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CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. - Since 2005, the New York State Thruway Authority has raised your tolls four times. And now they want another increase.
This time, the authority is considering a whopping 45% hike on big trucks, which would mean some of them will have to pay nearly $200 to drive across the state.
"It's pretty hard to conceive, in this day and age, for any public service to be increasing by the order of magnitude that the thruway authority is proposing," said Andrew Rudnick, President of the Buffalo Niagara Enterprise and Co-Founder of an organization called Unshackle Upstate.
So where's your toll money going? 2 On Your Side wanted to see how the authority was spending money here in Western New York, specifically on workers at the authority's Buffalo Division Administration Office on Cayuga Road in Cheektowaga.
The employees at this office are mostly white-collar workers, not the lower-paid folks who plow, maintain, and clean up the highways for the authority here.
Based on records we obtained from the authority, it certainly pays to work at this office. As of late September, the Buffalo Division Administration Office had 53 workers, with eight of them making more than $100,000. The annual payroll for the office is more than $4.126 million dollars. The average salary is $77,849.
We also found at least three politically-connected workers on the payroll here, although we don't know the circumstances under which they were hired. First is William Eagan, former supervisor of the town of Boston and the brother of a top official in the state Democratic party. He makes more than $95,000 a year in Construction Management.
The second employee is a brother-in-law of former Assemblyman Sam Hoyt, making $82,870, he's the highest-paid Traffic Operations Employee in the office. We're told he was hired several years before Hoyt entered politics.
The third employee is the son former South Buffalo Assemblyman Dick Keane. He makes more than $71,000 a year as a member of the Authority's Administrative Staff, handling public relations.
REPORTER: Do you think they can justify what they're spending in that local office?
RUDNICK: I think the most candid answer is we don't know.
Rudnick is calling on the authority to allow a forensic audit of its books. The audit, he said, should go position-by-position to see if they're necessary with the results made available to the public.
"It's really part of a much larger assessment of whether a huge tax in the form of a toll increase is justified given what we do not know about the efficiency of the organization," Rudnick said. "That's the reason for the audit."
Depew's Donna Luh is Vice Chair of the Thruway Authority Board. She's now opposed to the 45% toll hike for trucks.
REPORTER: How would you describe the size of the staff, at least here in Buffalo?
LUH: It seems large.
REPORTER: How do we know, as the public, that you're doing everything in your power to cut your own costs before you take money from everybody else?
LUH: We owe it to the public, to show you, to tell you what we're doing.
REPORTER: Shouldn't that have happened before he heard about this proposed toll hike?"
LUH: Yes. Yes.
During its public meetings regarding the toll hike this summer, the authority provided the following information about efficiency: it said it will implement $100 million in Operational Cost-Savings over the next 3 years; that it will cut $300 million from its 2012-2015 Capital Plan; and it will use an Asset Management System to improve which projects it selects.
But the authority provided no specifics. When we asked Authority Spokesperson Dan Weiller specific questions about the staffing in this Buffalo Division Office, he declined to comment.
Luh said the authority is looking at its spending on staff.
REPORTER: I'm talking about a top-to-bottom specific audit, line-by-line, position by position, to see if this stuff is really worth it. Is that something the authority should do?
LUH: I'm not going to say we shouldn't. Now that we're raising tolls, or looking into raising tolls, the public has a right to ask these questions.
Weiller told us that, if you include the salaries of the Thruway Authority's blue collar workers from this region, the average salary for thruway workers here is much lower than $78,000 a year. We asked the authority to send us that data, so we could include it in our report. The authority refused, telling us we would have to file a freedom of information request for it, just as we did for the information in this report. It took them more than a month to give us that information.
You can email the Thruway Authority to share your thoughts about an audit or toll hike, or anything other topic, by visiting its website.


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Cassandra Hawkinson powers a drive during Region 10 play.
