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TIMES of MIDDLE COUNTRY C E N T E R E AC H • S E L D E N • L A K E G R O V E N O R T H

Vol. 14, No. 21

September 6, 2018

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Rust tide raises eyebrows Experts are concerned about an algal bloom posing risks to marine life

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On Saturday, Sept. 22 Suffolk County public libraries will band together to present the Great Playdate.

Middle Country Public Library will hold its event at the Centereach branch from noon to 2 p.m. The day will include childhood programming that will give young library patrons and their caregivers an opportunity to talk, sing, read and play at the library. The library’s activities will include balloon animals, sensory activities and gross motor play.

For more information, call the youth services desk at 631-585-9393 ext. 559. The Centereach branch of the Middle Country Public Library is located at 101 Eastwood Blvd., Centereach.

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Our Turn

Remembering grandparents on their special day It was a bit of a bumpy ride at times. Having people raise me who grew up two generations before was a little tricky. There were a lot of For 40 years grandparents have had a day of things they wouldn’t let me do that other kids recognition all their own, and rightfully so. Many were allowed to because my grandparents didn’t grandparents play an essential get it. For one, I missed out on role in the lives of their granda lot of pajama parties because children, even at times helping they didn’t understand the to raise them. whole sleeping over someone else’s house when I had a bed President Jimmy Carter and a home of my own. signed a proclamation in 1978 Despite living with that making the Sunday after Labor and other old-fashioned rules, Day National Grandparent’s I learned a lot from my grandDay. Recently, a few friends parents. They were young adults and I were commenting on during the Great Depression, a Facebook thread about the and I heard firsthand accounts importance of grandmothers about the era, which gave me a and grandfathers in our lives. different perspective on finances There were commenters who when I experienced a couple of spent many weekends, holRita J. Egan recessions or tight financial times idays or summer vacations of my own. with them, or like me, actually I also would go with my lived with their grandparents.

I moved in with my grandparents, Hannah grandparents to visit great-aunts and great-unand Charlie Zimmerman, in Smithtown after my cles and second cousins — people I may not parents’ separation when I was in fourth grade. have met if I lived with my parents. In doing

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so and hearing my grandparents’ stories of their families, it left me with a deeper appreciation for my ancestors.

Then, of course, there were the differences in our preferred styles of music, which in later years has only enhanced my knowledge of songs from a wide array of eras. There were plenty of Sundays watching “The Lawrence Welk Show,” many New Year’s Eves with Guy Lombardo and his orchestra playing in the background, and even a few nights singing along with Mitch Miller and the Gang.

My grandparents’ house was also where my creative side was nurtured. After my grandfather retired as a sheet metal worker from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, he took up oil painting. I remember watching him at his easel, and I still have a few of his creations, including one he started when I first moved in. He would sit with me and help me with my school projects and taught me how to draw houses, trees and faces. While my creative talents may have developed in another way through writing, I don’t doubt for a second that being able to think creatively through drawing helped with my craft.

I lost my grandfather when I was 18 and my

The writer’s grandparents during a Thanksgiving family get-together circa 1980.

grandmother when I was 22. Despite that being decades ago, I still find myself many times in life saying, “Grandma was right about this,” or “Grandpa was right about that,” though I would shake my head at some of the advice when I was younger.

Many years later, I’m glad their advice and the memories live on. So, thank you to them and all the grandparents who make a difference in the lives of children.

Don’t miss town’s annual women’s expo The Town of Brookhaven’s Division of Women’s Services will hold the 12th annual Conference and Expo Saturday, Oct. 13, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. This year’s conference, entitled Women Empowering Women — Inspire, Educate and Motivate, will feature guest speakers, vendor booths and workshops that promote wellness and personal growth in the lives of women in the community. Advance registration is required at the website www.brookhavenny.gov. Sign in and breakfast starts at 8:30 a.m. Registration deadline is Oct. 10.

The Division of Women’s Services is looking for sponsors and vendors interested in promoting their businesses by participating in this event. The division is seeking a diverse group to showcase local organizations in its efforts to promote wellness and personal growth. Vendors may sell and promote items and services. Sponsors, vendors and

attendees can visit www.brookhavenny.gov and search “In the Spotlight” to register and make an online fee payment. The fee includes breakfast and lunch. Conference guests will be able to attend all the workshops listed below.

