Avoiding Injury

Jim Baldassaro leaping over the opposing goalie in a 1981 game.

Men's Soccer Team (1981-82)

Back Row: John MacNeil (Coach), John MacNail Jr, John Murray, Joel Walton, Frank Cipriano, Benny Grossi, Rino Berardi, Louis Famelos, Doug Rowan, Ron Di Felice Front Row: Ivan Hunt, Roger Vanoostveen, Dave Gibson, Joe Perri, Kent Mayhew, Jim Baldassarro, Guenther Baur Absent: Neil Dunsmore

Athletes with their Trophies

Dave Burt, Ken Murray, Anna Lathrop, Jim Nelligan standing with their newly presented trophies on March 23 1978. Dave Burt was co-recipient of the Patricia Lowenberger Memorial Trophy for outstanding male athletic achievement and of the Ed Davis MVP award. His number, along with Ken Murray's, was retired that night. Anna Lathrop received the O'Keefe Trophy for outstanding female athletic achievement and Jim Nelligan was the other co-recipient of the Patricia Lowenberger Memorial Trophy. Anna Lathrop is now (2008) acting Dean of the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences and Ken Murray is the Head Coach of Basketball.

Monstrum : the vampire in the detective story /

My approach to the vampire detective highlights its connections to the private detective's story and reveals the monstrous investigators' debt to early feminist forms of detection -specifically in their reformation of the' other' and of traditional forms of power and authority. Seen in this light the movement of horror's imaginary 'other' into the rational world of detection can be seen as not an abrupt breach of detection's realist conventions, but an almost seamless transition into symbolic spaces that point to the detective's primary function -- to make sense of the senseless. It is in this light that I explore the monster that is a detective as a symbol that is also a sense-maker, and a quintessential postmodern figure. I argue that the distinctions between monsters and 'others', and between popular narratives and postmodern religion have faded, culminating in a character that can not only model 'otherness' as an exemplary condition, but also provide strategies for modeling the form of active postmodern subjectivity that postmodern theorist Jim Collins' (1989) conceives of as heretical activity.

Magnetic and high pressure studies in the YPd5B3C3 system

The macroscopic properties of the superconducting phase in the multiphase compound YPd5B3 C.3 have been investigated. The onset of superconductivity was observed at 22.6 K, zero resistance at 21.2 K, the lower critical field Hel at 5 K was determined to be Hel (5) rv 310 Gauss and the compound was found to be an extreme type-II superconductor with the upper critical field in excess of 55000 Gauss at 15 K. From the upper and lower critical field values obtained, several important parameters of the superconducting state were determined at T = 15 K. The Ginzburg-Landau paramater was determined to be ~ > 9 corresponding to a coherence length ~ rv 80A and magnetic penetration depth of 800A. In addition measurements of the superconducting transition temperature Te(P) under purely hydrostatically applied pressure have been carried out. Te(P) of YPd5B3 C.3 decreases linearly with dTe/dP rv -8.814 X 10-5 J

Chapman family group on porch, New Year's Day, 1929-1930

Chapman family group on porch, New Year's Day, 1929-1930. Written on back: "Father, Mother, Sister, with Jim, his wife and daughter."

Fairview School class photograph, ca. 1930

Individuals in the photograph are identified as follows: Front Row, L to R: Stuart McDonald, Pete Burtch, Carl Schwenker, Bill Davey, Jim Barnes, ? McDonald, Marie Youngblutt, Lorraine Havens, Margaret Sinclair, Carla Prince, Verna Sinclair, Helen Welsh, Margaret Welsh, Elsie Backshall, Smith girl, Amy McDonald. 2nd Row, L to R: Nelson Sinclair, Gordon Wilson, Ivan Burtch, ? Smith, George Corman, Roy Burtch, Mort Corman, Bob Bell, ?Wilson, Jim Combe, Murray Combe, Jack High, George Welsh, Larry Downes, Gordon Schwenker, Albert Davey, Harvey Davey. Back Row, L to R: Bert Sinclair, Jim Mason, Len Corman, Johnny Corman, David Hallett, Lloyd Graham, Paul Harndon?, Gordon Dormes, George Bell, Doug Garriock, ?McDonald, Mary? Honsberger, Mary Backus, Hilda Wilson. The teacher may be Beatrice Armstrong. Fairview School was built in 1919 in Louth Township, Lincoln County, Ont. It may have been built around the time the county constructed other schools, namely, Grapeview and Glenridge. Nicholson and Macbeth may have been the architects of this school, as some features on the building, ie. the carved stone children’s faces below the lintel of the front door , appear in another known and proven Nicholson and Macbeth building, the former YMCA on Queen Street in St. Catharines. The school remained in operation until 1979 when it was purchased for a church, the Fairview-Louth Community church, which later became Southridge Community church, now located on Glenridge Avenue, St. Catharines, Ont. Today the building is occupied by the Niagara Korean Presbyterian Church.

