining materials shortages and the demand for laborers from all over, it wasn't until November of 1948 that the plant began rolling out Nash Airflytes. By 1954 when Daryl's car was built the plant had satisfied a lot of customers but the company, in general, was suffering along with other independent automakers in the shadow of General Motors. A month after Daryl's car was built the company had successfully merged with Hudson to become American Motors.
Daryl's car was still purely Nash as evidenced by the serial number plate on the car which reads Nash-Kelvinator. Incidentally Nash had merged with Kelvinator appliances in 1938 when George Mason, Kelvinator's president, was hired to run Nash. This turned out to be a brilliant move as the car company used the refrigerator company's technology to provide the first in-vehicle air conditioner.
With all that history you can see why Daryl Frank is proud of the restoration of this unique vehicle. Daryl says that the Nash club is a great resource full of wonderful members that host some great events. Nashes still run like clocks with plenty of new original stock (NOS) parts available to keep them running. Members come to the meets from near and far showing how reliable these cars continue to be.
Sure it would be easier to resto-mod a '57 Chevy but I, for one, think the world is a better place with cars restored to original condition like this for us all to enjoy. That's the beauty of this hobby - there are almost no wrong answers but there sure is a lot of eye candy.


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What is a tropical island without a roaring nightlife? Thankfully, Puerto Rico will never need to answer that question. Clubs, pubs, casinos, discos, lounges and live entertainment make the night air pulse until dawn. When it comes to lounges, the seven on this list will help you chill out all night long.
Address2 Calle Jose M. Tartak, Carolina, 00979, Puerto Rico
Phone+1 888-265-6699
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The ultra-stylish Water & Beach Club Hotel in Isla Verde has one of my favorite options for nightlife seekers. Mist is an Island-Italian-Spanish restaurant that doubles as a nocturnal rooftop hotspot. Come for the signature cocktails and the "socializers" menu, chill out at the lounge, and enjoy a night under the stars on a comfy daybed, if you can grab one. It's a cool place to kick back and bask with all of Isla Verde and the ocean spread out below you.
Contact: 787-728-3666
Eternal Lobby Lounge
Address999 Ashford Ave, San Juan, 00907, Puerto Rico
Phone+1 888-722-1274
WebVisit website
Rounding out my list is a relative newcomer to the late-night scene. The lobby-level Eternal Lobby Lounge at the Conrad San Juan Condado Plaza Hotel is one of the hottest places in San Juan to grab a drink, catch a live DJ on weekends, or relax on the outdoor terrace with a drink or two. The lounge combines a few environments; the open-air terrace overlooking the ocean, a funky-looking bar with plush seating and spacious booths, and additional seating spilling over into the lobby itself. Last time I was there, the crowd was lively, the music was thumping, and the outdoors provided a welcome reprieve from the energy of the club. I look forward to going back.
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MIRACLE IN A SONG – Bruce Cockburn's Greatest Hits
The song "Tokyo" was playing on a tape recorder, one of Bruce Cockburn's greatest hits. Thousands of miles away from Tokyo, near Basel, a friend of mine demonstrated to me this live version from a concert in Switzerland. Originally, this song was first released on the album HUMANS in 1980. I was impressed by the … [Read more…]


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In My Reach (2016)
Original 4-on-the-floor Moody Instrumental Video Game Soundtrack
Original 4-on-the-floor Moody Instrumental Video Game Soundtrack
"In My Reach (2016)" Original Video Game Soundtrack Music - Moody instruMental Music by Taurus M. James
Original 4-on-the-floor Moody Instrumental Video Game Soundtrack
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On of the reasons I highly recommend CMA is because of the Weekly Homework Assignments. These assignments helped me setup a schedule to create music of a certain type within a specified timeframe. These assignments also helped me FINISH my music.
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In all the commentaries on this important case about where you host your data, the voice of the startups seems to have been lost. Somehow, there seems to be the assumption that if you're pro-business, you're pro-Microsoft. I'm not so sure that assumption is true when you think about more innovative and early-stage companies. In my commentary here in TechCrunch, I outline some of the reasons why supporting Microsoft's position in their current litigation could actually harm the business interests of US startups.
