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The South Bay's own Smog City Brewing was recently named the top Los Angeles Breweries to watch in 2013 by L.A. Weekly.
The brewery, which is currently building its new facility in Torrance, has already won national recognition in its first year of operation by winning a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival (think of it as the Pulitzer for beers) for its Groundwork Coffee Porter.
As L.A. Weekly put it, Smog City Brewing "could very well be L.A.'s new signature brewery."
According to owners Laurie and Porter, the new brewing facility and tap room in Torrance is expected to open sometime in the second quarter of 2013. For now, many of Smog City's beers can be found throughout the South Bay and Los Angeles at local bars and restaurants.
Here is a look at what else is happening on the craft beer scene in the South Bay:
Beer Bars, Restaurants and Stores
Adam's Fine Wine & Liquor | Redondo Beach
Adam's will be receiving beers from San Francisco's Almanac Beer Co. this week which marks the first time the brewery has distributed to Southern California.
Other new beer arrivals this week at Adam's include:
- Sierra Nevada Big Foot (Barleywine)
- Lagunitas Brewing Lagunitas Sucks (Double IPA)
- Drie Fonteinen Oude Geuze
One bottle of Sam Adams Utopia is still available for $199.
The Rockefeller | Hermosa Beach
The Rockefeller will be hosting beer School and beer tasting with Stone Brewing on Jan 21 starting at 6 p.m. Guests will have an opportunity to meet the brewer as well. Tasters of Stone's beer will go for $3; $12 for a whole flight. Keep the glass!
Sophie's Place | Redondo Beach
Current tap list (as of Jan. 9):
- Smog City Brewing The Nothing (Imperial Chocolate Stout)
- Unita Brewing HooDoo Kolsch
- Unibroue Trois Pistoles (Belgian Dark Ale)
- Ayinger Brau-Weiss (Hefewiezen)
- Firestone Walker Pivo Pilsner
- Firestone Walker DBA
- Great Divide Hercules (Double IPA)
- Deschutes Chain Breaker White IPA
Naja's Place | Redondo Beach
Ballast Point Tap Takeover | Thursday, Jan. 10 | 8 p.m.
Naja's will host San Diego County's Ballast Point Brewing tonight (Thursday) with a Tap Takeover and Pint Night.
Naja's said there will be 18 Ballast Point beers on tap for the event including a barrel aged version of their Tongue Buckler imperial red ale.
Strand Brewing will host two pint nights this week in the South Bay:
Tuesday, Jan. 15 | 6-8 p.m. | Brewco, Manhattan Beach
Strand Brewing's Rich will be on hand to pour and talk about Strand beers. The first 50 pints poured will get to keep the Strand branded pint glass.
Beer lineup includes:
- 24th Street Pale Ale
- Beach House Amber
- Atticus IPA
- Bagheera 3rd Anniversary Ale
- Black Sand Double IPA
Wednesday, Jan. 16 | 6 p.m. - close | Hot's Kitchen, Hermosa Beach
Seven Strand beers will be poured and a special Chicken Tikka Taco will be paired with the Bagheera 3rd Anniversary Ale. The first 50 customers will get to keep the Strand pint glass.
Beer linup includes:
- 24th Street Pale Ale
- Beach House Amber
- Atticus IPA
- Bagheera 3rd Anniversary Ale
- Black Sand Double IPA
- Black IPA
- Batch 100 Stout
Current beers on tap at the tasting room include:
- Beach House Amber (Amber Ale)
- 24th Street Pale Ale
- Atticus (IPA)
- Black IPA
- Bagheera-East India Pale Ale (3rd Anniversary Ale featuring a blend of curry, cumin, cinnamon, cloves, toasted coconut and tamarind).
- Black Sand (Double IPA)
Tap room hours this week for beer tasting and growler fills are:
Thursday: 4-9 p.m.
Friday: 4-9 p.m.
Saturday: Noon-8 p.m.
Sunday: Noon-6 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 13 | 12:30-7 p.m. | Whole Foods El Segundo
Smog City will help Whole Foods in El Segundo celebrate the expansion of their beer bar to 26 taps. Smog City representatives will be on hand to talk beer along with other local breweries.
Monday, Jan. 14 | 6-10 p.m. | Venice Ale House, Venice Beach
Along with Ladyface Brewing Co. and Venice Ale House Smog City will help celebrate the launch of Tap Hunter L.A. by pouring four of their beers at Venice Ale House. Each brewery will also collaborate to produce a "Tan and Black" mix of two of their beers.
Smog City also continues construction on its new brewing facility in Torrance. Last week, workers poured the concrete floors of the brewery which now allows for brewing equipment to be set up.
El Segundo Brewing | El Segundo
Tap room hours for beer tasting and growler fills are:
Wednesday: 5-9 p.m.
Thursday: 5-9 p.m.
Friday: 5-9 p.m.
Saturday: 2-9 p.m.
Sunday: 2-7 p.m.
Monkish Brewing Co. | Torrance
Tap room hours this week for beer tasting and growler fills are:
Thursday: 4-9 p.m.
Friday: 4-9 p.m.
Saturday: 3-8 p.m.
Sunday: 1-6 p.m.
