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5-18-15; IL Speaker Madigan Jamming IL WC Reform for a "Fail;" Is the Worker an Employee or Independent Contractor by Arik Hetue, JD; Are IL Gov't Fake Pensions "Unfundable?" and more/
Synopsis: Springfield Update—IL Speaker Madigan to Jam WC Reform Legislation for a "Fail."
Editor's comment: As you read this, IL House Speaker Michael Madigan set two different "Committees as a Whole" in the Illinois House—a "Committee as a Whole" hearing is a combined hearing for all members of the Illinois General Assembly. In both such hearings, the testimony at the first hearing was directed at knocking down the proposed IL WC reforms with a second session designed to rail and rock against caps on medical malpractice claims or tort reform. It appeared to us the Illinois Trial Lawyers Ass'n effectively got control of the inner workings of the Illinois General Assembly to dominate the hearings and present their positions on either subject. The amount of testimony from the side of Illinois business was relatively limited.
Did this strategy work? Well, this morning the news was Speaker Madigan was calling the WC reforms for a vote on Thursday, May 21, 2015. What is odd about that announcement is the IL WC reform measures haven't been reduced to actual legislation by their sponsors. All we have seen to date are media proposals from new Governor Rauner without any real language for the legislators to actually consider or seek to modify, as they always do. We assume Governor Rauner and his team continue to troll for WC reform votes from our legislators without having to actually write anything down.
What it appears may now happen is House Speaker Madigan is going to have his staff create and propose similar WC "reform legislation" so that can be called for a vote and then knocked out by the heavily Democrat-controlled General Assembly. Obviously Speaker Madigan feels he has little to no concern about any meaningful WC reform passing. We assume the expectations of Speaker Madigan in using this unusual tactic is to quell debate and get WC reform off the State's agenda so they can move forward to deal with other issues that have been discombobulated by our kooky legislators in years past.
As we have repeatedly advised our readers, we feel the true WC reform in this state is going to come from our hearing officers at both the Arbitration and Commission level. If they start to handle "causation" or "major contributing cause" with a common sense approach, you don't need WC legislative reform. If they start to handle the "traveling employee" concept consistent with the language of the IL WC Act that requires an accident to "arise out of" the employment, you don't need WC legislative reform. Arbitrators and Commissioners can currently deal with impairment ratings as they feel best, even as they consider all the other statutory factors in the IL WC Act.
In short, we hope our administrators start to apply the current English-language version of the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act and drive our State to the middle of the fifty United States and get workers' comp reform off the legislative agenda. When that happens, Speaker Madigan and his troops can stop their shenanigans and public relations fluff.
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Synopsis: Is the Worker an Employee or an Independent Contractor? Recent Case Law Clarifies IL's Position on this Complex Question. Thoughts and analysis by Arik D. Hetue, J.D.
Editor's comment: We have seen this scenario played out many times in the past, and business is always trying to navigate a very sticky wicket of how to have just enough control over a worker such that they will be classified as an independent contractor. Over the past 10 years, the rise of former trucking companies which style themselves as logistics companies who then farm out the driving to "independent" drivers was the most recent version of this intricate dance. Please, Illinois business, be careful when trying to tango with our law.
In the case of Steel & Machinery Transportation v. IWCC, published on May 1, 2015, the IL Appellate Court, WC Division confirmed, again, the more control over a driver a company asserts, the more likely the driver will be found to be an employee of the company. As many of our readers are aware, there is no bright line rule for this classification. In Illinois, as in many of our sister states, we resort to a multi-factor analysis to determine a driver's status. Among the various issues to be analyzed are who is providing the insurance, how the driver is paid, who controls the routes, who decides the jobs, whether logos are in place, and a variety of other factors. We have seen in the past the primary factors will generally be the nature of the work, who controls the work, and whether the driver has independent WC insurance.
In 4-1 split decision, the Workers Compensation Division of the Illinois Appellate Court ruled a truck driver was entitled to our generous IL WC benefits after his injuries from a crash necessitated the partial amputation of his leg since he was an "employee" of the company that hired him to transport a load from Indiana to Wisconsin.
The facts were essentially uncontested – Driver Radomir Cvetkovski worked as an over-the-road truck driver and he owned his own tractor-trailer. In June 2005, Respondent Steel & Machinery Transportation contracted with Mr. Cvetkovski to transport a shipment of steel from Indiana to Wisconsin. After Mr. Cvetkovski picked up the load in Indiana, he drove his vehicle to a truck stop, and then went home for the weekend as the delivery was due on Monday. On Monday morning, he left to deliver the load, but during his transit to WI, he was in a severe accident and the result was a below-the-knee amputation to his left leg.
Mr. Cvetkovski filed a claim for IL WC benefits, but Steel & Machinery disputed the claim, arguing it should be denied as Mr. Cvetkovski was an "independent contractor." Please note his "independence" did not include the purchase of a policy of WC insurance to cover himself in case of a work-related loss or injury. An Arbitrator, the Commission, and the Circuit Court all agreed Mr. Cvetkovski satisfied the requirements to be considered an employee and awarded benefits.
Among the facts related to this finding, the most important tended to be in the area of control – while Claimant owned the truck he was driving, according to the Agreement between the parties, the truck and equipment used were for Steel & Machinery's "exclusive possession, control and use for the duration of [the] Agreement." Also – while Claimant was on driving routes, the testimony indicated he drove solely for Respondent during his years working with them, and he suffered negative consequences if he ever turned down a delivery. While he could technically work for other parties, the Agreement subjected this activity to a wide range of subjective hoops he would have to jump through and approval would be required before he could do so. While driving, he would be contacted every couple of hours by a Respondent dispatcher, who would direct routes and deliveries.
Going the other way, there were facts that lead to an inference Claimant was an independent contractor – specifically, his ownership of the truck, payment of upkeep for the truck, his per job payments with no tax withholdings, and the fact the company did not require him to submit to a dress code or appearance code.
In any case, this determination was a finding of fact – and as such, following the Commission decision, it could only be overturned under the business-dreaded "manifest weight of the evidence" standard. In light of the fact there were reasonable facts on both sides of the employee/independent contractor question, either decision by the Commission would have been sustained under the manifest weight standard. As any defense veteran knows, this is an extraordinary burden to meet.
