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SAINT PAUL, Minn., Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MGC Diagnostics Corporation (NASDAQ: MGCD) (formerly Angeion Corporation), a global medical technology company, today announced it has entered into a partnership with Frontera Strategies, LP ("Frontera"), the leading provider of in-office cardiac, pulmonary, vascular and neurological testing services. As a result of this partnership, Frontera has agreed to purchase new cardiopulmonary diagnostic equipment with customized systems developed and designed by MGC Diagnostics to better meet the demanding requirements of Frontera's mobile testing procedures. Based in Irving, Texas, Frontera Strategies has been recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of the "Best Places to Work" in the healthcare industry.
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MGC Diagnostics, ranked 'Best-In-Class' by MD Buyline's User Satisfaction Report™, is focused on providing non-invasive diagnostic systems with unmatched service and support throughout the U.S. and internationally.
Kai Pinkerton, Clinical Operations Manager of Frontera, commented "We chose MGC Diagnostics because of their product quality, service excellence and attractive company culture. Clinically we were pleased with the products and MGC Diagnostics was flexible enough to work out a winning solution for us. At Frontera the experience for our patients and customers is our number one priority. Partnering with MGC Diagnostics, who leads their industry in service excellence, was a natural fit."
Richard Baker, Co-founder and Partner of Frontera, added "As a leader in mobile diagnostic services, we are excited to partner with MGC Diagnostics to better serve our customers and their patients within the Oklahoma and Texas markets. Our goal is to be a thought leader in driving down healthcare costs and we are looking for ways to bring better, more cost efficient diagnostic testing to the marketplace."
Gregg O. Lehman, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer and President of MGC Diagnostics, commented "We are pleased to have been chosen by Frontera to assist them in maintaining a leadership role in mobile testing. As part of our efforts to improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs, we remain committed to providing innovative diagnostic equipment to mobile testing services focused at physicians' offices, as well as at traditional healthcare facilities."
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Frontera is the leading provider of in-office cardiac, pulmonary, vascular and neurological testing services. With more than 2,000 partners across Texas and Oklahoma, Frontera serves physicians in Dallas, Ft. Worth, Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Lubbock, Amarillo, Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Frontera was founded in 2001 by partners Richard Baker, Nate Nelson and Ches Williams. For more information, please visit: http://www.teamfrontera.com.
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MGC Diagnostics Corporation (NASDAQ: MGCD), (formerly Angeion Corporation), is a global medical technology company dedicated to cardiorespiratory health solutions. MGC Diagnostics develops, manufactures and markets non-invasive diagnostic systems. This portfolio of products provides solutions for disease detection, integrated care, and wellness across the spectrum of cardiorespiratory healthcare. The Company's products are sold internationally through distributors and in the United States through a direct sales force targeting heart and lung specialists located in hospitals, university-based medical centers, medical clinics, physicians' offices, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, and clinical research organizations (CROs). For more information about MGC Diagnostics, visit www.mgcdiagnostics.com.
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CASTINE, Maine – Worcester State quarterback Corey Spencer (Malden, Mass.) was responsible for five touchdowns in the Lancers 47-34 win over Maine Maritime Academy in New England Football Conference Bogan Division action on Saturday. Spencer completed 23-of-30 passes for 298 yards and four touchdowns, and rushed for 11 yards and another score to move Worcester State to 4-1 (2-0 Bogan) on the season. Maine Maritime fell to 0-4 (0-2 Bogan).
Spencer factored in the first pair of scores as the Lancers raced out to a 20-0 lead. His first score, a one-yard plunge on Worcester State's second possession, capped a seven-play, 55-yard drive. Kemani Jones (Milton, Mass.) accounted for 38 yards on the series, gashing the Mariners for runs of 12 and 25 yards to set up the score. Jones rushed for 67 yards and a score on 19 carries in the contest. The Lancers started their next possession on the Mariners' side of the field following a penalty for interfering with a fair catch. Spencer completed pair of passes for a combined yards, before polishing off the drive with a 29-yard toss to Casey Hippert (Douglass, Mass.) who got beyond the Maine Maritime secondary down the middle of the field.
Hippert finished the game with 123 receiving yards and a pair of touchdowns on six receptions. He was one of two Lancers to post a 100-yard receiving performance. A.J. Scerra (Marlboro, Mass.) caught a game-high nine passes for 106 yards.
Mike Dance (Rocky Hill, Conn.) made it 20-0 on the next Worcester State possession, scoring on a draw from 16 yards out with five seconds left in the first quarter. The early hole was too deep for Maine Maritime to escape.
The Mariners got on the board 52 seconds later when Bradley Reed (Belfast, Maine) hit Shane Sullivan (Bucksport, Maine) 15 yards beyond the secondary on a play-fake. The Mariners' 73-yard touchdown was quickly answered, however, by Hippert's second score of the day. This one came on a 46-yard pass from Spencer.
Maine Maritime got it to 27-14 on the next possession. Back-to-back runs by Ryan O'Neal (Higganum, Conn.) and Joseph DiBiase (Portland, Maine) yielded 22 and 25 yards, respectively. Fullback Billy Wetherbee (Veazie, Maine) gashed the Lancers through the middle of the defense two plays later, scoring from 16 yards out. Reed's plunge on the two-point try made it a 27-14 game. The Mariners' defense held for the bulk of the third quarter, but a late interception set up Spencer and company on the Maine Maritime 40 in the waning minutes of the second quarter. Spencer hit Jack Sprague (Maynard, Mass.) to make it a three-score game, 33-14, heading into the locker rooms.
The Mariners got back within two touchdowns when a DiBiase score from three-yards out capped a nine-play, 73-yard drive to start the third quarter, but Jones scored his touchdown a two-yard run to take advantage of another short field on a drive that started at the Mariners' 37. Spencer fired off another touchdown pass early in the fourth to make it 47-21, but the Mariners refused to go away quietly. Michael Cummings (Bucksport, Maine) led a 10-play, 69-yard drive that ended when he called his own number on the goalline. A fumble on the ensuing kickoff set the Mariners up in Lancers' territory. Wetherbee covered the final three feet on a 41-yard dive to make it the 47-34 final.
Wetherbee led all Mariners' rushers with 72 yards on 17 carries, while O'Neal picked up 69 yards on eight touches. DiBiase rushed for 41 yards on 10 carries. The Mariners three quarterbacks combined for a 6-of-11 afternoon, resulting in 149 yards.