Editor's Note: Only establishments that have submitted updates are included in this column. If you own a beer bar, brewery, beer store or beer-centric restaurant in the South Bay of Los Angeles and would like to include your establishment's updates in this column, please send editor John Schreiber an email at email@example.com. This column relies on the updates from local business owners to keep it running—please contribute!

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Michael 'Mike' Bushlack
On Sunday, September 8, 2013, Michael Bushlack, age 50, passed away peacefully after a short battle with cancer at his home in Shakopee, MN. Loved and missed by wife Laurie; children, Brevin and Brie; parents, James and Lois Bushlack; siblings, Doug (Mary) Bushlack, Lori (Rodney) Born; other family and friends. All services will be held at Shepherd of the Lake Lutheran Church, 3611 North Berens Road NW, Prior Lake, MN. The visitation will be on Sunday, from 4-8 pm and Monday starting at 9:30 am with the Celebration of Life Service at 11 am.
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But before a case of mistaken identity could be resolved, Millard had spent most of the weekend in jail. "I didn't even get to wish my mother a happy Mother's Day," he said.
The true culprit, Jesse Boyd, had provided Millard's birth date, his Social Security number, even an address where Millard previously lived when the suspect was arrested on the tampering charge.
That man, however, skipped a court date and a warrant was issued for Millard, who was arrested when he went to the sheriff's office to plead his innocence.
Millward thought a photo taken at the jail of Boyd would resolve the matter. It didn't. "They pulled up his picture and you could see it wasn't me," Millard said.
He was told that didn't matter. The sheriff's office would need more objective evidence that the man named in the warrant actualy was someone else. That meant confirmation by either fingerprint analysis or by retinal eye scanner, a normally quick determination. But that process was delayed over the weekend.
Millard did not get out of jail until almost noon on Monday. He is not happy with either the sheriff's office or the bail bondsman involved. Nor has he lost sight of whose alleged actions that landed him in jail.
"I don't know the dude," Millard said of Boyd. "But I'll always remember his face for doing this to me."
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Getting cutting-edge IT information from an author's brain to yours more quickly is the mission of Short Cuts, a new line of digital documents from Pearson Technology Group (PTG). Short Cuts are "concise PDF documents about a cutting-edge technology that shows great promise, or an existing technology that has reached the 'tipping point' and is about to take off", says PTG. The rationale is that when a hot topic comes along, many readers don't want to wait the extra weeks or months needed for the information finally to reach the printed page. Despite the rapid availability, PTG claims that Short Cuts retain the "same level of quality, accuracy, knowledge, and insight" as printed books. The titles span a wide range of IT topics from Pearson's various imprints, including Addison-Wesley Professional, Cisco Press, Exam Cram and Prentice Hall Professional, among others.
ITTIA just released version 1.1 of ITTIA DB, the firm's self-titled, flagship database for deployment in mobile and embedded platforms. ITTIA says that its fully cross-platform database offers developers "fine-grain control over how system resources are used in order to produce efficient mobile and embedded applications...where the limited memory, storage and processing power requirements make software development challenging." This upgraded version boasts an enhanced C API, increased control over storage size for each file type, an improved interface for accessing BLOB data, modified transaction handling for improved tracking of resource-acquisition bugs and other performance and configuration enhancements. ITTIA notes that many customers utilize its product on embedded Linux platforms, for instance, "HVAC controller systems, physical access control devices and consumer electronics". You can get an evaluation copy of ITTIA DB from the company's Web site.
The MultiCore Plus SDK from Mercury Computer Systems, now free from the bonds of beta at version 1.0, is a seamless package of software development tools and libraries that enables its users to exploit the Cell Broadband Engine (BE) and other multicore processors fully. According to Mercury, the SDK "includes a comprehensive programming framework, highly optimized math libraries and a graphical IDE with powerful debug and analysis tools". Furthermore, supported on the open-source Linux distro for the Cell BE processor, the SDK complements components of the IBM SDK. The beta version of the product has been present in applications, such as aerospace and defense, seismic/geologic, semiconductor, life sciences, digital media and national labs. Both Mercury and IBM also offer a range of Cell BE processor-based products.
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Ethiopia: Averting the Crisis
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Critical gaps exist in the relief supplies needed for the 11 million people affected by drought in Ethiopia. Despite encouraging responses from donors over the past few months, Oxfam remains concerned that approximately half of the food required for 2003 still needs to be pledged and delivered to avert a crisis. Latest figures from the World Food Programme indicate that there is enough food pledged by the international community to cover urgent food requirements until June 2003. However beyond that date – 11 million people in Ethiopia face an uncertain future.


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I write about video games: the industry and the culture.
Will EA's single-player games survive the company's transition to cloud-based, always-online gaming? Will single-player gaming survive an industry hell-bent on making that leap?
"We are very proud of the way EA evolved with consumers," EA Labels President Frank Gibeau said recently [pdf]. "I have not green lit one game to be developed as a single player experience. Today, all of our games include online applications and digital services that make them live 24/7/365."
Gibeau is speaking of EA's embrace of the cloud. Going forward, every EA game will have some multi-player or social component. This doesn't mean single-player games will cease to be a part of the EA catalog, it just means that even single-player games will have tie-ins across multiple devices.
