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Vol. 7, No. 17

HEALTH & WELLNESS

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New operator for Manhasset, Roslyn theaters

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Says former Bow Tie theaters will see more variety, few other changes

BY T E R I W EST The Manhasset and Roslyn movie theaters opened for business Friday under a new operator who says he plans to make few changes to the local establishments but to broaden the variety of films offered.

The lease transferred from Bow Tie Cinemas to local movie theater operator and retired New York City detective Rudy Toolasprashad April 15. Gilman Management Corp. purchased the properties in November.

These are Toolasprashad’s fourth and fifth theater locations; he also operates Grand Ave. Cinema in Baldwin, Islip Cinemas and Main Street Cinemas in Queens.

His two new theaters will be renamed Manhasset Cinema and Roslyn Cinema.

He plans to introduce some more mainstream films to the theaters, which leaned more toward independent films than blockbust-

ers while Bow Tie was the operator.

“We’re going to be getting the ‘Avengers’ which under Bow Tie we would have never gotten,” said co-manager Corey Judd, who has been a manager at the theaters since 2015, and is staying even as Bow Tie departs.

Little will change beyond the increased variety, Toolasprashad said. He isn’t planning any renovations and staff that wanted to stick around will still work at the theaters, he said. Matinees are $8 while evening shows are $12. A combo special includes popcorn, soda and a candy for $7, Toolasprashad said.

The theater was briefly closed last week as the lease transferred, and co-manager George Salazar was busy loading in concessions when the theater officially reopened Friday.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MANHASSET MOTHERS’ GROUP

The Manhasset Mothers’ Group held an Easter egg hunt at Strathmore Vanderbilt Country Club April 13. See story on page 62.

Kimco applies for permit to start site restoration

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that would allow it to restore the property, according to the Kimco Realty, which made Town of North Hempstead.

The violations were on a unauthorized changes to its Manhasset Center property plot of land between the shopon Northern Boulevard, has ping center parking lot and applied for a building permit Brinkerhoff Lane where the

company clear cut trees and paved. Kimco only had a permit for ongoing work on its underground parking garage, which neighbors that square of land.

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Manor approves $1.58M budget 27% hike accommodates roadwork

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Manhasset Board of Education President Regina Rule, second from left, and Trustee Christine Monterroso, right, are running for re-election in May.

Ed board prez, trustee run again unopposed Will be on May 21 ballot with Manhasset school district ’19-20 budget and seven capital projects

BY T E R I W EST Manhasset Board of Education President Regina Rule and Trustee Christine Monterosso are running for re-election unopposed, as is Herricks board President Juleigh Chin.

The elections are May 21 and will also allow voters to make judgments on the Manhasset school district’s 2019-20 budgets. Manhasset’s ballot will also include seven capital reserve items.

Rule joined the board in 2010. She works in jewelry fabrication and is retired from the fixed-income trading business in which she worked as a bond trader at Goldman Sachs.

Monterosso is a retired attorney and has three children currently attending schools in the district. She has served on the board for three years.

The trustee highlighted having children in the district as a strength when she first ran in 2016.

“I know a lot of mothers with younger children in the district and I hope to serve as their voice on the board,” she told Blank Slate Media in 2016.

When she moved to Manhasset in 2004, it was because of the school district, she said.

Rule moved to Manhasset in 1993 for the same reason, she said. Her husband attended Manhasset Public Schools and they decided to move there to raise their children.

“We have an incredible faculty, staff and administrators in the school district,” Rule said during her last run for board president. “And I enjoy the process of making sure that we have challenging course curriculums for students from K-12.”

Chin has been on the Herricks School District’s board for six years and is a 14-year resident of the district.

The Herricks Board of Education has come under fire recently as Herricks teachers are without a contract after almost

10 months. As the president of the board, Chin has said that the board and the Herricks Teachers Association have been actively engaging in negotiations.

If elected, Chin said she would resolve the contract issue.

“The big challenge now are the teacher contracts,” said Chin. “First and foremost this is high on our priority list, to try to have the contract in place.”

Chin has been on the school board for six years and is a 14year resident of the district.

She supported past efforts to begin school classes later and has been part of a board that has overseen the hiring of a new superintendent, among other things. The board has also continued to keep the budget below the state tax cap.

“I have always had a strong sense of civic duty,” said Chin. “I don’t feel that my work is quite done yet.”

The Village of Plandome Manor passed a $1.58 million budget on April 16, a figure 27 percent higher than its previous budget due to planned road work.

The new budget includes an estimated tax levy increase of $26,084. Divided among the village’s 285 homes, that represents an increase of about $91.52 per household.

Last year the village’s budget was nearly stable, with a 3.61 percent decrease from the 2017-18 budget.

There are two major road construction projects planned in the village: one on Plandome Road and another on North Plandome Road.

To accommodate the projects, expenses for contracted engineering are up $20,000 from last year. In the previous budget, the village set aside $30,000 for engineering and is projected to only have spent about $8,000 of it.

The new budget devotes $426,782 to nonstate-funded road construction, which is up from $125,000.

Plandome Road will be repaved, likely in the fall, because of National Grid work that destroyed it, Mayor Barbara Donno said at a meeting earlier this year. The National Grid work is part of an ongoing gas main installation.

North Plandome Road will be repaved southward from Elm Sea Lane.

Garbage removal costs are up by $33,100. The village’s contract was up this year and when it went out to bid it came back with the hike, said village Clerk Randi Malman.

The $645,000 to be raised from property taxes is within the 2 percent state tax cap.

Most of the remaining revenue will come from state grants and miscellaneous taxes.

“Our board is very aware of their fiduciary duty when providing our residents with the quality of services they expect in Plandome Manor,” Donno said.

She said she is excited about the road projects as well as a new initiative to implement a geographic information system to map the village.

PHOTO BY SAMUEL GLASSER

The Plandome Manor village board photographed earlier this year.

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MTA chair rides the LIRR Port line Port Washington resident Patrick Foye discusses agency initiatives and time on the train

BY J E S S I C A PA R K S MTA Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye may be the new head of New York City’s public transit, but when riding the 6 a.m. train from Port Washington, he is just your average commuter.

“I’ve been riding the subways since I was literally an infant and have been riding the LIRR for the past 30 years,” Foye said in an interview with Blank Slate Media.

“Except for two years when I lived in Europe.”

Foye continues to ride both the LIRR and the subway every day, he said.

The chairman was nominated for the role by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and was later confirmed by the state Senate and Assembly to begin his new job April 1.

He previously served as the president of the MTA, beginning in August 2017 after a six-year run as the executive director of the Port

Foye, who is a lawyer, said the MTA touches the lives of millions of people every day and as a decades-long patron of its services he brings that first-hand experience to his position.

He succeeds acting Chairman Fernando Ferrer, who served after Joe Lhota resigned in November during his second stint at the helm of the largest public transportation system in the nation.

The MTA runs New York City’s subways, buses, bridges and tunnels and two commuter railroads, the LIRR and Metro-North.

Foye, who is a proponent of Central Business District Tolling, discussed the MTA capital plan PHOTO COURTESY OF THE PORT and what it means for Long Island.

He said for the 2020 capital AUTHORITY plan, $32 billion is earmarked for MTA Chief and CEO Patrick the MTA when in previous years Foye that figure was zero.

Of those funds, 10 percent will Authority of New York and New be used to improve the Long Island Rail Road, which will result in an Jersey.

increase in the number of trains and services along LIRR train lines, the replacement of substations to boost reliability, and the completion of Positive Train Control.

Positive Train Control is a federally mandated safety technology that is designed to eliminate hazards that could result from human error.

The chairman said that LIRR riders will also experience a 45 percent increase in rider capacity into Manhattan as a result of the completion of the third track and more trains. All railroad stations will also be made handicap-accessible.

Foye said LIRR commuters should care about the MTA system as a whole because half of them do not end their ride after leaving the doors of an LIRR train. He said that 50 percent of LIRR commuters continue onto other MTA services once arriving into New York City.

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When asked about East Side Access, which will take LIRR trains into Grand Central, Foye said its completion is a really important priority of the MTA. But he said it has been a “terribly disappointing project over a period of years.” The MTA has now gotten control of the project and imposed discipline, he said, but there are a “lot of lessons that have to be learned and will be learned from the way that East Side Access was previously handled.”

Outside contractors have estimated that about $1 billion worth of work is left before the project’s completion.

Despite his work, Foye still has made time to serve his community.

He previously sat as a member of the Port Washington school board and on the Port Washington library board.

He said he and his family are “big users and fans” of Port’s library.

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Sater a strong presence in Mueller report Ex-Sands Pt. man key figure in trying to arrange Russia and Trump Tower meetings

BY J E S S I C A PA R K S Felix Sater, a former resident of Sands Point, had an idea that he could secure not only a Trump Tower in Moscow but also the presidency for Donald Trump.

Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s highly anticipated report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, released last Thursday, illustrated a long-winded attempt by Sater and Trump’s personal attorney, Michael D. Cohen, to arrange “candidate Trump’s” visit to Moscow and a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Buddy our boy can become President of the USA and we can engineer it,” Sater said in an email to his childhood friend, Cohen, on Nov. 3, 2015. “Putin gets on stage with Donald for a ribbon cutting for Trump Moscow, and Donald owns the republican nomination. And possibly beats Hillary and our boy is in.”

A report from New York Magazine said that Cohen and Sater have been friends since the

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Felix Sater at Chabad of Port Washington in 2014. pair were teenagers.

Communications about the Trump Tower project in Moscow, once believed to have halted in January 2016, continued into June of that year, after Trump

had been declared the Republican Party’s presidential nominee.

Emails between Sater and Cohen reveal that there were plans for Trump to visit Moscow after the Republican National Convention

in Cleveland, Ohio, in July 2016.

During the negotiations over the “Moscow Project,” which failed to materialize, Trump denied to the media having anything to do with Russia on a number of occasions. Shortly after one of his public denials in summer 2016, Cohen told Mueller’s office, Trump requested a status update on the project.

The report said that the Trump Organization’s renewed interest in a Trump Tower Moscow began in the late summer of 2015 when Sater, on behalf of I.C. Expert Investment Co., reached out to the Trump Organization about the project.

I.C. Expert Investment is a Russian real estate development company headed by Andre Vladimirovic Rosov, an associate of Sater’s since about 2007, according to Mueller’s report.

Sater knew of the Trump Organization’s interest in a Trump Tower Moscow, after having made an attempt to forge a deal on behalf of the Trump Organization in the mid-2000s which was followed by a trip to Russia with Donald Trump Jr. and his

sister Ivanka.

Sater made contact with Cohen in September 2015. The report states that Cohen is the only member of the Trump Organization to have dealt with Sater and I.C. Expert directly.

He then provided status updates to “candidate Trump” regularly throughout 2015 and into 2016.

Between Oct. 13, 2015, and Nov. 2, 2015, a letter of intent was signed by Trump and Rosov securing further negotiations between the Trump Organization and I.C. Expert with the intended goal to enter into a mutually acceptable agreement on a Trump Moscow property, according to Mueller’s report.

The day after the contract was finalized Sater reached out to Cohen about the potential positive influence that good relations with Russia could bring to Trump’s campaign, in what Cohen says is the first time he had considered the deal’s possible effect on the election.

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Experts talk immigration impact on L.I. Blank Slate Media hosts ‘On the Record’ forum discussing surge of new immigrants

BY J E S S I C A PA R K S One in six Long Islanders were born somewhere other than the United States, according to Patrick Young of the Central American Refugee Center in Hempstead.

At a forum hosted by Blank Slate Media and the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock last Thursday, four experts discussed immigration and how it pertains to Long Island. There are some 526,000 immigrants on Long Island, accounting for almost a fifth of the island’s population, Young said. Of those immigrants, he said, about 80,000 are undocumented.

Lawrence Levy, executive dean of Hofstra University’s Center for Suburban Studies, said Long Island’s immigrant population is “an overwhelming positive” for the area.

He said, “to deny the benefit of immigration to this, or almost any other region is akin to denying climate change.”

Levy said that every study conducted on the benefits and every anecdote brought to his center confirms the benefits immigration brings, not only socially but also

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Experts discuss the impact of immigration on Long Island at a forum last Thursday. economically.

If Nassau County did not have the surge of new immigrants coming in, he said, the county’s population would decrease at a significant rate, which would have adverse effects on hiring.

Lisa Votino-Tarrant, a local immigration advocate who recently volunteered at the border, said,

“There is this myth that people coming here are rapists and murderers.”

She said once she got to know asylum seekers at the border, she asked them what they did in their countries and expected to hear stories about vending in the city or manufacturing jobs. Instead, she said she met veterinarians, doctors, teachers and lawyers.

Isma Chaudry, interfaith advocate and chair of the Islamic Center of Long Island, addressed the social insecurity created when Long Islanders view their schools as not having enough resources at the same time immigrant populations are increasing.

Levy described immigration’s impact on Long Island schools as

“self-inflicted.” He said while there are 124 school districts on Long Island, 70 percent of minority students are concentrated in 15 percent of the region’s school districts.

“The new immigrants are disproportionately located in a handful of districts that are least able, through resource and experience, to meet their needs,” he said.

Young said that a student he works with, who lives within walking distance of Garden City High School, is bused to Hempstead High School.

He said Long Island does not have public schools but “community-based, economically segregated schools.”

Chaudry spoke of the effects that President Donald Trump’s short-lived Muslim ban had on Long Island’s international students.

She said a second-year resident at Northwell Health, who is from Pakistan and in the country legally, is afraid to leave the country.

“He is not just one person,” she said. “There are students who are over here who are afraid to go back to their country of origin” because of the Muslim ban.

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Nassau Hub committee hosts 1st meet Community Benefits panel seeks to evaluate how development can aid surrounding areas

BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN The Nassau Hub Community Benefits Advisory Committee held its inaugural meeting last Thursday, initiating discussions on how to transform the lots surrounding the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum while bringing benefits to surrounding communities.

The 15-member committee was formed last month in coordination with BSE Global and RXR Realty, the development team for the $1.5 billion Hub project, to advise how to best allocate funding to the surrounding areas.

Among the developers’ plans for the Hub, unanimously approved by the Nassau County Legislature in December, are 500 units of housing, a Northwell Health “innovation center,” retail outlets, hotels and more.

Paired with this is a community benefits plan to send some of the profits into the community, and the advisory committee, which will make recommendations on where to allocate the money.

“Over the coming weeks the Committee will be expanding their outreach to additional community stakeholders and experts, to ensure the plan brings meaningful and tangible support to community organizations, the local school district, minority and women owned business efforts, local veterans, etc.,” Nassau County Executive Laura Curran said in a statement.

Evlyn Tsimis, the deputy county executive for economic development and a Manhasset resident, said that under the development agreement, the community benefits fund will get $1 of benefit for every square foot of development for 30 years from BSE and RXR. This could translate to about $2.5 million annually over the 30year lease period, she said, with the committee to advise where those funds should go.

“I think this is a robust community benefits package that’s at the front end of the process,” Tsimis said Wednesday, “making it highly unusual.”

The Hub itself presents a “unique opportunity to do some-

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A rendering of what the Nassau Hub may look like. thing transformational for our economy,” Tsimis said, which could change the landscape of Nassau County and forge a “new suburban model.”

Issues the plan hopes to address include youth programs, veterans, at-risk youth and vulnerable populations, job training and job creation, supporting local entrepreneurs, the Uniondale School District and sustainability.

Mineola Mayor Scott Strauss, a committee member, said the

meeting went well and that he wants to make sure there is “no negative impact” to Mineola, since previous information he received suggested the project could involve buses coming to Mineola to ferry people to the hub.

“They gave an overview of the entire project, laid some groundwork as to what’s expected of the committee and the subcommittees and they gave us a rough timeline and it’s going to be an interesting committee to be a part of,” Strauss

said. “Hopefully we can make some things happen for them and be part of their success, but we’ve got to be careful.”

The committee is co-chaired

by Hempstead Town council member Dorothy Goosby and Kevin Law, the CEO and president of the Long Island Association.

Government officials on the committee include Nassau County Legislators Siela Bynoe and Thomas McKevitt, Hempstead Town council member Erin King Sweeney, Strauss, Hempstead Mayor Don Ryan, Garden City Mayor Brian Daughney, Tsimis and Rebecca Sinclair, the deputy chief of staff to Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen.

Civic and business leaders include Matthew Aracich, the head of the Building Trades and Construction Council of Nassau and Suffolk, Paul Gibson of the Uniondale Community Land Trust, Pearl Jacobs of the Nostrand Gardens Civic Association, Jeannine Maynard of the Greater Uniondale Area Action Coalition and Walter Skinner of the East Meadow Chamber of Commerce.

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Sentencing date set for Mangano Ex-county exec, wife set to learn Oct. 3 punishment stemming from corruption convictions

BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN

U.S. District Judge Joan Azrack set a sentencing date of Oct. 3 for former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and his wife, Linda, last Wednesday, after the couple was convicted last month on corruption-related charges by a federal jury.

A clerk for Azrack said the Manganos will be sentenced on Thursday, Oct. 3, at 2:30 p.m., if prosecutors or the defense do not move to adjourn the sentencing. Both prosecutors and the Manganos need to file sentencing memorandums and other documents before then.

Kevin Keating, Edward Mangano’s attorney, was not immediately available for comment but told Newsday the defense lawyers “anticipate an aggressive appeals process.”

John Carman, an attorney for Linda Mangano, was not immediately available for comment on Tuesday.

Prosecutors said that several weeks after Edward Man-

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Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, as seen leaving the federal courthouse in Central Islip. gano took office, he used his political influence to have the Town of Oyster Bay “indirectly guarantee” $20 million worth of personal loans to restaurateur Harendra Singh for improvements to Tobay Beach and the town’s golf course.

Singh in turn paid for five

vacations, hardwood flooring, a custom office chair, massage chair, watch and a “no-show” job worth $450,000 for Linda Mangano as a marketing director for Singh, prosecutors said.

Edward Mangano faced charges of extortion, conspiracy to commit federal program

bribery, honest services wire fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice, totaling seven counts. Linda Mangano faced five counts of obstruction of justice and making false statements.

Edward Mangano received guilty verdicts on counts of ac-

cepting bribes and kickbacks in exchange for government action, as well as conspiracy to obstruct justice.

He was found not guilty on bribery charges for a contract he gave to Singh to provide bread and rolls to the Nassau County Jail and another contract where Singh provided emergency food to county workers in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy.

The jury also found him not guilty of extortion or honest services wire fraud.

Linda Mangano was convicted of conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice and lying to FBI investigators regarding employment with Singh. She was found not guilty on one count of making false statements.

The initial trial for the Manganos lasted three months, but the jury could not reach a verdict, prompting a new trial.

John Marzulli, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office, said the office has no comment on the verdict, the possibility of appeal or what kind of sentence will be sought.

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N. Hills, Manorhaven rule out pot sales ‘I think [marijuana] is a problem. I don’t know what people do when they get high.’: Natiss

BY J E S S I C A PA R K S The villages of North Hills and Manorhaven effectively banned marijuana at last Wednesday’s board of trustees meetings.

Manorhaven trustees voted to implement a six-month moratorium prohibiting the sale of marijuana for both recreational and medical use within the village limits.

North Hills’ law is meant to mirror federal regulations, such as those that outlaw the sale of marijuana as a controlled substance, said Mayor Marvin Natiss.

“I think [marijuana] is a problem,” he said. “I don’t know what people do when they get high.”

If they do so outside the law, “that’s their problem,” the mayor said.

PHOTO BY AMELIA CAMURATI Nowhere in North Hills’ law is marijuana itself mentioned. North Hills Mayor Marvin Natiss Instead, it says that no “good, substance, material or product regulation of the United States created, sold or consumed in the in violation of any law, rule or or the state of New York” may be village.

The law is a reassurance that people in the village abide by the federal law, especially since the village is largely residential, leaving little room for a potential dispensary to move in, Nattis said.

He recently attended a seminar about the issue of marijuana legalization hosted by the Nassau County Village Officials Association, he said. Nattis left with concerns about real revenue as well as a lack of standards for measuring the effects of marijuana consumption.

“From Colorado they’ve said it’s a cash business and therefore nobody knows what the revenue income is,” he said. “Nobody knows what the effects are and I don’t think it’s going to be controlled … I think it creates a problem when you legalize it.”

The village board passed the law unanimously last Wednesday. No members of the community spoke at the public hearing, the mayor said.

In Manorhaven, the moratorium on marijuana sales was

passed at a record-breaking village meeting of 21 minutes, Mayor Jim Avena said.

The sale of marijuana will be listed as a prohibited use under the village code and will require renewal every six months.

“Nobody wants that here,” Avena said.

The proposed law was introduced in early March when it was thought that Gov. Andrew Cuomo was set to legalize marijuana, which did not occur in the state budget passed on April 1.

Cuomo has vowed to get the Legislature to legalize marijuana for recreational use by June, according to the New York Post.

Manorhaven trustees also renewed a moratorium on the installation of cell nodes, small cell devices used to support the incoming 5G network, in the village for another six months.

It was first implemented in October.

The 5G network is expected to be faster and more cost-effective than its predecessor, 4G.

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Suit alleges LIU VP poached students Documents show confidential information about students sent to administrator, tactics used

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Long Island University Post’s vice president for academic affairs has been sued by his former employer, Mercy College, which says that he used confidential information to poach students for LIU. Evidence disclosed in the civil suit, filed in August in Supreme Court in Westchester County, includes emails in which the college official, Edward Weis, transferred lists of students to his personal AOL email account.

It also includes a text message conversation the assistant dean of LIU Brooklyn’s School of Business, Chuck Garcia, had with one student he reached out to about attending LIU. Garcia previously taught at Mercy College’s business honors program.

At Mercy College, Weis was business school dean and had access to confidential information about students in its business honors program, according to the lawsuit.

The college hosts a summer Leadership Academy for high

school students, and many participants are later offered admission to the business honors program. The lawsuit says that 42 students registered for the program for the current academic year by May 1, and within three months nine had informed Mercy College that they had instead decided to attend LIU. On April 2, 2018, Weis received an email at his AOL address with the subject line “High SAT Students.” Much of the email is redacted in the evidence filing, but it reveals a section of a chart that lists the students’ home states.

