Syosset Advance (3/22/2019)

Local doctor named Trailblazer Woman of the Year

Syosset native (SHS Class of 1997) Dr. Uzma Syed is again making strides in her hometown community and beyond. Syed, a co-founder of the Syosset offices of South Shore Infectious Disease (SSID) at 60 Queens Street downtown, will be recognized by Nassau County Legislators this spring as “2019 Trailblazer Woman of the Year.” As March began, she received an award for South Asian Women’s Empowerment, presented to her by Indian model and actress (1994 Miss Universe) Sushmita Sen. But close to home on the north shore, on Monday March 11 at Syosset Library, Dr. Syed’s new youth mentorship organization Align Us hosted a panel discussion aimed at providing area teens and their families with insights from the professional realm.

“We are here tonight because we’re not only providing mentorship experiences for students but we are also creating an arena for sharing inspirational, thought-provoking conversations with successful people. Through dialogue we can learn from them,

hear their journeys and get inspired by them,” Dr. Syed announced. The four panelists ranged in talents, experiences and careers from biomedical engineering and technology to medicine and literary/media arts.

Plan to Adjust Your Plans

Stefana Muller is the founder of Long Island Women in Tech, a nonprofit organization which currently has over 450 professional members. Muller currently leads product management at Cloud Consultancy, 2nd Watch where she helps large Enterprises migrate to, manage and transform their applications in Azure, AWS and Google cloud.

She participated in the March 11 forum and advised students to recognize times and chances in high school and college where they can try new things. Muller says she is learning every day “new things that I wish I would have done differently in the past.”

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Jericho teacher named “Distinguished Teacher of 2019”

Joshua J. Smith of Jericho Middle School has been named a “Distinguished Teacher of 2019” by the Harvard Club of Long Island.

“This award honors teachers who transform lives,” explained Dr. Judith Esterquest, chair of the Distinguished Teacher Selection Committee. “Devoted teachers like Mr. Smith offer Long Island students deep expertise, extraordinary talents, and countless hours of attention.  By capturing the minds and imaginations of our children and preparing them for challenges that were unknown even a few decades ago, these teachers shape the future of our country.”

Mr. Smith will be honored at the Harvard Club of Long Island’s annual University Relations Luncheon on

March 30, along with eleven other teachers from across Long Island.  Harvard professor Matthew Baum will speak on the role of the media and public opinion in contemporary American politics, also offering insight and commentary on how the rest of the world views US media coverage of domestic and foreign news. Mr. Smith teaches science at Jericho Middle School, and coaches the high school varsity cross-country team as well as the middle school track team.  He has been a member of the faculty at Jericho for the last 19 years of his 23-year career.  Mr. Smith is married to Dr. Danielle Smith, and together, they like to travel, cook and hike.  They strive to raise their three children, ages 4-15, to live healthful and mindful lives.  With

degrees from SUNY Fredonia and LIU CW Post, Mr. Smith says, “Teaching allowed me the opportunity to share my love of science and running with others.”

One of the students with whom he has done exactly that is Jessica Huang, who is expected to graduate from Harvard College in 2020.  Miss Huang, a member of Mr. Smith’s cross-country team, nominated Mr. Smith for the Distiguished Teacher Award this year.  Miss Huang says that “cross country was the hardest I’d ever worked in high school,” and she progressed from “barely being able to run a lap” to, after four years with Mr. Smith, being “one of the fastest runners

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Panelists Jax Max (center, orange sweater) with moderator Dr. Uzma Syed (far left) Noha El-Ghobashy (second from left) Stefana Muller (second from right) and Dr. Paulinder S. Rai (far right)

Jericho MS teacher Josh Smith

“ Why Does Your Back Hurt?”

NYU Winthrop Hospital will offer a free program open to the community, “Why Does Your Back Hurt? An Evening with Neurologists,” on Tuesday, April 2,  at 7 pm.   The program will be held at the Hospital’s Research & Academic Center, located at 101 Mineola Boulevard, at the corner of Second Street in Mineola.

Kenneth Chao, MD and Anastasia Eswar, MD, attending neurologists at NYU Winthrop Hospital, will discuss back pain, including the prevalence of back pain in adults, relevant anatomy, the various causes and red flags of low back pain, and when to seek care.  Tests that your doctor may order and treatment options will also be addressed.   A question and answer period will follow the lecture.

Limited parking is at the Research & Academic Center. Parking is available across the street in the garage behind the 120 Mineola Blvd. building.  Entrance to the garage is on First Street.  Please proceed to park on the third floor, use the walkway to enter the building, take the elevator down to the first floor, and cross the street to the Research & Academic Center.

Attendees are asked to arrive at 6:45 pm to register.  Admission is free, but seating is limited and reservations are required. To reserve your space, please call (516) 663-3916.  For information about other programs at the Hospital, learn more at www.nyuwinthrop.org/community-programs or call 1-866-WINTHROP.

Please join us as Laurie J. Levine, MD, Dermatologist, discusses the following:

• Which factors contribute to the aging of our skin

• How to avoid skin aging and skin cancer

• How to recognize different types of skin cancer

• How to use skin care products and procedures to look and feel younger at any age

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Sign in: 6:45 PM Program: 7:00 PM

NYU Winthrop Research & Academic Center 101 Mineola Blvd. (Corner of Second Street in Mineola) Treiber Family Conference Center

Admission is free, but seating is limited

For reservations: Please call (516) 663-3916 or email: inspiringwomen@nyulangone.org

Inclement weather & parking information call: (516) 663-9761

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Email: Editor@GCNews.com

Nassau County reassassement

To County Executive Laura Curran, I am a 75-year-old resident of the County of Nassau, having lived and worked in this county for over 50 years. During that time, I have resided in Long Beach, Lynbrook, Freeport, Rockville Centre and Syosset. I am familiar with the inequities of the Nassau County Real Property Tax System. during the 1970s and early 1980s, I pioneered successful tax reduction proceedings, as a practicing attorney, primarily for residents of the Village of Freeport. While I applaud your courageous efforts to correct the massive and well known inequities in the county assessment system, the program now underway shall create serious unintended consequences and cause egregious harm to many Nassau County residents. These consequences need to be immediately addressed. Sadly, despite the “cap,” seniors and many other residents will be forced out of their homes. The tax burdens in our county are well known to be onerous. The increases which shall result from the reassessment plan simply cannot be tolerated by many residents.

I suggest consideration be given to the following plan. The present homeowners should have their assessment frozen at a number which is no higher than the current level, pending the sale of their home. A prospective buyer, after consideration of the new assessment which will take effect following the purchase, can

decide whether to purchase the house. Such buyer will have information available to determine the tax burdens of ownership. This is in contrast with the current residents, who had no reason to expect the dramatic increases in the tax assessment. As you are aware, some of these increases are going to exceed 50% (or more) above current levels. By the plan to freeze the current assessment until the house is sold, many residents would be able to remain in their homes. To be sure, the value of such homes will nevertheless fall, but at least these residents will be able to remain in their homes.

I am certain that your objective is not to punish the residents who have benefitted from the current method of taxation. They have done nothing wrong by selecting desirable areas of Nassau County as their residence or by lawfully protesting their tax assessment.

Many times, with all good intentions, unintended consequences create an inequity. All reasonable efforts should be made  to avoid the reassessment from becoming one of these situations. I urge you and our other government leaders to take whatever steps are required to immediately modify your plan and provide for a freeze in the existing assessment, pending sale. Such a modification is essential to the well-being of many residents of our county who otherwise may be forced to leave Nassau County.

Jeffrey M. Novick

Bowlers wanted

The Glen Cove-Hicksville-Syosset League of Mercy Medical Center is looking for bowlers its our (non-money) Ladies League.

The group bowls on Fridays at 9:45

am at Syosset Bowl, Jericho Tpk., Syosset.

Come out and join the fun. For more information, please call Dolores Sartor at 516-931-4106. Our Professional Guide is sure to bring

Are you a professional?

Woodbury student heads to Intel International Fair

Friends Academy senior Danielle Kelly of Woodbury has won first place in the Chemistry category at the Long Island Science and Engineering Fair, which took place on Thursday, March 13. She and her research partner, Audrey Shine, now qualify for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, AZ this May.

The pair's project, "Application of Electrospun Poly (acrylic acid)-Platinum/Carbon Catalyst Ink to Optimize Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell Performance," began with Danielle's research at Stony Brook University in the summer of 2017.

"This project is a continuation of the research I performed last year, which focused on addressing climate change," explained Danielle. "I believe that climate change is the most pressing issue facing humanity today, threatening to cause an environmental crisis," she added.

In her project, Danielle worked to improve the performance of hydrogen fuel cells, which are producers of clean energy. Requiring only hydrogen and oxygen gas to operate, fuel cells enable a reaction that produces electricity and water as the only byproduct.

In spite of these advantages, some drawbacks remain, most significantly the costly and inefficient platinum catalyst layer that enables the chemical reactions.

"I looked to address this problem by modifying the physical structure of the catalysts, utilizing a novel application technique – electrospinning deposition –which produces catalysts in the form of nanoscopic fibers, as opposed to traditional agglomerations. This procedure provides a more effective, cost-efficient alternative to traditional fuel cell catalysts, ultimately

resulting in a 208% enhanced performance," shared Daniell

The Friends Academy senior and her partner had earlier success this year after they won the Clean Tech Competition, which is an annual international science competition focused on solving climate change.

The LI Science and Engineering Fair promotes three science research fairs each year.

Up to 20 projects qualify for the May International Fair, which brings together over 1,500 students from 70 nations to compete for scholarships, tuition grants, internships, scientific field trips and a grand prize of a $75,000 college scholarship.

The ability and opportunity to combine her passion with the betterment of the world inspired Danielle to look for new and novel solutions.

"Society is dangerously dependent on our depleting stores of fossil fuels, and, given the current lack of sustainable energy technology, I chose to concentrate in renewable energy research. For me, researching alternative energy provides a perfect intersection of my interests, allowing me to advocate for the environment through my love for science."

Friends Academy is currently accepting applications for the 2019-20 school year.

To tour the school, please consider stopping by one of our Walk-in Wednesdays, every Wednesday of the month from 9 to 10 am for PlayGroup through Grade 9.

Please call the Admissions Office at 516-393-4244 to RSVP for any of our upcoming events or for more information.

