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Sound Smart at a Party A recent survey by the Pew Research Center found that the U.S. birthrate is at a record low. The

overall birthrate in 2011 was 63.2 per 1,000 women of childbearing age (15-44), which is the lowest since at least 1920. According to the report, the birthrate started its abrupt decline in 2007, the year that marked the start of the Great Recession. From 2007 to 2010 it has fallen 7 percent, but the overall plunge is bumped up to 8 percent due to the 13-percent drop in births to immigrants. Hispanic women experienced the largest decline compared to other groups. Researchers said that the drop in number is due to a change in behavior and the “economic distress.” Great, now even the storks need to apply for unemployment...

We New Yorkers are never quiet about opinions, and it seems like we have pretty positive things to say about the government’s response to Superstorm Sandy. A new Siena College Poll shows

that most Empire State residents gave favorable reviews for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, President Barack Obama, and even New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. In the wake of the devastating storm, 67 percent of voters said Cuomo did an “excellent or good job,” 22 percent thought he did a “fair job,” and only 7 percent said he did a “poor job.” For Mayor Mike, 55 percent of the New Yorkers polled thought he did “excellent or good,” 24 percent called his role “fair” and 14 percent rated him “poor.” Both Bloomberg and Cuomo held frequent press conferences and used social media throughout the storm to address evacuations, power outages and recovery efforts. Obama, who paid visits to the damaged areas

before and after Election Day, did an “excellent or good” job according to 61 percent of voters; a “fair” job according to 20 percent and 17 percent called it a “poor” job. Of course, the heartbeat of our great state, its residents, also stepped up to the plate during the disaster. More than half of New Yorkers contributed to relief efforts and almost one-third of those living “downstate” volunteered their time to help others in need… Doomsday preppers might be able to breathe a sigh of relief now that NASA has officially announced that the world is not ending on Dec. 21, 2012. Not only did the organization

website reads: “For any claims of disaster or dramatic changes in 2012, where is the science? Where is the evidence?” It goes on to say that no planet will barrel toward Earth, the Earth’s rotation is not going to change direction and there is no predicted blackout for this December. On the last count, it’s clear that NASA does not have LIPA… School children in Russia were able to call a lion cub the class pet for a day. They found the kitty

after it escaped from a car on the way to a zoo. The kids got to play with the 5-month-old cub, named Barsik, in the school gym while they waited for police to come get it. Barsik is now at a local zoo where the children can visit him…

shoot down the theory, it also posted a list of frequently asked questions about why the world won’t end that day. The

“Whether or not we’re gonna do any more (songs), we don’t know because we’re so completely bummed out with the state of the music industry and the fact that nobody even wants a full record. Everybody wants two songs, so we’re going to give them two songs.”

—Fleetwood Mac lead singer Stevie Nicks on whether the band’s two new tracks will lead to another album. This March 19, 2009 file photo shows Nicks performing at Madison Square Garden. The band plans to go on the road with a 34-city U.S. tour kicking off April 3, 2013 in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)

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Letters to the Press No Fan of Bam

Dear Editor: This letter is in regard to Jed Morey’s “Letter from the Publisher” in the Nov. 8 issue. On occasion I have picked up your newspaper, seeking some kind of nostalgic feeling due to its name Long Island Press, I guess. I usually look through it and then recycle it. Fortunately for me I cannot empathize with you regarding the 2012 election. What do you consider better with Democrats in office: the future government employment of your daughters, their right reinforced to chose execution for any future offspring they deem unnecessary and inconvenient? Is it Obama’s talk about business, business of which he knows nothing? If you consider the Socialism he is pushing on us to be a better way of life, why not pick up and move to Greece? Your paper is probably no money maker, which is a good socialistic way of providing for your daughters. Perhaps your wife really works and buys them their uniforms. President Obama will provide in the future, I am sure, after your children and mine work off the tremendous legacy of debt he will leave us. What party do you really all belong to? A good socialist like Obama would send all the foul people working at the New England

Compounding Center, whose product produced the meningitis outbreak, for further education to correct them—he wouldn’t fire them; only Republicans fire incompetent people. Democrats are not mean! Maybe just part of you is American—but I doubt it. I am glad that I am 65, and perhaps the Lord—oh, I hope I can write “Lord”—will spare me too much more of your new beginning for America’s herstory! Kudos for publishing “Jerry’s Ink.” His thoughts are my thoughts and those of many, many more Americans. Let the truth be told! Lucy McGiveron, Bohemia

Sex Ed With Jerry

Dear Editor: I must write you in response to Jerry Della Femina’s “Jerry’s Ink” column on Nov. 21, “Sex on the Couch.” Jerry, you’re spot on about “erotic transference.” I was in couple’s therapy but separate sessions with a female doctor shrink for several years. I had to break it off for different reasons, including the “erotic transference” I had for the shrink in the end. I am a firm believer of the 10 commandments so it had to end. No, you are not a sick puppy. Also, out of respect for the profession, I dared not step over the line. Bill

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The Target

ZOMBIES—OFF TARGET A Williston Park man is charged with the attempted murder of his girlfriend after he allegedly shot her over an argument about the AMC show The Walking Dead and whether a zombie virus is real. And no, he is not considered a person of interest in the Gilgo Beach murders. But you’ll probably b voca get a breaking news alert about it anyway.

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ROYAL BABY—BULL’S EYE News is confirmed that Kate Middleton and Prince William are expecting a child. What this means for us is endless useless news of Kate’s impending weight gain/loss, baby bump photos, and by-the-minute updates of Kate’s every move for the next nine months. Maybe a zombie virus would be a blessing.

BOY GEORGE—PARTIAL SCORE Boy George tweets “Mexico has a hot new president and I hope he is good for the country!” Something gets lost in translation and Mexican media quotes the Culture Club frontman as saying, “So the Mexican president is a tyrant. Well, if that’s true, Mexico needs good wishes” and putting George at the center of a Twitter firestorm. Ay Caramba! LiLo—OFF TARGET The IRS seizes Lindsay Lohan’s bank accounts over the more than $200,000 she still hasn’t paid in back taxes, despite the $100,000 Charlie Sheen recently gave her to avoid this mess. On the plus side, Lindsay won’t have to pay taxes on a jail cell! VOCAB—BULL’S EYE Socialism and capitalism have been named Merriam-Webster’s most-looked up words of 2012. Unfortunately, IDK, meh, KK and WTF didn’t make the cut.

The Photo

BANKROBBER—PARTIAL SCORE The 19-yearold “Chick Bank Robber” is arrested for holding up a Texas bank after police see the YouTube video she posted holding the stolen cash and listening to Green Day, giving new meaning to the song “American Idiot.”

The Quote

“I just started running, running, hoping that the driver could see my flash.”

—NY Post freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi on why he took a picture of 58-year-old Ki Suk Han just before a subway train hit him. Han was reportedly shoved onto the tracks by a panhandler Tuesday, The shocking image ran on the front page of the Post with the headline: “Doomed: Pushed on the subway track, this man is about to die.” Abbasi said he was unable to help the man and tried to use the flash of his camera to warn the subway operator to stop.

A full moon seems to rise right beside the Empire State Building Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

The Pink Slip

MOHAMED Morsi We take the events in Cairo’s Tahrir Square seriously and so should Egypt’s new government. After all, we gave Hosni Mubarak a Pink Slip during the Arab Spring uprising, and just like that (almost), he was history. Now Egypt’s first freely elected president, Mohamed Morsi, is starting to remind us of that immortal line in The Who’s classic song “Won’t Get Fooled Again.” You know the one, it goes: “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” Morsi and his party, the Muslim Brotherhood, which was outlawed by Mubarak, want to ram through a new constitution that gives him near-dictatorial powers and silences dissent. His push for a constitutional referendum to be held on Dec. 15 has ignited deadly street clashes and raised the specter of increasing violence that threatens any progress this fledging government has made since getting rid of Mubarak. Whether Egyptian voters should boycott the referendum or vote “no,” or whether all the judiciary should go on strike or the opposition press should cease publication is up to them. But we do know that Morsi’s autocracy is the last thing Egyptians need right now. Morsi… You’re fired!

The Equation

Struggling Jets QB + Lightening Rod Backup QB + 3rd string “savior” QB x Blowhard coach = They still don’t Mark Sanchez Tim Tebow Greg McElroy Rex Ryan Add up to Eli

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2. OPEN A BOTTLE OF RAMUNE: The best part about this Japanese soda isn’t the variety—it comes in more than 35 flavors from chocolate and pineapple to green apple and chili—it’s the way you open the bottle. Seriously. Created back in 1876, Ramune comes in Codd-neck glass bottles, sealed with a glass marble. You open the bottle with a mini plunger found in the cap. A lot of Americans have had issues opening the bottles, and you can watch all these mishaps by searching “Ramune” on YouTube. Or you can try for yourself by grabbing a bottle at your local Japanese market. 3. BUY A LEG LAMP: Every year hundreds gather at Northport Hardware for the annual Leg Lamp Lighting, a homage to the classic movie, A Christmas Story. If you’ve never seen the movie, do yourself a favor and watch it now. Then visit RedRiderLegLamps.com and get your very own authentic 50-inch deluxe full-size leg lamp replica, complete with butt cheek, thigh, fringed gallery shade, fishnet stocking, and stiletto heel. Every leg lamp is shipped in a “FRAGILE” box or crate for added authenticity. After all, it is a major award. 4. DONATE TO TOYS OF HOPE: Help Hurricane Sandy victims and Long Island’s neediest this season by donating to Toys of Hope, which provides toys to more than 65,000 needy and homeless children every year in our area. All donations—100 percent—go directly to helping LI families. Visit ToysOfHope.org for details.

