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"We can't be in business unless PCP is doing well," he said.
PCP has expanded over the years, investing in a fruit import business to can exotic fruit and a cherry-growing operation in Oregon. When a rival closed its Modesto, California, peach-canning plant earlier this year citing rising costs and "import competition from China and Europe," PCP took over that business.
The 700 million cans PCP needs for this year's growing season will add close to $20 million in unplanned additional cost. The company had expected profit for this year of $24 million, but those extra steel costs could cut PCP's profits by up to $18 million, Vincent said.
To cut costs, PCP will process the extra fruit without adding to its labor force.
"There's a lot of money we could have made that will go into steel," PCP's Vincent said.
From a management perspective, a 25-year-old manager may have a team member double or triple his orher age. If you are this 25-year-old manager, this column is mostly meant for you.
As a younger person, it’s hard to understand the collective wisdom of those who are older than you. I know it was hard for me. This is actually easier to conceptualize outside the workplace, so let’s start on the home front.
Most people, certainly I do, feel that even as an adult, there is an enormous amount that we can still learn from our parents. To put this in perspective, I’m in my early 50s and feel that I still have a lot to learn from them. This is very natural because we have been learning from our parents our entire lives.
Now let’s move this to the workplace. Older workers may not be your parents, but they have been in the workforce for a very long time. During that time, they have experienced great economies, recessions, growing companies, companies in decline, changes in technologies, changes in business practices and a lifetime of other work-related experiences.
Have you ever heard an older worker say, “Boy, if I only knew then what I know now”? Well, for you as an inexperienced manager, this is then.
-- Many of your team’s older individual contributors may have been managers earlier in their careers and have a wealth of knowledge in how to manage people.
-- If they have been at the company for an extended length of time, they know the company’s history, including its biggest successes and failures.
-- They have a long-term perspective on personal and professional growth.
-- Many older workers have had mentors over the years who have contributed to their success and would like to thank these mentors by paying it forward by helping others like you or other members of your team.
-- Stereotypically, Traditionalists and Baby boomers are very loyal to their companies, very hardworking by nature and have a strong respect for authority.
-- Maximize the efficiency of your team.
-- Help the members of your team grow professionally.
-- Create a positive and productive work environment.
-- Motivate your team to do their best.
-- Have your older, more experienced workers help cross-train your newer workers. This reduces the learning curve for new employees and makes them productive sooner.
-- When trying to institute change within your department, ask their advice -- they may provide you with surprising insights based on past experience.
-- If you can befriend an older worker outside your department who is at your managerial level or above, this person can give you advice that can help you deal with difficult employee issues within your department. The issue may be new to you, but older managers who have been in the workforce for 30, 40, or 50 years have pretty much seen it all.
The primary advice and takeaway from today’s column is: Embrace the knowledge and experience of older workers, and you will quickly learn that their collective wisdom can help you become a better manager.
Senior who was all-state in two sports, selected from a field of 24 nominees. But football is not in his future.
STAUNTON - He is the Virginia High School League's Class 2 offensive football player of the year, but come this fall, you won't find Jayden Williams on the gridiron.
The Robert E. Lee High School senior is entering the field of nursing at the University of Virginia, and his schedule will not permit him to take advantage of the walk-on invitation he received from the Cavaliers' football program.
However, for those who know him, it's not surprising that Williams has placed a high priority on academics compared to athletics.
And that is just one of many reasons why he has been selected as The News Leader's 2018 City/County Student-Athlete of the Year.
Williams was one of 24 nominees from the seven public high schools and the four private institutions that compose the city/county area.
