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I had a bug report from Pablo yesterday about my Applescript based kindle annotations and highlights parser.
It seemed to be erroring when it was attempting to parse a phrase into a number
error "Can't make \"ur Highlight Location 82 \" into type number." number -1700 from "ur Highlight Location 82 " to number
to be exact.
I've only ever had my own My Clippings.txt file to use as a test file so it came as no great surprise that someone else's caused a problem. Interestingly, to me at least, the format of the highlight and notes seems to have changed. On my kindle the format is
- Highlight Loc. 218-19 | Added on Friday, December 31, 2010, 10:36 AM
and sometimes like
- Highlight on Page 12 | Loc. 122-23 | Added on Saturday, April 02, 2011, 03:30 PM
whilst on Pablo's there are some like
- Your Highlight on Page 103 | Location 1505-1506 | Added on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 2:57:09 PM
(note the use of Location rather than Loc. as in my version)
and some like
- Your Highlight on Unnumbered Page | Location 368-370 | Added on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 10:08:27 PM
which completely threw me. Unnumbered Page. Helpful!
Anyway, I've updated the script to cope with both of these scenarios. I've tested it on Pablo's My Clippings file, and on mine. It is still slow (over an hour for my collection of snippets) and I think leaks memory all over the place, but as long as it continues to work, I'm not going to be spending too much time refactoring it - applescript is not something I tend to play in. If I did refactor it, I'd probably move it into ruby or something with more parsing capabilities in-built.
The usual disclaimer applies: your mileage may vary, this is just something I wrote for myself. If it helps you, excellent news, and I'm happy to spend a bit of time, as in this case, to keep it working.
The other week I saw this article about Sussex police defending their use of GPS locators to find dementia patients who wander off. It opens with the following paragraph
Police have defended a "barbaric" decision to buy GPS locating devices to trace people with dementia who disappear.
then continues with the following
Sussex police have bought six battery-powered locators as part of a attempt to save money and time spent on searching for dementia patients.
The National Pensioners Convention described the introduction of the devices as "barbaric" and suggested people could be stigmatised and made to feel like criminals.
The Mindme GPS device is monitored by Chichester Careline, run by Chichester district council, and supports vulnerable people 24 hours a day. It can be attached to house keys or kept round a person's neck and enables those who become lost or disorientated to be found by their families through a website or the careline.
As long as wearers have a mobile signal, they can be located anywhere in the world, officials said. Information on their whereabouts is given only to the carer or family after security checks.
The device is seen as a way of helping police who say they are regularly called out to help find people with dementia.
Chichester wrote about the service themselves in New technology is transforming the lives of those with dementia. This also contains a story about someone who is using the service.
A week or so later I spotted Debate about GPS for people with dementia needs to be based on fact which says
Discussion of the Sussex example on the Today programme illustrated the intensity of emotions and unwillingness to consider any potential application with Dot Gibson, general secretary of the National Pensioners Convention, dismissing any use of the devices. Her view was that the scheme was tantamount to imposing an Asbo on people with dementia, and was "inhumane", "barbaric" and flouted their human rights.
There are risks in using new technologies to substitute for care, but they can be important tools as part of a package of care and support. What is vital is that debate should be informed by the facts and not by knee-jerk alarmism and prejudice.
And I couldn't agree more with this last paragraph. The debate should be informed and thought of from all angles.
I also did a quick search of the Alzheimer's Society Forums and found this thread about it. The interesting thing here is that everyone posting has first-hand experience of dementia. There are a lot of "it depends" but also a lot of "tag me when the time comes", which is more in line with this Guardian article from a dementia sufferer.
From all of these places, there are a few areas that seem to have been picked out and given a lot of focus:
I've spoken with friends over the past year or so about this as a concept, and I'm pleased to see someone starting to tackle the idea. This post is really just to pull together some references, and some personal experiences, and I'm writing it is as much for me to get my thoughts out as for anyone else to read.
As Mum's dementia got worse, and she no longer really appreciated the difference between day and night, she would get up and wander around the house as and when she felt like it. Dad, sometimes, would fall asleep in his chair in the afternoon through sheer exhaustion. Mum would wander around the house, and on occasions neighbours did check up on Dad, as they hadn't seen him for a few hours and Mum was obviously restless. For years our family home always had the front door key left in the front door lock. This changed when Mum started wandering, but occasionally Dad would forget, and Mum would get out (which I do know makes it seem like we were keeping her captive, but in some ways, we were). Once a week Mum would visit her friend who lived down the street. She'd been going to see this friend year after year, always at the same house. And then she forgot where she was going and got lost. Going 200 metres down the road. This resulted in her freedom being restricted as the risk was too great that we'd lose her.
There was also a time that I remember vividly. We'd gone to the British Museum and I was given the seemingly simple responsibility of escorting Mum to the toilet - I lost her in minutes. I was frantic, but fortunately found her before she left the building. I didn't let her out of my sight again.
Dementia robs the sufferer of their independence as jobs and responsibilities are taken away from them. I guess it is the opposite to how it works with children, when you stretch them and encourage them to expand their knowledge. With dementia it is all too easy to do things for them, which, I guess (amateur psychology time here) reduces their capabilities and confidence.
A lot of the more recent dementia research and guidelines seem to be about encouraging the sufferer to do as much as possible, without exhausting them to keep them active for longer. Having a tracking device, where the data is available to the right people, should restore some independence, and stops the sufferer having to be so dependent on others - maybe allowing them to go to the local shop to get milk or bread or a newspaper. Or even have some time on their own. This can only be a good thing. Dad would have liked Mum to have been able to do more on her own. Both so he got a bit of time to himself (for the final few years Mum lived at home she went to a local centre several days a week to allow him some time to himself - I suspect he slept for much of this time) but also so that she regained a bit of confidence in herself, which would hopefully have helped her quite a bit, and would have taken away the feeling of uselessness and worthlessness that she often expressed to us. I would be interested in knowing more about the psychological benefits of giving people independence for longer - if anyone knows anywhere for me to find it, please leave me a comment.
