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Sound Smart at a Party A woman made a surprising discovery while gardening in her farm in Sweden. Lena Paahlsson was picking
carrots in her garden when she found one with her lost wedding ring around it. The white gold ring went missing 16 years ago when she took it off to bake with her daughters. When she noticed it gone from her kitchen counter, she and her family searched the entire house, even pulling up floorboards. They finally accepted the fact the ring was gone, but it did finally turn up— just more than a decade later. The family thinks the ring probably fell into the sink and mixed with potato peels that were fed to their sheep. Since the soil they use comes from composted vegetables and sheep dung, the ring ended up in the soil and eventually on a carrot. Paahlsson told a local news organization it no longer fits on her finger but she intends to have it resized…
fight. His foolproof plan was thwarted when police caught up to him just a mile later using GPS. The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay sent another crew for the man the ambulance was originally intended to pick up. Credit was also treated at a hospital, but was taken to one extra stop. Jail… A recent survey by a divorce website in the U.K. found one-third of participants cited Facebook as a factor in their divorce petitions in 2011. Divorce-Online gathered 5,000
people and found the social networking site showed up in 33 percent of behavior petitions. What were the factors? They were usually inappropriate messages to someone else, and once the couple had broken up, the site had been used to post personal and negative information about the soon-to-be ex. This year’s survey shows a 20-percent increase compared to an identical A Florida man is accused of taking survey done in 2009…
matters into his own hands after he was beat up by four guys. Hubert Lee
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Walmart is making the news for some interesting reasons. A total
of 15 syringes have been found in clothing from a Georgia store since late November. The syringes have been
found both in the store and in clothing bought there, including inside a pair of children’s pajamas. Police are reviewing surveillance video in an attempt to find the culprit/culprits. Another Walmart store in North Carolina also made headlines when a man tried to pay for a vacuum cleaner, microwave oven and a few other items with a fake million-dollar bill. In answer to the question that is probably going through your mind right now: No, there is no such thing as a real million-dollar bill (the biggest bill in common circulation is $100). When the clerk pointed this little detail out, the man insisted that it was as real as Courtney Stodden. Needless to say, he was arrested…
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challenging situation. As I stated many times over the course of the past few months, Suffolk County government is complex and, for it to work successfully, requires that all parties work together and understand that we are all partners…the countywide elected officials and the members of the Suffolk County Legislature. As we begin 2012, I would like to go on record, offering my sincere congratulations to Steve Bellone, along with my commitment to do all that I can to continue to be the experienced fiscal partner that he is going to need to help set the course of this County in the right direction. I hope that along with this new leadership and spirit of cooperation that will exist amongst all the players, all the residents of Suffolk County will enjoy a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. Angie M. Carpenter Suffolk County Treasurer
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Arsonist—off target Harry Burkhart, a German citizen and resident of Hollywood, is arrested in connection to 53 arson fires set across Los Angeles over four days and reportedly declares, “I hate America,” as he is detained by police. Yeah, living in L.A. can make people feel that way! Fugitive—off target California police search for a San Diego prisoner who escaped on New Year’s Day by stealing a fire engine. The least he can do is get to L.A. and help put out those 53 arson fires! @RupertMurdoch—partial score The billionaire media mogul joins Twitter for the New Year. The difference between Twitter and journalism: You don’t have to tap nearly as many phones to fill 140 characters! Apocalypse—off target NASA debunks Doomsday believers who are convinced Dec. 21, 2012, will bring the apocalypse based on the end of a 144,000-day cycle in the Mayan calendar—a cycle that has already occurred 12 times. Believers say rogue planet Nibiru will collide with Earth and end the world. The only problem, according to NASA, is that Nibiru doesn’t actually exist. Wait a sec—so we just quit our job, emptied our life savings and spent it all on a houseboat…and Nibiru doesn’t even exist? Now you tell us!
Brian Schottenheimer NY Jets offensive coordinator If you could pin all the blame on just one body part for the way the Jets’ season fell apart, then start with Coach Rex Ryan’s big mouth that kept on talking long after his players had stopped listening. They’re not going to the Super Bowl, despite his bluster. But dumping the whole disappointing team seems rather extreme. To get the ball rolling, one guy should take the fall. Rather than flip a coin, consult Shakespeare’s playbook: If it offends thee, pluck it out. Get rid of the offensive coordinator, Brian Schottenheimer, because he was not offensive enough. Under him, Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez actually got worse. It’d cost the team more than $3 million to jettison Schottenheimer, but that’s small change to a big moneybags like owner Woody Johnson whose CEO pals pocket four times that much when they inflate their golden parachutes—and that’s after their incompetence has cost their poor stockholders millions. Giving away some lean green to get rid of someone Jets fans despise seems like the right call. And more important, making the right call at the right time is something that this son of a famous coach could never be counted on to do. Brian Schottenheimer, dunk your clipboard in the Gatorade barrel, hand over your headset, and go long: You’re fired!
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The Quote “The rap on Iowa: It doesn’t represent the rest of the country— too white, too evangelical, too rural.” —NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell on why the state of Iowa shouldn’t represent the U.S. electorate, during Sunday’s Nightly News with Brian Williams. Mitchell later told the media the statement wasn’t referring to her beliefs but to those of critics.
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3. Celebrate Elvis’ Birthday: The King was born Jan. 8, 1935, and Katie’s of Smithtown is celebrating the big day with country line dancing, Elvis lookalikes and live music from 2 to 5 p.m. Maybe Michele Bachmann will be there! Maybe not. 4. WRITE A LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR RONALD BOWER: Bower, the Queens father of two who has spent the last 20-plus years behind bars for crimes that mounting evidence proves he did not commit (the subject of several Long Island Press cover stories), is once again up for parole, next week. Write an online letter to the parole board and implore them to grant him parole. Tell them you demand it, not just because it’s merited, but because it’s a necessity of justice: www.parole.ny.gov/boardletters/forminput.jsp. Bower’s DIN# is 93A9129. 5. Have a Savannah Smiles: It’s that time of year again. Just in time to sabotage your New Year’s resolutions, the Girl Scouts are kicking off the cookie season at malls across the Island. On Jan. 7, at 11 a.m. the newest Girl Scout Cookie, Savannah Smiles—a crisp, lemon wedge Cookie dusted with powdered sugar and with just the right number of lemon chips—makes its grand debut at Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, Broadway Mall in Hicksville and Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream.
6. Watch the season premiere of Jersey Shore: Love ’em or hate ’em, the gang kicks off their fifth season Jan. 5 in their natural habitat, Seaside Heights, and it looks like Pauly D has burned off three layers of his face in a tanning machine. Can’t wait? Download the Jersey Shore Soundboard app for Android, which features more than 100 clips, including Deena’s “doing sex” and other well English. 7. Follow @NOTSportsCenter on Twitter: It’s Sports Center style news, with a fake and hysterical twist. Sample tweet: Xmas time is Rex Ryan’s favorite time of year b/c he gets turned on by the stockings hung around the house. Just follow, it’s great. 8. Read the 2011 list of most commonly used passwords: …then change yours. It’s estimated that 15 million identities are stolen every year. The most common passwords are “123456” and “password.” Check out some other ones like “Michael,” “Superman” and “Master.” Yes, it’s an annoying task. But on the plus side, this is actually a New Year’s resolution that’s pretty doable. 9. Check out the latest Steve Jobs action figure: From the makers of the Barack Obama action figure comes a creepily similarly miniaturized Steve Jobs, which is expected to hit the market in February. You can own the one-of-a-kind 12-inch likeness of the late Apple founder for $99. Check it out—before the cease and desist letter arrives. 10. Recycle your kicks: Give your sneakers the gift of eternal life and kids in need a place to play. The Long Island Ducks are collecting used sneakers for Nike’s Reuse-A-Shoe program through Jan. 31 at the Bethpage Ballpark executive offices. They want your non-metal containing athletic shoes of any brand so they can grind ‘em up and recycle them for use in materials that build new sports surfaces, gear, padding and shoes. Since its inception, the program has collected more than 22 million shoes. News
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2. Donate Blood: Rob Wiedmann, a NYC firefighter from Islip Terrace, desperately needs the very rare type O Negative blood. He was badly burned on the job and is in intensive care in critical condition, after suffering burns on more than 50 percent of his body in a December blaze. To donate blood for Wiedmann, contact the NY Blood Center at 1-800-439-6876; patient number 203859, file number 71614.