Those nominees were reduced to a field of eight finalists, from which the winner was chosen by the staff of The News Leader.
In that final field, besides Williams, was Buffalo Gap's Kieland Chandler, Waynesboro's Isaac Edwards, Riverheads' Chandler Branch, Stuarts Draft's Caleb Carter, Fort Defiance's Faith Farley, Wilson Memorial's Ryan Aud and Stuart Hall's Cole Whitmore.
"I really appreciate it," Williams said of the award. "There were a lot of other deserving athletes. I have a lot of resources around me that have gotten me to where I am right now."
Williams is very deserving of the honor, said Lee High athletic director David Tibbs, who said the all-state performer in football and basketball was as decorated an athlete that has come through here in a long time.
"As floor leader and captain, he was the engine that ran the show in both football and basketball," Tibbs said. "He was just a high-character kid who was very respectful. He was a star athlete because of what you see, and not what you hear, and that's a pleasant thing to see in this society."
And he did it without any self-promotion.
"He wasn't one who beats his own drum or blows his own horn," Tibbs said. "He put his teams first, and team success over personal success. He was more than the exception to the rule.
"If you looked up a picture of a student-athlete in the dictionary, his would be there," he added. "He had an early acceptance to U.Va. and it was on his own, without sports, but on academic acceptance."
Williams said his decision to give up football for now and concentrate on the field of nursing didn't come easily.
"It was a hard decision," he said. "My family and I talked about it for a long time. Football gave me a lot of financial possibilities, with offers from Division II and Division III schools," he said, pointing to Catholic University, Shenandoah and Glenville State as the main three.
But Virginia and nursing won out over football.
"Virginia has a great academic program, and that's where I want to go, plus it's close to home," he said. "My grandmother was into nursing, and I could see myself excelling in that career. It gives me a reason in life.
"I'm thinking about being a certified registered nurse," he added. "It's a four-year program, one year into clinical care and three years of an anesthesia program. In my senior year, I will be in the hospital, and that's what separates the U.Va. program. There are no additional applications."
Although Williams won't be involved in football this year because of conflicts, there's still a possibility of it in the future, as Virginia has indicated the invited walk-on status as a quarterback still stands.
"The School of Nursing is so demanding it just doesn't fit into football now," he said. "But there is a possibility if I get nursing school under control, and I have some open time, I could come back my sophomore year and try out," he said. "My family wants to see me in pads again. I know I will miss it, but nursing is number one."
For Williams, his senior football season was just stellar in leading the Leemen to the state Class 2 championship game. When everything was over, he had 2,404 yards passing, 27 touchdowns and an additional 1,158 yards rushing for the season.
He ended his career by setting two school records, one for most touchdown passes, and another for passing yardage.
Then when basketball season rolled around, he was the team's point guard, leading the Leemen to the state title game.
In both sports, he piled up numerous awards, culminating with all-state honors in both.
Despite his success in athletics, Williams values academics on the same level or higher.
Williams finished his academic career at Lee with all As in his final semester.
"I went out with a bang," he said.
"At Lee, I am happy with the things I have been able to do in the community," he said.
One of those was to visit students at elementary schools such as Bessie Weller and T.C. McSwain as part of a tutoring program stressing how important academics is.
"We developed better relationships, and they took my word for things," he said. "I could relate to them on a personal level since I'm not an adult yet."
Mizzou Football will feature yet another helmet design when they take the field for the 60th Annual AutoZone Liberty Bowl against Oklahoma State on Monday. The white helmet will have black and gold striping with the University of Missouri 1970’s sailor Tiger logo on top of all white uniforms. This helmet will be the 11th different helmet worn by the Tigers in 13 games.
Here’s a look back on 2018. Which helmet is your favorite?
Mizzou wore this helmet in the first two weeks of the season in wins over UT-Martin and Wyoming.
This game at South Carolina is one fans want to forget. They may pass on the all white and large Tiger logo too.
The Block M logo returned for Homecoming against Memphis with the M and stripe down the middle featuring the rocks from the north endzone.
