Suffering from Invisible Pain. Sixteen year old Elisha Singh was travelling with her mother and father when she and her parents were hit while crossing the intersection at 92nd Avenue and 152nd Street in Surrey. It was boxing day and the family was returning home very early in the morning. Elisha was sleeping in the back of the car and awoke to the jarring accident. When the car stopped spinning she looked around for her parents and found they were in the front seat. Elisha's mother was in shock and had a hard time moving, while Elisha and her father were afraid by generally OK.
About 15 minutes after the accident, the paramedics arrived and took Elisha and her father out of the car. About 20 minutes after that, her mother was able to be removed from the car.
Elisha's life was never the same again.
Before the accident, Elisha was happy and carefree. "She was bubbly and talkative", says Madam Justice Sharma. "She enjoyed school and got good grades. She was in good physical and mental health. She played volleyball, basketball and floor hockey." Elisha had just gotten her L, she worked part time at McDonalds and she and her best friend were close.
After the accident, Elisha was tired, and slept quite a bit. She had a hard time sleeping because she worried about it happening again. Elisha stopped hanging out with friends, she stopped trying to drive, she took 6 months off work and 2 weeks off school.
Justice Sharma found that Elisha suffered from anxiety about being reinjured. She found that once Elisha returned to school, she would walk down hallways with friends on either side to act as a shield so she was not bumped or jostled by other students. She stopped playing sports because of the pain.
Elisha also had troubles sleeping and she suffered from nightmares every night which would on occasion be so bad they would wake her up completely and have her reliving the accident. She worried about her parents and brother being hurt in another accident.
Eventually Elisha started going to physio therapy which she said would help with her anxiety, but she continued to worry about her family members' safety. It was not until approximately 3 years after the accident that she was recommended to get counselling for her anxiety.
 Elisha's anxiety has resulted in a continuing fear of driving and being a passenger. For the first two weeks after the accident, being a passenger in a car was extremely upsetting and very difficult for Elisha. Her father testified that in the beginning even going over a pothole would cause her to scream. For about three months she only travelled by car with her mother to attend medical appointments.
 For a long time, Elisha was uncomfortable getting into a vehicle driven by anyone other than her mother. Even now, she is only comfortable if her mother, brother or boyfriend is driving, but even this remains an ordeal. She recalled only two times she went into a car driven by someone other than her mother in the first years after the accident. Once she went with a friend named Karen, but Elisha was very nervous and felt Karen was driving too fast and had the music too loud. Elisha perceived Karen was annoyed with Elisha's reaction. The other time was with a former boyfriend whose driving Elisha also expressed concerns about. He did not like that and did not drive her again.
 Her mother still drives her to and from work, although occasionally her brother may do so if her mother is busy. Both described Elisha as very anxious and nervous as a passenger. Her brother described that in the time after the accident, Elisha would cry out whenever there was a loud noise. She would poke or tug at him if there was a car in their vicinity or she thought he was driving too fast. According to him, this behaviour has improved somewhat, although it is a function of her controlling it rather than the anxiety diminishing. He says this because he notices that her hands still move to poke or tug at him but she stops herself. Her father described very similar behaviour.
 Her learner's license lapsed because she simply could not bring herself to drive a car in the two years after the accident. In fact she did not return to driving until recently. With her family's and boyfriend's encouragement, Elisha got her learner's license again in January 2015, but that was only a written test. Upon getting that license, she avoided practicing driving for about three months because she still felt fearful. She did eventually practice driving with her mother. They went back to the parking lot of her father's worksite. Elisha was extremely nervous and could not turn the vehicle at first. She was apprehensive about applying the accelerator. She was extremely anxious and easily became very frustrated which tended to cause her to do something wrong, thus compounding the initial anxiety. She has only practiced driving with her mother a few times.
 Elisha's mother arranged for some driving lessons with Mr. Malhi, which took place in March, April and June 2015. He testified at trial that he owns his own company and has been teaching new drivers for about 12 years. He teaches about 100 students every year, working seven days a week and teaching five to six lessons each day. The car used in those lessons has a dual control system such that there is a brake, accelerator and rear view mirror on the passenger side of the vehicle to allow him to control the speed of the vehicle if needed.
 Mr. Malhi testified for the defendant and was defensive during cross-examination. He gave the impression that he believed he was being blamed for Elisha not earning her driver's license. He admitted that he does not remember any details of the lessons with Elisha and his testimony was based on what he assumed happened rather than specific recollections. I find his only true recollections about Elisha are that he taught her, he had to call to arrange subsequent lessons which were far apart and he had difficulty getting paid. No other aspect of his testimony was reliable. In particular, I discount entirely his testimony in chief where he claimed Elisha was "like any other driver" or was a confident driver. During his cross-examination he admitted he made no effort to notice if a student was nervous and it was "silly" of counsel to ask whether he did.
 I find the reliable portion of Mr. Malhi's testimony supports the plaintiff's case. It buttresses her testimony that even though she had her "L" license, she remained anxious and fearful of driving. That would explain why the lessons were so far apart and why Mr. Malhi had to follow up to arrange them.
 The anxiety surrounding driving and being in vehicles has had a negative impact on Elisha's social life. When she returned to school in grade 11 and 12, many of her friends were getting their drivers' licenses. They would drive with each other to events. Elisha's anxiety about being a passenger prevented her from joining in. Not only was she missing out on activities, her friends treated her differently and were no longer interested in spending time with her. Even her friendship with Preet suffered after Preet got her driver's license. They have not seen each other for about three years.
 Elisha has a boyfriend that she started seeing in January 2015. He has a vehicle and she has gone driving with him. She feels this is a serious relationship and she trusts him, but says she still cries when she is a passenger with him because of her anxiety. They do not go out a lot so she does not go driving with him very often. Primarily they spend time at her house or at his house. Since the accident, she recalls being outside of the Surrey/Burnaby area only one time; her boyfriend drove her to Vancouver. She found that a stressful experience.
 The defendant submits I should be cautious in accepting Elisha's evidence because of certain inconsistencies. The defendant questions Elisha's statement that she buries herself in her work as a way to avoid driving. He pointed to some discovery evidence and cross-examination testimony where she said to others that she did not have time to go driving. The defendant's position is that her "decision" to work long hours is what is holding her back from learning to drive.
 This submission is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of anxiety disorder. As confirmed by Dr. Patton, avoidance is a classic symptom of anxiety. While it is true she "decided" or voluntarily worked longer hours than she needed to, that led to her exhaustion and limited the time she had when she felt comfortable practicing her driving (she did not want to practice or have a lesson on a day she was working). This avoidance behaviour is a manifestation of her anxiety.
 The defendant also points out that she took a trip to Edmonton as part of her training at McDonald's, which involved her being a passenger in a vehicle driven by someone she did not know because she took a cab from the airport. The defendant submitted her "ability" to do that meant that she is simply avoiding exposing herself to situations which could lead to her improvement.
 This too is based on a misperception about anxiety. That training session was not something that she had a choice about if she wanted to get a promotion. Therefore she had to endure it, but she did so with considerable anxiety. Again, Dr. Patton explained that people avoid anxiety-inducing activities as much as they can but they are not physically incapable of doing those things. If anything, I find the fact that Elisha did not avoid the trip despite her existing anxiety about being a passenger to be a positive signal of her genuine attempt to mitigate her losses by doing things to improve her employment.
 The defendant's position implicitly argues that if Elisha just tried harder, her anxiety would have improved sooner. These submissions are premised on a fundamental misunderstanding of anxiety disorder as was explained in, among other places, Dr. Patton's evidence. Avoidance behaviour in this context is not a signal that a patient is malingering or exaggerating. It is a behavioural consequence of having anxiety disorder. Rather than exaggerating, both Dr. Klubben and Dr. Koch were of the view that Elisha under-estimates her anxiety.
At the end of the day, Justice Sharma found that Elisha has suffered some life changes for the worse that came from her anxiety. She awarded Elisha $100,000 for non-pecuniary damages, $40,000 for future loss of income, and $15,000 for cost of future care.