Jurisdiction over user data - What is the ideal solution to a very real world problem?
Over the past ten days, civil society has been having kittens over the UK Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill, partly because of its extraterritorial extension of UK surveillance powers. This comes at a time when there is already heightened focus on issues of data and jurisdiction because the District Court is due next week to consider Microsoft's challenge to the magistrate's decision to uphold a search warrant over data that is stored in Ireland. When the District Court hears this matter, things will no doubt get very technical very quickly. International jurisdiction can have you turning your mind inside out trying to work your way through layers of laws, precedents and analogies, none of which is actually directly applicable to the case at hand. However, before we get swept up in the court's analysis, let's take a moment to step outside of the legalities of the Microsoft case and instead think about the fundamental principles behind them. It's a game of 'what would we want the laws to look like if we didn't have to rely on Congress to pass them?'.
The big question that I want to ask is, what criteria should jurisdiction for user data be based on? The four key options that I see are:
- Data location
- User location
- Company location
- Terms of service
Jurisdiction based on data location
This is essentially the approach that Microsoft is advocating. If your biggest fear is the NSA-style overreach of US power, it has definite appeal. It means that US law enforcement doesn't get a shortcut to the world's data just because US companies dominate much of the internet. Instead, US law enforcement must use the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) process or other methods of international cooperation if the data is hosted abroad, which feels reassuringly respectful of international borders and principles of sovereignty.
However, if you're a vulnerable user in an undemocratic regime, this may not be such an attractive option. Companies that insist on Californian jurisdiction over their data can use this to protect their users' data when they have concerns about the legitimacy of the foreign government's request. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) may be an imperfect guardian of user data, but it still provides a baseline level of protection for vulnerable users in undemocratic countries.
Moreover, data is increasingly stored across multiple jurisdictions and moves quickly between them. It seems arbitrary for users to be subject to different laws depending on where their data happens to be at a particular moment in time. For some companies, it may even be difficult to determine where the data is located.
If companies make decisions about where to store data based on legal considerations rather than technical requirements, it could compromise the ability to provide fast, reliable product offerings to consumers. Google highlighted this point in their objections to Brazil's attempt to legislate for data localization.
Jurisdiction based on user location
Something feels right about users being governed by their own countries' laws because that's how it's traditionally been done. Professor Kerr has argued for US jurisdiction to be based on user location, so that US-based users would receive full statutory protections, regardless of where in the world their data is stored. Applied more broadly, this could have the benefit of ensuring that users in countries with strong data protection and human rights laws receive the protection of their own countries' regimes even when they're using a foreign online product. User-based jurisdiction could also facilitate legitimate access to data for criminal investigations by removing the international complications when law enforcement officers are investigating users within their own jurisdiction.
However, companies with a very international user base could find themselves in a nightmarishly complicated situation of having to comply with 193 countries' legal systems and apply the correct laws to each user wherever that user happened to be. There are also difficulties in identifying where a user is at any given time. Professor Kerr suggests a solution that permits (but does not require) providers doing business in the US to disclose foreign user data (using rebuttable presumptions about user location) in response to foreign legal requests. This goes some way towards solving the problem. However, I'm not sure that it is a complete solution by itself because, if mirrored in other jurisdictions around the world, it places a large amount of discretion in the hands of internet companies and creates significant conflict of laws issues.
Jurisdiction based on company headquarters' location
This is the approach adopted by companies such as Google, Twitter, and Facebook. It has the advantage of being simple to understand, and ensures that there is at least a baseline level of legal protections (albeit a US-centric baseline).
However, this approach risks entrenching the dominance of US laws and US values over an international space. Countries may be left with limited ability to enforce laws over their own citizens within their own territory on issues such as data protection, intellectual property, or criminal law. It means that countries have to go through the MLAT and US legal process. This creates a large caseload for the US Department of Justice, FBI and US companies, as well as creating delays and frustrations for foreign law enforcement. It is concerns like these that encourage moves towards data localization and fragmentation of the internet.
