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Sound Smart at a Party You know that guy at parties who he teamed up with the Hong Kong-based never shuts up about himself? He just company Wicked Lasers and attached the
wants to feel good. Harvard researchers have discovered that people actually get a biochemical buzz from talking about themselves. Participants’ brains were scanned while being asked questions and the scans showed sharing personal information led to activity in the reward areas of the brain, which are also activated when we eat and have sex…
laser with a special, non-invasive clamp on the dorsal fin of a shark. No, Tipple isn’t a huge Austin Powers fan; he was actually just trying to test out a shark fin attachment that he’s been working on. He plans to use the attachment, which he says doesn’t pierce the skin and can be easily removed, to mount a camera that would capture a shark’s-eye view of the water. The shark used in the experiment was This is more than mildly disturbing: appropriately named Mr. Bigglesworth…
There’s a man named Dominic Deville who rents himself out as an “evil birthday clown” for children. And he doesn’t just
A new study shows that mothers of overweight children usually don’t work during parties. Deville sends kids realize their kids are not a healthy frightening notes the week leading up size. Researchers recruited 281 mothers
to their birthdays, telling them they are being watched and will soon be attacked. He uses texts, phone calls and letters to make his threats, and follows through at the end by smashing a cake into the child’s face. The Swiss actor says he backs off if the kids get too scared, but they usually love the horror movie treatment. In related news, the therapy business has never looked more lucrative… Dr. Evil’s dream has come true: A shark with a fricken “laser beam” attached to its head. Australian marine
biologist/Shark Week regular Luke Tipple made the dream a reality last April, when
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from a suburban Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) clinic and an urban pediatric clinic and found that 81.7 percent of mothers with overweight children thought their child was at a perfect weight. In addition, 21 percent of mothers of healthy-weight children and 4 percent of mothers of overweight toddlers wanted their kids to gain more weight. According to experts, children who have weight problems before the age of 5 are more likely to have weight problems throughout their adolescence, which can have an effect on cognition, learning and behavior…
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“I’m very supportive of that idea. America has been fantastic to me. I have no problem paying whatever I need to pay to keep my country growing” -Will Smith on President Barack Obama’s proposal that everyone earning $1 million a year or more should pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes. Here Smith poses at a press conference to promote his new movie “Men in Black III” in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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Press WIns Top Awards At Annual Folios The Long Island Press brought home 10 Folio Awards from the Fair Media Council at its annual ceremony April 20, more than any other news organization in the competition. The Press once again took home the Robert W. Greene Award for Investigative Journalism, this time around for its March 2011 expose of a squashed police probe and preferential treatment given to donors of a Nassau County Police Department nonprofit—a story that sparked an investigation by the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office and resulted in three ex-top police officials charged with official misconduct, among other counts. Titled “Membership Has Its Privileges: Is NCPD Selling Different Treatment to Private Citizens?” it was the first installment of a five-part investigative series into the NCPD by contributing writer Shelly Feuer Domash and Senior Reporter/Editor - Investigations Christopher Twarowski. Their third article in that series, “What A Mess,” an in-depth look into the disastrous conditions and potential cover-up by top police, prosecutors and county officials regarding the Nassau County Police Crime Lab, won a Folio in the Feature category. The series earned the duo a Folio in the Enterprise Reporting category. Twarowski also won Folios in the Economic Business or Consumer News category for “How Team Mangano’s Proposal to Privatize the Nassau Sewage System Could Flush the County’s Future Down the Drain” and, along with Press Staff Writer Rashed Mian, in the News Analysis category for “King’s Speech: Heated Words on Both Sides Will Echo Long After First Round of Long Island Congressman’s Muslim
Radicalization Hearings.” Senior Editor Spencer Rumsey won a Folio Award in the Energy Trends & Innovations Feature Reporting category for “Fight the Power: The Problems with LIPA and National Grid” and in the Smart Growth Feature Reporting category for “Best Laid Plans,” an insightful analysis of LI’s ambitious, yet often doomed plans for innovative development. He also won in the Transportation Improvements Feature Reporting category for “TunnelVision: Inside the East Side Access Project.” Staff Writer Jaclyn Gallucci took home a Folio in the Editorial category for her chilling “Getting Away With Murder: Without A Serial Killer, Missing Prostitutes Just Don’t Matter” and shared another with Rumsey, Mian and Twarowski in the Science, Health or Environment News category for “Gas Rush: Lines Are Drawn in New York and Long Island’s Heated Hydrofracking Debate.”
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Yahoo—off target Scott Thompson, CEO of Web giant Yahoo, says he’s sorry about the disruption, after hedge fund manager Dan a t l Travo Loeb reveals Thompson’s published bios, which claim he holds a Bachelor’s degree in both accounting and computer science—he only has the former—were false. Yahoo Yahoo ay attributes the whole thing to an “inadvertent error.” Maybe Newsd Yahoo should have done a Google search on the guy before hiring him? B CBG nt Stude ill Loan B
Newsday—bull’s eye Two weeks after the Long Island Press runs a cover story on Newsday’s neutered newsroom and watered-down reporting, LI’s daily paper announces it has hired renowned investigative journalist Matt Doig to serve as “director of investigations.” Wow, Cablevision’s newsletter doing investigative journalism? Hey, just give us a call if you need some pointers! Oh, and Doig, you owe us a beer.
