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A look at the winners of this year's Freedom of Information Awards
The Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California, will honor the following James Madison Freedom of Information Award winners during a March 20 banquet. Details on their work and the dinner are available at www.spjnorcal.org.
Throughout his 29-year journalism career, Peter Sussman, a retired San Francisco Chronicle editor, advocated for greater media access to prisoners and fought to uphold the rights of inmate journalists. In the 1980s, federal prison officials cracked down on inmate Dannie "Red Hog" Martin for writing to Sussman to share what life was like behind bars.
The retaliation spurred an epic battle over free speech within prison walls, and Sussman responded by publishing Martin's regular writings about prison life, and later co-authoring a book with him titled Committing Journalism: The Prison Writings of Red Hog.
In the mid-'90s, Sussman fought state prison officials' restrictions on media interviews with prisoners. He also helped write and sponsor statewide legislation to overturn limits restricting media access to prisons. Sussman will receive the Norwin S. Yoffie Award for Career Achievement.
Beverly Kees Educator Award winner Rob Gunnison is a former instructor and administrator at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, where he arrived after spending 15 years covering government and politics in Sacramento for the San Francisco Chronicle.
As a longtime instructor of a course called "Reporting and Writing the News," Gunnison has continued to educate hungry young journalists on how to seek public records and carry out investigative reporting projects.
Peter Buxton will be honored with the FOI Whistleblower/Source Award. In 1972, Buxton played a key role in alerting the press to the ongoing operation of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, where African American sharecroppers were intentionally exposed to the disease, without treatment or their knowledge, so researchers could study its progression.
By the time the story was related to the press, 28 men had died of syphilis, and 100 others had died of related complications. That leak helped spur Congressional hearings on the practice beginning in 1973, ultimately spurring a complete overhaul of federal regulations. A class-action lawsuit was filed, resulting in a $10 million settlement.
Reporter Tom Vacar of KTVU pushed for records determining whether replacement drivers that BART was training to help break last year's labor strike were qualified to safely operate the trains, eventually finding that they had been simply rubber-stamped by the California Public Utilities Commission.
Those findings proved gravely significant on Oct. 21 when two workers on the tracks were killed by a BART train operated at the time by an uncertified trainee, an accident still being investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board.
California Sen. Leland Yee is once again being honored by SPJ Norcal for his work on sunshine issues, including last year criticizing Gov. Jerry Brown and other fellow Democrats who had sought to weaken the California Public Records Act, instead seeking to strengthen the ability of the courts to enforce the law.
Freelance journalist Richard Knee's Distinguished Service Award caps a 12-year fight for open government in a city eager to stash its skeletons securely in closets.
Knee is a longtime member of the San Francisco's Sunshine Ordinance Task Force, created in 1994 to safeguard the city's Sunshine Ordinance, and he has fought to maintain its power and relevance.
March 15, 2014
Steven T. Jones
San Francisco Bay Guardian
225 Bush Street, 17th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
Dear Mr. Jones,
I have reason to believe that on March 4, a Sunshine advocate and open-government wizard contacted the Bay Guardian requesting that you include in your planned FOIA issue, an article focusing on Allen Grossman's lawsuit against the Ethics Commission that is languishing in the Appellate Court. One way or another, the case may turn out to set precedents in the City affecting the public's right to know what our government is doing in our names, and the level of secrecy the City seeks to preserve. Depending on the outcome at the Appellate level, this case may have the potential of reaching California's Supreme Court.
So I was shocked to learn that on March 10, that you had responded to a request for coverage that the Guardian would not "get into this lawsuit at this time. It's just way too narrow and wonky to devote a whole story to, and frankly I think you'll have a hard time convincing a judge that the Sunshine Ordinance trumps attorney-client privilege."
Really, Mr. Jones: It could end up reaching the Supreme Court, but is "too wonky" to devote a whole story to? Jeesh! Did you bother reading the final brief filed by Grossman's lawyer, Michael Ng, who asserts no attorney-client privilege ever attached to the records Grossman sought, and so of course, the Sunshine Ordinance takes over? While the City Attorney wails about this "trumping" issue, the issue falls apart on close examination. Which examination you think is "too wonky"?
Then, I was surprised to see that when the Guardian hit news racks on Wednesday, March 10, that the best Rebecca Bowe and Brian McMahon could work into their "Glimmers of Sunshine" article on page 9 of the Guardian, was a single 20-word clause alluding to Grossman's case ["… plus a lawsuit revolving around the city's refusal disclose [sic: to disclose] how the City Attorney's Office advises agencies on Sunshine Ordinance interpretations, …"].
Legal briefs filed by both sides to date in Court records number at least 275 pages. And all Ms. Bowe could devote were just 20 words to describe Grossman's case? After she acknowledged in her introduction that the act of standing up to defend FOI can be rather unglamorous, and sometimes lead to grueling lawsuits? Grossman's case is a prime example of a grueling lawsuit to defend San Francisco's local FOI protections via the Sunshine Ordinance. And you conclude his lawsuit is merely "wonky"?
Knowing in advance of the Guardian's demurral to report (however extensively or not) on Grossman's case in your annual FOI issue, I was stunned turning to Wednesday's San Francisco Chronicle the same day the Guardian hit news racks. The Chronicle's Bob Egelko published a several-hundred-word article describing Grossman's case in the Appellate Court.
How could the Chronicle have scooped the Guardian reporting on Grossman's case?
As another prominent open government advocate noted yesterday, it's ironic that we've reached the point where the Chronicle does a fairly major story reporting on a [very major] Sunshine issue, while the Bay Guardian does not.
"Progressives" being scooped by "moderate" conservatives is all too telling.
For that matter, Tim Redmond reported on his new web site last week that City Attorney Dennis Herrera's new spokesperson, Gabriel Zitrin, claimed that San Francisco's city attorney would be the only lawyer in the State "who [would have] to abide by a restriction that no other lawyer faces." Redmond also didn't do his fact-checking, since it turns out Zitrin is wrong. Both Milpitas and Vallejo have similar local Sunshine law restrictions that other City Attorney's are already facing. And the sky hasn't fallen in either jurisdiction.
Just how far has journalism fallen that the Guardian's annual FOI issue mentions just 20 words about Grossman's case, and is scooped by the Chronicle?
May I suggest that you read my article, "Sandbagging, Legal Fairy Dust, and Double-Speak" available on my web site ? I admit it's long reading, but it summarizes about 275 to 325 pages of legal briefs and the relevant law. Hopefully, there's a nugget or two in my article that may help convince you Grossman's case is not at all "wonky." His case involves whether all San Franciscans, including the Guardian, will be able to rely on the Sunshine Ordinance if he prevails.
And if he doesn't prevail, whether that will grant the City free license to gut multiple, entire sections of the Sunshine Ordinance, and gut your ability to obtain records under the Sunshine Ordinance. This isn't about "wonky." This is about the very survival of the Sunshine Ordinance.
