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October 2009
In This Issue:
January Retirees Should Apply Now
Open Season for Medicare Prescription Drug Program New Law Makes It Easier to Qualify for Extra Help With Costs
Get Benefit Verification Online
With consumer prices down over the past year, monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for more than 57 million Americans will not automatically increase in 2010. This will be the first year without an automatic Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) since they went into effect in 1975.
The Social Security Act provides that Social Security and SSI benefits increase automatically each year if there is an increase in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) from the third quarter of the last year to the third quarter of the current year. This year there was no increase in the CPI-W from the third quarter of 2008 to the third quarter of 2009.
To assist seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities recovering from the recession, President Obama has called on Congress to enact legislation extending an additional $250 Economic Recovery Payment.
For more information about the President's proposed additional one-time payment, see the White House Press Release from October 14, 2009, at www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-calls-congress-extend-economic-recovery-payment-2010.
For more information about the 2010 COLA, read our press release at www.socialsecurity.gov/pressoffice/pr/2010cola-pr.htm. Also see our fact sheet, 2010 Social Security Changes at www.socialsecurity.gov/pressoffice/factsheets/colafacts2010.htm.
January Retirees Should Apply Now
If you have a client who is planning to retire sometime early in 2010, now is the time to apply for Social Security benefits. The most convenient way to apply is online at www.socialsecurity.gov/applyonline.
Filing online means there is no need to visit a Social Security office or wait for a scheduled appointment with a Social Security representative. Retiring online can take as little as 15 minutes. There are no forms to sign and, in most cases, no documents to submit. Tell your clients to apply online at www.socialsecurity.gov/applyonline.
Open Season for Medicare Prescription Drug Program New Law Makes It Easier to Qualify for Extra Help With Costs
The next open season for enrollment in the Medicare Part D prescription drug program will run from November 15 to December 31. Newly eligible Medicare beneficiaries, and current beneficiaries who are considering changes to their Medicare Part D plan, should mark their calendars for November 15.
The Medicare Part D prescription drug program is available to all Medicare beneficiaries to help with the costs of medications. Joining a Medicare prescription drug plan is voluntary, and participants pay an additional monthly premium for the coverage.
While all Medicare beneficiaries can participate in the prescription drug program, some people with limited income and resources also are eligible for "extra help" to pay for monthly premiums, annual deductibles, and prescription co-payments. The extra help is worth an average of $3,900 per year.
Beginning January 1, 2010, changes in the law will make it easier for some people to qualify for Extra Help with their Medicare prescription drug plan costs.
Learn more by reading our new electronic fact sheet, Changes in the Law Could Make More People Eligible for Extra Help in 2010, at www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10040.html.
Get Benefit Verification Online
This time of year, many states offer energy assistance to people who have limited income and resources to help with high heating costs during the winter.
If your client receives Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits and is applying for energy assistance, they can get proof of their benefit quickly and easily by going to www.socialsecurity.gov. Just look in the left column under "What you can do online," expand the "If you get benefits" section, and select the "Request a Proof of Income letter" link.
New Webinars Keep You Informed
If you want to learn about Social Security's expanded services to wounded warriors, or information about the new, convenient, online Representative Payee Accounting form, Social Security has two new webinars coming up in November.
The Wounded Warriors webinar airs on Wednesday, November 4 at 2 p.m. The Internet Representative Payee Accounting (iRPA) webinar airs on Tuesday, November 10 at 2 p.m. You can learn more and sign up for these webinars at www.socialsecurity.gov.
Past webinars available on our website have focused on subjects such as applying online for retirement benefits and 2010 changes to the Medicare Extra Help program. These webinars are available now at www.socialsecurity.gov/webinars.
The new webinars on wounded warriors and iRPA are available live or after the original broadcast at the same link: www.socialsecurity.gov/webinars.
Participating in Social Security webinars is another way to stay informed on the latest Social Security issues that may affect your clients.
Subscribe to Social Security Update today and you'll always be in the know when it comes to Social Security news. All we need is your e-mail address.
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text: The architectural concept and interior design are the work of Zermatt artist Heinz Julen. He designed lamps, couches, beds and free standing bathtubs with views of the Matterhorn for the hotel. In the wellness annexe the indoor rim flow pool seems to extend boundlessly towards the outside. Here the hand of artist Julen is once again noticeable in the fresh and surprising composition of material, colour and light.

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BioCryst Pharmaceuticals said it will buy Presidio Pharmaceuticals in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $101 million, under a merger agreement approved by the boards of both companies and expected to close in the first quarter of 2013.
Publicly-traded BioCryst, whose shares closed at $4.11 yesterday, designs and develops small molecule drugs that block key enzymes involved in infectious and inflammatory diseases, while privately held Presidio is a clinical stage developer of small-molecule antiviral therapeutics for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. The combined company will have lead programs in infectious and orphan disease indications, including HCV and hereditary angioedema, anchored by three oral, pan-genotypic antivirals suitable either for development in combination with each other or in combination with other direct acting antivirals to treat patients with HCV infection.
"Our initial focus will be on commencing HCV curative Phase IIa combination trials with our NS5A inhibitor PPI-668, while advancing both our nucleoside and non-nucleoside inhibitors through Phase I proof-of-concept trials next year," says Richard Colonno, Ph.D., Presidio's chief scientific officer.
PPI-668, Presidio's lead HCV candidate, targets the viral NS5A protein, and is ready to enter Phase II clinical development. Presidio is also advancing PPI-383, a pan-genotypic, non-nucleoside inhibitor of the viral NS5B polymerase as a second, complementary HCV antiviral candidate. PPI-383 is currently undergoing IND-enabling studies to support initiation of clinical studies alone and in combination with PPI-668 during 2013.
BioCryst's portfolio includes the potent HCV NS5B-targeted nucleoside analog BCX5191, which has completed IND-enabling safety studies and is expected to enter Phase I trials before the end of this year. BioCryst has also completed IND-enabling studies for BCX4161, an inhibitor of plasma kallikrein, a validated target for the treatment of HAE. Phase I trials of BCX4161 are also expected to begin before the end of 2012.
In addition to BCX5191 and BCX4161, BioCryst's drug development portfolio includes peramivir, a viral neuraminidase inhibitor for the treatment of influenza in Phase III development, and ulodesine, a Phase-III-ready purine nucleoside phosphorylase inhibitor for the treatment of gout. BioCryst plans to announce the outcome of a planned interim analysis reevaluating the sample size required for the primary efficacy analysis of the peramivir study before the end of this year.
The combined company will launch under a new name and will be headquartered in Durham, NC, where BioCryst was based, with facilities in San Francisco where Presidio is based, and Birmingham, AL.
Jon P. Stonehouse, BioCryst's president & CEO, will be CEO of the combined company, while Presidio chairman Kenneth Galbraith will be non-executive chairman of the new company's board.
The merger is subject to approval by BioCryst shareholders, and completion of a minimum $60 million equity financing. BioCryst has received voting commitments from certain significant Presidio shareholders sufficient to ensure Presidio shareholder approval, while Presidio said some of its shareholders have provided definitive commitments to purchase $25 million of the $60 million financing.
In exchange for that $25 million and all outstanding Presidio shares, BioCryst said it will issue a total of 24.5 million shares of its common stock to Presidio's shareholders, subject to adjustment based on Presidio's working capital at closing and other factors.
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Lee Koch had made up his mind. He was going to be a baker. After devoting all his energy to a music career, resulting in a solid debut record and the almost immediate acceptance of the Ventura music scene, and despite having grown up primarily in Temecula, the bluesy, harp-blowing, singer-songwriter found himself disillusioned and burned out on the bar scene he was increasingly forced to play just to survive.
Though only in his 20s, but newly married and with plans to raise a family, he decided it was time to make music his hobby and not his job, so he moved back to his hometown of Temecula with plans to open a bakery with his brother.
That was, of course, until Hollywood came calling.
A quick note on reality TV singing competitions. They are immensely popular and, depending on who you ask, are either exciting shows that let unknowns have a shot at stardom, or, as many actual musicians and songwriters feel, they're glorified high-school talent shows that have helped drive the nail into the coffin of hard-working artists.