The Four Horsemen of the current gaming industry are: Mobile, Social, Free-To-Play, and The Cloud.
"Thus we end up with things like Dead Space 3, which has evolved from a solo horror experience to a co-op shooter, or the Galactic Readiness gong show of Mass Effect 3, or Dragon Age Legends on Facebook," writes The Escapist's Andy Chalk.
These four industry trends are all bound closely to one another, and there's no sign that any of them will be reversed…at least not any time soon.
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In fairness, this can be a very valuable system for certain types of games. Gibeau uses FIFA as an example, noting that the game is "available across 12 different platforms," and that "FIFA fans can check their standings on their mobile device or tablet, manipulate their teams on Facebook or play an immersive game of FIFA on their PC or console. Everything is connected so the user can pick up just where they left off from anywhere."
This same model will be applied to all sorts of genres, Gibeau says, including titles like Battlefield and SimCity.
I can see the convenience of this sort of cloud-based gaming. Let's say I'm playing an MMORPG that comes with a Facebook app and a mobile app. From my phone or Facebook login I can check my character, maybe play some mini-games or browse the cash shop (assuming this is a free-to-play game with a cash shop, a not too unlikely scenario these days.)
Depending on how immersive the game is, I can certainly see how being able to check in on my character or guild or the state of the server vs. server component, etc. would be a convenience. For sports games like FIFA I can see the utility of the cloud as well. After all, MMORPGs and sports games are inherently social games with non-linear gameplay and are competitive by nature. The more tools I have access to, the better.
But look no further than Mass Effect 3′s Galactic Readiness "gong show" (as Chalk puts it) for an example of how this sort of cloud-based integration across multiple platforms can seriously muddy what ought to be a genuinely single-player experience.
Galactic Readiness "gong show…" LOVE IT!
When my wife plays a game of solitaire does she want to play against another person? Of course not! With video games I am there for an escape. Me from the world, and that's about it.
With the release of the Mass Effect 3 Leviathan DLC EA apparently proved that (I submit) they are all about money. There is no thing wrong with that–they have taxes and mortgages to pay, kids to put thru braces, and flowers to buy the wife when they end up in the dog house (what, no one else?). It is what makes the country run. However, if the buzz phrase these days is to look forward into upcoming market trends, then they must be very careful not to inadvertently attempt to direct those trends. Although that would be great for them if they succeeded, failure could be catastrophic. The higher up the risk ladder you climb the greater the potential reward; but it also means you have that much farther to fall.
I wish EA the best of luck in their direction. However, I am a disabled veteran and sadly I will not be playing against some 12 year old who is mean with a joy stick.
Thank you for your time.
Kirk, out.
EA are really bad for the industry. Dead Space 3 has now abandoned its horror roots for a more Gears of War approach.
Then again, after the monstrosity that was Mass Effect 3, I'm not backing EA again.
Having online stuff is fine and all… especially those cloud sync things like Steam, achievements if people like them or if they have actually uses, like on TF2, or if the game calls for it, otherwise it isn't needed in most genres.
It isn't a bad thing to include the online, but like with Mass Effect 3, you have to go all on or not in at all. There was no reason to have that shitty horde multiplayer that doesn't do ANYTHING for the game at all, nor is the gameplay actually any better than anything else.
But it's fine to have online for things like Super Smash Bros, Mario Kart, Nintendo games like that, or things that are online already, like many shooters are or MMOs or co-op games like Diablo.
Honestly I enjoyed the horde mode, but I agree with you that it was tact on and unnecessary. Granted, despite your views on ME3, at least the singe player was still about 20 hours long unless you skip all the dialogue, cut scenes, side missions, and overall deprive you from the majority of the game. Meanwhile Activision sells COD every year which a 5 hour campaign by selling the multiplayer aspect as the main point of the game.
The single player was 18 hours for me, and I did absolutely everything except go back to everything 30 times to get like 100 more readiness.
But the real problem is every single level in the game was basically just tacked on, the same formula, boring and easy, and I played on Hard mode.
All of Mass Effect 3 felt rushed, contrived and terrible.
"The Four Horsemen of the current gaming industry are: Mobile, Social, Free-To-Play, and The Cloud."
Brilliant and absolutely true. Apocalypses, be they zombie, vampire, natural or whatever, are usually fascinating rather than scary. But this impending armageddon inspires only dread. A world where everything is …casual O_O
I don't know what to say. I pretty much agree wholeheartedly with you. Done well, it can be a great addition. Done poorly, it just mucks up an otherwise good game. I don't trust EA to do it well based off my recent experiences with them. I appreciate they're trying to adapt to changing times. Any company that doesn't is going to fail. However, they need to do so in a smart manner. Their consumers are pretty savvy, they can tell when the company is just trying to bilk them for cash.
The gaming industry almost feels as though it is about to collapse as we know it. More and more studios are closing or not making profits at all. Companies are talking nonsense mobile stuff. Games that fail are blaming used games (which never used to happen in snes/ps1/ps2 days).
Companies giving mutliplayer to everything isn't the answer, how about scaling back graphics? or trying something small and new, which if it is successful you can grow into something bigger in the next iteration.