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84 Enrico Bertini, Adam Perer, Catherine Plaisant, Giuseppe Santucci: Proceedings of the BELIV 2008 - BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization, A Workshop of the ACM CHI 2008 Conference, Florence, Italy, April 5, 2008 ACM 2008
83 EE Taowei David Wang, Catherine Plaisant, Alexander J. Quinn, Roman Stanchak, Shawn Murphy, Ben Shneiderman: Aligning temporal data by sentinel events: discovering patterns in electronic health records. CHI 2008: 457-466
82 EE Enrico Bertini, Adam Perer, Catherine Plaisant, Giuseppe Santucci: BELIV'08: Beyond time and errors: novel evaluation methods for information visualization. CHI Extended Abstracts 2008: 3913-3916
81 EE Haixia Zhao, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, Jonathan Lazar: Data Sonification for Users with Visual Impairment: A Case Study with Georeferenced Data. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 15(1): (2008)
80 EE Catherine Plaisant, Georges G. Grinstein, Jean Scholtz, Mark Whiting, Theresa O'Connell, Sharon J. Laskowski, Lynn Chien, Annie Tat, William Wright, Carsten Görg, Zhicheng Liu, Neel Parekh, Kanupriya Singhal, John T. Stasko: Evaluating Visual Analytics at the 2007 VAST Symposium Contest. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 28(2): 12-21 (2008)
79 EE Catherine Plaisant, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Georges G. Grinstein: Promoting Insight-Based Evaluation of Visualizations: From Contest to Benchmark Repository. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 14(1): 120-134 (2008)
78 EE Anthony Don, Elena Zheleva, Machon Gregory, Sureyya Tarkan, Loretta Auvil, Tanya Clement, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant: Discovering interesting usage patterns in text collections: integrating text mining with visualization. CIKM 2007: 213-222
77 EE Paolo Buono, Catherine Plaisant, Adalberto Lafcadio Simeone, Aleks Aris, Galit Shmueli, Wolfgang Jank: Similarity-Based Forecasting with Simultaneous Previews: A River Plot Interface for Time Series Forecasting. IV 2007: 191-196
76 EE Hyunmo Kang, Catherine Plaisant, Bongshin Lee, Benjamin B. Bederson: NetLens: iterative exploration of content-actor network data. Information Visualization 6(1): 18-31 (2007)
75 EE Enrico Bertini, Catherine Plaisant, Giuseppe Santucci: BELIV'06: beyond time and errors; novel evaluation methods for information visualization. Interactions 14(3): 59-60 (2007)
74 Enrico Bertini, Catherine Plaisant, Giuseppe Santucci: Proceedings of the 2006 AVI Workshop on BEyond time and errors: novel evaluation methods for information visualization, BELIV 2006, Venice, Italy, May 23, 2006 ACM Press 2006
73 EE Bongshin Lee, Catherine Plaisant, Cynthia Sims Parr, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Nathalie Henry: Task taxonomy for graph visualization. BELIV 2006: 1-5
72 EE Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant: Strategies for evaluating information visualization tools: multi-dimensional in-depth long-term case studies. BELIV 2006: 1-7
71 EE Gary Marchionini, Stephanie W. Haas, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: Integrating data and interfaces to enhance understanding of government statistics: toward the national statistical knowledge network project briefing. DG.O 2006: 334-335
70 EE Catherine Plaisant, James Rose, Bei Yu, Loretta Auvil, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Martha Nell Smith, Tanya Clement, Greg Lord: Exploring erotics in Emily Dickinson's correspondence with text mining and visual interfaces. JCDL 2006: 141-150
69 EE Hyunmo Kang, Catherine Plaisant, Bongshin Lee, Benjamin B. Bederson: Exploring content-actor paired network data using iterative query refinement with NetLens. JCDL 2006: 372
68 EE Catherine Plaisant, Aaron Clamage, Hilary Hutchinson, Benjamin B. Bederson, Allison Druin: Shared family calendars: Promoting symmetry and accessibility. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 13(3): 313-346 (2006)
67 EE Galit Shmueli, Wolfgang Jank, Aleks Aris, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: Exploring auction databases through interactive visualization. Decision Support Systems 42(3): 1521-1538 (2006)
66 EE Bongshin Lee, Cynthia Sims Parr, Catherine Plaisant, Benjamin B. Bederson, Vladislav Daniel Veksler, Wayne D. Gray, Christopher Kotfila: TreePlus: Interactive Exploration of Networks with Enhanced Tree Layouts. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 12(6): 1414-1426 (2006)
65 EE Haixia Zhao, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: iSonic: interactive sonification for non-visual data exploration. ASSETS 2005: 194-195
64 EE Haixia Zhao, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: "I hear the pattern": interactive sonification of geographical data patterns. CHI Extended Abstracts 2005: 1905-1908
63 EE Gary Marchionini, Stephanie W. Haas, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Carol A. Hert: Project highlight: toward a statistical knowledge network--2004-05. DG.O 2005: 177-178
62 EE Bongshin Lee, Cynthia Sims Parr, Catherine Plaisant, Benjamin B. Bederson: Visualizing Graphs as Trees: Plant a Seed and Watch it Grow. Graph Drawing 2005: 516-518
61 EE Aleks Aris, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Galit Shmueli, Wolfgang Jank: Representing Unevenly-Spaced Time Series Data for Visualization and Interactive Exploration. INTERACT 2005: 835-846
60 EE Cyntrica Eaton, Catherine Plaisant, Terence Drizd: Visualizing Missing Data: Graph Interpretation User Study. INTERACT 2005: 861-872
59 EE Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: Show Me! Guidelines for Producing Recorded Demonstrations. VL/HCC 2005: 171-178
58 EE Haixia Zhao, Benjamin K. Smith, Kent L. Norman, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: Interactive Sonification of Choropleth Maps. IEEE MultiMedia 12(2): 26-35 (2005)
57 EE Catherine Plaisant: The challenge of information visualization evaluation. AVI 2004: 109-116
56 EE Gary Marchionini, Stephanie W. Haas, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Carol A. Hert: Toward the National Statistical Knowledge Network. DG.O 2004
55 EE Haixia Zhao, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, Ramani Duraiswami: Sonification of Geo-Referenced Data for Auditory Information Seeking: Design Principle and Pilot Study. ICAD 2004
54 EE Jean-Daniel Fekete, Catherine Plaisant: Les leçons tirées des deux compétitions de visualisation d'information. IHM 2004: 7-12
53 EE Gouthami Chintalapani, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: Extending the Utility of Treemaps with Flexible Hierarchy. IV 2004: 335-344
52 EE Bill Kules, Hyunmo Kang, Catherine Plaisant, Anne Rose, Ben Shneiderman: Immediate usability: a case study of public access design for a community photo library. Interacting with Computers 16(6): 1171-1193 (2004)
51 EE Hilary Hutchinson, Wendy E. Mackay, Bo Westerlund, Benjamin B. Bederson, Allison Druin, Catherine Plaisant, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Stéphane Conversy, Helen Evans, Heiko Hansen, Nicolas Roussel, Björn Eiderbäck: Technology probes: inspiring design for and with families. CHI 2003: 17-24
50 EE Bill Kules, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant: Data Exploration with Paired Hierarchical Visualizations: Initial Designs of Pair Trees. DG.O 2003
49 EE Hyunmo Kang, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: Helping Users Get Started with Visual Interfaces: Multi-Layered Interfaces, Integrated Initial Guidance and Video Demonstrations. DG.O 2003
48 EE Haixia Zhao, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Dmitry N. Zotkin, Ramani Duraiswami: Improving Accessibility and Usability of Geo-referenced Statistical Data. DG.O 2003
47 EE Haixia Zhao, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant: Improving Accessibility and Usability of Geo-referenced Statistical Data. DG.O 2003
46 EE Hyunmo Kang, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: New Approaches to Help Users Get Started with Visual Interfaces: Multi-Layered Interfaces and Integrated Initial Guidance. DG.O 2003
45 EE Gary Marchionini, Stephanie W. Haas, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: Toward a Statistical Knowledge Network. DG.O 2003
44 Georges G. Grinstein, Alfred Kobsa, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, John T. Stasko: Which Comes First, Utility or Usability? IEEE Visualization 2003: 605-606
43 EE Kasper Hornbæk, Benjamin B. Bederson, Catherine Plaisant: Navigation patterns & usability of zoomable user interfaces: with and without an overview. Interactions 10(1): 11-12 (2003)
42 EE Catherine Plaisant, Allison Druin, Hilary Hutchinson: Technologies for families. CHI Extended Abstracts 2002: 938-939
41 EE Jean-Daniel Fekete, Catherine Plaisant: Interactive Information Visualization of a Million Items. INFOVIS 2002: 117-
40 EE Catherine Plaisant, Jesse Grosjean, Benjamin B. Bederson: SpaceTree: Supporting Exploration in Large Node Link Tree, Design Evolution and Empirical Evaluation. INFOVIS 2002: 57-
39 EE Kasper Hornbæk, Benjamin B. Bederson, Catherine Plaisant: Navigation patterns and usability of zoomable user interfaces with and without an overview. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 9(4): 362-389 (2002)
38 EE Ben Shneiderman, Hyunmo Kang, Bill Kules, Catherine Plaisant, Anne Rose, Richesh Rucheir: A photo history of SIGCHI: evolution of design from personal to public. Interactions 9(3): 17-23 (2002)
37 EE Catherine Plaisant, Allison Druin, Corinna E. Lathan, Kapil Dakhane, Kris Edwards, Jack Maxwell Vice, Jaime Montemayor: A storytelling robot for pediatric rehabilitation. ASSETS 2000: 50-55