March 22, 2019

Danielle Kelly

Author visit at Syosset Public Library

On Friday, March 29 at 2 pm, novelist Jill Santopolo will visit the Syosset Public Library and discuss the writing of her newest adult novel “More Than Words” (2019) and the writer’s life.

Ms. Santopolo is the author of “The Light We Lost” (2017), a New York Times bestselling adult novel, as well

as several young adult and children’s books. Copies of “More Than Words” and “The Light We Lost” will be sold by the Friends of the Library for Ms. Santopolo to sign.

The event is free. No registration required.

LIRR to work on South Oyster Bay Rd. crossing

MTA Long Island Rail Road crews will perform infrastructure rehabilitation by replacing the railroad crossing at South Oyster Bay Road in Hicksville this month.

LIRR engineering crews, including track, signal and third rail specialists, will proactively replace components at the crossing on Saturday, March 23, and Saturday, March 30, which will help prevent issues from occurring during train operation, and provide a smooth crossing surface for vehicular traffic.

On these Saturdays, starting at 1:17 am and ending at 1:13 am on Sunday, one of two tracks will be out of service between Hicksville and Wyandanch to allow for the work to take place. On these days, some trains on the Port Jefferson Branch and Ronkonkoma Branch will run on adjusted schedules, with affected connections on other branches.

Please refer to special timetables by branch for specific train schedules at www.mta.info

Author Jill Santopolo

Photo by Scott Sherratt

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New York Institute of Technology welcomed the Girl Scouts of Nassau County to its Long Island campus recently to celebrate Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. Following an inspiring talk about opportunities for women in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields, dozens of middle and high school girls engaged with students and faculty representing NYIT academic and professional organizations to learn more about robotics, computer science, bioengineering, biochemistry and life sciences, 3-D printing, virtual reality, mechanical engineering, and more.

Syosset resident Mark Thomas, representing the Girl Up club, was one of more than 20 NYIT students who volunteered at this event.

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Lauren Marmann of Jericho was among the 146 University of Scranton students who studied abroad during the Intersession 2019 semester. Marmann, a nursing major at Scranton participated in CIEE Business and Culture in Barcelona, Spain.

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The following students have been named to the Fall 2018 Dean’s List at University of the Sciences. Selection for this award is based on completing and passing all assigned courses with no grade below a “C” and attaining an academic average of at least 3.4 for courses taken in the fall of 2018.

Seema Sakaria of Glen Head, biology student

Serena Thomas of Jericho, biology student

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Five local residents have recently been named to the Dean’s List at Boston University for the fall semester.

Students recognized for this honor include:

Syosset

Danielle A. DelaFuente, Tori A.

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Douglas, Michael Egert, Lianna P. Friedman, Kelly R. Murtagh.

Jericho

Daniel L. Chan, Huiqian Han, Rachel S. Kang, James Kim, Tian Hui Zhu.

Each school and college at Boston University has their own criterion for the Dean’s List, but students generally must attain a 3.5 grade point average (on a 4.0 scale), or be in the top 30 percent of their class, as well as a full course load as a full time student.

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The following local residents made the Dean’s List at Rochester Institute of Technology for the 2018 fall semester:

Vicky Zheng of Syosset, who is in the electrical engineering program.

Richard Wang of Syosset, who is in the industrial design program.

Douglas Gliner of Syosset, who is in the game design and development program.

Michael Saltzman of Woodbury, who is in the networking and systems administration program.

David Lin of Syosset, who is in the 3D digital design program.

Abo Huang of Syosset, who is in the electrical engineering program.

Laura Weintraub of Syosset, who is in the computing security program.

Irtaza Razvi of Jericho, who is in the mechanical engineering technology program.

Anant Mehrotra of East Norwich, who is in the electrical engineering program.

Christopher Quintero of Jericho, who is in the game design and development program.

Phillip Lee of Jericho, who is in the applied mathematics program.

Degree-seeking undergraduate students are eligible for Dean’s List if their term GPA is greater than or equal to 3.400; they do not have any grades of “Incomplete”, “D” or “F”; and they have registered for, and completed, at least 12

credit hours.

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The State University of New York at Geneseo has announced its Dean’s List for the Fall 2018 semester. To be on the list, a student must have achieved at least a 3.5-grade point average while taking a minimum of 12 credit hours.

Students on the Dean’s List from the local area include:

Christopher Chen of Jericho

David Shing Shun Leung of Jericho

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Shelby Dictor of Syosset has been named to the Dean’s List at James Madison University for the Fall 2018 session.

Students who earn Dean’s List honors must be considered by the registrar to be carrying a full time course load of graded credit hours and earn a GPA of between 3.5 and 3.899.

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SUNY New Paltz announces its Dean’s List for the Fall 2018 semester. The Dean’s List honors students who excel academically and earn at least a 3.3 grade-point average with a full-time course load.

The following students earned Dean’s List recognition during the Fall ‘18 semester:

Stephanie Bellia of Jericho

Danielle Sharon of Jericho

Jenna Hafkin of Woodbury

Madelyn Ma of Syosset

Alyssa Silberman of Syosset

Emily Wendt of Syosset

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The University of Rhode Island is pleased to announce that more than 5,500 undergraduates have qualified for the Fall 2018 Dean’s List.

To be included on the Dean’s List, students must have completed 12 or more credits during a semester for letter grades with at least a 3.30 quality point average.

The following students have been named to URI’s Fall 2018 Dean’s List:

Alissa Como of Syosset

Jessica Samuel of Syosset

Danielle Schimel of Syosset

Haley Pastolove of Jericho

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Students at Lehigh University attained Dean’s List in Fall 2018. This status is granted to students who earned a scholastic average of 3.6 or better while carrying at least 12 hours of regularly graded courses. Local students who earned places on the Dean’s List include:

Amanda Alejo of Woodbury

Marisa Ben-Yishay of Woodbury

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The Knox Student brought home 25 journalism awards from this year’s Illinois College Press Association conference, smashing through the record set last year when Knox College’s student-run newspaper won 19. The winners included Zarah Khan of Jericho, NY, who won second place feature page design and third place in-depth reporting.

Khan is majoring in English literature/political science at Knox College and graduated from Jericho High School.

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The Assumption Department of Athletics has announced that Brandon Brosnahan of Syosset has earned a spot on the 2019 Assumption College Men’s Lacrosse team. Brosnahan, Class of 2022, will compete during the Greyhounds’ spring season.

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Spencer Chamow of Woodbury, NY is one of 55 SUNY Oneonta students to receive a Richard Siegfried Student Award this semester for earning a total GPA of 3.9 or higher.

Chamow, who studies environmental sustainability at SUNY Oneonta, will receive the award Dec. 4 during the Annual Richard Siegfried Lecture at the Morris Conference Center. Andrew Bottomley, Assistant Professor of Communication & Media, will deliver the annual Richard Siegfried Lecture titled, “Voices From Below: Audio Storytelling and the Politics of Experience.”

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Pokémon visit Syosset Library

For a week beginning in late February, Syosset Library bustled with children combing the first floor for hidden pictures of favorite Pokémon characters, and many were greeted by the beloved character Pikachu. The scavenger hunt and celebrity visit marked

National Pokémon Day on February 27. Scavenger hunters submitted the names of the hidden characters they spotted and received a sticker, prize, and chance to win a grand prize when they submitted the form.

Upcoming Events at the Syosset P ublic Library

Thursday, March 21 at 2:00PM

In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masters at the Met Presenter: Ines Powell, art historian & educator, The MET Dutch paintings of the 17th century, the Golden Age of Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer, have been a highlight of The Met collection since the Museum's founding purchase in 1871. This exhibition will bring together

some of the Museum's greatest paintings. Paintings shown will cover key issues in Dutch culture from debates about religion and conspicuous consumption to painter's fascination with the domestic lives of women. This event is free.

Friday, March 22 at 2:00PM

The Mystery of the Pyramids Presenter: Dr. Regina Gilbert, Adjunct Professor, Hofstra University and

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guest lecturer on ancient Egypt for the MILL Program at Molloy College Unravel the greatest mysteries of all time and learn why Egyptian pyramids were built, explore who built them, and how they were built. This event is free.

Tuesday, March 26 at 1:30PM

Afternoon Book Discussion 2019 Long Island Reads Selection: The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer Led by Lisa Hollander and Pam Strudler, librarians Free. No registration required.

Thursday, March 28 at 2:00PM

Max Steiner: The Father of Film Music

Presenter: Richard Knox, retired teacher Often referred to as the Father of Film Music, Max Steiner left an indelible imprint on the history of motion pictures during a career spanning over 35 years. Max moved to Hollywood in 1929 and found his true calling for writing scores for such classics as “King Kong,” “The Informer,” “Gone with the

Wind,” “Casablanca,” and more. This event is free.

Friday, March 29 at 2:00PM

Author Visit and Signing with Jill Santopolo

Novelist Jill Santopolo will join us to discuss the writing of her newest adult novel “More Than Words (2019) and the writer’s life. Ms. Santopolo is the author of “The Light We Lost (2017), a New York Times bestselling adult novel, as well as several young adult and children’s books. Copies of “More Than Words” and “The Light We Lost” will be sold by the Friends of the Library for Ms. Santopolo to sign. Free. No registration required.

All events take place at the Syosset Public Library, 225 South Oyster Bay Rd., Syosset.

For more information, please call 516-9217161 x 239 or see www.syossetlibrary.org

Email: Readersservices@syossetlibrary.org

*All events are wheelchair accessible.

Meeting Pikachu during Pokémon week.

A scavenger hunt winner with her grand prize—a plush, cuddly, stuffed Litten Pokémon.

THE VIEW FROM HERE

The College Admissions Scandal

BY BOB MORGAN, JR.

A few thoughts about the recent college admission scandal. At the outset, I fully recognize that all persons accused are entitled to the legal presumption of innocence in respect of all allegations.

The first question is whether the clearly criminal actions of those allegedly involved in the scandal are very widespread. My best guess is that they are not, but I think we need to be sure that there are not a large number of college athletic coaches or other university officials who are willing to take bribes in exchange for claiming that non-athletes are actually valuable recruits for their teams. Similarly, we want to be sure that instances of SAT testing centers being compromised so that test answers can be altered are extremely infrequent.

