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Kings halt five-game losing streak, top lethargic Lakers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The Los Angeles Lakers had talked about bringing Showtime back to the franchise when they hired Mike D'Antoni to implement his fast and flashy offense.
The curtains are still waiting to be raised on that act.
Kobe Bryant scored an efficient 38 points but Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol struggled inside, and the lethargic Lakers lost 113-97 to the struggling Sacramento Kings on Wednesday night to snap a three-game winning streak.
"If we're going to play Showtime, my God, they just closed the whole theatre on us," D'Antoni said. "Showtime, are you kidding? It was Muppet Time."
Marcus Thornton scored 23 points and Tyreke Evans had 18 to pace Kings, who had lost five straight games. Jason Thompson added 13 points and 10 rebounds to help Sacramento run away in the fourth quarter and cement the latest Lakers setback.
Los Angeles seemed to be turning things around since hiring D'Antoni. Instead, the Lakers looked lost and listless against the Western Conference's worst team, showing all the same problems that got coach Mike Brown fired.
"The first half might have been the worst basketball I've seen in 10 years," D'Antoni said. Later, he added, "It was like we were wrestling in mud."
Bryant finished 11-of-20 shooting and Jodie Meeks had 15 points off the bench as D'Antoni lost for the first time on the Lakers bench. A night after beating Brooklyn in Los Angeles, the Lakers might've been bad enough to give D'Antoni a headache to go with the pain still throbbing in his surgically replaced knee.
Bryant still almost willed his tired team back.
After the Lakers went down by 10 points early in the fourth quarter, he converted a three-point play over DeMarcus Cousins that sliced Sacramento's lead to 96-92 with 3:06 remaining. Thornton thwarted the rally in a hurry, swishing a 3-pointer from the top of the key on the next possession.
Officials whistled Howard for a flagrant foul when he swatted Thompson in the face going for a rebound. Thompson made one of two free throws, Cousins added a pair of driving layups and a free throw to put Kings ahead 105-93, and the home fans chanting "Beat L-A! Beat L-A!" while Bryant finished the game on the bench with a towel over his head.
"It always feels good beating the Lakers," Thornton said. "Our fans were into it so we don't really want to let them down. So we came out and played hard, I don't know what for, but we played extremely hard against the Lakers."
Though point guards Steve Nash and Steve Blake are expected to be out with injuries for at least another two games, the limited Lakers talent was hardly an excuse in this matchup.
The Lakers held Sacramento to 31 percent shooting in the first quarter. Kings big man Chuck Hayes also had to go back to the locker room to receive stitches after he was cut around his right eye and had blood dripping down his cheek, and yet Los Angeles still only led by six.
Aaron Brooks started Sacramento's spurt in the third quarter when he floated an underhand layup over Howard and drew a foul for a three-point play on the new Lakers center, who tumbled hard into a row of photographers under the baseline. Brooks added a jumper and a 3-pointer to highlight the 17-5 run that put the Kings ahead 69-58.
"Our team went on a whirlwind," Kings coach Keith Smart said.
D'Antoni kept yelling and motioning for the Lakers to sprint up court to match Sacramento's speed. Instead, they often kept the pace at a slow crawl.
Howard finished with seven points on 2-of-4 shooting. Gasol scored eight points on 3 of 10 from the field, and the Lakers were outscored 50-22 in the paint.
"It seemed like we were a little lethargic for whatever reason," Bryant said. "We just have to push through it, particularly the second unit, especially while Dwight is in there. You don't have to go to as many pick-and-rolls, really, just dump the ball down to him and let him operate."
Never happened.
After the Lakers closed within a point, James Johnson made three straight layups during an 11-2 run that put the Kings ahead 88-78 early in the fourth quarter. D'Antoni called a timeout in the middle of Sacramento's surge to put his starters back in the game and give his listless Lakers a chance to refocus.
No chance for that now.
D'Antoni's knee -- and the Lakers' mettle -- will be tested even more. Los Angeles plays at Memphis on Friday and at Dallas on Saturday to complete a quick three-game trip.
"I think you always have a little bit of shock when a guy comes in new, and so you start off all like puppies out there," D'Antoni said of his team's turnaround when he was hired. "Now it's back to reality a little bit."
Game notes
The Kings won all three preseason games against the Lakers. The series is 1-1 in the regular season, with the home team winning each time. ... Howard made 3 of 4 free throws after going 7 for 19 from the line a night earlier against Brooklyn. His first attempts came with 7:07 remaining in the fourth quarter.
Regular Season Series
Series tied 1-1
Game Information
- Referees:
- Sean Wright
- Kevin Cutler
- Scott Twardoski
2023-24 Pacific Standings
Team | W | L | PCT | GB | STRK |
LA Clippers | 37 | 19 | .661 | - | L1 |
Phoenix | 34 | 24 | .586 | 4 | W1 |
Sacramento | 33 | 24 | .579 | 4.5 | L1 |
LA Lakers | 31 | 28 | .525 | 7.5 | L1 |
Golden State | 29 | 27 | .518 | 8 | L1 |


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Ode to Brainpower in Civil Discourse
Are you aware that all normal brains come with chemical and electrical equipment to help you choose civil discourse? Or did you know that your brain can default into cynical choices that bully, berate or intimidate? Simply stated, without deliberate choices for civility, a danger exists for lack of civility… Read more »

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Laws, Regulations and Annotations
Business Taxes Law Guide – Revision 2024
Diesel Fuel Tax Annotations
Federal Instrumentalities
Sales of Diesel Fuel to the Army and Air Force Exchange Service. The Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) is a federal instrumentality under Revenue and Taxation Code (R&TC) sections 60100, subdivision (a)(8), and 60501, subdivision (a)(4)(H), of the Diesel Fuel Tax Law and is, therefore, exempt from paying the diesel fuel tax, whether it uses the fuel in its own vehicles or resells the fuel to others. Suppliers and persons who sell diesel fuel to the AAFES may claim an exemption from the tax on such fuel or a credit or refund of the tax paid on such fuel. 4/24/09.
The Army and Air Force Exchange Service is Not a "Highway Vehicle Fueler." The AAFES is not a "highway vehicle fueler" pursuant to Revenue and Taxation Code (R&TC) section 60034, subdivision (b), when it delivers diesel fuel into the fuel tank of a diesel-powered highway vehicle, because the AAFES is a federal instrumentality of the United States, and the "United States" is not included in the definition of a "person" on whom the diesel fuel tax is imposed, pursuant to R&TC section 60008. Accordingly, with respect to fuel on which the diesel fuel tax has not been paid, AAFES is exempt from collecting the diesel fuel backup tax from operators of diesel-powered highway vehicles and paying the tax to the Board, pursuant to R&TC section 60057. 4/24/09.


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Download a copy of Modernizr, put it in your plugin's directory and simply enqueue the script whenever needed. Done.
The problem is that Modernizr may already be loaded by another plugin. You wouldn't want to load it more than once. How can you find out if Modernizr is already available before enqueueing it yourself? This goes for any other JavaScript library really.
You could check whether a script was loaded by using the wp_script_is()
function. However, that function expects the name of the handle the script was registered by. You can only guess, right? Even if we assume the handle name is simply "modernizr", how do you check for a certain version (like 2.6.1)? Or worse, since custom Modernizr builds are possible, how do you check the features you need are included?
The whole wp_enqueue_script()
setup works fine for libraries that ship with WordPress by default, like jQuery, jQuery UI, Thickbox, etc. Their handle names are documented and you know which version to expect. WordPress doesn't provide such master files for all JavaScript libraries, of course.
Am I missing something here or is this just the messy situation you somehow have to deal with when developing plugins?


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A new color palette has been added to the DisneyDesignerland Kuler account! Before you jump on over to check it out can you guess where this color palette is used?
Give up??? Find out the answer over at Disneydesignerland's Kuler page found here.
Check back for more random updates to Wonderful World of Kuler. See you guys back here on Monday for a new Retro 71 concept.


