Man, I don’t know when I’ve been this uncertain what’s going on.
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October 8th, 2009, 7:09 pm by fshermanDavid Smith gets up to give the LPA a brief overview of the project.
Mike Chesser, attorney for the Destin Fishing Fleet gets up next. “It is a wonderful thing when we can contribute what we think is a wonderful (addition) to what goes into the community.”
The Obama is a Nazi analogy
September 29th, 2009, 1:05 pm by fshermanDoonesbury responds better than I could here.
Knowledge management
September 21st, 2009, 7:01 pm by fshermanWebb: The KM team consists of seven people from different departments. The mission is to examine “how the city manages its knowledge assets, key processes and information technology.”
Knowledge management is people (and the Knowledge Sharing Culture), processes that share knowledge and technology that creates a unified network.
Crucial concepts:
•Information is not always knowledge.
•Information can be digitized into knowledge in intelligent systems where it’s organized and retrievable.
Some discusson of the “knowledge management journey” on the next Power Point slide.
Limitations
August 26th, 2009, 11:13 am by fshermanSpeaker: Since this modeling technology has only been around for a decade or so, it’s difficult to evaluate how well it works as a predictor, but the results have been good overall, and there’s constant effort to review and improve.
Stahlnaker shows pictures of Jetty East today and 20 years ago: “Our sand has been transported away.”
Dave Sherry: “One eight hundred pound gorilla in the room … it seems like all these scenarios assume something will be done with Norriego Point.” It’s a big draw on the sand.
Speaker: Our scenarios will have to assume either that nothing is done or that some sort of armoring is adopted.
Sherry: either way, that will be a huge difference to the overall picture.
Expanding
August 26th, 2009, 9:54 am by fshermanInitially, the speaker says, they found the model wasn’t working becuase it didn’t take in the total bay. Now they’ve expanded it, as he shows in a computer image on the screen, with East Pass more or less at the center. The grid’s squares are variable, so that they’ll have the greater resolution where they need it.
Let’s discuss!
August 18th, 2009, 6:23 pm by fshermanI’m sitting at the 12-year-old table. So is Kaple.
First question: When did you first read the Twilight books?
About half of them read it right after the movie. Tina Kaple says she watched the movie, then read the book, then wanted to watch the movie again and compare.
How many have read them more than once? Probably 60 percent of the table? Several of them have read them multiple times even though they’re not big readers.
6:09 p.m.: Parking ordinance.
June 15th, 2009, 5:21 pm by fshermanFor those who missed this last time, it amends the handicapped parking standards and sets higher standards for the number of bicycle parking spaces required.
Unanimous to approve.
The right-wing’s firm anti-terrorist stance: Part Two
June 10th, 2009, 8:52 am by fshermanIn The Log today, we have guest columnist Joseph Hunt’s comment on the murder of those Chilean students a while back: “Despite the horror of the deed, it clearly reflects the mounting frustration that most taxpaying Americans are feeling regarding the trampling and curtailment of our constitutional rights and freedoms by too much immigration.”
Even though he calls the shooting a “criminal travesty” that sounds close to “Hey, he had good reasons for it.” I wonder if his response after 9/11 was to discuss the “mounting frustration” some Muslims feel with US policy toward the Palestinians and the Middle East?
Although Hunt focuses his column illegal immigration, I notice he says there’s “too much immigration”—which would suggest that if all these Latino immigrants came in legally, he’d have just as big a problem with them. He also encourages people to join the Minutemen groups who are, as document in detail by David Neiwert a racist and violent lot under their “We’re just trying to stop illegal immigration” pose.
The limits of free speech
June 5th, 2009, 8:26 am by fshermanRight wing radio host Hal Turner was taken into custody this week after announcing he was going to give out the addresses of various elected officials in order to “foment direct action against these individuals personally. These beastly government officials should be made an example of as a warning to others in government: Obey the Constitution or die.”
Much as I support free speech, Turner seems to have slid well outside the First Amendment.
For details, check here
