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Courtesy Pat’s Dance Studio

Dancing to success Melissa Vaughan, owner of Pat’s Dance Studio in Baldwin, was recently honored as the Chamber of Commerce 2020 Person of the Year in a ceremony at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury.

Above, young ballerinas rehearsing at the studio. Story, Page 3.

Drainage project under way; will follow ADA guidelines

By CRisTiNa aRRoyo RoDRiguEz carroyo@liherald.com

The Town of Hempstead Board unanimously voted on Nov. 16 to approve a $157,857 bid from PSL Industries Inc. for drainage improvements for the Baldwin Bowling Center at 2407 Grand Ave., which is projected to be completed in the spring of 2022.

The scope of work includes a new Americans with Disabilities

Act-compliant ramp with decorative lighting, the relocation of the handicapped parking area and the installation of two precast concrete leaching galleys.

The Baldwin Civic Association supports the project. President Darien Ward said, “The BCA appreciates business owners upgrading properties contributing to a higher community morale and curb appeal leading to a better quality of life in Baldwin.”

Four contractors returned with bids for this project totaling up to $196,160 by the deadline of July 23, 2021. PSL Industries Inc. submitted the lowest figure, followed by Laser Industries Inc., G&M Earth Moving Inc., and Elegant Lawns and Landscaping Inc. John Rottkamp, commissioner of the Department of Planning and Economic DevelopContinued on page 16

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BALDWIN HERALD — November 25, 2021 Courtesy Pat’s Dance Studio

Ballerinas in training at Pat’s Dance Studio.

Studio creates a second home for dancers

By Karina Kovac kkovac@liherald.com

Cultivating more than just performances, Pat’s Dance Studio creates a second home and community for local dancers in a stress-free environment. It is likely to walk into Pat’s and see dancers doing homework in the hangout room or parents chatting about their child entering a new grade. Owner and Director Melanie Vaughan wants the public to know all are welcome, and that this is their home.

Buying the business after her aunt Pat Randazzo in 1979 founded and worked at Pat’s for 38 years, Vaughan is now in her fourth year and 42nd season at the studio.

The performative community-based studio has children of all genders ages 2 to 18 learning jazz, tap, ballet and musical theater.

Vaughan says it’s important for the students’ self-esteem and mental health to let them thrive in a stress-free environment with no competition. She likes to let the kids have a say in operations, like which movie to watch for movie night.

“Our kids are good enough for competitions…but this should be their happy place where they want to go when they don’t want to be home,” explained Vaughan regarding the performancebased ideology the studio takes. Her passion stems from “help[ing] these kids get through their adolescent years and to be better people.”

During Covid-19, 65 percent of the dancers were not attending because of the switch to virtual and other pandemicrelated reasons. Now being back in the studio and following all Center for Disease Control guidelines, it would take a 23 percent increase to reach the original number of children attending. To Vaughan having the studio back open was one step in rebuilding her business, but she is not at full membership yet.

Reflecting on the trials of Covid and having to close on her birthday, she “kept everybody healthy” by limiting capacity, not allow parents into the building, installing new sanitation spots, putting in new filters in the HVAC and making boxes on the floors to keep everyone six feet apart.

As a member of the Baldwin Chamber of Commerce, she says they also helped every step of the way.

“It’s important to be here and open for my students and my parents. Having that safe place to go. That camaraderie, having that connection; we are a hub. We’re kind of at the center of it all,” Vaughan said stressing how important relationships within the studio are.

Swearing there is a mysticism to the building she said, “There is a feel to this building, and I don’t know what my aunt put in the wall, but there is something in the walls that it feels like home.” In an homage to her aunt, who put so many hours of work into the business, Vaughan has her aunt’s dining room table in her office as a symbol of where family comes together.

The connections made from the studio are lifelong, Vaughan attested. Every day she receives an alumni message on social media to talk and give updates of their dance careers. Fostering continuing relationships is especially important to Vaughan, she concluded, “Once you’re a Pat’s dancer, you’re always a Pat’s dancer…Regardless of when you came, when you stopped, or if you came for a year and never came again, you’re still Pat’s family.”

aBove, owner and Director of Pat’s Dance Studio Melanie Vaughan, left, with receptionist Shantel Rankine, right. right, instructor carly Manza teaches Friday night girls jazz class, one of the many types of dances covered in Pat’s Dance Studio.

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News brief

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A Mission for Our Time: Bring Light into the World It is a metaphor for lighting candles to battle the darkness. Those who decorate homes and buildings throughout our comChanukah is the Festival of Lights. munity with Christmas lights are also During the darkest part of the year, we taking part in this beautiful and imporlight candles for illumination and as a tant endeavor. Wherever we find darksymbol of spiritual enlightenment. A ness, injustice, intolerance, illness, deceit, famous Hebrew Chanukah song inspires hopelessness, sadness, despair, political us to send away the darkness from the and military struggles that seem to go on light. Similarly, the Dead forever, brutal dictatorSea Scrolls, ancient Jewish ships, oppression, and scrolls, describe an epic hate, it is upon us to strugbattle between light and gle for a better world. To darkness. help us remember to We are survivors of one engage in this important of the darkest periods in mission, we light Chanumodern human history. kah candles to ward off the And yet, our holidays and darkness and bring in the their extraordinary meslight (a metaphor for the sages purposely shed light good overcoming the bad). on our predicament.