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1. Take on The Big Balls: If you haven’t tuned in to Wipeout for the past four years, now is the time, friends. Co-host Jill Wagner recently left the show and has been replaced with Nick Lachey’s wife and TV personality Vanessa Minnillo. We’re not sure how we feel about that yet, but the new season premieres Jan. 5 with a revamped set and a whole new cast of characters getting their asses kicked by The Big Balls. And if you’ve never watched, the show is based on the Japanese classic Ninja Warrior, except these obstacles require absolutely no athletic ability and slightly off-kilter participants.
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Fracking: The Ultimate Scam Revealed One of the great joys of writing, as Andrew Cuomo, who is cautiously in science, is the accidental discovery. moving toward legalizing fracking in To wit: penicillin. And while this entry New York, though his public reticence hardly ranks near Alexander Fleming’s highlights how tenuous this decision pharmaceutical breakthrough, it does truly is. relieve a particular itch that has been Early on, I came down firmly nagging my brain. against fracking in New York, and the For months I have been vexed by Long Island Press was in the vanguard the discrepancy in pricing between of reporting on it downstate. So I’m on crude oil and natural gas. (Wait, I record quite clearly as to why I believe know how tedious commodities can fracking to be a disaster for New York, be but I promise you this column is or anywhere else for that matter. No worth sticking with.) Unable to settle need to rehash this position. Still, on any fundamental market-based one piece of the broader issue was explanation, I placed the issue on the missing—until now. mental backburner. It was only when I decided to update a series of articles on the role of speculation in the commodities markets that I happened upon the most plausible solution to this puzzle. First, a little context. Over the past couple of years New York State has been flirting with Here’s the issue: Fracking is the idea of hydraulic fracturing, or expensive. The prolonged low market “fracking.” The discovery of enormous price of natural gas is the most logical pockets of natural gas in the Marcellus deterrent to increasing drilling because Shale formation that runs from West it barely pays to pull the gas out of the Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York ground. Moreover, the U.S. Energy to as far as Ohio, has led to a mod- Information Administration projects ern-day gold rush in the region, with that natural gas demand in the United Pennsylvania several years ahead of States should rise only 11 percent New York. While the gas has always over the next 25 years compared to been there, it wasn’t until the turn of a projected rise of more than 300 the millennium when controversial percent in China over the same period. chemical enhancements invented by Here’s where the market rationale Halliburton were added to a difficult gets murky. Analysts point to increased horizontal drilling technique that demand for fossil fuel in developaccessing this gas became feasible. ing economies as the primary reason Almost immediately, however, behind the steady rise in oil prices. environmental concerns began to Goldman Sachs’ most recent forecast mount. Stories of contaminated of Brent Crude Oil, commonly groundwater, intense air pollution and, known as “sweet light crude,” is $120 most recently, a ruptured fault line and a barrel for 2012, with most market mini-earthquake in Youngstown, Ohio, analysts following suit. A weak dollar, on Dec. 31, have begun leaking into the ongoing crisis and uncertainty in public consciousness. Gasland, a docu- the Eurozone, a burgeoning conflict mentary by Josh Fox, between the U.S. and increasingly agitated Iran, and continued environmental orgagrowth in China, nizations, and high- facebook.com/jedmorey India and Brazil are profile activists such the oft-given reasons as actor Mark Ruffalo have helped behind these prognostications. fracking reach the tipping point in the Historically, natural gas and media. Once seen as a panacea for rural oil prices have generally moved in land owners in depressed parts of the tandem, and with natural gas gaining country, fracking has become a pariah in momentum as the fossil fuel of choice, the environmental community, setting it only makes sense that they would the stage for yet another battle between continue their mirrored trajectory. the oil and gas industry and environ- Instead, the opposite has occurred. mentalists. Caught in the middle of Crude oil remains stubbornly high and the entire fiasco at the moment is Gov. creeping ever higher while natural gas
remains depressed. A closer look reveals that the world has record stockpiles of both fuels, and has developed incredible potential for new sources such as the Marcellus Shale play or the tar sands in Canada. Then there are the yet-to-be-developed fields in Iraq that, according to the New York Times, are “expected to ramp up oil production faster than any other country in the next 25 years, with a capacity… more than traditional leaders like Saudi Arabia.” Or, if you prefer, the real reason we went to war in Iraq. Excess supply, new discoveries, and sluggish demand—and yet only natural gas is acting appropriately in the markets. This behavior is undeniable proof that the invisible hand of speculation is at work, which naturally begs the question as to why traders would suppress the price of gas but not oil. For this answer we must turn back the clock once again and revisit several acts in Congress over the past two decades that made it possible for banks
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to merge with investment banks and trade commodities without limits and without transparency. Much of this trading is done on the Intercontinental Exchange, a trading platform that was founded and owned by Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and BP. When you understand that markets today are dominated by investment banks and oil companies, who are at times one in the same (Morgan Stanley’s direct holdings in oil companies, fossil fuel infrastructure and transportation companies make it one of the largest oil companies in America), it is possible to fully comprehend the psychology behind natural gas pricing. Oil companies and investment banks have the ability to move the market by forecasting prices and investing in their own products through opaque exchanges that they own, so no matter where prices are they are making money. Now you’re ready for the secret behind the fracking con job. As previously mentioned, domestic natural gas is difficult to procure. The process is devastating to human health and the environment, and the effects are irreversible. To gain momentum and influence public opinion, the oil and gas companies have launched an ingenious propaganda assault on America. By touting natural gas as the clean-burning fossil fuel that is cheaper to use and helps
reduce our dependence on foreign oil, the industry has nailed the PR trifecta: cheaper, cleaner and patriotic. And with an earnest pitchman like T. Boone Pickens, who wouldn’t believe it? The problem is none of the above is true. First, natural gas might burn cleaner than oil but the process to extract it is so harmful it doesn’t matter. And second, because the same companies who are in control of the product are in control of the pricing, once they sew up the drilling rights they can simply jack up the price. This leaves the final argument that is wrapped in the American flag and served with a side of apple pie: reducing dependence on foreign oil for the sake of the union. For the truth, let’s check in with the rest of the world to see what they say. (This was the happy accident that prompted this column.) According to India’s leading daily business newspaper, the Business Standard, “the increasing shale gas production in the U.S. has led to a surplus, likely to increase in the coming years. The U.S. is, therefore, eyeing export to countries like China, Japan, Korea and India… In the past, the U.S. has been an importer of gas.” The article goes on to quote A. K. Balyan, chief executive officer of Petronet LNG, India’s largest liquefied natural gas importer, who states, “With an increase in U.S. gas production, the gas receiving terminals need to be converted to exporting terminals.” Ta-dah! The average life of a fracking site is seven years. At best. The environmental and human health catastrophe is forever. All of the current talk of job creation and reducing dependence on oil is a sham. Our natural gas stockpiles are higher than ever and the demand for natural gas, by our own country’s admission, will remain basically flat until 2035. The oil and gas companies are planning to export gas from the Marcellus Shale region to the same developing economies we’re supposed to be competing against. How’s that for homeland security? The real insult? American oil and gas companies are willing to risk the health and welfare of our own citizens by fracking on our land in order to export fuel they claim is more beneficial to the environment. Normally, our companies are busy screwing up other countries in pursuit of their natural resources for our own consumption. As if this isn’t bad enough, they are finally committing the cardinal sin of shitting where they eat. Let’s do the right thing for once: Ban fracking now. There’s no other way.
