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LOCKPORT – The city has decided to fight a lawsuit filed by a man who submitted the high bids on two properties at the 2012 tax foreclosure auction and then was barred from claiming the land or from reclaiming his down payments.
Corporation Counsel John J. Ottaviano said Thursday that the Common Council decided against settling with Daryl Ubiles, who put down deposits totaling $6,150 and then was barred from buying the parcels because he owed $399 in city and school taxes on another property he already owned.
The news came as a surprise to Ubiles' attorney, A. Angelo DiMillo, who said Ottaviano had told him earlier this week that the city would settle the suit with a refund to Ubiles.
That assurance became inoperative after a closed-door Council session Wednesday night, Ottaviano said. "We had discussed it, and once we learned all the facts, we decided not to settle," he said.
The city's auction rules say that if an apparent high bidder is found to owe taxes on any other property in the city, he won't be allowed to buy the land, and the city will keep his deposit.
The city has sold the parcels on Center and North Transit streets to the second-highest bidder from the Oct. 23 auction.
The lawsuit claims that Ubiles didn't know about the $399 in taxes he owed on his Clinton Street property because he didn't receive the tax bills. The suit says he paid the taxes as soon as he found out, six days after the auction.
"This person has multiple addresses," Ottaviano said. He said the bills were sent to another of Ubiles' addresses. He owns four properties in the city besides the two he tried to buy at the auction.
DiMillo said it doesn't make any difference how many mailing addresses Ubiles might have, because the city's auction rules are "unfair."
As a result of the policy, the city made more money than it would have if it had let Ubiles close on the parcels he won.
"The city has suffered no loss. It is unfair," DiMillo said. "I think it's improper for the city to take a deposit and not let people cure unpaid taxes."
He said it would be fairer to let bidders clear up their back taxes before closing on auction properties.
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I love going to the beach. To me, its the ultimate summer trip. I really love the actual going. Locking the front door. Climbing into the loaded car. Backing out of the driveway. Going! Its getting ready to go to the beach thats the challenge. Fun, but a challenge.
Last week our family, three generations of Hills parents, children and grands (14 people) and five lively dogs headed for Edisto Beach. Also packed were a seeming ton of culinary staples and various other sundries, including 240, 18 oz red plastic cups, 72 rolls of jumbo toilet tissue and three dozen mega rolls of paper towels. Also included in the entourage were three bicycles, a canoe, a kayak, scooters and a golf cart. We also brought all our sheets and towels, enough cleaning products to put a shine on the whole island, a brigade of beach accoutrements as well as most of the ingredients for each nightly dinner tour de force.
We all brought our favorite breakfast and lunch items and shared those. Each night a different family made one of their favorite recipe dinners. We ate as much seafood as possible, including fresh caught shrimp and crab which are so delicious this season. Dinner entrees included shrimp cakes, crab lasagna, a Greek appetizer dinner and the requested dishes I brought homemade potato salad and a bathtub sized container of deviled ham spread.
Our house, two blocks from the beach, sat on a tidal marsh facing west so we had spectacular sunsets each night. The main room had four sets of full-length glass doors extending the view inside and opening onto a well fanned screened porch. We spent much time out there. In addition, our Georgia nieces and nephews got a nearby home and we shared activities. This group was also three generations, but beat our attendance total by several people.
One of the best blessings of this beach trip was the opportunity to have one-on-ones with just about everybody there. Lunch with a daughter. Shopping with another one. Porch rocking with a son. Sitting on the front steps with a grandchild. Cooking with a niece and nephew. Chatting with a daughter-in-law and cleaning up the kitchen with a son-in-law. Catching up with everybody.
It is simply not possible to spend seven days and nights in a beautiful place, with stunning scenery including the Atlantic Ocean without succumbing to the tranquility of a quiet and easy going lifestyle. We spent time perusing the gift shops, eating the occasional lunch out, and watching grandchildren enjoy the sand and surf. One of Jims best moments was the invitation by our two teenaged grandsons to ride along in a golf cart while they played 18 holes. My delight was standing by my three-year-old grandson as he spotted the American flag and unbidden, broke into a perfect rendition of the Pledge of Allegiance.
There was also plenty of personal time. Some of us read. Others plied computers. One daughter and I watched episodes of the British drama, Downton Abbey, after everybody else went to bed. On the way back to Summerville we decided that if we could spend the whole week under one roof with all that family, we all must be doing something right.
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IRWINDALE, Calif. (July 25, 2011) – SCE FCU (Southern California Edison Federal Credit Union headquartered in Irwindale, Calif. and serving more than 42,000 members) has been named 2011 Small Business of the Year by Assemblyman Roger Hernández, (D-San Gabriel Valley). The Small Business of the Year award was established by the California State Legislature to acknowledge the impact organizations have on local communities through acts of philanthropy and charity.
"The measure of a successful small business is not by how much profit it can post, but rather by how much it can give back to its community," said Assemblymember Hernández. "By this standard, SCE FCU has grown to success not only by being a responsible financial institution, but a solid community pillar. I'm honored to recognize SCE FCU as the 57th District's Small Business of the Year."
SCE FCU's employees have donated more than 5,000 volunteer hours during the past six years to community building programs, including "Santa Clothes," which provides needy children with clothing, American Cancer Society's Relay for Life of Baldwin Park and food pantry drives. Additionally, SCE FCU conducted 440 financial literacy workshops for schools, employer groups and more than 8,700 residents throughout the city of Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley.
We're honored to receive this distinction from Assemblyman Hernández because there are so many small businesses doing exceptional work in our community," said SCE FCU CEO Dennis Huber. "I'm proud of our employees who are living the credit union motto of 'people helping people.'"
SCE FCU created the SCE FCU Foundation, a [501(c)(3)] corporation, in 2005, to enable southern California residents to join the credit union by making a $15 deposit, of which $10 goes to local nonprofit organizations. The SCE FCU Foundation has contributed more than $240,000 towards improving the lives of disadvantage youth and low-income families.
SCE FCU was one of 75 small businesses acknowledged at the 2011 California Small Business Day convention in Sacramento.
SCE Federal Credit Union was founded in 1952 and currently has more than 42,000 members, $500 million in assets, several Southern California branch locations, thousands of shared branch locations across the United States and more than 28,000 surcharge-free ATMs available to members. SCE FCU serves all of Southern California, with membership open to individuals and businesses. SCE FCU is a not-for-profit entity committed to improving the financial well-being of the communities it serves, especially those underserved by mainstream financial institutions. With a strong commitment to volunteerism, employees donate hundreds of hours to local community causes each year. Additionally, the creation of the SCE FCU Foundation provides much-needed financial education to the underserved.