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NDIS – time to lead
In Australia there is this marvellous political construct called COAG – the Council of Australian Governments. It's meant to promote policy reforms which are "of national significance or need coordinated action by all Australian governments". In reality it is a stoush. A chance for state and territory premiers and chiefs to prance and preen and belly-ache about lack of money, favouritism or lack thereof and so on and so forth. It meets once or twice a year and yesterday's gathering was to advance the National Disabilitpy Insurance Scheme. This is a great 10 point document to tell you what the NDIS is and why we need it.
In brief the NDIS is about establishing a Medicare type scheme which would provide a secure and consistent pool of funds for services and supports to the disabled rather than the existing system where there is an annual budget allocation which is never enough and always runs out.
It reframes support to one of investment rather than one of charity.
It places timely intervention and appropriate aids, equipment, training and development as equal investment in an individual's capacity rather than welfare.
It recognises that  disability is for a lifetime. It looks not just at the individual's needs now but over their lifetime. For example, you're profoundly disabled? So you'll need a wheelchair, ramps, a modified vehicle, a hoist for getting in and out of bed, on and off the toilet, in and out of the shower, on and off the lounge. Right, let's get that sorted as you are a human being with rights and to not have those things is not acceptable in a civilised society. OH, you're now 10/15/20/40/OLDER so you'll need a bigger wheelchair, your transport needs may have changed, an adult hoist/bed etc – let's update your equipment.
At the moment all of that is in the hands of the family. And if you miss this year's funding allocation for a bed that can be raised or lowered? Well, you can raise your own funds, go to a charity or just wait.
And you can do that every single time your child grows out of their equipment.
Perhaps you have a highly autistic child or maybe you're like Oscar with a moderate intellectual disability but relatively mobile and  highly social? Well, you need time with your peers and activities just like any other person your age. On top of that, your unique circumstances mean your mum or dad or carer need some time out. Some time to recharge the batteries and just live for a few hours without the pressures of being the whole world to an individual dependent on you for just the most basic of human functions.
Well you can now ring around, ask others, chance upon some respite services in your area but they only do an intake once a year so your name can go on a wait list for the following year but don't hold your breath because there's a big cohort of kids moving up from the primary school group to the high school group and there won't be any spots unless someone moves out of area.
And on and on it goes.
Having a disability in Australia makes you a second class citizen. FOUR millions Australians have a disability. That's roughly the population of Melbourne. Then there are the 2.6 million Australians who care for family members with a disability. We're now looking at the population of Victoria.
Now wrap your head around this cold hard fact:
In Australia if you are born with a disability or become disabled at some stage during your life you will be pushed to the periphery of its society. You will be forced to look for charity for basic needs in coping with that disability. You will, in light of all this, be punished for being disabled.
People with a disability and their families currently pay a price for disability in the form of social and economic exclusion and a massive lack of choices.
Way to go Australia.
The Productivity Commission report into establishing an NDIS made the very salient point that yes, the NDIS will cost a lot BUT – the overall economic benefits are likely to exceed scheme costs by facilitating economic and social participation by people with a disability and those caring for them.
Imagine that – your provide the additional support to those who need it and low and behold they become functioning members of the community rather than a drain on it. GO FIGURE.
Ironically as state governments cried poor in failing to support and instigate NDIS trials at COAG yesterday, they are staring down the barrel of an economic crisis in the disability sector. The number of people with a disability is rising, someone is diagnosed with a disability every 30 minutes in Australia, while the number of people willing and able to offer unpaid support is falling. The cost of that? To governments? MASSIVE.
So they have a choice. They can wear the massive costs of having a cohort of their population desperately needing resources, not getting them and therefore not able to function in the society OR they can chip in, develop a scheme that empowers and enables that cohort to then have those people able to contribute.
Yesterday there was such an opportunity for our elected leaders to stand up and say, this is important, this must happen, let's make it happen. Instead they played politics and through their actions – or lack thereof – showed their true colours.
I have moved through incredulity and anger and am now just sad. I despair, truly I do.


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MATHS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION: We've asked our authors about the state of maths and science education in Australia and its future direction. In our final instalment, Benjamin Miller and Fiona White examine the benefits of transdisciplinary skills.
The arts and science are often thought of as polar opposites. Traditionally, students and universities view them as separate entities – you pick a degree in one or the other and stick to your side of the fence.
Increasingly though, this way of doing things is not enough to prepare students for the data-drenched and volatile workplace of the twenty-first century.
Combining arts and science in the curriculum could be the answer. From science, students learn about sound methods for testing hypotheses, and about interpreting and drawing valid conclusions from data. From arts, they will also learn about developing arguments, and about understanding, moving, and changing the minds of diverse audiences.
There are double and combined degrees already on offer. But there is a great potential for them to be better – improving students' employment prospects and fostering new skills in "the space between" speciality areas.
The untapped potential of combining curricula
In their study into the popularity of double degrees, higher education researchers Wendy Russell, Sara Dolnicar and Marina Ayoub suggested that:
double degree programs have significant untapped potential in preparing graduates for employment.
The potential benefit, they argue, is that graduates develop "transdisciplinary skills" that are highly valued by employers.
Transdisciplinary thinkers take a unique approach to solving problems. They draw information from diverse sources and seek collaborations to produce "socially robust knowledge". However, the way most combined and double degrees are established does not foster transdisciplinary learning.
This is because the combination of degrees tends to create an administrative rather than pedagogical structure. This means that an arts-science student, for example, simply has access to subjects from arts and science faculties. Upon graduation, graduates would be able to perform skills essential to both speciality areas. But they have not necessarily developed transdisciplinary thinking.
The rare double degrees that are pedagogically designed can unlock the potential of a combined curriculum. In such cases, arts-science graduates can also imaginatively develop unique research methods, or ethically interpret information systems, or persuade non-experts to change their behaviour based on scientifically informed debate.
Model degrees, modern times
Universities are increasingly considering different degree structures. The Australian National University (ANU) claims that their new flexible degrees improve graduate employability in a way that "suits your head and your heart". Students complete any two degrees in four years from arts, social sciences, business, or science. The University of Sydney offers a similar option with a four-year Bachelor of Science and Arts.
Such degrees expedite a student's completion. But they are administrative combinations that rarely push students to experiment with approaches and practices from both degrees.
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has attempted to equip graduates by creating a general education program. In introducing their program, UNSW claims:
employers repeatedly point to the complex nature of the modern work environment and advise that they highly value graduates with the skills provided by a broad general education.
UNSW students must complete between two and four subjects from outside their faculty. For example, a science graduate must have completed subjects taught by non-science faculties, such as education, arts, business, built environment, or law.
Such a program appears to be more pedagogically driven than the standard double degree. Students in "GenEd" subjects draw on their existing knowledge to solve problems in unfamiliar disciplinary locations. The learning promoted here is a valuable kind of creative disciplinarity, but it is not transdisciplinary.
We coordinate a new degree at the University of Sydney which has been designed to promote transdisciplinarity. The three-year Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Science (BLAS) offers students the administrative freedom to study in two faculties while mandating the completion of core units in critical thinking, ethics, and communication.
BLAS students complete a major in arts or science, including up to 12 subjects in their chosen field. A further six to eight subjects are chosen from the other faculty. That is, an arts major must also complete six to eight science subjects. Finally, six liberal studies subjects must also be completed. Here in the physical and intellectual space of liberal studies subjects students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds collaborate to address problems of research, writing and ethics.
An undisciplined world
With improved learning and greater transdisciplinary skills, our experience with BLAS suggests that more innovative curricula and degree programs are needed. Why not have extended math curriculum which includes writing? Or an extended English curriculum which includes trigonometry?
A curriculum can be defined narrowly as the content of a particular class or degree. It can also be defined more broadly as the combined total experiences of a person's lifelong learning.
Unfortunately, administrators and policy advisers often look too narrowly at the curriculum. They develop, for example, a policy for high school English, or a strategy for tertiary math instruction.
An innovative approach to curriculum design would involve experts from various fields. They would collaborate to design a curricula space where students actively connect and extend the diverse aspects of their education.
After all, while few would doubt the value of disciplined thinking, isn't our goal also to prepare students for lifelong learning in an undisciplined world?
This is the eleventh and final part of our series Maths and Science Education.


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with chief scavenger Rinda @ Gallo Organico
for the
for the
2015 summertime photography scavenger hunt
1. A bouquet of
2. An ornate door knocker
3. A person walking a dog (or other animal)
4. People playing a
board game or card game
5. Architectural columns
6. A metal bridge
7. A turtle
8. Someone "plugged in" to social
9. A tent
10. A college or
11. A cellular tower or television satellite
12. A public restroom, bathroom, or toilet
13. A merry-go-round
or carousel
14. A traffic signal
15. A flag pole with at least three flags on it
16. A panoramic
view, taken while standing someplace high in the air
17. At least two people wearing matching outfits
or uniforms
18. An overloaded truck, car, bicycle or other vehicle
19. A ticket booth
20. A natural body of water
21. A photograph of you with a sign reading
"2015 Summertime Photography Scavenger Hunt". Note: you may not use a substitute for this item.
If you find something on the list too difficult,
you may substitute one of the following items for any one item on the list,
except for Item #21:
Alternative A: People eating outside
Alternative B: Someone holding an umbrella
Alternative C: A rocking chair
#3 person walking a dog |
#9 a tent |
#18 cousin Colin's overloaded car ready for the return trip to UK |
#2 & #5 ornate door knocker & architectural columns |
#12 a public bathroom, restroom or toilet |
# 20 body of water |
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Editor's Note: This column was co-authored by Bob Morrison.
Every American high school student knows, or should know, that President Ronald Reagan went to the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin on this date in 1987. The President said: "If you seek liberalization, open this gate…Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." (Yes, kids, there was a West Berlin then.)
American journalists were enchanted by Mikhail Gorbachev in those days. The young and charismatic Kremlin boss was "the human face of Communism" that they'd been seeking. Leader of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union ), this dynamic man spoke of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (re-structuring). His words were all the rage then.
But when the Brandenburg Gate did finally open, in 1989, and when the Berlin Wall was re-structured, as in, torn down, the people in the Communist East German puppet state ran only one way. They ran as far and as fast from Gorbachev and his "workers' paradise" as they could. When Gorby ran for president of Russia in an open election, he won just 12% of the vote.
As important as Reagan's dramatic call to "tear down this wall" was, we should not forget what else he said that memorable day twenty-five years ago. His speech contained the most eloquent paean to religious freedom we have heard.
Reagan was not afraid to point to
…the most fundamental distinction of all between East and West. The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship. The totalitarian world finds even symbols of love and of worship an affront. Years ago, before the East Germans began rebuilding their churches, they erected a secular structure: the television tower at Alexander Platz. Virtually ever since, the authorities have been working to correct what they view as the tower's one major flaw, treating the glass sphere at the top with paints and chemicals of every kind. Yet even today when the sun strikes that sphere--that sphere that towers over all Berlin--the light makes the sign of the cross. There in Berlin, like the city itself, symbols of love, symbols of worship, cannot be suppressed.
Reagan's speech that day is known—if it is taught at all—as his "Tear Down This Wall" speech. But it could as well be known as his Sign of the Cross Speech. That's because he was the first President of the United States to invoke the Sign of the Cross in a public address.
Reagan knew how strong those words would echo in the Captive Nations, especially in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, with their large Catholic populations. That Reagan, an Evangelical Christian, would be so attuned to the religious vocabulary of millions of Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians is itself a tribute to his open mind.
Churchill was certainly no churchgoer. But he, too, recognized evil when he saw it. He knew that Nazi Germany was evil because it sought to murder the Jews. Churchill had the courage to stand up against the Nazis and their Judenhass (Jew hatred.) "Fear God," he said, "and dread nought."
President Reagan carried to every summit meeting with Gorbachev a list of Jewish refuseniks unjustly imprisoned in the Evil Empire. He pressed Gorbachev to free those Jews from the Gulag and let them emigrate to Israel.
Today, the Obama administration works with regimes that threaten Jews with extinction and that persecute their Christian minorities. This administration makes little effort to protect religious freedom.
We have seen Coptic churches in Egypt torched. Christian cemeteries in Libya are desecrated. Assyrian, Chaldean, and Maronite Christians huddling in Syria await Assad's fall.
We should remember this day. Twenty-five years ago, Ronald Reagan had the courage to overrule his own State Department, his own Pentagon, his own advisers. None of them wanted him to "provoke" the Soviets with blunt talk about good and evil. No one wanted him to threaten what they took to be stability. These advocates of realpolitik, however, were proven to be politically unrealistic.
Ronald Reagan had a surer grasp of history and power. What's the good of having power if you don't wield power for good? Like Churchill, he would fear God and dread nought. Under the Sign of the Cross that day a quarter century ago, Ronald Reagan took a bold stand for freedom.


