Camillus, NY Harvey J. Seymour III, the man who died Thursday after falling at a roofing job in Camillus, was a talented bowler, a racing fan and a construction veteran who had been on hundreds of roofs during his career, his mother said today.

But Seymour wasnt supposed to be on the roof from which he fell, his boss said.

Ed Cook, owner of A to Z Contracting, said he hired Jay Seymour on Monday as a laborer. His job was to keep the property clean and hand or toss supplies from the ground to the workers on the roof. He wanted to work side-by-side with Seymour for awhile, making sure Seymours safety ethics matched his, before letting him on a roof, Cook said.

Cook wasnt at the house at 66 North St., Camillus, when the accident happened about 3:05 p.m. Thursday. He said he doesnt know why Seymour was on the roof or whether illness or something else made him fall questions he said kept him up all night.

Im trying to understand it. I cant and its tearing me up, Cook said.

Its a life its someones life, he said.

A to Z Contracting was hired to do interior painting, siding repairs, gutter installation and roofing at the house, Cook said. He said he has shied away from doing roofing work and hired a subcontractor to do it on this job.

According to police, Seymour, 46, of 459 S. First St., Fulton, was placing shingles on the roof of the two-story home. The other two workers on the job neither saw nor heard him fall. One of the workers discovered Seymour on the ground when he went to get a drink of water.

Seymour was taken to Upstate University Hospital. He died about 3:50 p.m.

Evidence at the scene and interviews with workers made it clear that Seymours fall was an accident, Camillus Police Chief Thomas Winn said.

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The Anderson Collection at Stanford University has reached another on-schedule milestone in the trek toward beginning construction this summer and opening its doors in 2014. The Stanford Board of Trustees approved Ennead Architects' building design at their meeting this week.

The Anderson Collection is one of the largest and most outstanding private collections of post-World War II American art in the world. The collection has been built over the last 50 years by Bay Area residents Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, affectionately known as "Hunk" and "Moo," and by their daughter, Mary Patricia Anderson Pence, affectionately known as "Putter."

The trustees also took a step forward with the McMurtry building for the Department of Art and Art History. Renderings for that project are anticipated before the end of the month.

"The building for the Anderson Collection at Stanford University and the McMurtry building are magnificent, much-needed additions to this campus," said Leslie Hume, chair of the Board of Trustees, in December. "Like the Cantor Arts Center and Bing Concert Hall, they make tangible Stanford's commitment to the arts and the central role of the arts in a liberal education. As you arrive on campus and enter this wonderful arts district, you will know immediately that the arts are important to Stanford."

Renderings of the Anderson building reveal contemporary design that contributes to the distinct architectural character of the Stanford arts district. A clerestory roof element crowns a substantial rectilinear building mass that houses the second level galleries.

The sculptural gallery provides a variety of ceiling heights and scaled spaces. An open glass lobby and grand stair to the main gallery level provides a welcoming and dynamic entrance into the two-story venue.

The distinguished tripartite building is a testament to the transformative gift of artwork from the Andersons, a gift that stands to advance arts education and contribute significantly to the cultural landscape.

Ennead partners Richard Olcott and Timothy Hartung lead the design team. They describe how the design positions exhibition spaces on the second floor below an undulating ceiling: "The gentle slope of the ceiling and the continuous translucent clerestory at the perimeter of the building bring diffused natural light into the galleries from above. A grand, shallow central staircase will serve as an extension of the gallery walls, allowing visitors to view art as they gradually ascend from the lobby to the main galleries above."

The 33,327-square-foot building has been carefully sited in order to complement the Cantor Arts Center and surrounding landscape and to encourage physical connections between the two venues.