36 EE Catherine Plaisant, Anita Komlodi, Francis Lindsay: Evaluation Challenges for a Federation of Heterogeneous Information Providers: The Case of NASA's Earth Science Information Partnerships. WETICE 2000: 130-138
35 Stephan Greene, Gary Marchionini, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: Previews and overviews in digital libraries: Designing surrogates to support visual information seeking. JASIS 51(4): 380-393 (2000)
34 EE Catherine Plaisant, Maya Venkatraman, Kawin Ngamkajornwiwat, Randy Barth, Bob Harberts, W. Wenlanng: Refining Query Previews Techniques for Data with Multivalued Attributes: The Case of NASA EOSDIS. ADL 1999: 50-59
33 EE Jean-Daniel Fekete, Catherine Plaisant: Excentric Labeling: Dynamic Neighborhood Labeling for Data Visualization. CHI 1999: 512-519
32 EE Anna Fredrikson, Chris North, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: Temporal, Geographical, and Categorial Aggregations Viewed through Coordinated Displays: A Case Study with Highway Incident Data. Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation 1999: 26-34
31 EE Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, Khoa Doan, Tom Bruns: Interface and Data Architecture for Query Preview in Networked Information Systems. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 17(3): 320-341 (1999)
30 EE Stephan Greene, Egemen Tanin, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, Lola Olsen, Gene Major, Steve Johns: The End of Zero-hit Queries: Query Previews for NASA's Global Change Master Directory. Int. J. on Digital Libraries 2(2-3): 79-90 (1999)
29 EE Jia Li, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: Data Object and Label Placement For Information Abundant Visualizations. Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation 1998: 41-48
28 Gary Marchionini, Catherine Plaisant, Anita Komlodi: Interfaces and Tools for the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program. Inf. Process. Manage. 34(5): 535-555 (1998)
27 Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, Rich Mushlin: An Information Architecture to Support the Visualization of Personal Histories. Inf. Process. Manage. 34(5): 581-597 (1998)
26 David A. Carr, Catherine Plaisant, Hiroaki Hasegawa: Designing a real-time telepathology workstation to mitigate communication delays. Interacting with Computers 11(1): 33-52 (1998)
25 Jason B. Ellis, Anne Rose, Catherine Plaisant: Putting Visualization to Work: ProgramFinder for Youth Placement. CHI 1997: 502-509
24 Catherine Plaisant, Gary Marchionini, Tom Bruns, Anita Komlodi, Laura Campbell: Bringing Treasures to the Surface: Iterative Design for the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program. CHI 1997: 518-525
23 EE Catherine Plaisant, Tom Bruns, Ben Shneiderman, Khoa Doan: Query Previews in Networked Information Systems: the Case of EOSDIS. CHI Extended Abstracts 1997: 202-203
22 Catherine Plaisant, Anne Rose, Ben Shneiderman, Ajit J. Vanniamparampil: Low-Effort, High-Payoff User Interface Reengineering. IEEE Software 14(4): 66-72 (1997)
21 EE Harsha P. Kumar, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: Browsing hierarchical data with multi-level dynamic queries and pruning. Int. J. Hum.-Comput. Stud. 46(1): 103-124 (1997)
20 EE Khoa Doan, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, Tom Bruns: Query Previews for Networked Information Systems: A Case Study with NASA Environmental Data. SIGMOD Record 26(1): 75-81 (1997)
19 EE Mountaz Hascoët-Zizi, Christopher Ahlberg, Robert Korfhage, Catherine Plaisant, Matthew Chalmers, Ramana Rao: Where is Information Visualization Technology Going? ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 1996: 75-77
18 Khoa Doan, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: Query Previews in Networked Information Systems. ADL 1996: 120-129
17 EE Catherine Plaisant, Brett Milash, Anne Rose, Seth Widoff, Ben Shneiderman: LifeLines: Visualizing Personal Histories. CHI 1996: 221-227
16 EE Chris North, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant: User Controlled Overviews of an Image Library: A Case Study of the Visible Human. Digital Libraries 1996: 74-82
15 EE Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: Organization overviews and role management: inspiration for future desktop environments. CHI 95 Conference Companion 1995: 419-420
14 EE Anne Rose, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant: An Applied Ethnographic Method for Redesigning User Interfaces. Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems 1995: 115-122
13 EE Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: Organization overviews and role management: inspiration for future desktop environments. WETICE 1995: 14-24
12 EE Catherine Plaisant, David A. Carr, Ben Shneiderman: Image-Browser Taxonomy and Guidelines for Designers. IEEE Software 12(2): 21-32 (1995)
11 Catherine Plaisant: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 1994, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, April 24-28, 1994, Conference Companion ACM 1994
10 Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant: The Future of Graphic User Interfaces: Personal Role Managers. BCS HCI 1994: 3-8
9 EE Catherine Plaisant, Vinit Jain: Dynamaps: dynamic queries on a health statistics atlas. CHI Conference Companion 1994: 439-440
8 EE Catherine Plaisant, David A. Carr, Hiroaki Hasegawa: Exploring remote images: a telepathology workstation. INTERCHI 1993: 518
7 EE Catherine Plaisant, Daniel Wallace: Touchscreen Toggle Design. CHI 1992: 667-668
6 Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: Scheduling Home Control Devices: Design Issues and Usability Evaluation of Four Touchscreen Interfaces. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 36(3): 375-393 (1992)
5 Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Rodrigo A. Botafogo, Don Hopkins, William J. Weiland: Designing to Facilitate Browsing: A Look Back at the Hyperties Workstation Browser. Hypermedia 3(2): 101-117 (1991)
4 Christos Faloutsos, Raymond Lee, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: Incorporating String Search in a Hypertext System: User Interface and Signature File Design Issues. Hypermedia 2(3): 183-200 (1990)
3 Richard Furuta, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: A Spectrum of Automatic Hypertext Constructions. Hypermedia 1(2): 179-195 (1989)
2 Ben Shneiderman, Dorothy Brethauer, Catherine Plaisant, Richard Potter: Evaluating three museum installations of a hypertext system. JASIS 40(3): 172-182 (1989)
1 Richard Furuta, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: Automatically Transforming Regularly Structured Documents into Hypertext. Electronic Publishing 2(4): 211-229 (1988)
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6 Benjamin B. Bederson (Ben Bederson) [39] [40] [43] [51] [62] [66] [68] [69] [76]
7 Enrico Bertini [74] [75] [82] [84]
8 Rodrigo A. Botafogo [5]
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11 Paolo Buono [77]
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13 David A. Carr [8] [12] [26]
14 Matthew Chalmers [19]
15 Lynn Chien [80]
16 Gouthami Chintalapani [53]
17 Aaron Clamage [68]
18 Tanya Clement [70] [78]
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20 Kapil Dakhane [37]
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27 Kris Edwards [37]
28 Björn Eiderbäck [51]
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32 Jean-Daniel Fekete [33] [41] [54] [73] [79]
33 Anna Fredrikson [32]
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36 Wayne D. Gray [66]
37 Stephan Greene [30] [35]
38 Machon Gregory [78]
39 Georges G. Grinstein [44] [79] [80]
40 Jesse Grosjean [40]
41 Stephanie W. Haas [45] [56] [63] [71]
42 Heiko Hansen [51]
43 Bob Harberts [34]
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45 Hiroaki Hasegawa [8] [26]
46 Nathalie Henry [73]
47 Carol A. Hert [56] [63]
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50 Hilary Hutchinson [42] [51] [68]
51 Vinit Jain [9]
52 Wolfgang Jank [61] [67] [77]
53 Steve Johns [30]
54 Hyunmo Kang [38] [46] [49] [52] [69] [76]
55 Matthew G. Kirschenbaum [70]
56 Alfred Kobsa [44]
57 Anita Komlodi [24] [28] [36]
58 Robert R. Korfhage (Robert Korfhage) [19]
59 Christopher Kotfila [66]
60 Bill Kules [38] [50] [52]
61 Harsha P. Kumar [21]
62 Sharon J. Laskowski [80]
63 Corinna E. Lathan [37]
64 Jonathan Lazar [81]
65 Bongshin Lee [62] [66] [69] [73] [76]
66 Raymond Lee [4]
67 Jia Li [29]
68 Francis Lindsay [36]
69 Zhicheng Liu [80]
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71 Wendy E. Mackay [51]
72 Gene Major [30]
73 Gary Marchionini [24] [28] [35] [45] [56] [63] [71]
74 Brett Milash [17]
75 Jaime Montemayor [37]
76 Shawn Murphy [83]
77 Rich Mushlin [27]
78 Kawin Ngamkajornwiwat [34]
79 Kent L. Norman [58]
80 Chris North [16] [32]
81 Theresa O'Connell [80]
82 Lola Olsen [30]
83 Neel Parekh [80]
84 Cynthia Sims Parr [62] [66] [73]
85 Adam Perer [82] [84]
86 Richard Potter [2]
87 Alexander J. Quinn [83]
88 Ramana Rao [19]
89 Anne Rose [14] [17] [22] [25] [38] [52]
90 James Rose [70]
91 Nicolas Roussel [51]
92 Richesh Rucheir [38]
93 Giuseppe Santucci [74] [75] [82] [84]
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98 Kanupriya Singhal [80]
99 Benjamin K. Smith [58]
100 Martha Nell Smith [70]
101 Roman Stanchak [83]
102 John T. Stasko [44] [80]
103 Egemen Tanin [30]
104 Sureyya Tarkan [78]
105 Annie Tat [80]
106 Ajit J. Vanniamparampil [22]
107 Vladislav Daniel Veksler [66]
108 Maya Venkatraman [34]
109 Jack Maxwell Vice [37]
110 Daniel Wallace [7]
111 Taowei David Wang [83]
112 William J. Weiland [5]
113 W. Wenlanng [34]
114 Bo Westerlund [51]
115 Mark Whiting [80]
116 Seth Widoff [17]
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Q: .NetCore 2 Using .Net Framework assemblies Good day.