That information was confidential, the lawsuit says. It was among a series of confidential documents Weis downloaded on his home computer in May, it PHOTO COURTESY OF THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY says.

Garcia texted two of the stuSUPREME COURT dents on the “High SAT” list and An image used as evidence in the lawsuit shows a conver- offered them a larger scholarship than Mercy College, according sation LIU Brooklyn’s School of Business Assistant Dean to the lawsuit. The text message Chuck Garcia had with a student whose phone number conversation submitted as eviand SAT score he obtained from confidential Mercy College dence reveals tactics he used in contacting one student. records, according to the college.

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First, he invited the student for a phone appointment.

“Since we have not met, I welcome the opportunity to chat and discuss your personal and professional goals,” Garcia wrote.

The two scheduled a phone call for June 28, and on July 5 the student wrote the following: “I appreciate your offer of travels but I am going to attend Mercy at least for this first semester. I hope to still stay in contact in case Mercy is not what I think it is come end of Semester one.”

Garcia responded, “I respect your decision. Just a heads up.

You are eligible for a close to full scholarship if you enter as a freshman. If you transfer in later that will be substantially diminished.”

On July 11, Mercy College President Timothy Hall emailed Weis, informing him that he would look into potential legal action.

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Opinion

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Real immigration problem on L.I.

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ong Island has an immigration problem, but it is not what many would think.

We don’t have too many immigrants, we have too few.

Consider this: If not for immigration, Nassau County’s population would have declined in 2018, according to population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau last week.

And a decline in population means fewer home buyers, fewer customers, fewer employees and fewer new business owners.

Even with current immigration, Suffolk County’s population continued to decline at least in part thanks to President Trump and his anti-immigrant rhetoric, which included several speeches on Long Island.

In 2018, like 2017, just 4,800 immigrants arrived on Long Island – down from the 6,000 who had been coming here several years before.

Need proof of immigration’s benefits?

Employment in New York City reached 4.55 million jobs in 2018, the highest level ever recorded, according to a report released last week by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

“New York City is experiencing its largest and longest job expansion since the end of World War II and the city has been the driving force behind the state’s employment gains,” DiNapoli said.

The city added 820,400 jobs between 2009 and 2018, more than every other state in the union outside of California, Texas, Florida and New York, according to the study.

Much of this job growth is driven by immigration.

DiNapoli’s study pointed out

that in 2017 there were more than 2 million immigrants employed in New York City, representing 42 percent of all workers. And the unemployment rate for immigrants was below the citywide rate of 4.1 percent.

Lawrence Levy, executive dean of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, said in a Newsday report he believed Nassau’s proximity to New York City was likely a key reason why Nassau’s population is slowly rising.

“With New York City gaining population and jobs, and housing prices increasing in the five boroughs, we may be seeing a bit of a boomerang effect that makes Nassau County a more desirable destination for people who want to work in New York City,” he said.

Levy was one of four panelists at an on-the-record Community Forum on immigration hosted by Blank Slate Media and the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock last week.

He was joined by Dr. Isma Chaudhry, chair of the Islamic Center of Long Island; Patrick Young, program director of the Central American Refugee Center; and activist Lisa Votino-Tarrant.

At the forum, Levy said he believed that Long Island’s economic future depended on a continued influx of immigrants – a point echoed by the other panelists.

Other studies support those claims both on Long Island and across the country.

The New York Times reported last year that the U.S. fertility rate has fallen to a record low with 500,000 fewer babies born in 2017 than in 2007, despite the fact that there were an estimated 7 percent more women in their childbearing years.

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This trend is occurring at a time when Americans are getting older.

In 2010 there were more than 40 million Americans over the age of 65. By 2050 the number will be closer to 90 million. That’s 90 million receiving Social Security and Medicare benefits.

The Federal Reserve has already reported labor shortages in multiple industries throughout the country.

“That inhibits business growth.

Nor are the shortages only a matter of missing ‘skills’: The New American Economy think tank estimates that the number of farm workers fell by 20 percent between 2002 and 2014, accounting for $3 billion a year in revenue losses,” New York Times columnist Brett Stephens reported last year.

Much of rural or small-town America is emptying out. This includes almost every upstate New York county except Albany.

The United States is certainly not full as Trump has argued.

“America is vast, largely empty and often lonely,” Stephens said.

“Roughly 80 percent of Americans live in urban areas, covering just 3 percent of the overall landmass.”

And the immigrants who have

come here – legal and otherwise – are more entrepreneurial, more church-going, less likely to have kids out of wedlock and are far less likely to commit crimes, Stephen noted.

Trump has used Long Island as a backdrop on several occasions to tout his Draconian immigration policies, citing MS-13 gang violence here.

In July 2017, Trump falsely claimed that MS-13, a transnational gang that has ties to El Salvador and uses machetes to kill, had turned Long Island neighborhoods into “blood-stained killing fields.”

And when he returned to Long Island in May 2018, Trump repeatedly referred to gang members as “animals” and called for the country’s political leadership to toughen “horrible” immigration laws.

Trump was correct during his first visit that MS-13 was a problem on Long Island.

From January 2016 through April 2017, the Suffolk County police said there were 17 murders committed by MS-13. In Nassau County, there were six MS-13 murders.

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since then and gang members are facing jail time for their crimes.

Immigration panelist Patrick Young noted that Nassau County’s crime rate in 2018 was at a record low.

Unfortunately, he also pointed out that while the United States has always been a nation of immigrants, it has always been a nation of immigrant haters.

All four of the panelists at the immigration forum spoke of the moral outrage taking place on our southern border where migrant Latin American children are separated from their parents.

One of our panelists, Lisa Votino-Tarrant, who has twice visited the southern border, spoke of writing the name and other identifying information on the back of a 4-yearold with a Sharpie to prevent the child from being permanently separated from her parents.

But if stories of human suffering that violate the ideal of America as a shining beacon of hope are not enough, then just look at the numbers. We ought to be welcoming immigrants to this country, not turning them away.

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ON THE RIGHT

Cuomo’s new New York agenda flops

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hen running for governor in 2010, Andrew Cuomo pledged in his book, “The New N.Y. Agenda: A Plan for Action,” to freeze taxes “because New Yorkers — already among the most taxed in the nation — cannot afford to pay more taxes than they do already.” He vowed to “veto any increase in personal or corporate income taxes or sales taxes.”

As for the so-called millionaire’s tax, Cuomo made it clear he was opposed to extending it beyond 2011. “I was against it at the time, and I still am. It’s a new tax. It was supposed to sunset. If it doesn’t sunset, it’s a tax,” he said.

Well, the governor not only extended the millionaire’s tax twice, he raised other taxes and created new ones.

Rereading Cuomo’s 2010 manifesto, I realized raising taxes was not the only promise he breached. Cuomo has failed: • to restructure state operations • to make Medicaid more efficient • to make education more efficient

• to provide mandate relief • to right size public authorities • to eliminate state government policies that have contributed to our economic problems • to eliminate economic development policies that are wasteful, fragmented and ineffective.

And the costs of these failures are hurting the state as two recently published reports have documented.

The annual “Rich States, Poor States,” study prepared by the American Legislative Exchange Council, once again places New York at the bottom of the heap.

Here’s how New York stacks up vs. the other states in the U.S (No. 1 is best, No. 50 is worst): • Effective Top Marginal Corporate Income tax rate (12.21 percent): 50th place • Effective Top Marginal Personal Income Tax Rate (12.70 percent): 49th place • Property Tax Burden: 45th place • Sales Tax Burden: 33rd place • Estate Tax levy: 50th place • Public Employees per 10,000 of population (600): 42nd place • State Minimum Wage: 45th place • Average Workers Compensa-

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right tion Costs: 48th place New York’s personal income taxes and corporate taxes are far higher than the nation’s median: 12.70 percent vs. 5.75 percent and 17.21 percent vs. 6.77 percent, respectively.

These dreary economic and fiscal rankings help explain why New York lost more people through domestic migration in the past decade than any other state, the council said.

The ALEC report concludes that no one should be surprised that in the past decade 1.3 mil-

lion New York have opted “to move to greener pastures rather than endure a top combined state and local marginal tax rate of 12.7 percent — the highest in the Northeast — and the worst economic outlook ranking in America.”

Interestingly, Texas and Florida, the states with the highest in-migration, “levy no taxes on personal income.”

The U.S. Census Bureau report, released in mid-April, confirmed the ALEC’s population findings.

Between April 1, 2017 and July 1, 2018, 46 of the state’s 62 counties lost population.

“Of New York’s 10 economic regions,” the Empire Center has pointed out, “the North Country experienced the highest percentage of population loss due to net migration — a drop of 6 percent as a result of more people moving out than moving in. The Southern Tier and Central New York saw a net migration of more than 3 percent.”

Even New York City has not been immune to net out-migration. According to the census up-

date, the city lost 40,000 people.

“The loss,” The New York Times observed, “suggests that New York’s robust post-recession expansion since 2010 has finally slowed…”

Don’t expect these population and economic trend lines to change much during Cuomo’s third term in office. The director of Unshackle Upstate, Michael Kracker, has warned “that proposed legislation (in Albany) to require overtime pay for farm workers and allow them to join unions threatens to hurt agricultural businesses.” He added, “a series of recent increases in New York’s minimum wage has already weakened the business climate.”

Gov. Cuomo’s “New N.Y. Agenda,” which he claimed would be based on “hard economic realities, a demand for performance, insistence on a clean government … to make it happen,” has been a dud.

And as Cuomo moves further and further to the left of the political spectrum, expect the state’s fiscal and economic problems to get worse.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

750 words about ‘800 Words’

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ome TV shows you watch for the characters. Some you watch for the plot.

Some you watch for the scenery — at least I do. But only occasionally does a series come along that you watch for all of the above.

“800 Words” is one such little gem. It’s currently broadcast by WLIW/21 on Friday nights at 10 p.m. — literally a sleeper of a slot — which is probably why I had to learn about it by word of mouth.

A friend of mine — another writer — had said, “You’re a columnist, Judy, so you must be a fan of ‘800 Words.’”

“Not really,” I answered her.

“Not when 750 will do. That’s my usual limit.”

“Not you, silly — I mean the TV show! It’s about an Australian man who writes a column for a Sydney newspaper, and he calls it that because it’s the one thing he insists on — his weekly column must be 800 words. Not 799, not 801, but exactly 800.”

I didn’t say so, but I instantly thought him a dilettante, because

who in their right mind can be so persnickety? Sure, I land near my goal pretty often, but there are times when you can achieve either a comprehensible thought or an exact word count — but not both.

Still, my interest was piqued, so I set up my digital “fishing net” — the DVR — and the next week there it was, flapping away, a bright shiny episode of “800 Words!”

George Turner is a widower whose wife’s recent death has devastated him and their two teenage children, daughter Shay and son Arlo. Still shattered, George abruptly decides to up sticks and move them all across the Tasman Sea, to the tiny seaside town of “Weld,” New Zealand (a composite of several North Island locations).

George’s teens take this as well as you can imagine, namely kicking and screaming — especially Shay, who is livid at being hijacked to “the arse-end of the world.” It doesn’t help when it turns out that George has bought “the wrong house” from an inter-

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A Look on the Lighter Side net ad — not the spacious summer home he remembers from childhood visits, at the top of the hill, but a shack lower down. Then their car catches fire, the cargo ship with their belongings sinks in a storm, and… you get the picture.

Through it all, two consolations emerge. For one thing, Weld is breathtakingly gorgeous, complete with misty tropical mountains and world-beating surf. Just watching the show feels like a mini-vacation.

And then there are the people.

Weld is one of those small towns where your neighbors know your news as soon as you do — maybe sooner. But after an initial cold shoulder, they also show up to help you through it.

It turned out that Weld was the kind of place I wanted to return to myself. And I didn’t want to wait another whole week. So I ventured onto my computer and purchased an “Acorn” membership via Amazon prime… my first serious binge!

After watching all three seasons that were available, I learned there is a fourth, but if the internet is to be believed, there will not be anything more.

“800 Words” has a zany charm reminiscent of the 1990’s CBS series “Northern Exposure,” which made a star of Rob Morrow as the newly minted doctor from New York who must serve out his contract in tiny Cicely, Alaska.

“800 words” also reminds me of the PBS program “Doc Martin.”

My husband and I started watching that for the scenery, too — the

whitewashed cottages and narrow cobblestone streets of a Cornwall village, with beautiful flowers spilling out of every window box.

Perhaps there is something about villages, because Doc Martin’s village also contains a goodly number of wackos. One of the wackiest is the hapless would-be restaurateur/barman/contractor Bert Large, played by Ian McNeice.

Everything his character touches goes awry, yet he never stops trying.

In the show’s postscript, however, McNeice had a serious point to make to his audience, namely that being picked up by American public television was the best thing that could happen to a television series. It might even have extended their run by a season or two!

So I want you to get up, go to your computers, and send word somehow to Channel 21 that you want more of “800 Words”! You’ll be doing yourself — and me — a favor. But especially me. I’m over my limit now, but I’ll spare two more words: Thank you!

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OUT OF LEFT FIELD

Good times…bad times with Shirley

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he headline for this column was used nearly 40 years ago when Shirley Blanc Romaine of Great Neck orchestrated a statewide program to highlight protest and reform in the United States.

As Temple Emanuel Rabbi Robert Widom eloquently detailed in a eulogy for Shirley on April 15, she was an extraordinarily creative person, a model for peace advocacy, for community building, and for humanitarian values.

Shirley died on April 14, a day after she was scheduled to do a one-woman performance on Edna St. Vincent Millay. I had planned to attend. Even when Shirley’s age advanced into her 90s, those of us who knew her were not surprised by her continuing energy and skill, taking to the stage for civic activism.

I first encountered Shirley in 1981. She had been working for a few years with Great

Neck’s acclaimed folk singer, David Sear, to develop a program that highlighted quintessential aspects of U.S. society — the right to protest and seek change.

In seeking a grant from The New York Council for the Humanities, Shirley was advised that the proposal could be strengthened by including a historian who could provide context to Sear’s protest music and to Romaine’s speech and dramatic re-enactments.

Shirley asked me to review the script and the song selections, and offer suggestions.

She and David had done an excellent job, and I signed on to be a concluding speaker for the performances, offering historical judgments about what was presented. It was rather daunting to be an academic talkinghead after Shirley had stirred audiences with her re-enacted readings, and after David had roused them to join the protest

MICHAEL D’INNOCENZO Out of Left Field songs.

“Good Times… Bad Times” was reviewed in The New York Times on Jan. 24, 1982. Journalist Barbara Delatiner wrote: “Through song, poetry, prose, letters, speeches, journals — and an academic lecture of sorts — the program explores the role of ordinary citizens in bringing about social change in order to fulfill their needs and aspirations. Among these extraor-

dinary people are backwoods revolutionaries, women, blacks, working people, and students who, in trying to shape their own destinies, have altered the course of historical events.”

Shirley Blanc Romaine never lost sight of the possibilities for changing societies and the capabilities of ordinary people to foster reform. For all the years following our 1982 performances, I worked very closely with Shirley and her marvelous activist spouse, Stan. They headed Great Neck SANE (with the late, great Don Shaffer), helped to spearhead the “Nuclear Freeze” movement, and kept on keepin’ on with Great Neck Peace Action. With both of the Romaines, the Melkonians, and dozens of others, my spouse and I were founders of The Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives.

Together, with many organizations and hundreds of folks throughout Long Island, we were activists to prevent nucle-

ar war and to spur nonviolent, peace initiatives.

Another review of Shirley’s artistic activism appeared in The New York Times (May 16, 1999). Marcelle Fischler wrote that “Ms. Romaine oozes charm, elegance and grace. She blazed her own path, creates and stars in her own programs, even if the stage is usually the local library rather than on the Great White Way.” Not surprising that Shirley observed that there are Long Island “communities where the library is the cultural center, and if you can perform there, you are really doing something major in that community.”

In her review, Fischler said Shirley Romaine could be channeling Isadora Duncan, whom she described as “the Divine Flame.” The journalist noted Shirley’s association with “a pioneering feminist of grace, passion and defiance.”

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E A R T H M AT T E R S

The real cost of a green lawn on us

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mongst the daffodils, forsythia and flowering trees are the other harbingers of spring we have become accustomed to — yellow pesticide warning flags dotting lawns across Long Island. Lawn service crews and do-it-yourselfers are performing the first chores of the season, including applications of a “weed and feed” product, a combination of fertilizer and weed killer.

It is that time of year when homeowners are seeking to have the greenest, weed-free lawn in their neighborhood.

But long after the pesticide warning flags have been removed, there will still be residues of a highly toxic herbicide, and children and pets should stay off these lawns, not just for the 24 hours indicated on the warning flag, but at least until there has been a heavy rain.

Most consumers, and even some landscapers, are unaware that these innocuous looking bags of “lawn food” contain 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, one of two substances that were combined to create Agent Orange, a herbicide and defoliant chemical used extensively by the U.S. military during the Vietnam

War. The health effects from exposure to Agent Orange are numerous and still impacting Vietnamese families as well as U.S. service men and women. On the Veterans Affairs website they list seven specific cancers or groups of cancers and seven other diseases associated with exposure to Agent Orange for which one can claim disability compensation. They don’t list all the well documented birth defects that are found in the offspring of those exposed.

Manufacturers of pesticides would like us to believe that their products are safe, but common sense tells us that any product designed to kill living things is inherently dangerous. Unintended exposures in the form of run-off or drift, as well as granular pesticides being mistaken for food, impact many non-target species. There are documented reports of wild bird deaths, pollinator die-offs, mutations in frogs, fish kills, poisoning and cancer in dogs and higher-thannormal cancer incidence in human populations near sites with high pesticide use.

Probably most disturbing are studies linking childhood

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diseases with pesticide exposures. Children are uniquely vulnerable to toxins in their environment due to a variety of physiological and behavioral factors. Due to their small size, children take in proportionally more air, water and anything else in the environment than adults. They also have immature immune, detoxification and elimination systems which put them at greater risk.

A child’s normal hand to mouth behavior increases their exposure, along with their natural tendency to play inside on floors or outside on the grass.

Studies have shown that households with small children and

pets have more pesticide residues in carpets and upholstered furniture, simply because pesticides are tracked indoors regularly on shoes and paws.

So how can homeowners or their landscapers maintain lush, resilient lawns without any risk?

Not surprisingly, it turns out that nature has already figured this out. The answer lies in the fastest growing segment of the lawn care industry… natural lawn care.

Natural lawn care begins with a simple, inexpensive soil test. Just as a doctor wouldn’t usually write a prescription without a blood test, a soil test is required to understand the condition of your soil biology, and tells you exactly what your lawn needs. The pH of your soil might be too high or too low. You might need more calcium or potassium. If your soil chemistry is out of whack, you won’t be able to grow healthy grass without a steady diet of chemical inputs.

“Feed the soil” is the mantra of natural lawn managers, so you want to feed your soil microbes with the food they need to do their job. Applications of good compost or compost tea can stimulate those microbes to

get busy providing nutrients to grass plants.

Apply a low-nitrogen fertilizer (12 percent or less) that contains water insoluble nitrogen. This kind of fertilizer relies on your soil microbes to release nutrients, so it works over time, unlike fertilizers with mostly water soluble nitrogen, which pollute both our ground and surface waters.

Finally, mow high — anywhere from 2.5 to 3.5 inches.

This gives grass plants more surface area for photosynthesis and shades the soil, discouraging weed seeds from germinating.

Always leave grass clippings on the lawn; doing so can contribute up to a full pound of nitrogen per season. And be sure to over-seed with a good quality blend of grass seed varieties in the fall and early spring. Aeration is optional, but probably needed if you have high foot traffic.

Maintaining your lawn using natural methods can produce green, healthy plants with deep roots that resist drought and disease, and create a lawn surface perfect for children, pests and wildlife, all while protecting our environment.

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wonk, as defined in Google’s online dictionary, is “a person who takes an excessive interest in minor details of political policy.” And, for those who know me, my specific wonky area of interest was born out of my passion for all things financial.

Finding ways to save money and raise revenue, without raising taxes or firing employees, is among my favorite things to do.

I have more than a decade of success doing this as a school board trustee, as an appointee to the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, and in my current capacity working for the Town of Hempstead.

In my experience, businesses are more likely to invest in communities with well-run, efficient and transparent governments. To accomplish this, elected officials need to treat every penny as if it’s their own.

With that in mind, here are several ideas for good government that Long Island municipalities can incorporate to help attract capital: Community Choice Aggregation: Your National Grid bill is composed of two parts, delivery and supply. The natural gas supply part of your bill is a market

rate price that National Grid passes on to the consumer without a markup.

The New York State Association of Towns and the New York Conference of Mayors have created the New York Municipal Energy Program as a buying initiative that lets residents and municipalities save on their natural gas costs, through the supply part of their National Grid bill.

Through a CCA, NYMPEP’s chosen representative receives bids from dozens of third-party natural gas suppliers, picks the lowest one on behalf of residents and/or a municipality, and locks in pricing for 18 months if there is a greater than 10 percent discount to the average price over the last 12 months.

Not only could residents or governments save the equivalent of one month or more on their energy pricing, but residents can also opt out of the NYMEP plan at any time if prices drop. In other words, there is no risk and plenty of reward for the consumer.

Electronic Purchasing: Using an electronic platform to purchase goods and services cuts the time of procurement in half and increases the number of vendors bidding, due to a transparent and

ADAM HABER All Things Political open process. Nassau County, to its credit, uses an eProcurement platform, SpecBid, with great success.

Pricing through an eProcurement platform often comes in at roughly 10 percent less than the traditional paper-based platform, and often even lower than New York state contract pricing, which is updated as infrequently as once a year.

Many items on government contracts are commodity-based products that fluctuate due to supply and demand, so eProcurement is a more current and competitive vehicle for government use.

