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[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:25 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | Germany on Wednesday urged people to stockpile food and water to prepare for possible terrorist or cyberattacks, as it adopted its first civil defense strategy since the end of the Cold War. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Fworld%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2F2003653910.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | Germany urges private stockpiling | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | AFP, BERLIN
Germany on Wednesday urged people to stockpile food and water to prepare for possible terrorist or cyberattacks, as it adopted its first civil defense strategy since the end of the Cold War.
The plan marked the first broad update since 1995, when a dismantling of federal civil defense structures was advocated as security policies were eased in the wake of German reunification.
The 69-page document warned that “the security policy environment has changed again” — and said Germany should be ready in case of an “existence-threatening development.”
Critics accused German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition of scaremongering ahead of key state elections next month.
People took to social media to mock the strategy, with the hashtag #hamsterkaeufe (squirrelling away) and photographs of the rodents widely circulating on Twitter.
German Minister of the Interior Thomas de Maiziere rejected the criticism, saying: “While we all hope that we will be spared from major crisis, we must be prepared” should disaster strike.
“It’s only responsible, sensible and appropriate to make cool-headed preparations for a catastrophe scenario,” De Maiziere said, adding that “every country in the world does that.”
He also challenged charges of electioneering, saying that the strategy is the result of a long reflection process since 2012.
While acknowledging that “an attack on German territory requiring conventional defense is unlikely,” Europe’s biggest economy should be “sufficiently prepared in case of an existence-threatening development in the future that cannot be ruled out,” the strategy document said.
“The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems, conflict driven by terrorist means and cyberspace attacks can be a direct threat to Germany and its allies,” it said.
Pointing to the people and government’s dependence on both the power and IT networks, De Maiziere said the strategy advocates emergency plans for any breakdown in key energy and water infrastructures.
They encourage people to stockpile sufficient food for 10 days and water to last five.
A string of attacks in Germany last month — including two claimed by the Islamic State group — has sparked a debate about internal security.
The German Ministry of Defense is looking at training the military to respond to major terror assaults, while De Maiziere announced tough new anti-terror measures, including a controversial proposal to strip Muslim militants of their German nationality.
Haunted by its Nazi past, Europe’s most populous country has for decades been particularly cautious about military and defense issues.
However, this year it set out a new roadmap outlining Germany’s ambition to assume a bigger security role abroad, within the frameworks of NATO and the EU. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2016/08/26/2003653910 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/6fa08dd595a50f8f492cc90e9eca7473dfac9d7ee2a97012228ec1b51f8e99c1.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T16:50:18 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | US stocks ended mostly lower on Friday after US Federal Reserve officials said the case has strengthened for raising interest rates above the super-low levels that have helped fuel a seven-year bull market. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Fbiz%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2F2003653997.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | US stocks slip after Fed speech | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | AP, NEW YORK
US stocks ended mostly lower on Friday after US Federal Reserve officials said the case has strengthened for raising interest rates above the super-low levels that have helped fuel a seven-year bull market.
Major US indices initially climbed after a speech by Fed Chair Janet Yellen that was bullish on the economy, but gave no timetable for future rate increases. Then investors began to have second thoughts, wondering if an increase was possible as early as next month, and buyers turned to sellers.
By the close of trading, seven of the 10 sectors of the Standard and Poor’s 500 index had fallen, led by a 2.1 percent drop in utilities.
Investors frustrated with low-yielding bonds have flocked to utilities for their steady dividends, but higher rates would make those stocks less attractive.
The S&P 500 slid 3.43 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,169.04. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 53.01 points, or 0.3 percent, to 18,395.40. The NASDAQ composite rose 6.71 points, or 0.1 percent, to 5,218.92.
In her speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Yellen said that the Fed is moving toward raising interest rates in light of a solid job market and an improved outlook for the economy. However, she stopped short of signaling when the next rate hike might be.
Stocks climbed as investors perceived her comments as “dovish,” meaning a continuation of the easy money policies. Yields on government bonds fell.
However, by the end of the day both stocks and bonds had reversed, with the yield on the 10-year Treasury note rising to 1.62 percent from 1.58 percent late on Thursday.
Perhaps helping the turn of sentiment were comments on CNBC from US Fed Vice Chair Stanley Fischer suggesting the central bank could raise rates twice before year’s end, instead of once in December as many investors had been expecting.
US Bank Wealth Management senior vice president Lisa Kopp said she was not surprised by the selling given the “jitteriness” in the markets.
“Anything that’s not going to be straight-out dovish is going to be disappointing,” she said.
Yellen’s speech notwithstanding, not everyone is convinced a rate hike is coming soon.
“She suggests the economy is improving, but the GDP numbers for the past three quarters are closer to 1 percent than 3 percent,” R.W. Baird chief investment strategist Bruce Bittles said. “That is very anemic.”
A report early in the day from the US Department of Commerce showed that second-quarter GDP rose by a revised 1.1 percent, slightly lower than initially forecast.
Since exiting the recession in the summer of 2009, the US economy has been growing sluggishly, making it the slowest recovery since World War II.
Among stocks making moves on Friday, Herbalife fell US$1.43, or 2.3 percent, to US$60.50 after news reports that Carl Icahn, the company’s biggest shareholder and defender, has been trying to unload his stake in the embattled company. After trading closed, Icahn said the reports were wrong and that he had bought more shares.
Design software company Autodesk jumped US$5.17, or 8 percent, to US$68.87 after reporting a small profit, beating expectations of a loss.
Earnings per share for companies in the S&P 500 index are expected to fall 1.8 percent in the second quarter, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. That would be the fourth quarter in a row of drops. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2016/08/28/2003653997 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/a383723b8829722469e39f8e4a3afdf5bf7f6fc3893a6c0b75739e4b871a5da8.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T16:51:46 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | An ex-wife of Donald Trump’s new campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon, said Bannon made anti-Semitic remarks when the two battled over sending their daughters to private school nearly a decade ago, according to court papers reviewed on Friday by reporters. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Fworld%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2F2003654044.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | Ex-wife declares Trump campaign CEO made anti-Semitic remarks: documents | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | AP, LOS ANGELES
An ex-wife of Donald Trump’s new campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon, said Bannon made anti-Semitic remarks when the two battled over sending their daughters to private school nearly a decade ago, according to court papers reviewed on Friday by reporters.
That revelation came a day after reports emerged that domestic violence charges were filed 20 years ago against Bannon following an altercation with his then-wife, Mary Louise Piccard.
In a sworn court declaration following their divorce, Piccard said her ex-husband had objected to sending their twin daughters to an elite Los Angeles academy, because he “didn’t want the girls going to school with Jews.”
“He said he doesn’t like Jews and that he doesn’t like the way they raise their kids to be ‘whiney brats,’” Piccard said in a 2007 court filing.
Bannon, the former head of Web site Breitbart News, last week took the helm of Trump’s campaign in yet another leadership shake-up. The campaign has been plagued by negative stories about staffers, including charges lodged against Trump’s former campaign manager following an altercation with a reporter and questions about his former campaign chairman’s links with Russian interests.
Alexandra Preate, a spokeswoman for Bannon, on Friday night denied that he made anti-Semitic remarks about the private school.
“He never said that,” Preate said, adding that Bannon was proud to send his daughters to the school.
Trump has previously been criticized for invoking anti-Semitic stereotypes, including a tweet of an anti-Hillary Rodham Clinton image that included a Star of David atop a pile of money.
Clinton, the US Democratic presidential candidate, has tried in recent days to highlight Trump’s popularity with white nationalist and supremacist groups.
She on Thursday delivered a speech that linked him with the “alt-right” movement, which is often associated with efforts on the far right to preserve “white identity,” oppose multiculturalism and defend “Western values.”
Trump has pushed back, defending himself and his supporters and labeling Clinton “a bigot” for supporting policies he argues have ravaged minority communities.
Piccard filed for divorce in January 1997, just over a year after she told police Bannon roughed her up on New Year’s Day 1996 following a spat over money, in which she spit on him.
A police report obtained by reporters said he grabbed her wrist and “grabbed at” her neck. She told police that when she tried to call 911, Bannon grabbed the telephone and threw it across the room.
An officer who responded reported seeing red marks on her wrist and neck.
Bannon was charged in 1996 with misdemeanor witness intimidation, domestic violence with traumatic injury and battery, according to a Santa Monica, California, police report. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2016/08/28/2003654044 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/b2f271620fe83bc8bfd8f7cfe8349ebc47ab8fa28795bd09e77606a0a1a4d53b.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T16:53:07 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | South African Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan might be charged with graft this week, the City Press newspaper reported yesterday, citing senior sources in the South African police, National Prosecuting Authority and tax service. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Fworld%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2F2003654105.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | S Africa finance minister to be charged: report | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | Reuters, JOHANNESBURG
South African Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan might be charged with graft this week, the City Press newspaper reported yesterday, citing senior sources in the South African police, National Prosecuting Authority and tax service.
Thirty witnesses had been lined up to testify against Gordhan and three former officials from the South African Revenue Service, the report said.
Prosecuting authority officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Police this week summoned Gordhan in connection with an investigation into a “rogue spy unit” set up in the revenue service when he headed the organization, rattling South African markets and sending the rand down 5 percent.
The investigation first came to light in February and political pundits have said Gordhan is being undermined by a faction in the government and ruling African National Congress (ANC) allied to South African President Jacob Zuma.
The newspaper said Gordhan faced a graft charge for granting early retirement to Ivan Pillay, a former South African Revenue Service commissioner, who is also under investigation.
Zuma on Thursday said he backed Gordhan but was powerless to stop a police investigation into him, signaling a prolonged tussle that could add to market volatility.
South Africa’s credit rating is set to be cut to junk status this year, according to a Reuters poll this week, with economists surveyed citing the heightened political risk around the Gordhan saga.
Gordhan commands huge respect in the markets and his departure would be a serious blow to Africa’s most industrialized country, teetering as it is on the brink of recession.
The Sunday Times said Gordhan had told a meeting of the South African Treasury’s staff on Friday that he and South African Deputy Minister of Finance Mcebisi Jonas could be removed in a Cabinet shuffle.
Treasury officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2016/08/29/2003654105 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/65688c02d7ea8e5ba2101af4887c3a64da50b7d1bcc717bb9f0adf93185fa38c.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T16:50:55 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | On Saturday last week, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) commented on a protest by former freeway toll collectors after it came to an end, saying, “Some say ‘noisy kids always get candy,’ but what counts is not making noise, what counts is whether the demands are reasonable and whether the government is listening.” She was clearly emphasizing that making noise is a way of communication and her administration will listen to such noise if it is reasonable. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Feditorials%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2F2003654004.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | Deciding if demands are reasonable | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | By Kung Ling-shin 孔令信
On Saturday last week, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) commented on a protest by former freeway toll collectors after it came to an end, saying, “Some say ‘noisy kids always get candy,’ but what counts is not making noise, what counts is whether the demands are reasonable and whether the government is listening.” She was clearly emphasizing that making noise is a way of communication and her administration will listen to such noise if it is reasonable.
This means that the key lies in whether a demand is reasonable. Perhaps this is the fundamental guideline for how her administration handles national affairs.
Take the strike of China Airlines (CAL) flight attendants, for example. CAL chairman Ho Nuan-hsuan (何煖軒) conceded to all their demands without hesitation, because their complaints were reasonable.
As for the military personnel, civil servants and public school teachers who plan a demonstration on Ketagalan Boulevard on Armed Forces Day on Saturday as part of their fight to protect their pensions; the Taiwan Railways Administration train drivers who plan to take a day off during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday; the taxi drivers who are protesting against the government’s tolerance of the ride-hailing app Uber; and the employers and employees who remain locked in a struggle over the government’s proposal to give workers “one fixed day off and one flexible rest day” per week: They will only get their candy if their complaints are reasonable.
As for whether a protest is reasonable, that is not something that can be decided by those who are protesting: Whether a protest is reasonable depends solely on whether Tsai and her administration decide that it is.
If they decided that it is not, the protesters will have to do like Far Eastern Group chairman Douglas Hsu (徐旭東), who had to pay up to settle the case with former freeway toll collectors due to social cost.
Tsai believes that her handling of the former freeway toll workers’ protest not only helped reduce the number of street protest, but also that ending the protest meant that it would allow more families to start their life anew. And that, she said, is the purpose of the government’s existence.
However, the fishermen who sailed to Itu Aba Island (Taiping Island, 太平島) to assert Taiwan’s sovereignty over the island failed to win Tsai’s favor and were only allowed to dock at a port on the island.
After returning to Taiwan, they are facing a fine, but Tsai has not addressed the issue with a single word. It seems that even for a fight of significance, the government might choose to turn a blind eye.
Not long ago, Tsai surprisingly walked out of the Presidential Office Building to meet with Aboriginal protesters. However, in response to their appeals, she merely invited a few of Aboriginal community representatives to the Aboriginal historical justice and transitional justice committee that she convened, but did not really talk about their demands.
Apparently, the value of the government’s existence is to give priority to dealing with people and issues that Tsai and her administration think are reasonable. As for issues that are not on their priority list or issues that are not very visible, they will be handled later when they are more notable.
Finally, the biggest problem lies in the negative consequences that follow after protests and uproars have been handled. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2016/08/28/2003654004 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/a9111c697547e73bcbefa5abd32c61ab7c2fcfbe1de0abb5c644dc828ef6ce70.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T16:51:39 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | The political party of Dutch politician Geert Wilders, which is leading polls ahead of parliamentary elections in March next year, has promised in its manifesto to close mosques and “ban the Koran.” | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Fworld%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2F2003653970.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | Dutch party says it will ban mosques and Koran | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | AFP, THE HAGUE, Netherlands
The political party of Dutch politician Geert Wilders, which is leading polls ahead of parliamentary elections in March next year, has promised in its manifesto to close mosques and “ban the Koran.”
“All mosques and Islamic schools closed, a ban on the Koran,” the document outlining the electoral program of the Freedom Party (PVV) said.
The document was posted on Wilders’ Twitter feed on Thursday.
The PVV says it will reverse the “Islamization” of the country with a range of measures, including closing the borders, shutting asylum seeker centers, banning migrants from Islamic countries and stopping Muslim women from wearing headscarfs in public.
On the back of Europe’s migrant crisis, opinion polls have for months given Wilders’ PVV the edge over the coalition parties of the Labor Party and the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy led by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
Late last year, polls predicted soaring support for the PVV, saying that the party could gain as many as 38 seats in the 150-seat parliament.
However, that number has slipped back.
A poll from Ipsos this month gave it 28 seats — still way up on the 12 it currently has.
The immigrant crisis has polarized the Netherlands, a nation of 17 million people, leading to heated debate.
Wilders, who is to go on trial in October on charges of inciting racial hatred, also said he would do all he could to hold a referendum on the Netherlands leaving the EU, despite an unsuccessful first attempt in June following Britain’s vote to end its membership of the EU.
His party has also pledged to put an end to foreign aid and to increase funding for police and security. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2016/08/27/2003653970 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/a45fc924b499710516a7bc8cd2023578121efa8dc89e74d0eef70fa5bbe55e65.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T16:51:30 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | Rookie Gary Sanchez homered for the eighth time in nine games and drove in four runs as the New York Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 14-4 on Friday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Fsport%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2F2003654024.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/2016/08/28/thumbs/P10-160828-325a.jpg | en | null | Sanchez homers as Yankees defeat Orioles | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | AP, NEW YORK
Rookie Gary Sanchez homered for the eighth time in nine games and drove in four runs as the New York Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 14-4 on Friday.
Mark Teixeira and Chase Headley also went deep for the surging Yankees, who moved five games over .500 for the first time this season.
Sanchez, who had three hits, had a two-out single in the bottom of the first. Teixeira followed with a towering shot into the right-field bleachers off Yovani Gallardo to give New York a 2-1 lead.
The Yankees broke the game open against Gallardo (4-6) with a six-run second. The right-hander was charged with eight runs over 1-1/3 innings, the shortest start of his 10-year career.
Luis Cessa (4-0) gave up three runs and five hits over six innings in his second big-league start.
Manny Machado, who gave the Orioles the lead with a homer in the first, hit his second of the game into the right-field seats in the sixth for his 31st home run of the season.
Russell Martin and Justin Smoak each homered and drove in five runs as the Toronto Blue Jays handed the Minnesota Twins its eighth straight loss, 15-8.
Josh Donaldson and Darwin Barney also homered. Francisco Liriano had his first win with Toronto to help the Blue Jays take a one-game lead over Baltimore in the AL East.
Corey Kluber pitched six strong innings for a career-best sixth straight victory and Abraham Almonte hit two run-scoring doubles, helping the Cleveland Indians beat the Texas Rangers 12-1 in a matchup of division leaders.
Eric Hosmer and Alex Gordon homered, and Ian Kennedy allowed one run through five innings as the Kansas City Royals continued their hot streak with a 6-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox.
Jeff Samardzija and two relievers combined on a seven-hitter as the San Francisco Giants beat the Atlanta Braves 7-0.
Angel Pagan homered while Brandon Belt, Denard Span and Buster Posey added two hits apiece for the Giants who closed to within one game of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who lost 6-4 to the Chicago Cubs, in the race for the NL West.
Jayson Werth and Daniel Murphy hit solo homers and drove in two runs each, and Gio Gonzalez earned his 100th career victory as the Washington Nationals beat the Colorado Rockies 8-5.
Jordy Mercer’s first career grand slam capped a five-run sixth inning that started with two errors by Milwaukee third baseman Jonathan Villar, and the Pittsburgh Pirates held off the Brewers 5-3.
Justin Verlander pitched into the eighth inning and Justin Upton homered for the fourth time in five games as the Detroit Tigers beat the Los Angeles Angels 4-2.
Jedd Gyorko homered and Luke Weaver pitched six strong innings to earn his first major league win as the St Louis Cardinals beat the Oakland Athletics 3-1.
Chris Johnson’s run-scoring ground-rule double with two outs in the bottom of the ninth gave the Miami Marlins a 7-6 win over the San Diego Padres.
Also on Friday, the Seattle Mariners beat the Chicago White Sox 3-1, the Houston Astros topped the Tampa Bay Rays 5-4 and the Arizona Diamondbacks had a 4-3 victory over the Cincinnati Reds in 11 innings. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/sport/archives/2016/08/28/2003654024 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/f840d8bd8edf951602a01213fab4e2be86392d4b527839c161835a43053a4c2d.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T16:52:03 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Manchester City were left top of the English Premier League heading into the international break following a 3-1 win at home to West Ham United on Sunday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Fsport%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2F2003654148.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/2016/08/30/thumbs/P16-160830-311.jpg | en | null | City on top as Baggies, Boro struggle | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | AFP, LONDON
Manchester City were left top of the English Premier League heading into the international break following a 3-1 win at home to West Ham United on Sunday.
While there was plenty of excitement at Eastlands, the same could not be said of Sunday’s earlier clash between two of the league’s lesser lights as West Bromwich Albion and Middlesbrough played out a dispiriting goalless draw at The Hawthorns.
Raheem Sterling might have become the poster boy for England’s woeful Euro 2016 campaign, which culminated in the embarrassment of a defeat by Iceland, but there was no denying the City forward’s class as he scored twice against the Hammers at Eastlands.
Sterling finished off a slick move in the seventh minute to put City 1-0 up before Fernandinho doubled their lead when he headed in a Kevin De Bruyne free-kick 11 minutes later from seven yards out.
City could easily have scored a third goal before Michail Antonio’s header in the 57th minute gave West Ham an unexpected lifeline.
With City’s lead reduced to 2-1, Sterling put the result beyond doubt when he collected David Silva’s through-ball late in the game and rolled the ball in from an acute angle.
“Reborn? I keep seeing that word,” Sterling told Sky Sports. “It was a difficult first season at a new club, but the manager Pep Guardiola has come in and given me a lot of courage and authority to go forward. He even had a go at me for not dibbling as much.”
City now lead the table on goal difference from Chelsea and Manchester United, who have also made a perfect played three.
“When you see how many chances we create, they scored with their first chance,” Guardiola told Sky Sports.
“They jumped more than us, but we played a good game. Our fans enjoyed it and we are happy,” added the Spaniard, who said he did not see an incident in which Sergio Aguero appeared to elbow West Ham’s Winston Reid.
Meanwhile, Hammers boss Slaven Bilic lamented his side’s start to the match.
“We did not start well and straight away they [City] had a couple of corners and then scored,” he said.
As for Aguero’s clash with Reid, Bilic added: “I did not see the Sergio Aguero incident. We were going to change the centerhalf anyway to go four at the back.”
Elsewhere, West Brom manager Tony Pulis was keen to freshen up his squad before the transfer window closes tomorrow after a forgettable stalemate with Middlesbrough.
“We have to bring some players in ... we need new blood,” he said.
Boro manager Aitor Karanka was pleased by his newly-promoted side’s first clean sheet of the season as they maintained their unbeaten start to the league campaign after a sluggish start against the Baggies.
“I didn’t like the first 15 or 20 minutes, we didn’t play well and didn’t play with the spirit we have to play with,” Karanka said. “The reaction in the second half was better. One thing we cannot lose is our spirit.” | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/sport/archives/2016/08/30/2003654148 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/dd582e0fa9873c91f453a1380a1109a4cb093296064fa0df9c196e2961948f65.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T16:50:12 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | Live broadcasts of legislative meetings were launched on April 8. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Feditorials%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2F2003653939.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | Legislative broadcasts can dispel political fog | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | By Lillian Wang 王泰俐
Live broadcasts of legislative meetings were launched on April 8.
In theory, at least, this means that issues aired in the legislature would be made completely open and transparent, and that members of the public would be able to monitor what happens in the chamber in real time. That being said, there is still a huge difference between how visible a given committee or individual legislator is, because of the sheer amount of information being made available.
For example, the Apple Daily has a live broadcast, and online media platform Watchout has an interactive interface classified by issues, legislative caucuses and individual legislators’ positions on certain issues. It is a mammoth achievement, but despite the accessibility of the broadcasts, people will simply not devote much of their limited time to watching them, and the media are, for the short term at least, going to continue setting the agenda and making or breaking political figures, even more so than before.
And yet, the live broadcasts are significant in another way: that they would put an end to the political shows that politicians used to put on for the public’s benefit. Politicians used to try to stir up controversy to receive some exposure. It was a spectacle benefiting the politicians and the media, but not in a good way. With the live broadcasts, people should think of how they can reduce such a phenomenon, and how they can curtail the media’s ability to make or break political figures.
The first thing to do is to increase the public’s ability to understand public policies. Some people suggest that during legislative recess, policy debate programs should be broadcast like in some other nations. However, C-Span, a US public television network, has for many years produced programs on public affairs for educational purposes, but they were neither popular nor influential, proving that it is difficult for traditional public policy programs to engage the public.
In the future, when funding for legislative broadcasts are confirmed, the money can be used to bolster the way people use the Internet, that arriviste media format, instead of producing more political debate programs.
For example, a budget can be allocated to the production of programs in the style of Taiwan Bar, an online video channel employing humorous comic strips and dialogues to present Taiwanese history. The money could be used to produce large numbers of episodes, explaining difficult public policies in ways to make them easier to understand by the public, and making them widely available through the Internet and social media. If they become popular, they would not go unnoticed by traditional media outlets, which would then make them available to non-Internet users.
Moreover, the government can establish a comprehensive audiovisual database of legislative proceedings which can be divided into categories, for example, according to the five government branches; legislative committees — including the Procedure Committee and the Constitutional Amendment Committee; comments by individual lawmakers; and the acts; all of which would then be made searchable.
The legislative database is not well-organized. Hopefully, after it is organized, it would enable the public to directly monitor legislative proceedings and fact-check the remarks made by politicians, making politics more accountable and curtailing the media’s sway over setting the agenda and its ability to make or break politicians. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2016/08/27/2003653939 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/791cbf36dc7d4dbe27f160177022cd50f8b41f2e9e15c9620780559885cbe637.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T16:51:30 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | Omar, a 17-year-old Syrian, has UK Home Office approval to join his family in London, but is trapped in a refugee camp waiting for transfer | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Feditorials%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2F2003654067.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | ‘What am I waiting for?’ Child refugees in Calais appeal to MPs | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | By Jessica Elgot / The Guardian
Omar, a 17-year-old Syrian, has UK Home Office approval to join his family in London, but is trapped in a refugee camp waiting for transfer
Omar’s home for the past six months has been a makeshift wooden hut in the Calais “jungle” refugee camp, where the teenager sleeps alone under piles of donated blankets.
However, unlike many of the thousands of refugees living in the tents and containers next to the bypass, the Syrian teenager has a home waiting for him in the UK.
Omar has been approved by the British Home Office to cross to the UK, under the Dublin regulation, which would give the shy 17-year-old the right to join his uncle and cousin in northwest London. And yet he is still living in the makeshift refugee camp, with no way of knowing when he will be able to leave. He has been waiting for his transfer to the UK for about two months.
Volunteers working in the camp say violence is increasing as its population increases with the good weather, meaning more people are attempting the journey. Omar (not his real name) said he does not tell his family in Syria about the dangers he faces each night.
“I could not tell them, no. They would be too scared for me,” he said.
For now, when the atmosphere in the camp turns tense, Omar said he stays shut in his cabin or heads for the main road to stand under the bridge on the outskirts of the camp, out of the melee.
Omar is one of many refugee children in the camp caught up in bureaucratic delays. He applied in March and the office approved his “take charge request” in June. Every day he waits for the call telling him it is his day to be transferred to the UK.
The office is under increasing pressure to speed up the process of bringing children who have the right to be in the UK across the Channel, with human rights groups claiming children are being left at risk of violence and exploitation in the camp.
Labour’s former shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper last week wrote to British Home Secretary Amber Rudd and said the office was given details last month of 110 children and teenagers still in Calais who have Dublin rights to be reunited with their families in the UK.
No action had yet been taken on their cases, Cooper said.
At the current rate of progress it would take more than a year to reunite every child with their family.
An additional 200 children in the camps in Calais are eligible for sanctuary in Britain under the Dubs amendment to bring child refugees to the UK, brought about by Labour peer Alf Dubs , formerly a child refugee himself. It commits the government to relocate lone child refugees in Europe “as soon as possible.” Although ministers promised about 3,000 would be brought to Britain, around a 10th of that number have arrived so far.
Visiting the camp on Tuesday last week with Save the Children and two Conservative MPs, Heidi Allen and David Burrowes, Cooper said the delay in Omar’s case and others was hard to understand.
All three said they would seek a meeting with Rudd to press for a Home Office official to be based in Calais, though one has now been seconded to the Dublin Unit at France’s interior ministry in Paris.
For now, Omar is in limbo. All the paperwork is in order and yet he has been waiting for more than six weeks with no word of when he will finally cross safely to the UK. He has heard stories about Willesden, the suburb where he would eventually live. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2016/08/29/2003654067 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/ab48f3c971524e0047495fc67de4946a1e1b785d5e9ca82b5a1c4b2714f0c524.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T16:51:45 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | China-focused apparel company TOPBI International Holdings Ltd (淘帝國際控股) yesterday gave a positive business outlook for the rest of this year, saying it might benefit from Beijing’s new population policy. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Fbiz%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2F2003654123.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | TOPBI upbeat on Chinese children’s apparel market | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | By Kuo Chia-erh / Staff reporter
China-focused apparel company TOPBI International Holdings Ltd (淘帝國際控股) yesterday gave a positive business outlook for the rest of this year, saying it might benefit from Beijing’s new population policy.
“We see strong growth momentum in China’s child clothing market, driven by the easing of its one-child policy,” general manager Zhou Zhihong (周志鴻) told an investors’ conference in Taipei.
The company offers clothes and accessories for toddlers and children aged from one to 16, catering largely to middle-class families.
China scrapped its controversial one-child policy as of January, allowing married couples to have two children.
Encouraged by the policy, TOPBI is optimistic about its sales performance in the second half of this year, Zhou said, adding that high-priced winter clothes should be the profit driver this winter.
The company has adopted a multi-prong marketing strategy to cater to customers’ tastes to gain a bigger market share, Zhou said.
The company is also closely watching structural changes in the market, such as online platform transactions, a fast-growing sector, he said.
“TOPBI is developing its e-commerce division and we are looking for a breakthrough next year,” Zhou told investors.
The company is to open more concept stores that will allow it to interact with its customers in a bid to deepen its brand recognition.
It said it has 23 exclusive distributors selling TOPBI brand products in 15 provinces and three municipalities, allowing it to control its costs and inventory more efficiently.
In the first half of this year, TOPBI had 1,431 outlets in China, up from 1,401 last year, Zhou said.
Established in 2002, TOPBI is one of the top 10 domestic apparel brands in China, according to the company’s Web site.
In the first six months of the year, its net profits expanded 40.6 percent to NT$503 million (US$15.82 million) from a year earlier. Earnings per share stood at NT$8.67, better than NT$6.16 during the same period last year.
Consolidated sales in the first half totaled NT$2.51 billion, up 6 percent from a year earlier, company data showed.
TOPBI shares yesterday gained NT$2.5 to close at NT$161.5 in Taipei trading, bucking the TAIEX’s 0.24 percent decline, according to Taiwan Stock Exchange statistics. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2016/08/30/2003654123 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/ec341a0869366ea279dbec7ae0e1d5be8248bb4a260c1551de47f62fa7c68dff.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T16:50:18 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | As if Rio de Janeiro did not have enough problems to overcome, rain and high winds swept through shortly before the Olympic Games’ closing ceremony, sending branches and balcony fixtures plummeting onto sidewalks and automobile hoods. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Feditorials%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2F2003653941.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/2016/08/27/thumbs/p09-160827-gp.jpg | en | null | Highlights and lowlights of the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | By Christopher Clarey / NY Times News Service, RIO DE JANEIRO
As if Rio de Janeiro did not have enough problems to overcome, rain and high winds swept through shortly before the Olympic Games’ closing ceremony, sending branches and balcony fixtures plummeting onto sidewalks and automobile hoods.
In what by now is standard fashion at these Olympics, the Brazilians soldiered on and found a way, even on backup generator power at Maracana Stadium.
It was a high-wire Games: full of challenges and contrasts, abrupt shifts in mood and momentum. It was no doubt quite a mess backstage and yet quite a spectacle at the front of the house.
However, now it is time for the traditional wrap parties and an extra layer of relief, and definitely time to hand out the traditional Olympic prizes — before something else falls from the sky.
BEST PERFORMANCE ON LAND
Bolt. Bolt. It was always about Usain Bolt, and, yes, he went three for three again in the gold medal department, holding off the fading threats (Justin Gatlin) and the rising stars (Andre De Grasse) without looking as if he were quite giving it his full attention. That, of course, is part of his charm.
What will track — or the second week of the Olympics — do without him?
However, this year’s farewell run lacked both the element of surprise and the element of self-improvement. Bolt’s times in major championships have been increasing for years now.
For the novelty factor and the wow factor, there was no surpassing the US’ Simone Biles. Even if she was a three-time all-around world champion, she was an Olympic rookie, and her explosive and exuberant brand of gymnastics leaped off any screen in any culture. For all those who tuned in or actually made it to their seats in Rio, her performances redefined human limits just as Bolt’s sprinting did in 2008 and 2009.
WORST PERFORMANCE ON LAND
There was no shortage of candidates — including the loose-lipped US goalkeeper Hope Solo — but only one genuine contender: Ryan Lochte should definitely have stayed in the pool.
BEST PERFORMANCE IN WATER
Phelps. Phelps. It was always about Michael Phelps, and, yes, he won five more gold medals, this time at age 31. However, three of those came in relays, and in one of those, Phelps was given a big lead heading into his anchor leg.
As remarkable as Phelps remains, the US’ swimming success was born of a genuine team effort and not just because of Katie Ledecky’s freestyle dominance.
The US also got individual gold medals from five other swimmers, including members of the new wave (Ryan Murphy) and the old guard (Anthony Ervin). After giving few hints of such across-the-board success at last year’s world championships, the US stormed back to win 33 swimming medals in Rio, more than three times what any other nation could muster.
WORST PERFORMANCE IN WATER
It took another collective performance to secure this prize and it deserves to be shared by all those still unidentified individuals who contributed to turning the water in the Olympic diving pool from transparent blue to opaque green. Hydrogen peroxide? Inactive chlorine? Whatever the latest excuse, this was not the body of water that the world was worried about Rio keeping clean.
BEST PERFORMANCE ON WATER
Blair Tuke and Peter Burling, soon to resume preparing for the America’s Cup with New Zealand, were utterly dominant in the 49er class.
Danuta Kozak of Hungary won three more gold medals in women’s kayak, bringing her career total to five. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2016/08/27/2003653941 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/33858447bc810d595531ac25a95488955837765d515df2a198e065bb4a639ae2.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T16:52:25 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | National Sun Yat-sen University professor Chen Yang-yi’s (陳陽益) dream of using the Kuroshio Current to generate electricity has been proved viable after seven years of testing, and Chen hopes that by 2020 the project would be able to produce 1 gigawatt (GW) of electricity per day. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Ffront%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2F2003654070.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | Researchers harness power of the sea | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | By Hung Ting-hung and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
National Sun Yat-sen University professor Chen Yang-yi’s (陳陽益) dream of using the Kuroshio Current to generate electricity has been proved viable after seven years of testing, and Chen hopes that by 2020 the project would be able to produce 1 gigawatt (GW) of electricity per day.
Chen’s research team said that it reported the results to Premier Lin Chuan (林全) on Saturday.
According to Chen, the Kuroshio Power Plant Development Project late last month successfully deployed a floating platform anchored to a sunken ship, the first such platform in Taiwan and the first system to test the viability of power generation by ocean currents.
The project was the first to turn on low-speed generators submerged in water currents flowing at 0.45m per second, Chen said, adding that the generators were kept running for 60 hours.
The team first used tugboats off Pingtung County’s Siaoliouciou Island (小琉球) last year to tow their third generator through ocean currents at a speed of 1.43m per second, Chen said, adding that average power generation was 32.57 kilowatts (kW).
That was the first time a research team towed a generator to simulate ocean current speeds and generated power, Chen said.
On July 23, the team deployed a multipurpose platform 25km southeast of Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻), which it anchored to a foundation 900m deep converted from an abandoned ship, Chen said.
From July 25 to July 29, the team ran consecutive tests as the Kuroshio Current flowed past the platform at a depth of 30m, with currents traveling at 1.27m per second, generating an average of 26.31kW, he said.
“It was a successful trial,” Chen said.
The team plans to move to Jioupeng Bay (九鵬灣) in Pingtung next year for a trial run, which it hopes will generate 2 megawatts for commercial operations, Chen said
If the test results are positive, the system could become a replacement for the Ma-anshan Nuclear Power Plant, as it is projected to be able to generate 1GW by 2020, which would move the nation one step closer to the government’s goal of a “nuclear-power-free homeland.”
While many nations have been attempting to use sea currents to generate power, most are still at the design stage and none have had a successful trial, he said.
According to Chen, Japan last year demonstrated a sea current generation system, but said that it would not conduct live trials until 2020, meaning that Taiwan’s research has surpassed that of other nations.
Chen, who served as president of the university’s College of Marine Science, launched the Kuroshio Current power generation research project in 2009 in collaboration with research teams from the National Applied Research Laboratories and National Cheng Kung University’s Tainan Hydraulics Laboratory.
The team also collaborates with Wanchi Steel Industrial Co (萬機鋼鐵) on technological matters. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2016/08/29/2003654070 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/00a3cc3151b7cfc83ade14071e5d8d09c0e9d5488e4dece5310cb35ded59f0fe.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T16:49:26 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | The government’s business monitoring system last month turned “green” for the first time in 17 months, reflecting a gradual improvement in the economy, the National Development Council (NDC) said yesterday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Fbiz%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2F2003653922.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | Economy gradually picking up: NDC | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | By Kuo Chia-erh / Staff reporter
The government’s business monitoring system last month turned “green” for the first time in 17 months, reflecting a gradual improvement in the economy, the National Development Council (NDC) said yesterday.
The overall composite score of business monitoring indicators — which takes the leading and coincident indicators into account — rose by 3 points from the previous month to 23 last month, according to the council’s monthly report.
The “green” signal could be attributed to the growth in the TAIEX’s average closing price, machinery and electrical equipment imports, and trade and food services revenue, council Deputy Director Chiu Chiu-ying (邱秋瑩) told a news conference.
The council uses a five-color spectrum to categorize the nation’s economic health, with “blue” signaling a recession, “green” steady growth and “red” overheating, while “yellow-blue” indicates a transition between recession and growth, and “yellow-red” a transition between growth and overheating.
Both leading and coincident indicators have been trending up, the council’s report said.
The index of leading indicators, which is used to gauge the nation’s short-term economic outlook, posted its fifth consecutive growth last month, rising from 99.51 a month ago to 100.14 last month, the council said.
The index of coincident indicators, which is used to gauge monthly economic conditions, also reported its fifth consecutive increase last month, rising from 100.73 the previous month to 101.77 last month.
NDC Deputy Minister Kao Shien-quey (高仙桂) said that she is cautiously optimistic that the business monitoring system would flash “green” again this month, as the government is introducing expansionary fiscal measures this year, while state-run firms are expected to accelerate their investments in the second half.
Domestic demand is expected to be stimulated by semiconductor companies’ investments in advanced processing technologies and the approaching high season for domestic retailers, the council said .
Furthermore, the launch of Apple Inc’s new products is expected to help boost sales of its Taiwanese suppliers, lending support to the nation’s growth momentum in the second half, it said.
Externally, stronger demand for electronics products in the second half should also benefit Taiwanese exports, the council said.
However, the domestic economy remains vulnerable to fluctuations in the global economy, it said, adding that the US Federal Reserve’s plans on interest rates and the rise in global protectionism are key factors that need to be closely watched. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2016/08/27/2003653922 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/3d35372f56f28fb26c4c9e5d65bb1d06d605c2a91c5717a0dce7a5a8c8b7bd46.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T16:52:16 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | A: I think there’s something wrong with my laptop. It’s making this ka-ka-ka sound. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Flang%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2F2003653986.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | EVERYDAY ENGLISH | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | A: I think there’s something wrong with my laptop. It’s making this ka-ka-ka sound.
B: Sounds to me like it’s overheating. You want to watch out with that.
A: I know. I do all my work on this thing. If it dies, I’m dead.
B: Well, just make sure it’s well ventilated when you’re working on it, and back up your files.