So when one of these singer-centric reality shows reached out to Lee Koch to audition, he was somewhat torn. The old Lee Koch who was trying to build a long-term career would have said no for obvious reasons. The new Lee Koch however, an aspiring baker and family man who had no real plans to even record again, with a helpful push from his wife, decided to audition solely for the "life experience."
Funny thing happened. Lee made the cut. Passing multiple untelevised auditions, he made the first episode and, fittingly, sang the Bob Dylan song "Like A Rolling Stone." Koch, with his curly mop and beard, did not look the part of his recital- and pageant-tested fellow contestants, and Lee was eliminated the following week after having to take part in a bizarre duet of the Nirvana anthem "Heart-Shaped Box." No hard feelings, though. Lee wrote off the whole experience as a "great story to one day tell my kid."
From more gigs to management, Koch's 15 minutes of fame immediately led to the type of opportunities that he previously had trouble finding. His friends, family and fans were so supportive throughout the process that it reinvigorated his love for writing and performing. On a whim, and almost immediately after his brief run as a prime time crooner, the singer-songwriter turned baker turned reality TV contestant went back to his musical roots and hit the road with his wife on an almost Woody Guthrie-worthy ramble around the United States. Playing everywhere and anywhere along the way with no set tour schedule, Koch soaked in the experience.
Upon returning home to Temecula, Koch launched a Kickstarter campaign and successfully funded a new record, which he recorded, as with his debut, with multi talented producer Jesse Siebenberg at Brotheryn Studios in Ojai. Though he no longer lives in Ventura, he still considers the city his "musical home."
The appropriately titled Whole Heart, a slightly stripped-down affair, touches on Koch's recent rollercoaster ride in the music industry and beyond. From his marriage to his brush with fame, to the extensive traveling, to rediscovering his love of performing, the record is a powerful and encompassing work.
As for being a baker, that cake may have to stay in the oven longer than expected as Koch, now 28 years old, has decided once again to give music a full-time shot, now with his young family in tow. Koch and his wife welcomed a baby girl into this world just weeks ago. Preparing to tour in support of the record, first regionally and later this year nationally, Koch is nothing short of elated about the future.
"I'm looking forward to see where this all leads," he explains. "But I'm so happy and grateful for where my life and my music are right now. To be on the road with my family, it's the best of both worlds. Everything just feels right." F
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Umphrey's, the Chicago-born band that has spent the last decade becoming one of the most exciting and dynamic live ensembles extant, is in a good spot. Its most recent effort, "Death By Stereo," is a brilliant collection that blends prog rock, jam stylings, indie and alternative rock, pop, techno, reggae and... well, you get the point. These guys are masterful musicians with boundless compositional imaginations and chops.
If you've seen the band live, you probably didn't do so just once – every Umphrey's show is radically different and that thrill of not knowing quite what to expect is contagious and exhilarating. If you haven't seen Umphrey's – well, shame on you! Here's your chance to make good. The Town Ballroom gig starts at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets are $25 (box office, Tickets.com).
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She is crazy, beautiful and fun, but can be over powering, dramatic, and a bitch. She usually talks crap about you but will lie just to see you smile. Over all she smells but is a GREAT friend. Even though all the bad things are what you notice, Cassidy is a really good friend! Never loose her!
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Mann, Cassidy is way cooler than Brian will ever be.
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is a girl who makes a great best friend. You'll never forget them and they will make your day, everyday.
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A person who typically enjoys laughing, playing sports/exercising, and getting the most out of each and every day. This person may have a lot of friends, but it doesn't really matter since they are an extremely great friend to each one. Although independent by nature, this person loves being in a group environment. Despite seeming shy at first, most people are attracted to their personality because there's a lot of positivity, humor, and good energy. This person is usually an 8 out of 10 in looks, but with their personality, they are catapulted into the 10 category pretty quickly. This is also a person who is very talented/gifted at many different things such as music, art, and dance.
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text: In 1668 Benedikt Martin had an accident on his way back to Keinberg. His horse drawn carriage ran over both his legs, but a lucky stone between his legs prevented them from being hurt. After this incident, people flocked on pilgrimages to the cross this miller had erected here. Even today, using a pendulum and rod an unusually strong energy is detected in the Buschbergkapelle.


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Benjamin (Binyamin) Netanyahu was born in Tel Aviv on October 21, 1949, to Tsilah and Benzion, a renowned historian. His older brother, Yonatan (Yoni), was killed in action while commanding the special forces rescue operation of Israeli hostages in Entebbe, Uganda.
When he was 14 years old, Netanyahu moved to Pennsylvania with his family. After graduating from high school, "Bibi," as he came to be nicknamed, enlisted in the IDF and followed in his brother Yoni's footsteps as an officer in the Sayeret Matkal special forces unit, where he served from 1967 to 1972.
As part of a rescue team that stormed a hijacked Sabena commercial airliner at Ben-Gurion Airport in 1972, Benjamin Netanyahu was shot and wounded. He was discharged from the IDF in 1972, but returned to Israel to fight in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, finally leaving the army with the rank of Captain. His younger brother, Ido, was also a member of the elite special operations unit.
In 1975, Netanyahu earned a Bachelor's degree in architecture from MIT in Boston, and in 1977 a Master's degree in business management from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He also studied political science at Harvard University and MIT.
In 1982, Netanyahu assumed the position of deputy chief of mission at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC. In 1984 he was appointed Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, a position he was to hold for four years. During this time, he led the effort for the declassification of the United Nations archive on crimes committed by Nazi Germany.
In 1988, Netanyahu returned to Israel, where he became a member of Knesset for the Likud, and was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 1993, Netanyahu was elected Likud party chairman and served as head of the opposition until his election as Israel's ninth prime minister in 1996.
In his negotiations with the Palestinians, highlighted by negotiations with Yasser Arafat in the form of the 1998 Wye River Accords, Netanyahu devised a policy of reciprocity. He also emphasized a policy of "three no's": no withdrawal from the Golan Heights, no discussion regarding Jerusalem and no preconditioned negotiations.
On the economic front, he led the liberalization of foreign currency regulations, accelerated privatization of government-owned companies and set about reducing budget deficit. No real progress was made regarding negotiations with the Palestinians, but Netanyahu turned over most of Hebron to Palestinian jurisdiction. In 1996, Netanyahu and then-Jerusalem mayor Ehud Olmert decided to open an exit for the Western Wall tunnel, sparking three days of rioting by Palestinians that resulted in both Israeli and Palestinian deaths. In the 1999 election for prime minister, Bibi was defeated by Labor Party leader Ehud Barak.
After a stint in the private sector, then-prime minister Ariel Sharon appointed Netanyahu as foreign minister in 2002, filling a post made vacant by the Labor Party's exit from the coalition. In the wake of the 2003 elections, he accepted the finance portfolio from Sharon after being granted unprecedented independence to carry out his market liberalization reform policies. In August 2005, shortly before the Israeli cabinet voted 17 to 5 to approve the initial phase of withdrawal from Gaza, Netanyahu submitted his resignation.
Netanyahu reclaimed the Likud leadership in December 2005, and becamse opposition leader after the 2006 Knesset elections. In 2009, Netanyahu became prime minister for a second time after Kadima leader Tzipi Livni failed to form a coalition.
During his current term, Netanyahu has expressed acceptance of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, in principal. However, he has also stipulated that any future Palestinian state should be fully demilitarized, with no control of its airspace, and said that Jerusalem would be undivided Israeli territory. He also stated that the Palestinians must recognize Israel as the Jewish national state with an undivided Jerusalem, and he has rejected a right of return for Palestinian refugees. His government's policies on Jerusalem, in particular construction in the predominantly Arab eastern section of the city, has led to a conflict with the administration of President Barack Obama, although both sides have sought to downplay the tensions.
Alongside negotiations with the Palestinians, Netanyahu has focused his attentions on the Iranian nuclear weapon issue, trying to garner international support for crippling economic sanctions against the Iranian regime while saying that Israel's military option is on the table.
Benjamin Netanyahu is married to Sarah, with whom he has two sons. He has been married twice before and also has a daughter from his first marriage. In 2009, he became a grandfather for the first time.