The keynote speaker is Regina Calcaterra, author of the No. 1 international bestseller, “Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island,” and co-author with her youngest sister Rosie Maloney of “Girl Unbroken: A Sister’s Harrowing Journey from the Streets of Long Island to the Farms of Idaho.” The first 75 registrants for the Conference and Expo will receive a free copy of Calcaterra’s book, “Etched in Sand,” compliments of the Division of Women’s Services.

For more information about the Women’s Conference and Expo, please visit the town’s website www.brookhavenny.gov, email womenservices@brookhavenny.gov or call the Division of Women’s Services at 631-451-6146.

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Two men arrested as suspects in robbery spree across Suffolk Suffolk County police arrested two men Sept. 3 for allegedly committing a series of burglaries to Suffolk County stores that occurred since Aug. 8, including businesses in Commack and Smithtown.

Police arrested Rocky Point resident Richard Ambrose, 41, and Riverhead resident Travis James Sept. 3 and charged both with third-degree burglary for the three burglaries that had occurred earlier that morning: • Speedway Gas Station, located on Jericho Turnpike in Commack, at approximately 1:23 a.m.

• Conoco Gas Station located on Medford Avenue in Patchogue at approximately 2:30 a.m.

• Speedway Gas Station located on Route 112 in Port Jeff Station, at approximately 3 a.m.

Ambrose was also charged with multiple counts of third-degree burglary for allegedly robbing more than 10 stores throughout the month, according to police, including: • On Aug. 8, Tease Salon Off Broadway, located on Route 25A in Rocky Point • On Aug. 10, Broadway Market, located on Broadway in Rocky Point • On Aug. 15, The Wine Authority, located on Nesconset Highway in Mount Sinai • On Aug. 17, Speedway Gas Station, located on Middle Country Road in Lake Grove • On Aug. 19, Speedway Gas Station, located on Route 347/Nesconset Highway in Smithtown • On Aug. 21, Moody Mart/Mobil Gas Station, located on West Jericho Turnpike in Smithtown • On Aug. 26, Pit Stop Pantry, located on Montauk Highway in East Moriches • On Aug. 26, Speedway Gas Station, located

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on Montauk Highway in Bayport • On Aug. 27, Onsen Sushi, located on Montauk Highway in Oakdale • On Aug. 27, The Fortune Cookie Chinese Food Restaurant, located on Montauk Highway in Oakdale • On Aug. 31, BP Gas Station, located on Nesconset Highway in Port Jeff Station Ambrose was also charged with third-degree burglary by the Riverhead, Quogue and Southold police departments for his alleged involvement in four gas station robberies that took place over a two-week span on the East End. Ambrose and James were held overnight at the 6th Precinct and were scheduled to be arraigned at 1st District Court in Central Islip Sept. 4.

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Man rescued from LI Sound in Setauket A man spent 45 minutes treading water in the Long Island Sound Sept. 4 after being knocked off his small boat by a wake, according to Suffolk County police. The man was rescued from the water after his unoccupied skiff was spotted floating in the Sound.

Marine Bureau officers Cory Kim and Gregory Stroh responded aboard Marine Delta after a fisherman reported finding an unoccupied skiff floating in the Long Island Sound at about 12 p.m. Tuesday, police said. While officers were responding to that call, a 911 caller reported a person yelling for help in the water off Old Field

Road in Setauket.

Officers Kim and Stroh located the man, Wen Zhong Wang, 37, of Ronkonkoma, approximately 1/10 of a mile from shore. Wang, who was not wearing a life jacket, had been in the water approximately 45 minutes after he was knocked off his 9-foot skiff when it was hit by wake from a passing boat. Wang was transported to the Port Jefferson boat ramp where he was evaluated by Port Jefferson Ambulance personnel and released.

The fisherman towed the boat to shore where it was secured by the Port Jefferson Harbormaster.

