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2014 Festival Tickets
|November 14th, 15th, &
16th, 2014
|Florida Atlantic University (FAU)
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431
| - Dinner Under The Stars
- Vineyard Party
- Grand Tasting
- Jazz Bubbles & Brunch
- Craft Brew Battle
5th Annual Celebration
Boca Raton Wine & Food Festival
A Culinary Affair!
November 14th, 15th, & 16th, 2014
Please your palate, step into your stride and enjoy the largest outdoor Culinary Affair in South Florida during the 5th Annual Boca Raton Wine & Food Festival on Friday, November 14th, Saturday, November 15th, and Sunday, November 16th, 2014. The 5th Annual Celebration takes place at the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) campus in Boca Raton. This year promises to be a party no one will ever forget with five very special events over three days. Friday night kicks off the festivities with two unique events, the exclusive VIP Dinner Under The Stars, A Four-Course Food & Wine Affair; 7 PM to 10 PM, and the Vineyard Party, A Vine to Glass Affair; 7 PM to 10 PM. Then on Saturday evening, over 75 chefs from the tri-county area converge upon the festival grounds for the Best Florida Food Festival event the Grand Tasting, A Culinary Affair; 6 PM to 10 PM. Sunday morning join us at the Jazz Bubbles & Brunch, A Social Affair; Noon to 3 PM. And, for you Craft Brew lovers we have added a very special event just for you! Join us for the inaugural Craft Brew Battle, A Hoppy Affair!; Sunday afternoon from 1 PM to 4 PM.
Grand Tasting, A Culinary Affair!
Saturday, November 15th - 6 PM to 10 PM
As you stroll through the festival on Saturday feeling the balmy breeze while the sun sets you will be embraced in sensory delight as your journey takes you through Nineteen Regions; a Welcome Reception, France, Italy, America, South America, Spain, Asia Pacific, Sweet Endings Village, Organic Village, Farmers Market, Sensory Garden, The Vineyard, IKEA Kitchen Alley, Live Entertainment Stage and IKEA Lounge, Spirits and Craft Beer Villages, BBQ Village, Retail and Business Shopping Bazaar and our new Wine Store sponsored by WineEvents.com. Now you can buy your favorite wines at the Festival and go home with them! The 200,000 square feet will be transformed into a lavish walkway of elaborately decorated countries and regions that come alive through a gastronomic journey of tastes, sounds and visions! Meet and mingle among 70 Chefs from the tri-county area as they prepare their most beloved dishes from 6 World Regions and a Sweet Endings Village. Premier vintners will offer tastings of some of the world's finest varietals of wine. Cultural music and décor will take you to places afar. Live cooking demonstrations in IKEA Kitchen Alley and enjoy boutique experiences with the festival sommeliers in the Sensory Garden. Visit the Farmers Market, sponsored by Cabot Cheese, in partnership with NuTurf of Pompano Beach and check out Pero Family Farms in the BBQ Village, stroll and shop in the Retail and Business Shopping Bazaar. This year you can learn the art of cooking with rum in the Spirits Village and enjoy a varietal of seasonal craft beers in the Beer Village. Enjoy Live Entertainment and dancing at the Main Entertainment Stage & IKEA Lounge with local songstress Kendra Fulmer opening up for Groove Line. The Grand Tasting on Saturday will be A Culinary Affair!
VIP Dinner Under The Stars, A Four-Course Food & Wine Affair!
Friday, November 14th - 7 PM to 10 PM
On Friday night we are hosting an exclusive VIP Dinner Under The Stars. It's about Atmosphere. It's about Food. It's about Wine. And now, six south Florida chefs are bringing their culinary talents to your table. Friday evening includes a four-course dinner prepared live to please your palate as you are introduced to perfectly paired wines by our six Sommeliers. An intimate number of guests will choose the region of their choice to dine for the evening; American, Italian, and Mediterranean. After your culinary experience, you'll make your way through the Retail and Business Shopping Bazaar. Then, you'll head to the Main Entertainment Stage & IKEA Lounge for Dancing. VIP Guests will have FREE access to the Vineyard Party. The Dinner Under The Stars has Limited Seating Available to ensure an intimate experience. Be sure to purchase tickets early as they will sell out!
The VIP Dinner Under The Stars is hosted by Honorary Chair Robert Stanfield.
Vineyard Party, A Vine to Glass Affair!
Friday, November 14th - 7 PM to 10 PM
If you want to take advantage of the more intimate experience that we have created join us on Friday night for the Vineyard Party. While walking through the vineyard, the sights, sounds and aromas transport guests to Oregon, Sonoma and Napa Valley. Enjoy the journey through these Regions; a Welcome Reception, Bites! Tasting Village, Sweet Endings Village, Organic Village, Farmers Market, Sensory Garden, The Vineyard, IKEA Kitchen Alley, Live Entertainment Stage and IKEA Lounge, Spirits and Craft Beer Villages, BBQ Village, Retail and Business Shopping Bazaar and our new Wine Store sponsored by WineEvents.com. Now you can buy your favorite wines at the Festival and go home with them! The name of the event may say 'Vineyard Party' but that doesn't mean you won't find a lavish selection of cuisines prepared by our chefs in the Bites! Tasting Village and BBQ Village along with plenty of wine varietals to enjoy while watching the live cooking demonstrations in IKEA Kitchen Alley. Guests can hang out in the Wine Sensory Garden with the festival sommeliers for a sensory wine tasting experience. There is something for everyone's palate…enjoy varietals of craft beers and cordials in the Craft Beer and Spirits Villages. Stroll into the Farmer's Market for fresh herbs and organic produce and be sure to try Progresso's new organic soup line in the Organic Village. The Retail and Business Shopping Bazaar is open all evening. At the Main Entertainment Stage & IKEA Lounge enjoy the vibe of Treebo Band. This will be a fun-filled Vine to Glass Affair for a limited number of guests.
Friday will definitely be amazing, we created an evening with two different price points, but with equally exciting appeal for everyone to enjoy!
Jazz Bubbles & Brunch, A Social Affair!
Sunday, November 16th - Noon to 3 PM
And, for those of you who like to wake up on Sunday mornings to enjoy a delectable brunch we have the perfect atmosphere waiting for you! Start your Sunday at the Jazz Bubbles & Brunch. Luxuriate in the chic, European breakfast, featuring an array of brunch stations in the Bites! Tasting Village, including unique fruit preparations and fresh catch dishes. Cheers to festival friends, both old and new, while enjoying Sparkling Wines, Mimosas and Bloody Marys. Don't be shy…you can go up for seconds!
Enjoy wine varietals in the Sensory Garden with the festival sommeliers. Stop by IKEA Kitchen Alley for live cooking demonstrations. The Farmers Market will be open showcasing fresh herbs, spices and organic produce and seasonal perennials so you can take a piece of the festival home with you. Enjoy the cool eclectic sounds of the Urban Gypsy Band, an eclectic jazz trio, performing a style of urban rhythms from around the world on the Main Entertainment Stage & IKEA Lounge. The brunch wouldn't be complete without the feeling of being in one of Europe's piazzas with our outdoor Retail and Business Shopping Bazaar …they are open throughout the festivities.
Being able to experience this culinary journey in this type of setting is going to a memorable experience! See you at A Social Affair! And, Kids are welcome.
The Annual Boca Raton Wine & Food Festival brings you face-to-face with those who have made their lives -- their craft. This is the time for you to dine, drink fine wine and experience A Culinary Affair! like no other in South Florida!