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Jean Mackin currently co-anchors News 9 at 5:00 with Josh McElveen, and you can see her reporting every weeknight on News 9 Tonight.
She began her career at WMUR-TV in June of 1998. Jean moved to New Hampshire from West Virginia with her husband, WMUR News 9 Sports Anchor and Reporter, Jamie Staton. Jamie is a New Hampshire native, so they feel right at home.
Jean was born in Georgia and raised in Maryland, right outside Washington, D.C. She graduated from Ithaca College in New York State with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Broadcast Journalism.
Jean's first exposure to television news was working behind the camera at a 1990 murder trial. She went on to report and anchor at a FOX station in Martinsburg, W.V., from 1991-1993. From 1993 to 1998, Jean reported for a CBS station in Charleston, W.V.
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First Niagara Financial Group on Tuesday abruptly replaced its charismatic CEO, John R. Koelmel – who was responsible for the bank's tremendous growth in recent years – in a surprising move by its board of directors.
The board's action indicates that frustration with the bank's languishing stock performance and failure to gain traction with its acquisition strategy had reached a boiling point among investors that directors could no longer ignore.
The Buffalo-based banking company, which has grown four-fold through acquisitions under Koelmel's leadership, announced late Tuesday that Koelmel, 60, will leave his position as president and CEO effective immediately. He also stepped off the board in accordance with company bylaws.
In a news release, the bank described the action as a "mutually agreed upon departure" but did not elaborate.
"I highly value the opportunity to have driven First Niagara's rapid growth over the last six years and to position it as one of the top regional banking franchises in the Northeast," Koelmel said in the bank's news release, thanking the bank's 6,000 employees for their support. "I agree with the board that it's in the best interests of the organization under present circumstances to move forward with new leadership."
The board appointed Gary M. Crosby to serve as its interim president and CEO, while a national search is conducted. Crosby, 59, is currently executive vice president and chief administrative and operations officer of the bank.
Chief Banking Officer Daniel Cantara will continue overseeing the businesses that deal directly with customers.
"Enhancing shareholder value through operational excellence, a commitment to the basics of banking and to helping our customers do great things every day is our focus," Crosby said in the release. "At the same time, we remain dedicated to making credit and financial services widely available in our communities, adhering to the risk management principles that have provided us with the exceptional asset quality that has long distinguished First Niagara, providing a workplace where talented employees build rewarding careers and serving as a leading corporate citizen."
The board's independent directors formed a special search committee, headed by board member Nathaniel Woodson, who joined the board with the purchase of Connecticut-based NewAlliance Bancshares in April 2011. The bank said it will retain an executive search firm and "conduct a thorough and expeditious search, considering both internal and external candidates."
"John Koelmel has guided the company's transformation from a local thrift to a leading Northeast banking franchise and led First Niagara during a period of difficult economic conditions and financial industry turmoil," said board Chairman G. Thomas Bowers.
"The Board and I are grateful to John for his leadership through this critical period in our history and for positioning us so that we can focus on enhancing shareholder value through continuing organic growth and the efficient operation of the business we have today."
Neither Koelmel nor Crosby was available to comment Tuesday.
Koelmel, who is negotiating his severance agreement, was traveling for a board meeting of the New York Power Authority, of which he is chairman.
"John is in the process of finalizing his relationship with First Niagara and evaluating his future options. In addition, he is attending to a number of his civic responsibilities," said Terrence M. Connors, Koelmel's attorney. "After the process of separation from the bank has concluded, he will speak publicly about his departure."
Sources familiar with the situation say the move by the bank's board has been brewing for about a week, and officials were particularly busy over the past weekend, in preparation for the board meeting. However, pressure has been building on Koelmel and the board for over a year from shareholders who are unhappy with the bank's stock price over the last two years.
Bank officials and Connors stressed that Koelmel was not fired for cause and there are no issues of ethics or misbehavior involved, nor did personal health play any role.
But Koelmel and the board have been roundly criticized by shareholders for pursuing costly growth at the expense of shareholder returns, and Koelmel has found himself frequently on the defensive about making too many deals and paying too much for them. It's acquired five banks since 2007.
In particular, the bank has been under fire since it announced its acquisition of 1 million accounts from HSBC Bank USA in August 2011, including 195 branches and $15 billion in deposits across upstate New York. That deal, while it catapulted the bank into the top ranks across every market of the state, suffered heavily from bad timing, as the purchase was unveiled just one day before the crisis over the U.S. debt ceiling. A week later, the Federal Reserve announced it would keep interest rates low for at least two more years.
As a result, the stock market tanked immediately, bringing bank stocks in particular with it. First Niagara was hammered for being on the offensive instead of the defensive. Its effort to raise more than $1 billion in additional capital wound up costing it, and shareholders, much more than originally planned. And it wound up selling the 64 branches to KeyCorp, Community Bank System and Financial Institutions for less than expected.
Over the next few months, the bank's shares plunged from just about $14 per share to just about $8 per share and, after a brief surge, fell again to as low as $7.50 last year. They had peaked at more than $16 per share in 2003 and again in late 2008. As of Tuesday, shares closed at $8.44, down six cents for the day.
The bank completed the HSBC purchase and says it has successfully integrated the branches, customers and employees.
Koelmel and others have publicly and repeatedly asserted that it has stopped its acquisition binge to focus instead on efficiently and effectively running what it has, making sure it can grow internally and be more profitable with its existing customer base. It will report first-quarter earnings on April 19.
"We are committed to maintaining our position as a leading independent banking organization with a deep-seated focus on service to our customers and communities and to building value for our shareholders," Bowers said.
The board felt the bank's need to change direction from acquisition mode to regular day-to-day operating mode also needed a leader with different skills, sources said.
"There are growers and there are nurturers," one source said.
"I do think John grew the bank in ways that were almost unimaginable at the time, and I think he was ideally skilled at that, and I think the bank will reap what he sowed for decades to come," said Howard Zemsky, who has worked closely with Koelmel and First Niagara in developing Larkinville, where the bank moved its headquarters. "I think after that much acquisition, I think it's also appropriate for the bank to focus on organic growth and digesting all those acquisitions. I think there was a very mutual understanding that, given the bank's direction, this was an appropriate time to change leadership."
Koelmel, a Western New York native and career accountant at KPMG in Buffalo, joined First Niagara in 2004 and took the helm in 2006, following a board coup that fired Paul Kolkmeyer as CEO. He led the former Lockport Savings Bank through steady growth and transition from a traditional savings bank into a full-service commercial bank, including its purchase in 2007 of Greater Buffalo Savings Bank.
Then he steered the bank through the financial crisis unscathed, while directing initiatives to raise significant amounts of capital and invest in the bank to prepare for ambitious growth.
Under his tenure, since 2009, the bank acquired 57 branches in Western Pennsylvania, followed by Harleysville National Corp. with 83 branches in Eastern Pennsylvania, and then NewAlliance Bancshares with 87 offices in Connecticut and Massachusetts. He capped off the growth with HSBC.
As a result, the bank surged from $8 billion in assets to $37 billion today, with 430 branches in four states.
Koelmel also has emerged as a prominent, influential leader in the Buffalo Niagara region in the past several years.
Under his direction, the bank moved its corporate headquarters from a suburban office building in Pendleton to the Larkin at Exchange Building, anchoring Howard Zemsky's project and bolstering the growing Larkinville neighborhood as the bank steadily added jobs and office space.
The bank has also invested in infrastructure improvements for the burgeoning district.
"I'm surprised, like a lot of people are," said Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, who had a meeting scheduled with Koelmel next week. "I know he was under a lot of pressure, after the acquisition of HSBC, to increase shareholder value. He was working very hard. He was a great steward for many organizations, but I was very surprised to hear that he was relieved of his duties."
"I think John was an inspirational leader who enthused everyone around him," said Colleen DiPirro, president of the Amherst Chamber of Commerce, who praised his "bottom-line, no-nonsense" approach. "First Niagara Bank is an important organization in our region and their sustained profitability is critical to our region's sustainability. I look forward to working with their new leadership as we continue to rebuild the Buffalo Niagara region." ◄ He serves on the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council and has chaired the Power Authority board since 2012. He was credited with spearheading an effort to revive the Empire State Games, donating $500,000 in 2010 in hopes of drawing more corporate sponsors.