The Rundown

1. GET A CHANUKAH SWEATER: The folks at Geltfiend.com want you to remember last year, “when we, like, got invited to that ugly-sweater party but didn’t have sh*t to wear.” Problem solved. Because everything is better in a Chanukah sweater, Geltfiend offers spirited sweaters for Jewish hipsters looking to make a statement, whether it’s through the Crown Heights sweater covered with Hassidic snowman and described as “a playful homage to our Hassid peeps who keep it real 365 days a year” or the Geltdigger sweater covered in gelt-print and described simply as “we ain’t sayin’ she a Geltdigger…”

5. READ FORBES’ MOST OVERPAID ACTORS LIST: Actors get paid millions per film and sometimes even per episode. Forbes has picked 10 stars who have not earned their exorbitant salaries based on their last three projects. It calculated how much, on average, each star’s last three films earned at the box office per dollar of pay. And no, Lindsay Lohan did not make the list.

7. BUY LIMITED-EDITION Holiday COOKIES AT TRADER JOE’S: If you’re a Trader Joe’s shopper, you know that this is the time of year when the Chocolate Drizzle Star Cookies and the Almond Snowman Cookies dusted with sparkling sugar crystals come out, and if you don’t catch them within a few days, they’re gone till next year. So, what we’re saying is…leave now! You can thank us later. 8. DOWNLOAD FESTIVUS: Highline Records has released its first Christmas album Festivus, a newly recorded, 15-track indie pop collection featuring Glam Chops (with Eddie Argos, also of Art Brut), Piney Gir, Correatown, Real Tuesday Weld and others. The compilation skips between new wave, Phil Spector-inspired pop, synth-pop, glam rock, garage, and ’80s-inspired pop—and yes, it’s named after the Seinfeld episode, which makes it even better. 9. WATCH THE 12-12-12 SANDY BENEFIT CONCERT: Tickets to the fundraising concert featuring Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, Kanye West, Roger Waters, Bon Jovi and a slew of other artists at Madison Square Garden are selling for up to $2,500. If you can’t afford a seat at the event, no worries. Enjoy the show from your couch. 12-12-12 will air live at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 12 on dozens of TV stations and websites, including AOL, iHeartRadio, Thirteen and WLIW.

10. HAVE A HAPPY HANUKKAH!

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STREET FREAK BY JARED DILLIAN The telling subtitle for Jared Dillian’s behind the scenes look at Lehman Brothers’ death spiral that helped trigger the Great Recession is “a Memoir of Money and Madness,” which could easily describe the worst aspects of Wall Street culture—but also the reason so many people crazed by ambition succeed there. Dillian, an ex-military, working-glass guy in a Men’s Wearhouse suit, didn’t fit the Ivy League mold but he told his interviewers that he had a competitive advantage: “Nobody is willing to put in the hours I will put in. I am insane.” And he wasn’t lying because just like Claire Danes’ Carrie Mathison on Homeland, he suffers from bipolar disorder, which affects some 5.7 million Americans. In his case, it went undiagnosed until he almost flat-lined himself. But his mania also fueled his meteoric rise from checking IDs at the entrance of the trading floor to heading a fund that handled more than a trillion dollars. In “the peculiar culture” of Lehman, Dillian writes in staccato bursts of electrifying prose, he fit right in, but “the inside of my head was a bad neighborhood.” How he found the courage to move to a better place makes this twisted tale of a fabled financial firm’s collapse one for the ages. —Spencer Rumsey

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6. YOUTUBE “ZEBRA & PONY RUN WILD ON STATEN ISLAND”: If you somehow managed to miss this video late last week or even if you didn’t, this one will make your day, unless you’re a cold-hearted bastard. Watch a baby zebra and a pony escape from the petting zoo and frolic on the streets of SI. The zebra apparently thinks the pony is his mom. It’s adorable.

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The Book

The amount of proposed cuts in discretionary spending that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other Republican leaders sent to the White House this week to achieve savings of $2.2 trillion over 10 years. The blueprint offered no specifics on the cuts, although the Pentagon and defense-related departments such as Homeland Security and State make up roughly half of the federal government’s discretionary spending.

B-List B-Day AMY “I’M SO TIRED OF BEING HERE ” LEE Dec. 13, 1981 Way before Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney was not impressed with her silver medal on vault and spawned her very own Internet meme, there was Amy Lee. The lead singer of Evanescence, Lee is a Sagittarius, known for her gothic appearance, squealing, off-key voice and depression-inducing lyrics. Sagittarians tend to be deep and therefore drawn to the mysteries of the dark. Lee said her first song, written in elementary school, was called “Eternity of the Remorse.” We’d like to think this Sagittarian will attempt a smile, at least on her birthday, or even just a crooked one-sided puss. But, then again, there’s just too much that time cannot erase…

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Off the Reservation

to our role in the marketplace. What is our role, you may ask? Our stated mission is to inform, BY Jed Morey, Publisher, Long Island press entertain and educate the opinion Facebook.com/JedMorey @JedMorey leaders of Long Island. Our practical purpose is to make Newsday suck less. (Delicacy is not my specialty. Sorry.) Professionally, we establish a bridge between intelligent and discerning readers and the advertising community. We are essentially Ten years ago, in January of changed would be a gross understate- a vehicle for commerce and social 2003, we published the first issue ment. Despite the public’s increased engagement and the purveyors of of the weekly Long Island Press after appetite for news and information, truth on the Island. As the conscience several months of experimenting with the splintering of interests and frag- of the local media and the only outlet a bi-weekly music publication called mentation of channels have presented courageous enough to challenge the Island Ear. Transforming the a challenge to traditional media conventional wisdom, we take our Ear into an alternative newsweekly, outlets. General interest publications responsibility very seriously. something every major market except such as news magazines and daily The decision to transition from LI had, made sense on several levels. newspapers have suffered terribly weekly to monthly didn’t happen in I’m offering this bit of history to during the digital revolution; alterna- a vacuum. The success of our sister answer a question I hear frequently: tive weeklies have declined in revenue publication, Milieu magazine, and the Why on earth would you willingly go and circulation during this period as growth of our small business program, into the newspaper business? well, though not nearly to the same the Bethpage Best of LI contest and It’s a good question. These are the extent. But it was enough to make me App, have enabled us to grow as an 2000s, after all. begin pondering a different relation- organization. As we look forward to At the time, our company ship with my muse. 2013, we see a jam-packed producowned and operated 92.7 WDRE/ To be in love with your work is tion schedule that includes 10 glossy WLIR-FM, the heritage issues of Milieu, several alternative rock station specialty publications, in New York, and the and a new project you first of its kind in the will see on newsstands nation. Complementbeginning this month. ing WLIR with an Our company is the altweekly, particularly custom engine behind a strong, independentLiving Out, a new minded paper that the GLBT publication on Island sorely needed, LI, published by David made strategic sense. Kilmnick and the staff Moreover, we were of Long Island GLBT running a music and Services Network. event venue called the Vanderbilt in a gift, one that none of us takes for Since the days of WLIR and Plainview and a newspaper came in granted. And despite the Chicken WDRE, breaking new ground is in handy when promoting acts outside Little prognostications for our our DNA. It’s who we are, so it’s what the format of the radio station. industry, we had a good year, which has we do. So while it may look as though These were hectic and exciting allowed me to make this decision from the Press is downshifting, in reality days. We were not without our foibles a position of strength instead of with we are moving forward full throttle. and gaffes (biker brawl, anyone?), my back to the wall. If anything, once It’s as though we have suffered from a but we had a lot of fun and, for a we stopped resisting changes brought multiple personality disorder all these while, everything worked. Gradually, about by the Internet, it became a years and are finally setting our personhowever, pieces of the company and blessing instead of a curse; the growth alities free. The Press as our professor people began to break away. The radio of our digital platforms gave us the in a corduroy jacket and leather elbow station was sold to Univision and the ability to disseminate information as patches, Milieu as our stylish and Vanderbilt was sold to Nassau OTB. quickly and accurately as Newsday. confident feminine persona, Bethpage Then my business partner and I went This eye-opening process has freed our Best of LI as our inner entrepreneur our separate ways; he stayed in radio, minds from the mental constraints of and Living Out as our free-spirited, and I ran a restaurant inside our the physical publishing gay side. (Still working former facility and took the helm of world. Ultimately it has on a title for the foulthe newspaper. given us permission to mouthed, neurotic There are many more details, ask ourselves what we facebook.com/jedmorey Mets/Jets/Isles fan some sordid and bitter, some joyous want to write instead of publication.) and downright funny. But along with racing to meet artificial deadlines with It’s been an honor to publish the countless memories, they have washed material we are forced to write. Press for the past decade. Hopefully away under the bridge. ThroughOn a business note, the two you’ll be as excited as we are about out it all, without even realizing it, primary consequences of reducing the our next 10 years as a monthly. After I was falling madly in love with the frequency of the Press is producing that, we will probably just download newspaper business. I was smitten a bigger book and increasing its cir- directly into a chip surgically with the Long Island Press. The staff, culation. Essentially, going monthly implanted in your skull. Catch you on the words, everything. I fell in love means we are able to add news and the flip side. Jed Morey with the work and remain hopelessly features that satiate our artistic and Publisher committed to it today. (Being a lousy journalistic desires, while staying true restaurateur helped solidify my path.) to comment on “Off the Reservation” email jed at JMorey@longislandpress.com To say that our industry has

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11th Annual Christmas Angel Event Bridgeview Yacht Club was damaged in the storm so the annual Christmas Angel event will be held on Friday, December 14th at the Beach House, 906 West Beech St., Long Beach, from 8 pm to 12 am. $100 donation per person is suggested. If you’re interested in donating prizes, please email Johanna at lbca@optonline.net. If you have been affected by Sandy and would like to attend, please email lbca@optonline.net.