Jurisdiction determined by terms of service
There is some attractiveness to the idea of being able to specify jurisdiction through the terms of service. It gives a level of user consent and empowerment over their data choices.
However, it is doubtful how many users read and understand the terms of service for every online service they access. This approach also raises concerns about forum-shopping. Terms of service should have to be combined with other indicia of jurisdiction (eg headquarter or user location), otherwise companies or users could just arbitrarily forum-shop for jurisdictions.
So what is the ideal solution?
I'm not sure. I think that the laws governing users and their data should be determined by reference to the location of the parties (ie the user, the provider and the requesting agency), rather than focusing solely on the location of the data. However, no single one of these bases is ideal. I think that we need a combination of factors that are required to provide the basis for jurisdiction. When multiple States assert jurisdiction, there's then a separate question of how to manage any potential conflict of laws (definitely a question for another day!).
Where does this leave us?
Meanwhile, back in reality, we have to work with the laws that are on the books. It's important to distinguish the discussion about what the law should be from what it actually is. Some of the arguments being raised in the context of the Microsoft case seem to blur that line by using perceived problems with the MLAT process to justify particular interpretations of the current laws. While legal interpretation should be connected with practical realities, it's important that the logic of the analysis and interpretation be able to stand on its own merits.
Whose laws control your data? The implications of the Microsoft search warrant challenge
Last month, Microsoft challenged a warrant that was served on their US offices for customer data that the company stores in Ireland (In the Matter of a Warrant to Search a Certain E-mail Account Controlled and Maintained by Microsoft Corporation No 13 Mag 2814, April 25 2014). Verizon, Apple and Cisco, AT&T, andEFF have all filed amicus briefs supporting Microsoft. Our first instinct might be to feel that this is a case of an over-reaching government taking short cuts to access user data, and we should therefore get behind Microsoft. However, before we pick sides or jump on the Microsoft bandwagon, I want to unpack the issues and sound a note of caution. It is certainly not clear-cut that Microsoft's approach is the best for the user, business, or the evolution of the law.
The first thing that I think we need to get straight is that this is not easy. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) is not designed for the scale and complexity of the way in which providers use international servers and cloud computing today. Using strained analogies with filing cabinets and the tools of traditional statutory interpretation to try to push and pull ECPA into the twenty-first century is not going to give a great outcome. If we want the law to be 'straightforward', we really need to start rethinking the law from the ground up (as Professor Kerr suggests), or at least make significant amendments to ECPA (sadly, this is not addressed in the current proposal). Microsoft's claim that this issue is straightforward might be a good litigation strategy, but it is not helpful if we want to move the jurisprudence forward in a meaningful, sustainable way; we need to acknowledge the complexities and the limitations of the current law.
What did the decision say?
The magistrate upheld the warrant. In short, he found that an order under s2703(d) of ECPA is a special hybrid of a search warrant and a subpoena, so it is not bound by all the same geographical limits of a standard search warrant. He argued that there is ambiguity in the way in which a s2703(d) order applies, so courts can look to context in order to interpret ECPA's geographical scope. The magistrate reasoned that practical considerations, as well as the structure and legislative history of ECPA support enforcing the court order. He noted the difficulties with the mutual legal assistance treaty (MLAT) process and reasoned that it would not be practicable to limit the application of ECPA so that US law enforcement is forced to rely on MLATs.
In any event, the magistrate found that no actual 'search' would occur until the government officers looked at the data. This would only occur after Microsoft had retrieved the data from Ireland.
What's the issue?
There are some very important issues at the heart of this case, and the magistrate's decision does not spend a lot of time teasing them out. The key questions are:
- what criteria should determine which laws apply to a user's data?
- Where the data is stored? Where the company's headquarters are located? Where the user is located? Where the terms of service specify?
- when does a search or seizure of data actually occur?
- When a company officer copies the data from the server? When a company hands the data over to the government? When a government official looks at the data?
