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Federal authorities are investigating the death of an engineer who plunged 140 feet in a fall from a New York City bridge he was inspecting earlier this month.
Paul Schisler, 54, of Bridgewater, NJ, fell to his death from the High Bridge in the Bronx about 10:10 a.m. Jan. 15, authorities said.
Paul Schisler was "a very nice man, a very smart man," a co-worker said. The engineer's death is under investigation.
New York's oldest standing bridge, the High Bridge (also known as the Aqueduct Bridge) connects Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. Once the most celebrated part of the famed Old Croton Aqueduct, the bridge has been closed since 1970 due to disrepair, but it is now the focus of a $61.7 million renovation project by the city's Department of Parks and Recreation.
Schisler was walking the old bridge on an inspection when he fell, authorities said. He landed on dirt next to some train tracks.
Schisler was transported to Lincoln Hospital by emergency responders but could not be saved, reports said.
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Schisler was employed by Schiavone Construction LLC, of Seacaucus, NJ. Founded in 1956, the firm is a well-known heavy construction contractor in the Northeastern United States. The company is heading the bridge rehabilitation, which began in the summer of 2012.
The circumstances of Schisler's accident were not available, and no one has said if he was wearing fall protection.
The High Bridge's steel arch dates to 1928. The bridge was closed in 1970 but is undergoing a $61.7 million rehabilitation.
"I'm trying to figure out how it happened," a member of Schisler's construction crew told the New York Post. "I don't know what happened. And the guys with him don't know."
Schiavone did not respond to requests for comment, but the company issued a statement to the New York Daily News saying that it was cooperating in the investigation.
"Schiavone has a strong safety program, and there is no higher priority than the safety of its employees and the public," the statement said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with our employee, and his family, friends and co-workers."
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has opened an investigation into the incident, a spokesman confirmed, but the agency typically does not comment until its report is complete.
OSHA records show no inspections or citations of Schiavone Construction in the past five years.
About the Bridge
The High Bridge, a single steel arch of about 450 feet, was built in 1928, replacing five masonry arches dating from the original 1848 structure. The bridge was part of the Old Croton Aqueduct, which carried water from the Croton River to supply New York City 10 miles to the south. The entire bridge is more than 2,000 feet long.
The renovation includes rust removal, repainting of the steel, and resetting the deck.
By the mid-1960s, the bridge was failing. In 1970, it was closed. In November 2006, however, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced that the city would renovate and reopen the bridge. The reopening had been set for 2009, then 2013.
On Jan. 11, 2013—just days before Schisler's accident—Bloomberg's office said the reopening would be pushed back to the summer of 2014.
The work includes cleaning 165 years of soot from the stone, repainting the steel span, and resetting the brick deck. Rust will be removed, steel beams and walkway tie rods replaced, and new mortar installed in all of the stone and brick joints.
A member of Schisler's crew described the victim as "a very nice man, a very smart man."
He told the New York Post, "I'm really bothered about this—for a working man to lose his life. How do you tell a mother and kids their father isn't coming home?"
Comment from jerry baxter, (1/30/2013, 6:46 AM)
It's very sad when these accidents happen. So quickly one life is taken and others broken. Working on bridges and tanks most of my life, know and seen others fall. Unfortunately, it always seems,to be the victim that somehow caused the incident. Apathy usually plays a big part of this kind of accidents. Becoming indifferent to our surroundings.
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I usually straight line troll for pike. I like to use Rebel spoonbill minnows, deepdown husky jerks or even Rapala DT 16. I look for a drop off near a weedbed edge. I let out 100' of line (line counter reel) unless I have a Gapin "poor mans down rigger" then it is about 30' back. I use a steel leader. My trolling speed is 1.8 mph mostly. I zig zag between the weed edge and the drop-off, making sure I pass over the drop-off. But in the spring I use casting spoons or 1/16 oz jig with chartruse head, red eyes and a 2" twin tailed white twisty. For the most part, in the spring, after feeding they will head into the shallower water and sun themselves. Good time to toss a jig! Early in the morning they can be found at the mouth of these small back bays putting the feedbag on...
john, i would start by working the shallow's bays ya can find and casting around the shallow's weeds ya can find. these fish are resting and feeding after doing their thing, spawning. yer bait fish and panfish are coming into the shallows now to put on a feed of their own before they spawn. also would like to say that the pike will not be to far from were they spawned at this time. look for weeds that are on the 1st. main break that are starting to green up. 6-12' depths would be a could place to start.
for lures, i would look at huskey jerks in the color pattern of the main bait fish of the lake ya are fishing in......such as perch finish if ya have alot of perch in the lake. or even smelt if they are in the lake. i would have a few different colors to be trying........silver and black, gold and black, gold and red, shad and blue. all these colors work good for me and they don't have to be rapala's. but work great on any stick bait and it's at least 6" long or bigger. suspending baits work great at these depths because ya can work them slower than a floating bait with weight added onto the line. if the pike are hitting hard then ya can speed up yer retrieve and if they want it slowed down ya can do that too.
Try a twin tailed, white twisty on a 1/16 oz jig...Hot stuff at lake Champlain in the early spring! I use that combo all over - east & mid west and it's a winner!
Another option is live bait. Here in NY it is legal to catch and use perch bait in the water you have caught the perch. If your going to use two lines from a canoe. I suggest you hold the rods in your hand and have your buddy position himself facing you. Put the lines 60' back with the one and 80-90' back with the other. Now as you steer with one hand and hold the rod up with the other he can watch the lines so that they don't get crossed. I would then run parralel to the weed edge. But making figure S's occasionally making such sharp turns that you almost go 180 degrees. This will stop your lure or bait and then when you straighten the canoe or boat back out it speed it up.