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Superstorm Sandy left federal, state and county agencies scrambling to rebuild the City of Long Beach and other hard-hit areas, but the human need is dire and immediate. Too many people were left with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Johanna Sofield and her husband Greg are well-known in the Long Beach community. Greg’s a third-generation resident and Johanna, originally from Hewlett, has lived in Long Beach since she was 19 years old. Johanna describes herself as a “beach girl,” and she is, with long blond hair, ocean blue eyes and a natural way about her. When we met recently at the Laurel Luncheonette on West Park Avenue, it was packed with locals and construction workers. As Johanna made her way through the crowd, she was greeted by almost everyone there. “I love this community,” she says. More than a decade ago the Sofields began hosting a Christmas party in their home and invited friends, family and the community asking them to bring toys and they would distribute them to needy children in the Long Beach school district. In just a few years, the event outgrew the Sofield’s living room and was moved to the Bridgeview Yacht Club, where it evolved into an annual fundraiser that is attended by hundreds. Since 2003, when the Sofields founded the non-profit organization known as The Long Beach Christmas Angel, Inc., they’ve raised more than $450,000 to help local working families facing a hardship or a financial crisis. Christmas Angel has provided assistance for rent, tuition, clothing, medical supplies such as eyeglasses and even funerals. For many of the recipients, the financial gift from Christmas Angel can be life changing. “The first family we assisted was a single mother,” Johanna says. “We paid 10

her college tuition so she could get a good job and support her kids.” Helping people get an education has always been one of their top goals. Last year Christmas Angel awarded $6,000 in scholarships to local students. “Kids want to go to college and we want them to stay in school,” she says. Johanna has seen firsthand how a seemingly small gift can make a tremendous difference in someone’s life. But she keeps the details to herself. Christmas Angel has always maintained a strict policy about protecting the identities of their recipients. Recently, Christmas Angel gave a $500 donation to a local woman to pay for private driving lessons which allowed

She considers herself lucky that no one in her family was injured, but they were scattered in different places after the storm. “My kids went to Virginia, my dog went to Brooklyn and my husband to Jersey,” she says. “I couldn’t sleep so I would get up in the middle of the night and wait on line for gas to bring back to the people here.” When her four children returned to Long Beach, they brought back $18,000 in donated goods and $8,000 in cash for the community that was raised in Virginia. How much Long Beach lost is more evident every day. Housing will be an on-going struggle for the foreseeable future. Sandy put everybody on a level playing field. “You have the well-off living side by

“My kids went to Virginia, my dog went to Brooklyn and my husband to Jersey,” she says. “I couldn’t sleep so I would get up in the middle of the night and wait on line for gas to bring back to the people here.” her to get a better paying job with the City of Long Beach. Another resident won a housing lottery, but because of out-of-pocket payments for his cancer treatments he used up his savings and didn’t have the required down payment. “We helped get the criteria waived, which allowed him to be gifted for the down payment,” Johanna says. “I had Thanksgiving at his house that year. Without Christmas Angel’s help, he would have lost the house and a once-in -a-lifetime opportunity.” All of these donations were given without fanfare. Johanna preferred to keep a low profile. “We had been successfully flying under the radar,” she says. And then came Sandy. “This is just so big,” Johanna says sadly. “Yesterday I distributed $5,000; usually it’s $70,000 for the entire year.” Rebuilding the lives of those devastated by the superstorm is her top priority now.

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side with people who struggle,” she says. “There is little affordable housing in Long Beach,” Johanna says. For those who can’t afford the cost of moving to another apartment, Christmas Angel assists by paying the security deposit and the first month’s rent, if needed. “We look for what they need and how we can help them,” she says. “Veterans go right to the top of our list.” Johanna works closely with social workers in the school district who help identify those who can use assistance. Recently Johanna met with an elementary school psychologist who had applications for Christmas Angel to fulfill. Most requests are paid by check through the charity. The psychologist gave Johanna a $434 LIPA bill that a struggling single mother had to pay before the utility would turn her electricity back on. Johanna put the LIPA

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bill on the top of her pile and mailed the check later that day. Christmas Angel gave a $1,000 Visa gift card to a school staff member who lost everything in the storm. A resident who was left with just an ill-fitting housecoat received a $500 gift card for new clothing. Thanks to Christmas Angel’s generosity, a Sleepy’s truck just delivered 10 new mattresses to local residents, seven of the new beds were for children. Johanna didn’t mention her own circumstances until asked. “My house is gutted, and it will be six months to get back in,” she says. “Our rental house will be ready in a month, so for now I’m staying at a friend’s house.” “This is a beach community with three and four generations all living here,” Johanna explains. “Everybody got hit.” Meanwhile Johanna is helping those who have fallen to get back up on their feet and rebuild their dream of living in the City by the Sea. For more information about LBCA or to contact Johanna, email lbca@optonline. net. See the box above for updated information on their 11th Annual Christmas Angel Holiday Party. The Christmas Angel Lyrics by The Cranes The Christmas angel walks The Christmas angel talks She mends all of the things that fall apart The Christmas angel dreams Inside her, she does gleam And brings together all the broken hearts And she knows who we are She sees us as we are When we’re lost, she’s not far Just ahead, near or far The Christmas angel sees The things we really need And then she’ll lead one day For never-ending peace And she knows who we are She sees us as we are When we’re lost, she’s not far In your head, in your heart In the stars...

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Life Goes On Post-Sandy… Slowly By Rashed Mian rmian@longislandpress.com

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Kevin Collins is enjoying relaxing music and sifting through a stack of envelopes piled atop his desk when he gets a call from someone inquiring about an upcoming event. “That’s this Thursday night,” the director of the Mastic Beach Property Owners Association tells them. “Parents with young children who want Santa to give them a gift should bring [presents] wrapped and marked.” “Everybody’s welcome,” he adds. Holiday celebrations were the furthest thing from many Mastic Beach residents’ minds just one month ago, as Superstorm Sandy’s record storm surge sent massive waves barreling through the waterfront community, flooding about 400 homes, destroying countless summer bungalows and slicing three breaches in two nearby barrier islands. “We took the storm head-on,” says Collins, 65, whose house on Wavecrest Drive took in more than three feet of water. “I have neighbors who had their entire houses wiped out. “Once the breach happened,” he adds, “people were running for cover.” While many Long Islanders have regrouped post-Sandy, thousands of residents in several harder-hit areas are still reeling without heat or electricity. The structural damage was most pronounced in Nassau County, which is seeking $6.7 billion in federal aid—more than three times as much as Suffolk. The sheer magnitude of Nassau’s devastation is also reflected in federal grant monies approved for its residents—$235 million, compared to $51 million for Suffolk residents. Nassau’s “damage runs the entire coastline,” County Executive Ed Mangano tells the Press, adding, this kind of damage “warrants the support of the federal programs.” Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone was not available for comment as of press time. As of Tuesday, more than 9,500 Long Island Power Authority customers were still unable to receiver power due to saltwater damage to electrical systems and at least nine Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster recovery

centers were still operating here. Local officials are reluctant to offer a timetable for full recovery. Two village mayors of oceanfront communities tell the Press they expect it will take at least a year for things to get back to normal, if not longer. Still, there’s progress being made, according to several officials, even if it’s merely cleaning up the sidewalks. “When a person that’s lost a good part of their house walks out…and they see all this debris, it makes it worse for them,” says Village of Lindenhurst Mayor Thomas Brennan. “As far as everyday activity, we’re pretty much back to normal,” says Mastic Beach village Mayor Bill Biondi. “A lot of residents want to come back, and the ones that were damaged want to rebuild.” Mangano tells the Press the county revived its troubled Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant within 14 hours of a “catastrophic failure” in Sandy’s wake. Nassau has also sped up the repair time of West Shore Road, which connects Mill Neck to Bayville, from 18 to nine months, he says. Elected officials from both sides of the aisle are now lobbying for federal aid to help pay for New York’s estimated $32 billion in storm damages. “It sounds positive,” Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) says of his discussions with his colleagues in Congress. “But obviously we have to make the best case we can and fight as hard as we can.” With the government quickly approaching a so-called fiscal cliff and President Obama reportedly asking Congress for $50 billion for postSandy recovery efforts in the tri-state area—$30 billion less than requested— that fight may be far from over.

