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on February 8, 2013 - 7:47 PM
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man with a history of domestic violence convictions pleaded not guilty in Niagara County Court Friday to an indictment accusing him of assaulting a woman Dec. 3, while he was allegedly wearing metal knuckles.
William L. Putman III, 27, of Livingston Avenue, is charged with second-degree assault, third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, aggravated criminal contempt of two counts of first-degree criminal contempt.
"He doesn't follow orders of protection," Deputy District Attorney Theodore A. Brenner told County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas, who jailed Putman without bail to await further court action.
Putman was sentenced last year to a year in the County Jail for violating a woman's order of protection against him.

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MARTINSBURG - Residents of the Eastern Panhandle will get a chance to test their mettle against the elements, obstacles and themselves during an upcoming Tough Mudder competition to be hosted in Berkeley County.
Proclaiming itself to be "probably the toughest event on the planet," Tough Mudder is a 10- to 12-mile, military-style marathon, containing approximately 25 obstacle challenges, that pushes participants' physical and mental strength.
Tough Mudder is in talks to bring its Mid-Atlantic competition to the Peacemaker National Training Center in Glengary. The organizations are negotiating a multi-year contract with up to two events per year.
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"Our Mid-Atlantic event that's a very key market for us, and we've been looking for someone we can partner with long-term. What that market generally entails is Baltimore, (Washington) D.C., northern Virginia, parts of Maryland and West Virginia," said Sheetal Aiyer, director of venues for Tough Mudder.
The first competition is set for April 20 and 21, with a second potential event in September.
With contestants having to overcome obstacles such as the "Kiss of Mud," "Arctic Enema" and "Killa Gorilla," the average competition time for the marathon is between three and a half hours and four and a half hours. The fastest recorded time for the event is just under two hours.
"The location of Berkeley County is a big draw in addition to the topography of the land here. Tough Mudder can benefit from the range's topography, and there's a lot the course designers can do with the existing infrastructure," said Cole McCulloch, owner of Peacemaker National Training Center.
In addition to stimulating the participants, Tough Mudder representatives said the competition will also stimulate Berkeley County's economy.
The April event is estimated to attract around 15,000 competitors and 5,000 spectators on Saturday, the busiest of the competition days. During the two days, Aiyer estimates approximately 40 percent of participants and spectators will stay in the area overnight, creating a large increase in hotel and restaurant sales for Berkeley County and surrounding counties.
To help ensure traffic is as non-disruptive as possible, Tough Mudder will work with traffic consultant company Fugazy Sports and Entertainment and local police officials throughout the months leading up to the competition. Competitors and spectators will park at an off-site location and be bused to the Peacemaker range.
"Because we're not a race, we don't have to start everyone at the same time in the morning. We actually stagger our start waves. We tend to do between 500 and 750 people every 20 minutes, starting at 8 a.m.," said Ben Story, general manager of event delivery for Tough Mudder.
Tough Mudder has been hosting competitions for three years. In 2012, Tough Mudder hosted 35 events with 400,000 total participants internationally, including Canada, South Africa, Europe, Japan and Australia. In 2013, the organization plans to increase the number of events to 53, increasing participation to 750,000, and will expand its international scope to include Germany.
Tough Mudder is a major contributor to the Wounded Warrior Project, with each event raising money for the organization. According to Aiyer, Tough Mudder has donated approximately $4,000,000 to Wounded Warrior throughout the competition's three years.
Registration is available on the Tough Mudder website at www.toughmudder.com. Although the location on the website is still labeled as "to be determined," registration is open and available until April 15. Current registration cost is $115 to participate Saturday and $105 to participate on Sunday. Registration costs will increase after Jan. 10.
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The Michigan dairy industry will have the spotlight during the 17th annual Michigan Dairy Expo. The event is slated for July 16-18 at the Michigan State University (MSU) Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education.
Visitors of all ages can learn about Michigan's dairy industry by visiting commercial exhibits and attending dairy management seminars as well as state breed shows.
"More than 200 youth will also participate in various educational and leadership activities during the week. These youth represent the future of Michigan's dairy industry," said Joe Domecq, MSU Department of Animal Science specialist and Michigan Dairy Expo director.
At Youth Dairy Days, the youth-centered portion of the event, future dairy professionals and enthusiasts will have an opportunity to compete for premiums, ribbons and scholarships in events, such as dairy quiz bowls, dairy management contests, dairy cattle judging competitions and the Dairy Days youth show. Winners will have the opportunity to represent Michigan in national competitions.
Children of all ages as well as parents and educators can learn about dairy cows and farming through hands-on activities and learning stations at the 14th annual Great Dairy Adventure consumer education day, slated for 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 17.
Individual and team winners will be announced during the Michigan Dairy Expo Celebration Picnic and Dairy Youth Recognition Program the evening of July 18. The top two eligible junior and senior individuals will receive cash awards of $750 and $1,000, respectively. The evening will conclude with an ice cream social.
"Dairy Expo offers an excellent venue for producers to network with friends and other producers from around the state, in addition to meeting and getting to know some of our future dairy producers and industry leaders by watching various youth events," said Carla McLachlan, expo event coordinator. "It also offers visitors a fun opportunity to see how the modern dairy industry operates and how it's advancing here in Michigan."
Michigan Dairy Expo is the largest annual dairy event in the state. Last year's event drew more than 300 dairy animals and more than 175 exhibitors. The mission of Michigan Dairy Expo is to encourage and promote youth involvement in dairy activities, showcase the Michigan dairy industry, and provide continuing education opportunities for the dairy industry in Michigan and neighboring states.
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A Friday night in Buffalo – Oct. 17, 1973, to be precise.
It's fall, getting colder and already dark by the time the throngs arrive at Kleinhans Music Hall, emerging from cars where they had been doing lord knows what to keep the encroaching chill at bay, or dropped off by their parents in the vicinity of Symphony Circle, doubtless clad in denim despite the wind, or perhaps adorned in the fashion frippery of the then-burgeoning American version of the British glam-rock scene.
David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust is just a year old at this point, after all. And tonight's concert is being headlined by pals of Bowie's, a band held by many to be the perfect glam-rock group, an outfit capable of marrying glam's sartorial splendor to tough, working-class rock 'n' roll roots – Mott the Hoople.
By this point, Mott the Hoople has already released its now-classic "All the Young Dudes" album, its title track a gift from Bowie, who also produced the record. Fronted by vocalist/guitarist Ian Hunter – who, not so coincidentally, will headline the "Feed the City" concert at the Town Ballroom on Saturday – the band also included guitarist Mick Ralphs, who would go on to considerable fame with Bad Company by the mid-'70s.