In respect of the criminality that has been discovered, there are complex issues involving students admitted by illegal means. One complicating factor is that a number of the students may not have been aware, or fully aware, of all of the machinations on their behalf. Nevertheless, I tend to think that colleges admitting these students have to maintain the integrity of their process by expelling anyone who gained a place at the expense of others by nefarious means. Obviously, the decision becomes more difficult in the case of someone who has already earned a degree. In that situation, perhaps stripping an earned degree should be the exception rather than the rule. Even if instances of outright criminal violations are relatively rare, the scandal spotlights a number of serious abuses in the system that are presently permissible. Most of us would think that six or seven figure contributions made to an elite institution at the time that a 16 or 17-year-old relative of the contributor is applying for admission at the institution creates an improper conflict of interest at least and an unacceptable appearance of impropriety. One would think that institutions would address this issue by automatically refusing to consider applicants

from families connected with such contributions. Obviously we will see about that.

More globally, I tend to think that this would be a good time for all of us to take another look at the whole admissions process.

I admit that my perspective on some of this is from another generation. I got into Columbia in 1970 primarily on the basis of good high school grades from Archbishop Molloy High School, at the time a selective but by no means elite school, plus good SAT scores, I never really studied for the SAT or took a prep class . I had very limited extracurricular activities in my last two years of high school, mostly because I worked 20 hours a week in a neighborhood deli.

I would argue that I learned very much from my time in the deli, perhaps more than I would have learned if I were, say, an editor on the school newspaper. Nevertheless, there is no way that I ever would have been selected for Columbia if today’s so-called holistic admissions approach were used back then.

I do recognize that the procedures for college admissions are not going to be set back 50 years and that there is something to be said for having a well-rounded student body On the other hand, it is important to recognize that schools are primarily academic institutions and, as we have just seen, giving great weight to nonacademic measures imports a great deal of subjectivity to the process, subjectivity that can be manipulated by fair means or foul.

Of course, another important lesson of the scandal is that parents must rein in their desires to do anything and everything possible to gain college for their offspring. This is rarely good longterm for either the parent or the student.

I am not sure that the scandal will have a profound effect on the admission process., but hopefully it will at least stir some reflections on the part of both applicants and educational institutions.

Save a Life“Stop the Bleed”

In an effort to educate community members about techniques to stop life-threatening bleeding that could occur following traumatic events, NYU Winthrop Hospital will offer a free program, Stop the Bleed, on Wednesday, March 27 at 7 pm. The program will be held at the NYU Winthrop Research and Academic Center, located at 101 Mineola Boulevard, at the corner of Second Street in Mineola.  It will be taught by Ellen Berghorn, MS, RN, Injury Prevention Nurse from the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at NYU Winthrop, as well as by other healthcare professionals from the Hospital.

Stop the Bleed is a national program supported by the American College of Surgeons and Homeland Security.  It encourages everyday citizens to become empowered to assist in bleeding emergencies until professional medical help arrives.  The hospital’s goal is not to normalize events that might result in life-threatening bleeding, but to prepare communities as best as possible for a range of trau -

matic circumstances.

“Our vision is to educate as many laymen as possible in helping to treat life-threatening bleeding, much the way CPR has become a standard lifesaving program in communities across the nation,” said Collin Brathwaite, MD, Chairman of the Department of Surgery.   The Stop the Bleed program teaches tactics to recognize and control life-threatening bleeding, by direct pressure, the use of tourniquets, or packing (filling a wound with gauze or clean cloth).  No previous medical training is required.

The program will begin promptly at 7 pm; sign-in begins at 6:45 pm. Parking is available at the 120 Mineola Boulevard garage, entrance on First Street.  Please drive to the third level of the garage to park and enter the 120 building via the walkway.  Take the elevator down to the first floor, exit the building, and cross the street to the Research & Academic Center.

Space is limited and pre-registration is required.  To register, please call (516) 663-8300.

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When Irish eyes were smiling

Robert Patrick Lynch serenaded the residents of Central Island Healthcare via the bagpipes. He strolled throughout playing Irish tunes on the morning of St. Patrick’s Day.

Free tax grievance workshop

The Town of Oyster Bay will be hosting a free Grievance Workshop for residents looking to acquire information on how to challenge their property tax assessments. The workshop will be held on Thursday, March 28 at 7 pm at Hicksville Middle School, 215 Jerusalem Avenue in Hicksville.

“The assessed value of your property helps determine what share of property taxes you’ll pay to your school district, County, Town and Village governments,” said Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor Joseph Saladino. “While Nassau County determines your value, we in Town government want to make sure you know that you have a right as homeowner to challenge your assessment.  Remember, your assessment can only be lowered as the result of a challenge – it can never be raised – and this workshop helps you challenge for free.”

In January 2019, Nassau County notified residents of their home’s new tentative assessed value for the 2020/2021 school tax period and the 2021 general tax period.  Any residents who did not receive the notice may view it online

Classic car show planned for April 28th

The Town of Oyster Bay has announced that a premiere car show will take place on Sunday, April 28 from 11 am to 4 pm at TOBAY Beach.  Car Show Long Island’s 2019 Spring Classic will feature hundreds of automobiles, trucks, military vehicles, and emergency service vehicles.  A live concert performed by The Mystic will take place during the day, followed by trophy presentations.  The event is free for spectators.

Town of Oyster BaySupervisor Joseph Saladino stated, “Whether you’re a proud classic car owner or you want to see the best cars in the region, the Car Show Long Island is the place to be!  This free family-fun event is a perfect way to spend the day, all with the beautiful backdrop of TOBAY Beach. Spectators can check out cool cars, vendors, exhibits and enjoy live music while surrounded by Long Island’s most classic, muscle, antique and exotic cars.”

Trophies will be awarded in ten categories including best-of-the-best, and children will have a say when deeming which rides are their favorites in the

Kids’ Choice Award.  Car Show Long Island’s 2019 Spring Classic is made possible through our presenting sponsors:  Bethpage Federal Credit Union, MSG Network, and Trinity Solar.  Additional sponsors include:  PSEG-LI, Zorn’s of Bethpage, Movin’ On Sounds, Parts Authority, Nassau Financial Federal Credit Union, Zabbia Insurance Agency, Hagerty, Insurance, Paul’s Rods and Restos, RPM Raceway, Turf Tek USA, Modell’s Sporting Goods, MotorMouth Radio, 7-Eleven and WBAB 102.3.

Enthusiasts and spectators can also grab a bite to eat from one of the many food trucks participating in Car Show Long Island’s 2019 Spring Classic.

Car owners can pre-register their vehicles at www.carshowli.com for $15 per car or register the day-of for $25 per car. The rain date for the event is May 19, 2019.  The event is free to spectators who are asked to bring two cans of food to donate to Island Harvest, the largest hunger relief organization on LI.

For more information or to become a sponsor of the event, call (516) 797-4121 or e-mail carshowli@oysterbay-ny.gov.

Registration open for Town championship golf course

at www.mynassauproperty.com or contact their local County legislator.

“I encourage all homeowners who are unhappy with their current level of assessment to grieve their property taxes,” said Legislator Rose Marie Walker.  “I have been hosting Property Tax Grievance Workshops for the past 10 years in order to teach residents how to grieve their property taxes on their own.  Hundreds of residents have already taken advantage of these informative workshops.”

Residents who live in an Incorporated Village within the Town of Oyster Bay should note that they generally must file separately with their Village for tax purposes, in addition to filing with Nassau County.  Village residents should contact their local Village Hall for information.

For more information on the Free Property Tax Grievance Workshop, residents should call (516) 624-6380 or visit www.oysterbaytown.com.  For more information regarding your assessment, visit www.nassaucounty.gov/arc.

The Town of Oyster Bay has announced that registration is now open for residents seeking tee-time at the Honorable Joseph Colby Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course, located in Woodbury. Anyone interested in tee-time can register online at www.OysterBayTown. com/golf.

“Our state-of-the-art golfing facility is scheduled to open for the 2019 season on Tuesday, March 19th, weather permitting,” Town of Oyster Bay Councilman Anthony Macagnone said.  “For the convenience of all golfers, anyone seeking a tee-time to play a round of golf can now register online, with members able to make reservations 30 days in advance, and non-members seven days,”

The Honorable Joseph Colby Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course is situated on 121 acres of Long Island’s coveted Gold Coast.  It is a challenging 18-hole, par-70 championship golf course that features meticulously manicured greens complete with cascading waterfalls, narrow fairways, water holes, sand and grass bunkers, as well as a putting green.  Completing the scene is a turn-of-thecentury mansion that offers a state of the art catering venue that sits majestically in the heart of our beautiful golf course.  Visitors are welcome to utilize the Lucas Golf Center at the Oyster Bay

Driving Range and Pro Shop, under the management of PGA Director of Golf Bob Miller, which offers a full range of golf services.  Instruction is available for all levels of golfing ability, beginner through advanced. Golfers can inquire about private lessons, group lessons and clinics at the practice range and on the course. The Pro Shop is stocked with brand name merchandise for all your golfing needs.  For more information on instruction, driving range hours and the Pro Shop, please visit www. LucasGolfCenter.com  or call (516) 3643600 to speak to a PGA professional. Applications for membership to the Honorable Joseph Colby Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course are available and are processed at the golf course Wednesdays through Sundays from 9 am to 3 pm.  Membership is valid until the end of the calendar year. Prospective members must provide the following proofs of residency: Photo Identification (Driver’s License, DMV Photo ID or Passport); and Car Registration, Tax Bill or Utility Bill. Non-resident memberships are also available for an additional fee.

To make a tee-time reservation today, please visit www.oysterbaytown.com/ golf or call (516) 677-5980.  A $5 fee per player is applied at time of reservation.

Come Face to Face with T Rex, the Ultimate Predator, at the American Museum of Natural History

BY KAREN RUBIN

We have become well aware how terrifying Tyrannosaurus rex was, but who knew that T. rex hatchlings were fluffy and gangly, more like turkeys than the massive killing machines they grow to be? Or that it grew at the rate of 140 lbs. a month, weighing 6 to 9 tons when fully grown and lived no more than 28 years? That it had excellent vision and sense of smell, but puny hands that probably had no function but were evolutionary vestiges? T. rex: The Ultimate Predator, the first major exhibition of the American Museum of Natural History’s 150th anniversary celebration, brings us face to face with  the most iconic dinosaur in the world through lifesized models—including the most scientifically accurate representation of T. rex to date--fossils and casts, engaging interactives, and the Museum’s first multiplayer virtual reality experience. And we see T rex in a brand new way.