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Refugee from Facebook
questions the social media life
By Craig Timberg, Updated:
Friday, August 3, 7:07 AM
MARFA, Tex. — Not long
after Katherine Losse left her Silicon Valley career and moved to this West
Texas town for its artsy vibe and crisp desert air, she decided to make friends
the old-fashioned way, in person. So she went to her Facebook page and, with a
series of keystrokes, shut it off.
The move carried extra
import because Losse had been the social network's 51st employee and rose to
become founder Mark Zuckerberg's personal ghostwriter. But Losse gradually
soured on the revolution in human relations she witnessed from within.
The explosion of social
media, she believed, left hundreds of millions of users with connections that
were more plentiful but also narrower and less satisfying, with intimacy losing
out to efficiency. It was time, Losse thought, for people to renegotiate their
relationships with technology.
"It's okay to feel weird
about this because I feel weird about this, and I was in the center of it,"
said Losse, 36, who has long, dark hair and sky-blue eyes. "We all know there
is an anxiety, there's an unease, there's a worry that our lives are changing."
Her response was to quit
her job — something made easier by the vested stock she cashed in — and to
embrace the ancient toil of writing something in her own words, at book length,
about her experiences and the philosophical questions they inspired.
That brought her to Marfa,
a town of 2,000 people in an area so remote that astronomers long have come
here for its famously dark night sky, beyond the light pollution that's a
byproduct of modern life.
Losse's mission was oddly
parallel. She wanted to live, at least for a time, as far as practical from the
world's relentless digital glow.
Losse was a graduate
student in English at Johns Hopkins University in 2004 when Facebook began its
spread, first at Harvard, then other elite schools and beyond. It provided a
digital commons, a way of sharing personal lives that to her felt safer than
the rest of the Internet.
The mix has proved
powerful. More than 900 million people have joined; if they were citizens of a
single country, Facebook Nation would be the world's third largest.
Despite a messy initial
stock offering in May that left investors feeling bruised, Facebook has become
one of the most potent and pervasive technology companies in the world, with a
massive potential revenue stream from targeting ads to its users. (Donald E.
Graham, chairman and chief executive of The Washington Post Co., is a Facebook
board member.)
As it has grown, Facebook
has increasingly drawn scrutiny from American and European regulators while
provoking debate over the consequences of digital socializing — especially when
it's happening on platform built by a profit-seeking company.
At first, Losse was among
those smitten. In 2005, after moving to Northern California in search of work,
she responded to a query on the Facebook home page seeking résumés. Losse soon
became one of the company's first customer-service reps, replying to questions
from users and helping to police abuses.
She was firmly on the
wrong side of the Silicon Valley divide, which prizes the (mostly male)
engineers over those, like Losse, with liberal arts degrees. Yet she had the
sense of being on the ground floor of something exciting that might also yield
a life-altering financial jackpot.
In her first days, she was
given a master password that she said allowed her to see any information users
typed into their Facebook pages. She could go into pages to fix technical
problems and police content. Losse recounted sparring with a user who created a
succession of pages devoted to anti-gay messages and imagery. In one exchange,
she noticed the man's password, "Ilovejason," and was startled by the painful
Another time, Losse
cringed when she learned that a team of Facebook engineers was developing what
they called "dark profiles" — pages for people who had not signed up for the
service but who had been identified in posts by Facebook users. The dark
profiles were not to be visible to ordinary users, Losse said, but if the
person eventually signed up, Facebook would activate those latent links to
other users.
(A Facebook spokesman
declined to comment on Losse or her book, "The Boy Kings: A Journey Into the
Heart of the Social Network," published in June by Free Press.)
All the world a stage
Losse's unease sharpened
when a celebrated Facebook engineer was developing the capacity for users to
upload video to their pages. He started videotaping friends, including Losse,
almost compulsively. On one road trip together, the engineer made a video of
her napping in a car and uploaded it remotely to an internal Facebook page.
Comments noting her siesta soon began appearing — only moments after it
"The day before, I could
just be in a car being in a car. Now my being in a car is a performance that is
visible to everyone," Losse said, exasperation creeping into her voice. "It's
almost like there is no middle of nowhere anymore."
Losse began comparing
Facebook to the iconic 1976 Eagles song "Hotel California," with its haunting
coda, "You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave." She put a
copy of the record jacket on prominent display in a house she and several other
employees shared not far from the headquarters (then in Palo Alto., Calif.;
it's now in Menlo Park).
As Facebook grew, Losse's
career blossomed. She helped introduce Facebook to new countries, pushing for
quick, clean translations into new languages. Later, she moved to the heart of
the company as Zuckerberg's ghostwriter, mimicking his upbeat yet efficient
style of communicating in blog posts he issued.
But her concerns continue
to grow. When Zuckerberg, apparently sensing this, said to Losse, "I don't know
if I trust you," she decided she needed to either be entirely committed to
Facebook or leave. She soon sold some of her vested stock. She won't say how
much; they provided enough of a financial boon for her to go a couple of years
without a salary, though not enough to stop working altogether, as some former
colleagues have.
'Touchy, private
Among Losse's concerns
were the vast amount of personal data Facebook gathers. "They are playing on
very touchy, private territory. They really are," she said. "To not be
conscious of that seems really dangerous."
It wasn't just Facebook.
Losse developed a skepticism for many social technologies and the trade-offs
they require.
Facebook and some others
have portrayed proliferating digital connections as inherently good, bringing a
sprawling world closer together and easing personal isolation.
Moira Burke, a researcher
who trained at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon
University and has since joined Facebook's Data Team, tracked the moods of
1,200 volunteer users. She found that simply scanning the postings of others
had little effect on well-being; actively participating in exchanges with
friends, however, relieved loneliness.
Summing up her findings,
she wrote on Facebook's official blog, "The more people use Facebook, the
better they feel."
But Losse's concerns about
online socializing tracks with the findings of Sherry Turkle, a Massachusetts
Institute of Technology psychologist who says users of social media have little
understanding of the personal information they are giving away. Nor, she said,
do many understand the potentially distorting consequences when they put their
lives on public display, as what amounts to an ongoing performance on social
"In our online lives, we
edit, we retouch, we clean up," said Turkle, author of "Alone Together: Why We
Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other," published in 2011. "We
substitute what I call 'connection for real conversation.' "
Connected former cow town
After quitting in summer
2010, Losse decided to move to Austin, known for its vibrant cultural scene and
lefty sensibilities. But on the way, she stopped over in Marfa, a
cow-town-turned-artists-colony on an austere desert plateau three hours from
the nearest city.
After Austin proved too
crowded and expensive for Losse's taste, she returned to Marfa and bought an
adobe house. And she got a shiny aluminum Airstream trailer that let her get
even farther away when the mood struck.
There, away from the
clamor of her former life, she would write her book — something she called "an
act of resistance." She took it as an unexpected blessing that Marfa's weak
cellphone coverage could not sustain enough data flow for her to Tweet directly
from her iPhone.
Marfa was just a dusty
ranching town when minimalist artist Donald Judd moved here in the 1970s, drawn
by the entrancing landscape and the chance to escape the hectic, claustrophobic
New York art scene. Other artists gradually followed, many on fellowships from
the foundations that set up here, and Marfa developed into a bustling, if
unlikely, cultural center.
By the time Losse came
around in January 2011, Marfa featured fine dining, its own NPR station and
more than its share of digital connections.
Even as Losse deactivated
her Facebook page, others were proliferating around town. Celebrities had found
Marfa, too. The town's beloved food truck, the Food Shark, has nearly 1,700
"Likes" on its Facebook page — including ones from such luminaries as Bob
Dylan, Tammy Wynette and Willie Nelson.
Many here have mixed
feelings about the transformation, even as they accept that rising technology
has been crucial to Marfa's growing economic health. "Most of the people who
live here have very complicated relationships with all forms of media," said
Tim Johnson, 34, an artist who moved to Marfa in 2006 and now owns the
bookstore here.
Ester Partegas, an artist
who came to Marfa on a fellowship, often works with basic materials like
plaster and paint. She uses e-mail, Facebook and text messages to keep in touch
with friends in Berlin and New York, sometimes sharing images of her emerging
works. It helps the creative process, she said, though she wonders how her art
would be different if she had worked in a pre-digital Marfa.
"Sometimes I really miss
that, not being interrupted," Partegas said.
'You can't get away from
For Losse, writing a book
in the 21st century proved technologically intense. She wrote on a Macintosh
desktop. Iterations of her manuscript zipped back and forth to her editor
through a speedy WiFi connection in her adobe home. When her iPhone's coverage
flagged, Losse resorted to Google Voice for calls.
Losse eventually
reactivated her Facebook account. Rejecting it altogether felt, to her,
extreme. But she approached it this time with a new wariness, not as a place to
make and maintain friendships but one where a new author could cultivate a
public image.
She carefully minded the
privacy controls and signed on using a browser setting that limited the ability
of Web sites to track her as she surfed the Internet. She prefers to carry out
conversations on the phone, by e-mail or, when possible, in person.
"The Boy Kings,"
meanwhile, has no Facebook page — a rarity in today's book industry.
Along the way Losse has
found a point of balance, a mix of technological connection and disconnection
that, for now, suits her.
"You can't get away from
it. It's everything. It's everywhere," Losse said. "The moment we're in now is
about trying to deal with all this technology rather than rejecting it, because
obviously we can't reject it entirely. We can avoid one site or another, but we
can't leave our phones at home anymore."
But sometimes she does. A
dusty trail leading out of town, past desert flowers blooming under the huge
West Texas sky, allows her to make even Marfa disappear behind her. On these
hikes, the iPhone stays in the car, giving her priceless — if all too brief —
moments of perfect solitude.