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Searching For A Killer By Timothy Bolger and Jaclyn Gallucci tbolger@longislandpress.com

When Superstorm Sandy washed out a five-mile stretch of Ocean Parkway in October, questions arose whether more human remains were unearthed to add to the 11 found in the brush near the Long Island Serial Killer’s Gilgo Beach dumping grounds. When no new victims were discovered along the parkway once it reopened, one of the former lead investigators on the case breathed a sigh of relief, describing it as proof of the Suffolk County Police Department’s thoroughness. “The storm has pretty much clarified the fact that it doesn’t appear any more bodies will be found along Ocean Parkway,” retired Homicide Squad Det. Lt. Gerard Pelkofsky tells the Press. “Right now, we know the exact number of people that we’re dealing with.” Pelkofsky led the probe when police scoured the barrier island from land, sea and air after four suspected serial killer victims’ remains discovered near Gilgo turned into 10, likely dumped by multiple killers. A year ago Dec. 13 police found the skeletal remains of an 11th— Shannan Gilbert, the 24-year-old New Jersey woman they were originally looking for when they discovered the others. That date also marks the two-year anniversary of police finding three of the four serial killer victims— who, like Gilbert, were online escorts. Police remain mum about new developments on Gilbert and the others—eight women, a man and a female toddler, only half of whom have been identified. Homicide Squad Det. Lt. Jack Fitzpatrick resumed his post as the unit’s longtime commander earlier this year. “We are not commenting further at this time on the Gilgo investigation until/unless we have some additional information pertaining to the investigation that serves the investigation or the public by its release,” the department said in a statement. Suffolk police did, however, say they doubt the involvement of 60-year-old ex-con Lucius Crawford— apprehended Dec. 4 by authorities for his suspected involvement in murdering a woman this week and 14

Crosses mark the spot where Melissa Barthelemy’s body was found (Left). Shannan Gilbert’s Mother Mari brings Balloons to Oak Beach for a memorial vigil last december (top). Amber Lynn Costello’s sister Kimberly overstreet leaves a balloon from the vigil on a memorial for her sister (Bottom).

two others in the ’90s—to the slayings after LI’s lone daily hyped the NYPD saying Crawford is a “possible person of interest.” “At this point in time there does not appear to be any reason to suspect that Crawford has any involvement with the homicides that have occurred in the last several years where the bodies were discovered in the vicinity of Gilgo Beach,” Suffolk police said, adding that Homicide Squad detectives still intend to investigate whether Crawford has any connection to the case. Dr. Louis B. Schlesinger, a professor of forensic psychology at John Jay College and serial killer expert, says the public should not hold its breath waiting for an arrest. “It can go on for 30 years,” he says, pointing to Green River Killer Gary Ridgeway, who confessed in 2001 to killing 71 women throughout the ’80s and ’90s. “This could never be solved or it could be solved next week,” he adds, pointing to the relative quickness in which David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz

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cash grab: confessions of the oak beach drifter, a self-published partly fictionalized memoir by a former roommate of an oak beach man who was among the last to see shannan gilbert alive, was released in october.

was caught versus the Zodiac Killer, who was never apprehended. Pelkofsky cautions that people shouldn’t assume Gilbert or any of the other victims were killed by the same serial killer believed to have murdered the four young women found in Gilgo. “There’s two separate incidents here,” he says. “We were searching for Shannan Gilbert and we found another set of circumstances that appear to be totally unrelated.” Nearing the grim anniversaries, two developments have spawned new questions regarding the slayings: the recent announcement by Gilbert’s family that they’re suing one of the Oak Beach men who claimed to be among the last to see Gilbert alive, and a new book penned by a career criminal that lived with Gilbert’s last client.

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Hair and bones were all that remained of Gilbert when investigators found her in the marsh bordering the Oak Beach community. Last month, standing outside Suffolk County Court, Gilbert’s mother Mari and her attorney, John Ray, blamed Oak Beach resident Dr. Charles Peter Hackett for her disappearance and death. Hackett was a neighbor of Joseph Brewer, the Oak Beach man who last hired Gilbert, who was last seen by another neighbor, Gus Coletti, as she was fleeing Brewer’s house in a panic in the early morning hours of May 1, 2010. In a wrongful death lawsuit

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filed Nov. 15, Gilbert’s family alleges Hackett gave Shannan drugs at his Larboard Court home—bordering the marsh where Shannan’s body was found—before letting her leave, thereby causing her death, and then covering it up. “We allege that Dr. Peter Hackett has told others that he encountered Shannan knocking on his door on May 1, that he let her into his home and that he administered narcotics,” said Ray. “He used the phrase that it was ‘too late’ to help her and that he then released her.” Gilbert’s family hopes the lawsuit will lead to more details about what happened the night Shannan disappeared. “I really believe in my heart that [Hackett] played a major role in my daughter’s death,” said Mari. “He denied he called me for over a year. The phone records proved that he did call me, so we proved that he lied to me. And if he could lie about something like that imagine what else he’s capable of.” That alleged call the day her daughter disappeared is the crux of the complaint, along with comments allegedly made to Ray by Hackett’s Oak Beach neighbors. “[Hackett] did say that he had Shannan, that he was taking care of Shannan, and he was running a halfway house for girls,” said Mari. She added that Hackett seemed “very distant” and worried about himself more than about the well-being of her daughter when asking whether Gi f t G u i d e

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at the request of her mother, who is waiting until she has the money to hire an independent medical examiner to give a second opinion on her daughter’s cause of death. While police and victims’ families press on in their quest for answers, one

“i don’t care if i get $1 or $1 million, i just want justice for my daughter.” —Mari Gilbert

man tangentially related to the Gilbert probe is the latest outsider to try to profit off the case.

CASHING IN

A 49-year-old former tenant of Brewer self-published a book titled Confessions of the Oak Beach Drifter in October under the penname “W.” But not until the end of the nearly 300-page memoir—the author claims it’s partly fictionalized—does he mention living

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there, and casts suspicion on his landlord, “Damon Brooks.” “There would be some times I would hear some ‘rough play’ with Damon and his ‘guests,’” he writes, referring to strippers and prostitutes frequently called to the house. “There was one particular night I was awakened by a woman screaming, ‘No! Please stop! Please, don’t do that!’ and that was followed by a loud thud. And then there was silence.” Police declined to comment on the book, one of several rumored to be in the works. LongIslandSerialKiller.com also previously tried to profit off the case, by selling t-shirts before victims’ families complained. And the website Serial Killers Ink collected a soil sample from one of the Gilgo dumpsites as “muderabilia”—serial killer collectibles. Confessions’ author, a West Islip native whose name has not been released, said in a news release that “in the interests of justice for the murdered victims” his goal is to give “a new perspective from the standpoint of someone falsely seen as a suspect to the crimes.” Police have repeatedly said there are no suspects in the murder and that Gilbert may not be a murder victim. The author says the media “wrongly” dubbed him a drifter and “cast him maliciously into the spotlight as a w w w. lo n g i s l a n d p r e s s . c o m

suspicious persona.” His “confessions” include pushing his grandmother down the stairs at age 6, dozens of assaults, a “mini career in burglary,” raping two girlfriends and shooting a man in the ear. Most of the book recaps his sex life, failed relationships and cocaine-dealing/strip clubbouncing career in graphic detail. He also writes that he would never kill a woman. “In the eight months that I lived at Oak Beach, I had a rough period in my life,” the first-time author writes in the epilogue. “Things were out of control and my drug and alcohol abuse was at an all-time high. I had stripper/ prostitutes at the beach house, and yes, I had quite a few blackout nights that I don’t remember and there were things I couldn’t explain.” Among the inexplicable things he writes about is chasing after a young woman who wanted to go home when he got “too rough” with her. “The last thing I remembered was trying to run down the road after the girl, and everything was spinning around me,” he writes. It’s a peculiar admission—real or not—for someone who repeatedly likens “Damon” to a rapist and says he smelled decomposition in the basement but says he moved out before Gilbert was ever called to the house. The mystery continues.

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Chronology of a Mystery April 20, 1996: Two female legs, wrapped in plastic bags with surgical scars on the left ankle and red polish on the toes are found on Fire Island at Blue Point Beach.

July 18-21, 2001: Jessica Taylor, 20, who had been working the streets of Washington, D.C., days earlier, is last seen near the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan. November 19, 2000: A nude woman’s torso and left foot are found in Manorville off Halsey Manor Road by hikers.

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July 9, 2007: Maureen BrainardBarnes, 25, of Connecticut, is last seen in Manhattan.

July 26, 2003: Jessica Taylor’s headless, handless torso is found off Halsey Manor Road in Manorville by a walker.

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July 12, 2009: Melissa Barthelemy, 24, of the Bronx, is last seen in the Bronx.

May 1, 2010: Shannan Gilbert, 24, of New Jersey, is dropped off by her driver at client Joseph Brewer’s house in Oak Beach. She makes a 23-minute 911 call hours later and runs off into the night. She knocks on the door of resident Gus Colletti but flees after he calls police. She is last seen by another resident running alongside the marsh on Anchor Way. May 1, 2010: Shannan Gilbert’s mother receives a call midafternoon from Oak Beach resident Peter Hackett, who allegedly tells her he runs a shelter for wayward girls and Shannan is safe with him, a call Hackett at first denies making.