A central message of Thanksgiving inspires us Chanukah is never to give to remember those people up hope and to always conRaBBi Royi Shaffin and aspects of our lives for tinue the struggle to make whom and for which we things better – to bring are grateful. The holidays that follow light into the world. The Chanukah songs, open our eyes to the light in the world, to the latkes (Chanukah potato pancakes), hope for the future and to the promise of and the dreidel games are always delightthe fulfillment of prophecy and of ful. This year, especially, however, I hope redemption. and pray that we can embrace the mission The lighting of the Chanukah meno- that the holiday presents us with: go forth rah (candelabra) is not just a physical act. and bring light into the world.

By RaBBi Royi Shaffin South Baldwin Jewish Center

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Former Chamber of Commerce President honored with tree, plaque in Silver Lake Park On Friday, Nov. 19, former President of the Baldwin Chamber of Commerce Erik Mahler, center, was honored for his 11 years of leadership to the organization with a plaque and tree planting in Silver Lake Park. Last week, Mahler passed the reins of the chamber to Gala Fresh owner Franky Jorge. Mahler, proprietor of Mahler Realty, has a history of community service accolades, including being

named Baldwin Herald 2009 Person of the Year and being honored by the Nassau Council of Chambers twice during his tenure as president of the chamber. Specifically, Mahler has served Baldwin by instituting American flag displays, Welcome to Beautiful Baldwin signage, illuminated snowflake decorations, large landscaped gardens that can be enjoyed by the community, etc.

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Isles fans raise the roof on their new ‘Barn’ UBS Arena opening ends a 20-year battle for team’s home base

By Tom Carrozza tcarrozza@liherald.com

Islanders fans from across Long Island made the pilgrimage on Saturday to the team’s new home at UBS Arena in Elmont. Despite a disappointing game result — the Islanders lost to the Calgary Flames 5-2 — fans were elated to finally have a home for their favorite hockey team after years of uncertainty, recreating the exuberant cheering that so defined games at Nassau Coliseum, known affectionately as “The Barn.”

The $1.1 billion arena at Belmont Park already means a great deal to fans who have watched the team through years when the Nassau Coliseum fell into disrepair and the Barclays Center in Brooklyn offered obstructed seating. The fanbase survived rumors of the team’s move to Quebec City or Kansas City in the 1990s and 2000s and has STeven finally been Ferraro rewarded with an Islanders fan arena that pays homage to both them and the players of yesteryear.

“I’m 26 years old, and I’ve been waiting my entire life to see this building open,” Steven Ferraro, of Rockville Centre, said.

“It was the Lighthouse and then whatever after, but the [new] building [is] absolutely fantastic, just gorgeous.” Ferraro said his favorite aspect of the structure so far is the Heineken Terrace above the main entrance, saying it’s unusual to have clublike atmosphere at a hockey game.

The late John Kempf was remembered at the game by his wife and son, Christine and Sean Kempf, who carried around a cardboard cutout of him. A detective in the Suffolk County Police Department, John died in April 2020 after a battle with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease — a rare degenerative brain disorder. During his tough fight, Kempf got to speak to his all-time favorite Islander, John Tonnelli, on the phone.

“It means everything to be here,” Sean Kempf said. “[My father] was a lifelong fan, and he passed that down to us.” Sean also said that his father was a huge fan of both Zach Parise and Zdeno Chara and would have been blown away if he had seen them both acquired by the Islanders in the off-season.

Mark Martinez, of Levittown, said he became an Islanders fan along with his school friends when the team visited Summit Lane Elementary School when they were children. “When we were little, tickets were cheap and we would go to every game, and now we still go to every game. It’s a part of our friendship now,” Martinez said.

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more Than 17,000 Islanders fans brought the old Nassau Coliseum energy to their new home at UBS Arena in Elmont.

The Blue and Orange Army in Section 329 brought soccer-style chanting throughout the game.

ISleS FanS goT pumped up before entering UBS Arena for the first time.

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Diego to the United Kingdom were placed above the raucous Section 329 crowd. The section, carried over from the Coliseum, serenades the team with soccer-style chants and drum playing throughout the game.

The much-touted low roof of the building traps the noise, giving amazing moments like when the crowd sang along with Nicole Raviv during the national anthem. There were glimpses of what the atmosphere can be like when the team gets going, like when Richard Panik laid the first big hit or when the referees announced Brock Nelson’s first goal.

Superfans Jake Basile and Nicholas Constantinidis, from Plainview, came to the game carrying cardboard cutouts of Islanders defenseman Adam Pelech’s face.

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UBS Arena opens Nov. 20 to much fanfare years ago, now even selling merchandise to the over 8,000 followers of their Instagram page, “Bathtubjake.”

“A lot of guys from the Barn days were kind of concerned about this not being home, but it really felt like it tonight,” Basile said. “This is genuinely a dream come true. It’s so surreal. The atmosphere was great. Not the result we wanted from the game, but the arena was absolutely amazing,” Constantinidis said. “It

felt like this is ours, this is our amazing, 21st-century arena. We finally joined the club.”

Co-owner Jon Ledecky, who purchased the team with business partner Scott Malkin in 2016, spoke to and took pictures with fans outside the arena before the game.

“You can hear the fans are so excited and they’re saying, ‘Thank you,’ which is great, but we’re saying it back, because without them and their support, this building doesn’t happen,” Ledecky said.

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NiCholas CoNstaNtiNidis aNd Jake Basile of the “Pelech Posse” with cutouts of their favorite Islanders defenseman, Adam Pelech.