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The ThirtyTwo Lashed have built up quite the reputation behind them, from beginner snowboarders all the way up to sponsored professionals. They are a great medium-soft boot with a ton of cushion that is favored by park riders to help you with that steezy tweak. The heat moldable Intuition liners are an awesome touch, and makes break in comfort much easier so you aren't hurting on opening day. I always recommend something from ThirtyTwo when someone is looking for a sweet pair of boots to further their progression. If you prefer something stiffer, I'd highly suggest taking a look at the ThirtyTwo TM-Twos.
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1- take them to a shop that has the special equipment for heating up the boots and then you can heat mold them that way. Down fall to this is you mold the boots to your feet while you're just standing there and not while riding.
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Lorne Lanning blasts the AAA game market, saying "F**k that business."
CEO Andrew Wilson also says "building games is very hard" and confirms that EA has "changed our process."
"The Bad Company [team] isn't forgotten, they are just on a very long vacation," says DICE creative director.
EA Sports' college football game the month's best-seller in US, followed by Minecraft and The Last of Us; overall industry sales slide 19 percent to $443 million.
$50 subscription service reaches new user milestone; Origin membership climbs to 50 million; EA revenue for quarter hits $495 million.
Payday, Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus, and Unit 13 also available.
EA says it is working on restoring the service as soon as possible.
"The current BF3 and Battelog outages are a result of activity that appears to be aimed at overwhelming our game servers," says EA.
Netherlands-based Leiden University says video games enhance the brain's working memory.
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Battlefield 3 has been revealed as the Origin mystery deal game; the offer will be listed for 12 hours.
Explore an airborne metropolis in first-person shooter BioShock Infinite, available for Aussie gamers this week. For those who have a stealthier play style, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time should satisfy.
EA's virtual marketplace reaches new user milestone after SimCity launch; weeklong Player Appreciation Sale going on now.
List of games being given away by EA includes Battlefield 3 and Dead Space 3.
Developer releases 1.92GB update for Xbox 360 version that features various tweaks and fixes for the game's multiplayer.
EA online store now available for Mac users worldwide; certain games allow dual-platform play across systems.
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EA will soon show off the next Battlefield, and says it is actively developing for next-gen consoles.
Testing period for new version of EA virtual marketplace does not include Origin Store or Twitch support; full client to be released "soon."
In this feature, we hand over the soapbox to members of the armed forces, who share their thoughts on the exploration of war in video games.
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The Buffalo Zoo has come a long way in the past several years, saving its accreditation, improving animal conditions and now moving to make things better for two of the zoo's primary species: polar bears and homo sapiens.
For years, homo sapiens have had to leave their vehicles in a parking lot on the zoo's south border and walk, often en masse, up Parkside Avenue to the entrance off the public sidewalk. It's not that it was such an inconvenience, but it made no sense and did a poor job of handling larger groups.
With a new project to begin next month, the entrance will move to a spot off the parking lot itself. When that project is completed, the area occupied by the Parkside entrance will be converted into a new Arctic Edge exhibit.
That facility will house the zoo's two polar bears and three new animals: an arctic fox, a Canadian lynx and a bald eagle. Without it, the zoo could lose the polar bears, according to standards set by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums in 2007.
There's more good news, too, in that the new entrance will be located in a 75-year-old building. At one time, the zoo had planned to demolish the building, and already had permission from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation to do so. Instead, construction crews will gut the barn-like structure and remake the interior.
When completed, it will offer visitors an introduction to the zoo's emphasis on water, both to animals and in Buffalo's history. To that point, the first two animals that visitors will see as they come through the new entrance will be sea lions and otters.
The project will cost between $3 million and $3.5 million. Contractors are bidding on the work now, with construction expected to get under way next month and be finished in time for the arrival of large school groups in late spring.
A zoo is a reflection on the character of the community that supports it. At one time, not so many years ago, the comfort of captive animals was considered only in passing, if at all. Today, most people would shudder at the thought of monkeys in tiny cages or elephants kept in small spaces without the companionship they need.
If, as a nation and as a community, we are going to maintain the tradition of zoos, we have to be prepared to construct and maintain them to ensure that animals do not suffer. Otherwise, what is the point? That is why the $3 million-plus that this project is likely to cost is worth the expense. Together with the new Arctic exhibit, the price tag is around $18 million.
The zoo is one of Buffalo's primary attractions. It ranks with Shea's Performing Arts Center, the Buffalo Philharmonic and other features of the city's cultural scene. It deserves adequate funding.
Maintaining those standards in a weak economy is no small feat, and Buffalo is fortunate to have Donna M. Fernandes as the zoo's president and CEO. She left a few years ago for another opportunity, but came back to Buffalo. It is to the advantage of polar bears and homo sapiens alike that she wanted to come back.


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The village grew from several hamlets and, in 1957, it became famous throughout Switzerland for allowing women to vote at the ballot box for the first time, against the will of the Swiss government. Unterbäch therefore became known as the 'Swiss women's Rütli'. There is a theme trail devoted to this particular aspect of Unterbäch's history, featuring quotes from famous women.
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And we organise a "Find the Fox" game in the snow for our smaller visitors. Hiring monster scooters, "Brandalp-Blitz" or taking part in a gastro-safari offers each visitor not only culinary specialities, but also adventure, fun and sport of a somewhat different kind.


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This issue of Myeloma Today is sponsored in part by an unrestricted educational grant from Novartis Pharmaceuticals.
Little Rock Arkansas: for those people not involved with Myeloma, the name Little Rock Arkansas evokes memories – good or bad – of President Clinton. For those of us who live in the Myeloma world, it means one thing: Dr. Bart Barlogie and his team at the center there.
I can remember the first time I heard about Dr. Bart Barlogie and the transplant center in Little Rock. It was when Brian Novis had just founded the IMF and then went to Arkansas to visit with Bart. Co-founders of the IMF, Dr. Brian Durie and Brian Novis, were friends with Bart and extended an invitation asking him to become a member of the IMF's Board of Directors.
Despite this long friendship with Bart, or Black Bart as he often refers to himself, I had never been to Little Rock — that is until last month when the IMF held its Patient & Family Seminar there. Going to Little Rock was quite an experience. It was a place I had heard about for years, since patients went there for a transplant or two or three and it had become legend – like going to Lourdes. But I had never been there.
The IMF, Dr. Durie, Lisa Paik, Spencer Howard, and I pulled into town and immediately met Mary Fritsch and Julie and Ruth McNeill, who were on the same shuttle bus. As is often the case among us IMFers, we began chatting, and it turned out that they were mother and daughters from Michigan attending their first seminar. Their 33-year-old son and brother had recently been diagnosed. Feeling both apprehensive and hopeful, they were embarking on a journey to learn what they could do, and needed to know how to help a loved one combat this disease.