I have created a .NetCore2 webapp and would like some guidance on how you get
windows.forms working on it. (VS2017)
This is the error I get basically:
Dot Net Core and Azure Storage: Could not load file or assembly System, Version=4.0.0.0
Could not load file or assembly 'System, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'. The system cannot find the file specified.

The project builds but the moment I call the api it fails to detect the dll. (In code it detects the dll fine)
I have added the dll to the project, also followed the instructions of adding it to your project.json. (in my case: package.json)
 "frameworks": {
    "netcoreapp1.0": {
      "imports": [
        "net46",
        "net40"
      ]
    }
  },

Also added the required references to my csproj folder.
<PropertyGroup>
  <TargetFrameworks>net452;netstandard1.3</TargetFrameworks>
</PropertyGroup>

How to use System.Windows.Forms in .NET Core class library
"frameworks": {
  "netstandard1.6": {
    "dependencies": {
      "NETStandard.Library": "1.6.0"
    }
  },
  "net40": {
    "frameworkAssemblies": {
      "System.Windows.Forms": {}
    }
  }
}

I am still getting the same error.
I know it is not advised to use .Net framework in a .NetCore app.
Am I going to have to port the framework app so it works in a Core enviroment?
The reason i want to just use .NetFramework is that the app already works fine, I just have to get the screens shown to the user.
I also read somewhere that Windows.Forms is not supported with .NetCore in some versions of the framework.
If so, any links to help with this?
I am quite a noob with .NETCore so some of my questions might not make sense or are ignorant.
Thanks

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Men turn to jobs women usually do
( The New York Times ) Updated: 2012-05-28 15:16:48
Adrian Qrtiz teaches kindergarden in Houston. Michael Stravato for The New York Times
HOUSTON - Over the last decade, American men of all backgrounds have begun flocking to fields such as teaching, nursing and waiting tables that have long been the province of women.
"The way I look at it is that anything, basically, that a woman can do, a guy can do," said Miguel Alquicira, who graduated from high school when construction and manufacturing jobs were scarce and became a dental assistant.
The trend began well before the crash, and appears to be driven by a variety of factors, including financial concerns, quality-of-life issues and a gradual erosion of gender stereotypes.
In interviews, about two dozen men played down the economic considerations, saying that the stigma associated with choosing such jobs had faded, and that the jobs were appealing not just because they offered stable employment, but because they were more satisfying.
"I.T. is just killing viruses and clearing paper jams all day," said Scott Kearney, 43, who tried information technology and other fields before becoming a nurse in the pediatric intensive care unit at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston.
An analysis of United States census data by The New York Times shows that from 2000 to 2010, occupations that are more than 70 percent female accounted for almost a third of all job growth for men, double the share of the previous decade.
That does not mean that men are displacing women - those same jobs accounted for almost two-thirds of women's job growth. But in Texas, for example, the number of men who are registered nurses nearly doubled in that time period.
The shift includes low-wage jobs as well. Nationally, two-thirds more men were bank tellers, almost twice as many were receptionists and two-thirds more were waiting tables in 2010 than a decade earlier.
Even more striking is the type of men who are making the shift. From 1970 to 1990, according to a study by Mary Gatta, senior scholar at Wider Opportunities for Women, an organization based in Washington, D.C., and Patricia A. Roos, a sociologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, men who took so-called pink-collar jobs tended to be foreign-born, non-English speakers with low education levels.
Now, though, the trend has spread among men of nearly all races and ages, more than a third of whom have a college degree. In fact, the shift is most pronounced among young, white, college-educated men like Charles Reed, a sixth-grade math teacher at Patrick Henry Middle School in Houston.
Mr. Reed, 25, intended to go to law school after a two-year stint with Teach for America, a national teacher corps of recent college graduates who spend two years helping under-resourced urban and rural public schools. But Mr. Reed fell in love with teaching. He says the recession had little to do with it, though he believes that, by limiting prospects for new law school graduates, it made his father, a lawyer, more accepting.
To the extent that the shift to "women's work" has been accelerated by recession, the change may reverse when the economy recovers. "Are boys today saying, 'I want to grow up and be a nurse?'" asked Heather Boushey, senior economist at the Center for American Progress. "Or are they saying, 'I want a job that's stable and recession-proof?'"
Daniel Wilden, a 26-year-old Army veteran and nursing student, said he had gained respect for nursing when he saw a female medic use a Leatherman tool to save the life of his comrade. "She was a beast," he said admiringly.
More than a few men said their new jobs were far harder than they imagined. But these men can expect success. Men earn more than women even in female-dominated jobs. And white men in particular who enter those fields easily move up to supervisory positions, a phenomenon known as the glass escalator, said Adia Harvey Wingfield, a sociologist at Georgia State University.
"I hated my job every single day of my life," said John Cook, 55, who got a modest inheritance that let him drop a $150,000-a-year database consultant's job to enter nursing school.
His starting salary will be two thirds lower, but database consulting does not typically earn hugs like the one Mr. Cook received from a girl after he took care of her premature baby sister. "It's like, people get paid for doing this kind of stuff?" Mr. Cook said, tears coming to his eyes as he recounted the episode.
Several men cited the same reasons for seeking out pink-collar work that have drawn women to such careers: less stress and more time at home. At John G. Osborne Elementary School, Adrian Ortiz, 42, joked that he was one of the few Mexicans who made more in his native country, where he was a hard-working lawyer, than he did in the United States as a kindergarten teacher in a bilingual classroom. "Now," he said, "my priorities are family, 100 percent."
Betsey Stevenson, a labor economist at the University of Pennsylvania, said she was not surprised that changing gender roles at home, where studies show men are shouldering more of the domestic burden, are showing up in career choices. "We tend to study these patterns of what's going on in the family and what's going on in the workplace as separate, but they're very much intertwined," she said. "So as attitudes in the family change, attitudes toward the workplace have changed."
In a classroom at Houston Community College, Dexter Rodriguez, 35, said his job in tech support had not been threatened by the tough economy. Nonetheless, he said, his family downsized the house, traded the new cars for used ones and began to live off savings, all so Mr. Rodriguez could train for a career he regarded as more exciting.
"I put myself into the recession," he said, "because I wanted to go to nursing school."
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The International Media followed with great interest the Resolution of the UAE Cabinet that approved the multi-entry tourist visa for the UAE for a period of five years for all nationalities, which will have a significant impact regionally and globally in this important time.
The Resolution delivers many promising messages to the UAE community and the whole world, the first and most effective one is the stability and sustainability of the national economy and its ability to address the fluctuations and changes that affected the region over the past decades.
Last October, the UAE ranked first regionally and 33rd globally in tourism and travel in 2019, according to 52 competitive indicators, the most notable of which is the stability of the country's economy.
The United Arab Emirates has achieved this accomplishment as tourism in the country is an institutional work that has a solid base in the formation of the UAE society which is based on hospitality and tolerance which are deeply rooted inside Emiratis.
What attracts the attention of researchers in the global tourism sector is that the UAE has excelled in the innovation accelerators such as information and communication technologies, labour market efficiency, business dynamism and innovation potential.
The country received about 21 million tourists in 2019, including 15 million during the first half of the year. The contribution of the Tourism sector in the country's Gross Domestic Product exceeded AED161 billion, which is a huge achievement in "UAE Vision 2021" and in the forecasts for 2027 targeting AED234 billion.
In consideration of the development sustainability, sectoral contributions figures are taken with the GDP, accompanied by employment figures, and the innovative potential to engage the public and private sectors.
In the employment field, the tourism and travel sector provides about 325,000 job opportunities distributed in a wide range of tourism products, starting with hotels that includes about 125,000 rooms.