I'm new at trolling, but put alot of time in last summer trying differant things. This is what worked for me.
If it wasn't for rabbit and turnip I might not have ever gotten into trolling. I have found it is easier with two in a power boat than by yourself. But it can and is done only.
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What say we blow off work and go fishing? (I wish!) I have a question regarding trolling... How do you judge speed? I have a small boat and small motor without any type of speed gauge. I hear a lot of talk of mph when trolling, but how do you how fast you're moving?
I have an inexpensive Garmin eTrex GPS. I set it on the bench next to my seat and set the function for "speed" and watch the mph. I think these can be purchased for $79 still. I was using my speed indicator on my fishfinder but that is not accurate. My boat is only a 16 footer, and this works very well. I plan to purchase and install a mount, a cig lighter to plug it into and hook it to my main battery so that I won't have to worry about my AA batteries running out of juice. I hope this answers your question!
With straight line trolling I can just about tell by feel if I am in the right speed zone. I stay pretty steady at 1.8 mph. But when I spped up I need the GPS to set me straight! And what Tom was saying is right on!
man i haven't fished mullet since i was a kid. but from what i have read, fish husky jerks along the main breaks this time of the year. and go deep as it warms up during the summer.sorry i don't know of any exact spots for ya.
good luck memphis and let us know how ya do.
thanks for you advice , Iwill fish for whatever will bite and hope its a monster pike.lost this website took some doing to get back in . thank you from memphis.


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Last season Billy Hamilton was the first minor leaguer in over a decade to steal 100 bases. This year he passed the century mark around midseason and Tuesday broke Vince Coleman's record of 145 swipes in 1983. Hamilton is the top-rated prospect remaining in the Reds system and had been getting on base with an AVG/OB% over .300/.400 while splitting time at high-A Bakersfield and AA Pensacola.
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Yesterday Hamilton stamped a seal on his claim as the greatest base-stealer in minor league history. It was expected that he would break Vince Coleman's record of 145 stolen bases in a single season set in 1983. Hamilton passed the mark early yesterday by swiping four in the first game. Coleman set his record in the low-A South Atlantic League games and passed the century mark again in 1984 at AA Louisville. Last season Hamilton became the first minor leaguer in over ten years to steal 100 in a season while he was at Dayton. This season he's split 121 games between high-A Bakersfield and AA Pensacola.
The 21 year-old Mississippian led off the Wahoo's first inning with a walk and was denied a chance to steal second by an errant throw on a pickoff attempt. He did swipe third before the inning ended. He broke the record on another "double-steal" inning in the third. He singled with two outs and stole both second and third during the next at-bat. He led off the eighth with a walk and stole second again. In the second game he walked in the third and was picked off first. He had now has 147 steals out of 180 attempts for a success rate of 81.7%.
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Glove work was high on Hamilton's list of development coming into the season. Even though there is some speculation that there might be a position change in his future, the Reds have opted to leave him at shortstop because of his quickness. He's made six errors in 38 games since his promotion to Pensacola. That is about half the frequency that he'd committed them before.
Hamilton is perhaps the most exciting player in minor league baseball today. He has the speed to inflict havoc on opposing defenses when he's on base and his success at the plate this season shows that he knows the way to first. He's developed a keen eye and has walked in almost 17% of his plate appearances. Sometimes that speed takes away steal opportunities as 35 of his 150 hits have gone for extra bases. Of course his reputation and aggressiveness on the base paths has gained many extra bags from errant throws from pickoff and steal attempts.
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Many U.S. communities face difficulties attracting physicians to meet their health care needs. To address this problem, states and federal agencies have turned to foreign physicians who have just completed their graduate medical education in the United States under J-1 visas. Ordinarily, these physicians are required to return home after completing their education, but this requirement can be waived at the request of a state or federal agency if the physician agrees to practice in, or work at a facility that treats residents of, an underserved area. In 1996, GAO reported that J-1 visa waivers had become a major means of providing physicians for underserved areas, with over 1,300 requested in 1995. Since 2002, each state has been allotted 30 J-1 visa waivers per year, but some states have expressed interest in more. GAO was asked to report on its preliminary findings from ongoing work on (1) the number of J-1 visa waivers requested by states and federal agencies and (2) states' views on the 30-waiver limit and on their willingness to have unused waiver allotments redistributed. Such redistribution would require legislative action. GAO surveyed the 50 states, the District of Columbia, 3 U.S. insular areas--the 54 entities that are considered states for purposes of requesting J-1 visa waivers--and federal agencies about waivers they requested in fiscal years 2003-05.
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—The combined Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) of the vehicle(s) being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
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c. The driver transports any quantity of Division 1.1,1.2 or1.3 (Class A or B explosive) materials in any vehicle.
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Question 5: Do drivers of ready-mix concrete mixers need a tank vehicle endorsement (''N'') on their CDL?
Question 6: Does an unattached tote or portable tank with a cargo capacity of 1,000 gallons or more meet the definition of ''portable tank'' requiring a tank vehicle endorsement on the driver's CDL?
Guidance: Yes.
Question 7: Must all drivers of vehicles required to be placarded have CDLs containing the HM endorsement?
Guidance: Yes, unless waived.
Question 8: Is a driver who operates a truck tractor pulling a heavy-haul trailer attached to the tractor by means of a "jeep" that meets the definition of a Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) under part 383 required to have a CDL with a double/triple trailer endorsement?