The decision notes some of the difficulties in using data location as the basis for jurisdiction, but doesn't really analyse the alternative bases for jurisdiction. In fact, the decision does not even specify where the user was located or the user's nationality.
Similarly, the magistrate quickly dismisses the question of what part of the process constitutes the 'search' or 'seizure'. The magistrate quotes Professor Orin Kerr's 2005 article to conclude that a search occurs when 'the data is exposed to possible human observation' (ie when Microsoft hands the data over to government officers in the US). As the EFF amicus brief points out, Prof. Kerr has since refined his view on this issue and has suggested that a 'seizure' can occur when data is copied. This analysis could mean that 'seizure' occurred when Microsoft copied the data from the server in Ireland. This could amount to an extraterritorial seizure and enliven fourth amendment constitutional protections. Given these ramifications, the issue of when a 'search' or 'seizure' occurs in the online context deserves further analysis.
Who should care about this?
This issue is important for every individual who uses online products and cares about how access to their data is governed. It also has implications for all tech and telco companies that store user data across jurisdictions.
Apple, Cisco, and AT&T have all shown their support for Microsoft's approach to this issue. To date, other companies such as Google, Twitter and Facebook have been quiet. Part of the reason for this is that there is not unanimity among the tech world about how to approach the issue.
Microsoft and its supporters seem to be advocating jurisdiction on the basis of the location of the data, not company headquarters. This makes sense when you look at Microsoft's terms of service, which specify that different jurisdictions' laws apply depending on where in the world the user is located (which presumably has some correlation with the data location). Microsoft has chosen to accept legal process in many countries (as you can see in their transparency report). In this way, Microsoft's position in the current case reflects the business decisions that they have already made about how to operate in different countries.
By contrast, companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Google specify that the laws of their headquarters' location (California) always apply. The reasoning behind this is partly technical and partly principled. The technical argument is that having to make decisions about where to host data based on legal processes rather than technical considerations could compromise the ability to provide fast, reliable online products. Google has spoken of this issue when they publicly opposed Brazil's attempt to legislate for data localization.
The principled aspect to this argument is that sheltering behind Californian jurisdiction gives the companies the ability to set their own, US-based standards for when data should be handed over. This means that they can provide services internationally, but can still refuse to hand over data to foreign governments who seek that data for nefarious purposes. Twitter's strong branding around protecting users' freedom of speech indicates that this is an important issue for them.
What is the right approach to take?
There is no easy answer to this question; each approach involves compromise and trade-offs. I think it's important to note that being on the opposite side to the government is not necessarily the same as being on the user's side. In some instances, Microsoft's approach might result in stronger user protections, but in others it would not. It would place limits on US government access to user data, which may be beneficial in pushing back against government intrusions. However, it would also mean that users in undemocratic regimes would not necessarily benefit from the protections of US laws or US company policies. It also may limit the ability to provide fast and reliable online services to users through optimal data storage practices.
The Internet and Jurisdiction Project has been doing important work on this issue (see their ambitiouscompilation of international cases), but we are a still a long way from developing and implementing a solution. What is clear is that we need to take a nuanced approach to jurisdiction; basing jurisdiction solely on the location of the data, user, or company headquarters will give uneven and often unsatisfactory results. We also need to engage with the complexity to understand where 'searches' and 'seizures' actually occur in the online context. This is something that we need to get right. The Microsoft case is a wakeup call that the current system is not doing a good job at serving either the needs of users or the needs of business.
Which countries' law enforcement are data hungry?
One of the trends from the industry-wide transparency report that's worth looking at more closely is which countries are making requests for user data, to which companies, and on what scale. This post will break down these statistics and suggest some of the trends behind the numbers. As I mentioned in the last post, the figures in transparency reports only refer to requests that foreign law enforcement make directly to companies, not requests through the mutual legal assistance treaty process. Requests that come through the MLAT process are treated like requests from US law enforcement, and are bundled into the statistics for the US. This means that the US figures are artificially inflated and I have therefore removed the figures for US requests from this analysis.