Vendor Quick Pay: Although I just gave Nassau County kudos on eProcurement, they are notoriously slow to pay their bills. Many vendors who don’t have the luxury of waiting to be paid “factor” their invoices. Factors are entities that pay vendors immediately, but at a discount, making their money when they get paid in full at a later date by a municipality.

A new business model called vendor quick pay, has found a niche to operate profitably by partnering with government, creating a win for all involved.

With vendor quick pay, a vendor signs up for the program in advance, gets paid on submission of an invoice within 24 hours, and the municipality and the vendor quick pay company split the discount, which is roughly 3 percent lower than the invoice.

The amount of the discount the municipality earns depends on how quickly they pay back the vendor quick pay company.

For municipalities with efficient comptrollers, every million dollars paid this way could yield as much as $20,000 in found money.

Electronic Signatures: The world is quickly going digital, and paper contracts with a “wet” (or hand-written) signature are time-

consuming and inefficient. Governments are starting to accept electronic signatures by using Docusign or similar vendors, who offer similar services.

Once governments accept the more efficient practice of electronic signatures, municipal employees will be spared the time-consuming task of walking invoices and contracts from department to department for signatures, thus saving both time and money.

Super Wonky Rapid-Fire Ideas: • Unscrewing light bulbs in vending machines saves $100 per year in energy costs.

• Century Gothic Font uses 30 percent less toner than Arial, and toner is expensive.

• Shutting off workstations at night through a power strip saves over $150 per year per workstation.

There’s a multitude of revenue generating and money saving ideas in government that have nothing to do with raising taxes or firing employees. Once governments become motivated to stretch hard-earned taxpayer dollars through creative solutions, businesses will take notice and invest. All it takes is initiative from our elected officials.

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Trump could drive us to Medicare for all

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he non-exoneration of Trump’s complicity in Russian meddling in the 2016 election has unleashed his vindictiveness to erase anything with Obama’s name, so it is not a coincidence that a day after Attorney General Barr’s whitewash of the Mueller Report was released, Trump’s DoJ announced it would support the lawsuit to overturn Obamacare. Trump boasted that it is only a matter of time before this travesty is completely swept away and ludicrously christened the Republican Party as the “party of great health care.” But later tweeted there would be no replacement until after 2020 when he is presumably re-elected and Republicans are back in full control of the House and Senate.

But his political machinations could backfire, as everyone — not just the tens of millions for whom Obamacare was their lifeline to obtain health care —

realizes what Trump intends to take away: affordable insurance for the 100 million with pre-existing conditions; lifetime caps; the 80/20 requirement that required 80 percent of the premium to go to patient care; enabling children up to 26 years old remain on parents’ policies; freeing workers from indenture to employers by making insurance available separate from employment; no more free annual wellness exams, preventive services or vaccinations.

And everything from laboratory services, rehabilitative services, maternity care, pediatric services, ambulatory patient services to mental and behavioral health treatment would be expensive add-ons (so each person would have to be able to predict what ailment they would suffer, and being a woman would again be a “pre-existing condition”).

The concern over the irresponsibility of Trump and the

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complicity of the Republicans is elevating anxiety to such an extent that there is growing trumpeting for Medicare for All (single payer) or at least a public option, where individuals under 65 can buy into Medicare — anything that will nail down health care. Trump’s latest attack on Obamacare will likely give momentum to such policies

while galvanizing voters to send Republicans packing.

The Republicans’ ploy is to brand the very concept that “health care is a right, not a privilege” as an attack on personal liberty and capitalism itself, and a slippery slope to Venezuelastyle socialism.

But Medicare for All essentially replaces the middle man of for-profit, private health insurance, not private doctors or hospitals or the ability for patients to choose their doctors.

Medicare is extremely popular and has not resulted in the nationalization of the health care industry (1/6 of the economy). Essentially, Medicare utilizes 97 percent of its premium for actual patient care versus 80 percent as private insurers do (capped under Obamacare but as much as 33 percent before).

The other fear being mongered is that Medicare for All will raise taxes — that might be

true, but on balance, consumers would save money because it replaces the health insurance premiums that have that extra 20 percent built in — effectively cutting health care costs 17 percent right off-the-bat, and with improved efficiency and the ability to negotiate or cap fees and rates (putting realistic limits on what drug companies can charge or profit), even more.

More savings would come from wellness and prevention programs (that Trump would eliminate) and the fact people have access to early diagnosis and treatment — and prevent the spread of illness, a public health issue.

The real concern of Republicans and those who believe health care should be a privilege is that there won’t be enough doctors or facilities (shortage of 46,000 primary doctors forecast now).

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Sanctuary cities are beacons of hope

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t our best, we are a nation which welcomes immigrants. At our worst, we are xenophobic and exclusionary. The Bible says of the stranger, “You shall love him like yourself for you were strangers in the land of Egypt” (Leviticus 19:33-34). These words come to mind when I think of the of the anti-Muslim policies of our president.

I recently received an E-mail from U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon. He described “the shameful treatment of children and families” at the southern border.

He states how they are locked in cages and kept there indefinitely.

He calls these inhumane practices “depraved” and “sickening.” The

fact that Kirstjen Nielsen, head of Homeland Security, recently resigned does not auger well for a change in policy. The psychic damage which results from the forcible breaking up of families is well-documented.

I am reminded of the film “Sophie’s Choice” in which Sophie is sent to Auschwitz, and is ordered by a Nazi officer to part with one of her two children. She understands that the child she keeps will live while the other will be killed.

This “choice” is one which no human should ever have to make.

One is not shocked by the inhumanity perpetrated in Hitler’s Germany, but when the U.S. pursues comparable policies, it boggles the mind.

In a recent tweet, President Trump threatened to send those who seek asylum in the U.S. to sanctuary cities. This serves two purposes — it punishes those jurisdictions which support sanctuary policies while at the same time punishing Democrats who are exponents of the sanctuary movement.

Lest you think that “sanctuary” is a new idea, remember Quasimodo in Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” yells “sanctuary” when trying to save Esmeralda.

Why would one want the sanctuary movement to succeed?

There are a multiplicity of reasons.

It encourages the undocumented to report crimes, use health fa-

cilities, and educate their children, and, of course, it reduces fear of deportation. It also means that we are not asking citizens to do the work for ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and other agencies charged with this responsibility. Not too many years ago, Los Angeles schoolteachers were asked to report undocumented children to the authorities.

Donald Trump loves to cite the 2015 killing of a woman, Kathryn Steinle, by an undocumented Mexican immigrant. He used her death as a rallying cry at the Republican National Convention saying, “My opponent wants sanctuary cities, but where was the sanctuary for Kate Steinle?”

Immediately after his elec-

tion, Trump signed an executive order threatening to strip federal funding from sanctuary cities of which there were more than 400… in this category. One cannot but wonder if crime might decline if we had fewer undocumented persons living in the U.S. The Federation for Immigration Reform “estimated in 2018 more than 500 jurisdictions have lower crime rates and stronger economies than comparable non-sanctuary cities.”

Once again, America can be a beacon of hope and understanding. We can build bridges, not walls, but this is unlikely to occur as long as Trump is POTUS. Dr. Hal Sobel Great Neck

Revisiting the 1967 Six-Day War

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ith interest I read Michael Hubsher’s April 19 opinion regarding BDS being antiSemitism. My view is that BDS is anti-Zionist with Zionism being a nationalistic rather than religious movement.

My writings are in disagreement with policies that are brutal and non-humanitarian and I hope for something better. I do not foresee the end of the Israeli state. The Palestinian demand for the right of total return cannot be granted.

That would be the end of Israel.

Due to the half a million settlers in the West Bank, a two-state solution is not workable. A one-state

solution with equal rights for both Arabs and Jews supported by Palestinians would be extremely difficult because Jews, having sacrificed to have a homeland, choose to not relinquish control. BDS, internal resistance, and world opinion is a hope for humanitarian endeavor.

Not to diminish democratic aspirations but Israel presently is an apartheid theocracy. It is a colonialist state where Arabs are second- and or third-class citizens depending on where they reside.

On July 19, 2018 the right wingdominated Knesset passed a new national law. Israel was declared as the “Nation State of the Jewish

People,” making self-determination the exclusive right of Jews and thus elevating everything Jewish.

By juxtaposition the rights of the Palestinians, their history, culture, and language have been further denigrated by Israel.

The history of the indigenous Palestinian inhabitants is denied

by Israel and Zionists. Israel, as a small country surrounded by large hostile nations for reasons of security, wishes to increase both its Jewish population and territory.

Palestinians are blame free of the Holocaust, yet their homes and land continue to be taken. Settlement construction continues. Resistance is brutally suppressed.

Hence the accusation of ethnic cleansing. The recent election contest between Benny Gantz and Benjamin Netanyahu only affirms the continuation and portent of greater brutality.

As a footnote, a correction to Hubsher’s sequence of events and the cause of the 1967 War. Per CIA intelligence assessments based on communication interceptions and satellite observation contrary to assurances provided by Israeli officials at the highest levels, it was the Israelis that attacked first. It was a lie that the Egyptians had fired on settlements and that forces were observed heading toward Israel.

In a surprise the Israelis were able

to destroy more than 200 Egyptian aircraft on the ground. The unprepared aircraft were parked wing tip to wing tip. With audacity Israel was able to acquire lands that are now occupied.

At a high level it has been said that Israel should not be considered a reliable ally. Israeli intent continues to be to influence U.S. foreign policy to serve its own interests. Since through AIPAC and other organizations unwarranted influence is exerted, this nation must guard against wars and other ventures truly not in its best interests.

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G.N. High parking lot defies Earth Day

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et’s make our dreams a reality to save our Earth.

Make a commitment on Earth Day 2019.

Would you walk three blocks in total to preserve our Earth?

Would you save our fields, better our Earth environment and save our resources if you could?

As we celebrate and honor

Earth Day in Great Neck, let’s honor and stay true to our words to take more responsibility to save our Earth starting here and now.

We are paving over a soccer field at Great Neck North High School for industrialization — a parking lot for 100 more cars.

To quote Dr. Theresa Pren-

dergast, GNPS superintendent, and Mr. Powell, assistant superintendent of business, this has been the dream of the school system for 12 years now, but they lacked the funding until this past year’s bond vote.

This is not a result of a swampy field but a result of not respecting our Earth. We could

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utilize the Parkwood parking lot two blocks away with over 250 parking spots.

Instead, we have cut down healthy trees and will demolish our soccer field for pavement, tar and increased congestion.

We will waste close to a million dollars dedicated to school funding to educate our children to do this.

Why not educate our children to save our field, walk two blocks and be responsible citizens of Earth?

What good is recycling if we cannot even care for our own backyard? Save the speeches and the verbiage and act now and

speak against this to Albany and to the BOE as it is not yet state approved.

If you truly believe in saving the Earth, you can make a difference here and now.

This is up to you, every citizen young and old in Great Neck, to save our soccer field.

We can always improve it, why destroy it?

Speak up and advocate for Earth Day, Earth week, Earth year.

Ruth Gabay Great Neck Letters Continued on Page 58

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When paying in person, you may pay your bill at 200 Plandome Road in Manhasset during normal business hours, Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. (Saturdays, Sundays and holidays excepted). The Tax Office will be open until 7 p.m. on Friday, May 10. You may also pay at the following sites with check or money order only on the dates and times specified. Please bring your entire bill with you when paying in person.

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LIRR on-time rating hits 94% goal

Performance exceeds 2018 by 6.5 percentage points, putting yearly number at 93.2

BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN The Long Island Rail Road hit a monthly on-time rating of 94.6 percent in March, according to statistics from the agency released last week, exceeding the agency’s monthly on-time goal.

In addition to exceeding the agency’s goal of a monthly 94 percent on-time performance, March’s rating was 6.5 percentage points higher than the previous March. In March 2018, only 88.1 percent of trains were considered on time, as compared with 90.9 percent in 2017 and 95.2 percent in 2016.

This puts the agency’s overall on time rating for the year so far at 93.2 percent. This follows 92.7 percent of January trains being on time and 92.1 percent of February trains arriving on time.

On the Oyster Bay line, which has stops in Greenvale,

On the Port Washington line, which stops in Port Washington, Plandome, Manhasset and Great Neck, the monthly on-time performance rose from 88 percent in March 2018 to 95.6 percent for March 2019.

This is a difference of more than 7 percentage points.

The LIRR considers a train on time if it arrives at the destination less than six minutes after its scheduled arrival time.

In an interview with Blank Slate Media, MTA Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye attributed the accomplishment to the “excellent work of” LIRR president Phillip Eng, who recently marked his one-year anniversary with the agency.

Speaking at a Monday committee meeting, Eng attributed the improvement to initiatives PHOTO FROM THE MTA and a new way of thinking under the LIRR Forward Plan.

Among its components are The station for the Port Washington branch of the LIRR switch upgrades, hardening inRoslyn, Albertson and East Wil- rating was 96.1 percent – an percentage points from March frastructure and increasing the liston, the monthly on-time improvement of more than 10 2018.

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A 21-year-old from Manhasset was arrested at the University of Connecticut last Thursday on charges of assault and disorderly conduct, according to the Connecticut State Police.

The incident occurred at an April 13 house party where Shivam Mukherjee punched another member of his fraternity, according to the Journal Inquirer, a local publication in Connecticut.

Mukherjee broke the student’s jaw when he was standing outside at the 800-person party, the Journal Inquirer reported, citing the victim’s written statement to the police. The victim underwent a four-hour operation on his jaw at Hartford Hospital, the article reported.

Other students said that the incident was unprovoked. The victim, Brian Patterson, said he wants to press charges and is fearful of returning to campus, the article reported.

Patterson told police Mukherjee is dating his ex-girlfriend but that he does not know why he was violent, it said.

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Shivam Mukherjee of Manhasset was arrested April 18. mately 11 a.m. and is scheduled to appear in court April 30.

Mukherjee left the incident uninjured, according to police. He was issued a $25,000 cash bond, according to a police summary.

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Curran to veto assessor referendum Says bill approved by GOP county legislators would turn service into ‘political quagmire’

BY S H E L BY TA L C O T T The Nassau County Legislature on Monday approved a countywide referendum on whether to switch to an elected tax assessor.

But County Executive Laura Curran, a Democrat, said she plans to veto the measure passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature.

The county currently has an appointed assessor, which was voted on by residents in 2008.

“This legislation allows the public to decide whether Nassau will have an elected assessor or keep the current politically appointed assessor,” said Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park).

After much debate, the assessor referendum bill passed the Legislature 10-7. Two of the 19 members were absent due to the holiday. All seven Democrats present voted against the bill.

In a news release, Curran said: “I will veto any legislation by the Republican majority in the Nassau County Legislature to once

ment roll. We are confident that the updated values are fair and accurate.”

Nicolello said that if Curran vetoes the measure, Republicans will move to override it.

“While I am hopeful that the County Executive will put politics aside to give the people a voice, should she veto, we will call a hearing as soon as possible to vote PHOTO COURTESY OF NASSAU COUNTY LEGISLATURE on an override,” said Nicolello.

Nicolello said that hundreds Moments after the controversial referendum was approved regarding electing a county assessor. of residents have expressed confusion over parts of the reassessagain make the County Assessor change in early March. Nicolello need for a referendum. These in- ments, as well as how their propan elected position. The proposed previously said that 80 budgeted clude the assessment roll in Janu- erty taxes have been calculated.

According to Newsday, Willegislation doesn’t even require a positions in the Department of As- ary that included 18,400 errors in property tax assessments as well liam Biamonte, chief of staff for qualified individual. We cannot sessment remain unfilled.

Nicolello has said that an as a December robocall error that the Nassau Democrats, mainturn one of the most vital services that the county provides – prop- elected assessor would be in caused alarm for 400,000 seniors tained that this bill stood to “inject erty assessment – into a political charge of the office’s budget as worried that they were in danger additional partisan politics and well as filling the positions that of losing their property tax exemp- bureaucracy into a process that quagmire.” demands only competence and tions.

Democrats accused Republi- remain empty.

In response, Christine Geed, professionalism.”

The 11 Republicans in the cans of using this bill for political A Democrat who was not prespurposes. All 19 Nassau legislators Legislature also said that this a spokeswoman for Curran, said: are up for re-election in Novem- change is needed because reas- “Processing mishaps including ty- ent for the vote, Minority Leader ber, and Democrats said that a ref- sessment of over 400,000 proper- pos and website glitches through- Kevan Abrahams, opposed the bill erendum would result in property ties in the county has been riddled out were immediately addressed in previous meetings.

In order to override the veto, – and came at no cost to the taxtaxes and reassessment issues be- with errors.

A news release from Nicolello payer. None of these errors im- lawmakers will need a supermaing the first thing on voters’ minds.

Republicans called for this said other mistakes showed the pacted the integrity of the assess- jority of 13 votes.

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County OKs Asian-American agency Bill approved by Legislature recognizes 40 percent growth in population in Nassau

BY S H E L BY TA L C O T T The Nassau County Legislature passed a law on Monday that will establish an Office of Asian-American Affairs.

“This is a groundbreaking and historic act on the part of this legislature that recognizes the leadership and contributions that the Asian American community is providing to this county currently,” Presiding Officer

Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park) said in a statement.

Nicolello said that since 2005, the Asian-American population in Nassau County has grown by 40 percent, and it

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A press conference Monday announced the creation of the Asian American Affairs office in Nassau County.

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now makes up more than 10 percent of the county population.

“The Asian American population is as diverse as this county,” said Nicolello. “It is as diverse as this country, reaching people from different backgrounds, countries, cultures, heritages, languages.”

Nicolello said that Asian-Americans already hold many leadership roles throughout the community, and this action will continue to increase the involvement of Asian-Americans in Nassau County.

“Asian-Americans hold a significant portion of Nassau County’s very diverse population, and this new agency will benefit us all greatly,” said Dr. Isma Chaudhry, chairwoman of the Islamic Center of Long Island’s board of trustees. “Representation in government matters and I look forward to working with this agency and all the legislators to make sure Asian-Americans are provided the resources and opportunities needed.”

Currently, there is an Asian American Advisory Committee that operates without a staff or budget. The Asian-American agency will take the place of this committee. The new agency will be funded and the executive director will be appointed by the county executive and approved by the Legislature.

County opts out of sale of marijuana

BY S H E L BY TA L C O T T Nassau County legislators voted unanimously on Monday to opt out of the sale or use of recreational marijuana if the state legalizes it.

“There is no other way to put this but that legalizing recreational marijuana will harm the residents of this county,” Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park), said in a news release. “It is our duty to put the interests of those residents first.”

Legislators mentioned a 77-page expert panel report when deciding against the sale of legalized marijuana. This report said that legalization would be bad for the health and safety of residents. The repercussions, it said, would cost more than the money it would potentially bring to the county.

According to the news release, the Legislature expressed concern about issues that have occurred in states that have legalized recreational marijuana. These include increased crime rates, substance abuse and treatment problems, and more.

Lawmakers also questioned if the police would be able to test drivers for impairment due to marijuana.

County Executive Laura Curran, a

Democrat, has said she opposed legalized sale of recreational marijuana in Nassau.

City and state officials of New York have been working for over a year toward possible legalization. Public listening sessions and government reports have led the state Legislature to work on a bill. But the measure was not included as part of the state budget.

Most recently, the City Council of New York passed a bill on April 9 that would prohibit employers from making potential employees submit to testing for the active ingredient in marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol. They also recently approved legislation to ban the city from mandating marijuana testing for people on probation.

The City Council also called for all misdemeanor marijuana convictions to be expunged and asked the state Legislature to pass legislation that would completely legalize, regulate and tax marijuana.

“The findings of the Nassau County’s Task Force as well as the experience of other states that have legalized medical marijuana demonstrate that legalized recreational marijuana will create profound and distressing challenges for Nassau County and our residents,” Nicolello said in the news release.

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A cappella, with a modern twist

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f the phrase “male a cappella group” conjures up an image of students in blue blazers, ties, and khakis singing traditional college songs on ivy-adorned campuses… think again.

Straight No Chaser are neither straitlaced nor straight-faced, but neither are they vaudeville-style kitsch. They have emerged as a phenomenon with a massive fanbase, numerous national TV appearances and proven success with CD releases.

Straight No Chaser is the real deal, the captivating sound of nine unadulterated voices coming together to make extraordinary music that is moving people in a fundamental sense… and with a sense of humor.

On the road, Straight No Chaser has built a reputation as an unforgettable live act that will make its way to The Paramount on Thursday, May 2 at 8 p.m.

Straight No Chaser has had an amazing decade. Ten years after turning a collegiate hobby into a recording career that has taken them around the world on tour, the a cappella group tells its story through music on their new release, One Shot.

Theirseventh LP features 16 genre-spanning songs, and 10 entertaining conversational interludes, as the group’s members trace their unlikely rise from an undergraduate singing group at Indiana University to a beloved act with a devoted international fanbase.

Recorded mostly in Bloomington, Ind., the track list for One Shot reflects that sense of now or never, starting with the first single “Motownphilly/This Is How We Do It,” an energetic mash-up of Boyz II Men and Montell Jordan. The song’s lyrics about chasing improbable success captured the way the singers felt as undergrads.

Straight No Chaser made Jordan’s “This Is How We Do It” a staple of its repertoire in college. Adding “Motownphilly,” with its lyrics about chasing improbable suc-

cess, captured the way the singers felt as students. “The lyrics from the Boyz II Men song fit our experience… We dreamed about this and now we are doing it, performing all over the world,” said Randy Stine, an original member.

It took a few years. After the founding members of the group graduated in 1999, they got jobs, found love, and made lives for themselves as new undergrads replaced them in the group on campus. In 2006, Stine posted a clip on YouTube of Straight No Chaser singing “The 12 Days of Christmas” at a 1998 performance, and it went viral.

Atlantic Records Chairman and CEO Craig Kallman saw it and contacted the guys to see if they would be interested in reuniting to make an album. It wasn’t necessarily an easy decision.

“It was scary to jump into because we were giving up life as we knew it,” Stine says. “I envisioned it as a boat leaving the pier. Either you’re going to jump on and make the boat or you’re not. And I thought, ‘Even if the boat sinks and I have to swim back to shore, so be it.'”