Guidance: Yes. The ''jeep,'' also referred to as a load divider, is a short frame-type trailer complete with upper coupler, fifth wheel and undercarriage assembly and designed in such a manner that when coupled to a semitrailer and tractor it carries a portion of the trailer kingpin load while transferring the remainder to the tractor's fifth wheel.
Question 9: Do persons transporting battery-powered forklifts need to obtain an HM endorsement?
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Guidance: Yes. Any driver of a bus that is designed to transport 16 or more passengers or that has a GVWR of 11,794 kilograms (26,001 pounds) or greater is required to obtain a CDL in the applicable class. A passenger endorsement is also required if the bus is designed to transport 16 or more passengers, including the driver.
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Question 14: Are drivers required to have both the "P" passenger and "S" school bus endorsements if they are not transporting students when operating a "school bus," as defined in 49 CFR §383.5?
Guidance: No. Only drivers actually transporting pre-primary, primary, or secondary school students from home to school, from school to home, or to and from school sponsored events in a school bus are required to have both the "P" and "S" endorsements. Only a "P" endorsement is required by drivers delivering school buses from the manufacturer, by mechanics and other drivers operating empty school buses, and by drivers transporting students and/or adults to and from events that are not sponsored by the school.


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Nancy Lang of Creative Touch announced a new stylist, Evann Stueder, has joined the salon.
Stanley Hatesohl, M.D., is not only excited about his new medical practice in Great Bend but he also is happy to be close to family and a local non-profit agency that will provide services for his son.
Local businesses are invited to join in a national event called "Miracle Jeans Day," which will take place Wednesday, Sept. 12. The Miracle Jeans Day is an opportunity for local businesses and its employees to wear jeans for a $5 fee per employee. All collected proceeds are submitted following the Miracle Jeans day by the company to Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.
The new surgeon at St. Rose Ambulatory & Surgery Center knew what she wanted - a facility where she could practice general surgery, with a subspecialty in breast surgery.
When the orthopedic surgeon first came to town to talk about starting a practice at St. Rose Ambulatory & Surgery Center, he didn't need a GPS app to find Great Bend or the facility. Abelardo Sotelo, M.D., has been here many times before.
St. Rose Ambulatory & Surgery Center is now collecting items for the live and silent auctions during its annual fundraiser for cancer patients. Proceeds will benefit people treated at Heartland Cancer Center, 204 Cleveland, which St. Rose owns.
Jim Johnson originally planned on the Invest in Kids Membership drive being completed at the end of July. But because the fundraiser is still about $8,500 shy of its goal and more federal funds were cut recently, it will continue through the end of this month.
Six members of Rosewood Services' AKTION Club, along with two sponsors, participated in the Self Advocate Coalition of Kansas (SACK) Conference at the end of July in Topeka.
HOISINGTON – Recently the CPI Barton County Endowment awarded a $5,000 grant to support the renovation of Hoisington's Pride Park. Originally the endowment committee challenged the City of Hoisington and the FOCUS Committee to raise an initial $10,000 in order to receive the CPI Endowment grant. The city successfully met the challenge and all of the funds raised help support the updates to and renovation of Pride Park.
Barton Community College held a private reception for Bank of the West personnel Thursday afternoon in the Shafer Art Gallery. The intention was to show key figures of the bank how the college planned to display four large murals by Pat Potucek, which Bank of the West donated to the Barton Foundation several months ago.
Anyone who is considering walking their way to health may be encouraged by the success of the recently formed InMotion Club. Each member is a client of Sunflower Diversified Services, which serves people with developmental disabilities.
A new Gambino's Pizza restaurant will open within the next few weeks in downtown Great Bend, thanks to a partnership between the new owner and My Town LLC. This will be Jana Herdman's fourth Gambino's Pizza site in central Kansas.
Nothing brings out the scammer bottom-feeders like an emotional tragedy. The Aurora, Colo., theater shootings are a case in point. Charity fraud is a very real danger for those who are moved to contribute to such causes. The Better Business Bureau is warning that givers should use care to be sure they are helping this very worthwhile cause rather than putting money into the hands of charity fraudsters.
The 2014 Kans for Kids Radiothon, presented by Comfort Pro of Great Bend, was hosted by Eagle Radio on Friday, March 7.
St. Rose Ambulatory & Surgery Center employees were recently recognized for their longevity at the facility's Annual Associate Awards reception.
After several months of hiatus, Rosewood Greenhouse tomatoes are back.
Not only did a downtown Great Bend business raise money for Heartland Cancer Center (HCC) patients, its fundraising activity gave other entities the opportunity to do the same.
Steve Wondra, Ecowater Sales Manager for Stueder Contractors for 24 years, was named Admiral (reserved for the highest position in the Admirals Club) for being the top salesman in U.S. small markets (cities with population of 100,000 or less) and will be part of the exclusive Fleet Admiral's Club, an elite group of only the top salespeople. Steve learned of his outstanding achievement while attending the Ecowater International Dealer Convention in St. Pete Beach, Fla.
Carrie Feist, a newly certified Jazzercise instructor, has begun offering classes at the Jazzercise Great Bend Fitness Center. Feist earned the right to teach Jazzercise by completing an intense two-day workshop and performing a letter-perfect audition. Becoming a Jazzercise instructor requires dedication and thorough training. After submitting adequate references and putting in long hours of practice, Feist recently participated in a rigorous workshop in Leawood, sponsored by the Franchise Programs and Services Department of Jazzercise Inc. She was required to learn approximately 15 Jazzercise routines for her audition; pass a written exam on basic anatomy, exercise physiology and nutrition; learn ...
