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California governor taps new top utilities regulator
By ANDREW OXFORDJuly 12, 2019 GMT
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday he is tapping Marybel Batjer, a veteran of state government, to serve as the state's top utilities regulator.
Batjer will serve as president of the California Public Utilities Commission, overseeing power companies and other services ranging from water systems to telecommunications and limousines.
The commission has a particularly daunting job as the state grapples with big goals for reducing carbon emissions and seeks to curb the threat of wildfires caused by electric utility equipment. Power lines have sparked catastrophic fires in recent years and the state's largest electric utility, Pacific Gas & Electric Corp., has filed for bankruptcy in the face of billions of dollars in claims for damage as well as questions about the company's neglect of its aging equipment.
Newsom said he is confident Batjer will challenge utilities to embrace reforms. But plenty at the state Capitol will be watching to see if Batjer can also reform the commission itself, which critics say is too slow and inefficient.
Batjer is currently secretary of the California Government Operations Agency. Former Gov. Jerry Brown appointed her to that post in 2013. She is a veteran of state government, previously working as cabinet secretary to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and as chief of staff to Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn. Batjer worked in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, too, and was later vice president for public policy at Caesars Entertainment Inc.
Batjer declined to comment for this story.
In Newsom's administration, she is quickly gaining a reputation as a person to call when dealing with big bureaucracies.
Newsom, who took office in January, named Batjer earlier this year to head a strike team focusing on the state's beleaguered Department of Motor Vehicles.
"We're very encouraged that the governor has chosen someone with a strong background in managing and transforming large government institutions. We think the PUC needs that right now," said Mark Toney, executive director of The Utility Reform Network, an advocacy group based in San Francisco.
Legislators are already skeptical about the commission's capacity to effectively oversee the services it regulates.
Sen. John Moorlach, a Republican from Costa Mesa and vice-chair of the Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Commission, said he hopes Batjer will be a "change agent."
"I think there's some signals this Legislature -- and certainly this legislator -- would like to see the (commission) trimmed down," he said.
Batjer will succeed Michael Picker, who announced in May that he would retire after almost five years in the post.


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Recruiting Q&A: Salisbury's Michael Cameron shares his path to UMass
By Joshua Kummins January 30, 2019
Salisbury forward Michael Cameron committed to UMass on Jan. 18. (Salisbury Athletics)
Hailing from Berwyn, Pa., a northwest suburb of Philadelphia, Michael Cameron joined New England's prep ranks as a forward for powerhouse Salisbury School this season. The 5-foot-9, 170-pound center has raised his play under head coach Andrew Will and the region's top-ranked squad, posting eight goals and seven assists through 21 games.
But this season has also taken the future UMass Minuteman back out of the region for a small taste of the United States Hockey League. Cameron has suited up in three games for the Omaha Lancers and the U.S. National Under-17 Team.
Cameron discusses the path to making his Hockey East commitment on Jan. 18 in our latest New England Hockey Journal Q&A:
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Q: Javascript functions are not working in IE11 We are using an app which is designed in MVC and Silverlight. That app is working fine in IE10. But we are not able to run the app in IE11. We have set of javascript functions with is used to do validation on our app. Those functions are not at all working. I am getting 'undefined' error. Even i have tried with <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=10"> also. If any one can help me, you are my Savior.
Thanks in Advance.

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A: Add localhost to compatibility setting in IE 11.

A: If you're doing browser detection or x-ua-compatible, you should not be. There is no guarantee that either of these methods will work in the future.
.NET Browser Definitions will not detect IE11 as Internet Explorer, resulting in the "...undefined" errors.
You should instead use feature detection to determine features supported by the browser.
In a pinch, the only official method (per the IE11 Compatibility Changes guide on Microsoft's site) for detecting IE11 is to check for the "Trident" token in the User Agent.

A: I had tried all the hotfixes which described the issue. "Script Error encountered", "'__doPostBack' is undefined" but only solution that worked for me was .NET 4.5 . You can read more about my findings in these questions CrossPostback ,AJAX Controls and ASP.NET generated postbacks work for .NET 4.5 , not .NET 4.0 in IE 11 and WebResource.axd not working with Internet Explorer 11

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Unraveling and Customizing the Language of Power
by Raquel Gutiérrez February 9, 2016 February 9, 2016
Installation view of Mely Barragán's "Macho" (2009), thread pillow stuffing and fabric, variable dimensions, in 'Customizing Language' at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)
LOS ANGELES — Customizing Language, organized by Los Angeles-based curators Idurre Alonso and Selene Preciado at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), explores how geopolitical power is expressed and managed through language, and enhances our understanding of it as a verbal communication system. Invoking artist Alfredo Jaar's caution in his 1987 work "A Logo for America" that "language is not innocent and reflects a geopolitical reality," the exhibit features works by 10 artists probing a variety of contemporary issues through a linguistic lens.
