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(US) Unquiet Thoughts Blog: Saturday morning quotes 2.47: Dowland complaints (13 Apr 2013)
(From the latest instalment of the "Unquiet Thoughts blog)
John Dowland (1563 – 1626) is famous as the greatest exponent of English music for solo lute, and as a composer of some of the best surviving music for lute and voice. He is also known as a world-class Miserablist. ...
(UK) The English Concert at Wigmore Hall (7 May 2013)
"The English Concert (TEC) returns to the Wigmore Hall for its fourth concert there this season, and welcomes Italian firebrand Fabio Biondi back to the orchestra for the first time in five years. Biondi will direct TEC in works by Haydn, Mozart and Gaetano Pugnani at the Wigmore Hall on Tuesday, 7 May 2013, with further performances at the Hexagon in Reading (8 May), St. George's Bristol (10 May), and the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford (11 May).
(US) Boston Early Music Festival 2013 (9-16 Jun 2013)
Once again the Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) 2013 is quickly approaching, and, if you have ever been to the BEMF, you will be aware that the week-long festival and early music tradeshow is very worth a visit. Here is a quick list of festival events ...
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(ES) 2nd International Course on Medieval and Renaissnace Music Morella 2013 (ICMRM) (19-25 Jul 2013)
Location: Castellón (ES)
"During the weekend (July 19th to 21th) will be held as a festival, filled with concerts and other activities as an educational exhibition of lutheria by the Spanish Society of Vihuela, a fringe by students or a medieval dinner. The other days will develop the lessons and activities of the course, among which include workshops, lectures, concerts and guided tours of the historic Morella, all conjugated to promote tourism and the cultural aspect of the city. ...
(FR) Les Passions Orchestre Baroque Jean-Marc Andrieu Concert Schedule
Location: Toulouse and misc. (FR)
If you are in the region of Toulouse, France, a reminder to check the "Les Passions Orchestre Baroque, Jean-Marc Andrieu" busy concert schedule.
19 April 2013 - Théâtre Paul Eluard à Cugnaux "Folies d'hier et d'aujourd'hui"
9 May 2013 - Halle aux Grains de Toulouse "Le Chevalier de Saint-George, homme de pique et musicien de cœur"
12 May 2013 - Orangerie de Rochemontès à Seilh "Une Soirée chez Ingres"
(BE) Il Gardellino Concert: J.S.Bach - St John Passion, BWV 245 (12 April 2013)
Location: Olowianka Str., 180-751 Gdańsk (PL) Opening Concert of the Gdańsk Music Festival Thomas Hobbs - Evangelist Matthias Lutze - Jesus Cappella Amsterdam Il Gardellino Daniel Reuss - conductor For this concert, Il Gardellino travels to Gdańsk (PL) combining forces with the Capella Amsterdam and Daniel Reuss, condutor.
(CA) Nota Bene Baroque Players Concert: "Once Upon A Time" (14 April 2013)
Location: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Music and storytelling join forces in this concert. Nota Bene Baroque Players, in partnership with the Shadow Puppet Theatre and guest narrator Ted Follows explores in words, music and images one of the oldest sources of artistic inspiration: Grimm's Fairy Tales: "The Bremen Town Musicians".
(US) Unquiet Thoughts Blog: "Saturday morning quotes 2.45: Audiences" (March 30, 2013)
"At the end of the 13th century, Johannes de Grocheo wrote that the motet was "not intended for the vulgar who do not understand its finer points and derive no pleasure from hearing it: it is meant for educated people and those who look for refinement in art"...
(FR) 2013 : 20th Ambronay European Baroque Academy
Monteverdi's Orfeo under the musical and pedagogical direction of Leonardo García Alarcón.
For its 20th production, the Ambronay European Baroque Academy returns to the origins of opera, to the foundations of this baroque repertoire which it has championed passionately since its inception...
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(CA) Nota Bene Baroque Concert: "If Music be the Food of Love ..."
Compositions by Nicolas Bernier, Giovanni Legrenzi, Johann Fux, Giovanni Battista Buonamente, Johann Schmelzer and Wolfgang Ebner.
Join us for what can only be described as a delectable and delicious treat to all of your senses. Visit the Nota Bene Baroque website for more details of ticket availability and of location.
(DE) Bachfest Leipzig 2013 (14-23 June 2013)
Location: Leipzig, Germany
"Vita Christi" • June 14–23, 2013
For the first time, an organiser has dared to draw theological, dramaturgical and compositional lay lines between Bach's great oratorical works in the programme of a festival. The Christmas Oratorio, the St. John Passion and the Easter and Ascension Oratorios form together a grand oratorio project which must have been a highlight in the musical life of Leipzig in 1734/1735. On a total of three concert evenings, these scenes from the vita Christi will be presented in Bach's unique musical realization. The oratorios will be directed by Trevor Pinnock and Sir John Eliot Gardiner. …
(UK) The Renaissance Singers "Michael Howard Remembered" (September 14th 1922 - January 4th 2002)
Organist, choir director and founder of The Renaissance Society
"In a musical career spanning over four decades Michael Howard influenced many hundreds of musicians, both amateur and professional. He holds a significant place in the history of the twentieth century revival of interest in pre-Baroque music.
Michael Howard was born in 1922 the son of Frank Howard a distinguished viola player who had been a founding member of Beecham's Philharmonic orchestra and player in Andre Mangeot's International String Quartet. His lifelong love of steam traction was sparked by the family home's proximity to the GWR ("God's Wonderful Railway") and to Walpole Park in Ealing which was used by the travelling fairgrounds. …
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(CA) Arion Baroque Orchestra Concert: "Christmas Symphonies" (21 Dec 2012)
(From a recent Arion Baroque Orchestra newsletter)
Christmas: a time of rejoicing, enchantingly depicted by Michel Corrette! Celebrate our kick-off to the holidays with Arion as we perform excerpts of Corrette's Symphonies des Noëls.
Chantal Rémillard and Tanya LaPerrière baroque violin; Jacques-André Houle, viola; Amanda Keesmaat, cello; Mélisande McNabney, harpsichord …
(US) Opera Today CD Review: "1612 Italian Vespers" (Reviewer: Claire Seymour, 10 Nov 2012)
(US) Women's Antique Vocal Ensemble (WAVE) Christmas Concert (21 Dec 2012)
Location: St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 2300 Bancroft Way, Berkeley CA, USA
"The Women's Antique Vocal Ensemble (WAVE) and the men of the Schola Cantorum of St. Albert Priory will present their annual Christmas concert following the customary format of a Festival of Lessons and Carols sung at King's College, Cambridge, England since 1918. The performance includes works by Viadana, Cozzolani, Pitoni, Berlioz, Duruflé, and Lauridsen, music from 13th & 14th century England, and traditional Christmas carols with audience participation. Please join us for an evening of ancient and traditional holiday music."