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Jerry’s Ink BY JERRY DELLA FEMINA, Publisher, the Independent
Confessions of a Wimp I’m still shaking. It all started the other day when I climbed into the shower and started to soap up my entire body. (Those of you who know me may turn their heads now and retch at the thought of my chubby soaped-up body. I understand.) Then I reached for my shampoo bottle and shampooed my beard and mustache. Those of you who have hair on your head may be amused that a man with a shaved head would shampoo his beard and mustache. I happen to find it reassuring to touch my head every morning and feel hair in my hand, albeit just a puny little beard and what many woman find to be a creepy mustache. Now, with my beard and mustache filled with soap, I reached for the conditioner. That’s when I saw it. The world’s largest water bug had been attached to the back of the conditioner container, and now he was flapping his disgusting wings and coming towards me. I heard a woman screaming: “E… E…E…EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!” Later I realized the woman I heard screaming was me. I have no idea how, but in less than a blink of the eye I was out of the shower. Did I fly over the shower stall? I checked the glass door of the shower to make sure I hadn’t crashed through it. It was in one piece. I must have thrown the conditioner container—it was on the other side of the bathroom. I watched the giant water bug drowning and doing what looked like a backstroke in the shower water. I would swear from looking at him with his wings flapping that he had a first-class section and a coach section. I watched the now-drowned water bug, which was way too big to go down the drain for a fitting funeral at sea. As I walked out, I told my wonderful housekeeper Rene about my terrible experience. Rene, who has something nice to say about everyone, just shook her head and said, “You are such a coward.” I thought of the last time a little critter frightened me this much was years ago in my home in New York City. I was in my bedroom stretched out in bed wearing only a pair of orange boxer shorts—not a pretty sight. It was a Sunday morning. My wife, the beautiful Judy Licht, had gone out for an hour and left me with explicit instructions to be dressed and ready to go out for brunch when she came home.
Now I turned on the bed to face the open bedroom door and a streak went out into the hallway and disappeared into a bunch of bags Judy had left strewn all over the hallway. “What is that?” I wondered. Then from between two bags it emerged. A mouse. “AHHHHHH!!!” I screamed. Say “mouse” to me and I’m able to jump onto a 10-foot-high table like they do in all those cartoons. The mouse, only 20 feet away, was just sitting on the hallway carpet and I swear it was staring at me. This is tough to admit, but at that point the mouse stared me down. I averted my eyes. I was no match for him. From 20 feet away he could smell my fear. I have no doubt that establishing mastery over a fat guy wearing orange shorts is a very macho thing in his mouse world, and I’ll bet he was enjoying watching me back down. “AHHHHHH,” I screamed again. I couldn’t take my eyes off of him. Slowly I crawled on the bed to the phone and called on the intercom to my son J.T., who was upstairs in his bed, in his shorts. “J.T.,” I whispered. “There’s a mouse down here.” “Ahhhhhh,” he said. “That’s disgusting.” “The ‘chicken’ apple doesn’t fall far from the ‘chicken’ tree,” I thought with a sense of pride. Judy came home, took one look at me and said, “You’re not dressed!” “Good call, Sherlock! There’s a mouse in the hall—I’m afraid of it.” Let me put it this way: Of all the un-romantic things a man could tell a woman, admitting a fear of a mouse is at the top of the list. I would imagine it would take between five and 10 years for a woman to see a man as a romantic sexual hero after he admits to fearing a mouse. “Where is he? I’ll get him,” Judy said in a macho way that really irritated me. “How ... how ... how ... can you be such a wimp?” she snarled, looking for the mouse, which had disappeared. That’s when I drew myself to my full six-foot height and mustered as much dignity as a man wearing only orange shorts could muster and I said, “You listen here, it takes a real man to admit he’s afraid of a mouse.” Let me add water bugs are now right up there with mice as things that I’m afraid of. Whether it’s a giant water bug or a small mouse, that “real man” stuff is overrated.
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Audrey Lewis has devoted her life to serving others. A retired Gulf War veteran, Audrey was a supply sergeant in the 140th field service in the U.S. Army. When she returned to civilian life on Long Island, this Roslyn Heights resident became active in the non-profit community, as a volunteer and as recruitment director at Life’s Worc in Garden City. When she was laid off during the 2008 recession, Audrey took the opportunity to assemble a business plan for a muchneeded community center in her own neighborhood. A year later, her plan came to fruition when she founded the E Joy Community Resource Center,
Inc., based at the Friendship Baptist Church in Roslyn Heights, where Audrey’s husband, Victor, is Pastor. Audrey named the resource center after her late mother in law, Edwinor Joye Lewis. “We had a great relationship,” Audrey says, “I wanted to honor her memory.” Audrey’s leadership and hard work has enabled the E Joy CRC to grow tremendously and offers hunger relief as well as addressing the long-term health and safety concerns for many Long Islanders. What started in 2009 with 50 families at her Roslyn Heights location has grown to 200, and E Joy’s reach now includes Manhasset, Great Neck, Albertson, Mineola and Williston Park. In Suffolk County, the E Joy CRC in Holbrook is providing services to about 50 families.