T. rex: The Ultimate Predator opens Monday, March 11, 2019 and will be on view through August 9, 2020, when the exhibit will likely go on tour.

Founded in 1869, the Museum has a long and celebrated history of international exploration and research in paleontology dating back to the 1890s, with an outsized influence in a field that sits at the intersection of cutting-edge science

and the popular imagination. The Museum has a particularly special relationship to T. rex: its famous paleontologist, Barnum Brown, was the first to discover T. rex - in 1902 in Montana - and the first T. rex on display anywhere was here at the museum. This makes the new blockbuster exhibit, T. rex: The Ultimate Predator, inspired by a legacy of scientific exploration and bringing the latest science to the public, a natural launching point for the museum’s 150th anniversary programming.

With more than 120 years of dinosaur research and discovery, the

Museum continues to be a leader in this field. Its paleontology collection is one of the largest and most diverse in the world, with specimens that have led to major discoveries, including the identification of the first dinosaur eggs and early evidence of dinosaur feathers. A number of recent discoveries about the tyrannosaur group – many that take place in its own paleontology laboratories - are highlighted in this exhibition.

“Dinosaurs, and Tyrannosaurus rex in particular, are such an important and iconic part of the Museum and have been throughout our history,” said Ellen V. Futter,

President of the American Museum of Natural History. “So it seems fitting to launch the Museum’s 150th Anniversary celebrations with a major new exhibition on the everintriguing King of Dinosaurs. This exciting and fascinating exhibition will do what the Museum has done throughout its history and continues to do today: share the latest scientific breakthroughs with the public, introduce visitors to the researchers on the cutting-edge of discovery, shed new light on the great story of life on Earth, and inspire wonder

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and curiosity in visitors of all ages.”

Indeed, while Barnum assembled the most complete collection of dinosaur fossils in the world for the museum, the museum is much, much more than its dinosaurs, with some 34 million specimens and artifacts – one of the most important collections of natural history anywhere. Its library and archives of research documents – like Barnum’s own field notes and letters which show how painstaking and difficult the expeditions were - are the most complete and extensive in the world.

”Dinosaur fossils, like other echoes

of ancient life, are discoveries of the science of paleontology. But dinosaurs have a special status that transcends their importance to science—they fascinate and inspire the masses like few other animals—living or extinct— can,” said Michael Novacek, the Museum’s senior vice president and provost for science. “Chief among them is T. rex, perhaps the most famous and celebrated dinosaur that ever lived.”

Visitors to T. rex: The Ultimate Predator encounter a massive lifesized model of a T. rex with patches of feathers the definitive representation of this prehistoric predator. The

exhibition includes reconstructions of several T. rex hatchlings and a fouryear-old juvenile T. rex. Scientists have yet to figure out what T. rex might have sounded like but you can try your hand with a “roar mixer” where you can blend sounds from other animals. There’s a shadow theater featuring a floor projection of an adult T. rex skeleton that leaps to life; and a life-sized animation of T. rex in a Cretaceous environment that responds to visitors’ movements At a tabletop “Investigation Station,” you can explore a variety of fossil casts ranging from coprolite (fossilized feces) to a gigantic femur, with virtual tools including a CT scanner, measuring tape, and a microscope to learn more about what such specimens can reveal to scientists about the biology and behavior of T. rex.

T. rex: The Ultimate Predator is curated by Mark Norell, who joined the Museum in 1989. Norell, who is the Macaulay Curator in the Museum’s Division of Paleontology and its chair, has led and participated in a number of scientific investigations into the biology and evolutionary history of tyrannosaurs and other theropods—the group of dinosaurs most closely related to modern birds. His work includes the first discovery of a feathered tyrannosaur, Dilong paradoxus , in China in 2004. In addition to Dilong, many of the species studied by Norell and his colleagues and former students, and recent research findings, are featured in the new exhibition.

“In the last 30 years, we’ve seen a

huge increase in both the number of tyrannosaur fossil discoveries as well as the availability of technology that lets us explore complex questions about these charismatic animals,” Norell said. “I never would have imagined that one day we’d be able to look at the shape of T. rex’s brain, analyze the tiny daily growth lines on their massive teeth to determine how quickly they put on weight, or use advanced biomechanical modeling to figure out the force of its bite.”

Humble Origins

T. rex may have been a megapredator, but it evolved from humble origins. The full tyrannosaur family includes more than two dozen different species and spans more than 100 million years of evolution, with T. rex appearing only at the very end of that period, between 66 and 68 million years ago. Most dinosaurs in the superfamily Tyrannosauroidea were not giants like T. rex, which, fully grown, weighed between 6 and 9 tons. Early species were small and fast, likely avoiding confrontations with larger dinosaurs. We’re more accustomed to encountering dinosaurs as skeletons, but in the exhibit, we come face to face with life-size models of a number of tyrannosaurs as they would have looked in life. These include: Proceratosaurus bradleyi, the earliest known tyrannosaur that lived about 167 million years ago and was about the size of a wolf with a crest on its snout; Dilong paradoxus, which like many early tyrannosaurs, had arms that were relatively long and capable

of seizing small prey, and was the first tyrannosaur found with fossilized feathers (discovered by exhibition curator Mark Norell and his colleagues in China); and Xiongguanlong baimoensis, a mid-sized tyrannosaur that, when it was discovered in 2009, offered a rare glimpse of a transitional species between the smaller early tyrannosaurs and the later giants. Throughout the exhibit are interactive elements: visitors are tasked with placing various tyrannosaur family members in the correct time period on a magnetic wall and can experiment with a praxinoscope that animates the difference between walking and running— T. rex could only truly run when it was young. A hands-on interactive lets visitors attach the right size tail to a T. rex torso to create a balanced posture.

Getting Big

How did T. rex get so big when its ancestors were so small? And how did a young T. rex, the size of a turkey grow to the size of a truck? The simple

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answer: by growing very quickly. T. rex reached full size by its early 20s— about as fast as a human does—but it put on much more weight in that time, gaining up to 140 pounds (65 kg) per month. The exhibition shows T. rex in early developmental stages, showing how the dinosaur transformed from a vulnerable hatchling with a more than 60 percent chance of succumbing to predators, accidents, disease, and failure to find food in its first year of life, to a gargantuan predator at the top of the food chain. No T. rex has been found that has been identified as being older than 28 years.

“T. rex was the ‘James Dean’ of dinosaurs; he would have been very beat up,” said Gregory Erickson, paleobiologist from Florida State University.

Much of what we see in the exhibit is the result of a new approach to studying dinosaurs – integrating other scientific disciplines, such as molecular biology and chemistry, and comparative techniques to contemporary animals

such as crocodiles and birds, as well as new technologies like 3D scanning.

The latest understanding also presents T. rex’s “arms” as even tinier than before, suggesting that they had no function and were vestigial in the course of evolution. Also, the “hands” have two fingers instead of three.

So far, though, the scientists have been unable to determine a dinosaur’s sex from the fossil remains. “It would be nice to know the sex ratio to understand population biology, how bodies changed over their lifespan,” Erickson said. “You have to appreciate just how rare these specimens are – just 1,000 dinosaurs have been named.”

Erickson explains that though scientists know what strata to search for fossils, it has to be relatively close to the surface for paleontologists to safely extract the fossils without damaging them; also, many of the sites where dinosaurs might be found are in very remote, difficult places. And it may well be true that there were relatively few of the largest dinosaurs, because of the

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As I See It

BY LOU THEODORE

On Purely Chaste, Pristine and Random Thoughts XXVII

Here we go once more…my 27th. This one’s a mixed bag, with both sports and personal commentaries.

• Still fighting to keep my weight down. My diet, described in an earlier newsletter, has really helped.

• Humanity can survive without numerous amenities. However, it cannot survive without energy or potable water.

• Had a successful visit with three of my guys to the simulcast facility at Monmouth Park Racetrack and (naturally) dropped by their Sport Book. My bets? The Nets (750-1) to win it all. The Mets (22-1), Atlanta (181), and Diamondback (750-1) to win it all. Virginia (15-1), Buffalo (75-1), Tennessee (16-1), Kentucky (17-1) and we have Marquette (25-1) to win the NCAA. Partners with two others. Wish me luck.

• Working on desalination projects. Hoping to come up with a viable economic process that will provide potable water. Someone is going to get rich in this area but it won’t be me. My best so far involves geothermal energy. My associate and former classmate is working on mangroves and hybrid processes.

• I’m also still working on accident and emergency planning/response issues, particularly as they apply to terrorism. Stopped giving seminars but my book is still selling.

• NYRA is a disaster; they have effectively destroyed Belmont Park, the most beautiful racetrack in the world. But hope springs eternal. Kay, the CEO, has thankfully left. We now await another Cuomo political appointment who no doubt will also fail to right the ship.

• I used to think that energy and water were the critical issues that mankind needed to address this century. Nope! It’s water, and solely water.

• Go Mets!

• I should stop complaining. I still go out for dinner, walk almost 2 miles a day, do 8 pushups on awakening, write books, keep pace with my newsletter, go to the track several days a week, bet horses every day, etc.

• A few of my guys are now claiming they have property in Oz.

• Insecure people use profanity.

• There are days when I wish I could go back in time and relive my Killen’s Tavern basketball memories.

• I have tremendous difficulty throwing anything away, particularly things related to my books. And yet, when I go, they will certainly find a home in a circular file.

• I’m still addicted to hot pastrami sandwiches, hot dogs with kraut and mustard and hamburgers. Perhaps Trump and I have something in common.

• People continue to ask me out to lunch or dinner. My usual response: “Can I have the money instead?”

• Please remember that the fanatical green environmental self-defined experts-engineers and scientists alike

supply of resources available to support the population.

The exhibits display T. rex at various stages of its development.

We see a life-size model of a fouryear-old T. rex, which although not yet the “king” it would become in adulthood, would have weighed about five times more than a four-year-old boy and was as large as any other predatory dinosaur in its habitat. Fully covered in feathers for warmth and camouflage, this juvenile T. rex had relatively long arms (unlike its adult counterparts), a slim body, and bladelike teeth that could cut through flesh but were not yet capable of crushing bone.