(US) San Francisco Renaissance Voices (SFRV) 3rd Annual Boar's Head Festival and Mid-Winter Gala (5,6 Jan 2013)
- 5 Jan - Seventh Avenue Presbyterian Church, 1329 Seventh Avenue, San Francisco CA, USA
- 6 Jan - First Lutheran Church, 600 Homer, Palo Alto CA, USA
"San Francisco Renaissance Voices, under the direction of Katherine McKee, Assistant Music Director, combines our two most popular events this year for a grand celebration of Twelfth Night and Mid-Winter presided over by her Royal Majesty, Queen Elizabeth I!San Francisco Renaissance Voices will be joined by Phantom of the Opera's Susan Gundunas, soprano, Diana Rowan, Celtic harp and Adam Cockerham, theorbo. …
(US) Amberican Bach Soloists (ABS), Jeffrey Thomas-Artistic Director Concert: Handel's Messiah in Grace Cathedral (20, 21, 22 Dec 2012)
Location: Grace Cathedral, San Francisco CA, USA
"Always a sell-out, year after year, ABS's performances of Handel's enduring masterwork are celebrated as one of Northern California's most treasured holiday traditions. A superb quartet of vocal soloists and the American Bach Choir …
(FR) Yasuko Uyama-Bouvard, Fortepiano and Organ Concert (9 Dec 2012)
Location: L'église Saint-Pierre-des-Charteux de Toulouse, Toulouse FR
Yasuko Uyama-Bouvard will present a concert (free entry) of fortepiano and organ on the occasion of the première release of her new CD "Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) - Dans la bibliothèque des Esterházy" (Hortus label).
(CA) Arion Baroque Orchestra Concert: "Bach: A Family Affair" (7, 8, 9 Dec 2012)
(From a recent Arion Baroque Orchestra newsletter)
"Arion has the great pleasure of welcoming Alexander Weimann, renowned harpsichordist, to the stage during this year's Montreal Bach Festival. Accompanied by Arion's musicians, along with flautist Claire Guimond and harpsichordist Hank Knox, the impressive harmonic rigour of J.S Bach will be united with the audacity and ardour of his sons… for your utmost enjoyment." …
(UK) Chapelle du Roi Concert: "New Lamps for Old -- Christmas with Chapelle du Roi" (7 Dec 2012)
Location: St.John's, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA
"Christmas has inspired composers for more than five hundred years. The legacy of English composers is rich and varied.
In recent years a 'Second English Renaissance' has seen contemporary composers taking inspiration from plainchant, secular carols and polyphonic masterworks of the sixteenth century. Chapelle du Roi explores the links between works by Tallis, Shappard, Palestrina and Guerrero & contemporary English composers including Robert Hugill, Daniel Burges, Nicholas O.Neill, David Braid, Anthony Mudge, Antony Pitts and Roxanna Panufnik. The result is a balance of sumptuous textures and harmonies and contrasting approaches to the great Christmas texts. …
(US) Harmonia Mundi New Release: "Stile Antico -- Passion and Resurrection" (Nov 2012)
(From a recent Harmonia Mundi news release)
"The award-winning choral ensemble Stile Antico presents Passion and Resurrection, an album featuring texts inspired by the dramatic events of Holy Week and Easter set to music by some of the greatest Renaissance composers from England and the Continent. Included is a setting of the poem "Woefully arrayed" composed especially for Stile Antico by John McCabe. This is the work's first recording."
(CA) The Holidays at Tafelmusik (Dec 2012)
(From a recent Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir news release)
A wonderful concert schedule await you at Tafelmusik in the month of December. You may want to make note of these:
- FRENCH BAROQUE CHRISTMAS at Trinity-St. Paul's Centre (5-9 Dec 2012)
- HANDEL MESSIAH at Koerner Hall (19-22 Dec 2012)
- SING-ALONG MESSIAH at Massey Hall (23 Dec 2012)
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The goal was always to look out for James T. Hackemer's two young girls.
A seven-figure settlement of his wrongful-death suit against the Darien Lake amusement park where he fell from a roller coaster should go a long way toward doing that.
Lawyers for the two sides said Hackemer's daughters, Kaelynn and Addison, both under age 10, will be the primary beneficiaries of a recent settlement of the double amputee's federal court lawsuit.
Hackemer, 29, of Gowanda, a decorated Iraq War veteran, died after he was ejected from a 208-foot-high roller coaster during a family outing in July 2011.
"Darien Lake and its management are relieved to settle this case," said Hugh M. Russ III, a lawyer for the amusement park. "And while they admit no liability, they did feel obligated to help care for Mr. Hackemer's two children."
Hackemer's family argued in the suit that park employees violated Darien Lake's safety rules by allowing a double amputee on the "Ride of Steel" coaster.
Lawyers said they could not comment on the settlement amount – the agreement is confidential – but a source close to the case said the girls will benefit from a structured annuity program with a low seven-figure value.
Hackemer lost his legs and left hip to a roadside bomb while serving as a U.S. Army sergeant in Iraq in 2008.
The settlement was recently approved by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
"The object of the litigation was always to look out for two daughters who lost a father," said Denis J. Bastible, a lawyer for Hackemer's estate.
In the days after Hackemer's fatal fall, his family shied away from blaming anyone, including Darien Lake, for what happened as the coaster plunged down that last hill.
Three weeks later, and after a state Department of Labor investigation cited "operator error" for the accident, the family sued in State Supreme Court.
The suit, which was later moved to federal court, accused Darien Lake's owners and managers – CNL Income Darien Lake and DLFE Management Co. – of recklessness and negligence.
Hackemer had survived a roadside bomb in Iraq three years earlier and almost died in the field and again on the operating table. His death came as he was fighting to reclaim his civilian life.
Riding on his favorite childhood roller coaster was just one more activity he wanted to resume.
"It's a very sad case," said Russ. "He had two small children, and while he had obviously sustained some really horrible injuries from the war, he was trying to rehabilitate himself and turn his life around. And then this unfortunate accident happened."
Soon after the accident, Genesee County sheriff's investigators determined that Hackemer either didn't see or ignored rules posted on the ride that said riders "must have two legs" and "sufficient body strength."
Investigators said Hackemer also was offered a pamphlet detailing the requirements for disabled people going on certain rides in the park.
They said park employees also failed to question Hackemer about his disability when he showed up at the entrance to the Ride of Steel.
The result was fatal.
Hackemer, like 25 other riders, was strapped in his car with a fabric seat belt and a T-shaped lap bar when the eight-car coaster plunged down the last hill on the ride, and he fell out.
As he was falling, he hit the front of the car and then the track before landing about 135 feet below. An autopsy determined the cause of death to be blunt-force trauma.