Friday, November 14th
- Dinner Under The Stars, A Four-Course Food & Wine Affair! - 7 PM to 10 PM
- Vineyard Party, A Vine to Glass Affair! - 7 PM to 10 PM
Saturday, November 15th
- Grand Tasting, A Culinary Affair! - 6 PM to 10 PM
Sunday, November 16th
- Jazz Bubbles & Brunch, A Social Affair! - Noon to 3 PM - * Alternate Location *
- Craft Brew Battle, A Hoppy Affair! - 1 PM to 4 PM
Call 561.338.7594 for Group Ticket Sales
Saturday, November 15th
- Grand Tasting, A Culinary Affair! - 6 PM to 10 PM
Sunday, November 16th
- Jazz Bubbles & Brunch, A Social Affair! - Noon to 3 PM - * Alternate Location *
- Craft Brew Battle, A Hoppy Affair! - 1 PM to 4 PM
Call 561.338.7594 for Group Ticket Sales
- Craft Brew Battle, A Hoppy Affair! - 1 PM to 4 PM
Call 561.338.7594 for Group Ticket Sales
Watch Video from the 3rd Annual Boca Raton Wine & Food Festival
2013 Musical Entertainment Lineup
Vineyard Party Entertainment Act
What better pairing for the Boca Raton Wine and Food festival than internationally flavored World Fusion band, Treebo. Combining musical elements from the band member's different cultural backgrounds- Cuba, Philippines, Colombia, Venezuela and right here in the USA, Treebo creates a fresh, vibrant and aromatic sound that epitomizes the melting pot we call South Florida. Songs that combine Latin beats, Asian flair, and American soul welcome you with the familiar yet entice you with the exotic. A delicious journey that takes you from Jazz clubs to Brazilian Beaches.
Treebo is led by Grammy member and guitarist, Noel Lorica. An award winning Jazz guitarist and composer on his own, Noel wanted to gather the best musicians and vocalists around to develop music that has it's roots in the vibrant instrumentation of Jazz with contemporary rhythms, melodies and lyrics that make you want to move and sing along. EJazz News stated that Noel's songs are "one of the rare stunning pieces of Latin jazz to hit the scene today...(they) have a deep inner purpose to them however gambling with innovation every step of the way". And it is that innovation and constant crafting that has made Treebo one of the best bands around today. Performing all over Florida at major events including Sunfest, Jazz on the Palm and Miami Music Festival and recording their second album to be released next year.
Grand Tasting Opening Entertainment Act
Kendra Fulmer Kendra Erika is a 20-year old singer/songwriter from Boca Raton, Florida.
Kendra has performed at many venues and festivals in South Florida including the Mizner Park Amphitheater and Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton, Boca Raton and Deerfield Food and Wine Festivals, Festival Market Place Pompano Beach and at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. In February 2012, Kendra was featured as the opening act for Australian pop star, Cody Simpson, at Revolution Live in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Kendra has just released her first Album, "Try to Go On" which features original songs written and produced by Kendra Erika and RD Productions.
Grand Tasting Main Entertainment Act
Groove Line is one of the top dance/party bands in South Florida. Weddings, parties and corporate events are our specialty. We are also available special events, fundraiser's, community and charity events. We promise that Groove Line will get your feet moving and get your soul grooving. Providing a mix of songs ranging from 50's to today's top 40, Disco to Rock, Swing to Soul, and Classical to Jazz, we can help make your next party a time to remember. Groove Line performs 100% LIVE! We don't use background tracks or sequencers. You also get THREE..count them…THREE front vocalists along with FIVE professional backline musicians that also provide background vocals.
Jazz Bubbles & Brunch Entertainment Act
Urban Gypsy Band is a cutting edge South Florida based Flamenco Jazz Fusion group which performs a style that combines the fire and romance of Flamenco and the sophistication of Contemporary Jazz, driven by exotic and urban rhythms from around the world. The group regularly performs at the top venues and resorts throughout the region, and is consistently recognized for their unique sound, which combines the smooth sounds of the Acoustic Guitar, Saxophone and Flute, with energetic and exotic grooves.
Urban Gypsy guitarist, Islay Rodriguez, has been performing throughout South Florida since age 16, and he plays with a refinement and passionate style not often encountered. John Michalak, the group's Grammy Nominated saxophonist and flautist, has a unique style which is borne out of the vast variety of genres he has performed throughout his career, from Blues to Rock, Reggae, Jazz- traditional, contemporary and Latin, and everything in between. John has performed around the world with some of the biggest stars in music, including Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan, KC and The Sunshine Band, Julio Iglesias, Carlos Santana, Patti LaBelle, and Jon Secada. The group's drummer, Michael Rivero, has performed at major events throughout South Florida for the past 20 years, and has opened for world renowned artist such as Carlos Santana, Jon Secada, and keith Urban. Michael is a versatile and passionate musician who brings excitement and positive energy to every Urban Gypsy performance.


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Does UFC 146′s Success Signal a New Era for MMA's Heavyweights?
If you'd told me five or six years ago that the UFC was planning an event where the main card was nothing but heavyweight fights, I'd have told you it was probably a mafia movie-style plan to get all the heavies in one place for a decisive hit that would eradicate the division altogether.
Back then, leaning so heavily on the big men would have been unthinkable. The UFC didn't have enough of them, and the ones it did have were mostly on the mediocre end of the scale. Remember 2006, when Tim Sylvia was the heavyweight champ? He got to the top by beating Assuerio Silva, Andrei Arlovski (twice), and Jeff Monson. That run was so impressive it prompted Randy Couture to come out of retirement as a 220-pound heavyweight just to fight him.
And yet now, in 2012, the UFC felt so confident in its big men that it asked them to carry the load for the entire UFC 146 main card. More amazingly, it actually worked. It worked better than anyone had any right to hope for, providing all the fireworks we've come to expect from heavyweights with none of the plodding wheeze-fests we've come to dread. UFC president Dana White thinks "bad s–t" happens to him every day? Outside the cage, maybe. On the police blotters? Definitely, at least recently.
But in the cage, White and the UFC caught a major break on Saturday night. The heavyweights on the UFC 146 card delivered in a big way, making me wonder if maybe White is on to something when he says that we've reached a new age for MMA's biggest competitors.
"The heavyweight division was lacking in our early days, and it's not now. It's flourishing," White said at the post-fight press conference. "Lot of good talent, lot of up-and-coming talent. I think the bigger the sports gets…you're going to see bigger, athletic guys that would have played other sports getting into mixed martial arts."
At first, I admit, that claim sounded dubious to me. It smacked of promoter-speak, like when White insists that MMA will be bigger than soccer soon. With stuff like that, not only is there no reason to believe it, there's not even many good reasons to believe that White believes it. It's just stuff that a fight promoter has to say. It's right there in the job description.
But when I looked around last night and saw guys like Junior dos Santos and Cain Velasquez — not to mention a golden gloves boxer like Stipe Miocic and a seven-foot submissions wiz like Stefan Struve — I had to admit that White might have a point. It's not just that the UFC has collected more of the best heavyweights now that Pride is no longer around to monopolize them — though, certainly, that is part of it. But whether it's the money or the fame or the slow train to mainstream legitimacy, it also seems clear that MMA in general is drawing more and better big men to its ranks.
That's not to say that I expect too many blue-chip football prospects or future NBA stars to look at the UFC and decide to say the hell with that college scholarship or disgustingly lucrative signing bonus — they'd rather get punched in the face for a living. Sure, being the heavyweight champion is cool, but it's also a bad gamble for most athletes.
Think about it: if you're the tenth-best defensive lineman in the NFL, you're still a millionaire pro athlete, still getting your picture on SportsCenter every now and then, still sipping champagne on yachts in the off-season. If you're the tenth-best heavyweight in MMA, however, you're busting your hand on other men's skulls year-round, bleeding for your cash and trying to sock away as much of it as you can while the ride lasts. As much of an ego boost as it might be to call yourself the heavyweight champ of the world, how many people would really choose to reach for the brass ring instead of taking a full ride to one of those football vocational schools in the SEC where they'll be treated like royalty just for making the team?
