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Rock Dash @ 8:35am (at the airport bus port)
Joel Fagin @ 3:40pm
Thursday, 1st
MixedMyth @ 8:35am (at the airport bus port)
Christwriter @ 11:00am
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Sunday, 4th
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Tim @ 3:25pm (different flights btw)
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Cortland @ 8:35pm
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Cookie @ 3:25pm
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Meeting for shuttle
Meet me in the baggage claim area. I will be holding a sign (need to post a picture of that btw).
Meet in groups posted earlier if possible. I will see if other guests who arrive earlier my help out with shuttling.
First stop on the shuttle will be to the house. If you need to head to the hotel, I or another person will take you there as soon as I/we can. I know on Friday it's a boom-boom-boom with guests showing up withing minutes of each other.
House guests: Be ready to depart an hour and a half early than your flight. I know most of you need to check in at least a hour before your flights leaves.
Hotel guests: Meet me in the lobby. Same rules apply.
Note: if your flight leaves within minutes/an hour of someone else, you may become airport shuttle buddies.
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GOP Candidates' Anti-Gay Stances: Winning Strategy, Or Out of Touch?
It feels like 1992 all over again. That year, an unsuccessful GOP presidential candidate, the right-wing fire breather Pat Buchanan, gave a speech at the party convention in which he coined the phrase "culture war" to describe such progressive issues as gay rights and abortion.
As this long-anticipated season of presidential primaries finally gets under way, most of the current crop of Republican candidates has been falling over each other to capture the votes of social conservatives and evangelical Christians by coming out strongly against abortion and gay rights.
Their votes are seen as solid gold to the Republicans' strategists. In 2008, 60 percent of voters in the Iowa caucuses were evangelicals. A similar number voted in the South Carolina primary that year.
It's a political truism that Republicans run to the right in primaries, just as Democrats run to the left, because that's where the votes are. Most candidates in both parties move to the center in general elections to capture the crucial independent voters.
What looks like a winning strategy in many of the primaries may prove to be a handicap in the general election, according to both straight pundits and gay political activists. EDGE conducted e-mail interviews with representative members of both groups.
Five candidates -- Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum -- have signed a pledge put forward by the National Organization for Marriage to oppose repeal of the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act.
Homophobic One-Upping Each Other
The purported front-runner, Mitt Romney, did state recently that, overall, he supported gay rights. But he hastened to add that marriage should be only between one man and one woman. Interestingly, Romney is still catching flak from conservatives such as virulently anti-gay group Mass Resistance for being too much in favor of gay rights.
As for Santorum, he has stated that Romney is running to the left of President Barack Obama on same-sex marriage.
Gingrich has been particularly vocal in his anti-gay rhetoric. He recently blasted so-called activist judges for seeking "to limit the freedom of others to express their deeply held religious commitments to, for example, the value of every human life and to marriage as between one man and one woman."
In mid-December, Gingrich proposed a presidential commission on religious freedom that would investigate how students are being "force-fed beliefs about same-sex marriage, sexual orientation and abortion." He compared it to celibacy for priests.
Gingrich has gone so far as to reject LGBT Republicans. He told a gay Iowan he should vote for Obama. Not only GOProud, but the more moderate gay group the Log Cabin Republicans what Gingrich said They both contended that the liberal media misconstrued his remarks.
This Time, Blowback from Voters
Probably to their surprise, some very intrepid everyday Americans are challenging such statements. Throughout the present campaign season, the candidates' anti-gay positions have been getting blowback. Iowans questioned Bachmann for
her anti-marriage position.
Perry, too, was challenged for saying he would reinstitute the ban on gays serving openly in the military. A veteran, a straight man, shouted "Shame!" at him for a notorious ad that unfavorably compared serving openly in the military to prayer in schools. And a gay veteran quizzed Romney during a campaign stop in New Hampshire () on his opposition to same-sex marriage.
Marriage Equality USA has produced to find out how the contenders rank on a list of 12 gay rights issues.
Perhaps the candidates should be checking opinion polls before they say anything. Or they should look at the evolving positions of voters, which have evolved markedly since the last two presidential election cycles. A slight majority of all voters now support same-sex marriage.
Next: The GOP Electorate, at Least, Has Evolved


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When Bill Tierney helmed Princeton to all six of its national championships during his tenure there, the Tigers were renowned for a suffocating defensive scheme that at times strangled opponents into offensive futility. When John Desko replaced Syracuse Hall of Famer Roy Simmons Jr. prior to the 1999 season, the Orange maintained their run-and-gun roots and outsprinted opposing teams en route to five NCAA titles.