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Supporters of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion held five rallies simultaneously across B.C. on Saturday in Langley, Fort St. John, Kitimat, Smithers and Fort Nelson.
About 90 people attended the rally in Langley Township.
"The numbers that come out is not as important as the message that we're delivering," said Rick Peterson, founder of Suits and Boots, the group that organized the event .
Suits and Boots describes itself as a "grassroots organization that brings together business people from across Canada to support and defend Canada's resource industry workers and their families."
Peterson said the month-old Suits and Boots aims to balance the discussion about the pipeline by providing the viewpoint of people who think the project is a good idea.
"The anti-resource people are winning the ground game," Peterson said.
The Langley event was hosted by businesswoman Tamara Jansen, who told those who attended that the arguments against the project were "nonsensical."
"We have been quiet for far too long," Jansen said.
"What we need to do is go back to good old fashioned common sense."
Cheam First Nation Chief Ernie Crey said he is not the only First Nations leader to support the pipeline expansion, which he said has already produced jobs for their communities.
"We're going to be involved in the construction of this pipeline," Crey said, describing the risk of a spill as "imperceptible."
"We're not hesitating in our support," Crey said.
Crey said the project opponents have been dominating the pipeline debate because they "were first out of the gates and put a lot of people on the ground."
"A lot of these people come from (the) pasta and latte row on Commercial Drive in Vancouver," Crey said.
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Chilliwack-Kent Liberal MLA Laurie Throness said premier John Horgan was putting "his coalition with the radical Greens" over the interests of British Columbians.
Surrey-Cloverdale MLA Marvin Hunt called the protests against the pipeline "the absolute theatre of the absurd."
Justin Greenwood, the interim deputy leader of the B.C. Conservative Party, was one of several speakers to blast the NDP government in Victoria for favouring train transport of oil over pipelines.
Referring to the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster that involved a massive explosion caused by a crash of tanker cars with petroleum crude oil, Greenwood said that was something no one wanted to see in B.C.
"It is in the nation's best interest that this (pipeline expansion) be built," Greenwood said.
(Click below to view archived live feed of rally)
The Langley rally comes five days before the May 31 deadline set out by Kinder Morgan to decide whether it will proceed with the Trans Mountain pipeline.
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Ten One Design Pogo Sketch Pro, part of the Pogo Sketch line up of stylus pens, is one of the best we've had the pleasure use with the iPad. It's not as cheap or as specialized as some of the competition, however, so does the quality make up for it?
Unlike some other iPad stylus pens, the Pogo Sketch Pro doesn't look like a traditional pen. It's longer and far more tapered than most. It's got a solid aluminum unibody and an excellent ergonomic grip. This puts the weighting far more forward than most other stylus pens, and that's a good thing. It lets the weight of the tool do a lot of the work for you.
The tip is special designed and patent pending. While it's a soft Ten One claims this makes the Sketch Pro effective at every angle, and the "most sensitive on the market". Our tests showed the Pogo Sketch Pro had excellent capacitance, and all-around the best we've tried to date. To achieve this level of performance, the tip has holes in it. That does raise some concerns over wear and tear, but you can buy replacement tips from Pogo. Unlike some of the other soft tip stylus pens we tested, the Pogo Pro tip doesn't have a lot of give, so you don't have to push as hard before you get solid feedback.
The Pogo Sketch Pro is available in any color you want, provided that color is black and silver. This matches a lot of the Apple aesthetic, especially if you have a black iPhone or iPad, but it's limited compared to other pro-level stylus pens.
For note-taking, the Pogo Sketch Pro is very good. We had no problem writing long form notes. If you're used to a more standard pen shape, you might not like the Pogo Sketch Pro feel as much, but the results are top notch. For art tasks, it's okay. It's not as good as a hard-tipped stylus for line work, or a softer tip for brush work, but the sensitivity makes it good enough for both. For gaming it's great, and the accuracy really pays off. Out of all the pro stylus pens we tried, the Pogo Sketch Pro is our favorite for gaming.
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- Excellent sensitivity
- Good ergonomics
- Great gaming stylus
- Replaceable tips
The bad
- Okay but not excellent for art
The bottom line
The Ten One Design Pogo Sketch Pro stylus is simply one of the best iPad stylus pens on the market. While it doesn't feel like a traditional pen the way the SGP Kuel H12, its long, tapered design is really comfortable. We absolutely love it for gaming, and it holds their own in note-taking. For art it's more than serviceable, but for dedicated line work you're still better off with the Adonit Jot Pro. For general use, however, the Pogo Sketch Pro is absolutely one of the best in class.
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by Leslie Budewitz
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Why does getting it right matter?
by Leslie Budewitz
20 comments:
- Ramona said...
Leslie, terrific post. The "fictive dream" quote says it all. When a reader catches a factual error, it plants a seed of doubt--Should I trust this writer?--and pulls you out of the story. Not good.
Congratulations on the book! You have been generous in sharing your expertise with your fellow authors, so it's great to see it in book form, too. I'm looking forward to buying a copy. - September 10, 2011 at 8:39 AM
- Coco Ihle said...
Leslie, I loved your post. I totally agree with you that getting the facts right is an important issue. I had an instance where I wrote a fact that I thought was correct, only to find a critique member disagreed. I double checked, and she was right. I was so glad I had a critique group. Sometimes the Internet isn't correct, too, so double checking is a good idea.
- September 10, 2011 at 8:58 AM
- Sheila Connolly said...
One reason I've stayed away from writing historical fiction is that as a former academic it was beaten into me that the facts had to be accurate--and with footnotes, more than one if possible. In fiction you can make up what you need to serve your plot, but you make a good point: if one detail is wrong, can you trust the other ones?
I just finished reading the sixth book in Jessica Andersen's Nightkeepers series (which I'm having rrouble defining in one sentence, but it's about a group of mages who are fighting evil forces, in a conflict that will reach its climax with the Mayan doomsday). This is far, far out of my usual reading zone, but Andersen has created a world that, while fantastic, is entirely consistent and convincing. I have great admiration for her--and I know I couldn't do it. (I think my head would explode, trying to keep all the details straight).
See you this week, Leslie! - September 10, 2011 at 9:10 AM
- Terry Odell said...
So true. If you catch one mistake, then everything else becomes suspect. I've been reading manuscripts for a contest and the author had enough errors that it made it very hard for me to get past them to judge the actual writing.
Of course, putting in TOO much detail is just as troublesome, even if it's right, if it slows the pace.
Terry's Place
Romance with a Twist--of Mystery - September 10, 2011 at 9:16 AM
- Sandra Parshall said...
Leslie, I know the publication of this book is a dream come true for you -- and it's a boon to writers too. I think writers will be buying it for years to come.
Those of us who are attending Bouchercon will be able to buy it there and get Leslie to sign it for us. - September 10, 2011 at 9:26 AM
- Msmstry said...
Wonderful column, Leslie! As a mystery reviewer for more than 20 years, I have often stopped reading a book when it had mistakes about something that should have been checked.
In fact, I moderated a panel where an author complained about having been corrected about referencing "Canadian geese" rather than "Canada geese." She threw off the reader's criticism with a snarly, "Who knew?" I nearly had to put my hand over my mouth to keep from blurting, "I knew, and so did my elderly, first-grade-teacher mother!"
Authors can never know the extent of the expertise of their readers. Thank you for emphasizing this point!
I'm ordering BOOKS, CROOKS, AND COUNSELORS from my Indie bookseller as soon as I hit "publish."
See you in St. Louis!
Molly - September 10, 2011 at 10:28 AM
- Gigi Pandian said...
Great points about why getting a fact right matters.
I once interviewed a professor of history to see if the scenario I was creating was too far-fetched. After answering my questions, she pointed to a beaten up paperback sticking out of her bag and said when she read for pleasure she wanted it to be fun. I took from that experience that it's really important to get the set-up facts right, but from there we should use our imaginations to tell a great story. - September 10, 2011 at 11:18 AM
- Elizabeth Zelvin said...
Great post, Leslie, and I'm so delighted your book is finally out. I made a mistake that nobody's ever called me on in a widely circulated story as a result of trusting Wikipedia. I could have concluded it doesn't matter--but since then, if I start with Wikipedia, I cross-check against another source. :) If it bothers no one else, it bothers me.
- September 10, 2011 at 11:32 AM
- Polly Iyer said...
Excellent post, Leslie. Amazon informed me your book is on the way. I'm sure I'll get plenty of use out of it. Congratulations on your release.
- September 10, 2011 at 11:58 AM
- Leslie Budewitz said...
Wow -- surprised to see so many great comments! Thanks so much!
Sheila, at first glance, I thought you were describing a book about mangoes fighting evil forces. I guess I shouldn't skip the coffee today! You write that "Andersen has created a world that, while fantastic, is entirely consistent and convincing." That's the key, isn't it?
Gigi, you're right: fiction should be fun. Of course, we all have different ideas of fun -- which means more opportunities for writers!
Liz, the last chapter in my book is about research. Wikipedia's an ok place to start your research -- just keep going!
Do I dare admit in advance that I know there are mistakes in my book? Ah well, to err is human and all that! - September 10, 2011 at 12:37 PM