Patrick Monette-Shaw
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Recipient of 2012 SPJ-NorCal James Madison Freedom of Information Award, Advocacy Category
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I use a WMS service as a FDO datasource in AutoCAD Map. This works well.
- How can I view the legend (GetLegendGraphic)?
- How can I access the attributes (GetFeatureInfo)?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hi Jens,
Good question - this all depends on the WMS service and how they setup their sites. You might be able to change the connection string after the "?" to GetLegendGraphic or GetFeatureInfo from whatever you had originally, but those are only going to work if they actually have those parameters defined.
This site has a good explanation of how their WMS services work:
I hope this makes sense.
thanks for the answer.
1. Legend
If I understood you correctly, I have to make the GetLegendGraphic request outside AutoCAD Map. This works, but it would also be nice to have a button in AutoCAD Map to show the legend. If there is no button inside AutoCAD Map, then I make the request via a browser - that's ok.
2. Attributes
I know that I can use a GetFeatureInfo in a browser to get the attributes of an object. But this is not quite useful because I have to know the x/y coordinates: "….REQUEST=GetFeatureInfo&X=98765&Y=12345…."
Is there no button inside AutoCAD Map to make a GetFeatureInfo request?
There are no buttons in AutoCAD Map 3D to make these requests. WMS is an image service. If you are looking for attribute data that is associated with map features, maybe you really need a WFS (vector) service?
thank you for confirming that AutoCAD Map has no button for a GetFeatureInfo-request and a GetLegendGraphic-request.
For the GetLegendGraphic-request you can easily use the browser.
But for the GetFeatureInfo-request, it would be useful to have a button in a future AutoCAD Map release. Other GIS have such a button to retrieve the attributes of an objekt in a WMS service.
Thanks for the help
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WMS is an image service
It doesn't matter, sir: the info you can get from it, depend on what a given WMS server can offer.
For instance, here's a WMS layer from the Italy's Environment Department:
If you query it with an opensource Qgis, you receive full info about the region where you clicked into: check this out.
Thanks for the example, antoniovinci.
The example clearly shows that a GetFeatureInfo-request is very important. All areas in the map look the same. Only by using a GetFeatureInfo-request I can access the attributes and use the information about the areas.
The German Autodesk support has given the solution: AutoCAD Map 2013 has a function to query the attributes of an object in a WMS service!
- In Display Manager, right-click a WMS layer.
- Click Get WMS Feature Information.
- Click Raster Layer tab - View panel - WMS Feature Information.
- Click a point on the image
- The WMS Feature Information dialog box is displayed.
This seams to be a new feature in the 2013 release of AutoCAD Map. I can not test is because I only have 2012.


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Eagles Fall To Dolphins 74-55
Jacksonville, Fla. - Casey Wohlleb scored 13 points as the Eagles lost their first A-Sun Conference game of the season to the Jacksonville Dolphins by the final score of 74-55.
The Dolphins improve to 5-8 overall and 2-0 in the A-Sun while the Eagles fall to 5-5 and 1-1 in the league.
The Eagles came out strong and took a quick 12-point lead as they began the game with a 16-4 run over the first seven minutes of the game. Jacksonville answered the Eagles run by cutting that 12-point deficit in half to make the score 27-21 with five minutes to go in the first half. The Dolphins then closed the half on a 16-7 run to take a three-point lead at the half.
In the second half, the Eagles were unable to cut into JU's lead. The Dolphins pushed their lead to eight in the first five minutes and never looked back as the Eagles were only able to pull within six points in the final 15 minutes.
The Eagles got 13 points from Wohlleb, who shot 5-of-19 (26.3 percent) from the floor. Wohlleb also grabbed six boards and dished out four assists. Adam Liddell and Delvin Franklin had 10 apiece.
After two straight on the road, the Eagles return home on Friday, Jan. 11 to take on Stetson for Beasley Buck and Blue-Out Night. Tipoff is set for 7:30 p.m.
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Exxon Is Good but Halliburton Is Better Value
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- When it comes to oil and gas, there aren't many rivals that can go toe-to-toe with Exxon Mobil (XOM). I will concede that as enamored as I have become with Halliburton (HAL), even it can't compete with the successful track record of Exxon Mobil, the world's second largest company behind only Apple (AAPL). Yet through no fault of its own, the company often gets overlooked when discussing some of the top run operations on Wall Street and seemingly punished for what appears to be routine success -- something from which the company has become somewhat of a victim.
It goes without saying, that this is a tremendous problem to have. But while Exxon trades in-line with Halliburton from the standpoint of their respective multiples, the stock remains significantly discounted when compared to such names as Schlumberger (SLB). The concerns surrounding natural gas cannot be overstated, as with several of its peers and most notably Chesapeake Energy (CHK), Exxon has had to deal with adverse effects of not only slower production, but considerably weaker North American prices for natural gas -- an event that served to offset what was once perceived to be a benefit of higher oil process.
Leading into the company's first-quarter earnings report, I was eager to see if it was able to navigate through the roughs as well as rival Halliburton and thus, which of the two was the better investment. While Halliburton convinced that it was undervalued by at least 33%, it was Exxon's turn to remind Wall Street of why it deserves a bit more respect.The quarter that was The company reported first-quarter earnings of $9.45 billion or $2 per share -- representing a decrease of 11% from the same period of a year ago as upstream earnings declined 10% to $7.8 billion. As noted, this was attributable to declining production of both oil and natural gas, whereas in last year's quarter it reported $10.7 billion in net income or $2.14 per share. Analysts polled by Thompson Reuters had expected the company to bring in profits of $2.09 per share for the first quarter. Oil-equivalent production fell 5% to 4,553 oil equivalent barrels per day but higher oil prices helped boost prices, as did other income and higher refining activities.
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The failure of Lee's business tax plan
The Mayor's Office and city finance officials are circulating drafts of a new business tax plan that would largely abolish the payroll tax and replace it with a levy on gross receipts.
Ben Rosenfield, the city controller, and Ted Egan, the chief economist, have been meeting with business groups and presenting what's described in the documents they're circulating as "one possible idea." And there's some very positive news about the proposal: It would greatly broaden the tax base (only about 10 percent of the city's businesses are hit by the payroll tax) and it's designed to be somewhat progressive: Businesses with higher gross receipts would pay a higher percentage tax.
The plan is complicated -- since some types of industries (retailers, for example) have high gross receipts compared to payroll, and some (financial services) have high payrolls compared to gross receipts, the levies are broken down into four schedules. At the lowest end, companies with comparatively large gross reciepts would pay between 0.05 percent and 0.125 percent. At the highest end, the tax would go from 0.220 to 0.535.
But there's one central -- and simple -- element of the proposal: At this point, it's entirely revenue neutral. In fact, finance officials say, over time the total tax burden paid by local businesses would go down, since payroll tends to rise slightly faster than gross receipts.
That, sources say, is something the mayor has made clear he doesn't want to budge on. He's not willing to accept a plan that raises the total amount of money the city gets from business taxes.