Merritton Pen Centre Lions photographs, 1960.

Two black and white photographs of the Merritton Pen Centre Lions, dated 1960. One photograph is of the team, and the other one is of the pitching staff. The photograph of the team includes Bill Colbey (Lions Club), Jack McFadden, Bob Sunderland, Gary Blank, John MacDonald, John Davis (Coach), John Dempsey, Art Barclay, Frank Krsul, Percy Gilligan (Pen Centre), Terry Saxton, George Krusl, Dave Morris, Ian MacDonald (Mgr), Pete Holowchuk, Bernie Stubbert, Bill Hicks, Jim Thomson (Bat Boy), George Depitris (Property) and Charlie McGuire. Jim Hale is absent. The photograph of the pitching staff includes John Dempsey, Art Barclay and John MacDonald.

Photo album, St. Catharines area, ca. 1913-1919.

One hardcover photo album containing black and white photos. Many of the photos were taken in the St. Catharines area. Included are photos of Port Dalhousie, Port Weller, Niagara Falls, Niagara-on-the-Lake and St. Catharines. There are also photos of Braeside, Ont. and the Ottawa valley. Various local landmarks are included, such as the armoury in St. Catharines, Montebello Park, and Martindale pond. Some of the events captured include a train wreck that occurred in St. Catharines in 1914, the visit of the Governor General to St. Catharines in 1914 (featuring the Carnegie library and Post Office and federal building decorated with flags), and an airplane that crashed into a body of water, possibly a plane from an air training camp in Beamsville during World War I. There are also two photos of champion Niagara district basketball teams, possibly taken in the gymnasium building located behind the former St. Catharines Collegiate building (later Robertson School) on Church Street. One photo includes Norman Byrne, Gladys Ansell, Miriam Marshall, Irene Stoter (?), Mildrerd Houston, A. Gardner, and Madeline Jenner. The other photo includes George Moase, W. Bennett, Norman Byrne, Jack Bain, Mr. Brackenbury, Cyril Merriman, Jim Galway, Harry Erskine, and Roy Carpenter.

Fairview School class photograph, ca. 1930.

Fairview School (9th Street Louth, St. Catharines, Ontario) photograph, ca. 1933 Individuals in the photograph are identified as follows: Front Row, L to R: Stuart McDonald, Pete Burtch, Carl Schwenker, Bill Davey, Jim Barnes, ? McDonald, Marie Youngblutt, Lorraine Havens, Margaret Sinclair, Carla Prince, Verna Sinclair, Helen Welsh, Margaret Welsh, Elsie Backshall, Smith girl, Amy McDonald. 2nd Row, L to R: Nelson Sinclair, Gordon Wilson, Ivan Burtch, ? Smith, George Corman, Roy Burtch, Mort Corman, Bob Bell, ?Wilson, Jim Combe, Murray Combe, Jack High, George Welsh, Larry Downes, Gordon Schwenker, Albert Davey, Harvey Davey. Back Row, L to R: Bert Sinclair, Jim Mason, Len Corman, Johnny Corman, David Hallett, Lloyd Graham, Paul Harndon?, Gordon Dormes, George Bell, Doug Garriock, ?McDonald, Mary? Honsberger, Mary Backus, Hilda Wilson. The teacher may be Beatrice Armstrong.