- LD Masterson said...
I don't have much time to read blogs on Saturday, so I do a quick scan and bookmark the ones I want to go back to. This one just got bookmarked.
- September 10, 2011 at 12:56 PM
- Jeri Westerson said...
It is the single most aggravating factor in writing historicals, getting the facts right, or as right as I can get them. Equally frustrating when a reader reviews and reviles a fact they know to be wrong. Except that *I* spent some months finding that little known fact while this discerning reader only "knew what they knew."
Leslie, I'm looking forward to getting my paws on your book because it is full of the stuff we "knew what we knew" only to discover we were wrong! Thanks for writing it. - September 10, 2011 at 2:23 PM
What an excellent post! I'll definitely look forward to reading this book.
Brenda - September 10, 2011 at 5:02 PM
- Leslie Budewitz said...
So, Jeri, how do you respond to the readers who think they know better? Is the best response a closed mouth? How do you make sure you get the facts as right as you can?
Thanks, Linda, Brenda, and all! - September 10, 2011 at 5:53 PM
- Holli Castillo said...
This is particularly true when it comes to legal issues. Some writers get their legal knowledge from t.v. shows, which is an exceptionally bad idea. Most t.v. shows absolutely slaughter constitutional law issues.
For crimes charged in state court, where the majority of criminal law cases are prosecuted, each state has its own requirements, sentencing schemes, and names for crimes. It's important to know the law of the state you're writing about, not the law of New York from Law and Order or SVU.
I once read a novel set in my home town of New Orleans--where I was once a prosecutor--and the writer kept referring to the police districts with the title district first and the number after, such as "District Five" when everyone here, even those not in law enforcement, know our districts are named the opposite, such as "Fifth District." It was a little thing, but it let me, and anyone else from down here, know the writer had not done the necessary research.
And not to belabor the point, but a very famous NY Times Bestseller author put an airport in her book in the middle of a suburban neighborhood in a nearby area, so she could call it a "very private airport." The offensive part is that there are two real-life relatively small, private airports she could have used so her airport wouldn't have ended up in someone's back yard had she done even the smallest amount of research. It ruined the book for me and it's the only thing I now remember about it.
Facts absolutely do matter.
Holli Castillo
Jambalaya Justice
Gumbo Justice
www.hollicastillo.com - September 10, 2011 at 10:55 PM
- Leslie Budewitz said...
Holli, your example of the district names is a good one. It's very easily checked. For local readers -- and don't we want to satisfy them? -- it tells them we know and respect their community. For nonlocals, it contributes to an authentic sense of place--a bit of armchair travel.
I have a similar peeve: referring to all prosecutors as DAs--because that's what they are on Law & Order! In fact, they may be DAs, county attys, county prosecutors, peoples' attys, and other terms--again easily checked. - September 11, 2011 at 11:22 AM
- Sandra Parshall said...
In Virginia (and in Massachusetts, I think), prosecutors are called Commonwealth's Attorneys. It's a mouthful, but a writer can get away with referring to them as prosecutors.
- September 11, 2011 at 4:18 PM
- Leslie Budewitz said...
Sandy, good example. Despite the formal term, "prosecutor" works locally -- but I bet a reference to "the DA" wouldn't fly very far!
- September 11, 2011 at 5:59 PM
- P.I. Barrington said...
Leslie, you nailed me on this one. That is exactly why I write futuristic, sci-fi and the odd tongue-in-cheek stories. You can play fast and loose with the details or make them up yourself (as long as they make sense in your world) and create an entirely new set of laws, rules, traditions, taboos. My main guideline for myself is one word: verisimilitude.
One problem I have is that I'm too impatient to get the novel done and that can lead to blatant mistakes that otherwise might be caught in the revisions/editing or beta readers.
An absolutely great post, one that hits on pretty much all the points! - September 12, 2011 at 8:11 PM
- tienda erotica said...
This can't work as a matter of fact, that is exactly what I believe.
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Sydney as the southern hemisphere's Silicon Valley
By Nick Leeder
Have you overheard the words "New York" spoken excitedly somewhere near you lately? Maybe at the next table in a restaurant, on your flight to Melbourne or at the office coffee machine?
Australians - especially the younger ones - seem to be obsessed with the Big Apple and its promise. Beyond arts, culture, and of course shopping, the city seems to lie on the border of the new and interesting. You go to New York and other "hot cities" like San Francisco, Paris and Berlin to find the future.
That's not good for Sydney's future. We've had a run of headlines on Aussie flight to Silicon Valley. Over 17,000 Australians are said to be spread across the San Francisco Bay area, and at least 65 start-ups in and around Silicon Valley were either created in Australia or have an Aussie founder.
Aussies are always going to travel, and that's part of what makes this such a vibrant country. The trick is to get them back faster, and with their talented international mates in tow.
We need to get Sydney on the "hot list" of cities that are building the future by making Sydney a world capital of digital innovation. Sydney is full of creativity and technology but we need to connect the two better.
We already have the key ingredients: top talent, world-class educational institutions, ambitious people and potent investors. We're investing in the high speed broadband infrastructure that powers global reach. We're big enough to accomplish big things on the world stage, but we're also small enough that even a couple of people with a great idea can have a big impact.
But we need to work on a couple of things to become that world capital and to be able to proudly promote it to the world. One is creating the "Silicon Beach" - where not only are technology entrepreneurs building new global businesses, but our talented creative community is leveraging new technology platforms to reach the world.
The other area is investing in our people - not just in education and training, but in a new cultural mindset that's built for the new reality of a globally connected, fast-moving economy.
Over the last two years, Sydney's seen its tech start-up scene booming in parallel with Silicon Valley, and that's encouraging. We need to keep this going. We need to create the right infrastructure for start-ups to thrive and develop. We need more local venture capitalists and business angels who are willing to take a risk and better mentorship for young innovators.
At Google this week we're kicking off the first event in our SUDO ("Start Up DO") event series which will connect young Aussie entrepreneurs with experts, investors and business angels.
But Silicon Beach isn't just about building tech start-ups. We want the outstanding Aussie creative talents on the beach as well. Australian creative agencies always punch above their weight at the international advertising festivals. Bringing that creativity together with what's possible in technology - whether that is video, apps, interactive websites or something that hasn't been invented yet - can put us on the map as the place where the rest of the visionaries and creative souls on the planet want to be.
With the internet as a platform, Aussies are already reaching the world and international audiences love it. We need more artists like Perth's Pogo, who pieces sounds from video games and movies together to create completely new music; he's had his work commissioned by Disney, exhibited in the Guggenheim, and collected over 50 million views on YouTube.
The Sydney Opera House is also setting a great example of what's possible. For example, Vivid, the city's annual festival of light, music and ideas which is on right now, has a dedicated YouTube channel with performances streaming live.
It will premiere a custom camera app which will allow an online audience to use zoom features to change their view, take photos during the live stream and immediately share with their friends via social networks. Fun - and a great marriage of art and tech.
Ironically, some of the cultural tendencies that have helped Australia to thrive despite the tyranny of distance could hold us back as the world lurches forward into the truly globalised internet era.
We are a very pragmatic people - our geography requires that. This is a rich country, but its nature punishes those who fail to respect it and understand it. This makes us not only pragmatic but also humble, practical, cautious. But there's a downside to that. We don't like people who overreach and we kick those who fail.
Australia's mindset is built for an old reality. The internet has fundamentally changed our world. Distance is much less of an issue than it was. Technology platforms can scale ideas globally in a millisecond. Our miners and farmers have understood their new world and they are doing things on a truly global scale.
Tall poppy syndrome used to be about cutting others down to size, but it ends up making all of us shorter. No one should be embarrassed to have global ambitions any more. The internet's ease of distribution means that the world should be the default market for any Australian business plan.
Those who are succeeding now are those who are prepared to fail but smart enough to learn. It is fundamental that Australian society as a whole learns that failing is fine as long as you learn from it and adjust quickly. At Google, we have a saying: "fail fast and iterate". It might sound counter-intuitive, but big innovation and failure are intimately intertwined.
Any innovation is essentially a market experiment and as with any experiment, it carries considerable risk and high failure rates. Innovators in America, and particularly Silicon Valley, understand this very well. It's time we do too.
There are already a good number of people on this "Silicon Beach" down under but we need a lot more to join us. It's going to be a beautiful day - let's tell people about it and encourage more to jump in.
Nick Leeder is the managing director, Google Australia & New Zealand.
He discussed the question "How do we create an environment for inspiration and innovation?" with Sydney's Lord Mayor Clover Moore, Mark Scott, head of the ABC, Ann Mossop, head of public programs at the Sydney Opera House, and other guests at last night's Smart Sydney City Talks event at the State Theatre.