We encounter a real fossil of a T. rex toe bone and a touchable cast of a T. rex thigh bone to gain a sense of scale for the fully grown giant, which stood about 12 to 13 feet high at the hip and was about 40 to 43 feet long. Fossil casts from a close relative to T. rex, Tarbosaurus bataar, illustrate that T. rex wasn’t the only tyrannosaur See page D5

– who have certified (*!*$#%*) the existence of a global climate/warming problem would be out of business if no problem actually existed.

• I’m often asked: How am I doing? I often respond with “How good could I be doing if I’m talking to you?” Is that a politically incorrect response?

• I’ll be 85 come April. Hard to believe! But I’m still good looking… well, sort of.

• The major effect of breaking my back (fractured vertebrae) 1 ½ years ago is that I am now 2 inches shorter. Not good for a guy like me.

• Let’s hope one of the sports will ban players from spitting. It’s disgusting, particularly in baseball.

• The second edition of my Basketball Coaching 101 book is now officially on hold due to numerous other commitments.

• I hope to soon publish details on my basketball “umbrella offense.”

• Travel has now become such a hassle. Visiting Florida is the only place that has been acceptable. There obviously will be less travel in the days ahead.

• I’m hoping to do an article on taxes in the near future. Here is a checkbook list of mine: Federal, State, County (Nassau), Town (North Hempstead), Village (East Williston), and School (East Williston). Add to this sales, gasoline, gambling (when I occasionally win), etc. Twenty percent tipping has added to my woes.

• Legendary sports historian Art Lovely (my dear friend) recently celebrated his 90th birthday with

his beloved Red Sox winning the 2018 World Series. Unfortunately, I needed the Dodgers at 8-1.

• Kudos to yours truly. I hope sports aficionados will finally come to agree with me that Eli Manning is the luckiest and most overrated athlete (not just quarterback) of all time. Thank you Lou for letting us know early on.

• Blew a couple of big consulting jobs as an expert witness…more and more people are apparently questioning my claim to be the world’s premier environmental authority.

• Every time I meet someone socially, I ask about the $20 they owe me. One guy recently and a gal sometime back took me seriously.

• Every one of us is aware of the lazy, indifferent conduct of government employees…and most of us accept it. But now, their conduct has expanded to include criminality. The best way to solve the problem is to eliminate most of these positions.

• Baseball pitchers (and managers) have yet to figure out the truly negative results produced by walks.

• Hunkered down for another winter. Ouch! But I still have The Queen, the kids, and the grandkids, along with my other activities.

Feel free to get back to me whether you agree or disagree with my comments. Happy hunting till XXVIII.

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BY TOM MARGENAU

Baby boomers (like me) aren’t just getting old. Some of us are also getting frail. I’m a pretty good example. After a lifetime of essentially good health (I was once honored for using the fewest sick leave days by my former employer, the Social Security Administration), in the past few years, I’ve had to deal with issues as minor as a bum knee and as severe as blood clots.

And judging from the many emails I get from other health-ravaged seniors, I’m not alone. Many folks pushing Social Security age, and some already getting Social Security retirement, want to know if they are eligible for Social Security disability benefits. I sure don’t like giving wishy-washy advice, but I’m afraid the answer is “it depends.” So let’s spend the rest of this column discussing those variables that may or may not make you eligible.

But before I do that, I’ve got to explain two things. First, what is the advantage to getting disability benefits? In a nutshell, the answer is more money. I will get into this in more detail later in the column, but for now it’s enough to know that a disability benefit (no matter what your age) pays the same rate as a full retirement benefit.

The second thing you need to know is how Social Security law defines “disability.” Although there is a bit more to it than this, for today’s column, it is enough for me to say that in order to be considered disabled, you must have a physical or mental impairment that is severe enough to keep you from working for at least 12 months. The inability to work is key. In other words, you don’t get Social Security disability benefits because you have an impairment. You get benefits if that impairment keeps you from working. Further, the law says you must not only be unable to do your old job; you must also be unable to do any kind of work for which you are suited.

That’s a fairly strict definition. You have to be pretty messed up to qualify for benefits. For example, earlier I said I’ve had blood clots and a bum knee. My faulty leg would never be considered a disabling condition for Social Security. And even my blood clots, which were rather severe, would not have qualified me for disability because they went away in a month or two. It didn’t meet the 12-month duration requirement to get Social Security disability. But if you are a senior citizen who does have a severe medical or mental impairment, here is what you need to know.

If you are 66 or older, forget about it. Once you reach that age, disability benefits are no longer payable. Or to put that another way, a retirement benefit pays the same rate as a disability benefit

YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY

Seniors with Disabilities

for people over age 66.

If you are under age 62 and you have an impairment that keeps you from working, then you should file for Social Security disability benefits.

If you are disabled and you are between age 62 and 66 and you haven’t yet signed up for Social Security, then you should file for retirement and disability benefits at the same time. SSA will start your retirement payments right away. Then if your disability claim is eventually approved, they will switch you to the higher disability rate.

But what if you are between age 62 and 66 and are already getting Social Security retirement benefits -- and then something happens to cause you to become disabled? The closer you are to 66, the less likely you are to be eligible for such benefits. That’s because your disability rate (normally equal to your full age 66 retirement benefit) must be reduced for every month you’ve already received a Social Security retirement check. And you will eventually reach a point where you simply gain little or nothing by filing for Social Security disability.

Here is a quick example of that. Sam filed for retirement benefits at age 62. His benefit was reduced roughly onehalf of 1 percent for each month he was under 66. He is getting 75 percent of his full age 66 retirement rate. At 65, he had a heart attack. If he files for disability benefits and if his claim is approved, his regular disability rate, again normally equal to his 100 percent full age 66 benefit, must be reduced by about onehalf of 1 percent for each month he’s received a retirement benefit. At age 65, he’s already received 36 retirement checks, so his disability rate must be cut by about 18 percent. So instead of a 100 percent disability rate, he’d get about 82 percent. Sam would have to decide if it is worth all the hassle of filing for disability just to get bumped up from his current 75 percent rate to 82 percent.

Those are the messages for senior citizens who are pushing retirement age and who have some kind of disabling condition and who are wondering if they are eligible for Social Security disability benefits.

But now let me address those many senior citizens who are already getting Social Security disability benefits. Some of them may even have been getting benefits for many years -- starting way back in their 50s or even younger. But as they push “full retirement age” (currently age 66), they write to me and wonder if they will be able to get “real Social Security.” I always tell them that disability benefits are “real” Social Security. They are just as real as retirement benefits. So they will never be switched from “unreal” Social Security to “real” Social Security.

But if they are getting Social Security

disability and turn age 66, they will be automatically converted to the retirement program. The money amount stays the same because remember: a Social Security disability benefit pays the same rate as an age 66 retirement benefit. So the changeover will essentially be transparent to them. What happens is primarily an internal bookkeeping transaction for SSA. When

they reach age 66, their benefits will start being funded from the Old Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and not from the Disability Insurance Trust Fund.

If you have a Social Security question, Tom Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@comcast.net. COPYRIGHT 2019 CREATORS.COM

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that looked and behaved dramatically differently throughout its life. A cast of the youngest and most complete juvenile tyrannosaur fossil found to date, a twoyear-old Tarbosaurus, has a delicate skull with thin bladelike teeth it likely used to catch small vertebrates and insects, while the cast of the huge adult Tarbosaurus skull indicates that when fully grown, it

bite through bone, thanks to fossils of its powerful skull and teeth. But now there’s proof in fossilized feces, or coprolites, which contain many tiny chunks of bones eroded by stomach acid. High-tech imaging tools like CT scanners, X-ray fluorescence, and microprobe analysis reveal that T. rex was one of the rare species on Earth that could pulverize and digest solid bone. In fact, some T. rex coprolites are 30-50 percent crushed bone. The exhibition features a

Scientists discuss the research that went into the new exhibit, T. rex: The Ultimate Predator: #1 Michael Novacek, Senior Vice President, Provost of Science and Curator, division of Paleontology; Mark Norell, chair and Macaulay Curator, Division of Paleontology and Curator of T.rex: The Ultimate Predator; Gregory Erickson, Paleobiologist, Florida State University and Jasmina Wiemann, Molecular Paleobiologist, Yale University. © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com

used its heavy, bone-crushing teeth and jaws to eat large animals.

Biggest, Baddest Tyrannosaur

All tyrannosaurs were built to kill, but the biggest and baddest of them all was T. rex. With its huge size, sharp claws, and teeth that could bite through bone, it dominated the competition. New research shows that a T. rex could bite with about 7,800 pounds of force—equivalent to the weight of three cars – compared to 3,700 pounds of force of a modern crocodile.

We see a fossil of one of these huge, banana-shaped teeth , which relied on deep roots to withstand the immense forces during a bite, as well as a cast of a fossilized T. rex lower jaw demonstrating the constant replacement cycle of its fearsome teeth. A full-scale reproduction of the T. rex fossil skeleton on display in the Museum’s Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs— in a different pose—is the subject of the exhibition’s “shadow theater,” in which the skeleton’s 40-foot shadow (somewhat jarringly) “comes to life” and demonstrate to visitors how the animal moved and interacted with prey and its own kind.

Scientists long suspected T. rex could

cast of one of these telltale coprolites as well as a cast of a tail bone from a duck-bill dinosaur with an embedded T. rex tooth surrounded by new bone growth, indicating that T. rex was not just a scavenger but also attacked live prey.

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other top predators in the tyrannosaur subfamily, which lived side by side in Asia about 70 million years ago: Alioramus and Tarbosaurus. Bulky Tarbosaurus and nimble Alioramus likely specialized in different prey, much like lions and leopards do today.

Keen Senses of Sight, Smell

We know T. rex from fossils—but what was it like in the flesh? The exhibition’s massive life-size adult T. rex model is based on the most up-todate findings and represents the most scientifically accurate representation of this pop culture icon to date. New research on this powerful hunter’s senses show that keen vision, smell, and hearing made it very hard for this predator’s prey to avoid detection.

Brain casts indicate that T. rex had excellent vision. Its eyes, the size of oranges—some of the largest eyes of any land animal—faced forward like a hawk and were set wider apart than most other dinosaurs, giving it superior depth perception.