Farfrom sinking, the group has only picked up speed on the way to making One Shot.

“Every year it gets better and better,” says member Tyler Trepp. “We keep surprising ourselves in a good way, and it just keeps growing.”

Along with Stine and Trepp, the current lineup features Walter Chase, Jerome Collins, Seggie Isho, Michael Luginbill, Charlie Mechling, Steve Morgan, and David Roberts. They all have a hand in choosing songs, which mirror the singers’ widespread musical tastes, ranging from R&B and old-school funk to folk and classic rock.

In addition to “Motownphilly/This Is How We Do It,” the group tackles Ricky Martin’s “Livin’ La Vida Loca,” Fleetwood Mac’s “Go Your Own Way,” James Brown’s

“Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag,” and Percy Sledge’s “When a Man Loves a Woman,” a soulful ode to the singers’ significant others.

There’salso a take on Loverboy’s “Working for the Weekend,” Johnny Cash’s version of “I’ve Been Everywhere,” and a yearning for the comforts of family life on a richly harmonized version of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound.”

“We all rallied around that song because it really spoke to life on tour,” Stine says. “We are loving what we’re doing, but there’s always a bit of you that’s missing home. Especially with all of us being parents now, it’s that much tougher when you leave.”

So much of what Straight No Chaser has done over the past 10 years is the stuff of dreams: They’ve collaborated with Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Elton John and Dolly Parton, to name a few. They’ve performed on NBC’s “Today Show” and “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.” They’ve toured North America, Europe, and Australia, and consistently rank among Pollstar’s top 100 touring acts in North America.

“We literally have to pinch ourselves every day that this actually happened,” Collins says. “Now we’re 10 years still in the game, and we’re still a successful act.

We started this just for fun and now we’re doing it as a career.”

And Straight No Chaser hasno intention of stopping — it’s just too much fun. “We’re going to ride this train,” Trepp says. “Each tour is something new, and we’re always surprised at the things we get to do.”

For tickets to the show, go to www.paramountny. com.

The Paramount is located at 370 New York Ave. in Huntington.

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Where: Turn of the Corkscrew Books and Wine 110 N. Park Ave., Rockville Centre Info & Registration: 516-764-6000 turnofthecorkscrew.com

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Jonathan Edwards Friday, May 3 at 8 p.m.

Jonathan Edwards is best known for the hit single, “Sunshine (Go Away Today),” released in 1971. The catchy lyrics have made this song a staple on ‘70s’ playlists. Now in his fifth decade of performing more songs such as “Emma” and “Sometimes,” Edwards’ music still resonates with music lovers of all ages.

Where: My Father’s Place at the Roslyn Hotel 1221 Old Northern Blvd., Roslyn Info & Tickets: 516-413-3535 • myfathersplace.com

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The Butterfly Ball Saturday, May 4, 7 to 11 p.m.

The annual benefit to enhance the Preserve’s beautiful landscape with new features and programs for everyone to enjoy includes cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, a buffet dinner, dessert and dancing. A “Champagne & Butterflies” VIP reception is optional. The cocktail attire is butterfly chic.

Where: Sands Point Preserve Conservancy Hempstead House, 127 Middle Neck Road, Sands Point Info & Tickets: 516-304-5076 sandspointpreserveconservancy.org

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Sinatra Meets ‘The Sopranos’

Friday, May 10, 2019, 11am TICKETS: $51

Saturday, May 4 at 8 p.m.

“Fly Me to the Moon,” “You Make Me Feel So Young” and “New York, New York” will be the top-flight music performed this evening as Michael Martocci and his Ol’ Blue Eyes Orchestra takes to the stage with actors Steven Schirripa, Michael Imperioli and Vincent Pastore from the award-winning TV series, “The Sopranos.”

Where: NYCB Theatre at Westbury, 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury Info & Tickets: 516-247-5211 • thetheatreatwestbury.com

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Location: Towers on the Green (at North Shore Towers) 272-48 Grand Central Parkway, Floral Park, NY 11005 Valet parking available.

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‘How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying’

Saturday, May 4 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, May 5 at 2:30 p.m. (ongoing performances through May 26)

Big business means big laughs in this clever lampoon of life on the corporate ladder. The Tony Award-winning musical is an irreverent and tuneful romp, jam-packed with sly, swift and sharp jabs to the funny bone, as well as the clever tunes “I Believe in You,” “Brotherhood of Man” and “The Company Way.”

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LAURA CURRAN Nassau’s first female County Executive will update us on the state of the county and how recent national and state elections and the rise of women to positions of power in both Albany and Washington impact both our community and the rest of the nation.

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Friday, May 3, 6 p.m., Saturday, May 4 and Sunday, May 5, 2 p.m. (also the weekends of May 9-12 and 16-19)

The Empire State Fair returns May 3 through 19. Families will love the non-stop live entertainment, scrumptious food from around the country, exhibits, shopping and thrilling rides for all ages, including one of the largest Kiddie Lands on the east coast.

Where: NYCB Live, Home of Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum 1255 Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale Info & Tickets: 516-231-4848 or 800-745-3000 or nycblive.com

May 8, 2019, 12:30pm, The Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 48 Shelter Rock Road, Manhasset. Admission is free and refreshments will be served.

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Sunday, May 5, 1 to 4 p.m.

uper Family ouch-A-Truck Sunday: Art & Family on the Move with Health Fair RADD Crossfit Saturday, May 4, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Presented by 106.1 WBLI and 102.3 WBAB, and Free Style this free fair features one-of-a-kind vehicles Arts Association and big trucks, including rigs, fire trucks,

Where: NYCB Live, Home of Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, 1255 Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale Info: 516-231-4848 or 800-745-3000 Where: Nassau County Museum of or nycblive.com Art, One Museum Drive, Roslyn Harbor Info: 516-484-9337 or nassaumuseum.org

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Saturday, May 4, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

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Where: Barnes and Noble, 1542 Northern Blvd., Manhasset Info: 516-365-6723 or barnesandnoble.com

Tiger’s Daniel Neighborhood

Live! King for a Day Sunday, May 5, 2 p.m.

Based on the No. 1 PBS Kids TV series, “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood LIVE!” has delighted live audiences across the country with its tigertastic fun while teaching valuable lessons of kindness, helping others, and being a friend to children ages 2 to 4.

Where: Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville. Info &Tickets: 516-299-3100 or tillescenter.org

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North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth and the Town Board present:

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FEST Join us at Clark Botanic Garden and enjoy an exotic animal show by Nature Nick, live music from Tiger Rose, crafts for kids, local vendors, music for the whole family, and of course Clarkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gorgeous tulips!

Clark Botanic Garden 193 I.U. Willets Rd, Albertson

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For more information call 311 or (516) 869-6311

Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth

Council Member, District 1 Viviana Russell

Council Member, District 2 Peter J. Zuckerman

Council Member, District 3 Angelo P. Ferrara

Council Member, District 4 Veronica Lurvey

Council Member, District 5 Lee R. Seeman

Council Member, District 6 Dina M. De Giorgio

Town Clerk Wayne H. Wink, Jr.

Receiver of Taxes Charles Berman

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Lichtblau to speak on ‘Big Break’ finale to Holocaust at Emanuel revisit Woodstock On Friday, May 3 at 7:30 p.m., Eric Lichtblau will be the guest in the pulpit at Temple Emanuel of Great Neck’s Holocaust Memorial Service. He will offer the talk, “Remembering the Holocaust.”

Lichtblau has been an American journalist reporting for the New York Times in the Washington bureau, as well as the

Los Angeles Times, Time magazine, the New Yorker, and CNN network’s investigative news unit. He has earned two Pulitzer Prizes for his work.

Lichtblau received a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 with the New York Times for his reporting on warrantless wiretapping by the National Security Agency. He also was part of the New York Times team that won the Pulitzer in 2017 for coverage of Russia and the Trump campaign.

He is the author of “Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice,” and “The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men.” The Emanuel Holocaust Memorial Service is conducted by Rabbi Robert S. Widom and Cantor Jonathan Guss, accompanied by violin, flute, bass and organ. A book signing will follow the service. Admission is free.

Temple Emanuel of Great Neck is located at 150 Hicks Lane in Great Neck.

For further information, call 516-4825701.

Jonathan Edwards to bring ‘Sunshine’ to Port Warm as summer sunshine, real as the truth, and intimate as a long overdue visit between old friends… such is a Jonathan Edwards concert. Four decades into a stellar career of uncompromising musical integrity, the man simply delivers, night after night, songs of passion, insight and humor — all rendered in a pure and powerful tenor which, like fine wine, has only grown sweeter with age.

This is one veteran performer who is neither grizzled nor nostalgic. These days, Edwards is likely to be found on the road doing what he does best, which is playing live in front of an audience. “I’ve been concentrating on that and loving it,” he says.

An artist who measures his success by his ability to attract and take good care of an audience, Edwards maintains that it is the feedback he receives after his shows that keeps him going. “It is really gratifying to hear (someone say), ‘Your stuff has meant a lot to me over the years.’”

The “stuff ” he’s referring to is a highly respected repertoire that includes song classics such as “Honky Tonk Stardust Cowboy,” “Sometimes,” “One Day Closer,” “Don’t Cry Blue,” “Emma,” “Everybody Knows Her,” “Athens County,” and everyone’s favorite ode to putting a good buzz on, “Shanty.”

And then, of course, there’s the anthemic “Sunshine (Go Away Today),” that fierce proclamation of protest and independence that resonated with thousands of frustrated and angry young men and women when it was first released in 1971. Almost 40 years later, the song continues to be embraced by faithful followers and new fans alike.

Since ’71, Edwards has released 15 albums, including Blue Ridge, his standard-setting collaboration with bluegrass favorites, the Seldom Scene, and Little Hands, his collection of children’s songs, which was honored with a National Library Association award.

As for his latest, 16th album, Edwards says, “Young people that are getting back to the land and trying to get off the power grid encourage me. My next studio album will reflect some of those themes.”

Edwards’ music — the old and the new — will be the evening’s entertainment at My Father’s Place on Friday, May 3 at 8 p.m. Tickets are available by going to www.myfathersplace.com.

My Father’s Place in the Roslyn Hotel is located at 1221 Old Northern Blvd. in Roslyn.

Excitement is building to a fever pitch as the finalists have been named in the 2019 Your Big Break talent competition presented by the Gold Coast Arts Center, Love Revolution Org, and the Rick Eberle Agency.

Finals will take place on Saturday, May 4 at the Gold Coast Arts Center, 113 Middle Neck Road in Great Neck. Doors open at 7:30 p.m., with the first act taking the stage at 8 p.m. Advance tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students, and $20 at the door. Online tickets can be purchased at http://bit. ly/2UESBew. Now in its seventh year, Your Big Break contestants get the chance to perform before music business insiders while competing for great prizes, hoping to get that “big break” to propel their careers to the next level.

This year’s final competition will pay tribute to the 50th anniversary of Woodstock by performing songs by artists who appeared at the iconic music festival, including numbers by Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane and The Who. The final performers will have the opportunity to meet with experienced music industry professionals they have selected to serve as their mentors before the final performance to provide advice to help them compete, with the ultimate goal of winning and advancing their careers in the performing arts.

The finalists vying to be named the winner of this year’s Your Big Break competition include Jackie Romeo, a 15-year-old resident of Massapequa whose musical genre includes soul, pop and R&B. She has been singing since childhood, but has gotten serious with her music over the last two years. Romeo has performed with Long Island native, singer, songwriter, producer and actress Debbie Gibson and her Electric Youth Workshop.

She has sung the national anthem for the Town of Oyster Bay’s Summer Music in the Parks concerts. She will perform “Somebody to Love” by Jefferson Airplane in the final competition, and is being mentored by Long Islander Cass Dillon, a songwriter, producer, sound mixer, and engineer who has toured with Billy Joel.

Another final contender is Over the Garden Wall, a band formed by Westbury resident Jonathan Gardyn, along with Ryan Wall of Valley Stream, and Garden City’s Aidan Larenas, previous performers who play classic rock and are currently experimenting with original music. Actively searching for members of the new band, Wall was put into contact with Grey Wilson and elementary school classmate Sarah Hock, both of Valley Stream. Wall and Gardyn attended the School of Rock in Rockville Centre with Grey.

The band’s performance in the finals will be “Can’t Explain” by The Who. Over the Garden Wall is being mentored in the Your Big Break competition by David Caggiano, a record producer, songwriter, and mix engineer who served as stage manager for Art Garfunkel from 2007 to 2013.

Finalist Arizona Lindsey, a 22-year-old aspiring country-pop singer/songwriter from Lindenhurst, gave a passionate vocal performance with heartfelt and powerful lyrics in

the semi-finals. She is also a passionate mental health advocate who strives to de-stigmatize mental health issues through her music and intimate conversations with her fanbase. Lindsey recently released a single and accompanying music video, “The Desired Way,” that tackled topics such as grief, loss and how to help those who may be grieving.

She will perform the Joan Baez hit, “The Last Thing on My Mind,” and is being mentored in the competition by Lem Payne, Jr., an accomplished singer, songwriter, and producer with major label credits and national touring experience as a performer.

A Band Called Sad, an alternative rock band that performs with an undercurrent of sadness that captures a certain nostalgia for events of what could have been, is another contender. The band consists of front men Marlon Marcy and Taylor Crawford and some alternating performers, all of whom have been influenced by Radiohead, the Smiths, the Talking Heads, and others. The New York City-based group will be performing the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young classic, “Wooden Ships.” Mentoring the band is Long Island native and music industry executive, Jason Melker.

Rounding out the five finalists is Lydia von Hof, a 16-year old singer, piano player, and songwriter from Commack who has performed as a soloist at a New York Knicks half-time show at Madison Square Garden, The Bitter End in NYC, and the Hard Rock Café in Boston, and was a finalist in last year’s Your Big Break. She has performed as a singer and pianist at New York City venues such as the Broadway Comedy Club, The Duplex cabaret club, and with the New York Opera Exchange. von Hof will perform “Summertime” by Janis Joplin, and is being mentored by Mark Ambrosino, who has written for artists and composed music for television shows, films and commercials, including “HBO Sports,” “The Sopranos,” “Chicago Fire,” “One Life to Live,” “Hawaii Five-O,” “Rescue Me,” Mercedes Benz and Budweiser, to name a few.

In addition to the talented acts contending to be the Your Big Break champion, there will be a special performance by last year’s winner, All Types of Kinds, a band that plays a variety of music ranging from rock to pop, folk, punk, funk, hip-hop, blues and country — even sometimes all at once. The band’s members come from diverse backgrounds that make for an amalgamation of musical textures and vibes. Their EP, “Love Songs (or Songs For Your Ex)” debuted in 2018.

Prizes in the Your Big Break competition include the chance to open for national acts at major venues like The Paramount in New York City, recording time at Mix Place, public relations and social media campaign management, including booking and label consultation with the Rick Eberle Agency, musical equipment from All Music Inc. and ZOOM North America, a homepage feature on ReverbNation.com, and a feature article in Good Times Magazine.

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Arthritis prevention and care tips

Swollen, stiff and painful joints are common symptoms of arthritis or joint disease. There are more than 100 types of arthritis and related conditions that also can affect connective tissues and organs, including the eyes, heart, lungs and skin. While thick, knobby fingers may reveal surface signs of arthritis, deeper down in the joints where bones connect, and even in soft tissue, is where arthritis can wield debilitating damage.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 54.4 million American adults, or about one in four, have arthritis, and that by 2040, an estimated 78 million U.S. adults age 18 and older will have arthritis — a leading cause of work disability in the country.

Anyone of any age can get arthritis — the Arthritis Foundation says that about 300,000 babies and children have arthritis or a rheumatic condition — but the joint disease becomes more common with age. The CDC states that from 2013 to 2015, almost half of people age 65 and older in the U.S. reported doctordiagnosed arthritis, and 26 percent of women and 19 percent of men in America reported doctor-diagnosed arthritis.

Common Types of Arthritis and Risk Factors Arthritis symptoms can come and go, or be steadily persistent with varying degrees of pain severity. Common types of arthritis include: • Osteoarthritis. The most com-

mon type of arthritis, osteoarthritis occurs when cartilage, the protective connective tissue on the ends of bones, thins and deteriorates, causing friction in joint movement.

• Rheumatoid arthritis. An autoimmune disorder, rheumatoid arthritis occurs when a person’s immune system attacks the body’s healthy tissues, eroding the lining of joints (synovium) and triggering painful inflammation.

• Psoriatic arthritis. A type of inflammatory arthritis, psoriatic arthritis is typically associated with psoriasis, a skin disease that presents with a red, scaly rash.

People with psoriatic arthritis often experience swelling in their hands, knees, ankles and feet, with fingers and toes sometimes swelling to a sausage shape.

Other familiar forms of arthritis include ankylosing spondylitis, mainly affecting the spine; gout, caused by a buildup of uric acid crystals in a joint; and lupus, a systemic autoimmune disorder.

“While the causes of many types of arthritis are unknown, a number of risk factors increase the likelihood of getting arthritis,” said Gregg Balbera, president of Right at Home Nassau Suffolk. “Age is a factor because the older you get, the more wear and tear your joints endure.

We work with a number of older clients who injured themselves when they were younger, and the accumulated stress on their joints has accelerated the occur-

rence of arthritis.”

The increased risk for arthritis is also higher among individuals who have chronic health conditions such as obesity or diabetes. The Arthritis Foundation reports that 31 percent of adults who are obese have arthritis and 47 percent of diabetics are arthritic.

Family genetics also influence who develops certain types of arthritis such as rheumatoid arthritis. The CDC notes that inheriting specific genes, the HLA (human leukocyte antigen) class II genotypes, elevates the risk for arthritis and can intensify arthritic conditions.

How to Prevent Arthritis While some forms of arthritis cannot be prevented, many types can be minimized or slowed by making certain lifestyle changes. Some of the best ways to keep joints healthy and prevent degenerative arthritis include the following: • Maintain a healthy weight. Excess weight adds stress to joints, especially weight-bearing joints like the knees and hips. Being overweight or obese can flare osteoarthritis in the body’s most active joints.

• Avoid injuries to joints, ligaments and cartilage. Athletes in high-impact sports such as basketball and running are particularly susceptible to damage to knees, ankles and hands that can lead to osteoarthritis.

• Ease up on repetitive movements.

Certain activities and occupations with repetitive motions such as running, jumping, lifting, bending and kneeling can wear down cartilage that cushions joints in the body. Being careful to limit continual repetitive movements can help lessen problems with osteoarthritis.

• Boost and protect your immune system. A healthy immune system helps the body fight infection and prevent disease. A stronger immune system can help counter inflammatory arthritis, such as psoriatic arthritis, and autoimmune arthritis, such as rheumatoid arthritis, which results when the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks the joints and they become inflamed.

A healthy immune system can also lessen symptoms of infectious arthritis caused by a virus, bacterium or fungus.

• Do not smoke. Research finds that

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smoking elevates a person’s risk for developing rheumatoid arthritis and can heighten the disease symptoms. Smoking also lowers the body’s immunity levels and hinders a person from staying physically active.

Care Tips for Arthritis A thorough evaluation, early diagnosis and on-target treatment from a rheumatologist (an arthritis doctor) will help lessen joint changes and chronic pain. In treating and managing arthritis, a central goal is to reduce symptoms and improve a person’s mobility and function. For mild to moderate arthritis symptoms, the doctor may advise a combination of the following at-home care tips: • Taking over-the-counter pain relievers or anti-inflammatory medicines.

• Taking prescription corticosteroids or anti-rheumatic drugs.

• Applying heat and cold therapies to soothe pain.

• Staying active, yet getting sufficient rest.

• Strengthening the muscles around the affected joint.

• Allowing the joint to rest and protecting it from overuse or strain.

• Eating a nutritious diet to maintain a healthy weight, and boosting the body with anti-inflammatory foods such as green, leafy vegetables and fatty fish.

“An arthritis diagnosis can be a lot to handle, especially for older adults and adults with disabilities,” said Balbera.

“This is where a strong support system of family, friends and professional at-home caregivers proves invaluable. Together, we can help the loved one follow a treatment plan of medications, exercise and balanced nutrition. And, Right at Home provides companionship and moral support to ease the emotional stress of managing the disease while aiming to live well today and in the future.”

For additional information about arthritis, living with arthritis, and rheumatologists in your area, contact the Arthritis Foundation at www.arthritis.org or call the toll-free helpline, 1-844-571HELP (4357).

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Liquid biopsies aid cancer treatment

BY B E RT R A M DRACHTMAN

In medicine, a biomarker is a measure or indicator of the severity or presence of some disease states. More generally a biomarker is anything that can be used as an indicator of a particular disease state or some other physiological state of an organism.

Cancer is data starved. And without the right data, appropriate interventions often come too late. To select the best treatment, doctors and patients must have access to detailed genomic information about the disease.

But this information is not easy to get. Traditional tissue biopsies require physical access to tumor tissue and come with serious risks for some patients.

And for many patients, they aren’t even an option. In addition, they do little to help detect cancer early, when patients have the best chance at successful treatment.

Liquid biopsy, a process that gathers all its information from a simple blood test, is a test performed on blood to look for cancer cells or DNA from a tumor circulating in the blood.

Developing blood tests for early detection in high-risk populations and recurrence monitoring in cancer survivors is a goal of so many of the researchers today. Commercially available tests provide informa-

tion that helps advanced cancer patients get the right treatment and helps drug companies get new therapies to market faster.

Targeted therapy is a cancer treatment that uses drugs. But it is different from traditional chemotherapy, which also uses drugs to treat cancer. Targeted therapy works by targeting the cancer-specific genes, proteins, or the tissue environment that contributes to cancer growth and survival The National Institute of Health Writing in 2016, in a release from the National Cancer Institute wrote that “tumor biopsies are an essential part of cancer care. They can confirm a cancer diagnosis, identify the cell type of the tumor, and, increasingly are used to determine whether a patient’s tumor contains particular genetic alterations that may make them candidates for targeted therapies” Going back to 2016, a study used blood samples from more than 15,000 patients with more than 50 types of tumors , compared a blood biopsy which profiles a type of mutation and chromosomal rearrangements in 70 cancer related genes, and detected alterations in these genes at the same distribution and frequency observed in previously published “genomic profiling studies” that used tumor biopsy samples.