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News brief Baldwin High School’s Girls Varsity Volleyball program hosted a volleyball tournament in October and raised over $500 through concession and T-shirt sales for Sunrise Day Camp, a non-profit that helps children with cancer.

The organization serves as a “creative, safe, healthy, supportive and fun-filled community” where peers who have a similar and shared experience are supervised by a dedicated and trained staff. In addition, Sunrise Day Camp offers programs that ensure that these pediatric cancer patients are also cared for all throughout the year and while in the hospital. The camp is associated with the organization, Sunrise Association.

“I am extremely proud of these girls and the coaches. It shows that our programs instill a sense of civic duty and care for the community,” said Ed Ramirez, director of athletics for Baldwin Union Free School District.

The team recently presented a check to representatives from Sunrise Day Camp, who thanked the girls for their generosity and invited the students to volunteer over the summer. The athletes, as well as their coach, April Mosca, and assistant coach, Alyssa Coiro, were very happy that they could give back to the local camp and look forward to donating to a different charity every year.

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Boy Scout Troop 824 partners again with St. Christopher’s Church to help local veterans Troop 824 met with Rev. Johnny Mendonca on Nov. 14 at 10:30 am in the lower church of St. Christopher’s to discuss collecting socks, undershirts and games for veterans this month. This follows last month’s efforts, when the troop’s 7th Annual Trunk or Treat raised enough money to provide the St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry with 113 $25 gift cards and four shopping carts full of nonperishables.

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School District Residents Only. 1 kit per family. Ages Pre-K & Up with Parent/ Caregiver.

Community service programs with the library

Thursday, December 2

Interested in being kind and earning community service credits? Take part in the Baldwin Public Library’s ongoing community service programs. Using art, thank a veteran — design a plaque to thanks veterans and visit www. baldwinpl.org to view a “Thanking Our Veterans” video. Or, using art, create a special card for a hospitalized kid.

Create your own special card to cheer up a sick child. Visit the library website to view a video that will show you the different ways you can decorate your card. To register, send an email to teens@baldwinpl.org. Library staff will reach out to have you pick up your kit at the main entrance doors of the library.

BPL Tech - Learn Excel Join Dennis 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. for this two session, in person, Baldwin Public Library class to learn the basics of Excel. Register in person or through email to: baldwinzoom@baldwinpl.org starting Nov. 1. Space is limited, and masks are required to be worn during both sessions. Session will be held in the Community Room.

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Friday, November 26 Friday Afternoon Movie The Baldwin Public Library is showing Jungle Cruise the 2021 Adventure/ Action movie featuring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt. The movie will be shown in the Community room from 2 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Space is limited.

First come, first served. Masks must be worn.

Saturday, November 27 Niall & The Durty Nellys come to Long Island Sonny’s Canal House is having Niall & the Durty Nellys play Irish-American music with other guest Denny McCarthy playing the Irish fiddle. The event starts at 8 p.m. and is located at Sonny’s Canal House, 1 Jefferson Pl, Baldwin.

Anti-Racism Quilt Program Join esteemed quilting artist Kim Taylor from to 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.at the Baldwin Public Library for a discussion of anti-racism while expressing your artistic side. Each participant will create a quilting square using paper and markers which will become part of a larger fabric quilt to be displayed

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Anti-Racism Quilt Program Join esteemed quilting artist Kim Taylor from to 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.at the Baldwin Public Library for a discussion of anti-racism while contributing to the community anti-racism quilt program. in the community. This program is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and is administered by The Huntington Arts Council, Inc. Online or over-the-phone registration begins Thursday, September 9.

Monday, November 29 Social Media Marketing for Small Business In these extraordinary times, it is critical to stay in touch with customers.

Learn how to connect in the ‘new normal’ so that you can provide limited products or services. In this 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Baldwin Public Library webinar, you will learn the basics for developing a social media and website presence, as well as creating a local community

profile. Contact the Baldwin Public Library for the online webinar details.

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Teen Advisory Group

Tuesday, November 30 Literacy Nassau Literacy Nassau is a Long Island-based not-for-profit organization that makes literacy services accessible to disadvantaged populations of all ages by providing donation-based languagebuilding programs. They will be at the Baldwin Public Library at 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Children’s Arts and Crafts Room.

Wednesday, December 1 Yoga for Beginners Instructor Jean will guide the Zoom audience from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. through restorative yoga sessions. All are welcome to attend. Please rsvp to baldwinzoom@baldwinpl.org for the

Teens in Grades 6 to 12, would you like to have a voice when it comes to teen services at your library? Join the Teen Advisory Group at 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. to help with new program ideas, and be in a safe place to talk about whatever is on your mind. Community service credit will be awarded so make sure to keep track of your hours. To sign up to this online event, please send an email to teens@baldwinpl.org

Gingerbread House Kits Pick up a kit of ingredients at the Baldwin Public Library, to build a gingerbread house, decorate it with candy at home and enjoy it for the holidays! Online or over the phone registration begins Wednesday, December 1 at 9 a.m. After registering, kits can be picked up anytime during library hours. This event is for Baldwin

The Baldwin Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Tree Lighting will be held on Sunday December 5th from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. This year they will allow their members a free spot at the event. You will need to provide your own table and chairs, and limited spots are available on a first-come first-served basis. This has always been a wonderful family event, with fun entertainment, free refreshments, free pony rides, and a visit from Santa to kick off the Holiday Season.

HAvING AN EvENT? Items on the Community Update pages are listed free of charge. The Herald welcomes listings of upcoming events, community meetings and items of public interest.