But, any such device needs to be subtle - obvious to the right people but not exposing the vulnerabilities. I bought Mum an SOS Talisman bracelet. It wasn't the prettiest thing in the world, but it would be recognisable to medical staff or the emergency services, and contained information about her illness and her details. She wore this much of the time, and was a very low-tech, and ugly, way around this identification issue.
Any device would also need to be robust. And always on the sufferer, which is a concern with the Mindme unit actually as it, obviously, needs charging. Mum wandered around the house at night, if she'd got out, she wouldn't necessarily have been wearing a device. Also, Mum went through a stage of removing her rings, and watches. Necklaces survived, until the chain was snapped, so, for her, some form of necklace would have been the best solution. But as with everything else relating to dementia, different people have different symptoms and methods of dealing with things.
Key to the success and general acceptance, at least within the tech community, would be around it being well secured - allowing the right people to access the information, and not make them vulnerable.
Overall, I'm in favour of anything that extends a normal life for dementia sufferers and gives them more scope and independence. But I do think it has to be a choice, and not enforced. What works for one situation, won't work for others.
There are so many opportunities through technology. We can make plants tell us to water them, and GPS track all manner of things - including our phones via various Find my Phone services, and ski clothing so that in case of an avalanche people can be found. I see no reason why we can't use technology to support the more vulnerable members of our community in a secure and safe way. It needs focussed and careful thought and not over-reaction in the media.
Every three months an email comes around the office asking people to vote for their colleagues in an Employee of the Quarter style thing. It's supposed to be for the people who best reflect the company values. After the votes have been tallied, and the award given, the nomination comments get sent around to the appropriate person. So, last week, I recieved an email which said
'My vote is for Jane as she is very creative in everything she does'
which absolutely delights me. I am considered as creative within the company. Until the past couple of years I would never have described myself as particularly creative. And yet I am. And to some extent I always was. After all software development is a creative profession. I do think thought that as a result of participating in various crafts over the past 18 months I've begun to express myself in a more creative manner.
Of all the things I could have been recognised for, I doubt any would have made me as happy as being recognised for creativity.
Last week Jez tweeted
I've quite enjoyed reading "Designing Your Day" by @nokiaatwork slideshare.net/NokiaAtWork/smarter-everyday-ebookdesignyourday
- Jez Nicholson (@jnicho02) May 10, 2013
Over the last couple of days I've read it as a pdf (it took me a while to work out how to get it in that format) and it was quite nicely put together. I've read, and blogged about, various time management/productivity books/methodolgies before and as a consequence there wasn't much new material in there, although, there was yet another reference to Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow which is about the 5th I've come across in various articles, recommendations etc - looks like I'll just have to read it!
What I really liked though was that the whole idea of productivity was tackled in a more creative manner, using a more design led process and terminology, rather than it being very business language. It also introduced me to this lovely quote from Tim Brown
Think of today as a prototype. What would you change?
which I really like. Well worth the reading time.
In a lovely bit of observational selection bias I read this
one of the company's main expenses was postage: each programmer would write their code on carbon paper (backup copies were needed in case the original was lost or damaged) and send it through the mail to their client's punchgirls. The code would be transcribed, the program run and any errors would get posted back to the programmer for correction
in the, well worth a read, article A Woman's Place about a group of freelance women programmer's in the 1960s/70s/80s yesterday, and then this morning saw this Inside the UK's last carbon paper factory, a lovely video showing the machinery and people working at York Haven, the last one-time carbon manufacturer in the UK.
It had never occurred to me that carbon paper would have been used as a backup for coding, but why not, it was an available "technology", and programs in the 60s were hand written before being made into punched cards.
My new loom arrived in a massive box. Inside it, along with a second heddle, were shuttles, cardboard strips, instructions etc. I'd put all of these things onto a shelf in my craft cupboard (this isn't what it started off being for, but it now, most definitely, is a craft cupboard) but I was a bit concerned about losing some vital part - like the threading hook for instance. As I was also looking for useful projects to make with my sewing machine, a bag to put all the weaving odds and ends in seemed like a good idea. And as it was going to need to be a long bag, it seemed like a good "Get to know your sewing machine" project.
A few years ago someone bought me a sarong. I'd never used it and so had put it into the pile of things to go to the charity shop during a recent sort out. However, when discussing my plans with Richard, he suggested that this might make a good fabric for a drawstring bag. He was right. The bag needed to be long enough to hold a 25" heddle, and wide enough to store an exercise book (where I make my notes). I aimed for 30" x 11" and cut out the two patterned areas from the sarong comfortably, and used my new A3 cutting board, metal ruler and rotary cutter to get some lovely, smooth edged pieces of fabric to work with. I also then cut two 30" x 2" strips for the ties. There is still some of the fabric left as well and it's now in my fabric bag waiting for another project to come along.
I followed this tutorial for the majority of the bag (I didn't really have enough nice fabric to line it), switching to this one for instructions on how to make the fabric ties. Both were really clear and detailed.