Which puts him in synch with what some business groups want: "The business community thinks this should be revenue-neutral," Scott Hauge, who runs Small Business California, told me.
But in a city that faces a large structural budget deficit, some supervisors have other ideas. "I want to look at new revenue possibilities," Sup. John Avalos said.
And even the current proposals would let banks, which are exempt from local business taxes, escape without paying anything.
In reality, the proposals are less then revenue-neutral. Rosenfield and Egan project that the new tax system would lead to the creation of 2,500 jobs a year -- mostly because businesses over time would be paying lower taxes.
Hague told me that he's not sure exactly how business leaders feel about this. "We don't know yet how it will affect people," he noted. But some political leaders have been clamoring for years for the elimination of the payroll tax, which, by taxing employment, appears to be a damper on job growth.
That's actually a myth. The payroll tax is so minor that it can't possibly influence any individual hiring decision. It's true that if city business taxes in general are reduced, companies will have more money -- and some might spend that on new hiring. But San Francisco, like most major cities, has to have some kind of business tax -- and I can already hear some downtown types complaining that a gross receipts tax "punishes growth and success."
This proposal is a long way from what Sup. David Chiu suggested a year ago. His plan would have included a commercial rent tax -- ensuring that financial institutions that get away with paying nothing would have to contribute like other businesses. Like most local taxes, it wasn't perfect -- state law bars cities from imposing corporate income taxes and limits what else municipalities can do -- but together with a reworked gross receipts tax, it was projected to bring $28 million more dollars into the city treasury -- without any job loss.
But the Chamber of Commerce and crew fought bitterly against that idea, and Chiu withdrew it.
At this point, Chiu said, he's working with the mayor and trying to get the business community to accept the idea of a change in the tax structure. But this is a rare opportunity to do two things -- to make the local tax system more fair, and to raise taxes on the biggest companies to bring additional revenue into the city.
The plan will probably have to go to the ballot anyway, so why not do it right?
Seriously. That's his answer to everything - more money.
Presumably we're making the change from payroll to something else because payroll wasn't fair or had some other unintended consequence. Shouldn't we make the complicated change first and then play around with the rates if we want more money?
Or does every change need to be a way to IMMEDIATELY suck more money from local businesses?
from increasing tax rates. You can do either one without the other.
Of course Avalos and Redmond want to increase taxes. They're a broken record. But Lee won a landslide victory on a pro-business, pro-jobs mandate. If Lee was just going to implement Avalos's ideas, then what would that say? That elections are pointless?
I'm not convinced about a GRT - it seems too easy to hike - the argument would be "but it's only a 0.001% increase!". What I'd really like to see is lower taxes on business to encourage jobs in SF - as it is we have to offer cuts in payroll tax to persuade high-value employers like Twitter to stay as it is.
The author is absolutely correct that most SF executives don't know there is payroll tax. (Or at least most didn't know about the tax 10 years ago when they were presented with some simple tax planning ideas to reduce their tax liaiblity). And the SF payroll tax is way down their list of business considerations and potential expenses that affect a SF location decision compared to the much more important facttors such as a skilled and trained labor force, rent cost, labor costs, space availability, transportation access, proximity to suppliers and customers, etc. Any CEO who spends more than 5 seconds thinking about the miniscule SF business tax should be fired for lack of priority and judgment.
A proposed tax that raises a modest amount of additional tax revenue in these very difficult times for governments is a moderst request (and compensates for the fact that we never quite know how much less money the new tax may raise compared to the old tax). Let's hope the mayor and supervisiors work to adjust the tax rates. Even at at the highest tax level the propsoed tax is only 1/2 of a penny! And at it's lowest level it's a mere 1/10 of a penny.
The proposed tax rates are laughable really, compared to the 35% federal tax, 7.5% employer payroll tax, 9% state tax, and the 10% sales tax that sometimes applies. If I understand the numbers correctly, on a $1,000 sale for legal or advertising services, or even a large grocery bill -- we're talking about 50 CENTS at the lowest tax levels or $5.35 at the highest. It's so absurdly low that it's a joke of a tax that I'm sure most big business leaders are laughing about how much control they have over the local government.
But the best aspect of the mayor's proposal is that it does make a lot more sense to tax gross receipts than payroll. If he thinks this is the only way to get the Chamber, SPUR and BOMA to go along with the change, then it's worth the revenue neutrality since those groups have limitless resources to kill most tax proposals with a well-funded campaign even in a major turn-out election such as November 2012.
While it can be fairly easy for some companies to shift payroll expenses to non-SF locations to reduce their payroll tax expense (even SF based law and accounting firms pay a small fraction of expected payroll tax since so many hours of their SF based workers are allocated "outside SF"), it's very difficult to avoid a gross receipts tax since either the sales transaction took place in SF or it didn't. Fairly simple allocation methods can be used to split the revenue when it was partially earned inside and outside SF.
A gross receipts tax allows out-of-city companies who profit from the very lucrative SF market to pay some of the business tax rather than rely - as currently - on only the companies that actually employ people in SF. And since many export transactions (sales to customers outside SF) are taxed less or not al all (we'd have to read the proposed legislation to know for sure), a gross receipts tax benefits local businesses more than a payroll tax.
The dropping of the rent tax is most unfortunate, however, since that's the best tax of all: the land can't leave the city and a tax on rents has no affect on the final rent cost to a tenant since landlords already charge as much for the space as they can get from a tenant regardless of the landlord's costs. I wonder if a commercial rent tax is really excluded from the tax base or maybe it's burried in one of the tax categories.
An annual rent tax would make sense for funding a sustainable affordable housing fund that is also on the mayor's agenda. The tax make's sense from an equity perspective too. Commercial property owners benefit from a highly paid work force, which translates into high rents. But the high-priced labor has a negative effect on current SF residents who are either displaced or charged higher rent caused by the additional high-paid workers drawn to the city. A commercial rent tax that recycles some of the rent into afforable and workforce housing programs like Habitat for Humanity alleviates some of the negative effects of the high rents and displacement.
One aspect about this administation that is troubling is this notion that SF has be to "sold" to employers. Nothing could be further from the truth. SF has far more to offer in terms of labor quality and experience, access to large pools of investment capital, transportation infrastructure, and scenic beauty than 99.9% of ALL other cities in the US or even the world. Since San Francisco already offers tremendous benefits to SF employers there's no reason for the mayor to sell the city as a cheap whore just to get some attention (and presumably campaign support) from wealthy business suitors. The mayor shouldn't be demeaning the city by pandering to the wealthiest landlords and biggest businesses since the economic game is already so heavily stacked in their favor.
both businesses and tenants. We need to be very sensitive to any tax measure that is inflationary in what is already a very expensive city.
Your point about SF being "attractive" is illusory. The most successful Bay Area companies are very careful to position themselves in other Counties, while the biggest SF-based employers, BofA and WellsFargo, have upped and left for more business-friendly cities (Charlotte, NC and Minneapolis, MN).