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Myth of Prosperity
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Welcome • Sophie Poklewski Koziell
Feature Articles
MOVING THE GOALPOSTS • Oliver James
Chasing that ephemeral and elusive state of 'happiness'.
RICH IN THINGS, POOR IN TIME • Heinrich Böll
A modern parable.
JOYLESS GROWTH • Ed Mayo
It's time to adopt new models of prosperity.
A NECESSARY SIMPLICITY • David Cadman
Do less, be more
MONEY IS NOT WEALTH • Mary Mellor
An ecofeminist perspective.
Photo Feature
THE AGRARIAN STANDARD • Wendell Berry
True health and wealth lie with the land.
SHOPPING • Ziauddin Sardar
The evolution of our national compulsion.
SACRIFICE • Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
There is no sacrifice without love.
A FLEET OF ARKS • Scott Russell Sanders
The builders of arks are those working to protect and restore wild lands.
BEYOND THE CAGE • Laurence Mee
In Albania, there is plenty of money for the military, but environmental improvements must wait.
A TURKISH CARPET • Tracy Worcester
The urban crisis might prompt many Turks to return to their rural roots.
IN PRAISE OF INEFFICIENCY • Rajesh Shah
Serendipity is the gift of disorganisation.
INFINITE INJUSTICE • Anita Roddick
Democracy is no guarantee against the abuse of human rights.
SOLITUDE • Joanna Present Wolfe
Alone and alive.
EARTH ALIVE • Stan Rowe
Organisms are born out of Earth, are sustained by Earth and in death, return to Earth for rebirth.
MAKING PLACES • Judy Gahagan
We should open our eyes and let the world inside.Art
THE ARTIST IN SOCIETY • Cecil Collins
Until we have an organic sense of life, there can be no creative society.
IN SEARCH OF AWARENESS • John Lane
The paintings of John Danvers.
BUDDHIST AESTHETICS • Shakti Maira
Exploring inner beauty through rhythm, balance, proportion and harmony.
Getting away from corporate seed sellers.
Discouraging financial speculation.
Deep Spirit • Thomas Moore
Voice From The South • Vandana Shiva
Visionaries • G. K. Chesterton
A Sense of Place • Peter Abbs
Visionaries • Arne Naess
Poetry • Peter Abbs
Crafts • Sandy Brown
Letters to the Editors
Up the Elephant and Round the Castle • David Nicholson-Lord
Recipes • Daphne Lambert
VANISHED PRESENCES • Rosie Jackson
Review of A 'wide-angle' view of some recent fiction.
ENDURING ECONOMIES • James Wells-Bruges
Review of Feasta Review 1
BEYOND ALL 'ISMS' • Satish Kumar
Review of Straw Dogs
BOOKS IN BRIEF • Marian Van Eyk McCain
CRISIS AND OPPORTUNITY • Stephan Harding
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Case Studies
Fuel CellPowered Mobile Robots
Sandia National Laboratories' Intelligent Systems and Robotics Center (ISRC) has developed the RATLER™ ("Robotic All Terrain Lunar Exploration Rover") vehicles to fulfill a wide variety of functions. A RATLER™ was originally developed as a prototype vehicle for a lunar exploration mission; however, RATLERs™ are now used for tasks such as surveillance, perimeter control, localization of chemical sources, and search and rescue missions. RATLER™ vehicles come in a range of sizes, from 8 inches up to 3 feet long, are lightweight, maneuverable, and must be able to navigate over long distances. Because of their wide usage, RATLERs™ have unique power requirements.
RATLERs™ traditionally have carried batteries for onboard power; however, batteries are typically large, heavy, and have limited capacity. ISRC was interested in a power/propulsion system that would fit the same space requirements as the battery system, have extended standby reliability, a low thermal signature, safe intuitive operation, similar or better power available for mobility, and affordable life cycle costs. When looking for a viable alternative to battery power in robotic vehicles, ISRC believed that fuel cells could offer a practicable solution. Fuel cells offer a way to improve Sandia's electric robotic vehicle performance, to extend operating range and life, and to reduce observable signatures so that robotic vehicles can be used more effectively in a variety of demanding applications.
Fuel cells constitute the most efficient energy transducers known to man; they are twice as efficient as batteries. Fuel cells are electrochemical devices that convert a fuel's energy directly to electrical energy, operating much like continuous batteries when supplied with fuel to the anode (negative electrode) and oxidant (e.g., air) to the cathode (positive electrode). Instead of following the traditional extraction of energy in the form of combustion heat, conversion of heat energy to mechanical energy, and finally turning mechanical energy into electricity, fuel cells chemically combine the molecules of a fuel and oxidizer without burning, dispensing with the inefficiencies and pollution of traditional combustion.
Sandia is a member of the Fuel Cell Propulsion Institute, an organization that consists of about 60 members, including universities, mining companies, fuel cell manufacturers, and related research companies. In 1998, a contract was written between Sandia and the Fuel Cell Propulsion Institute to coordinate the design, procurement, and fabrication of a prototype fuel cell for the RATLER™.
A pair of hydrogen fuel cell systems, complete with a safe storage method for the gas and all required support systems, designed specifically for a small RATLER-style robotic vehicle was produced, bench-tested, and delivered to the Mobile Robotics Department at Sandia National Laboratories in August 1999. The integration of the fuel cell with a small tracked RATLER-style chassis is expected to be complete by mid-November 1999. This will be among the first fuel cell-powered mobile robotic vehicles.
There are many types of fuel cell chemistry. The type used in the RATLER™ is a PEM, or Proton Exchange Membrane. It combines hydrogen and oxygen to produce electron flow or current, without appreciable heat, using a platinum catalyst on the surface of the membrane. It is at this interface that hydrogen and oxygen combine to form water and electrical energy.
The prototype has the potential to triple the operating range of the RATLER™, which will be verified in field tests scheduled to begin fall 1999. The next step is to certify the units, transfer safe systems to ISRC, have the fuel cell RATLER™ tested alongside a battery-powered unit, and analyze the data to determine actual performance of the system in field conditions.
Because power and energy density are limiting factors when deploying robots in field applications, fuel cell technology can help address these issues.
Paul Klarer
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Maricopa County data shows continued flattening of hospitalizations
Community is encouraged to keep doing what we're doing
PHOENIX (April 15, 2020)—Maricopa County Department of Public Health data is clearly showing that the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations is flattening. This is likely attributed to the protective measures individuals and the community are taking to slow the spread of diseaseand is a signal to the community to keep doing what we are doing.
"This is exactly why the Governor put protective measures Maricopa County data shows continued flattening of hospitalizations in place," said Dr. Rebecca Sunenshine, medical director for disease control at Maricopa County Department of Public Health. "Flattening the curve allows hospitals to have the resources to care for everyone who becomes sick. The challenge is that for the curve to remain flat and eventually slope down, we cannot relax our social distancing measures yet."
Sunenshine reminded that this hospitalization epi curve shows the most accurate trends of disease in the county because people who are hospitalized have had access to testing from the beginning. Unlike the epi curve for cases, these trends are not affected by the availability of testing in the community.
As a reminder, an epi curve is a public health tool used frequently in outbreaks that visualizes how many cases occur over time. It is not a model for predicting future cases or hospitalizations.
A hospitalization epi curve looks specifically at those who are hospitalized, showing the trends of the most severe cases and allowing epidemiologists—public health experts who assess health data at the community level—to estimate the number of milder cases occurring when there is not enough testing available.
In addition to the hospitalization epi curve, we have also looked closely at the specific chronic health conditions in people with severe disease from COVID-19. Data from hospitalized patients in Maricopa County shows hypertension or high blood pressure is by far the most common chronic medical condition for both people who have tested positive and for those who are hospitalized. This is followed by diabetes and heart disease. Maricopa County data is consistent with the data reported from China and other countries about which conditions are found in people with COVID-19 who suffer more severe disease.
Sunenshine also commented on recent zip code data released by the Arizona Department of Health Services and how it could be interpreted for Maricopa County.
"The one thing I want our residents to take away from this zip code map is whether you see 5 cases or 50 cases in your zip code, we can assure you that COVID-19 is circulating throughout the county, and you need to take the same precautions to prevent illness. This means staying home as much as you can, staying 6 feet away from others outside your home and washing your hands routinely. And check in on seniors and those with chronic medical conditions to see if they need support," said Sunenshine.
Social distancing is avoiding those outside of your household as much as possible and maintaining at least 6 feet of distance between others when you are out in public. A few examples of acceptable activities while practicing social distancing include:
Phone calls and video chats
Walks around your neighborhood while keeping 6 feet between you and others
Virtual book clubs
Online workouts
Video chats over coffee or meals to replace having coffee or meals together in-person
If you think you might be sick with COVID-19 or have been exposed to COVID-19, please immediately isolate yourself from others in your household. Symptoms include:
Shortness of breath
Body aches
Sore throat
Hospitalization Epi Curve
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If you are sick, have been around someone who is sick, or are caring for someone who is sick, please see https://www.maricopa.gov/5512/Sick-or-Exposed-to-COVID-19 for details on what you can do to protect yourself and those around you.
For more information on COVID-19 and what you can do to stop the spread, please visit www.Maricopa.gov/COVID19 for English or www.Maricopa.gov/COVID19es for Spanish.