When looking at From software, I feel as though they having been trying to make their dream game for years. Which is the opposite of most companies which try to find what is hot in the industry and stuff it into their title (even if it betrays past entries).
I miss the days when games where made by geeks and not business men. Game development is not a business, it is a passion. When companies show passion, they are typically greeted with praise.
I guess sales are different then praise, but it still seems as though most huge titles are merely making up their production values instead of making a profit.


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Several years ago I was fishing Thanksgiving morning, casting a Shadrap to shallow cover. I caught a bass from a treetop and it weighed 7 lbs. 2 ozs on my Deliar hand-held scales. As I released her, I noticed it was a few minutes after noon and thought of all the people sitting down to a meal of turkey and dressing. I realized I would rather fish than eat, even if the eating was a holiday meal. It helped to know my turkey and dressing would be served that night when my all my family gathered for the meal.
When I went in a little before dark, I got a surprise - and cold stares from my wife and my mother. The big meal that year was at noon so my brother could go to his in-laws for dinner. I had been so excited about going fishing I had not really paid attention to my instructions. I missed the meal and was the only one in the family not there. I got only a cold turkey sandwich for dinner, to go with the cold stares - and still would rather fish than eat.
Fishing is usually excellent around Thanksgiving. Big bass are often feeding in shallow water in late November in mid-Georgia and you can catch them by fishing a crankbait around stumps, trees and rocks. It is fun fishing because you are casting to a target and it is usually productive, making it even more fun.
Another choice is to try for crappie. There are several trees standing in 40 feet of water near my trailer at Clark's Hill. They were topped about 15 feet below the surface at normal full pool so, when the water is five feet low like is usually is in late November, the top of the tree is down about 10 feet. Schools of crappie suspend in these trees and I have had good luck getting right over them, dropping a tiny jig down to their level and catching a lot of big fish. They fight good on ultralight tackle and are excellent when fried.
Hybrids were stocked at Clark's Hill many years ago and they are very active during Thanksgiving Holidays. Big schools of big hybrids roam the flats and points, filling up on threadfin shad. Sometimes I catch one on my crappie rod and really have a fight. Usually I use heavier tackle and drop a spoon or tailspinner like a Little George down to them. I ride the lake watching my depthfinder for shad and fish below them. Jigging for them usually pays off is lots of strong fighting fish.
One Thanksgiving I saw lots of fish on my depthfinder on drops in 18 feet of water but could not get them to hit. Every time I stopped and started jigging for them, they disappeared. I realized the fish were moving rather than holding in one place so I devised a rig to take advantage of this. I tied a small floating Rapala to a Carolina worm rig. The one ounce sinker would carry the plug to the bottom quickly and the leader let it float up.
I would cast this rig out and drag it along the breakline with my trolling motor. I was able to intercept the fish and caught lots of hybrids and bass using this method. I now keep a plug rigged like this most of the time, and it has helped me catch fish when they would not hit anything else.
When I first started fishing during Thanksgiving back in the mid 1970's, it was unusual to see another boat on the lake. That has certainly changed with lots of people taking advantage of the good fishing. It was too good to hope to keep to myself.
I can't wait for the holidays to see my family - and get in a little fishing!


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A bipartisan group of county legislators, town supervisors and town council members came together Thursday morning in support of a proposed resolution that would put the burden of community college chargebacks on the county once again.
The county legislature passed a resolution on May 29 of this year to charge towns for the chargebacks, whereas the county previously covered the costs of out-of-county tuition for Rockland residents.
The upcoming resolution was introduced Thursday morning by Rockland County Legislators Ilan Schoenberger, Frank Sparaco and Alden Wolfe. They were joined by Clarkstown Town Supervisor Alex Gromack, Orangetown Town Supervisor Andy Stewart, Haverstraw Town Supervisor Howard Phillips, Stony Point Town Supervisor Geoffrey Finn, Ramapo Town Councilmen Daniel Friedman and Patrick Withers, Clarkstown Town Councilman Frank Borelli and Stony Point Councilman Jim McDonald. Schoenberger said Ramapo Town Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence planned on attending the meeting as well, but couldn't make it.
Schoenberger said part of the reason for introducing a resolution to reverse what was passed earlier this year is that the chargebacks didn't produce what the legislators were told it would produce. The chargebacks were supposed to bring in about $1.8 million to the county.
The county's auditor recently told the legislature that from Jan. 1 to Aug. 12 of this year, the chargebacks brought in $770,327.54. The county consultants projected that for the rest of the year, it would bring in about $395,000 for a total of about $1,165,000. The breakdown of how much each town has paid in chargebacks so far goes:
- Clarkstown - $279,394.75
- Haverstraw - $83,378.23
- Orangetown - $88,965.58
- Ramapo - $255,018.48
- Stony Point - $63,570.50
Schoenberger said if he knew those figures before voting on the initial legislation, he would've voted against it.
"In the end, it creates a lot of bad will, it creates bad will between the county and the towns," Schoenberger said. "It creates bad will in the operation of government, and in the end, whether the county tax payers pay for it or the town taxpayers pay for it, it's the same taxpayers. The question is whether it's put on the county bill or the town bill, and if I had realized we were talking just over $1 million instead of close to $2 million, I would've said it's not worth it."