As the reigning kings of glam, Mott had managed to embrace the genre's excess in terms of garb, presentation, mild gender-bending and abundantly cool sunglasses, without coming off as trend-hoppers. It made sense, then, for the band to to be paired with a new buzzworthy outfit known as the New York Dolls, a group whose members – David Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain and Johnny Thunders most prominent among them – looked like aging drag queens but played a molten form of garage rock that would be known as punk rock by 1976 or so. The New York Dolls were then on the ascent, but they were freaks with serious drug issues, and they'd never fully deliver on their promise before imploding. (This did nothing to tarnish the myth that surrounded the group almost from the beginning, mind you. The Dolls, minus Thunders, who died of a heroin overdose in 1991, reformed in 2004 at the behest of Morrissey, a slavish fan, who had the band perform as part of the annual Meltdown Festival he was curating that year.)
Third on the bill was a then-unknown five-piece from Boston. A group with a rubbery-lipped lead singer who looked a bit like Mick Jagger, sang better than him, and draped himself around his Keith Richards look-alike guitarist with a druggy androgyny that was punk before punk existed. This Yardbirds/Rolling Stones/James Brown hybrid called itself Aerosmith.
This hard-to-believe triple bill is memorable not just for its ticket price ($4.50, which, even when adjusted for inflation, is an unbelievable bargain by today's standards) but for the fact that so many in attendance would go on to have a major influence on Buffalo's arts culture – mainly, though not exclusively, on its music scene.
There in the front row was the late Mark Freeland, the iconoclastic musician, artist and provocateur who would give us Electroman, Pegasus, the Fems, a wide variety of solo guises and collaborations, and an immense body of beautifully idiosyncratic artworks, in the process providing the living blueprint for what it meant to be an independent artist in Buffalo. Freeland's memories of that evening are preserved on www.markfreeland.com.
"After school, in 11th grade, Kent Weber and I were getting ready for a concert. Mott the Hoople, The New York Dolls, and a yet-unknown Aerosmith were playing and we had front row seats. Then my friend Jamie Moses called ... asking if I wanted to party with the Dolls.
"We raced to the Holiday Inn, all dressed in the camped-out glitter statement of the moment. The hour I spent with the Dolls that day changed my life. At three in the afternoon, I drank... from a Bali Hai wine bottle that was one half warm wine, and one half Johhny Thunder's [backwash]."
Ahhh. To be young and invincible.
Freeland would soon be leading what should be understood as a rock music renaissance in and around Kenmore shortly after this night at Kleinhans. In a 1996 story in The News, Freeland describes the milieu: "We competed against each other with amps, not footballs. The whole school was in a band. The only ones who weren't in bands were the people carrying the amps, or driving the vans to go put up posters ... At Kenmore, kids would gather for assembly, sit down in the auditorium and watch Pegasus cover [Jethro Tull's seminal prog-rock album] 'Thick As a Brick' for 45 minutes ... That was fourth period, to us."
Freeland's friend Kent Weber went on to a lengthy career in Buffalo independent bands, among them Pegasus, Nullstadt, the Fems, the Dollywatchers and dozens of others. He still performs regularly today.
Jamie Moses, the friend of Freeland's who offered him the opportunity to meet the Dolls, went on to found Artvoice.
Terry Sullivan, who would soon front the Jumpers, the Restless and many others, was also at Kleinhans that night.
"That show was pivotal for me," Sullivan says. "It literally changed my mindset regarding the entertainment aspect of rock 'n' roll shows. It put me in a position to utilize my tools and make the most of my dreams. That show is in my mind whenever I'm entertaining an audience, to this day."
The show was presented by Festival East. Michael Montoro, who now runs the BPO Nation concert series at Kleinhans, partnered with Harvey Weinstein for the presentation of this particular package of bands. Montoro recalls being happy with the turnout, even though it wasn't a sellout. "Glam was still new then," Montoro says. "Buffalo was still a meat and potatoes, mostly hard-rock town. They wanted Humble Pie and Creedence Clearwater Revival! Not dudes in makeup!"
Montoro went on to a long career in the music business. Weinstein didn't end up doing too badly, either.
"Shows like that Mott/Aerosmith/Dolls one at Kleinhans were incredibly inspiring to people," says Montoro. "I'm not at all surprised that so many people who were there on that night went on to make their mark in the world of music and the arts."
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As the pre-eminent Paul McCartney tribute artist in Japan, and member of renowned Beatles tribute the Silver Beats, Tadaaki Naganuma has spent several decades digging deep into the heart of McCartney's art. By this point, he's got it down cold – from the achingly melodic bass playing to the pitch-perfect vocal harmonies, the killer screams to the wide- eyed, balladic emoting.
While a member of the Silver Beats, Naganuma was honored to be hand-picked by the Killers to open 10 dates during that band's 2008 world tour, which included stops at the fabled Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and New York City's Madison Square Garden. In the time since, he's dug deep into McCartney's oft-overlooked solo material.
Last year, Naganuma and longtime friend and collaborator Geno McManus teamed with a host of Buffalo's finest musicians to stage an all-McCartney revue at the Sportsmen's Tavern. The euphoric event sold out and was rabidly received by those in attendance. Naganuma, McManus and friends including Cathy Carfagna, Rob Lynch, Jim Whitford and Mike Bongiovanni, will return to the Sportsmen's (326 Amherst St.) for an 8 p.m. show today. Expect plenty of solo and Beatles-era material. Tickets are $15 (Showclix.com, or at the door).
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World Competition: Law and Economics Review, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2006
This paper deals with the powers of investigation of the European Commission and of the competition authorities of the Member States for the enforcement of Articles 81 and 82 EC, and with the procedural rights and guarantees that circumscribe or limit these powers. It focuses in particular on the question which law governs these matters (EC or EU law, national law, and the European Convention on Human Rights), and by whom or how the content of this law is determined (by European and national legislation, and case-law of the EC Court of Justice and Court of First Instance, national courts, and the European Court of Human Rights).
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Early-warning systems for plant diseases are valuable when the systems provide timely forecasts that farmers can use to inform their pest management decisions. To evaluate the value of the systems, this study examines, as a case study, USDA's coordinated framework for soybean rust surveillance, reporting, prediction, and management, which was developed before the 2005 growing season. The framework's linchpin is a website that provides real-time, county-level information on the spread of the disease. The study assesses the value of the information tool to farmers and factors that influence that value. The information's value depends most heavily on farmers' perceptions of the forecast's accuracy. The study finds that the framework's information is valuable to farmers even in a year with a low rust infection like that of 2005. We estimate that the information provided by the framework increased U.S. soybean producers' profits by a total of $11-$299 million in 2005, or between 16 cents and $4.12 per acre, depending on the quality of information and other factors. The reported cost of the framework was between $2.6 million and almost $5 million in 2005.