Gender inequity, immigration, imperialism and the politics of location, failed utopias, hegemonic interventions, and postcolonial trauma are all represented through multi-media works which defamiliarize language and creatively generate dialogue with the viewer. As Preciado pointed out, the word "customization" playfully takes on multiple meanings in the show, from the "custom" of cultural Latino traditions, to the "Customs" of border immigration issues, to the "customization" of lowrider cars (a car modified so that its ground clearance is less than its design specification and that was first made popular by West Coast Chicano car clubs in the 1970s).
Installation view of Marcos Ramírez ERRE's "Tolerancia, confianza, respeto. (y una definición de represión) / Tolerance, Trust, Respect. (and definition of repression)" (2015) (click to enlarge) (all images courtesy Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions unless otherwise noted)
The exhibit begins with Tijuana's own Marcos Ramírez ERRE's "Tolerancia, confianza, respeto. (y una definición de represión) / Tolerance, Trust, Respect. (and definition of repression)" (2015), a series of repurposed riot police squad shields printed with vinyl text that reads "La represión es la violencia del poder al defender lo ya perdido / Repression is the violence of power defending that which has been lost." Looming behind the shields are the words cited in the piece's title and whose large size and beige colors make them disappear before our eyes as we register the (il)logic of a repressive state regime.
Beatriz Cortez produces an interactive experience of the immigrant's memories and hopes. A sculpture of a small bird on a perch spits out a series of receipt-like papers containing textual forecasts, in Spanish and Kaqchikel, for and from those who have undergone their own migrations, and invites friends and colleagues to imagine a future free of systemic violence and persecution.
Camilo Ontiveros also uses language to challenge our narratives of immigration and its reception in "Refugees. Welcome Signs" (2015). Stacking dozens of "Welcome" signs obtained at thrift stores, Ontiveros renders the word "Welcome" with its dizzying repetition simultaneously powerful and meaningless, addressing the polarizing tensions around immigration policy and hospitality, a scenario the artist, himself an immigrant, claims to be close to.
Installation view of Camilo Ontiveros's "Refugees. Welcome Signs" (2015)
There are two haunting works that gesture towards gender parity with poetic rage and cheeky critique. Regina José Galindo pushes her physical and psychic limits in a series of video works that critically meditate on the oppressive social hierarchies in her native Guatemala, specifically the ways kidnapping, rape, and violently sexist language is used against the country's most vulnerable feminine denizens, often from the poorest sectors. The video piece "Perra / Bitch" (2005) features Galindo carving the word "perra" into her leg as a site of resistance to these invisible governing structures that thrive with impunity. The work resonates in Mely Barragán's soft sculpture which spells out the word "Macho" in filigree cursive and captures both the quotidian absurdity of daily gender inequity and the banality and redundancy of calling out the machismo of Mexican culture, as though it were only ensconced within that particular national imaginary and not an international point of concern and contention.
Installation view of 'Customizing Language' at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
In his piece "Bandera magonista (Magón's flag)," Rubén Ortiz-Torres offers viewers the nearly inscrutable words "Tierra Y Libertad," obscured in a painting that appears as a red monochromatic luster. The irony is not lost on the viewer, as she must struggle to find the revolutionary mantra, coined originally (and generally credited to Emiliano Zapata, leader of the 1910 Mexican Revolution) by the beloved yet historically obscured Mexican anarchist and journalist Ricardo Flores Magón.
Invisibility, indecipherability, and repetition tie up this exhibition which ultimately asks that we find new ways to use language, reconsider the power structures embedded within, and allow for new meanings to emerge and break down said structures.
Customizing Language continues at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) through February 14.
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Wesley Hadsell's new murder trial for death of adopted daughter starts in Southampton County
New craft brewery and doggie day care planned for Virginia Beach
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Louise Erdrich's 'The Sentence' considers the (literally) haunting power of books
By Molly Young
The New York Times |
Who among us hasn't, in some sense, stolen a corpse and accidentally trafficked crack cocaine across state lines? That is a question you will ponder while reading Louise Erdrich's "The Sentence," a bewitching novel that begins with a crime that would seem to defy "relatability" but becomes a practical metaphor for whatever moral felonies lurk unresolved in your guilty heart.