Tierney left Princeton to take a similar position at Denver for the 2010 campaign, while Desko still heads Syracuse. But both coaches have proven that they can evolve with the times.
Tierney has shed his image as a defensive guru and allowed offensive coordinator Matt Brown to reshape the fourth-seeded Pioneers as an explosive offense. Denver (14-4) enters Saturday's NCAA tournament semifinal against Syracuse ranked in the top 10 in Division I in several offensive categories, including shooting percentage (third at 34.1 percent), scoring (fifth at 12.7 goals per game) and points per game (seventh at 19.8).
Desko said the Pioneers' offensive versatility is a challenge for many teams.
"They're a difficult team to prepare for, especially with their offense," Desko said. "He's got a few Canadians running out there, box-style players. You can talk to your defenders about the style and how they carry their stick and how they're good off the ball, and how they catch and shoot with quick releases. But until you experience it, it's a different type of player to cover, and it's a different team than his Princeton teams as far as the style of defense that they play. It's a little different than what I'm used to with a Bill Tierney team, but he's been there long enough. I credit him and his staff with how well he's adjusted to a different style of lacrosse and maybe some different type players than he has had in the past. My hat is off to him, especially with all the success he's had in Denver."
The Orange (15-3) will run if given the opportunity, but they have been fortified by a solid defense coordinated by assistant coach Lelan Rogers. Opponents have averaged just 8.6 goals against Syracuse, which also ranks third in the country in scoring margin (3.1 goals).
The Orange's makeover is a testament to Desko, according to Tierney.
"To me, what I've always believed is the great coaches change with their personnel and change with their team," Tierney said. "What John has done with this team is one of the best. Fifteen or 20 years ago, if I would have said that they were a patient, intelligent, sharp-shooting team that plays the defense in the country and plays tight and relies on their defense in situations like they had in the last two games, it would have been almost blasphemous. But that is what John has done, and his staff, they're the same guys. Lelan does a great job with the defense, and what whose guys do with their kids and that talent just shows you. You come to a Final Four and you're looking at a Syracuse team that just plays a different style, but – guess what? – they're in the Final Four, and that's really important. They've beaten a lot of good teams this year, they've been in nine one-goal games, they know what it takes to persevere through ups and downs."
Tierney and Desko are part of the wave of coaches who have adjusted their coaching styles. Last year, Loyola's Charley Toomey suppressed his defensive tenor in favor of a prolific scoring machine based on a quick-strike transition unit. In 2011, Virginia's Dom Starsia cracked down on a few star players and bit his lip while switching the team's defense from its traditional man-to-man system to a zone scheme. And in 2010, Duke's John Danowski demanded more accountability from his standouts.
The common thread between those three examples? Each ended up holding the national championship on Memorial Day. Perhaps Tierney or Desko could be the next in line to do the same.


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In the administration's budget for the 2014 fiscal year, the Forest Service proposed reducing timber harvests by nearly 15 percent, to 2.38 billion board feet, far below the 3 billion board feet the agency called for in its "Restoration Strategy," for forests. It also recently asked for states to return 5.1% of payments under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act, months after the agency sent out the full payment amounts.
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For three and a half months, we searched, compared, and scrutinized boat specs for hours every day. We surfed the Internetuntil we could no longer hang one, never mind 10and were familiar with every used boat on the market from Alaska to Antigua. We traveled hundreds of miles in every direction to check out boats that caught our interest, and flipped and re-flipped tirelessly through the stack of snapshots of the boats we'd inspected. The importance of a teak toerail even became a sticking point between us. Having tried to buy three other boats along the way, one that had to be rejected after survey, we finally found Safari's replacement. And she just happens to have been the very first boat we looked at some three and a half months ago. Talk about sailing backward against a strong current.
So what was the criteria for the new boat? Although we have not run out of money (remember, life out here is cheapsee budget article), we have determined that we don't need to have so much money tied up in a boat in order to enjoy doing exactly what we've been doing. We also know that the more money we can keep in the bank working for us, the better off we'll be in the long run. So we were looking for a boat that was less expensive and one that had reached its base line in depreciation, and perhaps might even increase in value if properly maintained. Believe it or not, used boats are going up in value these days.
We enjoyed the virtues of space, seakindly motion and speed of our 46-foot Beneteau, and were determined not to go any smaller and not much slower. There are many different theories but you'll never make us believe that speed does not enhance the enjoyment of cruising in making passages more comfortable, and much safer in being able to get out of harm's way should bad weather be approaching. So many times we saw how we were able to handle bad conditions and keep on trucking, when our friends in smaller or slower boats either had to turn back or to endure many more uncomfortable hours. For this reason we set our size criteria at 44 to 50 feet. I'm really not sure when a 43-foot boat became too small for us, but apparently it has. It's funny how your perspective of what a big boat is changes over time.