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The role of Casey Anthony has been recast.
A Lifetime movie based on Jeff Ashton's book, "Imperfect Justice," has already begun filming, but the role of Casey Anthony has been recast.
Canadian actress Holly Deveaux was initially cast to play Casey, but she's out. Actress Virginia Welch is in.
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NEW YORK � In the emotion-charged realm of adoption, the Internet has been a transformative force, often for good, sometimes for ill.
It has facilitated matches bringing neglected orphans into loving homes on the far side of the world and provides crucial advice and support for families at every challenging stage of the adoption process. Yet it also can be an effective tool for scammers and hucksters seeking to exploit birthmothers and would-be adoptive parents.
"I can't imagine an area more ripe for exploitation � people trying to form families or find a place for their unborn child," said Denise Bierly, president of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. "It's like Internet dating, except way more scary and dangerous."
Through two decades of widespread Internet use, there's been little rigorous research into its impact on adoption. A leading think tank, the Donaldson Adoption Institute, has launched a multiyear study to fill that void and issued a comprehensive report Thursday outlining the profound changes that have unfolded.
Internet-based tools �are transforming adoption practices, challenging laws and policies, offering unprecedented opportunities and resources, and raising critical ethical, legal and procedural issues,� the report notes.
On the plus side, the report notes that many websites and Internet-based tools � including the photo-listing of available children � have expedited adoptions of countless children. The Internet offers a vast array of information and training and enables would-be adoptive parents to present themselves in online profiles to pregnant women considering adoption.
Vicki and Jed Taufer of Morton, Ill., battled months of bureaucratic delays to adopt a girl from Nepal. They said they could scarcely imagine going through that trying experience in the pre-Internet age.
They were able to communicate regularly by Skype during the six months in 2010-11 when Vicki stayed with their daughter, Purnima, in Katmandu, waiting for the adoption to be authorized by U.S. authorities while Jed was working in Illinois. They used the Internet to build close friendships with other families struggling to complete adoptions from Nepal, and to raise funds to cover their ever-ballooning legal and logistical costs.
�We had to make some pretty big decisions over Skype,� said Vicki. �It allowed us to stay connected as a family.�
Another important consequence of the Internet: Finding birth relatives is becoming easier and more common because of online search capabilities, hastening the likely phase-out of �closed� adoption while broadening relationships between adoptive and birth families.
The report advises adoption professionals to revise their training regimens to reflect the reality that many affected parties will be able to find each other at some point, and to prepare them for such reunions, whether wanted or unwanted.
On the negative side, the report details how adoption scams � which predate the Internet � now take more sophisticated and wide-ranging forms through misuse of social media.
There have been several recent cases across multiple states where women claiming to be pregnant used the Internet to connect with couples yearning to adopt. In exchange for paying the woman's living expenses, couples were promised � falsely � that they would eventually be able to adopt the baby.
Scott Rowland, a prosecutor in Oklahoma, said one victim lost $30,000 while supporting what turned out to be a fictitious pregnancy.
�People need to be more educated, or there�s a very real risk they can pulled into bad practices and scams,� said Donaldson Institute executive director Adam Pertman. �We hope regulators, educators, law enforcement officials and child welfare organizations will look at this and say �Enough already. We can�t allow the Wild West.��
The Donaldson report also warns that the Internet is accelerating a �commodification� of adoption, with would-be adoptive parents being viewed as commercial clients and less emphasis placed on the idea that adoption�s primary purpose is finding families for children.
Far too often, says Pertman, the child�s best interest is not the paramount factor as an adoption is arranged.
The report notes that ads for adoption services can crop up on websites amid ads for other commercial products, pitching the possibility of completing adoptions in a few months.
�Promising a quick, easy adoption raises serious questions about how that can be accomplished,� Pertman said. �That�s not how it works in most of the real world.�
The Adoption Consultancy, based in Brandon, Fla., is among many Internet services that do promote the possibility � though not the guarantee � of quick adoptions. Its executive director, Nicole Witt, describes herself as a �wedding planner for adoptions� and says she�s assisted in about 75 adoptions annually since founding the firm seven years ago, with fees that range up to $2,750.
�We help you through the process, quickly and safely, usually within three to 12 months,� says Witt�s website. �We connect you with adoption agencies and attorneys in states where birth parents cannot revoke their consent.�
Witt says many of her clients have struggled for years in futile pursuit of treatment for infertility and deserve help avoiding drawn-out adoption procedures. She says she counsels them that the ultimate goal is to find the best home for the baby being adopted, �and that may or may not be you.�
The president of one of the largest U.S. adoption agencies, Bill Blacquiere of Bethany Christian Services, advises caution as people browse online for adoption services.
�An organization could have a very sophisticated website, but maybe isn�t delivering on all the services they should be,� he said. �You can promote yourself well, but that doesn�t necessarily mean it�s the highest quality organization.�
Chuck Johnson, CEO of the National Council for Adoption, said that when he entered the field in the pre-Internet 1980s, local adoption agencies were the primary source of information.
�Now, you look at the Internet, maybe you use an out-of-state agency,� he said. �You�re conducting very personal affairs with someone, and your first and sometimes only connection with them is over the Internet.�
That lack of personal connection, Johnson said, can increase vulnerability to exploitation.
�Almost every one of them knew they were doing something stupid,� he said of his exchanges with scam victims. �They were just desperately trying to make the right decision.�
The Donaldson report recommends that leading adoption organizations and experts collaborate on developing standards for use of the Internet. It urges state and federal policymakers to assess whether new laws are needed to protect against Internet-based adoption scams, and calls on social media and Internet companies, such as Facebook and Google, to assess whether their policies and practices need modification.


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Agencies in Nevada and California are looking to update management policies of state parks and trails, changes that could eventually increase riding terrain for Tahoe's mountain bikers.
The current management strategies are dated and were developed during the sport's infancy, Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association Trails Director Ben Fish said. The International Mountain Biking Association reported nearly 40 million rode bikes in the U.S. this year, yet the management plans in the basin haven't evolved with those recreational trends.
"We're dealing with these recreation plans that are 20 years old and don't take into account new forms of recreation. The mindset was that mountain bikers don't mind riding on dirt roads. And that's not true," he said.
Nevada State Parks has been collecting information to update the Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park Master Development Plan since July 2011. Parks Supervisor Jay Howard acknowledged that a revision of the park's 1990 management plan is more than five years overdue.
The revision will guide management and development of the park for the next 10 to 15 years, Howard said. Some ideas on the table include building a family campground and multi-agency visitors center at Spooner Lake and relocating the maintenance facility at Sand Harbor.