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Dr. Russ McCaulley of Great Bend has been re-elected to his third two year term on the Heart of America Contact Lens Society Board of Directors at the societies 53rd annual congress held in Kansas City Mo. on Feb. 14-16th. Dr. McCaulley will continue as a Director of Education.
Governor Brownback signed a proclamation declaring March 23 – 29 as Kansas Agriculture Week and Mar. 25, Kansas Agriculture Day. A cornerstone of the agriculture celebration is the Neighbor to Neighbor Food Drive.
Nearly 300 of Kansas best educators gathered in Topeka in February for the 2014 KEEN (Kansas Exemplary Educators Network) Conference. This by-invitation only conference was hosted by the Kansas State Department of Education. It is for active KEEN members, their principals and superintendents, and recognized educators. They met to discuss current education issues and classroom practices. The two days were spent celebrating the achievements of Kansas public schools and collaborating on ways to better serve Kansas students.
You may remember the gentleman with disabilities that held the door for you at Ellsworth Steak House or the young woman with disabilities serving you popcorn at the bank. You may remember how happy they seemed, but what you might not know is how they obtained that job or were connected with the volunteer opportunity. Mosaic's mission is to help people with intellectual disabilities discover possibilities in their lives.
Nex-Tech will be hosting a technology conference on June 12 for information technology professionals, called Tech Edge.This one-day conference will be in Hays on the campus of Fort Hays State University inside their Memorial Union.
Credit Union of America donated 36 Dr. Seuss books, valued at $395, to Roosevelt Elementary in Hoisington. The presentation was made Friday at the school.
Zena Jacobs, R.N., still cares for patients whenever she can but she has taken on another role at St. Rose Ambulatory & Surgery Center.
The picture was fading out on the big, boxy television in the Heartland Cancer Center (HCC) waiting room and it was time for a change.
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Pat Hatfield has two master's degrees, is a former teacher and now is the director of Buchanan County's public library.
She is not a hick, redneck or barefoot hillbilly, and she resents outside newspapers, magazines and television news shows picturing people here that way.
But what she resents even more is the implication in some magazine and TV stories that county residents have conspired for some reason to frame Roger Keith Coleman for murder.
"All these reporters and all these people have come out here and tried to stereotype us as illiterate and uneducated, and people who have not tried to give him a fair trial," Hatfield said. "We've all suffered . . . because we have to look on national TV and see the whole legal system of the county discredited."
Coleman, 33, is scheduled to die at 11 p.m. Wednesday in Virginia's electric chair for the March 10, 1981, rape and murder of his sister-in-law, Wanda Faye McCoy. The 19-year-old woman died from stab wounds in the chest and a neck wound that nearly severed her head from her body.
The case has gone back and forth between state and federal courts for years. U.S. District Judge Glen Williams rejected Coleman's latest appeal Tuesday, but Coleman's lawyers are preparing an argument for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. If he is turned down there, Coleman's only hope would lie with clemency from Gov. Douglas Wilder.
The appeal to the governor has been supported by groups such as Amnesty International USA, articles in national magazines such as Newsweek and Time, and broadcasts on national television shows.
But no surge of support has come from Coleman's home county. In fact, a petition being circulated here to be sent to Wilder states that its signers are convinced of Coleman's guilt "beyond all possible doubt" and asks that the death sentence be carried out.
"I thought they'd made him Time's Man of the Year," Tom Scott, a private lawyer who helped prosecute Coleman 10 years ago, said of the cover story on Coleman in the magazine's May 18 issue.
"If you want to write an opinion article, that's fine," Scott said. "But . . . you should present both sides."
Scott held a news conference Thursday that he billed as featuring "the women in Roger Coleman's life," including a woman assaulted by Coleman in 1977; the woman's daughter, age 6 at the time, who witnessed the assault; Pat Hatfield and Jean Gilbert.
Hatfield identified Coleman as the man who entered the library where she was working late one snowy night in January 1981, exposed himself and ejaculated before fleeing.
Hatfield and Gilbert, the circulation clerk and the only other person in the library at the time, eventually identified Coleman from a photo in the Grundy Senior High School annual. Gilbert confirmed the identification in a separate interview.
"All at once he's Mr. Innocent," Gilbert said. "We know the real story behind it."
Coleman has written Hatfield from prison, telling her she had mistaken him for another man he names. Hatfield said she and Gilbert had both seen the other man and were certain he was not the person who entered the library that night.
"If people take the time to get to know all of us, they know that we're truthful people, we're honest people, and we don't have any reason to lie," Hatfield said.
Mickey McGlothlin, who was commonwealth's attorney during the Coleman trial, ended up not prosecuting the exposure charge because of the more serious murder case. Now some news accounts are suggesting that the exposure charge was dropped for lack of evidence. "If I knew what I did now, we'd have prosecuted that case," McGlothlin said.
It was Wednesday when McGlothlin came into Randall Jackson's office waving a photocopy of the Time article. Jackson is chief deputy of the Buchanan County sheriff's office.
"I'm absolutely flabbergasted by Time and Newsweek . . . their inability to see the facts that are right in front of them," McGlothlin said. "The state papers and the local papers and TV have tried to give a balanced account, . . . but there is no balance in this. None whatsoever. This is totally irresponsible reporting."
Jackson, who was Grundy's police chief at the time of the murder investigation, chuckled when he scanned the article. "They did get the date of the murder right," he said.
The Time article, like others, pinpoints a man who has been named by Coleman's legal team as a suspect in the case. The man was never a suspect, McGlothlin said, and also has taken a state police lie-detector test. "He took it and passed it. That was only done recently."