The Carbon High's Girls Golf team captured their first Region 10 Championship by defeating Park City with a score of 191 to 185 last Tuesday at Wasatch Mountain State Park. The Region tournament is an 18-hole event and decides the region title and the top individual players.
Cassandra Hawkinson led the Dinos with 67 points, Sam Jones posted a great round of 64 and Lexi Gagon finished with 60 points to hold off a charging Park City for the tournament win and region Championship.
"It was a tough day all around but the Lady Dinos never gave up and held on to precious points when everyone else was just throwing them away," stated Coach Kenji Otani.
When the smoke cleared, Carbon won the Region Championship with an aggregate score of 583 points. Park City was second with 573, Union third at 410 and Wasatch finished the season with 387 points.
The Lady Dinos also hold the top three individual spots. Lexi Gagon and Abby Cohen of Park City tied with an aggregate of 138 points for the season to take Medalist honors. Cassandra Hawkinson (132) was second and Shelby Wilson (130) rounded out the top three region honors. In all, Carbon held five of the top ten spots. Sam Jones ended in 8th and Katie Felice 9th.
"What a great season!" added Otani. "My girls have done everything I have ever asked of them but, they have one more thing to do for themselves... win State next week. This team and this program continues to grow and improve, I am constantly amazed by these talented young women."
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Think you can drive safely while texting or experiencing other distractions?
A simulator at Jefferson County Public Health Service may prove to you otherwise.
Itll go maybe five minutes if you can drive the whole way through it, said Faith E. Lustik, health planner.
Most participants dont make it that far. The simulator, paid for with a $14,849 grant from State Farm, takes drivers on a short ride through mostly quiet streets, as they must look out for deer, pedestrians and other vehicles. The participant is directed when and what to text, using either the touch-screen computer or his or her own cellphone.
Once the person crashes the car, a first-person view appears on the screen of what may actually happen if involved in a bad motor vehicle accident. Facts and statistics about distracted driving, and related costs from accidents or fines, also appear.
Ms. Lustik said Jefferson County Public Health Service in the past used traditional education methods of in-person verbal lessons. She said many students are hands-on learners and have benefited from the Virtual Driver software program. The entire system comes equipped with that software, the touch-screen computer, a steering wheel and pedals.
Weve had the best luck with kids that dont have their license yet, she said. We work usually with eighth- through 12th-graders.
Theyre often scared, she said, once they experience the program and soak up information about consequences of distracted driving.
The program isnt just for youths; their parents may try it out, too, if Public Health has the simulator at a community event.
A lot of teens will say, You need to talk to my mom or dad about that, Ms. Lustik said.
She suggested alternatives to texting behind the wheel, such as designating a passenger in the car to text for the driver, or simply choosing not to text at all or turning off the phone.
If someone is texting and driving, or distracted in another way, she said, passengers should speak up. Its your life, she said. Youll get hurt. Accidents happen.
Virtual Driver also has other programs, including a simulation of drunken driving.
The simulator will be available during the agencys open house event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 24 at the office, 531 Meade St.
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Easiest thing to do is give it a passwd file, a shadow file and use the unshadow utility with an output filename. Then run john outpfile. Check the docs to make sure I have that right, been a while since I ran it.
The problem with cracking utilities, is that it relies heavily on a large word file and then runs permutations on those words. Could take very long time to crack large passwd files, so break them up in chunks.


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CANTON - Changes to the controversial New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act are expected with the passage of the states budget, possibly as early as today.
One of the major changes is an amendment to the law suspending, indefinitely, the ban on the sale and possession of magazines capable of holding more than seven rounds.
The NYSAFE Act was passed in January and includes tougher penalties for crimes committed with guns, mandatory background checks on all gun and ammunition sales and a ban on assault weapons.
The law also makes it illegal to load a weapon with more than seven rounds unless youre a law enforcement agent or youre on a proper firing range.
But the state Legislature is expected to amend the law in light of the fact that few – if any – manufacturers produce seven round magazines.