He also has served as chairman of Kaleida Health's board, where he has helped steer the region's largest hospital system since 2009.
The Buffalo News' editorial board praised his wide-ranging impact: "Communities across the country cry out for this kind of leadership from the private sector." The Buffalo News named Koelmel one of its Outstanding Citizens of 2011, and in a recent Buffalo News survey, he was rated as fifth-most effective in a survey of 25 leaders in Buffalo and Erie County.
"Over the past seven years, John has led the transformation and growth of First Niagara," said James R. Kaskie, president and CEO of both Kaleida Health and parent Great Lakes Health System of Western New York. "At the same time, he has generously given his time and talent to numerous community-based organizations like Kaleida Health. Unfortunately, in the business world, executive level changes do occur. But this does not diminish John's role with our organization. We look forward to John continuing his role as chair of the Kaleida Health Board of Directors."
Crosby, who joined First Niagara in 2009 as chief administrative officer before getting a promotion in February 2010, has overseen the build-out of the bank's infrastructure in anticipation of the bank's rapid growth.
Previously, he spent five years as chief financial officer and chief operating officer of the Buffalo Public School District.Before his public sector stint, he spent 30 years in the business world, first as one of the founding shareholders and chief financial officer for ClientLogic Corp., a computer software firm founded by Jordan Levy and Ronald Schreiber, and then as a partner and chief financial officer for Seed Capital Partners, the venture capital firm Levy and Schreiber formed.
John R. Koelmel's First Niagara tenure
Dec. 19, 2003: Hired as executive vice president and chief financial officer
Dec. 9. 2006: Named president and acting CEO
Feb. 21, 2007: Named CEO
Sept. 10, 2007: First Niagara buys Greater Buffalo Savings Bank
Oct. 3, 2008: Bank sells 8.5 million shares, raises $109 million
April 7, 2009: Bank buys 57 National City Bank branches in Pittsburgh and Western Pa.
April 20, 2009: Bank raises $330 million by selling 27 million shares
July 27, 2009: Bank buys Harleysville National Bank with 83 branches in Philadelphia area
Sept. 9, 2009: Bank announces headquarters moving from Pendleton to Larkinville in Buffalo
Oct. 1, 2009: Bank raises $460 million buy selling 38 million shares
May 17, 2010: Koelmel elected chairman of the Kaleida Health board
Aug. 20, 2010; Bank announces plan to buy Connecticut-based NewAlliance Bancshares for $1.5 billion, making First Niagara the 25th largest U.S. bank
July 26, 2011: Named to Regional Development Council by Gov. Cuomo
Aug. 1, 2011; Bank agrees to buy 195 HSBC branches across upstate New York for $1 billion in cash
May 2, 2012: Nominated to be chairman of the NY Power Authority by Gov. Cuomo
March 19, 2013: Removed by board as chairman and CEO of the bank
Source: News research
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But the current roster, Kronwall
Vladdy paved the way for Kronwall. The open ice hits Vladdy used to lay on guys would make Kronwall blush. He no doubt studied the tapes before he started Kronwalling guys. So to say, the Vladiating of many was passed on to what we now refer to as Kronwalling. Open ice hits kick ass.


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Mark Nathan Cohen is SUNY University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Distinguished Teaching Professor of Anthropology. A veteran of 30 years on the Plattsburgh campus, he obtained his A.B. degree from Harvard College in 1965 and his Ph.D. degree in anthropology from Columbia University in 1971.
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on February 4, 2013 - 10:54 AM
Fisher-Price Inc. and Mattel Inc. on Monday pledged $3 million to the Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation to help build a new children's hospital on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
The gift will go toward construction and naming rights to a 6,000-square-foot respite area for families going through treatment in the new Women & Children's Hospital, which will be renamed the John R. Oishei Children's Hospital. In September, the John R. Oishei Foundation made a $10 million gift the hospital to help build a facility for specialized pediatric and women's healthcare services and the Children's Guild Foundation pledged $2 million for the neonatal intensive care unit of the hospital. In November, Buffalo-area businessman Sal H. Alfiero donated $5 million to the hospital.
Women & Children's is moving from its longtime Bryant Street location in the Elmwood Village. Ground-breaking for the new facility across from Kaleida Health's Buffalo General Medical Center is expected in the spring, with completion in early 2016.
The Fisher-Price/Mattel Family & Child Resource Center will be located on the fifth floor of the new facility. The center will have a computer and video game area, family consultation rooms and meditation areas with access to a winter garden, officials announced. The center also will include child life specialists and artists in residence who will interact with the patients and their families, as well as representatives from Stone's Buddies, a support group for chronically ill children and their families.
Fisher-Price and Mattel also will design toy storage compartments for play areas on all hospital floors, as well as branded animal sculptures for the outdoor garden.
"Our relationship with the Children's Hospital of Buffalo is very special; we share so many deep and important values," David Allmark, executive vice president of Fisher-Price Global Brands, said in a statement. "Over the years and through collaborations large and small, both Fisher-Price and Mattel have been happy to support the mission of children's hospitals around the globe, especially our local Buffalo families in their time of unique need."
"Buffalo is known as the 'City of Good Neighbors' and today those words ring especially true of our locally founded toymaker, Fisher-Price, and their parent company, Mattel," James R. Kaskie, president and chief executive officer of Kaleida Health, said in a statement.
In 2010, Fisher-Price refreshed the Women & Children's Hospital lobby with a new color scheme, images, mural and a video wall. In addition, officials said, Fisher-Price has supported Women & Children's Hospital for more than 25 years through the donation of baby gear and toys, as well as a tree donation to the annual "Festival of Trees" fundraiser.
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on October 30, 2012 - 1:29 PM
For 11 years, Richard Kesick told lie after lie and even impersonated a judge over the telephone to steal more than $500,000 from a 91-year-old Catholic priest.
The 57-year-old Laird Avenue man told the priest he needed money to pay ransom to his kidnappers and cover medical bills for a stab wound. He pretended to be an insurance company representative to give the priest false assurance that the money would be repaid.
Kesick actually needed the money to cover his gambling expenses, prosecutors said Tuesday.
He pleaded guilty to third-degree grand larceny before Erie County Judge Thomas P. Franczyk. He faces seven years in prison when he is sentenced Dec. 12.
District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III called Kesick "an especially loathsome and despicable swindler."
The amount that Kesick stole shocked even seasoned prosecutors who deal with financial crimes.
Prosecutor Candace K. Vogel said she spoke to the victim Tuesday. "He told me having this man incarcerated is the first time he's been at ease in years," she said.
Kesick began taking advantage of the priest more than a decade ago after he asked the priest for a job.
"I guess the defendant is a dilly of a liar," Vogel said. "He managed to pick the right heart strings."
Vogel described the cleric as a kind man who "wanted to believe he could help this man."
At one point, the priest came up with $20,000 to $30,000 for ransom. "He kept milking him," Vogel said.
In court Tuesday, Kesick admitted that he lied to steal the money from June 2001 through July 2012.
"That it went unreported is what is so common about elder abuse," Vogel said.
A concerned person went to Town of Tonawanda police with suspicions about the cleric's plight.
Police Lt. William Krier and Vogel, who prosecutes financial abuse of elders, put together the case against Kesick, Sedita said.
Prosecutors could have pressed a higher felony charge against Kesick, but the cleric was reluctant to testify.
The victim is embarrassed and humiliated by what happened, Sedita said. "We see it all the time with financial elder abuse," he said.
It's not age that necessarily made the victim vulnerable. "Sure he was vulnerable, but not just from age," Vogel said. "He had a personality of wanting to believe people and wanting to help them."
The victim believed that at some point he would get the money back.
"This isn't a naive person," Vogel said of the victim. "This is a very bright but caring person who wanted to help someone."
She called it a case of "a generous man who got ripped off."
Sedita said the priest invested well decades ago and accumulated a large amount of money.