The other man's blood type also eliminated him as the rapist, McGlothlin said. If authorities had tried to make a case against that man, "they'd ride us out of here on a stick."
Coleman declined to undergo a polygraph test in 1981, citing medical reasons and referring to the opinions of two doctors who had treated him recently. McGlothlin has obtained an affidavit from the two doctors, J.P. Sutherland Sr. and S.M. Zamzam, who said there were no medical reasons for him not to take the test.
Before the Coleman story became a national one, Teresa Horn, a 23-year-old Grundy woman, gave an interview to a Roanoke television station that cast doubt on Coleman's guilt.
Horn told WDBJ-TV that the man named by the Coleman defense team tried to rape her not long after McCoy's death and warned her he would "do her like he did that girl on Slate Creek" if she resisted.
Horn died a day after taping her allegation from what an autopsy showed as an accidental drug overdose.
WDBJ also aired a brief interview with the man who was named by the defense team, and he denied the allegations.
After Horn died, former commonwealth's attorney McGlothlin obtained an affidavit from a longtime acquaintance of hers, Linda Mullins, saying that Horn had told her that she had been in regular contact with Coleman's attorney. Mullins quoted Horn as saying Coleman, a former coal miner, "could come into a lot of money if he came out of this thing, and he may want to share it."
"The national media doesn't want to print evidence as to why Coleman may be guilty," said Scott, the private lawyer who assisted McGlothlin in the prosecution.
What is not mentioned in some national stories and glossed over in others, Scott said, is that DNA tests conducted by a forensic scientist chosen by Coleman's defense team produced strong evidence that it was Coleman who raped and killed McCoy.
The tests showed that sperm recovered from her body had three genetic markers, two of which occur among only 0.2 percent of males in the United States. That percentage includes Coleman but not the man named by Coleman's team as a suspect.
Add to that the recovery from McCoy's body of a pubic hair consistent with Coleman's and tiny blood spots on his jeans consistent with her blood type, Scott said, and the evidence pinpointing him is overwhelming.
McGlothlin said the personality of the victim is another unmentioned factor. Wanda McCoy was extremely shy, he said, to the point that she would not even answer the door if she did not know the person outside. She would have answered it for her brother-in-law. "That's basically how we got focused on him," McGlothlin said.
The door was locked when McCoy's husband arrived home that night and found her body, McGlothlin said.
McGlothlin said authorities believe Sandra Stiltner, an acquaintance of Coleman's, was his intended victim, but her husband had come home early and was there when Coleman came by their trailer to pick up an eight-track tape he had left there. Stiltner noticed it was 10:20 p.m. when Coleman was there. The time of McCoy's death has been placed at between 10 and 11 p.m.
There was plenty of time for Coleman to have made the few minutes' drive from the trailer to the McCoy home, Scott said. "I did it with a Japanese film crew the other day."
Scott said he has no desire to control what national news organizations report about the Coleman case.
"But the other side is controlling them," he said. Should Coleman be released, "I hope they're also prepared to open the doors to their homes where their wives and female children are. I hope that."
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'It's one of very few discs of this repertoire I've been happy to play in its entirety, and then several times since. This is in part a tribute to Gombert … but also to The Brabant Ensemble and Stephen Rice … by encouraging an unusually individual and carefully balanced vocal response, he avoids the pitfalls of relentless consistency and arid elision … there is a welcome and (in this music) novel belief in the power of voices as voices … try the sopranos halfway through Hortus conclusus es for erotic Mariolatry at its most disconcertingly sensual. Arise, make haste, as they sing, and hear this music' (Gramophone)
'… The sheer quality of his music. These 10 motets are notable for their richly glowing sonorities, their disciplined counterpoints, their intensity of expression and, most of all, their careful tailoring of music to text. There's the darkly erotic intensity of Hortus conclusus es, the angst-ridden, pentitential Tribulatio et angustia … The singing is meticulously balanced and blended, Stephen Rice shaping and pacing each work with exquisite judgement' (Sunday Times)
'The Brabant Ensemble's exploration of the "forgotten generation" of composers between Josquin and Palestrina is reviving an abundance of unwarrantedly neglected sacred polyphony. Judging by this splendid selection of motets, Gombert's neglect is particularly flagrant. In penitential pieces, such as Aspice Domine and Tribulatio et angustia, his lavish use of dissonance within a smooth-flowing yet intricately imitative style creates an atmosphere of almost unbearably intense and bitter anguish, whether contemplating a city laid waste or beseeching rescue from a foetid quagmire … These shapely and well-paced performances do full justice to Gombert's outstanding talent' (The Daily Telegraph)
'This is impressively accomplished ensemble singing … Rice's own booklet notes provide fascinating insights into the music … It is this intelligent approach to the spirit of the text (there is a glorious moment in Hortus consclusus es when the soprano soars ethereally to the line 'arise, make haste my beloved'), coupled with outstanding tuning and balancing, which makes this such a distinguished group. The Brabant Ensemble are quickly establishing themselves as one of the more impressive English groups specializing in Renaissance music, and this, their fourth CD release, only increases their stature' (International Record Review)
'This attractive recording provised an excellent opportunity to wallow in his motets … The music is austere but beautiful, with plenty of anguished dissonances and false relations … The music is well-sung … The performers are evidently passionate about 16th-century Flemish music' (Early Music Review)
'Les moments à couper le souffle ne manquent pas dans la dernière réalisation du Brabant Ensemble. Les amateurs de polyphone de la Renaissance se réjouiront de voir apparaître des joyuax tels que Hortus conclusus, auz invraisemblables chaînes de dissonances, ou une version du Inviolata qui, pour évoquer lointainement un modèle de Josquin, ne se situe pas moins dans un registre d'élégiaque mélancolie où Gombert surpasse tous ses contemporains' (Le Monde de la Musique)