A：我想我的筆電應該出問題了，一直發出喀、喀、喀的聲音。
B：聽起來是過熱了。要留意過熱的問題喔。
A：我知道。我所有的工作都靠這台筆電，如果它死了，我也完了。
B：使用時務必讓筆電保持通風，然後備份你的檔案。
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[] | 2016-08-26T16:51:31 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | Starving and alone, five-year-old Umar was left for dead in a camp for internally displaced people in northeast Nigeria. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Fworld%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2F2003653966.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | Relatives ‘tainted’ by Boko Haram | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | AFP, MAIDUGURI, Nigeria
Starving and alone, five-year-old Umar was left for dead in a camp for internally displaced people in northeast Nigeria.
The reason? He is the son of a Boko Haram fighter.
It took a Boko Haram widow to rescue Umar. Fatima Salisu had been held captive by the insurgents for 16 months and was forced to marry a militant before she escaped to the camp outside the northeastern city of Maiduguri.
Like Umar, the 25-year-old native of Cameroon is an outcast.
Salisu says the other women never share food or board with her and they refuse to call her anything but a “Boko Haram wife.”
“They don’t allow us to come near them. Everyone treats us with contempt,” Salisu told reporters, speaking outside the camp to avoid attracting attention. “We are not wanted.”
She can tolerate the jeers, but she worries about Umar and other children who are bullied.
Salisu said one Nigerian soldier had told her to “let him die.”
“He is a Boko Haram child and we will throw him into the garbage,” he said.
She said she fears the ill treatment could turn the children against society.
Experts warn of a growing divide between women who were captured and children born to Boko Haram militants and the rest of the population.
This new Boko Haram underclass is struggling to reintegrate into a society reeling after years of devastating attacks by the insurgents in their bloody pursuit of an independent Islamic state.
“Ostracizing the children of insurgents will impede the process of community reconciliation and rehabilitation — and that, distinct from any potentially radicalizing effects — makes it a troubling development,” Washington-based analyst Hilary Matfess told reporters.
The UN estimates that this year 7 million people are in need of humanitarian aid in northeast Nigeria.
At risk are 1.4 million children who have been displaced by the conflict and 20,000 children in the northeast who have been separated from their families, according to a UNICEF report this month.
Among the most pressing needs is the reintegration of women and children who are returning to their communities after being held captive by Boko Haram.
The conflict has made people in the northeast wary.
“There has been a serious breakdown of trust in communities across the north,” Matfess said. “A number of women, most famously the Chibok girls, were abducted into the insurgency, but a significant number of women joined the insurgency of their own accord.”
“Telling the difference once women return to their communities — whether through escape or liberation by the security forces — is next to impossible,” Matfess said.
Even family members are known to not sympathize with relatives “tainted” by Boko Haram.
“Our blood relations stigmatize us,” said Hafsa Ibrahim, a 27-year-old who was kidnapped from the town of Bama and forcibly married to a Boko Haram fighter.
“They think it was with our consent that we got married to Boko Haram,” Ibrahim said, choking back tears. “We were forced.”
Some local politicians have acknowledged the problem.
“We must show love to these innocent children as much as we should support the innocent mothers,” Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima has said, warning that otherwise the Boko Haram children will “inherit” the fervor of their fathers.
“Deterministic views” in northeast Nigeria hold that biological fathers transmit “bad blood” to their children — “a child of a snake is a snake” is one saying encapsulating this idea, according to global organization International Alert in a report on the topic. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2016/08/27/2003653966 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/9e68855b5aaf7685dcccf1a3de625d6aaa064560c033693d483700a739df7002.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T16:52:05 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | Australia coach Michael Cheika launched a blistering attack on referee Romain Poite after his team lost to New Zealand 29-9 on Saturday, saying he was “bitterly disappointed” at the Frenchman’s treatment of Wallabies captain Stephen Moore. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Fsport%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2F2003654088.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | Australia coach slams referee over ‘attitudes’ | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | AP, WELLINGTON
Australia coach Michael Cheika launched a blistering attack on referee Romain Poite after his team lost to New Zealand 29-9 on Saturday, saying he was “bitterly disappointed” at the Frenchman’s treatment of Wallabies captain Stephen Moore.
Cheika accused Poite of not liking Moore, ignoring the captain as he questioned rulings during Saturday’s match in Wellington, and of having “pre-determined attitudes” toward Australia’s players.
The Australian Rugby Union was also reported to be planning a complaint to World Rugby that Poite held a “secret” meeting with All Blacks coach Steve Hansen in the days before the Test and that Cheika was not offered a similar meeting.
Cheika made a similar charge during Australia’s series against England in June, claiming England coach Eddie Jones secretly met with South African referee Craig Joubert.
Hansen yesterday told reporters that he did not meet with Poite.
He said he and All Blacks scrum coach Mike Cron met with assistant referee Jaco Peyper at Peyper’s request to discuss elements of scrum rules, but he had not met with a match referee before a Test in almost two years.
“It’s quite sad that that’s come out, because it’s not true,” Hansen said. “Unless saying ‘g’day Romain’ in the morning [constitutes a meeting]. He stayed here at this hotel.”
The All Blacks clinched the three-Test Bledisloe Cup series with a match to play. New Zealand beat Australia 42-8 in Sydney on Aug. 20, and Saturday’s win extends to 14 years their grip on the Bledisloe Cup.
It was also Australia’s sixth straight loss, including last year’s Rugby World Cup final against New Zealand and a 3-0 series loss to England in June.
“I was bitterly disappointed, to be honest,” Cheika said. “I’m on record with the referees’ boss Alain Rolland about the treatment to our captain and our players, by Romain Poite, and also by Nigel Owens over this last year.”
“I’m not quite sure why, but there was a time in the game in a break in play when the national captain of Australia was asking the referee: ‘When might there be an opportunity for me to talk to you?’ And he [Poite] absolutely ignored him,” Cheika said.
“The referee may not like the captain personally, that might be his prerogative, but he has to afford him that opportunity if he is affording it to his opponents,” he added.
“I don’t know if it’s subconscious or not, but it’s there, and it’s got to be dealt with, because it can’t be that the opponents can say everything to the referee. No one is saying anything bad to him, but if they’ve got pre-determined attitudes towards our players ... I asked Alain Rolland last week when I saw him in Sydney and he said: ‘No, that’s a surprise to me,’ but it’s pretty blatant to anyone listening to the ‘refs’ ears,’” Cheika said. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/sport/archives/2016/08/29/2003654088 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/929b6c4a327ab49c6250bdd92f02f224c1f37af2a024256d1a54fa97f7e8e0ce.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T16:51:32 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | Do you know how many pieces of clothing the Taiwanese people discard every minute? Greenpeace released the results of a study on consumers’ shopping habits not long ago, showing that every Taiwanese disposes of, on average, 9.9 T-shirts, 8 pants and 10 pairs of shoes every minute. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Flang%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2F2003653920.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/2016/08/27/thumbs/P15-160827-002.jpg | en | null | Shocking! Each Taiwanese discards almost 18 pieces of clothing every minute | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | Do you know how many pieces of clothing the Taiwanese people discard every minute? Greenpeace released the results of a study on consumers’ shopping habits not long ago, showing that every Taiwanese disposes of, on average, 9.9 T-shirts, 8 pants and 10 pairs of shoes every minute.
The study found that Taiwanese aged between 20 and 45 discard at least 5.2 million T-shirts, 4.2 million pair of pants and 5.4 million pairs of shoes every year. It also found that each of them owns an average of 75 pieces of clothing, but 15 of the items are hardly ever worn.
About 73 percent of the public dispose of clothing by throwing them into recycling bins, but some people just throw them into the trash. Only 3 percent of the public choose to exchange or trade their items.
Greenpeace urges consumers to think more about the problem of “overconsumption,” purchase environmentally-friendly textile products, or consider “upcycling” used clothes.
(Liberty Times, translated by Eddy Chang)
你知道台灣人每分鐘丟棄幾件衣服嗎？綠色和平組織最近公布消費者購物習慣調查結果，一人平均每分鐘丟棄九點九件T恤、八條褲子和十雙鞋子。
調查發現台灣二十至四十五歲的民眾，每年至少丟棄五百二十萬件T恤、四百二十萬條褲子和五百四十萬雙鞋子。調查中還發現，每人平均擁有七十五件衣服，其中有十五件幾乎沒在穿。
百分之七十三的民眾以丟棄到舊衣回收箱的方式處理不要的衣服、也有些民眾直接以垃圾丟棄、僅有百分之三的民眾會選擇以交換、交易的方式。
綠色和平呼籲消費者多思考「過度消費」的議題，並且選擇對環境友善的紡織品，或是「回收升級再造」等方式。（自由時報綜合報導） | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/lang/archives/2016/08/27/2003653920 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/a930adc0f7e0e84998f2a4470fe6ed1290b111a14e95216cf2d6ad8b1e8a33a6.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T16:54:07 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | One or two typhoons could affect Taiwan in autumn, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said yesterday, advising people to be alert to potential damage caused by interaction between possible typhoons and the northeast monsoon. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Ftaiwan%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F31%2F2003654226.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | CWB warns of autumn typhoons | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
One or two typhoons could affect Taiwan in autumn, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said yesterday, advising people to be alert to potential damage caused by interaction between possible typhoons and the northeast monsoon.
Weather Forecast Center Deputy Director Shang Chun-sheng (商俊盛) said that next month is part of the nation’s typhoon season.
Although sea temperatures in the Pacific Ocean in equatorial regions tend to cool as winter approaches, Shang said that the effect remains weak at this stage.
According to bureau data, 9.7 typhoons form in the northwest Pacific Ocean in autumn on average. One or two of them could affect Taiwan.
Shang said that typhoons during El Nino conditions tend to form far from Taiwan and become stronger by the time they make landfall, creating an increased likelihood of damage.
Under La Nina conditions, typhoons tend to form closer to Taiwan and are relatively weaker when they make landfall, he said.
The nation is likely to see a warmer autumn, with average temperatures forecast to be slightly above average.
Despite the arrival of the year’s first northeast monsoon last week, warm and humid air from the south remains the dominant factor, the bureau said.
Apart from a wetter October, autumn rainfall is forecast to be within a normal range, the bureau said, adding that the weather would gradually turn from warm and wet to cool and dry.
Bureau data showed that the average temperature for last month and this month was the third-highest in the nation since 1947, with 1998 and 2014 being hotter.
Average temperatures worldwide might be the highest since 1880, the bureau said.
Last month and this month, 11 tropical storms or typhoons formed in the northwest Pacific Ocean, although only one typhoon, Nepartak, made landfall, a below-average result.
In other developments, cloudy or sunny skies are forecast nationwide today as the influence from the northeast monsoon fades.
Weather Forecast Center specialist Wu Wan-hua (伍婉華) said the weather is likely to start changing tomorrow as a low-pressure system approaches Taiwan.
The chance of rain is higher on Friday and Saturday nationwide, Wu said, adding that heavy showers can be expected in some regions.
The relative unstable weather caused by the low-pressure system could continue until Monday to Tuesday next week, she said. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/08/31/2003654226 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/b84bda5155cd9245a564451b5e331c5c3ae010f6957e9e46aa35cbe640ae39c5.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T16:52:02 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | Taiwan’s first Aboriginal experimental elementary school on Wednesday held an event marking its formal opening to Atayal students in Taichung’s Heping District (和平) and renaming as P’uma Elementary School, meaning “heritage” in the Atayal language. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Ftaiwan%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2F2003654039.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | Aboriginal experimental school opens in Taichung | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | By Lee Tsung-hsien and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Taiwan’s first Aboriginal experimental elementary school on Wednesday held an event marking its formal opening to Atayal students in Taichung’s Heping District (和平) and renaming as P’uma Elementary School, meaning “heritage” in the Atayal language.
Previously known as Municipal Daguan Elementary School, P’uma Elementary School was established as an experimental Aboriginal school under the auspices of the Taichung City Government. It held a local referendum in May to select its name, and authorities approved the change on Aug. 1.
Atayal elders from the local community officiated a traditional blessing ritual to invoke ancestral spirits for the success of the school and its students.
Taichung Mayor Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) said the school is a step toward Aboriginal self-governance, and the city fully supports an educational policy that promotes confidence and identity by teaching Aboriginal history and cultural heritage to future generations.
Many of Taiwan’s 42 schools where experimental education is promoted are located in Aboriginal communities, and P’uma Elementary School is to lead government efforts to broaden Aboriginal education, which will involve the establishment of more Aboriginal experimental schools, as well educational institutions of higher learning, Minister of Education Pan Wen-chung (潘文忠) said.
“A person without their culture and language is like having life but not a soul. My generation’s souls were stolen from them, but we are happy to see the establishment of an Aboriginal elementary school, and glad to see that elders of the community are willing to be involved in passing on Atayal heritage, to deepen its roots against the transmission-gap crisis,” said Non-Partisan Solidarity Union Legislator May Chin (高金素梅), who is Atayal. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/08/28/2003654039 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/21a3fea29d9a242ab8e3ed3233ac590939e316e90e6683964186433bbbb1fd69.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T16:50:23 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | Rio de Janeiro police began questioning two of Ireland’s top Olympic executives on Thursday in a Summer Games ticket-scalping probe that has already ensnared the highest official. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Fsport%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2F2003653952.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | Police question top Irish Olympic executives | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | AP, RIO DE JANEIRO
Rio de Janeiro police began questioning two of Ireland’s top Olympic executives on Thursday in a Summer Games ticket-scalping probe that has already ensnared the highest official.
Olympic Council of Ireland’s (OCI) team leader Kevin Kilty and chief executive Stephen Martin arrived at police headquarters on Thursday wearing the Irish team uniform.
“We are here to fully cooperate. That’s all I can say at the moment,” Kilty said to reporters as he entered the building.
OCI secretary-general Dermot Henihan spoke to investigators on Tuesday, but they ruled out his involvement in the scheme, saying there was no evidence that indicated wrongdoing on his part.
However, Rio police suspect that the highest-ranking members of the OCI plotted with businessmen to help transfer tickets to an unauthorized vendor who would sell them for high fees disguised as hospitality services.
The three officials’ passports, phones and laptops were seized in an Olympic Village raid hours before the closing ceremony. In Kilty’s room, police found 228 tickets, which the Irishman told police were reserved for athletes, but had been left unused.
The alleged scheme unraveled at the beginning of the Games when Kevin Mallon, head of the British hospitality provider THG, was arrested in Rio with tickets that were allocated to the OCI.
OCI president Patrick Hickey, 71, was arrested last week in a dawn raid at his hotel and transferred to a hospital with chest pains.
A member of the International Olympic Committee’s ruling executive board, Hickey was in charge of the influential umbrella group for Europe’s Olympic bodies.
Now he faces charges of conspiracy, ticket scalping and ambush marketing, with authorities accusing him of being part of a plot to make US$3 million by illegally selling Rio Games tickets above face value. The strongest evidence police have found are e-mails exchanged between Hickey and the head of a company that was not an authorized vendor discussing opening and closing ceremony tickets to resell.
Hickey is held in Rio’s Bangu prison complex. His attorney has not responded to repeated requests for comment on the case. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/sport/archives/2016/08/27/2003653952 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/b75fd9932dcee1616f3dec9ddd57d8699fc7186d5dd9dffafe005192ad005a75.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T16:52:18 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Political strongmen are back in style. Not long ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the only leaders worthy of the label. Today, he has much more competition. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Feditorials%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2F2003654136.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | ‘Strongmania’ comes at high cost | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | By Minxin Pei 裴敏欣
Political strongmen are back in style. Not long ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the only leaders worthy of the label. Today, he has much more competition.
The trend can be seen in traditionally autocratic regimes. Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) is arguably China’s most powerful leader since the death of Mao Zedong (毛澤東) four decades ago.
However, something similar can be seen in nations that had been touted as model young democracies. In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had long been moving toward autocracy, has concentrated power further in the wake of last month’s failed military coup. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has reversed a post-communist success story with a sharp turn toward illiberalism. Even in the Philippines, where the People Power Revolution overthrew then-president Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, voters have just elected as president Rodrigo Duterte, an avowed populist strongman and trigger-happy warrior against drug lords.
Even the world’s most stable democracies have been infected by “strongmania.” In Austria, Norbert Hofer, leader of the far-right Freedom Party, is likely to be elected to the presidency in October. And in the US, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has capitalized on the frustration and prejudices of parts of the US electorate to gain a chance — fortunately, weakening by the day — of becoming the nation’s next president.
This embrace of leaders who promise that they alone can fix society’s problems and restore some idealized past reflects widespread ignorance of the nature and consequences of populist rule. In fact, history has not been kind to such rulers. Like today’s leaders, they would often ride to power on a wave of public anger against the perceived failures of democracy — failures that they had no intention of fixing. Instead, once in office, they would often pursue an entirely different agenda — one that usually made things much worse.
One need look no further than Venezuela, where today’s economic meltdown can be traced back to the disastrous rule of populist par excellence, former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.
People loved Chavez’s social-welfare schemes, seemingly unconcerned that they were based on oil revenues and foreign debt. As long as the benefits flowed, Chavez was free to expropriate industries and otherwise discourage private competition. Unsurprisingly, economic diversification stalled, and when oil prices collapsed, so did the economy.
This highlights a key reason why strongmen nearly always lead their nations toward catastrophe. After winning over voters with their apparent decisiveness and directness, such leaders capture enough authority to make quick decisions and demonstrate short-term results — thereby keeping voters on their side as they claim still greater authority.
However, decisiveness carries a high cost. With nobody checking their behavior, strongmen rarely account for long-term risks. In the end, the prosperity they promised never arrives, at least not for long. Instead, the economy usually ends up in ruins.
And that’s not the worst of it. Voters surrender freedoms for that promised prosperity, as Russia under Putin illustrates. Putin promised stability and order, and consolidated his power by taking down his political opponents, liberals and oligarchs alike. Then he began methodically destroying Russia’s fragile democratic institutions, stifling the press and curtailing civil liberties, including freedom of assembly. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2016/08/30/2003654136 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/89638d35a70162c3b97135924f0962493d09eac0eb6b76e0b3c91594309be627.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T16:53:10 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Public health specialists and government officials yesterday said relocating students from Ciaotou Elementary School’s Syucuo (許厝) branch is a necessary preventive measure to avoid further exposure to pollutants, and urged parents to consider their children’s health as a priority. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Ftaiwan%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2F2003654163.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | Experts back school’s relocation | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
Public health specialists and government officials yesterday said relocating students from Ciaotou Elementary School’s Syucuo (許厝) branch is a necessary preventive measure to avoid further exposure to pollutants, and urged parents to consider their children’s health as a priority.
The Executive Yuan last week announced that it would move Syucuo students to Fongrong Elementary School by the end of the semester to be further away from pollutants allegedly emitted by the nearby Formosa Petrochemical Corp naphtha cracker in Yunlin County’s Mailiao Township (麥寮), including carcinogen vinyl chloride monomer (VCM).
The decision was made after a study by the National Health Research Institutes showed that thiodiglycolic acid levels — an indicator of VCM exposure — in the urine of Syucuo students was higher than in students at other schools. The levels reportedly dropped when they were temporarily moved to other schools.
However, as the new semester for elementary schools began yesterday, most Syucuo students’ parents were reluctant to transfer their children to Fongrong Elementary School, with some even pitching tents on the Syucuo campus for students to study in, as classrooms were closed.
National Taiwan University’s College of Public Health dean Chen Wei-jen (陳為堅) said illness caused by pollution is often the result of chronic exposure and acute symptoms might not appear for some time.
Chen said when many people began suffering from blackfoot disease in the 1950s on the southwestern coast of Taiwan, villages were relocated to prevent more outbreaks, but some diseases can take decades for the cause to be identified, and sometimes it is too late to reverse the damage after symptoms appear.
“Some residents said they are not willing to transfer [their children] until there is evidence, but sometimes it can take 30 years to find clear evidence. Can we wait that long?” Chen said, adding that removing children from high-risk environments is the most effective way to protect them.
Environmental Protection Administration Minister Lee Ying-yuan (李應元) said that while the administration would enhance monitoring methods and inspections on VCM emissions at nearby industrial plants, transferring the students is still a necessary precaution.
Minister of Education Pan Wen-chung (潘文忠) said many parents had complained that Fongrong Elementary School is too far away, so the Ciaotou Elementary School’s main campus would provide six classrooms for Syucuo students and free school buses, lunch and other resources are to be provided by the county government.
He urged parents of Syucuo students to allow their children to go to school today at the main campus, saying it is the best way to protect their health and their right to education.
Minister of Health and Welfare Lin Tzou-yien (林奏延) said the ministry would monitor students’ health with urine and liver function tests after they are transferred to other schools, with preliminary health results expected in six months.
The ministry is also conducting health evaluations on pregnant women, older people and people with chronic diseases living in the area, it said. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/08/30/2003654163 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/2943dcff5663bfc414c73dd23009fa42237835659d06ee404ede422b4a0b2f2b.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:06:56 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | TENNIS | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Fsport%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2F2003653888.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | SPORTS BRIEFS | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | Agencies
TENNIS
Vinci routs Konjuh
Italy’s Roberta Vinci got off to a dominating start at the WTA Connecticut Open on Wednesday by routing Croatian Ana Konjuh 6-2, 6-2 to reach the quarter-finals. The 18-year-old Konjuh is ranked 100th in the world and had to get through three rounds of qualifying to reach the main draw at the New Haven, Connecticut tournament. Vinci next faces Johanna Larsson, a lucky loser in qualifying who defeated wild-card entrant Shelby Rogers 7-6 (7/1), 6-4 for a berth in the quarter-finals. The most impressive performance of the day was provided by sixth-seeded Petra Kvitova, who took out Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard 6-3, 6-2 for a berth in the quarter-finals, where she meets Olympic doubles gold medalist Ekaterina Makarova.
SOCCER
Blatter hearing begins
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter yesterday arrived for his appeal hearing against a six-year ban from soccer, pledging to accept the verdict of the Court of Arbitration for Sport. “I do hope it will be positive for me,” Blatter told reporters at about 8am ahead of a hearing expected to last several hours. The court’s verdict is expected within several weeks, and could be challenged in a further appeal to Switzerland’s supreme court. The 80-year-old Blatter denies wrongdoing in authorizing a US$2 million payment to former FIFA vice president Michel Platini in 2011. They claimed it was for backdated and uncontracted salary for work Platini did in advising Blatter from 1999 to 2002. The so-called “disloyal payment” led Blatter to be put under investigation for criminal mismanagement by Swiss federal prosecutors last September. That investigation is ongoing.
SWIMMING
Feigen apologizes
US swimmer James Feigen apologized for the “serious distraction” he and three teammates caused at a gas station during the Rio Olympics, saying he omitted facts in his statement to police. “I omitted the facts that we urinated behind the building and that Ryan Lochte pulled a poster off the wall,” Feigen said in a statement on Tuesday on the Web site of his lawyer in Austin, Texas. He maintains the group did not force their way into a bathroom and a gun was pointed at them. Feigen, who was pulled off an airplane last week by Brazilian police for more questioning, said he paid a fine of US$10,800 for the return of his passport so he could travel back to the US.
ATHLETICS
Kiplagat dies, aged 72
The suspended president of Athletics Kenya, Isaiah Kiplagat, has died after a long illness. He was 72. The International Association of Athletics Federations said that Kiplagat’s death on Wednesday was confirmed by Kenya’s athletics association, which he led for more than 20 years. Kiplagat was a divisive figure who dominated the most successful sport in his country in a manner that is unlikely to be repeated. He was a longtime IAAF Council member during the presidency of Lamine Diack of Senegal which ended last year. The IAAF ethics commission suspended Kiplagat and two other Athletics Kenya officials in November last year during an ongoing investigation of alleged embezzlement and extortion. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/sport/archives/2016/08/26/2003653888 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/11db328390e629d3afde7dc399fba4298645dacca1027bee786b7c2b82545bb1.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T16:52:05 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | Bai Chi Gan Tou Digital Entertainment Co (百尺竿頭數位娛樂) yesterday said it decided to scrap its plan to acquire 25.17 percent of XPEC Entertainment Inc’s (樂陞科技) stock because of the sharp drop in the share price over the past few months. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Fbiz%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F31%2F2003654184.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | Bai Chi drops XPEC share purchases | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | By Lauly Li / Staff reporter
Bai Chi Gan Tou Digital Entertainment Co (百尺竿頭數位娛樂) yesterday said it decided to scrap its plan to acquire 25.17 percent of XPEC Entertainment Inc’s (樂陞科技) stock because of the sharp drop in the share price over the past few months.
The announcement came one day before the deadline to complete the deal.
Bai Chi said it has authorized CTBC Bank Co (中國信託銀行) to return the XPEC shares it bought from investors before 9am today.
Bai Chi, a foreign company registered in Taiwan, is controlled by Japan’s Yoshiaki Kashino, and has paid-in capital of NT$50 million, according to Ministry of Economic Affairs data.
The company in June said it wanted to purchase a 25.71 percent stake in XPEC for NT$4.68 billion (US$147.54 million at the current exchange rate), or up to 38 million common shares at NT$128 per share.
However, since it initiated the offer, XPEX’s stock price has fluctuated amid speculation about the deal and is now down sharply, Bai Chi said.
Among the rumors was that Bai Chi would not be able to conclude the deal because it would not be able to find enough shareholders who wanted to sell their shares.
Shares of XPEC have plunged more than 25.83 percent in the past three months and closed at NT$78 in Taipei trading yesterday, down 39.06 percent from the proposed purchase price of NT$128 per share.
Given the large price difference, Bai Chi said its main backers decided not to conclude the deal.
In a filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange, XPEC said it would sue Bai Chi for damaging its business reputation and it would assist any of its shareholders who wanted to file a class-action lawsuit against Bai Chi for damages and compensation.
XPEC said it would also consider launching a share buyback program to protect its shareholders’ interests and to support its stock price, since speculation might cause short selling.
The Financial Supervisory Commission said Bai Chi’s decision to drop its stock purchase plan was “malicious” and said that by failing to fulfill the acquisition in XPEC has contravened the Securities and Exchange Act (證券交易法) and should bear civil and criminal responsibilities.
The commission has asked the Securities and Futures Investors Protection Center to help investors who want to apply for civil compensation, the commission said in a news release.
The Investment Commission said its approval of Bai Chi’s planned acquisition in XPEC will remain valid until July 22 next year.
“That means the foreign company would not need to ask the commission’s approval if it plans to initiate another public tender offer before July next year,” commission Executive Secretary Emile Chang (張銘斌) said by telephone.
Additional reporting by Ted Chen | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2016/08/31/2003654184 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/059f6494787a413210d653c576de541a0e8ccf8e46d207065918d69b89719312.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T16:50:42 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | Led by pop diva Chang Hui-mei (張惠妹), also known as A-mei (阿妹), 37 artists took part in a benefit concert at Taipei Arena at the beginning of this month to show support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Ffeat%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2F2003654009.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/2016/08/28/thumbs/p08-160828-aa1.jpg | en | null | Taipei Watcher: The call is loud and clear | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | By Eddy Chang / Staff reporter
Led by pop diva Chang Hui-mei (張惠妹), also known as A-mei (阿妹), 37 artists took part in a benefit concert at Taipei Arena at the beginning of this month to show support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
The concert, Love is King. It Makes Us All Equal (愛最大), was organized to raise funds for the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights (伴侶盟), which advocates legalizing same-sex marriage. The 10,000 tickets sold out within a minute, and millions of New Taiwan Dollars were donated to the alliance via ticket sales.
The strong show of support sent a clear message to the government. However, in the face of Asian’s biggest pro-LGBT concert in terms of the number of artists contributing to it, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) and her administration has yet to take any concrete actions.
LGBT VARIETY SHOW
Meanwhile, LGBTalk Show (TA們說) — Taiwan’s first gay-themed variety show — received positive feedback after it premiered on YouTube on Thursday last week (www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzjwSRR5RuU).
The weekly variety show is co-hosted by gay rights activist Kristy Chu (曲家瑞) and entertainers Hero Dai (戴祖雄), William Liao (廖威廉) and Simon Xue (薛仕凌), who goes by the stage name MC 40. The first episode received tens of thousands of views on the day of its release, and a new episode will air at 10pm every Thursday.
Despite the show’s popularity, TV outlets have refused to carry it because they are concerned that some of the issues it may tackle could be sensitive or controversial, reported online news outlet ETtoday (東森新聞雲).
As these cases — and countless others — show, the central government and some media outlets continue to euphemize the issue by appealing to a largely fictitious demographic that might be offended by the protection of LGBT people’s rights.
However, quite a few cities and counties throughout the nation are taking the initiative to protect the LGBT community. The Taichung City Government’s ban on the barbaric practice of conversion therapy serves as a good example. The city’s Health Bureau issued a document on May 13 stating that medical institutions are prohibited from using the controversial treatment.
CONVERSION THERAPY BANNED
According to Shader Liu (劉信詮), a member of Taichung’s Gender Equality Committee, the policy was made because homosexuality is not an illness and therefore the practice is not necessary. Liu added that the pseudo-scientific therapy could lead to domestic violence, psychological trauma and suicide.
“Conversion therapy used to be an ethical issue. Now it’s a legal issue,” Liu said, adding that any group — medical, civil or religious — practicing the treatment in Taichung is violating the Physicians Act (醫師法) and the Psychologists Act (心理師法).
Taichung’s committee is making a request for the Ministry of Health and Welfare to make the new rule applicable nationwide, so as to eliminate the treatment. From the pro-LGBT concert and online variety show to Taichung’s sensible policy, the call for the equal rights of LGBT people is loud and clear. What is the central government waiting for? | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2016/08/28/2003654009 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/8b791106ed4bc75e332b53be39a4054382cbf92dbde204606394617a9605f27f.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T16:52:42 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | Yang Nan-chun (楊南郡), an expert on the nation’s mountains and hiking trails, passed away on Saturday morning.Yang died of cancer aged 86 at National Taiwan University Hospital. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Ftaiwan%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2F2003654100.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/2016/08/29/thumbs/P02-160829-3.jpg | en | null | Leading expert on ancient mountain trails dies at 86 | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | By Wu Hsin-tien and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Yang Nan-chun (楊南郡), an expert on the nation’s mountains and hiking trails, passed away on Saturday morning.Yang died of cancer aged 86 at National Taiwan University Hospital.
The Council of Agriculture said it would issue Yang, a famous mountain climber and researcher into ancient trails, a post-humous honorary title to recognize his contributions to the study of Taiwan’s mountains and forests.
Yang is considered a legend in the world of mountain climbing due to his unique passion for Taiwan’s ancient trails.
On June 6 and 7 — in the midst of his battle with cancer — Yang joined Forestry Bureau officials to revisit ancient trails that he surveyed with his wife 38 years earlier. Yang’s research of these trails is captured in videos, photographs and a text he composed titled The Natural Stronghold of the Path Over Hehuan Mountain Taken During the Taroko War.
Bureau officials recalled Yang’s abundant energy and his stories about the war with the Japanese in the mountain pass.
Yang and his wife, Hsu Ju-lin (徐如林), met while she was a chemistry student at National Taiwan University due to their shared interest in mountain climbing.
Hsu had initially written to the more senior Yang for advice while she was preparing to go on a solo expedition to Nanhu Mountain (南湖山).
Yang — who had moved to a new address — did not receive the letters, causing Hsu to think he was not interested in speaking with her. The issue was cleared up when they later met on a trail in Bijia Mountain (筆架山) in New Taipei City’s Shiding District (石碇). They fell in love shortly afterward.
Yang and Hsu were inseparable in their research of mountain trails, with Yang once remarking that conducting surveys with Hsu was “the happiest thing he could do.”
Yang said that while he was driven by emotion, Hsu was always the practical one.
Friends said Yang’s greatest contribution to trail research came from his translations of materials written in Japanese, in which he was well-versed.
Hsu would take Yang’s findings and turn them into vivid academic reports, preserving accounts of culturally historic events that occurred on these trails.
In 2014 Yang was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus, which later spread to his lymph nodes. He underwent several bouts of treatment until he was eventually transferred to the Hospice Foundation of Taiwan two weeks ago.
Well-known nature writer Liu Ka-shiang (劉克襄), who was a friend of Yang’s for almost 30 years, fondly recalled his times with Yang, saying his presence was “like that of a large mountain” and that his contributions elevated research into Taiwan’s mountains and trails to new heights.
While visiting Yang in the hospital a week ago, Liu asked him what message he would like to leave behind.
Yang wrote on a pad of paper: “The beauty of Taiwan’s mountains, valleys, flora and fauna have been overlooked for too long. These things and the beauty of Taiwan’s culture have been well documented by our mountaineering friends. With urgency and necessity they should be promoted and shared.”
In recent years the Forestry Bureau and Council of Agriculture commissioned Yang and Hsu to publish their findings. So far the couple’s research documenting the Nenggao National Trail (能高越嶺道), the Jinshueiying Ancient Trail (浸水營古道) and the Hehuan National Trail (合歡越嶺道) have been published, and there are plans to publish their research on the Syakaro National Trail (霞喀羅古道) and the Tsou people’s trail in Chiayi County’s Alishan (阿里山). | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/08/29/2003654100 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/4e3842c7e89d4f66c3ffe714d8cb655cdcfb958a4f7c97868ec661a6322e7e96.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T16:52:04 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | HTC Corp (宏達電) plans to unveil its next flagship model — the HTC One A9 — at the IFA electronics trade show in Berlin next month in a bid to compete with the next generation of iPhones, tech blog VentureBeat said. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Fbiz%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F31%2F2003654191.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | HTC likely to unveil new A9 flagship model at IFA | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | Staff writer, with CNA
HTC Corp (宏達電) plans to unveil its next flagship model — the HTC One A9 — at the IFA electronics trade show in Berlin next month in a bid to compete with the next generation of iPhones, tech blog VentureBeat said.
In a report posted on VentureBeat on Monday, blogger Evan Blass said HTC is about to launch a successor to its A9 flagship model at the IFA, the largest consumer electronics exhibition in Europe, which opens on Friday and runs through Wednesday next week.
The HTC A9, which was released last year, has been compared to Apple’s iPhone 6s, with some commentators pointing to several similarities.
“What’s most interesting about the alleged follow-up device is that HTC seems to have decided to pay homage to Apple naming conventions as well, dubbing the nearly aesthetically unchanged model the One A9s — the same nomenclature applied to so-called ‘tock’ year iPhones,” Blass said in his report.
Blass said the HTC A9s has a 5-inch display with a design in four colors — white, black, gold and silver blue.
“While some of the hardware elements have been repositioned — camera lenses, flash and sensors — the enclosure is very much identical to the One A9,” Blass said.
He said the sensor on the smartphone’s main camera will be unchanged at 13 megapixels (MP), while the sensor on the front will be changed from 4MP to 5MP.
Like the flagship HTC 10, which was unveiled in April, the HTC logo will be eliminated from the front of the A9s, Blass said. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2016/08/31/2003654191 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/278e9d52fe4223b786d3f8db4d416f5f9c6c980b8b392f7c96ffa46046b51b83.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T16:50:24 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | Deutsche Bank AG agreed to sell its subsidiary in Argentina to Buenos Aires-based Banco Comafi SA as it scales back operations in the region. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Fbiz%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2F2003653992.json | http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/logo.gif | en | null | Deutsche Bank agrees to sell unit to Banco Comafi | null | null | www.taipeitimes.com | Bloomberg
Deutsche Bank AG agreed to sell its subsidiary in Argentina to Buenos Aires-based Banco Comafi SA as it scales back operations in the region.
The transaction is expected to complete in the first half of next year subject to regulatory approval, the German bank said on Friday in a statement. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The sale is part of Deutsche Bank’s “footprint rationalization” strategy, the company said, adding that it would continue to serve its clients in Argentina from global and regional hubs.
The Argentinian unit has about 86 workers, according to the bank’s annual report.
Deutsche Bank is exiting Latin American countries including Argentina and Mexico and cut about half of its employees in Brazil earlier this year as it moves trading elsewhere. The bank had 334 employees in Brazil as of December 2014.
The German lender said in October last year that it planned to eliminate about 26,000 jobs worldwide by 2018 as part of an overhaul aimed at improving returns.
In addition to Argentina and Mexico, the Frankfurt-based bank also intends to shut operations in Chile, Peru and Uruguay. | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2016/08/28/2003653992 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.taipeitimes.com/ef54d9f716cf7d7ffa28c16939deb2c060de74dbca21592a78c59b5ef73a37b0.json |
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[] | 2016-08-28T16:49:16 | null | 2016-08-28T12:20:00 | Check out some inviting destinations that are more pleasurable in the open air. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flifestyle%2Frestaurants%2Frestaurants-with-outdoor-dining-on-long-island-1.5659774.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.10757080.1440074376!/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.JPG | en | null | Restaurants with outdoor dining on Long Island | null | null | www.newsday.com | In sunny weather, restaurants with tables outdoors know how to keep you cool and dry. After all, they have umbrellas. So, enjoy your alfresco appetizers, whether it's blazing or drizzling out there.
Here are some inviting destinations that are more pleasurable in the open air, thanks to their canopies. And several of them offer water views on the side.
Selections by Newsday's food staff.
Manna (Credit: Gordon M. Grant) (Credit: Gordon M. Grant) Manna, Water Mill: Outdoor tables flank the entrance of Manna, a Mediterranean restaurant in Water Mill serving seafood-focused Southern Italian fare.
Grey Lady (Credit: Gordon M. Grant) (Credit: Gordon M. Grant) Grey Lady, Montauk: Grey Lady has opened on Lake Montauk, with a patio stocked with nautical director chairs and tables. The fourth location for owners Ryan Chadwick and Callum McLaughlin -- with others on the Lower East Side, on Nantucket and in Aspen -- offers a menu of fresh seafood, from chowder to fish paté, local fluke, fish and chips or lobster rolls. Happy hour offers $5 beers and $1 oysters weekdays from 4 to 7 p.m.
The Lake House (Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) The Lake House, Bay Shore: Since 2006, The Lake House in Bay Shore has successfully balanced high-caliber cuisine with a mom-and-pop vibe. That balancing act is more difficult now that the restaurant, one of Newsday's Top 10 fine dining picks, has moved from its modest location along Bay Shore's West Main Street to a grand new building overlooking the Great South Bay. A well-appointed deck at the water's edge offers 40 people a view of the Fire Island ferries chugging past Nicky's on the Bay toward Kismet. Order from the regular menu of innovative New American dishes, or a bar menu comprised of simple crowd-pleasers: lobster rolls, burgers, steamed mussels.
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Vespa Italian Kitchen & Bar (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) Vespa Italian Kitchen & Bar, Farmingdale: This stylish new trattoria in Farmingdale's burgeoning downtown serves both Italian-American favorites and some Southern Italian specialties.