As we saw with Twitter, successful companies can call the shots. We need them more than they need us, and there are three other Counties within ten miles.
Why don't you research how much Muni's budget has increased over the last ten years, and then tell us how much the service has improved over the same time period.
The beneficiaries of "new revenue" (i.e. tax increases) are City employees not the residents of San Francisco.
Not one dime.
The business tax settlement that eliminated the gross receipts tax in 2001 was a tax cut. The City has lost $80m or so per year due to that settlement. Any new tax structure should restore revenues to what they were 10 years ago adjusted for inflation. That would be a tax restoration not a tax increase.
What's important is whether the Mayor feels that his recent election win is a mandate to hike taxes on jobs and business. Lee obviously feels not, and the Avalos tax hike plan was roundly rejected by the voters.
Lee's approach here is prudent. Changing the method of the taxes should be revenue-neutral. If the voters then elect a pro-tax Mayor, then he will have a mandate for higher taxes. Right now that doesn't exist.
significant mandate from the voters. He dismisses that the voters clearly wanted a pro-business, pro-jobs, low-tax city government.
In Tim's mind, since the election didn't give him what he wanted, then he simply ignores the election results and acts like Avalos was Mayor which, of course, he was never close to being.
The people who won the case still need to pay up?
Thats just weird reasoning.
• The legal challenge. From 1970 until Spring 2001 San Francisco maintained an alternative-measure business tax, consisting of a 1.5% payroll tax and a varying rate gross receipts tax. Every company doing business within the city calculated its tax payment under each system and paid whichever amount was higher.
But in 1999, General Motors and Eastman Kodak brought suit against Los Angeles , which had a similar alternative-measure tax, claiming it was unconstitutional; in March 2000 the California State Courts concurred. In essence, it was decided that levying the gross receipts and payroll taxes against different firms simultaneously was unconstitutional. One or the other would be allowed, but it is illegal to do both.
Some of the same companies sued San Francisco , and the city decided to settle. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a measure to eliminate the gross receipts tax, paid by 18% of the city's businesses, effective May 25, 2001 . Subsequent efforts to more carefully revamp the business tax system-culminating in Proposition I on the November 2000 ballot, which would have enacted a retroactive payroll tax-have failed.
Thansk for the background info.
I realize Lee won the election. That doesn't change my opinion about business taxes. And I don't think Lee is the "no-new-taxes-ever" type that you're portraying him as. He's smarter than that, and I think we can convince him that some new revenue is necessary for the city.
a high-tax, anti-business candidiate (Avalos) and Lee, who clearly stood on a pro-business platform, made their decision.
So are you saying that Lee should ignore his mandate and instead implement an Avalos policy?
The issue of what type of business tax to have is quite distinct from what level of revenue we should raise. This issue is about the former.
While if you think you can persuade voters to be taxed more so that city workers don't have to give up any of their bloated pension and hgealth entitlements, then make that case to all of us voters who have far worse benefits.
I am so glad that I am based in Pennsylvania. I heard about Harborcompliance to help me understand the legalities of starting my own business, including tax and tax registration. I first heard about it from a friend of mine who, like me, was starting his own business. Harborcompliance was able to help him in forming his personal business helped him with the various filings with government agencies. The organization did a very good job that he was able to start his business on a smooth footing.
The issue I have with proposals like this one are the loopholes that will exist to "help" large business entities escape the tax. The plan is already going to exclude banks from the equation...really?
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We lived next to a family who attended the Church of God, headquarters in Anderson, Ind. The church was not Pentecostal but taught holiness living. The lady was a preacher, and we were not used to lady ministers in the church our family attended. She owned a portable organ and brought it for the music. She was a great musician and the songs were sung with gusto. Often, a visiting man preacher teamed with the lady to hold the meeting. There was a magical kind of holy hush in the woods on a warm summer night with the dim light of kerosene lamps and the music ringing out through the woods.
Another peculiarity (to us) was that they preached against using tobacco. During the revival meeting, the mourners who prayed at the altar very often got up from the altar and cast their tobacco off the side of the hill. At times, a drinker of alcohol would leave a bottle at the altar.
My brothers attended the services religiously – not for spiritual reasons, but to reap the harvest in the woods later. They would go into the woods early the next day and find snuff boxes, tobacco in cloth bags with a draw-string top, and plugs of chewing tobacco. They were in "hog heaven." There was little money for them to have to buy these "luxuries." They never considered doing anything wrong. If these people didn't want their "terbacky," then they didn't want it to go to waste. "Boys will be boys," the older ones said.
No good pictures are available of the brush arbors used for church services due to the lack of cameras in the rural South.
They had simple poles cut for post, others laced across the top, and brush piled on top to deflect the sun. Logs were cut for seats, or planks laid across from one log cut to another.
An added note for the time of year: last evening, here in the Garden Homes, Patricia Bland heard her first whipporwill of the season. Her deep sighs and ooh's and ah's were an ecstatic reaction to nature's gifts to us.
In the spring of the year, it takes a special kind of person to be so sensitive to the seasons and the changes.


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In The Kitchen With Trisha Yearwood
April 9, 2012 at 11:26 am , by Ladies' Lounge
Country megastar Trisha Yearwood brings her best-selling cookbooks to life—and even sings the occasional tune—on the new Food Network series, Trisha's Southern Kitchen. She gave us a sneak peek at what's on the menu.
Why do a cooking show?
At first the idea of me standing behind a counter saying, "Then add a third of a cup of …" didn't sound like fun. But my producer convinced me that the show could be whatever I wanted. To me, food is about people getting together and sharing an experience. So I have a family member or a friend join me on every show. For example, my father taught me to make Brunswick stew a special way, so for one episode I have my nephews on as guests and teach them the tradition.
You wrote your cookbooks with your mother, who passed away last year from breast cancer. Is this show a tribute to her?
Definitely. Doing the show helped me come out of the fog of grief and get back into life. I dedicated an episode to her favorite foods. In her last year she started taking comfort foods she'd been cooking since childhood and made them healthier.
Is there any chance your husband [Garth Brooks] will make an appearance?
He will if there's a second season. I wanted to do the first season on my own. But Garth has taught me a lot about experimenting with recipes. The first thing he'll always say to me is, "Why not add tortellini to that?" That's our inside joke because he adds tortellini to everything.
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I see in today's front page that Canon is cracking down on counterfit Canon products. I did not realize this was even an issue. What counterfit things are out there? On a second thought... are third party batteries as good as Canon batteries?
So far in my experience, yes they are as good, provided you buy them from a reputable seller. I have purchased aftermarket batteries for my Canon Xti, T1i, 40D and now 7D. I have never had an issue with them except one battery that wouldn't take a charge and the seller sent me a replacement battery within a couple of days, no questions asked.
The current set I have for my 7D are made by a company called "Wasabi Power" and I bought 2 batteries (Canon LP-E6), holders, an A/C charger and an adapter for 12V DC automotive power for $29.99 (plus shipping) from Amazon.