Kesick has been in jail since his arrest by town police on July 16. He is married and has not had a job in five years.
"Why would he have to?" Vogel asked. "This is a lot of money."
Kesick signed a confession of judgment for $500,000, but the victim has scant hope of getting repaid. The defendant "doesn't have two nickels to rub together," Vogel said.
Kesick's criminal past includes convictions for burglary, forgery, arson and criminal possession of stolen property.
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on December 30, 2012 - 5:16 PM
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Ryan Fitzpatrick and about a dozen of his family members lingered in the middle of the Ralph Wilson Stadium field about an hour after Sunday's season finale.
The seats were empty. The field was bright but the stands were dark, with half of the stadium lights off. Fitzpatrick, in his street clothes and with one of his children under his arm, was the only player on the field. Photos were taken on the Bills logo.
The scene felt like goodbye.
So did the preceding three-hour game, in which the Bills defeated the Jets, 28-9.
It surely was the final Bills start for Fitzpatrick, who has too high a salary and too few wins to keep him next season.
It was expected to be the final game for head coach Chan Gailey, numerous people on the team and within the administration acknowledged. Gailey's record (16-32) is worse than any of the three coaches who preceded him during the Bills' 13-year playoff drought.
And it might have been the swan song for Bills General Manager Buddy Nix, who awaits word on his job status this week from team owner Ralph C. Wilson Jr.
"This is the last time this team is going to be together with all of the guys," Fitzpatrick said. "There was so much disappointment, so to go out there and just [considering] all of the uncertainty to follow this game — you just want to put all of your focus into this game and go play."
The Bills (6-10) finished in last place in the AFC East despite the victory, due to a tiebreaker they lose to the Jets (6-10).
Despite shutting down dismal Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez, the Bills' defense finished the season allowing the second most points (435), the third most yards (5,809) and the most first downs (349) in team history.
The Bills own the eighth overall pick in the 2013 NFL draft.
The players acknowledged in the locker room afterward that changes were coming.
"The chips are going to fall where they may," linebacker Bryan Scott said. "Obviously things are going to happen. We don't know to what extent. But this team will not be fully intact as it is right now. That happens every year. It's not a worry. You just know it's gonna happen."
"There's changes every year, whether it be players, coaches," said defensive tackle Kyle Williams. "Whatever happens we're prepared for it. We've been around awhile."
The Bills weren't taking much comfort in the victory.
"This one game, it's not any consolation as to what we want to get done this season," Scott said. "Obviously it's good to … end the season on a high note, but at the end of the day we didn't accomplish our goal in 2012."
"There is no way to slice it or sugarcoat it," safety Jairus Byrd said. "We need to get better."
"It's a good way to end the thing, but looking at it is more frustrating, just thinking we were able to put some plays together and know we can play well," Williams said.
They did, however, feel some pride in the fact they won. Williams addressed the team in the locker room immediately after the game.
"I just told the guys, and I think they know, how much I appreciate them and appreciate their work," Williams said. "Obviously it's been a tough year, a frustrating year, but guys never packed it in. They always came to work. You had a high level of professionalism, and you appreciate that."
"These end-of-the-season games, when you're not playing for much, you've got to dig deep," center Eric Wood said. "We got a good group of leaders. They stayed on us all week, saying, 'We've got to finish what we started.' You don't pack it in. As a man, you go finish. I was glad we came out with some intensity today because it would be real easy to pack it in and put out a lame performance, but the defense played great and the offense put it together when we needed to."
The Bills gained control early.
Sanchez, expected to be playing his last game as a Jet after four seasons, threw a bad first-quarter interception to Scott, who returned it 20 yards for a touchdown. It put Buffalo ahead, 7-3. It was a short slant pass to Sanchez's left and Scott easily stepped in front of it.
"It was a zone coverage," Scott said. "I just kinda read his eyes. I guess he didn't see me coming from the opposite side. It's a great feeling."
It was Sanchez's league-high 18th interception of the season.
The Jets held a 9-7 lead late in the second quarter when Bills running back C.J. Spiller ripped off a 66-yard touchdown on a screen pass.
Spiller lined up in the left slot, faked to the outside, came back toward the middle and caught the ball at the line of scrimmage. Jets safety LaRon Landry couldn't keep up with him. Spiller made a dart to the right to avoid a diving Yeremiah Bell and then bolted up the middle of the field to the end zone. No Jet touched him. Guard Andy Levitre got one block near the line, and guard Kraig Urbik shielded Eric Smith out of the way 30 yards downfield.
"We worked on it in practice and thought it was something we could get," Spiller said. "When I seen the guy [Landry] get caught up, I knew that I had it."
"It was a great play by him," Wood said of Spiller. "Andy was able to get a nice block. We actually were able to get a rush out of the D-linemen. They were playing for the screen on a lot of screen situations. But we got a rush out of them, which helped. I was running up the middle of the field and he just blew past me."
The Bills added a 4-yard TD run out of the Wildcat formation by Brad Smith and a 13-yard TD run by Tashard Choice. Spiller had 131 yards from scrimmage. Receiver Stevie Johnson had 111 receiving yards to go over the 1,000-yard mark for a third straight season. Fitzpatrick hit 12-of-26 throws for 225 yards.
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Guy Arbogast, 79, of Elkins, passed away Saturday, July 6, 2013, in Morgantown, after a recent decline in health.
Guy was born in Cherry Grove to the late Don and Icie (Teter) Arbogast.
He is survived by his wife of more than 32 years, Karen (Wolfe) Arbogast of Elkins; and his ex-wife, Shirley Gilbert of Manassas, Va.
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He is also survived by one brother, Carl Arbogast of Ohio; two sons, Sheldon Guy Arbogast and wife, Linda, of Manassas, Va., and J.C. Arbogast of Elkins; and one daughter: Sherri (Judy) Sharps of Middletown, Md. Also surviving are four grandchildren, Matthew Guy Arbogast of Murfreesboro, Tenn., Alan Arbogast and wife, Kereshmeh, of Bristow, Va., Ashley (Wyatt) Elza and husband, Jared, of Fairmont and Elliott Arbogast of Elkins; and three great-grandsons, Kiyan and Kai Arbogast of Bristow, Va., and Gavin Guy Arbogast of Murfreesboro, Tenn.
He was preceded in death by one daughter, Pamela Kay Judy. He was also preceded in death by five sisters, Bonnie, Elva, Cynthia, Rosa Lee and Betty Jean; and five brothers, Delbert, Hoy, Coy "Bud," Dreamus and Earl.
Guy worked for more than 50 years between Dick Benson Lumber and David T. Judy Lumber Co. in Belington as an office manager and lumber grader. His love was with his family as his parents, siblings, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren's wants and needs always came before his. Guy also loved his West Virginia Mountaineers and was the Atlanta Braves No. 1 fan long before TBS brought them to Elkins. Guy was an avid fast-pitch softball player who, along with his brother and best friend, Earl, won many tournaments. He also coached the Elkins Church of the Nazarene softball team to two Nazarene League Championships and led the Elkins Church of the Nazarene youth basketball team to the Nazarene State Title in 1985 with a win over Wheeling in the final. Anyone who was fortunate enough to have known Guy knows how special and caring he was and the blessing he became to all lives that he touched.
At the request of the deceased, his remains were cremated. A memorial service will be announced at a later date.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Randolph County Humane Society, P.O. Box 785, Elkins, WV 26241, in memory of Mr. Arbogast. Tomblyn Funeral Home of Elkins is in charge of the arrangements for Guy Arbogast. Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.tomblynfuneralhome.com.


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Prep Time 10 minutes |
Cook Time 20 minutes
30 ounces Eden Lentils w/Onion & Bay Leaf, 2 cans, do not drain
2 medium onions, finely diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 Tbsp Eden Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1/2 tsp turmeric
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1/4 tsp Eden Sea Salt, or to taste
1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped
1 1/2 tsp lemon juice, freshly squeezed
1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper
1/2 tsp fresh ginger root, finely grated
Mince one onion and the garlic. Heat one tablespoon of olive oil in a saucepan. Sauté the onion, garlic and ginger. Add the lentils, turmeric, cumin, pepper and sea salt. Cover and cook for 10 minutes. Turn off the flame and mix in the lemon juice and half the parsley.