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14-06-2012 15:07 | 1-877-664-6288 Basement windows are often overlooked in window replacement projects. Yet, in a typical home, the basement windows are the main source of energy waste among all other windows in the house. The heated air in the house tends to rise and escape through openings on the upper levels of a building. As a result, low pressure is created on the lower levels causing unconditioned outside air to be sucked in through openings in the lower levels. Typical metal frame window inserts, after a few years, become loose, rusty and leaky - not to mention very unsightly. They also tend to have single pane glass, which allows heat transfer to and from the outside. Mike Rusk joins Larry Janesky at the Dr. Energy Saver's Energy City -- a 40000 sq.ft energy conservation training facility located in Seymour, Connecticut -- to show us the differences between a conventional basement window, and an energy efficient one. Among many desirable features, an energy efficient basement window has a sturdy, waterproof vinyl frame that can be easily fitted into an existing enclosure, sealed air tight to prevent air leakages, and not rust when it comes in contact with water. Double pane windows will slow heat transfer through the glass, and the low-E glass tint will allow light in, but filter out the heat. Dr. Energy Saver energy conservation experts in Cleveland, Ohio replace windows of all types, but would like to warn homeowners while many other contractors ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A year after purchasing their Richmond, Virginia, fixer-upper for $290,000 in 2010, Sherry and John Petersik rolled up their sleeves and tackled the outdated kitchen.

They dragged the refrigerator and microwave out of the way, set up a dish-washing station at the bathroom sink and plunged into do-it-yourself mode, installing a new countertop, refinishing cabinets and replacing appliances.

"We knew to expect the chaos," says Sherry Petersik, 30. That's because it's the second home the Petersiks have renovated for fun and the promise of profit.

They actually lost money on their first handyman's special, buying a home for $190,000 at the height of the real estate bubble in 2006, pouring $30,000 into it, and then selling it for $195,000.

"But we lost tens of thousands of dollars less than our neighbors did," Petersik says. Plus, they unloaded the house in days.

Now the couple is older and wiser, but still hooked on the dust, noise and profit potential of home renovation. "We got comfortable with that lifestyle of sweat equity," says Sherry.

They have already added window treatments and a cobblestone patio and modernized a fireplace in their new home, and after the kitchen is done, they expect to have spent a total of $10,000. She expects that to give them a nicer house than they could have afforded to buy, and to add $50,000 to the home's value.

The DIY strategy is gaining traction these days as energetic homeowners try to build equity in a still-depressed housing market, with a growing number of foreclosures filling the multiple listing services with run-down homes.

According to RealtyTrac, a foreclosure listing service, 26 percent of homes sold in the first quarter of 2012 were foreclosed properties, an increase of 8 percent from 2011. Short sale properties accounted for 12 percent of national sales for the first quarter of 2012, up from 9 percent last year.

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A groundbreaking ceremony Friday launched construction of a new medical office building in Midtown that will house Wayne State University's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences.

The five-story, 62,846-square-foot office building is on Beaubien, north of Mack, next to the new Children's Hospital of Michigan Pediatric Specialty Center.

WSU will lease the building from Queen Lillian, a Detroit architectural firm, for 25 years and then would have the option to buy it for $1.

The $18-million project is expected to be completed by January.

Jenkins Construction of Detroit is the construction manager.

ECONOMY

U.S. factories produced less in May than in April, as automakers cut back for the first time in six months. The report indicates that manufacturing, a key driver of economic growth, is slowing.

The Federal Reserve said Friday that factory output declined 0.4% last month, after increasing 0.7% in April. Auto production fell 1.5%, the first drop since November.

Overall industrial production, which includes mines and utilities, dipped 0.1%, after a solid 1% rise in April. Both mines and utilities increased production.

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Representatives of Springfield Clinic and Memorial Medical Center, along with local officials, broke ground Friday for Springfield Clinic 1st North, a medical office building to be built north of Dodge Street and between First and Second streets.

The $60.5 million, four-story building being developed on more than four acres of Memorials campus will connect to a new, 600-vehicle parking garage to be constructed on its north side. Patients will have walk-in access to physicians offices from each level of the garage. An overhead walkway crossing Dodge Street east of First Street will connect the new medical office building with the existing Springfield Clinic 1st facility.