Schoenberger said the resolution to reverse the chargebacks will be introduced after the new year, most likely in January, February or March. No matter when it's introduced, it will state that the county pays for the chargebacks starting on Jan. 1, 2013.
Wolfe said he felt charging the towns was distasteful, but added that it was done out of "sheer necessity" given the county's financial state and that they didn't receive the state help or deficiency bond they hoped for. Both Schoenberger and Wolfe voted in favor of the initial resolution back in May, which passed 11-6. Sparaco was one of the six to vote against it, and on Thursday said he was happy to see other legislators coming around to points he made back in May.
"I'm very happy that we could all work together and try to come to a peaceful solution. We have to listen to one another, which we're proving that we do," he said. "We can't just force one branch of government. We always complain about the state forcing their mandates upon the county, and now we're forcing something upon the towns. Instead of just complaining, a lot of politicians can just have press conferences over and over again, but they accomplish nothing. We need to all sit down and work together like we're doing in this situation and get something done for the constituents."
Gromack said the town supervisors didn't understand back in May why the charges were being shifted to them and they're happy the decision has a chance of being reversed.
The college chargebacks were one issue, along with others, that created some tension between the county and towns. Schoenberger called the proposed resolution the opening of a door to mend that relationship.
"You may have observed that during the last year, 2012 and maybe into the end of 2011, there was a somewhat contentious relationship between county government and the supervisors," he said. "There were some disagreements between the county executive and the supervisors, and some of the legislators and the supervisors. It is our desire and our hope that by reversing this chargeback that we can bring everybody together — five town supervisors, the legislature, the county executive — to go forward in these difficult times."
From the towns' standpoint, the county taking back on the chargeback fees would certainly help repair the relationship moving into the future, where perhaps the county and towns could work together more closely on other issues as well.
"What we need to do is to continue to have more discussions in other areas where we can be partners," Gromack said. "Look, the facts of the life are that come the end of 2013, there will be a new county executive for the first time in 20 years. It is a great opportunity to start that dialogue now with individuals on how we can do things differently, how we can have more cooperative meetings and talk about so many important issues where we've had partnerships in the past, but from my view, have gotten away from those in the last four or five years."
Just last week, a bipartisan group led by Rockland County Legislator Ed Day introduced a five-point plan to revamp the chargeback programs and reduce costs for taxpayers.
Day argued that the plan his group suggested does more for taxpayers than the one introduced by Schoenberger, Sparaco and Wolfe
"I certianly appreciate the town supervisors' reaction," Day said. "Whatever the number is, this would remove it from their budget line. I understand they are happiest with that. The incontrovertible fact is that absent the other changes we recommended, there is no tax relief to taxpayers. The cost remains the same.
"One is a cost-shifting exercise and the other is a tax relief initiative. That is the difference between the two plans."
Schoenberger and others said they didn't read too many details of the other and would rather focus on their own proposed legislation. Wolfe said he thinks the resolution will receive positive support from many other legislators so they can get the nine votes needed for it to pass. Schoenberger said that even if it passes and the county executive vetoes it, they'll work to get the 12 legislator votes needed to override the veto.
State Senator David Carlucci expressed his agreement with the need to get away from the county simply passing expenses on to the towns.
"I am delighted that our County officials have recognized that it is wrong and misguided to pass their own financial obligations onto our Towns," Carlucci said. "From the beginning I have said that we need to change the way we pay for tuition charge-backs. I was proud to co-sponsor bi-partisan legislation (S.7152) in the Senate that would protect Towns from charge-backs and provide significant mandate relief from the State. Although this passed through the Senate Higher Education Committee, we need to do more. When the Legislature reconvenes in January, I once again look forward to pushing this common sense legislation that will protect local taxpayers and ensure that our students can afford a quality education."
For more on the issue of chargebacks, see the following Patch articles and blogs:
- Legislator Criticizes Towns' Attempt to Charge Road Costs to County
- Orangetown Resolution Would Bill County For Road Maintenance And Utilities
- Senator And Town Supervisors Push For State Aid In Covering Community College Costs
- County 'Charge-Back' for College Tuiton Makes No Sense
- Orangetown Blasts Rockland's 'College Charge-Back' Measures
- Orangetown Council Criticizes County 'Charge-Backs'
- Clarkstown Could Face $2 Million in Unexpected Expenses
- Special Legislative Meeting To Vote On Deficit Resolutions
- Towns Plan to Bill County For Road Maintenance
- War of Words over Rockland Roads Escalates
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1. The Law by Frederic Bastiat
2. The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations? by Tony Blankley4. Up from Liberalism by William F. Buckley, Jr.
