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Happy New Year, Everyone!!! Christmas just flew by again this year and somehow I find myself having to go back to work tomorrow. Boooo! I managed to get a lot of sewing done over the past week or so, which is good since I have about 5,000 projects I need to finish! However, thanks to the pop-up Instagram quilt along started by Megan, Brenda, Katy, Rita, and Lindsey, (and egged on by nearly everyone else) I have neglected ALL of those 5,000 projects over the past few days and started a new one.
Flickr group here...just sayin'!)
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
They started it!...
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I got sucked in toooooo!!! I'm working on blocks 9-12 right now. Four at a time works best for moi.ReplyDelete
I'm trying to work through some things I NEED to get done first, but the pressure is getting to be too much!! ;)ReplyDelete
hahah! I love the finger pointing going on here! I feel ya on the bazillion projects that I need to get finished! Ugh. Your blocks are beautiful! Love that you're sneaking in some super awesome DS fabrics. <3 <3 <3ReplyDelete
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Ultra runners are like the rich in the famous conversation between Hemingway and Fitzgerald: "Ultrarunners are different from the rest of us," I might say. You could answer, "Yes, they run more miles." And there you'd have it: they are the same, and they are vastly different.
Before spending the summer in the foothills of the northern Californian Sierra, I never thought of myself as a trail hound. Hooking up with a group of runners who think marathons are for training, who log their runs in numbers of hours rather than miles, who don't leave the house without food, water and toilet paper, I felt like Miranda arriving at Prospero's island: "O brave new world that has such creatures in it."
Land of Legends
It's a commitment to train for and run a marathon; the journey towards a 100 miler is a lifestyle. An ultramarathon is like a classical epic. An individual, Odysseus-like, sets out alone, leaving home, leaving family and friends. The journey is long and hard. There are canyons and rivers to be forged; natural elements to be endured; monsters to be battled along the way, mostly internal. There will also be temptations: the siren song of aid stations, where volunteers offer food and warmth, the ease of stopping, a comfortable seat. The bodies of those not as strong, not as tough-minded, litter the trek. But finally, finally, the runner returns home, greeted by the cheers of those left behind. She will be both changed and more truly herself, having traveled not just over distance, but deep into the inner realms of mind and soul.
It's strange being in a place filled with epic heroes. The area around Auburn is a Mecca for endurance athletes. People move here because they want access to the trails; a Sunday morning run that starts at sunrise could easily last until late afternoon. Turn a corner and you are likely to meet folks who have many times run the Western States and other ultras, and have paced, volunteered or crewed even more frequently. (If you embark on this kind of journey it is likely that at one time or another, you will be injured. That's when you are given the opportunity to pay back the kindness of those who have helped you.) You might, for example, if you turn the right corner, run into Mo Bartley and Bryan Hacker, who live in nearby Cool.
Mo Bartley is cool. She's the kind of woman men want to date, and women want to be friends with. A 46-year-old surgical nurse, she has run Western States five times, and has competed, like her husband Hacker, on the U.S. 100K team. Bartley ran a marathon before ever doing a 5K.
Typically ultrarunners are a little longer in the tooth than road racers; patience is a virtue in endurance sports, and more often possessed by those who have been around a few blocks. Many top ultrarunners come to the sport after tiring of racing shorter distances, though that is changing and there are a number of young ultrastuds on the rise. Bartley, never one to follow the typical path, is now bucking the ultra trend and working towards shorter distances as she gets older. She won her age group at cross country nationals this year. She's been a friend, role model and mentor to many women runners. She is inclusive and expansive in her reach; she's also funny as all get-out.
Waiting at Pacer Central
On a sunny June afternoon I found myself sitting on the lawn of the Foresthill Elementary School with Bartley and Hacker. Foresthill is at mile 62 of the race that is the ultra equivalent of the Boston Marathon. Each year 400 runners are lucky enough to get into the Western States Endurance Run and nutty enough to want to do it. Here, having run a qualifying time at another race is necessary but not sufficient to gain entry: you must also be chosen through a lottery.
Each year, the day starts at 5 a.m. in Squaw Valley, a ski resort near Lake Tahoe that still wears proudly its Olympic rings. From the High Sierra, often still coated with snow, the trail climbs a total of 18,000 vertical feet and descends 23,000, into and out of canyons that can be ungodly hot. After 100 miles, runners finish the last 300 meters on the track of Placer High School in Auburn, CA, a small Gold Rush town about an hour northeast of Sacramento.
Western States got its start 28 years ago when Gordy Ainsleigh, a bearded mountain of a man who still lives in nearby Meadow Vista, planned to ride the Tevis Cup, a 100 mile horse race on the Western States trail. After Ainsleigh's mare came up lame, he decided, against medical advice and to the consternation of almost all, to go it on foot instead. Since Gordy's first run, where, like the top horses, he finished in under 24 hours, a whole sport of ultramarathon trail running has developed and grown. There are now over thirty North American 100 mile races, plus numerous 100K's, 50 milers, and 50K's.
"Think of it as a catered hike," says Hacker, trying to reassure me about my decision to pace Ralph—a running buddy from North Carolina—for the last twenty miles. "It's not exactly about 'pacing,'" he says. "Your job is just to keep your runner moving—and eating and drinking."
Bartley was going to be pacing 29-year-old Jennifer Devine-Pfeiffer for the last twenty miles. Jen, who lives in Sacramento, was preparing for the World 100K Championship in Cleder, France, later in the summer. Hacker would pace Scott St. John, another Auburn resident.
We wait for the leaders and hang out with the volunteers and pacers. Hacker doesn't have to wait long—St. John is in the top three. Runners may be accompanied for the last 38 miles of the course by pacers. Most use two people to run the last two legs—from Foresthill to the river crossing at mile 80, and from the other side of the river to the finish. The friend who was going to run the first leg with Ralph had bailed out; he decided to go it alone until 80.
As I'm waiting, having just downed a gigantic "Navajo taco," Ralph's crew finds me. Turns out he changed his mind, and wants a pacer after all.
No problem, I say, and trot over to Pacer Central, where I ask a handsome wiry guy if he has someone to run with Ralph to the river. Nope. Everyone who volunteered has already been hooked up with a runner. "Why don't you do it?" he asks, looking me up and down.
"I can't run that far. I've never run that far."
"Sure you can. It'll be slow."
After some fussing I say to him, "If this kills me I'm gonna hunt you down and do you harm." The handsome wiry guy won't tell me his name. I change into my running clothes.
Running with Ralph
Ralph comes into Foresthill, slurps down a can of pineapple chunks, and we set out running just after 9 p.m., just as it is getting dark. We run on the single-track trail, under a starry sky, through manzanita bushes, pines and madrone trees. I happen to know that we are also running through poison oak, but I don't mention this.
Ralph's a good strong runner, a 2:50 marathoner and veteran of a number of ultras. He just wants to finish Western States, doesn't much care about his time. I run behind him, shining my flashlight on his feet, reminding him to eat, to drink. Sometimes we chat (I chat, Ralph grunts), sometimes we run in companionable silence. Periodically Ralph asks me how I'm doing. "Fine," I say. "Keep moving."
The thing about running is, it's a narcissistic kind of thing. It's all about my times, my splits, my injuries. Me, me, me. Pacing is a negation of subjectivity: it's not about me anymore.
I did not want to cross the river. No sir, I did not. We reach it, at 2 a.m. The water is wide and cold. I forge in, making sure that Ralph is right behind me. When we get to the other side, I bring him hot chocolate. I am wet, I am cold, but I don't whine. Ralph needs me. This is about him.
We run through the night and run still as the sun comes up over the foothills, illuminating the tall, dusty grass, sending shards of light through the trees. We hit the track in Auburn at 10 a.m. Ralph's family and crew join us, walking with us towards the finish. I am filled with emotion. I have run 38 miles, farther than I ever have. Ralph looks at me, points, and says nothing. There is nothing he needs to say. I know. I know.