Presiding Justice William Holdridge issued a very interesting dissent where he noted "under our court's current interpretation of the law, it has become virtually impossible for a trucking company and an independent driver/lessor to structure their relationship in a way that reliably precludes a finding of an employment relationship, even if that is the clear and expressed intent of both parties." Justice Holdridge felt a more reasonable approach would be to adopt a position allowing a trucking company's compliance with regulations that require it to exercise control over a driver to not equate to evidence of the company's control over the driver for the purposes of determining the driver's contractor status. What this means for us in IL business is the more control, the more likely it is an employee status. Even if the control asserted is required under federal law. Please be very careful in how you handle such relationships.
Editor's note: If this employer "forced" or otherwise required this claimant to have his own WC coverage and provide a certificate of insurance to them, there is a much stronger chance this driver would have been viewed as "independent." It is our view, as the driver had no WC coverage, the reviewing court put the WC coverage on the company that had it. We tell all our clients and readers—never, ever hire a sole proprietor to work for you and allow them to "opt-out" of WC coverage. It can be financially disastrous to do so—if you aren't sure, send a reply and we will explain further. Please note, this claim involved an partial leg amputation. The cost of such a claim could be $300K or over seven-figures, if the guy can never drive or work again. You may also note the claim has been pending for around 10 years—litigation costs are probably high.
An Illinois worker who is injured for an employer that doesn't have any WC coverage for them can:
- Sue in Circuit Court for the injuries;
- Sue at the IL Work Comp Commission too;
- Any benefits received from either venue don't offset;
- The employee can "pierce the corporate veil" and seek to go after the employer's personal assets;
- It is a felony to operate in IL without WC coverage.
This article was researched and written by Arik D. Hetue, J.D. who can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. If you would like to review a copy of this decision, please feel free to email him with any comments or concerns, or you can post them to our award winning blog!
Synopsis: Another Quick Thought on IL Fake Government Pensions—It is Hard to Pre-Fund Them When The Multi-Million Dollar Benefits Are The Equivalent Of Winning the Lottery!
Editor's comment: A reader sent us a quick note about articles being published across our state by Robert Rich who is the retired director of the Institute of Gov't and Public Affairs at the U. of I. If you want links, send a reply. His articles follow a tired theme—why doesn't IL government simply "pre-fund" what is or will be due on the state government fake pensions? Trust us, that sounds simple but isn't nearly that easy when you consider how lucrative the fake pensions are when the workers get to the money.
We assure you some of the fake pensions are simply "unfundable" if you understand the math. Pensions are supposed to be pre-funded with three sources—personal contributions, "matching" state contributions and investment income. When they are not pre-funded, the "pension clause" requires taxpayers to make up the balance after the sometimes retired worker leaves gov't employ. So consider pre-funding one legislative fake pension. Just one. Please note the late Judy Baar Topinka was a legislator for six years. As a legislator, she made $60K a year and put in 10% of her salary to become vested in only four years of service. Her total personal contribution to the fake pension plan in six years was six years times $6K a year or $36K. When she passed, she was seventy years old. Her annual pension for six years of work was $150K or 2-1/2 times her highest legislative salary.
If Judy lived to 90 years of age, and lots of folks are living to ninety, she would have received $150K a year with annual 3% compounded increases over twenty more years. Her annual fake pension payout would have doubled to over $300K. In short, she would have received another $4-5M in that time. Try to get your head around Judy making a $36K contribution while working for us and then be entitled to literally millions and millions after working for us. As Mr. Rich's articles validly point out, most of the "unfunded money" is "back-funded" and therefore comes from current tax dollars. The eventual payout to all Illinois legislators is the equivalent to winning the Lottery when you consider they can easily get millions for a four-year contribution less than $50,000.
To pre-fund or set aside what is needed to justify that much pension money for Judy Baar Topinka, the State of IL would have had to put about $500,000 a year or more into Judy's pension fund every year she was working as a legislator. That is a LOT of pre-funding. There are 113 Illinois legislators and they change with great regularity. We assure you President Obama was in our General Assembly and is eligible for the same fake pension right now and can also receive millions over the rest of his life for his limited IL pension contributions.
We assure you this math is accurate. We are not annuitants, like Mr. Rich but we are sure for our State to pay out $4-5M in fake pension benefits over 20 years, you need to start with something like $3M or more. The current annual amounts being back-funded and annually paid to former Illinois legislators is over a quarter of a billion dollars a year and continuing to rise. In our view, our fake legislative pension program is designed to be "unfundable" and seems similar to legislators stealing our tax dollars to almost secretly get that much from us long after they have stopped working in the legislature. The judicial fake pension set-up is similarly shockingly unfundable and pays millions to each jurist after they have left the bench. As another egregious fake pension, City of Chicago school teachers only contribute 2% of their annual income to their pensions—in 20 years to become vested, they haven't put one full year of salary into the "kitty." That pension system is relatively "unfundable" costing Chicago taxpayers billions. Hard-working taxpayers hated welfare programs because folks got lots of your money for doing nothing. Why doesn't that same ethic apply to fake government pensions?
Either way, while they are working for us, we don't want to pay any legislator their annual salary and set aside literally millions in their four years of service to pre-fund these gigantic lifetime pensions. Illinois legislators aren't full time employees—the legislature is in session about 50 days each year! Lots of them don't have 100% attendance and show up when something important happens.
We vote Illinoisans consider Con-Con--an emergency constitutional convention and rewrite the whole thing. In making that recommendation, we would end the legislative fake pension program completely—there is no reason a part-time worker earns a generous lifetime pension with guaranteed annual increases after only four years of part-time service. And as a final note, we agree with Mr. Rich to the extent that we feel our IL Constitution should have a "taxpayer-protection" clause requiring any and all money used for a government pension should have to come from either the pensioners' contributions or whatever the Government paid to match their money while they were employed by taxpayers.
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Synopsis: Can the IL WC Community Help Dominic Secure His Forever Friend!
Editor's comment: Please consider making a donation to Dominic's GoFundMe account to aide in efforts to obtain a service dog. Dominic is an amazing 7-year-old non-verbal autistic boy who was recently diagnosed with seizures in January of 2015. It became very clear he needed to do more on a more personal level to help Dominic with his confidence and self-esteem. Research on service dogs followed and the family learned this was the right choice. This young man struggles on a daily basis to dress himself, bathe himself and almost daily suffers from self-injurious behavior because of his inability to be able to communicate. The family reached out to an organization called Argos Unlimited K9 who work with service dogs and they immediately told the family they would be able to help Dominic! Some of the things they will be able to assist Dominic with are
· To help prevent him from wandering or running away by wearing a tether or barking to alert us of his whereabouts that are not safe.