I double stitched the edges - first using a zig zag stitch, and then a normal running stitch. Partially to give it extra strength, partially for the extra practice. This all went pretty smoothly. The biggest struggle was wrestling 30 inches of bag to try and sort out the gusset. One side is pretty straight:
but the other is well off centre:
Overall, though, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The ties could be top-stitched a little more evenly, and the lines around the top of the fabric at the bottom of the drawstring pocket could have been straighter but all in all, not a bad effort. And a great use of fabric that was about to be thrown away too.
It was my birthday a couple of weeks ago, and I got some new toys. Richard bought me an Ashford Rigid Heddle loom (on which more in a later blog post when I've made something on it - but in the meantime you can admire the freshly oiled table surface in the photos - as I had to oil the loom before assembling it I figured I'd sand and oil the table too!). And my Mum bought me a sewing machine (or at least I bought it on her behalf).
I had my first sewing machine experience back in February when my friend nursed me through my fear and helped me make some lavender bags and a crochet hook case. It made me realise that maybe they weren't as scary as I'd thought, and I started considering buying one. I had a look around the internet, and came up with a few options. Then popped in to John Lewis after visiting the Wool House and saw the mini sewing machines. First impressions were that they were really light and transportable, meaning that they could be tucked away when not in use. And they weren't expensive, which mean that even if I didn't get on with it, and it ended up being tucked away in the loft for years, it wasn't a ridiculous amount of money wasted. I had a look online when I got home and found a few reviews that didn't write them off, so I decided to buy one.
Last weekend I plugged it in, and simply tried it out as a sampler, sewing lines of the different stitches. When I got to position J on the dial, a 2 tier zig zag, it didn't do quite what I expected, but I didn't think much more about it. On Wednesday I had a bit of spare time, and so figured I'd start making some lavender bags - these seemed like a good starter project, and I still had some squares left from the charm pack I'd bought as well as some odds and ends left over from other things. But, when I got the machine all set up and ready to go, I couldn't get the machine to sew a straight line. It seemed to be perpetually doing the scallop pattern of position I on the machine. It's like it wouldn't reset it's position. So I called up John Lewis's customer services line, who were helpful and immediately ordered a replacement for delivery. The replacement turned up yesterday, and so last night I made a start on the lavender bags.
In total I've made 9 of them. 6 were sewn last night, 3 today. All were stuffed and finished (by hand) today. I'm really pleased with some of them, moderately pleased with others - the ones I like the least are probably the green squirly ones, and that is more because of the fabric than the sewing. They are destined for my sock drawer. My favourites are the white and purple ones (the purple fabric was left over from lining of the Little Miss Two bag) just because the fabric works so nicely in this format. These are destined for my craft bag - one will go and sit with my finished blackwork items, the other was going to go into my crochet bag, but might go and join the lovely one my friend made me in my fabrics bag. The stripy greens ones are going to Richard (and are, like the last ones I made him, stuffed with rosemary and lavender to make them a bit more manly) and the pinks are going to go to Mum next time I see her. I even managed to get the lines to line up on this pink one which pleased me no end:
The machine behaved itself well. The manual is really good, and has simple step by step instructions (Richard also bought me this excellent book which I've been referring to on and off). I didn't sew myself to the table, or sew my sleeve up or anything similar. The speed of the machine via the foot pedal isn't ridiculously speedy - I'm sure it would be too slow for experienced sewers, but it isn't racing off without me, so I'm pretty comfortable with it.
I'm counting this as my first solo sewing machine success. Hopefully the first of many, but if not, at least I've managed it once and will be able to look back on this with a bit of satisfaction and hopefully encouragement.
I came across GeoGuessr yesterday and sent it around the office this morning as a bit of Friday fun - we have a room full of consultants and technologists who use maps and photographic representations of places as part of their day to day work and so it's interesting to observe how they've been detecting where the locations are when the mapping element is absent.
So far, comments I've heard have been:
"ooh, a sign for Victoria Bitter, must be in Australia" - It was
"Ah, the sea, and a sign in Portuguese - that could be Portugal, or it could be South America" - It was Brazil
"A tourist map on the wall of the hut, fantastic, that'll help. Now what country are we in?" - It was Nova Scotia
"They drive on the left, there is sunshine, must be Australia" - It was (though Australia is a really, really big place)
"Now is that kanji or Hangul" - it was kanji, it was somewhere in Japan
Without the mapping element, people have been looking at the imagery in much greater detail, "walking" around the area, looking for street signs, shop names, the people and the general environment. Like I say, really interesting to observe. Oh, and my best score so far is 12188.
I finished watching the final classes of the Surviving Disruptive Technologies coursera MOOC earlier this week, and I thought I'd jot down my thoughts on both the content, and the delivery mechanism.
This course was well organised, and the content flowed together really well, with video lessons referring to subjects covered in earlier lessons, all of which helped to provide continuity and reinforce the core messages.
As "homework" a lot of use was made of the discussion forums. We were asked to comment on subjects, or to provide more localised examples of services being disrupted etc. A lot of these discussions were very interesting, and attracted intelligent comment, debate and relevant links which have given different viewpoints. One topic that springs to mind particularly was about publishing - where we were fortunate enough to have a few fellow students who work in the UK publishing industry and who were willing to share their internal viewpoints which provided an interesting balance to the media led news articles perspective.
The example companies used were all, I think, American companies. This wasn't a problem and is expected from a university situated in Maryland, but it did mean that a couple of them were less well known internationally or that the scenarios faced were slightly different. The first few classes covered companies like Kodak, Blockbusters and Borders, comparing the latter two against Netflix and Amazon. When we compared Barnes & Noble against Amazon in the discussions, a lot of the international students had a bit of a problem as Barnes & Noble are very different outside the US.