' … Virtually all of these works project an awe-inducing majesty and solemnity, unfolding over many minutes of nearly cadence-free waves of rich-textured polyphony. Pungent dissonances play an integral role in the overall structure, as do repeated-note fragments and brief melodic segments whose impact can be quite striking, especially when introduced in the treble register and then passed through the other voices. It would be impossible to name a highlight--the magnificent Tribulatio et angustia; the grand Aspice Domine; the profoundly moving Pater noster and Ave Maria--because all of these works and performances are exemplary, both as unique creations and as stylistically informed, modern realizations of some of the greatest, yet-to-be-fully-appreciated music of the 16th century. The 14-voice Brabant Ensemble, whose vibrant, perfectly-tuned sound often gives the impression of a larger group, knows the importance of phrasing, breath control, and long-lined dynamic modulation, all of which are essential to really fire up and fully illuminate these scores. The sound, from what proves to be the ideal acoustics of the chapel of The Queen's College, Oxford, is perfectly balanced to allow us to hear each vocal line clearly while enabling the ensemble to properly resonate. This is a recording that demands and rewards multiple hearings … Absolutely essential listening!' (ClassicsToday.com, USA)
'Aspice Domine, Ne reminiscaris, Domine and Tribulatio et angustia mine a rich seam of angst, and receive searing performances here … the singing is brightly supported, the texture crystalline' (Early Music)
'This music is stunning, and the performance here is clear and bright, with perfect balance across the voice parts and the sustained lines. Highly recommended' (GScene)
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This is The Brabant Ensemble's third disc for Hyperion. Under their director, eminent musicologist Dr Stephen Rice, they continue to excavate jewels of the sixteenth-century choral repertoire which have until now remained under-performed and under-represented in music history. Their natural and instinctive performing style, which foregrounds the essential vocal qualities of this music, unlike the instrumental tone of other early music choirs, brings these beautiful and complex works abundantly to life. Gombert's motets are the heart of his writing and this selection of them allows the range of his musical accomplishments to fully emerge. Often seen as written in penance for heinous crimes committed by the composer, many of them are settings of various texts of penitence, sorrow and yearning for deliverance from punishment. Images such as the 'hellish lake' in Tribulatio et angustia are dramatically explored. Also on this disc are motets for the adulation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which surprisingly demonstrate an especially intensified and dissonant musical style, showing the almost erotic level of devotion suggested in some of the greatest art of this period. |
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This recording is devoted entirely to works by Nicolas Gombert (c1495c1560) from a single genre: the motet. Whereas programming of Renaissance music in the CD era has very often placed settings of the Mass Ordinary at the centre of the picture, in the case of Gombert (like many of his contemporaries) motets are both the largest part of his compositional output, and works of considerable substance in their own right. A motet such as Aspice Domine, lasting over ten minutes in performance, is longer than the great majority of Mass movements; moreover, in the first half of the sixteenth century the motet was the dominant musical genre. Nearly 180 motets have at some time been attributed to Gombert, and although over fifty of these may be discarded as differently texted duplicates, as misattributions, or simply as nonexistent misreadings of catalogues, the remaining corpus outnumbers his Mass settings by over ten to one. Similar proportions apply in the case of illustrious contemporaries such as Jacobus Clemens non Papa (c15101555/6) and Adrian Willaert (c14901562), in contrast to the output of earlier composers: both Johannes Ockeghem (c141097) and Pierre de La Rue (c14601518) composed more Mass settings than motets. Accordingly, the motet is here placed centre stage, allowing the variety of Gomberts musical accomplishments to emerge more clearly than would be the case if motets were seen as ancillary to settings of the Mass.
Several themes are notable when considering Gomberts motets as a group. Most obvious is that of penitential writing, for which this composer is particularly known. Several commentators have linked the high incidence of penitential motets to the best-known episode in Gomberts life, namely his dismissal from Imperial service and exile to the high seas stupro pueri principalis (literally, for the violation of a boy in the Emperors servicethat the boy in question was a chorister is not documented, though the inference of modern writers that this was so is highly plausible). Indeed, it has been argued that the entirety of Gomberts first book of four-part motets (published in Venice by the Scotto firm in 1539) took the form of an extended penance for his crime, since the volume contains not only a preponderance of sorrowful pieces but also references to deliverance from watery punishment. The motet Aspice Domine on the present recording is taken from this book: additionally, the five-part Tribulatio et angustia and Ne reminiscaris, Domine both explore similar themes. In Tribulatio et angustia, the writer asks God for deliverance de lacu inferni et de luto faecis. This phrase, which refers to Psalm 39, verse 3 (in the Vulgate numbering), is rather primly translated by Miles Coverdale in the Book of Common Prayer as out of the horrible pit, out of the mire and clay. How this image was viewed in early modern times is illustrated by the cover of this CD: the horror of souls in torment is heightened by the grotesqueness of their demonic torturer, whose extra face in its belly, like nothing created on earth, emphasizes the absence of God in the infernal kingdom. It is clear that Gombert had good reason to be penitent: equally, the same commentator in whose writings we learn of the composers disgrace praised him for enduring his deserved punishment. Indeed, with chained foot Gombert wrote music that eventually secured his release from captivity: it is not clear what is meant by these swansongs, though the impressive presentation manuscript in which Gomberts modally ordered set of Magnificats is preserved at Madrid is a likely answer. Also unclear is the extent to which the crime has affected modern-day reception of Gomberts music. As members of what has been described as the post-Josquin