This is the Liberty Bowl helmet vs Oklahoma State.
The EFL have announced when the 2019/20 fixtures will be published.
Should Middlesbrough be in the Championship next season, they will find out their programme on Thursday, June 20.
The fixture schedule will be made available at 9am that day for the Championship, League One and League Two.
An EFL statement reads: “The first weekend of August is to host the opening round of league fixtures, with August 3 the date set for the first set of traditional Saturday games in the EFL, whilst round one in the Carabao Cup is to take place week commencing August 12.
“Wembley will play host to the Carabao Cup final on Sunday, March 1, 2020, in what will be the first of five finals in the EFL calendar, whilst the EFL Trophy Final, which attracted a record crowd of 85,021 in this year’s showpiece between Portsmouth and Sunderland, is to take place the following month on Sunday, April 5.
“The season-ending Sky Bet EFL play-offs will once again be staged at Wembley Stadium, this time across two weekends in May.
“The League Two final will start proceedings on Saturday, May 16, before League One and the Championship take centre stage the following weekend on Sunday, May 24 and Monday, May 25, respectively.
Jeannette Ann Marquardt, 40, 1067 Cheltanham Court, Longwood, died Friday. Born in Saginaw, Mich., she moved to Longwood from Altamonte Springs in 1984. She was a homemaker and a member of Annunciation Catholic Church. Survivors: husband, Michael, Longwood; daughters, Christine, Michelle, Stephanie, all of Longwood; parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Metiva, Saginaw; sisters, Joyce Case, Sharon Meredith, Catherine Metiva, Sally Morlik, Dorothy Frost, all of Saginaw, and Rose Koester, Brent, Mich. Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home, Goldenrod.
Officially, Black History Month does not begin until Thursday, but the calendar is not keeping some institutions from starting to celebrate a bit earlier.
For example, opening today at Nassau County's African-American Museum is ''Images of African-Americans: The Emancipation Era.'' This is an exhibition of historic prints - many from Harper's Weekly and some by Thomas Nast - that trace the struggle to end slavery and give slaves the opportunity to assume dignity and freedom as citizens.
Accompanied by a series of weekly lectures that begin next Sunday and children's workshops, the show can be seen through May 23 at the museum, 110 North Franklin Street, Hempstead. Information: 485-0470. Art by black artists figures in another commemorative show, the ''19th Annual Contemporary Black Artists in America Exhibit,'' which opens today at the Great Neck Library on Bayview Avenue.
Curated by Ivan Habersham, this features the works of some 40 artists from the Greater New York area. There will be a reception at 2 P.M. today, after which the show will run through March 2. Information: 486-8055. At Hofstra University, the visual takes a literary bent with ''Black Women Writers: Creativity, Criticism and Imagery,'' an exhibition that showcases the works of African-American women authors of fiction, poetry and prose.
With an opening reception Thursday at 6 P.M., followed at 7 by the first of six lectures (this one is ''Through a Glass Darkly,'' a look at how African-American women are portrayed in advertising), the exhibition continues through March 30 at the Filderman Gallery of the Axinn Library on Hoftsra's Hempstead campus. Information: 560-5669. Hofstra is also contributing to local library celebrations by lending items from its gallery collections.
''International African Art Posters'' are at the Levittown Library, Bluegrass Lane (731-5728), ''Fabulous Fabrics of Africa'' are at the Glen Cove Library, Glen Cove Avenue (676-2130), ''African Musical Instruments'' are at the Oceanside Library, Davison Avenue (766-2360) and ''African Kings and Queens'' and ''Afro-American Posters'' are at the Harborfields Library, Broadway in Greenlawn (757-4200).
The State University at Stony Brook begins its observance Thursday at 7 P.M. with ''A View from the Mountaintop in 1990,'' a lecture and concert featuring the Newark Boys Choir. This will be held at the Staller Center (632-7230).
The ''Ninth Annual Gospel Extravaganza'' at Brookhaven National Laboratory completes this first week of commemoration.
The 7 P.M. concert at the laboratory's Berkner Hall features Maryanne McElroy of Riverhead as soloist, Timothy Wright and His Concert Choir, Prof. Anthony G. Evans and the A.G.E. Ensemble, the Stephens Singers and the Magnificent Visions Gospel Singers.
The laboratory is on William Floyd Parkway in Upton. Tickets: 282-2345.
''Women Directors: From Hollywood to the Avant-Garde,'' a bimonthly series of films and discussions, will be presented at Theater Three in Port Jefferson.