Heroes at Home
A few months later, in September 2001, I'm at Bartley and Hacker's wedding. The event has gathered many of the best ultrarunners in the neighborhood, which means some of the best in the country. Norm Klein, a legendary race director, gave a toast in which he listed the newlyweds as one of a number who had met at his races. Bartley and Hacker met at the Sunmart Texas Trail Ultra.
Rae Clark is best man. Clark, 49, still holds the American record for 100 miles, and the record for 24 hours as well. He has a marathon PR of 2:28. He's run 128 ultras, won 30 of them. "People used to think Californians were crazy," he says. "Now half of Western States comes from the mid-west and the east coast. The thing about ultras is that you don't run as fast, but that's not the point. It's about being out there with your friends, being able to talk because you're not getting yourself into anaerobic debt."
Clark is an extraordinary runner. He's also a friendly guy. I met him at a tiny trail marathon in nearby Nevada City this summer. After I finished he came over, wanting to know who I was. He's like a one-man welcoming committee to the local running community.
Clark's eagerness, earnestness and enthusiasm also make him an easy target. During a group trail run this summer, he hung back to run with a new woman who had shown up, prepared neither for the pace nor the distance. Bryan Hacker had been riding his mountain bike and saw that the gap between the pack of runners and Clark as an opportunity for a little fun. Hacker dismounted, took off his bike helmet, and used it to make a track across the trail.
Sure enough, Clark finished the run and, while not wanting to upset the women, whispered to Hacker that he had seen the largest snake track of his life. Clark spent the summer warning folks on the trail about "Goliath." Months later, he still speaks in hushed tones of Goliath.
Another Auburn resident at the wedding, Tim Twietmeyer, is—there's no other way to put it—an awe-inspiring legend. He is the only person to have finished the Westerns States 20 times in under 24 hours, having won it on five occasions. What is most astonishing is that everyone says the same thing about him: "You couldn't find a nicer guy."
Twietmeyer moved to Auburn in l989 from Sacramento, looking for a more rural environment. Tim loves Western States, both the race and the trail. He talks about the history, that it was formerly a toll road used to keep the gold mines alive. "The lifeblood of the mines," he says, "was delivered on that trail." He appreciates the way the community embraces the events. "There's a pride of ownership among many of the folks who run the aid stations on the course; some of them have been doing it for fifteen, twenty years."
Twietmeyer voices what many of us feel: "Running is the only sport where you can participate shoulder-to-shoulder with the best guys in the world. You get to be on the starting line with them. You may not finish as fast, but you're in the same race. It's not like a mediocre baseball player can just pick up and play in the majors." It's funny to hear this from one of the best guys in the world. But Twietmeyer's modesty seems as genuine as his enthusiasm. "The Western States buckle," he says, "whether it's for 24 hours or for 30 hours, is like membership to the ultrarunning club."
And then, I see him, the handsome wiry guy from Pacer Central. "Who is that?" I ask and point. "It's Ray Scannell," someone says, "he's run Western States ten times, won the 40-49 age group three times. His wife, Joanie, first ran the race in l980."
I go over to them and mention to Joan that the bride had told me a story about her. I turn to her husband and accuse him of having been at Pacer Central at this year's States. He tries to demur.
I accuse him of making me think I could run 38 miles. He says nothing. I accuse him of encouraging me to have what turned out to be the most profound experience of my running life. Ray Scannell just grins.
I still find it a little odd, having dinner with people who talk about race times that would make more sense in minutes rather than in hours. "She ran 20:15." That sounds like a 5K time to me. But the joys of running on such glorious and demanding trails, in such good and undemanding company, have a lure that compels and humbles me. As a voyager swept onto an enchanted part of land, I think to myself, "How many goodly creatures are there here."
Rachel Toor lives in Durham, NC where she writes to support her love of trail running.


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When you get your rice, there's a chance it may contain bacteria. When you cook it the first time round your bacteria will die but some will survive in the form of spores. If left at room temperature spores will germinate turning back into bacteria and producing toxins that make you vomit.
As far as I can see it's important to cool and reheat the rice really quickly(under an hour). This will prevent spores from germinating.
Ways to do this: Place newly cooked rice in a shallow pan and/or immerse in ice water to cool.
Reheating fast shouldnt be a problem in the microwave/grill however the rice must be reheated to at least cooking temperature, that is, around 70 degrees C.
Finally, cooked rice should be stored below 5 C, which we probably do anyway.
Officially more than day-old rice is bad and re-reheating is definitely a big no-no, as we know.
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Benoit welcomes opportunity to close games
Reliever says he's ready if Tigers decide to give righty full-time job
KANSAS CITY -- The Tigers continue to scout teams for potential bullpen help before the Trade Deadline, including closer options, but they continue to be impressed with the way Joaquin Benoit has handled the job.
Benoit has opened some eyes with the way he has taken over the role, though he says he has never been told he's the full-time closer. On the flip side, however, he sought to clarify a report that he told the Tigers in Spring Training that he didn't want to close.
That tidbit was tucked in a report from CBSSports.com's Danny Knobler that the Tigers had scouts this weekend watching the Marlins, Brewers, Padres, Mariners and Astros.
Benoit said on Saturday that the Tigers never asked him if he wanted to close. The discussion, he said, centered on what his focus was in the spring. With the Tigers seemingly focused on giving Bruce Rondon every chance to win the job, Benoit said his point was that he wasn't thinking about winning the job.
"That was his show," Benoit said. "They got Rondon. They wanted him to be the closer. After that, they never said anything about me or anybody else. …
"That's the goal of everybody, to be in the position where everybody's going to recognize you. If you ask anybody in the bullpen if they want to be the closer for the team, most of the answers are going to be yes, that they want to be."
That includes Benoit.
"Yes," he said. "My position is that if you have a set role, I'm not going to jump in there and say, 'Because I can do that, I want to do it.' I mean, I know I can, but it's not that I'm going to jump in there and say, 'Take him out and I'm going to jump in.'"
In other words, Benoit wasn't going to upset the apple cart and demand to close. And he still isn't.
The only public remarks Benoit made about the closer's job in Spring Training was that he felt it was better for the team to have a set closer rather than a bullpen by committee. Whoever the set closer was going to be, he said, was the team's decision.
Benoit would like to have the closer's role, and he thinks he can do it. Other than some minor adjustments, he doesn't see much difference from his old role.
"What's different? It's probably good. It's probably bad," Benoit said. "On the road, I don't know how many times I'm going to pitch. I don't know how many times I'm going to warm up. Because in extra innings, I may have to be up in every inning.
"But [the pitching] is not different. If you can pitch in the eighth, I think you can pitch the ninth."
One change that has taken place is that Benoit no longer loosens up in the fifth or sixth inning, a ritual he had for the first half of the season. He wants to save his throws and his arm to be ready to pitch four days or more in a row if need be.
If Benoit can show that durability, it would answer a major question about whether he can handle the job full-time down the stretch. Manager Jim Leyland has been hesitant to use Benoit three games in a row, given his injury history that includes career-threatening shoulder surgery in 2009.


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- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
All winter long my bee condo housed 16 tenants...and one earwig.
And quite comfortably, too, thank you.
It all began last fall when the leafcutting bees laid their eggs, provisioned each nest with a nectar/pollen ball, and plugged it with leaves.
Just about every morning, I did a bed check. Yes, 16 tenants and one earwig. (In actuality, there were probably more of those nasty little earwigs, but each time I checked, I found only one. But lots of frass!)
Bee condos are really just wood blocks drilled with tiny holes for native bee nests.
In late April and early May, the tenants began to stir. As of yesterday, 13 holes had popped open. Ah, emergence! The nocturnal earwig? Nowhere in sight.
You, too, can rear leafcutting bees (Megachile spp.) in your yard. All you need is the housing, which you can buy at most beekeeping supply stores or online. You can also go online and buy the plans to build them.
Senior conservation associate Matthew Shepherd of The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, in his fact sheet about native bee nesting sites, wrote: "There are 4,000 species of native bees in North America. Together they form the most important group of pollinators. Like all wildlife they are affected by changes in our landscapes, especially the loss of nesting sites. Bees make nests in which they create and provision brood cells for their offspring. In many modern landscapes, a desire for neatness has usually resulted in the removal of bare ground, dead trees, and untidy corners of rough grass—all important nesting sites for bees."