When it rains, it pours
The first thing to note is that the number of direct foreign requests is still low for most internet companies. Dropbox and Pinterest did not receive any direct foreign requests. However, the big four companies are being inundated with requests, with Microsoft receiving almost 30,000 requests in the last six months of 2013. Twitter is barely in the scene, with less than 723 requests (Twitter's numbers are given as a range if they fall below 10, so this figure is only approximate).
Some companies, such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Wordpress are not likely to experience the same scale of requests as the big four companies. This is because most of their content is intended to be publicly accessible. Law enforcement therefore should not need to contact the companies to access user content; they are more likely only to need to contact the companies in order to access subscriber information to identify anonymous account holders, or to seek preservation of account information before it is deleted. Other factors that can influence the number of requests from foreign law enforcement that a company receives include a company's international presence, criminals' preferences for particular platforms, and law enforcement's familiarity with the particular company.
I have included Yahoo! in this analysis, but it is very important to note that the data in Yahoo!'s transparency report is quite different from the data in the other companies' reports. There is still value in looking at Yahoo!'s data, but this is definitely a case of comparing apples with oranges. Yahoo! only reports on requests that are made by countries in which they have a legal subsidiary. This means that the requests referred to in Yahoo!'s report are made within those countries and are governed by each country's domestic laws, not US law. For this reason, these requests can result in handing over content as well as subscriber details. The big question is what about the countries in which Yahoo! does not have a legal subsidiary - where are those statistics? Presumably there are Yahoo! users in countries in which Yahoo! does not have a legal subsidiary, and local law enforcement would try to request that data directly from Yahoo! in the US. However, Yahoo! does not seem to publish any information on the number of those requests and how they responded. Accordingly, we do not have an accurate figure to compare between Yahoo! and the other companies.
The data-hungry countries
The next breakdown that is interesting to consider is which countries are making requests to which companies. These charts show the top 10 requesting countries to Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! and Facebook. Some of this is unsurprising; Brazil, France, India and Germany have noticeable and reasonably consistent representation across the companies. Australia seems to punch above its weight, with requests from its law enforcement officers comprising about 5-6% of each company's total requests. Singapore also makes a surprise entry in the Google statistics.
Some of the factors that could explain the different levels of requests from countries include:
- the penetration levels of these companies' products in particular markets;
- local law enforcement's level of awareness and competence in requesting online data; and
- whether law enforcement feel more able to make direct requests to companies (rather than going through the slower, more cumbersome process of mutual legal assistance).
Taiwan and Hong Kong figure in Yahoo!'s top ten, but not the other companies'. It is likely that this not only reflects the increased presence of Yahoo! in these countries, but also the skewed nature of the data set that Yahoo! provides because it only provides figures for countries in which there is a Yahoo! subsidiary.
Perhaps the standout issue in these statistics is the large number of requests to Microsoft from Turkey. Turkey does not even make it into the top 10 for other companies, but accounts for 21% of requests to Microsoft. This is particularly interesting given the political turmoil in Turkey during this period. Of course, the next interesting statistic to consider is how the companies respond to the requests that they receive. I will delve more into this issue in the next post.
International data privacy: what we need is an industry transparency report
Cross-posted from https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2014/05/international-data-privacy-what-we-need-industry-transparency-report Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Twitter, Apple, Dropbox, LinkedIn, and Pinterest all publish transparency reports. Wordpress is the latest company to join the party, recently publishing their first transparency report. However, it's difficult to see trends and anomalies when the information is scattered across multiple individual company reports. In order to get a comprehensive view of what is happening, we need to pull all of these fragments into a comprehensive picture. We need an internet industry-wide transparency report.
To create a kind of hacked industry transparency report, I have consolidated the July-December 2013 transparency data from the main internet companies. There is such a wealth of information to pore over and slice and dice in different ways that I will separate the analysis into a series of blog entries. My interest is the international aspect, so I will focus on requests from foreign law enforcement. This post will outline some of the key themes emerging from my comparison.Combined law enforcement data table
Only part of the picture
The first thing to note is that the transparency reports only show requests from foreign law enforcement that are made directly to the company. As I have previously noted, there are at least three main ways in which foreign law enforcement can access user data that is held by a US company:
1. through the US government via the mutual legal assistance treaty (MLAT) process;
2. directly asking the company; or
3. asking the FBI to obtain the data on their behalf.