They company shipped them very fast (I got them in a couple of days) and they have been fantastic. They work perfectly with the Canon chargers and my 7D. They hold power just as long as my Canon batteries do.
I have photography friends that swear up and down that aftermarket batteries suck and can short out your camera. Well, I have never actually met anyone who has had that happen and I have bought dozen of aftermarket batteries with great luck. I will keep buying them. Any words of advice? Take your time and look for an honest seller, that way your chances of avoiding problems are minimized.


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CRAB ORCHARD (WVVA) - A Raleigh County man has been transported to a Huntington hospital after being burned in a morning house fire.
The fire began at a home on Midtown Road in Crab Orchard after 8 a.m. Thursday. The home was fully engulfed when crews arrived.
A man was inside the home when the fire broke out. Neighbors and workers tell WVVA News the man had severe burns to the upper and lower parts of his body, along with open gashes.
The man was transported to Raleigh General Hospital, then later flown to a Huntington hospital. His condition is unknown at this time.


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Drivers will get their first chance to try out a new connection between U.S. Highway 395 and the northern half of the 10-mile North Spokane Corridor (NSC)on June 13.
Construction crews working for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) built two gracefully curving bridges at the north end of the route (near the Wandermere Golf Course) and completed a four-lane section of divided concrete freeway linking the NSC with U.S. 395. A fully paved pedestrian and bicycle path parallels the new freeway, connecting to other trails along the route.
Drivers who have watched the construction for the past three years will be able to enter the NSC from U.S. 395 via a direct connection, traveling at freeway speeds. This means traffic will now flow on the northern five miles of the NSC.
A brief ceremony is planned for 1:30 p.m. on June 13, to celebrate this milestone. The event will take place on the northbound lanes of the NSC north of Farwell Road. Crews will remove all construction equipment and open the roadway to traffic later in the day.
Funding for this $38 million project came from the transportation package passed by the 2003 Legislature. Graham Construction and Management of Spokane is the prime contractor.
Still under construction are the southbound lanes from the Freya/Francis area to Farwell Road and the Parksmith Road Interchange. Those sections of the NSC will be completed later this year.
The Francis Avenue Bridge project is next up for construction with work expected to begin later this summer.


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After many years with the Elkhart County Sheriff's Department, Julie Dijkstra, 56, made a strong, but unsuccessful run for sheriff in 2010. Last year she returned to her home town to become chief of police.
Where did you grow up?
I grew up in Nappanee.
What schools did you attend?
I graduated from NorthWood High School and Ball State University
What is your fondest memory of growing up in Nappanee?
My favorite memories are walking up town to the Rexall Drug Store where my dad was a pharmacist and sitting at the counter drinking Cokes with my friends and riding our bikes to the community pool in the summer.
Describe the essence of Nappanee
in your eyes
Nappanee is a community where people truly do care about each other. I've always known Nappanee was a great place to live and in the past year I have learned it is also a great place to work.
What about Nappanee would you like to see changed or improved?
We need to continue to work with kids and find positive ways for them to stay active and productive.
What is Nappanee's best kept secret?
There is so much to do in Nappanee. There are great places to shop and eat. You can see plays and movies and the library always has a full schedule of activities.


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If you have difficulty falling or staying asleep or your sleep is not refreshing, you may be suffering from insomnia and seeking help for insomniacs. Learn about the various subtypes of insomnia, the common symptoms, various potential causes, how it is diagnosed, and the treatment options including medications and behavioral changes.
What Is Insomnia?
Insomnia is the inability to fall or stay asleep. It may also describe sleep that is of poor quality resulting in excessive daytime sleepiness. It is the most common sleep disorder, affecting nearly everyone at some point in our lives. There may be identifiable factors that interfere with sleep such as poor sleep environment, pain, stress, or getting up to urinate (nocturia). Insomnia may be episodic, for instance only occurring during periods of stress, but if it persists chronically it may require treatment.
There are multiple subtypes of insomnia and other sleep disorders may have insomnia as a component, including:
- Acute Insomnia
- Insomnia
- Fatal Familial Insomnia
- Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders
- Advanced Sleep Phase Syndrome
- Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome
- Jet Lag
How Common Is Insomnia?
Insomnia is one of the most common medical complaints. A survey of patients found that 69 percent had insomnia, with half of these individuals saying it was occasional but 19 percent reporting chronic difficulties. It is estimated that 10 percent of people have chronic insomnia with daytime deficits. Women tend to report more insomnia complaints. Insomnia becomes more common as we get older. Individuals who are unemployed, live alone, and are of lower socioeconomic status also have more complaints of insomnia.
Symptoms of Insomnia
Insomnia is characterized by difficulty falling or staying asleep or by sleep that is of poor quality. There are, however, other symptoms that may be associated with insomnia. These symptoms include:
- Excessive daytime sleepiness
- Fatigue
- Malaise (feeling unwell)
- Difficulty concentrating or paying attention
- Mood problems (anxiety or depression)
- Headache
- Decreased energy
- Difficulties at work, school, or in social activities
- Upset stomach
Causes of Insomnia
There are almost innumerable potential causes of insomnia. It may occur in the context of other sleep disorders, general medical conditions, or illnesses. Insomnia may be the result of stress or suggest psychiatric problems such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or even dementia. It may happen with the use of medications or street drugs. Insomnia may be present in the context of shift work or travel (such as in jet lag). It may occur temporarily if caffeine or cigarettes are used too close to bedtime or as the result of other poor sleep habits. It is unlikely to occur because of a vitamin deficiency. It frequently occurs when the sleep environment is disrupted, such as when pets or the television are allowed to disrupt sleep. Insomnia may even have no recognized cause.
How to Diagnose Insomnia
Most individuals with insomnia can be diagnosed after a brief discussion with their doctor. However, there are multiple tests available to diagnose insomnia if they are needed. Some of these include:
Treatment of Insomnia
If insomnia results in disrupted daytime function, especially if it persists chronically, it may require treatment. There are many medications that act as sleeping pills that can be effective. Two major classes include benzodiazepine and nonbenzodiazepine medications. Some of these prescription and over-the-counter medications include:
- Ambien
- Diphenhydramine
- Estazolam
- Halcion
- Lunesta
- Melatonin
- Restoril
- Rozerem
- Silenor
- Sonata
- Trazodone
There are also alternatives to treatment with medications. Many of these options include changes in behavior or sleep habits. Some of the more common alternative therapies for insomnia include:
- Relaxation and Biofeedback Therapy
- Stimulus Control
- Aromatherapy
- Better Sleep Guidelines
- Circadian Rhythm Treatment
- Jet Lag Treatment
- Naps
- Shift-Work Sleep Disorder Treatment
- Sleep Environment
- Sleep Restriction
- Chronotherapy
- Cognitive Therapy
Insomnia is the most common sleep complaint, affecting nearly everyone at some point in our lives. It can exist in multiple subtypes or even as part of other sleep disorders or medical conditions. There may be associated symptoms such as difficulties with memory, concentration, and mood. Insomnia may be caused by many things, and a careful evaluation by a doctor is usually sufficient to establish a diagnosis. Occasionally further tests may be indicated. Fortunately, there are effective treatments for insomnia, including many prescription and over-the-counter sleeping pills as well as alternative therapies such as improving sleep habits or the sleep environment.