August 26, 2009: Following Melissa Barthelemy’s disappearance, her sister receives the final call of seven made from Midtown Manhattan, from a man using Melissa’s cell phone to allegedly taunt her and confess to Melissa’s murder.

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September 2, 2010: Amber Lynn Costello, 27, of North Babylon, is last seen in North Babylon on her way to meet a client.

December 11, 2010: During a search for Shannan Gilbert by K-9 officer John Mallia and his dog Blue, the body of Melissa Barthelemy is found on Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach.

December 13, 2010: The bodies of Megan Waterman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes and Amber Lynn Costello are found nearby.

June 6, 2010: Megan Waterman, 22, of Maine is last seen in Hauppauge on surveillance video leaving the Holiday Inn Express at 1:30 a.m. to meet with a client.

December 16, 2010: The home of Joseph Brewer is searched by police and his car impounded. Police say no evidence connecting Brewer to the murders is found.

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April 12, 2011: The skull of the Fire Island Jane Doe is found west of Tobay Beach in Nassau County.

April 4, 2011: An unidentified female child between 16-32 months old is found wrapped in a blanket, wearing jewelry, on Ocean Parkway. March 29, 2011: Jessica Taylor’s skull, hands and forearm are found on Ocean Parkway about 1 mile east from where the bodies of Megan, Maureen, Melissa and Amber were found.

March 28, 2011: The home of Joseph Brewer is put up for sale.

April 4, 2011: The skull, hands and right foot of the Manorville Jane Done are found on Ocean Parkway, just yards away from the child. The two bodies are not related by DNA. April 4, 2011: An unidentified Asian male dressed in women’s clothing is found on Ocean Parkway.

December 6-7, 2011: Police find Shannan Gilbert’s pocketbook, ID, cell phone, jeans and shoes during a search of the Oak Beach marsh near Anchor Way.

October 10, 2012: The Oak Beach home of Peter Hackett is put up for sale.

April 12, 2011: Unidentified female bones and jewelry are found in a plastic bag just east of Zach’s Bay near the Jones Beach water tower. DNA confirms that this woman is likely the mother of the child.

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December 11, 2011: Shannan Gilbert’s body is found in the marsh near Ocean Parkway; In the last press conference held by police regarding the murders, former Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer says the department believes her death was an accidental drowning and not related to the other Gilgo victims. Her body is sent to the medical examiner for autopsy. May 1, 2012: The Suffolk County Medical Examiner’s office labels Shannan Gilbert’s cause of death “undetermined.”

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The Victims MEGAN WATERMAN

Megan Waterman traveled from Maine with her boyfriend Akeem Cruz to the Holiday Inn Express in Hauppauge. She called her 3-year-old daughter and hours later was last seen leaving the hotel alone at 1:30 a.m. to meet a client. Megan’s remains were found more than 20 miles away from the hotel on Ocean Parkway. Cruz is not a considered a suspect in Megan’s murder, but was charged with the interstate trafficking of prostitutes and admitted to driving Megan to NY to work as a prostitute. She was found near Gilgo Beach within a mile of Maureen, Melissa and Amber.

MAUREEN BRAINARD-BARNES

Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, a mother of two, had been a straight A student who later fell into drugs. She left her Connecticut home to spend the day in Manhattan, the last place she was seen alive. She told her family she would return home the next day, but never did. There are few details known about the day Maureen disappeared.

JESSICA TAYLOR

Jessica Taylor, 20, was last seen working the streets of Manhattan, near the Port Authority Bus Terminal. She had already been arrested multiple times for prostitution in Atlantic City, New York and Washington, D.C., where she had just relocated from that same month. Little else is known about Jessica, who was estranged from her family. Her naked torso was found on a plastic sheet in 2003, with her head and hands cut off in the Manorville Pine Barrens. A tattoo on her hip was carved with dozens of razorthin, crooked gashes but a D.C. detective still recognized it from a previous arrest and Jessica’s body was identified through DNA. Her case went cold until 2011, when her skull, hands and forearm were found on Ocean Parkway just east of where the bodies of Megan, Maureen, Melissa and Amber were found.

FIRE ISLAND JANE DOE

Her scarred legs were found by walkers on Blue Point Beach on Fire Island in 1996. They were wrapped in a plastic bag and her toes were painted red. In 2011, her skull was found west of Tobay Beach on Ocean Parkway. Her torso and hands remain missing. She is believed to be 18-50 years old, white and had surgery on her left ankle.

BABY DOE

Shannan Gilbert, 24, and her driver, Michael Pak, drove from Jersey City to client Joseph Brewer’s Oak Beach home, where Shannan reportedly became frantic, locking herself in the bathroom and making a 23-minute 911 call that has never been made public. After running off in the early morning hours, she arrived a few houses away at the home of Gus Colletti, yelling for help, then running away again into the dark when Colletti told her he was calling police. Later that day, Shannan’s mother received a phone call from Oak Beach resident Peter Hackett, who allegedly claimed he ran a home for wayward girls and Shannan was safe with him, a call he later denied making. Neither Pak, Brewer nor Hackett are considered suspects by police. Shannan’s bones were found a year later in the nearby marsh, in shallow water close to Ocean Parkway, where police said she likely drowned trying to get to the road. Her pants and shoes were found 1/4-mile away from her body, also in the marsh, but close to the Oak Beach community where she was last seen. This has led many, including her family, to believe her death, ruled “undetermined” by the medical examiner, wasn’t accidental.

AMBER LYNN COSTELLO

North Carolina native Amber Lynn Costello, 27, lived in North Babylon and had been in detox at the Nassau University Medical Center the year before she was murdered. She was last seen leaving her home to meet a client. She had been married but her ex-husband said the marriage ended over her alleged heroin use. Amber had been trying to get clean and out of the world of prostitution before she was killed.

She was found wrapped in a blanket in the brush of Ocean Parkway in Suffolk County. Police say she is “non-caucasian” and was between 16 and 32 months of age and after DNA analysis is believed to be the child of the Jones Beach Jane Doe, whose remains were found down the road in Nassau County. The child was wearing gold hoop earrings and a rope necklace. She was found 70 yards away from Manorville Jane Doe.

MANORVILLE JANE DOE

She was found nude, in pieces, and wrapped in plastic bags in 2000 by hikers off Halsey Manor Road in Manorville. Her head, hands and leg were cut off. She was 18-40 years old, around 5’2”, white, with brown hair. Police believe she was a prostitute in the NYC area. Her head, hands and leg were found in 2011 on Ocean Parkway in plastic bags, about 1.5 miles east of Jessica. Her nose had been fractured and healed prior to her death. 18

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JONES BEACH JANE DOE

Little information has been released on this woman found 1.5 miles east of the Jones Beach tower on Ocean Parkway, She was wearing a snake chain bracelet and X-O bracelet. The body of her baby daughter was found about 10 miles east of hers, in very close proximity to the Manorville Jane Doe, who is unrelated to both.

JOHN DOE

He is believed to have been between 17 and 23 years of age, Asian, approximately 5’6” with poor dental health. He was missing his top and bottom molars and one front tooth for some time before he was killed. The man was also found wearing women’s clothing and had been dead for at least five years, possibly 10 years. He was found ¼ mile away from the area Megan, Maureen, Amber and Melissa were found.

MELISSA BARTHELEMY

Melissa Barthelemy, 24, left Buffalo, where she worked as a hair stylist, and moved to the Bronx. She worked as a stripper, and later as a Craigslist escort to make ends meet. Melissa is believed to have been at a Massapequa motel early in the morning the day she disappeared. Seven calls were later made from Midtown Manhattan from Melissa’s cell phone to her teen sister, by an unknown man who allegedly taunted her about Melissa’s line of work and claimed responsibility for her death. Melissa’s body was the first to be found on Ocean Parkway, by a K-9 officer and cadaver dog looking for Shannan Gilbert.