All submissions should include date, time and location of the event, cost, and a contact name and phone number. Submissions can be emailed to kkovac@liherald.com.

Nassau County Police Department says to never leave your car unattended, even in cold weather.

A bicycle owned by “country doctor” Dr. William Steele is at the Baldwin Historical Society.

V.F.W. Post #1434 was named after Sgt. Harvey L. Miller, who was born in Baldwin May 10, 1894.

Gabby Hayes, the American radio host and television actor, lived in Baldwin.

The Baldwin Long Island Rail Road station is on the LIRR’s Babylon Branch.

Students created heartfelt cards for firefighters

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Mrs. Diaz’s class of Lenox Elementary School, Mrs. Aquino’s and Mrs. Zelko’s classes of Steele Elementary School and Mrs. Neville’s Class of Plaza Elementary School created heartfelt cards for firefighters. The artwork will be delivered to local fire houses. Hempstead Town Councilman Christopher Carini and Town Clerk Kate Murray thanked students for their work and appreciation.

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Baldwinite dr. Zodelia Williams co-authored the anthology “Sistah Hooded: Stories of Strength and Resilience on the Doctoral Journey,” which came out July 24 on Amazon. williams’s Book signing was held at the new Hello Gorgeous New York in Baldwin, which offers nine selfie spaces and a private event room.

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The book centers on the idea that representation is important, and Williams wants to “give young girls who look like [her] a chance to understand and know that…there are less than 2 percent of Americans who have a PhD or doctorate degree.”

“So many people are pouring into me, and I want to make sure that I pour into them, so they can pour into the next generation,” Williams said, noting, “We, as a community, need to create safe spaces so that our youth and families are able to gather.”

A 15-year-old volunteer at 3 D’s Aftercare Inc., Kayla Martin, said Williams is important to her because “even on her

worst days, she always makes sure the kids at 3 D’s get what they need…She really does try to help everyone.”

Saying Harriet Tubman, the famed Underground Railroad conductor, is her hero, Williams said, “When you make it, or when you get into where you think that you need to make it, you need to come back and get the people that you left behind.”

3 D’s Aftercare Inc. will give out takeout Thanksgiving dinners to those in need. More information can be found on www.3dsaftercareinc.org. “Sistah Hooded: Stories of Strength and Resilience on the Doctoral Journey” is available on Amazon and Williams’s website.

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LEGAL NOTICE this copyright notice informs any potential user of the name deborah boyd or DEBORAH BOYD or any derivatives that is intended as pertaining to me deborah ameera bey in propria persona sui juris, proprio solo, proprio heredes, that any unauthorized use thereof without my express, prior, written permission signifies the user consent for becoming the debtor on a self-executing UCC financial statement in the amount of $500,000 american constitutional money payable in gold or silver per unauthorized use of the name used with the intent of obligating me, plus additional cost, plus triple damages. the name deborah boyd and all derivatives of the name has from this time and all points in time been lien.

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LEGAL NOTICE this copyright notice informs any potential user of the name raena shanice fuller or RAENA SHANICE FULLER or any derivatives that is intended as pertaining to me raena nazia zada bey in propria persona sui juris, proprio solo, proprio heredes, that any unauthorized use thereof without my express, prior, written permission signifies the user consent for becoming the debtor on a self-executing UCC financial statement in the amount of $500,000 american constitutional money payable in gold or silver per unauthorized use of the name used with the intent of obligating me, plus additional cost, plus triple damages. the name raena sha-nice fuller and all derivatives of the name has from this time and all points in time been lien.

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LEGAL NOTICE this copyright notice informs any potential user of the name jalin simon fuller or JALIN SIMON FULLER or any derivatives that is intended as pertaining to me jalin simon amir bey in propria persona sui juris, proprio solo, proprio heredes, that any unauthorized use thereof without my express, prior, written permission signifies the user consent for becoming the debtor on a self-executing UCC financial statement in the amount of $500,000 american constitutional money payable in gold or silver per unauthorized use of the name used with the intent of obligating me, plus additional cost, plus triple damages. the name jalin simon fuller and all derivatives of the name has from this time and all points in time been lien.

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LEGAL NOTICE this copyright notice informs any potential user of the name ray jason fuller or RAY JASON FULLER or any derivatives that is intended as pertaining to me ray jason zaim bey in propria persona sui juris, proprio solo, proprio heredes, that any unauthorized use thereof without my express, prior, written permission signifies the user consent for becoming the debtor on a self-executing UCC financial statement in the amount of $500,000 american constitutional money payable in gold or silver per unauthorized use of the name used with the intent of obligating me, plus additional cost, plus triple damages. the name ray jason fuller and all derivatives of the name has from this time and all points in time been lien.