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We were honored to have an esteemed faculty present. An important beginning to a full day was provided by Dr. Brian Durie (Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center, California), who commenced with a wonderful presentation of "What is Myeloma?" With over 80% of the participants attending this introductory session, we were off to a great start. The team from Little Rock, Dr. Bart Barlogie, Dr. John Shaughnessy, and Dr. Guido Tricot, did an excellent job of presenting their experience in treating myeloma with their "total therapy."
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Of note was Dr. Shaughnessy's talk on the research he's doing in gene array technology, giving us a very promising look at what the future holds. Dr. William Dalton (H. Lee Moffit Cancer Center, Florida) gave a talk on conventional therapy that was informative and up-to-date. Dr. Greg Mundy (University of Texas Health Science Center), a frequent speaker at our seminars, spoke on bone disease, a field in which he is a renowned expert. Knowing what you can do to prevent bone disease is vital for both quality of life and better outcome.
Since 1996, the IMF has been awarding the Francesca Thompson Outstanding Service Award to individuals who "go above and beyond the call of duty." It is named in memory of Francesca Thompson, who was a myeloma patient, physician, and founding Board member of the IMF. Dr. Thompson selflessly did so much to help the IMF help others, and it's in her honor that the IMF recognizes others who, like her, reach out and make a difference. Over the years we've recognized patients and family members. It was our honor and privilege for the first time to recognize a doctor for his outstanding work in helping myeloma patients. We were thrilled to present Dr. Bart Barlogie with the Francesca Thompson Award. On hand for the presentation was I. Dodd Wilson, Chancellor, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
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The Patient & Family Seminar was a huge success and I would like to extend a very heartfelt thank you to Bonnie Jenkins (Director of Program Coordination) and Janet Aronson (Administrator) for all their hard work in making the meeting a success and our trip to Little Rock a truly memorable experience.


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On January 26, 2012, the Ninth Annual Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol (URDC) was held in the Capitol Rotunda in Charleston, West Virginia. At this event, members of the State legislature are able to spend time with the students whose research projects the State of West Virginia helps to fund. At the conclusion this event each year, the Marshall University STEM Fellows Programs and Graduate Programs cohost a luncheon and awards ceremony with WVU and the WV Higher Education Policy Commission Division of Science and Research. Dr. Richard Niles, Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education for the Marshall University Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, welcomed attendees on behalf of the university and introduced them to the research graduate opportunities available at Marshall. Dr. Stephen J. Kopp, President of Marshall University, also spoke for the attendees. Dignitaries from West Virginia University were also in attendance.
The awards distributed at the luncheon included innovation grants, instrumentation awards, mini-grants, a research incubator grant, and a research trust fund. Awards ranged from $5,000 to $100,000.
The following press release from the main Marshall University news page offers further information on the Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol. This video news piece also comes courtesy of the Marshall University Research Corporation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg5-w8rTOoo&feature=youtu.be
You can learn additional information about the URDC by visiting its official webpage: http://www.marshall.edu/urdc/.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Thirty-two students from Marshall University will be among 106 students from throughout West Virginia who will present their discoveries in poster format in the 9th annual Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol in Charleston on Thursday, Jan. 26.
The event, which takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. in the Capitol rotunda, helps members of the state Legislature and the executive branch understand the importance of undergraduate research by talking directly with the students who produced these projects. The projects are original research and the posters are designed for a general audience.
"This is a fun event for both students and members of the Legislature," said Dr. Michael Castellani, professor and chair of Marshall's chemistry department, and co-chair of the event's organizing committee. "Students engage in original research projects for as long as four years and this event provides them a chance to share their work with delegates and senators."
The posters will be in the areas of biochemistry, biology, chemical engineering, chemistry, communications, computer science/information technology, economics, engineering, English, environmental sciences, environmental studies, geology, mathematics, physics and psychology.
In addition to Marshall, the other 14 universities and colleges represented are Alderson-Broaddus College, Bluefield State College, Concord University, Fairmont State University, Glenville State College, Ohio Valley University, Shepherd University, the University of Charleston, West Liberty University, West Virginia State University, West Virginia University, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Wheeling Jesuit University and WVU Institute of Technology.
"Descriptions of some projects are distributed worldwide and much of the work is on par with that done at the best universities in the country," Castellani said. "This event provides a unique opportunity for members of the Legislature to see an aspect of higher education that is normally hidden from public view, but is one of the most important tools for developing students for entry into the workplace or postgraduate education."


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Mass spectrometry has long been recognized as one of the leading analytical tools for the rapid characterization of biological macromolecules. The imaging function of mass spectrometry combines the capabilities of quantitative and qualitative identification with information on the location of an analyte within a sample. To achieve the maximum yield of information, it is necessary to optimize spatial resolution and mass spectral quality. Usually the optimization of one of these factors is detrimental to the other.
In this report, we describe the use of a dry sublimation device, which enabled us to perform spatial resolution of 10 µm, resolving individual cells within tissues.
To optimize sample preparation, we have investigated various approaches of applying the MALDI matrix to prepared slides. The general trend with these techniques is tht the "drier" the preparation, the smaller the matrix crystal size and consequent improvement in resolution. By employing sublimation, we avoid the use of solvents completely, resulting in improved spatial resolution, especially suited for the assessment of the limits of the instrument performance.
With large crystal no longer a limiting factor, it was possible to examine the role of minimum laser focus diameter and the precision of the sample stage movement in determining the limitations of spatial resolution by analyzing phospholipids, which desorb quite well from sublimed matrix.
As an experimental tissue, we selected rat cerebellum and testis. The choice was based upon the diversity and dimension of architectural features within these tissues.
Cryosections of fresh frozen rat cerebellum and testis were cut at 10 μm thickness and thaw-mounted onto indium-tin-oxide (Bruker) coated glass slides. Sample slides were not washed but rather directly desiccated in a vacuum desiccator for 1 hour. Sublimation was performed in a custom built device using a 152 mm inner diameter sublimation apparatus (Ace Glass) with 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid as matrix.
MALDI imaging measurements were executed on Bruker's ultrafleXtreme™, autoflex™ Speed, and solariX™ mass spectrometry instruments equipped with smartbeam IITM lasers. The standard laser setting of "minimum" diameter was used for all measurements.
FlexImaging software (Bruker) was employed to establish the imaging measurements and to generate ion images from the acquired data. MALDI-TOF images were normalized to total ion count, and MALDI-FTMS (Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry) images were normalized to root mean square intensity. The intensity thresholds for the reconstructed MALDI images were adjusted to result in bright images and low noise.