It wasn't the first serious accident on the Ride of Steel, a $12 million improvement billed as the tallest roller coaster east of the Mississippi when it debuted in 1999. It has since been exceeded in height by several newer coasters.
Shortly after the ride opened, an Olean man fell out of his seat 10 feet to the ground as the ride was making its final approach.
The park, which had a different owner at the time, later claimed that the man weighed more than 300 pounds and was too large for the seat's lap-restraint bar to engage. The park later added safety belts.
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Ecstasy May Ease PTSD Symptoms
July 20, 2010 -- The street drug known as ecstasy may play a role in treating severe posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when used in conjunction with intensive therapy in a very controlled setting, according to preliminary new research in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.
When used in this manner, MDMA, also known as ecstasy, was so effective that 80% of participants had resolution of their PTSD symptoms after the end of the trial. And some participants who had been unable to work because of their symptoms were able to rejoin the workforce. The new work was funded by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, a nonprofit group based in Santa Cruz, Calif., that studies the use of psychedelic drugs and marijuana in difficult-to-treat conditions.
PTSD is an anxiety disorder that occurs after a traumatic event. It is marked by persistent thoughts and fears of the event, flashbacks, and sleeplessness. Some people with PTSD withdraw from society as a result of these debilitating symptoms.
31 Hours of Therapy in 2 Months
The new study included 20 people with chronic PTSD lasting an average of more than 19 years. They took part in two, all-day therapy sessions spaced about three to five weeks apart. Twelve participants received MDMA, while eight received a placebo pill during these sessions. They also had a prep session before therapy, a debriefing session afterward, and spent the night in the clinic on treatment days. In addition, participants were in phone contact with their therapist for the week after therapy. All in all, they spent about 31 hours in therapy during the two-month study.
Eighty percent of participants who took MDMA were no longer classified as having PTSD after two months. After two months, participants in the placebo group were offered the study drug. Seven of eight opted to add the MDMA, and did equally as well as their counterparts who took the medication initially.
"We don't yet know what role MDMA may play in PTSD treatment, but the encouraging results of this pilot study suggest that it may play an important role in treating patients who have not responded to other treatments," study author Michael C. Mithoefer, MD, a psychiatrist in Mount Pleasant, S.C., says in an email interview. "More research is needed to see if these results can be replicated elsewhere and in larger studies."
Exactly how MDMA helps treat the symptoms of PTSD is not clear. "We are a long way from having a complete answer to that question," Mithoefer says. In general, PTSD therapy involves revisiting trauma. "Often people with PTSD have difficulty revisiting their trauma without either being overwhelmed by emotions or being emotionally detached," he says. Both of these can become obstacles to successful treatment, but "our impression is that MDMA catalyzes therapy by helping to overcome those obstacles."


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Dr. Small graduated from Kansas State University in 1995. She worked at an exotic and small animal general and referral practice in Miami, Florida for a couple of years before deciding to move to California. There she worked in a general practice in Fremont on the east bay of San Francisco for several years before moving to Los Angeles. She worked at VCA Wilshire Animal Hospital in Santa Monica for five years before deciding that the traffic was too much and felt the call to the Pacific Northwest. She has been at VCA Ocean Beach Animal Hospital since 2006. In addition to her duties as Medical Director, Dr. Small practices general medicine and surgery. She has a special interest in exotic animals, especially reptiles and amphibians. She currently lives with a ball python and a leopard gecko.


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October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM). Created more than a decade ago by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security Alliance, NCSAM is designed to provide every American with resources to stay safe and secure online.
SLU as an NCSAM Champion
Saint Louis University joins a global group of colleges and universities, businesses, government agencies, associations and non-profit organizations on the list of NCSAM Champions to promote online safety awareness. As an official Champion, SLU recognizes its commitment to cybersecurity and online safety. For more information about National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the NCSAM Champions program, and how to participate in NCSAM activities, visit http://www.staysafeonline.org/ncsam.
IT Security and Compliance NCSAM Activities
As part of SLU's NCSAM efforts, IT Security and Compliance has put together a plethora of activities for the SLU community. Visit their information booths at the Busch Student Center and Education Union for cyber security tips, giveaways, and games. Posters will be located across campus and in dorms to offer quick cyber safety reminders.
Join the Information Security Team - Cyber Security is a Shared Responsibility
The Information Security Team has already partnered with Pius Library to set up a year-round cyber security display. Small group discussions and presentations with various organizations across campus to recruit ambassadors for the program have also begun. Contact the Information Security Team if you would like to help spread the word or are interested in reserving a cyber security awareness presentation for your department or class, and watch for tips and information each week in Newslink throughout October.
Take some time to educate yourself on various cyber security issues. The National Cyber Security Alliance put together a calendar with tips, videos and games to help you quickly and easily improve your knowledge each day. Cyber Security is our shared responsibility.


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Though more than 200 women kill their children in the United States each year, very few women enter the capital murder system, and fewer still are ever actually executed, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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Pippa Middleton's party host of last weekend, French aristocrat Arthur de Soultrait, has issued an apology to her and an explanation for what has turned into a cause célèbre over a toy gun that was apparently jokingly pointed at paparazzi.
"Last Saturday," said de Soultrait's statement, which was released in Paris Wednesday afternoon, "I was in a car with Philippa Middleton, and we were being followed by paparazzi.
"She had been subject to constant and dangerous harassment by paparazzi throughout her time in Paris. The car was being driven by a friend of mine, whom Pippa had only met a few hours before. As a joke, my friend brandished a toy pistol in their direction.
"Obviously Philippa had no idea that he was going to do that and told him to stop immediately. She did not find it funny.
"I regret enormously that this incident happened, and especially that Pippa has been subject to the subsequent attention through no fault of her own. I have apologized to her for this."
Photos emerged earlier this week of Middleton, 28, smiling in a car as a male friend pointed the weapon. Her friend was identified as French criminal lawyer Romain Rabillard, 36.


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(Editor's Note: A correction was made to the scoring for Stetson's Jose Cruz in the final round by two shots. The change moved him to a tie for 36th overall and moved the Stetson team into a tie for seventh with Western Carolina at 877 for the tournament.)
Morganton, NC – A pair of fresh-faced youngsters took the reins for the Stetson men's golf team on Tuesday and led the Hatters to a tie for 7th place at the Donald Ross Intercollegiate, hosted by Appalachian State.
Freshman Dustin Dingus (Palm Harbor, Fla.) and sophomore Matt Taylor (Naples, Fla.) sparked the Hatters, who completed the two-day tournament just five shots out of a top five finish in the 17-team field.
Lynn University of Boca Raton, Fla., edged past James Madison for the overall team title. The Fighting Knights closed with consecutive team scores of 282 to win the tournament by one shot (854-855) over the Dukes. Wofford (860) finished six shots off the pace in third place with High Point (867) and Elon (874) rounding out the top five.