· To help with self-soothing during melt-downs. The tactile stimulation, whether by petting, hugging, or having the dog actually lie on the child, can help the child learn the skills of calming themselves.
· Socialization including serving as a "social bridge", so as children and adults come over and ask about the dog, the child with autism is prompted to answer. The parent should not answer questions, but should refer all inquiries to the child. Thus with the dog, rather than having just the parent or teacher try to bring the child out of their own world, the entire community is talking to the child.)
· 4)The dog will wear Dominic's communication device so that he will not have to travel to find it and he can communicate more easily.
· 5)Dominic has also show a great interest in water and the number 1 killer amongst children in children of the autistic community is accidental drowning. The service dog will be trained not only in water rescue but also to alert the family by barking if Dominic goes into the nearby lake in his subdivision or also gets into our bathtub without the family's knowledge.
This is where you come in……the cost of a service dog is $12,000.00. Since starting their GoFundMe account the family has been blessed with donations from other family members, colleagues and friends and would like to keep the momentum going for Dominic. They would like to share with you a picture of their beloved Dominic and the service dog Jax who is in training now to hopefully come to the family within the next 18 months to help Dominic in his daily living. She will attend school with Dominic and be a lifelong companion to not only Dominic but the family. They want to thank you all should you consider making a donation!
The attorneys at KCB&A have already donated and may donate even more. Consider $10, $25, $50 or $100—give what you feel best. To contribute to this great cause or for more info, go to http://www.gofundme.com/lk29y8


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I don't know if it was legal to hike out here in the dark, the parking lot was empty. But I knew a storm was coming so I raced down the trail and set up my camera. This lucky photo of the lighting has been a favorite of mine since that night.
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UPDATE: B.C. Oil and Gas Commission spokesperson Phil Rygg confirmed that there was an incident that occurred this morning, and that there was no environmental damage or risk to the public. OGC investigators responded to the incident to work with Emergency Management BC and other area first responders. Rygg says that the OGC has also been in contact with industry operators and Encana, who have begun emergency procedures.
FARMINGTON, B.C. – One worker has been taken to hospital after an explosion at an Encana Corporation facility near Farmington.
The Montney Water Resource Hub is situated roughly 20 kilometres northwest of Dawson Creek. Encana spokesperson Doug McIntyre says that the incident happened this morning at approximately 9:00 this morning. One worker was injured in the explosion and was transported to hospital. McIntyre says that the cause of the explosion is not known, but that there was no fire, nor was there evidence of a spill of any kind.
The facility extracts saline water that is unfit for human or agricultural use from a subsurface aquifer, which is then used in hydraulic fracturing operations in the Montney basin.
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I would love to commit to doing "Flower Friday" every week, but I know winter will come eventually, so from now on I will try to put together a post with a common theme that has a compilation of macro pictures. This week just happens to be flowers (and I like alliteration). These pictures were all taken with my new camera this week on Liberty University's campus. This one would probably be my favorite this week:
It finally looks like Spring and as I walk around campus I just love taking pictures of all the blossoming trees on campus. I hope you enjoy the way these look as well!


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Every morning I drive across the same set of rail road tracks. They're nothing special. Just typical railroad tracks on top of a mini hill and a set of lights and arms that stretch across just to stop traffic should a train be oncoming.
What I find interesting though, is that every time I go over these tracks, people either a) go over the tracks without paying attention or b) look for a train as they pass over the tracks.
The observation: People depend on the flashing lights and bells to tell them that the train is on it's way. What if a train was coming and the power was out? Or the lights simply weren't working? There are houses that line both sides of the track, so people wouldn't see the train until it was too late. They cross the track...SMASH!
We do this spiritually all the time. We get involved in something and think nothing of it. We say to ourselves that if something is wrong with this, God is going to send me flashing lights and bells to warn me. But we head straight on towards those tracks without looking for any danger. By the time we hit the track, we're so far gone we don't see the train coming and soon after that, there is a train wreck.
"Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he wil flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will life you up." - James 4:7-10
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If you want to reconfigure the lots or parcels within a recorded
plat, you will need to apply for a replat. The approval process starts with the tentative plan review outlined below and ends with finalizing your land survey.
Requirements for replats are contained in
Salem Revised Code (SRC) Chapter 205.
An application for a replat tentative plan is processed as a
Type II Procedure under
SRC Chapter 300.
Application. You must submit all required items listed in the application checklist section below to the Permit Application Center.
Completeness review. Staff reviews your application for completeness.
If the application is not complete, you will be notified as to what information is missing and will have 180 days to submit the additional information.
If all of the required information is submitted and the application is considered complete, a notice, indicating a public comment period of 14 days, is sent out to the you, the property owner, the neighborhood association, and all neighboring property owners within 250 feet.
You may track the status of your application online at the City of Salem permit tracking webpage.
Public comment period. Once the required information is submitted and the application is deemed complete:
Staff sends a notice of proposal to the applicant, property owner(s), neighborhood association, and all property owners within 250 feet, indicating a public comment period of 14 days.
Staff also prepares signs for the applicant to post along the street frontage(s) of the property for 10 to 14 days prior to the 14-day public comment period.
Conformance review. Once a complete application is submitted, staff reviews the proposed plan to determine if it meets the criteria in
SRC 205.025(d).
Decision. The Planning Administrator makes a decision to approve or deny your application depending on whether or not the proposal meets the applicable criteria.
Staff sends a copy of the decision (noting the 15-day appeal period) to you, the property owner, the neighborhood association, and to all neighboring property owners within 250 feet.
If you decide not to appeal the decision and the City Council does not initiate review of the application, the replat tentative plan decision becomes effective.
You need to apply in person at the Permit Application Center, bringing the following:
Completed land use application form. The
application form must be signed by the:
Property owner(s)
Duly authorized representative(s).
If the applicant and/or the property owner are a Limited Liability Company (LLC), you must also provide a list of all members of the LLC with your land use application.
Application fee. You must pay the
application fee when you file your application.
Recorded deed. You must submit a copy of the recorded deed for the existing units of land.