After image collection, the slides were removed and washed in ethanol to remove matrix and stained using a standard hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) protocol. Microscopic images were acquired on a Mirax desk slide scanner (Zeiss).
MALDI-TOF Imaging
Figure 1 shows phospholipid images which map to the main features of the rat cerebellum, including the white matter, granular layer, Purkinje cell layer surrouding the granular layer, and molecular layer. The body of the Purkinje cell has an average diameter of ~30 μm in the rat, making it an ideal structure to test MALDI imaging spatial resolution.
Figure 1 shows two reconstructed MALDI images of five selected mass signals and an optical image of the measured area.
In Figure 1A, the mass signal at 815.7 Da (displayed in red) is localized to the cerebellar white matter and the signal at 849.7 Da (in blue) is found in the granular layer. The mass signal at 878.9 Da is seen as a line of green dots that correspond to individual Purkinje neurons. The signal at 825.5 Da is seen in Figure 1B as a well-structured image displaying several anatomical features.
Figure 2 shows MALDI images of the signal at 878.9 Da at increasing magnification. In progressively greater detail, Figures 2A & 2B show that the mass signal at 878.9 Da is indeed localized to the Purkinje cell layer. After the MALDI acquisition, an H&E stained image of the section was acquired and is shown in Figure 2C. Individual Purkinje cells are indicated by arrows on both molecular and microscopic images. That the cell bodies are represented by multiple pixels suggests that the spatial resolution is higher than 30 μm. The Purkinje cell body has a diameter of ~30 μm, and is represented by 3 × 3 mass spectrometric pixels, clearly demonstrating an actual mass spectrometric pixel size of 10 μm.
MALDI-FTMS Imaging
FTMS instruments are especially suited for imaging of small molecules such as lipids because of their unsurpassed mass resolution and measurement accuracy. For this reason, we also investigated MALDI-FTMS imaging of the rat testis sample. Five structurally localized ions are shown in Figures 3A & 3B without display interpolation so that every visible square pixel represents one mass spectrum.
From the three selected mass signals in Figure 3A we see that a pixel size of 10 μm is sufficient to clearly distinguish the layer surrounding the tubules, the interstitial space, and the lumen of the tubules. Figure 3B shows the distribution of two mass signals that are only 3 mDa apart and exhibit very different distribution in the tissue.
One mass signal is detected only from the interstitial space while the other is detected in the lumen of the tubules. The two peaks (as detected from the pixels highlighted in Figure 3B) are shown in Figure 3C. In this broadband (wide m/z range) FTMS measurement, the average mass resolving power was approximately 470,000.
Because of the high mass resolving power, the peaks at 808.58192 and 808.58554 are shown to have different spatial localization. Furthermore, the measurement accuracy of the FTMS permits direct estimation of the molecular formulas labeled in Figure 3C. The mass signal at 808.58192 Da likely corresponds to the molecular formula [C44H84NNaO8P]+ (a calculated mass of 808.582676 Da, a 0.94 ppm deviation from the measured mass). The signal at 808.58554 Da most likely corresponds to the molecular formula [C46H83NO8P]+ (a calculated mass of 808.585082 Da, a 0.14 ppm deviation from the measured mass).
Sample preparation and instrumental parameters compete to be the limiting factor for achieving high spatial resolution in MALDI imaging. Sublimation of matrix offers an ideal dry preparation for MALDI imaging of lipids in which matrix crystal size and analyte migration do not limit high spatial resolution. Using this preparation strategy, we were able to achieve a spatial resolution of 10 μm using standard commercial ultrafleXtreme, autoflex speed, and solariX instruments with the smartbeam II laser.
Shannon Cornett, Ph.D. ([email protected]), applications development manager, Bruker Daltonics.
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Shepherd's Baked Potatoes
16 comments:
- Marina {Yummy Mummy) said...
You are SO creative!
- December 29, 2011 at 9:52 AM
- suzie q. said...
what a great idea! i love baked potatoes and sheperd's pie is ALWAYS a hit in our house. totally stealing this!
- December 29, 2011 at 10:07 AM
- Mal said...
This is a fantastic idea! We love shepherd's pie in the winter, I think I'll try this variation soon.
- December 29, 2011 at 10:09 AM
- Siggy Spice said...
mmmm....sounds perfect!
- December 29, 2011 at 10:18 AM
- Val said...
All I can say is....DELICIOUS!!!
- December 29, 2011 at 10:40 AM
- Slice of Southern said...
This looks so comforting! Delish!
- December 29, 2011 at 11:15 AM
- yummychunklet said...
What a yummy and perfect looking photo!
- December 29, 2011 at 12:15 PM
- A Bitchin' Kitchen said...
This looks delicious! I eat baked potatoes at least once a week as dinner, and am always looking for new ways to dress them up!
- Maggie
- December 29, 2011 at 12:52 PM
- scrambledhenfruit said...
I love this upside down shepherd's pie! It sounds easy and delicious- two things that are important around here! :)
- December 29, 2011 at 5:45 PM
- Lizzy Do said...
Can I tell you how much I love this idea!!!! Perfect for a busy weeknight...and this would draw raves from the hubby! Plus, I don't like to mash potatoes :) Thanks for sharing another winner, Holly!!!
- December 29, 2011 at 5:57 PM
- Jennifurla said...
oh yes, looks so rich and yummy.
- December 29, 2011 at 6:01 PM
- Words Of Deliciousness said...
This looks delicious. Sounds like it would be a easy to make, which is always a good thing in my book.
- December 29, 2011 at 9:39 PM
- betty said...
they look so amazing, I would love to make them right now, just to indulge :) new follower
- December 30, 2011 at 5:13 PM
- claire said...
can you mail me one in dallas?!
- January 4, 2012 at 8:10 AM
We made these tonight!!!! So totally delicious! You have the very best food blog out there. You are so gorgeous too!!!!!! Thanks Holly!
- January 18, 2012 at 9:58 PM
- Nicole@HeatOvenTo350 said...
This is one of the favorite ideas I've seen in months. I love it! I might have to modify it for my family since my husband hates anything "tomato" but I think I'd love it just as it is. Genius!
- January 25, 2012 at 9:48 AM


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BERKELEY SPRINGS - In December, Morgan County commissioners will be considering allocation of funds to nonprofits and other groups requesting money from the hotel/motel tax.
However, Jeanne Mozier of Morgan Arts Council asked for an allocation this week.
"We asked for $15,000 in June. We needed $15,000," Mozier said. "But we didn't get that. I'm asking for $5,000 now."
She said the funding was for the Concerts in the Park summer series, MAC's most popular activity. Total expenses for the series were $16,000. Paperwork she submitted stated a $10,000 shortfall despite donations and other income.