The game saw 779 combined yards of total offense, with Worcester State accounting for 407 yards to the Mariners' 372. Despite the gaudy offensive totals, both defenses saw several outstanding individual performances. Michael Denis recorded nine tackles including seven solo stops for WSU, while Adam Straughn (Rockland, Mass.) recorded nine tackles and blocked two PATs. Matt Begley (E. Bridgewater, Mass.) counted a pair of sacks and six solo tackles among his eight stops for the Lancers, while Maine Maritime's John Regis (Old Orchard Beach, Maine) matched his production in the sack category, setting the Lancers back 15 yards. Alex Hermes (Fallsington,Pa.) recorded 10 tackles, six of which were solo stops, and forced a fumble. Brock Lawrence (Benton, Maine) posted nine stops.
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LoHo is deleted in acrimonious acronym Net battle
By Kristin Edwards
Does LoHo exist? Not according to Wikipedia.
An entry for LoHo posted on the popular online encyclopedia was deleted in late January following a series of debates on whether or not the posting met Wikipedias guidelines.
LoHo is an acronym for Lower Houston and its boosters say it signifies a specific neighborhood within the larger Lower East Side. However, opponents of LoHos being listed on Wikipedia argued that LoHo is not a distinct neighborhood; rather, that it is just a new, fancy name for the Lower East Side.
Juda Engelmayer, who posted the LoHo listing on Wikipedia, explained that LoHo is not all of the Lower East Side, but an area stretching from Houston St. to Chrystie St. and South St. to the East River.
The Lower East Side is the old neighborhood, Engelmayer said. The new name, he said, comes as a result of new generations moving in.
Engelmayer lives in the area and runs Kossars Bialys on Grand St.
Wikipedia is a free Internet encyclopedia that allows registered users to create and edit entries on the Web site. Engelmayer is a frequent user of Wikipedia and has created and edited other entry pages on it in the past.
A posting on Wikipedia states that entries must be researched, verifiable and unbiased. Users in favor of the LoHo entry being removed argued that the term LoHo was not an official name, and was not even its own area.
Some criticized the new acronym as merely being a marketing ploy. The popularizing of the name has been connected with LoHo Reality, a real estate brokerage firm located on Grand St. However, the term appears to have been coined by LoHo Studios, a music recording studio that got its start on Lafayette St. in 1983 and moved to Clinton St. on the Lower East Side in the late 1990s. Jacob Goldman, LoHo Realitys president, disagrees with those who say that LoHo doesnt exist.
There is an area within the Lower East Side that is referred to as LoHo. Some people use it and some people dont, Goldman said.
Goldman said he thought it was ridiculous for people to act as though the LoHo name wasnt in use at all.
Companies use it in their names
LoHo Studios, etc. Mainstream media such as The New York Times have used the name LoHo. You can say that not a lot of people use it, but it is in use.
One of the Wikipedia users against the entry argued that Engelmayers public-relations firm represented LoHo Reality and claimed that it was thus really LoHo Realty that was behind the LoHo page.
Goldman admits that while Engelmayers firm did represent his company, that relationship ended before the Wikipedia LoHo page was even posted.
The page was ultimately deleted from the Web site after it was determined that it did not meet the sites criteria. A search for LoHo will direct users instead to a page about the Lower East Side.
Engelmayer suspects that the Lower East Side Business Improvement District was partially behind the entrys removal from Wikipedia. Earlier this month, in an article in the New York Observer, he accused Dara Lehon, the BIDs deputy director, of masterminding the postings removal.
However, Roberto Ragone, the BIDs director, denies the organization was behind the removal of the Wikipedia entry.
Goldman doesnt buy it.
The BID did this, he said. They took it all so seriously. The articles [the deactivated LoHo entry] link back to them.
Ragone said that while he couldnt speak on behalf of the entire BID, he felt a name change for the area was unnecessary.
The Lower East Side is the traditional name; we are happy to be called Lower East Side, he said.
Ragone said that many areas, such as Soho and Noho, have adopted catchy acronyms to seem fancier in hopes of attracting visitors.
We dont need acronyms to attract visitors, he maintained.
If someone wants to call it LoHo, they are free to do so, but Lower East Side captures the history, Ragone said. Im not looking to get in a competition with Juda about this. Ive never even met him.
Goldman isnt too worried about the online war affecting his business.
Im not losing sleep over this Wikipedia thing, he said. Why do people spend so much time online posting? They need to get a life.
Susan Stetzer, Community Board 3s district manager, said that while the matter of LoHo names validity and right to exist has never come before the board as an issue, she has never heard anyone on the board use LoHo; its always the Lower East Side. Stetzer said people are proud of the traditional name.
Others in the area remain partial to Lower East Side, and are resistant to the change. Heshey Jacob, manager of two of the major Grand St. co-op complexes, is a proud resident of the Lower East Side.
Im as native as they come, Jacob said. You can call it whatever you want, but its the Lower East Side. Its the mother of all the neighborhoods as far as Im concerned.
Local merchants voiced a similar opinion.
Michael Wong, manager of Tea Gallery on Allen St., said, I always tell people I work in the Lower East Side. He said he wasnt familiar with the term LoHo.
Frank Arroyo, manager of Franks Bike Shop on Grand St., has heard the term LoHo, since he works near LoHo Realitys office, but said, I myself say Lower East Side.
Its been the Lower East Side since day one when the immigrants came here.
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Lab3 is a well-established independent distributor of laboratory consumables, chemicals and equipment, and provider of laboratory technical services in the UK. Lab3 is an existing distributor of VWR products in the UK and also represents a number of other leading suppliers of laboratory products. In addition to distribution, Lab3 provides custom labeling and kitting services to customers and is recognized as an established provider of technical services including installation, calibration and repair on a broad array of laboratory equipment across the UK.
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Social Engineering: How to protect yourself and your office Volume 1
Ring .Ring .Ring .
Its a cold late night, John has been at the office since 6 in the morning and the clock is just striking 11 PM.
Rii . Hello?
Hi this Rob with Sonitrol (posted on all the windows of the building), I noticed on our security system that your alarm hasnt been set yet tonight and I need you to tell me the password otherwise we will be sending a police car out immediately
John: yellow legos
Rob: Thank you have a nice night
One week later John comes into the office to find they have been robbed and the police still havent been alerted to this event. How can this happen you wonder?
What happened was most security companies make this call if it gets late to make sure their client didnt forget their alarm or they havent been broken into. To foil this method Rob drove by the office and noticed the name of the security company on all the windows and came back a different day to see just one car in the parking lot late at night. Made this phone call from his cell phone and got the password so that when he broke into the office the next week and the real company called he gave them the password John so readily gave to him.
This is a prime example of social engineering and some of the creativity that goes behind it. What is one step that could help protect you against something like this?
Setup double sided passwords, one for you and one for the security company. Sure this is good practice but why not take it a step further, Have 7 different passwords for the security company one per day of the week. (ie Monday: purple, Tuesday: Infinity ) Change the password with the security company regularly and only give these codes to the select people that are going to be there late.
So what is Social Engineering? There are multiple definitions that define a hackers methods of gaining information or whatever. I will offer my own, Social Engineering in short and simple is a psychological con. You dupe people into believing that you are something you arent or coax them into saying things to you because you are a nice person.