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Village

Six young women in Sea Cadets program complete 800-mile, 9-day training voyage Nine days on the open seas traveling about 800 miles with complete strangers might sound like a punishment to most, but for six teenage young women it was a voyage that fostered personal growth and new friendships, and even blazed a trail for others.

On Aug. 18, six U.S. Naval Sea Cadets — all young women between 14 and 17 years old — set sail from Mount Sinai Harbor on a training voyage aimed at teaching them the rigors of seamanship and leadership. The Naval Sea Cadet Corps was founded in 1958 at the request of the U.S. Navy meant to serve as a youth development program for those interested in pursuing a future in the U.S. armed forces. The cadets were joined on the trip by three adults — officers of the East Moriches-based Theodore Roosevelt Division of the Sea Cadets Lt. Robert Garceau and Lt. j.g. Nereida Gonzalez, as well as Capt.

Roger Noakes, whose personal vessel was used for the voyage, as it has been for similar training missions for the last four years. This voyage was unique in one specific way, however: It was the first time it was made with a crew of all female cadets, an idea brought to fruition thanks to one of them.

“I go to different divisions and speak to the cadets about the trainings, and so the chief came to me and said, ‘How come you don’t have an all-female [training journey]?’” said Garceau upon returning to Mount Sinai Yacht Club Aug. 27 following the excursion, referring to Chief Petty Officer Kerry Monaghan, 17, an Islip native who has been in the Sea Cadets program for four years. Garceau explained there were logistical concerns about the tight quarters on Noakes’ 38-foot sailboat — the Nada — and creating enough space for privacy for the female cadets and the male lieutenant and captain who would be on the trip. The lieutenant said he spoke to some of the women in his division, ran the request up the chain of command and eventually got the idea greenlit.

“I love the fact that she came to me and said something, brought it to my attention, and I discussed it with the captain and discussed it with cadets, my female cadets, to see who was interested,” Garceau said. He and Noakes spent the nine days sleeping on the deck of the Nada, exposed to the elements, to ensure the cadets were given proper quarters. “It was rainy, wet, you’re out in the weather, but to make it happen that’s the sacrifices we had to do, and it was very well worth it. We will just expand it from here.”

Noakes, a South Setauket resident, has been offering up his personal vessel and time for this use as part of his nonprofit organization Sailing Nada Adventures, an initiative Garceau referred

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to as “beyond fantastic.” The Nada has its own interesting history, as it was built by author Nigel Calder, who was renowned as a sailing guru, according to Noakes. Noakes found the “missing” boat in Port Jefferson in 2010 with a different name, and through some research determined it was the Nada. After some restoration efforts, the vessel returned to the water to take students on voyages of discovery east from Mount Sinai and north to the Gulf of Maine.

“We wanted to use her for the betterment of anyone who encountered her,” he said of the boat.

“We’re particularly focused on adolescent youth, to help build their confidence and take them into an environment which is something completely different than they probably have ever experienced before and show them that not only can they cope with them, but they can thrive.”

Mission accomplished, according to the cadets who were on board.

“Being out on this trip was truly an amazing experience, because you got to feel the rough seas, and you also got to feel the nice seas,” said Olivia Wilcox, 15, a Shoreham resident who has been in the program since February. “We got a lot of good lessons from really inspiring people.”

She said she joined the program because she hopes to attend college at either West Point or Annapolis military academy, and one day work in army intelligence. Although, she said during one of the five stops on the trip in Provincetown, Massachusetts, after visiting a U.S. Coast Guard Station, several of the cadets decided the Coast Guard might be the way to go.

The trip got off to an inauspicious start, with weather taking a turn for the worse early on, at one point sending the Nada in reverse due

Sea Cadets, top, Kerry Monaghan, Abby Fairchild and Olivia Wilcox and, above, Erika Mattschull, Olivia Zhang and Natalie Puello, arrive back to Mount Sinai Aug. 27 after a nine-day, 800-mile training voyage.

to headwinds and rough waves, according to Garceau, a Mount Sinai native who has since relocated to Pennsylvania.

“Right off the bat you’re supposed to be learning everything as we go, and this kind of put a damper on that because everybody was sick,” he said. “It made it difficult that way. They pushed through it, they wanted to continue, and we did.”