Trip Generation Estimate (TGE) form. You must complete a
TGE form and submit it to the Traffic Engineering section of the Public Works Department (Room 325). Staff will decide whether or not a Transportation Impact Analysis (TIA) is necessary.
If a TIA is not required, you must submit the completed and approved TGE form with your application.
If a TIA is required, the TIA must be completed and approved by Public Works prior to completion of all land use applications.
Written statement. You must provide a written statement that describes your proposal and how it meets the criteria for a replat tentative plan
[SRC 205.025(d)]:
The replat tentative plan does not propose to vacate any public street or road, or any recorded covenants or restrictions.
The replat tentative plan will not create nonconforming units of land or nonconforming development, or increase the degree of nonconformity in existing units of land or development.
The replat tentative plan complies with the standards of this Chapter and with all applicable provisions of the Unified Development Code (UDC).
The replat tentative plan complies with all applicable provisions of ORS Chapter 92.
The replat tentative plan is not prohibited by any existing City land use approval or previous condition of approval, affecting one or both of the units of land.
The replat tentative plan does not adversely affect the availability of, or access to, City infrastructure or public or private utilities or streets.
Title report. You must provide a current title report for the property.
Tree inventory and tree conservation plan. You must complete and submit a tree inventory on a form as provided by the Director and, if required under
SRC Chapter 808, a tree conservation plan.
Geological assessment or geotechnical report. You must submit a geological assessment or geo-technical report if required by
SRC Chapter 810.
Proposed stormwater management system. You must submit a description of the proposed stormwater management system, including pre- and post-construction conditions, prepared in accordance with the Public Works Design Standards.
Schematic utility plan. You must submit a schematic plan showing the location of existing and proposed City infrastructure.
Expedited land division form. You must submit an
expedited land division application form which explains a land division applicant's ability under state law to request an expedited land division process. You must indicate on this form whether you are requesting an expedited land division process.
Replat tentative plan. You must submit two copies of the replat tentative plan. One copy must be either 22" or 24" x 36" and the other a reproducible copy no larger than 11" x 17". The plan must include the following information:
Title Block:
Type of application (i.e., "Replat")
The names and addresses of the landowner
The names and addresses of the professional engineers or surveyors responsible for preparing the plan; date; and township, range and section of the subject property
Scale and north arrow
The location of all property lines within 50 feet of the perimeter of the subject property
The boundaries, dimensions, and area of each proposed lot
The location, width, and names of all existing streets, flag lot accessways, and public accessways abutting the perimeter of the subject property
The location, width, curve radius, grade, and names of all proposed streets, flag lot accessway, and public accessways
The location of all existing and proposed easements
The location, dimensions, and use of all existing and proposed public areas, including, but not limited to, stormwater management facilities and detention facilities
The location, dimensions, and use of any existing buildings and structures on the subject property, indicating which will remain and which will be removed
The location of any canals, ditches, waterways, detention facilities, sewage disposal systems, and wells on the subject property, indicating which will remain and which will be removed or decommissioned
The location of any natural topographic features on the subject property, including, but not limited to, creeks, drainage ways as shown on the most recent USGS maps, wetlands as shown on the Local Wetland Inventory, and flood plains
Once you have tentative plan approval, you will work with the City's Public Works Department and your land surveyor to finalize your land survey and record your
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The Panel with Dita de Boni and Lisa Scott (Part 2)
Topics - We will soon be able to watch live footage of Earth from outer space thanks to HD webcams that are about to be permanently fitted to the International Space Station. Is driving with a hangover just as dangerous as drink driving? An international study is being presented today at the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and Drugs conference in Brisbane. Police say they're considering adopting a lowered speed tolerance of 4kmh above the limit at all times if their summer campaign saves lives. The move will mark the first time the reduced speed tolerance is applied beyond an official holiday period.


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Departing Provost Cheryl Misak: A Profile
Renowned philosopher Cheryl Misak is completing her term as provost – the chief academic and budget officer – of the University of Toronto, a role she has held since 2009.
"Cheryl Misak has made a huge contribution to the University as provost", says President David Naylor. "I've thought at times that Cheryl was somehow genetically engineered for academic leadership. She has a dazzling analytical mind, a natural affinity for very smart students and great scholarship, and a profound understanding of the mission of the modern university. Package that up with vision, empathy, comfort with delegation, and boundless energy – and it's no wonder that so much was accomplished on Cheryl's watch."
Misak's latest book, The American Pragmatists, was published by Oxford University Press in April. This fall, she will teach a graduate course at New York University in the history of philosophy.
"Philosophy is about listening to reason and that's a good thing in an administrator," says fellow philosopher Professor Donald Ainslie, principal of U of T's University College. "Too often administrators aren't susceptible to argument – they've already decided what they're going to do– but Cheryl has an open mind and can be persuaded. That's a powerful capacity."
That Misak's expertise includes pragmatism, a philosophical position that links experience with truth, is also important, says Ainslie. He tells a story about a colleague who taught at the University of Lethbridge years ago.
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One of Misak's great gifts is her capacity to understand what's important in a system and what's not, says Ainslie.
"She has a really deep understanding of the systems that make the University what it is and the important elements that will take it to the next level. Her use of the budget model, for example, has been brilliant," Ainslie says. "She's used it to address some longstanding, historic inequities across the three campuses…and to help units do the things the University cares about, like connecting undergraduate students with graduate students and strengthening the first-year experience and the students' transition into U of T."
Misak credits a strong team of vice-provosts, deans and principals with helping to ensure that all students reap the benefits of attending a top-flight research institution.
"The University of Toronto is Canada's research powerhouse. It's the only university in Canada that consistently makes it into the top 20 in the world, across a vast range of disciplines. We need to preserve that gem for the country and make sure that that research strength is everywhere in our teaching mission, both with respect to graduate students and undergraduate students," Misak says. "If you go to other universities in Canada you will find Canada Research Chairs, for instance, not doing any or much undergraduate teaching, whereas our finest researchers want to be in the classroom and we have increased those opportunities for them."
Misak began her U of T career teaching philosophy at the Mississauga campus.
"I never set out to be an administrator," Misak says. "I was a very happy being a jobbing philosopher. But I was asked to become chair of the philosophy department and I found that if you care about something and it turns out you can be effective at nurturing and making it better, it's hugely rewarding."