Duryea's Lobster Deck (Credit: Jason Penney) (Credit: Jason Penney) Duryea's Lobster Deck, Montauk: This 80-year-old Montauk landmark lobster shack-fish market has opened under new ownership. The new Duryea's has retained such menu items as New England clam chowder and lobster rolls, but has added quinoa tabbouleh, tuna tartar and more. Once BYOB, Duryea's now offers beer and wine. Plastic seats (and plates and cutlery) have given way to teak furniture and stainless dinnerware.
Stella Trattoria & Bar (Credit: Stella Trattoria ) (Credit: Stella Trattoria ) Stella Trattoria & Bar, Blue Point: Stella Trattoria & Bar is now open in what used to be several other restaurants. The eatery has outdoor lounge and table seating and offers menu items like grilled octopus, panini and pasta.
Nikkei of Peru (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) Nikkei of Peru, Port Washington: Sushi bars with outdoor seating are a rarity on Long Island. Nikkei of Peru in Port Washington goes above and beyond with Peruvian-influenced Japanese cuisine and a stunning view of Manhasset Bay. (Try to snag a seat facing the bay to witness one of the Island's loveliest sunsets.) Chef-partner Hermanto Jong sharpened his knives and skills during a decade at Nobu 57 in Manhattan, so consider forgoing the typical California roll for the chef's signature creations. Kitchen dishes, such as pan-seared scallops, automatically belong with guacamole mousse, and jalapeño salsa and beef dumplings find a match with slightly grainy sesame-ponzu sauce.
Jue Lan Club (Credit: Gordon M. Grant) (Credit: Gordon M. Grant) Jue Lan Club, Southampton: Jue Lan Club serves dressed up Chinese American cuisine in a stylish spot with a party vibe and a late night menu. Named for a secret Chinese art society in 1930s Paris, Jue Lan's sophisticated setting unfolds like a labyrinth, eventually leading to an outdoor brick patio, where white tablecloths reflect the light of stringed lanterns.
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Salt (Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) Salt, Merrick: A newcomer in Merrick, Salt doesn't take reservations and an hour or two wait builds up on weekends. But it's worth sticking it out if you add your name to the waitlist, then head past the host stand to the lounge area on the deck. The couch seating is remarkably low key and pretty quiet. For dinner, a table is an oasis, with plenty of elbow room and terrific bay views. Feast on casual eats like calamari, octopus small plates, soft-shell crab sandwiches or burgers.
H2O Seafood & Sushi (Credit: Alessandro Vecchi) (Credit: Alessandro Vecchi) H2O Seafood & Sushi, Smithtown: Seafood, raw and cooked, is the focus of H2O Seafood & Sushi in Smithtown, whose expansive outdoor patio is pretty enough to make you forget you're on Jericho Turnpike. From the sushi bar come imaginative rolls including a few "tornado rolls" wrapped in fried potato. The kitchen has a particular skill for lobster: lobster-chipotle salad, lobster mac & cheese, lobster roll and "millennium"-style with garlic mashed potatoes. There are steamed lobsters, too, as well as traditional and more fanciful takes on fish and shellfish.
Crazy Fish Bar & Gill (Credit: Crazy Fish Bar & Grill) (Credit: Crazy Fish Bar & Grill) Crazy Fish Bar & Gill, Port Jefferson: Both the vibe and the menu at Crazy Fish are relaxed. The restaurant sprawls over two floors and two decks. Original artwork from third graders at nearby Terryville Road Elementary School has been integrated into the décor. The food emphasizes seafood but draws its influences from all over the globe. Among the starters are clams and oysters on the half shell, Thai calamari with seaweed salad and seafood nachos. Mains include a broiled seafood platter, smoked swordfish, penne alla vodka with shrimp and more.
Trumpets on the Bay (Credit: Gordon M. Grant) (Credit: Gordon M. Grant) Trumpets on the Bay, Eastport: Diners at the two-dozen tables on the porch at Trumpets on the Bay in Eastport enjoy one of the most dramatic views on Long Island. Bordered by marsh, the restaurant is located at the tip of one of the fingers in Moriches Bay. The restaurant, which also hosts weddings and other events, offers everything from lobster cocktail and tuna tartar to teriyaki salmon and grilled steaks.
Anchor Down (Credit: Newsday / Erica Marcus) (Credit: Newsday / Erica Marcus) Anchor Down, Merrick: This New American seafood house in Merrick's Open Bay Marina, lacks a water view, but makes up for it with a charming, nautical-themed patio where you can still hear the squawks of the sea gulls. Chef-owner Stephen Rosenbluth manages a balance of inventive and classic, and the menu always features a selection of oysters, fried calamari, steamers, fried Ipswich clams and lobsters.
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Campagne House (Credit: Bruce Gilbert) (Credit: Bruce Gilbert) Campagne House, Bethpage: For gastropub fare and plenty of space to hang out, there's the 30-seat patio at Campagne House in Bethpage, pronounced "campaign" and named for owner Don Schiavetta's grandfather, Charles Campagne. Salads, filet mignon, swordfish and paella are featured for dinner served inside and outside weeknights until 9 p.m., with a bar bites menu of wings, potato skins and pots of mussels or clams available until 9:30 p.m. On weekends, dinner stretches to 10 p.m. and the bar menu is served until midnight.
Sandbar (Credit: Bruce Gilbert) (Credit: Bruce Gilbert) Sandbar, Cold Spring Harbor: Sidewalk tables aren't always a draw as honking cars and fuming trucks can defeat the finest dining. But when the sidewalk belongs to Sandbar in the picture-perfect town of Cold Spring Harbor, the street only adds to the charm. Before or after an afternoon browsing antiques stores (or, kids in tow, the whaling museum) enjoy Eric Werner's assured New American menu (overseen by executive chef Guy Reuge). Highlights include a raw seafood tower, chickpea fries and pan-roasted halibut.
Southampton Publick House (Credit: Gordon M. Grant) (Credit: Gordon M. Grant) Southampton Publick House, Southampton: The outdoor patio serves as an intimate spot for sipping cold brews at the new location of the Southampton Publick House, with its blue and white motif on an eight-table patio with a line of seats down the outdoor bar. Order a lunch combo such as the mac 'n' cheese and a wedge salad, or share an order of potato skins or wings for happy hour following a day at the beach.
South Shore Dive (Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) South Shore Dive, West Sayville: For a cozy nook filled with picnic tables and lounge seating, the outdoor area at South Shore Dive in West Sayville is a locals' go-to for a dozen oysters and a few beers. Wood paneling evokes a rec room, while twinkly lights dress up the space when the sun sets. Other details include lavender-filled planters and a projection of a surfer catching a wave. The late-night menu is offered every day until 1 a.m.
A Lure (Credit: Randee Daddona) (Credit: Randee Daddona) A Lure, Southold: A self-described "chowder house and oyster-ia," A Lure in Southold boasts an immense deck overlooking Port of Egypt Marina and Peconic Bay. Executive chef Tom Schaudel tours the world of seafood with gumbo ya ya, crabcakes with corn salad, Baja-style fish tacos, macadamia-coconut-crusted flounder, grilled Scottish salmon, plenty of classic steamed and raw dishes, too, plus an extensive wine list with many North Fork selections.
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Vauxhall (Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) Vauxhall, Huntington: For a perch to see and be seen, grab a picnic table on the sidewalk outside Vauxhall, the Huntington spot for fine burgers and satisfying options for your vegan and vegetarian friends. Drinks do not disappoint, from the compelling cocktails and more canned beers than you would imagine.
Umberto's Pizzeria and Restaurant (Credit: Nicole Horton) (Credit: Nicole Horton) Umberto's Pizzeria and Restaurant, New Hyde Park: For a glass of wine, a tri-colored salad and a grandma slice or two, head to Umberto's Pizzeria & Restaurant in New Hyde Park, where tables await, shaded by umbrellas. The 30-seat patio is dressed up with groomed planters and vines cascading over the sides. Large parties can call ahead to reserve seats.
Michaelangelo’s Wine Bar (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) Michaelangelo's Wine Bar, Massapequa Park: Roped off sidewalk seating at Michaelangelo's Wine Bar in Massapequa Park offers prime seats for in-town dining. With over 60 reds and nearly 40 white wines by the glass, Old World and New World wines are equally represented. Order a flight and a meat and cheese board or settle in for a meal of small plates, salads, panini and sweets.
La Fine (Credit: Montauk Manor) (Credit: Montauk Manor) La Fine, Montauk: Italian-American restaurant La Fine is situated in the landmark Montauk Manor. In addition to the traditional dining room, there also will be a patio this summer. The main menu includes baked clams, meatballs, eggplant Parmigiana, linguine with clam sauce and chicken scarpariello.
Prime 23 Steaks & Seafood (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) Prime 23 Steaks & Seafood, Freeport: The Nautical Mile just got meatier with the opening of Prime 23 Steaks & Seafood, sharing ownership with and occupying the top floor of EB Elliot's. Look for seafood towers and lobster sliders, while steak and chops range from the coveted porterhouse to Colorado lamb chops. The sushi menu is a new addition, with rolls served in both restaurants and on the deck. Happy hour runs weekdays from noon to 7 p.m. with plenty of drink specials and a free buffet at 4 p.m.
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The Cove (Credit: Newsday / Erica Marcus) (Credit: Newsday / Erica Marcus) The Cove, Glen Cove: The restaurant at Jude Thaddeus Marina in Glen Cove has changed hands five times since 2010 (the most recent incarnation, Boca, lasted less than a year), but what never changes is that this is one of the North Shore's prettiest waterside dining spots. At The Cove, new for 2016, stick to the basics while you soak up the sun -- or the sunset -- on the spacious patio. Any bottle of beer, glass of wine, plate of oysters or bucket of steamed clams will taste just fine while you watch the boats bobbing in the marina, or making their way home from Hempstead Bay.
American Beech (Credit: Randee Daddona) (Credit: Randee Daddona) American Beech, Greenport: Outside American Beech in Greenport, you'll find cushy seating at tables and a row of stools that frame the square bar under a tree. Visit Fridays from noon to 3 p.m. for chef Kyle Romeo's outdoor clam bake, where $25 buys a pot of mussels, clams, corn, potatoes and a half lobster. The BeechBurger is also a good bet, dressed with Gruyere, caramelized onions and roasted mushrooms, served on a pretzel bun.
La Casa Cafe La Casa Cafe, Northport: Instead of eating inside this beachside Italian dining spot, opt for an umbrella table in the outdoor courtyard. The menu is a little cheaper than indoors, and while you can't partake of the dining room salad bar, you have access to something unavailable inside: Neapolitan pizza, puffy-crusted and oozing molten cheese. That, a glass of wine, a salad and, perhaps a pasta or panino can precede a walk along the shoreline.
Nawlins Seafood Company (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) Nawlins Seafood Company, Freeport: The French Quarter meets the Nautical Mile at Nawlins Seafood Company, a breezy space framed by murals and wrought iron that promises a visit as rambunctious as a trip to New Orleans. Grab a seat at the bar near the entrance and order an Abita. Or head to the back of the dining room for a table with plenty of room to spread out plates of fried green tomatoes, an oyster po'boy, a muffuletta, or chicken and waffles. The back deck offers the most laid-back seating, a perfect spot for sunset or to watch the boats go by.
Ting Ting, Huntington: The partitioned-off sidewalk patio that wraps around one side of this Asian-fusion restaurant seems removed from the traffic on Route 25A. Enjoy the evening breeze as you dine, perhaps, on butternut squash soup, tuna pizza, crispy delight beef and scallops and/or traditional sushi and sashimi.
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The Refuge (Credit: Angela Datre) (Credit: Angela Datre) The Refuge, Melville: Sheltered from Route 110 by hedges and trees, the big wooden patio at The Refuge in Melville is a popular meeting place day or night -- happy hour rocks here. The menu, a crowd-pleasing mix of Italian-American and Latin dishes, takes aim at that dining sweet spot between ease and intrigue: ropa vieja nachos, rigatoni and meatballs, grilled skirt steak with chimichurri, "angry shrimp" tacos. For Sunday brunch during the summer, your dog is invited, too -- provided it's on a leash and stays outside.
Swingbellys Beachside BBQ (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) Swingbellys Beachside BBQ, Long Beach: Having seen the wrath of superstorm Sandy, two renovations and five different pitmasters, Swingbellys Beachside BBQ comes out swinging harder than ever. Credit pitmaster and co-owner Dan Monteforte, who was on the scene when the place opened eight years ago and returns after a two-year absence.
Half Moon Cafe (Credit: Half Moon Cafe) (Credit: Half Moon Cafe) Half Moon Cafe, Long Beach: Decorated in surf memorabilia, Half Moon Cafe has opened in Long Beach, a casual cafe and bar in the East Park Avenue spot that used to be Biddy Mulligan's. The mid-sized restaurant offers seating inside and outside, with planters framing sidewalk tables. Happy hours highlight weekdays, with drink specials from 3 to 7 p.m. and a $6 food menu of wings, frickles (fried + pickles = frickles), nachos, clams and spring rolls. More substantive dishes on the lunch and dinner menu include burgers, sandwiches, tacos and quesadillas.
Nicky's on the Bay (Credit: Nicky's on the Bay) (Credit: Nicky's on the Bay) Nicky's on the Bay, Bay Shore: Serving up salt air, sea vistas and sunsets is Nicky's on the Bay, a picture postcard of a seafood restaurant. In temperate weather, you'll want to sit on the outdoor deck, equipped with a canopied area at center. And before or after dinner, head up the stairs for drinks on the second level, where there's often live music. If you time it right, gorgeous sunsets, too.
EAT Gastropub (Credit: Marisol Diaz) (Credit: Marisol Diaz) EAT Gastropub, Oceanside: A well-appointed patio with a bar, umbrella tables and lounge furniture offers a view of the restaurant's greenhouse, which produces the greens used in salads. From chef Gregory Baumel's new repertoire are dishes like salmon and crab burgers, and apricot chipotle roasted chicken.
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The Clubhouse (Credit: The Clubhouse) (Credit: The Clubhouse) The Clubhouse, Bellmore: The Clubhouse sneaks up on you, hidden away in a residential neighborhood along one of South Nassau's many canals. Whimsical arrows on the dockside deck point one way to Montauk (89 miles), the other to Jamaica (1,574 miles). If you want to have a drink or even some food outside, seated in an Adirondack chair or at a high-top table, you have to get everything yourself, from the bar.
Blackstone Steakhouse (Credit: Angela Datre) (Credit: Angela Datre) Blackstone Steakhouse, Melville: The patio has an awning that may be opened at this stylish, high-end steakhouse. Standouts include sashimi, sushi, sushi rolls, the seafood plateau, grilled whole fish, crabcake, sliders, porterhouse steak, double-cut pork chop, and lobster macaroni and cheese.
Jewel (Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) Jewel, Melville: This splashy Tom Schaudel establishment ventures outdoors with fine traditional and New American dishes, and some Italian piatti, too. Winners include tuna tartare, grilled oysters, octopus salad with a merlot vinaigrette, penne rigate with spicy sausage, pork belly tacos, the house burger, and a pistachio ice cream sandwich.
Chi Dining Lounge (Credit: Linda Rosier) (Credit: Linda Rosier) Chi Dining Lounge, Westbury: A rear patio with its own little waterfall has a clubby vibe and a global menu. As darkness falls, a deejay enters the scene. A new attraction is an outdoor brick pizza oven, which turns out pies that range from Margherita to chicken-bacon ranch. Also on the menu: lobster sliders, beef satay, gnocchi Bolognese and Asian skirt steak.
Farm Country Kitchen (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) Farm Country Kitchen, Riverhead: Eat on the veranda of this secreted-away little house overlooking the Peconic River. Chef-owner Tom Carson offers a lunch repertoire of soups, salads, sandwiches and wraps. At dinner, you'll find lobster cakes, duck breast and pan-seared sea scallops over linguine.
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Whale's Tale (Credit: Danielle Finkelstein) (Credit: Danielle Finkelstein) Whale's Tale, Northport: A laid-back vibe prevails at this summery spot by the Brittania Yacht Club. Eat on the deck within view of both pool and boatyard at tables shaded by umbrellas and awnings. Raw-bar items, wings, tacos, burgers, wraps, sandwiches and the like compose the menu.
Kyma (Credit: Uli Seit) (Credit: Uli Seit) Kyma, Roslyn: It's all about Greek-accented seafood at Kyma -- grilled shrimp and octopus and whole fish anointed with lemon and olive oil. Take a bite, then a sip of dry white moschofilero, close your eyes and pretend that instead of a patio outside the restaurant in Roslyn Village, you're overlooking the Aegean.
El Toro 28 (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) El Toro 28, Freeport: If it's tequila you're after, make a beeline for El Toro 28. The restaurant-- revamped for the summer 2016 season -- stocks more than 100 bottles. The dining room is accented with sugar-skulls and Day of the Dead-inspired murals. The menu boasts an array of guacamole from traditional to lobster, shrimp and crab variations. Salads are among the more refreshing dishes for a hot day, such as the watermelon and tomatillo served with pumpkin seeds and baby greens. Tacos run three an order, with radish slaw, pickled red onion, queso fresco and green chili salsa. Looking for a snack to go with your margarita? There's always Mexican street corn, served with a choice of three toppings: roasted garlic and chili, chipotle honey, or Buffalo-dipped corn with blue cheese.
Nick's Pizza and Clam Bar (Credit: Nicole Horton) (Credit: Nicole Horton) Nick's Pizza and Clam Bar, Smithtown: There's no water in sight along this tree-lined stretch of Route 25A, but sitting on Nick's deck, polishing off a dozen briny clams on the half shell, you'll swear you hear the roar of the surf. Also on the menu: oysters, steamers, salads, burgers and pizza.
Besito (Credit: Newsday / Rebecca Cooney) (Credit: Newsday / Rebecca Cooney) Besito, Huntington: Besito is one of LI's best Mexican restaurants, staying clear of the cliches and mixing a mean margarita. When the weather's warm, the experience is enhanced by the tables set up on the sidewalk of Huntington's bustling New York Avenue. Cool off with refreshing ceviche, or turn up the heat with mole poblano.
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Grasso's Buy photo (Credit: Jin Lee) (Credit: Jin Lee) Grasso's, Cold Spring Harbor: The Main Street mainstay has a few outdoor tables and a lively dining room and bar. Notable: pan-seared diver scallops, cavatelli Bolognese, a spin on cioppino emphasizing shellfish, grilled filet mignon, grilled Berkshire pork rib, grilled calamari, chopped salad and roast duck.
Fisherman's Catch (Credit: Marisol Diaz) (Credit: Marisol Diaz) Fisherman's Catch, Point Lookout: At this waterside restaurant owned by fishermen, you can dine on an outdoor deck overlooking Reynolds Channel. Choices include sesame-seared tuna, herb-crusted swordfish and a catch of the day crudo.
The Oar (Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) The Oar, Patchogue: The Oar in Patchogue powers you to seafood and steak, and doubtless a few drinks, while providing a very summery water view.
Tony Cuban Cucina & Cocktails (Credit: Tony Cuban) (Credit: Tony Cuban) Tony Cuban Cucina and Cocktails, Freeport: This hybrid Cuban-Italian newcomer offers seating on an outdoor deck overlooking a boat basin. On the menu are such dishes as ropa vieja fettuccine and plantain-crusted branzino. And, of course, a Cubano sandwich.
Brixx and Barley (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) Brixx and Barley, Long Beach: In fine weather, Long Beach's newest gastropub sets up tables on its broad sidewalk so diners can see and be seen. Enjoy expertly grilled burgers, overstuffed sandwiches and more than 30 beers on tap (another 30 in bottles).
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Claws Seafood Market (Credit: Nicole Horton) (Credit: Nicole Horton) Claws Seafood Market, West Sayville: This fish market has a creek-side outdoor clam bar / crab shack. Stake out a picnic or umbrella table and order from a repertoire that includes steamers, mussels, lobsters and Maryland-style hard-shelled crabs. There's a fine lobster roll, too.
Uncle Bacala's (Credit: Alessandro Vecchi) (Credit: Alessandro Vecchi) Uncle Bacala's, Garden City Park: Enjoy Uncle Bacala's crowd-pleasing, seafood-centric Italian-American cuisine on this spacious patio, which has been cleverly designed to block out the view (and most of the noise) from Jericho Turnpike.
Butler's Flat Buy photo (Credit: Linda Rosier) (Credit: Linda Rosier) Butler's Flat, Port Washington: Named after the lighthouse in New Bedford, Massachusetts, this New England-style clam shack in Brewer Capri Marina West has a sweeping view of Manhasset Bay. Highlights include fried belly clams (with good fries and slaw), steamed littlenecks, and a meaty, mayonnaise-free lobster roll. Butler's Flat will open for the 2016 season on Thursday, May 5.
Cornucopia's Noshery (Credit: Jeremy Bales) (Credit: Jeremy Bales) Cornucopia's Noshery, Amityville: Courtyard seating is the warm weather choice at this attractive breakfast and lunch destination with four outdoor tables. Small well-behaved dogs are welcome, said owner Erica Reichlin. Come June, there should be dinner service with acoustic music.
Empanadaville (Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) Empanadaville, Mastic Beach: Warm weather is when this takeout shop for Puerto Rican-style empanadas shines. Alongside the building, youll find two picnic tables, each seating six, plus two smaller tables for two. No table seating inside.
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MP Taverna (Credit: Uli Seit) (Credit: Uli Seit) MP Taverna, Roslyn: Michael Psilakis' inventive Greek gastropub offers seating for about 50 on the rooftop patio. From your perch, under an umbrella, you can look over the town while eating a lamb burger or lemon-roasted chicken.
Scrimshaw (Credit: Gordon M. Grant) (Credit: Gordon M. Grant) Scrimshaw, Greenport: The wharf dining room at this Greenport spot gives you a water view on three sides, but pay attention to what's on chef-owner Rosa Ross' East-meets-West menu: leek-and-goat-cheese flan, duck breast with orange sauce, seared diver scallops, seafood chowder, gravlax, dim sum.
Kingston's Clam Bar (Credit: Linda Rosier) (Credit: Linda Rosier) Kingston's Clam Bar, West Sayville: Oysters have been shucked at this site overlooking the boats in Dutchman's Cove in West Sayville for centuries. Since 1978, the waterside spot has hosted a popular clam bar. You'll find clams on the half shell, steamers, fried clams and chowder. Post-Colonial menu additions include lobster rolls and fish tacos. Opens for the 2016 season on Wednesday, April 27.
Pop's Seafood Shack and Grill (Credit: Marisol Diaz) (Credit: Marisol Diaz) Pop's Seafood Shack and Grill, Island Park: Wear flip-flops to this seafood spot on Reynolds Channel in Island Park with its own little man-made beach. On the seafood-centric menu: sesame ahi tuna lollipops, three types of lobster rolls, and fish and chips. After dark, the place can be a major party scene with DJs and dancing. Pop's will open for the 2016 season on Wednesday, May 18.
Mannino's Italian Kitchen (Credit: Jeremy Bales) (Credit: Jeremy Bales) Mannino's Italian Kitchen, Commack: This sleek Italian destination, known for such dishes as grilled octopus and baked lasagna, offers an upstairs deck with seating for about 40. There's also an outdoor lounge with a fire pit and, some nights, live music.
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Dodici (Credit: Heather Walsh / Heather Walsh) (Credit: Heather Walsh / Heather Walsh) Dodici, Rockville Centre: The busy Rockville Centre street scene may be observed from a sidewalk table outside this local Italian favorite. Among specialties: Margherita pizzetta, fresh cavatelli Bolognese and wood-oven roasted chicken.
Cipollini (Credit: Nicole Horton) (Credit: Nicole Horton) Cipollini, Manhasset: Your warm-weather meal is here in the east end of the Americana Shopping Center. Cipollini has a dining room for light Italian cooking, and goes alfresco on the parking lot side. Try the robiola pizza, panini, Tuscan tomato soup, beef carpaccio, seafood salad, grilled octopus or whole branzino.
Maliblue (Credit: Nicole Horton) (Credit: Nicole Horton) Maliblue, Lido Beach: The raw bar is an elemental part of this summer spot, but it also serves a lot of steamers, lobster tacos, lobster rolls, baked clams oreganata and pan-seared branzino to balance the burgers, po'boys and chicken-Caesar salad wraps. The umbrellas unfurl in front of the sleek, contemporary restaurant. Opens May 21. | http://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/restaurants/restaurants-with-outdoor-dining-on-long-island-1.5659774 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/a09bb599631850c05933a25b34caa414e4bb814487ef4b34db442106beac2667.json |
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] | 2016-08-27T04:48:44 | null | 2016-08-26T23:31:00 | Watch these great movies streaming on Netflix, ranging from the Janis Joplin documentary "Janis: Little Girl Blue" to the "Despicable Me" follow-up, "Minions." | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Fentertainment%2Fmovies%2Fbest-netflix-movies-to-watch-now-1.6667007.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12231478.1472268600!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpg | en | null | Best Netflix movies | null | null | www.newsday.com | Can't decide what to watch on Netflix?
The huge selection of movies available with just a few clicks can be overwhelming. The good news: We've scanned the new arrivals so you don't have to.
From a Janis Joplin documentary to "Minions," here are our picks for the best films new to Netflix, plus a bunch that have been streaming for a while and are worth a watch.
"No Country For Old Men" (Credit: Miramax Films / Richard Foreman) (Credit: Miramax Films / Richard Foreman) Directed by the Coen Brothers "No Country for Old Men" is a dark Western film based on a Cormac McCarthy novel. The film is a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase set in 1980 west Texas. Starring Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem.
"Sleepy Hollow" (Credit: Paramount Pictures) (Credit: Paramount Pictures) Tim Burton and Johnny Depp team up yet again in this 1999 adaption of the iconic Washington Irving story. This horror film also stars Christina Ricci and Miranda Richardson.
"The Wedding Planner" (Credit: BPI / Ron Batzdorff) (Credit: BPI / Ron Batzdorff) In the classic romantic comedy "The Wedding Planner," Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey fall each other. Meanwhile, Lopez's character struggles with balancing her career as a wedding planner and McConaughey's character struggles with another love interest.
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"St. Vincent" (Credit: MCT / Atsushi Nishijima) (Credit: MCT / Atsushi Nishijima) "St. Vincent" stars Bill Murray as a curmudgeonly war veteran and Melissa McCarthy as a single mother who leaves her 12-year-old son in his care.
"XOXO" (Credit: Netflix/Sara Swaty Roger) (Credit: Netflix/Sara Swaty Roger) America's biggest EDM festival attracts romantically adventurous 20somethings in this crazed new movie. With Sarah Hyland, Graham Phillips, Chris D'Elia, Ryan Hansen.
"The Little Prince" (Credit: Paramount) (Credit: Paramount) "The Little Prince," an animated film about an old story, is about a little girl who learns the story of "The Little Prince" from her elderly neighbor and unlocks her creativity and imagination along the way. It features the voices of Jeff Bridges, Rachel McAdams and more.
"Deadfall" (Credit: photo: Jan Thijs Jan Thijs) (Credit: photo: Jan Thijs Jan Thijs) Eric Bana's Addison, who will do anything to survive a perilous trek through the Upper Michigan frozen tundra to reunite with sister Liza (Olivia Wilde) at the Canadian border following a failed casino heist. Also starring Charlie Hunnam, and Sissy Spacek.
"Blue is the Warmest Color" (Credit: AP) (Credit: AP) This French movie is about a high-school girl (Adele Exarchopoulos) who discovers her lesbian sexuality with an older artist (Lea Seydoux). Available August 26, 2016.
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Albert Brooks films (Credit: Shangri-La Entertainment / Lacey Terrell) (Credit: Shangri-La Entertainment / Lacey Terrell) Seven films from the offbeat comic writer-director, including "Defending Your Life," "Lost in America" and "Modern Romance."
"The Giver" (Credit: The Weinstein Company / David Bloomer) (Credit: The Weinstein Company / David Bloomer) Jeff Bridges, left, plays The Giver in this film adaptation of Lois Lowry's Newberry-winning children's book about a boy (Brenton Thwaites, right) living in a conformist world. With Meryl Streep, Alexander Skarsgård, Jeff Bridges and Taylor Swift.
"The Fundamentals of Caring" (Credit: Netflix / Annette Brown) (Credit: Netflix / Annette Brown) Paul Rudd plays a divorce-dodging, grieving parent who leaves a (presumably) lucrative writing career for a $9-an-hour caregiver position. His first charge, Trevor (played by Craig Roberts) is an 18-year-old, wheelchair-bound shut-in with Duchenne muscular dystrophy - and a quick, dark sense of humor. When the two embark on a road trip to see the world's deepest pit, they find Selena Gomez - and the meaning of life - along the way.
"Janis: Little Girl Blue" (Credit: Getty Images / Evening Standard) (Credit: Getty Images / Evening Standard) A documentary about Janis Joplin, the blues-rock hurricane who galvanized the late 1960s before her death at age 27. Directed by Amy Berg ("West of Memphis").
"Minions" (Credit: Netflix) (Credit: Netflix) The minions from the "Despicable Me" movies are back, and it's all about them. Stuart, Kevin and Bob lead their yellow legion on a quest to find a master to serve, and end up recruited by villainess Scarlet Overkill (voiced by Sandra Bullock).
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"Special Correspondents" (Credit: Netflix / Kerry Hayes) (Credit: Netflix / Kerry Hayes) Ricky Gervais fans, prepare to feast. The British comedian wrote, directed and stars in this Netflix film that follows a radio journalist (Eric Bana) who pretends to report from a war frontline in South America -- only to be holed up in Manhattan.
"My Beautiful Broken Brain" (Credit: Netflix) (Credit: Netflix) Eerie director David Lynch produced this documentary: A young woman's traumatic stroke twists everyday life into an alien world.
"Pee-wee’s Big Holiday" (Credit: Netflix / Glen Wilson) (Credit: Netflix / Glen Wilson) Paul Reubens brings his Pee-wee Herman back in this new movie, which will also have a limited theatrical release.
"Dope" (Credit: AP / Rachel Morrison) (Credit: AP / Rachel Morrison) Growing up in The Bottoms, California, a geeky, 1990s hip-hop-loving Malcolm realizes life isn't always that easy as he's faced with gangsters, drugs and the normal happenings of the average high school senior. Produced by Forest Whitaker ("Lee Daniel's The Butler"), and executive produced by Pharrell Williams and co-executive produced by Sean Combs.
"Cruel Intentions" (Credit: BPI) (Credit: BPI) Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair come together in this 1999 drama about wealthy stepsiblings Kathryn Merteuil (Gellar) and Sebastian Valmont (Phillipe) who make a bet with each other -- he has to sleep with Annette Hargrove (Witherspoon), who says she wants to remain a virgin until marriage, or she gets his vintage Jaguar.
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"Sin City" (Credit: Getty Images / Pedro Armestre) (Credit: Getty Images / Pedro Armestre) Frank Miller's 2009 crime thriller "Sin City's" story line includes prostitution, hit men, cops and criminals all seeking vengeance or redemption. The cast includes Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson and Alexis Bledel, among others.
"Atonement" (Credit: Focus Features / Laurie Sparham) (Credit: Focus Features / Laurie Sparham) Based on Ian McEwan's British romance novel with the same title, this Oscar-winning movie follows the lives of young lovers Cecilia Tallis (Keira Knightley) and Robbie Turner (James McAvoy), who are torn apart by a lying Briony (Saoirse Ronan), Tallis' younger sister.
"I Love You Phillip Morris" (Credit: AP / Patti Perret) (Credit: AP / Patti Perret) A seemingly happily married cop, Steven Russell (Jim Carey) gets into a car accident, prompting him to re-evaluate his life. It didn't take long after that for Russell to realize he's actually gay. Post-accident, he also turns into a con artist who constantly finds himself in trouble with the law. Eventually, he ends up in the State Penitentiary where he meets the love of his life, Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor).
"Son of God" (Credit: 20th Century Fox) (Credit: 20th Century Fox) "Son of God" is a follow-up to the History Channel's hit series "The Bible," focusing on the life of Jesus from his birth to his resurrection, played by Diogo Morgado.
"Changeling" Angelina Jolie takes on the LAPD in the 2008 drama "Changeling," directed by Clint Eastwood, with a first-rate performance by John Malkovich. Jolie plays a woman whose life becomes a Dante-esque nightmare in 1920s Los Angeles after she loses her son and police bring the wrong boy back.
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"The Babadook" (Credit: TNS / Matt Nettheim) (Credit: TNS / Matt Nettheim) "The Babadook" takes horror to a new level when a widow's young son begins having nightmares about a monster in their home. The boy's mother, played by Essie Davis ("The Matrix Revolutions"), soon realizes that perhaps her son isn't lying about the monster who came from within the pages of a children's book.
"Lizzie Borden Took An Ax" (Credit: Lifetime) (Credit: Lifetime) With Christina Ricci in the starring role as the 19th century spinster who may or may not have murdered her father and stepmother, the Lifetime Original Movie "Lizzie Borden Took An Ax" quite appropriately axes many assumptions -- including the one that Lifetime movies aren't worth watching.
"Welcome to Me" (Credit: Suzanne Hanover) (Credit: Suzanne Hanover) In "Welcome to Me," Kristen Wiig plays a mentally unstable woman who uses her lottery winnings to launch a bizarre, self-obsessed television show. Highly offbeat and often funny, even if the payoff never quite arrives. The great cast includes James Marsden, Wes Bentley, Joan Cusack, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Linda Cardellini.
"A Single Man" (Credit: The Weinstein Company) (Credit: The Weinstein Company) Colin Firth is a depressed professor living out a fateful, lonely day in circa 1962 California in "A Single Man," a drama directed by fashion designer Tom Ford.
"On My Way" (Credit: Cohen Media Group) (Credit: Cohen Media Group) A handsome vehicle for Catherine Deneuve, who drives it with elegant sangfroid, "On My Way" is a French film (with English subtitles) that paints her as a former beauty queen, cast aside by her lover, who embarks on a journey of rediscovery.
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"All Good Things" (Credit: Magnolia Pictures) (Credit: Magnolia Pictures) Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst star in this 2010 look at real estate heir Robert Durst's life -- and the deaths and mysteries surrounding him. The film is directed by Andrew Jarecki, who also directed the 2015 HBO documentary miniseries about Durst, "The Jinx."
"Django Unchained" (Credit: The Weinstein Co.) (Credit: The Weinstein Co.) A 2013 Oscar best picture nominee, Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" tells the story of a freed slave (Jamie Foxx) on a journey to rescue his wife. (Christoph Waltz won the Academy Award for his supporting role as a German bounty hunter.)
"Fruitvale Station" (Credit: Ron Koeberer) (Credit: Ron Koeberer) A highly topical film, "Fruitvale Station" (2013) follows the true story of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan), a 22-year-old San Francisco Bay Area resident who was fatally shot by a transit police officer in the Fruitvale train station on New Year's Day 2009. (Coming to Netflix on Tuesday, May 12.)
"My Father the Hero" (Credit: Buena Vista Pictures / Richard Foreman) (Credit: Buena Vista Pictures / Richard Foreman) Nineties kids may remember this underrated comedy, one of Katherine Heigl's first films, a decade before "Grey's Anatomy." In "My Father the Hero," Gérard Depardieu stars as her father, who plays along as she pretends he's her much-older boyfriend to attract a young man's attention while they're on vacation. While the plot's incestuous undertones might be a turn-off to some, the jokes are actually pretty funny.
"Legally Blonde" (Credit: Tracy Bennett) (Credit: Tracy Bennett) Just in time for the premiere of her new comedy, "Hot Pursuit," comes the Netflix release of Reese Witherspoon's 2001 hit, "Legally Blonde." Her turn as the purposeful but underestimated Elle Woods -- a Malibu Barbie-type who enrolls at Harvard Law School to win back her ex-boyfriend -- is a girl-power classic.
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"Earth to Echo" (Credit: Relativity Media / Patrick Wymore) (Credit: Relativity Media / Patrick Wymore) "Earth to Echo" tells the story of four friends whose families must move from their Las Vegas suburb because of a highway construction project. The children receive encoded messages on their cell phones and soon discover an extraterrestrial stranded on Earth. The young cast includes Teo Halm, Brian "Astro" Bradley and Ella Wahlestedt.
"The Immigrant" (Credit: AP / Anne Joyce) (Credit: AP / Anne Joyce) Joaquin Phoenix, Marion Cotillard and Jeremy Renner star in the rich 1920s drama "The Immigrant," about a Polish woman forced into prostitution shortly after her arrival in New York City.
"The Interview" (Credit: Ed Araquel) (Credit: Ed Araquel) Take that, North Korea. Not only did James Franco and Seth Rogen's CIA comedy, "The Interview," make it to theaters on Christmas, it's already available for the streaming masses on Netflix.
"Crocodile Dundee" (Credit: AP) (Credit: AP) Paul Hogan stars in "Crocodile Dundee," a 1986 comedy about a crocodile hunter from the Australian Outback trying to adjust to life in New York City.
"Good Will Hunting" (Credit: Miramax Films) (Credit: Miramax Films) Robin Williams and Matt Damon both won Oscars for their emotionally affecting performances in 1997's "Good Will Hunting," one of those films everyone should watch at least once. Damon, who stars as a math genius working as a university janitor, was a little-known actor when he co-wrote the screenplay with buddy Ben Affleck, and the rest is history.
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"Filth" (Credit: Magnolia Pictures) (Credit: Magnolia Pictures) James McAvoy stars as a detective looking for a promotion in "Filth," a crime dramedy based on the novel by Irvine Welsh. | http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/best-netflix-movies-to-watch-now-1.6667007 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/f87f82dc7e16b26ba003e715a59bff2341649864e17abe5090b9030c413e702d.json |
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"Christine Chung"
] | 2016-08-29T02:49:15 | null | 2016-08-28T20:44:00 | Police are turning to the public to help identify a woman with dementia who was found in Greenlawn. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fsuffolk%2Fsuffolk-cops-seek-identity-of-disoriented-woman-in-greenlawn-1.12236369.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12236383.1472431533!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Suffolk cops seek identity of disoriented woman in Greenlawn | null | null | www.newsday.com | Uh-Oh!
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] | 2016-08-30T12:49:55 | null | 2016-08-30T07:29:53 | Police are searching for a man who they said robbed a couple Monday evening in their East Meadow home — using a large fork as | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fcrime%2Feast-meadow-man-91-wife-87-victims-home-invasion-cops-say-1.12241662.json | http://www.newsday.com/img/blog-share-nd.jpg | en | null | East Meadow man, 91, wife, 87, victims home invasion, cops say | null | null | www.newsday.com | Uh-Oh!