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“We give what we can, to whom we can, as much as we can,” she says. The recession continues to impact more Long Islanders who then need E Joy’s assistance because they simply can’t stretch their paychecks far enough to make ends meet. “We are seeing people who are working and never needed assistance before,” Audrey says. Asking for help for something as basic as food and clothing can be both awkward and humbling, especially for the employed. In many cases having a job can be a Catch 22, making a potential candidate for assistance ineligible for governmentsupported programs such as food stamps, yet even with a job they are unable to afford the basic necessities. Thankfully, through E Joy, they can obtain enough food to feed their family. For those that have never even contemplated applying for food stamps, Audrey provides weekly on-site SNAP enrollment. Audrey’s original concept was to have a one-stop resource center in a central place that would provide a variety of services. She has accomplished that goal and more. In addition to the E Joy CRC food pantry and the Catholic Charities food commodity program, E Joy distributes clothing and school supplies, provides a job readiness program and offers ESOL workshops (English for Speakers of Other Languages) and a summer lunch program for children. Another priority for Audrey is helping senior citizens with their special dietary needs and keeps them connected to the community by providing a place for them to gather and enjoy exercise
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After a spike in suicides, health care changes and budget cuts, new calls for oversight of Nassau jail. BY Timothy Bolger | tbolger@longislandpress.com
Darryl Woody was booked at Nassau County jail last Christmas. He had been arrested the night before, pleading not guilty to domestic violence charges. In the early morning hours of Dec. 26, 2010, the 44-year-old pulled a piece of metal from the smoke detector in his cell and began stabbing himself repeatedly in the neck and wrists. The corrections officer guarding the overnight tour commanded him to stop. Woody, of Hempstead, who reportedly was bipolar and schizophrenic and unable to make the $30,000 bail or $60,000 bond, had stripped nude from his suicide-prevention gown—made of material incapable of forming a noose. Ignoring the orders, he continued to stab himself about the face and neck. Another officer arrived to assist. The two guards shouted for Woody to drop the weapon and stop injuring himself. Through the cell door’s meal hatch they fired a one-second burst of pepper spray into his face. No effect. A sergeant that had also just arrived on the scene ordered Woody to put down the piece of metal. He continued to slash his face. The officers fired a second blast of pepper spray; still no effect. Another. A fourth officer arrived to help. Woody ran to the back of his cell as the guards burst in. “I told them when I came in I needed my medication, and they didn’t give it to me!” he cried out, his voice echoing through the cell block as he was taken to a shower for decontamination. “I did this to get my meds, I’m sorry, but I need them!” Ten days later—a year ago this Jan. 3—Woody hanged himself with a bed sheet anchored to medical equipment while on suicide watch at the now-defunct prison ward in neighboring Nassau University Medical
page five of a 13-page state report on the death of darryl woody, which is about 50-percent redacted. The only line legible reads: “this represents grossly negligent psychiatric care and gross incompetence on the part of the jail/numc. Photos by Ethan Stokes/Long Island Press
Center in East Meadow. Those and other details, many blackened out, were documented in routine New York State Commission on Correction investigative reports on such deaths, obtained by the Press via Freedom of Information Law requests. “Woody’s death may have been prevented but for the grossly inadequate psychiatric care provided him in the jail and hospital, and the lack of appropriate supervision by the NUMC,” reads the top finding of the Commission’s heavily redacted Final Report of Darryl Woody.
Woody is not alone. Before him, three other inmates committed suicide at the jail in 2010—the first a year prior to the day of Woody’s demise— matching the number of suicides at Erie County jail in Buffalo; both counties individually comprising one-third of all jailhouse suicides in the state that year, according to the state Division of Criminal Justice Services. To be clear: Those numbers strictly pertain to jails, not prisons. Jail inmates include those awaiting trial—innocent until proven guilty, but unable to make bail—and those
serving misdemeanor sentences of a year or less, as opposed to prisoners, who serve lengthier sentences in upstate penitentiaries—such as Ossining’s Sing Sing or Clinton Correctional in Dannemora—for serious felonies. In the months following the four deaths, Nassau privatized health care at the jail, inmate advocates began calling for a legally required local oversight board and Sheriff Michael Sposato tightened proverbial belts amid a 3-percent cut in the county jail’s $146 million budget. The guards’ union warns such cuts could worsen conditions at a Long Island jail already described as “the worst” by violent felons who’ve spent years in maximumsecurity upstate New York prisons. “If history is to repeat itself,” John Jaronczyk, incoming president of the Sheriffs Officers Association—the 1,032 guards’ union—told the county legislature Oct. 12, “there will likely be an increase in inmate lawsuits against the county claiming unsafe conditions and the department’s failure to protect them, increase in injuries to both inmates and officers alike, increased amounts of uses of force by staff brought on by violent criminals who are angry with their unsafe conditions and increased limitations of their incarceration.” Harsh words for a place where the bad old days at the jail ended in just 2005, when federal oversight following the 1999 beating death of an inmate stopped. Four corrections officers were sentenced to prison in that case. Of course, no one expects spending time in the Gray Bar Hotel to be as whimsical as when fictional evil wizard Gargamel escapes in scenes shot there for the 2011 movie, The Smurfs. “The fact is, if someone is intent on taking their life, there’s very little you can do,” County Executive Ed Mangano told a reporters’ roundtable
”We’re trying to get to the truth.” —Robert Grundfast, the attorney for the family of Darryl Woody.
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when asked about the deaths three months after Woody’s suicide. That’s why there are strict legal guidelines regulating suicide questionnaires upon inmate intake, and guards carry a special knife called a “cut-down tool” to quickly saw through makeshift bed-sheet nooses. Despite these and other concerns, Nassau’s inmate population is actually growing, thanks to the county’s fiscal crisis. The jail this year got the OK to rent cells to Suffolk and federal authorities short on space for inmates—one of the ways Nassau hopes to close its projected $310 million budget gap. About 1,500 inmates are estimated to be held at the jail on any given day, depending upon the ebb and flow of the criminal justice system. Inmate advocates, civil rights proponents and sheriffs’ union officials warn the situation in Nassau jail will likely get much, much worse before getting any better.
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While researching the complaints pouring in, local inmate advocates uncovered a 1990 provision in the county charter mandating a citizen oversight panel of medical and civil rights experts that would take inmate complaints and make recommendations—but the past three county executives never appointed or staffed such a board. After lobbying county lawmakers went nowhere, the activists rallied on Nov. 28, 2011, outside the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola, demanding action. “These people in jail have civil rights, and [they] should be protected,” Douglas Mayers, president of the Freeport/Roosevelt NAACP chapter, told the legislature after protesting outside. “They’re human beings like us.” His comments included fewer graphic allegations than speakers before him in a parade of former inmates, family members of inmates and affiliated nonprofit groups who’ve joined forces in the fight. Proponents say the board would be similar to one in New York City. “I’m hoping that it doesn’t have to end up in a lawsuit,” Samantha Fredrickson, director of the Nassau chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, tells the Press. “I’m hoping that the county will do the right thing and abide by the county charter.” Yet county officials aren’t tripping over themselves in support. Sheriff Sposato believes that the Board of Visitors, as it is called, would be redundant. “The department already works with and responds to a number of oversights at this point,” he said in a News
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statement issued through the jail’s attorney and spokeswoman, Elizabeth Loconsolo, declining to comment on specific allegations of abuse. “It may be that the Board of Visitors was never constituted as it would just create additional, duplicative work and could cause some confusion and contradictory reports and/or recommendations.” Aside from the state corrections commission monitoring, incidents at the jail are investigated by the county Commission on Human Rights, police, prosecutors, the department’s own internal affairs unit and an inmate grievance unit—a unit that advocates argue is understaffed. In addition, there has been a Jail Advisory Committee made up of East Meadow community leaders since the late 1980s following rallies opposing its expansion. “Unless that jail is safe, then the community will not be,” says Legis. Norma Gonsalves (R-East Meadow), who has sat on the committee since its inception when she was a civic activist. “We want to see that the inmates are taken care of,” she says of the current committee while researching the visitors’ board idea. Fredrickson says that the current jail committee isn’t for inmates; it’s for neighbors concerned about inmate escapes, including East Meadow High School and district officials from across the street on Carman’s Avenue. The mandated board would be made up of experts from beyond the immediate community. And she notes that it isn’t up to Sposato, it’s Mangano who is tasked with the appointments. District Attorney Kathleen Rice, who had called for expediting reviews on jail deaths, says through a spokesman that she is taking a waitand-see approach on the advisory board issue until Mangano makes a decision. The county executive’s office did not answer questions on the administration’s position on the visitors’ board, but a Mangano spokeswoman forwarded Sposato’s aforementioned statement opposing the idea. The visitors’ board was established under former Republican County Executive Tom Gulotta, who appears to have set the example of not appointing members for his Democratic successor, Tom Suozzi, to follow. Gulotta never started the initial nomination process 21 years ago nor
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amid revived efforts following the ’99 beating death, according to Newsday reports at the time. Legis. Judy Jacobs (D-Woodbury) has said that, unlike many of the issues brought before the legislature, this should not break along party lines. “This really is not a partisan issue,” Jacobs told the visitors’ board proponents at the legislative chamber in November. “This is not a time for finger pointing.”