Sponsored by the theater, the Greater Port Jefferson Arts Council and the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook, the programs begin tomorrow at 8 P.M. with a free introductory lecture, ''Women and Film: Where Are We? And Where Do We Go From Where We Are?'' E. Ann Kaplan, director of the Humanities Institute, will speak. Future installments at the theater, which is on Main Street, will include Claudia Weill's ''Girlfriends,'' Feb. 5; ''Making Feminist Documentaries: 1970-1990,'' with the film maker Julia Reichert, Feb. 19, and on April 16, ''Craig's Wife,'' the 1936 drama directed by Dorothy Arzner, and ''The Outrage,'' which Ida Lupino made in 1950.
With orders to ''photograph everything that happens, but concentrate on the men, since the ships and planes will become obsolete, but the men will always be there,'' Edward Steichen sent members of his special photographic unit out to document the United States Navy in World War II.
What they came back with can be seen in ''Steichen and His Men: A Photographic Portrait of World War II,'' which on Tuesday begins a three-week stay at the Gallery on the Hill at Bald Hill Cultural Park in Farmingville.
Featuring 60 black-and-white and color photographs by Steichen and seven other professional photographers, the exhibition was organized by the Navy Memorial Museum and the Smithsonian Institution and is touring nationally through 1992.
Carvers and collectors of waterfowl decoys will be on hand at Ward Melville High School in Setauket next weekend for the 13th annual Decoy Show of the Long Island Decoy Collectors Association, whose members will try to tell the general public what the fascination is all about.
More than $1 million of antique decoys and waterfowling collectibles and artifacts, many of them for sale, will be on display from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. Saturday and 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. next Sunday. Also, at 2 P.M. next Sunday, there will be an auction of decoys. The school is on Old Town Road. Admission: $3; under 12, free.
Frequently seen in these parts in his one-man version of Dickens's ''A Christmas Carol,'' Norman Dietz, the storyteller-writer based in Orient, is shifting gears and subject matter.
Mr. Dietz will do this celebrating Saturday at 2 P.M. at the Floyd Memorial Library on First Street in Greenport. The performance is free.
E. J. Wagner, another Long Island teller of tales, is not changing her subject matter. She is still into crime, suspense and science.
The second installment on Feb. 10 is a public forum that will explore DNA testing in crimes of scientific interest, including those of ''The Boston Strangler.'' Dr. Sigmund Menchel, Suffolk County's Chief Medical Examiner, and members of his staff will participate in this segment. The museum is on the campus of Stony brook. Information: 632-8230.
Although Alvin Ailey is dead, his contribution to modern American dance certainly is not forgotten. On Saturday, Long Islanders have the chance to be reminded when the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble comes to Riverhead.
The third piece is ''Hunger & Thirst,'' a new gymnastic dance created by Kathy Posen. The concert is at 8 P.M. at the High School on Harrison Avenue. Information: 727-0900.
More than a third of Premier League football fans watch live matches on illegal internet streams once a month, according to a survey.
The poll by BBC Radio 5 live found that nearly half of the 1,000 fans questioned online had streamed matches illegally at least once through a service other than Sky or BT Sport, which hold the rights to broadcast games live in the UK.
One in five claimed to stream games at least once a week, a quarter regularly use set-top boxes such as a Kodi device and a third said they did not know unofficial streams were illegal.
Fans told the survey they watched unofficial streams either because they are watching a one set up by a family member or friend, the stream is good quality or the subscription packages are not good value for money.
Sky and BT Sport paid a combined £5.14 billion to show Premier League games in the UK in a deal which still has two years to run.
Kieron Sharp, director general of the Federation against Copyright Theft (Fact), said a ruling in April by the European Court of Justice made the law on streaming paid-for content clear.
He told the broadcaster: "People need to be aware that this is no longer a grey area, in fact it is very black and white.
"If you are accessing content for free such as sport, TV and films for which you'd normally need a subscription, or go to the cinema, or buy a DVD, this is illegal.
"As the old saying goes, if it looks too good to be true, then it probably is."

