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Councilwoman Zapf dodges financial hardship
Exactly where is the location being referenced?— August 31, 2017 12:21 p.m.
Councilwoman Zapf dodges financial hardship
One seemingly insignificant elephant in the room here is the crack in the slab. "Structural" fill slopes should be outlawed. If one reads a geotechnical report even casually (but attentively) one will find that they are festooned with qualifiers, such as "guaranteeing" the stability of the fill at the moment it passes inspection, but not one second afterward (and the inspections are a joke--very few samples are tested and quality control is, shall we say, "highly variable?") There have been notable (yet un-noted) failures that have been explained away by "experts" that are questionable but go unquestioned. Soledad Mountain? (Even the natural geology there is not unquestionably safe.) The legal costs and judgments come out of your pocket and mine, but the politicians who approve and the agency attorneys who defend such cases not only don't have to pay, they get rich. The real creators of the problem and those who approve of the "structural" fills never have to pay (but boy, do they PROFIT!), usually being long gone or long dead by the time the failure is dramatic enough to get anyone's attention. The time line could be decades or even centuries, but more likely closer to the former. Structural fills are not designed for leaky pipes, irrigation, precipitation, overland flow, or any combination thereof (they are prohibited) that causes an accumulation of water in the fill, from which there is only one escape--sliding down. The vertical displacement is the vertical (settling) component, and the size (width) of the crack is the lateral movement component. For those whose houses (or any part thereof) are built on "structural" fills, I would pray for you if I thought it would do any good, and that goes for the sequence of buyers until and including the time when that Giant Crackin' Sound is heard. I'd put my bed and anything else I treasure upslope from the fill. If there is no natural ground under it and it is entirely on fill, that Giant Crackin' Sound might not be heard until the structure is at the bottom of the hill, canyon, or mountain. A lot of structural fill slopes that are now very old now exist. Depending upon how much water has accumulated, the time will come when the "tipping point" is reached. But you'd rather not think about it, no?— August 30, 2017 5:07 p.m.
Kasowitz flack cut his teeth in San Diego
Jest thee not, sire!— August 25, 2017 10:21 p.m.
Cohn Restaurant Group sued over text message
Just recently witnessed ze wurst production of Hamlet I've ever seen. I can't be certain, but I believe the passage calling for dissin' the lawyers was extirpated. With mutilators like that running around, there's little hope for a lone booer in a sea of standing ovationers.— August 25, 2017 10:01 p.m.
Chicago bosses clean out top editors at LA Times
Theremin out to get us!— August 25, 2017 9:53 p.m.
Chicago bosses clean out top editors at LA Times
e too, JW?— August 25, 2017 9:50 p.m.
Chicago bosses clean out top editors at LA Times
There was an LA Times San Diego Edition for a while. I was one who tried to talk them into it, so awful was the Onion at the time.— August 25, 2017 9:49 p.m.
Chicago bosses clean out top editors at LA Times
Not to worry--hath not the MBA's created this well-ordered world? PS: Is "tronc" a proper noun? Is the CSM out the window?— August 25, 2017 9:46 p.m.
Chicago bosses clean out top editors at LA Times
You got dat right, bro! The great irony of the consequences of technology is that the sorcerer's apprentice is, without exception, always mathematically correct. With the rise of all the world's wisdom at our thumbtips, shall we be wise beyond our dreams or without dreams at all? Will your self-driving car mistake a bug on the lens for a boy after a ball?— August 25, 2017 9:41 p.m.
Chicago bosses clean out top editors at LA Times
Évitez les clichés, s'il vous plaît.— August 25, 2017 9:30 p.m.