Every week there was a "hangout", organised via Google hangouts but shared via YouTube. This enabled Hank, our professor, to have a conversation and discuss the key points for each week with students. I was invited to partake in a couple of them (as I'd been active on the forums), but couldn't for scheduling reasons. However, I did watch some of them. It seemed to be quite a good format allowing more interaction with the professor than via the forums alone. These, combined with the effective use of the discussion forums, meant that this was course seemed to have much more interaction and conversation than the Introduction to Philosophy one I did earlier this year.
I chose not to do the project side of this; I don't need a certificate for any purpose, so I watched the lectures, read the recommended articles, took part in the discussions in the forum but opted out of the essay element.
So, the core messages, the things to remember on how to survive those disruptive technologies. They were:
- Avoid denial - i.e. if you think there is something possible disruptive, don't pretend it doesn't exist. Instead evaluate it, make a strategy of the worst possible scenario, and plan for it
- Be bold - i.e. be prepared to change the business model and execute on it
- Change the organisation - i.e. be a leader, leaders make a big difference - Niccolo Machiavelli in The Prince was quoted here as saying
there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in it's success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things
All in all a good course, interesting material and well presented.
First of all an admission. This wasn't supposed to be circular. A while ago we were clearing out some of our garden space, and I found some sad looking cushions that had been protected from the worst of the winter weather but were looking decidedly sad. I removed the covers and found that the inners would be ok after a wash. So I decided I'd crochet covers for them. These were square cushion pads. I'd seen the squaring the big circle pattern and thought that I could adapt it to get it to the size I wanted, and so started.
Once I'd got to the end of round 6, when this pattern stopped, I realised that I had quite a lot more rounds to do. I attempted to adapt what had gone before, but soon realised that it wasn't working. So, I unravelled 4 or 5 rounds to get back to round 6 and had another look around the internet. I found this and this and consulted them both (they're pretty much the same) and used this as my pattern going forward. I got to round 17 and decided, with advice from Richard, to keep it circular. So that's what I've done. I ordered a lovely, feather-filled, 14" circular cushion pad from Design-a-Cushions which is pretty much the size that 17 rounds got me to, and started work on the back of the cover, following, round by round, the pattern of the front. I crocheted the two sides together using single crochet and have crocheted the pad into the cover.
The front of the cushion is miscellaneous DK blues, using up left overs, roughly ordered by quantity of yarn.
The reverse is all Sirdar Snuggly Baby Bamboo DK in Skittle, and has, sadly, resulted in me having to buy another 2 balls, and of course there's over half a ball left. So much for using it up eh!
Overall, despite it not being what I originally envisaged it to be, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I just need to find somewhere for it to live.
I have changed my plans for the square cushion pads at least twice in the past few weeks. Once I've settled on one or two (I have 3 cushion pads to cover - 2 of which are the same size, one of which is larger) then I'll get started, but at the moment I can't even decide what craft to use - weaving, sewing or crocheting. Decisions, decisions!


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In a poll conducted over the weekend by GaPundit.com, Westmoreland came in fifth among likely candidates mentioned by a statewide random sample of voters. He received 8.4 percent of the selections. Former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue was first with 22.4 percent.
"The announcement made last week will most certainly set off a flurry of speculation as to who will run," Westmoreland said in a statement issued Monday. "There are many experienced, conservative leaders in Georgia who would make a good U.S. Senator. Over the next several days and weeks my family, friends, supporters and I will determine if I am interested in being a part of that discussion. Saxby is a good friend, and he will truly be missed. I wish Saxby, Julianne, and their family all the best in the future. His public service to the state of Georgia over the last two decades should be commended."
After Perdue, former Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Karen Handel was the most mentioned prospect (15 percent), followed by 10th District U.S. Rep. Paul Broun (10.3 percent), Sixth District U.S. Rep. Tom Price (9.7 percent), Westmoreland, 14th District U.S. Rep. Tom Graves (6.3 percent) and current Secretary of State Brian Kemp (3.4 percent). The "undecided" made up 24.5 percent of those polled.
"If Perdue decides to run for the U.S. Senate, he immediately becomes the front runner, though it's not a prohibitive lead," Todd Rehm, GaPundit.com editor, said Monday.
He said the poll shows that about 60 percent of Handel's support comes from women, significantly higher than any other potential candidate.
"Nearly 64 percent of the undecided respondents are women, showing some upside for Handel in a demographic that has been a weakness for the GOP lately," Rehm said. "At the same time, Gov. Perdue's strong lead overall means that he still attracts more votes from women overall."
According to the Associated Press, 12th District U.S. Rep. John Barrow of Augusta and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed are the most obvious Democratic party choices to run for Chambliss' seat.
Chambliss was first elected to Congress in the 1994 Republican wave. He moved up to the U.S. Senate after defeating Democratic incumbent Max Cleland, a triple amputee from his Vietnam war service, in 2002. Chambliss was widely criticized for campaign ads that featured Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein and that criticized Cleland as weak on defense and homeland security issues.
The senator has drawn the ire of hard-line conservatives over his participation in the "Gang of Six," a group of three Democrats and three Republicans that tried but failed to fashion a grand compromise on fiscal issues. One of those senators, Democrat Mark Warner of Virginia, praised Chambliss as a statesman on Friday.
Conservative angst resurfaced when Chambliss voted for the tax-and-debt compromise that Obama fashioned with congressional leaders over the New Year's holidays to avoid the fiscal cliff. The measure held taxes steady for the middle class but allowed them to rise at incomes over $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for couples.
– The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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Parish officials continue to work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on levee alignment and construction, solidifying a cordial working relationship. The parish wants to make sure it can receive credits for any work already completed on the West Bank hurricane protection levee when and if this project comes to fruition.