My point is, it takes a certain kind of human being to want to do this. The good news is, now MMA (and, specifically, the UFC) is finally profitable enough to reward those humans accordingly. Guys like Daniel Cormier, who, ten years ago, would have had few viable athletic avenues after his Olympic hopes ran aground, now have a chance and a reason to prove themselves in the cage. The money and the respect still aren't good enough to attract too many athletes who have other options, but at least it's heading in the right direction.
Saturday night's main card showed us a glimpse of what that can look like. It gave us not just big, lumbering bone-breakers, but real athletes — real martial artists. The heavyweight division is still a lot thinner than the lightweight class, where the dudes who were deemed too short for basketball and too small for football are constantly battling it out in a crowded field choking with talent, and maybe that's the way MMA will always be to some extent. That doesn't change the fact that the UFC currently has the best heavyweight roster it's ever had, and there are still more names to add to it in the very near future.
On Saturday, the UFC gambled on the quality of its heavies, and it paid off big time. White might not have had much luck lately with injuries and illnesses and arrests, but at least on pay-per-view — at least on this night — fortune is still smiling on him.


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Despite its utter lack of thematic connection to the holiday season, The Sound of Music always feels like a good fit when the sleigh bells start to ring.
Paper Mill Playhouse scored a hit with this beloved family musical in 2003, when it closed on Dec. 14. This year, it's back with full billing as a limited holiday engagement, which will extend to Dec. 30.
James Brennan, who directed the 2003 revival, is back with an all-new cast and a more attractive and three-dimensional set. No need to rank which production was better because what we have, here and now, is a perfectly timed tribute to the magic of live theater and a worthy successor to the legacy of the final triumph authored by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
The cast, too, shines brightly, featuring several faces well-known to New Jersey theater fans, and at least one face familiar to prime-time TV viewers. Broadway veteran Ben Davis wears the uniform of Captain von Trapp, the starchy widowed commander of seven lonely children in pre-World War II Austria.
Elena Shaddow, who has lead-actress credits both here (Carnival) and at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, slips into the modest frocks of Maria, the flighty postulate (nun in training) at a nearby abbey. The Mother Abbess (Suzanne Ishee) loves her spirit, but feels Maria needs to experience more of life and leases her to the von Trapp clan as a governess.
The icy captain, who marches his children and dresses them in uniforms, quickly melts when he sees Maria and the children bond over song. Who wouldn't with the material they are given, from the title song to classics like "Do-Re-Me" and "My Favorite Things," sung here first, as it was in the Broadway original, by Maria and the Mother Abbess (Maria and the kids introduce it in the film)?
Maria and the captain fall in love, but von Trapp is engaged to the Countess Schraeder (Donna English, last seen here vamping it up as Velma in "Hairspray!"). Torn by her new love and her commitment to the church, Maria flees back to the abbey, where the Mother Abbess counsels her with the show-stopping "Climb Every Mountain."
Taking point on comic relief is Edward Hibbert, an 11-year veteran of the TV comedy Frasier, as Max, the captain's colorful buddy, who recruits the kids for a big talent show.
The gig becomes an opportunity for the family to escape Austria and the Nazis who invaded their country sometime during the intermission. The musical's book, by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, embellishes the facts on occasion, but it makes it extra special for the audience to know that The Sound of Music is indeed based on the true-life story of the von Trapp family, which fled Austria during the Anschluss.
And who can get enough of stories where Nazis lose to a bunch of cute kids?
Shaddow and Davis are terrific but there's enough talent onstage demanding your attention that it almost feels like an ensemble cast. The most demands, of course, are made of Shaddow, who has a rich voice and convincingly progresses from an innocent girl to a worldly wife and mother.
The kids, too, accomplish their demanding tasks with professional aplomb. Hunter A. Kovacs, as younger son Kurt, stands out in particular with a stunning solo voice.
Due respect to the Nutcrackers, Grinches and Rockettes competing for your dollar, but if you're aiming to tickle your holiday fancy, this is the place to start.
The Sound of Music continues through Dec. 30 at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Brookside Drive, Millburn. Tickets are $26 to $96. For information, call 973-376-4343 or visit papermill.org.


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Recreation Centers
North Clairemont Recreation Center
What's Coming
The North Clairemont Recreation Center offers year round youth/adult self defense classes, tennis lessons and tiny tots for ages 3 to 5 years. Youth sports are offered seasonally: winter/summer is basketball, spring is soccer and fall is flag football. Adult leagues include men and women basketball, coed soccer, flag football, softball and frisbee.
Hours for class registration and permits
Monday 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. (registration only)
Tuesday 3:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday 3:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Thursday 3:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
History of the Center
The park land was acquired in 1954 and the recreation center was built in 1960. An official dedication ceremony took place in 1974.
Directions and Bus Route
From Interstate 805 take the Clairemont Mesa Boulevard West exit to Genesee Avenue. Turn left on Genesee and then right on Bannock. The center is on the left.
From Interstate 5 take State Route 52 East to the Genesse exit, turn left (south) onto Genesee. Turn right on Bannock Ave. The center will be on the left.
The center is accessible by bus via SDMTS route 41, 44 & 50.


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The Large ShowOffs™ Storage Container is a great solution for storing, organizing and carrying small items around the home, office, or classroom. Durable latches ensure that the lid remains securely attached to the base, and a comfortable handle helps with sturdy, one-handed carrying. The see-through base allows for easy identification of the contents inside. This storage box accommodates letter-size hanging file folders.


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Updated NCAA Tournament bracket projections released Friday by Bracketologists from ESPN.com and CBSSports.com have the Mountain West Conference placing either four or five teams in the Big Dance...
ESPN's Joe Lunardi has come out with his latest bracket projections, and the Mountain West has dipped to four teams in his field of 68.
Selection Sunday 2012 Open Thread: Will Mountain West Get Four Teams In?
NCAA Tournament Bubble Watch: Vegas Does Not Like Colorado State's At-Large Chances
NCAA Tournament Bubble Watch: Mountain West Looking Like A Three-Bid League
The question of which team deserves more praise -- the Ohio State or Kansas that dominated the regular season but didn't make the Final Four, or the UConn or Butler who struggled throughout the season but got hot at the end -- is highly debatable and perhaps not possible to answer. But what is possible is to make a distinction between types of greatness, and to recognize that greatness can happen at any time, not just the end of a season. For all the problems the BCS has (and they are myriad), I think that one game does a better job of determining the champion of the sport than the NCAA basketball tournament. And for all of college football fans' sturm und drang about the BCS, we hear not but mere peeps about the NCAA tournament's "inverse BCS" problem. While the BCS eliminates teams that may have a claim to be the best from consideration for the "national championship", at least the team that does win will also have a claim to be the best. In the NCAA basketball tournament, so many teams participate that are not even close to the best that very often, this year included, upsets will occur and a team like Butler or UConn will be in position to be named "national champion." These are inverse but similarly troubling problems.
Mountain West coaches talking about the NCAA basketball tournament expanding.
Sweet Sixteen Open Thread Day Two
Five Questions with Rocky Top Talk -- Aztecs and Volunteers NCAA Tournament Round 1
If you do not know what that is from the title, then well you have been living under a rock. CBS has a FREE!! video player that allows you to watch every game of the NCAA® March Madness on Demand®...