American Academy of Sleep Medicine. "International classification of sleep disorders: Diagnostic and coding manual." 2nd ed. 2005.
Ohayon, MM. "Epidemiology of insomnia: what we know and what we still need to learn." Sleep Med Rev. 202; 6:97.
Shochat, T et al. "Insomnia in primary care patients." Sleep. 1999; 22 Suppl 2:S359.


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This is a serialization of the new book written by Carl Flowers, owner of Silveus Plantation, the subject of "Groton's Anonymous Mistress." This 300-year-old house is accessed by Kemp Street near the boundary of Groton and Dunstable.
Part 57
By Carl Flowers
One last incident having nothing to do with the ongoing beatings at the hands of the town illustrates how a dysfunctional government operates. In April of 2010, I was contacted two or three times by two different individuals interested in building solar panels on approximately 20 acres of the Mistress' domain. At the same time, construction of the solar panels was being proposed, a study was being conducted at the University of Massachusetts involving solar panels that could be built 10-12 feet above the ground. These two unique events could provide the opportunity to produce a crop under the solar panels and receive free electricity to heat and light several green houses 12 months a year.
Nothing could be more affordable and sustainable to both the grower and consumer. Unfortunately, the energy produced from the solar panels would have to be fed into a transmission line running through Groton belonging to National Grid. This wouldn't be allowable because Groton had its own electric company.
What is so contradictable about this is the fact that the Mistress is in Groton, but isn't allowed to get electricity from Groton Electric Light Company. Instead, the Mistress gets her electricity from National Grid. According to the Code of Massachusetts Regulations, "each distribution company shall have the exclusive obligation to provide distribution service to all customers within its service territory." If the Mistress has to get its electricity from National Grid, why can't the solar panels on the Mistress' domain feed into National Grid's transmission lines? National Grid's transmission lines pass over the Mistress' domain. According to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 93 says, "the purpose of the chapter is to encourage free and open competition in the interest of the general welfare and economy by prohibiting unreasonable restraints of trade and monopolistic practices." A bit further in Chapter 93 we find there are exemptions by stating, "No provision of this act shall apply to any activities which are subject to regulation or supervision under federal, state or local law." In other words, monopolies are allowed to exist if they are regulated.
Chapter 11: What's next?
Experiencing the wrath of certain departments in town hall has brought about significant changes in my opinions about government and farming. Every town board, committee and commission can be a threat to the existence of farming by individuals and families. Education and expertise don't often determine appointments to any town board, committee or commission. All one needs is an interest.
Members of the various boards, committees and commissions meet and confer at their appointed time and make decisions without examining in detail any of the information presented to them by administrative personnel. They do this because they don't care or they are not capable of doing any research on their own. A farm is nothing more than prey to the predatory behavior of government on both the state and local levels.
The predatory snare used against the farmer by government is the farmer's constant need for money. Repair of buildings, need for updated equipment and soil improvement are just a few of the luring forces. The average small farmer's income doesn't keep these needs in optimal condition. Acceptance of money that doesn't need to be repaid is the actual snare. In exchange for the free money, a farmer must agree to a permanent restriction on his land preventing all future development. Restrictions which are not in perpetuity can last for as few as five years to maybe 20 years, depending on the amount of money involved. The result is similar to being shackled with a heavy ball and chain in a river at low tide.
Money a farmer receives from various government programs not needing to be repaid is still subject to state and federal taxes. A quarter to a third of the granted money is skimmed straight off the top.


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WASHINGTON COUNTY, IN (WAVE) - A man is facing murder charges in connection to a stabbing death in Washington County.
According to Chief Deputy Roger Newlon, on Friday officers arrested David Hook, 45, for the murder of Joey Verble. Police discovered Verble's body on Mount Eden Road off of State Road 39 Thursday night.
Officers said Verble was struck multiple times in the head with a hammer and was stabbed multiple times in the neck and chest.
Newlon said Hook is a habitual felony offender.
Hook's initial hearing is scheduled for Monday, August 26.
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Getting Started With WikiText
Documentation is the bane of all developers. Nobody likes to write documentation, but most people know we need it. Even more so in Open Source projects. If you don't have a decent documentation, it will be hard to find contributors which will eventually stall the projects ability to acquire new committers.
While documenting code is discussed quite controversial (see here, here, here and here), most people seem at least to agree that a high level documentation outlining the concepts of the software in question is appropriate.
The options to write high-level documentation are:
- Word processors like Word, OpenOffice, Pages and the like
- LaTeX
- DocBook
- Wikis
Using word processors for writing high-level documentation has serious drawbacks, especially when a whole team needs to contribute to the documentation. Do you remember master documents?
LaTeX is a great alternative, as it allows us to split documentation across several text files - this allows for efficient team work. Moreover, text files just cannot break and can be versioned / merged / diffed quite easily. However, LaTeX syntax is not for the faint of heart.
DocBook is great, too: it uses XML to describe documents and has a great number of transformations to about every output format you could think of (PDF, HTML, EclipseHelp, HTML Help, JavaHelp and even man pages! However, not everybody likes XML and in fact DocBook tends to be a little noisy.
So this leaves us with Wikis. They are great in many regards: you can write your documentation online, most wikis support versioning and diffing to a certain degree and most wikis have a decent collision detection that helps to work on documentation collaboratively. Thanks to offline Wiki editors for IDEs, we can even store wiki documents in local files.
Enter WikiText
WikiText is such a tool. It actually is very flexible, as it allows you to use a multitude of wiki dialects to write your documentation. It also supports a number of output formats (HTML, Eclipse Help, DITA, DocBook and FOP). What's more, it features a really nice text editor that can display Wiki markup almost in a WYSIWYG fashion. WikiText is developed and maintained by David Green.
So, without further ado, here is a quick introduction on how to install WikiText, writing your first document and transforming it to HTML.
Make sure you have a recent version of Eclipse installed. Then:
- Point your update manager (Help -> Install new software) to the Mylyn Update Site (http://download.eclipse.org/tools/mylyn/update/weekly/e3.4)
- Select the most recent version of Mylyn WikiText (as of this writing, this is WikiText 1.1.0.I20090423-1700-e3x) and install
After the obligatory Eclipse restart, you can start using the WikiText editor.
Writing your first document
- Create a new project (File -> Project... -> General -> Project
- Create a new file. We will be using the Textile wiki syntax, so let's name it HelloWorld.textile
- Enter some text:
h1(#id). An HTML first-level heading
Textile syntax is really simple. You can _emphasize_ text or *emphasize it even more*.