The parish took stock of Phase I of the West Bank levee, which is partially constructed in the Magnolia Ridge area of Boutte. Public Works and parish officials toured the levee in 2008 to find that it is not up to current Corps standards. Parish President St. Pierre has made it a priority to construct a levee that is at or above nationally-recognized Corps standards in order to protect all West Bank citizens from tidal flooding.
In 2009, St. Charles Parish officials submitted a permit application to appropriate regulatory agencies, including the Corps of Engineers, for Phase II of the West Bank hurricane protection levee, to be built south of Luling's Willowridge and Willowdale subdivisions. The permit was received in July 2011.
Parish officials also entered into a cooperative endeavor agreement with the Lafourche Levee District for the construction of levee Phases II and III.
Burk-Kleinpeter Inc. completed modeling work for Phase III of the levee, also known as the Ellington Phase. Phase III will join the partially-constructed Magnolia Ridge levee (Phase I) to Phase II south of Boutte.
Parish officials participated in the engineering review process and construction of the federal West Bank and Vicinity levee. The levee will run from Jefferson Parish (South of Highway 90) to the Davis Diversion guide levee and finally tie in to the Mississippi River levee in Ama.
March 2013: Parish announces the receipt of a permit for the Ellington Phase and an update on two other levee phases. Phase II Willowridge: The plans and specifications for construction of the Phase II Willowridge levee are currently going through final reviews with the state. Following completion of the reviews, Parish President St. Pierre will be requesting that the Parish Council pass a resolution authorizing Public Works to publicly bid the project for construction. As part of the process, we are going to schedule a town hall meeting to discuss construction details and anticipated impacts to the residents. Be on the lookout for an announcement regarding that meeting soon.
Phase III Ellington: In another major milestone for the project, the Corps of Engineers issued a Section 10 and 404 permit for Phase III Ellington on March 6. This was the last permit necessary to authorize the project. The next step is to acquire the real estate for the project and complete the engineering and design of the levee. Both of these activities are currently underway and are anticipated for completion by mid-2014. In the meantime, the administration and Grants Office will continue to identify available funding sources to help get construction of this phase of the levee started as soon as possible.
Phase I Magnolia Ridge: The Corps of Engineers and Louisiana Department of Natural Resources are requiring a new permit to complete the levee and construct the pump station for Phase I. Public Works has submitted a revised permit application that is currently working its way through the agency reviews. If you live in the area, you may have received a notice from the Office of Coastal Management regarding the parish's permit application. The benefit of having to re-permit the project is that it allowed the parish to re-evaluate the pump station parameters and work with the regulatory agencies to develop a drainage solution for landowners that have had an increase in standing water on their properties.
Overall Levee Comments: It is also important to note that the parish is currently working with the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and the Lafourche Basin Levee District to have the entire West Bank system incorporated into the state's Coastal Master Plan. This includes the Davis Pond West Guide Levee, the West Bank Hurricane Protection Levee, the Sunset Drainage District Levee and a floodgate structure at Bayou Des Allemands. It is very likely that by the end of 2013, St. Charles Parish will have active permits for all three phases of the West Bank Hurricane Protection Levee, be part of a larger project in the state's Master Plan and be considered "shovel ready" when RESTORE Act funding becomes available. This is our best strategy to obtain protection for the entire West Bank of St. Charles Parish.
September 2012:Contractors begin soil boring and testing work at the site of the Willowridge phase in anticipation of construction bids going out in early 2013.
August 2012:St. Charles Parish expects to begin construction on the first lift of Phase II (Willowridge) in early 2013. Get all the details on available state and parish funding here.
June 2012:
February 2012: The parish has entered into a cooperative endeavor agreement with the state for the project, which will provide $500,000 in state capital outlay funding in addition to funds the parish has budgeted. In addition, the parish also authorized the Lafourche Basin Levee District to purchase and/or expropriate land for the construction of the Willowridge Phase, and that process is moving forward.
October 2011: Project updates below are from the Hurricane Protection Projects Committee meeting.
Willowridge Real Estate Acquisition: The parish has contracted with two MAI appraisers and one MAI review appraiser to establish the fair market value of the required property. The two appraisers are in the final stages of preparing their reports, which will be reviewed for consistency with the appraisal requirements of the federal government by the review appraiser (Corps standards). We anticipate the just compensation offers, based on the fair market value established by the appraisers, to be presented to the landowners by the beginning of November. The landowners can either accept the offer or present a counter offer that includes justification for any requested increase in compensation. It is anticipated that real estate negotiations will last between 30 and 90 days.
If negotiations fail, the parish, in cooperation with the Lafourche Basin Levee District, is prepared to acquire the property through "quick-take" expropriation. GCR has coordinated with Lafourche Basin Levee District regarding the presentation of the initial just compensation offers and the negotiation process for the real estate acquisitions. The acquisition of the required real estate interests to construct the levee is projected for January 2012.
Willowridge Construction Phasing: To date, BKI has coordinated with the administration and Public Works in order to develop and define a scope of work for the Phase I levee improvements that will enable construction within existing parish funding constraints. A topographic survey has been received, and select shallow borings have been drilled to ascertain the composition of the potential opposite-cast borrow material that will be used to construct the levee. Once the parish owns the right-of-way, additional deep borings will be drilled and analyzed in order to obtain a complete assessment of the soil strata composition as it relates to a proper stability analysis for the proposed levee.
Additionally, a sketch of the proposed scope of work and associated preliminary cost estimate have been established in order to define the engineering fees for the design of the Phase 1 improvements and provide the parish with budgetary funding numbers for planning purposes.