How can you tell the shape of an extinct animal’s brain? Soft tissues such as brains rarely fossilize. But fossilized skulls often contain a space where the brain used to be, revealing its precise shape. Scientists use these fossilized brain cases to make a model, or endocast, of the missing brain. They also use CT scanning to make a 3D printout of the brain. The exhibition includes a fossilized partial brain case of a T. rex as well as the endocast scientists created from it for study. By comparing the areas of the brain that are responsible for scent, vision, and hearing in tyrannosaurs’ closest living relatives, birds and crocodilians, researchers have determined that the T. rex brain had similar regions. For instance, T. rex had an unusually large olfactory region for a dinosaur, indicating it had a very good sense of smell. Also like their alligator and crocodile cousins, tyrannosaurs would likely have had highly sensitive faces. Visitors can inspect the series of tiny holes on a fossilized skull of Daspletosaurus torosus, a tyrannosaur that lived between 77 and 74 million years ago The holes are nearly identical in number and location to those on an alligator, which have jaws so sensitive to touch that they can gently pick up an egg or tiny hatchling without harming it. Fossils of T. rex show similar rough, pitted surfaces, suggesting it also had similar sense organs.

Despite the high level of scientific research that has gone into T. rex: The Ultimate Predator, the notes that accompany the displays are designed to be accessible especially for young

A rare tour of the AMNH’s proboscidean laboratory, where scientists research mammals including mammoths and mastodons that would have lived 1-2 million years ago. The Museum’s five active research divisions and three cross-disciplinary centers support approximately 200 scientists and sponsor about 100 expeditions a year © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com

people who will be enthralled.

At the end of the exhibition, there is a 32-foot long animated projection of a T. rex and its offspring in a Cretaceousage setting. The huge dinosaur seems to react to visitors, leaving you wondering, “Did that T. rex see me?”

Engaging with T. rex in Virtual Reality

The Museum’s science visualization group renders the latest scientific discoveries in paleontology and other fields through the visualization of big data. Using digital technologies, scientists today observe, measure, and reproduce hidden dimensions of the natural world. From the edges of the observable universe to the evolution of life on Earth, researchers are developing a radically new understanding of nature that the Museum strives to communicate to visitors in highly authentic, intuitive, and novel ways. One of these is virtual

VIVE’s global platform and app store, for VIVE owners in summer 2019. Visitors need to purchase a timed ticket to see the exhibit. You can book online, https://ticketing.amnh.org/#/ tickets.

150 Years of Scientific Inquiry

Founded in 1869, the American Museum of Natural History remains one of the world’s preeminent scientific, educational, and cultural institutions. The Museum’s five active research divisions and three cross-disciplinary centers support approximately 200 scientists, whose work draws on a world-class permanent collection of more than 34 million specimens and artifacts, as well as on specialized collections for frozen tissue and genomic and astrophysical data and on one of the largest natural history libraries in the world. The museum is the launchpad for some 100 expeditions a year. Through its Richard Gilder Graduate School, it is the only American museum authorized to grant the Ph.D. degree and also to grant the Master of Arts in Teaching degree.

Viewers get a thrill when T. rex seems to come after them © Karen Rubin/

reality: an experiential tool that uses objects, models, photos, video footage, and other types of physical evidence of life history to engage and excite visitors.

As part of T. rex: The Ultimate Predator, the Museum will present T. rex: Skeleton Crew, its first interactive, multi-player virtual reality experience, created in collaboration with HTC VIVE The five-minute experience will be offered to visitors ages 12 and up within the exhibition.

The facilitated experience “transports” as many as three players at a time to a space similar to the Museum’s Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs, where they team up to build a T. rex skeleton bone by bone. Once all of the bones are in place, the players watch as the T. rex comes to life in marshland that is now Montana, its home 66 million years ago.

A home version of T. rex: Skeleton Crew will launch on VIVEPORT, HTC

The Museum encompasses 45 permanent exhibition halls, including those in the Rose Center for Earth and Space and the Hayden Planetarium, as well as galleries for temporary exhibitions. It is home to the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, New York State’s official memorial to its 33rd governor and the nation’s 26th president, and a tribute to Roosevelt’s enduring legacy of conservation.

The number of visitors to the museum has grown to 5 million a year and the Museum’s exhibitions and Space Shows are seen by millions more in venues on six continents. The Museum’s website, mobile apps, and massive open online courses (MOOCs) extend its scientific research and collections, exhibitions, and educational programs to additional audiences around the globe.

Open daily from 10 am - 5:45 pm except on Thanksgiving and Christmas. American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024-5192, 212769-5100, amnh.org.

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Real Estate Watch

BY PHILIP A. RAICES

Should you pay down your mortgage early?

BY PHILIP RAICES

Should you pay down your mortgage early or not and what will happen in the future with income taxes and your deductions?

Another question that my subscribers have asked lately is, should they pre-pay their mortgage, eg. make extra principle payments every other month?

As an example, if you had a $500,000 mortgage @ 4.5% interest and made payments of $2533.43 per month and made an additional principle payment every other month, you would save 32% or $286,450 of the normal interest of $912,032, over a 30 year payout and also reduce the amount of time by 19 years and 8 months.

This is a very substantial savings of interest and time, which substantially ramps up your equity and wealth factor for a potentially more rewarding and comfortable retirement. As you can observe from the previous example, the savings on interest is quite amazing and absolutely enables you to keep more of your hard earned dollars in your pocket. The critical and crucial question will be, do you have the mental attitude and discipline to stick with this beneficial payment option and keep it on a schedule year after year? Only you can determine if you have what it takes to do it!

Now, you don’t necessarily have to be as strict and disciplined as to have to pay an exact principle payment every other month; but you can choose whatever amount of principle you can comfortably pay, every other month and ask your lender what the effect it will have on your total interest payments and years saved over the life of your mortgage.

This will take a bit of planning and again, discipline and consistency, as well as reducing available funds for

other discretionary spending; but, I can assure you, that it will be worth it, when you look back and realize and know what you have accomplished in paying off your mortgage earlier than most! One must, as they say, “bite the bullet” in building and creating your wealth, for a brighter future. I am not saying this will be easy, but if you put your mind to it, you will succeed!

Most important, as you build equity over the years, this will enable you to tap into it, if need be, for upgrading and renovating or possibly using the funds for a vacation or retirement home or condo down in the warmer climates. The savings will also be a hedge against reductions in social security benefits, which I fear, the way the country is proceeding in their outlandish spending and deficits, it will potentially be an inevitable outcome, if a solution isn’t strategized and dealt with in the near term.

Real estate is a limited commodity and as long as they aren’t growing anymore, it isn’t replaceable. So, values should continue to increase over the long run. Whoever thought years ago that prices would be where they are today? So, owning your own home, as well as any other real estate investments (and maybe taking classes and learning how to invest in the stock market long term), will provide the necessary security for one’s retirement.

If you are not in a position to prepay your mortgage as explained in the previous example had shown; the next best thing to do is try to make some type of principle payments when you have the extra money and are able to do it. However, not to change the subject, but there could be an adverse effect on our deductions, if our income taxes increase and/or income tax brackets radically change and deductions reduced; due

to our very serious national and international deficits; which somewhere along the line, must be paid; or do we consider bankruptcy or insolvency as a nation? I dare not think so, but, our government must very, very soon start putting their foot down and begin figuring out how to decrease spending. Looking back, it has been a “pork barrel” for 242 years.

However, with the new 4.5 trillion dollar budget that President Trump has proposed (that’s four thousand five hundred billion dollars!), we are just adding to the burden that our grandchildren and future generations, will have to deal with when we are gone. What may have worked in the past, to reduce deficits aren’t necessarily going to work today in solving our current fiscal problems or those going forward; and my fear is that we are running out of time.

A few weeks ago, I sat in the office of a very important and wealthy client of mine and discussed the state of our state and country and the loss of Amazon and the billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands direct and indirect jobs that could have been created, but were lost. That would have been a benefit to New York City, its five boros, as well as the side benefits that would have been derived by Long Island and its local towns and our real estate values. Yes, some would wonder why did Mayor Bill Di Blasio and Governor Cuomo, and others offer 3.1+ billion in tax credits and incentives to such a wealthy company and Jeff Bezos (worth approximately 150 Billion+). The answer was and is the near and long term benefit that would have pumped our city economy with, as per Governor Cuomo was quoted In the Washington Post on November 13, 2018, nine times the incentives provided in the tune of 27.5 billion and I am quite sure, Long Island would

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have had some side benefits too. We might be heading into a recession down the road and those much needed jobs would have truly bolstered our economy and the side benefits would have been humongous and trickled down to many businesses and individuals (hotels, doorman, restaurants, vendors, cultural venues, etc.).

The displacement of tenants in rentals, which would have increased in price, created a grass roots effort by Congresswoman, Alexandra OcasioCortez with Congressman Michael Gianaris and City council member Jimmy Van Bramer, to create and grow a mass opposition against having Amazon in Long Island City. But one possible solution could have been to have the city use some of their windfall and construct or at least have renovated a few of their idle and empty buildings to house those people. Maryland offered 8.5 billion and New Jersey offered 7 billion to attract Amazon; so our incentives paled in comparison. My professional opinion is the benefits surely outweighed the detriments of the New York incentives.

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Syosset-Woodbury Rotary hosts speaker from Society of St. Vincent de Paul

Joanne Courtein, the development director for the Society of St. Vincent DePaul, was a guest speaker at a recent Syosset-Woodbury Rotary meeting.This society was established over 200 years ago in France.

In 1846,  the society established itself in the United States in St. Louis, and came to Long Island in 1948. This Catholic organization is a not-for-profit organization that provides financial, material and spiritual aid to Long Islanders in 57 communities. Through the efforts of

over 1,300 volunteers, more than 200,000 people annully receive assistance from the society. They are funded by revenue from their thrift stores, donations, grants and fundraising events.

For more information about the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, one can contact Joanne Courtien at 516822-3132, ext. 106, or  visit the society's website: www.svdpli.org. The SyossetWoodbury Rotary meets on Tueday afternoons at Lisbon Cafe, Jericho Turnpike, Jericho.

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NYU Winthrop Hospital will offer a free community lecture for seniors, “Diabetes: Prevention & Staying Healthy,” on Wednesday, April 10, 2019, at 1:15 pm.  The program will be held at the Mineola Community Center, 155 Washington Avenue in Mineola, which is located one block south of Jericho Turnpike, between Mineola Blvd. and Willis Avenue.  Please join us to learn about how you can know if you are at risk for diabetes and practical, every day steps you can take to prevent diabetes.