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LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Index No. 10671/2017 Date Filed: 6/25/2019 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Plaintiff, -againstValerie Cleavland as heir at law and next of kin of Emmett Samuel; Shirley Harris as heir at law and next of kin of Emmett Samuel; Michelle Jones as heir at law and next of kin of Emmett Samuel; Denise Law as heir at law and next of kin of Emmett Samuel; Stacy Odom as heir at law and next of kin of Emmett Samuel; Latoyna Samuel as heir at law and next of kin of Emmett Samuel; Lillie Samuel as heir at law and next of kin of Emmett Samuel; Roderick Samuel as heir at law and next of kin of Emmett Samuel; Tracy Samuel as heir at law and next of kin of

Emmett Samuel; Brandon Samuel as heir at law and next of kin of Ronnie Samuel; Naja Samuel as heir at law and next of kin of Ronnie Samuel; Charmyne Butler as Heir at Law and Next of Kin of Emmett Samuel; New York State Department of Taxation and Finance; United States of America Internal Revenue Service; People of The State of New York; Franklin Hospital Medical Center; John Doe 1 through 50; Jane Doe 1 through 50, intending to be the unknown heirs, distributes, devisees, grantees, trustees, lienors, creditors, and assignees of The Estate of Ronnie Samuel who was born on July 19, 1960 and died on June 25, 2009, a resident of The County of Fairfax, their successors in interest if any of the aforesaid defendants be deceased, their respective heirs at law, next of kin, and successors in interest of the aforesaid classes of person, if they or any of them be dead, and their respective husbands, wives or widows, if any, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the Plaintiff, and “JOHN DOES” and “JANE DOES”, said names being fictitious, parties intended being possible tenants or occupants of premises and corporations, other entities or persons who have, claim or may claim, a lien against, or other interest in, the premises, Defendants.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 50 Charles Street, Roosevelt, NY 11575-1710 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or a notice of appearance on the attorneys for the Plaintiff within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the days of service, or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if the summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. David P. Sullivan, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, entered Nov. 8, 2021 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Nassau County Clerk’s Office.

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ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $337,500.00, not to exceed negative amortization amount up to 125% of the original principal amount and interest, recorded in the Nassau County Clerk’s Office on July 13, 2007, at Liber M 32101 of Mortgages, page 489 covering premises known as 50 Charles Street, Roosevelt, NY 11575-1710 a/k/a Section 55, Block 421, Lot 199 & 200.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

Plaintiff designates Nassau County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: March 29, 2019 Brent Surgeoner, Esq. Associate Attorney SHAPIRO, DICARO & BARAK, LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (585) 247-9000 Fax: (585) 247-7380 Our File No. 18-072169 #99016 128427

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The Baldwin Bowl drainage project includes a new Americans with Disabilities Actcompliant ramp, the relocation of the handicapped parking area and the installation of two precast concrete leaching galleys.

The projeCT is funded through the federal Community Development Block Grant Program, which aims to provide housing and expand economic opportunities for low- and moderateincome people.

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ment, recommended PSL Industries Inc. and will execute any necessary documents to implement the project, including contracts, change orders and inter-municipal agreements.

While the Baldwin Chamber of Commerce was not involved in this project, President Franky Jorge said the group is “happy to see money invested in the community,” and some of their members would benefit from this investment.

The project is funded through federal Community Development Block Grant Program, which aims to develop viable urban communities by providing decent housing and a suitable living environment, and by expanding economic opportunities, principally for low- and moderate-income persons.

“The revitalization of our business districts and upgrading infrastructure is critical to the future of our communities and the local economy,” Supervisor Donald Clavin said.

Councilman Christopher Carini seconded that thought, saying, “We have made a commitment to improving roadways, upgrading parks and revitalizing downtowns across America’s largest township, while holding the highest regard for taxpayers.”

HUD determines the amount of annual funding allocated by using several measures of community needs, including the extent of poverty, population, housing overcrowding, age of housing and popula-

Community Block grant program — Empowers communities to design and implement strategies tailored to their needs.

— Expands and strengthens partnerships among government and the private sector.

— Builds the capacity of partners through technical assistance for grantees. tion growth lag in relationship to other metropolitan areas.

According to the 2019 American Community Survey estimates, 5.1 percent of Baldwin’s population falls under the poverty threshold, with a median income per household of $112,352 and per capita income of $41,796.

The Town of Hempstead has approved over $165 million to finance several programs, which include those addressing the needs of older adults and people with physical challenges, as well as those aimed at street, commercial façade, sign and lighting improvements and affordable housing. The town has used a sizable portion of these funds in Uniondale and Elmont.

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For example, it almost always comes up during the design phase of offices and retail spaces that the owner wants to put in a bottled-water cooler instead of a drinking fountain, but the plumbing code, which is a law, states that two drinking fountains or a dual unit, the high and low kind, are required to be installed. (The reason for the low drinking fountain is to avoid discrimination, along with many other regulations, in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, signed into federal law by President George H.W. Bush in 1990.) A bottle station is nice to have but not required.

Water purification will be a healthy solution for your employees and family, since it removes chlorine, sediments and multiple trace minerals. There are many different types of purifiers on the market. For commercial purposes, consider a cartridge-type purifier specific to your commercial space, and for a residence, a whole-house system such as the ones from PurifiedSolutions.net, which use a seven-stage reverse-osmosis process. Just remember, these systems all require the replacement of filters, so factor in replacement costs so you aren’t surprised later.

As for the bigger question, air purification, it is a much broader and more questionable issue, since different systems filter air in different ways, and even though advertisements tout all the wonderful particulates that can be removed, virus particles aren’t necessarily one of them. Smoke from cigarettes and dust have a much larger mass, and are more easily removed with high-efficiency particulate air, or HEPA, filters than bacterial or viral-laden particles.

Even though microscopic-sized allergens can be removed, unless they are treated with either damaging light or chemical containment, just catching the allergens doesn’t necessarily get rid of them. Make sure you find out what the filtration unit will do from an independent testing source report before spending the money on one.

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he Event,” a 2015 found-footage documentary by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, opens with black-and-white images of mostly men marching in August 1991 through the streets of Leningrad, in the then Soviet Union, overturning a trailer and grabbing all manner of furniture to erect hastily constructed barricades.