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Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program (EITC)
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP) is proud to be recognized as an Educational Improvement Organization through the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Program. CLP provides outstanding youth literacy programs eligible for support through EITC, including:
- BLAST-Bringing Libraries and Schools Together
- Summer Reading Program
- Extended Year Summer Reading Program
In 2012, EITC funded programs at CLP served more than 32,000 children and teens in Pittsburgh. Our BLAST program makes regular visits to a number of Pittsburgh Public Schools, helping students expand their vocabularies and teaching critical reading comprehension skills. The Summer Reading Program helps children and teens discover the joy of reading by encouraging them to choose their own books, set their own goals and determine their own measures of success. Your support affords the Library the ability to offer fun, life-changing literacy programs to school-age youth at a time when they are needed most
The EITC Program was created to give businesses and corporations an incentive to support organizations like CLP. Eligible businesses include those paying any of the following:
- Corporate Net Income Tax
- Capital Stock Franchise Tax
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While the impact of your support for young readers is immeasurable, a one-year commitment to CLP earns your business a tax credit equal to 75% of your contribution to the Library. A two-year commitment of the same amount of contribution can earn you a credit of 90% for two consecutive tax years. In total, you can earn a maximum of $750,000 a year in tax credits per taxable year.
To earn tax credit approval, a business must complete and submit an application with the state's Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED). Applications for businesses applying for a second year of a two-year commitment or who have fulfilled their two year commitment and wish to renew will be accepted between May 15 and June 28, 2013. New applications for program fiscal year 2013-14 will be accepted by DCED beginning July, 1, 2013. As stated on DCED's Web site, "Tax credit applications will be processed on a first-come-first-serve basis by day submitted...until the amount of available tax credits is exhausted."
Application forms are available for download at www.newpa.com, search "EITC". Additional information about Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's youth literacy programs is available at http://www.carnegielibrary.org.


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BATESVILLE, AR (KAIT) – Students all strive to look like stars
at their high school prom, but making the best dressed list can be anything but
The Batesville High School has even noticed some of its students
skipping prom because of the overwhelming cost, so a teacher decided to start a
local Glass Slipper Project.
"The Glass Slipper Project is a project that's geared toward
matching girls that live in poverty with free, donated prom dresses and
accessories," Leigh Keller said. "Poverty should not limit you from attending
your high school prom and so we want to be able to provide prom for everyone."
Keller teaches Spanish at the high school, but has spent
much of her time outside the classroom expanding the Glass Slipper Project. She
created it last year, outfitting more than 60 boys and girls for prom at no
cost to them.
"It is my desire that no child ever comes in and says I didn't
go to prom because I didn't have a dress," Keller said.
All the donations last year were kept in a closet in one of her
fellow teacher's classrooms. Keller, however, now has much more space to house
and display everything from dresses to shoes to jewelry.
Keller and a team of volunteers converted a vacant science
lab in the old Batesville Middle School building into what now looks like a
high-end dress shop, complete with bright pink walls and white display cases.
"I wanted it to end up looking like a boutique," Keller
said. "I don't want girls to feel like I'm going into an old classroom to get a
prom dress. I want them to feel like they're coming into an actual dress
Keller designed the room to look this way for a reason.
"I know that there's such a stigma of thinking like oh my
gosh, I know I'm getting something for free and someone else is paying for this
brand new dress and so part of the boutique is to remove that stigma," she
said. "I want [the girls] to feel very special and beautiful and important."
The boutique will open every Saturday until the Batesville
High School prom on April 27 so that the girls have enough time to pick out
what they will wear.
"We also do their hair and makeup on the day of prom as well
if they need that help," Keller said, "because that's another $30 that most of
them don't have."
Volunteers reconfigured the old lab tables to serve as 'glitter
stations' or prep areas for the girls gussying up on prom day.
The girls, however, don't get to have all the fun. Their
dates, too, can get some help to look dapper.
"We also do some tuxedo sponsorships as well so that the
boys don't get too left out," Keller said. "Obviously, they don't want to come
to our very pink room."
The school will host
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---- — ELWOOD — Julia Jean Butcher, 91, died June 15, 2013, at Summitville Convalescent Center.
She was born July 17, 1921, in Sharpsville, the daughter of Curtis D. and Juva M.(Covalt) Richards.
She was formerly a secretary for her family business, Butcher Feeds Co., and also worked as a clerk at Alexandria Library until 1996. Jean was a 1939 graduate of Sharpsville High School and later attended Indiana State College.
She married Lowell Butcher on Feb. 14, 1941.
She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Elwood, Sharpsville Order of Eastern Star, Lady Elks, and Tri-Kappa. She was also a member of Remocwen Group and a volunteer at Mercy Hospital.
Family includes three daughters, Barbara (David) Abernathy of Elwood, Brenda (Philip) Davis of Elkhart, and Beverly (Craig) Wargowsky of Naperville, lll.; three grandchildren, Kristina (David) Retherford of Elwood, Monica (Marty) Wells of Elwood, and Andrew (Rachel) Davis of Indianapolis; four great-grandchildren, Will and Allison Retherford and Bailey and Brock Wells; two step-great-grandchildren, Derek and Drew Wells; and a niece and nephew.
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A year ago, I asked a longtime Pro Football Hall of Fame voter how he responds to angry fans who believe a certain player belongs in the game's most prestigious club. "We always hear when a class comes in, 'How could you not have this guy? How could you leave off this guy?' What I always ask is: Who would you take out?' and that usually silences them …"
It's true. The Hall of Fame is not for everyone, and often great players can't get in because they are not quite as great as the men pushing past them to gain entrance.
Still, I can't help but wonder what reasons voters have for why they have yet to elect former Broncos LB Randy Gradishar. Seems no matter who you talk to from Gradishar's era, everyone thinks the guy belongs in Canton.
And not only do opposing coaches and players, commentators and game historians think Gradishar is worthy - many of them think he is one of the greatest inside linebackers of all-time.
Of course, Gradishar is polite about it all. Sure, he'd love to be enshrined, but he knows how it works.
Shared Gradishar recently, "My name is being considered, so I'm very grateful for that. (But) I have no control over the process. Maybe at some point, some day, it might happen. That's all I can hope and pray for."
Gradishar shouldn't have to pray for it. He earned it by averaging 205 tackles over his 10 NFL seasons, seven of which placed him on the AFC's Pro Bowl roster. Those totals stack up well against the 19 linebackers currently in the Hall, and it could be argued that you could swap out Gradishar for a number of them. So why has he been ignored? Let me suggest two common (though rotten) factors that Hall voters usually consider when sifting through candidates: Gradishar never played on a Super Bowl winner, and his on-field personality lacked pizzazz.
Canton has lined its halls with Packers from the 1960s and Steelers from the 1970s, and the 49ers of the 1980s and Cowboys of the 1990s are starting to arrive in bunches. In an era of outstanding defensive play, the Orange Crush defense was as good — and in some years better — than all the rest of the league's nicknamed units, and yet without a title not a single of its members are enshrined. But, if Gradishar had played for Pittsburgh and Jack Lambert had played for Denver, who do you think would be in the Hall? And should it matter? Both were outstanding men of the middle.
Likewise, football lore seems to favor those linebackers who had personality — the game's great villains or goofballs. Lambert and Dick Butkus, Ray Nitschke and Ted Hendricks. All of them in, all deservedly so. But is this really the separating criteria? A particular game face or attitude?
Wrote the late Pro Football Weekly personnel analyst Joel Buchsbaum of Gradishar in 2002, "Maybe the smartest and most underrated ever. Had rare instincts, was faster than Lambert and very effective in short-yardage and goal-line situations. The fact he is not in the Hall of Fame is a shame and may be attributed to the fact he was a sure tackler but not a lights-out hitter or look-at-me type of player."
Gradishar understands it all, but makes no excuses for how he got the job done.
"Some of that is human nature, to relate a position to the personality," he said. "It's not the way people should do it, but it's part of their thinking process. Whether someone is mean or not mean shouldn't matter when comparing statistics …
Gradishar paused, then offered another theory, "Maybe they didn't like my first name Randy. It maybe doesn't have the ring of a Dick or Mike or Jack — the first name of a middle linebacker who'll supposedly tear your head off."