Our next criteria surprised the two of us as a major change from several years back when we were first choosing a cruising boat. We both determined that we liked center-cockpit boats. One of the main reasons is to make fishing easier. Most center-cockpit boats have a large space on the aft deck that makes moving around with a rod in hand (and our cats under foot) a lot easier. It also makes for great living space with lots of room to move about freely while at anchor. The trick was to find a center-cockpit design that didn't annihilate the traditional lines we both found ourselves gravitating toward. There are a lot of center-cockpit boats that look considerably more like wedding cakes than sailboats.
While searching, we found that every few days we had a new favorite. Of course any boat is a compromise but we discovered we could justify most once-perceived negative aspects with newborn logic. If it were a steel boat we'd claim, "It's the only safe way to go." A deeper draft than we ideally wanted, "It's a proper sailing yacht, not designed to just stay at dock." If it were ugly, "It's functional." If it were beautiful but small, "Who needs storage space when you look that good." If its reputation was questionable, "Who really knows for sure?"
Believe me it's easy to justify any design once you've made up your mind that is the boat for you. That's why there are so many die-hard lovers of completely different types of sailboats out there. We're all looking for different things in a boat, and what's most important to Larry and me may be completely different for you. Somewhere along the line you have to make up your own mind because if you keep listening to other opinions, you'll be shopping forever amidst a confused sea of opposing advice.
For us to find a boat in the sizeand price-range we had set for ourselves, it meant we were looking at boats of usually 20-year-old vintage. I think this is probably why we didn't recognize the boat we bought as "the one" when we first saw it. It was just too big of a change from our modern new Safari. It took the full three and a half months to take in the many different boats and to really give ourselves a chance to see what was out there and what fit our particular needs. Value for the dollar also played a huge factor, and you can't determine that until you've done some research.
Is it going to be hard going from a brand-new boat to a 21-year-old boat? In many ways, yes. A lot of advancement in use of space and ease of access to systems, etc., has been made in new boats, and there's no question we're going to miss a lot that we enjoyed on Safari. But it's not all a loss for us. We both love the look of the older, more-traditional lines which simply aren't on most of the newer designs unless you can afford a Hinckley, Morris, or Alden.
Now, let me introduce you to Serengeti, the result of our arduous search. She's a 1978 Peterson 46, built by Formosa, and designed by that same Doug Peterson whose fast hull helped allow New Zealand to walk away with the America's Cup in the last match. When we returned to see Serengeti for the second time, 14 weeks after our first impression, it was with completely new eyes that we viewed her. We both knew at once that she was going to be ours.
It's with open eyes that we begin the long task of cleaning up Serengeti and refitting a lot of her old systems, but it is a task we are ready for. But even more, we look forward to the many new adventures and memories she'll majestically and safely guide us through. And by the way, Larry tells me the teak toerail that I fought so hard for is all mine to take care of.
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text: Share: August 12, 2013 Long-term Monitoring Millbrook, N.Y. — Dr. Gene E. Likens, Founding President of Millbrook's Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, recently celebrated 50 years of research at the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study (HBES) in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. World-renowned for the discovery of acid rain in North America, the research site was co-founded by Likens in 1963, and has been critical to investigations of how human-accelerated environmental change impacts forests and their watersheds.Gene E. LIkens led a walking tour to Mirror Lake at the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study research facility during the 50th anniversary symposium and celebration in July 2013. More than 250 people attended the event. (Photo credit: Deborah Fargione)Continuous, long-term studies are rare in ecology, but they are essential to effective stewardship. The Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study has been instrumental in advancing our understanding of ecological, hydrological, and biogeochemical interactions in forested watersheds. Findings have informed forest management practices and environmental policy. And the watershed-ecosystem approach that is a hallmark of Hubbard Brook has been replicated at sites throughout the world.Noteworthy findings from the study have included the discovery of acid rain in North America and its impact on ecosystems, validation of the watershed-ecosystem approach as a tool in tackling landscape-scale problems, and confirmation that clear-cutting and other major forest disturbances disrupt the nitrogen cycle of terrestrial ecosystems. Work at the site has also shed light on how food limitation, climate, and forest structure influence populations of neotropical migrant birds.The Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study has been the basis of more than 1,480 scientific publications, 11 books, and 8 monographs. Hundreds of graduate, undergraduate, postdoctoral associates and technicians have been mentored and trained at Hubbard Brook, resulting in 101 Ph.D. and 68 Master's theses. More than 40 investigators from some 20 institutions currently conduct research at the forest.Now, as society grapples with a multitude of human-caused environmental