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Jil Sander Dinosaur Skinny Tie A silk woven skinny tie with dinosaur designs found between trendy broken stripes. ($150, Barney’s, Barneys.com) Boulee Addison Open Shoulder Blazer The open shoulder blazer adds the cool factor to the already trendy two-tone frock. ($216, Singer 22, Multiple Locations, Singer22.com)

Snake Print Scarf by EVA for NY&C A snake-print silky scarf is the perfect accessory to ring in the Year of the Snake with on January 1! ($19.77, New York & Company, Multiple Locations, NYAndCompany.com)

Salvatore Ferragam0 Aladino Espadrille Slippers Velvet Venetian slippers with contrast stitching and a rubber sole for a stylish and comfy fit! ($195, Saks Fifth Avenue, Huntington, SaksFifthAvenue.com)

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Rag & Bone for Target + Neiman Marcus Holiday Collection Men’s Sweater This perfect winter sweater is cozy and cool and comes from the hottest limited edition collaboration line. ($69.99, Target or Neiman Marcus Locations, Target.com, NeimanMarcus.com)

Brightlight High Top Sneakers These sneakers take on a dual role with a bright pink high heel painted on the side. ($128, ShopBop. com)

Michael BY Michael Kors WOOL-BLEND PEA COAT A polished coat with double-breasted detailing and zip pockets at the waist. ($89.40, Last Call by Neiman Marcus, Tanger Outlets at The Arches, Deer Park, TangerOutlet.com/DeerPark)

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Tranquil Turtle Cute nightlight emits soothing ocean sounds while projecting a light with calming wave movements. Plays two soothing sounds to children. ($45, Amazon.com) SRM Cake Pops Maker The kit combines Bakerella’s cake pop designs with everything you need to pop them out! ($39.99, Macy’s, Multiple Locations, Macys.com)

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Atari Arcade Take on the challenge with this petite arcade that you can pop on your kitchen counter, coffee table or desk at work. ($69.99, Go Calendars, Tanger Outlets at The Arches, Deer Park, TangerOutlet.com/DeerPark)

Laugh & Learn Apptivity Case for iPad This sturdy case will protect your iPad, iPad 2 or iPad 3 device from dribbles, drool, and sticky little fingers. Busy beads and a handle are great for go-anywhere play. And free Laugh & Learn™ apps mean plenty of learning fun! ($35 Toys ‘R’ Us, Multiple Locations, ToysRUs.com)

Madame Alexander Puff THE MAGIC DRAGON & JACKIE PAPER The famous duo are revived in this super fun plush and cloth doll set. ($60, Saks Fifth Avenue, Huntington, SaksFifthAvenue.com)

Lamborghini Murcielago LP 670-4 SV So what if you can’t afford the real thing! This hot car is just as fun. It moves forward and reverse and includes a rechargeable battery and charger! ($299.99, FAO Schwartz, FAO.com)

Baby Alive Baby Wanna Walk Doll The baby makes sounds and talks as she takes her first steps. ($44.99, Target, Multiple Locations, Target.com)

Color Wonder FINGERPAINTS Color Wonder paper is specially coated so color doesn’t make it onto the couch or rug. These clear colors only become visible on Color Wonder paper so no messy hands, clothing— or anything else. ($11.99, CVS, Multiple Locations, CVS.com) /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Hasbro® EASY BAKE ULTIMATE OVEN Mix, and bake cake and cookies for your friends with this new oven! ($44.99, Target, Multiple Locations, Target.com) Rocket Ride Carousel Featuring a menagerie of timeless toys and old-time candy, such gems like Shylling’s Rocket Ride Carousel will recapture the hearts of kids and those who have always been kids at heart. ($27.50, Bobb Howard’s General Store, New Hyde Park, BobbHowardsGeneralStore.com)

Angry Birds Knock On Wood Set Prove you are the angriest of birds when you topple your opponent’s wood structure in this board game that takes the popular mobile device game to your kitchen table. ($24.99, Matty’s Toy Stop, Multiple Locations, MattysToyStop.com)

Princess Castle Vanity Set Let your little girl glam up at this super cute royal castle vanity table. ($29.99, T.J. Maxx, Multiple Locations, TJMaxx.com)

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Glyde Gear The perfect accessory for your child, call it a 3-in-1. The wearable backpack features padded shoulder straps and a back panel for comfort along with a large storage compartment that converts into a scooter and rolling luggage. ($89.99, SkyMall.com) Tutu Cute Design, customize, and model a tutu made out of multicolored tulle, the perfect gift for any creative burgeoning ballerina. ($14.99, FS Toys, Seaford, FSToysCatalog.com)

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Caviar RepaiRx Micro-Bead Fill & Fix Treatment Masque Use this deeply restorative treatment to restructure hair, fill in gaps and tears in each strand and smooth the cuticle. ($42, Beauty Bar, Manhasset, BeautyBar.com)

Diane von Furstenberg for Target + Neiman Marcus Holiday Collection Yoga Mat Hit your favorite poses in style on this posh yoga mat. ($49.99, Target or Neiman Marcus Locations, Target.com, NeimanMarcus.com)

Power Shave Set A luxe set including all the essentials for a clean shave along with bonus travel sizes of The 4 Elements of the Perfect Shave. ($175, The Art Of Shaving, Garden City & Huntington Station, Brotherhood.TheArtOfShaving.com) Pretty-N-Polished Makeup Kit For those with no time to spare, this is the perfect kit for getting a polished look in a matter of minutes with tools like mineral powder, shadow, mascara, blush and lip-gloss, among other treats. ($125, MommyMakeup.com)

Ultimate Man Refueling Set This savvy set features all the essentials including Facial Fuel Energizing Face Wash, Shave Cream Moisture Treatment, Body Scrub, Hand Salve, and Facial Fuel NoShine Moisturizing Lip Balm. ($58, Kiehl’s, Garden City, Kiehls.com)

12 Days Of Christmas This pack makes a great holiday gift and includes Angel’s Delight Soap, Crackling Cinders Bath Bomb, Santa’s Sack Bubble Bar and more. ($87.95, Lush USA, Multiple Locations, LushUSA.com)

Spa Castle is the ultimate day-cation destination on Long Island. Pay your favorite person’s admission for access to four floors of serene saunas, pools, and lounges or go a step further and include a Blue Card, set with indulgent services at the spa paradise. ($35 for admission; Price varies for Blue Card, College Point, NYSpaCastle.com)

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Bath & Body Works Signature Collection Body Lotion & Shower Gel Carrier - PARIS AMOUR This double-sided carrier is great for a girl on the go and holds a scented body lotion and shower gel! ($15, Bath & Body Works, Multiple Locations, BathAndBodyWorks.com)

Red Door Spa Warm Wishes With Massage The Warm Wishes package features a 50-minute Red Door Signature Massage, Warm Cream Pedicure and Manicure as well as a Makeup Touchup. ($210, Red Door Spa, Multiple Locations, RedDoorSpas.com)

Champagne Mud Body Wrap Gifters are treated to therapeutic wrap with mineral rich seaweed mud that stimulates the release of unhealthy accumulations in the digestive, circulatory and lymphatic systems. ($92, Drew Patrick Spa, Bay Shore, DrewPatrickSpa.com)

Maximus Spa & Salon Spa Pass Talk about the gift that keeps on giving... This pass gives recipients access to the spa for three months during which they’ll receive hair treatments, a massage, facial, makeup application, manicure and pedicure! ($265, Maximus Salon & Spa, Carle Place, MaximusSpaSalon.com)

Milania Holiday Gift Set A stylish set including Total Vitamin Leave-In Treatment, a Keratin Heat Protector and an Argan Oil Infusion Serum. ($59, MilaniaHairCare.com)

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Lux Vanity Crest Collection Embellished in gold or silver, these trinkets will add a touch of indulgence to your bath or powder room (Price ranges from $39.99 to $59.99, Martin Viette Nurseries, East Norwich & Manhasset, MartinViette.com)

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Soap of the Month Club Give the gift of wellness with this year-long soap subscription where folks can enjoy a new scent each month (One 4 oz. soap). Soaps with themes like Sexy Defense and Love Devil will be accompanied by a fluffy bath pouf and information on the aromatherapy benefits of the monthly soap. ($9.95 per month, In2ition Skin, Bay Shore, In2itionSkin.US)

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thursday 12.6 Simian Mobile Disco @ Webster Hall Father Charles & Laurie Mangano @ NYCB Theatre at Westbury

Mod Sun/The Come Up @ Webster Hall

Jingle Ball 2012

Z100’s annual Jingle Ball concert rolls into Madison Square Garden with Cher Lloyd, Ne-Yo, Justin Bieber, FUN., Ed Sheeran, One Direction, Jason Mraz, The Wanted, Taylor Swift, Olly Murs and B.O.B. confirmed so far. If you can’t score tickets, the “Worst Seats in the House” are still available. These seats are located behind the stage and have a completely obstructed view, but offer a big screen so you can see what’s going on. And if you’re looking for cheaper tickets, while still breathing the same air as the Biebs, this could be the way to go. Madison Square Garden. Friday, 12.7. —Jaclyn Gallucci and Icona Pop play the Paramount on Friday, 12.7.