We all know security is only as good as its weakest links. Yes, I know I made this a plural sentence because every employee, every piece of paper, everything that has to do with your company, has to do with security. You can gain valuable information from trashed documents, or by the above method, or say you work somewhere, call up the secretary to the CEO, CFO whatever. Tell him/her that you are from the IT department and need their password to install something and since he/she is their secretary that they get to have it first. Now you have access to almost everything the head hancho does.
The first step is to either send out a corporate wide email instructing people that they should never give out their personal information unless they are talking with someone they KNOW is authorized to have this information. To those of you that are security professionals and are just here to learn a little bit more about how not to look stupid. Never give out your passwords to anyone, those email programs that have one of those password recovery things, fill in the answer with gibberish so someone that knows you doesnt guess the information. If someone calls you, the most popular form of social engineering, and wants information from you like credit card numbers or bank numbers or any personal information, tell them you will call them back, ask for their phone number, then compare it to one you find in your records, every bill a company sends you has their contact information on it, now use that number on the bill call them and ask them if they really need to talk to you. These are the simple things we never seem to think about.
There are other methods to gain information but I will supply those in a later tutorial. Below I included one of my sources, the rest is from security discussions and such I have been involved with.


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MC Hammer blasts police on Twitter after arrest
The U Can't Touch This hitmaker was apprehended at a shopping center in Dublin, northern California, and cited for obstructing an officer in the performance of duties and resisting an officer.
Police officials allege the hip-hop star was sitting in a vehicle with an expired registration and he was not the registered owner, but MC Hammer, real name Stanley Kirk Burrell, has suggested he was the victim of racial profiling.
In a series of tweets, posted on Saturday (23Feb13), Hammer maintains the incident kicked off when a "chubby Elvis-looking" officer approached him to ask for his identification.
He writes, "I rolled down the window and he said, 'Are you on parole or probation?' While I was handing him my ID he reached in my car and tried to pull me out (of) the car but forgot he was on a steady donut diet.
"It was comical to me until he pulled out his guns, blew his whistle and yelled for help (Mall Cop)!!! But make no mistake he's dangerous."
Hammer also tweeted, "Only thing more dangerous than a scared man with a gun, is a scared man with an agenda, a gun and a badge," before concluding: "I will now answer his question, contrary to his personal beliefs, all people of colour are not on parole or probation, fat boy!"
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6 Kinds of Pills Big Pharma Tries to Get You Hooked on for Life
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Why has Big Pharma failed to produce new antibiotics for deadly infections like MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), VRE (vancomycin-resistant enterococci), C. Difficile and Acinetobacter baumannii even as they leap from hospital to community settings? Because there is no money in it.
Pharma executives "have shown less interest in medicines like antibiotics that actually cure disease than in those that only treat symptoms," writes Melody Petersen, author of Our Daily Meds. "Most blockbusters are pills for conditions such as anxiety, high cholesterol or constipation that must be taken daily, often for months or years. They are designed for rich Americans who can afford to buy them." Nor are medicines for tropical diseases like malaria, which kills a child every 30 seconds, a priority, notes Petersen. They also lack ka-ching.
Since direct-to-consumer drug advertising debuted in the late 1990s, the number of people on prescription drugs -- especially prescription drugs for life -- has ballooned. Between 2001 to 2007 the percentage of adults and children on one or more prescriptions for chronic conditions rose by more than 12 million, reports the Associated Press and 25 percent of US children now take a medication for a chronic condition. Seven percent of kids take two or more daily drugs. Who says advertising doesn't work?
Of the top-selling drugs in 2011, led by Lipitor, Nexium, Plavix, Advair Diskus, Abilify, Seroquel, Singulair and Crestor, none is taken occasionally, or "as needed" and the treatment goal is never to get off the drug, like an antibiotic. Why would Pharma deal itself out of the game?
There are two ways Pharma hooks the US public on prescriptions for life. First, prescriptions that used to be taken as needed for pain, anxiety, GERD (gastroesophageal reflux), asthma, mood problems, migraines and even erectile dysfunction, gout and retroviruses (in some cases) are now full-time medicines. Instead of having a bad day or heartburn, you have a disease like anxiety or GERD which calls for full pharmaceutical artillery. Instead of having body pain to be treated transiently, you are put on an antidepressant like Cymbalta or seizure drug like Lyrica or Neurontin indefinitely.
Secondly, many of the top-selling drugs today are to prevent chronic conditions like high cholesterol, high blood pressure and osteoporosis that people are said to be "at risk" for. Needless to say, in both cases, people never know if the drugs are working or whether they would have had symptoms without them. This creates a loyal customer who is afraid to quit a prescription because it might be working. And why should they quit anyway when a third party is probably paying?
Here are some drugs -- not all -- that are marketed for perpetuity.
1. ADHD and Drugs for Pediatric 'Psychopathologies'
Thanks to Pharma's "diagnose early" and screening campaigns, millions of children are treated with stimulants for ADHD and antipsychotics for bipolar disorder and assorted conduct, oppositional defiant, development disorders and "spectrums" today. No wonder Michael Bandick, brand manager for Eli Lilly's popular antipsychotic Zyprexa, called it "the molecule that keeps on giving" at a national sales meeting.
But giving kids daily drugs creates two problems. First, parents will never know if their kids would have outgrown their conditions, and second, it's unlikely they'll ever get "clean." In fact, Pharma marketers worry about the revenue threat of kids going off their meds when they leave home and even run an ad campaigns in college newspapers to keep them on. One ad shows the lead singer of Maroon 5, declaring, "I remember being the kid with ADHD. Truth is, I still have it." The ad's tag line reads, "It's Your ADHD. Own It."
2. Hormone Replacement Therapy
When the popular HRT pill Prempro was launched by Wyeth, now Pfizer, in the 1980s, then-CEO Bob Essner told sales associates, "We can make real the full promise of HRT to create in the near future a world where the majority of women will start HRT at menopause and continue on it for the rest of their lives," reports Philadelphia magazine. The scheme of treating estrogen "deficiency" for 30 or 40 years worked until 2002 when HRT was found to cause breast cancer, heart attacks, strokes, blood clots and dementia. They were some of the conditions it was supposed to prevent. Oops. But Pharma has not abandoned the billion-dollar franchise and news about estrogen benefits is creeping back into the news, predicated on the public's short memory. People don't lose hormones because they age; they age because they lose hormones, say Pharma hormone sellers. Even men now "suffer from" testosterone deficiencies or Low T.
3. Happy Pills
Pharma's success in convincing people with anxiety or the "blues" that they need an antidepressant was a Wall Street coup. Instead of taking the occasional Xanax, people agreed to alter their entire body chemistry with a drug they took for months, years or decades.