What makes a Hall of Famer? Is it the numbers, the Pro Bowls, or how well a man held up in his era? Maybe it comes down to how well you were respected by your teammates or the players you battled against? Tough to say. I just know that besides not having a one-syllable first name, Randy Gradishar meets the criteria. He belongs.
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Australian Tracey Hannah raced her first national titles at the age of 14, and for the next four years she was the undisputed Australian downhill champion. In 2006, she also finished first overall in the NORBA Series and was crowned Junior World Champion. In 2007, she finished third overall in the World Cup series, winning at Schladming, and also captured a bronze in the World Championships at Fort William. However, she was forced to stop riding at the end of 2007 due to financial constraints, and had nothing to do with racing until her comeback in the 2012 World Cup. The break didn't seem to have done her any harm - she won her first race back in Pietermaritzburg, and, despite missing the final two races after breaking her femur in an accident, she finished the year fourth overall. Born in Cairns on 13th June 1988, Tracey grew up riding bikes with her older brother Mick, who she now rides with for Hutchinson United Ride. She competed in her first national BMX competitions when she was just four years old, and followed Mick into riding mountain bikes as a teenager. With her dad's permission, she started on the downhill slopes at 13. Tracey is well known for her determination and will to win, perfectly illustrated by her comeback from the serious injury she sustained in 2012 - in her first race back in 2013, she secured her fifth victory at the Australian National Championships, and she went on to finish tenth overall in the World Cup series.
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Jamie Engen, CEO at Loud Technologies Inc. commented, "As the company has grown, it has become increasingly difficult to differentiate the corporate entity 'Mackie Designs Inc.' from the brand 'Mackie'. This change will enable us to more clearly communicate within the financial and business communities while at the same time, allow all of the brands under the new corporate designation, Loud Technologies, to strengthen their own unique identities and market positions."
Engen continued, "The transition from Mackie Designs Inc. to Loud Technologies Inc. will take place over a period of weeks rather than days. It's a change in designation only that is intended to bring clarity to our brands and does not indicate a change in ownership, corporate structure, or in day-to-day business operations. 'Mackie' the brand will remain and, as such, will have greater clarity and messaging as a result."
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Samuel this year travelled the country "on a very unpractical unicycle" to help conquer breast cancer - a disease his sister Connie is fighting.
Throughout the trip, he raised almost $1.5 million to help find a cure for cancer and broke a new Guinness World Record when he rode 15,955 kilometres in 364 days.
He passed through Bendigo in January, where he was greeted by almost one hundred local supporters.
He's hoping even more people will come and celebrate with him in March.
"I've met some really amazing cancer survivors during this journey and some of the most inspirational have been from Bendigo," Samuel said.
"It was fantastic to see the community get behind Love Your Sister in such a big way during my last visit and I hope many more will turn out to party with Connie and I."
Samuel is backed by Bendigo Bank, with the bank's Lauren Andrews encouraging people to attend the event.
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"It will be a great night out with live entertainment from bands Magna Mouse and Spies Like Us, a silent auction with some great offers, beer, wine, soft drink and canapés."
The Love Your Sister Bendigo cocktail party will be at The Exchange on March 8 from 7.30pm.
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4/5 rDev -4.3%
12-28-2012 21:12:37 | More by frosted33
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4.15/5 rDev -0.7%
A nice find at the deli I must say,poursa lighter shade of gold with a huge blossoming head that has moved down an inch as of yet,the aroma is lightly smokey with almost a cinnamon spicey quality.Taste is smnokey with some real medicinal hints with a malty finish and after taste wich came out well,this beer has some serious complexity to it.A real nice change of pace here nice to have before bed.
12-12-2003 01:59:23 | More by oberon
4.28/5 rDev +2.4%
Appearance Light yellow with a tinge of orange is the coloring for this extremely cloudy brew. The head had to be worked a little but what came up stayed for quite a while. No lacing, probably due to the 9.5 ABV.
Smell A lot of spices in this one. The aroma is very powdery (probably tastes that way, too). Theres some stiff malt and yeast in there as well and a little bitter hops to balance things out, but this is your typical spicy BSPA. The coriander is very present, along with some pepper and a few others that I cant pinpoint.
Taste The deep, mature, yeast flavor kicks into high gear at the taste. The spices some out in full force as well. Theres an interesting rind hop punch to this one that balances things out. I think its the first of this Ive tasted for the style, but it all works really well.
Mouthfeel Heavily carbonated with a slight alcohol sting on the tongue. Yes, its a BSPA from Belgium.
Drinkability Nice, authentic rendition of the style. This went down quite well. Anyone with a, BigBelgiumBrethern, or, BelgiumBeers4Me, handle has to try this one.
Comments TheLongBeachBum wrote a winner of a review on this one and rated it two tenths higher than me. He said it a lot more eloquently than I did. His is a, must read, if youre thinking about trying this ale.
09-12-2003 06:41:02 | More by RoyalT
3/5 rDev -28.2%
02-03-2012 02:02:10 | More by aszatk01
4.53/5 rDev +8.4%
2005 Vintage from Steve's Mineral Point for $6.99 a 750.
Yeasty straw gold (leaning toward orange) body with visibly aggressive carbonation and a voluminous white froth. The head eventually settles to a healthy skim with beautiful lacing.
Spicy aroma displays plenty of hay, saaz or similar hops, lemon, a bit of orange, and black pepper.
Dry, spicy body with lively carbonation that bites the tongue. Flavors of hay and lemon peal cojoin with wild flowers and vanilla.
Highly drinkable. In fact this is sessionable in the extreme.
10-07-2007 22:48:07 | More by DaPeculierDane
3.98/5 rDev -4.8%
Serving date: 2009-02-09. Served in tulip.
Presentation: 375 ml corked bottle with freshness date on the label (best before July 2013).
Appearance: The pour is golden orange with straw hues - it almost looks like it's glowing. Ivory-colored, big and creamy head that sticks around for a while before settling and leaving some foam on top of the brew and chunky lacings on the glass. A good looking beer.
Smell: Sharp medicinal phenols mix with a general spiciness and a smell of sweet citrus fruits. Faint smell of yeast as well. Despite plenty of phenols and tangy spices, the smell is rather fresh and pleasant.
Taste: Big taste of medicinal phenols - distinct taste of band-Aids - and prominent spices (cloves, and perhaps white pepper?). Together with an unexpectedly big presence of alcohol this results in a interesting and pleasant - but still quite demanding - hotness. All of these tangy and sharp flavors are balanced by a taste of sweet fruits - mostly orange and lemon peel, but also pineapple - and faint malts. No funky flavors to speak of. The finish is dry with a more spices, minimal hop bitterness and a bit of a twang from the alcohol. This one develops very nicely towards the end: It gets a little less edgy, more round and balanced, as the sweet fruit flavors becomes more prominent.
Mouthfeel: Medium body, plenty of carbonation and all in all quite dry. But it still has a semi-smooth feel to it.
Drinkability: A very good beer. Quite tasty as well. The big medicinal phenols and spiciness coupled with the sweet fruits makes it truly interesting, but also a bit demanding. Although it drinks really easily and is quite refreshing, the alcohol and the spices becomes a little too prominent and somewhat demanding after a while.
NOTE: Will cellar a couple of these to see how they turn out. I'm especially interested to see how the balance between the alcohol and spices develops.
02-10-2009 15:32:47 | More by ricke
4.5/5 rDev +7.7%
03-10-2013 03:26:49 | More by SuqMadique
3.18/5 rDev -23.9%
The pour on this beer is a beautiful milky maize color with a sturdy white head. The lacing remains through out the glass full. The aroma was average at best,not giving me much else but the ABV. The initial taste was bland reminiscent of a mass produced imported ale. I just couldn't find anything about this beer that made it stand out. I served it with a citrusy desert whose character compensated for the lack of character given by this Dupont offering.