"We can't be in business unless PCP is doing well," he said.

PCP has expanded over the years, investing in a fruit import business to can exotic fruit and a cherry-growing operation in Oregon. When a rival closed its Modesto, California, peach-canning plant earlier this year citing rising costs and "import competition from China and Europe," PCP took over that business.

The 700 million cans PCP needs for this year's growing season will add close to $20 million in unplanned additional cost. The company had expected profit for this year of $24 million, but those extra steel costs could cut PCP's profits by up to $18 million, Vincent said.

To cut costs, PCP will process the extra fruit without adding to its labor force.

"There's a lot of money we could have made that will go into steel," PCP's Vincent said.

From a management perspective, a 25-year-old manager may have a team member double or triple his orher age. If you are this 25-year-old manager, this column is mostly meant for you.

As a younger person, it’s hard to understand the collective wisdom of those who are older than you. I know it was hard for me. This is actually easier to conceptualize outside the workplace, so let’s start on the home front.

Most people, certainly I do, feel that even as an adult, there is an enormous amount that we can still learn from our parents. To put this in perspective, I’m in my early 50s and feel that I still have a lot to learn from them. This is very natural because we have been learning from our parents our entire lives.

Now let’s move this to the workplace. Older workers may not be your parents, but they have been in the workforce for a very long time. During that time, they have experienced great economies, recessions, growing companies, companies in decline, changes in technologies, changes in business practices and a lifetime of other work-related experiences.

Have you ever heard an older worker say, “Boy, if I only knew then what I know now”? Well, for you as an inexperienced manager, this is then.

-- Many of your team’s older individual contributors may have been managers earlier in their careers and have a wealth of knowledge in how to manage people.

-- If they have been at the company for an extended length of time, they know the company’s history, including its biggest successes and failures.

-- They have a long-term perspective on personal and professional growth.

-- Many older workers have had mentors over the years who have contributed to their success and would like to thank these mentors by paying it forward by helping others like you or other members of your team.

-- Stereotypically, Traditionalists and Baby boomers are very loyal to their companies, very hardworking by nature and have a strong respect for authority.

-- Maximize the efficiency of your team.

-- Help the members of your team grow professionally.

-- Create a positive and productive work environment.

-- Motivate your team to do their best.

-- Have your older, more experienced workers help cross-train your newer workers. This reduces the learning curve for new employees and makes them productive sooner.

-- When trying to institute change within your department, ask their advice -- they may provide you with surprising insights based on past experience.

-- If you can befriend an older worker outside your department who is at your managerial level or above, this person can give you advice that can help you deal with difficult employee issues within your department. The issue may be new to you, but older managers who have been in the workforce for 30, 40, or 50 years have pretty much seen it all.

The primary advice and takeaway from today’s column is: Embrace the knowledge and experience of older workers, and you will quickly learn that their collective wisdom can help you become a better manager.

Senior who was all-state in two sports, selected from a field of 24 nominees. But football is not in his future.

STAUNTON - He is the Virginia High School League's Class 2 offensive football player of the year, but come this fall, you won't find Jayden Williams on the gridiron.

The Robert E. Lee High School senior is entering the field of nursing at the University of Virginia, and his schedule will not permit him to take advantage of the walk-on invitation he received from the Cavaliers' football program.

However, for those who know him, it's not surprising that Williams has placed a high priority on academics compared to athletics.

And that is just one of many reasons why he has been selected as The News Leader's 2018 City/County Student-Athlete of the Year.

Williams was one of 24 nominees from the seven public high schools and the four private institutions that compose the city/county area.

Those nominees were reduced to a field of eight finalists, from which the winner was chosen by the staff of The News Leader.

In that final field, besides Williams, was Buffalo Gap's Kieland Chandler, Waynesboro's Isaac Edwards, Riverheads' Chandler Branch, Stuarts Draft's Caleb Carter, Fort Defiance's Faith Farley, Wilson Memorial's Ryan Aud and Stuart Hall's Cole Whitmore.