This is the first U.S. date on ‘The Stones—50 and Counting’ celebration tour, which has so far featured surprise guest pop-ins by Eric Clapton, Mary J. Blige, Jeff Beck, Florence Welch, Mick Taylor and Bill Wyman. If you can’t make it out to Brooklyn, the show, commemorating five decades of the Stones, will be telecast live via Pay-Per-View at 9 p.m. and is titled “One More Shot.” Barclays Center. Saturday, 12.8. —Kate Kincaid

Ingrid Michaelson’s Holiday Hop

You’ve probably heard Brooklyn-based indie folk artist Ingrid Michaelson without even knowing it. Her music has been featured on Grey’s Anatomy, Parenthood and So You Think You Can Dance, among other shows. She has sold more than 900,000 albums on her own label with her latest, Human Again, becoming her highest-selling debut yet, reaching No. 1 on iTunes in its first week. Despite her success, Michaelson insists on remaining independent and never signing to a major label. Webster Hall. Friday, 12.7. —Daphne Livingston

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The Nutcracker Ballet @ South Side High School, Rockville Centre Martina McBride @ NYCB Theatre at Westbury Ray Mazza & The Gutter Bandits @ Revolution

A Great Big Pile of Leaves @ Revolution

Mitch Fatel @ Brokerage Comedy

Jerry Seinfeld @ St. George Theatre

The David Brenner Comedy Show @ Dix Hills Performing Arts Center

How Did This Get Made? A Live Podcast @ The Bell House

The Rolling Stones

The Musical @ Patchogue Theatre

Emo Philips @ Brokerage Comedy

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Friday Cont. Broadway WHO DAT Loungers/Inda Eaton @ Stephen Talkhouse Basket Case: Green Day Tribute @ Vibe Lounge

Record Review Title Fight’s Floral Green

Jessica Kirson @ McGuire’s Comedy

Over the past two years, Pennsylvania’s Title Fight have transformed themselves from a pop punk/hardcore band into an alternative/ indie rock hardcore band. Floral Green is strange in that it inhabits a sense of déjà vu and unfamiliarity. Where the album has the elements of the band’s previous releases, it plays with a number of newer sounds and concepts, presenting some of the band’s most melodic and ambient tracks, and juxtaposes them along with some of their most discordant ones. Tracks like ”Make You Cry” manage a retooled familiarity, but its lead into “Sympathy” fails to truly work as harsh generic tonalities clash against one another. “Secret Society” reappropriates familiar hardcore/pop punk stylings with ’90s grunge and noise rock before leading into the more ambient “Head in the Ceiling Fan.” This symbiosis between tracks, though not always achieved, is what makes Floral Green stand on its own. While it may not be a perfect record, you will definitely find yourself returning to a number of tracks, but they might not be the ones you’d thought. [3.5/5]

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Saturday 12.8 Cyndi Lauper/ Adam Lambert/ Sarah McLachlan @ Beacon Theatre Doo Wop Extravaganza @ NYCB Theatre at Westbury

Richard Lewis @ Carolines on Broadway Amy Schumer @ Governor’s Comedy Mirk @ Vibe Lounge The Sixties All-Star Holiday Show @ Dix Hills Performing Arts Center 2nd Annual Sleigh Rye’d Pub Crawl @ GSB Brewery, Declan QWuinns, Tap Room, Half Penny Pub, Register at LongIslandPubCrawls. com.

New Found Glory @ Irving Plaza

The Fitzgerald Family Christmas @ Cinema Arts Centre, With filmmaker Ed Burns in person.

Kingston Trio @ Tilles Center

Jessica Kirson @ Brokerage Comedy

Darlene Love @ Landmark on Main Street

Sarah Stewart Taylor/Katherine Roy (The Expeditioners) @ Book Revue

Mitch Fatel @ McGuire’s Comedy Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair @ Northport High School Saturday

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Sunday Cont. Warrior Soul/ Spread Eagle @ Revolution

Featuring As I Lay Dying, Memphis May Fire, Asking Alexandria and more.

The Script @ The Paramount

Richard Lewis @ Carolines on Broadway

Savoy Brown/Kim Simmonds @ YMCA Boulton Center for the Performing Arts

Shut Up Sit Down & Eat! @ Bellmore Theater

The Folkadelics/ Elliot Murphy @ Stephen Talkhouse Sunday 12.9 Monster Energy Outbreak Tour 2012 @ Best Buy Theater, Sunday

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Join Chabad and Whole Foods for a Menorah Lighting like no other. Carved from a 500-pound block of ice by sculptor Mark McKenzie, this 6-foot ice menorah will be lit in the parking lot during an evening of live music and dancing, plenty of latkes, doughnuts and holiday treats. In case of very cold weather, the program will be held in a heated tent. Sunday, 12.9. Whole Foods, 429 N. Broadway, Jericho. 3:305:30 p.m.

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If you’re in the Merrick area on Saturday, and you see a procession of lights going down Sunrise Highway, you’ll probably want to follow it. The annual Great Menorah Car Parade, led by two limos with car menorahs, begins 7 p.m. at the Merrick Golf Course at 2550 Clubhouse Rd., and ends at the Merrick LIRR, culminating with the kindling of a grand 12-foot menorah near the gazebo. Finish off the night with hot latkes, music, dancing and dignitary greetings at 7-8 p.m. And if you find yourself out east, the same thing goes down in East Hampton. The annual Menorah-cade kicks off at 6:30 p.m. at 13 Woods Lane and ends with a lighting at Herrick Park at 7 p.m. Saturday, 12.8.

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LEGOS & LATKES The annual Chanukah Spectacular brings world-

famous Chinese acrobat Xia Di performing heart-stopping, gavity-defying feats to the Shoprite Shopping Center in Plainview on Sunday, 12.9, along with lots of Chanukah crafts, doughnuts, pizza and a Lego menorah building contest, roving costumed characters, sand and velvet art and design-your-own jewelry. Sign up for one of two time slots at JewishTOB.org: 5:15-7 p.m. or 5:45-7:30 p.m. The evening includes the lighting of the grand menorah at 6:50 p.m. —Jaclyn Gallucci Venue addresses and information can be found on P. 36

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Sunday Cont. filmmaker Gary Null in person. Amy Schumer @ Governor’s Comedy Great American Songbook @ Dix Hills Performing Arts Center 32 Pints of Applejuice @ Revolution

residents at Gurwin Jewish-Fay J. Lindner Residences assisted living community have proven the adage that with age comes wisdom as they share tidbits of advice in a 2013 calendar entitled, “From Generation to Generation–L’dor v’dor.” Red Hook/ Rockaway Recovery Benefit @ The Bowery Electric

Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair @ Northport High School

Band of Horses: Special Acoustic Performance @ Manhattan Center

Richard Marx @ City Winery Darlene Love Annual Christmas Show @ B.B. King Blues Club Hollywood Ending @ The Emporium Monday 12.10 The Smashing Pumpkins @ Barclays Center Ask Me Another @ The Bell House Jason Mraz @ Madison Square Garden Frindle @ Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center Jason Lytle @ Union Hall Tuesday 12.11 From Generation to Generation @ Book Revue, 7 p.m. Twelve

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What could be better than a personal meeting with Santa Claus? A personal meeting with the big guy over a nice hot breakfast... Here are some of Santa’s scheduled stops: Westminster United Church, 109 Udall Rd., West Islip, 9 a.m. Saturday, 12.8.

Lifehouse @ Gramercy Theatre

Constantino Brumidi Lodge, Deer Park Ave., Deer Park, 10 a.m. Sunday, 12.9.

Allegaeon @ Vibe Lounge

Cupcake Corner, 61 New Hyde Park Rd., Garden City, 10 a.m. Saturday, 12.15.

Frindle @ Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center

LI Aquarium, 431 E. Main St., Riverhead. 10 & 11:45 a.m. Saturday, 12.15.

Gavin DeGraw & Karmin @ Best Buy Theater

Mill Pond Golf Course, Mill Rd., Medford, 10:30 & 11 a.m. Sunday, 12.16.

Band of Horses: Electric Music @ Hammerstein Ballroom

DASHER & DANCER & PRANCER…

Wednesday 12.12 Sounds of Reggae @ Barclays Center Dr. Evan Geller (God Bless the Dead) @ Book Revue

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Hicks Nurseries in Westbury once again serves as the North Pole headquarters for Santa and his elves here on Long Island. Not only can you mail a letter to the big guy—and get a response—at Hicks, through the special North Pole Mailbox, but you can walk through the Animated Christmas Story, visit with Santa Claus himself between 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2-5 p.m. plus meet Live Reindeer Comet & Cupid on the premises through Sunday, 12.23.

A CHRISTMAS STORY

Every year we scour the neighborhood, looking for those few houses to erect that major award in the window—the leg lamp from the classic Christmas movie, A Christmas Story, which tells the tale of a little boy’s desperate and hilarious quest to ensure that an Official Red Ryder® Carbine-Action 200-shot Range Model Air Rifle ends up under his Christmas tree. Join Ralphie and the gang live on stage at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205 W. 46th St., Manhattan. The show runs through Sunday, 12.30 with Dan Lauria as Jean Shepherd. We triple-dogdare ya! —Jaclyn Gallucci Wednesday 12.12 Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton, Dave Grohl, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Eddie Vedder and more.