5. Witness by Whittaker Chambers
6. Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader by Dinesh D'Souza7. The Humiliation of the Word by Jacques Ellul8. The Theme is Freedom: Religion, Politics and the American Tradition by M. Stanton Evans9. The Art of Readable Writing by Rudolf Flesch
10. Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman11. The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater
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16. The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy—If We Let It Happen by Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore & Peter Tanous
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18. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan
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24. A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell25. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift26. Making the News: A Study in the Construction of Reality by Gaye Tuchman27. The American Journalist in the 21st Century: U.S. News People at the Dawn of a New Millennium by David H. Weaver28. The Ethics of Rhetoric by Richard Weaver
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Number of seniors: 114
Graduation: Thursday, June 6, at 6 p.m. on the front lawn
Valedictorian: Brittaney Leeper
Salutatorian: Samantha Hardy
Class officers: President Meaghan Summerlin, Vice President Samantha Maier, Treasurer Brianna Mann, Secretary Kellie Fone
Class advisers: Monica Roy and Adam Stackhouse
Prom: Monday, June 3, 2013, at Danversport Yacht Club. Theme is "Masquerade Ball."
Other special senior activities: Senior barbeque and breakfast
Three memories or moments that show what makes the Class of 2013 special and unique:
1. The Class of 2013 is the last class to play basketball for Essex Aggie Rams (not a combined team with North Shore Tech's Bulldogs) during their freshman year. Since their sophomore year forward, all classes have all played on the combined basketball teams with North Shore Tech.
2. The Class of 2013 is thoughtful. They show great concern for one another. They are individuals, yet cohesive as a class.
3. It's the school's 100th anniversary. They are graduating in the 100th year.


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The ubiquitous incandescent light bulb has come a long way since its invention 130 years ago and is now the star of Tim Fishlock's memorial art piece entitled What Watt? This dazzling chandelier speaks to the transition away from the widespread use of old school bulbs towards greener, more sustainable alternatives. Talk about a bright idea!
These sparkling lightpieces aren't just gorgeous to look at — they also send a message to both the unknowing energy-eater and the conscientious energy-preservationist. Constructed using 1,243 suspended retired bulbs, and illuminated at the center by one low-energy fluorescent bulb, each chandelier is a truly stunning example of eco-art.
"It is a memorial and celebration of the humble incandescent bulb" says Fishlock, who anticipates the complete replacement of all forms of incandescent lighting for more energy efficient methods by 2011.
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Kashmir Hill, Forbes Staff
Welcome to The Not-So Private Parts where technology & privacy collide
Back in 2011, Facebook announced that it was going to start putting users in "Sponsored Story" ads around the site based on things that they had "Liked" and said there was no way for you to opt out of the spokesperson role (beyond not 'Liking' anything). Within three months of the announcement, an enterprising group of plaintiffs sued Facebook in California saying the company had violated the law by using their names and likenesses in ads without their permission and without paying them.
Facebook and the plaintiffs agreed to settle the lawsuit earlier this year for $20+ million, but a federal judge objected to the settlement because the amount seemed arbitrary to him and because it didn't seem to take into account the damage done to the 100 million other Facebook users who have already appeared in Sponsored Stories, such as the dude who famously wound up promoting a 55-gallon drum of sexual lubricant last Valentine's Day.
So Facebook and the plaintiffs went back to the drawing board. Now they have a new proposed settlement that spreads the remunerative love around to a greater number of people. Reuters reports that Judge Richard Seeborg has given it a tentative thumbs up:
In a revised proposal, Facebook and plaintiff lawyers said users now could claim a cash payment of up to $10 each to be paid from a $20 million total settlement fund. Any money remaining would then go to charity.
The company also said it would engineer a new tool to enable users to view content that might have been displayed in Sponsored Stories and opt out if they desire, a court document said.
That means up to two million Facebook users could get paid out, though honestly, the sex lube guy should get at least $20, right? Personally, I'd ask for at least $5,000 to appear in a sex lube advertisement (in case anyone is interested).
According to Social Bakers, Facebook has nearly 168 million users in the U.S., so there may be some stiff competition when it comes to claiming those funds. It seems unlikely that there will be much left for charity. That's sad news for the privacy-promoting non-profits who were originally slated to get a piece of a $10 million cy pres fund proposed in the previous settlement.
Not everyone will get paid, but all users will have a way to opt out of these ads moving forward, which could be bad news for Facebook in terms of advertising revenue… if people actually care enough to opt out.
In other Facebook legal woe news, Max Schrems — the Austrian thorn in Facebook's side — and his activist group Europe v. Facebook, are suing the social networking giant in Europe, claiming that it has failed to comply with privacy laws there.
Facebook is making money from all the companys advertising on it, but are the companys making money back from using Facebook ? some how i doubt they are, these companys would get more direct sales from advertising their goods on school lockers for instance reaching millions of students on a daily basis with their goods. its a win -win situation for both schools and companys.
What does this mean? Does this mean that after Facebook uses your image in Ads you can opt out? Most people wont do that. Facebook knows that. The whole thing Facebook was after at Court was the ability to make it difficult for users to opt out so they wont.
The judge erred. He should have made it so people can OPT OUT forever in 1 setting fix.
And do you have to OPT OUT of every single companies ad every time ?
This OPT OUT sounds so vague.
you wrote"The company also said it would engineer a new tool to enable users to view content that might have been displayed in Sponsored Stories and opt out if they desire, a court document said."
Only $5000, eh? You could probably ask for a little more. I mean, haven't you seen Indecent Proposal?