That stint as chair marked the beginning of a series of administrative appointments. Misak moved to the downtown campus to take the helm of the Philosophy department but returned to Mississauga when asked to become dean of that campus.
"I cared deeply about the Mississauga campus and this was just at the point when it was departmentalizing," Misak says. "It had three big amorphous departments of humanities, social sciences, and sciences but now that the campus had become the size of a stand-alone university it was time to have more finely individuated departments.
"It was a really important moment…and I was keen to take on that challenge."
Two years later, Misak became acting vice-president and principal of the UTM campus.
"The Campus Police reported to me and Facilities and Services reported to me - it opened up a whole new world," Misak says. "It turns out administrative jobs are deeply interesting."
Misak, who received a BA from the University of Lethbridge, an MA from Columbia University, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford, is also a widely respected researcher with more than 40 scholarly articles. She has published and edited books with Oxford University Press, Routledge, and Cambridge University Press.
Misak is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has been a Humboldt Fellow at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, a Visiting Fellow of St. John's College Cambridge, and a Rhodes Scholar.
And she plays a devastating game of tennis.
"Cheryl is very competitive," says Ainslie. "She wants U of T to win. She wants U of T to get the best students, she wants U of T faculty to get the awards and she wants the University to be recognized as not just the best in Canada but one of the world's leaders."
Keeping U of T on its trajectory of excellence isn't easy, Misak says.
"It's remained one of the best universities in the world even though other universities are so much better funded than we are. People don't really understand that we run almost on fumes, and yet we run one of the top research institutions in the world."
With less funding to bring to its research partnerships, U of T must leverage its research excellence, says Misak. U of T's involvement in CUSP, the New York City-based Centre for Urban Science and Progress, is one example.
"CUSP is focussed on both research and education and it will be a wonderful opportunity for our students to get to spend some time in NYC and learn about the problems facing that city as well as the problems facing Toronto, London, Bombay, etc." Misak says. "We need to continue to make these very selective, very high-end partnerships at the University. But we have very little money to put into these partnerships – so what we put into them is our enormous research strength."
Along with pragmatism, Misak's own research focuses on the theory of truth, moral and political philosophy and, more recently, the philosophy of medicine.
In 1998 Misak almost died from a catastrophic infection that landed her in the emergency room of St. Michael's Hospital with acute respiratory distress syndrome. She spent weeks in a drug-induced coma before recovering.
In the language of the ER, her kind of case is known as a "big save".
Over the next decade, Misak analyzed and researched her experience. She served as a patient representative on St. Michael's critical care committee and published a series of articles for medical journals, emerging as a powerful voice on myriad aspects of her ICU experience, from the phenomenon known as ICU delirium, to the physical challenges of rehabilitation, to end-of-life issues.
"I have had the wonderful good fortune to speak to thousands and thousands of critical care people." Misak says. "I usually end these talks by saying that what I'm suggesting is a terribly unfair burden to place on their shoulders, because the circumstances involved in critical care medicine are incredibly complex morally. Their primary job is to haul people away from death's door, but they also have to make beastly and important ethical judgments.
"But I think it's important to articulate just how complicated these issues are and that's where being a philosopher comes in handy. That's what we do: we unwind complexities and we take things that one might have thought not complex, and we show that they are in fact complex."
Outgoing President David Naylor notes that Misak has at the same time a keen ability to bring clarity and focus to the most elaborate problems. "Cheryl makes hard things look simple. She cuts through all the noise and complexity to get at the academic and strategic core of any issue. She also has a wicked sense of humour and contagious positivity – two attributes that lifted everyone's spirits whenever there was some crisis or conflict."
Danielle Bromwich, assistant professor of Bioethics and Metaethics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, recalls her time as Misak's graduate student.
"Cheryl's an incredibly supportive and intellectually generous mentor," says Bromwich. "In 2004, Cheryl offered me the chance to co-teach an upper level Pragmatism course with her at UTM. Despite being excited, I was more than a little terrified by the prospect of teaching with one of the leading scholars in the field. But Cheryl believed in me. And she has this amazing ability to make daunting tasks seem not only manageable, but fun.
"Despite her schedule, she spent countless hours… giving me the kind of calm and constructive feedback that boosted my confidence in the classroom. It's because of Cheryl's mentoring that I won the Martha Lile Love teaching award that year, and developed a love of teaching."
Misak's entire family has invested in U of T: her husband is a professor of Law and Philosophy; her son just finished his undergrad in Peace, Conflict, and Justice Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs and is off to Oxford to do an MPhil in Comparative Politics; her daughter is going into her third year, studying Immunology. Both children are graduates of the Vic One program.
"I believe that the University of Toronto gives an unparalleled undergraduate education because we have stellar faculty members and our undergraduates have such wonderful access to them," Misak says. "So despite the fact that it probably wasn't easy for them as the provost's kids – although they have a different last name – I strongly encouraged them to come to the University of Toronto because I knew they would have a great education. And indeed they have had a great education."


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Research in medicine is ongoing, continually bringing to light new insight on how to manage diseases and promote health. As a result, what might have been state of the art drug therapy 10 years ago – or even 2 years ago – may no longer be the case. A current example of this is the use of daily aspirin. For decades, doctors have been recommending a "baby" or low-dose aspirin once a day to prevent a heart attack for just about all patients as they age. This no longer appears to be the case for a subset of patients.
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The ultimate dashboard tool / platform does not exist yet. 1. Image Source: Antivia DecisonPoint 2. Image Source: Microsoft: PowerBI 3. Feature Mapping – a simpler path from stories to executable acceptance criteria. AgileBI vs BEAM✲ vs Modelstorming. Feeling out of your element, dude?
Let me explain. Photo: Ginger Williams-Cook We've been blogging a lot recently about AgileBI, BEAM✲ and Modelstorming, and we use those terms somewhat interchangeably. I'll use this post to help you through the maze of terminology. The first thing to note is these terms are a hierarchy: each fits nicely inside the next. Agiles Requirements Engineering (RE) - Das agile Unternehmen. How to identify a good KPI. The Rule of Thumb for BOBJ Tool Selection. The Generic BI front-end Tool Selection Process. Finally – I'm blogging again.