"I really appreciate it," Williams said of the award. "There were a lot of other deserving athletes. I have a lot of resources around me that have gotten me to where I am right now."

Williams is very deserving of the honor, said Lee High athletic director David Tibbs, who said the all-state performer in football and basketball was as decorated an athlete that has come through here in a long time.

"As floor leader and captain, he was the engine that ran the show in both football and basketball," Tibbs said. "He was just a high-character kid who was very respectful. He was a star athlete because of what you see, and not what you hear, and that's a pleasant thing to see in this society."

And he did it without any self-promotion.

"He wasn't one who beats his own drum or blows his own horn," Tibbs said. "He put his teams first, and team success over personal success. He was more than the exception to the rule.

"If you looked up a picture of a student-athlete in the dictionary, his would be there," he added. "He had an early acceptance to U.Va. and it was on his own, without sports, but on academic acceptance."

Williams said his decision to give up football for now and concentrate on the field of nursing didn't come easily.

"It was a hard decision," he said. "My family and I talked about it for a long time. Football gave me a lot of financial possibilities, with offers from Division II and Division III schools," he said, pointing to Catholic University, Shenandoah and Glenville State as the main three.

But Virginia and nursing won out over football.

"Virginia has a great academic program, and that's where I want to go, plus it's close to home," he said. "My grandmother was into nursing, and I could see myself excelling in that career. It gives me a reason in life.

"I'm thinking about being a certified registered nurse," he added. "It's a four-year program, one year into clinical care and three years of an anesthesia program. In my senior year, I will be in the hospital, and that's what separates the U.Va. program. There are no additional applications."

Although Williams won't be involved in football this year because of conflicts, there's still a possibility of it in the future, as Virginia has indicated the invited walk-on status as a quarterback still stands.

"The School of Nursing is so demanding it just doesn't fit into football now," he said. "But there is a possibility if I get nursing school under control, and I have some open time, I could come back my sophomore year and try out," he said. "My family wants to see me in pads again. I know I will miss it, but nursing is number one."

For Williams, his senior football season was just stellar in leading the Leemen to the state Class 2 championship game. When everything was over, he had 2,404 yards passing, 27 touchdowns and an additional 1,158 yards rushing for the season.

He ended his career by setting two school records, one for most touchdown passes, and another for passing yardage.

Then when basketball season rolled around, he was the team's point guard, leading the Leemen to the state title game.

In both sports, he piled up numerous awards, culminating with all-state honors in both.

Despite his success in athletics, Williams values academics on the same level or higher.

Williams finished his academic career at Lee with all As in his final semester.

"I went out with a bang," he said.

"At Lee, I am happy with the things I have been able to do in the community," he said.

One of those was to visit students at elementary schools such as Bessie Weller and T.C. McSwain as part of a tutoring program stressing how important academics is.

"We developed better relationships, and they took my word for things," he said. "I could relate to them on a personal level since I'm not an adult yet."

Mizzou Football will feature yet another helmet design when they take the field for the 60th Annual AutoZone Liberty Bowl against Oklahoma State on Monday. The white helmet will have black and gold striping with the University of Missouri 1970’s sailor Tiger logo on top of all white uniforms. This helmet will be the 11th different helmet worn by the Tigers in 13 games.

Here’s a look back on 2018. Which helmet is your favorite?

Mizzou wore this helmet in the first two weeks of the season in wins over UT-Martin and Wyoming.

This game at South Carolina is one fans want to forget. They may pass on the all white and large Tiger logo too.

The Block M logo returned for Homecoming against Memphis with the M and stripe down the middle featuring the rocks from the north endzone.

This is the Liberty Bowl helmet vs Oklahoma State.

The EFL have announced when the 2019/20 fixtures will be published.

Should Middlesbrough be in the Championship next season, they will find out their programme on Thursday, June 20.

The fixture schedule will be made available at 9am that day for the Championship, League One and League Two.

An EFL statement reads: “The first weekend of August is to host the opening round of league fixtures, with August 3 the date set for the first set of traditional Saturday games in the EFL, whilst round one in the Carabao Cup is to take place week commencing August 12.