Erika Mattschull, 16, of East Northport, said she joined the Sea Cadets because she comes from a military family, making her fifth or sixth generation in her family to purse a life of military service. She reflected on what the all-female cadets trip might do to impact other girls like her.

“It would mean a lot to me if more people

found out about the Sea Cadets, especially females, because then more trainings like this would probably open up, so it would really be good,” she said. “It was definitely a great experience, I’ll remember it forever.”

Monaghan, who celebrated her 17th birthday on the voyage, also reflected on the idea of serving as a role model for younger girls.

“I would be honored,” she said. “That’s crazy, I mean, we were just a group of girls who saw this training and we were like, ‘Yeah, I want to do that too,’ and why shouldn’t we? I think that would be great if some girl saw this and said, ‘Yeah I want to be a sailor, I want to join Sea Cadets.’”

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Port Jefferson Harbor is undergoing an algal bloom caused by hot temperatures and excess nitrogen, a dangerous occurrence for marine life.

PJ Harbor experiencing rust tide, endangering marine life Safety blueprint adopted by superintendents across Suffolk

Members of the SCSSA executive board meet with Suffolk County law enforcement officials and lawmakers to discuss its five-point Blueprint for Action to Enhance School Safety Aug. 27.

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Port Jefferson Harbor is currently undergoing an alarming phenomenon that an expert called “uncharted territory” locally.

The harbor is currently experiencing a rust tide, or an algal bloom, caused by a single-celled phytoplankton. Rust tides don’t pose any harm to humans but can be lethal to marine life.

Christopher Gobler, endowed chair of Coastal Ecology and Conservation at the Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, said rust tides are spurred by hot air, water temperatures and excessive nutrients in the water, especially nitrogen. The Gobler Laboratory at SBU, named for the chairman, is monitoring the situation, performing research into its specific causes, and is looking for solutions to reduce nitrogen loading and thus the intensity of events like these, according to Gobler. He said he has been studying the phenomenon on the East End of Long Island for about 12 years, but this is only the second time it has occurred in Port Jefferson Harbor.

“We never had these blooms even on the East End before 2004,” Gobler said. “Now, they occur pretty much every year since 2004 or so.”

Blooming rust tides typically start in late August and last into mid-September. However, as water and global temperatures continue to rise, Gobler said there are a lot of unknowns. He said this is one of the hottest summers he has ever witnessed regarding the temperature of the Long Island Sound, adding that temperatures in the local body of water have increased at a rate significantly faster than global averages.

“The big issue is temperature, so these blooms tend to track very well with warmer temperatures,” Gobler said.

George Hoffman, a co-founder of Setauket Harbor Task Force, a nonprofit group which monitors and advocates for the health of the harbor, said his organization saw some early evidence of a rust tide in Little Bay while conducting biweekly water testing Aug. 24. Little Bay is located within Setauket Harbor, and within the larger Port Jefferson Harbor complex. Hoffman said the task force’s readings suggested salinity levels and water temperature were within the parameters needed for the growth of a rust tide.

Rust tide is caused by cochlodinium polykrikoides, according to a fact sheet compiled by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management. The single-cell phytoplankton may harm fish and shellfish because it produces a hydrogen peroxide-like compound that can damage their gill tissue. Fish can avoid these dangerous blooms by simply swimming away. Fish and shellfish harvested in areas experiencing rust tides are still safe for human consumption.

Gobler said the installation of septic systems capable of removing more nitrogen in homes, especially that fall within watershed areas, would go a long way toward reducing hazardous algal blooms. Suffolk County has taken steps in recent months to increase grant money available to homeowners interested in installing septic systems with up-to-date technology capable of reducing the amount of nitrogen discharged into local waters. In addition, members of the New York State-funded Center for Clean Water Technology at SBU unveiled their nitrogen-reducing biofilter April 26 at a Suffolk County-owned home in Shirley.

BY ALEX PETROSKI ALEX@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Superintendents in Suffolk County are trying to get their schools all on the same page when it comes to safety.