"From attendance estimates and assessments we did, it's appealing to locals and tourists," Mozier said. "The gallery shows are the second-favorite activity. We work hard to get outstanding groups from all over who play different types of music at the concerts."
Commissioner Brad Close said he agreed with Mozier to a point that the county should help MAC in supporting the concert series or other activities. He said he had talked to business owners who saw the advantage of the concerts bringing in tourists and locals to their businesses. But he said other businesses host their own concerts, so he wanted to discuss it in the public commission meeting.
"The MAC concerts are great," Close said. "I go to some. But with the government supporting MAC, then could the government be in competition with the private sector? Could you address that, Jeanne? Have you had this debate before?"
"Yes, I have," Mozier said. "MAC is committed to supporting artists. We pay these bands to come here and perform. They're not the same groups you'll see at Ambrae House, Troubadour or Hillbilly Heaven who play for a few dollars and free drinks. And families want to come to our shows (early) on Saturday evenings that won't go to those other settings."
She said it brings people to town for the early concert, and they stay in town to eat at local restaurants or attend concerts later in the evening at the other establishments who book bands.
"We let loose 300 or 400 people on the street by 7 p.m.," she said.
"That's the point I wanted you to make," Close said. "It's not a competition with the other business owners. This is a good use of the hotel/motel tax."
Mozier said she understood the philosophical position of government supporting one and not the other entity. But, she said, "if the government wasn't operating Cacapon State Park, we wouldn't have a tourism industry. And we will promote any other business' concerts or events. We have a weekly email message to 3,000 people and 12,000 a week are on our Berkeley Springs Facebook page. It's all free. All they have to do is email us."
Groups didn't get full amounts in June because of budget issues. Commissioner Stacy Dugan said the commission needed to stick by its policy of allocations in June and December only. Other groups would be turning in requests in coming weeks. And December is the next budget review.
Mozier understood that but wanted to know if she could count on the $5,000 in December.
"I don't see a problem with it," said Commissioner Brenda Hutchinson, "but we should stick to our schedule in fairness to everyone."
Commissioners postponed decision until December.


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Here is the line that convinced me to give up every reservation I had about the much-awaited new season of Aaron Sorkin's "The Newsroom," which begins at 10 tonight on HBO.
It comes at the beginning of the fourth episode. The young journalist played by Alison Pill is giving a legal deposition to a lawyer hired by her all-news network. The lawyer is played by that wonderful actress Marcia Gay Harden.
The lawyer prides herself on being a bit of a jokester in depositions. To loosen up her young deposee, she engages her in a jocular little discussion of a popular Manhattan topic – Real Estate Porn, where ordinary apartment dwellers bandy info about the obscene costs of apartments for sale.
There's an apartment she's looking at, says the wisecracking lawyer to the struggling TV reporter, that's just been knocked down to "11 million."
The journalist – just back from Africa for an assignment whose tragic drama we won't fully know until the episode's end – replies quickly, "I looked at the same place, but I need a bigger ballroom."
A truly great Aaron Sorkin line.
That was it for me. Game. Set. Match. I'm back on Sorkin's side again for the duration of the new season of "The Newsroom" – no matter what.
I must confess the first two episodes of the show's return did not make it easy. They're not "The Newsroom" at its absolute best. But, even though you may not remember it, that was true of the first two epsides of the show's first season too.
Oh sure, there are certainly splendid Sorkinesque moments in the first two episodes. In one, Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels), the brutally sarcastic and wickedly funny intellectual brawler who seems to live to see how much slicing and dicing his sharp tongue can do, recalls for us, the great moment last season when, on the air, he called the Tea Party "the American Taliban."
What happened then? someone asks.
"The Taliban resented it," he answers.
But a good many plot threads of the returning "Newsroom" need plot set-ups in those episodes that are, to be frank, a wee bit on the laborious side. And there's simply no getting around the fact that the young folks' love triangle that sets so much else in motion is almost a total crashing bore.
We know why it's there, for pity's sake. The major worry about a premium cable TV show that takes journalism so seriously in an Internet era of miniaturized information is that it's a bit of a demographic white elephant. So, by God, let's stuff the show with younger folks having romantic dilemmas and breakups, by all means at the top of their lungs while on the "Sex and the City" Manhattan tour bus, if necessary.
Let's admit that when Sorkin does it, it's definitely a more upscale bit of demographic pandering than it is on, say, "The Bachelor" or "Big Brother." But it's still blatant pandering to a younger audience, and there are times on those first two episodes when that pandering stops the proceedings dead.
And that's despite the fact that Sorkin is probably the great living master of badinage at the allegro vivace tempo of screwball comedy in the '30s. All the verbal and performance brio in the world, though, can't disguise a writer caught in the act of making the suits happy.
Sorkin obviously listened to a lot of people in his new season of "The Newsroom." Johnny Klimek's version of Thomas Newman's opening theme, for instance, is no longer in the business of trying to sell us on the idea that TV journalism is on the essential bedrock American level of an Aaron Copland ballet. Klimek's new version of the theme has a minimalist pulse; it has the jangling nervousness of deadline life inside real newsrooms.
Nevertheless, the new season of "The Newsroom" is going to be just as vulnerable to the major charges against Sorkin as the old: the unabashed, uncut liberal wonkery of so much of his plotting, the bludgeoning pomp of his intellectual self-righteousness.
When you put a show on the air whose credo seems to have been "speaking truth to stupid," you're virtually requiring that the audience never think of itself as "stupid."
And that's a problem – the most fascinating of all for Sorkin, I think.
It has always seemed to me that Sorkin's essential subject, whether on "The West Wing" or "The Newsroom" or the script for "The Social Network" – is intelligence, often at its most brilliant extremes.
His pols are smarter and better than real pols; his journalists are smarter and better than real journalists. His Facebook-creating hero in "The Social Network" is always the smartest guy in the room.
My trouble with that couldn't be simpler. I've always thought that there is, in fact, no subject in the world that requires more intelligence than stupidity. That's why it's never dealt with better than it is by the greatest geniuses of Western civilization – Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Beckett, Cervantes. Mere intelligence, not even in Sorkin's quantity, simply isn't equal to it.
That's why he doesn't deal with it head-on. He merely uses it as a punching bag rather than something to be understood. At best, it is something to speak the truth to – and, with luck, KO in the process.
The trouble is we're all a little stupid sometimes.
It goes without saying that we're all ignorant of all manner of things – the proper way to perform brain surgery, the top five poets in Urdu and Farsi, the agreed-upon hierarchy of distilleries in Scotland, thousands of subjects. One's person's expertise is quite likely another's ignorance. It's ridiculous to be sensitive about it.