Native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, has provided a list of resources for native bee nesting requirements. It's available free on the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility website.
And, the Xerces Society recently published a Pollinator Conservation Handbook where you can find more information about our pollinators.
Just don't expect all your tenants to be pollinators, and all your pollinators to be tenants.


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The Growing Appetite for VirtualizationBy Dennis McCafferty Print
Energy conservation, improved performance and reduced cooling costs are just a few of the benefits of virtualization and consolidation.
A Virtualization Covenant
At Covenant House Toronto, about 4,000 young people a year can stay for weeks or months at a time. Many of them have left their homes—or moved to Canada from other countries—without a means of support. Here, they can get meals, medical attention, counseling and even vocational training.
Like any organization with 200 employees, Covenant House has concerns about keeping its data protected and accessible 24/7. For example, fundraising accounts for 80 percent of its budget, and data related to that effort is maintained on the network. That's why it recently completed a major storage virtualization project using DataCore Software's SANmelody as implemented by DataCore partner Interware Systems.
As a result, Covenant House has more than doubled its available storage capacity, while reducing the number of physical servers from 10 to three using VMware. At the same time, the organization has increased its ability to safeguard its data from disruptions and disasters, and it has reduced the amount of power needed to keep enterprise operations running.
"This assures that we reach our goal of 99.99 percent availability for our users 24/7," says Wendy Craig, who oversees information systems. "It allows us to manage our infrastructure much more easily, too. Before, it could be difficult to oversee a bunch of physical servers with storage spread all around, especially when the servers break down. Now, because our server and storage management is centralized in one location, we can deal with all problems from the IT manager's desk, without needing to take down the entire system."
After deciding on a virtualization solution, Covenant House centralized data at a downtown Toronto location, replicated a copy of that data and stored it at a co-location facility a few kilometers away. Data related to everything from the latest fundraising figures to day-to-day e-mail exchanges is replicated every night at the co-location facility. Moreover, DataCore optimized the organization's existing storage assets by addressing the problem of having some application servers over-allocated with storage, while others were underserved.
Next up: a desktop virtualization project using virtualized server technology that will allow traditional desktops to be replaced with thin-client hardware, saving a projected 97 percent in energy bills.
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The latest round in the ACTA talks has finished and KEI (Knowledge Ecology International) has released the leaked version of the text, which seems somewhat toned down. Still, it isn't over yet. Nor is this an official version.
Obviously the USTR (United States Trade Representative) is aware that there have been many ACTA leaks. It is reasonable to assume that the people who have leaked the ACTA documents have been as concerned about ACTA's attempt to make an end run around democracy as I am. Leaking the ACTA documents has been a very risky undertaking with serious consequences if caught. Yet there have been many such leaks.
There was in fact been one official release. In the midst of the process. But the American Government blocked a second official release.
The August 25th version isn't an official ACTA release, this is another leak.
It has long been clear that major media corporations have been the biggest force behind ACTA. And the most major of these special interest groups are the MPAA movie corporations.
I've always loved spy thrillers and multi-layered mystery stories. If I were a major movie company trying to pass a secret trade treaty that would ensure my corporation's economic health by forcing global adoption of laws beneficial to my interests, I would do what any good thriller writer would do: employ misdirection. It shouldn't be very difficult at all particularly with the talented writers at their disposal.
Think about it. Releasing an official version would show the reasonableness of the treaty participants. It would demonstrate that ACTA is not as bad as it has been portrayed. Doing it in the middle of the process would be a wonderful way to lull opposition into a false sense of security. You can always reintroduce controversial elements once it is again clothed in secrecy.
In the same way the Allies used misdirection to keept the Nazis confused as to where an Allied invasion force would land, I would release a fake leak. One that would make it look as though the worst bits of ACTA have been watered down. Declawed even. It is not like draft legislation; it is a document without provenance. No one stands behind it.
a leak is not official… it can say anything
Are movie companies that sneaky? Several years back I remember reading that three movie companies decided to make a movie based on The Three Musketeers in the same year. Why not? It's a great story and its in the public domain. The story was that the richest and most powerful of the three movie companies scoured Europe and bought or rented every possible period costume that could be had. The end result being that only one Three Musketeers film was made that year. So yes, I rather think that movie companies could be that sneaky.
If ACTA appears to be getting weaker the forces arrayed against it may weaken as well. I don't know about anyone else, but I would rather be working on any number of things than blogging about this. This is just a wild eyed conspiracy theory. Pure speculation.
I learned a long time ago not to believe in the check that's in the mail until it has been cleared by my bank. The thing is, we can't afford complacency.
cliched but true: it ain't over 'til it's over
Some recent ACTA articles from around the web:
Starting with KEI's James Love in The Huffington Post: White House Blocks Disclosure of Secret Intellectual Property Trade Text
and one of the premier sources of ACTA information and explanations is Canada's own Michael Geist, whose latest at time of posting is ACTA's Enforcement Practices Chapter: Countries Reach Deal as U.S. Caves Again
Another important ACTA Source has long been La Quadrature Du Net
TECHDIRT: And, Of Course, ACTA Leaks: Some Good, Plenty Of Bad
TECHEYE.NET: ACTA turns on Movie Studios
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: Piracy setback for movie giants
OPEN ENTERPRISE Glyn Moody: ACTA: Please Do What Simon Says…
NationalJournal Tech Daily Dose: Scope Of ACTA Worries Critics
Zero Paid: ACTA Leaks Again – Our Review of the August 2010 Copy
P2PNET: Latest ACTA draft leaked online
ZDNET Australia: ACTA warms to ISPs?
Wild Webmink: URGENT: Has Your MEP Signed The ACTA Written Declaration?
WIRED INN: ACTA Letter to MEPs
POGO WAS RIGHT: Of Note: Text of ACTA leaked (updated)
PNT: ISP Liability For Infringement Nuked, ACTA Leak Reveals
STAND UP DIGGERS ALL: ACTA: Treaty without a cause?
TORRENT FREAK: ISP Liability For Infringement Nuked, ACTA Leak Reveals
Oh! Canada: ACTA keeps chugging along post
and ending with the inimitable Cory Doctorow's boingboing: Latest leaked draft of secret copyright treaty: US trying to cram DRM rules down the world's throats
Any way you slice it, ACTA continues to be bad.
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Maria MacLachlan
"There are ~20 published reviews of my book, but this one must be THE BEST! THANK YOU."
Edzard Ernst
"Best blog of the day IMHO."
Simon Singh
"This blogpost is simply brilliant."
Mark Burnley
"You are a rude argumentative bully. You are a typical "skeptic" - not sceptical at all."
Andrew, anti-vaxer
"Your piece about House of Commons Science and Technology sub-Committee's 'evidence check' on homeopathy was one of the best I've seen. Strength to your elbow."
"...an individual calling themselves 'scepticat' or 'sceptikat'- a highly volatile dictatorial site run by a wannabe megalomaniac. A truly disturbed person with a anger management issue venting via their little site to their own personal herd of sycophants."
Centella, one of Dr Andrew Jones personal herd of sycophants.
"Excellent report, which I can vouch for completely."
Jack of Kent
"The ludicrous nature of the complaint, and some of the responses by Dr Ranj and the BBC, has already been expertly documented on the Skepticat UK blog".
Dean Burnett
"Choke on your own vomit and die in agony..."
r wesley edwards, aka @CommonCormorant, author
"A very good rebuttal…"
Anna Watson, anti-vaxer Arnica UK
"A staggering amount of pathological disbelief allied with a staggering amount of arrogance."
Antony J Palmer, homeopath
"I just love this blog, and this post is a fine example of it's content – 'Inside the spine wizard's den' – Skepticat. Why do some of us feel that we are above challenging argument and peer review? I just wish that I could write as well as some of these bloggers!"