Time flew by and "my life as a BI consultant" kept me busy with migrations from Oracle to Teradata or from BO XI 3.1 SP2 to SP6. Or maybe you've also heard about our BusinessObjects Arbeitskreis (can be translated as "workshop"), I'd call this the "only BOBJ dedicated conference in Europe": www.boak.ch It was a pleasure to build and execute an interesting agenda for our participants as well as welcoming great people like Jason Rose, Mani Srini, Saurabh Abhyankar, Mico Yuk or Carsten Bange.
I also had the pleasure to do the closing key note during BOAK. It was around BOBJ front-end Tool Selection. I used this opportunity to further develop a generic yet simple method how to approach the frontend tool selection. BI Picture Books (BI specific requirements engineering – part 2) Part 1 of this article you'll find here.
Illustrate available options using a BI Picture Book A BI Picture Book is a structured collection of "pictures" aka screenshots of features illustrating one or multiple products. It describes and illustrates the available options in a compact and easy to handle manual. It should help the user to identify what options they have in a given BI front end application.Referring to scenario A and B above, in an ideal world one would create a BI Picture Book during the initial tool selection process (scenario B).
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Nvidia GeForce GTS 450: Hello GF106, Farewell G92
Page 1:GeForce GTS 450: Farewell, G92
Page 2:GF106: Nvidia Revisits The Mainstream
Page 3:Tessellation Performance And HTPC Potential
Page 4:SLI Is The Key
Page 5:Test System And Benchmarks
Page 6:Benchmark Results: 3DMark Vantage
Page 7:Benchmark Results: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (DX9)
Page 8:Benchmark Results: Crysis (DX10)
Page 9:Benchmark Results: Aliens Vs. Predator (DX11)
Page 10:Benchmark Results: DiRT 2 (DX11)
Page 11:Benchmark Results: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (DX11)
Page 12:Benchmark Results: Just Cause 2
Page 13:Power Consumption And Temperatures
Page 14:Conclusion
Benchmark Results: Crysis (DX10)
This is the only other game that's old enough to let us fairly include Nvidia's GeForce GTS 250 and AMD's Radeon HD 4850. Surprisingly, both aging cards slip past the GeForce GTS 450 (as does the Radeon HD 5750 that Nvidia's latest was supposed to oust).
As the launch of Crysis 2 looms, this title becomes less and less important to the overall performance picture. However, it is nice that we have a demanding DirectX 10-class game that can demonstrate how viable last generation's DirectX 10 architectures still are today, especially in the face of few DirectX 11 effects requiring new cards.
- GeForce GTS 450: Farewell, G92
- GF106: Nvidia Revisits The Mainstream
- Tessellation Performance And HTPC Potential
- SLI Is The Key
- Test System And Benchmarks
- Benchmark Results: 3DMark Vantage
- Benchmark Results: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (DX9)
- Benchmark Results: Crysis (DX10)
- Benchmark Results: Aliens Vs. Predator (DX11)
- Benchmark Results: DiRT 2 (DX11)
- Benchmark Results: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (DX11)
- Benchmark Results: Just Cause 2
- Power Consumption And Temperatures
- Conclusion
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PoisonerMan, G92 still holds it own. What an amazing piece of technology.
welshmousepkSlightly underwhelming to be honest. the GTX 460 seems like a way better choice. or a 5770.
IzzyCraftWell now that it is competing with the 5750 maybe they will push both down to $100 and we wouldn't need to buy old G92 or R700's
teeoneimmeanyone else NOT so excited about this card?
skoraAs Chris pointed out with Tessellation, DX11 isn't going anywhere fast with the programmers. I'd say still go for a 1gb 4850 or CF two and really have a powerful GPU subsystem for the $200-$220 price point. By the time they are aged, you'll have 2nd gen DX11 GPUs out and the software will finally be available to use them.
eklipz330im still chuggin along on my hd 4850... and if i ever needed to, i can crossfire another one for a mere $90, these cards have been overpriced for a year
its a shame that ati's cards didn't drop in MSRP. hell, the hd 5850 is finally approaching it;s MSRP of $250 from a year ago. I was hopign last year by around this time, hd 5870 would be ~$200... it's not even close =[
JzcaesarMan, I was hoping to see some overclocking; hopefully, they'll be included in another article. But I agree with Chris: the 450 is a bit disappointing at $130.
one-shotYAWWWWNN....This card is putting me to sleep. I'm going to bed.
duk3I'd like a gtx 460 maxcore.
Perhaps a gtx 485 aka gtx 460 X2 would be nice as well.
sandypantsJust bought a second 4870 1 GB to complete my CF setup which was planned 1.5 years ago. Only $130 from Newegg. 4870 vs 450 is not a tough choice if you are buying for a dedicated gaming rig. The 4000 series are still very adequate.
cmartin011sleep sounds good, not impressed at all. nvidia wasted money on a card slower than previous generations, should have renamed the G92 again with a smaller die, less power more value what were they thinking???
megamanx00No, it can't play Crysis
tocbuxuWell i should stick w/ my 2 years old OC'ed GTS250
Tamz_mscQuote:The silver lining here is SLI. With two GeForce GTS 450s rendering cooperatively, we're seeing 190% of a single card's performance consistently. If two GeForce GTS 450s run $260 or so, then you're looking at a $40 premium over a single GeForce GTX 460 1 GB at $220. We're not as excited as we were after comparing two GTX 460s to a single GTX 480. But still, SLI's tremendous scaling potential remains a reason to keep two of these cards in mind for a future upgrade.
This is the only reason to get this card, though the price will have to drop to something around 100$ for people to get these cards in SLI.
dragonsqrrlhmmm... not terribly impressed. Power consumption and heat levels look good, and SLI scaling is excellent once again. And I guess it does hold its own against the HD5750, barely. The GTX460 definitely did a better job of catching my attention. I guess I was just expecting a little more performance out of a 192 SP gf106, especially considering their plan to replace the g92. One thing that struck me when reading the specs was the memory bandwidth, it just seems a bit too low for a GPU of this complexity. The GTS450 probably should've had a higher stock memory frequency, though I'm not sure how much of a difference it would've made.
experimentxxStill can't match the current outgoing radeons.. 450 offers 5750 performance for the price of 5770.. The new amd radeon cards would probably kill NVIDIA, again.
Would have considered this card last year though.
Hi Jz!