Dingus played consistently throughout the tournament, posting scores of 71-74-71 to finish tied for 16th with a six-over par score of 216. For the tournament, Dingus had eight birdies, 10 bogeys and a pair of double bogeys, one in the opening round on the eighth hole and the other in the second round on No. 11, both par 4s on the par 70 course.
"It was really a grind out there," Dingus said. "Donald Ross courses have really small greens, and that can wear you down. You just have to keep plugging away. I played two holes at three over each and I was six over for the tournament. Eight was really long with a small green and number 11 had a sharp dogleg with a tricky green."
Taylor had more of an up-and-down performance. After posting an opening round score of 75, which included a triple bogey on the par 4 12th hole, he came back with the individual round of the tournament with a blemish free four-under par score of 66 in the second round.
Taylor's 66 was the low round of the tournament and one of just 22 sub-par rounds in the event.
"I came out this morning with eight holes left," Taylor said. "I was one-under through 10 and wanted to make some birdies and I was able to make three straight. I can't think of any competitive rounds where I didn't have a bogey."
Taylor said the break in play in the middle of the second round due to darkness was actually a benefit.
"I think we were all pretty tired at the end of the day yesterday," Taylor said. "It was a little cool when we went back out this morning, but I felt good. On this course you have to put every shot in the right spot and hit the greens. That makes it a lot easier. I slipped a little on my last nine holes and made a silly double but, other than that, it was a pretty good day."
He closed the tournament with another 75, giving him a total score of 216, which tied with Dingus for 16th place overall. For the three rounds, Taylor carded nine birdies, 10 bogeys, one double bogey and the one triple.
Hatters head coach Bob Weickel said it was a good performance for the entire team.
"Dustin had a nice string of birdies in the second round and then had one lip out on the last hole that pushed him over par in the final round," Weickel said. "The big thing was that we hung in there and got into the middle of the pack. It was a much better showing."
High Point's Chase Wilson (69-68-71=208) took the individual tournament title with a final round score of 71 to edge past Casey Komline (68-67-74=209) of Appalachian State. J.T. Poston of Western Carolina, who came into the event as the highest nationally ranked player in the field, finished third, two shots off the pace.
Another Stetson sophomore, first-year player Jose Rosales Cruz (Queretaro, Mexico), had a strong showing in his first appearance for the Hatters. His college debut after spending a year at the IMG Academy in Bradenton included scores of 74-72-74 for a final of 10-over par 220. He tied for 36th overall.
Cruz finished his first tournament with nine birdies, 13 bogeys and three double bogeys.
"I was glad for Jose to get in his first tournament," Weickel said. "He was pretty nervous, but started to relax a little about half way through that first round and I think he started to enjoy himself."
Junior Tyler White (Palm Harbor, Fla.) and freshman Andrew Peterson (Andover, Minn.) both had good and bad rounds in the tournament. White opened the event with a three-over par 73 in the first round, but then struggled over the last two rounds, posting scores of 80 and 81. He finished at 24 over par (234) for the tournament, tied for 73rd overall.
Peterson had a rough opening round, one that included a stretch of three double-bogies over four holes, but closed the event with a solid three-over par round of 73. His overall score of 235 was good for a tie for 76th place.
The Hatters will have little time to rest up from their trip to the mountains of North Carolina before getting right back into action this weekend at the Mission Inn Collegiate Classic at El Campeon Golf Course in Howie-in-the-Hills, Fla.
"I think the whole team should feel really good," Dingus said. "We played so much better than we did in South Carolina. We just have to carry this forward."


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Bombshell? More like a bomb.Smash crashed and burned in its much-hyped, two-hour, revamped return, drawing a mere 4.5 million viewers and a 1.1 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic Tuesday. That's down a whopping 71 percent from its post-Voice series premiere last season and almost 40 percent down from its season finale. It's also well below the 4.98 million viewers and 1.8 that Parenthood averaged in the 10 o'clock slot in the fall.TV Musicals: The highs and lowsLead-in Betty White's 2nd Annual 90th Birthday Special earned 6 million viewers and a 1.5. CBS won the night, led once again by NCIS (21.5 million, 3.7).ABC's decision to air a special episode of The Bachelor against Smash paid off, drawing 7.8 million viewers and a 2.6, up two-tenths from Monday. Fox's lineup was mostly steady, with The Mindy Project (3.6 million, 1.9) inching up a bit.On The CW, the series finale of Emily Owens, M.D. nabbed 1.5 million viewers and a 0.4.8 p.m.CBS: NCIS 21.5 million viewers (3.7 demo rating)ABC: The Taste 5.3 million (1.8)Fox: Raising Hope 3.9 million (1.6); Raising Hope 4.6 million (1.5)NBC: Betty White's 2nd Annual 90th Birthday Special 6 million (1.5)CW: Hart of Dixie 1.4 million (0.6) 9 p.m.CBS: NCIS: Los Angeles 16.6 million (3.1)ABC: The Bachelor 7.8 million (2.6) [9-11 p.m.]Fox: New Girl 4.8 million (2.5); The Mindy Project 3.6 million (1.9)NBC: Smash 4.5 million (1.1) [9-11 p.m.]CW: Emily Owens, M.D. 1.5 million (0.4)10 p.m.CBS: Vegas 10.2 million (1.6)
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Lois M. Douglas, 91, Annawan, died Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, at Hammond-Henry Long Term Care, Geneseo. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 17 at Annawan Community United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery, Geneseo. The Rev. Dan Wright will officiate. A visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16 at Stackhouse-Moore Funeral Services, Annawan. Memorials may be made to Annawan-Alba Rescue Unit or Annawan Community United Methodist Church.
She was born on April 20, 1921, in Geneseo, the daughter of Charles and Dora (Himmelman) Gritman. She graduated from Geneseo High School in 1939. She married J. Avery Douglas on Aug. 23, 1942, in Geneseo. He died on May 7, 1993. She was a member of the Annawan Community United Methodist Church, including several Bible study groups, the Annawan-Alba Women's Club, Geneseo T.O.P.S., Geneseo Women's Connection Group and Friends Christian Singles Group. She was a Bloodmobile volunteer for more than 30 years and was a member of the Quad City Emmaus Community. She started the first Girl Scout Troop in Annawan and she enjoyed traveling, card groups, theatre productions and her family and friends.
Survivors include three sons and spouses, John and Denise Douglas of Park Forrest, Bruce and Susan Douglas of Springfield and Scott and Michelle Douglas of Tyler, Texas; 10 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a son, David; two brothers and a sister.
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When working with dairy bulls, be vigilant
When working with dairy bulls, be vigilant
Whether you work with bulls every day or once a year, remember to be cautious.
We all know someone affected by an encounter with a dairy bull. These encounters don't end well for anyone involved and could be avoided.