A design and construction schedule has been submitted to the Louisiana Department and Development (LADOTD) in order to comply with their requirements through the Statewide Flood Control program, which is funding a portion of construction. Presently, BKI is working with the administration for the issuance of a formal task order to begin design of the Phase 1 omprovements, which will comprise the following scope of work items:
Ellington Hydraulic Model Findings: BKI anticipates completing the hydraulic modeling efforts by mid-November in order to properly respond to agency comments on the draft permit. This model will not only address issues related to the Ellington Phase III permit, but will also be a comprehensive West Bank model that will be calibrated by utilizing recent storm events such as Tropical Storm Lee and the December 2009 rain event in order to accurately simulate both rainfall and tidal events affecting the West Bank. This tool will enable the parish to target problem areas in a logical and fiscally responsible manner. Coincident with the mitigation calculation efforts, it is anticipated that all comments will be adequately addressed and a permit could be issued by the permitting agencies in the February - March 2012 timeframe.
Magnolia Ridge Wetland Assessment: The parish has been working with the Corps of Engineers to determine the hydraulic requirements necessary to maintain the health of the wetland areas between the levee and Highway 633. The purpose is to find a solution to flooding of yards and maintained properties on the east side of Highway 633. BKI and the parish are preparing a revised permit that will request that the water level along the Magnolia Ridge levee be maintained one foot to two foot lower than currently authorized to help alleviate the flooding concerns of residents in the area.
September 2011: Permission was granted for the parish to review the property for the Willowridge Phase in preparation for the appraisal. According to the law we have to have two appraisals and a third appraisal to oversee the first two to ensure they are fair. The council is going to have to appropriate funds through the parish council. The parish is going to have to tender and offer to the landowner based on the appraisal. If the landowner will respond, there is a possibility of continuing negotiations until a price has been settled upon. If they like the price, or if they're close to reaching a price, we do have the option to go a little big above and beyond the appraised value, according to the law. If the landowner and the parish reach an agreement in line with the appraisal, then the appropriate sale can be done as a cash sale through the parish council. The consent decree can then be modified by that agreement. If the landowner rejects the appraisal, then we will have to file suit for expropriation through the Lafourche Levee District on behalf of the parish. The owner will then have a short window after to contest the public's use of the need for expropriation. Once the suit has been filed and after the time period has passed, the levee district will own the property. In the interim, the parish can begin to modify the federal consent decree to include the construction of the levee along the northern alignment. Time constraints are up to the federal judge, but this is likely to take about eight months. Approval of the modified consent decree allows the parish to begin work.July 2011: The parish receives notification that it will be appropriate $6.8 million in state funds to help build the West Bank Hurricane Protection Levee over a number of years.May 2011: The parish officially received a permit for Phase II of the levee (Willowdale Phase). The parish hopes to use budgeted funds to construct this phase to a +7 elevation. February 2011: The St. Charles Parish Council approved $1.6 million in spending on wetlands mitigation for Phase II of the levee (Willowridge Phase). This is a final step in obtaining a permit to build the 10-mile-long stretch of levee.September 2011: The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) issued their Wetlands Value Assessment (WVA) calculations of wetland impacts for the Willowridge Levee.Two property owners sent a Letter of Intent Regarding Mitigation to DNR requesting on-site mitigation.The landowners now have a responsibility to author a conceptual mitigation plan for DNR's consideration if they do not agree with the Parish's proposed mitigation plant to buy credits from a mitigation bank as they have indicated.GCR officially requested the Corps' Wetland Value Assessment calculations.The Corps advised that mitigation requirement letter including WVA calculations would be forthcoming.October 2011: GCR was informed that the Corps' WVA calculations had been completed by the Permit Section and were awaiting approval by the Mitigation Section.GCR has followed up four to five times over the last two weeks regarding the Corps mitigation requirement letter. Latest follow up was Oct. 15.After receiving the Corps' WVA requirements, GCR will provide to DNR and the Corps the formal plan to buy the required credits from the Upper Bayou Folse Mitigation Bank for all impacts of the project.The mitigation plan includes an environmental justification for electing to use Upper Bayou Folse based on the following environmental considerations: Both the impacts and the mitigation bank are located in the coastal zone, both are subject to natural tidal exchange and Upper Bayou Folse more closely replicates the wetland functions being lost than any other bank because it can offer in-kind replacement and similar hydraulic conditions.GCR has completed the mitigation plan and environmental justification and is prepared to submit it within two to three days of receiving the Corps WVA calculations.If the Corps approves the provided environmental justification for using Upper Bayou Folse, then both the Corps and DNR permits will be released.
WILLOWRIDGE PHASE IIThe permit application for this phase was submitted in October 2009 and has been reviewed by various agencies for final compensatory mitigation requirements. This phase includes earthen levees, drainage canals, tidal exchange structures, concrete t-walls, and a drainage pumping station.
Agency Comments: All comments received from the commenting agencies have been addressed. In conversations with the various agencies, no other comments, outside of any potential resolution conflicts with the already received comments, will be provided. At this point in time, no known resolution conflicts exist. There are two comments that the parish had concerns about: Degrading the finger levee around the conservation easement and the requirement that the wetland mitigation be accomplished within 30 days of the issuance of the permit. Both of these issues have been resolved to the parish's favor.
Corps of Engineers Status: All comments from the Corps of Engineers have been addressed. DNR is preparing a Wetlands Value Assessment that will be provided to the Corps of Engineers. Once the Corps receives this information they will get with EPA and the U.S. Wildlife and Fisheries and establish the value (number of acres to mitigate for each acre impacted). This is the last piece of information the Corps needs to complete their side of the permit.