Stupidity, though, is a different thing from mere ignorance. Stupidity is the condition of preferring ignorance over knowledge.
Even there, though, all of us are capable of immense stupidity. We all like to think we're ready to learn new things at a moment's notice, but it's not true. If you show up in front of us with a blackboard and start trying to teach us the grammar of Farsi and Urdu, a lot of us are simply going to adjourn for lunch.
Truly toxic stupidity, it seems to me, is not only when ignorance is preferred to knowledge it's when the very idea of knowledge itself is actively resented.
And that's where Sorkin will always get into trouble with some people. He seems, in his own way, to actively resent any knowledge about stupidity and how it actually works in the world. As a consequence, huge sections of his audience – including, for "The Newsroom," actual journalists and pols – actively resent him pointing out just how truly stupid they can be.
The third episode of the series is an absolutely devastating and hilarious critique of pack journalism aboard the Romney campaign bus. It's another moment where it's hard not to be thankful that Aaron Sorkin exists.
But the amazing thing about Sorkin, for all his brilliance, is something you can see in this new season of "The Newsroom": He's only brilliant enough to understand intelligence and brilliance. He's not brilliant enough to have any grasp at all of stupidity, except as the Enemy.
He's always writing at the top of his game. You watch his work and you know that's it. That's as high as he can go. He's always as smart as he can be, no matter what.
But he's never going to get any smarter.
There are times when it seems to me he's eternal proof of the famous apothegm of Jean Giraudoux: "Only the mediocre are always at their best."
Ah, but such mediocrity. It's good to have it back.
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Detectives have arrested a man who reportedly confessed to the March 7 robbery of El Dorado Savings Bank.
Police received information March 21 that the suspect was in Reno, Nev. South Lake Tahoe Police Department detective Nick Carlquist and the FBI contacted South Lake Tahoe resident Paul Cortez, 29, in Reno, where Cortez reportedly confessed to the robbery, including specific details of how the robbery occurred and how much money was taken, police said.
After interviewing Cortez, Carlquist returned to South Lake Tahoe and obtained an arrest warrant, according to the release. Cortez was later arrested by Reno police and booked into the Washoe County jail for the warrant. His transfer back to South Lake Tahoe/El Dorado County Jail was pending as of Friday evening.


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Amateur bicyclists had a chance to feel the thrill of the pack when they participated in Sunday�s USA Pro Challenge Experience. More than 250 riders registered for the ride that started at 7 a.m. at Eighth Street and Main Avenue.
The purpose of the �Experience� was to give non-pros a �once-in-a-lifetime chance to feel what it�s like to be one of the premier cyclists in all the world,� according to the Pro Challenge website. Cyclists rode from downtown to Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort, which includes portions of Stage 1 of the 2012 USA Pro Cycling Challenge that started this morning.
Cyclists in this year�s Experience had a choice of two routes. The longer ride, just shy of 73 miles, started downtown. Cyclists headed to Wildcat Canyon, returned to downtown, and then rode up to Durango Mountain Resort via East Animas Road (County Road 250) and Shalona Hill. After a break at Durango Mountain Resort, they headed back down to Fort Lewis College via U.S. Highway 550.
At the college they were honored with a �Finish Festival,� according to Pro Challenge materials.
For those riders less inclined to the 75-mile trek, the Experience offered a 45-mile route with the resort as the finish line. These riders also were honored with a Finish Festival, hosted by the resort.
Firing the starter�s pistol was George Hincapie, who has been a winning representative of the U.S. cycling teams. He�s won stages of the Tour de France eight times, with the 2012 Tour de France his 17th time in the race overall.
Hincapie also won a stage of the 2011 Pro Challenge, been a U.S. National Champion three times and won numerous other races or race stages. Liz Brown, social-media manager for the Pro Challenge, said this year�s Pro Challenge will be Hincapie�s last professional race, but then again, Lance Armstrong retired and came back.
In other race developments, a hotline has been established to respond to questions about road closures in town and along the race route. Most of the roads closed by the race will be downtown and around Fort Lewis College.
But a hotline spokeswoman said roads are likely to reopen today by about noon. Anyone interested in additional information can call 375-4646 until 5 p.m. today.
In addition, local authorities and race officials set up the Southwest Incident Command Team to help manage all local emergency and non-emergency traffic and related issues arising from the Pro Challenge, according to a news release from the Incident Command Team. The most important request from the team is that area residents remain patient with the various road closures and other impacts of the event.
SHAUN STANLEY/Durango Herald


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Dual-column machining centers being produced at Okuma's production facility in Kani, Japan.
According to machine tool distributor Gosiger, a dual-column or bridge-type machining center is 10 times more thermally stable than a comparable "C" style machine. Because of the dual-column design, says the company, heat affects the bridge structure linearly. The machine expands only in a straight line, allowing dimensional changes to be compensated electronically.
The dual-column design also places the spindle nearer to the center of mass of the machine, increasing rigidity. Read more in Gosiger's article about dual-column machines.
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Role Manager and Directory Server Integration
By manish on Nov 25, 2009
Last week at work there were some discussions
about Sun
Manager (SRM) and its use of LDAP Server for authentication.
I tested this Role Manager
integration with Sun
Sever version 6.3 as my LDAP server and I am sharing some
information about this setup. The high level steps for this
integration are as follows:
1) Configure the Role Manager (SRM) "ldap.properties" file to reflect your Directory Server (DS) settings. The following document discusses the "ldap.properties" file settings:
2) For the users that you want to allow access to SRM, create corresponding users with "uid" in DS same as "username" of SRM (RBACx) users. We are assuming that "uid" attribute will be used for authentication to directory server.
3) To verify that the setup is working correctly, edit the log4j.properties of your SRM installation and add the following property:
Restart the application server after adding the above line. This DEBUG setting is only being added for verification purposes and should be removed once the setup is working correctly.