Dairy farmers keep bulls for a couple of reasons. It can provide supplementary income to farmers who sell several bulls for breeding purposes. Bulls can also be a cost-effective way to breed a herd (no technician fees or semen costs) or as "clean-up" to get problem cows bred. Few bulls are kept solely for the show ring, as a vast majority of shows have eliminated their bull classes.
How bulls are raised has an effect on their behavior later in life. Temple Grandin's website contains useful information about preventing bull accidents. She cites University of California data that suggests bulls raised in group pens with other bulls are less likely to be aggressive than those raised individually. By minimizing contact with humans, they are less likely to see a human as a threat to their dominance.
Never handle a bull alone. Always have an exit strategy if something goes wrong. Many farms have dogs that are well-trained to keep bulls at bay while working around them.
Bulls show many forms of aggression, according to this article. Lowering their head, arching their back, and pawing the ground are all ways that bulls try to look as large as possible. When a bull begins to act aggressively, it is best to back up slowly and find your way to the nearest exit. Running causes the bull to feel threatened.
The best way to not get injured by a bull is to not have one on the farm. If, through careful analysis, bulls are still necessary as a source of income or for reproductive efficiency, remember to keep the above guidelines in mind. Any bull that exhibits aggressive behavior should be culled immediately. Most importantly, be safe.


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Person who cranes, stains or otherwise awkwardly turns their head and stares while passing the scene of something interesting (usually morbid in nature).
This is usually seen and performed while driving past the scene of an accident, or any other incident where there are police, firemen or ambulances with lots of flashing lights.
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Nosy drivers who turn their heads to look at accidents thus causing severe traffic jams on many roadways.
While rubberneckers looked at a bunny rabbit, they caused a traffic jam.
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Slang: Someone who enjoys the act of slowing their vehicle to like 15 miles an hour on a motorway just so they can gawk at the wreckage of a van on its roof or a car on fire.
These people are a severe pain in the arse to emergency services, and they often cause tailbacks up to several miles.
These people are a severe pain in the arse to emergency services, and they often cause tailbacks up to several miles.
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People that stick their nose into other peoples business.. always wanting to know whats goin on or what the other person has.
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the boyfriend buttin' into the (soon-to-be) ex-husband & wife's exsponged belongings (mediation).
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1. Someone who, when playing xBox or Playstation on a the same TV against each other, looks at the other player's half of the screen to get an unfair advantage against the other player- Knowledge of where the other player is located and weapons they may have.
Usually in a first person shooter ex: Halo.
Usually in a first person shooter ex: Halo.
"Dude! How did you know know where I was? I had camo and the radar jammer... You're such a rubbernecker!!"
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An individual who moves his head or worms in rank or while standing at attention.
The drill sergeant screamed at the fresh recruit for turning his head to look at the seagull calling him a rubber necker.
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The discovery of objective biomarkers for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes is the subject of a growing body of research. Particularly important are those biomarkers that predict disease initiation/recurrence or objectively measure the response to treatment in patients without outward physiological symptoms.
Translation of biomarkers along the biomarker pipeline into the clinical practice is not a linear process, however. Despite many candidate biomarkers identified in the scientific literature, only a few have been validated. This is largely attributed to the high costs of clinical validation studies.
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has taken a lead role in supporting biomarker translation. In 2006 the NCI launched the Clinical Proteomic Technologies for Cancer (CPTC) initiative. This initiative introduced an intermediate step in the biomarker pipeline called biomarker verification.
According to the agency, "verification, the bridge between discovery and qualification, is the process of credentialing prioritized biomarker candidates using analytically robust, reproducible, and quantitative assays on a statistically powered number of samples with clinical relevance. Credentialed proteins successfully passing this stage are considered verified biomarkers, which are of high value for translating into large-scale clinical qualification studies."
The presence of such a bridge can rapidly triage the candidate biomarkers prior to investing large sums of money and time on development of a commercially suitable assay. Such a path could also enable verification of new technologies.
While ELISA is still a gold standard for diagnostics, the limitations of this technology become more and more apparent as scientific attention is drawn to the biomarkers present in low concentrations, represented by complex signatures, or arise via isomeric changes. This article describes several cutting-edge technologies bridging the biomarker pipeline from discovery to verification.
Protein variants, such as conformational isomers, post-translational modifications, point mutations, and degradation products, represent a rich resource of diagnostic information that has remained unexploited. These isoforms are normally present at low concentrations, and often cannot be differentiated by antibodies alone.
At GTCbio's Biomarker Discovery and Development Conference, which will be held next week in San Francisco, scientists will discuss a range of approaches for working with protein biomarkers. For example, Intrinsic Bioprobes is developing mass spectrometric immunoassays (MSIA™) for clinical diagnostics.
"Our goal is to translate the MSIA technology into routine clinical applications," says Urban Kiernan, Ph.D., director of biomarker discovery. "MSIA occupies a unique niche in diagnostics—quantification of disease-relevant protein isomers. Even if antibodies are unable to separate truncated forms or point mutations of the same protein, the combination of affinity-capture with MS provides a powerful diagnostic tool."
The Massay® platform supports the fully automated process that begins with the capture of the target analytes from crude biological fluids by specific antibodies. The capture antibodies are immobilized on a proprietary solid support fitted within functional pipette tips. Each antibody is empirically selected for the desired target.
During the sample incubation process, biological fluid is recirculated through the affinity tip for enhanced enrichment of the desired target. The captured analyte is then eluted and directly deposited onto a mass-spec target for MALDI-TOF MS analysis. Integrated robotics enables high-throughput processing of 96 samples at a time.
"Research behind clinically relevant protein isoforms had been lagging until we pioneered a robust way to quantify protein variants," continues Dr. Kiernan. "Just by screening the normal population, we were able to identify a substantial number of new isoforms. This opens the door to a completely new branch of clinical proteomics."
One of the company's early successes came from the analysis of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), a well-known marker of congestive heart failure. The BNP assay has become one of the most important blood tests in cardiology. And yet, the available antibody-based test is unable to distinguish between circulating BNP forms, some of which are not clinically relevant but add to the total BNP measured.
Massay technology not only detects such low-abundance analytes but enables the unequivocal quantitation of active and inactive forms, ultimately driving the choice of therapeutic intervention. The company has also recently discovered and qualified two isoform biomarkers for type 2 diabetes that have been licensed to Ortho-Clinical Diagnostic.
"This approach makes sense," comments Lawrence Oliver, Ph.D., professor in the department of laboratory medicine and pathology at the Mayo Clinic. "A number of clinical biomarkers are known to be present in different forms. For example, IL-6 is present in 17 different isomeric forms. This complicates our ability to consolidate the results of various clinical trials measuring the same analyte."