J. Lynne Chimon, MS, RD, C-ADM, CDE, director, Diabetes Education Center at NYU Winthrop Hospital, will discuss diabetes prevention, as well as

share tips on staying healthy for those who have diabetes.  A question and answer period will follow the lecture. Free parking is available in the lot adjacent to the building; metered lots (quarters needed) are across the street.  Seating is limited and reservations are required. To reserve a space, please call (516) 663-3916.

Health Update for Seniors is a free community health education program offered by the Department of Public Affairs and Geriatric Health Services. For information about these or other programs at the Hospital, learn more at www.nyuwinthrop.org/community-programs or call 1-866-WINTHROP.

Rotary President Moira Patterson and Joanne Courtein

Local doctor named Trailblazer Woman of the Year

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“I do not look back all the time, but when I do, it’s what I would tell my 11-year-old daughter now -- the social politics of high school do not matter. And on a more serious note, what young people think about what their careers will or should be today is absolutely likely to change -- 99% of the time. I was going to be a lawyer and then I was going to be a journalist, but I did a few things and did not like it, they were boring to me. Then I jumped into technology and go figure, I have been with it 20 years. Do not expect everything to go as planned at age 13 because it isn’t going to happen that way, and for planner-people like me that was devastating. But don’t ever hesitate to try something that you’re just not comfortable with -- that always had held me back. I realized I could do something that was not normal to my family,” Muller said.

Dr. Paulinder S. Rai grew up in Dix Hills. Today he is a board-certified specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation. He practices in Brightwaters, NY where he cares for patients with various musculoskeletal impairments.

At the March 11 Syosset event, Dr. Rai explained his favorite thing about high school -- his teachers, in particular English teachers. The audience perked up hearing how a doctor was once an inspired teen who loved reading and literature, and the choices Rai made to continue studying theology in his college years.

“Towards the end of high school, I became much more comfortable in my skin, and I formed a great group of friends that transitioned me well into my college years. High school was tough, but it ended on a positive note. What I learned from high school is ‘don’t be too shy’ since I started as a very shy kid, very quiet and in the back of the class. But I always had ideas that needed to be voiced, minus the courage to speak them. Towards the end of high school, I gained the courage -- if I give any advice to kids, it is to find their voice as quickly as they can. You have an obligation to not just yourself but to everyone around you to share your voice with us and speak your power,” Rai said.

To assist with discovery stages and personal/professional roots, Align Us is a new resource to local high schoolers to help find a mentor or multiple mentors, “who can really make a difference in a young person’s life.” Dr. Syed says the connections formed with mentors will help build students’ futures. The group’s kickoff event was held in early December at Syosset Library. Since then many area students have found mentors in professions from law, government and finance to medicine, sciences and dentistry.

Career Pivots and Crossovers

Dr. Syed says the messages local teens receive from Align Us’ network of professionals and the March 11 panel allows them to step back and realize the pressures they put on themselves. She says too many Syosset, Jericho and Plainview area teens feel like “they need to have a vision

for their future as they go through high school…. It is great for them to hear how it’s okay to keep an open mind, explore, and try different options,” she says.

As a teen, Noha El-Ghobashy was set on taking up a profession that helps people. Her father’s background as an engineer helped introduce some principles of his work, but she was able to explore interests and passions for helping others. At Columbia University, she completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering and began a rewarding career that allowed her skills to translate into real-world solutions.

“I was deciding between medicine and engineering and I loved the idea of engineering as a profession because it was problem-solving; it was presented to me as if there’s a problem, let’s solve it. You need to be creative and innovative. I saw the people connection to medicine as you are able to better someone’s life whether they have an injury or disease. I decided to marry the two fields and I ultimately went into engineering but I focused in bioengineering -- the study and development of artificial limbs, medical equipment used by surgeons at hospitals. It really occurred to me that as problem-solvers engineers could be humanitarians and improve the quality of life for people, and that was how I choose traditional mechanical engineering as a college major and then did internships in bioengineering,” she explained.

Today El-Ghobashy is COO for the Institute for Transformative Technologies (ITT), a spinoff of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and whose mission is to develop breakthrough technologies to address issues of global poverty. Prior to her current position Noha served as founder and president of Engineering for Change, LLC (E4C), a global alliance of 15 organizations and 1 million+ individuals dedicated to promoting sustainable and accessible technology-based solutions for underserved communities worldwide. She’s also served as the executive director of the ASME Foundation in New York City, focusing on K-16 STEM education, social innovation and sustainable design.

Muller encouraged the benefits of exploring career transitions: “Don’t worry about shifting, as in startup tech, we call this a pivot. If you’ve ever heard ‘pivot,’ it comes from a more beneficial way to go about careers and business. Though I have been in technology, I have pivoted into different technologies,” she said.

Dr. Uzma Syed told the students in the audience March 11 to consider similar crossovers: “Things are not one dimensional and people can find ways to connect their different passions and sustaining it to be a successful career.”

The decisions ahead for high schoolers, whether they’ve got the mentorship Align Us offers or not, became a focus of the March 11 discussion. Dr. Rai advised that “every decision you make closes one door and opens another.” He explained the evolution of his education, from his fascination with studying philosophy and

selecting a career as a physician.

Rai says a combination of his interests illuminated ways to help patients; addressing both their physical issues and offering a positive perspective. With one particular book he read, he clearly understood how the application of philosophy is present in the practice of medicine.

“Medicine is really different from other career paths you can choose as you’ll really have to commit early on knowing you have a very rigid, set course for about 12 years. It becomes something you need to choose while you are young thinking of what you want to do when you’re older. I don’t think there was a moment I decided that, but from junior high and into high school, I really loved science, I thought it was fun. In high school, I had great influence from my English teachers, in particular in regards to books the class read. I loved reading and philosophy and I wanted to pursue that in college, and my father almost had a heart attack hearing I would study philosophy. He kept asking me what I wanted to study philosophy and I kept saying ‘I love what I’m learning.’ But I still took my science classes, and later, I wanted to pursue medicine but also wanted to get a PhD in philosophy and sociology to teach at the university level. My father decided to tell me it was up to me, but he knew I would want very nice things in life and I’d have to work hard for them. Whatever path I choose, I had to be able to support myself, and whatever I do and whatever I have would be my own choosing,” Rai explained.

Muller suggested to the panel that there’s multiple options for families and students to begin their journeys instead of traditional views focused on acceptance to the most prestigious colleges. As a volunteer with Hour of Code, Muller has taught over 1,000 students across Long Island the basics of computer programming. She also mentors young girls through the Technovation Challenge, coaches Robotics and Coding Clubs with Wonder Workshop and shares her technology and programming career path with high-school students as an industry advisory board member at

multiple school districts on Long Island. Muller says her college experience was not linear as she pursued a modest investment for college after realizing a larger university setting (at SUNY-Stony Brook) was not the best fit for her. Panelists concurred that there are excellent resources available -- including training courses, certification and community colleges -without an immediate jump to the costs of attending a more expensive four-year college, possibly further away, for families to start with if a student needs more time to pursue their interests.

Improvise!

The fourth panelist for Align Us’ March 11 discussion was Jay Max, creative strategist at RooneyPartners, where he helps develop and implement cross-platform campaigns for clients. Max was previously a copywriter at Newsday Media Group where he conceptualized, executed and project managed highly successful 360 marketing promotions and branding initiatives. Max began as a freelance feature writer and songwriter. He has written over 35 songs for Nickelodeon’s “Dora the Explorer” and “Dora and Friends: Into the City,” including the opening song for “Dora and Friends.” He’s also written songs for “Sesame Street,” Sesame Studios, and NBC Universal’s “Sprout House.”

Last week, Max reflected on his creative abilities and recommended that every person, no matter what field they envision going into, take an improv class.

“You have to be able to react to what’s happening, not preconceived notions of what you think should happen. Whether it’s in a meeting, a pitch or being around colleagues, being able to interact with people in a very real way with a lot of empathy and listening to what they say, not all the things you are thinking in your head while they talk, are really important abilities to have,” he said.

Dr. Syed added that advice to face real, raw situations and considering unscripted interactions are some of the things students will face in high school, college and

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The Board of Align Us at Syosset Library on March 11 to greet panelists Stefana Muller (third from left) Jay Max (center) Noha El-Ghobashy and Dr. Paulinder Rai (fourth from right).

Friday, March 22,

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HUDSON LLC

Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/26/2018.

Office location: Nassau County SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at: 9 Olde Hamlet Dr, Jericho, NY 11753

Purpose: Any lawful activities

SYO 4258

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NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Nassau U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGE TRUST 20044, ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGE BACKED PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-4, Plaintiff AGAINST

SHAHLA SABETI, et al., Defendant(s)

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated August 30, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Calendar Control Part (CCP) Courtroom of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501, on April 09, 2019 at 11:30AM, premises known as 5 PINE DRIVE, WOODBURY, NY 11797. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York, SECTION 14, BLOCK 14, LOT 4. Approximate amount of judgment $1,090,871.44 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 7064/12.

TARSHA C. SMITH, ESQ., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC

Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221

SYO 4263

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NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court State of New York

DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR RESIDENTIAL ASSET SECURITIZATION TRUST

2007-A8 MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES

SERIES 2007-H, V.

HEEJUNG JEONG, ET AL.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated January 03, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau, wherein DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR RESIDENTIAL ASSET SECURITIZATION TRUST

2007-A8 MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES

SERIES 2007-H is the Plaintiff and HEEJUNG JEONG, ET AL. are the Defendants. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the NASSAU SUPREME COURT, 100 SUPREME COURT DRIVE, CALENDAR CONTROL PART COURTROOM, MINEOLA, NY 11501, on April 16, 2019 at 11:30AM, premises known as 59 BLUEBIRD DRIVE, SYOSSET, NY 11791: Section 15, Block 101, Lot 14: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING AT SYOSSET, TOWN OF OYSTER BAY, COUNTY OF NASSAU AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 005966/2016. Brian Carmody, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff SYO 4264 4X 03/15,22,29,04/05

NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court State of New York

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY, A/K/A M&T BANK, S/B/M HUDSON CITY SAVINGS BANK, Plaintiff against MELISSA WILLIAMS, et al Defendants

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered February 8, 2019, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at Calendar Control Part (CCP) 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, New York, 11501 on April 16, 2019 at 11:30 AM. Premises known as 2 Joan Court, Woodbury, NY

11797. Sec 15 Block 175 Lot 82. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at Woodbury, Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York.