TAMBA, which rallied its supporters to write letters to state park staff regarding trail use, focused primarily on requesting more multi-use backcountry trails and new singletrack that would provide an alternative to the existing fire roads in the park.
Out of the hundreds of letters received, Howard said trail use was consistently a top concern.
"Mountain biking use has gotten so big since the '80s, we tend to get a lot of comments from mountain bikers saying that they want more single-track trails," Howard said.
When it comes to opening up more portions of the Tahoe Rim Trail though, Howard said other agencies like the Tahoe Rim Trail Association and the U.S. Forest Service will need to be involved. The Snow Valley Peaks section of rim trail that cuts through the Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park is a contentious issue not specifically addressed in the general management plan revision, Howard said.
Although the official public comment period closed Nov. 30, Howard said the staff still welcomes community input. The draft will come out early 2013, after which time there will be another comment period before the final plan is released around the middle of the year.
"These tend to be slow processes, but we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel," Howard said.
On the other side of the state line, California State Parks is evaluating road and trail use change requests, which can mean either adding or removing designated uses like biking or horseback riding from existing roads and trails.
One idea TAMBA suggested would be to open the Rubicon Trail between Emerald Bay State Park and D.L. Bliss State Park to mountain bikers. Many trails have never been altered specifically for multi-use, yet have still been used successfully by both riders and hikers for years, Fish said.
The California State Parks department is only in the Program Environmental Impact Report phase, and while actual changes are still years down the road, it's important to submit public input early, Fish said.
"These plans are just kind of dated. Even though the California one is going to take years to approve, once they're approved, the better the recreation opportunities will be," Fish said.


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Christopher C. Magers Sr., 56, of Tiffin, died at 10:47 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013, at Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center, Toledo.
Christopher was born June 29, 1957, in Tiffin, to Howard L. and Shirley (Sadoski) Magers Jr. He married Terry (Hamilton) Magers June 20, 1981, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Tiffin, and she survives in Tiffin.
Other survivors include his mother, Shirley of Melmore; a son, Christopher C. Magers Jr. of Tiffin; a daughter, Ashley (Augustine) Bernal of Fostoria; two grandchildren, Braylen Bernal and Chloe Magers; four brothers, Howard Magers III of Tiffin, Brian Magers of Oklahoma, Eric Magers of McCutchenville and Matthew Magers of Michigan; and two sisters, Pamela Magers of Kentucky and Gemma Marschke of Melmore.
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Christopher worked at Baumgardner's, Tiffin. He was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Tiffin, and active in the Browns Backers. Chris fought a 4 1/2-year battle with cancer. He was a loving husband, father and grandfather. He will be remembered for his unique sense of humor.
Christopher was preceded in death by his father and a sister, Beth Curl.
There will be a celebration of life for Christopher at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 8, 2013, at the Tiffin Eagles in the Hickory Room with Pastor Mark Murphy officiating.
Visitation for family and friends will be 10-11 a.m. Friday at the Eagles.
There will be no burial at this time. Engle-Shook Funeral Home and Crematory, Tiffin, is assisting the family with arrangements.
Memorial contributions may be made to F.A.C.T. or to the family.
Online condolences may be left for the family at www.engleshookfuneralhome.com.


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Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Turnpike and State Police will announce the latest in Operation Orange Squeeze, an initiative to improve highway safety in work zones.
The message will be to slow down in work zones or pay the price. Troopers will dressed in orange. Turnpike construction vehicles will be using radar in work zone areas to check speeds.
"Anytime you see an orange cone, an orange barrel or any orange signs, slow down. The work zone is someone's work area and you are risking people's lives," said Carl Defebo of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.
This week is National Work Zone Awareness Week.


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UNIVERSITY PARK - Coquese Washington already has been a Notre Dame player, student and coach in her lifetime. She has no interest in her newest label: Notre Dame opponent.
But that's what's on tap for the Penn State women's basketball coach on Wednesday, when the No. 13 Lady Lions will play host to the No. 5 Fighting Irish at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.
For the first time as a head coach, Washington will face the school where she spent four seasons as a starting point guard from 1989-93. She went on to earn a law degree from Notre Dame four years later before serving as an assistant and associate head coach for the Fighting Irish between 1999-2007.
"It's my alma mater, so there's not a lot of desire to be competitive against people that I love dearly," Washington said. "Personally, it's not a game I'm looking forward to playing."
Though Washington is more than six years removed from her time with Notre Dame, she will see many familiar faces on the opposing bench at the Bryce Jordan Center.
Among them is longtime Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw, whom the Penn State coach played for and worked under. In addition, Washington coached current Notre Dame assistant Niele Ivey and another Fighting Irish assistant, Carol Owens, is the godmother of her two children.
"There's too much history," Washington said. "Coach McGraw was my college coach and the only coach I've worked for. So much of what I know about the game and learned about the game comes from her. She's like family. So is her staff."
For her part, McGraw also has little interest in a matchup with Washington and the Lady Lions. She had hoped that her team, a first-time participant in Big Ten/ACC Challenge, would be paired with intrastate rival Purdue.
"I was a little disappointed," said McGraw, who is in her 27th season at the helm of the Fighting Irish. "Having to go out to Penn State and play someone who is a good friend it's a no-win situation. You want to win the game, but you don't want them to lose. I think it's a difficult thing."
With Washington as her point guard and team captain, McGraw guided Notre Dame to its first NCAA Tournament during the 1991-92 season. The Fighting Irish coach remembered Washington as a smart player.
"You knew she had a future in coaching," she said. "She always picked things up quickly, was bright and had a high basketball IQ. She always was very steady in her demeanor. She was a good leader for the team."
For those reasons, McGraw said that adding Washington to her coaching staff before the 1999-2000 campaign was "the easiest decision I have ever made." The next season, the Fighting Irish won their first national championship.
Washington remained on McGraw's staff until she was named Penn State's head coach in 2007.
"I'm not at Penn State without Notre Dame," Washington said. "It's hard to separate the two."
Penn State (5-1) is facing Notre Dame for the first time since a 75-49 victory on Nov. 16, 2006, in what turned out to be Rene Portland's final season as coach. The Lady Lions have won all five meetings with the Fighting Irish.
Making it six straight will be a difficult assignment. Notre Dame, which has advanced to three straight Final Fours, improved to 6-0 with a victory over Duquesne on Sunday.
"They've got a lot of kids who have played in a ton of big games," Washington said. "They won't be intimidates one bit by coming to Penn State."
The Fighting Irish are the second top-five opponent to visit the Bryce Jordan Center in 17 days. Penn State lost to No. 1 Connecticut 71-52 on Nov. 17. Since that loss, the Lady Lions have won three straight games, including victories over Oregon State and Illinois State on Friday and Saturday at the Junkanoo Jam in The Bahamas.