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Armor Correctional Health Services of New York, a Florida-based company, won an $11.8 million contract to provide health care at Nassau jail starting in June. It joins 12 other jails statewide that have done the same with other such firms. For the first time the jail now has an infirmary equipped for IVs, detox, treating infections and other ailments, saving precious overtime costs by no longer having to send guards with inmates next door to NUMC, Mangano and Sposato say. It was the Mangano administration’s first privatization of a county service—which garnered far less fanfare than similar moves for Long Island Bus and plans for the sewer system. However, critics charge that Armor could be a case of the cure being worse than the disease. It’s
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no cure-all—inmates requiring more serious treatment will still be treated at the county’s public hospital. This remains a point of contention for some. “There are still inmates that are assigned to the hospital, and there are open posts now in the hospital,” Jaronczyk, the union head, said at the legislature’s October budget hearing, referring to the closure of the NUMC prison ward. “So now citizens of Nassau County are going to be in a hospital room right next to a possibly violent inmate.” When Jaronczyk tried to debate Sposato over the issue, Presiding Officer Peter Schmitt (R-Massapequa) cut in: “We’re looking to do more with less because that’s what the outside economy demands of us.” The hospital insists it’s a moot topic: “We have always had patient prisoners on the floors of the hospital,” says Shelley Lotenberg, spokeswoman for NUMC. And getting violent at NUMC or other hospitals is not a crime exclusive to Nassau jail inmates. Last Christmas Eve—the night inmate Woody was arrested following a struggle with police—a 27-year-old emergency room patient broke a police officer’s leg. Fredrickson, of the ACLU, says inmate complaints to her office are up since Armor took over. Sposato has said that is to be expected, since inmates prefer leaving the jail to go to NUMC for every ailment, no matter how small. All agree there was room for improvement from the stories of the pre-Armor days. “I never thought about it until I worked there,” Patricia Dellatto of Wantagh, a former Nassau jail nurse who now heads the Nassau Inmate Advocacy Group, told the legislature. “I would go home every day depressed, crying…It was one story after another.” Besides inmates waiting days for treatment, she said, “I would be chastised if I sent somebody to the ER.” Armor representatives declined to comment for this story. Continued on page 16 for
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In the state Commission on Correction reports critiquing the jail’s response to each of the four suicides, none of the recommendations on how to prevent future deaths were as harsh as in Woody’s case. Aside from admonishing the jail to retrain staff on protocol, improve supervision and keep better records— themes in all four reports, although each case is distinct—the commission also recommended that the state health department investigate two NUMC doctors for “gross negligence and gross incompetence” in caring for Woody, according to his report. NUMC spokeswoman Lotenberg said suggestions in the reports should be directed to the jail and Armor since the hospital is no longer contracted to handle the bulk of inmate health care. “We’re trying to get to the truth,” says Robert Grundfast, the Stony Brook-based attorney representing the Woody family in a lawsuit against the county, jail and NUMC seeking $140 million in damages. “We just want to see who did what, when and where.” Before Woody, 29-year-old Hearve Jeanot of Deer Park hanged himself in his cell on Oct. 27, 2010, just hours after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder in what authorities described as a 2004 contract killing— following two hung juries and an earlier conviction that was overturned. “Hopefully, greater precautions have been put in place to prevent further tragedies,” William Petrillo, the Rockville Centre-based attorney who represented Jeanot, tells the Press. The two suicides that preceded Jeanot’s involved inmates with admitted drug dependencies—inmates who are plentiful amid LI’s heroin and prescription painkiller abuse epidemic—injecting yet another issue regarding adequate services at Nassau jail into the debate. Weeks earlier, Gasparino Godino, 31, of Bethpage—known to friends as Reno—was found hanged in his jail cell Oct. 5, 2010, after he and his girlfriend were arrested for allegedly snatching purses to feed their heroin habit. And 10 months prior to that, 32-year-old Eamon McGinn of Brooklyn did the same on Jan. 3, 2010, after he surrendered to Glen Cove city police for stealing from his mother-in-law to score Oxycontin, the widely abused brand name OxyCodone prescription
painkiller, and speedballs, a mix of cocaine and heroin. Godino’s girlfriend was too distraught over his death to comment after she pleaded not guilty to robbery charges. McGinn’s family is suing the county and the hospital. “They didn’t take him in right,” says John Nash, the Manhattan-based attorney for the McGinn family. “They didn’t medically assess the risk factor for a fellow who was an admitted abuser of drugs.” The lawsuits come as the guards’ union maintains jail budget cuts will increase tensions and do little to keep such allegations under lock and key. They also come amid pushback from Sposato regarding some of the state Committee on Correction reports’ findings and remedial recommendations, according to Janine Kava, spokeswoman for the commission. “These four cases are complex and are comprised of a significant number of issues and problems,” Kava tells the Press. “In some of them, the sheriff has accepted the Medical Review Board’s recommendations. In others he has refused to accept findings upon which recommendations are based and has resisted making any changes. “Implementation of those recommendations the sheriff agreed to will be the subject of site verification visits over the course of this year,” she continues. “However, the commission will continue to insist that all of the Medical Review Board’s recommendations to prevent recurrence of these unacceptable outcomes be implemented. There are a number of actions the commission can take if compliance is not forthcoming, but enumerating them at this time would be purely speculative.” As Nassau continues to wrestle with its fiscal crisis, advocates for the ever-increasing inmates at the county jail will continue to press for better oversight of the facility and the installation of a board of visitors. In the meantime, contend critics, at the heart of the matter is a battle to save lives. “Add up all these ingredients that are County Executive Mangano’s and Sheriff Sposato’s budget menu,” Jaronczyk told the legislature, mocking the sheriff’s ascent from his start as jail cook. “Top that all off with a limited response that’s available to respond to these emergencies, and what you have here is a recipe for disaster.”