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"Gary Dymski"
] | 2016-08-29T12:49:29 | null | 2016-08-29T07:53:41 | A stretch of Sunrise Highway in Freeport was closed in both directions during Monday’s morning rush hour because of a motor vehicle accident, Nassau County | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fnassau%2Fpolice-sunrise-highway-in-freeport-closed-after-crash-1.12237284.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12237283.1472471620!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Police: Sunrise Highway in Freeport closed after crash | null | null | www.newsday.com | Uh-Oh!
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"Delthia Ricks"
] | 2016-08-29T10:49:27 | null | 2016-08-29T06:00:00 | Cognitive impairment, long considered a leading risk factor for Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, has been detected in a significant proportion of people who | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Fnews%2Fhealth%2F9-11-first-responders-show-memory-problems-researchers-find-1.12234104.json | http://www.newsday.com/img/blog-share-nd.jpg | en | null | 9/11 first responders show memory problems, researchers find | null | null | www.newsday.com | HIGHLIGHTS Cognitive impairment detected by Stony Brook team
Leading risk factor for Alzheimer’s, other dementias
Cognitive impairment, long considered a leading risk factor for Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, has been detected in a significant proportion of people who served as first responders to the 9/11 World Trade Center disaster, Stony Brook University researchers have found.
For years the lion’s share of public attention has been riveted on the cancers and respiratory conditions that have afflicted first responders, but mental health disorders have been smoldering all along, researchers report Monday in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment and Disease Monitoring.
Cognitive impairment refers to poor memory and concentration — an inability to learn new information. Many people with cognitive impairment have difficulty performing the routine activities of daily living. Those who are severely affected ultimately develop full-blown dementia, experts say.
The Stony Brook team found the impairment to be most evident among responders who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder, a condition often diagnosed in veterans who have experienced war tragedies. The disorder is characterized by flashbacks and nightmares, and for those who responded to the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, PTSD has been a common repercussion, say researchers who studied 818 responders treated at the Stony Brook University World Trade Center Wellness Program. The study was conducted from January 2014 to April 2015.
However, PTSD was not the only risk factor for cognitive impairment, according to the research, which found that responders who had a history of major depressive disorder also were at risk of being cognitively impaired.
“To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine the association of PTSD and major depressive disorder with cognitive impairment, and to do so in a large group of civilian World Trade Center responders without head trauma,” Sean A. Clouston, an assistant professor of public health, said in a statement.
When tested, Clouston found nearly 13 percent of the responders, 104 of them, had definite evidence of cognitive decline and that 1.2 percent, or 10 people, already had possible dementia. People undergoing mental health therapy at Stony Brook’s WTC program are exceptionally young for evidence of cognitive impairment as confirmed by extensive testing, Clouston said.
“These numbers are staggering, considering that the average age of responders during the study was 53,” Clouston said.
Outside of the Stony Brook program, an estimated 33,000 responders have enrolled in WTC health programs sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If the findings of the Stony Brook research turn out to be representative of the entire group of responders, 3,740 to 5,300 people who responded to the worst attack on American soil may be at risk of cognitive impairment. Worse, an estimated 240 to 810 may develop Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia, Clouston said.
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The 15th anniversary of the attack will be marked next month.
Dr. Benjamin Luft, director of Stony Brook’s WTC Wellness Program, said “the effects of the exposure to the World Trade Center attacks on the responders may be more pervasive and insidious than previously thought.” | http://www.newsday.com/news/health/9-11-first-responders-show-memory-problems-researchers-find-1.12234104 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/8c1b75143f0008c107015d07c2db170f2ad7da86be81f9f0042006534ad6ab3b.json |
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"Melissa Mccart"
] | 2016-08-31T14:49:51 | null | 2016-08-31T09:50:00 | You can’t say Long Island doesn’t have its share of sandwich shops. But lately, there’s been a flurry of openings — new places serving breakfast | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flifestyle%2Frestaurants%2Fthe-best-new-sandwich-shops-on-long-island-1.12243408.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12243430.1472648750!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpg | en | null | The best new sandwich shops on Long Island | null | null | www.newsday.com | You can’t say Long Island doesn’t have its share of sandwich shops. But lately, there’s been a flurry of openings — new places serving breakfast sandwiches as well as BLTs, panini and po’boys. Here are some favorites.
Café Revue by Raquette River Baking Co. (Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) Café Revue by Raquette River Baking Co. (313 New York Ave., Huntington): Tucked inside Book Revue, in what had been Cook’s Scratch Kitchen, Café Revue is a 16-seat, counter-serve spot from Patrick Nolan, offering a menu of soup, salads and sandwiches. Consider the knockout spicy BLT-A with Benton’s bacon, arugula, tomato, avocado and sriracha mayonnaise on rosemary focaccia, served with chips, a salad or a cookie for $11. More info: 631-423-4455
Soup-or-Hero Kitchen (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) Soup-or-Hero Kitchen (396 Conklin St., Farmingdale): Chef-owner Marc Bynum opened this stylish fast-casual spot near his flagship Hush Bistro in Farmingdale with a super cool mural and an enticing menu. It includes 10 delectable sandwiches, a short list of soups and salads, nine smoothies and two lunch bowls. Among sandwiches, consider the Aquaman (about $16), stacked with fresh and house-cured salmon, dressed with caper tapenade and cucumber-dill sauce. More info: 516-927-8484
Louisiana Joe’s Sandwich Shop (Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) Louisiana Joe’s Sandwich Shop (488 Merrick Rd., Oceanside): Joe LoSchiavo opened this bright, 15-seat eatery as a tribute to his love of foods from New Orleans, such as the muffuletta, boudin, andouille and po’boy. Those po’boys start with bread made specially for him at a local bakery to mirror the rolls from New Orleans’ Leidenheimer Baking Co. Each has a pillowy, soft crumb and thin, crisp crust. An oyster po’boy ($7.95) is dressed with lettuce, tomato, pickles, a little mayo and a smidge of tartar, then stacked with fried oysters. “The key is in the dredge,” LoSchiavo says, “the oysters should be light and crispy, not smothered.” More info: 516-442-9838
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Hometown Bake Shop (Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) Hometown Bake Shop (2 Little Neck Rd., Centerport): Baker and proprietor Danna Abrams runs this charming little shop that focuses on pastries — except when it comes to breakfast. For the morning meal, a chalkboard menu for a select-it-yourself egg sandwich lists breads, breakfast meats, vegetables and condiments. Consider one on English muffin bread with bacon, avocado, Gruyère and smoked aioli ($6.25). More info: 631-754-7437, hometownbakeshop.com
Off the Block Kitchen & Meats (Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) Off the Block Kitchen & Meats (501 Montauk Hwy., Sayville): Walk into Off the Block and you’ll first see the butcher counter followed by the minuscule open kitchen, flanked by a counter that’s host to a few bar stools. Seating continues into a cozy side room with a handful of tables for just over 20 diners. The menu lists a handful of terrific sandwiches for lunch and dinner, but if it’s a first visit, consider the pastreuben ($14), which starts with marbled rye piled with a mountain of corned beef and pastrami, followed by ’kraut, Swiss cheese, arugula and a take on horseradish doctored with honey and Dijon. Served with a side of hand-cut fries or chips, it’s sure to please. More info: 631-536-2253, offtheblockmeats.com
The Flour Shoppe Café (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) (Credit: Yvonne Albinowski) The Flour Shoppe Café (486 Sunrise Hwy., Rockville Centre): Down an industrial stretch of Sunrise Highway, a bakery beckons with umbrella-shaded tables, planters brimming with daisies and the promise of sweet treats and a latte inside. It’s also a prime stop for an array of sandwiches, such as chef John Maher’s croque madame, which starts with sourdough layered with country ham, continues with a slab of aged Cheddar, a dollop of Mornay sauce, chives and, for added decadence, a fried egg ($8.95). More info: 516-536-2253, theflourshoppebakery.com
Roast Sandwich House (Credit: Newsday/Thomas A. Ferrara) (Credit: Newsday/Thomas A. Ferrara) Roast Sandwich House (1040 S. Broadway, Hicksville): Who knew that braised brisket and grilled cheese is a perfect pairing? It’s one of the finest sandwiches at Roast, the follow-up to the Melville location Joe Cordaro and Paul Doyle opened in December 2010. The new eatery in the Aero Plaza shopping center displays clean design and a soaring ceiling in a dining room that seats more than 20. Unlike the original, there’s plenty of parking. About that brisket: With melted Cheddar, Swiss and havarti on toasted white bread ($9.49), it’s hard to resist. More info: 516-261-9376, roastsandwichhouse.com
The North Fork Shack (Credit: Randee Daddona) (Credit: Randee Daddona) The North Fork Shack (41150 County Rd. 48, Southold): A former-tool-shop-turned restaurant from Samy Sabil of Morocco and Ryan Flatley offers communal table seating, a wide counter and chalkboard menus with enticing dishes for dining in or take out. The local cod sandwich called The Maine ($11.95) is as fresh as it gets, with a fillet that’s brushed with egg, then rolled in salted bread crumbs before it’s fried. Its sesame roll wears a perfect Romaine leaf and barely a sheath of Old Bay aioli. More info: 631-876-5566, thenorthforkshack.com
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Artisans Eatery (Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) Artisans Eatery (174 Islip Ave., Islip): The 12-seat, eat-in and takeout shop from Donna Trapani offers freshly baked breads, meats roasted in-house, seasonal dishes and moderate prices. Chef Adam Russo invents sandwiches with names like Perky the Pig and My Hero. Sandwiches come in whole and half-sizes, such as the eggplant, zucchini and goat cheese Parmigiana with roasted tomatoes and mozzarella — served on a wedge ($9 whole, $5 half). More info: 631-446-1919, artisanseatery.com | http://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/restaurants/the-best-new-sandwich-shops-on-long-island-1.12243408 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/8d7bec052d26621e3d432d992486d5fbdfc6282c1d2c78b7e900e4b425c81a6c.json |
[
"Brandy Young",
"The Dallas Morning News"
] | 2016-08-29T22:49:31 | null | 2016-08-29T14:45:00 | Traditions can be great, but it’s always good to periodically step back and ask, “Why are we doing this?” | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Fopinion%2Foped%2Fwhy-i-stopped-assigning-homework-1.12238808.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12217827.1472052611!/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.JPG | en | null | Why I stopped assigning homework | null | null | www.newsday.com | THE BOTTOM LINE Parents, the homework is for you now.
Drudgery. Outside of the window is life: Cumulus clouds look like cotton balls stuck to a robin’s-egg sky with drops of glue. It’s fall, the perfect time of year, with a lit sky and a breeze blowing the curtain tails. Out there, a 7-year-old has room to grow.
Inside, a child who may have put in a 10-hour day, getting on a school bus as early as 6 a.m. and getting off at 5 p.m., sits down to a packet. It’s time to re-do everything the student did all day.
Does that sound productive? What if we up the ante?
Maybe the child came home to a tired grandmother doing the best she can to help, or a dark apartment because no one paid the electric bill. Some children come home to loving parents who desire to help, but can’t speak the language of the homework instructions. Even educated but increasingly busy parents strain to help their kids with homework.
Perhaps the child struggles to read all day and, after putting in his or her best effort to the point of exhaustion, must complete more. Or the opposite, a child who excels and has proved mastery of a particular skill many times still must complete more.
Nearly everything about the way we teach children has evolved over the past few decades, from phonics to rigorous math standards to children’s literature to classroom furniture. The academic vocabulary has changed and students aren’t being taught in the ways of the past.
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Yet, homework has remained traditional.
Traditions can be great, but it’s always good to periodically step back and ask, “Why are we doing this?” If there is no benefit, then someone has to say the emperor isn’t wearing clothes.
That’s what I did last week when I sent home the note to parents of my second-grade class that unexpectedly went viral on social media:
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“After much research this summer, I am trying something new. Homework will only consist of work that your student did not finish during the school day. There will be no formally assigned homework this year.
“Research has been unable to prove that homework improves student performance. Rather, I ask that you spend your evenings doing things that are proven to correlate with student success. Eat dinner as a family, read together, play outside, and get your child to bed early.”
The way I see it, homework is nothing more than a stapled packet of more.
If more isn’t accomplished, that child will answer to a frustrated teacher who is caught up in a high-stakes game of standardized testing. More scores, a moving target. Funny thing about this game, the kids aren’t standard, their families aren’t standard, and we as teachers can’t be standard anymore. The standard homework packet must also be tossed. It’s time for a fresh start. Let’s redefine more.
It’s time for non-traditional homework.
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In his book “The Battle over Homework,” Harris Cooper noted that homework should have different purposes at different grade levels. For students in the earliest grades, it should foster positive attitudes, habits and character traits; reinforce learning of simple skills introduced in class; and permit appropriate parent involvement.
I’m focusing on that last reason for homework, and I’m giving the kids a break. Parents, the homework is for you now. Praise your children for a hard day’s work when they get off of the bus today. Let’s trust our teachers and allow our kids the freedom to love school and the chance to “sharpen the saw,” as Steven Covey said in “The Seven Habits of Happy Kids.”
I got into teaching because I love kids. Every child is unique and poses unique challenges. My job as a teacher is to spend my day meeting those challenges with a smile on my face. Because I truly love kids, I give every effort to monitor the mastery of the standards I am teaching. I know what my students can do, and I am able to use that data to effectively engage them in relevant learning.
As a teacher, I ask that administrators loosen the reins and trust their staff, the way the administrators at Godley Independent School District have trusted me. To reluctant parents, I ask that you partner with me. Let’s discuss your child’s needs, you most likely know them better than I do.
The reaction to my short homework note has been astounding because the concept is so simple. A child who feels safe at home will feel safe to take educational risks at school. They need a foundation. They need to sit at the dinner table and debrief with their support team. Eating together isn’t only about nutrition; it’s also about nourishing the child psychologically. Ronald Reagan offered this in his farewell speech, “All great change in America begins at the dinner table. So, tomorrow night in the kitchen I hope the talking begins.”
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Because of a little note, we’re talking. Let’s keep the momentum.
Do what’s best for kids.
Brandy Young is a second-grade teacher in the Godley Independent School District in Texas. She wrote this for the Dallas Morning News. | http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/why-i-stopped-assigning-homework-1.12238808 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/e34f5de54bccb70e92571eb5beda08831427024923e8fea303e93c015326cabb.json |
[
"Deborah S. Morris"
] | 2016-08-26T22:48:42 | null | 2016-08-26T16:46:28 | Former Nassau Third District Court judge Frank Doddato was fond of describing himself as “just a boy from Brooklyn.”“But he was so much more than | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fobituaries%2Ffrank-doddato-dead-at-67-was-longtime-lawyer-nassau-judge-1.12229664.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12229745.1472244387!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Frank Doddato dead at 67; was longtime lawyer, Nassau judge | null | null | www.newsday.com | Former Nassau Third District Court judge Frank Doddato was fond of describing himself as “just a boy from Brooklyn.”
“But he was so much more than that,” said his daughter, Lauren Doddato of Long Beach. “He came so far. He accomplished his life goal and became a judge.”
Frank Doddato, 67, who lived in Roslyn Heights, died Aug. 24 of prostate cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.
In January 2015, Doddato was appointed to the bench by Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano. In November that year, he ran for election and lost.
Before being appointed, he was in private practice in Garden City with his daughter, a law clerk. After his defeat he returned to his firm, working with his son Stephen, also an attorney. He was also appointed head counsel to the board of directors at Nassau University Medical Center.
The Brooklyn-born Doddato began his legal career in 1974 in the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office, where he became a deputy chief assigned to the Rackets Bureau. He worked at several law firms before launching his own practice in 2003. He worked as a criminal defense attorney, representing clients on the state and federal levels.
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Doddato graduated from Fordham University in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree and received a law degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1973.
His wife of 46 years, Gerri, remembered him as someone who kept her laughing and was an “honorable and respected attorney and judge” who was “fair and honest and loyal.”
But his greatest joy was his family.
“We were his No. 1 priority,” Lauren Doddato said. “It was always family first.”
Speaking on behalf of the Nassau County Courts, Administrative Judge Thomas Adams offered “heartfelt condolences” to the Doddato family.
“We have lost an outstanding attorney, distinguished former judge and a tireless advocate for justice, integrity and equality,” Adams said in a statement.
In addition to his wife, daughter and son, he is survived by a sister, Theresa Zabaldano of Jackson, Mississippi.
Visitation at Fairchild Sons Funeral Home in Garden City will be held 3 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday and Tuesday. A funeral Mass will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at St. Mary’s Church in Roslyn Heights. Burial will be private. | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/obituaries/frank-doddato-dead-at-67-was-longtime-lawyer-nassau-judge-1.12229664 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/4abded1b38881568cbdb9e730239f166681e971128c912fb3ac8c619f130e517.json |
[
"Deon J. Hampton"
] | 2016-08-28T16:49:18 | null | 2016-08-28T11:27:00 | Stony Brook and East Setauket have long faced zoning and safety issues as students scramble for housing close to Stony Brook University, Brookhaven Town Supervisor | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fsuffolk%2Fromaine-student-housing-around-university-an-ongoing-problem-1.12234885.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12232918.1472341301!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Romaine: Student housing around university an ongoing problem | null | null | www.newsday.com | Stony Brook and East Setauket have long faced zoning and safety issues as students scramble for housing close to Stony Brook University, Brookhaven Town Supervisor Edward P. Romaine said Sunday.
His comments came less than two days after a 10-foot-high wooden deck at an East Setuaket home collapsed as 40 to 50 people stood on it outside a party attended by some 400 people, many believed to be students. Two people were injured.
Part of the problem, Romaine said, is that Stony Brook University, the town’s largest employer, doesn’t have campus housing for 8,000 non-commuter students, forcing them to look elsewhere to live.
The university has worked well with the town and often warns students about illegal rentals, he said.
“Right now, the university is gathering information, so it is too soon to be able to provide any updates about what we have learned,” a university spokesman said of the deck collapse.
University officials say it has done a lot to keep students from moving into illegal rentals and participates in the Suffolk County Housing Team comprised of the university, Brookhaven council members and local police departments, which issue weekly reports highlighting any tickets issued for students’ noise, party, parking and trash violations.
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Signs advertising rental housing offers can’t be posted on campus bulletin boards, officials said, and the university has held workshops and created a resource guide for living responsibly off campus.
Since 2000, the university has added 3,000 beds on campus, bringing the total to more than 10,000, and has the most on-campus housing in the SUNY system, school officials said.
Still, the lack of housing for thousands of students adds stress on the community and invites unscrupulous landlords, Romaine said.
“This has been going on for some time now,” he said.
Romaine said town officials on Monday will return to the Old Field Road house that authorities say had been illegally converted into a half-dozen apartments.
While some fire code violations for lacking sufficient alarms for smoke and carbon monoxide are expected, unless someone lets town inspectors inside code violations will have to wait for a search warrant to be issued, which could take weeks, Romaine said.
The officials also will go through records to determine if the deck at the home had a permit.
“But in any event, one deck can’t hold 40 to 50 people,” Romaine said. | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/romaine-student-housing-around-university-an-ongoing-problem-1.12234885 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/7be00691ded421e486ac7e36f937f40e3ef07fe0975388d8df1312778ce58b3f.json |
[
"Ellen Yan"
] | 2016-08-26T12:56:07 | null | 2016-08-26T06:00:00 | Paumanok — it is a Native American word from a long-gone time. Now a shark who lives off Long Island carries the name.Ocearch, the nonprofit | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fa-young-shark-s-new-name-pays-tribute-to-ancient-long-island-1.12225390.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12225392.1472213379!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | A young shark’s new name pays tribute to ancient Long Island | null | null | www.newsday.com | HIGHLIGHTS Paumanok was chosen from among 1,000 suggestions
Moniker recognizes pre-colonial American Indian culture
Paumanok — it is a Native American word from a long-gone time. Now a shark who lives off Long Island carries the name.
Ocearch, the nonprofit that tracks sharks, plucked the word out of about 1,000 name suggestions submitted by Long Islanders and shark fans, giving it to a young, great white male tagged off Montauk Tuesday.
Paumanok was what some American Indians called Long Island — it meant “island or land that pays tribute” — and the name was one of the most popular entries, to the surprise of one eighth-grade teacher who thought he’d be alone in thinking of the old word.
“When my kids ask me what I did over the summer, I’ll say ‘I got to name a shark!’ ” said Jonathan Mead, 45, an East Northport resident and science teachers in Elwood schools, describing how he’ll break the name news to his students.
Shark name enthusiasts were tasked to brainstorm and call the Great White something that would reflect Long Island’s heritage and way of life.
Mead said he wanted a name that tied in to the Island’s past and spoke of people who may have thought more about coexisting with the environment. He learned about Paumanok from a graduate course on the Island’s history and from one of his favorite poets, Walt Whitman, a Long Islander.
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“It’s like hidden code,” the teacher said. “If you know Paumanok, you know it’s Long Island.”
His explanation for why he chose Paumanok is now on Ocearch’s Global Shark Tracker, which shows the locations of its tagged sharks when they surface and ping.
Paumanok, a 5-foot male weighing almost 64 pounds, was added Thursday night to the Global Shark Tracker, which showed the shark pup’s tag pinging at 9:30 p.m. south of Montauk.
He’s one of nine sharks tagged during Ocearch’s two-week expedition here to see if the waters off Long Island are nursery grounds for these predators, keeping the ecosystem in balance.
Besides Paumanok, there was Gilly Joel, Bumper, Liberty, and yes, Jaws.
A tsunami of about 1,000 entries brought humor, personal stories and local life into the adventure to name the shark.
Sure, there was Quint, Mundus, Amity and a host of names related to the “Jaws” blockbuster novel and movie that cemented the shark’s toothsome reputation — a tale based on a Long Island fisherman and set in a fictional New England summer vacation town.
Others campaigned for such names as Fluffy and Cuddles because they wanted to turn around the predator’s evil image.
But if the challenge was to come up with names that reflect Long Island’s heritage, the themes surfaced like fins above water.
One was Long Island’s Piano Man, Billy Joel. Or Gilly Joel, Billy Jawl, Billy Jaws — you get it.
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His hits were hits for shark names, too, from Big Shot to Captain Jack for the boss of the seas. Several gave a nod to the song, “Downeaster Alexa,” Joel’s fish tale about the vanishing baymen plying a depleted ocean, including Jenn Vermilye of Floral Park, who wrote “It’s Long Island’s unofficial anthem, so it’s beyond perfect!”
But if it’s an irrefutable fact of life that the Long Island Expressway is the world’s biggest parking lot and that commuting is just a form of torture, a shark name must chomp on traffic, right?
One suggested Traffic Jammy, others suggested Bumper and one liked Parkway because a parkway leads to the ocean.
Gus Chappory of Greenlawn rooted for Dashing Dan because sharks are “just like our commuters. He’s here, he’s there, he’s everywhere . . . Unless there is a ‘slight delay.’ ”
Yes, shark fans exposed the downsides to life on Long Island too, with an undercurrent of sarcasm.
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From New Hyde Park, Bob Busch said he had a suggestion that was so Long Island — NIMBY, an acronym for “not in my backyard” because, he wrote, “I don’t want that shark near LI LOL.”
In Merrick, Mark Ciliotta jabbed at the government (think Jaws and taxes here) with his Shark Atax.
A Manorville resident pitched Loan, writing that “no one can live on Long Island without having many loans.” And waaaiiit for it — “Some people even use a Loan Shark.”
But many gloried in what made Long Island distinctive in their eyes such as BagelsnLox, Gatsby, Diner and Dunes. Peconic took many forms, including Peconic Pete, Peconic Eddie, Peconic Queen and Peconic Penny.
MOJO paid tribute to Robert Moses, one of the architects of the Island’s infrastructure, and Maj. Thomas Jones, whose name graces one of the state’s most popular beaches. Atlantic Sounder combined the two bodies of water surrounding the Island. President Theodore Roosevelt scored with Teddy, Rough Riders and Sagamore, his Oyster Bay home.
The original Long Islanders were not forgotten on the list. Sachem, Shinnecock, Pow Wow and their variations frequently popped up, but one name was mentioned repeatedly.
“Paumanok, as it is one of the names the Native Americans gave Long Island when they first settled here,” a Northport woman wrote. “It is said to mean ‘the island that pays tribute.’ ”
And in the short space of a shark name submission, many wrote touchingly of what made Long Island great for them. Taking their children to the beaches. Lazing on a summer day by the water. An appreciation for nature, including the shark’s strength and the beauty of its marbled skin.
Ocearch founder Chris Fischer has given the names Montauk, Hudson, Hampton and Gotham to four other great white pups tagged off the East End in the past few days. They’ve been active pingers on the nonprofit’s Global Shark Tracker, which means they’re surfacing long enough for satellites to estimate their locations. | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/a-young-shark-s-new-name-pays-tribute-to-ancient-long-island-1.12225390 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/efee7f4b20db604587ae5f689d5e1f952e5fd55098e74374ec02da2fa0c6fac3.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T16:49:31 | null | 2016-08-29T11:41:00 | Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin said Monday that she is separating from her husband, Anthony Weiner, after the former congressman was accused in yet another | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Fnews%2Fnew-york%2Fhuma-abedin-aide-to-hillary-clinton-leaving-husband-anthony-weiner-1.12238156.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12238346.1472486726!/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.JPG | en | null | Huma Abedin, aide to Hillary Clinton, leaving husband Anthony Weiner | null | null | www.newsday.com | Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin said Monday that she is separating from her husband, Anthony Weiner, after the former congressman was accused in yet another sexting scandal.
"After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband," she said in a statement issued by Clinton's presidential campaign. "Anthony and I remain devoted to doing what is best for our son, who is the light of our life. During this difficult time, I ask for respect for our privacy."
The New York Post published photos late Sunday that it said Weiner had sent last year to a woman, whom it identified only as a "40-something divorcee" who lives "out West" and is a supporter of Donald Trump.
The photos included several shots of Weiner bare-chested and two close-ups of his bulging underwear. In one of the pictures, Weiner is in bed with his toddler son while he is texting the woman, according to the Post.
Weiner told the Post that he and the woman "have been friends for some time."
"She has asked me not to comment except to say that our conversations were private, often included pictures of her nieces and nephews and my son and were always appropriate," he told the newspaper.
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Weiner didn't return a phone call, text or email from The Associated Press. Weiner deleted his Twitter account Monday.
The Post didn't say how it had obtained the photographs and messages.
Weiner, a Democrat from New York City, quit Congress in 2011 after it discovered that he was sending women sexually explicit messages. Weiner ran for mayor of New York in 2013, but that bid collapsed after it was reported that he was continuing to sext women.
Since then, Weiner has remained in the public eye, commenting on politics on a local cable news show. A documentary offering a cringe-inducing inside view of his mayoral campaign and its unraveling played in theaters earlier this year and is set to air on Showtime this fall. | http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/huma-abedin-aide-to-hillary-clinton-leaving-husband-anthony-weiner-1.12238156 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/236bdbc6a551b6a59f11c24ab2cce62b7a4730ae92be040969b9d95cdbd17fa8.json |
[
"Christine Chung"
] | 2016-08-28T22:49:23 | null | 2016-08-28T18:21:22 | Two years after the state’s medical marijuana program was signed into law, the Department of Health has called for program revisions that include doubling the | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Fnews%2Fhealth%2Fmedical-marijuana-program-needs-revisions-state-report-says-1.12235972.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12235971.1472422879!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Medical marijuana program needs revisions, state report says | null | null | www.newsday.com | HIGHLIGHTS State Health Dept. suggests adding dispensaries, doctors
Advocates, officials cite high prices, limited access for patients
Two years after the state’s medical marijuana program was signed into law, the Department of Health has called for program revisions that include doubling the number of dispensaries and allowing nurse practitioners to certify patients, and is still considering a home delivery service.
In a report released this month, the DOH also recommended providing more brand options for patients and adding chronic pain to the list of qualifying conditions. The law mandated a two-year progress report.
Local advocates, patients and officials said the report highlights the program’s problems with accessibility, which primarily stem from high prices and too few dispensaries and doctors.
Five companies were licensed by state officials in July 2015 to manufacture and sell the drug under the Compassionate Care Act, which was passed by the State Legislature in June 2014. Twenty dispensaries were planned statewide, including one each in Nassau and Suffolk.
The law allows the registered organizations to sell the drug in pill, oil and tincture forms to patients who are registered with the state and have prescriptions. It does not allow smokable forms of the drug.
The program’s five organizations are authorized to operate four dispensaries each, but only 17 of the 20 have opened. Half the dispensaries, the first of which opened in January, are clustered in southern New York, with nine across New York City and Long Island, according to the DOH report. On Long Island, one dispensary opened in Lake Success and another in Riverhead.
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Dr. James D’Olimpio, an oncologist at Northwell Cancer Institute in Lake Success, said that patients are struggling with the medicine’s cost and that he has had to send patients to Suffolk’s dispensary because the type of marijuana they need is not available in Nassau, which carries only one product.
“A lot more needs to be done, especially given the need,” D’Olimpio said. “The need is not being met. . . . Many patients can’t afford it.”
Prices for medical marijuana products, which are fixed until July 2017, can vary across dispensaries. The facilities don’t publish prices, but patients report paying from a few hundred dollars to more than several thousand dollars for a month’s supply.
Among the report’s 12 listed recommendations is registering five additional organizations, which would double the number of dispensaries from 20 to 40 over the next two years. A DOH representative would not comment on whether this would increase the number of dispensaries on Long Island.
Assemb. Richard Gottfried (D-Manhattan), a longtime advocate of medical marijuana and a sponsor of the state Compassionate Care Act, said the shortage of dispensaries remains one of the biggest barriers to accessing the program.
In January, Gottfried proposed a bill that would require the DOH to license five more registered organizations this year and allow existing organizations to open additional dispensaries.
“The notion that 20 dispensaries can serve the whole state makes no sense,” Gottfried said.
Struggle to find doctors
Finding physicians remains another major hurdle for patients, and in its report the DOH reaffirmed its commitment to establishing a list of registered doctors. Without it, some patients have waited months to find a doctor and register with the program, advocates and patients said.
Longtime advocate and Atlantic Beach resident Missy Miller said finding a doctor for her son Oliver, 16, who has epilepsy, was a “daunting task” that took two months.
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According to the DOH, as of June there were about 600 registered doctors for 5,000 certified patients in the program statewide. About 34 percent of patients have neuropathies, followed by 25 percent with cancer. Long Island has the second-highest number of registered patients, with 1,274 as of June. New York City’s five boroughs have about 1,600 patients combined.
Doctor-to-patient ratios are low across the state’s counties, according to the report. In 31 counties, there is either only one certified practitioner or none at all. In Nassau, there are 67 certified practitioners who can prescribe medical marijuana for 542 patients. In Suffolk, there are 55 certified practitioners for 732 patients.
Kate Hintz is a patient advocate at Manhattan-based nonprofit Compassionate Care New York. Hintz, whose 5-year-old daughter has epilepsy, said there are not nearly enough doctors, which forces some severely ill patients to travel long distances to procure medicine, she added.
D’Olimpio said he has had to turn down prospective patients but supports a public list of physicians being made available.
The DOH is also considering authorizing nurse practitioners to certify patients for medical marijuana, which would support rural areas with fewer physicians available, the report said.
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Call to add chronic pain
The DOH report recommended exploring making more brands of medical marijuana available. Registered organizations are responsible for manufacturing and selling up to five brands of medical marijuana. Patients said product range varies across dispensaries, and that there are shortages for some types of medicine, especially a cannabidiol oil, an active ingredient in cannabis used to treat epilepsy.
Nicholas Vita, CEO of Columbia Care, which operates Suffolk’s dispensary, said that as operations grow he expects both the supply and selection of medicines to increase as prices moderate. Officials at Bloomfield Industries, which operates the dispensary in Lake Success, could not be reached for comment.
The report’s other recommendations include adding chronic pain to the roster of qualifying conditions. Donna Schwier, a Medford resident who has chronic pain from fibromyalgia, said that would give her significant relief from the constant nausea she experiences from dosing with opiates.
“There are many, many people who can’t access the program still,” Schwier, 59, said. “It’s not a success.”
The DOH is reviewing its recommendations and will “advise on next steps in process and substance within the next two weeks,” a representative said. That frustrates and disappoints Gottfried.
“It’s troubling to see them proposing to take actions that they have long said they were already doing,” he said. “It’s troubling to see them making recommendations to themselves rather than telling us that they have studied something and are going to take action.” | http://www.newsday.com/news/health/medical-marijuana-program-needs-revisions-state-report-says-1.12235972 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/e0fe018d3435120e482784c1693f602638b8487e1f54d73854ee8a829ae9f503.json |
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"Kevin Deutsch"
] | 2016-08-30T20:49:50 | null | 2016-08-30T16:24:32 | A Merrick doctor pleaded not guilty Tuesday to illegally distributing the narcotic painkiller oxycodone to 29 patients, two of whom prosecutors said fatally overdosed on | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fcrime%2Fmerrick-doctor-tied-to-2-overdose-deaths-feds-say-1.12243242.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12243797.1472588671!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Merrick doctor tied to 2 overdose deaths, feds say | null | null | www.newsday.com | A Merrick doctor pleaded not guilty Tuesday to illegally distributing the narcotic painkiller oxycodone to 29 patients, two of whom prosecutors said fatally overdosed on the drugs.
Michael Belfiore, 53, is accused of writing about 5,000 prescriptions for 600,000 of the pills over a three-year period that ended in January 2013, court records show. The names of the two patients who died have not been publicly released by federal prosecutors.
Belfiore appeared in Suffolk federal district court in Central Islip for his arraignment on a superseding indictment, which added new counts to the ones he had already faced when prosecutors initially charged him in October 2014.
Outside court, Belfiore emphasized to reporters he is still a practicing doctor.
“I tell my patients I’m still here for you. I haven’t gone anywhere, I haven’t done anything, and I’m doing my best for my patients,” Belfiore said.
He added: “I would never give anything recklessly. I would never give anything that would intentionally endanger anybody.”
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His attorney, Thomas Liotti of Garden City, said after the arraignment that his client testified before a grand jury in the case.
“We are not overly confident, and we know we have our work cut out for us because of a justified media frenzy involving the opioid crisis,” Liotti said. “The government’s concerns are totally legitimate, but the job of the defense is to make sure that good doctors and innocents are not unfairly prosecuted or convicted.”
One of the conditions of Belfiore’s release is that he can’t prescribe opioids like oxycodone, Liotti said. The doctor has been free on $500,000 bond since his arrest.
Belfiore was originally charged with prescribing oxycodone six times to an undercover Nassau County detective “with no legitimate medical need,” court records show. The prescriptions were written between March 15 and Aug. 12, 2013, records show.
The undercover detective approached Belfiore after allegations came from “several pharmacists, law enforcement officers and multiple confidential sources” that the osteopathic physician was “illegally issuing prescriptions to individuals who were abusing and/or diverting oxycodone pills,” records show.
The superseding indictment made public Tuesday said that 29 patients also received oxycodone from Belfiore, with some getting as many as 180 pills with a dosage of 30 mg.
Belfiore was the eighth doctor arrested by federal agents in connection with illegally prescribing oxycodone on Long Island since the 2011 murders of four people by David Laffer as he robbed a Medford pharmacy. The crimes intensified an ongoing crackdown for the illegal distribution of painkillers. | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/merrick-doctor-tied-to-2-overdose-deaths-feds-say-1.12243242 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/6ada664bc0be3b7bf00617559214752b0147436c6cebb9697a0dc3e227759911.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T16:48:33 | null | 2016-08-26T12:15:00 | You can slice a golf ball at this Sands Point home — as well as the home’s price: With its tee box on the roof | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Fclassifieds%2Freal-estate%2Fsands-point-home-with-golf-simulator-spa-sees-9-million-price-cut-1.12227936.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12227935.1472228153!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Sands Point home with golf simulator, spa sees $9 million price cut | null | null | www.newsday.com | Uh-Oh!
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"John Hildebrand"
] | 2016-08-27T12:48:49 | null | 2016-08-27T06:00:00 | Public and private schools across Long Island face intensifying demand for more high-speed internet access, driven by a growing array of electronic programs ranging from | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Feducation%2Fli-schools-upgrade-tech-capacities-to-meet-students-needs-1.12231653.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12231651.1472294220!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | LI schools upgrade tech capacities to meet students’ needs | null | null | www.newsday.com | Public and private schools across Long Island face intensifying demand for more high-speed internet access, driven by a growing array of electronic programs ranging from computerized testing to virtual-reality 3-D laboratories.
Dozens of districts in the region and across the state have revved up for the start of classes by expanding internet broadband capacity to levels recommended by federal and state guidelines. Those ground rules aim to encourage high-tech instruction while also narrowing a pervasive digital divide between well-funded and struggling school districts.
Growth comes at a price.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s administration has begun distributing funds for technology to districts on Long Island and elsewhere from a $2 billion bond issue approved two years ago. Many school officials have asserted, however, that the distribution of state dollars has been too slow.
Broadband capacity is measured in the number of megabits transmitted each second to students’ computers and other electronic devices. The larger a district’s enrollment, the greater the required bandwidth capacity.
Massapequa Public Schools enrolls 7,120 students and has boosted its bandwidth from 500 megabits per second last year to 800 per second this school year. The Bethpage Union Free School District, with 2,880 students, has expanded from 200 megabits to 300, while the Amagansett Union Free School District, with 111 students, has built capacity from 15 megabits to 50.
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Veteran school administrators described the upgrades as a “sea change,” noting that the extra bandwidth supports far more than the desktop computers and laptops that have been a familiar sight in classrooms for decades. Increasingly, they said, students bring their smartphones into classrooms to access the web and work on assignments — a far cry from the days when many districts banned cellphone use during instruction.
“It’s changed the landscape,” said Gene Tranchino, executive director for administrative and instructional technology in the Elwood Union Free School District, who also is in charge of transportation. Tranchino explained that he has to build in wireless capacity for students who continue working on assignments with their smartphones after classes end.
“I’ve got to look at spaces — hallways, gymnasiums — that were completely outside my radar in past years,” said Tranchino, who was named Model School Administrator of the Year for 2015-16 by Western Suffolk BOCES. “The instructional resources available on the web to schools have changed enormously over the last three to five years. It’s incredible!”
One sign of the transformation: A growing number of districts are adopting Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD, policies, which allow students to use their smartphones and electronic tablets in class, as long as they use only websites screened by the district.
“At any one time, you could have 6,000 students and faculty in a school district, all using mobile learning devices,” said Joseph Innaco, director of technology and instructional services in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District.
The system, which operates three high schools and two middle schools, adopted a BYOD policy several years ago.
Heavy smartphone use in a school building can strain its broadband capacity. The Federal Communications Commission, which regulates interstate communications, tackled the issue in July 2014.