Tookie is the criminal in question. She is "an ugly woman," an Ojibwe woman and a woman who is indicted after bundling a dead man in a tarp and delivering the body, to which crack is covertly duct-taped, in a refrigerated truck to one of her friends. Tookie's reasons for doing so are stupid but not evil — a defense that has not, historically speaking, held up in courts of law. She gets 60 years.
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After a decade, the sentence is commuted, and Tookie gets a job at a Minneapolis bookstore that specializes in Native culture. (She's hired on the strength of her intimidating presence: black eyeliner, black stompers, nose ring, eyebrow cuff. "Who would dare not buy a book from me?" she asks, both rhetorically and correctly.) Four years after Tookie takes the job, the bookstore's most annoying customer, Flora, dies. Five days after that, Flora's ghost wanders into the shop and commences tormenting Tookie.
As a living presence, Flora's extreme annoyingness stemmed from her obsession with all things Indigenous, as well as her claim that she was "an Indian in a former life." (She seems to be fully white.) When that line fails to convince any of the bookstore employees, Flora unearths a photograph of a great-grandmother whom she presumes to be Indigenous based on the evidence that the woman wears a grim expression and a shawl in her portrait. "The woman in the picture looked Indianesque, or she might have just been in a bad mood," Tookie concludes with characteristic wryness (Erdrich is a terrific summoner of vexed and charismatic heroines, and Tookie is no exception).
The circumstances of Flora's death are peculiar: She dies at 5 a.m. for seemingly no reason, with a book splayed open beside her. The book — an antique journal with handprinted endpapers and spidery writing in gray-blue ink — takes on the quality of a murder weapon when Flora's foster daughter thrusts it into Tookie's hands one day, noting the section where her mother left off reading.
When Tookie settles down to decipher the book, she finds a 19th-century captivity narrative, though not of the white-woman-kidnapped-by-Indians variety. It appears to be the opposite: a Native woman abducted by whites. Interesting, Tookie thinks. But she's too scared to continue reading. What if the lethal sentence that took out Flora comes for Tookie, too? In recourse, she finds a can of lighter fluid and attempts to burn the book on an outdoor hibachi grill, where it resists destruction. She takes a hatchet to the book, with the same result. Finally, she shovels a hole and buries the cursed text in her backyard, then goes inside to thaw a block of soup and do crunches. But the object will not vanish, and neither will Flora. What first seems like an aimless haunting turns out to be a deadly accurate supernatural missile strike. Flora wants something, and only when Tookie decodes what it is can she exorcise the woman's malevolent presence.
Amid all this, the pandemic arrives. Spring dribbles in. Milkweed rises from the earth. Pine trees push forth tender new bundles. George Floyd is killed by police near the Cup Foods where Tookie's husband stops to buy a thing or two on his way home. Protests erupt. The musky chalk smell of tear gas clouds the air. The bookstore is slammed: "Everyone who wasn't out on the streets wanted to read about why everyone else was out on the streets." Time dissolves. One section of the book is given the dateline of "May 34." Threaded through the chronological plot are dreams, memories, hauntings and other types of temporal mayhem.
As its title suggests, "The Sentence" is an incredibly bookish book. The layers of bookishness are dizzying: from the micro (one employee's name is Pen) to the macro (the central mystery: Was Flora killed by a book?). This is a novel obsessed with the operations of running an independent bookstore: dealing with publishers, playing the Tetris game that is shelf space, packaging mail orders. Erdrich owns an independent bookstore called Birchbark Books in Minneapolis, which shares some similarities with the fictional store — including a proprietor named Louise and a confessional booth. On the (real) bookstore's website, a note explains that the confessional was rescued from a previous life as a sound booth in a bar and that "Louise is currently collaging the interior with images of her sins."
"The Sentence" is injected with literary criticism and features an appendix containing the favorite books of its main character. That appendix itself is divided into themed sublists, and across those sublists are multiple books that are, themselves, about books. The novel starts and ends with Tookie consulting a dictionary. It is books all the way down.