Dr. Oliver is proposing a study that would re-evaluate the clinical validity of a well-established biomarker, an indicator of increased risk of coronary disease and stroke. Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2) generates pro-inflammatory products as a result of its natural enzyme action and is both a biomarker and a therapeutic target studied in multiple trials of vascular disease prevention.
Most recently, The Lancet published the retrospective analysis of 32 clinical studies with over 79,000 participants. The meta-analysis of this data demonstrated association of Lp-PLA2 activity and mass with risk for coronary disease. However, Dr. Oliver demonstrated that this analyte is not only unstable at room temperature, but also at –20ºC.
In his studies, the values for Lp-PLA2 stored at –20ºC steadily rose by as much as 40%. Such drift was not observed at –70ºC. Freeze-thaw cycles increased values by as much as 18%. Mayo Clinic collaborated with diaDexus, the manufacturer of PLAC® test for Lp-PLA2, on validation of an automated test.
"diaDexus had to overcome significant issues with the reagents," continues Dr. Oliver. "Their newest test meets analytical validation criteria. But the absolute values of Lp-PLA2 detected by the new version of the test are only at 50% of what was published in the previous 32 studies."
The contrasting values may be due to the drift under low temperature storage conditions, or due to differential stability of the enzyme in distinct states of the disease, or because the new test differentiates between bound and unbound forms of Lp-PLA2.
Regardless of the cause, the new test may not be measuring the risk component to the same extent as the old one. This means that the prospective data cannot be correlated with any previously collected clinical data. "This very promising biomarker can no longer be supported by the previous body of data," adds Dr. Oliver. "Whenever a new biomarker is discovered and put to clinical use, the manufacturer has to ensure that with every new iteration of the test, we can continue to trace the results back to the clinical trials used to validate its interpretation."
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Women's HealthCare at Davis Memorial Hospital now offers a walk-in clinic four days a week as well as the added services of a new family nurse practitioner Deborah Ransbottom.
Available now, the GYN walk-in clinic will be open from 9 a.m. to noon Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays and Fridays from 1 until 4 p.m. The new service is the latest way for Women's HealthCare to serve as a "one-stop shop" for all of women's gynecologic health needs.
Ransbottom, FNP-BC, has joined a team that includes Anne Banfield, M.D., FACOG; Ernest Flores, M.D.; Jorgen Olsson, M.D., FACOG; and Mary Ann Scott, M.D., FACOG. Ransbottom is a board-certified nurse practitioner who got her master's of science in nursing from Wheeling Jesuit University.
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Deborah Ransbottom, FNP-BC, will provide walk-in GYN services at Davis Memorial Hospital's Women's Healthcare four days a week.
"Women have so many roles that they must fill - wives, mothers, daughters, sisters - that too often their own health care needs come last," Ransbottom said. "We want to help them concentrate and take care of their own health needs."
The availability of a walk-in clinic is one more way Davis Memorial Hospital is striving to offer more convenient care for people, Banfield noted.
"There's no appointment necessary, which makes it easier to get necessary medical evaluations and proper care quickly," Banfield said. "We're pleased to offer this new service to help women in our region."
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LOGAN, UT – It started with a classroom experiment at Purdue and it led to a Nobel Prize, and now, an invitation by the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University to come and speak.
Vernon L. Smith, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002, will be the George S. Eccles Distinguished Lecture Series speaker at 11:30 a.m., Nov. 13. The annual event, which is free and open to the public, will be in Room 215 in the George S. Eccles Business Building. His topic is "Understanding Recessions Since 1929: Housing Up and Housing Down."
Smith was teaching at Purdue in 1955 when he decided to test out an approach he hoped would help his students better understand how the marketplace functions. He conducted a classroom experiment that had half his students selling fictitious goods to the other students who were acting as buyers. That led to research he did in experimental economics at the University of Arizona between 1976 and 2002 that eventually won him the Nobel Prize, according to Tyler Bowles, the head of the Economics and Finance Department at the Huntsman School of Business.
"Dr. Smith's visit represents a remarkable opportunity for not just our students but our faculty and the USU community to hear directly from someone who has done ground-breaking research that has influenced the way we understand economics," Bowles said. "He has authored or co-authored more than 280 articles and books. His expertise is sought after and widely respected."
Past speakers of the George S. Eccles Distinguished Lecture Series, which started in 1973, have included management guru and author Peter Drucker, Nobel Prize winner and author Milton Friedman, and Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve. George S. Eccles played a key role in founding First Security Corporation in Utah in 1928 and the business building on the USU campus is named after him.
"One reason to hold this lecture series each year is because it reminds us of Mr. Eccles' own distinguished career in the banking industry," Bowles said. "He had a lifelong interest in helping USU students better understand economics and business."
Smith now has joint appointments with the Argyros School of Business & Economics and the School of Law at Chapman University in California. He is the president and founder of the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics, an organization that investigates the "causes of economic imbalances and seeks market-based solutions." He is also part of a team that runs the new Economic Science Institute at Chapman.


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It was his junior year at the University of New Hampshire, and an ankle injury had robbed Corey Graham of his speed.
His 40-yard dash time, usually between 4.3 and 4.4 seconds, was in the 4.7 range. For a cornerback with NFL aspirations, that's akin to a pitcher losing 10 mph on his fastball.
Graham came home to Buffalo and had a heart to heart with his high school coach at Turner-Carroll, Willie Burnett.
"He's like 'Coach, this is never gonna work,' " Burnett recalled this week. "We worked out, we trained hard, and we got him back down to under 4.4. He's just the epitome of what it takes to be successful. Corey never gave up. He still never gives up. If you watch him out on the field, he plays hard. He plays like it's his last play."
Graham is reaping the fruits of his labor this season as a member of the Baltimore Ravens, who meet the Denver Broncos at 4:30 p.m. today (Ch. 4, Radio 550 AM) in the divisional round of the AFC playoffs.
"It's a big stage. I get a chance to play against Peyton Manning. It's a chance to play well against one of the all-time best," Graham said by phone this week from Baltimore. "That's what you want to do your whole life, that's what you dream about, and I'm looking forward to it."
Graham is in his first season with the Ravens after spending the first five years of his career with the Chicago Bears, who selected him in the fifth round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played in all 64 possible games for the Bears over the past four seasons, but made just 10 starts over that time (none in the past two years).
Graham was, for better or worse, pigeonholed as a special teams player by the Bears. It's a role he excelled in - making the Pro Bowl last season - but one he ultimately wanted to expand.
"Sometimes when you're doing well on special teams you get that reputation and it kind of sticks with you. It's hard to lose that reputation," Graham said.
"When someone says, 'You're a special teamer,' no matter how good you do on defense, that's what you are. ... That's what they asked of me at the time. I just tried to do whatever they asked of me. I couldn't wait to get the opportunity to show everybody what I could do on defense."
Seeking that opportunity, Graham signed a two-year contract with the Ravens last March. Baltimore lost top cornerback Lardarius Webb to a torn ACL in October, and shortly thereafter, Graham found himself in the starting lineup.