Jonathan Hearsey, osteopath
"Skepticat is a particularly venomousness (sic) skeptic, a humanist who lives by the "golden rule", she refused to let me follow her on twitter because I am "bonkers" which may endear her to many in the chiropractic profession..."
Richard Lanigan, chiropractor
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"Die Die die die!"
r wesley edwards, aka @CommonCormorant, author
"Loved that article. It really shows what chiropractors are really all about. What I call the "chiro show" Exposing people to totally unnecessary X-rays should be criminal. Thank you!"
"I think skepticat is plain mad at not having children of her own. Hatred projected out to the world. It's sad to see someone with so much self hatred, destroying themself internally without even realising it."
Bebo, chiropractor (Note: In fact I'm the proud mother of two brilliant children, whom I mention frequently. Glad of the excuse to do so again.)
"Hooray for Reason! Just want to thank you for writing this. Even though the arguments presented are tired, and played out, they still must be refuted."
"I understand that you have been traumatised by your experience and that this is your way of coming to terms with the emotional scars."
Stefaan Vossen, chiropractor
"All you really seem interested in is banging your repetitive drum and preaching to the converted."
Rick, osteopath
"All the entries I've read are excellent. I'll be coming back to read more. Love the cat logo as well."
"Research in Homeopathy Conference - Skepticat's hilarious account. She went to it."
David Colquhoun
"Her site is Skepticat UK... she wouldn't know a punchline if it raped her. Or maybe she'd thank it."
Scott Cappurro, comedian
"I rather love the lunacy of the anti-Homeopathists, such as yourself."
James Pannozzi, acupuncturist & would-be homeopath
"Good blog from a skeptic which examines the "science" of Homeopathy in a very detailed way. Skeptics will love this. Proponents of homeopathy? Not so much."
"I really shouldn't waste my valuable time with someone who obviously has at the very least a borderline personality disorder."
Erika Alisuag, homeopathist
"I'm finding it difficult to come up with some suitable words to say how good and interesting your stuff is. So, in the absence of suitable hyperbole can I say what a very well written and presented blog you have here. Really well thought out and researched. And passionate about it too! Complimenti!"
"You're whole life is worthless because you lack reason."
Antony J Palmer, homeopath
"Great stuff Skepticat."
"When you have learnt some big words and also studied your history books you'll find that the world was once thought to be flat…by people just like you."
Sarah Hamilton, homeopath
"Thanks for keeping the banner of reason flying high."
John Willis Lloyd
"This is just a general comment. I love this well-written an unfussy little blog (I don't mean little in a derogatory way, but in the sense it's not bombastic, self-important and posturing). Excellent material and a worthwhile focus, keep up the good work."
"Her website is a temple to diatribe – I have no sympathy for the homeopaths, etc, with whom she battles, but she clearly gets off on confrontation."
JF Derry
"Skepticat is strictly logical and attacks in unparliamentary words what she deems to be "quackery" – or suggestions that she sounds a little strident."
Andy Reporter
"LOVE the badass attitude! Seriously...KEEP IT UP!"
"You were a playful little diversion for a. moment, but I do have better things to do with my time than waste more than half an hour of it stooping down to play your ego supporting self delusional mind games……"
Susan Elizabeth, homeopathist
"An excellent read, thanks for taking thr time to compose it."
Alan C
"You need to do a course in anger management."
katenut, nutritionist
"FWIW I think you manage your anger rather well...mostly by focusing it into a thin, narrow beam of incisive rage which you then use to inscribe words on screen. ;)"
"Excellent description of the events."
Simon Perry
"You seem to be of probably well-meaning, but bigoted and fundamentalist disposition, just parroting slogans from others without any really knowledge or insight yourself."
Neil Menzies
"Superb, as usual"
"You seem only interested in ranting against an enemy which you are apparently still struggling to come to terms with "fifteen years" later."
Rick, osteopah
"Bravo, great post!"
"One day if you are not very careful you will be left behind in the dark ages. I'm sure this will not be printed..but hope it is read by you poor little scaredy cats."
Sarah Hamilton, homeopath
"Brilliant piece!"
"While you babble on like a total airhead about Myhill, you ignore the real doctors who are a danger in the UK".
struck-off doctor, Rita Pal, 'NHS whistle-blower'
"I sincerely hope I never get to your stage of wilful ignorance. You know absolutely diddly squat about the subject but you think your opinion is the only opinion."
Antony J Palmer, homeopath
"Keep up the spin, you manky old chicken's foot."
JB, chiropractor
"I am forced to conclude you are blogging on behalf of a specific entity that does wish to remain anonymous."
Antony J Palmer, homeopath
"The person writing all this negative press on homeopathy must be getting a big fat check from one of the pharmaceutical companies who would dearly love to push homeopathy off the map."
Erika Alisuag
"Such reporting lands you clearly in the realm of fundamentalist extremism–much noise, no substance, and money from those who have something to sell. It is so unfortunate that your listening skills are in need of repair."
Tanya Marquette, homeopath
"She seems to revel in presenting the many insults that she has attracted as a column of "Quackolades" on her site, as if war wounds on display,"
JF Derry, self-publicist
"Oh shut up SK. You write hot air and spew rubbish as usual."
Rita Pal again.
humanist weddings
Humanists reap what they sow and not in a good way
Sorry, regular readers, I'll be back to ranting about quackery or religious nutjobs very soon but, in the meantime, my attention has been drawn to a story that concerns subjects particularly close to my heart: humanism and, in particular, the critical thinking skills that every humanist should be striving to develop, especially if they aspire to positions of responsibility that affect other people's lives.
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Camden History Society
A talk to Camden History Society by Ranee Barr on her project and newly published book, "Belsize Remembered".
Just over five years ago, Ranee Barr embarked on a community project, culminating in the publication of its book, Belsize Remembered on 27 October 2017. The project has drawn on personal memories from residents past and present. The book is richly illustrated with archive images, also contemporary photographs by David Percy, from whose collection images such as that of Belsize Parade, c.1900 come. In this illustrated talk, Ranee will take the audience through her journey in compiling this unique book, which charts memoirs of Belsize from the 1930s to the present day.
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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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- Reverse Fountain Cytoplasmic Streaming in Rhizopus Oryzae
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As the demand for spectrum sharing between radar and communications systems is steadily increasing, the coexistence between the two systems is a growing and very challenging problem. Radar tracking in the presence of strong communications interference can result in low probability of detection even when sequential Monte Carlo tracking methods such as the particle filter (PF) are used that better match the target kinematic model. In particular, the tracking performance can fluctuate as the power level of the communications interference can vary dynamically and unpredictably. This work proposes to integrate the interacting multiple model (IMM) selection approach with the PF …
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Golden Gate Park visitors have had a couple months to get used to the confusing new lane configurations on JFK Drive – with bike lanes along the edges of the road and a row of parked cars in the middle – and I have yet to hear from anyone who likes this design. Nice try, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, but this design isn't working for any road users and should be scrapped.
The idea of using a row of parked cars to separate cyclists from motorists isn't inherently bad, and it has worked well in some European cities. But the way this is designed, passengers exiting vehicles must cross the bike lane to get to the sidewalk, creating a conflict that isn't good for either user. It was intended to create safer bikeways, but they actually feel more dangerous and uncertain now.
There are buffer zones where motorists aren't supposed to park, but on busy days they do anyway, with little to fear from parking control officers who rarely venture into the park, often crowding into the bike lane. The design also accentuates the visual blight of automobiles in this beautiful park, with more lanes of cars dominating the viewscape in many spots.
And I'm not the only one who feels this way. After my cover story on urban cycling last week, I got a few notes critical of the new design, including an email from longtime local cyclist Thomas Kleinhenz, who wrote, "When the new Golden Gate Park bike lanes went in I scratched my head. Who dreamt this up. It helps no one. Cyclists now ride in a lane between the curb on the right and parked cars on the left. You have cyclists, roller-bladers, rental bikers, and children all stuck in the same lane with pedestrians trying to get to and from their cars."