The ban on magazines capable of holding more than seven rounds would essentially ban guns, Sen. Joseph A. Griffo, R-Rome, said. Nobodys making a seven round magazine that Im aware of.
Mr. Griffo, who is in favor of repealing the entire NYSAFE Act, lauded the Senates passage of the amendment early Wednesday morning and said he expects the Assembly to pass it today.
The amendment does not have a date for the suspension of the ban to expire, Mr. Griffo said.
Assemblywoman Addie J. Russell said she suspects that there will be really no more activity surrounding the 10 round magazine issue.
Mrs. Russell also expects the Assembly to pass the amendment today.
And thats making gun dealers in the north country happy, even if they take issue with other parts of the NYSAFE Act.
Its going to help slightly, Joseph J. Russell, owner of Hilltop Hunting and Fishing, Canton, said.
Basically most manufactures will not make a seven round magazine, Mr. Russell said.
But the amendment still makes loading a magazine with more than seven rounds illegal, even if it can hold 10 rounds.
Its not reasonable, Mr. Russell said, adding that he feels the state is trying to ban all guns eventually. Its obvious where things are headed.
Rick L. Jones, owner of North Woods Outfitters, Potsdam, agreed that the amendment is helpful, though he mostly sells hunting rifles.
We would be able to sell a few more guns than what would have been in the ban; it helps, Mr. Jones said, noting that the only guns he sells with more than a seven round magazine are .22 caliber rifles.
And Mr. Jones said hunters are already restricted to 6 rounds. You cant have a 10 round clip and go deer hunting.
But that aside, Mr. Jones sees a big hole in the amended NYSAFE Act: enforcement.
If a person is dishonest, Mr. Jones said, who is going to stop them from putting more than seven rounds in a 10 round magazine? How do you enforce it?
Lawrence I. Kring, a retired lieutenant in the state Department of Environmental Conservation and a vocal anti-gun law reform advocate in the north country, said I guess if you trust me with a ten round magazine with seven bullets you ought to trust me with a 30 [round magazine]with seven [bullets]. I think its just a ploy. I think theyre trying to throw us a little bone.
Mr. Kring has helped organized several anti-gun law reform rallies including the up-coming April 13 rally in Gouverneur.
Mr. Kring said the amendment will affect handguns mostly. Most of your handgun magazines are greater than 10 rounds.
Mrs. Russell said the amendment also clarified the NYSAFE Act to ensure that law enforcement agents are able to carry larger magazines.
Mr. Griffo said, while he hopes to repeal the entire law, he doesnt think the votes exist in the Legislature to do it.
I think whats possible is to get 10 rounds back, Mr. Griffo said, expressing his desire to see the seven round minimum removed entirely.
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Damn if that ain't a nice looking rear end!!Originally Posted by SheRidesABeemer
Was gonna get RODSTR but wife thought nobody would see Roadster and I didn't want anyone to think I was Rod Stewart.
I just ordered a plate for my K75S. 8-12 weeks wait...
Came in today!
I got turned down for BUTT STER.
I can't imagine why. I even sent them the IBA credo sheets...
Plates I've owned...
California - DRGNLRD
Virginia - OMGWTF (retired) WHUFF (car) TZAYAK (bike, long story)
Been tossing around what I want for the new ride if and when I get it.
One wonders if Burnszilla has been to the White Cockade north of Boulder Creek.. I really miss that place. And Tempest playing the Brookdale Lodge.
Been to both. I thought the Cockade closed recently. I could be wrong.Originally Posted by msalowit
I'm upset at Tempest. They played here three or four years ago, got me to like them, then never came back, not even when they did trips to the east coast.
"If you can't fix it with a hammer, it's electrical." -somebody's dad
It was still there when I went through there 3 years ago. I didn't have the chance last time I was in Sac this past July to head down there.... if it's gone, that is a very sad thing.
They're pretty cool people to have a beer with though.Originally Posted by The Veg
Dang, 7 char for a MC plate...I'm not sure I'd change a thing. We have to be more creative with just 5!