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Wednesday Cont. 12.12.12 The Concert for Sandy Relief @ Madison Square Garden, Featuring Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton, Dave Grohl, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Eddie Vedder, Roger Waters, Kanye West, The Who and Paul McCartney.

thursday 12.13 Concrete Blonde @ Irving Plaza Hannibal Buress @ Governor’s Comedy Guitar Extravaganza: Celebration of Les Paul–How High the Moon @ Dix Hills Performing Arts Center

Wayne Newton @ NYCB Theatre at Westbury

Sarah Conway Christmas Show @ Stephen Talkhouse

Israeli Film Festival @ Congregation Beth-El

Chris Tucker @ Apollo Theater Dropkick Murphys @ Webster Hall

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Apollo Theater—253 W. 125th St., Manhattan. www.apollotheater.org

Port Washington. www. landmarkonmainstreet. org

B.B. King Blues Club—237 W. 42nd St., Manhattan. www.bbking blues.com

Madison Square Garden—4 Penn Plaza, Manhattan. www.thegar den.com

Barclays Center—620 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn. www.barclayscenter.com

Manhattan Center—311 W. 34th St., Manhattan

McGuire’s Comedy Club—1627 Smithtown Beacon Theatre—2124 Ave., Bohemia. www.mc Broadway, Manhattan. www.beacontheatre.com guirescomedyshows.com Bell House—149 7th St., Music Hall of Williamsburg—66 N. 6th Brooklyn. www.thebell St., Brooklyn. www.musi houseny.com challofwilliamsburg.com Bellmore Theater—222 Pettit Ave., Bellmore. 516- Northport High School—154 Laurel Hill 783-7200 Rd., Northport Best Buy Theater—1515 NYCB Theatre at WestBroadway, Manhattan. www.bestbuytheater.com bury—960 Brush Hollow Rd., Westbury Book Revue—313 New The Paramount—Main York Ave, Huntington. Street, Huntington. www. www.bookrevue.com paramountny.com Bowery Electric—327 Bowery, Manhattan. www. Patchogue Theatre—71 East Main St., Patchogue. theboweryelectric.com www.patchoguetheatre. Brokerage —2797 Mercom rick Rd., Bellmore. www. Revolution—140 Merrick brokeragecomedy.com Rd., Amityville. www.revo Carolines—1626 Broad- lutionli.com way, Manhattan. www. South Side High carolines.com School—140 Shepherd Cinema Arts CenSt., Rockville Centre tre—423 Park Ave., St. George Theatre—35 Huntington. www.cin Hyatt St., Staten Island emaartscentre.org City Winery—155 Varick St., Manhattan. www. citywinery.com Congregation BethEl—99 Jerusalem Ave., Massapequa Dix Hills PAC—305 N. Service Rd., Dix Hills. www.dhpac.org

Stephen Talkhouse—61 Main St., Amagansett. 631-267-3117. www.ste phentalkhouse.com Terminal 5—610 W. 56th St., Manhattan. www. terminal5nyc.com Tilles Center—720 Northern Blvd., Greenvale. www.tillescenter.org

The Emporium —9 RailUnion Hall—702 Union road Ave., Patchogue. www.theemporiumny.com St., Brooklyn. www.union hallny.com Governor’s —90 Division Vibe—60 N. Park Ave., Ave, Levittown. www. Rockville Centre. www. govs.com vibeloungeli.com Gramercy—127 E. 23rd St., Manhattan. www.the Webster Hall—125 E. 11th St., Manhattan. gramercytheatre.com www.websterhall.com Hammerstein—311 W. Westhampton Beach 34th St., Manhattan. PAC—76 Main St., Weswww.mcstudios.com thampton Beach. 631Irving Plaza—17 Irving 288-1500. Pl., Manhattan. www. YMCA Boulton Cenirvingplaza.com ter—37 W. Main St., Bay Landmark on Main Shore. www.boultoncen Street—232 Main St., ter.org

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF SUFFOLK Index No. 11-35464 AMERICAN COMMUNITY BANK, Plaintiff, JCM GOLD, LLC, COMMISSIONER OF TAXATION AND FINANCE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Defendants. NOTICE OF SALE Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated the 7th day of November, 2012, I the undersigned referee, will sell at public auction on the front steps of the Town Hall, Town of Babylon, 200 East Sunrise Highway, North Lindenhurst, New York on Tuesday, January 2, 2013 at 2:00 P.M the property described by said judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate lying and being in the Village of Amityville, in the Town of Babylon, County of Suffolk and State of New York, bounded and described on Schedule “A” annexed. SCTM # 0101-005.00-07.00-003.000. SAID PREMISES KNOWN AS 166 Broadway, Amityville, New York, 11701. SOLD subject to a first mortgage, held by American Community Bank, made by JCM Gold LLC, dated March 5, 2008, in the original amount of $345,000.00, and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Suffolk, on March 19, 2008, in Liber 21684, at page 638. SOLD subject to all terms and conditions contained in said filed Judgment and terms of sale. Approximate amount of Judgment $270,525.57 plus interest, costs,

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU Index No.: 2012 – 200275 KAMLYN TROTMAN-MACK, Plaintiff, Date Summons Filed: 01/31/2012 Plaintiff Designates Nassau County as the place of trial The basis of venue is Plaintiff’s Residency MICHAEL T. MACK, Defendant.

ACTION FOR DIVORCE

WILLIAM F. MACKEY, JR., ESQ.,

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the state of New York); and in case of your failure to appear, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Verified Complaint. Dated: 11/15/2012 Jamaica, NY 11432 Yours, etc. DOROTHY ATCHISON, ESQ. LAW OFFICE OF ATCHISON & ASSOCIATES P.C. Attorney’s at Law 90-25 161st Street, Suite 501, Jamaica, NY 11432 (718) 262-8032 NOTICE: Under DRL Section 255: The Defendant is advised that he may no longer be covered by the Plaintiff’s health insurance plan upon the entry of a judgment of divorce and that the defendant may be responsible for his own health insurance. The Nature of this action is to dissolve the marriage between the parties, on the grounds: DRL Section 170 subd. (7) – Irreconcilable Differences. The relief sought is a judgment of absolute divorce in favor of the Plaintiff dissolving the marriage between the parties in this action. The nature of any ancillary or additional relief demanded is: That there are no children as a result of this marriage, and no child is expected. That either party may resume the use of a pre-marriage name, as follows: the plaintiff may resume use of her maiden name to wit: TROTMAN That the Court grant such other and further relief as the Court may deem, just and proper.

TO DEFENDANT: MICHAEL T. MACK 107-43 142 Street, Jamaica, NY 11435

REFEREE. PINKS, ARBEIT & NEMETH Attorneys for Plaintiff

NOTICE OF AUTOMATIC ORDERS (D.R.L. 236)

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PURSUANT TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS LAW Section 236 Part B, Section 2, as added by Chapter 72 of the Laws of 2009, both you and your spouse (the parties) are bound by the following AUTOMATIC ORDERS, Which shall remain in full force and effect during the pendency of this action, unless terminated, modified or amended by further order of the court upon motion of either of the parties or upon written agreement between the parties:

140 Fell Court – Suite 303 Hauppauge, NY 11788 631 234-4400 SCHEDULE “A” ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Incorporated Village of Amityville, in the Town of Babylon County of Suffolk and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point on the westerly side of Broadway marked by a drill hole and cross in the concrete, distant 57.29 feet southerly, when measured along the westerly side of Broadway, from its intersection with the southwesterly side of Ireland Place; Running Thence South 19 degrees 52 minutes 40 seconds East along the westerly side of Broadway 49.81 feet to a spike in a joint and land now or formerly of M. Tarasenko; Thence South 82 degrees 22 minutes 20 seconds West along said last mentioned land 44.36 feet to a cross in the concrete and land now or formerly of Day and Wilmarth; Thence along said last mentioned the land the following two courses and distances: 1. North 33 degrees 50 minutes 40 seconds West, 20.47 feet to an iron pipe; 2. North 70 degrees 45 minutes 10 seconds West, 32.64 feet to a locust stake and land now or formerly of the Franklin National Bank; Thence North 70 degrees 10 minutes 20 seconds East along said last mentioned land 70.61 feet to drill hole and cross in the concrete on the westerly side of Broadway and the point

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Plaintiff Resides at 50 Jefferson Avenue, Mineola, NY 11501

The parties have divided up the marital property, and no claim will be made by either party under equitable distribution.

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or place of BEGINNING.

SUMMONS WITH NOTICE

(1) Neither party shall sell, transfer, encumber, conceal, assign, remove or in any way dispose of, without the consent of the other party in writing, or by order of the court, any property (including, but not limited to, real estate, personal property, cash accounts, stocks, mutual funds, bank accounts, cars and boats) individually or jointly held by the parties, except in the usual course of business, for customary and usual household expenses or for reasonable attorney’s fee in connection with this action. (2) Neither Party Shall transfer, encumber, assign, remove, withdraw or in any way dispose of any tax deferred funds, stocks or other assets held in any individual retirement accounts, 401k accounts, profit sharing plans, Keough accounts, or any other pension or retirement account, and the parties shall further refrain from applying for or requesting the payment of retirement benefits or annuity payments of any kind, without the consent of the other party in writing, or upon further order of the court. (3) Neither party shall incur unreasonable debts hereafter, including, but not limited to, further borrowing against any credit line secured by the family residence, further encumbrancing any assets, or unreasonably using credit cards or cash advances against credit cards, except in the usual course of business or for customary or usual housing expenses, or for reasonable attorney’s fees in connection with this action. (4) Neither party shall cause the other party or the children of the marriage to be removed from any existing medical, hospital and dental insurance coverage, and each party shall maintain the existing medical, hospital and dental insurance coverage in full force and effect. (5) Neither party shall change the beneficiaries of any existing life insurance policies, and each party shall maintain the existing life insurance, automobile insurance, homeowners and renters insurance policies in full force and effect. NOTICE CONCERNING CONTINUATION OF HEALTH CARE COVERAGE (Required by section 255(1) of the Domestic Relations Law) PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that once a judgment of divorce is signed in this action, both you and your spouse may or may not continue to be eligible for coverage under each other’s health insurance plan, depending on the terms of the plan.

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