Following the particularly deadly school shooting — though just the latest in a long line of similar occurrences — that took place in Parkland, Florida at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February, which resulted in 17 fatalities, discussions about concrete steps to enhance safety for students and staff in buildings from coast to coast have been seemingly unending. In Suffolk County, school officials have teamed up to release a five-point blueprint of actionable steps, officially recommended by the Suffolk County School Superintendents Association Aug. 27 to local, state and federal lawmakers.

The superintendents are calling on lawmakers to invest in the School Resource Officer program, providing additional officers in Suffolk County schools; adopt legislation that enhances campus safety, including amending the New York State Criminal Procedure Law dealing with setting bail; make the NY SAFE Act the law of the land; support the social, emotional and mental health of children through screening programs and education initiatives; and provide institutional support to finance school safety, calling for the state to initiate school security aid and to exempt school safety expenditures from the tax-levy limitation.

“While school safety has always been a top priority, following the horrific massacre at Col-

umbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, and the tragic events that followed, the importance of a strong working relationship between the police, mental health providers and public-school officials has become more important than ever,” the association said in a press release. “The SCSSA plans to continue to work together with Suffolk County law enforcement and local, state and federal legislators to turn these plans into actions that will improve school safety and the safety and wellness of all students in Suffolk County.”

In August, representatives from Sandy Hook Promise, a national nonprofit organization that was founded by parents from the Connecticut elementary school to carry out its mission of preventing all gun-related deaths, held a forum for the association and law enforcement officials. The purpose of the meeting was to share details about four programs they’ve created aimed at preventing violence in schools.

The four strategies, which fall under the nonprofit’s Know the Signs programs, are taught to youth and adults free of charge in the hopes of fostering an environment that empowers everyone in the community to help identify and intervene when someone is at risk. Superintendents who were in attendance from several local districts pledged to further examine Sandy Hook Promise’s programs and to take steps toward implementing them.

During an exclusive interview with TBR News Media in July, Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr. (D) said creating countywide standards for school security is a priority for his department.

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Education

GARDNER FAMILY

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The Middle Country Central School District welcomed students back Sept. 5.

The Times of Middle Country put out a request for first day of school photos, and the Gardner and

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Middle Country has a midweek start to school

Farnacci families were happy to assist.

Clockwise from above, Ashleigh and Jillian Gardner, Centereach High School; Julianna Gardner, Jericho Elementary School; Abigail Gardner, Dawnwood Middle School; Isabelle Farnacci, Centereach High School; and Emily Farnacci, Dawnwood Middle School.

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For more information, call Bonner’s office at 631-451-6964, or visit the town’s e-waste page at www.brookhavenny.gov/406/e-waste. Residents are urged to bring the electronic items listed on the right to be recycled.

Documents brought in for shredding will be placed into a 65-gallon container and then into the shredder, enabling each participant to witness the secure destruction of sensitive papers. Paper can be brought in boxes or bags. Documents can

New York state law mandates that all contracts for prearranged funeral agreements executed by applicants for or recipients of supplemental social security income or medical assistance be irrevocable.

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Sports

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Centereach, Comsewogue battle in nonleague tune up Comsewogue High School hosted the Centereach and Comsewogue high schools’ boys soccer teams as they squared off for a nonleague game Sept 1, prior to the start of their respective league schedules.

Clockwise from above, Centereach’s Mark Cenicola tries to block Comsewogue senior midfielder Carlos Gutierrez from shooting a goal; Cenicola blocks a kick from a Comsewogue forward; Goalkeeper senior Ryan McGovern with a save; and Warriors defender Fernando Toledo battles with Cougars junior Jake Chapman.

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Opinion

John McCain’s lasting legacy on America

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In favor of newspapers Newspaper publishers, editors and staff members across the country — especially weeklies operating on tight budgets — are breathing sighs of relief.

Last week the United States International Trade Commission overturned President Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on Canadian newsprint, and we couldn’t be happier. The tariffs that the U.S. began charging this year caused many newspapers in the country to cut staff or paper sizes — in some cases both — to absorb the rise in newsprint costs. Other publications closed their doors as the additional expense was the breaking point for many outlets, making it impossible to continue operating in an environment already riddled with challenges in a changing industry.