Slice the remaining onion. Sauté the onion in remaining tablespoon of oil until golden and translucent.
Place the lentils in a serving bowl. Garnish with remaining parsley and sautéed onions. Serve.
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The second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth century's most quotable authors.
For this new twenty-first-century edition, devoted admirers can be sure to find their favorite verse and stories. But a variety of fresh material has also been added to create a fuller, more authentic picture of her life's work. There are some stories new to the Portable, "Such a Pretty Little Picture," along with a selection of articles written for such disparate publications as Vogue, McCall's, House and Garden, and New Masses. Two of these pieces concern home decorating, a subject not usually associated with Mrs. Parker. At the heart of her serious work lies her political writings-racial, labor, international-and so "Soldiers of the Republic" is joined by reprints of "Not Enough" and "Sophisticated Poetry-And the Hell With It," both of which first appeared in New Masses. "A Dorothy Parker Sampler" blends the sublime and the silly with the terrifying, a sort of tasting menu of verse, stories, essays, political journalism, a speech on writing, plus a catchy off-the-cuff rhyme she never thought to write down.
The introduction of two new sections is intended to provide the richest possible sense of Parker herself. "Self-Portrait" reprints an interview she did in 1956 with The Paris Review, part of a famed ongoing series of conversations ("Writers at Work") that the literary journal conducted with the best of twentieth-century writers. What makes the interviews so interesting is that they were permitted to edit their transcripts before publication, resulting in miniature autobiographies.
"Letters: 1905-1962," which might be subtitled "Mrs. Parker Completely Uncensored," presents correspondence written over the period of a half century, beginning in 1905 when twelve-year-old Dottie wrote her father during a summer vacation on Long Island, and concluding with a 1962 missive from Hollywood describing her fondness for Marilyn Monroe.
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Table of Contents
Suggestions for Further Reading
Part One: The Original Portable as Arranged by Dorothy Parker in1944
The Lovely Leave
Arrangement in Black and White
The Sexes
The Standard of Living
Mr. Durant
The Waltz
The Wonderful Old Gentleman
Song of the Shirt, 1941
Enough Rope (Poems)
A Telephone Call
Here We Are
Dusk before Fireworks
You Were Perfectly Fine
Mrs. Hofstadter on Josephine Street
Soldiers of the Republic
Too Bad
The Last Tea
Big Blonde
Sunset Gun (Poems)
Just A Little One
Lady with a Lamp
The Little Hours
Glory in the Daytime
New York to Detroit
Death and Taxes (Poems)
The Custard Heart
From the Diary of a New York Lady
Cousin Larry
Little Curtis
Clothe the Naked
War Song (Poem)
Part Two: Other Writings
Such a Pretty Little Picture, Smart Set, December 1922
Advice to the Little Peyton Girl, Harper's Bazaar, February 1933
The Game, Cosmopolitan, December 1948
The Banquet of Crow, The New Yorker, December 14, 1957
The Bolt Behind the Blue, Esquire, December 1958
Interior Desecration, Vogue, April 15, 1917
Week's End, (New York) Life, July 21, 1927
My Home Town, McCall's, January 1928
Not Enough, New Masses, March 14, 1939
Destructive Decoration, House and Garden, November 1942
From Vanity Fair, 1918-1919
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
Redemption by Leo Tolstoi
Dear Brutus by J. M. Barrie
From Ainslee's (In Broadway Playhouses), 1921
The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill
Ziegfeld Follies of 1921
From The New Yorker (Substituting for Robert Benchley), 1931
The Barretts of Wimpole Street by Rudolf Besier
Give Me Yesterday by A. A. Milne
The Admirable Crichton by J. M. Barrie
From The New Yorker (Constant Reader), 1927-1931
The President's Daughter by Nan Britton
Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
Happiness by William Lyon Phelps
A President Is Born by Fannie Hurst; Claire Ambler by Booth Tarkington
Literary Rotarians
Appendicitis by Thew Wright, M.D.; Art of the Night by George Jean Nathan
The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne
Round Up by Ring Lardner
Forty Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts, compiled by Charles Noel Douglas
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
Dawn by Theodore Dreiser
The Grandmother of the Aunt of the Gardener
From The New York Times Book Review, 1957
The Road to Miltown, Or Under the Spreading Atrophy by S. J. Perelman
From Esqure, 1958-1959
The American Earthquake by Edmund Wilson; The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac; Ice Palace by Edna Ferber
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote; The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike
The Years With Ross by James Thurber
Part Three: A Dorothy Parker Sampler
Any Porch, Vanity Fair, September 15, 1915
Sorry, the Line Is Busy, Life, April 21, 1921
In the Throes, (New York) Life, September 16, 1924
For R.C.B., The New Yorker, January 7, 1928
Untitled Birthday Lament, c. 1927
The Garter, The New Yorker, September 8, 1928
Sophisticated Poetry—and the Hell With It, New Masses, June 27, 1939
Introduction: The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments, by James Thurber, 1932
The Function of the Writer, Address, Esquire Magazine Symposium, October 1958 (extract)
New York at 6:30 P.M., Esquire, November 1964
Self-Portrait from The Paris Review, "Writers at Work," 1956
Letters 1905-1962
To Henry Rothschild, 1905
To Henry Rothschild, 1905
To Harold Ross, 1927
To Harold Ross, no date
To Seward Collins, 1927
To Helen Rothschild Droste, 1929
To Robert Charles Benchley, 1929
To Sara and Gerald Murphy, 1934
To F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934
To Alexander Woolcott, 1935
To Harold Guinzburg, 1935
To Helen Rothschild Grimwood, c. 1939
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The surface chemistry of a desired protein may have a dramatic effect on the performance and predictability of an ion-exchange step. Although the pI of a protein defines the pH at which the molecule has no net charge, the protein will undoubtedly have regions of charge on the surface of the protein dependent on the primary sequence, the pKa of the individual amino acid side chains in question, and the complexity of the molecule. Although some impurities such as DNA and endotoxin demonstrate a strong and predictable charge, target proteins may bind (or not bind) unexpectedly to an IEX adsorbent. In addition, the stability and solubility of the protein of interest may need to be considered. The protein of interest may show a tendency to aggregate or precipitate during the purification process. This may be dependent on a number of factors including the protein concentration, buffer composition, and the stability of the protein following subsequent upstream processing steps such as pH neutralization following elution from an affinity column. Elution of bound proteins from an ion-exchange column is typically undertaken using increasing conductivity or a pH shift; changes in either condition may impact the quality of the eluted protein and should be assessed carefully when using ion-exchange adsorbents in a bind-and-elute mode. While data from characterization, stability, and forced degradation studies are often not available when developing a downstream process for a new biotherapeutic, the biophysical characteristics of the product and the potential pitfalls should be considered when developing IEX-purification processes at laboratory scale.