Worry was etched on the protesters’ faces.

People had assembled in Leningrad’s central Palace Square and surrounding streets to stop an attempted coup d’état that, SCoTT they believed, was radiating from MosBRINToN cow, USSR’s capital, across the land.

“The Event” is a hopeful but strangely haunting film that I watched last week on Zoom. Hofstra University’s Department of Comparative Literature, Languages and Linguistics and the History Department presented it, with a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Ben Rifkin, a Hofstra professor of Russian.

I wanted to see the film because in August 1991 I was a Peace Corps volunteer stationed in Bulgaria, a Soviet satellite nation for 45 years, from the end of World War II through 1990, when it finally gained its freedom and turned to democracy. I cannot express the

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chilling effect the coup attempt had on many Bulgarians, who worried about a sudden return to hardline communism. I wondered what, precisely, had happened in Moscow and other Soviet cities from Aug. 18 to 21, 1991, as the coup unfolded. I had never seen images of it before.

The good people of Leningrad were concerned that Soviet Armed Forces tanks might roll against their city, and a sea of tens of thousands of people rallied, placing themselves in mortal danger to preserve the democratic reforms enacted under Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.

The fear of a possible attack on Leningrad was not irrational. Eight communist hardliners calling themselves the Committee on the State of Emergency, and various factions within the Soviet military, were behind the putsch, seeking to halt the impending breakup of the Soviet Union that would give sovereignty to its 15 outlying republics. Soviet tanks, in fact, rolled into Moscow, where tens of thousands of demonstrators stood in their way. Among them was Boris Yeltsin, the man who succeeded Gorbachev as president of Russia when the Soviet Union dissolved in December 1991.

I was on a train somewhere outside Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, with my then fiancée, Katerina, who was born and raised in Sofia, when we first heard the news of the coup attempt. Katerina’s face turned sullen. What

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would we do if it succeeded?

Most Americans cannot understand the fear of the then Soviet Union that many, if not most, Eastern Europeans carried with them in the backs of their brains. They risked limb and life to secure their freedoms from the USSR in the late 1980s and early ’90s. They stood in solidarity, marching en masse in their capitals’ squares, demanding sovereignty. Then, seemingly in an instant, all their hard-won reforms appeared to be in jeopardy.

If Bulgaria lost its newly won democratic freedoms to the communists, would the old-school apparatchiks “cleanse” Bulgaria of any American “sympathizers”? In that case, anyone who had had contact with an American like me would have been in grave danger of just disappearing.

These were not wild conspiracy theories.

They were valid questions based on nearly five decades of iron-fisted Soviet rule. Katerina and I planned an escape route to the U.S. through Greece if the coup held, which, thankfully, it did not. We were in our mid-20s at the time. We recently celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary, living, peacefully, on Long Island for the past 28 years, returning every few years to Sofia. Bulgaria remains a democracy to this day.

The Soviet coup plotters were not especially well organized, according to various

he USSR in 1991 and the U.S. in 2021: similarities I never would’ve imagined.

reports, and most of the SAF military was not a party to the conspiracy. It’s said that the plotters spent most of the three days of the coup drunk. Seven of the eight organizers were imprisoned, and one committed suicide.

Ilya Vinitsky, chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, was among the panelists last week. He was 22 and living in the Soviet Union at the time of the coup. It was a seminal moment in his life, a point of demarcation — there was life before the coup, and after.

Now he asks his students, “Have you ever felt you lived through a historical moment?”

Yes, I would respond, more than once.

Most recently was the disorganized insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, when thousands of pro-Trump rioters besieged our very seat of democracy to try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election — that is, to attempt to overthrow our nation’s duly elected president, Joe Biden. Having lived through such a coup attempt while in a foreign land, I never imagined one here, particularly not one as violent as that of last January.

Democracy is clearly a fragile thing. It requires an active, engaged citizenry that respects the rule of law. If it is not respected, then it must be enforced.

Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication. Comments about this column? SBrinton@liherald.com.

Year of wonder, one Thanksgiving to the next

ast Thanksgiving we dined alone.

I’m remembering an over-roasted turkey leg with a side of anxiety for me, a wedge of spinach pie for the vegetarian, hold the Thanksgiving cheer. We tried not to make too much of the day.

We were veterans of isolation by then, still months away from our first vaccine. To see our kids and grandkids, someone would have had to risk flying, and the infection rates were daunting.

Nevertheless, we watched millions RANDI of people choosing KREISS to travel, weaving through airport lines and hoping for the best. Spikes and surges followed.

Sorry for the ruminating, but sometimes you must go back to appreciate how far you’ve come. A few months after Thanksgiving, our son and grandson caught Covid.

We missed birthdays, anniversaries, proms and graduations. We were lucky; the nightly news featured Covid crises cascading across the country. Who will ever forget the pictures of refrigerator trucks parked outside New York City hospitals?

Today (and I won’t say fast forward, because it wasn’t), all of us have had vaccines and boosters. We’re all back to our jobs. Kids are back in school. As I swayed from despair to hope and back to trepidation, I coped, and that feels like enough.

This Thanksgiving we will sit down with our family to start reweaving the ties that have stretched thin over the months of this pandemic.

I have often written about gratitude for the small things that charge our days with interest and pleasure. This year my gratitude is singular, profound and unending. I am so thankful to the researchers and scientists and companies and governments and leaders who took on the virus and dug in for the fight.