problems, the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study's approach to understanding ecosystem response to disturbance is more valuable than ever.The Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest located in New Hampshire was co-founded in 1963 by Gene E. Likens, Founding President of Millbrook's Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. (Photo credit: HO Photographers, Hanover, New Hampshire)Since the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study's initiation in 1963, many senior scientists and technicians at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies have been part of its research program, among them (alphabetical order): Dr. Heather Bechtold, Mr. Donald Buso (Field Manager for Dr. Likens), Dr. Nina Caraco, Dr. Jon Cole, Dr. Stuart E.G. Findlay, Mr. John Eaton, Dr. Peter Groffman, Ms. Phyllis Likens, Dr. Gary Lovett, Ms. Lisa Martel, Ms. Brenda Minicucci, Dr. David Strayer, Dr. Kathleen Weathers, and Ms. Tammy Wooster.Gene E. Likens, Co-founder of the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study, is Founding Director, President Emeritus, and Distinguished Senior Scientist Emeritus of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Share: Press Release Hubbard Brook 50th anniversary celebrated by local scientists › August 12, 2013


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It feels like it's been far too long since I've posted comics. My kids continue to say really funny things, so I thank them for writing my material. Actually, it's mostly my son Sawyer. Lately the only thing I hear my daughter say is "boppoli!" (Her favorite food is broccoli. This is what happens when you raise vegan babies.)
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I generally don't approve of the F-word, but it's pretty cute when you hear a 3 year old say it. And with such sincerity.
In 30 years you will, Sawyer. Then who will be laughing?
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Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) facilitate the provision and orchestration of business services to enable a faster adoption to changing business demands. Web Services provide a technical foundation to implement this paradigm on the basis of XML-messaging. However, the enhanced flexibility of message-based systems comes along with new threats and risks. To face these issues, a variety of security mechanisms and approaches is supported by the Web Service specifications. The usage of these security mechanisms and protocols is configured by stating security requirements in security policies. However, security policy languages for SOA are complex and difficult to create due to the expressiveness of these languages. To facilitate and simplify the creation of security policies, this thesis presents a model-driven approach that enables the generation of complex security policies on the basis of simple security intentions. SOA architects can specify these intentions in system design models and are not required to deal with complex technical security concepts. The approach introduced in this thesis enables the enhancement of any system design modelling languages – for example FMC or BPMN – with security modelling elements. The syntax, semantics, and notion of these elements is defined by our security modelling language SecureSOA. The metamodel of this language provides extension points to enable the integration into system design modelling languages. In particular, this thesis demonstrates the enhancement of FMC block diagrams with SecureSOA. To enable the model-driven generation of security policies, a domain-independent policy model is introduced in this thesis. This model provides an abstraction layer for security policies. Mappings are used to perform the transformation from our model to security policy languages. However, expert knowledge is required to generate instances of this model on the basis of simple security intentions. Appropriate security mechanisms, protocols and options must be chosen and combined to fulfil these security intentions. In this thesis, a formalised system of security patterns is used to represent this knowledge and to enable an automated transformation process. Moreover, a domain-specific language is introduced to state security patterns in an accessible way. On the basis of this language, a system of security configuration patterns is provided to transform security intentions related to data protection and identity management. The formal semantics of the security pattern language enable the verification of the transformation process introduced in this thesis and prove the correctness of the pattern application. Finally, our SOA Security LAB is presented that demonstrates the application of our model-driven approach to facilitate a dynamic creation, configuration, and execution of secure Web Service-based composed applications.


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Every year, each second Tuesday in November, Vevey celebrates Saint-Martin. This local tradition dating back to the Middle Ages was initiated by the Dukes of Savoy, with the fair allowing all residents in the Leman area to become a trader for the day without being subject to tax on their earnings.
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Does Nigeria Need State Police? by Mark Amaza
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For many years, the debate on whether or not Nigeria needs to reform its police system from a unitary one to a federal one, which will allow the states to form and control their own police forces, has been a very heated and divisive one. Both sides are passionate about their arguments and have lot of support. The opponents of a state police system are fearful that it could likely be a tool in the hands of state governors and be used to witch-hunt political opponents. Additionally, they fear that it could lead to the breakup of Nigeria as state police forces will have strong ethnic, regional or religious bias.