Kleinhenz cited state road design manuals discouraging this kind of design, claiming they may even be illegal. He continued, "When I've ridden it, I've had to dodge a child darting out from between the cars and a family of 5 who strolled across the bike lane confused about where to go. I've also been stuck behind Segways and rental bikers, forcing me and another rider to go out into the traffic lane just to top 5 mph. But of course the traffic lanes are now thinner to make room for the new bike lanes. So we're left with one non-functional, unsafe lane and another mildly functional unsafe lane. Meanwhile cars have less room to maneuver, and people getting out of their parked cars are forced to try to avoid traffic on one side and cyclists on the other. While cyclists who don't want to deal with the congestion in the bike lane now must be aware of having car doors opened into them in the now narrower traffic lane."
His comments are typical of others that I've heard, including those from transportation engineers who are similarly baffled by the choices made here. The SFMTA deserves credit for trying something new, but I'll give them even more credit if they just call this one a mistake and start over. And that is a possibility.
"We're going to continue monitoring the JFK bikes lanes closely and we will consider potential adjustments to make them more intuitive and user-friendly," SFMTA spokesperson Paul Rose told us, adding that the agency will analyze changes in traffic speed and volumes for both cyclists and motorists and parking volume, as well as surveying people's perceptions of the project.
Hopefully some changes will be in the offing, but I think the project is an example of a bigger problem that I discussed in last week's article, and that is political and civic leaders going with the easy bicycle infrastructure projects so they can claim lots of new mileage rather than the more politically difficult projects we actually need.
Last year on Bike to Work Day, newly minted Mayor Ed Lee announced two bike projects: the JFK lanes and new cycletracks on the dangerous few blocks on Fell and Oak streets to connect the Panhandle with the Wiggle, which has long been a high priority for cyclists as it completes a popular east-west bike corridor. Well, the former project got done and the latter got delayed when neighbors complained about the lost parking spots.
Now, because the SFMTA tried to accommodate motorists with too many new parking spots in Golden Gate Park – despite previous promises to decrease street parking in the park in exchange for building a massive underground parking lot – we've ended up with a messy design that only exacerbates conflicts between motorists, pedestrians, and cyclists. In their effort to please everyone, as is often the case, they have pleased nobody.


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When I was a kid, my mom used to joke about her boobs. "They're tube socks!" she'd hoot. "I have to roll them up to get them in my bra."
I would cringe and recoil. "Mom," I'd hiss. "You're embarrassing me."
"Why are you so red, honey?"
"Because you're embarrassing me."
"I'm just talking about tube socks."
"You're talking about your boobs."
"Sweetie, my boobs are tube socks because I bore and birthed you and your sister, so if hearing about it embarrasses you, well, tough."
Then she'd cross her eyes and stick out her tongue at me. I'd run to my room at that point and discreetly peer down the front of my shirt and wonder whether I'd ever have any kind boobs, let alone the tube sock kind. Although I'd have preferred not the tube sock kind, at that point in my adolescence I'd have been happy with just about anything.
Ah, the deluded innocence of youth.
I grew boobs, eventually. They were never all that impressive – I was always skinny, with the type of cleavage that, in nature, attends skinny bodies – but they were there, and they were kind of cute. Perky. The kind of breasts that you never called tits or gazongas or hooters or even just boobs. You referred to them to them in the diminutive – boobies – or in the unsexed abstract – chest. So it was that when I got pregnant and, later, began lactating and those puppies grew – like, seriously, epically grew, like frightened puffer fish – I was both alarmed and thrilled. I had hooters. I had gazongas. I had BOOBS.
For a few uncomfortable but nonetheless thrilling years, I had a rack, and it was spectacular.
And now it's gone.
Gone, disappeared, deflated, defunct. It's as if, after watching me wean Jasper and my husband get his parts snipped, Nature herself gave my body the once-over and said well, you won't be needing those any more, will you? and unceremoniously removed them from my person.
They're gone now, and I miss them. I miss them, not only because they really were kind of epic – and what girl doesn't fantasize, occasionally, secretly, about what it would be like to have epic boobs? – but because Nature, in all of her douchey wisdom, did not restore my chest to its modest but nonetheless entirely presentable profile. Nature, being the stone-cold bitch-goddess that she is (the very same one who gave us menstrual cycles and the pain of childbirth and the indignity of random chin hairs), turned my boobs into tube socks. Just like my mother's.
Except smaller. Small tube socks. The tube socks of an adolescent boy with irregularly-sized feet. Because, yes, one is actually – oh, god – smaller than the other.
Which is why, when I found myself, yesterday, in the fitting room of the lingerie department, desperately trying to find a bra into which my breasts would not just disappear like a pathetic wad of crumpled tissue, I lasted all of three minutes before bursting into tears.
It's not that I want – what are the kids calling it these days? – a bangin' bod. I'd be happy with a bod that just pinged a little. I just want to not to not look in the mirror and cringe. Which I know goes against everything that I said a few months ago, but a few months ago I had boobs. Muffin-tops and extra ass-padding are one thing when you have the upper curves to balance everything out. They're quite another when your upper body looks like a deflated pool toy.
I'm straining to accept this new incarnation of me, to learn to love it as I've learned to love all the other incarnations. But I am finding, now, as summer approaches and I wrap my head and heart around the fact (is it fact? is it? I am still struggling with this) that I will have no more children, that I am still, in my way, vain, and that I want my beauty back. Maybe not the same beauty, the same body, the same sweet boobs of youth, but something, anything, that makes me swell with just a little bit of pride when I look in the mirror.
Or maybe just a tit-inflater. Anybody got one of those?


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Once Upon a Time has taken viewers to fairy tale land and Wonderland — and apparently, they'll even venture to Neverland next season. But what about the Land of Oz? It turns out that producers have hinted at a possible trip to The Wizard of Oz locale since the beginning.
Regina's shocking origin story, Storybrooke's future and more Once Upon a Time scoop
"What's interesting is if you go back and look at the pilot, there's a page of flying monkeys in Henry's book," executive producer Edward Kitsis says. "If I would go back and re-watch it — or buy the DVD coming out in August — and you pause on the book, you might see it."
The scene in question is when Emma crashes her car and the book goes flying. "The book flips through a number of pages. There are glimpses of images, one of which are the flying monkeys from Oz," executive producer Adam Horowitz adds. (Kitsis also notes that another blink-and-you'll-miss-it image from the pilot was that of the hookah-smoking Caterpillar, which was voiced by Roger Daltrey in the Alice in Wonderland-themed episode, "Hat Trick.")
Comic-Con: 7 Spoilers From Once Upon a Time Season 2
That same episode featured the Mad Hatter (Sebastian Stan) taking the Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla) through a portal into a room full of doors, one of which leads to Wonderland. "There are many different doors and I might've seen a green curtain," Kitsis says coyly, referring to the Wizard of Oz (played by Frank Morgan in the 1939 film) hiding behind a green curtain to mask his true identity. (Check out screen grab of the Oz symbol on the curtain here.)
"As we said in the episode with Wonderland, the Mad Hatter talks about all these worlds," Horowitz adds. "We're very excited about the possibilities for where we could show."
There are no current plans to venture to Oz in Season 2, but the producers are leaving the door open, an ABC rep said.
Do you want to see the Land of Oz on Once?
Once Upon a Time returns Sundays this fall on ABC.
(Additional reporting by Kate Stanhope)


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"Compared to Bing and Siri, Google's artificial intelligent system is a cut above the competition, according to new research at Cornell University," Paul Lilly reports for HotHardware.
"Researchers Feng Liu, Yong Shi, and Ying Liu set out to test and rank the intelligence quotient (IQ) of various natural and artificial intelligent systems, including humans, Google, Bing, Baidu, and Siri. Based on the tests conducted, Google's AI has an IQ of 47.28," Lilly reports. "That ranks just below a six-year child with an IQ of 55.5, but is twice as high as Siri with an IQ of 23.9. It's also higher than Bing (31.98) and Baidu (32.92)."