The competitiveness of the Emirati tourism sector is enhanced by innovation that added, in the past few years, new patterns such as environmental and agricultural tourism, which comprises of 151 sites.
These new patterns are based on distinguished infrastructure during the past decades and is still in shopping and entertainment areas, as well as the industry of hosting international and regional conferences and events that will be highly represented in the Expo 2020 Dubai.
In addition to the country's accumulative achievements that ranked the country first regionally, the Resolution of the five years multiple entry tourist visa for all nationalities, not only enhances the absolute precedence of the country as a tourist hub, but also delivers a message of confidence in the UAE economy in the light of a turbulent region which is full of crisis that undermine the ability to plan and to achieve sustainable development.
It was no coincidence that the Resolution of five years multiple entry tourist visa came at the first meeting of the Cabinet in the new year.
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Title 1 December 1884. Browning, Robert to Smith, Mary.
Letter Text 19, Warwick Crescent, W. Dec. 1. '84. Dear Mrs Smith, I shall be happy to dine with you on the 16th as you have the goodness to desire. With all regards to the Doctor and Miss Smith, pray believe me, Dear Mrs Smith, Yours very sincerely Robert Browning.


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US Magistrate Judge Russell A. Eliason ruled that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University do not have to disclose the names of students who allegedly used the schools' computer networks to share music illegally. The Recording Industry Association of America had subpoenaed both schools to obtain the information. An attorney representing the students said that the case is not about whether students have the right to share music in this way, but about Internet users' right to privacy.
Time Warner Inc. says that the US Secret Service is investigating the disappearance of backup tapes containing the names and Social Security numbers of 600,000 current and former employees. Time Warner says that an outside company, Iron Mountain, was responsible for the tapes at the time of their loss. Time Warner is notifying those whose data may have been compromised.
[Editor's Note (Schultz): This is a case to closely watch. The ruling will help set a legal precedent in civil cases in which one organization has introduced spyware into another's systems.
Jerome Heckencamp has been sentenced to eight months in prison followed by eight months of electronically monitored home confinement. In January 2004, Mr. Heckencamp pleaded guilty to breaking into computer systems of several high profile companies, including eBay and Qualcomm, and installing Trojan horse programs. Mr. Heckencamp has also been ordered to pay nearly US$270,000 in restitution and for three years; he may not use an Internet-connected computer without permission from a probation officer.
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Lord Toby Harris has called for legislation that would allow the British Government's National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) to set and enforce information security standards in order to protect the nation's critical infrastructure from cyber attacks. At present, NISCC merely provides security advice. Lord Harris was formerly chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority.
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America Online has quickly quashed the Gabby.a worm which spread through the ISP's instant messenger program. AOL learned of the threat with the help of IMLogic's Threat Center, a database of IM and peer-to-peer security threats of which AOL is a vendor member. The worm was spread via a text message with a link to a malicious site that uploaded the worm onto the unsuspecting user's system.
A buffer overflow flaw in the Netscape browser could allow an attacker to crash a vulnerable machine or execute potentially malicious code. The flaw is known to affect Netscape versions 6.2.3 and 7.2; others may be affected as well. The vulnerability is related to one in Mozilla, with which Netscape shares some code. There is no workaround for the Netscape flaw; users are advised to upgrade to version 8.0, which is based on Firefox.
Some Florida International University students, faculty and staff have been notified that their personal information may have been compromised after it was discovered that computer systems at the school had suffered security breaches. A file found on one of the computers indicates that the intruders had access to user names and passwords for 165 university computers. Users have been advised to remove sensitive data from their computers and to place fraud alerts on their credit files. University "technology experts" are examining 3,000 computers at the school for evidence of intrusions.
A report from security firm Zone-H finds that web server attacks and web site defacements increased by 36% the last year, from 251,000 in 2003 to 392,545 in 2004. According to the report, 2,500 web servers are successfully attacked every day.
[Editor's Comment (Guest editor, Ryan Barnett): These stats are a bit inflated since they are tracking solely on individual domains defaced. More often than not, the defacers are executing mass defacements using a single vulnerability on a server. The problem is that that server may be hosting hundreds of other virtual web sites. Once the defacers get a foothold in one virtual host, they can infect others.
Nine people have been charged for their alleged roles in a scheme in which financial records belonging to half a million people were stolen and sold to collection agencies. Orazio Lembo Jr., the alleged ringleader of the operation, apparently obtained lists of people who were being sought by debt collection agencies. Lembo allegedly shared those names with accomplices who worked in banks where they could compare the list to the names of bank customers and provide Lembo with the names and account details when they found matches. Lembo in turn allegedly sold that information to collection agencies for a tidy profit. If convicted of all charges against him, Lembo could face 130 years in prison and a fine of US$1 million.
The recent spate of revelations from companies that backup tapes containing customer data have been lost has pointed out the fact that organizations may need to reconsider their backup policies and procedures. One poll of 400 companies found that more than 60% do not encrypt any of their backup data and that just 7% encrypt all their backup data. Another problem is that the job of making backup tapes tends to fall to those ranking low on the IT department scale of importance, which increases the possibility that they could be bribed.
Merchants say that many credit card payment processing software products store information valuable to identity thieves rather than purging it. Merchants are not supposed to store information from credit cards' magnetic strip after a transaction is complete according to several credit card organizations' guidelines which call for penalties of as much as US$500,000 for violations. BJ's Wholesale Club which has been in the spotlight due to data theft from its computer systems, has filed a lawsuit against IBM seeking compensation for the losses it incurred from the breach. The lawsuit claims that IBM's software stored credit card data unbeknownst to BJ's managers.


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President Donald Trump addresses the annual American Farm Bureau Federation convention in New Orleans on Jan. 14. The bandage was still visible on his right hand during his trip. | Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
Trump's bloody hand injury attracts armchair doctors
The White House told POLITICO that the president, who is due for his annual physical, suffered a minor injury.
By BEN SCHRECKINGER
President Donald Trump is often called thin-skinned. It's usually not meant literally.
But the back of Trump's right hand was covered with an adhesive bandage during a Thursday trip to McAllen, Texas, with blood visibly seeping through the dressing. His hand was similarly bandaged again on Monday as he departed for a trip to New Orleans.
Armchair medics studying photos that circulated online this week leapt to dramatic conclusions. But the White House said on Tuesday that Trump sustained the injury while playing with his 12-year-old son. "The President was having fun and joking around with his son Barron and scratched his hand," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told POLITICO.
While there is no evidence that the injury is related to Trump's broader health, it happens to come almost exactly one year after Trump received his last known physical exam, after which then-presidential physician Ronny Jackson gave him a famously glowing bill of health. Sanders said that Trump will receive an annual physical again this year but did not specify a date. Details are being finalized and will be released publicly, she said.
A close-up of the back of Trump's right hand. | AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
Recent past presidents have varied in how frequently they have released medical information to the public. Barack Obama released the results of physicals at least four times during his eight years in office as well as periodic statements about minor health issues.
Trump, 72, was the oldest president ever sworn in when he assumed the presidency in 2017.
Despite Trump's age, he has striven to project an image of physical vitality. In response to a December 2015 report from POLITICO, Trump released an exuberant letter signed by a New York gastroenterologist. The letter claimed Trump's lab results were "astonishingly excellent" and that he "would be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency." The doctor, Harold Bornstein, later confessed that Trump had dictated the contents of that letter.
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On the campaign trail, Trump, who is overweight bordering on obese by medical standards, has regularly ridiculed the vitality of his opponents. He proclaimed that his Republican rival Jeb Bush was "low energy" and that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton had neither "the strength" nor "the stamina" to serve as president.
The bandages, which are flesh-colored and appear to be the size of a standard Band-Aid, are not conspicuous, but last Thursday, one was visible both before and during Trump's border visit to Texas.
On Monday, a bandage was again visible on Trump's hand before departed for New Orleans but was no longer present later in the day.
A Thursday photo posted to Sean Hannity's Instagram account shows visible bloodstains on Trump's bandage.
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In a curious twist, a bandage is also visible on the back of Hannity's left hand as the pair stand filming an interview.
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· February 17, 2016
The fourth recreational cannabis market in the United States is almost here.
The Alaskan Marijuana Control Board formally signed off on rules for the industry last week, including detailed procedures for businesses that want to obtain permits.
The next step is to open the application window, which begins Feb. 24, and then start handing out permits in May.
Although the board might still tweak the rules here and there, the vast majority of regulations are done, and there almost certainly won't be any significant changes for applicants to worry about, said Anchorage attorney Lance Wells, who founded the Alaska Cannabis Law Group.
All considered, "the Alaska rules are shaking out pretty well," Wells said.
In fact, many entrepreneurs are more concerned at this point with local regulations, which are still being worked out, Wells said. Numerous municipalities have either already banned cannabis businesses or will soon, meaning the industry will likely be concentrated mostly in Anchorage.