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I know I have posted this down in the "Grateful Thread" before - it stands for "Lazy Lightning", the title of one of my favorite Grateful Dead songs.
Since I forgot to post it earlier..
My all time favorite license plate is IYQUQT.
Took me awhile to figure it out . . .
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In Massenet's Don Quichotte, the fair and lovely Dulcinée is wooed by a variety of suitors other than the aging knight himself. The suitors comprise of two tenors, a mezzo-soprano and a soprano, the latter two being 'pants roles'. But did you know that almost all of the suitors are COC Ensemble Studio graduates? Meet the singers who bring Dulcinée's entourage to life!
Pedro: Sasha Djihanian
Canadian soprano Sasha Djihanian is in her second and final year of the COC Ensemble Studio. After making her opera debut in Opéra de Montréal's 2009 production of The Magic Flute, she was a national finalist in the 2011 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She also represented Canada in the 2011 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World and won the First Annual COC Ensemble Studio Competition that same year. During her time at the Canadian Opera Company, she appeared as Fiordiligi in the Ensemble performance of Così fan tutte, as Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor, and she stepped in as Annio in a mainstage performance of La clemenza di Tito, in addition to playing the role in the Ensemble performance. Although Sasha is graduating from the program this year after completing Don Quichotte as Dulcinée's young suitor Pedro, she'll return to the COC as Zerlina next winter in Don Giovanni!
You can follow Sasha on Twitter: @SashaDjihanian and watch her BBC Cardiff performance on YouTube.
Garcias: Ariana Chris
A former member of the L'Atelier Lyrique de Montreal program, Ariana Chris makes her COC debut in the role of Garcias, Dulcinée's studious suitor. Ariana is a Greek-Canadian mezzo-soprano who represented Greece in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 2005, and in 2010 she performed the Greek National Anthem for the 2010 Winter Olympics closing ceremony! Ariana has performed with companies such as Opera Hong Kong; Opéra de Montréal; Angers Nantes Opéra; Santa Fe Opera; Le Poisson Rouge; Carnegie Hall; Opéra Français de New York; New York City Opera, where she made her debut as Lola in Cavalleria rusticana; and has collaborated with Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
You can learn more about Ariana on her website, and watch her perform "Una voce poco fa" on Youtube.
Juan: Owen McCausland
Tenor Owen McCausland may only be finishing his second year in the Ensemble Studio program, but he has spent quite a bit of time on the mainstage this season. Recently Owen has appeared as the Servant in A Masked Ball, Ferrando in Così fan tutte (Ensemble Studio performance), Parpignol in La Bohème and Reverend Horace Adams in Peter Grimes, and he's currently doing double-duty this spring as Lord Cecil in Roberto Devereux. But audiences may know him best from when he stepped into the title role in La clemenza di Tito on the mainstage as well as the Ensemble performance. In Don Quichotte, Owen plays the hotblooded suitor Juan, who attempts to convince Dulcinée that the aging knight is not a suitable companion. In the 2014/2015 season, Owen returns to the Ensemble Studio program for a third year.
You can read a great review of Owen's La clemenza di Tito performance here.
Rodriguez: Andrew Haji
Andrew's role in Don Quichotte caps off his first successful year in the Ensemble Studio program! Previously Andrew was seen onstage at the Four Seasons Centre as Ferrando in the Ensemble Studio performance of Così fan tutte, and in a variety of Free Concert Series performances. Andrew holds a masters of music in opera from the University of Toronto (UofT) where his credits include Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore, Cecco in Haydn's Il mondo della luna, Vanderdendur/Ragotski in Candide, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Lacouf/Reporter from Paris in Poulenc's Les mamelles de Tirésias, and the title role in Rob Ford: The Opera! In Don Quichotte, Andrew plays Rodriquez, the wise suitor who warns Juan to take Don Quichotte more seriously!