Lilly reports, "'Although this work is still in progress, the results so far indicate that the artificial-intelligence systems produced by Google, Baidu, and others have significantly improved over the past two years but still have certain gaps as compared with even a six-year-old child,'" the researchers wrote in a paper published on ArXiv."
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Again, as we wrote earlier today, Apple's dedication to privacy hamstrings Siri. Google et al. have no such issue. To them, users' privacy is to be trampled.
It's not at all apparent that the general public values their privacy enough or even knows that Apple's privacy is paramount, but the average Joe/Jane does seem to regard Siri as not too bright, putting into question whether Apple's commitment to privacy will every really pay off; i.e. translate to increased product sales.
Apple product users seem to value their privacy. Non-Apple product users, by definition, do not value their privacy (or they'd be Apple product users).
So, what's the inflection point? Do Google and the others need to have an Equifax event befall it for their product users to wake up? Would they even wake up if Google etc. did have a cataclysmic breach? We have our doubts.
Siri, why have you fallen behind other digital assistants? – October 5, 2017
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "TJ" for the heads up.]


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Ex-Board of Regents president got lots of perks
HARTFORD -- Despite being paid $455,000 in 13 months, Connecticut's former Board of Regents president charged taxpayers nearly $400 for gourmet coffee and a yearly subscription to Sirius XM radio so he could stay tuned-in while driving around in his free state car, among other perks.
Robert Kennedy also scarfed up about $1,800 in meals, including a $350 dinner with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's former chief of staff Tim Bannon. And he charged $3,000 to a Exxon Mobil gas card and spent $78 on flowers for a staff member.
He was even reimbursed for highway tolls as low as 80 cents.
A review of Kennedy's expenses by Hearst Connecticut Newspapers shows a never-ending flow of spending by the former president of the state Board of Regents for Higher Education.
"You just made my head explode," said state Rep. Roberta Willis, D-Torrington, co-chair of the Legislature's Higher Education Committee, when told of Kennedy's spending. "You are talking to a person who makes $32,000 a year (as a part-time legislator) and works how many hours and you are telling me that someone who made almost $500,000 charged taxpayers $400 for gourmet coffee?"
Kennedy resigned in disgrace in October after nearly $300,000 in controversial raises were doled out to office staff without BOR approval. Outrage from lawmakers and others spilled from newspaper headlines for weeks.
Records obtained by Hearst through a freedom of information request detail hundreds of different types of expenses for which Kennedy was reimbursed beyond his base salary, including dinners, lunches, office supplies, internet equipment, gasoline, hotel rooms and an education conference.
Just $2,264 worth of Kennedy's receipts were rejected by the BOR, and that happened only after Hearst Newspapers asked questions about a confusing accounting system the BOR used to reimburse its president.
More InformationHere's former Board of Regents President Robert Kennedy's compensation package: Total: $445,427 in 13 months Performance Bonus: [issued summer 2012]: $25,000 Unvouchered expense account [ accommodation account] payments: $24, 781 [2011]; $13,527 [2012] Vacation payout, last check: $4,342 Cost of Health insurance: $15,183 Eligible for $20,000 deferred compensation payout but that payment is not being made Cost of state vehicle: $36,863
"Many aspects of this arrangement are unsightly at best, especially given the current fiscal climate," conceded Andrew Doba, a spokesman for Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
Reached at his Baxter, Minn., home, Kennedy said his compensation followed the contract he negotiated with Malloy.
"There is nothing illegal or improper here," said Kennedy, who previously was president of the University of Maine. "It's all based on a contract negotiated with the governor's office. I think it was all very much in line."
Asked if he did anything wrong, Kennedy said "absolutely not."
Records show that Kennedy collected $445,427 for 13 months of service as a state employee. That includes $377,000 in base salary allotted over 29 pay periods. He earned about $162 an hour.
His total pay includes a variety of extras, the result of the contract approved by Gov. Malloy.
Compensation included a $25,000 performance bonus last summer for his good work; a $24,781 payment last summer from his yearly unvouchered expense account [which the state calls an accommodation account]; a $13,527 accommodation payment in September, only weeks before he resigned, and $4,342 in unused vacation time.
He was entitled to $25,000 in moving expenses and used about $15,700 of that total.
Kennedy was named interim BOR president in August of 2011 by Gov. Malloy, months before the board governing the new system was established. He was approved as president by the General Assembly in January of 2012.
He was in charge of the state's local four-year schools, including Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, the various community colleges and the Charter Oak system in Hartford. A separate president and board oversee UCONN.
In addition to vacation time, Kennedy was allowed eight weeks of personal development time, which amounted to "working" from his Minnesota home, a $36,863 Toyota Highlander SUV, and the state paid $15,183 for his health insurance.
He is also eligible for a $20,000 deferred compensation payment, but the regents elected not to send that payment.
During September and October of 2011, the state paid nearly $2,500 to house Kennedy at the posh Hawthorne at Gillette Ridge, a high-end apartment complex in Bloomfield that later became his permanent residence. The state earlier spent $3,500 to house him at the Homewood Suites Hotel in Hartford.
Days after resigning, Kennedy returned his second $25,000 accommodation account payment. However, he returned the full $25,000, not the more than $13,500 he actually received after taxes and other deductions. So in an ironic twist, the state is sending him a new check for $9,209.
That amount includes a $2,264 deduction for expenses deemed improper after a reexamination of his spending.
"He was charging Connecticut and now he's getting paid back," Willis said. "What you are telling me is incredulous and discouraging and disappointing."
"It's 19th century style patronage adjusted for inflation," said Cullen Fergus, director of the conservative Yankee Institute, which promotes government accountability.
"It's not the first time and it's not the last time this will happen," Fergus said. "But this never should have been done in the first place."
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Kennedy was installed as regents president during a rushed process that's unique in recent Connecticut history.
Gov. Malloy, who is not known for his patience, decided to separate the community college and local four-year college system from UCONN, and the General Assembly went along, creating a new Board of Regents. The idea was to produce savings and efficiencies from a previously bloated system.
But Malloy opted to first hire a president for his new agency and negotiate a contract.
The BOR was formed after Kennedy's contract was already inked and the deal was placed before the new BOR, which ratified it. Kennedy became permanent president in January 2012 when the General Assembly granted its approval.
What followed was confusion and controversy over how the BOR would operate, how Kennedy's contract would be executed and what powers the executive team held.
The result is now well documented: Kennedy resigned after being linked to huge raises for staff, along with his executive vice president, Michael Meotti, a former state education commissioner and friend of the governor.
An early point of confusion centered on Kennedy's accommodation accounts, which have previously been described as unvouchered expense accounts. During an interview with Hearst, Kennedy said the accounts were actually established as an alternative to providing him an official residence, like the president of UCONN and the governor both receive.
"It's common for a person in my position, a former college president, to have an official residence afforded to them. This is what the accommodation accounts were supposed to be for," said Kennedy, who was provided an official residence as president of the University of Maine.
Willis, who as the higher education committee head guided the new regents system through the General Assembly, scoffed at the idea of a residence for Kennedy.
"There is no precedent here for that. This is a community college president and the Charter Oak system. We are not talking about the flagship university. He thinks he was a big frog in a little pond," Willis said.
"The new system was created out of whole cloth. It was a political creation in some sense," Kennedy said. "UCONN and the University of Maine are 75 to 150 years old. They have procedures in place to handle this. They have rules."
As Kennedy began incurring expenses, whether for dinner or office supplies, he was told to submit receipts and staff would determine which account would be charged: regular business expenses, moving expenses or his accommodation account.
But Johnson said staff eventually realized the system was unworkable because his accommodation expenses were at his discretion.
In response to questions from Hearst, BOR staff reviewed its reimbursement system and produced a new accounting. Kennedy's expenses were again categorized into three types: moving, business and accommodation. But this time the accommodation accounts were drawn down by specific expenses, which didn't fit the other two categories.
The result was a discovery that Kennedy had exceeded his first accommodation account limit of $25,000 by $2,264. That money is being deducted from the overpayment by Kennedy when he returned his second accommodation money, Johnson said.