Letter - Donald Ziraldo to Moses Znaimer, with reply from Znaimer

A letter from Donald Ziraldo to Moses Znaimer regarding a holiday bottle of Icewine sent for the holidays. The bottle is mentioned in the letter because it is said to have been made during the last year's Annual Celebrity Icewine event. The names mentioned from the event are Steven Page of the music group Barenaked Ladies and Jim Cuddy of the group Blue Rodeo. The letter also includes a handwritten response from Znaimer thanking Ziraldo for the wine and mentions the Idea City Conference where Ziraldo will be speaking.

Bayesian Analysis for a Theory of Random Consumer Demand: The Case of Indivisible Goods

McCausland (2004a) describes a new theory of random consumer demand. Theoretically consistent random demand can be represented by a \"regular\" \"L-utility\" function on the consumption set X. The present paper is about Bayesian inference for regular L-utility functions. We express prior and posterior uncertainty in terms of distributions over the indefinite-dimensional parameter set of a flexible functional form. We propose a class of proper priors on the parameter set. The priors are flexible, in the sense that they put positive probability in the neighborhood of any L-utility function that is regular on a large subset bar(X) of X; and regular, in the sense that they assign zero probability to the set of L-utility functions that are irregular on bar(X). We propose methods of Bayesian inference for an environment with indivisible goods, leaving the more difficult case of indefinitely divisible goods for another paper. We analyse individual choice data from a consumer experiment described in Harbaugh et al. (2001).

The Ghost in the Machine: Inferring Machine-Based Strategies from Observed Behavior

We introduce a procedure to infer the repeated-game strategies that generate actions in experimental choice data. We apply the technique to set of experiments where human subjects play a repeated Prisoner's Dilemma. The technique suggests that two types of strategies underly the data.

A portal for the Canadian Virtual Health Library / Bibliothèque virtuelle canadienne de la santé (CVHL/BVCS): Accomplishments and possibilities, scope and structure - a review of best practices

Introduction: Coordination through CVHL/BVCS gives Canadian health libraries access to information technology they could not offer individually, thereby enhancing the library services offered to Canadian health professionals. An example is the portal being developed. Portal best practices are of increasing interest (usability.gov; Wikipedia portals; JISC subject portal project; Stanford clinical portals) but conclusive research is not yet available. This paper will identify best practices for a portal bringing together knowledge for Canadian health professionals supported through a network of libraries. Description: The portal for Canadian health professionals will include capabilities such as: • Authentication • Question referral • Specialist “branch libraries” • Integration of commercial resources, web resources and health systems data • Cross-resource search engine • Infrastructure to enable links from EHR and decision support systems • Knowledge translation tools, such as highlighting of best evidence Best practices will be determined by studying the capabilities of existing portals, including consortia/networks and individual institutions, and through a literature review. Outcomes: Best practices in portals will be reviewed. The collaboratively developed Virtual Library, currently the heart of cvhl.ca, is a unique database collecting high quality, free web documents and sites relevant to Canadian health care. The evident strengths of the Virtual Library will be discussed in light of best practices. Discussion: Identification of best practices will support cost-benefit analysis of options and provide direction for CVHL/BVCS. Open discussion with stakeholders (libraries and professionals) informed by this review will lead to adoption of the best technical solutions supporting Canadian health libraries and their users.