But as antidepressants fall in popularity, because of their many side effects, including alarming "discontinuation symptoms" when people try to stop, WebMD is conducting damage control to keep people on them. Don't believe that antidepressants turn "you into a zombie," make you gain weight, ruin your sex life, make you "forget your problems rather than dealing with them" or cost too much, says the huge pro-pill Web site in one article. Depression is linked to heart disease, obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer's and cancer says a second WebMD article. Stay on your meds.
4. Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs)
Some say gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is just lowly "heartburn" whipped up by Pharma into a profitable disease. But over 110 million prescriptions were written for proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) like Nexium and Prevacid in 2009, making it the third most prescribed class of drugs. Long-term use of PPIs increases the risk of hip, wrist and spine fractures, the FDA warns and the drugs can cause potentially lethal C. difficile-caused diarrhea and community-acquired pneumonia says national health advocacy group, Public Citizen. But Pharma has a different message. GERD can lead to esophageal inflammation, scar tissue and cancer, if untreated, it tells patients and symptoms won't go away on their own. No wonder doctors call PPIs "Purple Crack."
5. Statins
The best-selling statin drugs like Lipitor and Crestor that lower their cholesterol risks are pretty much the definition of "lifer medications," taken in perpetuity. Who would dare to go off of them and risk cardiovascular events?
One patient on a cholesterol drug site writes that despite feeling "miserable" on statins, "What do you do? Go off the statins and let your arteries clog up?" But medical professionals say it is not safe to stay on statins indefinitely. Patients are at risk of liver dysfunction, acute kidney failure, cataracts and muscle damage known as myopathy, reports British Medical Journal. And statins can also cause memory loss and increase the risk of developing of Type 2 diabetes and muscle damage, FDA warns.
Still the appeal of a drug that lowers the risk of cardiovascular events without a change in diet or lifestyle made Lipitor the top-selling drug in the world, until recently, when its patent expired. Statins are now prescribed for kids, for the same reason.
6. Asthma-Control Medicines
Like ADHD and "pediatric psychopathology" drugs, Pharma conducts aggressive early treatment campaigns for asthma drugs, recommending that children as young as one year be treated when "symptoms" first emerge. ("Before they go away," says one cynical doctor.)
It has also marketed daily asthma "control" medicines like Advair and Symbicort so aggressively (prescription drugs added onto patients' regular asthma medicine -- ka-ching) that nearly two-thirds of the nation's millions of asthma sufferers take them. Despite the expense of adding an additional drug to rescue inhalers or inhaled corticosteroids when asthma is a lifelong disease, there are no clinical benefits to the upsell, says the research institute of Medco, the nation's largest pharmacy benefit manager. Neither trips to the ER or hospitalizations are reduced with control drugs. And there's another mark against the daily drugs that don't work: they may make asthma worse says some published reports.


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! the wilmington chronicle and qtfh-carolina jveeklt advertiser f h friday july h , i795 . no 4 ; to all parties feutj influenced by none governor general in america for fet iluig the previous arrangements which way be ncceflary refpe<fiin«r the deli very of the faid pofts : the united stares 111 the mean time at their diicrc tion extending their fetfleinents to any part within the faid boundary hue except within the piecinds or juiifdk mon of any of the faid pofts all fet tiers 3 nd traders within the precii.dts orjurifdi&ion of the laid pofts fhall conrinue to enjoy njn.moiefted all their properry of every kind and mail be proteded therein they lhall be at full liberty to remain there or to re move with all or any part of their cf ferts : and it fhall alfb be free to them to fell their lands houfes or cffe&s or to retain the property thereof at their difcretion ; fuch of them as mail conti nue to refide within the faid boundary lines hall not be compelled to become citizens of the united states br to take any oath of allegiance to the govern ment thereof but hall be at full liberty fo to do if they think proper and they hall make and declare their election within one year after the evacuation aforefaid and all perfons who fhall continue there after the expiration of the aid year without having declared their intention of remaining fnbjectts of his britannic majefty hail be con fidered as having elected to become ci tizens of the united states art hi it is agreed that it hall at ail times be free to his majefty's fub je«5ts and to the citizens of the united states and alfo to the indians dwelling on either fide of the faid boundary line freely to pafs and repaft by land or in land navigation into the refpecfiive territories and countries of the two par ties on the continent of america the country within the limits of the h»d fon's bay company only excepted aiid to navigate all the lakes rivers and waters thereof and freely to carry on trade and commerce with each other but it is underftood that this article does not extend to the aclmiflion of vef fels of the united states into the fea petts harbours bays or creeks of his majefty's faid territories as are between the mouth thereof and the higheft port of entry from th fea except in frhall veflels trading bona fide between mon treal and ouebec under fuch regula tions as hall be eftablifhed to prevent the poffibility of any frauds in this re fpecl nor to the admiflion of britiflt veflels from the fea into the rivers of duties than would be payable by the citizens of the united stares on ihe importatior of the fame in american veflels into the atlamic ports of the id hares and all goods no prohi bited to be exported from the faid ter ritories refpetfively may in like man lier be carried out of the fame by the two parties refpetfively paying duty ,' us aforefaid j h ™ no duty of entry iriall ev«r be levied by either party on peltries brought by land or inland navigation into the faid rerntoiies refptdlively nor hall the indians patting or repafling with their own proper goods and effects of what ever nature pay for the fame any im poft or duty whatever but goods in bales or other large packages unufbat among indians hall not be confiv.ered as goods belonging boiafide to indians no higher or other tolls or rates or ferriage than what are or hall be pay able by natives hall be demanded on either fide ; and no duties hall be pay able on any goods which hall be merely carried over any of the portages or carrying places on either fide ; for the purpofe of being immediately reim barked and carried to fome other place or places but as by this ftipulation it is on'y meant to fecure to each party a free paflage acrofs tlie portages on both fides it is agreed that this exemption from duty fhall extend only to uch goods as are carried in the ufual and direct road acrbft the portage and are not attempted to be in any manner fold or exchanged during their paflage acroft the lame and proper regulations may be eftabliflied to prevent the poffibility of any frauds in this refpecft as this article is intended to render in a great degree the local advantages of each party common to both and thereby to promote a difpofition fa vourable to friendfliip and good neigh bourhood it is agreed that the re fpetftive governments will mutually promote this amicable intercourfe by caufing fpeedy and impartial jnftice to be done and neccflary pvotedlion to be extended to all who may be concerned therein art iv whereas it is uncertain whether the river miflifippi extends fb far to the northward as to be interfered philadelphia june 29th 1 795 j sir 7 tf in your pitptr of this fate an