04-26-2009 18:44:36 | More by ArrogantDeadGuy
4.1/5 rDev -1.9%
Avec Les Bons Voeux by Brasserie Dupont 9.5% alcohol Saison/Farmhouse style. 750ml bottle poured into pint glass.
A- Pours a crisp hazed golden fluid with a nice one inch pillowy head that leaves decent sticky lacing on the glass.
S- Sharp lemon zest hits the nose upfront with slight notes of alcohol and yeast.
T-M- The taste is a smooth and sweet lemongrass flavor with a mix of musky yeast and malts noted. Herbal spice is felt in the backbone. Mouthfeel is slick and highly carbonated making it easy to put down the 9.5% alcohol content.
Overall this is a good showing of the style and is very drinkable dispite the heavy alcohol content... Cheers~!
02-09-2012 05:44:15 | More by wesbrownyeah
3.75/5 rDev -10.3%
01-27-2014 12:33:41 | More by tbryan5
3.58/5 rDev -14.4%
From BeerAdvocate magazine Issue #60 (Jan 2012):
LOOK: Pale murky straw
SMELL: Dried grass, passionfruit, peppery, papaya, nutty, yeast, mango, eucalyptus, lemon zest, alcohol
TASTE: Smooth, creamy, bitter herb, yeast, dried tropical fruit, vegetal, green peppercorns, lemon pith, boozy alcohol, medicinal, faint broth, bitter, dry finish
A special Saison brewed for the holidays, and perhaps for the winter, as it touts a hefty punch. Not sure if the extra alcohol does it much justice though. Clearly it's a decent sip, but more of a sharing and pairing offering, as it seems bit lost on its own.
07-24-2012 17:46:58 | More by BeerAdvocate
4.05/5 rDev -3.1%
750ml bottle. 2002 on the cork. Pours a quite hazy peachy yellow into my glass with a beautiful two finger head of white foam. Good, steady carbonation. Looks great in the glass. Aromas of light toasted grains met by a mellow mustiness. Spicy tones along with a nice mix of light fruit aromas, especially lemon. Good stuff.
First sip brings a grainy, lightly sweet maltiness upfront that is quickly met by a spicy pepper aspect along with a wonderful mix of tropical and citrus fruit tones. Flows down with a slight funkiness and a touch of alcohol in the finish. A bit dry overall, but still tasty stuff.
Mouthfeel is on the lighter side with an explosive carbonation. This one goes down incredibly easily for a 9.5% abv. A throughly enjoyable saison from Dupont and one of the benchmarks for the style. I will need to get another fresh bottle soon! (As a side note, the final yeast pour amplifies the flavor profile greatly and adds a bit of smoothness as well.)
06-13-2007 00:12:17 | More by orbitalr0x
4/5 rDev -4.3%
08-16-2012 13:06:17 | More by daveshawley
4.25/5 rDev +1.7%
09-17-2013 18:06:03 | More by warnerry
4/5 rDev -4.3%
11-16-2011 21:46:19 | More by Todd
4.08/5 rDev -2.4%
750ML corked bottle
A: high carbonation, belgian lace on sides of glass, white & moussy head that is long-lasting, light orange/tangerine color, very appealing appearance
S: ripe summer fruits: pears, apples, lemons; hay and very slight barnyard funk, no diacetyl, slight sulfur, low to no hop aroma
T: pear and other fruits, pleasant funk, some fusel alcohols from high ferment temp, hop bitterness med to low
M: crisp, high-attenuation, dry aftertaste, very refreshing, alcohol warmth on the back of the palette
D: refreshing and tasty, perfect for summer, alcohol warmth and crisp mouthfeel keeps me coming back for more, a great saison
07-06-2010 02:47:26 | More by shark262
4/5 rDev -4.3%
11-30-2012 03:10:31 | More by VernonKell
Rhode Island
4/5 rDev -4.3%
07-20-2014 02:31:33 | More by Doomcifer
3.75/5 rDev -10.3%
03-25-2014 15:46:18 | More by Beerswag
3.6/5 rDev -13.9%
Appearance: Thin bubbly lacing, some stickage. Glowing orange hue shows some action from the carbonation.
Smell: Spicy aroma; black pepper, clove with a phenolic herbal smell. A touch of solvent alcohol and ripe pineapple and mango as well.
Taste: Hugely phenolic, the palate gets hit hard with herbal and medicinal notes. Some hops in there as well as some shaded maltiness. More phenols, raw honey maltiness and an earthened hop. Obvious coriander. Light ripe tropical fruit within the solvent like alcohol. Odd tartness in the end and finishes a bit dry.
Mouthfeel: Rolling crispness builds to a textured smoothness.
Drinkability & Notes: More interesting than anything else, certainly a specialty beer that I'd have after a meal or if the meal was bold enough to pair it with that.
01-06-2003 10:38:13 | More by Jason
4.53/5 rDev +8.4%
1998 Vintage!!!
When I first poured the bottle it was a strw yellow with a teeny tiny bubbeled froathy white head, and a bazillion bubbles climbing the walls of my glass. When I finally got the rest into my glass, I got all the yeast. Not sure if that is a good or bad thing. It has the horsey Belgian smell, with some Granny Smith apples thrown in for good measure. The taste is great. Pepper and apples and doughy yeast goodness. The after taste has a light lingering alcohol thing going on that works well. I would drink this everyday if I weren't buzzing so hard now!!!
07-27-2005 20:55:58 | More by tjthresh
4.1/5 rDev -1.9%
750 ml corked and caged bottle pours a radiant golden amber body that is mostly clear. Large vanilla head slowly falls into a creamy meringue and sheets the goblet with curtains of lace. What a looker!
Aroma is freshly sliced lemons, floral hops, white pepper and pale malts.
Medium body has a pleasant velvety carbonation.
Taste is dry and herbal with prominent notes of fresh lemons, melon, and white pepper. Floral hops add a complex bitterness.
Not the best saison I've sampled but topnotch.
02-04-2008 15:29:42 | More by merlin48
New York
4.25/5 rDev +1.7%
on tap @ the waterfront ale house in NYC, as the bartender said, "its from Dupont, it smells like flowers and its strong" Poured into a chimay chalice, 1/2 inch puffy head, orangy amber, cloudy, nose of flower, fruits , spice and yeast. Moderate, fine lacing. This is the real Belgian deal, light delicate, flavorful and wait its also 9.5%! Notes of fresh fruits, ginger, juniper, peppery spice, bubble gum, yeasty phenolics. Yum yum-- seek and enjoy!
12-31-2004 05:43:20 | More by Billolick
4/5 rDev -4.3%
12-04-2013 02:48:41 | More by aquazr1
4.33/5 rDev +3.6%
Clear yellow golden color with a white head that has good retention and lacing. Smells of bubblegum, chamomille, flowers, and hints of pepper and ginger. Light spice, chamomille, clove, and bubblegum in the taste. Medium bodied with high carbonation. Good stuff.
12-28-2008 01:10:53 | More by badbeer
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For Adam Firestone, co-founder of Firestone Walker Brewing Co., one word sums up what it takes to run a small business: endurance.
In the mid-1990s, Firestone was a beer lover in Santa Barbara County wine country, and he had this idea of reusing wine barrels from his familys business, Firestone Vineyards, to ferment beer. Long story short, that concept didnt work out. But he and brewery co-founder David Walker, Firestones brother-in-law, kept at it.
Fast forward to 2013. The brewery has since relocated to Paso Robles, runs a second facility in Buellton and is planning to open a third in Venice Beach in Southern California. Firestone Walker is now ranked among the top 20 craft breweries in the nation, according to the Brewers Association.