The transparency reports only show requests made via method (2). This is not the companies' fault; by the time an MLAT request filters down to companies' inhouse lawyers and paralegals, it simply looks like a search warrant issued by the US District Court. For this reason, any requests that go through the MLAT system show up as US requests. This has the unfortunate consequence of over inflating the statistics for US government requests and hiding where the requests are really coming from.
Same-same but different
The companies' reports are similar, but not the same. As the pioneer in this field, Google has set the template that many of the other companies now use. The Google-inspired template includes (1) number of requests (2) percentage of requests for which data was provided and (3) number of accounts/users affected. However, there are subtle differences in layout and content, which make it difficult to draw meaningful comparisons across companies.
For example, Microsoft divides their responses into percentages for content and non-content, which means that you can't easily do a direct comparison with the percentages listed by companies that use the Google template. Of course, with some 8th grade algebra, you can overcome this, but it slows down the comparison process. A couple of other notable anomalies are that Twitter does not give a specific number for countries for which there were fewer than 10 requests. This could be because when the numbers of requests are small, criminal suspects may be tipped off that they are under suspicion. Dropbox does not break down their foreign requests by country at all (intriguingly, although 90 foreign requests were made, 0 accounts were affected – I can only imagine that this means that they refused all 90 requests).
There isn't necessarily anything sinister going on here; it just makes direct comparison across companies difficult. It would be great to see consistent reporting across the internet companies (or even some consolidating reporting!).
Content vs non-content
One of the differences in the transparency reports that reveals a more substantive issue is that the Yahoo! and Microsoft reports indicate whether content or non-content has been handed over to foreign countries. This is more than just a question of template consistency; Yahoo! and Microsoft are notable exceptions in that they will accept jurisdiction for data requests in certain countries outside of the US. The other companies will generally only provide content through their US headquarters, in response to a US court order (eg through the MLAT process) or in emergency situations.
It's harder to see overseas
There is an increase in the granularity of Google's data with each year since 2010 and other companies are starting to follow suit. The improved transparency of national security requests is also a new development. However, when it comes to foreign requests, the level of detail takes a nosedive. There are at least two areas where this is important: legal process; and user notification.
Legal process
Google, LinkedIn and Dropbox break down the number of US requests according to which process was used eg subpoena, court order, or search warrant. This is not possible for foreign requests - as noted above, the only foreign law enforcement requests that are separately shown in the transparency reports are those that are made directly to the companies and this means that there has not been any US legal process. As I've noted [previously], the Electronic Communications Privacy Act does not apply to foreign governments, so they cannot use US legal process and companies have unfettered discretion about whether or not to provide non-content information to them. Some companies take this responsibility very seriously and apply their own due diligence processes before handing over user records. However, there is no visibility of what these standards and processes are. As I will discuss in a later post, there are notable differences between different companies' compliance rates for requests from the same countries, which suggests that the companies may be exercising this discretion quite differently.
User notification
In the domestic context, Dropbox and Pinterest show whether they notified the user that their records had been accessed by US law enforcement. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are all apparently updating their policies to increase their rate of user notification. Depending on the legal process used, ECPA establishes different obligations with respect to notification for access by law enforcement. This is quite an interesting statistic but it would arguably be more important to see the statistics for foreign requests. The fact that ECPA does not apply to foreign governments means that there is no obligation on companies to notify users if foreign law enforcement accesses their records. Since there is no legal obligation on companies, it is entirely a matter of policy as to whether or not they notify users and we have no visibility of how this plays out in practice.
I have attached the raw data from my unified industry transparency report, but will be sharing charts and diagrams that break up the data into more intelligible chunks over the next week or so.