abflratt of the late treaty between the untied states and great-britain which though not perfectly ctrrett h near/y fo yfi this publication will probably excite * mw/paptr dtfcufion it is of importance ' that the people jhould pofe/s a full and accurate knowledge of the fubjeft j which their attention may be drawn and which i think has already been improperly with heldfromihem left therefore the treaty jhould be prefumtd more favourable % or reprepnted to be leftfi thai it really is i fend you herewith a genuine copy t which xou may correel your jtatement by ortnak fuch other ttfe of as you pleafe for the pttrpofi of giving to the citizens of ame rica full information rej peeling tots mo merit ous buftnefs i am t fir t your obedient fervent sten.thon m,4s0n one of the fenators from virginia to benj franklin bache editor of the aurora authentic treaty of amity commerce and navigation htwirx his britannic majesty and the united states of america by their prefidcnt by and with the advice of their fenate his britannic majefty and the united states of america being defirons by a treaty of amity commerce and navi gation to terminate their differences in fuch a manner as without reference to the merits of their refpectite com 4 *: plaints and pretenfions may be the beft calculated to produce mutual fatisfac tion and good understanding : and al fo to regulate the cortimerce and navi gation between their refpective coun tries territories and people in fuch a manner as to render the fame recipro cally beneficial and fatisfactory ; they have refpejh^ely named their plenipo tentiaries and given them full powers to treat of and conclude the aid treaty that is to fay his britannic majefty has named for his plenipoten tiary the right honourable william wyndham baron grenville of wot ton one of his majefty s privy council and bis majefty's principal fecretary of ftate for foreign affairs ; and the prefi clent of the aid united states by and with the advice and confent of the fir nare thereof hath appointed for their plenipotentiary the honourable john jay chief juftice of the faid united states and their envoy extraordinary to his majefty who have agreed on and concluded the following articles : ' article i there hall be a firm ihvl olable and univerfal peace and a true and lincere friendfhip between his bri tannic majefty his heirs and fucceflbrsj and the united states of america ; and between their refpecftive countries ter ritories cities towns nnd people of every degree without exception of perfons or places art ii his majefty will withdraw all his troops and garrifons'from all pofts and places within the boundary lines afligned by the treaty of peace tti the united states this evacuation fhall take place on or before the firft day of june one thousand fevert hun dred and ninety fix and all the proper meafures hall in the interval be taken by concert between the government of the united states axd his majefty '» by a line to be drawn due weft from the lake of the woods in the manner mentioned in the treaty of peace be tween his majefty and tl>e united states it is agreed that meafures fliall be taken in concert between his majef ty's government in america and the government of the united stares for making a joint furvey of the faid river from one degree of latitude below the falls of st anthony to the principal fource or fources of aid river and the f>arts adjacent thereto ; 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By John Mashey • Friday, July 12, 2013 - 11:44
UPDATE 03/09/16 Salby sued Macquarie U, judge ruled against him on every complaint, similar pattern.
"They laughed at Galileo … but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown" might be appled to Murry Salby, who until May was a Professor of Environmental Science at Australia's Macquarie University (MU). P.T. Barnum might fit better, as Salby has a well-documented history of deception and financial chicanery that got him debarred from Federal funding in the USA.
Galileo? In 2011, he proclaimed a recent rise in CO2 to be natural, not human-caused, which if true, would qualify for Galileo level. This was received with great praise or at least taken seriously at The Sydney Institute (thinktank), Andrew Bolt in Herald Sun, JoNova, Jennifer Marohasy, WUWT (Steve Brown, Benny Peiser/GWPF, Ronald Voisin, Vincent Gray, Anthony Watts), Bishop Hill (Andrew Montford), Climate Depot (Marc Morano), Climate Etc (Judith Curry, who knew Salby at U Colorado), SPPI (Robert Ferguson reblogs Curry), NotrickZone (P. Gosselin), GWPF (reblogs Gosselin), The Hockey Schtick, to name just a few.
Bozo? SkS lists "Murray Salby finds CO2 rise is natural" as #188 in the catalog of bad arguments, following this and this earlier articles. MU Professor Colin Prentice took the time to write "How we know the recent rise in atmospheric CO2 is anthropogenic", but scientists rarely waste much time debunking wrong arguments. They wait until bad ideas get into credible peer-reviewed journals, beyond thinktank talks or even poster sessions.
Fired in May, emailed ~July 8: Salby emailed a few bloggers laying out many complaints against MU, quickly published by JoNova ("Did Macquarie University sabotage, exile, blackban, strand and abandon Murry Salby?"), Watts ("Professor Murry Salby who is critical of AGW theory, is being disenfranchised, exiled, from academia in Australia", reblogged by Tallbloke), Montford ("Climate of Fear"), Powerline (Steven Hayward, "The Climate Mafia Strikes Again…"). An article in The Australian was reblogged as Climate Chairman Left High And Dry By University by GWPF (of FOIA Facts 5) and Morano, who also wrote "the same." If a legal strategy, it seemed odd.
MU replied July 10, Statement regarding the termination of Professor Murry Salby. Unlike bloggers, schools follow legal rules, so it was short, including:
'The decision to terminate Professor Murry Salby's employment with Macquarie University had nothing to do with his views on climate change nor any other views. The University supports academic freedom of speech and freedom to pursue research interests. Professor Salby's employment was terminated firstly, because he did not fulfil his academic obligations, including the obligation to teach. After repeated directions to teach, this matter culminated in his refusal to undertake his teaching duties and he failed to arrive at a class he had been scheduled to take.'
On July 12, MU gave more information to deny allegations in The Australian.
Although some blog commenters counseled caution, many instantly accepted without question Salby's allegations and that this was an attack on Salby's academic freedom, done only because Salby disagreed with mainstream climate science. Anti-Macquarie cartoons appeared at WUWT ("Josh on the Salby - Macquarie affair") and Bishop Hill ("Climate of smear - Josh 229").
P.T. Barnum? Many bloggers took Salby's complaints on faith as credible. They should not have, but might have wondered about past history as I did.
Salby had been since 1988 a tenured Professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU), a fine school. He was a board member of Denver "501(c)(3) tax-exempt" company ASA, headed by a person with whom he often coauthored papers. He had another company and other ties to the area, but then he seemed to disappear. ASA tax filings from 09/30/07 listed his location as "unknown" or equivalent. Why did he leave for Australia?
He was forced to resign 01/31/08
in 2007 and by 2009 had been debarred by the National Science Foundation (NSF) from Federal funding until 08/13/12.
By 2008, he was at MU, which seems unlikely to have known of the confidential investigations under way in the USA. While at MU, Salby sued CU twice, 11/19/08-03/18/09 in Federal court, and then 04/14/09-02/01/10 in Colorado, with little result but making Federal court records easily available. MU and CU problems with Salby seem akin, as do Salby's behavior and complaints against both schools and NSF. At least for CU and NSF, extensive documentation is available from the NSF and Federal court records. Salby's email and blogospheric propagation led directly to the information revealed here.