Known for its Double Barrel Ale, the brewery sets itself apart with its Firestone Union system based on an 1800s style of British beer-making. The Burton Union is a recirculating fermentation system that requires multiple barrels. Firestone Walker believes its the only brewery in the United States using that method.
Firestone recently talked to The Tribune about the brewerys rising importance in the craft beer movement, its future and what it takes to build a successful business.
Q: Coming from a family thats important to the Central Coast wine industry, why did you and your brother-in-law decide to go the beer route back in the mid-1990s?
A: It was a natural evolution from wine making. The technologies are very similar, and fermented beverages use a lot of the same chemistry. There are obviously some differences in the actual product and outcome, but they are very similar bottling, warehousing and distribution wise. Its all within the same family.
The whys are more attached to my love of beer. I love the beverage, always have. And I wanted to try my own hand at it. ... I had this idea that instead of giving away our chardonnay barrels, we could keep these barrels and brew beer in them. It would be very similar to what the single-malt whiskey folks do with old sherry barrels.
It was a romantic notion and a very sort of environmentally pure and economically pure one, but it didnt work out. In the early stages, we had a lot of trouble. The short reason is that beer has much lower alcohol than wine, and so microbial issues were just overwhelming the beer. We abandoned the idea after about a year and started using brand-new barrels.
Q: Can you describe three reasons why your business became a success?
A: The No. 1 reason was local support. We managed somehow through a lot of trial and error to capture the hearts, minds and palates of the Central Coast, and regional brewing is all about tending to the needs of the home market. That is actually reason 1 through 98.
I suppose (another reason is) trial and error. Its taken us a while. Were now doing a few things right, but it took us a while to get there. We were really honest with ourselves, and we didnt have all the answers early on. So we had to be willing to listen.
And perseverance. To get any level of traction, especially in a business thats been around for 8,000 years, you have to have a lot of endurance, because you arent inventing a new product. I think we do have a fair bit of endurance. Thats helped us.
Q: So now, what are you doing right?
A: I think lots of little things add up to a successful business. We never found one magic bullet that we can swing to the bleachers and that overcame all our errors. So its all just the practices that are critical: first, hiring and training the right people thats huge. Thats huge in every business. The beer doesnt make itself; people make the beer. If you dont have the right people, youre not going to make the right beer.
Second, what else did we do right? Relocating. I think consolidating to Paso Robles was a good move for us. The city of Paso Robles has been a phenomenal place to do business not a good place, but phenomenal. Thats not supposed to happen in California. The municipality will defend the public interest but they wont do it in such a way that makes life miserable for you. Theyre tough in the sense there are no shortcuts, but they have a great attitude up here. ... Its still California, though! Lets not get too carried away.
Q: What goals did you set for yourselves when you started the brewery, and have you met them or how have they changed?
A: This is going to sound kind of Tony Robbins, but we had the same goals from Day 1 that well have at Day Infinity: That is, we make a very narrow range of beers, mostly the pale ales, and our goal is to make a better pale ale. We ask ourselves, How do you make the next batch better than the last? And you have to surrender to the reality that the differences are pretty small in each batch, but they have to be measurable and they have to improve. And thats a lifes work. If someone comes and visits the brewery 10 years from now, all I want them to say is that these beers are even better than they tasted 10 years ago. Thats it.
Q: What sets Firestone Walker apart?
A: I think our reputation is one. Were a little bit of a wonk shop. Were very technical. For example, we have more people in the lab and in the quality-control department per barrel than I think any other brewery that Ive ever heard of anywhere. We have a chemistry and science approach. Our head brewer (Matt Brynildson) is a university professor caught in a craft brewer.
There are breweries that are more efficient, and there are breweries associated with sports and lifestyle, there are breweries that have magnificent structures and cathedral-like settings, there are breweries that are literally out to save the planet. Those are all great and worthy goals, but they arent ours. What really has always set us apart is this commitment to the science and technology.
That was a significant decision we made a few years ago, when we said, Were going to get out of hauling hoses and wetting our fingers and trying to guess where things are, which is the traditional craft brewers approach. We said, Were going to marry technology, the greatest industrial quality controls available, the greatest process engineering possible, the greatest materials and input control possible, and were going to pull all this together. Thats where we are headed right now.
Q: Where does Firestone Walker fit in the worldwide craft beer movement?
A: I think, fairly put, weve managed to wrestle a little point of the overall craft star. And because weve made some of these technology movements, its causing a lot of large breweries, other brewers, distant brewers to be very curious about what it is that were doing.
The craft brewing revolution is really standing industrial brewing on its head. You have giant brewers across the world that are really being forced to revisit what theyve been doing, and its renegades like this little shop that are causing them to do it.
Q: What challenges have you faced?
A: Capital is always a challenge. We eat what we kill. We dont have any investors or partners or corporate overlords, or anywhere to go dip into the funds. So were hand-to-mouth. And thats challenging for any business certainly small businesses.
Q: How do you overcome that?
A: That will never go away; just have sensible business practices and dont get too big of an appetite. I say this like weve overcome it, and Im not sure we have; were still hat and hand on this one.
Q: Where do you see the business in five to 10 years?
A: Still in Paso. Still in many ways it will look like it does today, but we would have finished a lot of the technology that were trying. Were opening a small technology center in Venice, and were going to put in a taproom and tasting room and small pilot plant to showcase some of what were doing.
Q: Seventeen years after brewing your first batch of beer commercially, what have you learned about yourself?
A: I have learned that you can get knocked off the tracks pretty hard, and its just like in all things in life. Weve had some setbacks and disasters along the way, and you gotta have endurance. Starting a small business from scratch is not ... a marathon. You need endurance, youve got to stick it out, youre going to hit setbacks I tell myself that literally every day. Youre going to get knocked off the tracks. The question is how you regroup, get the team together, deal with it and keep going. Its all endurance.
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This week Microsoft opened up a public beta of Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) 2.0.
The MED-V technology comes from Microsoft's acquisition of Kidaro back in March 2008. What seemed to grab Microsoft's attention was Kidaro's Managed Workspace technology -- a platform wrapper around a transparent virtual machine layer that provided enterprise-class management and deployment for desktop virtualization with added security, policies, and encryption. It competed with the likes of VMware ACE, MokaFive, and RingCube.
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Since the acquisition, Microsoft hasn't really set the world on fire with its version of Kidaro's software. The Kidaro product was quickly rebranded a few months after the acquisition, but Microsoft took an entire year to release a 1.0 version of the software. MED-V 1.0 SP1 was released earlier this year and was quickly followed by a private beta of MED-V 2.0 this past summer.
MED-V 2.0 is one of a number of tools that Microsoft offers to its Software Assurance customers. It is delivered as part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), so if you are searching for how to purchase the software separately, stop. It isn't offered as a stand-alone product.
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So-Easy Truffles Recipe
These truffles are delicious, rich and won't last long in your home. My children loves to help make these by rolling them out for me.Denise Kutchko, Odessa, Missouri
- 1 package (15-1/2 ounces) Oreo cookies
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, cubed
- 1 cup chocolate wafer crumbs
- Place cookies in a food processor; cover and process until finely crushed. Add cream cheese; process until blended. Roll into 1-in. balls. Roll in wafer crumbs. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator. Yield: 4 dozen.
Peanut Butter Truffles: Substitute a 16-oz. package of peanut butter cream-filled sandwich cookies for the chocolate sandwich cookies. Omit chocolate wafer crumbs. Melt 12 ounces of milk chocolate candy coating; stir until smooth. Dip balls in chocolate; place on waxed paper until set. Store in the refrigerator. Yield: 4 dozen. Vanilla Cookie Truffles: Substitute a 16-oz. package of cream-filled vanilla sandwich cookies for the chocolate sandwich cookies. Melt 12 ounces of milk chocolate candy coating; stir until smooth. Dip balls in chocolate; sprinkle with 1/4 cup chocolate crumbs. Place on waxed paper until set. Store in the refrigerator. Yield: 4 dozen.