The overturning of this tariff, besides creating a sigh of relief, has demonstrated the balance of power in our country at work.

Many have expressed fear about how much power a president may have or think he has, but our forefathers were visionaries.

Declaring their independence from England, they knew a monarchy wouldn’t work in the U.S. All levels of government, from federal down to local, are designed with checks and balances in place in the form of executive, legislative and judicial branches. The president may want something to happen — in this case to impose a tariff — but that doesn’t mean that senators, congressmen, judges and federal agencies have to agree with him. And if they don’t, they have the power to make sure that a bill or an edict doesn’t go forward or remain in place.

Speaking of our Founding Fathers, they ensured the U.S. Constitution contained an amendment to aid in protection of the free press. It was written to allow journalists to fairly report on events and happenings without government interference. This enables reporters the freedom and ability to keep a close eye on what elected officials are up to.

Imagine if weekly, in most cases local, newspapers needed to continue to absorb the newsprint tariff. We presume many more would suffer, and as each one folded, regional and national outlets would be left to try to pick up the slack jumping into areas local news reporters know inside and out. Or worse: No one would pick up the slack.

If the press runs into an issue like this again — government decisions directly impacting our ability to do our jobs effectively — we as an industry have shown there is strength in numbers. In a show of unity, Aug. 16, hundreds of papers in the U.S. published similar editorials voicing displeasure over the president’s disrespectful treatment of members of the press dating back to his campaign. The goal was to make it clear that the press wasn’t the enemy of the people.

As your local press, we are thrilled to continue to serve you in the years to come.

Letters … We welcome your letters. They should be no longer than 400 words and may be edited for length, libel, style and good taste. We do not publish anonymous letters. Please include a phone number and address for confirmation. Email letters to rita@tbrnewsmedia.com or mail them to The Times of Middle Country, P.O. Box 707, Setauket, NY 11733.

There is no one that knows me as a friend, acquaintance, journalist or simply a politically opinionated resident that does not consider me as anything but a liberal democrat, now fashionably called a progressive. That said, tears filled my eyes Aug. 25 when I heard of the death of the honorable senator, John McCain.

Some 17 years my elder, I was 5 years old when he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. In 1969 I became a very active member of the Vietnam anti-war movement, and McCain was a prisoner in North Vietnam at the “Hanoi Hilton” prison camp. I did not dodge the draft, and although I had the right to apply for a college deferment I did not, as I saw the inequity of that based on the percentage of American whites in college as opposed to African-Americans.

When I registered in 1971, I expressed a willingness to serve but requested a designation as a noncombatant conscientious objector. Neither my parents nor my priest would sign the paperwork and I was denied my request by the draft board. As I waited out the 1972 draft with a suitcase packed for a train ride to Canada, McCain still sat in North Vietnam as a prisoner. He experienced horrible torture and turned down what he considered an out-of-order repatriation designation

because of his father’s position as the admiral that oversaw the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet. In 1973 the war ended, I celebrated with other anti-war Beantown college students packing Harvard Square and dancing in the street, as McCain still sat in prison. He eventually was put on a plane in Hanoi and returned to America, but with arms so broken from his aircraft crash that caused his capture and a re-breaking of his arms under torture, he was never again able to lift his arms high enough to even comb his own hair or put on his own jacket. We danced in Boston. McCain could not lift his arms over his head, nor would he ever be able to lift any future grandchildren over his head like the rest of us.

Rather than choose a comfortable future after as much of a dedicated life to his country as any American can claim, he continued serving his country by entering into American politics. After his position as naval liaison to the Senate from 1977 until he retired from the Navy in 1981, he ran for the House of Representatives in 1982 and won in a heavily Republican Arizona district he decided to call home after a life of growing up with no real home as a son in a naval family. After two terms, he ran for the Senate and was re-elected five times.

Two runs for the presidency resulted in

a primary loss to George W. Bush and a general election loss to Barack Obama.

Ironically, both men eulogized McCain at his personally arranged funeral, while our current president was not even invited to attend. In his death McCain may have made the greatest statement about the sitting president.