The NSF publishes semiannual reports, although identities are obscured, but in this case are clear from later reports, which make even stronger complaints.
p.34 'Former Professor's Involvement in Outside Companies Questioned:
An OIG investigation into an allegation that a former professor (Salby) at a Colorado university submitted a proposal to NSF that overlapped with an undisclosed proposal from an external non-profit research company (ASA) founded by the subject, resulted in a recommendation of debarment. The university and our office both conducted investigations into improper award management and conflicts of interests. NSF had concurrent awards to the subject at the university and the first company, but more recently only to the company.
Our investigation revealed that the subject, consistently and over a period of many years, violated or disregarded various federal and NSF award administration requirements, violated university policies related to conflicts and outside compensation, and repeatedly misled both NSF and the university as to material facts about his outside companies and other matters relating to NSF awards. After many years of operation of the first company, the subject created a second, for-profit company (ASMP) that acted as a subcontractor to the first company. The subject was the sole owner and employee of the second company, which existed solely to receive grant funds from the first company and pay them to the subject as salary. The subject failed to notify NSF of the subcontracting relationship with the second company, and improperly failed to limit indirect charges for the subcontract costs to the first $25,000 as required.
The university repeatedly asked the subject to disclose all outside financial interests, and he repeatedly withheld information about the funds he re-ceived from his companies; when the university learned the truth, it severely restricted his access to its research facilities. The professor then resigned from his tenured faculty position.
When we asked him to supply supporting documentation for the salary payments, the subject provided timesheets reflecting highly implausible work hours—for example, the subject claimed effort averaging nearly 14 hours a day for 98 continuous days between May and August 2002 (including weekends and holidays), and in other instances claimed to have devoted as much as 21 hours per day to the project. We recommended that NSF debar the subject for five years, and NSF's decision is pending.'
p.27 'NSF Acts on Debarment Recommendations. …
NSF debarred each of the following individuals for three years: …
A former professor who violated or disregarded various federal award administration requirements, violated university policies regarding conflicts of interests and outside compensation, and repeatedly misled both NSF and university investigations into the matter.9 (9 March 2009 Semiannual Report, p. 34.)'
The 31-page NSF final report 02/20/09* is far more explicit about the financial maneuvers and deception, with details far beyond these examples:
p.4 'The Subject's fifteen-year-long pattern of deceptive statements to his University and to NSF disguised his participation in entities and activities that existed for the purpose of maximizing his personal financial compensation and shielding the extent of his compensation from discovery or accountability.'
p.18 'The most egregious act of misconduct is the deficient and likely fraudulent** preparation of the Subject's time and effort reports for Company 2. However, the Subject's actions over a period of years displays a pattern of deception, a lack of integrity, and a persistent and intentional disregard of NSF and University rules and policies.'
p.21 'the charges based on the reports may also be an unallowable cost in the total amount of $303,281.'
p.23 'The Subject's focus on his personal financial gain conflicted with accountability and disclosure requirements, both to the University and to NSF. When these conflicts were uncovered during the investigation, the Subject's response was to continue and expand his pattern of deception and obfuscation, and to begin personal attacks on his former colleagues….(fn99) [Redacted] stated in an interview in April 2008 that the Subject blames him for the University and Federal investigation, even though the Subject directed all actions of Company 1 and Company 2, and received the financial benefits of the malfeasance.' From IRS Form 990s, [Redacted] must be Patrick F. Callaghan, Salby's long-time co-author and colleague.
Fortunately for Salby, he left the USA by 2008, else both NSF and the IRS may have wished to have further words with him.
Court Cases
Federal court documentation offers useful insight into Salby's behavior.
Federal Lawsuit, 1:08-cv-02517-RPM Salby v. University of Colorado et al
11/19/08 Cover Sheet Murry Salby (no county of residence) vs CU and Provost Phil DeStefano, under US Civil Statute 42 USC, Sec 1983, "Retaliation for exercise of First Amendment Rights." i.e., freedom of speech.
11/19/08 Main Complaint, 8 pages.
'Plaintiff Salby was a resident of Adams County, Colorado, who now resides in Australia. He had been a tenured professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences with defendant University of Colorado since 1997 and a tenured professor in predecessor departments since 1988. …
This Court has jurisdiction over this matter because plaintiff Salby claims that he was forced to resign in retaliation for the exercise of his first amendment rights (free speech) and that the University violated his fourth amendment rights…. (unreasonable search and seizure)
Between 1997 and 2000, Professor Salby brought grievances involving the departmental chair, Peter Webster. (Now Georgia Tech, Judith Curry's husband) …
8. From December, 2006, through August, 2007, Professor Salby was on a second sabbatical leave outside the United States. …
Address of Plaintiff Salby:
20 22 Abbott St
Sandringham, Vic 3191
Salby then lodged against CU many complaints, which might be compared to those against MU, and also to NSF's detailed report.
01/15/09 UC Moves to Dismiss, 8 pages (of legalese.)
01/16/09 UC and Provost DiStefano Answer the complaint, 5 pages.
They esentially deny all the relevant allegations.
02/25/09 Affidavit of Philip DiStefano, 6 pages.
02/25/09 Affidavit of Russell Moore,Assoc. Vice-Chancellor, Research, 18 pages.
This detailed CU's long struggle with Salby, warnings, etc. CU clearly understood its responsibilities for Federal funds, perhaps in contrast to George Mason.
02/25/09 Affidavit of Frank W. Bruno, Vice Chancellor Administration, 2 pages.
Salby does not own his CU lab space.
02/25/09 DiStefano motion for summary judgment, 19 pages.
p.14 'Attempts to communicate with Salby were impossible, and he often failed to attend his scheduled classes.'
Salby's teaching ratings were usually in bottom 15-20% for ATO 1050 (introductory course), but Fall 2007 was ATOC 3180, usually better, but unsurprisingly, not this time. Accessiblity was rated low.
03/09/09 Salby moves to dismiss Federal claims, refile in state court, 2 pages.
03/18/09 Salby moves to avoid summary judgement, refile, 2 pages.
'Given the discovery produced by Mr. DiStefano in his summary judgment brief, Professor Salby will file a slightly different complaint in state court and the matter can be reasserted there under the new allegations.'
03/19/09 Case dismissed without prejudice, 1 page.
UPDATE 08/23/13: Salby tried in Colorado state court, whose 195-page record is now available, attached here with consistent pagination and some highlighting.
04/14/09 pp.186-192 Salby filed against CU, DiStefano, John Does, including demands for costs, attorney's fees, punitive damages, etc.
05/13/09 pp.173-176 DiStefano rejected allegations.
05/26/09 pp.165-169 CU rejected allegations.
06/15/09 pp.156-157 CU 10/01/07 to Salby: COI form or else action.