Here's a closer look at the new regulations, how they compare to rules in other rec states and key considerations for each industry niche.
General Highlights
Residency: One of the most important rules the board set is that owners of marijuana companies must be residents, which means having lived in Alaska for at least one calendar year. So those who want to get involved on the plant-touching side of the industry will have to find local partners.
Licenses: There are four overall types – retail, cultivation, manufacturing and testing, with one subcategory apiece in cultivation (for small growers with less than 500 square feet of canopy) and manufacturing (for companies that want to make only concentrates). Companies can also hold licenses of all types – except for testing labs, which are prohibited from having any crossover when it comes to financial interest.
License sales: Business licenses can't be simply traded or sold; they'll be tied directly to a physical location for the business. So while it will be possible to sell a license, the buyer will have to accept the storefront or grow site. If the buyer wants a different location, then a new license is required.
Caps: There's no cap on the number of licenses that can be issued and no limitation on how many licenses a single person or company can own (similar to Colorado, but very different from Washington).
Fees: All businesses seeking a license will have to pay an application fee will be $1,000 and an annual renewal fee of $600. On top of that, retailers, cultivators with more than 500 square feet of canopy, as well as edibles makers, will have to pay $5,000 annually. Growers with 500 square feet or less of canopy, concentrate producers and testing labs will have to pony up just $1,000 annually.
Location: Cannabis businesses can be located within 500 feet of a school, whereas the general rule of thumb in other states has been 1,000 feet. But individual municipalities might end up opting for the industry norm, so Wells advised looking for locations that are outside the 1,000-foot buffer.
Wells warned that one of the biggest hurdles for new applicants will be finding any space at all for their businesses, and that one thing to avoid is leasing space in a building that's owned by a large bank, such as Wells Fargo.
"The banks are very nervous about having marijuana in their buildings where they're holding a mortgage," Wells said. "I have heard that directly from bankers I know in town."
Retailer Regs
One of the most significant aspects of the regulatory framework is that the state will allow on-site cannabis consumption at rec shops, making Alaska the first market in the nation to go that route.
This will open up a new dynamic for retailers, possibly helping them boost the average sales per customer.
All retailers will have to do is follow regulatory protocol and establish a place within their shop for those who want to smoke or vape or munch some edibles, and they'll be able to do so. (Wells also said he expects some cities, such as Anchorage, to legalize cannabis coffeeshops, similar to those in Amsterdam.)
The state is also pretty easy on hours of operation: the only time when retailers are mandated to be closed is between 5 a.m. and 8 a.m.
There are plenty of restrictions, however, including on advertising, signage, product testing, and so forth. For example, retailers are strictly prohibited from using coupons or free samples to promote sales.
Cultivation Regs
Both indoor and outdoor cultivation is allowed. But with outdoor, sites must have at least a six-foot-high wall or fence surrounding the plants, and no marijuana can be visible to the public.
Any plant over eight inches in height has to be assigned a tracking number that will correspond to a state-monitored inventory tracking system (which will be used by all marijuana businesses to record every single plant and transaction).
Growers also have a litany of other requirements to comply with, including a rule that no cannabis can be labeled "organic."
Product labels also must list any pesticide, herbicide or fungicide used in the growing process, and when harvesting, no commercial batch can be larger than five pounds or contain more than a single strain.
Product Manufacturer Regs
Similar to retailers, infused product manufacturers are strictly forbidden from using any cartoon-looking characters on packaging – or anything that may appear to appeal to children.
Alaska also has the lowest level allowed of potency for rec edibles to date: single servings can be no stronger than five milligrams (by contrast, it's 10 in Colorado), with no more than 10 servings in a single package.
Edibles makers will also be subject to the same health and safety regulations as restaurants and food producers.
Testing Lab Regs
Alaska has some of the most advanced rec testing lab regulations of any state thus far. For example, the state will develop an accredited proficiency program, at which point every licensed lab will be required to take and pass the course in order to stay licensed.
Furthermore, all labs will be required to be proficient in testing for potency, pesticides, contaminants, mold, residual solvents and toxins.
Notably, labs will have to model their testing methodologies after two published texts, one by the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia and another by the United Nations' Office on Drugs and Crime. They will also need to have on-hand written procedures for 10 separate types of processes, ranging from instrument setup to the calculation of results.
The state has even mandated that every lab hire a scientific director, with professional experience and at least a bachelor's degree in either chemistry or biology.
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Uncategories The Changes Pakistan Needs
The Changes Pakistan Needs
Following are the Changes which Pakistan needs:
(1) No one can be the President and/or Prime minister for more than 2 consecutive terms.
(2) No Pakistani can run for ANY public office if convicted in any court of law anywhere in the world.
(3) No Pakistani can run for any public office without filing tax returns in Pakistan.
(4) If found guilty of tax evasion, no Pakistani can run for any public office in Pakistan for the rest of his/her life.
(5) President of Pakistan should not have the discretionary power to pardon death penalty.
(6) Dual citizens of Pakistan should be given the right to vote
(7) Dual citizens of Pakistan should not have the right to run for any public office in Pakistan.
(8) Elections of ALL political parties present in Parliament should be held & conducted by a neutral third-party within 1 year of general elections.
(9) The head of any political party present in the parliament can not assume any public office (conflict of interest).
(10) The head of any political party registered in Pakistan can not be the head of that political party for more than 2 consecutive terms.
(11) The out-going head of any political party registered in Pakistan can not be succeeded by his/her blood relative or a relative in-law.
(12) Government of Pakistan should sign a bilateral agreement with all member countries of United Nations to exchange "Fugitives".
(13) Election Commission should be revamped & restructured to make COMPLETELY Independent.
(14) At least 2 Army Jawans must be present INSIDE EACH polling station during General Elections.
(15) At least one camera should be incorporated at EACH polling station during General Elections & be connected to a website. In case of any technical malfunctioning of that camera or website, the polling station in-charge must order to stop polling at that polling station until the technical problem is resolved.
(16) ELECTRONIC BIO-METRIC (PAPER-LESS) system must be implemented for ALL elections, ranging from Union Council Elections to General Elections.
(17) As per the constitution of Pakistan, ALL recommendations of ISLAMI NAZARYATEE COUNCIL to date must be implemented in letter & spirit by the Parliament & made part of the Constitution of Pakistan.
(18) Islami Royat-e-Hilal committee should be restructured & not accepting it's decision should be deemed as criminal offense & be tried in the criminal court of Justice.
(19) ELECTRONIC BIO-METRIC (PAPER-LESS) system must be implemented for attendance purposes in ALL federal government & ALL provincial governments offices, ranging from primary school to the office of Prime Minister.
(20) The entire Policing system of Pakistan must be re-visited and filing of FIR must be made available on-line in entire Pakistan.
(21) Land Records (Patwari Nizaam) must be made completely electronic & on-line in entire Pakistan.
(22) The entire Judicial System of Pakistan must be re-visited & made completely electronic & online.
(23) A comprehensive system should be evolved & chalked out to provide security to witnesses, prosecution lawyers, judges & court staff across Pakistan.
(24) FATA & Hazara should be declared provinces of Pakistan after Gilgit-Baltistan.
(25) All Civil Intelligence Agencies must be merged in to one agency and co-operate and co-ordinate with ALL Military Intelligence agencies.
(26) Heads of Election Commission and NAB should be elected by voting by heads of political parties present in National Assembly, Senate & all provincial assemblies.
(27) Chief Justices of Supreme Court & Islamabad Hight Court should be elected by voting by heads of political parties present in National Assembly, Senate & all provincial assemblies.
(28) Chief Justices of Provincial High Courts should be elected by voting by heads of political parties present in that particular provincial assembly.
(29) All District heads of Police should be elected by the residents of that particular district and should report to elected Mayor of that district.
(30) Other than A-level, O-level & Islamic MADARSAs, there should be only one education syllabus through out Pakistan under only one Education Board, Pakistan Board of Education, up to High School (12 grades).
(31) All Islamic MADARSAs through out Pakistan should be affiliated to only one Islamic Board of Education to approve any degrees in Islamic education.
(32) ALL degrees & certificates should be made verifiable by general public on the websites of Pakistan Board of Education and Islamic Board of Education.
(33) No Bank in Pakistan should have the right to write-off any loan of any amount without formal written approval of National Assembly as well as Supreme Court.
(34) No Bank in Pakistan should have the right to loan 1 Million Dollars or more to any individual or business entity without formal written approval of National Assembly as well as Supreme Court.
(35) FIVE-YEAR PLAN: A "City-Center" plan should be implemented in EVERY district of Pakistan comprising of at least one world-class Hospital, Primary School, Elementary School, High School, City Park, City Sports Ground.