Ein journalistisches Unterrichtsprojekt als politische Medienbildung

Gegenstand der Arbeit ist ein journalistisches Unterrichtsprojekt zur Förderung einer politischen Medienbildung. Das Projekt wurde deutschlandweit in 20 Haupt- und Gesamtschulklassen mit rund 400 Schülern und Schülerinnen durchgeführt und qualitativ untersucht. Im theoretischen Teil werden Konzepte von Medienbildung, medienpädagogische Ansätze und Ergebnisse empirischer Untersuchungen vorgestellt, die für die Arbeit und das Projekt relevant waren. Kapitel 2 thematisiert das Phänomen „TV-Journalismus“ vor dem Hintergrund der Cultural Studies (v. a. Stuart Hall, Margret Lünenborg) und diskutiert es im Hinblick auf medienpädagogische Fragestellungen. Journalismus wird dabei als ein möglicher Weg gesehen, eine politische Bildung mit einer Medienbildung zu verknüpfen. Allerdings führen die Schwerpunkte Journalismus und Politik auch zu Schwierigkeiten bei der Umsetzung, wenn man bedenkt, dass sowohl journalistische Genres als auch Politik in der jugendlichen Lebenswelt keine maßgebliche Rolle spielen, wie aktuelle Jugendstudien zeigen (z. B. JIM- und Deutsche-Shell-Studien). Sinnvoll erscheint hier die Öffnung entsprechender Konzepte hin zu einem weiteren, lebensweltbezogenen Politik- und Journalismusverständnis, um Jugendlichen Bezugspunkte zu ihrer Alltagswelt zu bieten. Kapitel 3 und 4 stellen leitende theoretische Konzepte von Medienbildung/Medienkompetenz (etwa Winfried Marotzki, Manuela Pietraß) sowie medienpädagogische Ansätze (z. B. den handlungsorientierten, themenzentrierten Ansatz von Bernd Schorb) dar. „Medienbildung“ wird in der Arbeit verstanden als Beziehung des Menschen zu sich selbst und zur gegenständlichen und sozialen Welt, wie sie ihm medienvermittelt begegnet. Bildung ist dann das Ergebnis des kritisch-reflexiven Umgangs mit der medial vermittelten Welt. Eine Medienbildung umfasst dabei auch eine Medienkompetenz im Sinne von medienspezifischem Wissen und Fähigkeiten des Umgangs mit Medien. Eine „politische Medienbildung“ wird in Anlehnung an David Buckingham dann zum einen als ein kritisches „Lesen“ medialer Texte definiert, in welchen die soziale Welt vermittelt wird. Zum anderen bedeutet eine „politische Medienbildung“ auch die eigene Gestaltung medialer Texte und die Teilhabe an einer medialen Kultur. Kapitel 5 beschreibt die konkrete forschungsmethodische Herangehensweise: Das medienpädagogische Projekt wurde qualitativ im Hinblick auf eine Medienbildung untersucht. Anders als in bisherigen Medienkompetenz-Studien wurde nicht nach den Wissenszuwächsen und erlernten Fähigkeiten nach Projektende gefragt. Im Zentrum des Interesses standen die im Unterrichtsprojekt beobachteten Situationen und Prozesse einer reflexiven Auseinandersetzung mit journalistisch vermittelten Themen und Darstellungsweisen. Verschiedene Methoden und Datenquellen wurden miteinander kombiniert, um die Unterrichtsrealität angemessen erfassen zu können. Zu den Erhebungsmethoden gehörten etwa die Unterrichtsaufzeichnung, die Gruppendiskussion und das Sammeln von alltagskulturellem Material. Die dabei gewonnenen Daten wurden mit den Auswertungsverfahren der Text- und Bildanalyse untersucht. Die Ergebnisse folgen schließlich in Kapitel 6. Dieses wird im Hinblick auf die konkretisierten Forschungsfragen differenziert in: • Kapitel 6.1: Hier geht es um die Auseinandersetzung der Schüler/innen mit Wissen über Medien. Relevant sind hier Fragen nach einem Vorwissen von Jugendlichen über journalistische Gestaltungsmittel und wie die Schüler/innen ein solches Vorwissen im Kontext des Unterrichts einbrachten. • Kapitel 6.2: Diese Ergebnisse zeigen auf, wie sich die Jugendlichen mithilfe journalistischer Texte mit einem Thema auseinandersetzten, z. B. wie sie diese hinsichtlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit oder ihrer Darstellung bewerteten. • Kapitel 6.3: In diesem Kapitel finden sich Ergebnisse aus den Gruppenarbeiten, in welchen die Schüler/innen selbst ein mediales Konzept entwarfen. Die Aufzeichnungen in den Gruppen deckten auf, wie die Schüler/innen an diese Aufgabe herangingen, welche inhaltlichen Schwerpunkte sie setzten, wie sie Sichtweisen in der Gruppe aushandelten und welche formale Darstellungsweise sie planten. Die Kapitel 6.4 und 7 liefern eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten Erkenntnisse und eine kritische Diskussion, welche Chancen und Probleme ein journalistisches Projekt im Kontext der Schule und insbesondere für die Zielgruppe einer niedrigen Bildungszugehörigkeit mit sich bringt.