“Wembley will play host to the Carabao Cup final on Sunday, March 1, 2020, in what will be the first of five finals in the EFL calendar, whilst the EFL Trophy Final, which attracted a record crowd of 85,021 in this year’s showpiece between Portsmouth and Sunderland, is to take place the following month on Sunday, April 5.

“The season-ending Sky Bet EFL play-offs will once again be staged at Wembley Stadium, this time across two weekends in May.

“The League Two final will start proceedings on Saturday, May 16, before League One and the Championship take centre stage the following weekend on Sunday, May 24 and Monday, May 25, respectively.

Jeannette Ann Marquardt, 40, 1067 Cheltanham Court, Longwood, died Friday. Born in Saginaw, Mich., she moved to Longwood from Altamonte Springs in 1984. She was a homemaker and a member of Annunciation Catholic Church. Survivors: husband, Michael, Longwood; daughters, Christine, Michelle, Stephanie, all of Longwood; parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Metiva, Saginaw; sisters, Joyce Case, Sharon Meredith, Catherine Metiva, Sally Morlik, Dorothy Frost, all of Saginaw, and Rose Koester, Brent, Mich. Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home, Goldenrod.

Officially, Black History Month does not begin until Thursday, but the calendar is not keeping some institutions from starting to celebrate a bit earlier.

For example, opening today at Nassau County's African-American Museum is ''Images of African-Americans: The Emancipation Era.'' This is an exhibition of historic prints - many from Harper's Weekly and some by Thomas Nast - that trace the struggle to end slavery and give slaves the opportunity to assume dignity and freedom as citizens.

Accompanied by a series of weekly lectures that begin next Sunday and children's workshops, the show can be seen through May 23 at the museum, 110 North Franklin Street, Hempstead. Information: 485-0470. Art by black artists figures in another commemorative show, the ''19th Annual Contemporary Black Artists in America Exhibit,'' which opens today at the Great Neck Library on Bayview Avenue.

Curated by Ivan Habersham, this features the works of some 40 artists from the Greater New York area. There will be a reception at 2 P.M. today, after which the show will run through March 2. Information: 486-8055. At Hofstra University, the visual takes a literary bent with ''Black Women Writers: Creativity, Criticism and Imagery,'' an exhibition that showcases the works of African-American women authors of fiction, poetry and prose.

With an opening reception Thursday at 6 P.M., followed at 7 by the first of six lectures (this one is ''Through a Glass Darkly,'' a look at how African-American women are portrayed in advertising), the exhibition continues through March 30 at the Filderman Gallery of the Axinn Library on Hoftsra's Hempstead campus. Information: 560-5669. Hofstra is also contributing to local library celebrations by lending items from its gallery collections.

''International African Art Posters'' are at the Levittown Library, Bluegrass Lane (731-5728), ''Fabulous Fabrics of Africa'' are at the Glen Cove Library, Glen Cove Avenue (676-2130), ''African Musical Instruments'' are at the Oceanside Library, Davison Avenue (766-2360) and ''African Kings and Queens'' and ''Afro-American Posters'' are at the Harborfields Library, Broadway in Greenlawn (757-4200).

The State University at Stony Brook begins its observance Thursday at 7 P.M. with ''A View from the Mountaintop in 1990,'' a lecture and concert featuring the Newark Boys Choir. This will be held at the Staller Center (632-7230).

The ''Ninth Annual Gospel Extravaganza'' at Brookhaven National Laboratory completes this first week of commemoration.

The 7 P.M. concert at the laboratory's Berkner Hall features Maryanne McElroy of Riverhead as soloist, Timothy Wright and His Concert Choir, Prof. Anthony G. Evans and the A.G.E. Ensemble, the Stephens Singers and the Magnificent Visions Gospel Singers.

The laboratory is on William Floyd Parkway in Upton. Tickets: 282-2345.

''Women Directors: From Hollywood to the Avant-Garde,'' a bimonthly series of films and discussions, will be presented at Theater Three in Port Jefferson.