Scaled images:
!{width: 50%}images/eiffelturm.jpg!
Enumerations also are very easy:
* An item in a bulleted (unordered) list
* Another item in a bulleted list
** Second Level
** Second Level Items
*** Third level
# An item in an enumerated (ordered) list
# Another item in an enumerated list
## Another level in an enumerated list
Let's have more headings:
h2. An HTML second-level heading
Here is a table:
|_. Header |_. Header |_. Header |
| Cell 1 | Cell 2 | Cell 3 |
| Cell 1 | Cell 2 | Cell 3 |
h2. An HTML third-level heading
Here is some code:
package org.eclipse.workflow;
public class Workflow {
p. Here is a plain old paragraph. It needs to start with "p." to mark the end of the code block above.
h4. An HTML fourth-level heading
Of course, we can also have hyperlinks: "Peter's homepage":http://www.peterfriese.de
h5. An HTML fifth-level heading
h6. An HTML sixth-level heading
- Create a new subfolder images and place an image in his folder. I used this one.
You can always switch over to the preview pane, but you will notice that the source editor already does a decent job at rendering the text in a kind of WYSIWYG manner:
Transforming your document to HTML
In order to convert your document to a nicely rendered HTML document, just right-click on HelloWorld.textile in the package explorer and select WikiText -> Generate HTML. This will create anew file HelloWorld.html in the same directory. Double-click it to open it with a browser:
Automating, PDF, splitting documents,...
I hope I could whet your appetite. In the next installment, I am going to show you how to automate the process of transforming WikiText documents into output documents, how to create PDF (by way of exploiting DocBook) and how to split your documents into smaller chunks so you can work on them as a team. Stay tuned!
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Thomas Mueller replied on Fri, 2009/04/24 - 3:05am
Dominique De Vito replied on Fri, 2009/04/24 - 3:53am
I really, really dislike wiki syntax! I can't imagine me living for learning all these different syntaxes.
I am just thinking about a Java rich client that would enable (for example) :
- to use a rich text editor (providing a subset of HTML capabilities for decent documentation write)
- to download/upload documents from an OSS project web site in order to collaborate.
Pivot includes such richt text editor into its roadmap, and then, while Pivot is Swing 2.0-oriented, it looks like interesting for me.
Peter Friese replied on Fri, 2009/04/24 - 5:44am
Oops - I am really surprised to see that there are such strong reactions against wikis. The good thing about WikiText is that you can choose a Wiki syntax of your liking. WikiText supports Confluence, MediaWiki, Textile, TracWiki and TWiki syntax (see http://wiki.eclipse.org/Mylyn/FAQ#What_wiki_markup_languages_does_WikiText_support.3F). What's more, you can define a parser for your own Wiki dialect if your favorite Wiki is not yet supported.
Dominique De Vito replied on Fri, 2009/04/24 - 7:27am
What is the added-value of a wiki ?
While one could have a sweet editor like Google Docs, to give one example, what is the added-value of a wiki (and particularly, wiki syntax), for writing the documentation ?
Thanks for answer(s).
Mladen Girazovski replied on Fri, 2009/04/24 - 7:40am
What is the added-value of a wiki ?
A central place for storing, viewing & editing documentation in a very fast way, including versioning etc. pp., for some wikis there is a lots of plugins extending their functionality.
In a wiki you can search over all the wiki entries for terms etc. in a simple and fast way.
Wiki syntax is supposed to be easy to learn & very fast to use, so in theory the documentation could be up to date :)
For teams it is important to be able to share information, everyone in the team can correct/add articles to the wiki, with a very low overhead.
Haven't used Google Docs myself., so i can't comment on it.
Dominique De Vito replied on Fri, 2009/04/24 - 8:16am in response to: Mladen Girazovski
I think all that a wiki can do, an online word processor could do, or may do, the same.
From wikipedia:
Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and form application offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users.
Open documents are automatically saved to prevent data loss, and a revision history is automatically kept. Documents can be tagged and archived for organizational purposes.
Collaboration between users is also a feature of Google Docs. Documents can be shared, opened, and edited by multiple users at the same time.
And if you are not happy with Google docs, here are some lists, as
an online word processor may not include all features you want/need:
Comparison of office suites
List of online spreadsheets
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Mladen Girazovski replied on Fri, 2009/04/24 - 8:37am
I think all that a wiki can do, an online word processor could do, or may do, the same.
Then show how would you search all your Online Docs for the occurence of one or more words.
As is said, i have no experience with Google Docs myself, but when i perform and document the installation of a Server (JBoss, Tomcat, MySQL, etc. pp.), it takes me about 10-15% more time than without writing documentation, i can do it simultaneously.
When i tried this with MS Office, the task of documenting would take longer, it used to be real work, so i only did it when there wasn't much else to do..
Apart form that i can link in a wiki, inside the same wiki, or any webpage, again, really fast without much effort, and i can see if the linktarget exists already or is missing.
As i said, wikis are supposed to be easy and fast, formatting is not important, it is the contained information.
So wikis are tools for information management and colaboration, not for creating shiny Docs/Presentations for customers.
Dominique De Vito replied on Fri, 2009/04/24 - 8:45am in response to: Mladen Girazovski
I think all that a wiki can do, an online word processor could do, or may do, the same.Then show how would you search all your Online Docs for the occurence of one or more words.
Come on, do you see any technical difficulty to stop an online word processor offering that service ? Let's imagine the following: when you save/upload a document, then start the indexing process.
When i tried this with MS Office, the task of documenting would take longer, it used to be real work, so i only did it when there wasn't much else to do..
That's not the topic. We are talking about online word processor familly.
Mladen Girazovski replied on Fri, 2009/04/24 - 8:55am
Come on, do you see any technical difficulty to stop an online word processor offering that service ? Let's imagine the following: when you save/upload a document, then start the indexing process.
A small manual intervention to be able to use Google Docs, however, this feature (and a few more) are built in to every wiki system, since this was what they were made for.
That's not the topic. We are talking about online word processor familly.
Actually you are talking about online word processors, this post is about wikis.
Maybe you should give a wiki a go and try out for yourself, online word processors/spreadsheet sure have their value, but they are not made to replace wikis ;)
Dominique De Vito replied on Fri, 2009/04/24 - 9:16am
Actually you are talking about online word processors, this post is about wikis.
I am talking about wiki too, about wiki future (versus online word processor).
Maybe you should give a wiki a go and try out for yourself, online word processors/spreadsheet sure have their value, but they are not made to replace wikis ;)
Why wikis won't be replaced ? What are the wiki key features that won't be replaced ?
I am kind to read/learn.
I can give one reason, but there are maybe other ones (and if you have other ones, again, I am kind to read).
Some wikis give the capability to write scripts, and then, to enhance page behavior. However, for main wiki tasks, that is, writing documents, wikis have to fight hard against online word processors, because while using those processors, users have not to learn any syntax. Those processor are more user-friendly, offering a better out-of-the-box experience IMHO.