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text: "Part of the solution to this problem will be to lay off people. I'm not sure how many yet, and I am hoping you can help me figure out how to minimize the number by using more creative and less disruptive ways to solve the problem. I am going to hold some town meetings in the next several days to get your thoughts about alternative concepts. I will lay out some ideas here, so you can be thinking about them. You can write back now, or you can tell me in person later. Perhaps you will want to discuss them with your colleagues. Perhaps you have better ideas to suggest. We'll soon set up an electronic chat room, too, to permit people to share their thoughts more broadly with the community."As of this moment, no one's replied to this post.


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I probably won't get to look at them until after Isaiah's birthday and our Chanukah party next weekend, but the seed catalogs are piling up, and I'm starting to think about gardens again. I can't wait to sink down into the couch with a stack of catalogs and dream.
This was a tough year for gardening – I was already behind in early spring because of the final push to get _Making Home_ out. On May 1, K. and C. arrived, and it took the better part of a month before things normalized. That was ok, I thought, the fall garden will be SPECTACULAR, I'll just put my energies there, and get serious about the garden on the first of July. Except, of course, a few days after the first of July, Baby Z. arrived.
Beyond the nigh-universal heat and drought, the main problem in my garden was the sleep deprivation of the gardener. K. and C. went home to family later in July, following weeks and weeks of full-tilt advocacy and work to get that accomplished. That devoured July. By August we were so TIRED that many things simply went by the wayside. It wasn't an awful garden year, just not a fabulous one.
I don't resent anything, though – I'm so glad that Baby Z. got most of my time and attention – we are fortunate that I had that luxury. If some zucchini turned into baseball bats and I ate more tomatoes fresh than I canned, if I didn't get much but kale and spinach planted for fall, well, in the end, I'm grateful I had the capacity to turn outwards to others to fill in what I didn't do myself.
I should say I'm looking forward to a much better garden this year, and I am. I am also, however, looking forward to one that doesn't work out so well. By which I mean that I'm doing what I should have done all along – contingency planning to optimize my garden for non-optimal conditions, in this case, a non-optimal gardener.
My garden has had a non-optimal gardener many years – in fact, all of them. I went through three pregnancies during the summer. There was the year we lost Eric's grandparents and much of the spring was taken up by grief and the sort of their things. There was the year I foolishly agreed to place the deadline for _A Nation of Farmers_ on May 31, meaning that peak planting season was spent with my staring at the computer and feeling guilty. There were years when we were sick or busy or away during a critical moment. In fact, I don't think my garden has yet ever had the garden it deserves.
It is a beautiful patch of land, it deserves the kind of devoted, anal, obsessive gardener that never says "Yeah, I'll get at that tomorrow…or maybe the day after" or "that's good enough for me." It definitely deserves a gardener better at keeping chickens out, one who pays more attention to aesthetics than practicality, and one who never thinks it is just too bloody hot to go face the weeds. Sadly, she's not available or returning my calls. Instead, my garden gets me, the lazy, overly-busy gardener with grand ambitions for perfection and a high tolerance for imperfection – a multiple personality gardener who never quite gets the balance all right.
I still have the grand ambitions, the desire for a thousand varieties, the plan for a perfect seed-saver's garden, the goal of growing every herb and fruiting plant in nature. I like that part of my gardening self, the one whose reach exceeds her grasp. Without her, I wouldn't have quinces or have coddled a maypop into producing for me in Zone 4. Without her I'd never have threshed my own oats or made ornamental borders of chili peppers and okra. Her "too much is never enough" attitude (the same one my kids have towards sprinkles on ice cream) leads to good and interesting things – she pushes all boundaries, always wants to try one more variety, one more new thing, to go bigger and better. This year, I resolve to give in to her, to try some new stuff, to add a new variety or two here and there, to get bigger in some respects. But she's not the only part of my personality.
The other gardener in me is the one that is kinda lazy and really busy. I've got a book due to the publisher in February, carefully set before planting season begins. But that puts me editing in April and May. Baby Z. will still be a baby in the spring if he's with us (and it is looking like he might be), and while he's sleeping better, let me not be completely foolish here – a crawling or toddling baby is still a very large hindrance in the garden.
I'm hoping I'll have more children by then, and that could easily include toddlers or another baby. A new placement could easily come in the growing season, indeed, is more likely than not, and that changes things and takes a bit of time to reorient our lives around. Kids could go home, which also takes up time and emotion. The reality is that my life really isn't all that stable, and that lack of stability makes gardening go up and down.
Now here's a giant "duh" moment – I suddenly realized that this is normal. For the last 10 years, I've been serving my inner dream gardener – the perfect one who does everything and wants to do everything. I've gotten used to failures, enough so that I expect them and I don't beat myself up for them. But what suddenly struck me is that here I am, forty years old, I've never actually tried to plan a garden for the kind of gardener I AM rather than the one I want to be. I teach contingency planning for a living, and have contingency plans for my garden – for drought, for flooding, for lack of access to inputs. The only contingency I've never planned for is the one that happens all the time – that stuff happens.
Don't get me wrong, I still think a gardener's reach should exceed her grasp. By and large I've been glad that I've over-reached most years, because I think the net gain has been greater than the loss. Yes, sometimes things fail from lack of attention or my lack of ability to deal with them, but I always have a good and ample variety of crops. But what if I actually set up my garden to work better if I'm interrupted? What would that even look like? It suddenly struck me that I must be missing something.
So that's my project for this year – I'm working on redesigning my garden in layers, working outwards, partly on the old permaculture principle of zones (ie, closer in you put the things you need to get to daily, etc…) but also for more things that are self-operating, more things that are flexible in their harvest dates (for example varieties of beans and cherry tomatoes that mature over a longer stretch), and having a plan for when I'm not going to get to something – for example, a quick cover crop mix at hand to get into beds I just won't be planting. I'm also working on getting Phil-the-housemate into gardening on the theory that if I'm distracted, I might send him off to do my evil bidding in trade for my cooking him a portion of the proceeds. Hmmmm….wait a minute!
I realize this is a classic physician, heal thyself moment, of course. In fact, I routinely tell garden design students not to overreach, to think about how they will really use the space, how to involve others so you don't have to do it all yourself etc… I KNOW all this stuff – it just never occurred to me that it should apply to me, because well, I've always liked having a lot of balls in the air, and the pleasures of an excess of ambition. But then, I realized I don't really know if I would like constrained ambitions and more limited goals that I did a better job of accomplishing better, because well…it never occurred to me to try it. I have just assumed it probably wasn't for me. I think it might be time to see, however, whether trying to accomplish more limited goals would be more fun than throwing a lot of balls in the air and seeing how many I actually catch .
So off I go to the graph paper. Anyone else making garden changes this year?