"We have to be able to execute on both ends of the floor," Washington said. "Against Connecticut, we didn't score. We have to be able to score points against Notre Dame or we won't have a change. We have to fight. They're a battle-tested team. They're going to be up for the challenge."


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Jeffrey EugenidesJeffrey Eugenides has a "perverse love" for his hometown Detroit, which he says exemplifies the highs and lows of American history. A Pulitzer Prize winner for Middlesex, Eugenides has created a "deeply humane and eloquently constructed" third novel, The Marriage Plot, a love triangle full of intellectual angst.10/22/2012Time: 7:30 pmCarnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Jerusalem String QuartetMozart: Quartet in Bb major, K. 589 "Prussian"; Dmitri Shostakovich: Quartet #1 in C major, Op. 49; Borodin: Quartet #2 in D major.10/23/2012Time: 7:30 pmCarnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936This exhibit, curated by the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and co-sponsored in Pittsburgh by the Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, explores the issues surrounding the 1936 Olympic Games, including the Nazis' use of propaganda, the intense boycott debatge, history of the torch run, and the historic performance of Jesse Owens.10/25/2012 - 02/28/2013August Wilson Center, 980 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Silk SCREAM Horror FilmSilk Screen features showing of an internationally recognized Asian Horror film: "Remington and the Curse of the Zombadings," directed by Jade Castro, and a surprise indie hit in the Philippines and on the festival circuit. Small-town boy Remington (Mart Escudero) persistently teases everyone that appears to be gay to him. As a consequence, Remington is the target of an unusual curse: when he is grown he too shall be gay.10/25/2012 - 10/26/201210/25 - 7:00 pm10/25 - 7:00 pmLocation: Point Park University: GRW Auditoriumwebsite
Midnight Radio: Pittsburgh Ghost StoriesFor Halloween, Midnight Radio presents an episode about Pittsburgh's rich history of hauntings and ghost stories.10/25/2012 - 11/03/2012Bricolage Production Company, 937 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
A Grand Night for SingingBroadway's tribute to the genius of Rodgers & Hammerstein is truly A Grand Night for Singing. This Tony Award®-nominated Best Musical showcases Richard Rodgers' timeless music and the incomparable lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein. It will take you on a romantic musical journey from young infatuation to the touching and funny complexities of commitment and marriage, the joys of parenthood, and finally, the power of enduring love.10/25/2012 - 01/20/2013CLO Cabaret at Theater Square, 655 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
GiselleThe PBT Orchestra plays Adolphe Adam's score. The ballet tells the story of a peasant girl named Giselle, who is betrayed by her lover and dies of a broken heart. Giselle rises from the dead for vengeance, but in the end protects her sorrowful lover from the deadly Willis – evil spirits who haunt the forest in the night. 10/26/2012 - 10/28/2012Location: BBenedum Center, 237 Seventh St., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Pittsburgh Philharmonic - Once Upon a DreamBring your little princess dressed in her best princess attire to hear orchestral music for all your favorite princesses including Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty, Ravel's Beauty and the Beast, and other fairy-tale classics. Don't miss a visit by Ariel and Pocahontas to sing for you. 10/26/2012Time: 8:00 pm Butler, PAwebsite
Once Upon a DreamThe Pgh. Philharmonic's Storybook Season begins with a narrated concert featuring Ravel's Mother Goose Suite, selections from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty, and selections from Disney favorites such as The Little Mermaid and Pocahontas sung by Butler's own Becki Toth. Kids are invited to dress up as their favorite prince or princess. Edward Leonard conducts.10/26/2012 - 10/27/2012Time: 7:00 pmLocation: Fri. at Succop Theater; Sat. at Shaler Elementary Schoolwebsite
5k Run & Fun WalkPersad Center, the regions only counseling center specifically created to serve lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, will hold its first ever 5k Run & Fun Walk. Proceeds will let Persad continue protecting LGBT youth from bullying, discrimination, and abuse; providing counseling and creating safe & welcoming spaces for LGBT youth and their peers; and, working to bring homeless teens off the streets and of danger.10/26/2012Time: 9:00 amLocation: North Park Boat House, Allison Park, PAwebsite
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A City of Tonawanda man already behind bars as a predatory sex offender has admitted to more sex crimes involving children.
Donald C. Filer, 52, pleaded guilty this week to two counts of predatory sexual assault against a child, first-degree sexual abuse, and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office.
Filer admitted raping and sodomizing a 10-year-old girl in 2007 and sexually abusing a 5-year-old the same year, the District Attorney's Office said.
The charges carry a maximum prison sentence of 25 years to life. He is scheduled to be sentenced by Erie County Judge Thomas P. Franczyk on Feb. 7.
Filer is currently serving a sentence of 32 years to life at a state prison in Auburn for his 2008 conviction in Niagara County for predatory sexual assault against a child and three other felonies. That case involved one of the children he admitted to abusing in his Erie County plea.


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on December 17, 2012 - 3:58 PM
Four people, two from each vehicle, were taken to Erie County Medical Center at noontime Monday, after a Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority para-transit van collided with a Lincoln Navigator in Buffalo's Fillmore-Clinton neighborhood, NFTA officials reported.
None of the injuries was believed to be life-threatening, although the force of the collision sent the van onto its side. Only the driver and one passenger were in the van at the time of the crash.
The two vehicles collided at about 11:55 a.m. at the intersection of Clinton and Smith streets. The NFTA van, which transports people whose physical problems prevent them from riding a regular Metro Bus, was heading north on Smith Street, while the other vehicle was westbound on Clinton.
The intersection has a traffic light. Police still are investigating the accident, trying to determine who may have been at fault, according to C. Douglas Hartmayer, NFTA public-affairs director.


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During Tuesday's appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the actress, 43, dished about owning several hens and one male rooster, a fact that didn't go unnoticed by one of her neighbors.
"I have this other neighbor who I don't know and still don't know and she emailed me one day and said, 'I don't have my rooster anymore,'" Pompeo told Ellen DeGeneres. "'But my hens are very depressed because the rooster isn't around, can I take an egg, a fertilized egg?'"
Unsure of how to respond, the Grey's Anatomy star simply obliged, writing, "Nice to meet you too. Come and get an egg."
While Pompeo went on to say she wasn't at home when the neighbor came to collect, DeGeneres suggested the woman was just looking to get a look at the star's impressive chicken set-up in her backyard.
"They do have a very secure coop that was built by a wonderful contractor," Pompeo said. "The chicken wire has to go like 3-feet deep to make sure that no rodents [get in] … but I do let them roam free for a part of the day because they get agitated if they're all cooped up."