DNR Status: All comments provided from DNR have been addressed. Comment resolution for the last set of DNR comments was provided on July 19, 2010. We are currently waiting on concurrence from DNR on those resolutions.
Preparation of Plans and Specifications: A fee proposal for surveys has been requested and received from Riverland Surveying Co. LLC. A fee proposal for soil borings and geotechnical designs has been requested of Eustis Engineering Company Inc.
GCR prepared notification letters on behalf of the Lafourche Basin Levee District (LBLD) to the three property owners impacted by the Willowridge alignment. Larry Buquoi, attorney for LBLD, approved the letters and returned signed copies to GCR by mail. On Aug. 9, 2010, the letters along with the required attachments were sent via certified mail to the property owners. Fifteen days following the mailing of the letters, the LBLD will have the authority to enter upon the landowners' property to conduct surveying and investigative work. As a result, St. Charles Parish can issue an authorization to proceed to the surveying crews on Aug. 25, 2010.
On Aug. 3, 2010, GCR coordinated with Kirk Kilgen in the LDNR Mitigation Department to acquire a copy of a completed Biological Investigation Report as requested by Robert Tewis, the Project Manager for USACE, in order to finalize the mitigation requirements of the permit application and the Wetlands Value Assessment for the Corps permit.
Ellington Plantation Phase III: The permit application for this phase was submitted on July 1, 2010, went to public notice on October 23, 2010 and is currently under review by the various agencies. This phase includes earthen levees, drainage canals, tidal exchange structures, concrete t-walls, and a drainage pumping station.
A pre-application meeting was held with all agencies on May 27, 2010. The permit application was filed on July 01, 2010. DNR comments were responded to on July 22, 2010.
On Aug. 5, 2010, BKI and GCR facilitated a meeting with the Corps of Engineers for a wetland determination field visit to the Ellington Plantation alignment. In attendance at the meeting was Sam Scholle, Russell Tastet, Greg Schultz, Brandon Gaspard with USACE, Kirk Kilgen and Sara Krupa with LDNR, Harry Harlan and Russell Young with BKI and Lucas Lilly with GCR. Prior to the meeting GCR provided USACE and LDNR copies of maps delineating the wet/dry interface line based on in-house estimates. At the meeting, GCR received feedback on which areas within the alignment will be considered wetland areas for the project.
The meeting also served as a pre-application meeting with LDNR Mitigation Department to discuss the mitigation requirements and environmental impacts of the Ellington alignment. As a result, GCR corresponded with Kirk Kilgen in LDNR Mitigation Department, following the site visit regarding the impacts previously mitigated under the Magnolia Ridge CUP P1991399 issued in 2001. The purpose of the correspondence was to document the mitigation requirements already satisfied under the previous permit.
Magnolia Ridge Phase I: The earthen levee portion of this phase is partially constructed including a first lift. A second lift, tidal interchange structures and a major pumping station remain to be completed and are currently unfunded. A new permit application is currently being developed to complete the remaining work.
The draft permit has been prepared and posted on the DNR website. A meeting was held with the BNSF Railroad on Aug. 6, 2010. The railroad trestles and culverts need to be gated. Mr. Tim Huya (BNSF) was receptive to the plan for gating these openings under the railroad. He is to get back with us on differential head design restrictions and other details concerning these openings. The draft permit application will be revised to include all railroad openings between Paradis Canal and the Davis Pond West guide levee.
The parish has contacted the surveyor, Luis Martinez, about getting spot surveys of railroad and adjacent areas around the openings. These surveys would be performed within the next two weeks. DNR is scheduling a pre-application field trip with the various agencies for Aug. 20, 2010.
Statewide Flood Control Application: GCR has coordinated with Holly Fonseca with the St. Charles Parish Grants Office to prepare a DOTD Statewide Flood Control Application for the West Bank Hurricane Protection Levee. The funding application is an in-depth project document outlining the benefits, costs and need for the project. As required by the application, GCR sent letters on July 29, 2010 to federal and state reviewing agencies asking for comments on the project and the pre-application submitted by St. Charles Parish in 2008. GCR has taken the lead for the Statewide Flood Control Application on this project and anticipates a successful outcome based on preliminary discussions with DOTD officials. The application deadline is Oct. 1, 2010. Additionally, GCR provided GIS and AutoCAD files of the West Bank Hurricane Protection Levee to Maurice Wolcott, a coastal GIS specialist with the LSU AgCenter extension for use in developing storm surge modeling.


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Since the main reason I blog is to find online friends to discuss books with, I'm always frustrated when I find an interesting blogger, leave lots of chatty comments on her blog, and then never see her show up on my own. And no, I don't mean one of the really busy ones who gets dozens of comments a week and can't realistically be expected to reply to all of them.
It has happened several times, and every time it does, I wonder: What are they waiting for? An invitation?
Not that it always works, either. There have been a couple of bloggers whom I did invite to visit my blog--even leaving a link--and nothing ever happened.
My own habit is to check out the blog of everyone who leaves me a comment. I guess this isn't a universal practice. I'm just surprised that so many people aren't more curious about new visitors, especially when they average only one or two comments per post.
A few weeks ago, someone said that Blogger's comments have been acting up, and that might be one factor when comments don't get returned. But I really don't think it's just a technical problem.
Another possibility I've considered is that my blog is just not as interesting to others as it is to me. (Ouch! LOL!) In that case, I guess this post is just to let everyone know that if you like having chatty commenters on your blogs (as I do), then it's really worth returning visits to get them to keep coming back to you. =)
A hop is a weekly event hosted on by a blogger in which people are encouraged to leave links to their blogs in a linky and to visit as many other blogs on the linky as possible. It's like one big virtual party: leave your link if you want to mingle, and then do some mingling on your own!