Obviously, I did not agree with many of McCain’s political opinions, but we did agree on Native American rights, that immigrants created this great country, and that there is no place in America for prejudice and bigotry.

He was a man of integrity that believed government could not function without compromise, and his frustration with the current state of affairs in Congress he made abundantly clear during the closing years of his senatorial service and in the last letter he left for the American people. This was a man who exemplified the qualities of honor, service and, again, integrity. Certainly, I pale in comparison to this man when it comes to sacrifice for country, as most of us do. I fear we will not see another of his like again if the discourse of our American politic continues along its present path. God’s speed Senator John McCain, God bless!

Douglas MacKaye Harrington Stony Brook

How much lower can Trump, Zeldin get I have been following the battle between Susan Perretti and Myra Gordon, et al and the cowardly U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin and his supporters who blindly follow him and his master puppeteer — President Donald Trump. Maybe Ms. Perretti and Ms. Gordon are just like me — tired and scared of how constitutionally ignorant Zeldin and his supporters are and how gutless Zeldin is as he continually supports a man who runs this country like a dictatorship.

What part of Helsinki did you people not get? How about freedom of the press, freedom of speech, impeding a court case, not protecting our elections despite all dangerous and definite proof to the contrary, taking meetings with Russians who are

out to help you with your election? What about lying more than 4,000 times to the American people and being a bigot who has defended white supremacists? These are all horrible and anti-American actions that can all be proven by Trump and Rudy Giuliani’s mouths and written words.

How much lower can Trump, his spineless friend Zeldin and his supporters sink then watching the international stage as Trump denigrates our intelligence community and throws them under the bus while kowtowing and complimenting Putin and being his spineless friend — another version of “trickle down politics.”

This country is in danger and to support Zeldin is irresponsible as he supports Trump as he supports Putin. In other

words, do you love your party or do you love the Constitution and this country? It’s as simple as that.

As for quotes of George Washington’s rule in one letter. It gets me sick when supporters of today’s Republicans quote past presidents as I’m sure they all would be turning in their graves and heartbroken if they knew what was happening in this country today. Especially Republican hero, Ronald Reagan, as his daughter Patti Davis has said. If you want to quote something, here is food for thought by an excellent author, one Ben Clements with others: “Impeachment is the cure for a constitutional crisis.”

Karen Jillian Stony Brook

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September 06, 2018 • THE TIMES OF MIDDLE COUNTRY • PAGE A23

Opinion

Avoiding the slings and arrows of would-be foes

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here people live, conflicts thrive.

It’s inevitable. Get two people in a room for long enough and, eventually, they will find elements about the other person that irritate them. It’s what drives people to watch some reality TV shows.

Participants can’t stand each other, they call each other names and, before you know it, someone is screaming at someone else D. None and the viewing audience at home of the above is rubbernecking

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF through the drama.

When it happens to other people, it’s entertainment. When it happens to us, it can hurt.

Why do we care what other people think?

We know that some people will find fault with everyone — their mothers, siblings and bosses — making criticism inevitable and, ultimately, meaningless.

If someone stood on the side of the road and yelled “Duck!” often enough, pretty soon people would stop ducking, would stop looking for ducks, and, like so many other noises around them, wouldn’t hear the warning anymore.

And yet, when someone we know or even someone we’ve recently met indicates a disdain for us, scowls at our presence, or undermines our abilities, intelligence or effort, we feel cut to the quick. That person might just be repeating the same criticisms to us that he or she levies at everyone all the time.

It’s like a fortune cookie. We read something that says, “You need to think twice before taking advice.” Wow, we think, how incredibly insightful, even as we ignore the irony that we are taking advice from a small slip of paper crushed into a Pac-Man shaped cookie. Someone recently gave me advice that seems valuable, like

quitting a job I hate, but maybe that person just wants to take my job or doesn’t want to hear me complaining. Maybe that advice doesn’t really apply to me after all.

The same holds true for insults, criticism and nastiness. It could apply to us or it could just be fortune cookie nastiness, conjured up by someone who may not enjoy the life he or she leads, trying to make everyone as miserable as them.