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It would be low tide at Bribie just after dawn. I could not resist a quick fish before work. With the water getting noticeably colder, I was sure the tailor would be around somewhere.
Small 'chopper' tailor often hang around under the bridge, just before dawn. The bait fish and prawns are drawn to the bridge lights and the tailor, pike, bream and flathead can't resist trying to ambush them. To the north of the bridge there are some established weed beds which are good fish habitat. The bait is also drawn to the light of the big street lamp, near the boat hire spot, a little further up.
Low tide would be at 7.06 am. Unfortunately, this side of the Pumicestone Passage gets a bit more breeze when the wind is coming from the south, south-west, or south-east. Today it was a cool south-westerly, initially and then turned into to a much stronger south-easterly, later in the morning. There had been rain over night, but not much.
I arrived at about 5.00 am and the moon was completely blocked by some ominous looking clouds. It was growing smaller in its waning gibbous phase – a bit less than half way between full and new. The water was very clear but the wind had lifted a lot of weed.
The tide was running out, so I went round to the south side, and waded into the shallows, in the dark. I cast up, towards the circle of sandy bottom, lit up by the bridge light, nearest to the shore. I started with a DUO hard body that is perfect for clear, shallow water. The DUO Realis Minnow 80 SP is a suspending minnow. Because it is fairly long at 80mm and light at 4.7 grams, you need to rig it on a light leader (10lb breaking strain or less). This enables you to cast it over longer distances. You need to do this, as it is a fairly shallow diver and it takes a few metres to get down to its running depth, about 10 cm below the surface. I think this will be a great bream lure.
As always at Bribie, the floating sea grass was a pain in the neck. After a couple of casts, I saw the lure get knocked out of the water by a small fish. A few moments later, something grabbed it and started shaking its head. It was a tiny pike.
I carried on casting in the same spot and had obviously found a patch of them. I caught 3 more small pike before they decided to leave the Realis Minnow alone. I swapped to the DUO Realis Shad 59 MR – another suspending minnow, but this one dives a little deeper. I moved closer to the bridge and cast into the shadows underneath it. Once more, it did not take long for the Pike to find this lure. There were a couple of casts when nothing hit the lure, then a tiny flathead grabbed it and came to the surface angrily shaking its head.
It started to rain so I moved north in to the shadows, under the bridge. I cast over the shallows, on the south side and soon foul hooked a tiny bream. It was now about 5.30 am but with the clouds and rain, there was no sign of first light. The surface activity increased as the fish sensed dawn was on its way. I felt a few very aggressive knocks and bumps and decided to increase the speed of my retrieve. This produced immediate results and on the next cast, I saw a small tailor grab the back end of the lure, a few feet away from me. It fell off but on the next cast, I landed one. It was only about 25cm but I was delighted that it had been hanging out just where I thought it would be. I then had a frantic twenty minutes with my lure getting bumped and smashed on almost every cast. I connected with about 8 fish, but only 4 stayed on until they reached the shore. They were all small choppers, the largest of which might just have made 30cm long.
At about 6.00 am a grey dawn started to break and I decided to move down to the drain in front of the old seaside museum, to see what has happened to the terrain there. The works to secure the sea wall are continuing but clearly, the finished, stepped, wall is some months off. I waded out on to the patch of coffee rock that sits in front of the seaside museum. With about an hour to go until low tide, the rocky bottom was completely exposed.
I cast the DUO Shad 59 MR around, but it kept picking up weed so I changed it for GULP 2" Shrimp soft plastic in the Peppered Prawn colour and loaded this up on a 1/8th ounce, #1 hook jighead. I moved south, along the edge of the coffee rock, casting into the deeper what beyond. I got a couple of strong hits and then, at about 6.30 am I felt a solid bite and set the hook. The fish tried to run away under the ledge but I had the drag set quite tight and the rod absorbed its lunges. I soon saw a flash of silver. It was a chunky bream that I later measured at 34cm. I tried for more and had a few hits but could not land any.
At 7.30 am, the wind was up and another rain shower threatened. It was time to head back to work. But a day of work is always easier to bear, when you have caught a fish before it starts!
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Hey mate, just wondering when you go to the seaside museum do you go out to the edge of the rocks and cast south or north or stand further back and just cast straight out over the drop?


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Posted 02/07/2018 by andrewgj
In the summer 2018 I hosted a radio show on the only UK arts radio station Resonance 104.4 FM
It turns out that its the only radio show in Europe that plays exclusively Native American and First nations musicians and artists.
I have a diverse play list, poetry to country, throat singing to rock, hip hop to experimental and everything in between.
Turtle Island Radio Show
Image from Mohawk artist Rodger Perkins.
for more info on the show and a selection of videos news and links to related pages & subjects reports go to the
Turtle Island Radio Show Site
Turtle Island Radio Show Facebook page
Design Collage
I am presently been working with and collaging technical plan drawings on velum and drawings and facsimiles of designs, many of which have been hand coloured. All are the output of Gerhard Hamm 1935-2016 (my father in law) an industrial designer and goldsmith of Leonberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, who produced these from the 1950s, up until the mid 1990s.
These drawing come from the time before CAD and are part of a lost heritage of design practices as I think very few designers or architects use paper or velum and pencils and inks nowadays. Its my intention in putting these collages together to keep the memory of the skill and craft of this soon to be forgotten art alive in some way.
Creative resistance in Spain against the housing crisis.
In early June I chatted with Jordi Blanchar a London based Catalan journalist. We talked about the artistic and creative elements in the fight against the repossessions and evictions in Spain. The conversation ended with a look at the legacy of this artistic resistance, the interventions and what it has meant for Spanish politics now.
A. G-J
What was the situation like in Spain after the financial crash of 2008?
Well unemployment which is the main problem in Spain, it was already really high before the crash, but when the crash hit it really went through the roof to the point that there was 28% unemployment between 2008 to 2011. That was the general level of unemployment but if you look at young people, 18 to 25 years of age the unemployment was a rate of 58% so more than half of the youth were unemployed. Then there was the housing bubble which was really big and inflated. A lot of the money that was being made was on building holiday homes and houses that it was never really clear or understood what they were for and who would buy them. A lot of the debt was created by building houses and convincing people to take out mortgages. These people who became unemployed were working in the housing /building sector, many of these people went from getting good wages to having absolutely nothing when the housing market collapsed. No one suspected that the crisis would hit. Even when people were getting into vast mortgage debt, people thought that housing would be as good an investment that you could get. The banks made borrowing money was very easy and when people lost their jobs they found themselves with no means of paying back this money.
So with unemployment really high and presumably the banks were calling in their debt, what happened then?
Repossessions started to happen big time, so that was an extra layer of problems for people. Suddenly they didn't have a job and then the home they had wasn't theirs it was the property of the banks. So they found themselves without a job and without a home.
With so many people in these circumstances loosing jobs and homes, what happened in terms of resistance.
Before that resistance had been very general, like part of the anti-globalisation movement so the things people addressed were the big narratives weather it was capitalism or neo-liberalism, Third World debt, issues like that. Suddenly it became much more focused to the actual problems people were facing and housing became the main subject. It came to a point around 2012 were there were 500 repossessions a day in the country.
500 a day! What?
It didn't mean that 500 families a day were physically losing their homes, but homes were being repossessed by the banks, meaning that the judicial procedure to recover these homes started. You would loose your home but not actually get evicted immediately, and the whole court process could take up to six months. But yeah, at that point 500 family's a day were receiving court papers from the banks saying we are going to take their house and then they would be evicted.
So thats when the resistance started?
Yes. People got very organised in defending the people getting evicted and a lot of the people who had been working creatively on resistance in the anti-globalisation movements focused their energy on this specific subject, housing became a major topic. For example Enmedio in Barcelona, a physical space as well as a collective of creatives. Made up of artists designers photographers and people working in IT. They started working very closley with PAH
Whats PAH?
The Plataforma d'Afectats per la Hipoteca translated into English, 'Platform for those affected by mortgages'. It is a mutual support organisation run by and for people affected by repossesitions who found they couldnt fight the big banks and couldnt resist the evictions individully. It was by becoming organised and by working together that they had any chance to, on one hand to change the law, on the other to resist the banks and try to get some sort of financial agreement where they would not be evicted stright away. Maybe able to pay something that was concidered social rents and try to keep their homes that way.
A.G-J
I have seen video a few years ago of a party that staged was in a Bankia bank branch just after it was bailed out with €23 billion from the Spanish government, who then went on order a €20,000 million worth of cuts in health and education that same week. When a customer went in to close her account a whole bunch of people bust in with a ghetto blaster and held an inpromptu party celebrating the fact that she had left Bankia. Was this an Enmedio action?
Yes, that was Enmedio
So what role did Enmedio play with the PAH?