A meme is a weekly feature one blogger does that she encourages others to do, too--with a link back to her blog, of course. Examples are In My Mailbox, Top Ten Tuesdays, Waiting on Wednesdays, Character Connection, A Weekend to Recover, and (ahem!) Locus Focus.
There's lots of overlap between hops and memes--especially now that hops encourage everyone to answer the same question and some memes are as easy as answering a single question! But both are for networking and for attracting more traffic. =)
I'm curious after catching up on this thread.
When I decide to follow a blog from one of those follow me follow you threads, I truely only follow if I intend to check them out in the future. I use my Blogger Dashboard at least 3X a week to catch up and if something interests me, I click and check out their blog. Yes I will usually comment.
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When I comment on their post, it is usually an actual comment regarding the post. Then when I sign my name, I sign it as
So it's not in invite persay to come to my blog but it is a calling card I guess to let them know who I was. I read above that someone thinks leaving their link is a turn off. Is what I do above a turn off?
Appreciate thoughts. Great discussion Enbrethiliel
I don't think that's a turn off at all! In fact, the calling card analogy came to me, too. I can't count the number of times I read the advice to include that sort of signature on this forum and on blogging 101-type articles.
In fact, I should be taking it myself, since I have two blogs--my main one and a group blog that I'm not so active on--and it's the latter that is getting all the hits back when all people have to follow me back is the link to my blogger profile. =P But if I don't do it, it's not because I think it's rude, but because I'm kinda lazy. LOL!
And I'm glad you're enjoying the discussion, too, Michelle! =)
Ok cool thanks guys! I appreciate it. I was worried there that I been annoying a bunch of bloggers.
Cheers, MichelleKCanada
Hi, Shawn! =)
I also don't do the "follows for follows" thing, although I'm lucky enough to have the time to do "comments for comments."
There are so many bloggers and so little time. I think that might be the answer. Once you get into this thing it takes a whole lot of time. First you should if you are serious, keep up with your own blogging so it stays current, and that takes thinking of something to write. Then there are all those e mails to read and if you read all of them it might take you all day. It is just time consuming.
I don't think that anyone means to not reply it just happens. I see you have had a lot of replies on here, so hope you get a lot of followers and people to chat books with. My main reason on here is to promote my books as it is one of the things you are told to do when you start marketing. However, I do find many interesting blogs and comments along the way. It's a good place and everyone is trying to do what they want to do, so just keep keeping up with your blog and your comments and the people will come.
Thanks for your reply, Carol. I understand that it's different for a busy author, so I also try to stick to "hobby" blogs. =)
Thanks for the nice offer, Quincy. You seem like a cool, friendly guy. =)
But as I told someone else, I'm not really blogging to get comments-for-comments. The people I wonder about are those whose blogs I comment on very regularly (and who seem to appreciate it) but then don't return visits.
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3. | wilton | ||
Good things:
1. Best Education System in Fairfield County Although people really forget about this fact, Wilton does have the best public schools in Fairfield County (see the CT Magazine ratings every year) and I'm sure thats the only reason why my parents continue to tolerate living here. While at Wilton I have had some excellent teachers; two of my teachers have a PhD in their respective fields. 2. Good Parties As in any small town in fairfield county the parties are damn good. 3. Good sports Yes, our sports teams are good too. Field Hockey and Girls soccer won States this year. Lax teams are perineal winners. 4. Some Genuine People In order to live in Wilton, you must have money. Which means you must have a pretty good education right? (excluding stay at home moms) Within this group of people there are some very interesting people who dont just care about money. It is possible to survive in wilton as a non-business professional. You dont have to be bloody rich as in New Canaan or Darien, and I think that preserves some semblance of normalcy. 5. Short Drive to New York Commuting to New York takes a little over an hour. Very nice. Bad Things 1. Superficiality I dont know if people in Wilton are truly happy. Most pour all their money into their huge house renovations, expensive cars, country club memberships and 120 dollar haircuts and yet we have a huge rate of domestic violence incidents. Go figure. The only thing holding toge... |
4. | Wilton | ||
A town in Connecticut where police give tickets to anyone who looks like they might be out of town for any reason they can find. It is theorized that 87% of the town of Wilton's revenue comes from pulling over out of towners. Wilton: Do you know why I'm pull you over?
Driver: No, was I speeding? Wilton Officer: No sir, you are not driving a BMW. The drug dogs are on the way. |
6. | Wilton | ||
1) A town in Fairfield County, Connecticut where people enjoy country clubs, boating and clubbing. Parents are in denial and always think their children are the best, which results in an egotistical youth, underage drinking and smoking. Kids have too much of their parents money to spend and not enough to do to use it, so they turn to marijuana, cigarettes and alcohol.
2) The Basis of the movie "Stepford Wives". The screenwriter lived in Wilton for two years, and although exaggerated, based on Wilton. Where everything seems perfect, even if the people's lives are falling apart. 3) A sort of Pleasantville 1) "Hey I'm gonna go skip a Wilton High School class and smoke a cigarette in the bathroom, wanna join?"
2) "Hey! Everything's going well! (in head: my parents are getting a divorce) 3) "Keeping up with the Jones'" |
7. | wilton | ||
an angry ginger boy: "Why won't you let me buy you food?"
girl: "Gosh, you're such a Wilton!" |


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We booked a room here having left another Northampton hotel (absolute dump). This place was a nightmare to find on the satnav because it kept telling us to "turn right" but there was no right turns aloud. No car park so we had to leave it in an open car park all night and lug the bags around. Very basic... More
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