It's also Erdrich all the way down. In a paper published 30 years ago, scholar Catherine Rainwater observed that Erdrich's books are filled with "extreme cases of code conflict." These include the rifts between industrial and ceremonial time; Christian theology and shamanic religion; the nuclear family and tribal kinship structures. "The Sentence" finds its protagonist squeezed into a space like that between the rough and soft sides of a Velcro closure. Tookie can't square her husband's affiliations — he's a former tribal policeman — with her own experiences of state-inflicted violence; nor can she reconcile her sense of physical strength with her mental permeability.
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Erdrich, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her 2020 novel "The Night Watchman," once referred to books as "a perfectly evolved piece of technology," like bread. Her newest is strange, enchanting and funny: a work about motherhood, doom, regret and the magic — dark, benevolent and every shade in between — of words on paper.
Harper. 386 pp. $28.99.


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Anderlecht champions after last-gasp effort
In football, Anderlecht are the new Belgian champions after drawing 1-all against Club Bruges before their home crowd. The equalizer only came deep into stoppage time, when Anderlecht converted a penalty. It allowed the Brussels club to claim its 31st league crown.
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Guillaume Gillet beats Bruges goalkeeper Bojan Jorgacevic from the penalty spot, helping Anderlecht to a 31st league title.
Two days of play before the end of the 10-round Play-off I competition, Anderlecht hold a 7-point advantage on their closest rivals, FC Bruges. Bruges can't close the gap with only two games to go.
Anderlecht knew what they had to do: a win or even a draw would guarantee them a new league title. The visitors of FC Bruges had to win on foreign soil if they were to keep their slim title hopes alive.
The classic between the eternal rivals Anderlecht and Bruges could not live up to expectations. As too much was at stake, the match was interrupted several times in a physically tense battle.
The tactical match didn't see many goal-scoring opportunities and was balanced. Halfway through the second half, Bruges striker Maxime Lestienne stunned the 21,000 home crowd when he made it 0-1 for Bruges (photo).
Guillaume Gillet, the Brussels hero of the day
Anderlecht kept battling but couldn't find their best form. The match looked set to end in a major disappointment for the Brussels club, which had prepared everything for a big title celebration, but in the final minute of added time, Anderlecht received a last chance when they were given a penalty.
Striker Dieumerci Mbokani was pushed by Swedish defender Michael Almebäck when reaching out for the ball, young referee Alexandre Boucaut decided right to give a penalty.
Anderlecht winger Guillaume Gillet took the big responsibility (photo on top) and sent Bruges goalkeeper Bojan Jorgacevic to the wrong corner: 1-1 after 94 minutes of play, the Vanden Stock Stadium exploded. What a relief for Anderlecht, and a big disappointment for Bruges after being so close to a surprise victory. (photo: Anderlecht winger Dennis Odoi)
Anderlecht showed two faces
Anderlecht showed two faces this season. In top shape in summit matches in the normal competition, but often paralysed by stress in the season-ending play-offs.
In the normal competition, Anderlecht didn't even lose one of their ten confrontations with the five other teams that made it to Play-off I. Insiders say that this proves Anderlecht deserve the title. However, the Brussels club was not always up to standards in matches against modest opponents.
In the final play-offs, Anderlecht only played a couple of good matches. The key moment was the 0-1 win away at rivals Club Bruges two weeks ago. (photo: Dennis Odoi celebrating)
Shock defeat for AA Gent
In other action this weekend, AA Gent suffered a shock defeat against modest KV Kortrijk, 2-3. The Buffaloes started as the big favourites, but were given a lesson in efficiency by the West-Flemings of KV Kortrijk.
Ghent (photo) had some good chances in the first half, but missed them all while Kortrijk scored at their first opportunity. Kortrijk extended their lead to 0-3, Ghent were only to pull 2 back late in injury time. The defeat means that third and even fourth place are at stake now for Ghent.
In Play-off II, Cercle Bruges and RAEC Mons will play the final. The winner of this play-off match (with a home and return leg) will face the number 4 of Play-off I to battle it out for the final ticket for the Europa League next season.
In Belgium, the numbers 1 and 2 go to the Champions League or Champions League preliminaries, with the numbers 3 and 4 qualifying for the Europa League preliminaries.
On Sunday night Genk beat Standard 3 – 2 away in the Play Off 1 section. Ezekiel and Seijas scored for Standard. Tözser, Vossen and Benteke made the Genk goals.
The result takes Racing Genk to within a point of Club Brugge that are second in the league. Genk now stand a real chance of playing in the Champions League next season.
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