Findley's images and his book's convoluted design -- a straightforward (if bizarre) narrative disrupted by wormholes of additional plot -- wind up filling the text with unexpected depths and insights.
Overall, it's an interesting discussion about the move away from exceptional design and towards more functional and in some cases, convoluted design, especially in technology.
Plumbing parts such as flow straighteners, shower rosettes, flexible hoses, solenoid valves and thermostatic mixer valves (TMV) are particularly at risk of biofilm formation due to factors including surface areas, convoluted designs and inadequate pasteurisation.
"It tends to be used for individual really complicated cases as it stands, in quite a convoluted, long-winded design process," he said.
Among the apparent losers, the finger-pointing has already begun: Board of Education members have faulted Mr. Levy for designing a convoluted process that required a vote in favor of the Edison plan by the parents of 50percentt of the children enrolled at a school, a level of turnout rarely reached in those neighborhoods in any election.
According to Professor Hales, then, assessment assessors don't believe that grades sufficiently measure student outcomes, which means that they have put into the practice a convoluted set of instrument designs and procedures to measure "real student success".
At the the same time, Diebold and the state of Georgia entered into a convoluted written agreement which appears designed to circumvent a legal requirement for voting equipment to meet standards approved by the Federal Election Commission in 2002.
It bears a hieroglyphic text that is woven into a criss-cross mat design to form a convoluted puzzle that must be read in precisely the right order to be understood.
Slaten argues that American corporations, to meet their profit goals, have developed a convoluted system of contracting and subcontracting that is designed "in a way that allows them to plead ignorance" about labor problems.