He started the final eight games of the regular season, registering 60 tackles, eight passes defensed and two interceptions. He started last week's 24-9 wild card-round victory over the Indianapolis Colts as well, getting seven tackles, a half sack and two passes defensed.
"It's been a successful season. When you go to a new team, you just hope for an opportunity to show what you can do," he said. "I've been fortunate to show what I can do and get a chance to play on defense. I'm just trying to make the best out of it.
"It's a totally different system. It's like night and day from Chicago. Everything's so different. I feel lucky. I think I fit the system very well. I know what I'm doing. It's one of those things, sometimes you get in the right system that fits what you do and you feel comfortable in it. I've been fortunate to find the right system."
Burnett, who serves as a trainer for local high school and collegiate athletes, believed good things would come to Graham.
"I'm very thrilled about it. I thought he should have got this shot in Chicago, but you know how things work out. I just told him to keep his head up and things will work out for him and lo and behold they did," he said.
"It shows how a person who really puts their mind to it, what they can do. I tell all my athletes the same thing. I use Corey as an example in a lot of the things I say.
"Corey worked hard in high school. Not only was he a good athlete, he was a good student. I think he had the second-highest grade-point average in his class when he graduated. I knew he was going to do good things."
Graham and Burnett have remained close since their time together at Turner-Carroll.
"Since he left school, we haven't been out of touch for longer than a week," Burnett said. "We have a really genuine relationship. He probably knows I'm going to text him in the next couple hours about this interview. He's more than a friend.
"I'm so excited for him. Everywhere I go here in Buffalo, people are like 'What do you think about Corey?' I just get chills. I never, never get bored of talking about Corey Graham. In fact, some people say, 'OK, coach, that's enough.' "
Graham would return home over the summer during his time at New Hampshire to train with Burnett, a practice he continued even after reaching the NFL.
"He taught me how to play the game right from wrong," Graham said of Burnett. "He helped me with my college decision. He was the one who trained me. Coach Burnett helped me so much."
Graham plans to move his offseason residence from Chicago to Baltimore after the Ravens' season, but still gets home to Buffalo frequently. His parents, Carey and Patricia, still live in the area. He'll have a big cheering section today, undoubtedly led by Burnett.
"I'm just so proud of him, and I'm proud to give this interview about him," Burnett said. "I've got chills. ... He's a great guy and he deserves it."
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DiCaprio, 38, who has not made an official Cannes appearance since 2007, and Mulligan, 27, are expected to be joined by other cast members, including Isla Fisher, Joel Edgerton and Tobey Maguire, who plays the Jazz Age novel's narrator, Nick Carraway.
"I am very proud to return to a country and a festival that has always been generous with me," said Luhrmann, whose previous films Strictly Ballroom and Moulin Rouge have appeared at Cannes. "And happy to see this film screened at Cannes, not far from Saint-Raphaël, where Scott Fitzgerald wrote one of the most poignant passages and most moving of his extraordinary novel."
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I searched some more and stumbled across Halstead's mortuary records from that time frame - there she was! Once again I read that she died in Klamath Falls, Oregon but there were no clues as to the cause of death or why she was in Klamath Falls. The records showed that Bertha's residence was the Maryland Hotel in San Francisco. She lived in a hotel?
I also learned that the grand total to prepare Bertha for interment was $220.98! That was broken down as:
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The next time I talked to my mom on the phone, I told her about my findings and about my curiosity as to what Bertha was doing in Klamath Falls. "That's easy" she said. WHAT? You know? In retrospect it was stupid of me not to ask her in the first place because Bertha died about a month before my parents were married so, of course, she would have known what happened. Here's the story.....
Bertha was living at the Maryland Hotel in San Francisco after Abe died. She and my grandparents (Bertha's daughter, Loraine, and her husband, Sig Levy) set out by train from San Francisco headed toward Victoria, Canada for vacation. The first night on the train, Bertha died of an apparent heart attack. The train conductor wanted to stop the train in the middle of nowhere and let my grandparents out with the body. Thankfully, my grandfather convinced them to get them to the next town which was, in fact, Klamath Falls. Even though all the records show that Bertha died in Klamath Falls, she may have actually died in California. After a brief stay in Klamath Falls, Loraine and Sig got Bertha's body back on a train and headed south to San Francisco for interment at Hills of Eternity.
My mother remembers visiting with Birdie a few days before their vacation and Birdie was insistent that my mother take some little dessert forks she had as a wedding gift. Mom suggested that she wait and get the forks after they returned and when they were all together for her wedding. After Birdie's death she was given the forks and, I believe, she still has them today. But she's convinced that Birdie had a premonition that they would never be together again and that she wanted to ensure my parents had the forks that were, obviously, so special to her.
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Building on the landmark PBS series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood is a new series for a new generation of children. Launching in fall 2012 on PBS KIDS, the series tells engaging stories about the life of a preschooler and is accompanied by cross-platform games and activities for the very youngest children, together with online resources for parents and teachers. Daniel was developed by The Fred Rogers Company, and brings together a group of today's leading creators of children's media and educational technology. The series tells its engaging stories using musical strategies grounded in Fred Rogers' landmark curriculum: its songs give parents and children a concrete way to practice important school-readiness skills together.
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NIAGARA FALLS – No one seems to know exactly what the new lawsuit challenging the Maid of the Mist will mean for Niagara Falls.
It could spell the end for an iconic local company that has taken people to the base of the falls for centuries.
It also could disrupt the popular boat tours at the height of the tourist season.
Or Hornblower could simply end up losing its case.
But one thing's for certain: The suit, to be played out in State Supreme Court starting next month, already includes many intriguing angles for local residents.
The heart of the argument by Hornblower Cruises & Events of California lies in the contract that the Maid has with the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
That agreement allows the Maid to lease valuable public land at the base of Niagara Falls for the purpose of operating its popular boat tours.
The Maid keeps most of the profits from the service but pays New York State a share of each boat ride.
For years, the state has said little about how this agreement came to be. Hornblower's suit sheds a bit more light on the state's contention that the current 40-year contract with the Maid of the Mist – as well as previous contracts that dated from more than a century ago – did not need to be put out to bid.
The contract to lease the prime land at the base of the Niagara Gorge was never opened to public bidding, state officials have said, because the Maid was considered the "sole-source provider" of the tours.
In other words, no company other than the Maid could conceivably provide the American tours because they depended on the storage facilities controlled by the Maid on the Canadian side.
Those facilities – which protect the boats from the icy winter waters – have been used to store the Maid's American and Canadian fleet for decades. No storage or fueling facilities have ever existed on the American side.
In justifying the lack of public bidding for the 2002 lease, state parks officials say that "it would be impossible for [the Maid] to use the American side for anything akin to their operation across the river," other than to "pick up and discharge passengers," according to the suit.