You can learn more about Andrew on his website, and follow him on Twitter: @AndrewHaji
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Take a quick peek at Sasha Djihanian in costume as Pedro!
Don Quichotte runs until May 24, 2014 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. For tickets and more information visit here.
Photo: (top) A scene from the Canadian Opera Company's 2014 production of Don Quichotte. Photo by Michael Cooper
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Our final opera of the 2013/2014 season is the COC premiere of Massenet's rare opera, Don Quichotte! Learn more about the production history, cast and crew below.
1) The first novel
Published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote is arguably the first novel ever written. The plot deals with the adventures of an elderly Spanish gentleman who has been reading too many tales of medieval chivalry and declares himself a "knight errant." He begins travelling throughout Spain with his sidekick, Sancho Panza, in order to right all wrongs and seek fame and honour.
2) Novel to play to opera
Cervantes' novel has inspired adaptations, interpretations and homages across many different art forms. In 1904, Raoul Gunsbourg, the director of the Opéra de Monte Carlo, attended the opening night of a new play called Le chevalier de la longue figure (The knight of the long face) and liked the compressed, reinterpreted version of Cervantes' novel so much he commissioned composer Jules Massenet to turn it into an opera, which subsequently premiered in Monte Carlo in 1910.
3) Lost and found
Jules Massenet was born on May 12, 1842 in Montaud, France. He started receiving piano lessons from his mother at a young age and, by 11, had been accepted into the Paris Conservatory where he impressed his teachers with his musicianship and work ethic. He travelled to Italy in his 20s, exploring the cultural and artistic charms of the Mediterranean, but returned to France a few years later. Eventually he secured a professorship at the Paris Conservatory and composed 25 operas over the course of his life. Though Massenet's works were quite popular in his lifetime, they suffered a subsequent neglect in the 20th century. In recent years, however, a new-found appreciation has emerged for a number of Massenet's operas, including Don Quichotte.
4) An intimate opera
For Don Quichotte, Massenet was working in an intimate compositional mode, somewhat like chamber music. Although he could write operas requiring huge orchestral and choral forces, he was able to downsize all of this in the interest of telling Don Quichotte's more intimate, personal story. Much of its score is lightly orchestrated, accompanied by solo instruments such as the guitar; or, by solo instrumental sections (for example, cellos dominate Don Quichotte's death scene). Listen to musical excerpts with our Listening Guide.
5) The fantastic Furlanetto
This production marks the COC debut for Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto, whose legendary 40-year career has established him as one of the greatest singing actors of his generation and the leading interpreter of Don Quichotte.
"Quichotte is eternally compelling because he is what every man should be… a man full of humanity, love, tenderness and appreciation for life."
Ferruccio Furlanetto
"Quichotte is eternally compelling because he is what every man should be… a man full of humanity, love, tenderness and appreciation for life."
Ferruccio Furlanetto
6) Linda Brovsky directs
American Linda Brovsky has worked extensively throughout North America as an opera and musical theatre director, writer and lecturer. Don Quichotte, a production originally created for Seattle Opera, marks her COC debut.
7) Love letter to literature
The sets designed by Donald Eastman are comprised of enormous books and quills and also feature projections that tower above the stage and replicate pages of Cervantes' manuscript. In different configurations, the books can evoke a mountainside, or a bandit camp, thereby highlighting the profound connection between literature and the human imagination, as well as the very spirit that animates Don Quixote's dream-like adventuring.
8) ¡Flamenco!
Complementing Massenet's distinctive, Spanish-inspired melodies on stage are classical Flamenco dancers. Drawn mainly from local Toronto dancers, the performers also feature veteran Mexican flamenco star Raúl Salcedo and are led by master choreographer Sara de Luis.
9) Four-legged friends
Director Linda Brovsky has opted to use a live horse and donkey on stage, noting that the animals are integral characters in the story and their effect would be diminished with prop stand-ins. To ensure mutual comfort during live performances, the singers must bond with the animals during the rehearsal period, working to establish a relationship that has both the singer and the animal knowing and trusting each other.