There were missteps and political machinations and failures along the way, but the development of vaccines, 90-plus percent effective, in only 11 months has been the stunning achievement of our lifetime.

When we encountered a novel coronavirus transmitted easily through the air by breathing, talking and coughing, the World Health Organization said it did not expect a vaccine to become available in fewer than 18 months. Many virologists have said that the development of a safe and effective vac-

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cine within 11 months was an extraordinary achievement.

Please read “A Shot to Save the World,”

by Gregory Zuckerman. Zuckerman tells the story of the unlikely heroes who worked together and separately, driven by the mission to find a vaccine.

He describes the false starts and missteps, but also all that went right as researchers took on the challenge of their lives. It required unprecedented devotion, selflessness, fierce dedication to the job and a vision of success that transcended any one person’s ambition.

It is a thrilling story. One of the salient points Zuckerman addresses is the idea that the new vaccines are too “experimental.” He says these discoveries are not one-day wonders, but blocks of research that came together over many years. They found daylight in the time of the pandemic because of the money and dedication and leadership that supported the effort. The work on AIDS informed this medical moon shot, and the Covid vaccines will inform research going forward.

Zuckerman tells the story of Jason Schrum, the Moderna scientist who had worked at the company for only a short time. He came up with the actual modifica-

his year my family will gather again, and my gratitute is profound and unending.

tion to the mRNA molecule that is currently used in Moderna’s vaccine, Zuckerman writes. “That modification is the one that BioNTech uses also. It’s not the one from Katalin Karaka and Drew Weissman at the University of Pennsylvania. They’re really pioneers, and I’m not sure we would have these vaccines without them.”

Zuckerman writes that not enough attention has been paid to the Chinese scientist who struggled in the early days of the pandemic to share the genetic sequence of the virus. “The guy’s a hero,” he writes.

“He risked so much …”

I thank them all, from the doctors and nurses to the supermarket workers to the teachers and parents of young children, to the bench researchers who put in the hours, day after day and month after month.

This year at our Thanksgiving, there will be a too-big turkey and stuffing and cranberry sauce. Leaves and grains for the vegetarian. We will hug and kiss our kids and grandkids, feeling safe enough with our jabs and boosters. Then we will feast on my apple cranberry crumble with a topping of gratitude for this country and countries everywhere where scientists are educated, supported and honored for their work.

Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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he social media posts generated by Long Islanders at the very first Islanders game at the new UBS Arena, the linchpin in a $1.3 billion transformation of Belmont Park, came fast and furious on Saturday, showing an excitement not seen since the Islanders’ four straight Stanley Cup wins in the early ’80s. The state-of-the-art arena is indeed a crown jewel of the New York metropolitan area sports scene.

“Today is a monumental day for New York and the Islanders as we cut the ribbon on the world-class new UBS Arena,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said last week. “This is the first step in the newly redeveloped Belmont Park, which will serve as an internationally recognized destination for sports, entertainment, retail and hospitality.”

It was only a few years ago that the

home of the Islanders was a real question mark. The team had moved out of the Nassau Coliseum in the Hub for the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and Long Island fans largely hated the venue, not only because of the distance they had to travel for games — it could be a four-hour round trip from points out East to Brooklyn and back — but also because the venue was made not for hockey, but for basketball.

The new UBS Arena, finished on time and on budget, was constructed specifically for the Islanders, in Elmont, on Nassau County’s border with Queens, making it convenient for hockey fans from both Long Island and New York City.

At the same time, the revitalization of Belmont Park is, no doubt, a boon for Long Island. The project, which will also include a 350,000-square-foot entertain-

ment and retail complex, a 250-room hotel and a community center in the future, is expected to create 10,000 jobs and generate $2.7 billion in economic activity when all is said and done. By 2024, the project is projected to sustain 3,200 full-time jobs, produce $858 million in annual economic activity and generate tens of millions of dollars in new yearly tax revenue for the region.

We recognize that not everyone in Elmont is happy. Local residents have said they worry about increased traffic caused by the arena. Planners, however, have worked to mitigate traffic, building a new Long Island Rail Road station in Elmont, the first new full-time station in 50 years.

Overall, the UBS Arena is a win-win for Long Islanders, whether or not you’re an Islanders fan.

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While on the electrified portion of the Oyster Bay branch, the LIRR trains run on the third rail. When they reach the non-electrified portion, they switch to battery power.

At the same time that NICE adds the

electric buses, it will switch all 150 vehicles in its paratransit fleet to electric.

Excellent!

All of this was discussed last Friday during an hour-long talk on public transportation at Vision Long Island’s annual Smart Growth Summit, at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury. We can only say bravo to Phil Eng, the LIRR president, and Jack Khouz, CEO of NICE Bus, for demonstrating a commitment to the environment by moving away from dirty fossil-fuel transportation to electric rail and bus lines.

Diesel trains are especially awful for the environment, using one of the dirtiest of fuels. Diesel is also among the most car-

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letters Many thanks on Thanksgiving To the Editor: During this season of gratitude, I want to offer my heartfelt thanks to all our neighbors who make helping others a priority in their lives.

Whether responding to the devastation caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, offering relief after the destructive home fires that occur nearly every day in Nassau and Suffolk counties or supporting others who need extra aid during Covid-19, our neighbors raise their hands to help in countless ways.

Every day I am humbled by our Red Cross volunteers who share their time to help the most vulnerable prepare for and recover from life-changing disasters in their communities. And when needed, these selfless people put their lives on hold for weeks to lend a hand far from home after relentless hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and historic wild-

cinogenic substances on the planet, according to numerous federal agencies.