The above study, was, by

and large, highly consistent with gene alteration patterns reported in traditional tumor tissue testing In another component of the study, the researchers found the overall accuracy of the liquid biopsy in comparison with results from the tumor biopsy results was 87 percent.

This accuracy increased to 98 percent when the blood and tumor samples were collected with six months of each other, Today’s blood tests are enabling timely therapy selection for patients with cancer while also advancing programs for recurrence detection and early cancer detection The key to conquering cancer is unprecedented access to its molecular information throughout all stages of the disease. Companies are developing a solution through tests that require only a blood sample.

Cancer has traditionally been described by where it found in the body, breast cancer, lung cancer, etc.

Today, we want to know what are the genetics of a specific cancer, its subtype, what mutations it may have, and as one report asks, what’s feeding it?

Just a bit more than two short years ago, the first liquid biopsy test was approved by the FDA for use in cancer. This was a test that uses key mutations in a gene that makes patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer candidates for treatment

with what is now known as aa “targeted therapy drugs” The FDA approved the test previously for this indication using tumor specimens. The new use is for the detection of these mutations in circulating DNA from blood samples.

Cory Renauer writes In a National Institutes of Health Magazine, “Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, insurers are required to pay for recommended preventative services”. Last year, a study by the American Medical Association showed liquid biopsies outperformed actual tissue biopsies when it came to identifying targetable mutations.

In 2018, the writer talks of a blood test that could detect cancer earlier. The study called Cancer SEEK, is a unique noninvasive multi analytical test that simultaneously evaluates levels of either cancer proteins and the presence of cancer gene mutations from circulating DNA in the blood. Biomarkers or biological markers are in our blood, tissues, and other fluids The use of a combination of selected biomarkers for early detection has the potential to change the way we screen for cancer, and it is based on the same rationale for using combinations of drugs to treat cancers.

This blood test was able to detect most cases of eight different kinds of cancer including

some highly lethal forms- such as pancreatic, ovarian and liverthat currently lack screening tests.

Just weeks ago, a study called the NILE study, a head to head comparison of blood assay to standard of care tissue testing for the identification of guideline-recommended biomarkers in first line advanced non-small cell lung cancer was published in “Clinical Cancer Research” The study added to a growing body of literature that demonstrates the diagnostic tool for a genomic biomarker detection in advanced NSCLC can increase the number of patients tested for guideline-recommended biomarkers.

The guidelines resulted in testing for three times as many patients as a standard of care tissue testing. Also, when both the blood biopsy and the tissue testing where both available for a given patient, they were in agreement in more than 90% of the cases. The median time to results for the blood biopsy was 9 days versus 15 days for tissue testing.

Knowing the status of the guideline-recommended biomarkers is important before beginning treatment for several reasons. Up to 30 percent of patients can be treated with targeted therapies that often have a higher response rate than chemotherapy or immunotherapy.

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Benjamin R. Cohen, New York Metro Area M.D. (Spine Surgery), Vladimir Y. Dadashev, “It’s a pleasure to con- confirms a tradition of clinical, and patientM.D. (Spine Surgery), gratulate our colcentered excellence, at leagues and partners John A. Grant, M.D. NSPC.” for receiving this (Pediatric honor,” said Michael Neurosurgery), Roger W. Kula, M.D. (Chiari H. Brisman, M.D., the For decades, Castle chief executive officer Connolly has been Neurology), Sundeep conducting a peerof Rockville Centre, Mangla, M.D.

review survey to select the region’s top doctors based on the theory that medical professionals are best qualified to assess the qualifications of other practitioners. Licensed physicians vote online for those doctors they consider outstanding. A Castle Connolly doctor-led research team then counts the nominations and vets the nominee pool with the aid of a number of screens, including confirming board certifications and investigating disciplinary histories.

The firm’s Top Doctors: New York Metro Area guide lists those whom Castle Connolly has determined to be in the top ten percent of the region’s physicians – approximately 6,000 in all.

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Losing Weight after menopause

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items can trigger weight loss. Researcher Bethany Barone Gibbs, Ph.D., of the University of Pittsburgh, noted that participants in a schoolsponsored weight-loss study who were able to decrease their consumption of desserts and sugar-sweetened beverages tended to have more success losing weight and keeping it off than those who did not.

enopause is a time of change in a woman’s life. Much as the start of menstruation is accompanied by great fluctuations in hormones that can cause different symptoms, so, too, is the end of menstruation.

During menopause, many women experience weight gain and have trouble shedding pounds.

Researchers are not quite sure why women gain weight during menopause. However, the health and wellness site Healthline advises that both elevated and low levels of estrogen can lead to increased fat storage. This is compounded by a loss of muscle mass that occurs due to age, hormonal changes and decreased physical activity.

According to JoAnn Pinkerton, MD, executive director of the North American Menopause Society, most women will gain about five pounds during the menopause transition. Women who do not gain weight may notice that fat is being

repositioned around their midsections. Other factors also may contribute to this weight gain..

likely do not need as much as they did when they were younger. Eating may be out of habit, not necessity.

Losing weight during the menopause transition can be challenging, but it is not impossible.

· Increase exercise. While mature women may not have the endurance of younger women, they can make up for it by scheduling shorter, more frequent exercise sessions.

The general recommendation is 30 minutes of moderate-

· Cut down on calories. Postmenopausal women can cut back on calories because they

intensity exercise most days per week. But this can be split up into different sessions per day. Incorporate resistance training to help combat muscle mass lost from aging. The more muscle one has, the more calories burned, even at rest. · Cut out sweetened beverages and desserts.

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· Talk about medications.

Speak with a doctor about medications, some of which can contribute to weight gain. Many women are prescribed antidepressants in midlife to combat, among other things, symptoms of menopause. Side effects of such medications can include weight gain.

Women gaining weight during menopause can discuss their concerns with their doctors, trainers and dieticians and work toward healthy goals for postmenopausal weight loss.

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aming continues to grow in popularity, and with new ways to engage in social or individual game play available thanks to various technological devices, the frequency with which gamers engage in these recreational pursuits only increases. In fact, a 2018 report by Limelight Networks found that gamers spend an average of 5.96 hours each week playing games.

Excessive gaming can pose a threat to gamers’ overall health. The following physical and mental wellness tips can help gamers ensure they get to play without sacrificing their health. · Remember to blink. Staring at screens for long periods of time can cause serious eye strain. Sometimes, when immersed in the intensity of game play, a gamer may forget to blink his or her eyes, and this can lead to tired, dry eyes. As with other screen usage, follow the 20-2020 rule. Per the Canadian

boosts information retention and mood. · Stretch hands and wrists.

Maintaining overall good posture and stretching hands and wrists can offset complications of carpal tunnel syndrome, a condition that can affect mobility in the wrists and lead to inflammation and pain.

Association of Optometrists, every 20 minutes, take a 20-second break and focus your eyes on something at least 20 feet away.

reset their posture. Sitting for long periods of time can affect circulation and have adverse effects on the neck and spine as well.

· Take frequent breaks.

Gamers should get up out of their seats and take breaks at regular intervals. This gives their eyes and ears a rest and allows them to stretch and

· Get some fresh air.

Individuals should use break opportunities to go outside and get some fresh air and sunshine, if possible. The light and the clean air can improve

energy levels and possibly help restore focus when it comes time to return to the game. Spending too many consecutive hours in a dark room can impact the brain and may affect how people learn, according to research led by Michigan State neuroscientists. Dim lights can make it hard to retain memories, while bright light

· Recognize addiction. People can get addicted to gaming just as they would to any other activity or substance.

Novelty addiction is prolonged time spent on video games, the internet or smartphones.

Research indicates these novelties can trigger various psychological responses in the brain, and people grow accustomed to chasing those triggers. Incorporate other activities into one’s day so that gaming is not the end-all.

People can enjoy gaming in a safe and healthy way by incorporating various wellness strategies into their gaming routines

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Family cycling is an enjoyable escape G oing for a bike ride is one of the best ways for people to exercise in fresh air. Cycling is not only earth-conscious and convenient, but it also is a fun and popular activity that anyone can enjoy.

Around 1.6 million residents of New York City ride a bike at least once a month, and in Portland, bike riding rose by 3 percent each year since 2012, according to Bikemunk, a website dedicated to helping people understand bikes, especially in the context of making a purchase.

The Alliance for Biking & Walking discovered that 0.6 percent of all commuters in the United States biked to work in 2013, up from 0.5 percent in 2009 and 0.4 percent in 2005. But many people are embracing cycling as an entertaining form of recreation that the entire family can enjoy.

and the one commensurate with their skill level.

· Limit the distance. Children won’t be able to put in as many miles as their parents or older siblings. Limit cycling excursions to a reasonable amount of time so youngsters’ health is not compromised.

· Focus on fun. Consider what kids will get out of the trip and gear the afternoon around that. Choose a path that leads riders to a playground or one that circles a scenic lake. Make your cycling excursion more of an afternoon out than a marathon biking session. · Take frequent breaks. Little legs may not be able to keep up, and adults will need to anticipate stopping along the way.

Adults may have fond memories of their own cycling adventures as children that they want to pass down to their kids. Since families may feature cyclists with various levels of experience, it can be safe to employ certain strategies in the hopes that everyone gets the most out of their time in the cycling saddle.

· Know the terrain. Stick to routes you have ridden before. Leave the more intense courses that include extreme climbs and dips for those times when kids are not in tow. Stick to lightly trafficked routes, or travel during offpeak hours. Consult with trail guides and read reviews as well.

· Buy the right bikes. Take time to research different brands of bicycles and what they offer. Some bikes are ideal for streets or paved trails, while others are better for rustic roads and trails. A qualified bike retailer can help shoppers find the right bike for them and their families, ensuring everyone in the family is riding the right size bike

· Check bikes before departing. Make sure tires are inflated and everything else is in working order. Bring a small tool kit along in case a repair needs to be made.

Cycling as a family can be an enjoyable way to spend an afternoon and get some exercise.

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kin is the largest organ in the human body. As a result, when skin is compromised, the results can be painful and noticeable.

Rosacea is a common skin condition that affects a large number of people.

The American Academy of Dermatology says rosacea begins with a tendency to blush or flush more easily than other people. Rosacea may first appear on the nose and cheeks or the forehead and chin before spreading to other areas like the ears, chest and back. If simple blushing were the only symptom, people may be content to let rosacea go unaddressed. However, the AADA says rosacea has four subtypes that can cause more pronounced symptoms:

Minimize the apperance and discomfort of rosacea

· Erythematotelangiectatic rosacea: This causes redness, flushing and visible blood vessels. · Papulopustular rosacea: Redness, swelling and acne-like breakouts are hallmarks of this type of rosacea. · Phymatous rosacea: When this occurs, skin thickens and has a bumpy texture. · Ocular rosacea: Ocular rosacea affects the eyes, which can become red and irritated. Eyelids may swell, and a person may have what looks like a sty.

Treatments for rosacea vary depending on the type a patient has and its severity.

The Mayo Clinic says treatment often

involves a combination of skin care strategies and prescription medications.

For example, the drug Brimonidine may be prescribed to constrict blood vessels and reduce redness. Oral antibiotics may be prescribed to reduce inflammation and reduce bumps and pustules.

Patients also are advised to take some self-care steps to reduce flare-ups.

These include some easy techniques: · Wear sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher, as UV rays can exacerbate flare-ups. · Use gentle products on the skin and avoid rubbing or touching the face too much.

· Keep a log of what triggers redness and avoid those triggers. Specific foods, alcohol and certain cosmetics and other skin products may be triggers. · Use makeup to reduce the signs of redness. Green-tinted foundations and powders can offset red undertones. · Some people have found alternative treatments like gentle facial massage can reduce swelling and inflammation.

Dermatologists can work with patients to develop treatment plans for their specific symptoms. Although rosacea cannot be cured, symptoms can be managed effectively.

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Irwin Winkler talk at Comic Jim Gaffigan to Cinema Arts Center perform at Paramount Scenes in the movies were filmed at Hildebrandt’s, the soda shop and ice cream parlor in Williston Park that dates back to the 1920s.

Winkler’s# autobiography, “A Life in Movies: Stories from 50 Years in Hollywood” (May 7; Abrams Press), tells the stories of his career through his many films as a producer and then as a writer and director, charting the changes in Hollywood over the past decades.

Winkler started in the famous William Morris mailroom and made his first film starring Elvis Presley in the last days of the old studio system.

Beginning in the late 1960s, and then for decades to come, Winkler produced a string of provocative and influential films, making him one of the most critically lauded, prolific, and commercially successful producers of his era.

Filled with tales of legendary and beloved films, as well as some not-solegendary and forgotten ones, “A Life in Movies” takes readers behind the scenes and into the history of Hollywood.

Tickets to the event are#$35 for the general public ($30 for CAC members) and include a copy of “A Life in Movies,” an audience Q&A and book signing.

The Cinema Arts Centre is located at 423 Park Ave. in Huntington.

The Cinema Arts Centre will host a special Long Island LitFest talk with legendary film producer and director Irwin Winkler on Monday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m.

Winkler produced many of the biggest films in a career spanning more than 50 years, including “Rocky,” “Goodfellas,” “Raging Bull,” “De-Lovely,” “The Right Stuff,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” and “Creed.”

His films have garnered 12 Academy Awards and 52 Oscar nominations, and he is the only producer honored with three films on the American Film Institute’s list of Top 100 Films.

Winkler’s latest production, “The Irishman,” directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Ray Romano, and many other leading actors, will be released later this year.

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One of the world’s highest grossing stand-up comedians, he is currently on his Noble Ape international arena and theater comedy tour, with four shows scheduled at The Paramount at 7 and 9:30 p.m. on Friday, May 3 and Saturday, May 4.

In 2017, Gaffigan premiered his fifth one-hour, stand-up special, Cinco, on Netflix. The same week that the album version of Cinco became available, he had six albums in the Top 10 comedy albums list on iTunes. Cinco garnered impressive reviews, with A.V. Club calling Gaffigan “one of our most intelligent observational humorists.”

Along with Cinco, Gaffigan’s first four specials include Beyond the Pale (2006), King Baby (2009), Mr. Universe (2012) and Obsessed (2014). Obsessed premiered at No. 1 on iTunes, and the album earned a nomination for Best Comedy Album of the Year at the 2015 Grammy Awards.

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Alec Baldwin and Salma Hayek. Gaffigan’s other film credits include “Three Kings,” “Hot Pursuit,” “Super Troopers” and “17 Again.”

In 2016, Gaffigan and his wife, Jeannie, ended their critically-acclaimed, semifictitious television show, “The Jim Gaffigan Show,” after two seasons on TV Land. The series, lauded by the Los Angeles Times as “fun and funny,” and by People magazine as “one of summer TV’s bright spots,” was written by the couple, who also served as executive producers and showrunners. The single-camera comedy co-starred Ashley Williams, Michael Ian Black, and Adam Goldberg and revolved around one man’s struggle to balance fatherhood, stand-up comedy and an insatiable appetite.

In December of 2014, Gaffigan became one of only ten comics in history to sell out Madison Square Garden and, a few months prior, he had the honor of performing for Pope Francis and more than one million festival attendees at the Festival of Families in Philadelphia.

In 2013, Gaffigan’s first book, “Dad Is Fat,” debuted at No. 5 on The New York Times bestseller list and remained on the list for 17 weeks. His second book, “Food: A Love Story,” was released in the fall of 2014 and debuted at No. 3 on The New York Times bestseller list.

In addition to his own television show, popular stand-up comedy and best-selling books, Gaffigan has guest starred on many television comedies and dramas, ranging from “Portlandia” and “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” to HBO’s cult hits “Flight of the Concords” and “Bored to Death,” to dramatic roles in all three versions of “Law & Order.”

Gaffigan is also a regular commentator on “CBS Sunday Morning,” for which he won a Daytime Emmy in 2016.

For tickets to one of his upcoming shows at The Paramount in Huntington, go to www.paramountny.com.

Free ‘Game of Thrones’ trivia night Who’s John Snow’s mother? Which character (awesomely) had Joffrey assassinated? Where the heck is Bran Stark?

Think you know all there is to know about the award-winning HBO drama, “Game of Thrones”? Well, let’s see what you’ve got.

Match knowledge and wits with fellow “Thrones” fans at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury’s “Game of Thrones” Trivia Night on Tuesday, April 30, a fun-filled event coinciding with the recent premiere of the eighth season of the drama that has has attracted a huge international fan base, in addition to critical acclaim

and awards.

There will be food and drink specials throughout the night and prizes for the top three teams. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and trivia starts at 7:30. Entrance is free and all guests must be 21 years and older.

Tables are available for reservation by going to www.thetheatreatwestbury.com — general admission tables are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

A heads-up: the trivia night is about the show, not the books.

The NYCB Theatre at Westbury is located at 960 Brush Hollow Road in Westbury.

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Mookie Wilson to join Breuer at Paramount Baseball season is back and No. 1 Mets fan, comedian Jim Breuer, wants to start the season off right by introducing a very special guest at his next performance of The Jim Breuer Residency — former NY Mets centerfielder and Hall of Famer Mookie Wilson.

The performance will take place at The Paramount on Saturday, April 27 at 8 p.m.

Breuer will talk Mets baseball and the

1986 World Series with Wilson, and, of course, provide lots of comedy to celebrate his 25th performance at The Paramount.

Don’t miss 1986 World Champion Wilson as he makes a special guest appearance.

To buy tickets, go to www.paramountny. com.

The Paramount is located at 370 New York Ave. in Huntington.

5.1.19 2019 marks North Shore Animal League America’s 75th Anniversary! In honor of this lifesaving milestone, we are launching our 1st annual No-Kill Giving Day. The Rachael Ray Foundation™ is helping us reach our goal of $500,000 by generously donating $250,000! Join your fellow pet lovers in giving double-the-love to ensure another 75 years of our no-kill rescue work!

To

donate now - visit animalleague.org/nokillgivingday or call 1-877-472-8373

#nokillgivingday

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Mineola Choral concert at Emanuel The seventh season of Stephen C. Widom Cultural Arts at Emanuel continues on Sunday, May 5 at 3:00 p.m., with The Message of the Masters: Let Freedom Ring!, performed by the Mineola Choral Society Chorus & Orchestra, Thomas W. Jones, conductor.

History is replete with mankind’s continued struggles to bring about freedom and peace in countries, cultures and society. At this, their 71st annual Spring Concert and their third under the auspices of Stephen C. Widom Cultural Arts, the 80-voice Mineola Choral Society and orchestra turns to the music of master com-

posers — Beethoven, Handel, Rossini and Verdi — to continue that plea for liberty and brotherhood throughout the world.

Max Janowsky’s setting of the blessing Sim Shalom (Create Peace) is a fitting opening for the program followed by excerpts from Ernest Bloch’s Sacred Service.

Then, part I of Handel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt depicts scenes from the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. Opera choruses by Rossini (“Prayer” from Moise at Pharaon) and Verdi (“Va, pensiero” from Nabucco) dramatize the Israelites’ struggle for freedom. The concert concludes with the last movement of Beethoven’s Sym-

phony No. 9, a musical setting of Friedrich von Schiller’s Ode to Joy composed as a celebration of brotherhood and equality.

This season, the Mineola Choral Society, 80 voices strong with orchestra, celebrates 71 years of presenting the highest quality choral music to Long Island communities. Jones joined the society in 2006 and is also conductor of the Huntington Men’s Chorus and the Stone House Singers, a chamber choir in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Tickets are $20 or two for $35. For further information about subscription discounts and to purchase tickets, call 516-

482-5701.

Temple Emanuel of Great Neck is located at 150 Hicks Lane in Great Neck.

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Juliette Binoche and Guillame Canet reunite with acclaimed director Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper, Carlos) for this wry, slyly seductive tale of sex, lies, and literature. Set amidst the bohemian intelligentsia of the Parisian publishing world, Non-Fiction traces the romantic and emotional fallout that results when a controversial writer (Vincent Macaigne) begins blurring the line between fact and fiction, using his real-life love affairs—including a passionate fling with an actress (Binoche) who happens to be married to his editor (Canet)—as fodder for his explosive new novel. Balancing dry wit with keen observations on the tensions between art, commerce, and technology, Non-Fiction is a buoyant, breezy delight from a master director at his most effortlessly brilliant.

2 0 1 9 Visit goldcoastfilmfestival.org or call 516-829-2570 for tickets.

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SCA aids new learning center On behalf of the Manhasset School District, the Manhasset Board of Education recently accepted a generous gift from the Manhasset School Community Association (SCA) that will be used for a facility enhancement that will benefit the overall well-being of students. SCA leaders were on hand at the April 4 Board of Education meeting to provide a donation of $75,000 that will be used toward the creation of a social and emotional learning and support center at Manhasset Secondary School.

“We are so pleased to be recipients of this generous donation. The SCA has been a valued partner throughout the years,” said Manhasset Superintendent of Schools Vincent Butera. “This gift is a significant step in promoting and supporting the social and emotional development of our students and providing the saf-

est possible environment for them. We are extremely grateful for the SCA’s thoughtfulness.”

Last year, the SCA donated funds for the District to conduct a School Climate and Quality Survey, which resulted in more than 2,700 student, parent and staff responses. The survey shed light on the importance of supporting the social and emotional well-being of students.

The May 21 school ballot will include a capital projects proposition that seeks voter approval for several projects, including the creation of a social and emotional learning and support center, which is a redesign and repurposing of existing space in the Middle School wing at the Secondary School. The space would provide students a safe and inviting environment to access support.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MANHASSET SCHOOL DISTRICT

Representatives from the Manhasset SCA present a donation to the Manhasset Board of Education and administration that will be used to help fund the creation of a social and emotional learning and support center at Manhasset Secondary School.