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Don't Believe It: The Media Aren't Beating Up on Barack Obama
Six months ago, Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) came out with a report
claiming that the GOP candidates received more positive press coverage
than President Obama. Monday morning, the group came out with another installment
from the same ongoing study. Their press release claims: "The
President's media coverage in 2012 has been consistently negative while
his Republican challenger has experienced a more mixed narrative."
As MRC documented in October, PEJ's methodology is seriously flawed:
"First, they didn't study what most people would consider 'the media.'
Second, their definition of 'positive' and 'negative' press doesn't
match what media experts consider 'favorable' or 'unfavorable' coverage.
And, third, the researchers didn't really even look at the stories —
they let a computer... churn through the words and determine whether an
assertion was pro- or anti-Obama."
That's all still true, but that isn't stopping some who should know better from running PEJ's headline as if they have evidence that the broader news media is really a vast right-wing conspiracy.
The headline at MediaBistro's "FishBowlNY" blog on Monday: "Media Loved Romney and Blasted Obama During Primaries"
USA Today's David Jackson: "Republicans often protest their media coverage, but a new study says the press has been tougher this year on President Obama. In fact, the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism reports: 'Of all the presidential candidates studied in this report, only one figure did not have a single week in 2012 when positive coverage exceeded negative coverage -- the incumbent, Democrat Barack Obama.'"During his 3pm ET show on Monday, MSNBC's Martin Bashir touted the PEJ study to DNC boss Debbie Wasserman Schultz as evidence that Obama had been victimized: "Some people have said that the Republican primary experience over the last six, seven months has been a brutal and bruising one for Mitt Romney. But, in fact, [a] Pew poll suggests that the President, as the result of things that were said during the Republican primary, has been attacked more negatively than Romney," displaying an on-screen chart claiming the President received only 18% "positive news coverage."
But "the press" hasn't been tougher on Obama than the Republicans.
PEJ's "good press/bad press" statistic mixes reports of the campaign
horse race (who's ahead, who's behind) with judgmental coverage of a
candidate's background, issue positions, etc. And, according to PEJ's
own statistics, the vast majority of the reports they examined (they peg
it at 64%) are about campaign strategy.
[Check out this BiasAlert for more explanation of the flaws in PEJ's methodology.]
What this all means is that the GOP candidates got better "good press"
scores because they each won primaries this year. This is obvious when
you look at the report's explanation of how Romney, Santorum and
Gingrich each fared with "the press" (I'm stripping out the statistics,
because they are a meaningless distraction):
[Romney] enjoyed one week of clearly positive coverage... in the week following his solid, if widely expected win in New Hampshire on Jan. 10. But that media bounce was short lived. The week of his loss on Jan. 21 to Newt Gingrich in South Carolina, negative coverage of Romney... outstripped positive....
Santorum's Iowa victory on Jan. 3 also produced a burst of positive coverage for him....But during the week of his third-place finish in South Carolina on Jan. 21, the tone of Santorum's coverage dropped markedly....
Gingrich only enjoyed a single week in which positive coverage about him significantly outweighed negative, the week he won the South Carolina primary.
In other words, PEJ is not actually tracking how the press --
journalists, reporters, commentators, etc. -- are evaluating, ranking,
spinning, etc., the campaign. Their sample is so heavy with redundant
Web posting of the same horse race results that it completely masks the
spin that journalists impart to the coverage.Think about it this way: Can any serious media observer argue that the
media elite have been more positive towards Christian conservative Rick
Santorum than Barack Obama? On its face, this study is not measuring
what it purports to measure, i.e., the tone of campaign journalism.
Undoubtedly, given the resources they've put into this project, you'll
see additional reports throughout the campaign year. If President Obama
takes a polling lead over Mitt Romney, you'll see PEJ claim a burst of
good press for the Demcorat; if Romney takes the lead, they'll continue
to say that the press is beating up on Obama. Don't believe it.
-- Rich Noyes is Research Director at the Media Research Center. Click here to follow him on Twitter.


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I'm developing an application that has user based access.
Each user can change some settings for their profile (localization, timezone, the password, etc). I've chosen to perform autosave (a la Apple's settings) on each change. As soon as you click on a setting it is automatically saved. I'm pretty confident with this choice.
My question is: do you think that even a password change (with a confirmation box) can be handled that way or is better to have an explicit "change" or "save" button?
The dialog for changing the password is modal and it contains only two fields:
password: [ ]
confirm: [ ]
If the password is too short or the confirm does not match, an error message is displayed below in realtime (the check is performed on every keypress).
The dialog can be only closed with the X on the upper left corner. On close the password is changed if the two field don't produce an error, otherwise the dialog remains open.
What do you think? Any suggestion?
UPDATE: I forgot to say that if the two fields are left blank, the dialog closes without saving a new password.


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Story highlights
Bayern Munich win UEFA Super Cup on penalties
Romelu Lukaku's penalty saved by Manuel Neuer
Bayern equalized for second time with final kick of extra time
Chelsea down to 10 men after 86 minutes when Ramires red carded
Bayern Munich beat Chelsea on 5-4 penalties to win a pulsating UEFA Super Cup showdown in Prague Friday after equalizing with the last kick of extra time.
Down to 10 men but leading 2-1, Chelsea looked set to hand Jose Mourinho the first silverware of his second reign until Javi Martinez found the net for the European champions to force the penalty shootout.
Both sides had a perfect record from the spot kicks until 20-year-old Romelu Lukaku stepped up to deliver a tame effort which was comfortably saved by Manuel Neuer.
So instead it was Pep Guardiola, a bitter rival of Mourinho when the pair managed Barcelona and Real Madrid in La Liga, who landed his first trophy since taking over at Bayern in the summer.
For Chelsea, it was a second successive defeat in the UEFA Super Cup, having been beaten 4-1 by a Radamel Falcao inspired Atletico Madrid in Monaco last year.
Read: Eto'o reunited with Mourinho at Chelsea
But they will take heart from their performance in a match in which they twice led only for Bayern to show their typical resilience by pulling them back.
Fernando Torres put Chelsea ahead with a crisp finish from an Andre Schurrle cross in the eighth minute.
It was a lead which lasted until the second minute of the second half when Franck Ribery leveled with a 20 meter effort which beat Petr Cech at his near post.
Bayern were on top, but Chelsea fashioned the best chances as Branislav Ivanovic rattled the crossbar with a header and Neuer was forced to save from a David Luiz header.
Chelsea midfielder Ramires departed for a rash challenge on Mario Gotze which earned a second yellow card and the omens did not look good for the English Premier League side heading into extra time.
But those fears were dispelled when Eden Hazard lit up the Eden Arena with a fine solo goal, Neuer at fault as the eventual low shot eluded him.
Cech made amends for his error on Ribery's earlier goal with a pair of stunning saves from Mario Mandzukic and Ribery.
But he could not keep out Martinez's late effort which so cruelly denied Chelsea. A defiant Mourinho said his team deserved better.
"The best team clearly lost the match, we played with ten men for a long period against the European champions and we have only reason to be proud," he told ITV Sport.


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text: At Stephen Decatur High School, art teacher Cindy Pilchard and stained glass artist Lucinda Shaw are working with 65 students for six weeks to produce a permanent stained glass window above the media center book drop. This spring, there will be a reception to recognize the artists and the product. The design of the window includes a mermaid on a rock reading a book which exemplifies both the oceanic and academic setting of the media center. The design of the project began in the spring of 2007. Above are Pilchard and students Holly Melson, Michael Hunter, Maria Sandival, Janna Vignale, Armando Cordoba, Julianne Petsche and Issac Holland.


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You have 14 days upon receipt of a Bylaw Notice to dispute the Notice. If a dispute is not filed with the Bylaw Enforcement Department within the 14 days, you will not be able to dispute.
Appeals must be received online, or in writing on a Bylaw Notice Dispute Form (PDF) dropped off at City Hall at 310 Ward St. in Nelson, BC within 14 calendar days of ticket issuance. If no appeal has been received after 14 calendar days, the ticket will be treated as not disputed and no reduction of fine amount will occur. For more information contact Bylaw Enforcement at 250-505-5666.
The City's Screening Officer will review the Bylaw Notice Dispute form and may
If the Screening Officer upholds the Bylaw Notice, a date and time for the Adjudication Hearing will be provided which shall take place in Council Chambers, City Hall. At the Adjudication Hearing, evidence is presented and the Adjudicator decides if the offence did or did not occur. If the offence did occur, the violation notice must be paid in full, plus an additional $25 administrative fee. If an offence is deemed not to have occurred the bylaw notice is cancelled and no penalties are payable.


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I've got a few minutes before our Back-To-School Night begins, and I thought this might be a good opportunity to put together a quick "The Best…" list on the flooding in Georgia.
We're right in the middle of a unit on Natural Disasters in our ninth-grade mainstream English classes, so there will be a high-degree of interest from out students in that tragedy. Floods are always topical here in Sacramento because we are now the major U.S. city most likely to be inundated by a major flood.
Here's a short list of The Best Sites To Learn About Georgia's Floods (and are accessible to English Language Learners):
Floods Overwhelm Georgia is a slideshow from TIME Magazine.
Deadly Floods In Georgia is a video from CBS News.
The New York Times has a slideshow called Southern Waters Rising.
Underwater In Georgia is a slideshow from the Wall Street Journal.
MSNBC has several videos about the flooding.
Here are videos and photos from the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
"Flooding In The Southwest" is the title of the latest series of photos from The Boston Globe's Big Picture blog.
Feedback, of course, is always welcome.
If you found this post useful, you might want to look at previous "The Best…" lists and also consider subscribing to this blog for free.