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SUFFOLK COUNTY EXECUTIVE STEVE BELLONE: Reform the police department Former Suffolk Police Commissioner Richard Dormer was championed by ex-County Executive Steve Levy for riding roughshod over the police union to make policing more cost effective, but he left the department under a cloud as new doubts arose over claims about the county’s “reduced” crime statistics. Dormer’s handling of the Gilgo Beach serial killer investigation made him the butt of ridicule. Now that he’s gone, Bellone has to quickly make good on his promise to end the division between the police and the sheriffs that he claims is crippling law enforcement and imperiling public safety, just as the U.S. Justice Department is slated to release its report at any time on the police department’s handling of hate crimes. The new county executive has to be ready for this bombshell, even though these allegations occurred on Levy’s shift. Bellone’s promise of a new era of transparency will surely be put to the test. NASSAU COUNTY EXECUTIVE ED MANGANO: Make increased transparency a top priority Still struggling to close a 2012 budget gap of $310 million, Mangano could improve his image—not to mention the perception of his deficit-cutting schemes— with much more sunlight. Long Island Bus’ 100,000 daily users weren’t able to see the details of his deal with the new operator Veolia until the contract was consummated. Most residents were in the dark about his $1.3 billion plan to turn Nassau’s sewer system over to a private operator until shortly before the county’s Dec. 31 deadline to award the contract to a company to run it. Hundreds of middle-class families didn’t know whether they’d have a job or not until days before the New Year. Some happy holiday, huh? Being open and honest with taxpaying voters, combined with meaningful public input far in advance of crucial legislative votes instead of last-minute, do-or-die shadowy initiatives, is not just transparent government, it’s better government. Nassau residents deserve it. SUFFOLK DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN RICH SCHAFFER: Beware the power of Babylon Returning to Babylon Town Hall as supervisor might look good on his resumé but it’s not the kind of career move one would expect from Rich Schaffer, the most powerful Democrat never to leave Long Island, because he’s already “been there, done that.” Sure, Babylon’s a great town, and with Schaffer’s former protégé, Steve Bellone, moving to the county executive’s office in Hauppauge, the place deserves some continuity of inspired leadership. But the temptation to form a Babylon Cabal when it comes to awarding municipal contracts could reach Biblical proportions—and fuel a lot of political envy from politicians of all persuasions, including his own party—and that would be a sin. Schaffer has a golden opportunity to show what good government really looks like, as long as he remembers to put the people first. All the people, even those in Islip, say. The last thing this county needs is town warfare! Continued on page 22 News
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NASSAU LEGISLATURE PRESIDING OFFICER PETER SCHMITT: No more rubber stamps People want time to voice their concerns regarding programs and initiatives that will directly affect the future of their families and their wallets. They want a chance to weigh in meaningfully—and know that their input matters. They want to see the details, read the fine print. More discussion on key issues (the Long Island Bus contract, the potential leasing or sale of the Nassau sewer system, for example) far in advance of a vote would not only boost public perception that what they’re getting is above-par, but would ensure taxpayers are getting the best deal. “Vote now, explain later” only benefits those insiders who stand to profit. Or so it seems. Schmitt (R-Massapequa) could do a lot more to change that perception than mock the hapless people who dare to vie for his attention at a last-minute public hearing. Suffolk REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN JOHN JAY LAVALLE: Don’t spoil a good thing The severe fiscal problems facing Suffolk County are not as bad as its next-door neighbor’s—not yet anyway—but it must be tempting for the local Republican leader John Jay LaValle to want them to worsen just enough so that the Democrat who beat his party’s candidate has a hard time solving them. The pugnacious party boss might want to listen to the better angels of our nature, as Good Old Abe Lincoln used to say, and let Republicans and Democrats in the legislature work together in keeping with the body’s bipartisan tradition and spare the county the divisive rancor that has made Congress so ungovernable. They don’t have to harmonize on “Kumbaya,” but LaValle’s got to let the caucus members of the GOP “agree to disagree” without becoming too disagreeable. Otherwise, Suffolk’s credit rating, which has dipped, will slide down a slippery slope steeper than the Cliff Diver ride at Splish Splash.
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Between growing up in Staten Island and Brooklyn, playing in a band called Miracle of 86 (named after the 1986 Mets) and graduating from Fordham, Kevin Devine is about as authentic a New Yorker as a Junior’s Cheesecake. With influences ranging from Neutral Milk Hotel and Pavement to Bob Dylan and Elliott Smith, Devine has also built up a loyal following through six albums and a handful of EPs. His most recent effort was covering Nevermind in its entirety in honor of the album’s twentieth anniversary and letting fans download it off his website for free. Thursday, 1.5—Dave Gil de Rubio ROSS BARBERA: SUNLIT WORLD OF THE NORTHEAST LANDSCAPE @ HUNTINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
Ross Barbera paints the natural sunlit world of the northeast landscape in acrylic on canvas, creating works that range from extreme close-ups of pond surfaces, trees, forest floors, leaves and flowers to more encompassing views. He is inspired by the interplay and diversity of textural surfaces, form and color elements, especially on water surfaces and his flower paintings embrace the abstraction discovered in the microcosmic. Sunday, 1.8-Sunday, 2.26. —Daphne Livingston
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Using the Lessons of the Holocaust to Teach Tolerance @ Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County BARNABY BRIGHT @ GARDEN STAGE
Trekking out from Brooklyn, the husband-and-wife duo Rebecca and Nathan Bliss, (a.k.a. Barnaby Bright), swing out to Garden City where they’ll be trotting out a set of inspired folk-pop. Weaving in gorgeous harmonies and a knack for incorporating unusual instrumentation including ukulele and harmonium, Barnaby Bright has already made its mark as finalists in the New York City Song Circle Contest, being highlighted as “Emerging Artist” at the 2010 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival and seen its music be used in episodes of ER and Days of Our Lives. Friday, 1.6.—DGdR
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latest foray into the studio, this mini-tour will afford devotees an opportunity to overlook these extended absences from the music scene and experience Johnson’s unfettered creative prowess in an intimate setting. Also 1.6 @ B.B. King Blues Club—DGdR Cassandra House @ Patchogue Theatre With special guest Jordan Hope. Disney On Ice @ Nassau Coliseum Mickey & Minnie’s Magical Journey. Through 1.8. Jim Florentine @ The Brokerage Through 1.11. Cassandra Wilson @ The Blue Note As that rare jazz artist who manages to explore the realms of pop music without coming off sounding like elevator music (are you listening Kenny G?), Cassandra Wilson is that rare artist who can give gravitas to The Monkees’ “Last Train to Clarksville” without a scintilla of irony. The huskyvoiced chanteuse continued down this eclectic path with last year’s Silver Pony, this time wrapping herself around an array of composers including Lennon-McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Luiz Bonfa and Charley Patton. Through 1.7—Dave Gil de Rubio Rhett Miller/Adam Levy @ City Winery Roomful of Blues @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill Bebel Gilberto @