Sponsored by the theater, the Greater Port Jefferson Arts Council and the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook, the programs begin tomorrow at 8 P.M. with a free introductory lecture, ''Women and Film: Where Are We? And Where Do We Go From Where We Are?'' E. Ann Kaplan, director of the Humanities Institute, will speak. Future installments at the theater, which is on Main Street, will include Claudia Weill's ''Girlfriends,'' Feb. 5; ''Making Feminist Documentaries: 1970-1990,'' with the film maker Julia Reichert, Feb. 19, and on April 16, ''Craig's Wife,'' the 1936 drama directed by Dorothy Arzner, and ''The Outrage,'' which Ida Lupino made in 1950.

With orders to ''photograph everything that happens, but concentrate on the men, since the ships and planes will become obsolete, but the men will always be there,'' Edward Steichen sent members of his special photographic unit out to document the United States Navy in World War II.

What they came back with can be seen in ''Steichen and His Men: A Photographic Portrait of World War II,'' which on Tuesday begins a three-week stay at the Gallery on the Hill at Bald Hill Cultural Park in Farmingville.

Featuring 60 black-and-white and color photographs by Steichen and seven other professional photographers, the exhibition was organized by the Navy Memorial Museum and the Smithsonian Institution and is touring nationally through 1992.

Carvers and collectors of waterfowl decoys will be on hand at Ward Melville High School in Setauket next weekend for the 13th annual Decoy Show of the Long Island Decoy Collectors Association, whose members will try to tell the general public what the fascination is all about.

More than $1 million of antique decoys and waterfowling collectibles and artifacts, many of them for sale, will be on display from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. Saturday and 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. next Sunday. Also, at 2 P.M. next Sunday, there will be an auction of decoys. The school is on Old Town Road. Admission: $3; under 12, free.

Frequently seen in these parts in his one-man version of Dickens's ''A Christmas Carol,'' Norman Dietz, the storyteller-writer based in Orient, is shifting gears and subject matter.

Mr. Dietz will do this celebrating Saturday at 2 P.M. at the Floyd Memorial Library on First Street in Greenport. The performance is free.

E. J. Wagner, another Long Island teller of tales, is not changing her subject matter. She is still into crime, suspense and science.

The second installment on Feb. 10 is a public forum that will explore DNA testing in crimes of scientific interest, including those of ''The Boston Strangler.'' Dr. Sigmund Menchel, Suffolk County's Chief Medical Examiner, and members of his staff will participate in this segment. The museum is on the campus of Stony brook. Information: 632-8230.

Although Alvin Ailey is dead, his contribution to modern American dance certainly is not forgotten. On Saturday, Long Islanders have the chance to be reminded when the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble comes to Riverhead.

The third piece is ''Hunger & Thirst,'' a new gymnastic dance created by Kathy Posen. The concert is at 8 P.M. at the High School on Harrison Avenue. Information: 727-0900.

More than a third of Premier League football fans watch live matches on illegal internet streams once a month, according to a survey.

The poll by BBC Radio 5 live found that nearly half of the 1,000 fans questioned online had streamed matches illegally at least once through a service other than Sky or BT Sport, which hold the rights to broadcast games live in the UK.

One in five claimed to stream games at least once a week, a quarter regularly use set-top boxes such as a Kodi device and a third said they did not know unofficial streams were illegal.

Fans told the survey they watched unofficial streams either because they are watching a one set up by a family member or friend, the stream is good quality or the subscription packages are not good value for money.

Sky and BT Sport paid a combined £5.14 billion to show Premier League games in the UK in a deal which still has two years to run.

Kieron Sharp, director general of the Federation against Copyright Theft (Fact), said a ruling in April by the European Court of Justice made the law on streaming paid-for content clear.

He told the broadcaster: "People need to be aware that this is no longer a grey area, in fact it is very black and white.

"If you are accessing content for free such as sport, TV and films for which you'd normally need a subscription, or go to the cinema, or buy a DVD, this is illegal.

"As the old saying goes, if it looks too good to be true, then it probably is."