Diesel trains simply shouldn’t exist in the 21st century.

The LIRR began testing battery-powered trains on the Oyster Bay branch in April. Let’s hope the eight-month test period is successful, so the other three diesel branches — Montauk, Port Jefferson and Ronkonkoma — can become fully electrified as well.

Of course, we must ask ourselves how the electricity to power our trains and buses is being generated — from fossilfuel power plants or renewable resources such as solar, wind and geothermal?

Renewable is the way forward.

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opinions

fter watching a boring sci-fi movie, I stared at the blinking orange hand signal outside the Lynbrook movie theater, waiting to cross heavily trafficked, four-lane Peninsula Boulevard. The white stick figure flashed, the seconds counted down to zero, and I found myself halfway across the road, wondering if this would be how I would die.

I had just undergone my fourth knee surgery a few weeks before, and a fullleg brace and crutches were docCristinA ArroYo tor’s orders. The first time I had my roDriGUeZ ACL swapped for a cadaver ligament, I was a first-year doctoral student in industrial and organizational psychology, more than happy to return to class in person two weeks post-surgery, against doctor’s orders.

“At least it’s your leg that’s the problem, and not your brain,” my program chair said by way of welcoming me back.

Not only was this statement ableist in that it dismissed the worth of neurodivergent people, but also it showed a lack

of understanding in our leadership and institutions of what it means to live with or be a person with a disability.

“I no longer want the disabled population to be an afterthought,” Nadia Holubnyczyj, the first person in a wheelchair to run for the Nassau County Legislature, said during this fall’s campaign. With the founding of the county’s new disability-awareness advisory group, she called for government “to shift their entire mindset, their language, planning and execution.”

Indeed, my temporary mobility disability didn’t only affect my leg, but also changed my relationship with the world, and vice versa.

First, I was following a pain management schedule that included prescription opioids, which affect memory, focus and cognitive speed. When you’re hugging a toilet bowl between fits of vomiting or falling asleep from chemically induced fatigue three times a day, it’s difficult to decide whether Edward Lawler or John Stacey Adams best explains reactions to pay inequity.

Second, the cognitive labor of navigating a world not built for you, and even

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temporary mobility issue changed my relationship with the world, and vice versa.

Letters fires out West.

I am also grateful for our partners who share a common purpose and community spirit to connect more people with critical humanitarian support. And our financial supporters allow the Red Cross to deliver emergency relief 24/7, 365 days a year.

A final word of thanks to our first responders — police, fire and EMS — whom we are proud to support as they protect and assist our communities every day.

Wishing you all a happy and safe Thanksgiving. Let’s continue to look out for one another.

JOSE DOMINguEZ CEO, American Red Cross on Long Island

Keep up the cancer reporting To the Editor: Regarding Scott Brinton’s column “A famed journalist enlightens us on cancer reporting” (Nov. 11-17): I want to thank Brinton and commend him for his cancer reporting. Although no cancer clusters have been officially designated on Long Island, I have found that there is a high incidence of cancer in communities here.

I was diagnosed with acute myeloge-

built against you, is taxing. Where are the elevators in this Long Island Rail Road station? Are they currently in service? Will my crutches slip on the sidewalk? Where can I elevate my leg when at work? How much earlier do I need to leave? What detours should I take to avoid tripping and falling?

Even though Holubnyczyj said she believes “there is no specific area of need that the county should be focusing on that would benefit the disabled,” she makes an exception for inequities in public transportation, which is one of the “hot spots” that need to be addressed.

Besides planning the logistics of navigation, there is also the emotional strain of being treated as an inconvenience, a burden. “If it’s important to you, you’d attend,” an elected official said of whether to allow public meetings to be held on Zoom. “If you loved your children, you would make time,” said the president of a school club who holds monthly meetings exclusively in the evening.

According to the 2018 American Community Survey, about 2 million New Yorkers, roughly 11 percent of the state’s

population, have a visible or invisible disability. And even after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, over 30 percent of reports filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission were claims of disability discrimination. In the past five years, Nassau County has spent almost $1 million in ADA settlements, even though only about one in five report this kind of discrimination.

My Ph.D. program chair accurately recognized that there was a problem, but it wasn’t my leg. My leg wouldn’t have been a problem if public transportation had reliable access, if workplaces provided proper accommodations, if public meetings offered remote participation and if that pedestrian crossing signal lasted a few seconds longer. The disability doesn’t lie within me, Nadia, or within the community of people with disabilities, but within our institutions.

Cristina Arroyo Rodriguez is editor of the Baldwin Herald and has been a nonprofit organizational consultant in the areas of pay equity and diversity, equity and inclusion. She has lectured in psychology at Baruch College, Bronx Community College and the City University of New York, and has taught Master Executive classes for NYPD leadership at John Jay College.

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nous leukemia two and a half years ago.

In my square-block area in North Merrick, there were four other people diagnosed with cancer. One of them lost her life. In Merrick, I know of five other people with blood cancers besides me. In the office where I worked in Roosevelt Field, there were two others besides me diagnosed with blood cancers. One of them lost her life. We were an office of only about 75 people.

This is all anecdotal, but unless responsible reporters like Brinton and Dan Fagin bring this to the public’s attention, dangerous cancer-causing situations will not be addressed. Thank you for the work you do.

PATRICIA FIFE North Merrick

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