"They're in the coop most of the time for their safety," she continued, noting that hawks are a concern, but, "they roam free and they get their worms and things like that."


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Schifferdecker Picks Up Pitcher Of The Week Again
MUNCIE, Ind. - - For her part in Ball State softball's win over George Mason Sunday, sophomore pitcher Kelsey Schifferdecker (Belton, Mo./Belton) has been named the Mid-American Conference West Division Pitcher of the Week.
Schifferdecker earns the honor for the second consecutive week, and the third time in her career.
In her lone appearance in the circle last week, Schifferdecker threw the Cardinals' first complete game shutout of the season by shutting down the George Mason offense. In seven innings of work, Schifferdecker limited the Patriots to just five hits and one walk. She also struck out two batters.
Schifferdecker and the Ball State softball team return to action at 2 p.m. this afternoon (Monday) at USC Upstate.


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Donated School Supplies Welcome Back Western High's Students in Need
More than 100 low-income teens benefit from the SCE Federal Credit Union-led supplies driveSep 17, 2012 | News & Press
Contact: PCGCampbell Eric Garner 310.224.4957
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (September 17, 2012) – Just in time for the first day of class, SCE Federal Credit Union wrapped up their month-long school supplies drive. The proceeds, which included everything from backpacks to calculators, were presented to Western High School in Las Vegas.
Western High is classified as a Title 1 school due to the high number of homeless and low-income students enrolled. The donated items will help more than 100 teens in need, according to Western High Principal Neddy Alvarez.
"The truck load of supplies that SCE Federal Credit Union donated will go a long way in helping our students succeed in the classroom," said Alvarez. "We are very fortunate to have the support of such a community-focused local business."
Throughout August, SCE FCU's employees and members, as well as the general public, dropped off supplies at local SCE FCU branches. The company matched all employee cash contributions, which included gifts from Las Vegas- and Southern California-based SCE FCU staff.
"Promoting education in our local communities is a priority at SCE FCU," said Sue Longson, vice president of business development and community relations for SCE Federal Credit Union. "We're constantly looking for opportunities to serve local efforts, and we'll continue to support Western High School."
The SCE FCU Foundation is a non profit 501(c)(3) charitable agency whose mission is to educate underserved youth and families in the principles of personal finance. The foundation partners with schools and community organizations in Southern California and Southern Nevada to offer financial education, assistance, and improvement programs, giving people the power to make better financial choices and achieve an improved quality of life.
SCE Federal Credit Union was founded in 1952 and currently has nearly 50,000 members, $560 million in assets, several Southern California and Southern Nevada branch locations, thousands of shared branch locations across the United States and nearly 30,000 surcharge-free ATMs available to members. SCE FCU serves all of Southern California and Southern Nevada, 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 in Southern Nevada and Southern California.
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on February 9, 2013 - 11:06 PM
Finding relief from state mandates dominated discussions Saturday during the 35th annual Legislative Breakfast of the Erie County Association of School Boards.
Several speakers, including legislators, recognized the urgency of the issue because many school districts are still suffering under the weight of several years of rising expenses and steep budgets, in spite of state funding increases under Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's proposed 2013-14 budget
"We cut the fat out, not that there was a terrific amount. We hit the muscle, we hit bone last year and we are on internal organs right now. We're ready to cut the heart out, and that's what's scary," Lynn Fusco, superintendent of Alden Central Schools, said during the gathering in Michael's Banquet Facility, Town of Hamburg.
"We can't continue to do this – we just can't," she added, "even with consolidations, mergers, sharing resources. We just can't continue to absorb these state mandates."
Fusco said that in Alden it has meant reducing advanced placement programs that help give students from a small rural district a competitive edge for college. Also, art classes have been reduced, sports programs are on the edge, and – in general – the district is winding up with a minimal educational program compared with other districts that are better financed.
"Please give us the resources so we don't have to shrink our programs to the bare-bones basics, because these children will never have this opportunity again," Fusco said. "This is happening in every district."
The concerns addressed by Fusco and other speakers were met with sympathy and some calls for action by the legislators.
"I think the biggest problem we have is when we see the state do a lot of micromanaging, and the Legislature does a lot of micromanaging on the financial side of things," Assemblywoman Jane Corwin, R-Clarence, told the 125 board members on hand for the annual gathering.
"In my opinion, what we need to be doing is giving you the money, and letting you decide what to do with it," she added. "Our society is changing, and the needs of our students are changing, but unfortunately in the system we have right now, [the state Education Department] – the big dinosaur that it is – can't move very fast or be as innovative."
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5 Real Skills Video Games Have Secretly Been Teaching Us
#2. Resource Management
Resource management is as fundamental a skill-set in the job world as it is in most game genres. In First Person Shooters, you have to carefully ration out and preserve your various types of ammunition. In Real Time Strategy, they're actual resources that you manage: Building materials, fuel, elements, manpower, etc. In Role Playing Games, it's your inventory: Potions, revives, antidotes, and weapons. In any RPG, two thirds of the player's time is spent shopping or organizing menus, and if you have just the right kind of OCD, it's even more than that. Some gamers are way too busy figuring out who could make the best use of this hair-tie and how many fire gems they can carry without dropping potions to ever bother with stopping the bloodmarch of Drogos, the Lizard God.
"Listen: The Sundered Berserkers are going to have to stop their own pillaging, OK? I'm alphabetizing potions."
And in nearly every RPG, you'll encounter the same problem: Eventually, you'll wind up with an item just as overpowered as it is rare. It's almost too good to use. So what do you do with it?
The answer, as every gamer out there has just quietly realized, is "nothing." You save it. Forever.
Every game of Left 4 Dead ends with an untouched First Aid Kit, every Pokemaster is left still clutching the Master Ball as the credits roll, and after Necron falls, poor Zidane has to make a few calls and see if the local thrift stores accept Dark Matter. If you've ever ended a Square-Enix game without an Imperial Fuckton of Megalixirs cluttering up your inventory, then you were likely either drunk or suffering from severe head trauma to the part of your brain that manages impulse control.
And now you will never again be apart.
So how does that help you in real life? Simple: All you have to do, as a gamer, is apply this logic to your savings account. Every paycheck is a Megalixir, and somewhere out there is a boss so tough that you'll eventually need it, so you'd better hang on to it for now. And if you never end up using it, so what? You just proved you were too badass to ever require it in the first place. Congratulations: You just unlocked the Comfortable Retirement Achievement.
That's right: Every epic struggle for the fate of the Never-verse, every dire quest to save Edenia from the Shoggoths, every snowy trip into the Frozen Wastes -- they've all just been extended metaphors for your 401(k).