06/15/09 p.133 Salby 01/29/08 to CU: retire 01/31/08, claims constructive discharge, give him property and all data or federal agencies will be notified.
06/15/09 pp.103-121 DiStefano moves for summary judgement/dismissal.
06/09/09 pp.72-77 Stalby 09/28/08 letter to DiStefano, "preposterous" etc
07/09/09 pp.63-70 Salby moves to deny DiStefano motion to dismiss
07/23/09 pp.55-57 Kelly Duong describes Salby's lack of cooperation. pp.44-48 Brian Toon (Dept Chair) explains procedures, Salby to be given unsupervised acess to sort things out. CU and Salby's story differ.
07/23/09 pp.32-41 DiStefano repiles in support of dismissal
10/28/09 pp.27-31 Court: summary judgment for DiStefano, dismissed
11/0 9/09 pp. 18-26 Salby moves to reconsider dismissal
11/19/09 pp.13-16 DiStefano responds in opposition to reconsider
12/10/09 pp.7-10 Salby moves to reconsider, court DENIED.
01/12/10 p.6 Court says show cause why case should not be dismissed for failure to prosecute or failure to file pleadings, else case will be dismissed without prejudice and costs awarded by C.R.S. 12-16-113(1), Salby would pay defendant costs.
02/01/10 p.2 Case Closed, with no Judgment.
Given the NSF report, it seems unlikely this case produced anything to Salby's liking either. After all the fuss:
'The University and Plaintiff have resolved and settled all issues between them and as part of their agreement stipulate that this lawsuit be dismissed with prejudice, each party to bear its own fees, costs and expenses.
WHEREFORE, the parties respectfully request that this action and all claims herein be dismissed with prejudice .'
Readers can form own opinions, but mine is: Salby wasted much time and money of CU and DiStefano. Judges simply did not buy his complaints. Finally, Salby was told he would pay defendants' costs if he didn't start doing something more useful, and settlement happened very quickly. This may be compared with Murry Salby responds to the attacks on his record:
'Later after Salby left CU in 2008 to come to Australia, Colorado University withheld his computer files and work. After requests for those were also ignored, he launched a case from Australia, and won access to everything — CU paid legal costs as well.'
Salby had had been given unsupervised access to his lab in 2007, and CU did not pay his costs, just theirs, and he could not sue them again on this issue.
Salby was earlier involved in complex divorce proceedings, relevant here only because there seemed to be financial issues and possibly attempts to hide money, consistent with NSF findings:
'…for purposes that may have included concealing outside compensation from his University, or concealing income from a state court,21 or both.
(fn21) [Redacted]. See [redacted]. The court reviewed Subject's income for 1999-2002. Charges accrued by Company 2 for Subject's efforts in 2001 and 2002 were not billed to Company I until 2003.'
That case was:
10/06/05 Colorado Court of Appeals, Shoshana (Eva) A. Salby vs Murry L. Salby.
'Temporary orders were entered in November 2001 under which the parties'child was to reside primarily with mother, and father was ordered to pay family supportof $2000 per month. …In August 2002, the court entered permanent orders regarding parenting time and the allocation of parental responsibility. It designated mother as the primary residential parent, awarded father parenting time, and directed that the parties share decision-making responsibility. The marriage was dissolved in November 2002.
In January 2003, mother moved for the forthwith entry of an order continuing family support, alleging that father had stopped paying support after the decree of dissolution entered. The trial court ordered that the temporary orders be continued until entry of written permanent orders and denied father's later motion for reconsideration. In April 2003, the court entered permanent orders on the division of marital property and all other remaining issues. Father appeals the temporary and permanent orders entered by the court. …
The court found that there had not been full disclosure by either party, and that based on the totality of the evidence regarding the value of the property, enforcement of the agreement would result in mother receiving assets valued at $123,000, while father retained over $1 million in total property, including $700,000 in marital property. The court refused to enforce the agreement, finding that father's actions were inconsistent with his obligation to deal fairly with mother, and that enforcement of the agreement would not result in a fair, just, or reasonable division of property between the parties.' (much detaill, but later rulings (as on financial settlments) are not public)
Salby apparently rejected this result, as he later sued the state of Colorado:
Federal Lawsuit, 1:07-cv-00225-LTB-MJW Salby v. State of Colorado
01/03/07 Cover sheet, Fourth, Fifth & Fourteenth Amendments,
Denial of Plaintiff's Consitutional Rights, $275K damages sought
01/03/07 Complaint, by Murry Salby, 10698 Hobbit Lane,Westminster, CO, 11 pages. Salby made many statements and complaints about the Mother, expressed concerns for the child.
05/01/07 Judge recommends dismissal, 5 pages, mostly comments like:
'Nevertheless, the plaintiff failed to appear, did not move for a continuanceof the conference, and did not even telephone the court at the time set for the
05/29/07 Case dismissed, some administrivia continued through 01/22/08.
01/10/11 Federal Lawsuit, 1:11-cv-00068 Alon Salby v. State of Colorado
According to Salby, Colorado, CU, NSF, MU and various other individuals have treated him unfairly and illegaly, were wrong to do so, so he sued often, but lost.
People might compare the NSF OIG report on Salby to other OIG examples and decide whether or not he got off lightly, compared to USA residents.
Galileo: NO. Salby is not Galileo.
Bozo: NO. Salby is a climate scientist, has written a textbook thought reasonable.
P.T.Barnum: YES. Salby has a well-documented history of financial chicanery, deception and unwillingness to listen to warnings. If he was increasingly unable to produce much good science, perhaps he moved to anti-science to retain attention, get (paid?) speaking engagements at thinktanks, as per FIN3, PSY3 in reasons.
Bozos: YES, many. Some people apparently accept anything that agrees with their views, without ever bothering to do even minimal credibilty checks.
* H/T to Graham Readfearn for finding the NSF Final Report, which must have been FOIAed sometime before, as such are not otherwise made public. See also Graham's story. H/T to Paul W for fetching the 195-pager from Denver.
** Fraudulent is not a word used lightly. People can be required to restore money, with penalties, or go to jail. Of course, Salby was in Australia, and did not seem to return to the USA even to appear in court cases.
UPDATE 07/19/13: Added Salby blame of Callaghan, CU's comment on not showing for classes Fall 2007.
UPDATE 07/30/13: Fixed quote about teaching.
UPDATE 08/23/13: added discusison of the Colorado case
UPDATE 10/01/13: fix quoting, add quote from NSF on Colorado court case.
UPDATE 10/13/13: added 2011 Federal complaint by Salby's son against State of Colorado, unclear whose idea this was.
UPDATE: 03/19/14: NSF changed website, link to Wayback copy of 31-page report.