generation, or even of a no-name generation, Gombert and his contemporaries have until recently been significantly under-represented, both in the writing of music history, and on the concert platform and in the recording studio. In part this critical ambivalence arises from an understanding of Josquin Desprez as representing the generality of compositional style around 1500, whereas Josquins outputinsofar as we can know which of the myriad pieces attributed to him are authenticstands somewhat apart from that of his direct contemporaries in stylistic terms. (The paradox that Josquins music can simultaneously be unique and indistinguishable from that of imitators is explained partly by the belief that eclecticism is a feature of his stylemaking stylistic arguments as to attribution almost impossible to justifyand partly by our lack of detailed knowledge of the music of lesser names.) Composers such as La Rue, Jean Mouton (c14591522) and Jacob Obrecht (1457/8 1505) produced music that, while it has many of the melodic and architectural features of Josquins, does not share the crystalline quality that the latter sometimes achieves through his extreme economy of means. Consequently, the following generation of Netherlanders, including Gombert, Willaert, and Jacquet of Mantua (14831559), whose achievement was to intensify the style prevailing in their youth with tighter imitation and more voices, are judged and found wanting by reference to an aesthetic goal at which they never aimed. The tide is beginning to turn a littlea process to which The Brabant Ensemble is pleased to contribute by recording more music of this generationbut it is undeniable that certain aspects of the repertory are still viewed as problematic, and as far as individual members of the generation go, none can be so problematic as the convicted child molester, Gombert. Despite this blemished history, it is to be hoped that Gomberts music can stand, after 450 years, for the achievements of his time rather than his grievous transgressions. Tribulatio et angustia is unusual within Gomberts uvre in being modelled on an earlier piece of the same name, perhaps by Philippe Verdelot (c1480c1531), though more likely anonymous. Although relationships arise on occasion between Gomberts music and that of other composers, it seems that for the most part the texts that he set, and his manner of doing so, were derived from a contemporary spirituality rather than having their roots in older traditions. The earlier piece is written in the loose contrapuntal style of the second decade of the century, which Gombert intensifies significantly, both by adding a fifth voice and working the melodic material in a much more thoroughgoing way. An instance of this process is found at the phrase meditatio mea est ([for] my thoughts are [of your commandments]), where the not especially sensitive word-setting by the earlier composer (emphasizing the unstressed fourth syllable of meditatio) is retained but rendered unimportant by the introduction of extra entries, so that at least one voice begins the phrase in each bar, obscuring the word-stress. The climax of the piece is found in the second part (not based on the earlier motet), where the terror of the hellish lake is made audible by voices at the top of their range, descending a scale as if being dragged downwards into the inferno. By contrast, the prayer for forgiveness Ne reminiscaris, Domine seems extremely restrained. Even this quiet plea for mercy is expressed in an intense way by Gombert, however. The phrase Parce, Domine (Spare, Lord), at the centre of the prayer, begins with an extremely static entry sung by sopranos and altos over a pedal note, and as the other voices enter with this melody the composer introduces large numbers of dissonant passing notes, on the beat, creating friction between the static and moving parts. The ending of the motet is resigned, as if to say that God may or may not forgive the sins in question, but that human action can no longer affect the situation. Aspice Domine is unlike the two other penitential pieces in presenting a public rather than a private religion. It is thought to be related to one of the most infamous acts of the century, the Sack of Rome in 1527, where the troops of Gomberts employer, the Emperor Charles V, took the city and pillaged it. In the motet the writer notes how the city is made desolate; the first half of the piece is highly dissonant, reflecting the devastation. In the second part, God is asked to surround the city with a protecting wall and defend it with the weapons of his power, and here Gombert provides much more consonant harmony, as if to indicate that the world will be put right with Gods help. If the theory concerning the motets political significance is correct, it was with the help of the Emperor, not God, that Rome was in future to be protected, provided of course that the Pope (the Medici Clement VII) paid considerably more attention to Charles Vs concerns in future. Alongside the penitential element of Gomberts writing stands an equally strong thematic link: devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Four of the motets recorded here are of this type: Hortus conclusus es; Inviolata, integra, et casta es, Maria; Ave Maria; and Ave sanctissima Maria. The extent of Gomberts involvement in setting such texts is indicated by the fact that numerous Marian antiphons, including Ave sanctissima Maria and also Ave regina caelorum, Salve regina, and Regina caeli, each receive multiple settings. This emphasis on Marian devotion is not at all surprising in the context of early sixteenth-century spiritual preoccupations: since the high Middle Ages the cult of the Virgin had been increasingly important, and musical settings in her honour had proliferated in the fifteenth century, and continued to do so until the more austere spirituality of the Reformers began to exert its influence even on the Catholic world. (At this point, Marian motets were sometimes retexted as Christological pieces, such as Gomberts Sancta Maria, succurre miseris, which appears in some sources as O Jesu Christe, succurre miseris.) In terms of Gomberts music, a slightly surprising difference between the penitential motets and the Marian ones is that the latter are on occasion significantly more dissonant, and in particular contain more suspension-type dissonance (this is aurally the most obvious kind of dissonance, as compared with passing notes, for instance). It would appear that setting texts of this nature brought an especially intensified musical style from Gombert. This is most true of Hortus conclusus es, where Marian devotion is combined with the eroticism of the Song of Songs. The majority of the motets text is taken directly from the Song of Songs (4: 12), but the focus is brought