On the other hand, proponents of a truly federal police system or state police, such as myself, see the on-going Constitutional Review Exercise as an opportunity to amend Section 214 of the 1999 Constitution, which deals with the law forming the Nigeria Police Force, and gives only the Federal Government the power to create a police force or any of its arms for the purpose of policing throughout Nigeria.
There is no denying the fact that the Nigeria Police Force needs structural reforms to restore it to its past glory of decades ago. Not only are we severely under-policed, with only about 350, ooo policemen to protect 160 million Nigerians (of the 300, 000, 100, 000 are said to be guarding 'special private citizens'; another 100, 000 exist only on paper, leaving the rest of us with 150, 000 policemen). But beyond having an understaffed police force, we also have an under-trained, ill-motivated police force. Their remunerations and service of conditions are very poor; even worse, corruption permeates the force from the very top to the least officer. It is so bad that we have now abandoned the police force to be peopled by those who cannot get a job anywhere else. Hence, it has become an all-comers' affair: riff-raffs, criminals and what not are able to join as there is no due diligence on prospective police officers.
But these are not the reasons why I strongly advocate for a state police system in the hope that these problems will be corrected; it is because our police system is too bureaucratic due to its unitary nature. Decisions are taken very slowly, and it takes an incident that is well-publicised to cause the Force to move swiftly. There is also the situation where many cases stall because the investigating or police prosecuting officer is suddenly transferred out of the state and a new officer has to get acquainted with the facts of the case, if the case does not become forgotten.
Our present unitary police system makes nonsense of our supposed federalism as a nation, where the centre (Federal Government) is meant to assume responsibilities of only those things which states will be unable to do. There was a time when policing was the responsible of the local government (native authorities) and it was done efficiently. However, as policing became regionalized and then nationalized, the quality of policing got worse. Unbundling the police as it is now will be necessary to improve policing across the country.
Already, as it is right now, almost every state 'donates' money and equipment to the police commands in their states, which is an indication that states will be able to fund police forces. Not only that, there are a few states such as Kano and Ogun that have formed vigilante services that have the power to arrest suspected criminals. This is another indication of the readiness and willingness of states to be able to form and run local police forces. It will also give strength to the definition of governors as 'Chief Security Officers' of their states. It is ironic to confer on governors such responsibilities but without the attendant powers to really be able to take charge of security within their borders.
I completely understand the fears of opponents of state police forces that it could be used by governors as tools of political oppression. However, I believe an effective system to perform oversight functions over the local police forces can be put in place. It can be made mandatory that each state appoints an independent police oversight board which shall watch over the actions of the police force.
State police forces will also strengthen the concept of community policing. Ideally, a police force is supposed to recruit from its local community. This is because such police officers have a better knowledge of the environment they are assigned to protect. They can speak the language, they can map out trouble spots and can create policies relevant to that environment. However, it is not so in Nigeria where someone who lived his entire life in say, Bayelsa, is then posted to Kano, an environment completely alien to him. He is not only unable to speak the lingua franca, he is not conversant with the environment and he has no contacts to be able to feed him information and intelligence.
I also do not believe that state police forces will lean more on their ethnic, regional and religious sentiments, hence possibly causing the breakup of Nigeria. It is hard to imagine two states going to war using their police forces as armies. We also fail to remember that the presence of state police forces would not mean the abolishment of the military. They can always be called upon to restore law and order in situations where the police force is overwhelmed.
Another argument against the establishment of state police forces is that it can enable a criminal to commit a crime in one state and escape to another. Since the police force of the state in which the crime was committed has no jurisdiction outside the state, he will effectively be a free man. This I believe can be solved by fostering corruption among police forces to enable investigation of crimes go beyond state borders; this together with a national database of crimes and criminals can go a long way in solving this. Also, it will help to define certain crimes, such as say, kidnapping, terrorism and bank robbery as being within the exclusive purview of the federal security forces. In such cases, the State Security Services will be in charge of investigating and prosecuting the suspects.
I believe that the aim of this Constitutional Review Exercise is to take us closer to a truly federal nation. There is no federal nation that has a centrally organized police system or force for the entire country. As mentioned by a pro-state police senator in an interview, not only do countries such as the United States of America and the United Kingdom have federal police systems, but also countries like Ethiopia, Pakistan and India which are closer to us in terms of development operate such systems. And as in every other thing with a federal system, competition makes each component want to improve on its services and environment as it directly impacts the quality of life there.
In conclusion, I am by no means suggesting that allowing state police forces in Nigeria is the silver bullet to solving our disastrous policing system. But allowing state police forces makes the problem easier to solve because it is easier to manage smaller police forces than one large, humongous national police force.