Image Credit: YCO / Shutterstock.
|1.1 - Salby Fderal Complaint Cover Sheet
|11- UC Motion to Dismiss
|12- UC and DiStefano answer complaint
|19.1- Affidavit of Philip DiStefano
|19.2- Affadavit of Russell Moore
|19.3- Affidavit of Frank W. Bruno
|19-Main DiStefano Motion for Summary Judgment
|20- Salby moves to dismiss Federal
|21- Salby requests no rule on summary judgment
|22- Case dismissed
|Cover sheet, Salby vs State of Colorado, Bill Ritter
|1-main Salby vs State of Colorado
|05- Jiudge recommends dismissal
|9 Case dismissed
|Salby vs CU, DiStefano, 09CV3789
|A. Salby vs State of Colorado, 2011
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Good job John, thoughtful questions as always.
Judge a man by his questions, rather than his answers. –>Voltaire
John Mashey replied on Permalink
We try, and every investigation raises more questions, and this isn't done.
John Mashey replied on Permalink
Who knows?
Having looked at his history (and there is more that isn't out yet), it is really hard to tell. There is some data:
2005 He appealed a divorce settlement, less clear, but obviously didn't like result:
2007 Sued State of Colorado for above, but basically wasn't willing to show up.
2008 He sued CU, in Federal court, they replied, he folded, asked for dismissal, so he could file:
2009 Similar suit in state court, which went a while, then nowhere.
So, what do you think? Mabye he can talk for Sydney Instiute, EIKE, GWPF, etc and make the money to hire lawyers … because according to him, he has never done anything wrong, it's been everyone else's fault.
Hard to say.
A professor in the sciences generally does pretty well. My guess is that his motivations were ego and money driven. Both of which are shot to pieces.
Just looking at the denial machine financials, it doesn't look like there's much money in it unless you're a pretty important and central figure. So that's a no go.
There's no work in 'industry' for someone like this either.
He's left a digital foot print a mile wide. You can't hide that kind of thing.
So where's he going to land? My bet is a professorship with a much tighter leash. He will need to be more vocal in his anti science views in order to garner more cash from the denial machine.
PS. I don't trust people who won't admit fault. Self deprecation goes a long ways with me.
John Mashey replied on Permalink
Let's see:
Let's see:
0) Few people outside of climate science would have heard of him until 2011, when he started saying things akin to Gerlich-Tscheuschner or Ferenc Miskolczi, i.e., lots of math yields "No Greenhouse" or "not caused by humans" in contradiction to vast evidence. A few minutes with Google Schoalr would show that he's written well-cited papers, and was tenured at a school credible in this topic, so it wasn't that he was some ignorant bozo. BUT:
1) NSF ruled long-running fraudulent and deceptive activities, 3-year debar, and from the writeup, they were not happy.
2) He lodged complaints against CU and PEter Webster ~1997-2000. I don't know what happened with those.
3) He sued CU in Federal court, when CU replied, he folded, mvoed to state court, and that ended up going nowhere.
4) He sued state of Colorado over divorce appeal, but didn't show up or act responsively, so that got dismissed.
5) There was a 15-20 year pattern of deception, blame of others, strong complaints that cheweed up a lot of time, but generally went nowhere.
6) MU seemed willing to keep this fairly quiet, but he explicitly chose otherwise. The real facts of the case are yet to be known, although at least some of his complaints seem contradictory or unlikely. For instance, "recruited from the US in 2008" is a bit ambiguous and might be read with a grain of salt. He was udner serious pressure in the US in 2006 and then 2007, spent Jan-Aug 2007 in Australia, and then started at Macquaire in (early) 2008, his house was sold by June.
7) But, this whole thing started with serious allegations for which the only support was his story, and given his recorded history, his story alone might not carrry much weight.
8) But, even if it's all true, I'd suggest that in academe, eh is effectively radioactive. I think he managed the job at Macquarie before the NSF investigation was completed, and even if MU checked with CU, it seems unlikely they would have been told much, given the yet-unresolved investigation. Salby hasn't bene publishing much of late, and now he is famous.
9) But, maybe one of the thinktanks will offer him a Galileo-in-residence position, although likely not resident in the US.
I'd contact the wife. It might be illuminating.
Private Life
Keep Salby's private life out of this and focus on his professional behavior.
John Mashey replied on Permalink
I wouldn't, she's had a hard
I wouldn't, she's had a hard enough time.
The only reasons for mentioning the divorce proceedings and appeals are:
1) They show Salby filing lawsuits, with strong complants about the mother, some of which the court didn't buy. Then, he sued state of Colorado on earlier ruling, when he was going to be in Oz, so didn't bother to show up or even cooperate.
2) There is information about finances that I don't think is in the NSF investigations, and they shed light on the timing of the creation of Company 2. There was a lot of argument in the divorce case about whether or not consulting time counted in assessment of child support payments. It seemed Company 2 started while in the middle of (messy) divorce proceedings, and it may have helped obscure the money. I'm not pursuing that, and divorces are often "he-said-she-said," so I offer no opinion beyond those of the courts, at least one of which seems to have not executed well.
3) But, the divorce records add evidence to a pattern: Salby consistently blamed the mother, the courts, the state of CO, and CU. Maybe he was right, and everybody was just treating him badly.
4) There are other issues, yet to be resolved.
5) Finally, when someone has a contentious past, with an NSF debarment, and has made a bunch of lawyers mad at them, it might not be wise to jump into the spotlight. He is famous now. Within a few hours of the blog post appearing, people were looking around. For me, the reason was simple: when someone has been a tenured prof for ~20 years,at one school, it is rather rare for them to voluntarily leave for halfway around the world, except for a big boost in position or university ranking. NCAR is just up the hill from CU, and CU is well-established in atmospheric sciences, so this seemed at best a lateral move, and odd, given my experience with universities. It took very little time to start finding the back history. I have sympathy for his ex-wife, and most of all for his son, and thiswas one messy divorce with him in the middle. But, Salby prepared fraudulent materials, effectively stealing money from US taxpayers.
Nuf said...
I realize I'm being ghoulish.
In my personal experience if you can't get information from the front door, you can get a lot from the back door.
You've raised enough concerns that unless you had a pretty direct line of questioning, you shouldn't even bother asking.
Brian G Valentine replied on Permalink
Sorry but
Neither Bozo nor P T Barnum attempted to defraud the public by promoting some quack "science."
NSF may well have had legitimate gripes with Salby, although couldn't be too bad because any proven fraud will disbar somebody from receiving public funds for life.
On the other hand, it appears very likely that Maquarie U did abandon Salby becuase they didn't like the flavor of Salby's "message."
"There's nothing to fear from CO2 in the air." Some folks just can't stand to hear that message and will go to any lengths to shoot the messenger and encourage others to do the same. Go figure.
So John, go find a few shovelfuls of dirt to throw on me and show everybody how great you are and how crummy I am. That appears to be your authentic talent.


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