4) Login to SRM GUI using credentials of a valid Sun Directory Server user that also has a SRM(RBACx) user account. In my example below, DS "uid" of "manish" is used for authentication and for this "uid" there is a corresponding SRM(RBACx) "username" in SRM. If you have this setup correctly, you should expect to see logs similar to following lines in rbacx.log file:
21:19:18,125 DEBUG [MultipleChainablePasswordDaoAuthenticationProvider] ----> using authentication dao [com.vaau.commons.springframework.security.dao.ldap.LdapPasswordAuthenticationDao-AT-1b42301]
21:19:18,125 DEBUG [PasswordDaoAuthenticationProvider] ---> attempting authentication for user 'manish'
21:19:18,125 DEBUG [PasswordDaoAuthenticationProvider] ------> looking for user 'manish' in cache
21:19:18,125 DEBUG [PasswordDaoAuthenticationProvider] ------> loading user 'manish' from backend
21:19:18,125 DEBUG [LdapPasswordAuthenticationDao] Connecting to ldap://xxx.yyy.com:389/dc=example,dc=com/null as manish
21:19:18,130 DEBUG [LdapPasswordAuthenticationDao] keeping ldap context prefix
21:19:18,212 DEBUG [LdapPasswordAuthenticationDao] Returning user: com.vaau.rbacx.security.domain.SecureUser@d3e04c00: Username: manish; Password: [PROTECTED]; Enabled: true; AccountNonExpired: true; credentialsNonExpired: true; AccountNonLocked: true; Granted Authorities: ROLE_ACCESS_IDC_VIEW, ROLE_AUTHENTICATED_PRINCIPAL: Internal RbacxUser: Last name: kapur; First name: manish; Email: manish@example-DOT-com
21:19:18,214 DEBUG [PasswordDaoAuthenticationProvider] ------> loaded user 'manish' from backend
21:19:18,214 DEBUG [PasswordDaoAuthenticationProvider] ------> putting user 'manish' in cache
21:19:18,215 DEBUG [PasswordDaoAuthenticationProvider] ---> successful authentication for user 'manish'
Now let's try logging in to SRM GUI with a valid LDAP user who does not have a SRM(RBACx) account. When using a DS "uid" that does not have a corresponding SRM(RBACx) "username" the access to SRM GUI should not be allowed. In my example, I used "uid" of "denck" and made sure that "denck" "username" does not exist in my SRM setup. The rbacx.log entries in this case should look like follows:
11:59:25,598 DEBUG [MultipleChainablePasswordDaoAuthenticationProvider] ----> using authentication dao [com.vaau.commons.springframework.security.dao.ldap.LdapPasswordAuthenticationDao@4d080d]
11:59:25,598 DEBUG [PasswordDaoAuthenticationProvider] ---> attempting authentication for user 'denck'
11:59:25,598 DEBUG [PasswordDaoAuthenticationProvider] ------> looking for user 'denck' in cache
11:59:25,598 DEBUG [PasswordDaoAuthenticationProvider] ------> loading user 'denck' from backend
11:59:25,598 DEBUG [LdapPasswordAuthenticationDao] Connecting to ldap://xxx.yyy.com:389/dc=example,dc=com/null as denck
11:59:25,601 DEBUG [LdapPasswordAuthenticationDao] keeping ldap context prefix
11:59:25,602 DEBUG [CacheModel] Cache 'RbacxUser.rbacxUserCache': cache miss
11:59:25,603 DEBUG [CacheModel] Cache 'RbacxUser.rbacxUserCache': stored object '[B@1792c41'
11:59:25,603 WARN [UserManagerImpl] RbacxUser with username: 'denck' not found
11:59:25,604 ERROR [MultipleChainablePasswordDaoAuthenticationProvider] ERROR: Bad Credentials
org.springframework.security.BadCredentialsException: User does not have RBACx account!
That's it! Wasn't it easy? Once you have this integration working, remember to remove the DEBUG log property that was added in step 3 above.


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I've been a big fan of the previous two Mass Effect games and introducing co-op play to Mass Effect 3 has me really excited. This one is coming very soon so get your preorders in and avoid paying for an online pass.
Bioshock Infinite looks pretty incredible, I don't know if any of you have seen the trailer, but it looks to be setting itself apart from the first two.
If you didn't get a chance to play the first Borderlands it's available now for around $15 and is quietly one of the best games on the console. I'm really looking forward to the sequel which arrives in June, offering a bigger variety of the already millions of guns and more in-depth skill trees and leveling.
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Al Pacino and Christopher Walken play Val and Doc, retired tough guys on the loose together when Val is paroled after 28 years in the joint. After 40 minutes, their old wheelman Hersch – played by Alan Arkin – joins them for illicit nocturnal fun and frolic while the city sleeps.
That's it. That's all you have to know about "Stand Up Guys," a lovable 94-minute slice of nothing special that is worth seeing just for the cast and the cast alone. Add Julianna Margulies in a brief role as Hersch's nurse daughter and Vanessa Ferlito as an abuse victim discovered naked in a car trunk and you've got the film's appeal.
It's the cast here pure and simple. And they're good company even if the principals are working at a level about two notches below what they're used to.
Let's be frank: you couldn't really call this little indie film the cinematic equivalent of an off-Broadway play starring a small cluster of big names slumming for the theatrical cachet of it all. It's more like an actors' workshop production that the bigfoot Old Guys dropped by to star in because they like the director and the writer.
The writer is fledgling Noah Haidle. The director is Fisher Stevens, a 49-year-old Manhattan film and theater fixture you've seen as an actor in countless film and TV character roles even if his name never registered. (He's too short, smirky and ratty-looking to have become a star, but he's so witty and articulate a presence most of the time that you're always glad to see him. Once upon a time, before David E. Kelley entered the scene, he was the male half of a couple with Michelle Pfeiffer.) In a versatile life, Stevens has also won an Oscar for producing the documentary "The Cove."
You can bet the farm he's the reason that Pacino and Walken made this film. With a fine midfilm assist from Arkin, they all radiate good vibes together, playing old friends in the thug trade whose lifelong relationship was interrupted when Val was sent away for 28 years.
That, therefore, is what makes Val such a standup guy. They all did the crime but only Val did the time. Doc was in on the same job, as was Hersch as their wheelman. But when it all went far south (a novice thug with an itchy trigger finger got them all involved in a shootout, leading to the kid's death and his father's unquenchable desire for vengeance), only Val was left holding the bag.
It's a popular genre these days – the old guy thug movie, i.e. bad guys on the senior tour acting up and acting out just for the hell of it.
It's popular for a very simple reason: we have a good supply of big stars and/or superb actors over 60 and a baby-boom plus audience that likes to see them in fantasies where emphysema sufferers turn into priapic virtuosos in threesomes with two young hookers; and where sweet elderly gentlemen who spend their retirement painting sunrises and sunsets suddenly remember how to shoot and punch out young tyros in the thug trade.
So we spend a long night in the company of Val, Doc and, eventually, their buddy Hersch, whom they liberate from his oxygen mask in "The Lighthouse Nursing Home." Hersch is at the stage of life where surgeons remove one of his bodily organs and he doesn't even bother to ask what it was that he lost.
The old boys may have been thugs, druggies, lowlifes and stickup men in their youth but they've got behavioral standards. They frown on young thug wannabes who mistreat women and drive cars they don't deserve to have.