That statement was given in 1996 in response to concerns from the State Comptroller's Office about why the new lease was not being put out to public bid.
And what would happen to the American contract if the Canadian operations, for some reason, were no longer controlled by the Maid?
State parks officials, according to a letter obtained in the suit, said they "could negotiate with" or "assign the balance of the [New York license] to," whichever "new vendor" was awarded the license in Canada.
Hornblower says that it wanted a chance to do just that, but was never afforded the opportunity by state officials.
And company officials now say – given the previous reasoning – that they don't understand the state's recent agreement to let the Maid build a new storage facility on the site of the former Schoellkopf Power Plant.
That's not the only instance where Hornblower is trying to use New York State's words against it.
It also cites official state parks policy that calls for the state to "encourage competition for private sector investment and operation of public service facilities at State Parks and Historic Sites."
State officials have said they do not need to put the lease out to public bid because the $30 million in storage construction at the Schoellkopf site is covered under an amendment to the original 2002 contract.
But Hornblower says in the suit that the state would essentially need to "move heaven and earth [and, according to recent regulatory filings, solid waste and storm water runoff]" for the company.
The crux of the lawsuit may lie in the state's ability to prove that the Schoellkopf modifications are not significant enough to warrant a new deal and, therefore, public bidding.
Just as intriguing is the choice of legal representation by Hornblower.
In addition to its New York City legal team, the San Francisco company has chosen John P. Bartolomei to represent it in the proceedings.
Bartolomei is a longtime Niagara Falls attorney who seems to regularly find himself at the center of high-profile cases.
Only recently, he has served as legal representative for Niagara Falls Redevelopment, the controversial downtown landowner.
Last year, he also represented Nik Wallenda, the "King of the High Wire" who fought the city over unpaid expenses after his history-making wire-walk.
The Maid of the Mist case may not be as closely watched as Wallenda's breathtaking event that drew worldwide attentionlast summer. But it could prove to be just as important to Niagara Falls.
"I have never seen something so blatantly against the law as this," Bartolomei said last week. "To me, it's as clear as day. I think we will prevail."
Maid officials have said they "are confident that the courts will determine that this lawsuit is without merit."
The next phase of the suit begins April 11.
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Modelling of Deformations and Stresses in Glass Tempering
Aronen, Antti
Publication type: Doctoral dissertation
Issue date: 2012-04-13
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Supervisor: Karvinen, Reijo
Opponent: Schneider, Jens
University: Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto - Tampere University of Technology
Faculty: Luonnontieteiden ja ympäristötekniikan tiedekunta – Faculty of Science and Environmental Engineering
Department: Energia- ja prosessitekniikan laitos – Department of Energy and Process Engineering
Glass tempering is a heat treatment process which increases the strength of plate glass. In the past the process has been developed mainly on the basis of experimental results, but numerical modelling has now improved the ways of studying the process. The problems are most common with thin glass. A thin glass sheet requires high temperatures and rapid heat transfer to produce a good quality product. Furthermore the traditional support arrangements have to be modified. This thesis considers the most common quality faults and presents the reasons for their occurrence. With thinner glass more effective heat transfer than is currently available is required to temper the glass. The increased heat transfer coefficient changes the mechanical behaviour so that a higher glass temperature is needed. However, the temperature increase makes the glass less viscous before cooling and the lower viscosity increases deformations. The influences of temperature, heat transfer coefficient and support arrangements for glass plates have been investigated in this thesis using numerical methods. In the numerical modelling state-of-the-art models are presented and used. The cost effective one-dimensional dedicated program and a more general, three-dimensional commercial FEM program, are used in the simulations. The simulations explain and give more detailed information about the behaviour of glass. The deformations are dependent on several parameters and the entire thermal and mechanical history has a bearing on the results. The results shown in this thesis can be used to design a new support system for a tempering furnace. In the glass market the use of coated glass is increasing. The coating changes the thermal and mechanical behaviour of glass and the effect of coating on the glass behaviour has been demonstrated. The tempering of coated glass is more challenging than that of pure glass. Although, the cases considered deal with the tempering process, the results can also be utilized in glass annealing.
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Why the Data on Justifiable Homicide Just Won't Do
The recent events in Ferguson, Mo., have raised questions about shootings by police in the U.S. and homicides that are ruled justifiable. Unfortunately, it's nearly impossible to answer some of those questions due to incomplete data.
The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program collects data from the more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies to provide statistics about crime and law enforcement in the U.S. From this program, for example, we know that there were 14,827 homicides and non-negligent manslaughters in 2012, the latest year for available data. But, it isn't required that agencies submit justifiable homicide data—submitted as the Supplementary Homicide Report—to participate in the program. This makes the largest database of justifiable homicides in the U.S. very incomplete.
Among the missing states is New York, which had 684 killings in 2012. The third-most populated state, which likely had a number of justifiable homicides, doesn't report justifiable homicide data, according to the FBI. Data from other highly populous states are missing or compromised as well. Agencies from Florida don't follow Uniform Crime Reporting guidelines when submitting justifiable homicide data and Illinois only submits limited data. Various other agencies at multiple levels don't submit justifiable homicide data for other reasons, resulting in fewer than half of the 18,000 agencies contributing this information.
(As a side note, justifiable homicide data are available only as a text file—not very friendly for those of us looking to find answers by sorting numbers.)
These are early numbers for justifiable homicides printed in the FBI's Crime in the United States annual publication. Totals often change slightly afterward, as agencies can continue handing in corrected data until the following December. Justifiable homicide is defined as a killing committed, either by police or private citizens, while the victim is in the process of committing a felony. Felonies can be anything from rape or robbery to gambling.
While the numbers for total killings in the U.S. rely on data from all reporting agencies as well as estimates for unreported areas, the numbers for justifiable homicides are just what's reported. Law enforcement agencies aren't required to submit justifiable homicide data as part of the Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Since the data are incomplete, it's difficult to draw any conclusions from the data. The general uptrend just means that there are more reported justifiable homicides in the U.S. Because we don't know what's happening in areas that don't report, it's unclear whether the rate for the entire U.S. is the same, rising faster or even falling.
These are the data we do have on justifiable homicides. California has the most reported justifiable homicides by law enforcement; Texas the most by private citizens. But not all jurisdictions within the state report their data, so we can't be sure of where states stand overall. Meanwhile, one must assume that if all law enforcement agencies were required to submit justifiable homicide data, these numbers would be much higher. New York would likely be high on the list instead of missing.
The chart below compares reported homicides/manslaughters, which is mandatory, with reported justifiable homicides, which aren't required.
Without requiring law enforcement agencies to report justifiable homicides, the data will continue to underestimate the numbers of justifiable homicides in America, and will make it impossible to draw conclusions about what the data are saying.


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