For starters, the agency set the goal of expanding bandwidth capacity in public and nonprofit private schools to a minimum 100 megabits per second for every 1,000 students.
The federal target for schools will rise in the 2017-18 school year to a minimum of 1 gigabit per second — which translates to about 1 billion bits of computerized information.
The FCC, also in 2014, raised to a maximum $3.9 billion the funds that could be spent nationwide each year on federal E-rate subsidies for cable and wireless connections in schools and libraries. E-rate funding is part of a federal program begun two decades ago to modernize schools and libraries across the country.
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In 2015, nationwide spending totaled $3.3 billion, with $139 million going to New York State. That included $14.7 million for the Island, $8 million in Suffolk County and $6.7 million in Nassau.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, in his 2014 State of the State address, called for a new $2 billion investment in broadband capacity and other technology that would produce “the smartest classrooms in the nation.” Voters approved the so-called Smart Schools bond initiative in November 2014 by a 62 percent majority.
Under state rules, each district is allotted money that it can spend whenever it chooses, provided the district first passes an extensive state review.
To qualify, districts have to meet the FCC’s broadband standards and must agree to lend a portion of newly purchased high-tech equipment to private and parochial schools within their borders.
Cuomo’s press office began announcing recipients in May.
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So far, $18.2 million in funding has been approved for 18 districts on the Island, including Amagansett, Bellmore-Merrick, Bethpage, Elwood and Massapequa. The money represents 7 percent of the region’s total allotment of $259.4 million.
Another 19 districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties have applications under review, according to the state Education Department. That brings to 37 the number of districts with applications either approved or under review, out of a total 124 systems in the region.
A spokesman for the state’s school superintendents, Robert Lowry, said the relatively small number of applicants could be traced in part to a state requirement that districts fund technology projects up front, before receiving reimbursement.
“It’s not an insurmountable obstacle, but it is a complication,” said Lowry, deputy director of the New York State Council of School Superintendents.
Smart Schools supporters said the state’s recent announcements of funding awards totaling $18.2 million on the Island and $127 million statewide could prompt more districts to apply.
“The numbers will continue to grow as school districts talk to their neighbors,” said Morris Peters, a spokesman for the governor’s budget division.
Some local educators worry that the state’s requirement of upfront payments will discourage poorer districts from applying for Smart Schools money. They point to a wide digital divide between districts.
In 2014, a state commission reported that 276 public schools on the Island — 224 in Suffolk County, 52 in Nassau — lacked the minimum recommended bandwidth of 100 megabits per second. That encompasses 43 percent of all such schools in the region.
“There’s a widespread misconception that all those school districts are upstate, and they’re definitely not,” Elwood’s Tranchino said. “Some of them are in our own backyard.”
Elwood, which enrolls 2,060 students, has a bandwidth capacity of 200 megabits per second and plans expansion by September 2017.
Other districts are spending state funds on high-tech hardware, such as electronic blackboards known as SMARTBoards, Chromebook laptops and iPad tablets.
Carle Place, for example, already owns about 350 Chromebooks and plans to add another 100. The district also will add to its supply of electronic tablets, bringing the total new hardware investment to $74,825.
Carle Place Superintendent David Flatley said schools need to plan carefully in phasing in new equipment.
“We don’t want to buy technology that will be outdated in five years,” said Flatley, president-elect of the Nassau County Council of School Superintendents.
Island Park, meanwhile, has budgeted $236,888 in state bond money for classroom technology. That includes new SMARTBoards to replace outmoded models and computers with three-dimensional capacity, which allow students to perform science experiments in virtual reality.
On a recent Thursday, 13 Island Park administrators and teachers attended a six-hour training session in virtual-reality instruction at the district’s Lincoln Orens Middle School.
All the participants wore 3-D glasses and held electronic styluses that they used to “dissect” a variety of life-forms — fish, fowl, dinosaurs — which appeared to jump from their computer screens.
The equipment was provided by zSpace, a firm headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Kristiana Sefchek, who teaches seventh grade life science, said the new equipment could provide more opportunities for students to perform dissections, albeit on electronic images rather than real creatures.
Sefchek explained that actual dissections require two class periods to set up and perform, while the same experiments in virtual reality can be completed in a single period.
“I just feel it’s going to spark interest for students,” said Laurie Scimeca, the district’s director for pupil personnel services, who used her stylus to rotate and examine a beluga whale. “You actually feel like you’re a part of it.”
Back to school on LI Public school districts across Long Island begin the 2016-17 school year this week and next. Classes start in the Jericho district on Tuesday and in 12 other districts — with 11 of those in Nassau County — on Thursday. The remaining 111 systems on the Island have their first day of school after Labor Day, either on Sept. 6, 7 or 8. To see the list, by district, go to newsday.com/data. | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/education/li-schools-upgrade-tech-capacities-to-meet-students-needs-1.12231653 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/707fdc6e48bd14593bfbc90ef4c158460603f49bc2824942066f01338f34c756.json |
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"Lisa Irizarry"
] | 2016-08-28T12:49:08 | null | 2016-08-28T08:47:05 | A Hampton Bays woman has been arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated Saturday night in Old Westbury with her 4-year-old daughter in the back | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fcrime%2Fhampton-bays-mom-faces-leandra-s-law-counts-1.12234607.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12234668.1472388424!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Hampton Bays mom faces Leandra’s Law counts | null | null | www.newsday.com | A Hampton Bays woman has been arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated Saturday night in Old Westbury with her 4-year-old daughter in the back seat.
Jillian Bellows, 36, who gave Nassau County police a post office box for her address, was charged under Leandra’s Law with aggravated driving while intoxicated, endangering the welfare of a child, failing to stay in a single lane, driving across a roadway marking, using a portable electronic device and speeding.
There were no injuries.
According to a police report, Bellows was driving a 2016 Toyota Scion east on the Long Island Expressway at Exit 39 shortly after 8:30 p.m. when officers saw her swerving and failing to stay in her lane.
Officers pulled Bellows over and found her to be intoxicated, with her daughter buckled in a rear car seat, the report said.
The child was released to a family member.
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Bellows was scheduled for arraignment Sunday in First District Court in Hempstead.
Under Leandra’s Law, drivers who are intoxicated or impaired by drugs with a child age 15 or younger in the vehicle can be charged with a felony.
The law is named for 11-year-old Leandra Rosado, who was killed in an October 2009 DWI crash in which the car she was in, driven by the mother of a friend whose sleepover party she was attending, overturned on the Henry Hudson Parkway in Manhattan.
The driver, Carmen Huertas, was charged with vehicular manslaughter and later sentenced to 4 to 12 years in prison. | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/hampton-bays-mom-faces-leandra-s-law-counts-1.12234607 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/73e5889fe57162c49960e68b8277ab5a0cbf56990964066869356aeffb7e5272.json |
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"Jennifer Rubin",
"The Washington Post"
] | 2016-08-30T14:49:40 | null | 2016-08-30T10:33:12 | It might be reassuring in some sense to find out that Trump is ill. The reality is that it’s just as likely that he’s an obnoxious, entitled ignoramus. Either way, he shouldn’t get anywhere near the O | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Fopinion%2Foped%2Fdoes-it-matter-if-donald-trump-really-is-crazy-1.12242198.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12102815.1469705415!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpg | en | null | Does it matter if Donald Trump really is crazy? | null | null | www.newsday.com | THE BOTTOM LINE It might be reassuring in some sense to find out that Trump is ill. The reality is that it’s just as likely that he’s an obnoxious, entitled ignoramus. Either way, he shouldn’t get anywhere near the Oval Office.
For months now, ordinary people, politicians and pundits have speculated in public and private: Is there, you know, something wrong with Donald Trump? Laymen would say he is “nuts” or “crazy,” while a mental health professional might say “suffering from a personality disorder.”
It’s not one trait or attribute, but the whole complex of behaviors: lack of impulse control, self-obsession (to the point at which all human tragedies are seen as they affect him — the Orlando massacre proves was he right! Nykea Aldridge was killed, so vote for him!), habitual lying and exaggeration, grandiosity, lack of empathy and need for constant adoration. There is also his rambling, sometimes unintelligible speech pattern. He flits from one thought to the next by stringing sentence fragments together, never completing a thought or a sentence.
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We have seen TV diagnoses, most recently from David Plouffe (“psychopath”) and Monday from the “Morning Joe” panel. Such pronouncements are met with the admonition that it is inappropriate and impossible to diagnose mental illness without examining the patient. But, of course, we are in an election, not a hospital; talking heads are not bound by the limits of medical ethics. Besides, what if he really is suffering from some mental illness?
There are several considerations at work here. First, the answer to whether he is mentally ill is unknowable, because Trump is not about to admit he has a problem, nor submit to an evaluation. (If he did, the ensuing report would no doubt be written in Trump-ese, like his first doctor’s note. The most awesome mental health of any president ever!) Second, the conversation is unproductive, since it inevitably comes down to the debate not about Trump but about the impropriety of rendering medical judgments from afar. Third, it leaves open the door to scurrilous accusations from Trump and his minions that Hillary Clinton is seriously ill, an accusation entirely without foundation.
Most important, however, it does not matter. We don’t care, and it should not matter, if Trump has “narcissistic personality disorder” or is just a self-centered jerk. Whether he is ill or evil, afflicted or just obnoxious, ailing or inhumane, the result is the same. At age 70, he is not about to “seek help” or change his behavior. He may be unable to change his behavior; he certainly is unwilling to. Whatever the origins of his behavior, the results — millions of Americans are concluding — make him unfit to serve.
Presidents need to read and learn from others; Trump consults his “own brain,” seems to read nothing longer than a National Enquirer article and says he only surrounds himself with people who are not as smart as he. Presidents need empathy; Trump has none. Presidents must be calm under stress, exercise self-control, and be precise and measured in their responses to events. Trump flails wildly, becomes more erratic under pressure and routinely reacts out of anger. Presidents are entrusted with great power; Trump abuses his position (e.g. forcing others to sue him to get paid) and is devoid of respect for fellow human beings. We ask presidents to be role models; Trump is vulgar, crude and materialistic, reducing the world to winners and losers.
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It might be reassuring in some sense to find out that Trump is ill. The reality is that it’s just as likely that he’s an obnoxious, entitled ignoramus. Either way, he shouldn’t get anywhere near the Oval Office. | http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/does-it-matter-if-donald-trump-really-is-crazy-1.12242198 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/20c8cde6b86d3ace8212657ee8b7394ca0260d8c7c4eebb6ccf57d975adc6f5f.json |
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"Gary Dymski"
] | 2016-08-29T10:49:26 | null | 2016-08-29T05:51:26 | An 11-year-old boy fell 30 feet from an escalator at the Roosevelt Field mall Sunday, sustaining a serious head injury and landing on his mother, | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fnassau%2Fboy-11-seriously-hurt-in-escalator-fall-at-roosevelt-field-mall-police-say-1.12237118.json | http://www.newsday.com/img/blog-share-nd.jpg | en | null | Boy, 11, seriously hurt in escalator fall at Roosevelt Field mall, police say | null | null | www.newsday.com | Uh-Oh!
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] | 2016-08-27T12:48:50 | null | 2016-08-27T08:19:00 | Two 14-year-old boys were arrested after stealing a pizza deliveryman’s vehicle in Uniondale on Friday afternoon, Nassau County police said.The victim was delivering a pizza | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fcrime%2Fteens-stole-pizza-deliveryman-s-car-in-uniondale-cops-say-1.12232019.json | http://www.newsday.com/img/blog-share-nd.jpg | en | null | Teens stole pizza deliveryman’s car in Uniondale, cops say | null | null | www.newsday.com | Uh-Oh!
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"Lisa Irizarry"
] | 2016-08-29T22:49:38 | null | 2016-08-29T18:45:56 | The owner of the Water Mill Deli operated a nightclub and catering business out of his home in East Hampton, serving alcoholic drinks from a | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fsuffolk%2Feast-hampton-shuts-down-nightclub-business-in-private-home-1.12239825.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12239824.1472510755!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | East Hampton shuts down nightclub, business in private home | null | null | www.newsday.com | Uh-Oh!
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"Darran Simon"
] | 2016-08-26T14:48:25 | null | 2016-08-26T09:34:00 | Mourners streamed into St. Martha’s Catholic Church in Uniondale Friday morning for the funeral for three family members killed in a horrific Long Island Expressway | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fnassau%2Ffuneral-today-for-pinales-family-members-killed-in-lie-crash-1.12226280.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12226279.1472219414!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Funeral today for Pinales family members killed in LIE crash | null | null | www.newsday.com | Mourners streamed into St. Martha’s Catholic Church in Uniondale Friday morning for the funeral for three family members killed in a horrific Long Island Expressway crash.
Three hearses pulled up to the church, each carrying the body of Carmelo Pinales, 26, of Hicksville, his sister, Patricia Pinales, 27, of Westbury, and his son, Cristopher Pinales Figuereo, 10. The three family members were among six killed in the Sunday morning three-car crash between exits 68 and 69 in Manorville.
The funeral service is to be followed by burial at Greenfield Cemetery, also in Uniondale.
Federico Pinales, Patricia and Carmelo Pinales’ uncle, told Newsday the large but close-knit family is devastated by the losses.
“These were good kids who were brought up with old values,” Federico Pinales, of Freeport, said. “They were always focused on their families.”
Patricia and her brother, Carmelo, who police said was driving the car that lost control and hit the others, came to the United States from the Dominican Republic about a decade ago, said Federico Pinales, of Freeport.
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Patricia studied to become a medical assistant and Carmelo held three jobs as a restaurant worker, he said.
The night before the crash, the family reunited in Freeport to celebrate a cousin’s graduation, and both Carmelo and Patricia would routinely circle the room, giving hugs to their relatives.
“It’s like they sensed something was going to happen, because all night, every couple of minutes, they would all come up to me and give me hugs,” Federico Pinales said.
Antero Pinales, the grandfather of Carmelo’s son, Cristopher, said his grandson was loving and polite.
Pamela Rodriguez of Deer Park said her friend Patricia Pinales was focused on her family, especially her 3-year-old daughter, who survived the crash.
“She was very outgoing,” Rodriguez said. “She was a party girl, but after she had her daughter, she put that aside and everything was for her daughter.”
With Gary Dymski | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/funeral-today-for-pinales-family-members-killed-in-lie-crash-1.12226280 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/85916328022550e5eab488f6fd1f052ebcff712b72c30c97ce72ce2001d0ff95.json |
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"Gary Dymski"
] | 2016-08-29T14:49:31 | null | 2016-08-29T10:33:00 | A stretch of Sunrise Highway in Freeport reopened late during Monday’s morning rush hour after being closed about four hours for an investigation of a | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fnassau%2Fsunrise-highway-reopens-after-fatal-crash-officials-say-1.12237284.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12237826.1472479436!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpg | en | null | Sunrise Highway reopens after fatal crash, officials say | null | null | www.newsday.com | Uh-Oh!
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"Joan Reminick"
] | 2016-08-26T20:48:42 | null | 2016-08-26T14:58:00 | If you're planning to hit Jones Beach, consider a lunch or dinner stop at any of these eateries. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flifestyle%2Frestaurants%2Fjones-beach-eats-restaurant-picks-on-your-way-along-the-meadowbrook-and-wantagh-parkways-1.10443466.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12229059.1472237831!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpg | en | null | Jones Beach eats: Restaurant picks on your way, along the Meadowbrook and Wantagh parkways | null | null | www.newsday.com | Uh-Oh!
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"Sarah Armaghan"
] | 2016-08-27T16:48:53 | null | 2016-08-27T12:29:54 | A man was shot and killed on a Huntington Station street early Saturday morning, Suffolk County police said.A large group was gathered on Fifth Avenue | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fcrime%2Fman-shot-killed-on-huntington-station-street-suffolk-cops-say-1.12232431.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12232430.1472315393!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Man shot, killed on Huntington Station street, Suffolk cops say | null | null | www.newsday.com | Uh-Oh!
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"Ellen Yan"
] | 2016-08-26T12:54:46 | null | 2016-08-26T07:23:29 | A suspect arrested by members of a police gang unit stole an officer’s unmarked car early Friday in Deer Park and briefly drove away before | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fcrime%2Fcops-suffolk-police-vehicle-stolen-later-found-in-deer-park-1.12225380.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12225653.1472210607!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Cops: Suffolk police vehicle stolen, later found | null | null | www.newsday.com | A suspect arrested by members of a police gang unit stole an officer’s unmarked car early Friday in Deer Park and briefly drove away before abandoning the vehicle and escaping, Suffolk County police said.
Details were not available about the suspect or information surrounding the arrest, which took place just before 12:35 a.m. on Washington Avenue, authorities at the scene said.
Officers assigned to the First Precinct gang unit based in West Babylon had taken the suspect into custody. Sometime later, the suspect climbed into the driver’s seat of an officer’s unmarked Crown Victoria, police said.
“Someone was under arrest and drove off with the police car for a block,” Lt. William O’Sullivan, of the First Precinct, said Friday morning from an area not far from where the search began.
The suspect abandoned the police car close to a church near the corner of Washington and Sammis avenues, then jumped out and fled on foot, police said.
After a call came over a dispatch radio blaring “car was taken, start responding,” officers from the First and nearby Third Precinct descended on the area.
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They then blocked off the area and began a ground search while a Suffolk police helicopter buzzed overhead looking for any sign of the suspect.
Just before 2:15 a.m. officers left the blocked off the scene on Washington Avenue and Hickory Street. In the fenced parking lot of First Baptist Church, a few blocks north on Washington Avenue, a vehicle that appeared to be a Crown Victoria sat with a marked Suffolk police cruiser next to it.
No officers were injured; First Precinct detectives are handling the case. | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/cops-suffolk-police-vehicle-stolen-later-found-in-deer-park-1.12225380 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/2419b9e3112a4233ee959d3a6c3eca6972c8f067c6eb42c219ffbf639ec35472.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T16:49:32 | null | 2016-08-29T12:15:00 | A stretch of Sunrise Highway in Freeport reopened late during Monday’s morning rush hour after being closed about four hours for an investigation of a | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fnassau%2Fsunrise-highway-crash-leaves-1-dead-officials-say-1.12237284.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12238044.1472487316!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Sunrise Highway crash leaves 1 dead, officials say | null | null | www.newsday.com | Uh-Oh!
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] | 2016-08-27T18:48:50 | null | 2016-08-27T13:22:00 | Some Long Island celebrity connections are ubiquitous. But some LI connections with notable folks are much more obscure or fleeting. Here are some you might not know about... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fobscure-long-island-celebrity-connections-1.12025854.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12025200.1472226464!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpg | en | null | Obscure Long Island celebrity connections | null | null | www.newsday.com | But some LI connections with notable folks are much more obscure or fleeting. Here are some you might not know about.
Chris Jericho (Credit: Patrick E. McCarthy) (Credit: Patrick E. McCarthy) WWE superstar Chris Jericho -- son of former New York Rangers player Ted Irvine -- lived in Manhasset until he was 4. Jericho considers himself a native son of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where he spent his formative years. But he was "billed" as being from Manhasset at one point in his WWE career when head honcho Vince McMahon was for whatever reason averse to saying his wrestlers were from Canada.
Diane Farr (Credit: Getty Image) (Credit: Getty Image) Actress and producer Diane Farr's penchant for drama has local roots. Farr, best known for her TV roles as Meagan Reeves in "Numb3rs" and Laura Reeves in "Rescue Me," got her bachelor's degree in drama from Stony Brook University.
Paul Newman (Credit: John Kobal Foundation / Newscom) (Credit: John Kobal Foundation / Newscom) The late actor, businessman, philanthropist and race car driver Paul Newman, shown here in 1958, spent time as a Long Island resident. He was born in Ohio and died in Connecticut, but in between Newman spent a number of years living in Great Neck. He also co-starred in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," which was filmed in Muttontown.
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John Rzeznik (Credit: Bruce Gilbert) (Credit: Bruce Gilbert) Original Goo Goo Dolls frontman and rock guitarist John Rzeznik may have been born in upstate Buffalo, but the charming North Shore briefly won him over. Rzeznik lived part of the early 2000s in a Sea Cliff Victorian house. He sold his four-bedroom home in 2012, asking $1.199 million, saying his schedule didn't leave him much time for Long Island. One of his favorite parts of the house was a rocking chair on the front porch.
Michael Crichton (Credit: Getty Images / Keith Bedford) (Credit: Getty Images / Keith Bedford) Late novelist Michael Crichton may not have been born on Long Island, but the late author of "Jurassic Park," "The Andromeda Strain," and the television series "ER" had local roots. Crichton was born in Chicago and spent his childhood in Roslyn where his family moved after World War II.
(Credit: AP) (Credit: AP) Actor James Caan is not from Long Island, but has an offbeat, circular connection. He is well-known for his role as Sonny Corleone in the iconic 1972 motion picture "The Godfather," and his bloody assassination scene was filmed on an abandoned runway at Mitchel Field in Garden City, a space that is now part of Nassau Community College. The location may have been familiar to Caan as he had once been a student at nearby Hofstra University in Hempstead -- where he was a classmate of Great Neck North High School graduate and "Godfather" director Francis Ford Coppola.
Buy photo (Credit: Getty Images / Ethan Miller) (Credit: Getty Images / Ethan Miller) If you went to Stony Brook University in the mid-1960s and studied English, you might remember a female classmate named Josephina Occhiuto -- and if you attended Lindenhurst High School in the late '60s and early '70s, you might remember Mrs. Behar, the English teacher. However, other people who didn't attend either SBU or LHS may recognize the woman as Brooklyn native Joy Behar, who went on to become a successful stand-up comedian and a host of the ABC network show, "The View."
F. Scott Fitzgerald (Credit: AP / Carl Van Vechten) (Credit: AP / Carl Van Vechten) The author of "The Great Gatsby" was born in Minnesota, but his Long Island-based novel was actually inspired by his time spent in Great Neck when he wrote the tale of Jay Gatsby, which was published in 1925.
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The Marx Brothers (Credit: AP) (Credit: AP) The Marx Brothers' upbringing was split between Manhattan and Chicago. But according to www.marx-brothers.org, Groucho Marx' first home was in Great Neck, and Chico lived in Great Neck Estates before the brothers moved to Hollywood.
Billy Idol (Credit: Getty Images / Imeh Akpanudosen) (Credit: Getty Images / Imeh Akpanudosen) Brit rocker Billy Idol spent most of the first four years of his life in Patchogue before his parents moved back to England. "I remember surfing with car tires on the Atlantic breakers," Idol said in his book, "Dancing With Myself."
Rodney Dangerfield (Credit: AP) (Credit: AP) Late comedian and actor Rodney Dangerfield, born Jacob Cohen in 1921, spent his early years in Babylon before moving around, eventually graduating from Richmond Hill High School in Queens.
John Quincy Adams (Credit: Library of Congress) (Credit: Library of Congress) The sixth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams, bought a home in Deer Park in 1835 and spent many summers there until his death in 1848. John Quincy Adams Elementary, named for him, opened in 1964 on Old Country Road in Deer Park.
Method Man (Credit: Getty Images) (Credit: Getty Images) Musician and actor Clifford Smith -- better known as Method Man -- spent part of his childhood in Hempstead before Staten Island became his home.
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Howard Dean (Credit: AP / Paul Sancya) (Credit: AP / Paul Sancya) Political commentator Howard Dean, a former governor of Vermont (1991-2003) and former chair of the Democratic National Committee (2005-09) grew up in East Hampton, although he attended a private boarding school in Rhode Island.
John Williams (Credit: AP) (Credit: AP) American composer and conductor John Williams, who scored films like "Star Wars," "Superman," "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Jaws," was born in Floral Park before moving to Los Angeles as a teenager.
Perry Farrell (Credit: Jeremy Bales) (Credit: Jeremy Bales) Perry Farrell, lead singer of rock band Jane's Addiction and creator of the Lollapalooza music festival, was born Peretz Bernstein in 1959. Originally from Queens, he also spent part of his childhood in Woodmere before his family moved to Miami.
Sid Caesar (Credit: AP / Joe Caneva) (Credit: AP / Joe Caneva) The late comedian and actor Sid Caesar lived in Great Neck for about 10 years during the 1950s and 1960s.
Everlast (Credit: Getty Images / Mark Metcalfe) (Credit: Getty Images / Mark Metcalfe) Musician and rapper Erik Schrody -- better known as Everlast -- has had a career as an alternative rock singer ("What It's Like"), which was preceded by years as the frontman for hip-hop act House of Pain ("Jump Around"). Erik grew up in Los Angeles, but was born in Valley Stream.
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[
"John Asbury",
"Jennifer Barrios"
] | 2016-08-31T00:49:46 | null | 2016-08-30T19:23:00 | Most residents of a Long Beach apartment building were allowed to return home Tuesday evening following the morning collapse of several terraces that left about | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fnassau%2Flong-beach-officials-allow-most-to-return-after-terraces-collapsed-1.12241827.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12244572.1472599384!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Long Beach officials allow most to return after terraces collapsed | null | null | www.newsday.com | Most residents of a Long Beach apartment building were allowed to return home Tuesday evening following the morning collapse of several terraces that left about a third of the renters looking for someplace to live, city officials said.
The 48-unit, three-story Sunlit Terrace Apartments on Shore Road between Long Beach and Monroe boulevards was evacuated after the collapse of at least five brick facade terraces at 7:37 a.m. Officials said residents were “very lucky” to escape unharmed.
Long Beach City Manager Jack Schnirman initially said about three dozen families were evacuated and assisted by Red Cross officials, who were working in a Long Beach city bus.
Tenants from 30 apartments were allowed to return home Tuesday evening, officials said. The remaining 18 tenants will not be allowed to return for several days, until work is completed. Their terraces, on the south side facing the ocean, were to be torn down before they could return home.
“We’re very lucky,” Long Beach Fire Chief Robert J. Tuccillo said Tuesday morning. “Thank God it happened early in the morning and nobody was outside . . . Everybody’s safe and everybody’s accounted for.”
The cause of the collapse was not immediately known.
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Third-floor resident Patricia McNulty, 28, whose terrace was among those that collapsed, said she had been complaining to the building’s owner for about six weeks, saying the decks were in danger of collapsing.
McNulty said she texted him a photo of her terrace, reiterating her concerns, about an hour before the collapses occurred. “I knew this was going to happen,” she said, adding that she had warned her downstairs neighbor not to use her deck.
Newsday obtained the photo in the text sent by McNulty. It shows brickwork missing or damaged and large cracks in the concrete patio floor of her deck.
She said she moved there 14 months ago for the view and the balcony, but now the balcony is gone.
Photo taken Aug. 30, 2016, from Patricia McNulty's third-floor apartment at Sunlit Terrace Apartments on Shore Road in Long Beach shows missing bricks and cracks in the concrete floor. Photo Credit: Patricia McNulty Photo taken Aug. 30, 2016, from Patricia McNulty's third-floor apartment at Sunlit Terrace Apartments on Shore Road in Long Beach shows missing bricks and cracks in the concrete floor. Photo Credit: Patricia McNulty
“He knew how dangerous this was,” she said. “I’m beyond angry. It could have been prevented, and people could have died.”
Landlord Carmine Tepedino, who has lived in the building and owned it for more than 50 years, denied residents had been complaining about the building for several months and said he first learned of it about two weeks ago.
“You can see from the scaffolding, we were working on it. We were fixing the balconies,” Tepedino said.
Tepedino said when he became aware of the situation, residents were urged “not to go outside on the balcony,” Tepedino said.
“Tenants always come up with stories,” he said. “I’m sorry to see it, but I’m glad no one got hurt.”
Tepedino said he felt the building was safe after speaking to workers Monday night and didn’t think a collapse would occur.
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Long Beach city officials and building inspectors said there were no previous complaints or violations with the city and that Tepedino was cooperative Tuesday.
“We have no violations,” Tepedino said.
Asked if the building was safe, Tepedino said, “It sure is. The terraces were built after. So there’s nothing wrong with the building.”
He said “it’s hard to tell” if the collapse could have been prevented. “You can’t tell what’s behind the bricks,” he said. “We’re assessing the building now and [we’ll] see what the engineer recommends.”
Long Beach building department zoning inspector Rich Schuh said the building was built in 1949 and said the owner had obtained a permit “about a week ago” to conduct “minor repointing” of brickwork there.
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Responders from Long Beach, Point Lookout and Island Park fire departments, as well as ambulance crews and the Nassau County police emergency service unit officers assisted. Even after the collapse, chunks of brick continued to fall from the balconies throughout the morning.
One third-floor resident, Edward Bithorn, 55, said he was headed to the balcony and had just reached the door when he heard what he said sounded “like an explosion” — and he “hit the brakes.”
Several residents waited outside the damaged building Tuesday morning.
Christiana Baggie was in her ground floor apartment Tuesday morning and had planned to go onto her patio to have coffee before the two balconies above her collapsed.
She stood outside the building Tuesday morning dismayed at the damage and pile of concrete and crumpled metal that collapsed onto her patio.
“There was no warning. It just happened very fast,” Baggie said. “I just thank God I wasn’t out there. I would have been crushed. My guardian angel was here.”
She said she ran out of her apartment screaming to make sure her neighbors were OK.
Contractors started doing work late last week to repair loose bricks on the top two floors, Baggie said.
Scaffolding adorned the front entrance, next to the two fallen balconies.
“It’s such a freak thing,” she said. “I’m very grateful to be alive.”
With John Valenti
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"David M. Schwartz"
] | 2016-08-31T00:49:48 | null | 2016-08-30T20:49:00 | Dowling College is expected to grant its last degrees Wednesday as the private liberal arts school loses its academic accreditation and closes its doors to | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Feducation%2Fdowling-grants-last-degrees-loses-accreditation-wednesday-1.12244873.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12244872.1472604555!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Dowling grants last degrees, loses accreditation Wednesday | null | null | www.newsday.com | HIGHLIGHTS Molloy president: ‘How can you let an institution . . . run out of money?’
Fate of Oakdale, Shirley campuses unknown
Dowling College is expected to grant its last degrees Wednesday as the private liberal arts school loses its academic accreditation and closes its doors to students after 48 years.
The college ran out of money — a rare occurrence in higher education — after being burdened by $54 million in long-term debt. The school laid off about 450 faculty and staff in early June and sent about 1,700 students scrambling to find other ways to continue their education.
The Middle States Commission on Higher Education has withdrawn Dowling’s accreditation as of midnight Wednesday, and college officials have filed its plans to close with the state Education Department.
While other public and private colleges and universities are welcoming students back to school this week and next, Dowling’s main campus is vacant and the academic buildings are locked. Landscapers mowed the lawn, security guards manned the gate and a handful of cars were parked in the administration lot on the main Oakdale campus this week.
Dowling becomes the first fully accredited, nonprofit four-year college on Long Island to shutter in recent history.
“How can you let an institution run completely out of money?” said Drew Bogner, president of Molloy College in Rockville Centre, which organized student transfer events and other advising services to help Dowling students earlier this summer.
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“How in the future can we make sure that colleges have enough money to ensure a proper closure?” he said. “I think we should start thinking about whether there should be something in place to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”
The school’s closure process left a network of bitter students and faculty who say more warning and oversight should have been provided. For nearly three months, Dowling’s status has been unpredictable.
College officials announced it would close on May 31 — laying off faculty and staff — then twice postponed closure dates as they unsuccessfully sought an affiliation agreement with Global University Systems, an educational investment company based in the United Kingdom.
“Disappointment and shame is what comes to mind when I think about this college now,” said Tracy Heflin of Ronkonkoma, whose daughter, Bailee, is among about 60 students to receive the last Dowling-issued degrees. Beginning Thursday, students within 15 credits of graduation must complete their studies at other colleges and apply for state Board of Regents college diplomas.
The college’s public regulating agency, the state Education Department, “did everything possible under its authority in the law and went above and beyond the law’s requirements to assist students to transition through the college’s closure,” spokeswoman Emily DeSantis said.
She said officials from the agency met with the college several times prior to closure to explore options that would have allowed Dowling to remain open.
“Throughout this process, SED’s number-one concern has been that students have access to their records,” she said.
Dowling student records have been transferred to LIU Post. Students seeking official transcripts to apply to other schools or jobs can access them at the Brookville campus.
The state’s education policymaking body, the Board of Regents, could not have changed the outcome, said Roger Tilles, the Regent representing Long Island.
“Right now, the creditors are running the college. There’s nothing they can do but collect their debt. That’s their job,” he said.
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Discussions with state lawmakers and representatives of private, independent nonprofit colleges currently are being planned to prevent a Dowling-like closure from happening again, Tilles said.
Unknown is the future of the institution and the fate of its assets, including a historic waterfront campus in Oakdale, a 60-acre campus off of the William Floyd Parkway in Shirley, and 32 residential properties and other land holdings in Oakdale and Mastic.
Dowling will remain a tax-exempt, nonprofit entity for the near future, said Nancy Sterling, a spokeswoman with Mintz Levin, the Boston-based law firm involved in the school’s restructuring and operations.
“Plans are unclear at the moment,” Sterling said Tuesday.
In charge of the school’s daily operations is chief restructuring officer Chad Shandler of the Manhattan-based accounting firm CohnReznick. Dowling President Albert Inserra resigned effective Aug. 19. About 12 other employees have remained, including chief financial officer Ralph Cerullo.
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Dowling has not filed for bankruptcy protection, Sterling confirmed.
More than 260 Stony Brook University undergraduates are expected to live in the dorms on Dowling’s Shirley campus for the 2016-17 academic year, according to a lease agreement between the two schools, Stony Brook spokeswoman Lauren Sheprow said.
Sterling declined to comment on whether Dowling officials currently are talking with any potential real estate developers or buyers.
The Oakdale campus is one of the few large tracts of undeveloped waterfront acreage on the Great South Bay.
“It’s a prime area for preservation and recreation,” said Adrienne Esposito, executive director of the nonprofit Citizens Campaign for the Environment. “We’re predicting there’ll be lots of extravagant proposals for this property. But to preserve it would be a legacy and a gift to the public.”
The site’s sewage treatment plant had problems in the past and waste discharge hasn’t met health standards, Esposito said. “Any development there could have a serious adverse impact on the bay’s water quality,” she said.
Kevin Law, CEO and president of the Long Island Association, called the property “prime real estate on Long Island” and said it could wind up as high-end waterfront housing.
“Folks winding down Dowling should probably solicit proposals, depending on what Islip is willing to accept,” he said.
Both Law and Esposito agreed the Shirley campus could be a good location for more moderately priced housing.
Next steps on how the college will satisfy its debt are unknown.
Experts have said Dowling would have needed a significant infusion of cash to be saved. That’s what trustees said would happen if negotiations with Global University Systems had gone well.
Those talks failed, and Dowling became the first nonprofit college rated by Moody’s Investors Service to close, the crediting agency said.
Dowling’s credit default poses no potential liability to Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency or county taxpayers, who backed the college’s bonds, IDA executive director Tony Catapano said.
State law allows nonprofits to issue capital improvement bonds through IDAs to get better terms.
Two tax-exempt “civic facility” bonds for the college were issued — $38.9 million in 2006 and $7.2 million in 1996. Of those, about $33.8 million still is owed on the 2006 issuance and about $3.1 million is owed on the 1996 issuance, Catapano said. | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/education/dowling-grants-last-degrees-loses-accreditation-wednesday-1.12244873 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/ba3fddcda28a7bd3e57794385328250338bf0d3d17b4b3dd87bfaa3214e4b3ec.json |
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"Andrew Smith"
] | 2016-08-30T16:49:43 | null | 2016-08-30T12:40:27 | The Lloyd Harbor man accused of killing his mother in their backyard earlier this month not only drowned her, but also strangled her and likely | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fcrime%2Fada-lloyd-harbor-man-charged-in-mom-s-death-drowned-strangled-her-1.12241384.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12242666.1472575226!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | ADA: Lloyd Harbor man charged in mom’s death drowned, strangled her | null | null | www.newsday.com | The Lloyd Harbor man accused of killing his mother in their backyard earlier this month not only drowned her, but also strangled her and likely beat her, a Suffolk County prosecutor said Tuesday morning.
Denis D. Cullen Jr., 23, pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging him with second-degree murder in the Aug. 17 death of Elizabeth Cullen, 63. Prosecutors had said that Cullen got his mother in a headlock by the side of their pool and walked her into the deep end, drowning her — but Assistant District Attorney Robert Biancavilla said there was more to it than that.
An autopsy showed she was asphyxiated not only by drowning but by neck compression, Biancavilla said. In addition, her scalp had several cuts and her body was “covered” in bruises, he said, suggesting a protracted struggle before Cullen dragged his mother into the pool.
“The evidence against Mr. Cullen, judge, is overwhelming, to the say the least,” Biancavilla said to Suffolk County Court Judge Stephen Braslow.
Mother and son argued in the house about whether he was taking prescribed medication, and then Denis Cullen went to the pool, Biancavilla said. His mother followed him there and the argument intensified, he said.
Cullen told detectives during a videotaped confession that he was surprised by how much a woman as small as his mother could struggle while she drowned, Biancavilla said in court Tuesday.
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Without explanation, Braslow replaced Cullen’s assigned attorney, Steve Fondulis of Port Jefferson, with John Halverson of Patchogue.
“I don’t believe arraignment is the place to try the case,” Halverson said in court.
He asked Braslow to order a psychiatric evaluation of his client and to put him on a suicide watch, and Braslow agreed.
After the arraignment, Halverson said a psychiatric defense is possible.
Biancavilla, however, said that when Cullen was talking about the killing with detectives, “He knew exactly what he was doing.” | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/ada-lloyd-harbor-man-charged-in-mom-s-death-drowned-strangled-her-1.12241384 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/378e7216bd961826fedb8fac611a3a4f6b762f7bc0a3184a99baf6bbabd2159d.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T20:49:35 | null | 2016-08-29T10:55:00 | No matter the score, Long Island's high school mascots keep the fans smiling. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Ftowns%2Fmeet-long-island-s-high-school-mascots-1.6403934.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.9587444.1472475630!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpg | en | null | Meet Long Island's high school mascots | null | null | www.newsday.com | Uh-Oh!
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"Martin C. Evans"
] | 2016-08-26T12:55:39 | null | 2016-08-26T08:45:51 | Two Long Island congressmen are “demanding an expeditious and transparent investigation” of the suicide of a Navy veteran from Islip, who shot himself on the | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fsuffolk%2Fcongressmen-demand-thorough-probe-of-suicide-outside-va-hospital-1.12222515.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12223723.1472215549!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Congressmen demand ‘thorough’ probe of suicide outside VA hospital | null | null | www.newsday.com | Two Long Island congressmen are “demanding an expeditious and transparent investigation” of the suicide of a Navy veteran from Islip, who shot himself Sunday on the grounds of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northport.