Much drollery is involved here – for instance, when newly released Val doesn't quite understand how to use Viagra. "Maybe I partied a little too hard," he says sheepishly under a sheet in the emergency room.
Wheelman Hersch can still drive like a demon. And Doc is still one dangerous hombre underneath that melancholy and wise exterior.
The only problem they've got is that the father of their dead young punk associate has hired Doc to kill Val. And Val, being no fool, knows it.
Not to worry. They don't let it intrude on their reunion. Which occasionally gives them the opportunity to replay an old joke.
"It's time to kick ass or chew gum," says Val. "And guess what?"
Says Doc, "I'm all out of gum."
"Stand Up Guys" is a passing little triumph from some actors who are more fun to watch just chewing gum that any number of younger colleagues are when they're strenuously kicking ass.
Three stars
Starring: Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin, Julianna Margulies, Vanessa Ferlito
Director: Fisher Stevens
Running time: 94 minutes
Rating: R for rough language, brief nudity, sexual content, drug use and violence.
The Lowdown: Retired crooks unite for one last hedonistic blowout when one of them is paroled after 28 years in the joint.
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ALBANY – Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, quashing concerns that state financial problems will undermine his $1 billion job-creation pledge for Western New York, today will unveil plans for a down payment involving efforts to bring next-generation private research and development companies to Buffalo.
The plan will include a state investment in high-technology biomedical equipment in return for a commitment from a private company to locate in Western New York. Officials declined to provide the funding level or to name the company, but speculation was all over the board among local officials Monday.
As Cuomo traveled to Washington to ask for a $42 billion federal aid package for Superstorm Sandy restoration, his administration Monday signaled that the state's growing fiscal uncertainties will not force him to retreat on his $1 billion pledge in special funding over the next five years.
"Tuesday will absolutely make it clear that it's full steam ahead," said a Cuomo administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The governor will seek to reverse growing sentiment in some business quarters that the year-old promise is fuzzy and subject to retrenchment because of a new budget hole caused by Sandy.
The governor this morning will hear suggestions from a panel of regional advisers on how some of the initial $1 billion could be spent, including proposals for an advanced training institute for manufacturing jobs, an effort to help bring local health care innovations to commercial markets, and a new push to make the New York side of Niagara Falls more tourist-friendly.
Cuomo, sources say, also is poised to make an announcement permitting a Lewiston family that owns the Maid of the Mist tour company to keep the world-famous boats operating at Niagara Falls.
The Niagara Falls announcement is set to come, sources said, at the end of a bus tour that Cuomo will take with local government and private-sector executives. At the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center in downtown Buffalo, the governor will hear from regional council members with both broad and specific ideas for the $1 billion, a meeting that was set to be held in private before Cuomo's trip was scheduled. Administration officials said the new initiative will be based on a model used in Albany in which the state invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the State University at Albany.
The money has been used to purchase equipment that then has been used by a who's who of top technology companies at a nanotechnology campus growing so quickly that the state recently rerouted a major four-lane road around the facility.
Speculation ran all over the place Monday. There was talk that Cuomo would announce a deal to keep the Buffalo Bills from moving; officials said talks are continuing. Another was formation of a consortium with the State University at Albany for a nanotech facility in Buffalo; Cuomo officials shot that one down, too.
Another idea that has been under discussion for months is a new state investment in the UB/Buffalo General Jacobs Neurological Institute involving a venture with a private company; Cuomo officials would not confirm or deny that speculation.
"The governor will make a down payment on the Buffalo billion dollars and show a path forward for larger investment," a Cuomo source said.
With the state economy still struggling and state finances growing murkier – because of the dual financial hit that Sandy could have on declining tax revenues and higher spending pressures – some economic-development executives have wondered how Cuomo will keep his funding pledge.
He made his $1 billion promise in his State of the State address last January. The spending promise was vague in terms of how the funds would be directed and how much of it would be in actual cash versus tax breaks or loans.
Moreover, Cuomo said in January that the $1 billion would be spent over a five-year period – two years beyond the four-year term of the governor.
Cuomo went out of his way in January to say that the Buffalo area has been ignored by the state for too many years and that the state needed to do for Western New York what it has been doing for a generation in the Albany area by promoting high-technology industries.
But the state has faced new economic hurdles since January. Unemployment is still high, and the economy has not improved to the levels that officials thought when the state budget was put together in March. Meanwhile, a growing number of localities – from cities to school districts – are facing mounting fiscal pressures that need Cuomo's attention.
Then there was Sandy, whose financial impact on tax revenues – including sales and income taxes – isn't yet clear. Nor is it certain how much of Cuomo's lofty request of $42 billion from federal storm aid will be realized.
"I think there's a combination of hope and realism," said Andrew J. Rudnick, president and CEO of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership and member of Cuomo's local economic advisory team. "The hope is that with the hits on revenue and expenditures from Sandy, the governor will be able to maintain the $1 billion commitment at the end of 2012 as he made at the beginning of 2012. The reality is, it's kind of hard to believe that's possible, and maybe one of the understandable outcomes is [the funding] is maybe postponed for a year or two. I think this community would understand that, but at the moment, every vibration we've gotten is everything is a go," Rudnick said.
"But it's hard to believe there isn't going to be some fallout for everything in the state, including our $1 billion."
"The governor made the pledge, and I believe him to be a man of his word," said Assemblyman Robin L. Schimminger, D-Kenmore, chairman of the Assembly's Economic Development Committee.
Colleen C. DiPirro, president of the Amherst Chamber of Commerce, said Sandy's impact is a consideration. "It's very difficult for us to fight for that check to be written when people lost their homes in that storm," said DiPirro, who also is a member of Cuomo's local economic advisory panel.
Then there is the age-old Western New York worry: promises of funding from Albany that have come and gone. "I think that [Cuomo's] intentions are very honorable and that Western New York needed a shot in the arm, and that money would be the impetus to getting us working together collaboratively to lay the foundation for sustainable prosperity," DiPirro said.
How Cuomo could retreat on such a public pledge would be a challenge for a governor who wants to win re-election with historic numbers in 2014 as a prelude to a possible White House run two years later. For that, he would have to do better in Western New York than he did two years ago, when he lost all the counties in the region.
The pledge has not moved some from the category of firm believer. "The optimism level is very high about the whole thing," said Paul Brown, president of the Buffalo Building and Construction Trades Council, also a Cuomo regional economic council member.
Asked why his optimism level has not been lowered, given Sandy's looming impact on the state budget, Brown said, "I don't know why it should. Obviously, the hurricane was a huge deal, but it would be two separate items, I would think.
"And I would think if there was a problem, they would have said something by now, so I assume things are still full steam ahead."
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