I know, the overclocking stuff is always sexy to look at. The thing is, when someone tells me "Check out the overclocking on this card--it's a beast," then I know the boards are hand-picked. It's only worthwhile to look at overclocking if you take a retail card and compare it against a competitor's retail board as well. We'll have something like this in the near future. For the time being, though, don't stress too much over the lack of overclocked results--if you can't buy the clocks we'd see, then it's not worth the trouble, right?
All the best!
Agreed. Unfortunately since the 5700 series is the SAME as the 4700 series, ATI did something with the marketing, and it's extremely hard to find a real 4870 online. I have 2 of them from 2 years ago. I JUST started using crossfire playing the single player of starcraft 2, and I don't get any performance out of it. Reason? Uses more than 4gb of RAM during heavy load. Daaaang!
super_tycoonyou guys ought to do an article about SLI _and_ CF scaling. Compare it across different architectures and see if it'd really be worth getting another 4000 or 9000 series card versus buying into a more recent generation (it makes sense if you subtract from the cost of the card the money you can get from selling your older card)
it is also worth noting that newegg's stock of last gen performance cards is tiny (just six gtx 200 cards left!) and perhaps this should be taken into consideration as well
the msrp of the 5850 is 289, not 250
reprotectedSLI = YES
Single = NO
End of story.
Overclocked to the max on air cooling, it looks like the GTS450 is capable of outperforming the HD5770, barely. But this is with clocks approaching 1GHz. Again, memory bandwidth is probably really holding this card back. According to Anandtech they weren't able to achieve much of a memory overclock, so bandwidth in the 60GB per sec range is probably the max you can expect.
darthvidorG92 still holds very well, I don't see a reason to upgrade other than the need for dx11.
anonymousdudeStill rocking my sli 8800gt. Still performs great after all these years.
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Really fundamental question about exporting
Starship Krupa posted a topic in Cakewalk by BandLabBackground, TL/DR folk please skip: I only started using Cakewalk by BandLab when it was first issued in April 2018, and had only the online documentation, no Reference Manual, and only the old forum with a broken search engine to go on. My previous DAW was Mixcraft, which prides itself on simplicity of use, and they achieve that goal pretty well, to their credit. I was ready to "graduate" to something with a deeper feature set, and jumped right in with Cakewalk. Mixcraft has obviously been inspired by some of Sonar's features, so it wasn't difficult. One thing that I had trouble nailing down, and still, over a year and a half later need the help of an external program to complete, is export of my final mix. The Reference Guide and online help are good about describing the many options in the export dialog, but IMO, they fall short on suggesting defaults. "Here is what you will select when you want to export your full mix, here is what you will select when you want to export stems with effects, here is what you will select when you want to export stems with no effects" and so on. I had to figure all this out stumbling about in the dark, and I'm still not sure I'm making the most of the options. One issue that I would like to address is that after I export a full mix, I find that I need to open my files in Sound Forge for normalizing to get the levels hotter. With Mixcraft, all mixdowns come off the Master bus, period. There is a separate dialog for stem exporting. Less versatile, but easier to deal with because fewer decisions. TL/DR part: My process currently is that I mix with the Master bus as the final bus, with its output going to the Hardware out. At export time, I export from the Hardware out. Initially, I was exporting from the Master bus, but was getting odd results, my mix wasn't sounding like it did over the monitors. So my first question is: how do you export your mix? I mean, what options do you choose in the Export Dialog? Where do you take the output from? Second question: how can I best get a "what you hear is what you get" export? Should I create an Aux bus and send the Master to that and export from it? Third question: how do I get the level of my exported file up to the point where it's peaking at about -1 or -2 dBFs so I don't need to normalize it in Sound Forge? I have good metering plug-ins, Meldaproduction, dpMeter, Youlean, TB, etc., but they seem concerned with loudness and I need level. Bonus round: why is the documentation so vague and how did you figure it out?
export All exports are distorting and clipping
Bruce Searl posted a topic in Cakewalk by BandLabHi, Long time Sonar user. Thanks very much for taking the torch and carrying this great platform forward. Since installing and using Cakewalk by Bandlab, when ever I export a project, the resulting 44.1 or 48k wav or mp3 files are clipping and distorted on louder parts or even all the way through a song if the content is pretty loud. Everything sounds and looks fine while mixing and monitoring, no peaking or even near peaking levels. I've never had this problem with Sonar producer or platinum versions. I try using export profiles that I've saved and used over and over, or default profiles but that doesn't help. "What You Hear" profile has the same issues. If I choose to export busses, it will export each bus into separate files. If I mute the FX bus, and export just the master, the level is lower (noticeably lower than it should be) and there is no clipping but there is no reverb fx either. If I choose just the master it's fine, (lower but no clipping, and of not F/X reverb on the vocals....) I have my FX bus sending its output to my master so I should be able to export just the master buss and have a good mix with reverb, Right? I've read online that deleting the aud.ini file so cakewalk will rebuild it will fix this sort of problem but that had no effect either. Did Cakewalk change the way things are exported when they took over Sonar? I have to get a mix out for a music video this weekend on Saturday! Please help! Bruce Searl
Feature Request: Actual Track Name Only Exporting
chamlin posted a topic in Feedback LoopWhen exporting a slew of tracks, I want Cakewalk to name those tracks solely as my tracks are named. But when exporting, I can't just leave a blank field, I have to put something in the field like a dash or or a letter. Cakewalk also add a dash and number at the end of the track name. This requires me to take a lot of time to remove the letter and dash from all the front of the track names, as well as the dash and numbers at the end of the file name. I would love the option to not have to add something to the file name field, and the creation of a checkbox: "Only name exported tracks with actual track names". And since it's unlikely that we can leave the field blank, maybe some control+shift+P type signal that Cakewalk will understand, oh, it's Chamlin and his friends who are so fussy they want their clean and proper names... Thanks!