The project was approved in February by the Memorial Health System board.

Kevin England, the health systems vice president for business development, said then the new building is part of a larger Memorial construction plan thats been significantly scaled back, in part because of uncertainty about whether railroad traffic eventually will be moved off the Third Street corridor east of Memorial.

Memorial favors consolidating rail traffic along the 10th Street corridor, England said.

Springfield Clinic has estimated it could hire at least 70 more doctors and at least 100 more nurses and other support staff because of the new outpatient treatment space.

The project also will create 1,700 construction jobs.

Springfield Clinic will move its chemotherapy infusion services and medical oncologists from its main campus at 1025 S. Sixth St. to the new buildings fourth floor. General-surgery and colorectal surgeons will be based on the new buildings third floor, moving from the Springfield Clinic 1st building.

The first and second floors of the new building will primarily be devoted to womens health. Obstetricians-gynecologists will move to those floors from the 1st building and the Springfield Clinic SOGA building at 350 W. Carpenter St.

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DURHAM An unused office building at Copp Construction on Pinkham Brook Road was destroyed in a fire of undetermined origin early Friday morning.

Chris Stanford of the State Fire Marshal' s Office and Durham fire Chief Bill St. Michel sifted through the ruins Friday morning and although they couldn't pinpoint a cause, it is "not considered suspicious," St. Michel said.

Owner Mike Copp estimated his loss at a minimum $40,000 and said it was "good news" that the fire marshal ruled out arson as a cause. He said the fire marshal told him he was "80 percent sure it was an electrical issue."

The building was insured.

Androscoggin County Deputy Sheriff Eric Samson was on routine patrol when he noticed a glow in the sky and discovered the blaze shortly after midnight.

The 27- by 40-foot wood-frame structure was engulfed in flames when Durham firefighters arrived and the roof had already collapsed, the fire chief said. Two engines and a tanker from Lisbon Fire Department also responded and the blaze was knocked down in about half an hour, St. Michel said.

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Nokia is to lose 10,000 workers and transform its management team in a bid to return to profitability, the Finnish handset manufacturer has said.

A series of moves, which also includes the selling-off of luxury handset division Vertu and the acquisition of imaging technology from Scalado, was announced early on Thursday. The heads of Nokia's mobile phone, markets and marketing departments have also been ousted as part of the reorganisation.

Nokia is to cut 10,000 people from its workforce as it looks to 'broaden' the price range of its Lumia phones. Image credit: Ben Woods/ZDNet

"We are increasing our focus on the products and services that our consumers value most while continuing to invest in the innovation that has always defined Nokia," Nokia chief Stephen Elop said in a statement. "We intend to pursue an even more focused effort on Lumia, continued innovation around our feature phones, while placing increased emphasis on our location-based services."

Vertu is to be sold to the private equity firm EQT VI, although Nokia will retain a 10 percent minority stake in the business.

Nokia has not broken down its lay-off numbers by country indeed, the company's representatives refused to say how many people Nokia employs in the UK, let alone how many cuts will take place here. However, Nokia did say it would be closing research and development facilities in Ulm, Germany, and in Burnaby, Canada.

The company's manufacturing plant in Salo, Finland, is also going to be shut down, although R&D will continue at the site. Jobs will also go among Nokia's marketing, sales, IT, corporate and support staff, the company added.

"These planned reductions are a difficult consequence of the intended actions we believe we must take to ensure Nokia's long-term competitive strength," Elop said. "We do not make plans that may impact our employees lightly, and as a company we will work tirelessly to ensure that those at risk are offered the support, options and advice necessary to find new opportunities."

Cheaper Lumia, better photos

The renewed focus on Lumia, Nokia's range of smartphones running Microsoft's Windows Phone OS, will make the devices "available to more consumers", the company said.

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