The $75,000 SCA donation will help offset construction costs of the project, with the balance of the cost of the center being funded through existing monies in the District’s Capital Reserve Fund, which is subject to voter approval.

According to a joint statement from SCA Executive CoPresidents Marybeth Accurso and Nancy Schlaefer, “The SCA is fully committed to the social and emotional well-being of every student in Manhasset. Our $20,000 sponsorship of the School Qual-

ity Survey in 2018 followed by this gift to the school, a donation of $75,000 towards the SEL wing, shows this commitment.

We thank Dr. Butera and the board of education for recognizing the importance of the mental and social health of our children, especially at this critical age. We look forward to partnering with the District on this important aspect of the ‘whole child’ and will continue to pursue opportunities and enhancements to further this mission.”

“The board of education is

extremely grateful to the SCA for their gift complementing our initiatives to support the social, emotional and physical well-being of our students,” said Manhasset Board of Education President Regina Rule. “This generous gift provides substantial financial support for the work we are doing to support our students, and we deeply appreciate the ongoing, collaborative and productive partnership we have with the SCA.” Submitted by the Manhasset School District

Health, wellness workshop

PHOTO COURTESY OF CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR, LUTHERAN

Fester ushers in Holy Week The Congregational Church of Manhasset and the Church of Our Saviour, Lutheran welcomed “Fester” the donkey to help both congregations begin Holy Week observances on Palm Sunday. The two faith communities gather annually to begin the week in joint processional worship to mark the triumphant entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem.

Submitted by Church of Our Saviour, Lutheran

The Congregational Center for Wellbeing in Manhasset is offering a free Health and Wellness Workshop from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on April 27. The program will be led by Keith Fiveson, an interfaith minister, life coach and therapist.

He is also the founder of the Work Mindfulness Institute.

While walk-ins are welcome, the church would like an approximate headcount. If you plan to attend, give Valerie a call in the church office at 516-627-4911 x103 or email revjimmyonly@gmail.com.

The Congregational Church is located at 1845 Northern Blvd., in Manhasset (directly across from the Apple Store). For more information visit www.uccmanhasset.org.

Keith explains the Health and Wellness Workshop saying, “Connecting the mind and body can be tough, especially if we are dealing with a back that is sore, digestion that is sluggish, or nerves that are fried. Getting any kind of mental awareness by sitting down and doing nothing may be even more of a challenge when the mind is jumpy, sleepy, or full of angry thoughts. Our bodies reflect such thoughts with tight jaws, saggy shoulders, or a knot in our bellies. Our bodies and minds need to work together to fully experience clarity of mind and radiant health. This combination offers us the information, energy, and opportunity to be in the flow of life. This is the ancient wisdom and science of mindfulness and yoga that was passed on to us from centuries ago. In this three hour workshop, you will explore the science of

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF MANHASSET UCC

Mindfulness-based life coach and counselor, Keith Fiveson. mindfulness and movement, to better understand its impact throughout our daily lives to lift and shift our consciousness and perspective.

This workshop will explore the basics of sitting, posture, breathing, attention, intention and the concepts of connection and practice. Bring your body, mind, and intention to connect them for this workshop. Attendees will be moving, breathing and focusing their attention on how we connect and walk away with some tools to do so.”

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Brooklyn Dodgers and Ebbets Field

D

id you know that the first game played at the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Ebbets Field wasan inter-league exhibition game against the New York Yankees onApril 5, 1913? Ebbets Field officiallyopened on April 9, 1913 against the Philadelphia Phillies.

The original Brooklyn Dodgers’ name was derived from residents who would dodge trolley cars when crossing streets for decades. On April 10, 1947, Jackie Robinson signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers. On April 15 of that year, he became the first African-American to play major league baseball.

Over 26,000 fans attended his first game at Ebbets Field. He went on to be part ofthe “Boys of Summer” 1950s’ Dodgers winning teams.

They included pitcher Don Newcombe, catcher Roy Campanella, first baseman Gil Hodges, second baseman Junior Gilliam, shortstop Pee Wee Reese, third baseman Billy Cox, right fielder Carl Furillo and Robinson, who played several positions. Most have long forgotten that today’s Los Angeles Dodgers had their roots in Brooklyn.

The golden era of baseball in New York City took place in the 1950s with

a three-way rivalry between the American League New York Yankees, and the National League New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers.

All three teams claimed to have the best centerfielder in baseball. On street corners all over town, citizens would argue whether the Yankees’ Mickey Mantle, the Giants’ Willie Mays or the Dodgers’ Duke Snider was champ.

Ordinary Brooklyn natives could ride the bus, trolley or subway to Ebbets Field to see their beloved Dodgers. It was a time when working and middle-class men and woman of all ages, classes, races and religions commingled in the stands rooting for Robinson and his teammates regardless of ethnic origin, game after game.

Everyone could afford a bleacher, general admission, reserve or box seat.

Hot dogs, beer, other refreshments and souvenirs were reasonably priced.

Just as Robinson fought racism in the 1950s, Detroit Tigers Hank Greenberg and other Jewish baseball players (many of whom proudly served in the military) had to do the same with anti-Semitism in his time.

Robinson and Greenberg both document the long-lasting relationship be-

tween African-Americans and Jewish sports fans standing together for decades in support of each other.

Team owners would raise or reduce a player’s salary based on their performance the past season. Salaries were so low, that virtually all Dodger players worked at another job off-season. Most Dodger players were actually neighbors who lived and worked in various Brooklyn communities.

Residents of the era sat outside on the neighborhood stoop, shopped at the local butcher, baker, fruit and vegetable stand. Television was a relatively new technology and the local movie theater was still king for entertainment. Brooklyn still had its very own daily newspaper — the Brooklyn Eagle — which ended publication sometime in the mid-’50s.

During the ’50s, Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley tried to find various locations for construction of a new baseball stadium which he pledged to finance using his own monies. With limited seating capacity at Ebbets Field, he needed a new modern stadium to remain financially viable.

New York City master mega-builder Robert Moses refused to allow him ac-

cess to the current day Barclays Center built on the Atlantic Yards in downtown Brooklyn.

This location was easily accessible to thousands of baseball fans from all around the Big Apple via numerous subway lines and Long Island Rail Road’s Flatbush Avenue terminal.

Thousands of fans who moved to neighborhoodsin eastern Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties would have had direct access via the LIRR. Imagine how different Brooklyn would have been if elected officials had stood up to Moses and allowed construction of a new Dodgers stadium in downtown Brooklyn.

Without the departure of both the Brooklyn Dodgers (becoming the Los Angeles Dodgers) and New York Giants (becoming the San Francisco Giants), there may have been no National League expansion in 1962.

There would have been no Colt 45s (original name of the Houston Astros), our beloved New York Mets or the Barclays Center hosting the Brooklyn Nets basketball team.

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Human resources no longer human

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ast week’s letter from Kayla Pollock, an undergraduate student from Adelphi University, was not only accurate in its portrayal of the current state of employment searches but struck a nerve. I am an applicant at the opposite end of the age spectrum from Kayla. Today’s uber-technical, science-based approach to hiring practiced by most major companies removes all interpersonal communication and leads to the potential for an individual better equipped to “game the system” to “win the interview.”

I applaud Kayla for seeing the flaws in the process at such a premature stage in her budding career but feel awful that she is now faced with this daunting task.

Previously, I believed the “new paradigm” for employment was benefitting millennials and GenXers, but her perception proves me wrong.

I feel her pain. I am a seasoned client service professional who was subject to a reduction in force by an S&P 500 company in my mid-50s. The use of algorithms searching for buzzwords in a resume or cover letter is patently true (and often unfair).

Without these necessary terms or talents directly found in your

work history, there is no chance to advance to the interview stage. Maybe the generic term of “human resources” for the department responsible for hiring qualified individuals should be amended to “inhuman”. Wouldn’t this be obvious if a computer now does the work of a professional?

Networking used to involve using your public speaking skills to advance your career to colleagues, peers and superiors when looking for upward mobility or opening that first door. Having a solid resume that described your work history, tasks performed and level of proficiency in various areas was enough to get you in front of the right people. Presenting your case in-person at the same time never hurt. That is virtually impossible today.

I recently attended a job seminar for over-50-year-olds admonishing the old practice. The counselor instructed job candidates to review the job qualification for each position and create a resume, including buzzwords found in the job description, catering to each specific posting.

In other words, one resume is no longer useful. If you apply for 100 jobs expect to create 100 different resumes. Think of how time consuming this is much less impracti-

cal.

In the “old days,” hours of networking could generate an infinite number of contacts with which to pass along that single resume that succinctly told your story. A story that was accurate, insightful and gave a true picture of what you had to offer.

With the new system of automated resume review, candidates following this advice simply provide the employer with what they want to hear. What happens when an interview is forthcoming? Do you resort to “being yourself”?

If so, you are probably summarily dismissed. If you parrot the surrogate resume, you are either fooling yourself or the prospective employer. Another issue, which is not affecting Kayla, is the potential for age discrimination. Should you add employment and graduation dates to your resume; don’t think for a minute that the algorithm isn’t capable of that computation. Advantage millennial over experienced dinosaur.

Don’t get me wrong, I have worked with computer technology for my entire career. It has definitely improved our business skills and efficiency. But there are some things best left to human nature and “gut instinct.” These are characteristics that no algorithm is ca-

pable of infusing into the selection criteria. As an example, I offer the following personal anecdote.

As Kayla described, I input my resume and cover letter into one particular company’s internet kiosk for review. Within approximately 15 minutes, an email was received that the information had been received and would be reviewed for correlation to the position. Two hours later another email arrived in my inbox thanking me for my interest but politely stating I was not a fit for the opportunity. Is it not physically impossible for that information to move from kiosk to human eyes to supervisory decision in that short period of time? Computer technology at its best, interpersonal communication skills at its worst.

At its heart, the new practice of technology-oriented employment selection will hurt corporate America. Instead of finding the best man or woman for the job, it will find the best “gamers.” Ultimately, those chosen will show their true colors when it comes to loyalty. At the first chance to increase their salary or be poached away, they will “game” someone else. That may be in three months or three years, but the resources in benefits, training and client satisfaction the company instilled

in the individual are lost with no quantifiable return (and too often critical harm). Maybe the time, effort and money would have been better spent sitting down and discussing how each individual candidate best meets the goals of the job. Then again the algorithm can simply find the next best “gamer.”

Good luck.

Fare thee well, Kayla. At least you were not given the following advice which may be even more impetuous than an algorithm.

Should you get an interview and you have a salt and pepper coiffure, color your hair to hide the grey. If lucky enough, you get the job. When you show up on day one two weeks later with some flecks of grey, now who “gamed” who?

Fortunately for me, I just completed two interviews for a local position the old-fashioned way — answering a print ad through the mail and using my interpersonal communication skills to justify my qualifications for the position. Regardless of the outcome, it restored my faith that the right opportunity will come my way sans algorithm.

Thomas J. Winters, Sr. Mineola

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We need to protect places of worship

T

he news reports about the hundreds killed and wounded by bombs in Sri Lanka in churches and hotels Easter Sunday in terror attacks brought much sadness to myself and millions worldwide. My heartfelt prayers go out to the families who have lost a loved one. Are no houses of worship sacred?

Now I have a suggestion and that is all ushers in churches, temples and other houses of worship should get together with law enforcement to learn how they can better protect their congregations and learn what they can do if they see someone up to no good or laying something down out of the ordinary. The ushers in these houses

of worship have eyes and ears and can do something even if it is only to call 9/11.

I’m a grand knight of St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus Council #5911 in Douglaston, and many of our members are ushers and lectors. We are coordinating with the NYPD with a meeting and hoping we can learn what to do to protect our par-

ish from attacks. I urge many of those involved in their houses of worship to do the same across this country of ours. Remember this: Evil thrives when good people do nothing.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Mineola

OUT OF LEFT FIELD

Good times... bad times with Shirley Continued from Page 16 Richard Harwood, for decades the insightful leader of The Institute for Public Innovation, has in mind people like Shirley and Stan Romaine when he calls on citizens to be “wakeful… to be more intentional — to put a stake in the ground about the kind of nation and communities we want. To examine our

own personal purpose and how we give meaning to a world filled with noise and confusion. Not to see ourselves as mere bystanders and consumers, but as co-creators of our communities and lives.”

The leadership dedication by Shirley and Stan — and their marvelous activist partnership — is an inspiration to

everyone. Individually, and jointly, Shirley and Stan were an energy force that drew others to share their sustained commitments to causes of peace and social justice and speak truth to power in both prose and poetry.

It seems so appropriate that Shirley’s program for this April focused on feminist poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. I

know that Shirley was going to include lines (perhaps as a conclusion) from Millay’s Pulitzer Prize selection that also illustrated her own life: “My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night.

But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends — It gives a lovely light!”

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Trump could drive us to Medicare for all Continued from Page 17 But the underlying problem can be solved by government investment in more doctors (NYU Medical School just went tuition free, eliminating the prospect of $200,000 in debt that keeps many from pursuing medicine; another idea is loan forgiveness for those who fulfill gaps in care), more physicians assistants and registered nurses empowered to take charge of care; more technology like tele-medicine and gene therapies; more clinics (not shut down Planned Parenthood which serves 3 million people).

At the heart, though, is the essential value that health care is a right, not a privilege. And there are less dramatic alternatives that could achieve the same goal of universal health care.

One is not to replace employer-based health care, but creating alternatives for those who lose their employer-sponsored health insurance. That is the Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) approach of government sponsored exchanges, where people below income threshold can get subsidized insurance.

Before Obamacare, more than 50 million people did not have health insurance, and tens of thousands each month were losing their health insurance as they lost their jobs to the Great Recession, 20,000 people a year died unnecessarily for lack of access

to health care. (As Congressman Suozzi says, “Mend it, don’t end it.” And whatever happened to that bipartisan Congressional committee that was supposedly doing just that?)

Another is to create a public option — a Medicare-style system that would be available and could be competition for private insurers.

Another is to allow for Medicare buyin, especially for those over 50 who lose their jobs and would otherwise have to selffinance for 15 years.

On the other hand, there needs to be sensible controls on costs — as well as transparency in prices, especially drug prices.

Drug prices should be regulated like a utility — allowing for a fair return on investment, profit, salaries and such, but not a “what the market will bear” when what is being sold is life or death.

The American people who actually fund the research that Big Pharma uses to make its ‘breakthroughs’ make them not only stakeholders but shareholders and their share of profit should be returned in the form of lower prices.

The latest assault on health care could backfire on Trump while demonstrating how morally bankrupt and cruel his administration is and how crucial it is to vote Republicans out of office.

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Homework needed before buying house Over the last few months, I have spoken to a number of sellers, investors and purchasers and for the most part many are lacking certain key elements in the process. I am not sure why this would be since for the great majority, this is the most valuable asset one possesses and you would figure greater knowledge would be a way to protect that asset.

But it never ceases to amaze me how people approach their specific situation. Here are some important facets to consider when selling: 1.) Reducing clutter created by those items that you will not be taking with you when you move.

Make a list of what you will be taking with you and either give away, tag more expensive items or mark those headed to a garage sale for bric-a-brac (for a tax deduction, always ask for receipts, but ask your accountant or CPA for advice) 2.) Thoroughly clean your home and consider looking at your place through the eyes of a purchaser as to what they might think and feel is wrong with your home. Fix, paint or upgrade within a budget where you will either get your investment back or make your home sell faster in our now current balanced market. (It’s no longer a seller’s or buyer’s market).

3.) Is your interior and exterior presentable and are you aware

of what you really need to do?

4.) Are you using verifiable comparable sales as well as which homes are currently on the market, under contract, expired and withdrawn? Is it a release from your local MLS or are you relying on using Zillow’s Zestimates, which is many times, highly inaccurate due to their algorithms, to determine your price and not a realtor, who has accurate real world information based on real current sales?

5.) Does your home need staging to provide a real “livedin look” especially if you have already moved or maybe a sprucedup appearance to attract that one serious and ready purchaser?

If you are an investor for the long haul, or a fixer and flipper, here are some items to consider before jumping in and losing your shirt.

1.) What is the budget that you have to invest and what types of properties are you looking to invest in: a.) Single or multiplefamily houses (1-6 family) b.) Strip centers c.) Mixed use buildings (stores plus apartments) d.) Warehouses e.) Buildings with 7-100+ units), etc.

2.) What type of R.O.I. (return on investment in percentage, eg. 4-6%) or Cap rate = Net op-

PHILIP A. RAICES Real Estate Watch

erating income / Current market value (Sales price) of the asset. (paying outright for the property is cash on cash return) are you looking for? A 4 cap, 5 cap 6 cap, etc. As an example, if you pay $500,000, and you want your cap @ 4%, then you would need a $20,000 net for the first year.

If you are buying a fixer upper to put the property right back on the market to sell and earn your profit, one must be very, very careful in your estimation of value. Construction costs equal to labor plus materials are called hard costs, while architectural, engineering, legal, loans, movable equipment, furniture, computers, permits, taxes, and insurance are called soft costs.

One must be extremely proficient or attach yourself to an expert at estimating the costs to repair and upgrade the house, so

a profit will be attainable upon the sale. I will be discussing fixing and flipping in more detail at a future date to keep new investors safer because the market is changing and one can get caught, as they say, holding the bag and losing money on their first fix-and-flip investment.

I do not recommend going it alone on the first few projects. One must share the risk among one or two other smart and knowledgeable people. One can make excellent money fixing and flipping, but be sure of what you are doing and approach it very carefully. Surround yourself with expert and competent individuals, who know what they are doing and have seasoned experience. Lastly, line up all your financing in advance, whether it be through normal conventional channels or hard money lenders, who will charge much higher interest rates compared with conventional lenders.

First-time purchasers of primary residences, whether it be a home, home owner association, condo or co-op, also need to have some basic knowledge of what their primary and crucial objectives are, when searching for a home for their family or themselves. What is the No. 1 priority in their search: 1.)Schools?

2.) Neighborhood and demographics?

3.) Transportation and com-

mute time to work?

4.) Distance from parks, shopping restaurants, I would suggest a very crucial item to be secured before going out and searching for your first or dream home is to talk to a mortgage person (or ours) to get a pre-qualification letter from the lender, who will absolutely lend you the required money, based on your income, credit and debt/ income ratios and the appraisal of the property. Also, interview your real estate agents and look for reviews and testimonials online to read what current and former clients say about the services and reliability of the agents they used and their recommendations to give you the necessary insight and choices about whom to entrust with searching and finding your most valuable asset that you will be purchasing.

Philip A. Raices is the owner/ Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite 180 Great Neck.

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Experts discuss immigration impact Continued from Page 6 She said the Muslim ban prevented people from going home and visiting their families because of the fear that they wouldn’t be allowed to come back in the country.

Trump imposed a ban in January 2017, weeks after taking office, on foreign nationals visiting the county from seven predominantly Muslim countries for 90 days. Syrian refugees were banned from entering indefinitely, and refugees from any other country could not enter for a period of 120 days.

A tug of war ensued between Trump and the courts over the legality of his ban, and in June 2018 the Supreme Court upheld a third, narrower iteration of the ban on travel from seven countries in a 5-4 vote. Those countries are Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen.

Steven Blank, editor and publisher of Blank Slate Media and moderator for the forum, asked the panelists what policies could be implemented to resolve the immigration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Young responded that in the short term, nothing is going to happen in Washington and he thinks it is up to the states and localities.

He discussed the importance of a proposed state program that would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver’s license. Currently, in New York, undocumented immigrants are unable to obtain learner’s permits which means they are unable to legally learn how to drive, Young said.

He added that immigrants who then get into an accident

aren’t worried about receiving a ticket, but being arrested and turned over to ICE. Young said that when California allowed undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses, the number of hit-and-runs went down 7 percent.

Until about 2005, New York never checked immigration status as a part of applying for a driver’s license, he said.

Susan Gottehrer, director of the Nassau County chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said out of Long Island’s state legislators only Assemblywoman Taylor Raynor (D-Hempstead) and Assemblyman Anthony D’Urso (D-Port Washington) have announced support for the proposed driver’s license program.

She said that Long Island’s senators have said that they will

not vote for the program unless they hear from their constituents.

Votino-Tarrant said from personal experience that there was “absolutely a crisis at the border” and “it has to do with how we are treating asylum seekers.”

She said she worked with a 4-year-old girl who had been locked in a cage for four days.

“Just to be clear,” she said, “our country did that.”

Young added that his fiancee had been involved with taking in a family that was reunited after their separation at the U.S.-Mexico border. He said his fiancee asked the mother if she could take the son in to get him washed up, to which the mother began hysterically crying. Young said the mother then told his fiancee that when she and her son were taken by border control “a nice woman came in and

said I am going to take your son in the shower and I didn’t see him again for 52 days.”

Votino-Tarrant said while at the southern border she had to write parent’s names and contact information on the backs of sixweek-old infants because the government claimed that they had no idea who the parents of the infants were.

The final question fielded by the panelists was what the problem was with deporting immigrants who did not come into the country legally.

Young responded that he thinks “it is unrealistic to think that you are going to deport 11 million people.” He said former President Barack Obama had the most deportations in history at the time and “yet we still have undocumented immigrants.”

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Recent Real Estate Sales in Manhasset Manhasset Real Estate Market Conditions MEDIAN SALES PRICE $1,765,000 Demographics near Manhasset, NY Population Population Density Median Age People per Household Median Household Income Average Income per Capita

City 7,929 3,329 44 2.9 97,500 55,597

County 1,361,350 4,744 41.3 3 98,401 42,949

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24 Oxford Road, Manhasset Sold Price: $1,225,000 Date: 03/19/2019 3 beds, 2 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 60x110 Schools: Manhasset Total Taxes: $16,341 MLS# 3073987

17 Gaynor Avenue, Manhasset Sold Price: $336,000 Date: 03/07/2019 2 beds, 1 Full baths Style: Co-op Schools: Manhasset MLS# 3085597

150 Mason Drive, Manhasset 16 Inness Place, Manhasset Sold Price: $2,176,000 Date: 04/02/2019 4 beds, 3 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 75x115 Schools: Manhasset Total Taxes: $25,617 MLS# 3081433

Sold Price: $2,400,000 Date: 04/17/2019 5 beds, 4 Full/2 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 140x110 Schools: Manhasset Total Taxes: $23,430 MLS# 3095827

Editor’s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in Manhasset by a variety of real estate agencies. The information about the homes and the photos were obtained through the Multiple Listing Services of Long Island. The homes are presented based solely on the fact that they were recently sold in Manhasset and are believed by Blank Slate Media to be of interest to our readers.