"Dr. Kennedy's expenses have been reviewed and he has been charged for any non-business related expenses incurred and we are in a position to immediately recover that money on behalf of Connecticut taxpayers," said BOR spokeswoman Colleen Flanagan Johnson.
Still, Johnson admitted "There was a serious failure in not having clear financial systems in place to properly account for expenses" after Kennedy took the helm at the regents.
Kennedy, who was interviewed on Wednesday, was unaware of the BOR reorganization of his expenses and did not know he was due to receive money for overpaying when he returned his final accommodation account payment.
Willis said she plans to look into the reimbursement process and requested the documents obtained by Hearst. "I may do something with this," she said.
The committee chairwoman said given the lucrative contract Kennedy received and the open nature of the accommodation accounts should have been sufficient to cover any of his expenses, especially dinners and coffee.
The Malloy administration says Kennedy's contract was competitive with similar institutions and the result of what the state must do to attract high level administrators.
"Across the country, presidents of public college systems have an array of other forms of compensation beyond just a set salary," Doba said. "Connecticut has to compete with hundreds of other colleges in formulating compensation plans that are consistent with what similar institutions are offering."
"They include such things as use of a home, a car, deferred compensation, relocation expenses, expense accounts, club dues, retention bonuses, retirement contributions, supplemental retirement plans and longevity bonuses," Doba explained.
But a 2012 survey of salaries for presidents of big and small college systems casts doubt on the governor's contention that Kennedy's package was in line with the market.
The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources concluded that $272,500 a year is an average base salary for systems offering masters degrees, the most advanced degree offered by the four year colleges Kennedy oversaw.
The average pay for presidents in charge of systems offering doctorate degrees, like UCONN, is $480,000, the association determined.
Doba said it's difficult to compare colleges and pointed out that averages group low cost states with high cost states, like Connecticut.
Kennedy said his tenure was filled with confusion and a lack of structure.
"There was ignorance about what works and does not work and what should be allowed."


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In Pakistan, Syed Safdar Ali Baqri was a senior official in a political party called MQM, but since moving to Toronto in 1998, he has become an active supporter of the Conservatives.
During the past two federal elections, Mr. Baqri has been photographed with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day, House Speaker Peter Milliken, Conservative campaign cochairman John Reynolds and several other Conservative and Liberal MPs.
In some of the pictures, the 42-year-old is shown handing the politicians a booklet listing the "issues that matter most" to the MQM's Canadian chapter, MQM-Canada, which Mr. Baqri heads.
MQM-Canada endorsed the Conservative party in 2004 and 2006, and held a Support Conservative Car Rally and a "Picnic and BBQ" for the Conservative candidate in Don Mills. It says its volunteers worked on campaigns in seven cities.
"We welcome MQM-Canada's support and hope to receive cooperation from all chapters of MQM-Canada," says a statement attributed to Conservative MP Leon Benoit and posted on the group's Internet site in 2004. (Mr. Benoit said he does not recall making the comment.)
The ties between MQM-Canada and the Conservatives continued post-election. When MQM held its three-day annual convention in Toronto last June, Conservative MP Patrick Brown gave a speech. But what exactly is the MQM?
The Conservatives are apparently beginning to ask that same question. The Privy Council Office did some background research on the group last year and sent a memo to Mr. Harper's chief of staff, Ian Brodie.
The four-page memorandum, released under the Access to Information Act, says the MQM is a Pakistani political party with a history of involvement in ethnic riots, kidnapping, torture and murder.
A Q&A with Syed Safdar Ali Baqri
MQM homepage
A report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on the MQM
1996 Amnesty International report on the human rights crisis in Pakistan
Federal Court decision: Baqri v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration)
Federal Court decision: Ali v. Canada (Solicitor General)
"Terrorist elements" in the MQM have engaged in harassment of opponents and used crime to raise money for the party, it says, adding that MQM leader Altaf Hussain, who lives in exile in Britain, faces "numerous" criminal charges.
While the MQM was at one time considered a security threat to Canada, it has not been a serious concern since it renounced violence and curbed the extremists in its ranks.
But some still wonder why the Conservatives have aligned themselves with a Pakistani political party that human rights groups and even Canadian officials say has a violent past.
"The MQM has a long and well-deserved reputation for violence, extortion and other criminal acts such as murder," said Tom Quiggin, a former RCMP terrorism expert now working at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
When they were the Opposition, the Conservatives often criticized the Liberals for attending events hosted by organizations close to violent groups such as the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka. But since taking office, the Conservatives are apparently finding it is not always easy to avoid such situations. Which of the many community associations that want the ear of the Prime Minister are worth meeting and which are fronts for extremists? Which photo ops are harmless and which could prove politically damaging down the road?
Conservatives said in interviews they had no idea that even as they were posing for photos with MQM-Canada reps, the Canada Border Services Agency was working to deport dozens of former MQM party workers –and continues to do so — on the grounds the group was involved in crimes against humanity.
Among those that immigration officials have claimed were complicit in atrocities in Pakistan: Mr. Baqri, the MQM-Canada leader, who was an MQM party boss in Karachi before coming to Canada.
A former minister of industries in the Sindh region of southern Pakistan, Mr. Baqri served as the head of an MQM zone in Karachi. He fled Pakistan and eventually made his way to the United States, where he was part of a committee that tried to build the MQM in North America.
In 1994, an anti-terrorist court in Pakistan convicted him in absentia of kidnapping and torturing an army major, but a higher court overturned the ruling.
When his U.S. asylum claim was rejected, he came to Canada in 1998. The Canadian immigration board's Convention Refugee Determination Division turned down his refugee claim on the grounds that he was aware of abuses committed by MQM members while he was a party leader.
That decision was set aside in 2001 by the Federal Court of Canada, which said immigration officers had failed to query Mr. Baqri about any specific incidents. The court sent the case back for another review, but Mr. Baqri still does not have landed immigrant status.
"He has continued his political activity while in Canada," Mr. Justice Allan Lufty wrote in his 2001 decision on Mr. Baqri's case. "He has organized protests in Ottawa and in Toronto against the government in Pakistan. There are some 9,000 MQM supporters in Canada."
In interviews, Mr. Baqri said it was not unusual that he had met so many of Canada's most powerful politicians despite his unresolved immigration status.
"I'm legally residing in Canada under the prevailing Canadian immigration laws. Also, regarding those politicians, Canada is still a free country and one of the freedom leaders in the world. Therefore, any democratic-minded person can meet with the politicians with [a] common agenda."
A physician by training, Mr. Baqri said he has been unable to work as a doctor in Canada because of his ongoing immigration case. He estimated 100 other former MQM party workers are in a similar limbo.
But he said neither he nor the MQM had ever been involved in violence, and the memo sent to the Prime Minister's Office is inaccurate.
Mr. Baqri said that while individual members of the MQM may have committed crimes on their own, the party did not sanction their activities and those involved were expelled.
Made up partly of MQM party workers who have moved to Canada, MQM Canada describes itself on its Web site as an "active unit" of the MQM. Mr. Baqri said the Canadian group reports to the exiled British leader rather than to MQM headquarters in Pakistan.
MQM-Canada has never been linked to violence. It has chapters in Toronto, Ottawa, Windsor, Calgary and Montreal and describes itself as "perhaps one of the most dynamic Pakistani organization[s] in Canada." A Vancouver chapter is to open soon.
In 2003, MQM-Canada formed a Political Action Committee, and when the writ dropped the following year, the group backed the Conservatives.
"Our workers and supporters in Windsor, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver were very active with their candidates in their respective cities," Mr. Baqri said.
He said their main objectives are to become part of mainstream Canadian politics and to bridge the gap between immigrants and non-immigrants. "In this process we also like to clarify misunderstandings towards the MQM in Canada," he said.
Political action is just one of the MQM's activities in Canada. In an attempt to stop immigration officials from deporting party members, an MQM activist filed a $50-million lawsuit against the Canadian government in 2005. The suit alleged that MQM members were being routinely refused permanent residency in Canada because immigration authorities have concluded the group has been involved in terrorism. A judge dismissed the case last May.