Kashmir, do your think that it will ever be possible, that someone may create a site, exactly like the "Fedbook" only take away all of the ridiculous stuff, that it is putting it's users through like this stuff?


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Mark and Nichole Stevens have always loved craft beer. Mark began homebrewing in his Mr. Coffee during college, and Nichole spent several years slinging drinks behind the bar. After spending a vacation in search of northern New England breweries that offered tours, the couple decided to create Maine Beer Tours to give guests a behind-the-scenes look at the burgeoning craft-beer industry.
Maine Beer Tours' palatable expeditions explore the ins and outs of the brewing process and the Maine brewing industry. Groups sightsee at several well-known breweries that employ diverse brewing styles and ingredients, including the well-known Allagash Brewing Company, Shipyard Brewing Company, and Urban Farm Fermentory, which doubles as a food-fermentation center and bee yard. To help expand guests' knowledge and pique interest in new types of beer, breweries give guests samples of their toothsome porters, ales, and witches' brews.
Whether leading visitors along the historic streets of Old Port or along the craggy coast near Portland's harbor in a trolley, the guides at Maine Foodie Tours regale visitors with background on the area's artisan cuisine. Each of them partners with local culinary artisans to uncover historical tidbits about dishes or reminiscences about the days when whoopie pies were still carved out of wood. On walking tours, they explain how fish houses, canneries, and textile mills have given way to coffee shops, bakeries, and restaurants, stopping for samples of fish, cheese, and microbrews to illustrate each point. On chocolate tours, they may explore the history of the cocoa bean by leading guests to confectioneries that craft cupcakes, ice cream, fudge, and truffles. In the spring, summer, and fall, Maine Foodie Tours offers other excursions, such as trolley and bike tours.
Nestled along the sandy shores of a spring-fed lake, Peters Pond RV Resort keeps campers comfortable with well-maintained campsites trumpeting a slew of amenities. Campers stow the bungalow-on-wheels or pop a tent at one of the resort's many sites, keeping creature comforts flowing with hook-ups for necessities, including water, electricity, and fondue. Occupy sunshine-drenched days fishing the stocked lake, hiking nearby trails, or parading about the two beaches, or settle vacation quarrels with old-fashioned rounds of bocce ball, badminton, or horseshoes. Wash away the musk of strenuous hikes or the memories of losing at hot potato with the resort's hot showers and laundry machines. The modern facilities also anchor campers to civilization, with cable hookups, a free WiFi hotspot, and hourly news updates beamed to each mind via the camp's resident medium.
Astride their trusty snowmobiles, the knowledgeable guides at Jay Snowmobile Adventures help visiting adventurers conquer the winter landscape during tours of picturesque Vermont snowscapes. One- and two-person tour packages begin at the outfitter's home base, located 3 miles from the entrance of Jay Peak Resort. From there, groups wind through the wilderness of Jay, Vermont and parts of Westfield for up to two hours, exploring the snowy nooks and frost-covered crannies of Jay State Forest and the nearby countryside. They rarely make the trip alone, though; moose and white-tailed deer often dot the secluded paths, ready to pose for snapshots in their most photogenic outfits.
With thousands of flight hours under his belt, experienced pilot Keith Deschambeault of Acadian Seaplanes chauffeurs nature-bound groups over breathtaking treetops and seascapes in a single-engine plane specially designed for water landings. Maine's illustrious coastline unfolds below as the small, sturdy planes soar on specialized air tours that seek out moose, remote mountain lakes, or destination fishing for trout, bass, and Maine's native aquamoose.
In late December, Ice Castles' creator, Brent Christensen, and a team of ice artists will finish transforming more than 12,000 tons of ice into full-fledged castles. With multiple large towers and ice walls, visitors are totally surrounded by the organic shapes of shimmering ice as they explore tunnels, courtyards, and caverns. In daytime, the castles glimmer in the sun; come nightfall, thousands of LED lights create an ethereal glow from within.
Today, the castles delight visitors of all ages, but the idea came from Brent Christensen's winter playtimes with his kids. They had already made ice rinks, ice caves, and other chilly creations when Brent decided to build a fort entirely out of ice, using icicles as the base structure. The kids dubbed the structure an "ice castle"—and it started to look more and more like one as Brent added a cave, tunnels, and a slide that spilled onto an ice-skating rink. Eventually, cars started detouring to their block to drive past the creation, and local snowmen inquired about home prices. But the idea truly took off when a local resort asked him to build a larger ice castle for them. He's built ice castles every winter since, including one in the winter of 2010–2011 that was featured in the Denver Post and called "a frosty, fairy-tale-like landscape" by the Los Angeles Times.


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at Newtown High School for the first in a series of community forums to determine the fate of Sandy Hook Elementary School building following the school shooting that took the lives of 20 children and six adults. Parents and community members offered a variety of opinions, including the excerpts below.
"I'm the father of a Sandy Hook first grader, but also two four-year-olds who will be in there in a couple years. My daughter lost her best friend that day, and we lost a close family friend of ours. I'm not going to comment as to what I think should happen to the building. I think there's been a lot of good ideas presented here. But I wanted to make two comments. One, don't redistrict no matter what. Two, let's make a decision. We have to take the appropriate amount of time, I understand that -- we have to get opinions, and everybody's ideas -- a vote, or whatever the appropriate mechanism is to make a decision. Our children need stability. They lost a lot. And the faster we can make a decision ... as to what this school is like and who's going to be there, then they can start look forward and look to the future as well."