They worked closley with PAH for years, they designed a lot of the visual campaigns with Plataforma. Now let me clarify, Enmedio is not a group of artists or designers that works for or helps movements they consider themselves to be activists and their work is not a representation of what others do or whats going on. They consider their work to be an intrinsic of the actions, so much of the stuff they did were actually tools, physical tools for actions.
One of the things they built were wooden barriers or shields for the flats that were going to be evicted. Those shields over the doors and windows would have hi res photographs of the actual people who were going to be evicted printed on them. When bailiffs and police were coming to evict flats they would be confronted with these highly visual images that would be blocking the doors and windows. So when the bailiffs would try and gain entry violently, you had the image of them breaking down the doors with sledgehammers, smashing through the picture of someone's face, a family, a child in a pram or an old person sitting in their living room.
Very disturbing and they must have been very strong images.
Yes it was very good media, and this idea of doing creative political work is not about representing politics or representing activism. It is actually using the creativity as a political force, as a tool for action.
And what about the flamenco? I have see that in videos too.
There are other groups that work very strongly with the PAH who have groups or branches all over Spain. One group from from Andalusia based in Seville also working on housing issues are are called Flo 6×8. What this group does is use gypsy popular culture through flamenco, singing, dancing and playing and they occupy banks. The put on performances inside the banks, in a way that they actually stop the bank from being able to work, a spanner in the works so to speak. They preform and whilst they do that they create an amazing intervention that works on an artistic level.
Are they all flamenco professionals?
There will always be within the occupations someone who is a professional singer or dancer or professional guitar player and will work closely with the local P.A.H activist group. So other people who may not be professional dancers but will have prepared and trained for both the action and the performance. It will have been rehearsed well, so when its done in the bank it looks very professional. There a lot of examples of those performances online. If you search online FLO 6×8. Those are the two most well known examples of Spanish creative resistance. Traditionally the visual and creative elements have always been part of the activist and resistance movements there.
How has it worked out in Spain what have they achieved there? Have the banks come to any compromise with the people affected by the repossessions?
Well to start with nobody was taking this movement seriously because it came out of nothing and was dismissed by everyone, by the banks, by the media, and by the state. As the problem grew with more and more people being affected, and we are talking about hundreds of thousands of people losing their homes, the movement also grew. Because they work so intensively in resisting the repossessions physically, trying to change the legislation and dealing with the banks, they became a very powerful force in the struggle for housing justice. It has got to the point that now, in almost every repossession procedure in Spain if the PAH organisation gets involved the bank will listen. It will probably not listen to you as a single person, an individual, but if you go with the backing of the PAH and with the lawyers of the PAH behind you the bank manager will sit down and talk with you. This is because they now know that if they don't deal with you, the PAH will move in as an action block and for them it is much easier to continue working. So thats always how it works first there is a negotiation and if the negotiation doesn't work then comes the action. Before the banks would never take people seriously and the action would inevitably come, now it has shifted the opposite way, the action is becoming less and less necessary as the banks have to reckon with such a big organisation. Now it is easier to accept some kind of deal instead of having to face down the PAH. Also polls in 2013 were saying that 80% of people agreed with the aims of the PAH. Which was basically to stop evictions immediately and try to get to see the portfolio of repossessed homes that the banks had on their books now and to open up these properties to social rents. The banks will repossess a home and then keep it empty waiting for the prices to go up and the PAH is saying open up these homes as there is a social emergency of homelessness. Put them on the market at social rent rates whilst there is this problem.
These two things are massively accepted by Spanish society which is a great bonus as they know they have the backing of society. The other thing that PAH is demanding is a change to legislation. In Spain it says that even if your home is repossessed you still owe the bank you end up with no home and keep the same debt. Of these three things I have been very supportive of and I think these methods of activism have worked really well.
Has in your opinion, this bled over into the political arena? Considering the victories in the recent local elections? For instance, the new mayor's of Barcelona and Madrid, didn't they come out of these housing battles?
Not the one of Madrid but the one in Barcelona, Ada Colau she was the spokeswoman of the national PAH for six years, yes she is now the mayor of Barcelona since the election in May. The one in Madrid Manuela Carmena is not directly related to the PAH but she was a lawyer and judge that has worked very much for social movements for many many years. But its not only in Barcelona and Madrid places like Cadiz, Tarragona the four main cities in the Galicia region, Valencia and a lot of the places have been won by these citizens coalitions. They are like popular unity groups they are not parties. They are more like social grass roots movements coming together with some of the hard left parties and setting up these organisations which they could actually put them forward as coalitions.
A coalition of independents?
No, some are independents some are from parties it depends very much in each city, depending what the possibilities were. Some place Podemos the anti austerity party was involved and some places not. What is very important is its a very grass roots thing and very connected to all these struggles. For example a lot of people who had been involved in creativity and art and culture and music are very involved in this both in Barcelona and Madrid. The singer of one of the biggest leftwing bands of Spain, Hechos Contra el Decoro has now a seat in the council of Madrid. In Barcelona people like Marcelo Exposito a well known Barcelona artist is part of the candidacy, he hasnt got a seat, not part of the electorial list but has been very involved in building the campaign. Creatives like Javier Toret who is working a lot on open source and free software and many people like this are putting a lot into the movement. It has a very stong emphisis on culture, culture has been taken as something very important. Something that not only talks about whatever or expresses somthing but helps bring people together. Culture and art are seen to help people analyse situations, opens debate and discourse, its been taken seriously as an intrinsic part of human nature and a way for society to live. Its very interesting that art has been raised to the level it deserves where it is for the common good of society. Its not only a representational thing or not only a comodoty thing its something that every society needs to stimulate debate and see itself in the mirror. These people understand that society cannot function without health care, education or housing but also they see that society cannot function without art.
Thats great Jordi, a very illuminating chat, thank you
Jordi Blanchar
Flo 6×8 video on Youtube
Enmedio Bankia action.
Hechos Contra el Decoro
Synposium
L A T [E] W I an experiment in social engagement. An exploration of the unmapped relationship between the council estate, the community and the arts. In partnership between Camberwell College of Arts and Peckham Platform, the project aimed to provide a forum to discuss, dissect and disseminate the collision of the utopian ideal of socially engaged art with the equally utopian notion of the council estate and how these visionary ideas translate into reality: can art be used to solve social problems? How do estates, class and culture interrelate? Can art foster community?
Some of the workshops and panel discussions.
Sculpture Latewi Site
The entrance to the underworld literally
found objects / mixed media bricollage
Memories of Place
Family photographs and hot glass used to explore the recorded history of the place I spent my childhood.
Circuits and
Animal sculls and circuits wrapped in transparent PVC
Rusty Globe
Private commission for a garden sculpture.
Designed in collaboration with the clients, each of the cast glass blue dot pinpoints a country or city that they have a connection to.
Waterjet cut and sandblasted glass in a corten steel frame.
latewi
My work in the show LATEWI @ SafeHouse
The maze of tunnels, waterways and drains is hidden to us, though we are never far from one or more. From original Victorian sewers to modern cable channels these permeate all aspects the city and a very necessary part of city living used by everybody irrespective of class, gender, age or race. All most of us ever see are the entrances to these, the covers which are scattered all around. These are the gateways and portals to hidden worlds and pathways. Traditionally made of cast iron but now come in plastic and other materials.
These pieces with their connection to the Aylesbury estate will be a lasting memory of the estate itself for it is due to be demolished in the coming years to make way for expensive apartments. These apartments will not house the original occupants who are being moved out of the area, they will be beyond the financial range of those living in the vicinity at present, this process of reallocation is in general terms called social cleansing or if you prefer gentrification.
Symposium Latewi Site
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When Kara Westfall was five years old, her mother was convicted of the worst of all crimes: witchcraft. Years later, Kara and her little brother, Taff, are still shunned by the people of their village, who believe that nothing is more evil than magic . . . except, perhaps, the mysterious forest that covers nearly the entire island. It has many names, this place. Sometimes it is called the Dark Wood, or Sordyr's Realm. But mostly it's called the Thickety.
The villagers live in fear of the Thickety and the terrible creatures that live there. But when an unusual bird lures Kara into the forbidden forest, she discovers a strange book with unspeakable powers. A book that might have belonged to her mother. And that is just the beginning of the story.
The Thickety: A Path Begins is the start of a thrilling and spellbinding tale about a girl, the Thickety, and the power of magic.
"The spellbinding story, lashings of suspense and stalwart heroine will draw in fantasy fans and keep them reading until the bitter ending."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"In this darkly imaginative debut, White creates a fantasy world with creatures that are anything but sweet. Absolutely thrilling."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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J. A. White lives in New Jersey with his wife, three sons, and a hamster named Ophelia that doesn't like him very much. When he's not making up stories, he teaches a bunch of kids how to make up stories (along with math and science and other important stuff). He wishes dragons were real, because it would be a much cooler way to get to work.
You can visit him online at www.jawhitebooks.com.


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