Supporters of the group also took their complaints to the Security Intelligence Review Committee, the watchdog over the Canadian Security Intelligence
Service. A decision is expected any day, although the government is not obliged to follow its recommendations.
The MQM was formed more than two decades ago to represent the interest of Muhajirs, Urdu-speaking Muslims whose families migrated to Pakistan from India at partition in 1947.
Many Muhajirs settled in the southern cities of Karachi and Hyderabad, where they dominated business and the civil service– until the Pakistani government purged them from key government posts and nationalized their businesses. A quota system was imposed to limit their access to universities and government.
A student leader at the University of Karachi, Altaf Hussain, formed the MQM in 1984 to defend the rights of Muhajirs, and confrontations followed. Tensions between Muhajirs and ethnic Sindhis, Pashtuns and Punjabis led to violence. "MQM was the main player in the ethnic riots of 1986-87," the Canadian government memo says.
Mr. Baqri disputes that, saying: "We were the victims of the riots."
He said the riots were instigated by Pakistan's ISI military intelligence service.
Human rights groups acknowledge that the MQM was the target of a brutal crackdown by Pakistani government forces, but they say MQM activists engaged in violence as well.
"Despite protestations by MQM leader Altaf Hussain that the MQM does not subscribe to violence, there is overwhelming evidence and a consensus among observers in Karachi that some MQM party members have used violent means to further their political aims," Amnesty International wrote in a 1996 report.
The rights group said there was evidence that opponents of the MQM were tortured and killed while in MQM custody. Pakistani forces in Karachi allegedly found torture rooms used by the MQM.
"During its early history," the Canadian government memo says, "MQM drew its power from terrorist elements in the party, who helped it maintain a stronghold over the densely populated poor areas of Karachi and Hyderabad.
"In addition to the harassment of political and ethnic opponents, these insurgent elements were also responsible for generating funds for the party through criminal activities. The resulting lawlessness effectively crippled Karachi until the Pakistan army launched an operation to restore law and order in 1992."
With Karachi in chaos, the military was sent in to intervene and a repressive campaign against the MQM ensued. "Before the Pakistan army launched its 1992 operation," the memo says, "Altaf Hussain had already fled to the UK in order to avoid prosecution; he remains there in self-imposed exile."
The MQM split into two factions, called MQM (H) and Mr. Hussain's group MQM (A). The MQM (H) was allegedly supported by the Pakistani government to weaken the MQM(A). "Since 1992, the MQM factions have directed their violence against each other, as well as against the Pakistani government," the memo says.
There were almost daily killings between the factions in 1994, and the following year there were up to 10 political killings a day in Karachi, according to a research paper published by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Mr. Baqri said the human rights groups are wrong. They were relying on locals for their information who were either biased or influenced by the government, he said. "It was an organized campaign to malign MQM in the eyes of the West."
In Pakistan's 2002 elections, MQM emerged as the leading party amongst Urdu-speaking Pakistanis. It now has 18 members in the Pakistan National Assembly and is an ally of President Pervez Musharraf against the Islamist militant groups in the political opposition.
The Canadian memo adds that nine MQM members were sentenced to death for the murder of the Governor of Pakistan's Sindh province. While it says Mr. Hussain was acquitted of charges stemming from the kidnapping of an army major, "There are still numerous other criminal cases pending against him."
The memo concerning MQM-Canada was written by Kevin Lynch, the Clerk of the Privy Council. Why it was sent to the Prime Minister's Office is not explained in those parts of the document made public.
"We have no comment on specific pieces of correspondence," said Myriam Massabki, the Privy Council Office spokeswoman.
Mr. Benoit said he knew nothing about the group, although he did remember attending an MQM-Canada campaign event with several Torontoarea Conservative candidates.
He said a news conference was held following the meeting, but he does not believe he made the statement that is attributed to him on the MQM-Canada Web site. "I do know what they had attributed to me, I absolutely didn't know that that was being attributed to me. I mean, they've done that on their own."
Wajid Khan, the Pakistan-born MP who ran for the Liberals but crossed the floor to the Conservatives, had no recollection of meeting the MQM, although his photo is shown on the Web site with Mr. Baqri.
"I can tell you that Mr. Khan has no affiliation, nor has he ever, with the group you mentioned," said his executive assistant Stefano Pileggi.
"He barely remembers meeting someone from MQM ? He doesn't even remember the man's name, and no he had no knowledge of any criminal allegations."
Melisa Leclerc, Mr. Day's spokeswoman, said the Minister had no idea Mr. Baqri had been accused of atrocities. People often see Mr. Day and ask to have their photo taken with him, she said. "I don't think the Minister knew. He's a strong defender of human rights."
More info. on this terrorist can be found here:
The hidden risks of the photo op
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story. … dc304164e1
Canadian federal court upholds MQM's 'terrorist character'
MQM is a terrorist organization not a political party: Munawar
Muttahida Quomi Mahaz, Terrorist Group of Pakistan
This is list of MQM Terrorists cases in Canadian courts
1 Baqri v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) (T.D.), 2001 FCT 1096, [2002] 2 F.C. 85 Date: October 9, 2001
http://reports.fja.gc.ca/eng/2001/2001f … t1096.html
2 Jalil v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) (F.C.), 2006 FC 246, [2006] 4 F.C.R. 471 Date: February 24, 2006
http://reports.fja.gc.ca/eng/2006/2006f … fc246.html
3 Ali v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) (F.C.), 2004 FC 1174, [2005] 1 F.C.R. 485 Date: August 26, 2004
http://reports.fja.gc.ca/eng/2004/2004f … c1174.html
4 Jilani v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2007 FC 1354, [2008] 2 F.C.R. D-6 Date: December 21, 2007
http://recueil.cmf.gc.ca/eng/2007/2007f … c1354.html
5 Naeem v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) (F.C.), 2007 FC 123, [2007] 4 F.C.R. 658 Date: February 7, 2007
6 Mohammed v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) (F.C.), 2006 FC 1310, [2007] 4 F.C.R. 300 Date: October 30, 2006
http://reports.fja.gc.ca/eng/2006/2006f … c1310.html
7 Samimifar v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) (F.C.), 2006 FC 1301, [2007] 3 F.C.R. 663 Date: October 30, 2006
http://reports.fja.gc.ca/eng/2006/2006f … c1301.html


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LOUISVILLE, Kentucky -- Louisville coach Bobby Petrino has announced that senior wide receiver Devante Parker will miss six to eight weeks with a broken left small toe, leaving the Cardinals without their top target for Monday night's season opener against Miami.
Parker injured the foot in Friday night's practice and was examined Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina, by orthopedist Bob Anderson, a foot and ankle specialist. Petrino says Parker is scheduled to have surgery on Monday afternoon.
Parker's injury deals a big blow to Louisville's offense as it enters the Atlantic Coast Conference against a Hurricanes squad it throttled 36-9 in the Russell Athletic Bowl last December. The Louisville native had nine catches for 142 yards and a touchdown against Miami en route to a team-high 885 yards and 12 TDs.


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Traditional business intelligence (BI) has several shortcomings that require IT to play a huge role in the creation and deployment of reports and other analytic applications. Often times, business users will work around IT by creating Excel applications that live on their computers or in a network folder. These applications often become mission-critical for the business users. Unfortunately, IT often doesn't know about these applications, and when they go down (and they always do at some point) or are accidentally deleted, IT is asked to step in and help recover them. This is where managed self-service provides the advantage. Although business users can create reports themselves using PowerPivot for Excel and share them with other users with PowerPivot for SharePoint, IT has the ability to manage and monitor the applications.
However, like any new SQL Server technology, managed self-service BI raises some questions for BI pros, DBAs, and developers. Is managed self-service going to replace traditional BI? What does it mean for SQL Server professionals? SQL Server Magazine author and BI expert Stacia Misner answers these questions and more regarding managed self-service BI in the video "Managed Self-Service BI." I highly recommend viewing this video if your company is looking for a better way to manage user-generated BI applications or is considering moving to SQL Server 2008 R2 in the future.
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