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A friend from work recently made these, but rather than rolling in chocolate wafers, she dipped hers in chocolate coating. I loved them so much that I made them as well. I didn't feel like dipping mine, so I melted chocolate and filled candy wrappers (like a mini peanut butter cup) with a little chocolate, then a small ball of the oreo/cream cheese mix, then more chocolate on top/sides. They turned out great and were a big hit.
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These are the bomb...so easy and so rich..I make them for every ocassion possible.
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- Dude, Where's My Lungs?
Grades 4-9 • 20 minutes
We're proud to present an anti-smoking musical play that takes a Bad Wolfian approach (you know---fun songs, silly dialogue, bad jokes) to a serious topic. The show is designed to raise questions for discussion that can help lead students to make wise choices. Dude, Where's My Lungs? uses information from a variety of research and advocacy groups, including the American Cancer Society and the University of California, Irvine, Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center.
- Macbeth, The Musical Comedy
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You've read the famous story of greed, guilt, and gore in Scotland - but do you know the catchy tunes? Our Macbeth, a tad confused, keeps spouting lines from Hamlet (much to the annoynance of the other characters), Lady Macbeth is obsessed with dry-cleaning the castle drapes, and King Duncan boasts that he invented plaid.
- Shakespeare Unshackled
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Want a fun and funny musical introduction to the background of Shakespeare's plays? This show touches on many cool aspects of Elizabethan theater, and contains fractured scenes from Othello, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Topics include: Shakespeare's life, the nature of theatrical productions (actors, staging, audience, especially as regards to the Old Globe Theater), acting companies and patronage, Elizabethan and Jacobean London, the language of the plays.


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After wasting no time signing RB Harvey Unga to a four-year contract six days after having selected him in the seventh round of the supplemental draft, the Bears are very likely, we hear, to reserve a roster spot for Brigham Young's all-time leading rusher. "He's a short-yardage specialist who can move the pile, which the team didn't really have," said one team insider. "Unga could fill the No. 3 RB role and also play fullback and save a roster spot by filling two roles." What Unga also does is threaten the status of backup RBs Garrett Wolfe and Kahlil Bell, as well as FBs Eddie Williams and Will Ta'ufo'ou. "In each of their cases, the ability to perform well on special teams, which Wolfe has proven he can do, will be key," the insider said. It's worth noting that three of the Bears' top eight special-teams players in terms of playing time last season — Jamar Williams, Darrell McClover and Adrian Peterson — are no longer with the team.
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Feb. 15, 2013 — If the Republican state Senate gets its way, hemp could once again grow tall in Kentucky fields the plant inhabited for years.
The Senate passed a bill Thursday to authorize a regulatory "framework" for growing hemp if the federal government — which current bans growing the plant because it's biologically akin to marijuana — legalizes hemp production or grants the state a waiver.
The bill passed 31-6 with four Republicans and two Democrats, mostly from southeastern Kentucky, voting no.
At the same time in Washington Thursday, Kentucky's two Republican U.S. Senators, Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell, along with Oregon Democratic Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, introduced legislation to allow American farmers to cultivate and profit from industrial hemp.
The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2013 would remove federal restrictions on the domestic cultivation of industrial hemp. It would remove hemp from the Schedule I controlled substance list and define it as a non-drug so long as it contained less than 0.3 percent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
The state measure has been a major issue for Republican Agriculture Commissioner James Comer, who has campaigned loud and hard to allow Kentucky farmers to grow the crop.
Hemp used to be a major crop in Kentucky. Henry Clay was a major producer and seller of the plant, which can be used to manufacture paper, composite materials and oils for a variety of products and uses.
But after World War II, the government banned hemp because of its similarity to marijuana. Hemp has a much lower percentage of THC, the chemical that produces the marijuana smoker's high.
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"Small Works on Canvas and Paper" December 2012
Retired FAU Art faculty member, Walter Delaney, exhibits more than 70 Small Works at FAU's Second Avenue Studio.
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There were several hundred jars of fruits and vegetables canned in Mason fruit jars. The fruit was in half-gallon jars because this amount was just right for a cobbler pie baked in a large enamel dishpan. Twelve children, with "kith and kin" could eat a cobbler in one sitting.
There was a large set of shelves in the offset of the open hallway and it was draped with a quilt in the winter. No heat except in the fireplace rooms and kitchen left canned goods in jeopardy of freezing in the winter.
Apples and peaches were sun dried on a sheet of tin covered with a guano sack sheet. It took a few days of direct sunlight to get them ready to be packed away for the winter. The best place to secure the fruit after drying was in the 50-pound lard cans with tight-fitting lids. Fried pies from these fruits were a favorite dessert for everyone.
Irish potatoes were spread out in the corncrib or other area and dusted with a white lime powder to keep the bugs out. When the weather turned cold, they were covered with an old quilt or blanket and maybe hay added for insulation.
Sweet potatoes and turnips were put in a "hill" that had been prepared in the edge of a patch near the house. A shallow hole was shoveled out, hay was added, and the turnips and potatoes were put into place. A teepee was made of cornstalks; dirt was mounded over the stalks to make a cave. An old burlap sack was hung at the small opening at the front. The hole and its coverings kept the root vegetables below the frost line and they remained firm and usable all winter.
Mama would hand any available child in sight a dishpan and tell them to run get a pan of potatoes or turnips. Mama would cook her meal and then line the bottom of the oven with sweet potatoes to bake with the remaining fire in the cook stove. Of all my memories, I can see the stove full of softly baked potatoes.
When we children arrived home from school, the first place we headed was the kitchen. The oven door was opened and potatoes removed and eaten by hungry kids. One day, my sister, Ollie, had grabbed a potato and was in front of the cabinet with a knife in hand, cutting chunks of butter and placing on the potato. I grabbed a potato and elbowed her out of the way and found a bowl of butter on the other side of the cabinet. I was enjoying my snack when she turned and said, "Why are you eating that lard?" I gagged and ran out the back door.
Mama had skimmed off the fat when she stewed pork and saved the fat for seasoning or to make soap. I had been happily eating the lard for butter and never noticed until she told me. It has been said that kids with their ravenous appetites would eat anything that did not eat them first. I think I proved that true.
Another day, I had just pulled out the largest potato in the oven to eat when Daddy came through the kitchen. "Put that back and get a smaller one. You won't eat that."
I whined out, "Yes, I will. I'm hungry."
"Alright. You better be sure you don't waste it," he replied.
Of course, I could not eat it and I slipped inside and put it in the "slop bucket." Every farm kitchen had a bucket for scraps of food to be collected for the hogs. He came through the house and saw the big potato in the bucket. He marched me through the house, pointed at the bucket and ordered me to get it out and eat every bite or I knew what I would get.
I reached inside while he stood there, and picked it up, gagging the meanwhile, and carried it to the back steps. I was sitting there crying when my brother, Elbert, came to me to see what was wrong. I told him the story. He took the potato, carefully broke it open to fresh, unsoiled center of the potato. He took a finger and scooped out potato, smeared it all around my mouth and told me to go around the house and come up the front steps where Daddy was sitting. "Walk slowly," he said, "and let him see the potato all over your lips."
I did as he told me while he carried the rest of the potato to the hog pen and got rid of the evidence (which I should have done in the first place).
My dad wasn't easily fooled and I am sure he wasn't that day; however, at times he gave us a way to save face and avoid a whipping.
Ruth Baker is a retired educator and a published author. She has written on the history of Walker County and its people for over 27 years. She may be reached at 205-387-0545.