#1. Basic Morality
There are all manner of places to learn about morality aside from video games. Your parents, your pastor, your favorite teacher, books, movies -- every one of those things should have taught you the value of doing good way before you first picked up a controller. But do me a favor and load up any comments section on the Internet ...
Clearly, it's not working.
Once you remove the immediate threat of physical consequences, every third person turns into a raging, emphatically null psychopath. And sadly, as is evidenced by Xbox Live, many of them are also gamers. But why? My theory: They're either not playing the right games, or else not picking up the inherent lesson in them. Because every so-called "open-world" game on the market is there to teach you one thing: Never, ever choose evil.
"Sure, you can crucify those guys, but you won't have many friends." -The ridiculous misconception game designers operate under.Mass effect, Oblivion, Fallout: Every single one of them presents the player with a "choice." You can be the hero, or you can be the villain. It's totally up to you. But it's always, always a trap. Good is the only right choice. The hero option in every one of those games will net you better companions, more interesting quests, and a more ultimately satisfying story. For example, here are the NPC companions from Fallout: New Vegas -- widely regarded as one of the better open-ended games in recent memory:
Good companions: Dr. Arcade Gannon, NCR Sniper Craig Boone, Caravan Trader Rose of Sharon Cassidy, Brotherhood Scribe Veronica Santangelo
Neutral Companions: Supermutant Lily Bowen, Ghoul Mechanic Raul Tejada, Prototype Eyebot ED-E, Cyberdog Rex
Evil Companions: Elite Corporal Jack Fucking Shit.
That's Jack up there in the upper right hand corner.
And even out of those "neutral" companions, all are actually pretty "good" personality-wise, and two are functionally useless besides: Lily is somebody's kindly old mutated grandmother, Raul is a hideous zombie ... who likes fixing toasters for people instead of devouring their children, and ED-E is a floating robot that somehow still sets off landmines. If you choose the good path, you keep all of them. If you choose the evil path, you'll eventually be forced to either lose or kill the laconic uber-sniper, the sassy lesbian who punches motherfuckers so hard they explode, and the rugged young doctor with the powered robot suit. Even when it's a choice, it's never a choice: Good will always be better.
And no matter how much we gamers might protest that - complaining about how bullshit it is that so-called open-ended games always neuter the villain's path when it could explore stories and concepts just as interesting as the hero's - even we have to admit that "be nice to people" is probably a fine lesson to learn.
Or wait, no, fuck that: Why do I have to risk my life to rescue every single box of lost kittens just to get a decent ending, you dirty, rotten, game-designing sons of bitches?!
You can buy Robert's book, Everything is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead, or follow him on Twitter, Facebook and Google+. Or you can school him in the comments section with your no-doubt encyclopedic knowledge of morality-based open-world gaming; that'll be sure to impress the ladies.
For more from Brockway, check out 5 Reasons GTA IV Is The Worst Great Game Ever Made and 5 Scientific Discoveries That Spell Doom for Your Penis.
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Kim Kardashian is soon to be the hottest wife of any New Jersey Nets player. Granted, not the loftiest of heights, but she has the love of the man of her dreams, Kris Humphries.
Rumors have been swirling that Kardashian has a bun in the oven. She has since thwarted all that noise ahead of her wondrous engagement. Who can take care of a kid when you have a 20-carat ring to look after?
Maria Sharapova is back on top of the tennis world. She has just entered the semifinals at the prestigious French Open. Her rise to the top of tennis's elite contrasts the power she has off the court, which has never diminished.
Sharapova is the end-all, be-all when it comes to marketability and financial success. This lady is hot in more way than one.
We may not have football as of yet, but we are welcoming a new member to the football family. Kim Zolciak of The Real Housewives of Atlanta fame, and Falcons player Kroy Biermann, just had a baby boy.
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the monday after thanksgiving weekend when all businesses are open and people start buying from these businesses and shipping their purchases from black friday and the weekend for family and friends. The beginning of the busy season for the shipping industry.
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The first Monday after the 4th of July weekend. Called this because by this time people have to start going back to work so there's no more fireworks being lit off, so the smoke clears and everything is seemingly "blacker."
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The day when clients gets crazy trying to buy stuff online and workers get crazy trying to keep the servers up.
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These pages give you general information about the CUNY Assessment Tests (CAT), and a set of resources to guide you in your preparation to take them. You can meet admissions requirements based on New York Regents test scores, the SAT tests, or the ACT tests. The CAT offers you an alternative route for admission to four-year colleges.
The CUNY Assessment Test in Reading is:
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The CUNY Assessment Test in Writing (CATW) is a standardized writing test that measures your ability to do college-level writing in English. The purpose of the test is to assess your reading, thinking, and writing skills to determine if they are consistent with the instructional goals of college-level writing courses, and to assess your readiness for introductory college courses.
You will have 90 minutes to complete the test. You may bring one non-electronic dictionary to the test, bilingual if preferred.
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Disney announced its next Limited Time Magic event Friday.
The next event dubbed Winter Wonderland will begin Monday at the Canada Pavilion at Epcot.
Running from Monday until Jan. 20, the pavilion will be home to a magical wonderland that includes falling snow and a chance to meet with Disney characters.
Times for the Winter Wonderland are from 10:30 a.m. until 2:10 p.m. and 3:05 p.m. until 5:45 p.m. daily.
Limited Time Magic are themed celebrations that will last an entire week at the parks.
Disney's plan is to amplify holiday fun with the events. Additional themes are expected to be announced throughout 2013.
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Jeff Bailey is such a pipebeast.
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In the future, expect to see more and more Xeriscapes. Xeriscape is rapidly gaining acceptance across the country as an attractive and sensible alternative to acres and acres of sod. There are still barriers to widespread acceptance of Xeriscape including neighborhood protective covenants that mandate turf, misunderstandings about Xeriscape, and landscape prejudice.
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The actors spent Thanksgiving at the Center Pompidou in Paris, looking at the museum's modern art collection and dining at Chez Georges, a restaurant boasting panoramic views from the building's top floor.
Culkin, 33, was spotted kissing his new love interest and dancing with her in the street.
On Nov. 22, the former child star was also spied affectionately greeting the All My Children actress at the French capital's Orly airport – welcoming her with a single red rose in a … plastic water bottle.
Four days later, the couple got cozy at the historic Café de Flore on the Boulevard Saint-Germain.
The pair spent two hours at a table with four friends as they smoked cigarettes and sipped Champagne at the nightspot where famed lovers such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir once rendezvous'd. (More recently, the café has attracted the likes of Blake Lively and Quentin Tarantino.)