Highline Ballroom Friday 1.6 The Grunge 20 @ Gramercy Theatre Indelible Festival @ Highline Ballroom Featuring the legendary Jimmy Scott, Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def ) -Tribute to Gil-Scott Heron, Cecil Taylor, ?uestlove, Bilal, Derrick Hodge, Bajah & the Dry Eye Crew and special guest Gary Bartz. Kid is Qual (exJack’s Mannequin) @ Vibe Lounge With Waking Heroes, We Take Fire, Broken Promises & The Epitome. Big Laughs in Bay Shore @ YMCA Boulton Center Cellist Paul Swensen @ BACCA Performing Arts Center Mike Vecchione @ Governor’s Also 1.7. New York Philharmonic @ Tilles Center Tim Krompier @ The Brokerage Also 1.7. 2012 Bash @ Mr. Beery’s With Butterscotch Stanley, Family Lumber and Lairs Etc. Drink and Beer specials will be posted or shouted or hinted. Whatever... Pure Grand Opening @ Silk Mr. Saxobeat live. Greg Vacariello @ McGuire’s Also 1.7. Drew Meltzer & Friends @ The
Brookerage Mark Riccadonna & Brian E. Kiley @ McGuire’s Reid Paley Trio @ Grey Horse Tavern Come bask in the Long Island afterglow at 10 p.m. TNA Impact Wrestling @ NYCB Theatre at Westbury An interactive experience that sends its craziest fans backstage to meet their favorite wrestling superstars including Kurt Angle, Jeff Hardy, Gail Kim, Bobby Roode, James Storm and others. Katie Pearlman Band @ Patchogue Theatre With special guest Hombre Jones. Elvis Weekend @ Bay Street Theatre Screenings of King Creole and Jailhouse Rock. Also 1.7. SATURDAY 1.7 Glen Campbell @ Town Hall A legendary artist whose resume includes a stint as a Beach Boy, a variety show host and a huge country crossover solo artist who helped make Jimmy Webb a household name, Glen Campbell shocked the world last year when he announced his being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and was going on a farewell tour. The corresponding album, Ghost On the Canvas, wound up being a touching elegy recording with Billy Corgan, Rick Nielsen, Chris Isaac, Dick Dale and Brian Setzer while cutting covers of Paul Westberg and Teddy Thomson. Campbell’s version of Guided By Voices’ “Hold On Hope” is the album’s unquestioned
highlight and is more than enough of a reason to attend this part of Campbell’s Farewell Tour. With Instant People. — DGdR Miles to Dayton @ Grey Horse Tavern Aer @ Gramercy Theatre With Ballyhoo! & Guy Harrison. 45 RPM @ Ollies Point With Arcane Smile & Full Count. Toad the Wet Sprocket/Ari Hest/ Willy Porter/Ellis Paul @ City Winery Edwin McCain @ Highline Ballroom With Leigh Nash & Erick Baker. Preservation Hall Jazz Band-50th Anniversary @ Carnegie Hall Even though the roots of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band date back to its founding in 1961, the Crescent City heritage it is a part of goes much further back right down to the actual building housing the PHJB having been in use since 1812. More importantly, this outfit has been instrumental in preserving the legacy of New Orleans traditional and Dixieland jazz music birthed in the Big Easy. So it’s no surprise that an all-star array of talent will be hitting Carnegie Hall alongside the Preservation Hall Jazz Band to pay homage and play some hot jazz on a cold winter night. Guest performers will include Allen Toussaint, Blind Boys of Alabama, Del McCoury Band, Ed Helms, GIVERs, Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs, My
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Best Buy Theater—1515 Broadway. 212-930-1950. www.bestbuytheater.com
Bay Street Theatre—The Long Wharf, Sag Harbor. 631-725-9500. www. baystreet.org
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McGuires Comedy Club—1627 Smithtown Ave., Bohemia. 631-4675413. www.mcguirescomedyshows.com
Nutty Irishman Bay Shore—60 E. Main St., Bay Tilles Center— 720 North- Shore. 631-969-9700. ern Boulevard, Greenvale. www.thenuttyirishman. 516-299-2752. www. com tillescenter.org Outerbanks—661 RiverGovernor’s Comedy Vibe Lounge—60 N. Park side Dr., Riverhead. 631Club—90 Division Ave., Ave., Rockville Centre. 873-4123 Levittown. 516-731-3358. 516-208-6590. www. www.govs.com Paramount—370 New vibeloungeli.com York Ave., Huntington Holocaust Memorial and Zachary’s Lounge—1916 Tolerance Center of Nas- Hempstead Tpke., East Patchogue Theatre— 71 sau County—100 Crescent Meadow. 516-794-9770. East Main St., Patchogue. Beach Rd., Glen Cove. 631-207-1300. www. www.zacharysny.com 516-571-8040, ext. 100. patchoguetheatre.com www.holocaust-nassau. Suffolk Ripe Art Gallery—67A org. BACCA Arts Center—149 Broadway, Greenlawn. Library Café—274 Main N. Wellwood Ave., Linden- www.ripeartgal.com St., Farmingdale. 516-752- hurst. www.babylonarts. Silk Ultra Lounge—573 7678. www.thelibrarycafe. com Nesconset Hwy., com Hauppauge. 631-807Book Revue—313 New Mr. Beery’s—4019 Hemp- York Ave., Huntington. 6330. www.linights.com stead Tpke., Bethpage. 631-271-1442. www. Smithtown Historical 516-731-9579. www. bookrevue.com Society—211 Middle mrbeerys.com Country Rd., Smithtown, Brookhaven AmphitheNassau Coliseum—1255 ater—55 S. Bicycle Path, NY 11787-2807 Hempstead Tpke., Union- Farmingville. 631-732Staller Center—Stony dale. 631-920-1203. www. 4011. www.brookhavenBrook University, Nicolls nassaucoliseum.com amphitheater.com Road, Stony Brook. www. Nassau County Museum Cinema Arts Centre—423 stallercenter.sunysb.edu of Art—1 Museum Dr., Park Ave., Huntington University Café—Stony Roslyn Harbor. 516-484631-423-FILM. www.cinBrook University, Nichols 9337. www.nassaumuemaartscentre.org Road, Stony Brook. www. seum.com Dix Hills Performing Arts stonybrook.edu North Shore SynaCenter—305 N. Service Westhampton Beach Pergogue—83 Muttontown Rd., Dix Hills. 631-656forming Arts Center—76 Rd., Syosset. 516-9212148. www.dhpac.org Main St., Westhampton 2282. Beach. 631-288-1500. Halo—281 W. Main St., Nutty Irishman FarmSmithtown. 631-265-1647. www.whbpac.org ingdale—323 Main St., www.linights.com YMCA Boulton Center—37 Farmingdale. 516-293W. Main St., Bay Shore. 9700. www.thenuttyirish- Huntington Public 631-969-1101. www. man.com Library—338 Main St., boultoncenter.org Huntington NYCB Theatre at Westbury—960 Brush Hollow John Harvard’s —2093 Manhattan Rd., Westbury. 877-598Smith Haven Plaza, Lake B.B. Kings Blues Club 8694. www.thetheatreat- Grove. & Grill—237 West 42nd westbury.com St. 212-997-4144. www. Katie’s of SmithOMG! Oh My Girls—140 bbkingblues.com town—145 W. Main St., Jericho Tpke., Syosset. Smithtown. 631-360Beacon Theatre—2124 516-802-5800. www. 8556. www.katiesofsmith- Broadway. 212-465-6500. ohmygirls.com town.com www.beacontheatre.com Brokerage Comedy Club—2797 Merrick Rd, Bellmore. 516-785-8655. www.brokeragecomedy. com
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An inquiry into the decade-long reign of the first and only British female head of state in the 1980s—and for that matter the first woman ever to head a world power—the Margaret Thatcher biopic, The Iron Lady, has succeeded in antagonizing both liberals who have denounced her, and her own arch conservative supporters who feel this portrait in her declining years is disrespectfully weak. It’s a debate occasionally akin to a bar room brawl, and even embraced by each opposing side as evidence of their respective warring points of view. And while some may interpret this as a balanced perspective in the movie, the reality is the film has elicited such criticisms by saying practically nothing at all. The dramatic devices that diminish political controversy are quite blatant. First, Meryl Streep, a universally appealing movie star, is chosen to play Thatcher, rather than say, a Brit who might have really voraciously sunk her teeth into the role, like Judi Dench, who is currently so ferocious in Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar as Hoover’s tyrannical mom, that she comes off as more intimidating than he is. Thatcher is portrayed on screen as virtually showing up out of nowhere in Parliament for no compelling personal reason in particular, and instantly whipping all those male wimp politicians into line when actually, in a case of the other way around and not unlike Sarah Palin, Thatcher was groomed and manipulated to project a dishonest female empowering public image—the better to snatch the women’s vote away from the liberal Labour Party, and ensure Tory conservative victory.