Rep. Steve Israel (D-Huntington) and Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) made the request Thursday in a letter to FBI Director James Comey and Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald.
“It is critical that our nation’s veterans feel they can trust the services provided by their VA medical facilities, and that their health and well-being is of the priority,” the letter states.
King and Israel expressed concern that the veteran — Peter Kaisen, 76 — committed suicide after possibly “seeking treatment” at Northport.
VA Northport deputy spokesman Todd Goodman said Thursday that Kaisen did not enter any buildings at the medical center before he took his life in a parking lot Sunday afternoon.
Thomas Farley, a family friend, said Kaisen may have gone to the hospital Sunday to seek treatment for depression.
“That was his last chance for help,” Farley said. “He went there for help, and they failed him.”
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Kaisen had been suffering from severe back pain stemming from an auto accident that ended his career as a Long Beach police officer in the 1960s, according to his wife, Joan Kaisen.
VA Northport Director Philip Moschitta called the incident a “tragic event” in an emailed statement.
He did not respond to questions surrounding the shooting, including how a patient was able to bring a firearm onto what is by law a gun-free facility.
“At no point did the staff in this facility fail to do the right thing by our patients,” Moschitta said in the statement. “The Northport VA stands ready to cooperate with any investigative body that believes more information is needed.”
Joan Kaisen said her husband, who served as a Navy gunner aboard the supply ship USS Denebola in 1958-60, left their home without telling her early Sunday.
She said she didn’t know of his whereabouts until that afternoon, when an emergency room physician at the medical center called and urged her to come immediately.
“He came to the door looking very solemn,” she said of her encounter with the doctor. “I looked at him and said, ‘Is he gone?’ And he said, ‘I’m sorry, your husband shot himself in the head.’ ”
Kaisen said her husband may have been frustrated after doctors at Northport earlier this year told him there was nothing more they could do to alleviate his pain. She said at times the pain was so severe he couldn’t sit for more than a few minutes at a time.
Peter Kaisen was discovered bleeding and unresponsive about noon Sunday, outside his Toyota Highlander in the parking lot.
His wife said police recovered a Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolver at the scene.
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Goodman said doctors were unable to revive him, and he was pronounced dead in the emergency room, about 200 yards from where he had been found.
Suicide rates among veterans have raised alarm among advocates.
Veterans accounted for 18 percent of all deaths from suicide among U.S. adults in 2014, according to VA data, more than twice the rate of the general population.
Joan Kaisen said she was upset at what she perceived to be limited staffing at the facility on Sunday. She hopes that her husband’s death will spur VA officials to boost staffing levels.
“All I want is justice for the vets,” she said. “I don’t want his demise to be in vain.”
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With Robert E. Kessler
CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this story Rep. Steve Israel was misidentified. | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/congressmen-demand-thorough-probe-of-suicide-outside-va-hospital-1.12222515 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/50b48d207c7f665f397c4946a672e4cbe8fc6cc32769cc28bcaa926f86778a88.json |
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"Jennifer Barrios"
] | 2016-08-26T16:48:31 | null | 2016-08-26T12:22:18 | A portion of West Hills County Park has been “sealed” and operations at a horse riding center there are shuttered after the discovery of possible | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fcrime%2Fdumping-probe-finds-crime-scene-at-west-hills-park-officials-say-1.12225847.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12226079.1472228537!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Dumping probe finds ‘crime scene’ at West Hills park, officials say | null | null | www.newsday.com | A portion of West Hills County Park has been “sealed” and operations at a horse riding center there are shuttered after the discovery of possible illegal dumping of construction debris and other materials, county officials said.
At a news conference at the park Friday, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said about 15 acres of the park has been closed off, and the Sweet Hills Riding Center has ceased operations while the investigation into the possible illegal dumping continues.
“Preliminary tests of dumping materials secured and received by Sweet Hills Riding Center...contain suspicious materials, suspicious processed construction material,” Bellone said. “We are shuttering operations here immediately.”
A message left at the riding center was not immediately returned Friday morning.
On Friday, the property was marked off with yellow police tape, and piles of what looked like dirt could be seen pushed up against trees along trails near the riding center.
While it was unclear how much material had allegedly been dumped at the park, Bellone said it appeared that “ground was being laid and prepared for a much larger and significant dumping of material.”
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“We will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law those who were responsible for any actions that are damaging and destructive to our parks,” Bellone said.
Police Commissioner Tim Sini said police “were notified earlier this week” about the possible illegal dumping, and detectives from the environmental crimes unit have begun looking into the materials. The area is considered “an active crime scene,” he said.
“We will get to the bottom of this, and we will hold those accountable for their egregious actions,” Sini said.
Samples of the materials found at the park will be tested for contamination, said Bellone, who added that preliminary indications were that the materials contained construction debris.
Meanwhile, the Sweet Hills Riding Center — a county licensee that has operated at the park for “decades” — has had their operations suspended while the investigation continues, Bellone said. But the care and feeding of the 100 horses that are at the center will be permitted to continue, he said.
The investigation began after county parks officials got a tip about “disturbed property” at the park near the Sweet Hills Riding Center, according to a news release Friday.
“What’s here doesn’t happen overnight,” Suffolk Chief of Detectives Gerard Gigante said.
The discovery is reminiscent of Suffolk authorities’ probe into dumping at Roberto Clemente Park and three other locations in and around Islip Town.
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Six men and four companies were indicted in December 2014 after prosecutors said thousands of tons of contaminated fill, including construction and demolition debris, was dumped at the town’s park in Brentwood, a one-acre private lot in Central Islip, a six-home development for veterans in Islandia and a state-protected wetlands area in Deer Park, on the Islip-Babylon border.
Prosecutors said that dumping was motivated by “greed,” to avoid the tipping fees to dispose of the debris legally.
Four of the men — including two former town officials — and one of the companies pleaded guilty, and one of the men was found guilty of charges in connection with that probe.
“I think we’ve all become aware because of Roberto Clemente about this sort of nefarious work that’s been happening,” Bellone said on Friday. “Suffolk County is a very big place...and it’s clear that there are certain people who think they can profit by dumping on these treasures that belong to every single one of us in Suffolk County.” | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/dumping-probe-finds-crime-scene-at-west-hills-park-officials-say-1.12225847 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/288bf442bc5432fd1a977f9f69a3fbe1333c1859803552de6d823afe621e0c56.json |
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"Zachary R. Dowdy"
] | 2016-08-31T00:49:44 | null | 2016-08-30T18:21:00 | A Colorado man charged with sexual abuse in June after he allegedly touched a 16-year-old girl in Merrick will be arraigned on a new sex-related | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fcrime%2Fman-had-images-of-sex-act-with-girl-on-phone-nassau-police-say-1.12244341.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12244340.1472595700!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Man had images of sex act with girl on phone, Nassau police say | null | null | www.newsday.com | A Colorado man charged with sexual abuse in June after he allegedly touched a 16-year-old girl in Merrick will be arraigned on a new sex-related charge Wednesday because investigators found images of a minor performing a sex act on his cellphone, Nassau detectives said.
Luke A. Tilsley, 36, of Larimer Street in Denver is scheduled to be arraigned in First District Court in Hempstead on a charge of possession of a sex performance by a child, Nassau police said in a news release. They added that the images consisted of sex acts performed by someone younger than 16 years of age.
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It was unclear if the person in the video is the same minor he is charged with abusing.
Tilsley’s attorney, Benjamin Zeman of Brooklyn, could not be reached for comment.
Tilsley was originally charged with two counts of forcible touching, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of third-degree sexual abuse in connection with his June 24 arrest that police said stemmed from his actions with a minor on two occasions.
Prosecutors said he began communicating online with a teenager in October and that he twice traveled to Merrick in April, despite knowing the girls’ age, and that he touched her in an inappropriate manner on April 20 and April 27. | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/man-had-images-of-sex-act-with-girl-on-phone-nassau-police-say-1.12244341 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/b65fda0452b27b32687057eae616aad66d901763c3d72be9ce671a43014c73b6.json |
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"Zachary R. Dowdy"
] | 2016-08-30T10:49:38 | null | 2016-08-30T05:07:00 | The Lloyd Harbor man charged with drowning his mother in the family’s swimming pool this month has been indicted and is scheduled to be arraigned | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fdenis-d-cullen-jr-charged-with-drowning-mom-due-in-court-da-says-1.12241384.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12241383.1472548066!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Denis D. Cullen Jr., charged with drowning mom, due in court, DA says | null | null | www.newsday.com | Uh-Oh!
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"James T. Madore"
] | 2016-08-26T12:55:13 | null | 2016-08-26T06:00:00 | Recreational boating, a pastime that helps define Long Island, is undergoing a major transformation after the devastation wrought by successive storms and a deep recession.The | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Fbusiness%2Fboating-a-key-li-pastime-is-evolving-after-storms-recession-1.12224767.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12224650.1472209899!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Boating, a key LI pastime, is evolving after storms, recession | null | null | www.newsday.com | Recreational boating, a pastime that helps define Long Island, is undergoing a major transformation after the devastation wrought by successive storms and a deep recession.
The number of vessels with motors registered here has fallen 20 percent since 2006, government statistics show. And the ranks of marinas, boat dealers, repair shops and charter services have shrunk as well.
However, the survivors are adapting, and said they see evidence of a turnaround.
“The industry is changing, it’s evolving — and it’s definitely different from it was,” said Chris Squeri, executive director of the New York Marine Trades Association, a business group that stages three boat shows on Long Island each year. He also operates a private marina in Freeport.
Businesses are expanding and upgrading the services they offer, doing more of the chores that boat owners once did themselves. Some companies have even started clubs, where members have access to vessels without having to buy them.
Businesses are also looking for ways to make boating more appealing to people who have limited free time — including millennials who so far haven’t embraced the activity as their parents and grandparents did.
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Recreational boating is a key contributor to tourism, an important driver of the Island’s economy. And for many residents, the activity is a central part of their lives.
Still, boat registrations in Nassau and Suffolk counties have fallen every year since before the recession, from 113,243 in 2006 to 90,419 last year.
The pattern was similar statewide, though the rate of decline was less: 13 percent over nine years to 436,698 boats, according to the state Department of Motor Vehicles, which licenses all mechanically propelled craft used for recreation.
Registrations in the country fell 7 percent between 2006 and last year, to 11 million boats, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
Marine industry experts blamed the decline in local boat registrations on the 2007-09 recession, Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 and superstorm Sandy the year after. Dozens of businesses shut down because they had fewer customers; one local trade group lost 35 percent of its members, for example.
“We saw a lot of people lose their boat to repossession or a storm — and they never got another one,” said Squeri of the trade association.
However, he expressed hope that registrations would bounce back locally: “I don’t know if we are going to hit those peak numbers of 2003-05, but there is definitely room to grow.”
Sales of new recreational boats with motors in the 12 months ended March 31 were up 18 percent on Long Island compared with the previous 12-month period, according to the marine research firm Info-Link Technologies Inc. in Miami. However, the increase is from a shrunken base.
The Island’s sales gain was nearly double the 10 percent recorded for New York State and the country during the same year-over-year period.
At Strong’s Marine — one of the region’s largest players, with three marinas on the East End, multiple showrooms and many services — sales of new and used boats are up 20 percent so far this year compared with 2015, said company president Jeff Strong. The Mattituck-based firm sells about 200 vessels per year.
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Strong, whose grandfather started the company in 1945, credited its survival to producing revenue from many activities: boat sales and rentals, dock slips, boat repair, valet and boat-driving services, storage and corporate events. He said revenue exceeded $20 million last year.
The 100 employees of Strong’s Marine are focused “on delivering a high-end resort experience,” he said.
The business has spent $2 million on improvements to Strong’s Water Club & Marina on Mattituck Inlet, the former Matt-a-Mar Marina purchased in 2013. It features a saltwater swimming pool with a mahogany cabana and lifeguard on duty, a beach volleyball court, sit-down restaurant and tiki bar, and waterfront park that hosts five concerts per year.
“This is not your old boatyard,” said Strong, showing off the granite-topped sinks and tile floors in the customer bathrooms. “Marinas have to have amenities today, be well maintained ... We like to equate ourselves to the Disney World experience. We provide no-hassle boating.”
The company also offers valet service at its three marinas. Before the boater’s arrival, his craft is removed from a tall storage rack to be cleaned, fueled and put in the water. When the boater has completed his trip, the craft is lifted out of the water and returned to the rack.
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Industry researchers said maximizing the time a boater has on the water by reducing the time spent cleaning and repairing a vessel is a key factor in attracting young people. Millennials and Generation Xers often find their weekends crowded with work, children’s activities and socializing.
The Coast Guard reported that recreational boaters in the Northeast go out an average of 12 times a year, with the typical trip lasting 5½ hours.
Boating also is an expensive pastime.
Experts estimated a first-time buyer could spend as much as $40,000 to $50,000 for a basic boat, such as a 19-foot whaler or 20-foot dual console.
They said operating costs run about $10,000 a year, including gasoline or diesel fuel, dock slip, maintenance and winter storage.
“We have a boating population that is aging very rapidly ... boating is not being adopted by Generation X and the millennials at the same rate that it was by baby boomers,” said Peter Houseworth, client services director at Info-Link, the research firm. “They don’t have the time, the money or they want the experience without the ownership.”
He said the average age of a first-time boat buyer in the United States is 53.
The recreational boating industry must find new ways to lure young people, such as boat clubs, where members pay monthly dues to use vessels at reserved times, Houseworth said.
“We need to stimulate participation in any form ... The boat club model allows dabblers to come in and dabble, and some will become committed and they will go on to buy a new boat,” he said.
That’s beginning to happen on Long Island, according to business owners, though the numbers aren’t huge.
The largest local club is Freedom Boat Club, a 27-year-old international franchising company based in Venice, Florida. Its local franchisee, Peter DeVilbiss, operates from four marinas and said a “relatively small number” of his 270 members were likely to leave to purchase a boat.
The club charges a one-time membership fee of $2,500 to $5,000, plus monthly dues of $260 to $350 for the entire year, excluding gasoline.
“Half our members are former boat owners,” he said.
DeVilbiss, a former executive at the drugmaker Merck, said most of Freedom Boat Club’s local members own their own business or work in medicine, law, finance and other high-paying industries.
He had hoped to attract middle-income families. “But for them, owning a boat is a badge of success. They want to show the neighbors they’ve made it,” he said.
Club member Jim Fakatselis, a former chief scientist for L3 Communications in New Jersey who teaches astronomy at CUNY Queensborough Community College, said he purchased a house close to Northport Bay in 1983 so he could buy a boat and then never did.
After retiring, Fakatselis had his eye on a $75,000 vessel three years ago when he heard about Freedom Boat Club. He since has become an avid fisherman who takes out a boat more than 50 times per season. He and his wife even plan vacations around where the club’s franchises are in the country.
Fakatselis said he is frustrated that none of the 50 people he’s told about the club have joined. “I guess they are afraid of having another monthly payment,” he said. “But it’s less expensive than owning a boat, and you don’t have the three-hour ordeal of cleaning up after every trip.”
Some marina owners see boat maintenance as a growth opportunity.
Conrad Kreuter, owner of Moriches Boat & Motor in East Moriches, wants to repair more boats. His service technicians already work on about 400 vessels per year, which accounted for 60 percent of the company’s annual revenue of $1.3 million.
Three years ago, Moriches Boat became the exclusive service provider for neighboring Windswept Marina, home to about 140 boats.
The arrangement occurred as Moriches Boat was crawling back from Sandy, which destroyed its main building and caused $825,000 in total damage. Irene had caused $200,000 in damage a year earlier.
Still, Kreuter never reduced his staff of seven people. “We cut everything else ... but I didn’t want to lose people’s experience, their expertise ... that’s what boaters are coming to us for,” he said.
Despite the signs of a rebound that Kreuter and others said they are seeing, they acknowledged that 10 years of turmoil have probably changed the local industry forever. Employment is undoubtedly down from 4,400 in 2003, the last time a formal study was conducted, and revenue has fallen from $760 million then.
“After Sandy and the recession, people changed the way they boated,” said Squeri, the trade association director. “They are taking fewer long trips and instead doing more local boating to Fire Island, Montauk and Freeport. They’ve changed their boating lifestyle, but they still value time on the water.” | http://www.newsday.com/business/boating-a-key-li-pastime-is-evolving-after-storms-recession-1.12224767 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/c14560e1bf22531a9267da7d0683953ae19171b71f29b1068c9737f5f677041e.json |
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"Marc Thiessen"
] | 2016-08-30T18:49:46 | null | 2016-08-30T12:10:00 | Every day, more evidence emerges that Hillary Clinton is morally unfit to occupy the Oval Office. But so far, no leading Democrats have come out and said they will not vote for her. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Fopinion%2Foped%2Fhillary-clinton-lied-where-are-the-democrats-willing-to-stop-her-1.12242723.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12242722.1472573457!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Hillary Clinton lied. Where are the Democrats willing to stop her? | null | null | www.newsday.com | THE BOTTOM LINE Every day, more evidence emerges that Hillary Clinton is morally unfit to occupy the Oval Office. But so far, no leading Democrats have come out and said they will not vote for her.
Dozens of notable Republicans have said that they will not vote for Donald Trump, including at least six Republican senators, two Republican governors, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee and a group of 50 former national security officials who served Republican presidents from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush, among others.
So where are the #NeverHillary Democrats?
Hillary Clinton has lied to the American people so frequently that multiple polls now showthat almost 7 in 10 of our fellow citizens say she is not honest or trustworthy, while only 11 percent say she is, according to an NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll.
Fifty-six percent believe Clinton should have been charged with a crime in the FBI investigation of her use of a private email server. And 60 percent say Clinton believes she does not have to play by the same rules as everyone else.
They are right.
The FBI director found Clinton to have been “extremely careless” and the “definition of negligent” in handling classified information. We recently learned that the FBI recovered some 14,900 emails she did not turn over, after assuring Americans “I turned over everything I was obligated to turn over.”
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We now know the Clinton Foundation sought favors for foreign donors — like a meeting for the crown prince of Bahrain (he’s a “good friend of ours,” a longtime Bill Clinton aide said) after he had trouble securing one through official channels. The Associated Press has reported, after an analysis of meetings from about two years of her State Department calendars, that more than half of the people outside the government whom Clinton met with while she was secretary of state gave money to the Clinton Foundation — a collective $156 million in donations.
Every day, more evidence emerges that Clinton is morally unfit to occupy the Oval Office. But so far, no leading Democrats have come out and said they will not vote for her.
Democrats are clearly worried about the optics of the Clinton scandals. That is why the Clinton Foundation announced it will no longer accept donations from corporations or foreign entities if Hillary Clinton is elected president. But where are the senior Democrats asking why it is wrong to take such donations if she becomes president, but it wasn’t wrong to take millions from corporate and foreign donors when she was secretary of state?
Where are the Democrats asking why the Clinton Foundation should continue to rack up such donations right up until Election Day? You won’t find them.
Politico reports that Democrats are “dismayed by the timing of the three-day [Clinton Global Initiative] conference Sept. 19-21 — a week before the first national debate and seven weeks before Election Day.” Note that they are not dismayed because amassing donations from foreign and corporate donors a few weeks before the election is morally wrong — only that it will give the GOP ammunition “just days before Hillary Clinton defends herself against pay-to-play accusations from Donald Trump in their first debate.”
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For Democrats, the Clinton Foundation is a PR problem, not an ethics problem.
Indeed, it’s hard to find any senior Democrats who are even publicly conflicted about her. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., famously took weeks after Trump secured the GOP nomination before finally agreeing to support him, telling reporters “I’m not there yet.” Has any leading Democrat of Ryan’s stature said “I’m not there yet” when it comes to supporting Clinton?
The hypocrisy is particularly rank, because Democrats have made taking on the Wall Street special interests and the pay-to-play culture in Washington a centerpiece of their political agenda. Now they have a kleptocratic nominee who epitomizes everything they claim to oppose — and they seem to be completely fine with it.
Where is the Democrats’ outrage over the dealthen-Secretary Clinton cut with the Swiss bank UBS, which let tens of thousands of tax-dodging Americans off the hook, while the Clinton Foundation got a cumulative $600,000 in UBS donations and Bill Clinton got $1.5 million for Q&A sessions, which the Wall Street Journal reports made UBS “his biggest single corporate source of speech income disclosed since he left the White House.”
Crickets.
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In June, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said, “Do I have a problem when a sitting secretary of state and a foundation run by her husband collects many, many dollars from foreign governments - governments which are dictatorships? Yeah, I do have a problem with that.” Apparently not that big of a problem. He’s now supporting Hillary Clinton unreservedly.
Or take Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who tweeted that “Government should be accountable to the people, not Wall Street lobbyists, deep-pocketed donors” on the very same day she endorsed Clinton for president.
Talk about a lack of moral courage.
The Clinton saga has exposed the Democrats as completely mercenary. So when you hear Democrats talk about how billionaires and special interests have “rigged the system,” remember that they supported a nominee whose foundation took billions from those special interests.
When you hear Democrats talk about gay rights and women’s rights, remember that they supported a nominee whose foundation took tens of millions from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and other countries that openly persecute gays and deny equality to women.
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As Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., has said of Trump, “I can’t support someone that I don’t think would take the oath of office in good faith.” Will even one Democrat stand up and say the same of Clinton?
Don’t hold your breath.
Thiessen writes a weekly column for The Washington Post on foreign and domestic policy and contributes to the PostPartisan blog. He is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush. | http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/hillary-clinton-lied-where-are-the-democrats-willing-to-stop-her-1.12242723 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/9d9f75d8c8de55e43e68da3b13c3973872b874d6d72a29190a09c019a3fc311f.json |
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"Gary Dymski"
] | 2016-08-30T14:49:41 | null | 2016-08-30T10:35:52 | Less than 24 hours after a Brooklyn man drowned at Ocean Beach Park in Long Beach, the city early Tuesday closed beaches to swimmers.The city | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fnassau%2Flong-beach-ocean-too-dangerous-closed-to-swimmers-after-drowning-1.12241997.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12241996.1472567750!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Long Beach: Ocean ‘too dangerous,’ closed to swimmers after drowning | null | null | www.newsday.com | Uh-Oh!
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"Erica Marcus"
] | 2016-08-27T14:48:51 | null | 2016-08-27T08:00:00 | Joe Baldanza is “the pastry brother” at Mr. Sausage, the Italian specialty store he owns with his brothers Alberto, Rocco and Sal. He’s proud of | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flifestyle%2Frestaurants%2Ffeed-me%2Fmr-sausage-in-huntington-serves-tiramisu-stuffed-cannoli-1.12228733.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12228731.1472235377!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Mr. Sausage in Huntington serves tiramisu-stuffed cannoli | null | null | www.newsday.com | Uh-Oh!
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[
"Mark Harrington"
] | 2016-08-28T18:49:11 | null | 2016-08-28T14:44:51 | Sister Rosemary Gillen’s love of children and teaching marked a 75-year tenure as a Long Island nun.After several years of failing health, she died July | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fobituaries%2Fsister-rosemary-gillen-dead-at-94-was-longtime-li-educator-1.12235429.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12235428.1472409889!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Sister Rosemary Gillen dead at 94; was longtime LI educator | null | null | www.newsday.com | HIGHLIGHTS Excelled in teaching students in primary grades
Worked for decades in parishes across the Island
Sister Rosemary Gillen’s love of children and teaching marked a 75-year tenure as a Long Island nun.
After several years of failing health, she died July 27 at the age of 94, according to the Sisters of St. Dominic in Amityville.
Gillen was born in Brooklyn to Francis and Mary Gillen, who moved the family to Woodhaven when she was a young child. At 17, she entered the Novitiate in Amityville under the name Sister Mary Callista, and pronounced her vows in 1942.She began her teaching career under her original name, Sister Rosemary, shortly afterward at St. Barbara’s school in Brooklyn, where her gift of working with young children became quickly apparent. In 1948 she was transferred to the parish school at St. Fidelis in College Point, where she spent the next 11 years as a kindergarten teacher.
“She proved herself an extraordinary teacher, one who possessed patience and the ability to work with young children to learn cooperating and the basics of what they would need to be successful in their future school experiences,” the Sisters of St. Dominic said in a statement. From there she moved to St. Bartholomew’s parish school in Elmhurst to teach first grade and established herself as a “legend,” according to the Sisters of St. Dominic.
In 1962, she moved to Our Lady of Lourdes in Massapequa Park, where she taught kindergarten, then in 1970 moved to New Hyde Park and the parish school of Notre Dame, where she worked for a decade. She finished her teaching career at St. Catherine of Sienna Roman Catholic Church’s parish school in Franklin Square in 1980.
Through her teaching years, Sister Rosemary continued her education, obtaining a bachelor of arts at Molloy College and a master’s degree at Adelphi University. She retired from St. Catherine’s, most recently as a clerk, in 1997, and moved to Our Lady of Consolation Convent in Amityville.
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She later moved to Motherhouse in Amityville. In retirement, she liked watching the Mets, playing bingo and card games, and participating in committees, where her creativity in problem solving was evident.
“She had a quick smile for everyone and was most appreciative of every kind word and favor offered to her, especially by her health care professionals,” the sisters said.
She was predeceased by a sister, Sister Anne Gillen, as well as her brothers and a second sister whose names were not available. Services were held at St. Albert’s Chapel at Queen of the Rosary Motherhouse in Amityville, and she was interred in the Sisters’ cemetery. | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/obituaries/sister-rosemary-gillen-dead-at-94-was-longtime-li-educator-1.12235429 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/395ce20f07a10258943aeff8260d24ec0c5eec146bcb2ddb0ec59fb9f42a845f.json |
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"Jennifer Barrios",
"John Valenti",
"John Asbury"
] | 2016-08-30T18:49:42 | null | 2016-08-30T14:02:00 | Residents of a Long Beach apartment building were “very lucky” to escape unharmed when several terraces at the rental residence collapsed Tuesday morning, city fire | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fnassau%2Fofficials-long-beach-residents-safe-after-terraces-collapse-1.12241827.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12241826.1472580133!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Officials: Long Beach residents safe after terraces collapse | null | null | www.newsday.com | Residents of a Long Beach apartment building were “very lucky” to escape unharmed when several terraces at the rental residence collapsed Tuesday morning, city fire officials said.
The 48-unit, three-story building on Shore Road, between Long Beach and Monroe boulevards, was evacuated after the collapse of at least five brick facade terraces at 7:37 a.m.
Officials said the building would be uninhabitable until city building inspectors could determine if it was safe.
Long Beach City Manager Jack Schnirman said 37 families have been displaced and said the immediate concern was to make sure they were taken care of. The Red Cross was on the scene, making housing arrangements for families in need.
“We’re very lucky,” Long Beach Fire Chief Robert J. Tuccillo said. “Thank God it happened early in the morning and nobody was outside . . . Everybody’s safe and everybody’s accounted for.”
Photo taken Aug. 30, 2016, from Patricia McNulty's third-floor apartment at Sunlit Terrace Apartments on Shore Road in Long Beach shows missing bricks and cracks in the concrete floor. Photo Credit: Patricia McNulty Photo taken Aug. 30, 2016, from Patricia McNulty's third-floor apartment at Sunlit Terrace Apartments on Shore Road in Long Beach shows missing bricks and cracks in the concrete floor. Photo Credit: Patricia McNulty
The cause of the collapse at Sunlit Terrace Apartments was not immediately known.
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Third-floor resident Patricia McNulty, 28, whose terrace was among those that collapsed, said she had been complaining to the building owner for about six weeks, saying the decks were in danger of collapsing.
McNulty said she had texted him a photo of her terrace, reiterating her concerns about an hour before the collapses occurred. “I knew this was going to happen,” she said, adding that she had warned her downstairs neighbor not to use her deck. Newsday obtained the photo in the text sent by McNulty. It shows brickwork missing or damaged and large cracks in the concrete patio floor of her deck.
McNulty said the owner had been telling her for weeks that repairs would be made, but said no work had been done.
Landlord Carmine Tepedino denied that residents had been complaining about the building for several months and said he first learned of it about two weeks ago.
“You can see from the scaffolding, we were working on it. We were fixing the balconies,” Tepedino said.
Tepedino said when he became aware of the situation, residents were urged “not to go outside on the balcony,” Tepedino said.
“Tenants always come up with stories,” he said. “I’m sorry to see it, but I’m glad no one got hurt.”
Tepedino said he felt the building was safe after speaking to workers Monday night and didn’t think a collapse would occur.
Long Beach city officials and building inspectors said there were no previous complaints or violations with the city and that Tepedino was cooperative Tuesday.
“We have no violations,” Tepedino said
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Asked if the building was safe, Tepedino said, “It sure is. The terraces were built after. So there’s nothing wrong with the building.”
Asked if it could have been prevented, he said, “It’s hard to tell. You can’t tell what’s behind the bricks. We’re assessing the building now and [we’ll] see what the engineer recommends.”
Long Beach building department zoning inspector Rich Schuh said the building was built in 1949 and said the owner had gotten a permit “about a week ago” to conduct “minor repointing” of brickwork there.
Schuh said code enforcement had received no complaints about conditions at the building.
Long Beach police Lt. Eric Cregeen said that in addition to the Red Cross, a Long Beach City bus with air conditioning was on the scene to provide relief for residents.
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Cregeen also said that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration had been notified of the incident and said PSEG Long Island had turned off all power to the building.
He said that National Grid also was on the scene, attempting to assess the status of any gas service in the area.
Responders from multiple agencies raced to the scene in the wake of 911 calls, among them members of the Long Beach, Point Lookout and Island Park fire departments, as well as ambulance crews and the Nassau County police emergency service unit officers. Even after the collapse, chunks of brick continued to fall from the balconies throughout the morning.
One third-floor resident, Edward Bithorn, 55, said he was headed to the balcony and had just reached the door when he heard what he said sounded “like an explosion” — and he “hit the brakes.”
Bithorn looked out the window to see “the plume of the debris cloud,” followed by the sound of additional collapses, then ran to call 911. Bithorn, whose terrace was not among those that collapsed, said other residents started out onto their balconies to determine the cause of the commotion, realized what had happened, then went to the halls to warn others not to venture out onto their terraces.
Several residents of the Monroe Street apartment complex waited outside the damaged building Tuesday morning as a city engineer was expected to survey the damage.
By early afternoon residents were allowed in their apartments to retrieve their belongings, but the city ordered the balconies to be torn down on 18 units on the south side of the building, facing the ocean, before those residents could return. The remainder of the residents are allowed to return to their units Tuesday night.
Christiana Baggie was in her ground floor apartment Tuesday morning and had planned to go onto her patio to have coffee before the two balconies above her collapsed.
She stood outside the building Tuesday morning dismayed at the damage and pile of concrete and crumpled metal that collapsed onto her patio.
“There was no warning. It just happened very fast,” Baggie said. “I just thank God I wasn’t out there. I would have been crushed. My guardian angel was here.”
She said she ran out of her apartment screaming to make sure her neighbors were OK.
Contractors started doing work late last week to repair loose bricks on the top two floors, Baggie said.
Scaffolding adorned the front entrance, next to the two fallen balconies.
“It’s such a freak thing,” she said. “I’m very grateful to be alive.” | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/officials-long-beach-residents-safe-after-terraces-collapse-1.12241827 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/b1c5d5ade616d997d83cb67dfc301a5416380f31796f915f0dc823677d15dd85.json |
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"Barbara Schuler"
] | 2016-08-29T02:49:16 | null | 2016-08-28T22:38:00 | Beyoncé brought daughter Blue Ivy and mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown Jr. to the MTV Video Music Awards. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Fentertainment%2Fcelebrities%2Fbeyonc%25C3%25A9-walks-mtv-video-music-awards-2016-red-carpet-with-mothers-of-gun-violence-victims-1.12236478.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12236572.1472438289!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Beyoncé walks MTV Video Music Awards 2016 red carpet with mothers of gun violence victims | null | null | www.newsday.com | HIGHLIGHTS Beyoncé brought daughter Blue Ivy and mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown Jr.
The guys, largely, didn’t try too hard
You gotta love the VMAs, where couture and crass tumbled headlong down the red (make that white) carpet Sunday night at Madison Square Garden.
Rihanna skipped the whole thing, saving it for the stage, where she opened the show in a Hood by Air T-shirt and some odd pants.
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Beyoncé created a stir early on, arriving in a bedazzled number with feathered “wings” by Francesco Scognamiglio (say who?) that immediately had the Twitterverse screaming “Hunger Games.” She was accompanied on the carpet by Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant; Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner; Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin; and Lesley McSpadden-Head, mother of Michael Brown Jr., along with daughter Blue Ivy in sneakers and yards of tulle.
Before that, the stars of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” paid loving homage to notorious VMA outfits of the past — everything from Lil’ Kim’s nearly nude one-shouldered dress to Britney Spears’ bikini with boa (the kind that slithers).
As for the real Britney, she left the snake at home and played it somewhat cool in an asymmetric black dress slashed down the front and zippered up the back. Also in simple black, Kim Kardashian in a sheer, barely-there mini (with hubby, Kanye West, all in white) and Ariana Grande in a cropped top and pants.
The Olympic gymnasts fondly known as the Final Five (minus Gabby Douglas) hit the event, apparently mistaking it for the senior proms they probably missed, in short, sweet dresses with almost as many spangles as their Olympic leotards. Nicki Minaj worked it in a sheer royal blue number with a few strategic panels, while Amber Rose neglected to remember her blouse, letting her lace bra steal the show.
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As for the guys, no one tried too hard. DJ Khaled wore a tux of sorts, Lance Bass put on a shiny blue track jacket, Michael Phelps a black one. But most were wearing shredded jeans, overalls, designer kicks — you get the picture. And what on earth was Nick Cannon thinking, with his white bermudas and a jeweled turban? | http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/celebrities/beyonc%C3%A9-walks-mtv-video-music-awards-2016-red-carpet-with-mothers-of-gun-violence-victims-1.12236478 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/21657837fbbe940f200fc964aed549ea1d5014d3e136efc80883517bf1f53ba4.json |
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"Sarah Armaghan"
] | 2016-08-27T14:48:49 | null | 2016-08-27T09:24:17 | Two people were injured when a deck collapsed at a home in Setauket on Friday night, Suffolk County police said.Officers from the Sixth Precinct responded | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fsuffolk%2Fsetauket-deck-collapse-injures-2-suffolk-police-say-1.12232132.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12232131.1472304256!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Setauket deck collapse injures 2, Suffolk police say | null | null | www.newsday.com | Uh-Oh!
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] | 2016-08-27T22:48:59 | null | 2016-08-27T16:01:00 | A woman who caused chaos aboard a subway train by releasing a container of crickets and worms says it was all a prank. Zaida Pugh | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Fnews%2Fnew-york%2Fwoman-admits-crickets-worms-spilling-on-subway-was-a-stunt-1.12232945.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12233070.1472331397!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpg | en | null | Woman admits crickets, worms spilling on subway was a stunt | null | null | www.newsday.com | Uh-Oh!
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"Nicole Brown"
] | 2016-08-31T10:49:49 | null | 2016-08-31T05:49:00 | Three people are dead and more are injured after a multiple-vehicle crash on the Long Island Expressway in Queens Wednesday morning, police said. The initial | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Fnews%2Fnew-york%2Fnypd-3-killed-in-lie-crash-in-queens-1.12245918.json | http://www.newsday.com/img/blog-share-nd.jpg | en | null | NYPD: 3 killed in LIE crash in Queens | null | null | www.newsday.com | Uh-Oh!
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[
"James T. Madore"
] | 2016-08-31T10:49:53 | null | 2016-08-31T06:24:00 | Canadian drug manufacturer Ropack Inc. must repay $120,750 in tax breaks from Suffolk County after deciding to sell one of two buildings it purchased last | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Fbusiness%2Fdrug-maker-must-repay-120-750-in-tax-breaks-1.12243779.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12244802.1472602784!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Drug maker must repay $120,750 in tax breaks | null | null | www.newsday.com | Canadian drug manufacturer Ropack Inc. must repay $120,750 in tax breaks from Suffolk County after deciding to sell one of two buildings it purchased last year, officials said.
The repayment, of savings on mortgage recording taxes, will go to state and local governments, said Anthony J. Catapano, executive director of the county’s Industrial Development Agency, which provided the initial tax incentives.
Statewide, IDAs have been criticized for not pursuing repayment or recapture of tax breaks when companies fail to keep promises to create jobs, make capital investments and remain in the region.
Locally, several IDAs have exercised their clawback provision to recoup tax incentives. In one of the largest cases, the Suffolk IDA in 2013 sought and received repayment of $750,222 in sales taxes owed to the state and county from OSI Pharmaceuticals because the company moved out of state from Farmingdale after receiving help to expand here.
Ropack’s attorney, Daniel S. Dornfeld, said last month the company had decided it doesn’t need 155 Commerce Dr. in Hauppauge and is selling the 107,000-square-foot building to another drugmaker, Evaric Pharmaceutical.
He asked the IDA to waive the repayment, saying Ropack had made many improvements to 155 Commerce and wouldn’t make a profit on its $13 million sale.
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IDA officials quickly rejected the request.
Ropack, based in Montreal, will still occupy 49 Mall Dr. in Commack to manufacture, pack and test drugs for pharmaceutical giants. The facility will be the company’s first in the United States.
Ropack is expected to employ 103 people in Commack in two years. They will earn $45,900 per year, on average, records show.
Both 49 Mall Dr. and 155 Commerce Dr. were previously used by Forest Laboratories, which announced in September 2014 that most of its local operation move to New Jersey.
Evaric, the purchaser of 155 Commerce, is a new Long Island company that aims to produce generic drugs for sale to U.S. government programs. The products have been developed by Hetero, a related business in India.
Evaric will receive a discount on mortgage recording taxes for the property, though at $105,000 it is slightly less generous than what Ropack received last year.
Evaric expects to employ 108 people at the facility in five years. Records show they will earn, on average, about $42,600 per year.
IDA officials last week turned down Evaric’s request for an increase of the $1.4 million in tax breaks over 15 years awarded to that business in July. | http://www.newsday.com/business/drug-maker-must-repay-120-750-in-tax-breaks-1.12243779 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/c2a49480a7278f28af83d068b1beaa4774a810c943c9e6f75855d76e50b7dfac.json |
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"Kevin Deutsch"
] | 2016-08-30T18:49:44 | null | 2016-08-30T14:14:00 | A Merrick doctor pleaded not guilty Tuesday to illegally distributing the narcotic painkiller oxycodone to 29 patients, two of whom prosecutors said fatally overdosed on | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fcrime%2Fmerrick-doctor-tied-to-two-overdose-deaths-feds-say-1.12243242.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12243241.1472580864!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Merrick doctor tied to two overdose deaths, feds say | null | null | www.newsday.com | A Merrick doctor pleaded not guilty Tuesday to illegally distributing the narcotic painkiller oxycodone to 29 patients, two of whom prosecutors said fatally overdosed on the drugs.