Audio sounds completly different when exported!I'm trying to export my audio as a file and listen to it back in Microsoft Groove Music ( I'm trying to export it as a final consumer format not for mastering or anything ). And I expected that it will be the simplest part of the whole music creation process, you know just select 16 bit depth that every player supports, Stereo, 44100 Sample Rate, Master Bus as the audio source, every option in mix enables except from audible bounce, live input, and 64-bit Engine ( btw I tried with those enabled separetly and it still did not work ), no Dithering ( but I tried with triangular just in case ), And I tried Wave, wav, flac, mp3 and some other that I don't remember. And guess what, It did not work PS: there is nothing wrong with my "Groove Music" because it works no problem with music I download online. And second thing is that files exported from Cakewalk can be imported back inside the DAW and sound completly normal when played back there ( Yes even with all those crazy options I put above ) ( And no I'm not putting the same file in over and over because when I play it back in "Groove Music" the errors sound different depending on options I use. ) And I also tried ( from desperation ) every bit depth combination ( and what even is this "extra encoding options / sub format" this makes no sense! why have to audio formats in one file! ) But anyway I tried it all, and I still can't make the export sound the same as when i'm playing it back in the DAW itself. I'm surely doing something wrong here. Please help, I beg you, I can't work it out by myself. And if you want to make it painless, just give me options that work as consumer formats that I can play in a standard player like "Groove Music". But if you have time please also explain what is this "sub format" in "extra encoding options" (that btw disapears when I enable dithering). Thanks in advance for help I'm kinda new to this thing.
Export to wav
Phil Mountain posted a question in Q&AI had a problem exporting to WAV using the new faster feature. The format wasn't compatible with copying to CD despite being playable from all media players. Tried to copy tracks using two different s/w which have worked fine in the past. There were two tracks which did copy correctly which I had created on Bandlab. Is this a known bug?
Bear with me here; this is an interesting one. So this morning I'm mixing this project that I've been working on for weeks. No issues, made no major changes (just parameters on plugins, volume, etc. No new plugins, no deletion of old plugins, no new recording, no alteration of existing clips). It's playing just fine. I then go to export the project, as I've done a hundred times before. The export is screwed...it's ten seconds of mangled feedback and noise, and then silence for the rest of the project (roughly 15 minutes or so). I try exporting again, same issue. I then try simply playing my project...and suddenly, I have no audio whatsoever. The meters are moving, but there is no sound. I closed and reopen Cakewalk;, no dice. I restart my computer; no dice. I check that my interface is working with other programs; it is. So then I figure it's gotta be a plugin issue. Sure enough, I bypass all FX bins on the tracks themselves, and bypass my master bus chain. Suddenly, I have audio (albeit unprocessed of course). Leaving the FX bins on the tracks bypassed, I enable my master bus FX bin and have zero audio again. Cool; so now we know it's a plugin that's on my master bus (makes it easier to isolate, because I only have a handful of plugins on my master). Find that, and disable it there and anywhere in the tracks I also have it, and we'll go from there, right? So I disable the plugins one-by-one until suddenly, my audio comes back. Seems JST Clip is the culprit. Kind of annoying, but something I can do without if need be. Except that I disable it again to test, and my audio is still playing and now being processed by that plugin, as if nothing's wrong. So I start reenabling plugins in reverse...one, two, three, everything's good until the random 4th one (happens to be LP EQ the first time). But if I start at the beginning of the process, it'll pick a different plugin to have a problem with each time. You can see where this is going. I cannot isolate a specific problem plugin. Frustrated, I uninstalled my entire FX chain and reinstalled. Viola, it works! Go to export....and the entire situation repeats. Also, now every time I reopen the project, there's insane feedback for about 10 seconds, and then it's gone (and then of course I have no audio). Out of curiosity, I've gone through other elimination processes...there's no commonalities. It's not a "Slate" thing, it's not a "JST" thing, it's not a "Voxengo", it's not a "Sonitus" thing, etc... and it doesn't appear to be any of my synths (Addictive Drums 2, TruePianos and SI Strings). Cakewalk is fully updated, as is W10 and my interface drivers. And again, this problem quite suddenly appeared out of the blue today. Anyone have any ideas? I am literally at a standstill right now and quite frustrated. I guess just for additional info, my Master Bus FX Chain is currently: LP EQ>Slate Virtual Mix Rack (FG Bomber and CS Lift)>Slate Virtual Tape Machines>Slate Virtual Buss Compressor FG-Grey [x2]>JST Clip>Boost11>Voxengo Span. But again, none of these appear to consistently be "THE" problem, as it seems to vary. Also, obviously I have other plugins on various tracks...but there's definitely a problem with something on my master chain specifically, so I'm trying to start there. Unless there's a bigger, overall problem with Cakewalk itself.
Please increase the Export to Bandlab Limits
Freyja Grimaude-Valens posted a topic in Feedback LoopI am having trouble exporting this song's buses into Bandlab because of the 6 minute limit; this song is 7 minutes long, having a limit of 15 mins would be nice for people like myself who likes to make long songs. Moreover, the 12-track limit is pretty restricting, please increase it to something like 16. Thank you for listening.


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On a trip to Sri Lanka earlier this year, I inhaled the heady aroma of cinnamon almost everywhere I went: in the lobby of my hotel, at roadside food stands, and on a plantation that has been processing cinnamon bark, lotion and oil for three generations.
I could not seem to escape that scent, and I was glad of it. This was real cinnamon, not the more common cassia that we buy in the grocery store. This was the spice that inspired King Solomon to send explorers to the Indian subcontinent.
"Cassia is the robust older brother of cinnamon," Simone Cormier, a chef and the national spice coordinator for Whole Foods, told me when I returned. "Cinnamon is the delicate younger sister."
In Sri Lanka, I bought a bowl inlaid with cinnamon bark and sampled a slightly sweet bun filled with seeni sambol, an onion confit relish flavored with ginger, tamarind and cinnamon. It tasted both foreign and familiar, with the homey quality I remember from Jewish sweet onion rolls.
Perhaps the best part of the trip was learning about cinnamon and eating a lunch of cinnamon-perfumed dishes at the home of Chaminda de Silva. Ceylonese cinnamon is cultivated on his 25-acre property, part of the roughly 90,000 acres in small cinnamon plantations mostly in southern Sri Lanka. Plantation workers scrape off the outer layer of cinnamon branches four feet long, drying them for three days until the bark curls into cinnamon sticks lighter and more crumbly than those most of us know in the United States. Some is then ground on the property; some is sent to spice companies, mostly in Mexico and South America, to be ground.
At lunch on the estate, we washed our fingers at the table and then used them to eat a cinnamon-spiced chicken giblet curry served from an open fireplace.
Back home, hungry for the seeni sambol buns I recalled from the lobby of the Bentota Beach Hotel, I e-mailed the chef for his recipe and tinkered with it, enriching the dough with extra sugar and egg, reducing the spiciness but preserving the memory of the cinnamon-laced onion filling.