Although buffer pH and conductivity are usually assessed and monitored when developing an IEX step, the buffer type and concentration is often initially chosen from a combination of historical or published data and large-scale commercial considerations such as cost and availability. Buffer composition should ideally be selected to ensure that the buffer molecules do not have the opposite charge to the bound ligand on the ion-exchange adsorbent. Although this is sometimes unavoidable or undesirable for commercial purification processes, the buffer molecules may act as counter ions and participate in an ion-exchange process during column equilibration and even during column loading. This consideration is further complicated as many buffer species by their very nature are amphoteric and exhibit a number of charged species in equilibrium. It is therefore important to ensure that a sufficient buffer concentration is used and that the IEX column is fully equilibrated to ensure that any buffer-ion exchange is complete prior to loading valuable product onto the column. Although many of these issues may also be applicable to affinity-purification steps, the specific and high-affinity interaction of the desired protein with the immobilized affinity ligand as the primary method of capture typically minimizes buffer composition effects. Although the detailed characterization of a problematic ion-exchange step is desirable, industrialists are frequently constrained by timelines and commercial pressures early in the development process, and often, limited product-stability data is available. The technical challenge in this case is untangling the process- and product-related characteristics that are influencing the performance of the IEX chromatography column. Potential issues and pitfalls may be minimized by ensuring that low buffer concentrations are avoided and ion-exchange columns are fully equilibrated, typically with >5 column volumes, to minimize potential pH and conductivity drifts that may impact the performance and reproducibility of the process step. When developing a bind-and-elute ion-exchange step, evaluating the appropriate conditions to elute the target protein by avoiding transitions through the isoelectric point during elution in the least harsh conditions may also prove beneficial. The development of an IEX step for the purification of a biopharmaceutical is often considered simple, predictable, and straightforward, with the column performance defined almost exclusively by the isoelectric point of the target protein and the buffer pH. Although this is the case for many proteins, the characteristics of the protein of interest, impurities, buffer composition, and adsorbent properties may need to be considered if unexpected experimental results are observed.Anthony R. Newcombe, Ph.D., is process science manager at Protherics, Claire Newcombe is CEO at Applied Biopharm Consultancy, and Richard Francis is director of process science, also at Protherics. Web: www.protherics.com. E-mail: [email protected]
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AICPA News Update
A Weekly Email Newsletter on Issues & Events Surrounding the CPA Profession
October 19, 2010 - Volume 13 No. 45
Paul V. Stahlin, CPA, was inaugurated October 19 as the Institute's chair for a one-year term ending October 2011. A member of the Board of Directors and the governing Council for eight years, Stahlin gave his inaugural speech, Seize the Future, today, highlighting the importance of private company financial reporting standards, globalization as it relates to International Financial Reporting Standards and sustainability, financial literacy and future generations' interest in the profession. Stahlin also shared his plans to update the CPA Vision Project, which established the core purpose, values, competencies and services of the CPA profession. The press release announcing Stahlin's election is available for more information, in addition to this Journal of Accountancy profile. Read his inaugural speech for insights into his term.
A majority of members of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Private Company Financial Reporting on October 8 agreed to recommend to the Financial Accounting Foundation that there should be a new model of GAAP with exceptions for private companies and that a new standard-setting board consisting of people with private company experience should set those standards. Some of the panel's members participated in a discussion, moderated by outgoing AICPA chairman Robert R. Harris, CPA/CFF, regarding those recommendations. The AICPA governing Council overwhelmingly approved a resolution supporting the work of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Private Company Financial Reporting and declaring the profession's readiness to implement differential GAAP for private companies as determined by a separate standard-setting board. Read this JournalofAccountancy.com article for more information.
For the first time in its history, the Uniform CPA Examination will be offered outside the 55 U.S. jurisdictions in 2011. The AICPA, the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy and Prometric – the three organizations that jointly offer the CPA Examination in the United States – have announced they reached an agreement to administer the exam in five international locations: Japan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates. The international exam will be the same as the one offered in the U.S., using the same computerized format and language. Those who pass the CPA exam will be eligible to qualify for licensure as a CPA through U.S. state boards of accountancy. Read this JournalofAccontancy.com article and the press release for more information. An FAQ is also available on the CPA Exam webpage.
Throughout the fall meeting of Council, the AICPA honored three of the profession's influencers with awards: the Public Service Award, Medal of Honor and Gold Medal for Distinguished Service. Read more about the awards and their recipients on AICPA News.
The AICPA and the American Accounting Association in August announced the formation of the Pathways Commission based on a recommendation from the U.S. Department of the Treasury Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession in its October 2008 report. The commission will research and plan the future structure and content of accounting education and is made up of individuals and representatives from organizations that impact the various current accounting education pathways. The governing Council received an update on the commission's assessment of the challenges educators face when teaching and training students. For more information, visit www.pathwayscommission.org.


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The latest round in the legal and land-use fight over Bend's big-ticket water system plans has gone the city's way, with the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals rejecting claims that the city failed to adequately show where the $100 million to fund the projects will come from.
In a 12-page decision late last week, the board known as LUBA backed the city and dismissed the challenge filed by Central Oregon LandWatch to the city's revised Water Public Facilities Plan.
Gary Firestone, assistant city attorney, said Tuesday that "LUBA accepted the city's funding explanation that showed adequate funding for all projects under current rates."
"The Water Master Plan also provides that projects will be built only when needed, based on actual consumption," Firestone said. "We believe that some of the projects will not have to be built, if per-capita consumption levels continue their current trend."
LUBA said, "We agree with the city that the 2013 Water PFP includes an adequate discussion of the city's existing funding mechanisms and the ability of those mechanisms to fund the projects included in the PFP, as required by" state regulations.
But land-use attorney Paul Dewey still says the city's plan "does not explain what the water fees and SDCs (system development charges, charged to new development) will have to be to pay for all the projects."
"The public needs to know why the city will raise its rates and by how much," Dewey said. "The real loses in this case are the taxpayers, ratepayers and those who will end up having to pay SDCs."
Firestone noted that the appeals board also agreed with the city that the water facilities plan does not include any projects to serve areas outside Bend's existing urban growth boundary.
"Nothing in the water (plan) aims potential future UGB expansion in any particular direction – it is a plan for the existing UGB only," said Firestone.
In its ruling, LUBA said that "absent a developed argument from (LandWatch) that identifies specific projects that will serve areas outside the city's existing UGB, (their) argument … provides no bases for reversal or remand of the (city's) decision."
But Dewey claimed the city had, in response to the group's objections, "declared that though listed in the plan," $70 million worth of projects "oriented to development outside the current UGB … were not part of the plan."
"This is good, because there will then be a level playing field for the various UGB expansion proposals," Dewey said.
Dewey said the group has not yet decided whether to appeal LUBA's decision to the state Land Use Board of Appeals."
As for the still-disputed pipeline upgrade project, Dewey said LandWatch, WaterWatch of Oregon and others filed their objections last week to the proposed, revised Forest Service permit for the city. He said they are now waiting for the Forest Service to respond to those objections.


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DNA Electronics is building the foundations for semiconductor sequencing.
September 27, 2011 | DNA Electronics certainly sounds like the quintessential bio-IT company, but this London firm is quietly making waves in the field of next-generation sequencing (NGS) and molecular diagnostics. Some of the firm's key intellectual property (IP) is providing the foundation for present and future semiconductor sequencing platforms. And some of that same technology lies at the core of the firm's newly developed handheld device, dubbed the SNP-DR, which can detect dozens of DNA variants in a saliva sample within 20-30 minutes.
The founder and CEO of DNA Electronics is Chris Toumazou, who also holds the chair in Biomedical Circuits in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College in London.
As a postdoc at Imperial, he was interested in consumer electronics, particularly multiband digital mobile phones at a time when GSM was becoming a mobile phone standard. Toumazou viewed "low power technology" as the only way to integrate those standards onto a silicon chip, and started patenting innovative semiconductor techniques to integrate CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) chips.
Toumazou's honeymoon in the medical area began in the late 1990s, when he was approached by a Canadian company, Epic Biosonics, which manufactured electrodes that made contact with the 8th nerve in the ear for cochlear implants. "It used hardly any power because it had an excellent low power electrode, but cosmetically, it looked awful, a whacking great processor hanging out of the kid's ear," recalls Toumazou.
"I looked at the billions we'd invested in making low power chips for communication and thought, if we can just apply a fraction of that technology to the health care problem, we could make a difference."
Within a year, Toumazou had helped turn that huge chip into something using nanowatts of power, integrated onto an electrode array. It was his first "bio-inspired platform," a case where the biology inspired the technology. (The resulting product is now the core of a number of cochlea prosthetics.)
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But while Toumazou was excited about the application of semiconductors in health care, he sensed an even bigger opportunity. "It's not just making sick people better, but healthy people healthier. I wanted to establish a more personal approach to medicine."
Toumazou didn't have to look far to realize his ambitions. Imperial College has the largest medical school in Europe, providing a perfect setting to explore health care applications for innovative semiconductor design. He found an ally in the rector, Sir Richard Sykes, the former head of Glaxo, who also saw the synergies between silicon devices and the pharma industry. "He was passionate about the next generation of pharma products that could be medical devices," says Toumazou. After raising more than £30 million, Imperial created the Institute for Biomedical Engineering.