-- Glenn Shepherd
"I'm a Sandy Hook School mom. I have a fifth grader who graduated from Sandy Hook last year and a 2nd-grader who was in the building that day. My son wants to go back to Sandy Hook. He could not understand why we couldn't go back to the building. He does not like Chalk Hill, he spends a lot of time in the hug room and in the nurse's office. Having an upstairs has really been a negative for him, because there's furniture moving above their heads -- there's lots of noises that the kids are not used to in the building. We had an awful lot of triggers for kids who heard things that day ... However, I cannot ask those teachers to go back if they don't want to. I cannot ask friends whose children escaped that day from those two classrooms to go back. If people are going to be traumatized by going back into the building, I can't ask them to. I wonder whether or not we could build a new facility where the field is, and turn the school into a memorial park."
-- Christine Wilford
"My son was directly across from the affected rooms. He saw more and heard more than any child ever should, let alone any person ever should ... His best friend doesn't want to go back, and I would never want to make someone go back that doesn't want to. I also heard him say -- as the banging was happening -- 'I'd be surprised if today was the end of my days.' So I have a seven-year-old who contemplated his death at that moment. And before I came to this meeting, [he asked] 'I'm at Chalk Hill. How long am I going to be there? What's going to happen?' I said, 'The mommies and daddies are going to get together and talk about what's going to happen.' And he looked at me blank. He said, 'What do you mean? It's my school. What else would it be?'
I look at [how much he] took that day. He took their friends. He took their teachers. He took their sense of security. He took their innocence. He took their childhood. I don't want to give him the school ... I'm not saying my answer is right or wrong. I'm looking at it through the eyes of a child who just can't understand what else it could be."
-- Amy Taber, Sandy Hook mother
"I feel so touched and privileged to be among you all today, to hear the heartfelt and heartbroken sharings. To me, the fact that the whole town's heart was broken open -- and the fact it didn't just happen to us, it happened to the whole world -- was something quite remarkable and special. As we listen to all these different ideas, it sounds like they're in conflict. It's a conundrum. I think back to the history of this town, which has been at times very divisive. I would hate to see a 52-48% vote on what to do. In this broken-open space we're in, I think so much more is now possible. Whether we like it not, this town has changed. We can't go back to what things were ... Things might be possible now that nobody in this room has yet thought of. It's so raw still, it hasn't settled in, and there's a pressure to act and resolve and move forward.
My wish for us is that we stay in this decision until we find something that not only are we thrilled and delighted as a town that we've come up with something that works for us, but that when the world thinks of Newtown two years from now or five years from now ... they don't think of this as just where something awful happened. They think of this place where something amazing and beautiful happened. That's the legacy. That's the way we truly create a memorial to honor those lives that we lost."
-- Ben Roberts, Hawleyville resident


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WASHINGTON, March 23, 2009 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today named Michael Michener as Administrator of USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).
"I am extremely pleased to have someone with Mike's vast foreign affairs experience on my team," said Vilsack. "In addition to its efforts to expand economic opportunities for U.S. agriculture in the international marketplace, FAS also plays a vital role in international food aid and development programs."
Michener has served in three U.S. foreign affairs agencies in the past 10 years. He has spent considerable time overseas promoting post-conflict stability operations, economic development and human rights. Most recently, he served as the Senior Democracy and Governance Advisor and Lead Planning Officer for the U.S. State Department's Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization. From 2005 to 2007, he served as the lead Iraq policy officer for the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, managing nearly $400 million in assistance programs promoting democracy and human rights in that country. He also has experience working with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Kosovo, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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St. Supéry Bolognese Sauce
Serve with St. Supéry Merlot
Here is my take on the classic sauce Bolognese. This thick hearty sauce goes great with any type of pasta or gnocchi, especially when accompanied by a glass of Merlot. Save a little of the pasta cooking water to thin out the sauce if necessary.
3 tablespoons olive oil
½ cup onion – finely chopped
½ cup carrot – finely chopped
½ cup celery – finely chopped
2 garlic cloves – finely chopped
1 pound ground beef
¼ pound prosciutto – finely chopped
1 cup St. Supéry cabernet sauvignon
1 cup whole milk
28 ounce can chopped tomatoes, packed in juice
1 tablespoon sugar
Heat the oil in a heavy bottomed saucepan over medium heat. Add the onion, carrot, celery & garlic and sauté until soft – about 5 minutes. Turn up the heat, add the ground beef and prosciutto, and sprinkle with 1 teaspoon of salt. Cook until the meat looses its raw color while stirring to break up the meat into small pieces.
Add the wine and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the milk, sugar & tomatoes with the juice, turn down the heat, and cook at a bare simmer for an hour and a half. Adjust the seasonings and serve over your favorite. Top with parmesan if desired.
Makes about 4 cups of sauce – enough for 1 pound of pasta.
Serves 6 - 8