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Twilight’s baby-faced perpetual patriarch Peter Facinelli impresses in Loosies, as having a lot more going for him than just being stuck in neutral as a repeatedly born-again typecast vampire. 30
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Making his screenwriting debut, Facinelli likewise stars as a Big Apple mean streets maven pickpocket, who’s got the brains to match his brawn—until an overload of cocky self-confidence kicks in, and his con game world comes crashing down. Facinelli is Bobby, son of a set of parents with unhealthy gambling habits. Dad, who racks up half a million dollars in unpaid gambling debts before he dies, is the worst of the pair, with Mom sticking to Bingo nights. But even though a death threat looms over Bobby’s head, forcing hiim to bring in stolen goods daily to pay off his father’s ruthless loan shark, a little Stockholm Syndrome materializes along the way too. In other words, Bobby begins to get a rush out of the risk and danger of the indictable deed, and injects a bit of creative fun into the proceedings, such as dressing up like a Wall Street player when he’s roaming the elite vicinity for the pockets of gullible swells and tourists to dip into. This leads to an encounter that varies from his strictly commitment-challenged stud perspective, with Lucy (Jaimie Alexander), a barmaid over at a boutique neighborhood bar called Loosies (which is also what single cigarettes bought at bodegas are called). Lucy is not only infatuated with Bobby and tries without success to track him down, but finds herself pregnant after this brief encounter. Directed with raw, comedic flair and seedy inner city atmospheric perfection by Michael Corrente (American Buffalo, Federal Hill), Loosies may be on the predictable and sudsy narrative side when dealing with brooding baby mom issues. As for Facinelli, whose alias is wellbehaved bloodsucker Dr. Carlisle Cullen, let’s just say his moves on screen in Loosies display a notable talent for extending his previous narrow range. But the unremarkable romance in the story could have definitely benefited from a lot more bite.
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Fat in the abdominal area is different than fat in the rest of the body. It is difficult to reduce and is hazardous to health. Abdominal fat produces destructive hormones that spread throughout the body. There are 2 types, outer fat and intestinal fat. Excess fat on outer abdomen Stubborn fat around intestines
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I’m Johnnie Smith. I was on Dr. Frank Ryan’s Abdominal Fat Reducer for 30 days. I lost 21 pounds and lost 4 inches off my waist without any changes to my diet or physical activity.
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handling for a total of $62.95. But, for this 10-day discount, readers can get $20 off plus free shipping and handling and pay only $39 delivered for Dr. Frank Ryan’s Abdominal Fat Reducer. For readers who want to obtain a 30-day supply of Dr. Frank Ryan’s Abdominal Fat Reducer at this 10-day discount price, please see the Special Reader’s Discount Coupon on this page. There is a strict limit of 3 bottles at this discount price – no exceptions please. Those readers ordering after 10 days from the date of this publication must pay the regular price. 5 Metabolism 2000 Jan: 49:101-7
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My name is Christie Kuykendall. Thanks to Dr. Frank Ryan’s Abdominal Fat Reducer I was able to lose all of my stubborn pot belly without changing my diet or Dr. Frank Ryanʼs Abdominal Fat Reducer physical activity.
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DR. FRANK RYAN’S ABDOMINAL FAT REDUCER CLINICAL STUDY RESULTS
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potent extract of green tea. This extract is EGCG, which has been shown in clinical studies to dramatically and quickly increase calorie burning which helps to quickly reduce abdominal body fat.4 These ingredients start working in 20 minutes to increase calorie burning, which is the first step to reducing the pot belly. Today readers of this publication can get Dr. Frank Ryan’s Abdominal Fat Reducer at a major discount if they order in 10 days from the date of this publication. The regular price of a 30-day supply of Dr. Frank Ryan’s Abdominal Fat Reducer is $59 plus $3.95 shipping and
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Dr. Frank Ryan, famous plastic surgeon to the Hollywood stars, was featured on television and in magazines across the nation on an extensive basis. Before he died in a tragic car accident on the Pacific Coast Highway near his ranch in Malibu, Dr. Ryan fulfilled his lifelong dream of developing a line of products which would substantially improve personal appearance without plastic surgery. This product line, which includes an advanced abdominal fat reducer was previously only available to Dr. Ryan’s clients. It has now been made available to the public.
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physical activity. People who were not exercising or dieting lost weight and pot belly as well as those who were exercising and dieting. The study also showed that Dr. Frank Ryan’s Abdominal Fat Reducer significantly increased calorie burning so that you lose weight faster or you can eat more food without gaining weight. And, the study found that the all natural Dr. Frank Ryan’s Abdominal Fat Reducer pill produced weight loss safely. How does Dr. Frank Ryan’s Abdominal Fat Reducer work? It was found in a number of research studies that a substance called Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) decreases abdominal body fat in three ways: 1.) CLA decreases abdominal body fat mass by decreasing the amount of abdominal fat that is stored after eating; 2.) CLA increases the rate of fat breakdown in abdominal fat cells; and 3.) CLA increases the rate of abdominal fat metabolism which decreases the total number of fat cells. You can think of CLA as a match that lights the fuse in abdominal fat. This fuse also increases metabolic rate that can result in more fat loss. Dr. Frank Ryan’s Abdominal Fat Reducer contains the effective dose of CLA. CLA interferes with an enzyme called lipoprotein lipase (LPL). LPL is an enzyme that helps store fat in the body. 2 So, by inhibiting this fat-storing enzyme LPL, CLA can help reduce the reaccumulation of fat. CLA also helps the body use its existing abdominal fat for energy, thereby increasing fat oxidation and energy expenditure. Dr. Frank Ryan’s Abdominal Fat Reducer also contains other super highly advanced all-natural ingredients that help reduce abdominal fat. Studies have shown that Dr. Frank Ryan’s Abdominal Fat Reducer ingredients increase the rate of fat metabolism, which reduces both surface and intestinal abdominal fat and helps inhibit future formation of these abdominal fats.3, 4, 5 One of these ingredients is a very high quality and
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An advanced line of products produced by famous Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Frank Ryan is now available to the public. Previously these products had only been available to Dr. Ryan’s clients which included Oscar winning Hollywood movie stars and celebrities across the nation. These products substantially improve personal appearance without plastic surgery. Dr. Ryan, perhaps the most famous Hollywood plastic surgeon in recent times, was extensively featured on television and in magazines across the nation. Dr. Ryan was also one of the first professional staff members of Endless Youth and Life which provides products and services that make celebrities look and perform many years younger than their age. On August 16, 2010 Dr. Ryan died in a tragic car accident. It was Dr. Ryan’s wishes that Endless Youth and Life would make his advanced non-surgical product line available to the public in the future. Endless Youth and Life is now complying with Dr. Ryan’s wishes. The first product being offered to the public is Dr. Ryan’s most popular non-surgical personal appearance enhancement product, Dr. Frank Ryan’s Abdominal Fat Reducer. Abdominal fat is the most stubborn fat to reduce and it is also the most hazardous fat to health. Abdominal fat produces destructive hormones that spread throughout the body. A clinical study has shown that Dr. Frank Ryan’s Abdominal Fat Reducer can reduce your pot belly without changing your diet or physical activity. A double blind clinical study was conducted on Dr. Frank Ryan’s Abdominal Fat Reducer. The study was commissioned by Advanced Supplement Research and used a research group which conducts clinical studies for the major drug companies. The test subjects in the study lost significant weight and reduced their pot belly without changing their diet or
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