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Manhasset Eggstravaganza

PHOTO COURTESY OF MANHASSET MOTHERS’ GROUP

Spring has arrived in Manhasset. The grass is turning green and trees are blooming.

Easter arrives on Sunday, April 21 and the Easter Bunny has already made an appearance in Manhasset.

The Manhasset Mothers’ Group held its annual egg hunt on the gorgeous grounds Strathmore Vanderbilt Country Club on April 13. The event was organized by co-chairs, Claire Leiser and Grace Pok.

The event featured basket decorating, a balloon artist and face painting. To the children’s delight, the Easter bunny led the children to the egg hunt and posed for photographs.

President, Dana Forbes and Vice President, Jaclyn Martiniwished to thank all those that attended as well as the volunteers who created a fun-filled morning for so many families.

All are welcome to join theMGMand participate in exciting events including the annual Children’s Ice Cream social which will be held in June.

TheMGMis a member-based organization that holds a number of regular events throughout the year. For more information about the Mothers’ Group of Manhasset, including membership, visitwww.manhassetmothersgroup.com.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF PLANDOME HEIGHTS WOMEN’S CLUB

From left, Donna Harragan, Judi Bosworth, Marion Endrizzi and Jackie O’Connor.

Heights club annual membership meet On a sunny March afternoon, Plandome Heights Women’s Club held its annual General Membership Meeting at Port Washington Yacht Club. Over 30 members, new members and friends attended to enjoy the Picturesque Port Washington Yacht Club with a beautiful view of Manhasset Bay. The purpose of this luncheon was for the nominating committee, Marion Endrizzi and Jackie O’Connor, to present the proposed 2019-20 slate of officers for the membership to vote on.

The slate was unanimously approved.

Ladies Event Chairs Anna Oncel and Victoria Grassano organized this event. Judi Bosworth, North Hempstead Town Supervisor and honorary Plandome Heights Women’s Club member, was a guest speaker.

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Sater prominent in Mueller report Continued from Page 4 could get Putin to say good things about Trump as a businessman at a theoretical press conference for Trump Tower Moscow.

In a report by Buzzfeed News in March 2018, Sater claimed that while working on the “Moscow Project” he had no involvement with Russian meddling in the 2016 election and said, “he was just doing what he has always done: working a deal.”

Sater also told Buzzfeed that he and Cohen had planned to give Putin a $50 million penthouse in the proposed Trump Moscow as a way to attract Russian oligarchs to the building.

The Mueller report states that Sater and Cohen believed that due to the anticipated size of the project, it would require approval from the Russian national government. Sater therefore attempted to set up meetings with the appropriate government officials.

In late December 2015, Cohen complained to Sater that he had failed to set up the promised meeting with Russian government officials and said he would “set up the meeting myself.”

Cohen, on Jan. 11, 2016, emailed Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian government, requesting contact with Sergei Ivanov, Putin’s chief of staff.

After sending the initial email to an erroneous address for Peskov, using “.gof” instead of .”gov,” Cohen sent an email to info@prpress.gov.ru.

In Cohen’s original testimony to

Congress, he said he never received a response to his inquiries, which resulted in his calling off the deal. In reality, according to the report, he received a response shortly after and negotiations continued for another six months.

Days after a phone call with Peskov’s personal assistant that Cohen remembers as being futile, according to the investigation, Sater texted Cohen asking that he call when he had “a few minutes to chat … It’s about Putin they called today.”

According to the report, Sater then sent Cohen an invitation to Russia on Jan. 25, 2016, that was signed by Andrey Ryabinsky, a Russian entrepreneur. The invitation detailed “a working trip” where Cohen would explore the available land plots for the proposed tower and Trump’s potential visit to the country.

Cohen told Mueller’s office he declined the offer because he said there was a “lack of concrete proposals” for land plots for the project.

Sater reached out to Cohen again on April 20, 2016, with a message that said: “the People wanted to know when you are coming?” He followed up on May 4 with Cohen inquiring whether he made the correct assumption when telling his contacts that Trump would most likely visit “after the convention” and “after Cleveland,” referring to the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.

Cohen responded to Sater that he would visit prior to Cleveland and “Trump once he becomes the nominee after the

convention.”

Sater tied Cohen’s planned trip to the upcoming annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the report states.

The forum is said to be attended by many prominent Russian businessmen and politicians.

On May 5, 2016, Sater wrote a note to Cohen saying that Peskov would like to invite Cohen to the forum as his guest.

He suggested that Cohen may have the opportunity to meet with the Kremlin.

Cohen told Mueller’s office that he may have read this message aloud to Trump.

According to the report, Sater told Mueller’s office that he was told by an associate that Peskov wanted to invite Cohen to the forum.

Cohen then received an invitation to the forum from the director of the foundation that organizes the event on June 13, 2016, in an email forwarded from Sater. According to the report, Cohen grew concerned about the validity of the deal after the invitation showed no indication that Peskov had any involvement with his invitation.

The next day, Cohen met with Sater in the lobby of New York’s Trump Tower and informed him that he would no longer be traveling to Moscow, according to the report.

Cohen told Mueller’s office that after he told Trump about the invitation to the forum, he remembers Trump telling him that he would be willing to travel to Moscow if Cohen could “lock and load” on the deal.

Suit claims LIU VP poached students Continued from Page 12 you might have from LIU,” Hall wrote.

“That’s your decision – though I think it is foolish.”

Weis and LIU are defendants in the suit.

Mercy College has four campuses: Dobbs Ferry, Manhattan, Bronx and Yorktown Heights. LIU has two: LIU Post in Greenvale and LIU Brooklyn.

Through the lawsuit, Mercy College demands injunctive relief and cites damages it says the defendant caused through breaches of loyalty, contract interference and unfair competition.

LIU’s attorney requested the complaint’s dismissal on Jan. 8, and Weis’ attorney Hayley Dryer did the same last November.

“Plaintiff suffered no actual damages

by reason of any of Weis’ alleged acts,” she wrote.

Remedies Mercy College requests include at least $700,000 for the diversion of the nine students, which it says caused economic harm of an amount yet to be determined, and at least $700,000 for using confidential information to do so.

Efforts to reach lawyers for the colleges and Weis were unavailing.

LIRR on-time rating beats 94% goal Continued from Page 24 frequency of maintenance.

The improvement comes as the LIRR faces an increase in ridership.

According to Eng, around 7.5 million people rode the railroad in March, a 270,000-person increase from the same time last year.

“We are moving more and more people every day as we tackle, one by one, the issues that have affected their travels in the past,” Eng said.

State Sen. Anna Kaplan (D-Great

Neck) said the improved on-time ratings are good news, but that more still needs to be done to help LIRR riders.

“While I’m happy to hear that ontime performance is moving in the right direction, the LIRR has much more to do, as on-time performance alone doesn’t tell the full story about the challenges LIRR riders face every day,” Kaplan said in a statement. “Commuters are still dealing with constant headaches from unexpected cancellations, short trains, and dirty trains, and until

they get the service they deserve, I will continue to exercise close oversight of the situation.”

It also comes as a nearly 4 percent fare hike approved by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the LIRR, took effect on Sunday.

The MTA Board voted on Feb. 27 to approve fare and toll increases so the agency has revenue to support operations and “meet rising costs and achieve a balanced budget as required by law,” according to the MTA’s website.

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From Trump’s signing of a letter of intent in fall 2015 to requesting an update from Cohen immediately after publicly denying any involvement with Russia in the summer of 2016, Mueller’s investigation details the president’s knowledge of the Moscow negotiations throughout their lifespan.

In Trump’s written responses to a list of questions from Mueller, he stated that as he recalls “neither I nor the Trump Organization had any projects or proposed projects in Russia during the campaign other than Letter of Intent.”

The president also said in his responses that he was not aware of any communications between Cohen and Sater regarding the letter.

In public, Trump has in the past denied knowing Sater. In reality, the pair shared a working relationship, which included Sater’s time occupying an office in New York’s Trump Tower two floors below the real estate mogul and Sater’s involvement in the Trump SoHo Hotel project.

In a March 2017 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Sater said of his time working with Trump that he “was building Trump Towers by day and hunting Bin Laden by night.”

He was referring to his role as an FBI informant in which he “provided crucial intelligence information and assistance to numerous U.S. national security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies,” according to his statement to the House intelligence committee in December 2017.

Sater was enlisted by the FBI as an informant after pleading guilty to racketeering in 1998 for running a “pump and dump” scheme where his company inflated stock prices and sold them off once investors started buying in, according to court documents.

The businessman turned to what he called in his Buzzfeed interview the “dark side of Wall Street” after having lost his stockbroker’s license when he was 25 when he served jail time for stabbing one of his competitors in the face with a broken margarita glass. He began working on Wall Street after he dropped out of Pace University at 18.

Sater’s family fled from the Soviet Union when he was 8 years old due to their Jewish religion. After spending some time in Israel, he and his family eventually relocated to Brighton Beach in Brooklyn.

Sater sold his Sands Point home for just over $2 million in early February, more than a year after it had been put on the market. Sater purchased the home in 2004 and sold it in order to relocate to waterfront property, according to local real estate agent Kathy Levinson in an interview with Blank Slate Media. She said he had already lived in Port Washington when he purchased the home.

By the time reporters from Buzzfeed News sat down with Sater in March 2018, the Russian-born New Yorker had already moved to Los Angeles where he shipped his Porsche to meet him there.

Sater is known locally for the time he served on the board of directors at the Chabad of Port Washington and was the recipient of the organization’s Man of the Year award in 2014.

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Guidance Center luncheon raises over $87K A sellout crowd of 245 people joined together on Wednesday, April 17 for North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center’s Annual Spring Luncheon.

This year’s event, which supports the Guidance Center’s mission to restore and strengthen the emotional well-being of children and their families, was a record-breaker, raising more than $87,000.

The luncheon, which took place at Glen Head Country Club, began with a morning round of mahjong, canasta and bridge, along with unique shopping boutiques from some of Long Island’s trendiest and most charitable small business owners, including Buy the Bag, Club & Country, Dash, I Thrive, Transitions and RFC Fine Jewelry, among others.

After a luncheon buffet, Vanessa McMullen, supervisor at the Guidance Center’s Marks Family Right From The Start 0-3+ Center in Manhasset and also head of the agency’s Diane Goldberg Maternal Depression Program, introduced the day’s speaker, former client Katherine.

The audience was completely engrossed as Katherine shared

Board members and supporters of the Guidance Center’s lifesaving mission had a wonderful time at this year’s Spring Luncheon. her experience with postpartum depression and talked about the lifesaving treatment she received at the Guidance Center.

She told the crowd, “I was desperately seeking someone who could tell me that I could get through this and convince me that it would get better.

When I was finally connected

with North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center, my life and my daughter’s life were changed forever… The Guidance Center has not only given me back my life, it has given my family a future.”

“Katherine’s story was incredibly moving,” said Nancy Lane, Guidance Center board

president. “When she spoke about the dedication of the Guidance Center staff to both her and her family, I was incredibly proud. Our dedicated team of professionals gives their all to bring hope and healing to each and every client.”

The luncheon couldn’t have been so successful without the

hard work of the co-chairs, Jan Ashley, Amy Cantor and Alexis Siegel.

“The enormous success of this year’s event is largely due to the incredible dedication of our three co-chairs,” said Andrew Malekoff, executive director of the Guidance Center. “They have put so much time and energy into the luncheon for several years, and we are truly grateful to them for continuing to make each year more special than the last.”

The Guidance Center is also grateful for the support of its sponsors. They are: Adelphi University, Baxter Smith & Shapiro PC, Amy Cantor, Ruth Fortunoff Cooper, Fara Copell, Linda Cronin, Julie Epstein, Fifth Avenue of LI Realty/Americana Manhasset, Joan & Jeffrey Grant, Janni and Associates/ FNA, Deborah Klein, Rosemarie Klipper, Tracey Kupferberg/ CBR, NYU Winthrop Women’s and Children’s Services, Raich Ende Malter & Co. LLP, Alexis Siegel, Signature Bank, Ruth & Michael Slade, South Oaks and Zucker Hillside Hospitals — Northwell Health and Carol Wolowitz.

Local students making college news New York Institute of Technology John Hayes of New Hyde Park was among 15 engineering and technology students who took a guided tour of the Mid-Day Storage Yard, part of the MTA’s East Side Access enormous project. The train storage yard, still under construction, is in Sunnyside, and forms part of one of North America’s largest public works projects.

During the visit, MTA staff members explained the organizational structure and issues relating to areas the students were focusing on.

Hayes, a mechanical engineering major, noted the com-

plexity of the facilities on the site, including a signal hut, an electrical substation, and a vent facility (not yet operational) linked to the fire detection system.

When completed, the MidDay Storage Yard will contain virtually all infrastructure systems for communication, traction power, signals, and security for the trains stored there.

On April 9, Rija Ahmed of New Hyde Park was among eight students from the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences who participated in the 2019 Long Island Business Plan Competition. The annual competition encourages students

from Long Island colleges and universities to think like entrepreneurs and develop their own business.

university awards admission merit scholarships to highachieving high school students based on GPA and test scores.

Fairleigh Dickinson University Adam Lewis of Great Neck was named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2018 semester.

To qualify for the Dean’s List, a student must carry a 3.2 or better grade point average out of a possible 4.0 and be enrolled in a minimum of 12 letter-graded hours.

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi The following students were recently initiated into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society.

Michael Braunstein of Roslyn Heights, initiated at the University of Michigan;Nicole Alaimo of Port Washington, initiated at Long Island University;Paul Samson of Port Washington, initiated at

Delaware Valley University Kevin Cho of Roslyn Heights has been selected for an academic merit scholarship.The

Fordham University;Domenico Pietromonaco of New Hyde Park, initiated at Fordham University;Nicole Altamirano of New Hyde Park, initiated at Long Island University;Elizabeth Rooney of Williston Park, initiated at Long Island University;Jessica Rubin of Williston Park, initiated at Long Island University;Kristin Diamond of Carle Place, initiated at Long Island University;Dara Goldberg and Jenna Florendo of Roslyn Heights, both initiated at Fordham University;Ashley Abrankian of Manhasset, initiated at Fordham University; andJennifer Cangemi of Manhasset, initiated at Long Island University.

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ELDER CARE HOUSE CLEANING Experienced woman w/ excellent references seeking a Full Time position to take care of the elderly. House Cleaning also available. Contact: 516-489-6242 or 516-348-5573 HOME ASSISITANT FOR ELDERLY OR BUSY PROFESSIONAL Errands, Cooking, Misc. 20 years experience. Former employee of North Shore LIJ Call 516-581-6387 HOME HEALTH AIDE will take care of your loved one in their home. Experienced & honest. Licensed driver with own transportation. Call Flo 352-262-6970

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Please email cover letter & resume to: office_mgr@drjindra.com

EDUCATIONAL BUS TRANSPORTATION available for 516.454.2300 Positions Nassau & Suffolk JOB OPPORTUNITY: $18.50 P/H NYC$15 P/H LI$14.50 P/H UPSTATE NYH. If you currently care for your relatives or friends who have Medicaid or Medicare, you may be eligible to start working for them as a personal assistant. No Certificates needed. 347-462-2610 or 347-565-6200

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MARKETPLACE *BROWSE *SHOP *CONSIGN A.T. STEWART EXCHANGE CONSIGNMENT SHOP China, Silver, Crystal, Jewelry, Artwork, Furniture, Antiques, Collectibles TuesFri 10-4 Sat 12-4 Every Tuesday: 10% Senior Citizen Discount. All proceeds benefit The Garden City Historical Society 109 Eleventh Street Garden City 11530 516-746-8900 email: store@atstewartexchange.org www.gardencityhistoricalsociety. org INVITED ESTATE SALES BY TRACY JORDAN Looking to sell items from your home? Consider doing an Online Auction! Online Auctions reach more interested buyers than tag sales and can often sell for more than what you would make at an estate or tag sale. Invited Estate Sales by Tracy Jordan can do both! You can sell your items online reaching potential buyers locally or globally as well as hosting a private sale from your home! Let us guide you on what items to put in auction including furniture, housewares, decorative items, jewelry, collectibles, coins, artwork and anything else you may no longer want or need. Our services can help you to maximize your selling experience whether you are selling 1 item or 500 items. We are a one stop service for all your needs when you are moving or selling a property! Selling, donating, discarding and cleaning out services can be done to meet your time frame with minimal stress.

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WANTED TO BUY LOOKING TO BUY! Oriental items, clothing, art, old & modern furniture, estates, jewelry, silver, glassware, dishes, old photos, coins & stamps, flatware. Call George 718-386-1104 or 917-775-3048 TOP CASH PAID: JEWELRY, Furniture, Art, etc. Please call 718598-3045 or 516-270-2128. www. iBuyAntiquesNYC.com

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Dog walking also available. Pet CPR & first Aid Certified. Numerous referrals and references. Limited availability. Book early! Annmarie 516-775-4256

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OCEANSIDE, NY $1,500,000 FREE STANDING BUILDING Total tax $24,000 1 Restaurant, 1 BR Apt and a 2 BR Apt upstairs, 3 room office. Hastava Realty 516-432-8282

ROOM FOR RENT MINEOLA: Large furnished room, private entrance, share bath, own TV, microwave and fridge, A/C, radio w/tapes, no pets/smoking. $735 month all utilities included plus 1 month security. References required. 516-747-5799

OFFICE SPACE GARDEN CITY Prime 7th Street Garden City location. Small second floor office space available. $750.00 per month includes all. Owner, 516-510-9452 GARDEN CITY Windowed offices (2) and oversized workstations (2) available in suite of newly renovated and professionally designed offices of law firm located at 1305 Franklin Avenue, Garden City. Use of conference rooms, kitchen, copy, fax and receptionist services included.

5-10 minute walk to LIRR Mineola station and all courts and government buildings. Contact Connie Curatolo 516-739-1462

OFFICE SPACE / ART STUDIO Easy Parking $600 per month Avital Gallery7717 Middle Neck Rd 9C Great Neck, NY 11024 516-528-9765

OUT OF TOWN REAL ESTATE SEBASTIAN FLORIDA (East Coast) Beach Cove is an Age Restricted Community where friends are easily made. Sebastian is an “Old Florida” fishing village with a quaint atmosphere yet excellent medical facilities, shopping and restaurants. Direct flights from Newark to Vero Beach. New manufactured homes from $114,900. 772-5810080; www.beach-cove.com

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PAINTING & PAPERHANGING INTERIOR & EXTERIOR PAINTING Plastering, Taping, Sheetrock Skim Cutting, Old Wood Refinish, Staining, Wallpaper Removal & Hanging, Paint Removal, Power Washing, Wood Replacement JOHN MIGLIACCIO Licensed & Insured #80422100000 Call John anytime: 516-901-9398 (Cell) 516483-3669 (Office) MICHELANGELO PAINTING & WALLPAPER Interior, Exterior, Plaster/Spackle, Light Carpentry, Decorative Moldings & Power Washing. Call: 516-328-7499

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Emergency telepsychiatry hub opens Northwell Health opened an Emergency Telepsychiatry Hub on Thursday that provides remote, around-the-clock consultations for mental health patients in crisis coming to the health system’s emergency departments throughout New York City, Long Island and Westchester County.

Telepsychiatry is an innovative, secure, online video conferencing platform that connects patients with psychiatrists where and when they need them most. Located at Northwell’s Lenox Health Greenwich Village in Manhattan, the new 770-square-foot telepsychiatry center features nine videoequipped workstations staffed by members of a 35-employee team that includes 23 psychiatrists and nine master’s-level behavioral health clinicians.

Having this telehealth resource in place has already resulted in a 90 percent decrease in wait times for emergency department patients who need to see a psychiatrist – to an average of 45 minutes. The need for telepsychiatry services is especially great in the evenings and early morning hours when psychiatry staff at most hospitals have gone home.

Since Northwell began using telepsychiatry several years ago, the health system has performed approximately 11,000 remote consultations from its emergency departments, including 3,800 in 2018 – more

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The new telepsychiatry hub will provide remote, around-the-clock consultations for mental health patients in crisis coming to the health system’s emergency departments (ED) throughout New York City, Long Island and Westchester County. than any other health system in the region. With the new Emergency Telepsychiatry Hub, the program is projected to handle 5,000 consultations this year.

The program also provides transfer and admitting services, resulting in expedited access to inpatient psychiatry beds and reducing the number of patients being held in emergency departments.

“At a time when the American health care system is facing a shortage of psychiatrists and mental health services, telepsychiatry underscores Northwell’s

commitment to increasing access to care and improving outcomes for our patients,” said Dr. Jonathan Merson, medical director of Northwell’s Emergency Telepsychiatry Hub Program. “It’s a technology that has no boundaries and the goal is simple: No patient experiencing a behavioral health emergency should have to wait to be seen.”

The Emergency Telepsychiatry Hub is connected to 15 Northwell-run emergency departments throughout the region. Excluded are Long Island Jewish Hospital in Queens,

which already has 24/7, onsite psychiatry coverage, and Mather Hospital in Port Jefferson, which will be integrated later this year. Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, a Northwell clinical affiliate, will be added on April 24.

Northwell has been at the forefront of telehealth technology and was the first health system in the New York area to offer 24-hour remote monitoring of critical-care patients in intensive care units by specialized physicians and nurses. Over the past several years, it has institut-

ed a telestroke program where stroke neurologists are remotely consulted to access patients who are presenting with signs and symptoms of a stroke. The technology is also being used in the health system’s skillednursing facilities to diagnose patients remotely, reducing the need for hospitalizations. In the future, the pediatric critical care team at Cohen Children’s Medical Center will be available for telehealth consultations with children being treated at other Northwell hospitals.