"They were very animated and talked together a lot," says an observer. "They kissed at the table and were very comfortable. They have the air of being very much in love."
"She really resembles Mila," says the eyewitness. "You could easily mistake one for the other."
And Culkin, who was married to Guiding Light actress Rachel Miner from 2000 to 2002, has clearly moved on, too.
The actor, who recently lent his voice to the animated series Robot Chicken, is now focused on creating artwork and has been living in New York City and Paris.
His brightly colored paintings of pop culture figures such as Kurt Cobain, Super Mario and a nude Jerry Seinfeld were recently exhibited in Manhattan.
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Data were obtained on the general population epidemiology of DSM-III-R posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including information on estimated lifetime prevalence, the kinds of traumas most often associated with PTSD, sociodemographic correlates, the comorbidity of PTSD with other lifetime psychiatric disorders, and the duration of an index episode.
Modified versions of the DSM-III-R PTSD module from the Diagnostic Interview Schedule and of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview were administered to a representative national sample of 5877 persons aged 15 to 54 years in the part II subsample of the National Comorbidity Survey.
The estimated lifetime prevalence of PTSD is 7.8%. Prevalence is elevated among women and the previously married. The traumas most commonly associated with PTSD are combat exposure and witnessing among men and rape and sexual molestation among women. Posttraumatic stress disorder is strongly comorbid with other lifetime DSM-III-R disorders. Survival analysis shows that more than one third of people with an index episode of PTSD fail to recover even after many years.
Posttraumatic stress disorder is more prevalent than previously believed, and is often persistent. Progress in estimating age-at-onset distributions, cohort effects, and the conditional probabilities of PTSD from different types of trauma will require future epidemiologic studies to assess PTSD for all lifetime traumas rather than for only a small number of retrospectively reported "most serious" traumas.
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AMD lawsuit by Zack Whittaker
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quote: The order prevents the accused employees from destroying files on the machines in their investigation (hence obstructing the investigation) and prevents them from poaching other employees.
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE - Winter 2013 has come out of the gate fast and furious and snow sports enthusiasts were loving the abundant, fresh powder during the holiday period. Tahoe-Truckee resorts and businesses are reaping the economic benefits derived from a solid early season snowpack that draws visitors. It's a great start to a new year.
Remember two years ago when the Northern Sierra was hammered by the epic winter of 2011, the ninth snowiest since 1879 on Donner Pass? (2011 was also the seventh wettest winter in a century at Tahoe City.) Seasons like that don't come around very often. Or do they?
Don't look now, but this winter is already giving 2011 a run for its money. As of New Year's Day 2013, total aggregate precipitation across the Northern Sierra is running neck and neck with a near identical booster-rocket graph trajectory exhibited in the final months of 2010. Most remarkably, by Jan. 1, both 2011 and 2013 winters had streaked ahead of 1983 in precipitation, the wettest year of record in the 8 Station Sierra Index established in 1922.
We're talking about top tier, heavy hitting winters in a dynamic climate that ranks up there with major mountain snow zones around the country.
It seems logical to think one significant difference between winter 2011 and this year, however, would be 2012's early December deluge of higher elevation rainfall that nearly generated a major flood event on the Truckee River near Truckee and Reno, Nev.
The lack of snow and heavy rain demoralized skiers and some resort operators, but when you compare snowfall tallies for 2011 and 2013 up to New Year's Day, you might be surprised. So far this season, at the 8,200-foot-level of Squaw Valley, they have received nearly 21 feet of snow. By the same date in 2011 - a bit more than 24 feet.
How about at the bottom of the mountain where conditions were bleak after that post Thanksgiving rain event? This year 12.4 feet of snow measured at Squaw Valley's 6,200 foot level. By the same date in 2011 - 13.6 feet. Let's face it. We're on a roll.
California's winter storms can really pack a punch. Driven onshore by a vigorous jet stream, powerful, moisture-laden low pressure systems hammer the lowlands with sheets of rain, before the strong westerly flow forces the whole package up and over the Sierra range. Precipitation is enhanced over the mountains where downpours of rain and intense snowfall can be overwhelming.
One hundred and sixty years ago, during the winter of 1852-1853, the Golden State was young and brash, flush from the Gold Rush and swarming with miners, ranchers, farmers, and merchants. Production at the gold diggings had just peaked, but the abundant natural resources and healthful temperate climate convinced many to permanently settle the Pacific Slope.
For the thousands of immigrants who chose to live in the Sacramento Valley or in the Sierra foothill mining districts, the severe winter of 1853 tested their mettle to the extreme.
The Pacific storm door opened with a bang in the middle of November 1852 and never let up. By early December, persistent rain in the lowlands and raging blizzards in the higher elevations were making life miserable, if not downright dangerous. On Dec. 17, 1852, the worst storm in years caused damage along the coast and flood devastation in the interior.
In the high country, heavy snowfall that day claimed the first recorded avalanche fatality in the Sierra when 23-year-old William F. Weir was killed near Poker Flat. Weir was just one of several slide victims that season, but his and other tragic deaths during the winter of '53 helped convince his fellow miners skis were needed for winter survival in the mountains. That in turn gave birth to competitive alpine skiing and winter snowsports in California.
It rained for 20 days that December, which caused the Sacramento River to overflow its banks. It was the fourth year in a row high water had caused widespread damage in the southern Sacramento Valley. There were no levees to protect the city of Sacramento and flood waters repeatedly inundated the capital of California.
At the time, Lieutenant R. S. Williamson was exploring a possible railroad route from the Sacramento Valley to the Columbia River. In his detailed, professional report, Lt. Williamson noted, "I came down the (Sacramento) river in December 1852 when the sheet of water covering the country was fifty miles broad."
Stay tuned for part 2.
- Tahoe historian Mark McLaughlin is a nationally published author and professional speaker. His award-winning books are available at local stores or at www.thestormking.com. You can reach him at email@example.com. Check out Mark's new blog at www.tahoenuggets.com.


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Sunday, February 10, 2013
A couple visiting from out of town went to Shem Creek to enjoy dinner and cocktails. When they walked outside to leave they were approached by a clean cut guy, about 21 years old. He said he worked for the restaurant, and as part of the service the restaurant offered, he would be happy to drive them home in their own car. The victim thought this was surprising, but agreed. When they got back to the hotel the driver told the couple that the last guy he did this for gave him $100. The victim told the driver he was not going to give him $100. But he did give him $5.
This enraged the driver and he berated the victim as he walked through the parking lot toward the hotel. That is when the victim realized the driver was intoxicated.
The victim asked the hotel clerk to call police and upon hearing this, the suspect took off running. Police patrolled the area but could not find him. Back at the restaurant, the employees there told police that they do not offer a service like that.
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