Michael Belfiore, 53, is accused of writing about 5,000 prescriptions for 600,000 of the pills over a three-year period, court records show. The names of the two patients who died have not been publicly released by federal prosecutors.
Belfiore appeared in Suffolk federal district court in Central Islip for his arraignment on a superseding indictment, which added new counts to the ones he had already faced when prosecutors initially charged him in October 2014.
Outside court, Belfiore emphasized to reporters he is still practicing doctor.
I tell my patients I’m still here for you. I haven’t gone anywhere, I haven’t done anything, and I’m doing my best for my patients,” Belfiore said. “My patients are basically my life. This is what I do.”
His attorney, Thomas Liotti of Garden City, said after the arraignment that his client testified before the grand jury in the case, which recently handed up the new indictment.
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“We are not overly confident and we know we have our work cut out for us because of a justified media frenzy involving the opioid crisis,” Liotti said. “The government’s concerns are totally legitimate, but the job of the defense is to make sure that good doctors and innocents are not unfairly prosecuted or convicted.”
One of the conditions of Belfiore’s release is that he can’t prescribe opioids, Liotti said. | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/merrick-doctor-tied-to-two-overdose-deaths-feds-say-1.12243242 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/b165a0266e9a10f32e4fa8d5a19464bcda24ea4180919b84331b8b14910541a0.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T20:49:38 | null | 2016-08-29T16:14:00 | He was a master at playing panicked characters caught up in schemes in films including "Young Frankenstein" and "The Producers." | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Fentertainment%2Fmovies%2Fgene-wilder-dead-willy-wonka-the-chocolate-factory-actor-was-83-1.12239154.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12239180.1472498829!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpg | en | null | Gene Wilder dead; 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' actor was 83 | null | null | www.newsday.com | Gene Wilder, the frizzy-haired actor who brought his deft comedic touch to such unforgettable roles as the neurotic accountant in "The Producers" and the deranged animator of "Young Frankenstein," has died. He was 83.
Wilder's nephew said Monday that the actor and writer died late Sunday at his home in Stamford, Connecticut, from complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Jordan Walker-Pearlman said in a statement that Wilder was diagnosed with the disease three years ago, but kept the condition private so as not to disappoint fans.
"He simply couldn't bear the idea of one less smile in the world," Walker-Pearlman said.
Wilder started his acting career on the stage, but millions knew him from his work in the movies, especially his collaborations with Mel Brooks on "The Producers," ''Blazing Saddles" and "Young Frankenstein." The last film — with Wilder playing a California-born descendant of the mad scientist, insisting that his name is pronounced "Frahn-ken-SHTEEN" — was co-written by Brooks and Wilder.
"One of the truly great talents of our time," Mel Brooks tweeted. "He blessed every film we did with his magic & he blessed me with his friendship."
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With his unkempt hair and big, buggy eyes, Wilder was a master at playing panicked characters caught up in schemes that only a madman such as Brooks could devise, whether reviving a monster in "Young Frankenstein" or bilking Broadway in "The Producers." Brooks would call him "God's perfect prey, the victim in all of us."
But he also knew how to keep it cool as the boozy gunslinger in "Blazing Saddles" or the charming candy man in the children's favorite "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." His craziest role: the therapist having an affair with a sheep in Woody Allen's "Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex."
He was close friends with Richard Pryor and their contrasting personas — Wilder uptight, Pryor loose — were ideal for comedy. They co-starred in four films: "Silver Streak," ''Stir Crazy," ''See No Evil, Hear No Evil" and "Another You." And they created several memorable scenes, particularly when Pryor provided Wilder with directions on how to "act black" as they tried to avoid police in "Silver Streak."
In 1968, Wilder received an Oscar nomination for his work in Brooks' "The Producers." He played the introverted Leo Bloom, an accountant who discovers the liberating joys of greed and corruption as he and Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) conceive a Broadway flop titled "Springtime For Hitler" and plan to flee with the money raised for the show's production.
Matthew Broderick played Wilder's role in the 2001 Broadway stage revival of the show.
Though they collaborated on film, Wilder and Brooks met through the theater. Wilder was in a play with Brooks' then-future wife, Anne Bancroft, who introduced the pair backstage in 1963.
Wilder, a Milwaukee native, was born Jerome Silberman on June 11, 1935. His father was a Russian emigre, his mother was of Polish descent. When he was 6, Wilder's mother suffered a heart attack that left her a semi-invalid. He soon began improvising comedy skits to entertain her, the first indication of his future career.
He started taking acting classes at age 12 and continued performing and taking lesson through college. In 1961,Wilder became a member of Lee Strasberg's prestigious Actor's Studio in Manhattan.
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That same year, he made both his off-Broadway and Broadway debuts. He won the Clarence Derwent Award, given to promising newcomers, for the Broadway work in Graham Greene's comedy "The Complaisant Lover."
He used his new name, Gene Wilder, for the off-Broadway and Broadway roles. He lifted the first name from the character Eugene Gant in Thomas Wolfe's "Look Back, Homeward Angel," while the last name was clipped from playwright Thornton Wilder. A key break came when he co-starred with Bancroft in Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage," and met Brooks, her future husband.
"I was having trouble with one little section of the play, and he gave me tips on how to act. He said, 'That's a song and dance. He's proselytizing about communism. Just skip over it, sing and dance over it, and get on to the good stuff.' And he was right," Wilder later explained.
Before starring in "The Producers," he had a small role as the hostage of gangsters in the 1967 classic "Bonnie and Clyde." He peaked in the mid-1970s with the twin Brooks hits "Blazing Saddles" and "Young Frankenstein."
He went on to write several screenplays and direct several films. In 1982, while making the generally forgettable "Hanky-Panky," he fell in love with co-star Gilda Radner. They were married in 1984, and co-starred in two Wilder-penned films: "The Lady in Red" and "Haunted Honeymoon."
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After Radner died of ovarian cancer in 1989, Wilder spent much of his time after promoting cancer research. He opened a support facility for cancer patients called "Gilda's Place." In 1991, he testified before Congress about the need for increased testing for cancer.
Wilder is survived by his wife, Karen, whom he married in 1991. | http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/gene-wilder-dead-willy-wonka-the-chocolate-factory-actor-was-83-1.12239154 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/f7a5724ed0b3fe042af4057907b7a21dac76b44cd15c481c71bc245833d58d48.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-27T16:48:50 | null | 2016-08-27T12:16:00 | An ex-wife of Donald Trump's new campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon, said Bannon made anti-Semitic remarks when the two battled over sending their daughters to private | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Fnews%2Fnation%2Fstephen-bannon-made-anti-semitic-remarks-ex-wife-says-in-court-papers-1.12232517.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12232526.1472314738!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpg | en | null | Stephen Bannon made anti-Semitic remarks, ex-wife says in court papers | null | null | www.newsday.com | LOS ANGELES - An ex-wife of Donald Trump's new campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon, said Bannon made anti-Semitic remarks when the two battled over sending their daughters to private school nearly a decade ago, according to court papers reviewed Friday by The Associated Press.
That revelation came a day after reports emerged that domestic violence charges were filed 20 years ago against Bannon following an altercation with his then-wife, Mary Louise Piccard.
In a sworn court declaration following their divorce, Piccard said her ex-husband had objected to sending their twin daughters to an elite Los Angeles academy because he "didn't want the girls going to school with Jews."
"He said he doesn't like Jews and that he doesn't like the way they raise their kids to be 'whiney brats,'" Piccard said in a 2007 court filing.
Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News, took the helm of Trump's campaign last week in yet another leadership shake-up. The campaign has been plagued by negative stories about staffers, including charges lodged against his former campaign manager following an altercation with a reporter, and questions about his former campaign chairman's links with Russian interests.
Alexandra Preate, a spokeswoman for Bannon, denied Friday night that he made anti-Semitic remarks about the private school. "He never said that," Preate said, adding that Bannon was proud to send his daughters to the school.
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Trump has previously been criticized for invoking anti-Semitic stereotypes, including tweeting out an anti-Hillary Clinton image that included a Star of David atop a pile of money.
He also raised eyebrows when he spoke in front of the Republican Jewish Coalition and declared, "I'm a negotiator like you folks were negotiators."
Clinton has tried in recent days to highlight Trump's popularity with white nationalist and supremacist groups. She delivered a speech Thursday that linked him with the "alt-right" movement, which is often associated with efforts on the far right to preserve "white identity," oppose multiculturalism and defend "Western values."
Trump has pushed back, defending himself and his supporters, and labeling Clinton "a bigot" for supporting policies he argues have ravaged minority communities.
Trump has noted that his daughter, Ivanka, would soon be having another Jewish child. Ivanka Trump converted to Orthodox Judaism when she married Jared Kushner, a young real estate developer who has become a driving force in his father-in-law's campaign.
The court filing was among several documents related to Bannon and Picard's voluminous divorce case, filed in 1997, which was revisited several times as Piccard sought support for tuition and other expenses. The documents reviewed by the AP were part of a request for Bannon to pay $25,000 in legal fees and to cover the $64,000 in tuition it cost to send both girls to The Archer School for Girls for the 2007-08 school year.
Bannon's remarks about Jews followed other comments that caught Piccard's attention when they were visiting private schools in 2000.
At one school, she said, he asked the director why there were so many Hanukkah books in the library. At another school, he asked Piccard if it bothered her that the school used to be in a temple.
"I said, 'No,' and asked why he asked," Piccard said. "He did not respond."
Piccard said Bannon wanted the girls to attend a Catholic school.
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In 2007, when the girls were accepted at Archer, he told Piccard he objected because of the number of Jews in attendance.
Piccard filed for divorce in January 1997, just over a year after she told police Bannon roughed her up on New Year's Day 1996 following a spat over money, in which she spit on him.
A police report obtained by the AP said he grabbed her wrist and "grabbed at" her neck. When she tried to call 911, she told police that Bannon grabbed the phone and threw it across the room. An officer who responded reported seeing red marks on her wrist and neck.
Bannon was charged in 1996 with misdemeanor witness intimidation, domestic violence with traumatic injury and battery, according to a Santa Monica, California, police report. The charges were dropped after his estranged wife didn't show up at trial, according to court records.
Piccard said in her declaration that she skipped the trial after Bannon and his lawyer arranged for her to leave town. She said Bannon had told her the lawyer would make her look like the guilty party if she testified and the attorney told her she'd be broke if Bannon went to jail.
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The Trump campaign declined to comment on the abuse charges. But Preate said police never interviewed Bannon. She added that Bannon has a great relationship with his ex-wife and kids. | http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/stephen-bannon-made-anti-semitic-remarks-ex-wife-says-in-court-papers-1.12232517 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/ccf090afc3752af7706a633ce23aad3341b483bdabe2e3b3d848c749536ce88b.json |
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"Andrew Smith"
] | 2016-08-26T22:48:44 | null | 2016-08-26T17:39:00 | A federal judge said Friday that a Queens man was one of the least culpable participants in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded thousands of working | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fcrime%2Fjudge-sends-queens-man-to-prison-for-role-in-179m-ponzi-scheme-1.12229932.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12229976.1472247549!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Judge sends Queens man to prison for role in $179M Ponzi scheme | null | null | www.newsday.com | A federal judge said Friday that a Queens man was one of the least culpable participants in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded thousands of working people of $179 million, but decided that the defendant must serve time in prison as a message to others.
U.S. District Judge Denis Hurley in Central Islip sentenced Bryan Arias to 2 1⁄2 years in prison and ordered him to pay back his share of the fraud — $1.9 million. Arias will report to prison on Dec. 1.
Arias, 43, of Maspeth, was part of the massive Agape World fraud scheme, conceived and run by Nicholas Cosmo from 2003 to 2009 in Hauppauge.
Cosmo is serving 25 years in prison. Arias pleaded guilty two years ago to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.
“My client was essentially duped into getting employment at this firm,” said his attorney, Richard Librett of Manhattan. “His [older] brother and a close friend recruited him.”
Arias thought Agape World was legitimate at first, Librett said. But once he found out it was a Ponzi scheme, he continued working there “and that’s why we stand here today,” Librett said.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Caffarone agreed, and acknowledged that once he was arrested, Arias was eager to help hold his co-conspirators accountable.
“The person who made these unconscionable choices, I would submit, judge, is not the person who’s here today,” Librett said.
Cosmo promised investors returns of up to 80 percent, claiming he was investing their money in short-term bridge loans to businesses. But most of the money actually covered losses in high-risk commodities trading or merely paid off earlier investors.
“I’d like to say I’m sorry to all my victims,” Arias said, choking up at times. “I know it’s not enough, but I’m sorry. I can’t believe I’m here. I wasn’t raised this way.”
Hurley told Arias that except for this episode, he seemed like an admirable man. But the judge told him he left his victims with “nothing but false promises” and the inability to retire as they had hoped, or pay for their children’s college education.
“The nature of the offense is horrendous,” Hurley said.
Although it seems unlikely that Arias will commit another crime, Hurley said it’s important to deter future schemes. “Other individuals should understand this is not a good business model to follow,” the judge said.
Concluding the sentencing, Hurley told the defendant: “Mr. Arias, I know this is difficult for you, but I wish you well.” | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/judge-sends-queens-man-to-prison-for-role-in-179m-ponzi-scheme-1.12229932 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/28bc95be54e0a6ff0a9f1adbda12f724f20e3afde98ba22229e1e0b89d9365e3.json |
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"Newsday.Com Staff"
] | 2016-08-29T00:49:11 | null | 2016-08-28T20:46:00 | With performers including Britney Spears, Rihanna and Nick Jonas, plus nominees ranging from Beyonce and Justin Bieber to Coldplay and Lukas Graham, the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards are packed with sta | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Fentertainment%2Fmusic%2Fvmas-2016-mtv-video-music-awards-red-carpet-winners-performances-more-1.12228679.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12236348.1472430964!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpg | en | null | VMAs 2016: MTV Video Music Awards red carpet, winners, performances, more | null | null | www.newsday.com | With performers including Britney Spears, Rihanna and Nick Jonas, plus nominees ranging from Beyonce and Justin Bieber to Coldplay and Lukas Graham, the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards are packed with star power.
See all the highlights, from red carpet arrivals to winners, as the unpredictable, irreverent award show unfolds at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan on Sunday, Aug. 28.
Cassie (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Cassie attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in Manhattan
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West attend the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in Manhattan
Ashley Graham (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Ashley Graham attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in Manhattan.
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Ariana Grande (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Ariana Grande attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in Manhattan.
Britney Spears and G-Eazy (Credit: Getty Images for MTV / Larry Busacca) (Credit: Getty Images for MTV / Larry Busacca) Britney Spears and G-Eazy attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in Manhattan
Britney Spears (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Britney Spears attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in Manhattan
Ariana Grande (Credit: Getty Images for MTV / Larry Busacca) (Credit: Getty Images for MTV / Larry Busacca) Ariana Grande attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in Manhattan
Aly Raisman, Madison Kocian, Laurie Hernandez and Simone Biles (Credit: Getty Images) (Credit: Getty Images) Olympic gymnasts Aly Raisman, Madison Kocian, Laurie Hernandez and Simone Biles, wearing Sherri Hill, attend the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
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Farrah Abraham (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Farrah Abraham attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Jenni 'JWoww' Farley and Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Jenni "JWoww" Farley and Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi attend the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Nick Cannon (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Nick Cannon attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Heidi Klum and Nick Cannon (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Heidi Klum and Nick Cannon attend the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Beyonce (Credit: AFP/Getty Images / ANGELA WEISS) (Credit: AFP/Getty Images / ANGELA WEISS) Beyonce arrives for the MTV Video Music Awards on Aug. 28, 2016, at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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Nick Jonas (Credit: Getty Images for MTV / Larry Busacca) (Credit: Getty Images for MTV / Larry Busacca) Nick Jonas takes pictures with fans while attending the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Future (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Future attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill attend the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Heidi Klum (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Heidi Klum attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Dana Baby (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Dana Baby attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
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DNCE (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Cole Whittle, Joe Jonas, JinJoo Lee and Jack Lawless of DNCE attend the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Nicki Minaj (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Nicki Minaj attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Heidi Klum (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Heidi Klum attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
2 Chainz (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) 2 Chainz attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Taylor Strecker (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Taylor Strecker attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
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Kent Jones (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Kent Jones attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Bebe Rexha (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Bebe Rexha attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Baddie Winkle (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Social media star Baddie Winkle attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Fifth Harmony (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Normandi Kordei, Dinah Jane Hansen, Ally Brooke, Camila Cabello and Lauren Jauregui of Fifth Harmony attend the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Au.t 28, 2016, in New York City.
Flo Rida (Credit: Getty Images for MTV / Larry Busacca) (Credit: Getty Images for MTV / Larry Busacca) Flo Rida attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
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Desiigner (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Rapper Desiigner attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Matthew Noszka (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Matthew Noszka attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Hailey Baldwin (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Hailey Baldwin attends the MTV Video Music Awards on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Fat Joe (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Rapper Fat Joe attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Beyonce and Blue Ivy (Credit: AP) (Credit: AP) Beyonce, left, and her daughter Blue Ivy arrive at the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016, in New York.
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Stella Maxwell (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Model Stella Maxwell attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Shameik Moore (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Shameik Moore attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Jidenna (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Jidenna attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Chantelle Winnie (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Chantelle Winnie attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Shelley Hennig (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Shelley Hennig attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
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Forever In Your Mind (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Members of Forever In Your Mind, from left: Emery Kelly, Ricky Garcia and Liam Attridge, attend the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
'Rupaul's Drag Race All Stars' and Frankie Grande (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) "Rupaul's Drag Race All Stars" and Frankie Grande, center, attend the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Holland Roden (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Holland Roden attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Jay Pharoah (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Jay Pharoah attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Beyonce (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Beyonce attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
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Scout Durwood (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Scout Durwood attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Sasheer Zamata (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Sasheer Zamata attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in Manhattan.
Alaska (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Alaska attends the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
Jake Miller (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Jake Miller attends the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in Manhattan.
Nev Schulman and Laura Perlongo (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) (Credit: Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy) Nev Schulman and girlfriend Laura Perlongo attend the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in New York City.
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Lukas Graham (Credit: Getty Images for MTV / Larry Busacca) (Credit: Getty Images for MTV / Larry Busacca) Magnus Larsson, Lukas Graham Forchhammer, Kasper Daugaard and Mark Falgren, members of Lukas Graham, attend the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28, 2016, in Manhattan.
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DJ Khaled and Nicole Tuck (Credit: AP) (Credit: AP) DJ Khaled and Nicole Tuck arrive at the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016, in Manhattan. | http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/vmas-2016-mtv-video-music-awards-red-carpet-winners-performances-more-1.12228679 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/c5fc7946e586d03f0612f755f46a745696f65ca7a2891bdaab87235713b230b7.json |
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"Deon J. Hampton"
] | 2016-08-28T12:49:07 | null | 2016-08-28T06:23:00 | Longtime Mastic Beach resident Bob Miller has spent months knocking on doors with the help of other volunteers circulating a petition to unincorporate the village | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fsuffolk%2Fcritics-of-mastic-beach-want-to-unincorporate-the-village-1.12227733.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12228205.1472229540!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Critics of Mastic Beach want to unincorporate the village | null | null | www.newsday.com | Longtime Mastic Beach resident Bob Miller has spent months knocking on doors with the help of other volunteers circulating a petition to unincorporate the village and rejoin Brookhaven Town.
Miller, 49, says he has collected more than 1,600 signatures from residents, which he hopes will result in a villagewide referendum on the question of whether Mastic Beach should disband.
Incorporated six years ago this month, Mastic Beach, which sits along the Great South Bay, is the state’s newest incorporated village. If residents vote to dissolve it, Mastic Beach would be the first to be unincorporated on Long Island since 1991.
Following state law, Miller said he will deliver his petitions to the village clerk on Tuesday.
State law requires 10 percent of the 7,912 registered voters in the village to sign the petition in order to move forward with a referendum. Those signatures must be verified by the village clerk. Miller said that shouldn’t be a problem.
“This way we can send a strong message that we want the village gone,” Miller said of his effort.
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When told of Miller’s efforts, Mayor Maura Spery said, “He’s certainly in his legal right to file the petition. The village clerk will certify the petition if the signatures are valid.”
Spery declined to speculate on the village’s future, but described Mastic Beach as a “nightmare and disaster.”
“I’m only in favor of the village staying if it is funded correctly,” the mayor said.
Village trustee Joseph Johnson wants the village to continue.
“It’s foolish to dissolve,” he said. “It would cost us more money to dissolve and it’s intellectually dishonest for anyone to say that this is in the best interest of Mastic Beach.”
If residents ultimately vote to rejoin Brookhaven, Mastic Beach would become the first Long Island village since Pine Valley in 1991, a tiny village opposite downtown Riverhead, to unincorporate.
Christopher Sheldon, a village trustee during Pine Valley’s two-year run, said: “It sounded like a good idea and it was a good idea. But soon things changed. . . . There were all types of problems.”
Before the incorporation of Mastic Beach in August 2010 on a 1,797 to 1,385 vote, residents had expressed concerns over illegal rentals and absentee landlords, among other issues. Since incorporation, the village has been plagued with financial issues, including the overspending on a road paving contract of $400,000.
Moody’s Investors Service recently downgraded Mastic Beach’s municipal bonds six levels to noninvestment grade or junk status and the village has laid off employees.
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Inaugural Mayor Paul Breschard resigned midway through his first term because of health issues. In all, the village has had three mayors, six treasurers, five attorneys and three clerks.
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“We have what we need, and we’re moving forward with it,” Miller said of his fight to dissolve. | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/critics-of-mastic-beach-want-to-unincorporate-the-village-1.12227733 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/84ab63c33ae835e20cee5c5276ac8f733b4842b66233036616e7e1954db19c76.json |
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"David Olson"
] | 2016-08-29T14:49:29 | null | 2016-08-29T06:00:00 | The owners of the largest remaining produce farm in Nassau County say they likely would shut down operations if the Village of Old Brookville succeeds | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fnassau%2Fowners-of-the-last-big-nassau-farm-embroiled-with-neighbors-village-1.12229551.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12229550.1472467566!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Owners of the last big Nassau farm embroiled with neighbors, village | null | null | www.newsday.com | The owners of the largest remaining produce farm in Nassau County say they likely would shut down operations if the Village of Old Brookville succeeds in closing their farm stand.
The village’s June 29 cease-and-desist order against the popular 27-year-old Rottkamp Brothers stand is linked to a legal battle between farmers Ray and Richard Rottkamp and their neighbors, Joanne and Joseph Lostritto, over who is responsible for flooding on a road that divides the two properties.
The 50-acre farm, in the Rottkamp family since 1953, sits amid large houses and expansive, manicured lawns. It’s an anomaly in a county where few farms have survived suburbanization, said Long Island Farm Bureau public policy director Jessica Anson.
Old Brookville took action after Jeffrey Forchelli, a Uniondale attorney for the Lostrittos, said at a recent village board meeting that the Rottkamps do not have a permit to sell produce from the farm stand, which is in a covered building.
Forchelli said his comments to the board stemmed from frustration at the lack of progress in resolving flooding issues three years after the Lostrittos filed suit against the Rottkamps on the matter.
“Maybe if the village goes after them on the [permits] they’ll wake up and solve the drainage problem,” he said.
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Village Attorney John Chase, Mayor Bernie Ryba and village trustees did not respond to requests for comment.
Farm stands are allowed under state law, said Steven Cohn, a Carle Place attorney for the Rottkamps. The stand sells about half the farm’s produce, and without it, the farm likely would not be viable, Ray Rottkamp said.
Cohn said the flooding began after the Lostrittos filled in a trench that had carried rainwater through the Lostritto property and erected metal poles to stop the Rottkamps from clearing sediment, creating a large year-round puddle on the road.
Berms the Lostrittos put in after building their home about 15 years ago exacerbated the problem, he said.
Richard Rottkamp and his brother Ray, stand together with some of their farm tractors at their farm in Old Brookville, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. Photo Credit: Steve Pfost Richard Rottkamp and his brother Ray, stand together with some of their farm tractors at their farm in Old Brookville, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. Photo Credit: Steve Pfost
Forchelli, however, blamed the flooding on manure and other farm sediment that he said filled in the trench and raised parts of the Lostrittos’ lawn.
“It’s just a mess,” Forchelli said as he pointed to mud on the Lostrittos’ brick driveway from recent rains. The poles are to stop the Rottkamps from digging up the Lostrittos’ property, he said.
The Rottkamps and Lostrittos agree that a basin to collect sediment is part of the solution, but each wants it on the others’ property.
Customers who regularly peruse the tables of sweet peppers, melons, kale and corn at the farm stand said they would mourn its closure.
Peter Van Der Mije, chef of Osteria Leana in Oyster Bay, said the freshness of the produce he buys daily from Rottkamp “makes all the difference in the world” in the taste of the food he serves.
Attorney Jeffrey Forchelli, displays water damage and a large pond across from the Rottkamp Brothers Farm in Glen Head, Wednesday, August 24, 2016. Photo Credit: Steve Pfost Attorney Jeffrey Forchelli, displays water damage and a large pond across from the Rottkamp Brothers Farm in Glen Head, Wednesday, August 24, 2016. Photo Credit: Steve Pfost
Ray Rottkamp said he can’t imagine shutting down the farm.
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“This is what we’ve done our whole life,” he said. | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/owners-of-the-last-big-nassau-farm-embroiled-with-neighbors-village-1.12229551 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/b387ac9fadc4d04948516511a283ea6ba510c2eb6ea149cc9ab905a75cc6bdc5.json |
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"Erica Marcus"
] | 2016-08-30T20:49:48 | null | 2016-08-30T15:41:00 | The sign may say "Latin Deli" or "Comida Latina" or, simply, "Spanish and American food." These phrases all signify the same thing: Here is an | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flifestyle%2Frestaurants%2Flatin-delis-on-long-island-must-try-spots-for-central-and-south-american-food-1.11550137.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.11550172.1457451162!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpg | en | null | Latin delis on Long Island: Must-try spots for Central and South American food | null | null | www.newsday.com | The sign may say "Latin Deli" or "Comida Latina" or, simply, "Spanish and American food." These phrases all signify the same thing: Here is an establishment that serves big portions of good food at low prices.
Specific dishes will vary, but you will always find a steam table with dozens of offerings -- roast pork and chicken, soups and stews, salads and countless variations of rice, beans, and rice mixed with beans. Sandwiches will be made to order, as will a number of the countless Latin American specialties made with masa (dough made from ground field corn), among them are tacos, tamales and pupusas.
Latin delis can be found all over Long Island; they come fast and furious in communities with large numbers of families from Central and South America. Prices are, across the board, low. You will have a tough time spending more than $10 for a meal that easily serves two.
No Spanish? No problem. One of the beautiful things about ordering from a steam table is that all you have to do is point. And say "gracias."
Vicky's Casa del Sabor (Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) Vicky's Casa del Sabor, Lindenhurst: The friendly shop offers a complete survey of homestyle Latin-American cuisine: slow-roasted meats, tacos, pupusas, tamales, burritos, quesadillas, stews, soups, sandwiches and sweets. But the specialty of the house is empanadas (pictured). Owner Vicky Ramos’ mother is from Colombia and, at first, her fried turnovers hewed to a traditional Colombian recipe: beef and potato or chicken and potato. But Ramos began fiddling and now the lineup includes Hawaiiana empanadas stuffed with ham, pineapple and cheese; macarrones con queso stuffed with mac ’n’ cheese, choco-banana stuffed with Nutella and bananas, and dozens more.
(Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) Latino specialties at Vicky's Casa del Sabor in Lindenhurst (clockwise from top left): pernil (roast pork shoulder); pollo asada tacos (grilled chicken tacos); a plate of chorizo, chicharrón and fried plantains; pupusas filled with shredded beef served with a bowl of curtido (pickled cabbage); and ropa vieja with yellow rice, beans and sweet plantains. Center, empanadas de chorizo-papas (stuffed with chorizo and potatoes).
La Cubanita (Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) La Cubanita, Bay Shore: One of Long Island’s most venerable outlets for Latin American food, La Cubanita was opened in 1975 by Raul Gisbert Sr., a Cuban émigré. Originally little more than a bodega, the elder Gisbert, a gifted cook, started adding more and more hot food. Now under the direction of his son, Raul Gisbert Jr., La Cubanita excels with Cuban specialties such as congri (white rice mixed with black beans), palomilla (pan-fried steak with onions) and carimanolas (meat-filled yuca fritters). Do not miss the chicken sandwich, made with chopped fried chicken — skin and all — that’s piled onto a mayonnaise, hot-sauced roll and pressed. (Pictured: A plate of Cuban specialties including palomilla (marinated steak with onions), congri (white rice and beans), yuca and fried plantains. Top right is a Cuban sandwich.)
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(Credit: Benjamin Petit) (Credit: Benjamin Petit) The pressed chicken sandwich at La Cubanita Deli in Bay Shore is made with chopped fried chicken -- skin and all -- mayonnaise and hot sauce.
Port Washington Deli (Credit: Marisol Diaz) (Credit: Marisol Diaz) Port Washington Deli, Port Washington: For the hungry Port Washingtonian, the area surrounding the LIRR is notable mostly for the number of sushi bars (five within two blocks). But directly across the street from the station is this bastion of affordable dining, with a vast steam table offering an array of Latin American roasted and stewed meats, including succulent ribs and chicken. Variations on rice (white, yellow, pea-punctuated) and beans (whole, refried) abound, plus salads, guacamole and, on occasion, ceviche (marinated raw fish; pictured).
(Credit: Marisol Diaz) (Credit: Marisol Diaz) Steam table offerings at Port Washington Deli include beef stew, pork rib stew, turkey wing stew and baked pork chops.
Juanito's Deli & Bakery (Credit: Marisol Diaz) (Credit: Marisol Diaz) Juanito's Deli & Bakery, Valley Stream: A rarity on Long Island, this friendly storefront specializes in the fast-casual segment of Chilean cuisine. Made with tender, homemade rolls, the churrasco sandwiches (pictured) are filled with steak, avocado, tomato and mayonnaise; chacarero sandwiches feature beef, string beans and tomato. Both are unlike anything you have ever tasted before — in a good way. Along with chicken and pork sandwiches, Juanito’s also serves empanadas, Chilean-style hot dogs (on homemade rolls) and bizcochos (elegant Chilean pastries).
(Credit: Marisol Diaz) (Credit: Marisol Diaz) Carlos Oyandel and Cecilia Oyandel of Glen Cove enjoy a meal at Juanito's Deli & Bakery in Valley Stream.
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Punta Cana Dominican Grill (Credit: Marisol Diaz) (Credit: Marisol Diaz) Punta Cana Dominican Grill, Westbury: In a sea of Salvadoran delis, Punta Cana stakes out its Dominican territory. The look is sleek and modern, and the menu features a few stateside staples (Caesar salad, Philly steak sandwich), but go for the chicharron (fried pork belly; pictured), fried whiting, mondongo (stewed tripe), mofongo (garlic-infused mashed plantains, served with your choice of chicken, beef, pork or shrimp) or the Dominican chimi burger, made with a seasoned beef patty topped with cabbage salad and a Russian-dressing-like sauce.
(Credit: Marisol Diaz) (Credit: Marisol Diaz) "Tres golpes" (three hits) includes (from left, clockwise) mangú (mashed green plantains with red, pickled onions), salami, queso frito (fried cheese) and huevos (eggs) at Punta Cana Dominican Grill in Westbury.
Huntington Deli (Credit: Ryan C. Jones) (Credit: Ryan C. Jones) Huntington Deli, Huntington Station: The Huntington Station stretch of Route 110 is a veritable Rue des Pupusas, with Salvadoran restaurants and markets lining both sides of the street. One of the busiest is Huntington Deli, which scores with fried and grilled fish (pictured); baccala, reconstituted dried cod that’s been whipped with potatoes; and “barbecued” chicken — actually fried chicken that has been tossed in barbecue sauce with predictably alluring results. Don’t miss the baleadas, huge Honduran flour tortillas (think lavash bread) folded around refried beans and avocado.
(Credit: Ryan C. Jones) (Credit: Ryan C. Jones) A baleada (flour tortilla with mashed beans and cheese) with avocado at Huntington Deli in Huntington Station.
Golden Pine Deli (Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) Golden Pine Deli, Copiague: This bustling, free-standing establishment does a great job with that Salvadoran staple, the pupusa (pictured), serving the crisp-creamy corn cakes with a mellow cabbage slaw. The steam table boasts whole roast chickens and rich, succulent pork ribs among its treasures. While you wait for your order, browse the small jewelry display. Or, instead of getting takeout, find a spot in the spacious, sun-filled seating area and dine on the premises.
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(Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) Rice and beans are central to Latin American cuisine and appear in many guises at Golden Pine Deli in Copiague
Nopal Deli (Credit: Newsday/Erica Marcus) (Credit: Newsday/Erica Marcus) Nopal Deli, Bay Shore: This bustling deli has dozens of tempting steam-table choices and Mexican-style torta sandwiches (picutured; overstuffed with shredded chicken, cabbage slaw, radishes and eggs), as well as daily specials of some rarely seen specimens such as riguas, open-faced, sweet-corn tamales steamed on banana leaves; plantains that have been fried, split down the middle, stuffed with cheese and sprinkled with cinnamon; and bola de yuca, fried balls of mashed cassava. We were brought up short by what the counterman called nuegados, goose-egg-size golden balls of fried, shredded cassava. Biting into one, we expected the hyper-crunch to give way to some yielding center — like a Scotch egg — but no, just hyper-crunchy all the way through.
(Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) Bolas de yuca, balls of fried cassava, are served with a sweet syrup at Nopal Deli in Bay Shore.
Deli La Union (Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) Deli La Union, East Northport: In addition to a dependably appealing steam table, this popular eatery gets high marks for its pupusas and its tacos, both made to order. If you’re in the neighborhood in the morning, stop by for the desayuno Salvadoreño, Salvadoran breakfast, of revueltas (scrambled eggs with potatoes and sausage), rice, beans, fried plantains and a side of warm tortillas. A filling start to any day. (Pictured: Grilled chicken with red beans, rice and salad.)
(Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) The "Salvadoran breakfast" with eggs, chorizo, pepper, potatoes, red beans, rice, avocado and sweet plantains is served at Deli La Union in East Northport.
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La Confianza (Credit: Marisol Diaz) (Credit: Marisol Diaz) La Confianza, Patchogue: Adjacent to and under the same ownership as Patchogue’s Bravo supermarket, La Confianza caters to customers from all over Central America with yards and yards of roast meats, soups and stews, carne asada (grilled steak) and chayotes rellenos (stuffed and fried chayote). There are also specialties from Andean South America, such as mote (hominy) and, on occasion, cuy (guinea pig). Cecilia Bonilla, who owns the deli with husband Jose, makes the popular tamales stuffed with chicken, beans (pictured) or sweet corn. | http://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/restaurants/latin-delis-on-long-island-must-try-spots-for-central-and-south-american-food-1.11550137 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/a3e96bf3a536c0d51138029cd51536e766d2445ba70ecc56083470d5c7aefcbb.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T00:49:32 | null | 2016-08-29T20:39:00 | Check here to see recent openings on Long Island of clothing stores, fast-food joints, supermarkets, and discount giants. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Fbusiness%2Flong-island-store-openings-fast-food-supermarkets-and-outlets-1.11559500.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.11945326.1469541524!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Long Island store openings: fast-food, supermarkets and outlets | null | null | www.newsday.com | (Credit: Newsday / John Paraskevas) (Credit: Newsday / John Paraskevas) Discount grocer Aldi plans to open its sixth Long Island store in Selden. The nearly completed store is scheduled to open on Sept. 14, 2016.
Hmart (Credit: Chris Ware) (Credit: Chris Ware) Hmart, an Asian-American supermarket chain, is opening a location in a former Waldbaum's in Jericho on Aug. 25, 2016.
e.l.f. Cosmetics (Credit: Katie Orlinsky) (Credit: Katie Orlinsky) The second e.l.f. Cosmetics location on Long Island opened in Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove on Aug. 12, 2016, as the store offers its line of affordable makeup and beauty tools.
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Vineyard Vines (Credit: Simon Properties) (Credit: Simon Properties) Vineyard Vines, a clothing retailer featuring a smiling pink whale logo that was founded on Martha's Vineyard in 1998, opened a new location at Walt Whitman Shops in Huntington Station on July 22, 2016.
Dick's Sporting Goods (Credit: Alexi Knock) (Credit: Alexi Knock) Dick's Sporting Goods opened a new store at Green Acres Commons in Valley Stream in July 2016. This is the Melville location on July 25, 2011.
Karen Millen (Credit: Getty Images / Bryan Bedder) (Credit: Getty Images / Bryan Bedder) London-based fashion house Karen Millen opened a store at the Tanger Outlets in Riverhead on June 10, 2016. Above is a shot from the boutique's flagship Manhattan location in 2008.
Aritzia (Credit: Simon Properties) (Credit: Simon Properties) Women's fashion boutique Aritzia, which started in Vancouver in 1984, opened a Roosevelt Field location in June 2016.
Pure Hockey (Credit: Ted Starkey) (Credit: Ted Starkey) Massachusetts-based Pure Hockey opened a store in Smithtown in June 2016. The hockey retailer has a second location on Long Island in Garden City, and three others across New York state.
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Flying Tiger Copenhagen (Credit: Howard Schnapp) (Credit: Howard Schnapp) Flying Tiger Copenhagen opened its first Long Island location on June 17, 2016, at the Gallery at Westbury Plaza. The 3,852-square-foot location sells an assortment of Danish-designed products ranging from gadgets, toys and games to home and office essentials.
Oakley (Credit: Simon Properties) (Credit: Simon Properties) California-based Oakley, which is known for its sunglasses but also sells apparel, accessories and electronics, opened a location at Roosevelt Field in Garden City on May 28, 2016.
J. Jill (Credit: Simon Properties) (Credit: Simon Properties) New Hampshire-based J. Jill, a national retailer of women's clothing, accessories and footwear, opened at Roosevelt Field in Garden City on March 31, 2016.
ShopRite (Credit: Wakefern Food Corp.) (Credit: Wakefern Food Corp.) ShopRite moved into some former A&P locations, as this ShopRite in Bethpage opened in February 2016 in a former Pathmark location. The grocery chain also converted the old Waldbaum's in Deer Park and the Pathmark New Hyde Park into ShopRite stores.