Approximate Amount of Judgment is $849,624.64 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 5816-14.

Alan Gerson, Esq., Referee CHJNY469

Fein Such & Crane, LLP, 1400 Old Country Road, Suite C103, Westbury, NY 11590

Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s).

SYO 4265

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING BY THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS

Pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 246, Article III, Section 246-18-E of the Code of the Town of Oyster Bay, notice is hereby given that the Zoning Board of Appeals has scheduled a public meeting, which will take place in the Town Hall Meeting Room, Audrey Avenue, Oyster Bay, New York, on MARCH 28, 2019, at 7:00 P. M., to consider the following appeals:

BY ORDER OF THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS

APPEAL NO. 19-148

SYOSSET

MASOOM KHWAJA: (A) Variance to allow existing greenhouse and rear steps and landing having less rear yard setback than permitted by Ordinance. (B) Variance to allow existing greenhouse exceeding maximum building coverage than permitted by Ordinance. (C) Variance to allow existing greenhouse and front and rear steps and landings exceeding maximum gross floor area than permitted by Ordinance. (D) Variance to allow existing front portico and steps having less average front yard setback than permitted by Ordinance.

S/s/o Princeton Dr., W/o Ketchams Rd., a/k/a 47 Princeton Drive, Syosset, NY

APPEAL NO. 19-149

SYOSSET

LEWIS SYOSSET, LLC: Variance to construct new dwelling having less width of lot at front lot line, width of

lot at rear yard, lot area and exceeding gross floor area than permitted by Ordinance.

E/s/o Split Rock Rd., 283 ft. S/o Church St., a/k/a Split Rock Road, Syosset, NY

APPEAL NO. 18-124

SYOSSET

YAN MIN LIN: (A) Variance to allow existing rear deck having less rear yard setback than permitted by Ordinance. (B) Variance to allow existing shed having less side yard setback and rear yard setback than permitted by Ordinance.

S/s/o Coventry Rd., 268.69 ft. E/o Westminster Rd., a/k/a 9 Coventry Road, Syosset, NY

MARCH 18, 2019

BY ORDER OF THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS

TOWN OF OYSTER BAY, OYSTER BAY, NEW YORK

SYO 4266

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NOTICE OF NAME CHANGE

Notice is hereby given that an order granted by the Supreme Court, Nassau County, on the 28th day of December 2018, bearing index number 00148318, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at 240 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York grants me the right to assume the name of Aruna Gupta. The city and state of my present address are 6 ,Windemere crest WOODBURY, NY; 11797 The date of my birth is January, 20 , 1948; the place of my birth is Sunder Nagar, India; my present name is Singhal,Aruna a/k/a Gupta,Aruna SYO 4267 1X 03/22

NOTICE OF SALE

Supreme Court County Of Nassau

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff against CHRIS D. MATCHTON, et al Defendants

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered November 30, 2017, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at Calendar Control Part (CCP) 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, New York, 11501 on April 9, 2019 at 11:30 AM. Premises known as 54 Meadowood Drive Unit 54, Jericho, NY 11753. Sec 17 Block 15 Lot 29. ALL that

certain plot, piece or parcel of real property, situate, and being a part of a condominium Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York in the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $721,264.55 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 010928/2010.

Henry Wysocki, Esq., Referee RSHN503

Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Fein Such & Crane, LLP 1400 Old Country Road, Suite C103, Westbury, NY 11590 JNJ 7910

4X 03/08,15,22,29

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING BY THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS Pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 246, Article III, Section 246-18-E of the Code of the Town of Oyster Bay, notice is hereby given that the Zoning Board of Appeals has scheduled a public meeting, which will take place in the Town Hall Meeting Room, Audrey Avenue, Oyster Bay, New York, on MARCH 28, 2019, at 7:00 P. M., to consider the following appeals:

BY ORDER OF THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS \APPEAL NO. 19-147

JERICHO

SAVERIO CONSTANTINO:

(A) Variance to allow existing 6 ft. high fence exceeding maximum height across front yard (Birchwood Park Crescent) than permitted by Ordinance. (B) Variance to allow existing pool filter having less rear yard setback than permitted by Ordinance. (C) Amend Specific Plan as presented for Appeal No. 71-307 and granted by Decision of the Zoning Board of Appeals, dated August 4, 1971. SE/ cor. of Birchwood Park Dr. & Birchwood Park Cres., a/k/a 230 Birchwood Park Dr., Jericho, NY

MARCH 18, 2019

BY ORDER OF THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS TOWN OF OYSTER BAY, OYSTER BAY, NEW YORK JNJ 7911

1X 03/22

Local doctor named Trailblazer Woman of the Year

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beyond.

“It’s a matter of figuring out how to react and how to act in certain situations. Until you get into the practice of doing that or being placed in those situations, you are not going to know what that feels like. It is great advice for students to go into an environment where they feel uncomfortable and to learn from it and be so much better off,” Syed explained.

Max also advised students to avoid carrying any categorical label that restricts what they can imagine doing in their careers. “You do not have to let that define you but you can say, ‘how can I use this as an opportunity to go someplace different,” he said.

In 2012, when he got his first contract with Nickelodeon, Max was skeptical of having royalty checks as primary means to support himself. Choices he made while finding one avenue of success allowed him to explore several outlets to utilize his abilities in, and one conversation brought him a suggestion to give marketing and advertising a shot. He says prior to the reflections and outreach, he had not considered this a related career path.

“I was getting a royalty, but I had to consider if it’s enough so I could retire off that money -- the answer is NO. Would I be able to have the lifestyle that I want to? No. You don’t want to be living off of those four checks per year, no matter what they are, so I took a moment to consider what I wanted to do. I choose to use my passions and do what I wanted, but to not have to make decisions from a point of desperation. Those are the worst decisions you can have…..So I looked into my other talents with writing and illustrations, and as a freelance designer, to see how I could make the choices that would allow me to be creative while supporting myself in a regular way,” he explained.

Local

Mentors, Elected Officials

‘Aligned’

Syosset School Board Trustee

Andrew Feldman is a certified finan-

cial planner from Woodbury, principal of Andrew Feldman Associates and a member of the Syosset Woodbury Chamber of Commerce. Feldman says his career in finance allows him to help people create and protect wealth and be able to pass it on to their heirs in a tax-efficient manner.

Sohail Nabi works for JetBlue as an IT specialist in Airport Operations. He has 30 years of experience including many years with British Airways. “My specialization is IT to ensure the different systems at airport terminals and the airlines that use them are implemented and supported, so planes are getting off the ground on time and customers are looked after with all the self-service technologies around now,” he said.

Crystal Berger, assistant to Nassau County Legislator Arnold Drucker, is one of the Align Us mentors in the government sector. Drucker’s fellow legislator, Syosset’s own Joshua Lafazan, is another mentor working with local students, continuing in efforts that motivated him during the 2017 campaign with several student interns and in authoring the book, “Political Gladiators: How Millennials Can Navigate the 21st Century Political Minefield and WIN!

Also at the March 11 forum, Dr. Syed thanked and noted representatives from New York State Senators Anna Kaplan’s (D-Great Neck) and Jim Gaughran’s (D-Huntington) offices.

Mentor Dr. Masood Saeed is a physician with Northwell Health in Plainview and Syosset. “I am a general practitioner and coordinate patient care in a hospital setting, to get them better quickly,” he said.

Another mentor. Mufthy Dastgir, introduced students to his career in architecture as a planner specifically for “designbuild” projects, a concept similar to the LIRR Third Track project from Floral Park to Hicksville. A career with all three facets from being the architect, contractor and builder raised interest. Other mentors include Dr. Shany Park, an orthodontist;

Jericho teacher named “Distinguished Teacher of 2019”

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in Nassau County.”  Although Miss Huang was never in any of his classes, Mr. Smith also supported her science aspirations.  “Coach Smith would talk to my math teachers, encouraging them to pay attention to me.  He unapologetically encouraged me to keep studying science and math, to keep reading journal articles, to keep engaging with the world’s problems, to keep thinking hard about my motivations and my impact on the world.”

When Superintendent of Schools Henry L. Grishman learned of this award, he said, “Joshua Smith consis-

tently demonstrates his commitment to children by always placing their social and emotional self-worth before any academic concerns. Students love him for his warmth and his firm belief that all students can succeed. His instructional strategies ensure that they do.”

Mr. Smith embodies Jericho’s motto, which is Success for All Students.  Mr. Grishman continues, “That motto is something we take very seriously. Not only do we have the programming in place to ensure our students leave with a great education, but they also graduate as fine citizens.”

At the ceremony on March 30, the Harvard Club of Long Island will

announce the Distinguihed Teacher of 2019 who will also receive a scholarship for a “Harvard experience” at the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, MA.  Past winners of the scholarships have enhanced their teaching by sampling the resources available to Harvard students: meeting with faculty; visiting research laboratories, rare book archives, and specialty museums; and enjoying visual and performance art. The scholarships are funded by contributions from Harvard alumni living on Long Island.

This year’s dozen Distinguished Teacher Award winners were nominated by current Harvard undergradu-

ates and then selected by Harvard Club of Long Island board members. They teach biology, chemistry, earth science, English, history, government, Italian, music, and 7th-grade science, as well as coach cross country.  The winners teach in Baldwin, Brentwood, Commack, East Hampton, Garden City, Huntington, Jericho, Manhasset, Port Washington, and Syosset in grades seven to twelve. Mr. Smith is the eighth teacher from the Jericho School District to be honored by the Harvard Club of Long Island.  Most recently, Gladys Lllanes, Spanish teacher at Jericho High School, was recognized in 2015.

Woodbury-based dentist Dr. Peter Barkoff; Lesley Mazzotta (performing arts) and Dr. Lenny Weinstein, physician and partner

with Dr. Uzma Syed’s Syosset office at South Shore Infectious Disease (SSID).

Dr. Uzma Syed (right)) receives the South Asian Women's Empowerment Award from Sushmita Sen

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