“Telehealth, or virtual care, is changing the way health care is delivered,” said Dr. Martin Doerfler,senior vice president of clinical strategy and development at Northwell Health.

“It has the potential to improve outcomes for every patient who walks through the door.”

Noting that providers are still trying to convince the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and commercial insurers to reimburse providers for telehealth services, Northwell Health President & CEO Michael Dowling said, “Good programs like this are always ahead of the financing. Reimbursement will catch up over time once regulators and insurers recognize the cost savings and efficiencies. In the meantime, we’re doing this because it’s the right thing to do for our patients.”

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Doctors head to Panama for mission trip Two Northwell Health neurologists, Dr. Ruben Kuzniekcy and Dr. Raquel Fonseca, were among the physicians who participated in the Panama Epilepsy Surgery Mission last month at the Hospital de Niños de Panama.

The purpose of the trip was to treat children with intractable epilepsy who otherwise never would have the possibility of receiving surgery. The multidisciplinary team performed 12surgeries in children ages 4 through 15 during the five-day mission in March.

“Although specialty care is available in Panama, epilepsy surgery services are not provided as they are very complex,” said Kuzniecky, Northwell’s vice chairman of academic affairs and neurologist specializing

in epilepsy. “It is impossible to operate without a sophisticated, multidisciplinary team including neurologists, neurosurgeons and electroencephalography (EEG) technicians.”

Kuzniecky and Fonseca partnered with Panamanian physicians at the Hospital de Ninos to combine resources and expertise. This was the group’s sixth trip to Panama, staffed by a team of doctors from Northwell Health, Baylor University Medical Center and NYU Langone.

The procedures involved respective surgeries to remove seizure-producing areas of the brain. Among the children who were treated was an 8-year-old boy with Rasmussen’s encephalitis, a devastating progressive brain inflammatory condition

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At bedside, Yobelis Bernal, 7, with Northwell neurologists Dr. Ruben Kuzniecky and Dr. Raquel Fonseca. that attacks one brain hemisphere and destroys it. This

child received a hemispherectomy, which disconnects the

damaged side of the brain from the healthy side. The operation is complex, but very effective in eliminating the disease.

“I was born and grew up in Panama,” Kuzniecky said. “It is so rewarding to be able to come back every year to help children with severe epilepsy who have no other treatment options.

Many of these families are very poor and live in remote areas, which makes their treatment very difficult. We also met some of the children and parents who were operated on years ago.

Most are finishing school and are able to live normal lives.

This is the most rewarding part of what we do every day.”

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SPARK! Challenge awards AARP volunteer open houses

Photo courtesy of Northwell Health Northwell Health’s fifthannual SPARK! Challenge culminated with an awards presentation involving 900 students from 47 school districts across the region at the Crest Hollow Country Club on April 11.SPARK! Challenge is a year-long career initiative providing high school students

the opportunity to learn about careers requiring science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills. The program was created by Northwell’s Workforce Readiness team.

“This year’s SPARK! Challenge was the largest since the program’s inception, with 900 students participating,” said Cheryl Davidson, senior director of Workforce Readiness within Northwell Human Resources. “They want to learn and discover what a career in health care could offer. They’re able to get hands-on experience in clinical and non-clinical areas so they can choose the direction they want to go — the possibilities are limitless.”

SPARK! Challenge teams presented their projects to Northwell’s senior leadership at the awards celebration and participated in hands-on activities at the event. Experts representing more than 75 health care fields hosted students for a day in the fall and served as mentors to encourage students to consider high-growth and non-traditional career paths in healthcare.

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The North Hempstead Volunteer Team of AARP is holding open enrollment meetings for prospective new volunteers on Thursday, May 16 and Thursday, June 20. The meetings will be held at 12 p.m. at the Hillside Public Library on Lakeville Road in New Hyde Park, just north of Jericho Turnpike, on the second floor.

New prospective volunteers will be welcomed and provided with information on current AARP initiatives in the local community and statewide, including:

local beautification, public advocacy, stocking food banks, caregiving, document shredding, etc.

New volunteers will be invited to assist with any of AARP’s current programs as well as share in AARP’s multi-cultural activities.

Join the meetings and learn firsthand what AARP is doing in your community to improve senior living.

For more information, contact Don Amira at djasings@yahoo.com.

Clark Garden plant sale Free shredding event in NHP

Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth and the Town Board have partnered with the Clark Botanic Garden Auxiliary for the 50th Annual Spring Plant Sale at Clark Botanic Garden on Friday, May 10 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, May 11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The annual sale will feature annuals, perennials, herbs, shrubs, hanging baskets and vegetables for purchase. The plant sale raises money for the Fanny Dwight Clark Memorial Garden, Inc. “In the spring Clark Botanic Garden is at the height of its beauty with tulips, daffodils and many more blossoms,” said Bosworth. “The plant sale is the perfect time to visit the garden and enjoy spending time in nature all while gathering the perfect present for Mother’s Day.” Collections at the garden include native spring wildflowers, conifers, roses, perennials, daylilies, wetland plants, rock garden plants, herbs, butterfly plants, medicinal plants, and over a dozen collections of particular plant families.

The Plant Sale will also feature an art show, attic treasures, a garden gift shop, including the popular Clark Garden Honey, a tea room with sandwiches and homemade cakes, raffles

Bioferm, “Black Gold” for your garden, and a farmstand selling organic, locally grown produce.

Founded in 1969, Clark Botanic Garden is a 12-acre living museum and educational facility dedicated to understanding and appreciating the world’s plant life through horticulture, education and research. It is located at 193 I.U. Willets Road in Albertson.

Admission to the plant sale is free and cash or check only is accepted when purchasing plants.

All proceeds will benefit the Fanny Dwight Clark Memorial Garden, Inc. The plant sale is rain or shine. For more information, please call 311 or 516-869-6311.

The AARP Volunteer Team of North Hempstead is partnering with the Lakeville Estates Civic Association to host a

free shredding event on Saturday, May 18 at the Clinton G. Martin parking lot. The event, which is open to the public, will be held from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., or until the shredding truck is filled.

The Clinton G. Martin Park is located at the corner of New Hyde Park Road and Denton Avenue in New Hyde Park.

There is a limit of three shopping bags per person consisting of paper only with no magazines or newspapers. These annual shredding events are a great way to eliminate documents which contain personal information.

Hearing health expo at Mill Neck Manor The Center for Hearing Health will host its first Mill Neck Hearing Health Expo on Wednesday, May 15, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the historic Mill Neck Manor, located at 40 Frost Mill Road in Mill Neck.

The Center for Hearing Health, a nonprofit agency that provides the highest quality and preferred practice standards of audiological services to children and adults in the New York area, is excited to announce Mill Neck’s first-ever Hearing Health Expo.

Hearing health professionals will provide valuable information and offer the community an opportunity to view current hearing aid technology, assistive devices, new innovations and more. Attendees can win

a free hearing aid and premier raffle prizes. Additionally, the Center for Hearing Health mobile audiology van will be there to administer free hearing screenings.

For more information, visit www.centerforhearinghealth.org or call 516-628-4300.

The Center for Hearing Health is a part of the Mill Neck Family of organizations, dedicated to its mission of creating a world in which deaf and hard of hearing individuals are included, empowered, celebrated and embraced as equals through quality education, employment, audiological and spiritual programs and services.

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Town approves bid for lighthouse pier, dock Supervisor Judi Bosworth and Council Member Veronica Lurvey present Executive Vice President David Levy with a citation to celebrate the kick off of the new Sid Jacobson JCC food bank.

Ribbon cut at JCC food bank Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth and Council Member Veronica Lurvey joined the Sid Jacobson JCC on April 6 at the Sid Jacobson JCC Annex in East Hills as they cut the ribbon on their new facilities and food bank.

To commemorate the ribbon cutting ceremony, Bosworth and Lurvey presented a citation of recognition to thank the Sid Jacobson JCC for their dedication to the local community.

The Sid Jacobson JCC’s

food bank is funded by the Sheldon A. Sinett Basics Fund and is a collaboration with the JCC’s Center for Community Engagement and the Center for Special Needs. Their goal is to both help collect items and serve as a distribution site for non-perishable food, personal care items for local and small food pantries throughout Nassau County.

Also in attendance was New York state Sen. Anna Kaplan and New York state Assemblyman Charles Lavine.

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Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth and Town Board members passed a resolution to accept the bid from Atlantic Coast Dock Construction Corp. to construct a fixed pier and floating dock at the Town-owned Stepping Stone Lighthouse. The cost of the construction is $606,770, with a $100,000 grant from State Assemblyman Tony D’Urso to offset the cost.

The work on the lighthouse will begin sometime in the summer and once completed, will allow easier access to the lighthouse so that stabilization and renovation work can begin.

The board also approved a memorandum of understanding between the Town, the MTA and the LIRR to access a Community Benefit Fund created by the MTA and the LIRR to help mitigate the effects of the Third Track Project now underway.

The LIRR Expansion Project’s Community Benefits Fund is designed to provide the communities adjacent to the LIRR Main Line with funds that they may use, subject to certain condition, to help offset impacts to such localities caused by construction of the Project. The Community Benefits Fund will support local initiatives intended to ensure

community safety and quality-of-life throughout the Project’s construction phase.

“The Third track project has made a huge impact on our residents,” said Bosworth. “The Town Board and I wanted to ensure that we have the ability to have input throughout this project.

To this end, we have been negotiating an agreement with the LIRR to have this input, as well as have access to a Community Benefit Fund in the amount of over $4 million to undertake projects meant to mitigate the effects of the Third Track Project.”

In other business, the Town Board also approved the creation of a Town Diversity Advisory Board. The Board will create and implement a plan that will further the Town’s goal of promoting tolerance and inclusion in all North Hempstead communities.

The next Town Board meeting is April 30 at 7 p.m. at Town Hall, 220 Plandome Road in Manhasset.

For more information about the fund, visit www.lirrexpansion.com/2018/06/18/community-benefits-fund.

Town holds 10th annual Asian-American festival Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth and the Town Board are pleased to announce that the 10th Annual Asian-American Festival will be held on May 18 beginning at 12 p.m. at North Hempstead Beach Park in Port Washington.

“This year we are celebrating 10 years of our Annual Asian-American Festival which highlights the cultural diversity of our Town and of our residents,” said Bosworth. “Join us for a special afternoon by the waterfront with outstanding cultural performances, delicious Asian delicacies and meaningful celebrations of Asian culture.”

Since the first Asian-American Festival in

2010, members of the North Hempstead community have celebrated the Asian cultures represented in North Hempstead yearly during Asian American and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month.

The celebration includes live performances from around the world, food from local restaurants, and cultural activities.

There will be a lively market and food representing the countries of China, India, Japan, Pakistan, Korea and more.

The event is free to attend; there is a $10 parking fee per vehicle if paying with cash, $7 parking fee if paying with credit or debit card.

For more information, please call 311 or 516-869-6311.

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From left are Glen Cove Harbor Master Sergeant Conger, Council Member Lee Seeman, Chief Bay Constable Mal Nathan, Council Member Peter Zuckerman, Town Clerk Wayne Wink, Highway Construction Supervisor Brian Waterson, Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, Deputy Mayor of Glen Cove Maureen Basdavanos, Highway Supervisor Chuck Poole, Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor Joseph Saladino, Council Member Veronica Lurvey, Council Member Dina DeGiorgio, Town Environmental Specialist Kevin Braun and Glen Cove Harbor Master Officer Sicuranza.

Towns jointly clean Hempstead Harbor Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth, Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor Joseph Saladino and city of Glen Cove Mayor Tim Tenke pooled their resources to conduct a major cleaning of Hempstead Harbor, a body of water which all the municipalities share. The Hempstead Harbor Protection Committee and the Coalition to Save Hempstead Harbor were instrumental in encouraging the municipalities to work together on the joint cleanup project.

Hempstead Harbor, located between Manhasset and Oyster Bays, is unique in that it is shared by nine municipalities: North Hempstead, Oyster Bay, Nassau County, Glen Cove, Sands Point, Flower Hill, Roslyn, Roslyn Harbor, and Sea Cliff.

“We are all neighbors who share the same waterfront and we need to work together on any initiative that can make Hempstead Harbor cleaner and more beautiful,” said Bosworth. “We have great partners in the Hempstead Harbor

Protection Committee, the Town of Oyster Bay and the City of Glen Cove.”

“The very purpose in creating the Hempstead Harbor Protection Committee was to bring municipalities around the harbor to work together to jointly improve the harbor that we all share,” said Eric Swenson, executive director of the Hempstead Harbor Protection Committee . “This project is an outcome and a great example of that vision.”

Carol DiPaolo, program director of the Coalition to Save Hempstead Harbor said: “We applaud the efforts of the municipalities in working together to remove large debris that would break down over time and pose a risk to marine life and degrade local beaches. This collaboration accomplishes what is difficult to achieve by a single municipality or by local residents who regularly participate in beach cleanups to improve harbor conditions.”

The cleanup entailed removing an

assortment of marine debris, including old docks, tires, broken moorings and pieces of Styrofoam and other debris.

Most of the debris had been marked in advance by the Town’s Bay Constable to make it easier to locate at high tide when the cleanup begins. Kevin Braun, the Town’s environmental specialist under the Planning Department assisted coordinating the cleanup.

The city of Glen Cove’s Harbor Patrol assisted with the cleanup; the Town of Oyster Bay provided a boat equipped with apparatus to haul debris aboard and staff; and North Hempstead tapped into several departments, including Planning, Highway, Parks, Solid Waste Management Authority and Bay Constable, to staff the day-long cleanup from the water and land.

“The Town of Oyster Bay is proud to take part in this important inter-municipal environmental initiative along with the City of Glen Cove and the Town

of North Hempstead,” said Saladino.

“Working to improve the state of our waterways has been a priority for my administration, and together through cleanups such as this, we will improve the overall health of Hempstead Harbor and expand the recreational use and access for our North Shore residents.”

“As mayor of Glen Cove, I work hard each and every day to make the city the best it can be,” said Tenke. “The waterfront is a staple of our community and we need to do everything we can to protect it. Glen Cove is lucky to have the support of the Hempstead Harbor Protection Committee, the Town of Oyster Bay, and the Town of North Hempstead to do so.”

The Town of North Hempstead’s North Hempstead Beach Park parking lot served as the base camp, where dumpsters were positioned to hold all the debris. The Town’s Solid Waste Management Authority will dispose of the debris.

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Victor Hugo saved Notre-Dame in 1831 The recent news that the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris nearly burnt to the ground must be written about. The loss of great and beautiful things is shocking for the world and requires a moment to work through.

Sadly, I have always found it difficult to appreciate iconic destinations that the world has to offer.

I may have a weak imagination, but I have a feeling most of my friends feel the same way but are too proud to say so.

I recall when in graduate school one of my professors, Dr. Fred Levine, was explaining Leon Festinger’s theory of cognitive dissonance by saying, “The amount of money one spends on a vacation means that when you return home, you must convince yourself and all others that the trip was just ‘wonderful, marvelous, stupendous.'”

Indeed, that is a highly cynical example, but there is an element of truth to it. As I age I have diligently established my bucket list of places to visit and have been checking off these trips one by one.

About five years ago, I came to the realization that there may be a way to learn to appreciate these destination spots so that I can get my money’s worth of transcendence. So that year, I think it was 2014, I decided to go to Paris and would read Victor Hugo’s Gothic novel, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”

Hugo wrote the novel in 1831 during a period when Notre-Dame de Paris was falling into disrepair.

Hugo hoped that by describing the cathedral in detail and by using it as the setting for his novel, he could inspire his countrymen to appreciate Notre-Dame and to restore it. To be sure, he was successful. His novel was a big hit and his

nation embarked upon a 20-year restoration project.

We owe some thanks to Hugo for setting out on his journey to restore a structure that is so beautiful. If you have never actually seen the cathedral, I will describe to you what it’s like to experience. You begin to get a sense of its power long before you set eyes on it. To get to the cathedral, you must walk across the Pont Neuf and make your way through the tiny streets of the Ile de la Cite.

You suddenly notice that everyone is heading in the same direction.

They all seem to have an air of excitement and you hear bits of conversation in different languages.

The world comes to Paris to see this mysterious thing of beauty.

It feels as if you are going to the center of the world and that representatives from every nation are right there with you. In fact, the

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plaza in front of Notre-Dame is referred to as Point Zero. When you finally make the last turn and gaze upon this medieval masterpiece, you understand why so many writers and artists move to Paris. This is the very epicenter of beauty and it is all yours to gaze upon.

Hugo’s story was about four men all falling in love with the

Victor Hugo gave Notre-Dame its imagination

rapturous, 16-year-old gypsy street dancer named Esmeralda.

What he managed to do with his story was to inspire the world to come to Paris and to see ultimate beauty in the form of architecture.

That is no small task, but he did it. And wasn’t it amazing to see this month that within three days over $900 million was donated by wealthy French citizens to restore it back to its glorious state.

Since my visit to Paris, I have traveled elsewhere and have used the writer’s imagination to prepare me to appreciate what I was about to behold.

Before going to Rome, I read Nathaniel Hawthorn’s “The Marble Fawn,” which was set in and around the Roman Forum. Before seeing the blue waters of Capri, I read W. Somerset Maugham’s “The Lotus Eater.” I prepped my trip to Lake George by reading “Last of

the Mohicans” by James Fenimore Cooper, and before I flew to Hawaii, I was mesmerized by James Michener’s glorious novel of the same name.

Michener once remarked, “Sugar cane and pineapples provided Hawaii with its wealth, but it is only the writer who can give it an imagination.” This, I think, is true.

It is a common story attached to every truly beautiful city on earth. The story goes like this. First a writer, in this case with the name of Victor Hugo, falls deeply in love with a building and understands it to be a very precious thing. So he writes a wonderful story about this place that was eventually placed in nearly every library on earth.

Then one day a man comes along who takes the book out of the library and reads the story about this place. He holds the story in his mind as he travels to this place and looks upon it himself. And what he sees is unforgettable and enriching.

This is a circular tale of buildings and writers and readers and travelers that spans many centuries. In the case of Notre-Dame, it spans exactly 856 years. This circular tale is like the circle described by those three giant rose stained-glass windows in the towers at Notre-Dame, which seem to spiral outward and upward as you look up at them. It is similar to the way Dante described his vision of heaven in his “Divine Comedy” with the circles going upward.

So many thanks to Maurice de Sully, Viollet-de-Duc, Victor Hugo and the many workers, glass makers, bell ringers, Parisian citizens, tourists, President Macron and all of the most recent supporters for holding fast to the idea that history and beauty and special cities count more than the world realizes.

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Kimco applies for building permit

PHOTO COURTESY OF RUDY TOOLASPRASHAD

The Manhasset and Roslyn movie theaters will show “Avengers: Endgame,” a blockbuster representative of mainstream films that operator Rudy Toolasprashad said he plans to introduce to the theaters.

Movie theaters run under new operator Continued from Page 1 three customers bought their tickets to “Hotel Mumbai.”

When Salazar told the customers they were his first, they grinned, surprised. They live in Great Neck and had never been to the theater before, they said.

“I am hoping that everyone will be happy,” Toolasprashad said. “I’m not here to change

anything.”

Movie theaters offer people the opportunity to leave the house and have a social experience, he said. By widening the genres that the theaters host there will hopefully be something of interest for everyone, he said.

“There are a lot of kids in the neighborhood, so we need

to accommodate everybody,” he said. “We accommodate the loyal customers, and we’re hoping to get new customers as well.”

When teenagers saw Avengers: Endgame on the marquee, Toolasprashad said, they highfived him.

“I’m excited,” he said. “I’m excited for everyone.”

Continued from Page 1 The shopping center includes King Kullen and Michaels among other stores.

The company filed an application for a building permit on April 5 that would allow it to begin the restorative changes, said Rebecca Cheng, a spokeswoman for the Town of North Hempstead. Once it is approved, Kimco will have 90 days to begin the restorative work.

The Town of North Hempstead first issued a notice of violation to the company on Dec. 5, which prohibited Kimco from further violations and gave it 90 days, or until March 5, to address the violation. It also required that Kimco secure a gate so that no one could pass through the site, according to the town.

The company met with the town’s building inspector on Feb. 6 and presented its plans for addressing the violations, Cheng said.

The changes Kimco made in that section were meant to ease the work on the garage and were intended to be temporary, Jennifer Maisch, Kimco corporate communications director, said in February.

Kimco’s headquarters is in New Hyde Park. The publicly traded company had interest in 437 shopping centers across the country at the end of 2018, according to its website.

Brinkerhoff Lane is a twolane residential road that also hosts Saint Mary’s Elementary School and High School.

The shopping center has entrances only on Shelter Rock Road and Northern Boulevard.

Kimco was prohibited from allowing access to the shopping center through Brinkerhoff Lane

years ago because it would cause congestion in the neighborhood and around the schools, said Richard Bentley, president of the Council of Greater Manhasset Civic Associations.

Currently, the square of land separating the lot and Brinkerhoff Lane has a paved section that connects the two. Trees previously populated the land.

Now, there are none.

Kimco placed a chain link fence around the space, but that has been pushed open, allowing passage, said Cathy Word, a Terrace Manor resident who has been emailing town officials for months about the issue.

“They should not be using a residential neighborhood to ingress and egress,” she said.

“They’re not paying our taxes.

We’re paying our taxes and that little lane can’t accommodate that kind of traffic.”

About 20 years ago, an open gate on a property at Third Street and Brinkerhoff Lane allowed traffic through, Word said. Neighborhood residents worked together to get it closed, and once it was, the character of the neighborhood changed.

“Suddenly you saw kids playing in the street, and it was just mind boggling that there were so many kids here,” Word said.

The new curb cut at the Kimco property and the temporary fence are reminiscent of a time when an exit off the side of Brinkerhoff Lane created bumper-to-bumper traffic in her neighborhood, she said.

“We were held hostage, and I don’t want anybody to go back to that,” Word said.

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