Neiman Marcus (Credit: Steve Pfost) (Credit: Steve Pfost) Neiman Marcus opened its first Long Island store at Roosevelt Field in Garden City on Feb. 19, 2016. The exterior of the two-floor, 106,000-square-foot store is seen here on Nov. 20, 2015. The store is located at the end of Roosevelt Field's new luxury wing, which houses more than 20 high-end stores including Tory Burch and Kate Spade New York.
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Robin's Jean (Credit: Simon Properties) (Credit: Simon Properties) Robin's Jean, founded by a French designer, sells jeans, jackets, shirts, shoes, accessories and hats for both men and women. It opened at Roosevelt Field in Garden City in February 2016.
Zero Halliburton (Credit: Simon Properties) (Credit: Simon Properties) Zero Halliburton, which makes and sells aluminum travel cases, opened its first mall store -- and its first store on Long Island -- at Roosevelt Field in Garden City in February 2016.
Tory Burch (Credit: Simon Properties) (Credit: Simon Properties) Manhattan-based Tory Burch, a retail store offering shoes, handbags, accessories, jewelry, home, beauty and cosmetics, opened a location at Roosevelt Field in Garden City in February 2016.
Tumi (Credit: Simon Properties) (Credit: Simon Properties) Tumi, a New Jersey-based manufacturer of suitcases and travel bags, opened a store at Roosevelt Field in Garden City in January 2016.
Stew Leonard's (Credit: Barry Sloan) (Credit: Barry Sloan) Customers walk toward the entrance of Stew Leonard's in Farmingdale during the grocery store's opening day on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016.
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Abercrombie & Fitch (Credit: AP / Amy Sancetta) (Credit: AP / Amy Sancetta) Retailer Abercrombie & Fitch opened a store in the Tanger Outlets in Riverhead on Dec. 19, 2015. This photo shows the exterior of the company's store in Beachwood, Ohio, on Dec. 4, 2008.
Men's Wearhouse (Credit: Getty Images) (Credit: Getty Images) Suit retailer Men's Wearhouse opened a new location at the Westfield South Shore in Bay Shore in November 2015.
Lululemon (Credit: Bloomberg) (Credit: Bloomberg) Canadian yoga-wear retailer Lululemon opened a store in the Tanger Outlets in Riverhead in October 2015. Lululemon's Union Square store is seen on Sept. 15, 2010.
Lane Bryant (Credit: AP / Paul Sakuma) (Credit: AP / Paul Sakuma) Women's clothier Lane Bryant opened a location at Westfield South Shore in September 2015. This store is in San Jose, Calif. on June 2012.
The Frye Company (Credit: Jeremy Bales) (Credit: Jeremy Bales) Shoppers pass The Frye Company at Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City on Sept. 2, 2015, shortly after the shoe and leather goods store first opened.
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Kate Spade (Credit: Matthew T. Murray) (Credit: Matthew T. Murray) The Kate Spade store at Roosevelt Field in Garden City opened on Sept. 1, 2015. The 2,000-square-foot store is the fashion retailer's fourth location on Long Island. The three other stores are located in the Walt Whitman Shops in Huntington Station (seen here in this 2013 photo), and the Tanger Outlets in Deer Park and Riverhead.
Macy's Backstage (Credit: David L. Pokress) (Credit: David L. Pokress) The exterior of the new Macy's Backstage off-price store, which opened at the Melville Mall in Melville in September 2015. That same month, another Macy's Backstage opened in the Lake Success Shopping Center in New Hyde Park.
Toys R Us (Credit: Steve Pfost) (Credit: Steve Pfost) Toys R Us opened a new location in the Tanger Outlets in Riverhead in June 2015. In this photo taken on Nov. 22, 2014, Ann Blomberg of Ronkonkoma pushes a cart filled with toys for her granddaughter as she begins her holiday shopping in the company's Holbrook store.
The Fresh Market (Credit: Steve Pfost) (Credit: Steve Pfost) The front of the upscale food retailer The Fresh Market, which opened in Smithtown in July 2015. The 24,099-square-foot store is in the Branch Plaza shopping center, 138 E. Main St. The photo was taken on July 13, 2015, about a week before opening day.
Michaels (Credit: David Reich-Hale) (Credit: David Reich-Hale) in July 2015, arts and crafts retailer Michaels Companies Inc. opened a store in a long-vacant location in the Deer Park Plaza shopping center in North Babylon, near the Deer Park border. The new 5,147-square-foot store, at 20 Deer Shore Square, employs more than 60 people.
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Blue Nile (Credit: Blue Nile) (Credit: Blue Nile) The Blue Nile opened at Roosevelt Field in Garden City in June 2015. The 325-square-foot store, on the mall's main level near guest services and the H&M store, employs a half-dozen people. The e-commerce company expanded into the brick and mortar space with its "Webroom" opening, giving customers the opportunity to try on products previously only seen on its website and work with in-store, non-commissioned consultants on personalized jewelry. This undated photo is a concept rendering of the Blue Nile's store.
Tommy Bahama (Credit: Courtesy of Tommy Bahama) (Credit: Courtesy of Tommy Bahama) Island-inspired fashion retailer Tommy Bahama opened its second Long Island store at the Walt Whitman Shops in Huntington Station in May 2015. The 4,000-square-foot store, in the center of the mall next to Saks Fifth Avenue, employs about 20 people. The store's other location is in the Tanger Outlets in Riverhead. This undated photo shows the exterior of a Tommy Bahama store in Las Vegas.
Nordstrom Rack (Credit: Danielle Finkelstein) (Credit: Danielle Finkelstein) Exterior of Nordstrom Rack and DSW, which opened in the Manhasset Center on Northern Boulevard in spring 2014. This photo was taken on May 2, 2014.
Lowe's (Credit: Johnny Milano) (Credit: Johnny Milano) Lowe's employees prepare for the grand opening of their new Commack store on April 2, 2014.
Uniqlo (Credit: Steve Pfost) (Credit: Steve Pfost) Uniqlo employee Rebecca Elliott of Ronkonkoma straightens a stack of men's pants in preparation for the grand opening of the Uniqlo store at the Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove in November 2013. A second Long Island location opened at Roosevelt Field in Garden City in August 2014. | http://www.newsday.com/business/long-island-store-openings-fast-food-supermarkets-and-outlets-1.11559500 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/53de09286c6f85cf3a20a2239b5f540e5dc6a992f423e5d5cdf9ebf1710e5c1b.json |
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"Laura Figueroa"
] | 2016-08-29T18:49:29 | null | 2016-08-29T14:44:34 | Hillary Clinton kicked off a three-day fundraising spree in the Hamptons on Sunday, starting with a $33,400-a-head garden party in Sag Harbor.By the time the | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fhillary-clinton-holds-33-400-a-head-hamptons-fundraiser-1.12238672.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12238881.1472496273!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Hillary Clinton holds $33,400-a-head Hamptons fundraiser | null | null | www.newsday.com | HIGHLIGHTS Clinton kicks off fundraiser with garden party in Sag Harbor
Jimmy Buffet, Jon Bon Jovi to host dinner party
Hillary Clinton kicked off a three-day fundraising spree in the Hamptons on Sunday, starting with a $33,400-a-head garden party in Sag Harbor.
By the time the Democratic presidential nominee wraps up her fundraising swing through Long Island’s East End on Tuesday, she will have headlined six to nine events — including a dinner hosted by singers Jimmy Buffett and Jon Bon Jovi, according to sources familiar with the Democratic presidential candidate’s fundraising schedule.
On Sunday afternoon, Clinton greeted supporters at an event billed as a family-style “Garden Party” in Sag Harbor that cost $33,400 per adult and $2,700 per child to attend. A photo with the former U.S. secretary of state cost an additional $10,000.
Clinton, the state’s former U.S. senator who has often vacationed in the Hamptons with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, also attended a cocktail reception in Bridgehampton Sunday night, where tickets ranged from $1,000 to $33,400.
On Monday, Clinton was slated to attend a cocktail reception in East Hampton, with admission ranging from $33,000 to $100,000, and a dinner in Quogue.
Tuesday’s final day of fundraisers includes a “dinner and dancing” reception hosted by Buffett and Jon Bon Jovi at Buffett’s North Haven estate, where the two are expected to perform along with other “special guests” not named on the invitation.
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Entry into the dinner and concert started at $10,000, but guests could opt to pay $100,000 for “premium seating” and the chance to attend a private reception with Clinton.
Also planned for Tuesday is a cocktail reception in Sagaponack, with admission ranging from $33,000 to $100,000.
Among those hosting events for Clinton this weekend were philanthropist Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, who serves as chairwoman of the New York State Council on the Arts, and businessman Alan Patricof, the founder of private equity firm Apax Partners.
Earlier this month, Clinton also received a fundraising assist from pop singer Cher, who headlined a concert in the hamlet of Fire Island Pines.
Sources said the East End events are expected to generate more than $1 million for Clinton’s campaign and the Hillary Victory Fund, an account administered by the Democratic National Committee that provides funding for competitive down-ballot races.
Invitations have gone out for a Sept. 9 fundraiser hosted by Barbra Streisand at Cipriani Wall Street, which Clinton is expected to attend. Tickets range from $1,200 to $250,000.
Last month, Clinton’s campaign received $90 million in campaign contributions, while Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reported an $80 million fundraising haul.
Trump also headlined a pricey Hamptons campaign fundraiser earlier this month. On Aug. 13, New York Jets owner Woody Johnson hosted a fundraiser at his East Hampton home with tickets ranging from $10,000 to $20,000, according to social media postings from supporters who attended the event. | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/hillary-clinton-holds-33-400-a-head-hamptons-fundraiser-1.12238672 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/5966a360a3fed6a1088153c65a44e71a58c680e221f0180918c4297612c43123.json |
[
"Ann Donahue-Smukler"
] | 2016-08-28T12:49:10 | null | 2016-08-28T07:32:00 | HER STORYIn her job, O’Donnell talks to patients about staying healthy, not smoking and losing weight. She never needed her own advice until she reached | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Fnews%2Fhealth%2Forbera-balloon-system-helps-baldwin-nurse-lose-weight-1.12227738.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12227992.1472227745!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpg | en | null | Orbera balloon system helps Baldwin nurse lose weight | null | null | www.newsday.com | Peggy O’Donnell 58, Baldwin Occupation Senior nurse practitioner at South Nassau Communities Hospital Height 5-foot-6 Before Nov. 2015: 224 Current Aug. 2016: 178
HER STORY
In her job, O’Donnell talks to patients about staying healthy, not smoking and losing weight. She never needed her own advice until she reached her 50s and metabolic changes resulted in weight gain. “It creeps up and the next thing I knew I had my own challenge,” she says.
With a BMI of 34, O’Donnell was characterized as “modestly obese.” For a long time she didn’t qualify for any bariatric procedures. Earlier this year, she learned about Orbera, a temporary nonsurgical balloon system. With this approach, a patient is put under anesthesia briefly and a balloon is inserted through the mouth into the stomach and filled with about three cups of a saline solution essentially to create the sense of feeling full.
O’Donnell said she was motivated to lose weight: She recently welcomed her fourth grandchild and just received her doctoral degree. Plus, her mom recently celebrated her 90th birthday. “I had a lot to live for and I wanted to live the second half of my life in a healthy fashion, she says. She had the procedure March 15. The first week was tough she said. Until her body accepted the balloon, she had nausea and drank only clear liquids. The discomfort lasted a week. Any subsequent periods of nausea she “talked herself through.” “I haven’t missed a beat. I work full time and am active with my family,” said O’Donnell. The balloon will be removed Sept. 2, just shy of six months.
HER DIET
O’Donnell makes a fruit smoothie with protein and yogurt for breakfast. She’ll have half a turkey sandwich for lunch, and usually a small portion of baked fish, meatballs, or chicken and vegetables for dinner. She does little snacking and instead has noncarbonated fruit-flavored water (drinking liquids while eating is not recommended).
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HER EXERCISE
O’Donnell works on muscle training once a week with a personal trainer and walks or bikes for 40 minutes four nights a week.
HER ADVICE
“Consider this if you’re in the 30-40 BMI range and have been through the normal diet and exercise route [unsuccessfully]. It’s perfect for people who don’t want surgery or who are not “big enough” for bariatric surgery.” (Although approved by the FDA, this program is not yet covered by all health insurance policies.) | http://www.newsday.com/news/health/orbera-balloon-system-helps-baldwin-nurse-lose-weight-1.12227738 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/7e22c8a5a6c55eb54098a1698f9018599c41fc8e204fa713d0a86d8b9bc05341.json |
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"Jennifer Berger",
"Beth Whitehouse"
] | 2016-08-26T16:48:26 | null | 2016-08-26T11:33:00 | No matter where you live on Long Island, there are vast resources for you to tap into for some fun. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flifestyle%2Ffamily%2Fsummer-fun-on-long-island-water-rides-free-events-more-for-kids-and-families-1.8540979.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12103150.1469711742!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpg | en | null | Summer fun on Long Island: Water rides, free events, more for kids and families | null | null | www.newsday.com | We rounded up some of the new attractions or updated events that have popped up on Long Island this year. From free concerts at beaches and parks to water rides, zip lines and more, check out fun things to do with your kids this summer.
Catch a wave (Credit: stockxchng) (Credit: stockxchng) From Jones Beach and Long Beach to Shelter Island, Fire Island, the Hamptons, Montauk and more, there are loads of beaches lining Long Island's coast, offering plenty of opportunities for kids to ride the waves, splash around and enjoy the dog days of summer. Many beaches have designated body-boarding and surfing areas as well.
Bowl for free (Credit: iStock) (Credit: iStock) Kids Bowl Free will allow registered kids to bowl two free games every day until Labor Day. The final date varies from alley to alley; for more information on exact dates, participating locations and getting your child registered, visit kidsbowlfree.com.
Spend the day at Splish Splash (Credit: Splish Splash) (Credit: Splish Splash) Splish Splash water park (2549 Splish Splash Dr., Calverton) features dozens of water rides, a wave pool and so much more, including The Battle of Mutiny Bay (pictured), a water ride involving rafts outfitted with water-shooting cannons for riders to shoot at other boats. The people around the circuit will have fixed water cannons to shoot against the riders. And don't forget to ride Bootlegger's Run, New York state's first water roller coaster that reaches a top height of 235 feet and starts with a 47-foot (almost five-story) drop.
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Try zip-lining (Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) At the Adventure Park (75 Colonial Springs Rd., Wheatley Heights), kids ages 7 and older can test their climbing ability along several rope courses. There are eight zip-line trails, ranging from beginner to advanced; climbers must be at least 15 to try the hardest, double-black course dubbed Commando. Climbers must tackle what the park calls the elements that connect tree to tree, for example, balance or strength. For further details, visit longislandadventurepark.org.
Catch a fish at Captree State Park At Captree State Park, there are two fishing piers and a marina where you can set sail on fishing excursions, plus there's a snack bar, playground and picnic area.
Rent paddleboats at Belmont Lake State Park (Credit: David Reich-Hale ) (Credit: David Reich-Hale ) Colorful paddleboats are a hit with kids, who may have an easier time working their feet than they would rowing a boat with oars. The paddleboats at Belmont Lake State Park in Babylon can fit a family of four, two paddling and two who can sit back and relax. Boats are available to rent five days a week (Thurs-Mon) for $15 (for up to 90 minutes) until Sept. 5, 2016 (Mon, Thurs-Fri: 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Sat-Sun and holidays: noon-5:30 p.m., then Sat-Sun only until Oct. 10, 2016 from 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m.). For more details, visit nysparks.com. Renters must be at least 18 years of age; life preservers must be worn at all times.
Ride bumper boats at Boomers Family Fun Center (Credit: Randee Daddona) (Credit: Randee Daddona) Families can take a spin and get (a little) wet on the bumper boats at Boomers Family Fun Center in Medford. Drivers need to be at least 44 inches tall (passengers must be at least 40 inches tall; $7). The park also has a carousel, roller coaster, go-karts, a 20-foot rock-climbing wall, miniature golf and batting cages.
Ride the rails (Credit: Yana Paskova) (Credit: Yana Paskova) The miniature trains take passengers on a looped journey around Southaven County Park in Brookhaven every other Sunday through the end of October. All aboard begins at 10:30 a.m. with the last departure leaving the station at 3 p.m. Price: Donations accepted. For more information, call 631-345-0499 or visit lilivesteam.org.
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Ride the ‘Turbulence’ coaster at Adventureland Buy photo (Credit: Steve Pfost) (Credit: Steve Pfost) Adventureland in Farmingdale debuted the spinning roller coaster named Turbulence in 2015, which replaced the popular Hurricane coaster. Each car on the coaster spins freely, so riders will experience a unique ride every time. Along with the new coaster, families can enjoy dozens of rides such as a log flume, swings, haunted mansion and many more rides for kids.
Dive into a pool (Credit: Kevin P. Coughlin) (Credit: Kevin P. Coughlin) Dive into one of the six pools at Wantagh Park. You'll find a swimming complex featuring an Olympic-sized, diving, kiddie, training, slide and interactive pool (children ages 5 to 12). There's also a fishing pier, tennis courts, a game area with chess and checkers, a playground with swings, slides and a maze. Call for fees; 516-571-7460.
Get roasted corn at a farmstand (Credit: Kathleen O'Brien) (Credit: Kathleen O'Brien) In late August, sweet corn is ripe for taking at farmstands throughout the North Fork. Many of the farmstands offer other locally grown, fresh items, such as in-season fruits and vegetables, flowers and more.
The Art of Andy Warhol (Credit: Long Island Children’s Museum) (Credit: Long Island Children’s Museum) Long Island Children's Museum's summer-long exhibit highlights the art of Andy Warhol (until Sunday, Sept. 4), which is focused on common objects in his pop art, and includes a silk-screen studio, art gallery, and costume and book center. Visitors can dress up like the characters in some of Warhol's paintings, observe the silk-screening process and design an original image out of newsprint to take home. The museum is open 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. (closed Mondays).
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Feed a giraffe at the Long Island Game Farm (Credit: Kerrie Ferrara) (Credit: Kerrie Ferrara) At the Long Island Game Farm in Manorville, kids can bottle-feed baby animals, hand-feed a giraffe and see kangaroos, buffalos, ostriches, zebras and more.
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'Curious George: The Golden Meatball' (Credit: Universal Studios Home Entertainment) (Credit: Universal Studios Home Entertainment) The inquisitive monkey helps his chef friend compete in a meatball contest in this Theatre for a Young Audience performance. WHEN | WHERE 11 a.m., with shows on July 16, 17, 23, 24 and 31 and Aug. 6, 7, 13, 14, 21, 27 and 28, at the Smithtown Center for the Performing Arts, 2 E. Main St., Smithtown INFO $15; 631-724-3700, smithtownpac.org.
'Rapunzel' (Credit: engemantheater.com) (Credit: engemantheater.com) The story of a long-haired princess trapped in a tower is retold by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, the Emmy-winning co-creators of the hit television sitcom “Friends.”
WHEN | WHERE 11 a.m. Sept. 3 and 10:30 a.m. Sept. 4, with additional shows at 11 a.m. on Aug. 6, 13, 20, 27 and Sept. 10 and 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 7, 14, 21, 28 and Sept. 11, at the John W. Engeman Theater, 250 Main Street, Northport
INFO $15; 631-261-2900, engemantheater.com.
Take a riverboat tour (Credit: Discovery) (Credit: Discovery) Learn about the North Shore's wetlands ecosystem aboard the Discovery in Stony Brook. The 90-minute sightseeing tours aboard a 35-passenger pontoon boat are led by a naturalist. Trips leave morning, midday and at sunset. Visit Discovery Cruise for more information.
Go berry-picking on the East End (Credit: Patty's Berries and Bunches) (Credit: Patty's Berries and Bunches) There are about a dozen U-pick farms that welcome the public to wander the rows and pile their baskets full of strawberries throughout the summer. Patty's Berries and Bunches in Mattituck (pictured) is open from June through October and offers U-pick raspberries, blackberries, blueberries as well as strawberries.
Head to Bayville Adventure Park (Credit: Danielle Finkelstein) (Credit: Danielle Finkelstein) Visit Bayville Adventure Park and enjoy a pirate-themed fun park with bumper boats (pictured), indoor rock climbing, miniature golf, ropes course, bungee bounce, train ride, 3-D Fun House, maze, video arcade and ice cream parlor. In the fall, it becomes Bayville Scream Park and during the holidays, it becomes a winter wonderland. ($29.75 for a one-day unlimited pass; 516-624-4678; bayvilleadventurepark.com) | http://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/family/summer-fun-on-long-island-water-rides-free-events-more-for-kids-and-families-1.8540979 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/0ea336c97b87256f97d0d6d3eb607870a1c4b873c1d3493f59bc16154e8c52c7.json |
[
"Patricia Kitchen"
] | 2016-08-29T20:49:37 | null | 2016-08-29T16:45:16 | Hurricane Gaston, churning way out to sea, won’t be paying a visit to Long Island, but it is sending a calling card — a high | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fforecasters-tropical-activity-churns-waters-off-south-shore-1.12238663.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12239108.1472498017!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpg | en | null | Forecasters: Tropical activity churns waters off South Shore | null | null | www.newsday.com | Hurricane Gaston, churning way out to sea, won’t be paying a visit to Long Island, but it is sending a calling card — a high risk for rip currents lasting at least through midweek, maybe even longer, forecasters say.
“The surf is dangerous for all levels of swimmers,” according to the National Weather Service’s beach forecast webpage, with surf height of 3 to 4 feet.
“High risk for rip currents and rough seas along the South Shore,” says News 12 Long Island meteorologist Rich Hoffman. “Be careful swimming.”
That’s as tropical disturbance and storm activity has picked up in the Atlantic basin, he said, also with a tropical depression that’s just east of the Carolinas, expected to stay to the south of Long Island, contributing to “rip currents and larger waves through the midweek.”
Beachgoers are strongly advised to stick close to lifeguards, ask them about conditions and heed the advice of beach officials, said Nelson Vaz, weather service meteorologist based in Upton. Meteorologists may know the conditions that lead to increased rip current activity, he said, but lifeguards are the ones who “know their local beaches the best.”
At play, he says, is Hurricane Gaston, “a big wind-maker out there,” creating swells that are piling water up along the mid-Atlantic coast. In the case of sandy beaches such as those of Long Island and New Jersey, he says, the water gets “trapped on the landward side of sandbars,” has “to find a way out” through cuts in the sand and creates strong rip currents in the process.
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Conditions are similar along the Delaware and New Jersey shores.
Swells from Gaston have arrived, and, besides enhancing the chance for dangerous rip currents, “can also knock swimmers and waders flat into the sand, causing injury,” says a beach hazards statement issued Monday by the weather service’s Mount Holly, New Jersey, office.
Thanks to tropical cyclone activity and periods of onshore wind, waters will be rough at times this week at New Jersey and Delaware beaches, the statement said, “and possibly through the Labor Day weekend as well.” | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/forecasters-tropical-activity-churns-waters-off-south-shore-1.12238663 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/735a0ed0cf26d068adeac34b3a2e53262793796c5917cc6c62bb1f5cf892ba98.json |
[
"Kristin Taveira"
] | 2016-08-28T18:49:12 | null | 2016-08-28T12:45:00 | If you’ve always wanted a home in the Hamptons or on the North Fork, recent data suggest that now might be a good time to | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Fclassifieds%2Freal-estate%2Fbest-places-to-live-on-long-island-the-east-end-1.12221402.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12221403.1472153718!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpg | en | null | Best Places to Live on Long Island: The East End | null | null | www.newsday.com | If you’ve always wanted a home in the Hamptons or on the North Fork, recent data suggest that now might be a good time to buy: According to a market report by Town & Country Real Estate, prices were down on both the north and south forks of Long Island’s East End in the second quarter compared with a year earlier. The median home sales price fell 9.2 percent in the Hamptons, from $1.1 million in 2015 to $999,000 in 2016. And for the North Fork, Town & Country reported a 14.39 percent decrease in the median sales price, from $528,000 to $452,000. Wondering where to buy? In this installment of Newsday’s Best Places to Live series, we explore five great communities on the East End of Long Island. Whether you’re seeking family-friendly fun, a social scene, a quiet getaway, luxurious living or a bargain beach house, the area has a community worth committing to. (To vote for your favorite Long Island community, send an email to realestate@newsday.com.)
If you want family-friendly fun try Hampton Bays (Credit: Johnny MIlano) (Credit: Johnny MIlano) The Hamptons may be best known for ocean beaches, but safety-minded parents of young children may prefer the calmer waters of the three bays surrounding Hampton Bays, a hamlet in the Town of Southampton. Meschutt Beach County Park in Hampton Bays is a family favorite for its playground, supervised swimming in Great Peconic Bay and mercifully manageable size. And once the kids are old enough to brave the ocean, they can use any town beach, including Ponquogue Beach, which is within the hamlet. Hampton Bays is one of the few spots on the East End with homes priced for entry-level buyers. In a recent search of hreo.com, there were 119 homes listed for sale in Hampton Bays. Prices ranged from $219,000 for a one-bedroom, one-bathroom waterfront co-op to $4.995 million for seven-bedroom, 3 ½-bathroom house on a 9-acre estate.
(Credit: Douglas Elliman Real Estate) (Credit: Douglas Elliman Real Estate) This six-bedroom, two-bathroom house on a 0.43-acre lot features an inground pool. The property is listed in August 2016 for $799,000. The property includes deeded access to a private beach and mooring rights on Shinnecock Bay. It’s listed with Constance Porto of Douglas Elliman’s Hampton Bays office, 917-731-4317.
Also try Greenport (Credit: Randee Daddona) (Credit: Randee Daddona) This charming waterfront village where a restored antique carousel, sweet shops and ice cream parlors promise quintessential summer fun. Home prices here range from $139,000 to $2.695 million.
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If you want to be seen, try East Hampton (Credit: Societyallure.com/Rob Rich) (Credit: Societyallure.com/Rob Rich) Buyers who love a social scene will feel right at home in East Hampton. The village’s trendy night spots, chic shops and exclusive beaches have attracted a lengthy list of luminaries — so if you relish the idea of having a chance celebrity encounter, buying a home here will significantly up your odds. For instance, actor Ethan Hawke, musician Billy Joel and actress Emily Mortimer have all been spotted recentlydining at Nick & Toni’s. In a recent search of hreo.com, there were 854 homes for sale in East Hampton. Home prices ranged from $365,000 for a two-bedroom, one-bathroom cottage on a 0.25-acre lot to $54.995 million for a seven-bedroom, six-bathroom home on three contiguous parcels making up a 4.44-acre lakefront estate.
(Credit: Brown Harris Stevens) (Credit: Brown Harris Stevens) This 2.5-acre property listed for $2.5 million borders more than 25 acres of preserved land. The four-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom Postmodern features a master suite with private access to a gunite pool. The home is listed with Karen A. Benvenuto, 631-324-3111, and Joni Selman, 631-731-2558, of Brown Harris Stevens.
Also try Montauk (Credit: Doug Kuntz) (Credit: Doug Kuntz) This is where the night life is famous (and, in recent summers, infamous). You might rub elbows with Hollywood elite types like Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore, who own homes here, or Leonardo DiCaprio, who was spotted shopping and noshing around town with Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Nina Agdal, according to multiple media reports. Home prices range from $189,000 to $55 million.
Beach lover on a budget? Try Flanders (Credit: Randee Daddona) (Credit: Randee Daddona) All but one of the Flanders homes listed for sale are priced under $1 million, a bargain compared with some other parts of the East End. The highest-priced listing in the hamlet is $1.595 million for a whopping 40-acre property with a four-bedroom, 3½-bathroom home and additional structures. Natural scenery and numerous nearby parks make Flanders a favorite among outdoorsy types. Though the hamlet is not on the ocean, Flanders homeowners can still get a resident parking permit for ocean beaches throughout the Town of Southampton. In a recent search of hreo.com, home prices in Flanders ranged from $229,000 for a one-bedroom bungalow to $1.595 million for a four-bedroom lakefront Contemporary.
$460,000 in Flanders (Credit: Town and Country Real Estate) (Credit: Town and Country Real Estate) This three-bedroom, 2½-bathroom Contemporary listed for $460,000 features a loft and a great room. The 2,097-square-foot home is on a 0.92-acre lot next to preserved land. Its location in the Town of Southampton grants the homeowner access to town beaches and parks. The home is listed with Aaron Sacks, 631-871-9512, of Town & Country Real Estate.
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Also try Westhampton (Credit: Veronique Louis) (Credit: Veronique Louis) This is where 66 of the 236 homes on the market are listed at less than $1 million. Prices range from $45,000 for a mobile home to $16.75 million for a nine-bedroom waterfront estate.
If you like to slow down and savor life, try Cutchogue (Credit: Randee Daddona) (Credit: Randee Daddona) If the South Fork scene is, well, not your scene, pretty Cutchogue is the perfect summer tonic. It’s impossible not to be lulled by the relaxing rural charm of this 10.2-square-mile waterfront hamlet, lush with farmland and vineyards. The hamlet is in the Town of Southold along the northern shores of the Peconic River and Cutchogue Harbor on Little Peconic Bay. There were 29 homes for sale in Cutchogue in a recent search of hreo.com. Prices ranged from $360,000 for a three-bedroom, one-bathroom farmhouse on a 0.4-acre lot to $19.5 million for a three-bedroom, three-bathroom 99.99-acre waterfront estate on Long Island Sound.
$1.298 million in Cutchogue (Credit: Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty) (Credit: Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty) This three-bedroom, three-bathroom waterfront farmhouse listed for $1.298 million features views of Wunneweta Lagoon from almost every room. It’s situated on a landscaped 0.87-acre lot with its own dock. The home is listed with Patricia Cosmadelis of Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty, 631-433-1793.
Also try Mattituck (Credit: Randee Daddona) (Credit: Randee Daddona) This bucolic North Fork community where locals say friendly chitchat at the post office is the center of their social scene. Prices on hreo.com ranged from $339,000 to $6,995,888.
If the sky’s the limit, try Sagaponack (Credit: Daniel Brennan) (Credit: Daniel Brennan) There’s Hamptons rich — and then there’s Sagaponack rich. The 4.7-square-mile oceanfront village, with its tiny business district and massive homes, earned the distinction of being the most expensive residential ZIP code in the country in 2015, with a median sales price of $8.5 million, according to data from real estate website PropertyShark. That’s more than eight times the 2015 median home price for the Hamptons overall, which was a far-from-frugal $997,000, according to a Town & Country market report. In a recent search, there were 101 homes listed for sale in Sagaponack, including nine listed for $20 million or higher. Prices ranged from $1.295 million for a three-bedroom, two-bathroom Cape on a 1.14-acre lot to $59.9 million for a 15.9-acre compound where planned new construction will include a home, a guesthouse and a recreational pavilion.
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(Credit: Town and Country Real Estate/Dana Marbella Casale) (Credit: Town and Country Real Estate/Dana Marbella Casale) This six-bedroom, 5½-bathroom home listed for $15.9 million comes fully furnished and features ocean views. The 1.6-acre property includes a tennis court, a heated pool and a spa, as well as a separate guesthouse. The home is listed exclusively with Gene Stilwell, 516-641-3755, and Judi Desiderio, 631-324-8080, of Town & Country Real Estate’s East Hampton office. | http://www.newsday.com/classifieds/real-estate/best-places-to-live-on-long-island-the-east-end-1.12221402 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/a742a4e7ecb7308f6361219684de02c3f3aecdf49c94756a26266e63ce9daf6d.json |
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"Glenn Gamboa"
] | 2016-08-29T04:49:17 | null | 2016-08-29T00:16:00 | Plus, Britney Spears' version of “Make Me," her first Video Music Awards performance since 2007, shows that her comeback is now complete. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Fentertainment%2Fmusic%2Fmtv-video-music-awards-2016-beyonc%25C3%25A9-surprises-rihanna-stuns-at-madison-square-garden-1.12234909.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12236643.1472440219!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | MTV Video Music Awards 2016: Beyoncé surprises, Rihanna stuns at Madison Square Garden | null | null | www.newsday.com | HIGHLIGHTS Rihanna receives the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award.
Beyonce wins video of the year.
In her year of surprises, Beyoncé pulled off another one at the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night. And it was a doozy.
With no advance warning, Beyoncé delivered a five-song set showing the power and scope of her “Lemonade” album, which was also a surprise.
The opening performance of “Pray You Catch Me” was stunning, as 16 dancers were figuratively shot on stage.
Beyoncé led the night with 11 nominations for videos from her visual album “Lemonade,” and she won seven of them, including video of the year for “Formation.”
In a series of grand performances, Rihanna showed exactly why she deserved the night’s biggest award.
Her well-choreographed opening number dedicated to her dance music set up a show-long acceptance of her Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, with four different performances dedicated to her various styles. The second one was a stunner, dedicated to her Barbadian roots and centered on her smash “Work,” surrounded by hundreds of dancing fans.
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Also a stunner was the speech by her ex Drake who presented the award to her. “She’s one of my best friends in the world, all my adult life I’ve looked up to her even though she’s younger than me. She’s a living, breathing legend in our industry,” he said.
However, the VMAs are always about the spectacle.
And no one knows that more than Britney Spears, whose VMA moments include kissing Madonna and cavorting with a snake. Her performance Sunday night, designed to get people talking about her new album “Glory,” released Friday, was her first since the disastrous appearance in 2007 where she struggled through a routine in the midst of a breakdown. Her version of “Make Me” with rapper G-Eazy showed that her comeback is now complete.
Kanye West’s appearance was another moment destined to be talked-about, four minutes of unfiltered airtime before introducing his new video. He spoke about violence in his hometown of Chicago, as well as defending himself against charges that he blindsided Taylor Swift with his song “Famous,” up for video of the year. That song and video reignited his long-running beef with Swift, which they had squashed at last year’s VMAs when Swift presented him with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.
Garrett English, executive producer of the VMAs and MTV’s senior vice president of programming, events and live production, said before the show that he wanted it to reflect where the country is culturally.
“Whether it’s the campaign or relations between the police and the general public, there are a lot of issues at the forefront of our minds and the minds of our artists,” he said. “We want them to express themselves freely . . . Music is a reflection of that. Those issues will percolate through the community.”
Olympic star Michael Phelps drew wild applause and chants of “U!S!A!” as he explained how #Phelpsface was caused by Future’s “Stick Talk.” The U.S. Women’s Gymnastics Final Five members — Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, Laurie Hernandez and Madison Kocian — were on hand to present awards, as were Jimmy Fallon, Alicia Keys and Sean Combs.
The Final Five, minus a hospitalized Gabby Douglas, caused quite the stir on the preshow white carpet with stars rushing to have their pictures taken with the gold medalists.
The guys from Forever In Your Mind, including Holbrook’s Emery Kelly and Ronkonkoma’s Liam Attridge, were thrilled to be walking the MTV white carpet, especially after their biggest concert ever on Saturday at U.S. Open’s Arthur Ashe Kids Day.
Attridge also had news to share that they are starting work on a pilot for Disney called “Forever Boys” in which they play a vampire boy band.
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Dance popsters Cash Cash said they were excited to see performances from Rihanna and Spears, whose “Make Me” the trio just remixed, though Jean-Paul Makhlouf was hoping for a collaboration. “It would be cool if they made out,” he said. “Anything is possible.” | http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/mtv-video-music-awards-2016-beyonc%C3%A9-surprises-rihanna-stuns-at-madison-square-garden-1.12234909 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/c660c57e084da1335d03019a4cb5bd1a5fdbf54cfbd2bd0596b3c5a442ede217.json |
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"Laura Figueroa"
] | 2016-08-29T04:49:15 | null | 2016-08-28T21:42:42 | Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo hauled in a big catch off Long Island on Sunday.Cuomo posted photos on his Twitter account Sunday night showcasing a 154.5-pound | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fgov-andrew-cuomo-reels-in-big-catch-off-li-s-south-shore-1.12236458.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12236465.1472434919!/httpImage/image.png_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.png | en | null | Gov. Andrew Cuomo reels in big catch off LI’s South Shore | null | null | www.newsday.com | Uh-Oh!
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"Danny Schrafel"
] | 2016-08-27T12:48:47 | null | 2016-08-27T06:00:00 | This 14,000 square-foot Muttontown estate listed for $14.5 million dates back to 1922, when it was designed and constructed for John F. Bermingham, a former | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Fclassifieds%2Freal-estate%2Fmuttontown-estate-designed-for-village-s-former-mayor-1.12223231.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12223230.1472149947!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Muttontown estate designed for village’s former mayor | null | null | www.newsday.com | This 14,000 square-foot Muttontown estate listed for $14.5 million dates back to 1922, when it was designed and constructed for John F. Bermingham, a former mayor of the village.
Today, the home includes a professional recording studio, a home theater and garage space for 13 cars.
“It’s got all of the modern amenities and the old-world charm,” says listing agent Richard Raspantini of HomeSmart Premier Living Realty.
The core of this six-bedroom Colonial with seven full bathrooms and five half-baths was designed and built by architect James W. O’Connor for Bermingham, who made his fortune in coal, Raspantini says.
Two wings were added during an extensive 2004 renovation, when the home’s original wood floors, paneling and moldings were restored as were ornate, carved staircase railings.
The lower level, which includes the red-trimmed home theater, also includes a bar, playroom and gym. Indoor temperatures are controlled by a 55-zone heating system powered by four oil burners.
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The flat 7.8-acre property with hedge gardens, old-growth trees, seasonal plantings and a grand circular driveway includes a heated, brick-lined in-ground pool with a pool house containing two bathrooms, a kitchen, and dining space, Raspantini says. The rear and side of the home is lined with a slate patio.
There are also two cottages on the grounds, where living space is situated above five- and four-car garages, respectively. The remaining garage space is found in a four-car garage next to the main home. | http://www.newsday.com/classifieds/real-estate/muttontown-estate-designed-for-village-s-former-mayor-1.12223231 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.newsday.com/ebba6aa932d6b4f71d9595c2ad3a9dc3b59d54cc3781fe3509e148b5992ae2df.json |
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] | 2016-08-27T16:48:49 | null | 2016-08-27T12:28:09 | A serious crash has closed southbound Nicolls Road at Portion Road in Farmingville on Saturday morning, police said.One person was airlifted to Stony Brook University | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsday.com%2Flong-island%2Fsuffolk%2Fpolice-farmingville-crash-seriously-injures-1-closes-road-1.12232491.json | http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.12232490.1472315288!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg | en | null | Police: Farmingville crash seriously injures 1, closes road | null | null | www.newsday.com | Uh-Oh!
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