10) In the lobby
For the duration of the opera's run (May 9 – 24) we're delighted to welcome a multi-part installation by Toronto artist Mitchell F. Chan into the opera house. Chan's project explores the intangibility of truth with several elements located throughout the house, anchored by a large water vapour installation (on the main level) that spells out, letter by vanishing letter, the entirety of Cervantes' novel. The art work thus dematerializes the novel's content, while all at once affirming Cervantes' central metaphor: truth is ephemeral. Chan's pieces share the house with another Quichotte-themed display, this one at the Opera Shop, showing three authentic photographs of Feodor Chaliapin, the legendary Russian bass who originated the title role of Massenet's opera.
Don Quichotte runs from May 9 to 24 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. For tickets and more information click here.
Photos: (top) Ferruccio Furlanetto as Don Quichotte and Anita Rachvelishvili as Dulcinée; (middle) Ferruccio Furlanetto as Don Quichotte and Quinn Kelsey as Sancho Panza in the Canadian Opera Company production of Don Quichotte, 2014. Photos: Michael Cooper
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Film portraits of 25 minority women artists representing the United States, Tibet and Rwanda are rendered in a stark and timeless setting as their words and their works unfold in lush beauty. A major exhibition of the same title mounted by the South Shore Cultural Center was the basis for this documentary.
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The Lincoln Mark X Concept, the last vehicle to share the Mark Series name
Over the past two years, Lincoln has been working on a plan to restart the brand. Among these efforts came the renaming the marque back to the Lincoln Motor Company, adding its own design and engineering team, and own advertising plan. All throughout this, the media and automotive fans alike have been calling for one thing in particular: a rear-wheel drive car. Speculation surrounding a rear-drive Lincoln has spurred recently, and FIN has been told one such reason is because a Mustang-based coupe is now in the card's for Ford's luxury brand.
There is one thing to keep clear. This is less set in stone then most products under development in the Ford umbrella for Lincoln has been given a last chance in the 2013 MkZ and/or 2014 MkD (if they end up calling the compact CUV that name). If one or both of these products fail on the marketplace, the mothership could pull the plug on the company Henry bought for revenge.
If all goes according to plan with successful launches of those two essential products, the Mustang-based coupe will commence in late 2015. As always with future product talk, the actual date of introduction will likely vary due to development. Assuming things stay relatively close, we expect this car to be a 2016 or 2017 model.
This Lincoln will most likely launch after the all-new MkS, Navigator, MkX and near the launch of a Explorer platform based Lincoln depending, again, on development speeds.
Though not too many specifics are known at this stage of development, FIN has learned the rear-drive Lincoln should have a member of the Nano engine family, most likely a 2.9-liter EcoBoost V-6. FIN expects this Lincoln to differ from the Mustang with a slightly larger wheelbase.
As of now, this Mustang-based Lincoln is only being developed as a coupe. As we have reported earlier, Lincoln is also considering a full-size rear-wheel drive flagship for later in this decade using the next-generation Mustang as a basis as well. Ford rightfully is not likely to make any significant investments developing further future products until it becomes clear that Lincoln's revival plan is working.
Though no name has been attached to the project as of yet, do to historical reasons, a Mark Series name would seem fitting. Nearly all previous Lincoln coupes sported a Mark name.


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Beyond the Basics: A Guide for Advanced Users of Family Tree Maker 2012 Book
Here's just a few of the topics you'll learn about:
- Using Family Tree Maker and Ancestry.com together
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- Using custom facts
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- Organising media items
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You've mastered the basics. Now it's time to dive in and adapt Family Tree Maker 2012 to work for you and your unique family. Picking up where the Companion Guide leaves off, Beyond the Basics teaches you the best ways to define complex relationships; gives examples of custom reports that can help you organise your family history and become a more effective researcher; and explains techniques to help you design beautiful family tree charts.