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The cost of this case is pretty substantial coming in between $169.99 and $179.99 retail. I have not been able to find a 'deal' on the Internet for the Elite models which speaks to how well it holds its price point.
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A chemist at a state drug-testing laboratory is accused of circumventing standard procedures in the handling of drug evidence, lapses that could jeopardize thousands of drug prosecutions and convictions in Massachusetts over the past several years, the head of the State Police said Thursday.
State Police Colonel Timothy P. Alben said the Hinton State Laboratory Institute in Jamaica Plain, which had conducted about half of the state's drug testing, was shut down Thursday as investigators probe the extent of the "malfeasance."
District attorneys across the state who used the facility for local prosecutions are being asked to review all cases in which the chemist was involved to determine whether evidence was mishandled.
The concern is twofold: that the state will be faced with the cost of retrying hundreds of defendants who may seek to have convictions thrown out because of faulty drug testing and that some people were falsely convicted and imprisoned, based on errors in drug testing.
"Our concern has to be about any kind of miscarriage of justice that has occurred as a result of this person's malfeasance," Alben said at a news conference at State Police headquarters in Framingham. "The ramification . . . is the potential that we've had people incarcerated and wrongfully prosecuted."
Officials said her responsibilities as a chemist included testing and weighing evidence, and that any miscalculations or failure to follow procedures had the potential to derail a conviction or cause a false conviction. For instance, levying drug-trafficking charges, and the more severe sentences that come with them, depend on accurate weights.
Governor Deval Patrick, who ordered the laboratory closed, said in a statement that "this is deeply troubling information."
It remained unclear Thursday how much the Department of Public Health, which ran the laboratory until recently, knew about the breach in protocol, and why it was not brought to the attention of State Police earlier.
Problems with the chemist's work surfaced more than a year ago, and she was removed from testing duties, officials said. In June 2011, the laboratory discovered that the transfer of evidence involving 90 drug samples was improperly logged, according to Anne Goldbach, forensic resources director for the Committee for Public Counsel Services, the state public defender agency.
But more than six months after her removal from the laboratory, the chemist testified in a court case as part of her role in handling evidence, Goldbach said. That January case is now under appeal because of her testimony, Goldbach said.
In February, the Public Health Department sent letters to the Norfolk district attorney's office, alerting it to the problem of the previous June. That spurred a series of legal challenges to other pending cases involving the chemist.
In March, the chemist resigned.
Alben said State Police were notified of the seriousness of the breach only weeks before taking over the laboratory last month. An audit in recent days showed the extent of the problem, necessitating the laboratory's immediate closing, he said.
John Auerbach, commissioner of the Department of Public Health, said in a prepared statement Thursday that his agency is conducting its own investigation. He said the findings are "deeply disturbing" and that his agency will continue to cooperate with investigators.
"The department is also reviewing our policies and procedures and will take appropriate administrative actions as we conduct that review," he said.
The statement said the division director previously responsible for the lab's management and oversight has been on leave, pending the State Police investigation and an internal review.
Attorney General Martha Coakley's office said it is also working with State Police to determine how many cases are at issue and to review whether criminal charges are warranted.
Officials did not identify the chemist, but said she was employed by the Department of Public Health and had worked at the laboratory since 2003.
Several people briefed on the investigation, however, identified her as Annie Dookhan, of Franklin. She could not be reached for comment.
On Thursday night, reporters and television crews waited outside her two-story home but no one came to the door.
"There are protocols that are in place for every chemist to go through . . . and there were breaches in that," Alben said. He said the failure to properly review the breaches until recently has become part of the State Police investigation.
The Massachusetts District Attorneys Association said in a statement that it has requested a list of criminal cases in which the chemist was involved and will "take the appropriate action necessary to ensure that justice is done."
The association said it plans to share the list with defense lawyers.
The laboratory handled about 8,000 cases a year from local police districts statewide, said Guy Vallaro, head of the State Police crime lab.
Until the State Police took over processing of all cases on July 1, their lab, by comparison, handled about 6,000 cases a year. Two other facilities, in Worcester and in Amherst, are now under State Police jurisdiction, as well.
Dave Procopio, a State Police spokesman, said 10 chemists who worked at the Jamaica Plain laboratory have been placed on temporary leave until they can be assigned to new positions at the State Police lab in Sudbury. He said they must undergo new training because the State Police laboratory has a higher accreditation level and follows more stringent standards than the other facilities, including the one in Jamaica Plain.