Mladen Girazovski replied on Fri, 2009/04/24 - 9:57am
I do not use wikis to write "documents", but documentation.
Might sound like the same, but the difference is important here. If you write a document, you choose your layout, create aTOC, maybe a short intro.
When i write documentation, i merely don't care about those things, only a little bit, the TOC is created in DokuWIki for instance without me doing anything except for choosing the right headers. Of course you can do this with a doc template in any word processor,but you writing documents worry way to much about formatting, like page breaks etc.
In a wiki there is no such thing as page breaks, layout is not very important,it doesn't matter how it looks when it's printed (of course there are exceptions).
When you say user-friendly, it is important to understand who your users will be.
It won't be the avarage secretary/managers writing letters or documents, it will be developers/administrators.
For the latter it is much faster to use some really simple markup instead of providing buttons and WYSIWY. A developer won't have much trouble to learn a handfull of wiki markup expressions.
For instance, in dokuwiki if i want to format a paragraph as a commandline, all i need to do is to insert 2 spaces in front of the line, no need to select another Font, Size or other style manually with the mouse. Same goes for bold text, etc. Think of it as an DSL for documentation from developers for developers , only a small subset of formatting is possible, but that is all that is nessecary.
This makes writing documentation really fast, and that is user friendly to me as a developer, since i do not need to delay other work for the sake of beeing able to communicate how & what i have done, ie.setup of an IDE, or building a SW project. As i said, when it comes to documenting installations etc. i can do it simultaneously, and we all know that if it's not done immediatly, it won't be done for a long time, if even at all.
btw., "wiki" originally meant fast :)
That is one of the main point of wikis.
The indexing is built in in wikis, all your pages/articles in a wiki can be threated as one doc if it comes to searching, you use linking a lot in wikis (for references).
All in all i think we are comparing apples to oranges when we compare (online) word processors to wikis, they are not meant to replace each other, in fact you can combine them really nice (linking), so you can get the best of both worlds.
Philippe Lhoste replied on Fri, 2009/04/24 - 10:57am
Interesting article and discussion.
Thomas: "Wikis are a pain because they all have a different syntax." - Well, the point here is to choose a syntax and stick with it. It is not about writing in several different wikis across the Web, but doing your own doc. Same answer to Dominique De Vito's initial remark.
Thomas: "I write my documentation in XHTML directly" - I can do that for small blog entries, but it can be a pain for lot of documentation pages, that's not the most friendly markup language I know.
Wiki syntax vs. online word processors: online WP are... well, online. With wiki syntax, you can write your doc in your plain text editor, in a place where Internet isn't available (the proverbial plane or some remote province), you don't rely on a service which can be out or even can disappear someday, because the company is bankrupted or just think they don't earn enough money out of it.
Most wiki syntaxes, particularly Textile or Markdown, are made to ressemble closely of free text you just type on your editor. So they aren't so hard to learn and are quick to type (unlike XML).
Another advantage: if you write plain text files, you can easily put them in VCS, which is harder to do with online tools...
Now, to each his own, of course...
Dominique De Vito replied on Fri, 2009/04/24 - 11:01am
Well, some word processors are lighter than other ones.
One lighter "word processor" is the richt text editor embeeded into gmail. Is it light enough for you ? For writing documentation ?
As you talk about document versus documentation, I have found an interesting idea.
You say wiki (with special syntax) are nice enough to write rapidly documentation. OK, well, IMHO emails look like documentation, or are documentation-like (as emails are often rapidly written with less care about the text structure); so, why wiki syntax is not used for writing emails ?
Well, I can't imagine an email client proposing to write emails with wiki syntax, while saying that such syntax is better as emails are not documents, but more like documentation (with less care about the structure), and such doucments need to write rapidly (then, the wiki syntax).
Rich text editor, IMHO light word processors, are quite much more popular than wiki. They are more mainstream (think about those rich text editors used for writing emails). I have some doubts about wiki (with its special syntax) future when I see how much such rich text editors are popular/mainstream and raise, with more and more collaboration features.
Dominique De Vito replied on Fri, 2009/04/24 - 11:12am in response to: Philippe Lhoste
Wiki syntax vs. online word processors: online WP are... well, online. With wiki syntax, you can write your doc in your plain text editor, in a place where Internet isn't available (the proverbial plane or some remote province), you don't rely on a service which can be out or even can disappear someday, because the company is bankrupted or just think they don't earn enough money out of it.
Come one, offline/online barrier/separation is going to disappear with on-coming browser enhancements.
Another advantage: if you write plain text files, you can easily put them in VCS, which is harder to do with online tools...
When you use a rich text editor, the underlined format is XHTML, and in the end, text files. You can place them also into CVS. Remember, Google Docs, for example, provides a revision tool.
David Green replied on Fri, 2009/04/24 - 11:16am in response to: Prasoon Kumar
Great article Peter. I really like how you start off with motivation for using wiki format.
@prasoonk though it may not be as eloquent as Peter's article, you can find out more about WikiText generating PDF here and from the WikiText User Guide.
For all of the wiki skeptics, there are some compelling benefits to using wiki formatting, be it in files or in a wiki: It's plain-text, which makes it very easy to collaborate (either via wiki or source repository such as CVS, GIT, SVN, etc.); Wiki markup is compact and non-obtrusive -- so when you look at your document you see the content, not the markup; A low tooling bar to contributing -- you can do it using your web browser, vi, notepad, etc.
Thanks again Peter for the great article.
mark taylor replied on Fri, 2009/04/24 - 9:14pm
FCKEditor is a rich text I've integrated into applications before (is the editor at the bottome of this page FCKEditor? It's a bit slower than the version I've used). FCKEditor is trivial to integrate; output is xhtml which is trivial to work with; stores in a db just like plain text.
IMO, there's not excuse/need for wiki markup today besides preference.
Mark Thornton replied on Sat, 2009/04/25 - 5:45am in response to: mark taylor
Bernd Eckenfels replied on Sat, 2009/04/25 - 6:35pm
Personally I like the RAW mode of Wikis, but we have a lot users who prefer the WYSIWG editor. Both are satisfied with this solution.
On the Intranet we use TWiki and it also offers both editor modes. If the Wiki Plugin for Eclipse wants to be accepted as a productivity tool, it has to have support for this, too.
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Thank you for this informative read, I really appreciate sharing this great post. Keep up your work.
Ed Sutton replied on Fri, 2010/01/22 - 1:31pm
Using a text editor to create HTML or XHTML is silly; for perfections and masochists and not for me. For creating document pages I would much prefer to use a Wiki syntax and WikiText sounds like a great idea.
I use Doxygen to create HTML user documentation for my Linux C++ API's and applicatiuons. This works great for documenting code but for other pages such as user-manual-sections and quick-start sections, not-so-much. While not WYSIWYG, iI think WikiText could be a solution for me if I can crate the content in wiki format, export to HTML, and integrate with the Doxygen make in my build process.
Thank you for a great article!
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