Insults are ubiquitous. Much of the time, however, the insult is an opinion, not a fact.

There are times when an admonishment such as “You weren’t driving well” is accurate, particularly if you were driving the wrong way on a one-way street.

We don’t immediately imagine the person doing the insulting might be sharing an opinion about us that we would almost instantly dismiss if it were about our spouse, our children, our parents or our close friends. We think, “Maybe I am terrible at this,” or “Maybe I should be embarrassed.”

People make puppets, write stories about fictional characters, draw cartoons and imaginary figures because they want to control something.

But just because they want control doesn’t mean you have to give it to them. Even assuming someone doesn’t like you, your appearance or your ideas, so what? Our preferences are so subjective that we can’t or shouldn’t try to please everyone.

We don’t have to play those reindeer games.

We can disagree and express our opinions without attacking someone else. We follow whatever rules we set for ourselves and don’t need to fight fire with fire, hit back 10 times harder or show that we mean business. We can be more graceful than our detractors.

When someone attacks us, we don’t have to act as if we’re wearing a target. We can look at that person, put a slow smile on our face and say, “It’s too bad you feel that way. Maybe a good fortune cookie would cheer you up?”

Microwave ovens will not talk to us, but microwave radiation might Question: Put together some sci-fi, add a bit of spy thriller and what have you got? Answer: The latest hypothesis for what caused the symptoms and illnesses of our diplomatic representatives in Cuba and then in China. The Cuban incident caused a serious rift in the newly mellowed relationship between Cuba and the United States.

Now scientists are Between suggesting that microwaves might be you and me the weapons.

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF It seems that weapons emitting microwave radiation, not the short waves that come from our kitchen microwave ovens or connect our cellphones to antennae towers,

have been considered by military specialists for mind control since the Cold War. These invisible beams can transmit painfully loud booms and even spoken words into people’s heads, according to an astonishing story by William J. Broad on the front page of last Sunday’s New York Times. Now Douglas H. Smith, director of the Center for Brain Injury and Repair at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the lead author of a recent study of 21 affected diplomats from Cuba, pointed to this possible cause of the brain injuries.

The Frey effect, named after American biologist Allan H. Frey, occurs when microwaves cause the brain to “hear” ordinary sounds, like loud noises, ringing and even human voices.

These can be the result of stealth attacks with sonic weapons.

Jason, a secretive group of elite scientists that, according to The Times, helps the federal government assess new threats to national security, has been called in to figure out the cause of the symptoms. While the group has

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not issued any explanations, nor has the FBI, it is certainly studying the possibility of microwaves being the agents. Frey, 83, who lives near Washington, agrees. He even thinks that a group of Cubans aligned with Russia, their longtime ally, might have launched such an attack. “It’s a possibility … a perfectly viable explanation,” to disrupt a closer United States-Cuban relationship.

Microwaves, a form of electromagnetic radiation, are everywhere and are generally seen as harmless. However, when tightly focused, as when dish antennas turn the disorganized rays into concentrated beams, they can cause even deaf people to hear false sounds. Frey, in effect, founded a new field of study on the neural impact of radiation waves. He realized that the human head, because of its dimensions, is a good antenna for picking up microwave signals. The temporal lobes, beneath the temples, are where nerve signals from the outer and inner ear are processed. The effect is now called radio-frequency hearing.

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Others took note. The Soviets built labs with armed guards to study the neural impact of microwaves and envisioned arms that they called psychophysical or psychotronic. These sounds, the Defense Intelligence Agency warned, could disrupt military or diplomatic personnel.

The U.S. Air Force jumped in to research how to beam comprehensible speech into the heads of enemies. The Navy sought to paralyze with the beams. Russia, China and European nations know how to make such weapons today. The weapon might look like an innocuous satellite dish and could fire beams over relatively short distances. We do know that Russian President Vladimir Putin resurrected “work on psychoactive arms” as recently ago as 2012, according to The Times.

There is still no definitive explanation for the sickness of diplomatic personnel in Cuban and subsequently China, but suspicions of microwave radiation remain high on the list. The problem in pinpointing them is the stealth.

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