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Young advocate from the Philippines goes a long way to educate about climate change
Editor's note: John Carl Alonsagay submitted his following personal story to Global Young Voices. You too can submit yours to us here.
I come from a 121 years old developing country. It is composed of almost 7.100+ islands and the number changes every high and low tide. We experience 15 to 20 typhoons every year. My country is called "The Philippines".
As I recall, my advocacy started when I first got to know the word "global warming", back when I was in 3rd grade. Years later, I am still that casual elementary school kid, who has an innocent mind and whose only problem is how to win Pokémon card battles. However, encyclopedias used to pile up in my room, where I started reading about subjects that would have later shaped my purpose in life. Global warming is the first term people used to refer to changes in the Earth's atmospheric condition and temperature due to excessive human pollution. Soon after, I learned about the role of the ozone layer and how vital it is.
For a child to imagine his home and the world in a dystopian way is probably the worst nightmare of all. That's how I felt when I first learned that the only planet we have is not going to make it past a hundred more years if our current climate condition keeps worsening.
Climate change needs action in order to be overcome. Therefore, alongside my cousins, we launched the Alpha Team Organization (or ATO), which has become a multi-interest organization. It grew with the addition of our classmates and people from other schools in my hometown. Then it when silent for a while.
A few years later, in 2015, I was in the midst of my college life. I had already adapted to a urban lifestyle. It looked like I had almost forgotten that back in my elementary and high school days I wanted to participate in tree-planting activities at our school as part of the Philippine government's National Greening Program (GNP), which wanted to plant more than a million trees all over the archipelago.
My attention went back to environmental advocacy when I heard the news that almost 196 countries signed the Paris Agreement with the promise of finally getting serious about cutting carbon emissions.
I then applied for a conference in Manila which was hosted by the climate change forefront of former US Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Al Gore.
I was accepted to join the conference along with my cousin, Crystal Maureen Santillan, who became my most important ally in rebuilding the ATO. It was my first international conference. At first I was worried that people would notice my old shoes or my too-large coat. I then met Rubina Karki from Nepal, an environmental student in Kathmandu. She too is a passionate climate activist. So, we decided to join forces and thought of something that is probably the most important and sometimes the most underrated of all: climate change education.
We wanted to put ATO back on its feet and start a new authentic advocacy initiative. We launched the ClimatEducate Project on April 6, 2016, and opened its social media page on Facebook. In the following months, our project expanded in the Philippines, Nepal, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Brazil. What amazes me is the unexpected diversity of our team: some are climate change activists, some are practicing researchers and educators, others are graphic designers and some are even high school students.
We didn't want our climate change education project to be limited to online sources, so we developed "Non-Online Initiatives" or NOIs and launched them through Kathmandu, Nepal first.
Then, our NOIs spread in many schools and communities in 11 different countries and that's when we decided to divide our project into three major world regions: South Asia, Africa and South America. Our activities usually focus on basic climate change science and the contextualization of climate change issues.
After months of hard work, our Project has been given the opportunity to join the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change in Marrakech, Morocco. I was overwhelmed and though I first wanted other deserving project members to get the opportunity to go, the team decided to nominate me as the lucky one who got to participate in this incredible opportunity.
In the negotiations, I acted as an observer, surprised by policy jargons and climate science. Ultimately, I came to the realization that "climate change education" might need more time and resources. The schools that we had initiatives with barely had the required instructional equipment. I came to realize that we might need more.
After the COP22, ATO was finally registered as a non-profit organization in the Philippines and in Earth Day 2017, our project was awarded the Allen S. Quimpo collective Climate Leadership Award by the Climate Reality Project Philippines which was held at the Philippine Senate.
We were able to reach 30 schools and communities with almost 2,500 participants, mostly students in 12 countries.
I kept thinking how powerful thoughts can be. Our project started out as a mere thought which became a concept and then a catalyst for the youth of the developing world.
We are not really sure where our Project will go from now. But one thing is for sure, that we will tell the generation after us that we once have fought to defend science, mankind, our planet and our home.