But Toumazou was also exploring commercialization opportunities. His entrepreneurial skills were honed from experiences developing the world's first combined analog/digital mobile phone in Thailand with now exiled premier, Thaksin Shinawatra, which produced lots of low power technology IP.
Toumazou founded Toumaz Technology (now publicly traded), which produced a digital patch—a band-aid device that sticks on a patient's chest to monitor vital signs. It sends information wirelessly to a mobile device, and was recently approved by the FDA. "If it detects something, it becomes preventative medicine," says Toumazou. Several large hospitals are testing the device, and they have recently established a joint venture with Patrick Soon-Shiong, founder of Abraxis BioScience.
Toumazou's interest in using semiconductors for biochemical monitoring of substances such as urea or creatinine crystallized during a family emergency. About seven years ago, his teenage son Marcus collapsed with renal failure, due to a previously-undiagnosed genetic disorder. Following a kidney transplant, Marcus was on dialysis for more than three years, teaching Toumazou a lesson in the pains of managing chronic disease.
As he explored technologies that could help a patient like his son monitor and manage his lifestyle, Toumazou learned about ISFETs (ion sensitive field-effect transistors)—discrete off-the-shelf devices which can be made in CMOS. Of particular interest, chemists were using ISFETs as pH probes. "I got hold of one and thought, this is more than a pH electrode; it's got the guts of a semiconductor. But instead of an electrical gate on top where you inject current or apply voltage, it had chemistry—an insulator surface exposed to an electrolyte."
Toumazou decided to build some very low power biosensors for measuring glucose, urea and other metabolites, deploying different chemistries on the surface of the device. "We were trying to create a biosensor, while integrating that into the electrical circuits we'd been looking at in our traditional mobile phone technology," says Toumazou.
Despite his excitement, his students soon encountered a problem: over a few days, the recorded levels of glucose and other metabolites in blood samples were drifting, presumably because of surface chemistry issues.
Around this time, Toumazou was introduced to Craig Venter's work (they later met through their mutual investor, Malaysian businessman, Tan Sri Kok Thay Lim). Talk turned to DNA, which wouldn't drift. Toumazou thought, why not take an ISFET and instead of applying glucose, try something discrete like DNA?
Eureka Moment
In a 2001 experiment, one of Toumazou's clinical students put DNA polymerase on the ISFET, and added the nucleotide adenine [to a probe-target pair]. "We found that when you match the bases, protons get released. Let's see if we get incorporation and the change in pH. That was our Eureka moment! Whoosh, there was a whacking change in pH. The transistor turned on in real time. I went back to my office, wrote three paragraphs and sent it to the patent office."
Toumazou's team dabbled with various forms of DNA sequencing, but coming from the mobile phone sector, he was much more interested in point-of-care—find an application and get an on-the-spot result. "It lent itself easily to the digital logic of DNA sequencing, but it wasn't in the remit of what I wanted to do," says Toumazou (see, "Sequencing Roadmap"). "I started thinking, rather than use it as a discoverer of mutations, let's use it as a detector of mutations. Then it could be done with a very simple system."
In late 2003, Toumazou spun out a company called DNA Electronics. At that stage, most detection technologies were optical rather than label-free, and would be difficult to integrate with hydrogen ion-based amplification, especially in a handheld device. But in a semiconductor detector, Toumazou could seamlessly combine sample prep + amplification + detection.
One of his first hires was Leila Shepherd, a Ph.D. student who was studying the synergy of ISFETs and biochemistry. The core idea was to place a known single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) on a probe such that the chip could achieve a fast 'digital' result—a 1 if there's a match, a 0 if there isn't. Such SNPs could provide information on a patient's drug metabolism or an infectious disease agent.
The Genalysis device, or 'SNP-DR' as it is nicknamed, works directly from a saliva sample. The first step is to amplify the DNA. "It was blatantly obvious to us that the output of the extension reaction (after thermal cycling) was pH," he says. If he could simultaneously use the pH shift that occurs during DNA amplification as the pH detection input, then he might be able to simultaneously amplify and detect DNA on a single chip.
DNA Electronics' first point-of-care chip, which was successfully tested by Pfizer last year, is "probably the most sophisticated complex chip combining DNA detection and mixed CMOS technology," says Toumazou. "Pfizer ran some genotypes on real patient samples and sent them to us blindly," says Shepherd. "We ran on the device, and got 100% call rate success." Trials are ongoing at St Mary's Hospital in London.
The CMOS chip that runs the SNP-DR features 40 sensors, thermal devices (for PCR), and all the necessary analog/digital circuitry. The PCR has been customized to maximize the pH change while keeping the enzymes happy. "There's lots of on-chip intelligence," adds Shepherd. "It has 40 sensors but only 9 wires on the chip. And there's no heat block, no dye, no optics."
"You need all this intelligence," explains Toumazou, in a strategy that harkens back to the cochlea implant. "We want to avoid too much bioinformatics on the back end—we want to do things on the chip so the intelligence is local and you spit out the results."
"This is where our heart is—a totally lab-free instrument," says Shepherd. "Take saliva, mix it with chemicals, dispense onto a test cartridge housing the chip. The silicon chip has all the magic inside—sensors, heaters and temperature control. Once we apply the saliva sample, it'll perform real-time DNA amplification and detection. If you've got a matching SNP in the saliva sample, it'll give you the answer in 15-30 minutes."
One Chip One Drug
The immediate target is for low-multiplex applications, such as testing warfarin and other drug sensitivities, but eventually there will be a library of different application-specific cartridges.
"Our vision is, one chip one drug, one chip one bug!" says Toumazou. "We're not in a dark room—we're out in the real world with instantaneous answers. It's because we can integrate the PCR and detection. That's fundamentally the key."
The key is to compress the data, minimize extraneous information, and end up with the essential results. "Spending all the power on the analysis, it really does take days to get the results and you lose sight of what you're trying to do," says Toumazou. "Medics don't want to be piled with lots of information, they just want results. We're not getting rid of the bioinformatics, but the more intelligence you can put on the chip or the process, the faster you get the results."
DNA Electronics employs about 35 people, with expertise in semiconductors, biochemistry, chemistry, and fluidics. Toumazou intends to translate any form of nucleic acid analysis into a pH signal. As he says, "There are plenty more strands to the bow." •
Sequencing Roadmap
A few years ago, while DNA Electronics was working on their point-of-care chip, Chris Toumazou hosted a visit from Jonathan Rothberg, the founder of 454 Life Sciences, in London. Not surprisingly, the two entrepreneurs hit it off, approaching NGS from complementary angles: Rothberg from the chemistry side, Toumazou from the semiconductor field.
After a good couple of years of negotiations, Rothberg licensed Toumazou's technology. Rothberg wanted an exclusive deal, but Toumazou held firm. "I wanted to create the fabless semiconductor industry for the genetics wave for life sciences," says Toumazou. "Jonathan really wanted exclusivity, but we weren't going to give exclusivity."
Toumazou favored the model utilized by ARM Holdings, maker of fabless digital processors found inside iPhones, Androids and tablets that are "agnostic to the silicon," says Toumazou. The platform is licensed to everybody in a non-exclusive way. "We're an ARM," says DNAe's Leila Shepherd. "We develop the IP cores."
"Rothberg was the right person to take sequencing forward," says Toumazou. "He had the array/chemistry experience from 454 and we were happy to work with him. But I wanted to make it non-exclusive so we could talk to the 454's, the Illumina's and the Life Tech's if we wanted to." Toumazou has also licensed technology and struck a partnership with Rothberg's former colleagues at Roche/454, and is collaborating on the development of a new semiconductor product. "We have a level of sophistication of the semiconductor chemistry/interface layer that we think will give us a performance edge," says Toumazou.
"We've got a roadmap for semiconductor sequencing that can match 4th-generation sequencing. Nanotech to me is top-down. We can use processors now that go down to 25-40 nm. This is the natural progression. It's not the semiconductor that will be the limiting factor, it'll be the interface. Semiconductor technology offers a really good platform to do those things." K.D.
This article also appeared in the 2011 September-October issue of Bio-IT World magazine.
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