directly onto the Blessed Virgin by altering the first phrase (Hortus conclusus es, soror mea, sponsa, fons signatus) to read You are an enclosed garden, mother of God, a sealed well. The image of virginity is obvious; less clear is the identity of the speaker when the remainder of the text reads arise, make haste, my beloved, and come (Song of Songs 2: 10). However the text is to be read, the musical setting is extraordinary: for the phrase fons signatus (a sealed well), Gombert creates a sequential chain lasting fully ten bars, climaxing with the entry of four voices in rapid succession at the top of their range, on surge, propera (arise, make haste); the sequence is then reversed on amica mea (my beloved). In addition to the heavy incidence of dissonance, with many double and even triple suspensions, this unique piece of writing brings a particular intensity to this short motet. The four-voice setting of Virgo sancta Katherina is scored for three treble voices and one alto; although one or two other motets by Gombert are similarly written for boys voices, the others are graces for use at table, one ending memorably prosit vobis, Domini! (good health to you, masters!). In the restricted vocal compass of the present piece, Gombert makes use of pairs of voices, and a technique of which he was particularly fond is in evidence: the strategic repetition of a single pitch. All four voices enter on a high d", and this pitch is the top of the pieces range for twenty-three bars, until the phrase urbe Alexandrina takes the upper two voices as high as f". Homophony then proclaims St Catherines royal birth (she was the daughter of King Costas), before an extended triple-time section, a rare occurrence in music of this period, in which prayers begin to be addressed to the saint. These supplications form the basis of a second homophonic section (famularum suscipe vota), as if to make sure that the request can be clearly heard. Most unusually, the final vota ends on a D major chord, with the Amen providing, as it were, the resolution of a perfect cadence on the tonic. Were it not for the fact that Virgo sancta Katherina was published as early as 1534, one would imagine it to have been written much later, possibly well after Gomberts lifetime. Another piece that makes extensive use of pitch repetition is Ave sanctissima Maria. Here the prayer to the Virgin begins by listing various of her attributes: mater Dei, regina caeli, porta paradisi, domina mundi, pura singularis (mother of God, queen of heaven, gate of paradise, ruler of the world, uniquely pure). Gombert unites these statements by creating different but related motifs, each emphasizing the same pitch, and thus creating the effect of a single thought, expressed in different ways. The final section of the piece ends the disc with the invocation et ora pro peccatis meis (and pray for [forgiveness of] my sins), which is repeated twenty-seven times (a significant number, since it is the perfect 3 of the Trinity, raised to the power of itself); after the final cadence between soprano and tenor, Gombert writes an extended coda, in which the other three voices each repeat the phrase yet again, as if the prayer to the Virgin were continuing even as the piece ends. The devotional significance of this prayer is underlined by the indulgence of 11,000 years granted by Pope Sixtus IV, the builder of the Sistine Chapel and possibly the writer of the text, to anyone who said it devoutly. Gomberts setting of Inviolata, integra, et casta es, Maria is one among over twenty from the sixteenth century. At the head of this complex is the famous setting by Josquin Desprez, also in five parts: Gomberts piece alludes obliquely to Josquins in its opening and (more obviously) at the phrase O benigna, o Maria, o regina (Merciful Mary, queen). Other settings make even closer reference to Josquin, including twoone of which is also attributed to Gombert but is unlikely to be histhat take the two canonic voices from Josquins motet and write entirely new settings around them. The shared basis for most Inviolata motets is a plainchant sequence melody, though the version found in modern chant books is evidently not the same as that known to Gombert and Josquin, since their motets begin with three repeated notes, whereas the modern version begins f-g-f-g-a. The monophonic setting of Inviolata presented on this recording is therefore newly written, based on the melodic material of Gomberts motet (insofar as his thorough variation technique permits this to be isolated), conflated with a modern version of the chant taken from a Dominican antiphoner, which preserves aspects of the older melody. The motets Pater noster and Ave Maria, which seem to have been intended as a pair, appearing together in almost all of their sources, are both based on well-known plainchants. The tone for the Lords Prayer would have been sung at most celebrations of Mass, and Gomberts setting is suffused with the chant phrases, worked as usual in his flexible style of imitative counterpoint. It was performed in the nineteenth century by the pioneering musicologist François-Joseph Fétis (17841871), who stated that it was the equal of anything by Palestrina (high praise indeed at a time when the latters contrapuntal techniques were regarded as the ideal), and produced a deep impression on his audience. The Ave Maria similarly reworks its chant material, notably adapting the famous melody as it does so, with the second entry of the alto producing a chromatically altered version. Ergone vitae is unlike any of the other pieces on this recording in being entirely secular in nature. It is a setting of a neo-Latin poem by the brilliant but short-lived Johannes Secundus (Jan Everaerts, 151136), on convalescing from an illness and rejecting the life of an invalid. Everaertss family were staunch supporters of Charles Vthe poets father was made President of the States of Holland and Zealand, and finally President of the Council at Mechlin, one of the most important posts in the Netherlandsand it would seem that Johannes encountered Gombert at, or at least via, the court. Although still composed in imitative counterpoint, the motet displays a difference in style from the sacred pieces, with a more fluid attitude to the text, which is generally set in a less melismatic way, enhancing its audibility. The setting of the phrase Sparge puer, resonante nervo (hurl, boy, with twanging bow-string) is, if not madrigalian in its response to text, certainly more direct than Gombert was apt to be in an ecclesiastical setting. Just as in his French chansons an imitative style was harnessed to a lighter subject matter, here the secular subject occasions a less weighty setting than Gomberts norm. Stephen Rice © 2007 |


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