Anthony Benedetti, chief counsel for the Committee on Public Counsel Services, which probably handled most of the cases, said he has been assured by district attorneys that they will move swiftly if they believe anyone was wrongly convicted or improperly sentenced.
"We will do everything we can to ensure that injustice is corrected and wrongtful convictions are quickly reversed," he said. "The scope of the damage done is breathtaking, and the actions of this individual are outrageious."
He also said the finding reinforces the reasoning behind a 2009 US Supreme Court ruling – on a petition filed by his office – that found it was unconstitutional for courts to automatically allow the results of drug testing as evidence without requiring a chemist to
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This is an example of aspects to consider when choosing observing condition constraints. The science drivers for each program are distinct, of course, and thus the appropriate set of conditions for your own observations may be quite different. The example is taken from the NIRI System Verification plan.
The observation proposed would allow distance determination to a distant galaxy using the surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) technique. The SBF procedure requires deep, high spatial-resolution images of early-type galaxies. The SBF signal increases linearly with resolution (image quality). Photometric weather is required to put the measured fluctuation magnitudes on an absolute distance scale. Thus, the observing conditions were requested as follows:
- Image quality - Requested 70% seeing, expecting to get good images at K with tip-tilt correction. There is a trade-off, of course, between integration time required to achieve a particular S/N and the seeing. The best 20% seeing would have been requested had the galaxy been more distant. However, this image quality would have been overkill for nearer galaxies and the likelihood of getting the best conditions is lower. The balanced approach of 70% seeing was selected; in a real proposal, 20% conditions would have been requested for the most-distant subset of the sample.
- Sky transparency (cloud cover) - Photometric weather is required to make sure a distance can be computed from an apparent fluctuation magnitude. The 50% or better sky transparency will ensure that the photometric conditions required are met.
- Sky transparency (water vapour content) - in the near-IR K-band my observations are insensitive to atmospheric water vapor, therefore "any" conditions was selected.
- Sky background - for broad K-band imaging, there was no real concern about the sky background (OH airglow), and the 80% conditions was chosen. Of course, with making frequent sky exposures and subtracting them from science exposures, and as long as this is done on time scales of a few minutes, the OH airglow and thermal components of the sky background can be removed adequately.
Note that the statistical likelihood of execution of this observation, if all of the observing conditions are truly uncorrelated, is 70% * 50% * 100% * 80% = 28% of the time when the target is accessible in the sky. (In fact one expects some mild correlation and so this is a slight underestimate). The chances of conditions being favorable for the observations at any particular time are thus quite small even with the relaxed image quality constraint. Therefore if these observations had been planned to be carried out in classically-scheduled time, statistically it would have required an allocation of four nights to be 'assured' of one night with the conditions required. Note that 28% is not the probability of the observations being completed successfully in the queue since a project will be allocated time when conditions are right for that project.


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A week after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, his successor, Lyndon Johnson (1908-1973), established a commission to investigate Kennedy's death. After a nearly yearlong investigation, the commission, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren (1891-1974), concluded that alleged gunman Lee Harvey Oswald (1939-1963) had acted alone in assassinating America's 35th president, and that there was no conspiracy, either domestic or international, involved.
Despite its seemingly firm conclusions, the report proved controversial and failed to silence conspiracy theories surrounding the event. Subsequent investigations have both supported and called into question the Warren Commission's report.
Since Oswald was killed so soon after murdering Kennedy, his motive for the crime remained unknown. On November 29, 1963, Johnson established the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy in order to investigate his predecessor's death. The commission was led by Chief Justice Warren, a former governor of California who was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1953. The commission also included two U.S. senators, two U.S. representatives, a former CIA director and a former World Bank president.
During its almost yearlong investigation, the Warren Commission, as it was commonly known, reviewed reports by the FBI, Secret Service, Department of State and the attorney general of Texas, and also pored over Oswald's personal history, political affiliations and military record. The group listened to the testimony of hundreds of witnesses and traveled to Dallas several times to visit the site where Kennedy was shot.
In its 888-page report presented to Johnson on September 24, 1964 (and released to the public three days later), the commission concluded that the bullets that killed Kennedy and injured Connally were fired by Oswald in three shots from a rifle pointed out of a sixth-floor window in the Texas School Book Depository. Oswald's life, including a visit he made to the Soviet Union, was described in detail, but the report made no attempt to analyze his motives. Additionally, the commission found that the Secret Service had made poor preparations for Kennedy's visit to Dallas and had failed to sufficiently protect him, and concluded that Ruby had acted alone in killing Oswald.
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The Warren Commission's conclusion that Oswald was a "lone gunman" failed to satisfy some who witnessed the attack and others whose research found conflicting details in the commission's report. A number of conspiracy theories arose, involving such disparate suspects as the Cuban and Soviet governments, organized crime, the FBI and CIA and even Johnson himself. Some critics of the Warren Commission's report believed that additional ballistics experts' conclusions and a home movie shot at the scene disputed the theory that three bullets fired from Oswald's gun could have caused Kennedy's fatal wounds as well as the injuries to the Texas governor.
In the late 1970s, the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) launched a new investigation into Kennedy's death. In its final report, issued in 1979, the HSCA agreed with the Warren Commission's findings that two bullets fired by Oswald had killed Kennedy and wounded Connally. However, the HSCA also concluded there was a high probability that a second gunman fired at Kennedy, and that the president was probably assassinated as a result of an unspecified conspiracy. The committee's findings, as with the those of the Warren Commission, continue to be debated.
The enormous volume of documentation from the Warren Commission was placed in the National Archives and much of it is now available to the public. However, access to Kennedy's autopsy records is highly restricted. To view them requires membership in a presidential or congressional commission or the permission of the Kennedy family.


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UB Art Gallery, Artpark:1974-1084, Buffalo, NY
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BWAC Show, "Surface Cross Flag: Red", NY State Empire Fulton Ferry Park, Brooklyn, NY
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Attleboro Museum, Ice and Fire Show, "Surface Flag: Reflective", Attleboro MA
Attleboro Museum Park, "Red Marking", Attleboro, MA
Connemara Conservatory Foundation, Sculpture Exhibit, "Surface Flag: Red", Dallas, TX. Cur. Amy W. Monier, Director, Dallas, TX
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Attleboro Museum, Fire and Ice Show, "Triangle of Light: Fire", Attleboro, MA. Juror Nick Capasso, Asst., Cur. De Cordova Museum, MA
7th Sculpture Exhibit Bradley Palmar State Park, "Surface Cross Flag", MA. Cur. Nick Capasso, Asst. Cur. DeCordova Museum, MA
Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood '92, "Red Marking", Stockbridge, MA
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VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:I have ~17 pages left in this chapter and I'm really hungry to finish them before August 8, at which point it will mark a year since i started this damn chapter I doubt I'll be able to do it in time
VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:I've been looking at some wretched deviantart pictures
RobboAKAscooby wrote:VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:I have ~17 pages left in this chapter and I'm really hungry to finish them before August 8, at which point it will mark a year since i started this damn chapter I doubt I'll be able to do it in time
I know that feeling *sigh*VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:I've been looking at some wretched deviantart pictures
THAT explains the extra page view!
But seriously, does Cuddly have a dA page?
VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:No man, the things I'm looking at... my God, we're all Rembrandts and Picassos. Never doubt yourselves, friends. I've gazed into the abyss. We are safe.
She does, but barely uses it and has I think four whole pictures on it, two of which are the same but one's resized I'm butteredhugs over there I think
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robotthepirate wrote:That looks awesome, Peter! Much slicker image, and actually a lot more 10s (what do we call this decade anyway!)
Inspiring me to do some more RTP (which hasn't updated in far too long) and I would but the Wife will be home soon so I shouldn't get started at anything.
Also inspiring me to have a look at the WAY thread again.
VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:I just clicked the link and already like the new splash/banner/title thingie.
McDuffies wrote:I think never being quite satisfied with your own work is quite a healthy approach, many artists I like appear as something of perfectionists to outsiders and fans, but that's just coming from having an idealized, unattainable picture of what your art (or skills) should be like.
Of course that goes as long as you've established a criteria of adequacy, after which you stop tampering with your work and let it live it's own life. It's crucial that you're able to draw a line above your work and say "For better or worse, this is finished." Going back to your old work and fixing it up over and over again, or touching up pages for months or longer before publishing them are ways to stunt your creative growth.
LibertyCabbage wrote:I finished scripting a 96-page rough draft for a story set in the Freedom Fries/Orange Revolution universe. I'm pretty excited about the story; I'm less excited about actually drawing it, particularly since I haven't done any drawing in a long time. I'm planning on spending a few months doing art practice in preparation, though, so hopefully I'll be posting some random drawings on the forums in the near future.
VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:Nice, I look forward to it.
Yeahduff wrote:The comic will be 96 pages or the rough draft is 96 pages?
chainmailbikini wrote:I would love to get to a point where I can start posting twice a week, that's my goal to work up to. We'll see.
Phact0rri wrote:I'm trying to part my weeks in some way to give me a few hours of drawing time.. enough to draw a page or two a week. its been tough!
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