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John Travolta—partial score A second massage therapist comes forward as actor John Travolta is accused in a $2 million lawsuit of sexual battery and assault by an unidentified masseur who claims Travolta made unwanted sexual advances during a session. And the Church of Scientology wasn’t able to silence this claim with threats and counter-suits? Man, that whole organization has really gone downhill! CBGB—partial score Investors say they plan to reincarnate the famous punk rock club into a “new venue focused on new music” once they find a permanent location in lower Manhattan to house it. In the meantime they prepare to launch the first CBGB music festival, which will take place in July and showcase 300 indie bands at dozens of venues across Manhattan and Brooklyn. Because nothing says “punk rock” like investors trying to monetize the subculture! Santorum/Romney—off target Former U.S. presidential candidate Rick Santorum endorses former rival for the 2012 Republican Party nomination Mitt Romney, in a late-night e-mail to his supporters. Santorum endorsed him? Well now he’s lost our vote! Student Loan BilL—off target The bill that would prevent student loan rates from doubling in July fails in the Senate, as Republicans and Democrats cannot agree on how to pay for it. We have the same problem! Do we max out our fifth credit card, declare bankruptcy or just go “off the grid”? Decisions, decisions! Hempstead Tpke.—partial score The road named most dangerous in New York State earlier this year is scheduled for safety improvements to better protect pedestrians walking across its busy lanes, where at least 20 people have died in pedestrian car crashes since the end of 2008. And it only took them three and a half years to get moving on this!
The Pink Slip
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Earlier this week, North Carolinians voted in favor of a constitutional amendment that bans same-sex marriage and civil unions. The state’s approval of the legislation, called Amendment 1, formally defines marriage as being between a man and a woman, thus effectively blacklisting same-sex couples from the distinction and making North Carolina the 30th state to adopt such a gay marriage ban. Oh Carolina, take a look at your past. Your slap in the face to loving couples of differing orientations flies in the face of The Old North State’s legacy as a trailblazer. Take the magic of flight, for example. Yours, up upon a mount in Kill Devil Hills, was the site of the Wright Brothers’—mankind’s—first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight on December 17, 1903. Let’s talk jazz, babe. Yours was the birthplace and incubator of such legendary, soul-freeing geniuses as John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and Nina Simone, among so many others. That musical genre itself was partially borne from the oppression of slavery, an expression of independence, individuality and cultural and artistic embodiment of freedom—with Simone becoming such a driving force in the civil rights movement and battle for equal rights. Look to your past, dear Carolina. Remember those who came before you. Recognize the sacrifices and struggles of what they fought so hard for. In doing so you shall discover that your recent passage of Amendment 1 is an insidious and misguided attack on your very self. This comes with a heavy heart, therefore, and great disgust, but you’ve unfortunately more than earned it…You’re fired, tarred heel!
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“I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.” —President Barack Obama, to ABC News on Wednesday May 9. It was the president’s first-ever public endorsement of gay marriage.
The Photo Wearing bumper stickers that state an opposition to gay marriage, sisters Annalise, left, and Embre Todd, wait with their mom Lisa during a Vote For Marriage NC event in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, May 8, 2012. The national debate over gay marriage focused Tuesday on North Carolina, as voters made it the 29th state to pass a constitutional amendment defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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1. MEET THE CAP’N! The hero of the Hudson, Captain Chesley Sullenberger, AKA the man who responded to air traffic controllers who asked which runway he preferred to land on with “We’re going to be in the Hudson,” then actually did so, comes to Long Islandto sign his new book, Making a Difference: Stories of Vision and Courage From America’s Leaders. In it, he asks people of achievement from all walks of life what it takes to lead and inspire, on May 16 at the Book Revue in Huntington at 7 p.m. Yes, that means it’s time to take out your “I Heart Sully” T-shirts again.
2. LEAVE GROCERIES BY YOUR MAILBOX: Because your mailman might want a snack this week. We kid, we kid. On May 12, The National Association of Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive takes place and letter carriers across the country will collect food for families in need as they deliver your mail. Just bag non-perishable food items (no glass jars) and leave them by your mailbox. 3. GO TO MARVEL: Lido Beach’s famous summer ice cream landmark, where police are often brought in to control the traffic getting into and out of this wonderful establishment, is open for the season. Rejoice. Then order a soft serve pistachio and strawberry swirled cone freshly dipped in chocolate. You won’t be sorry. 4. TWEET #RYANKENNEDY: Ryan Kennedy, a 9-year-old boy battling brain cancer, has a wish. He wants his name to trend on Twitter. Britney Spears already tweeted to her 16 million followers to post using the tag #ryankennedy, and now you can follow suit. So, rock your social networks too, because every tweet counts!
The amount superhero movie The Avengers made in debut weekend box office revenues, a new record, beating out the previous record of $169.2 million held by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 set last year.
6. YOUTUBE “FROG SITS ON BENCH LIKE A HUMAN”: This video is adorable and pretty amazing. This little guy knows it’s not easy being green and decides to sit upright on a bench with his hands in his lap and chill. All he needs is a mini banjo.
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7. HELP ZACH GAGE GET TO #1 on iTUNES: After you get to level four on LogoQuiz and realize you’ve seen that logo before but can’t place it and you’ve run out of hints and you’re ready to pull your hair out—download SpellTower. New York independent app developer Zach Gage is running a limited-time only $.99 sale price for his latest word puzzle game that will have you feverishly creating words by linking letters on a game board with your finger. 8 GET A DUCKS PACKAGE AT COSTCO: The “Family Fun Four Pack” for COSTCO shoppers exclusively combines food, beverage and tickets for the first time in one convenient package, all at a discounted price of $56.99. You’ll get a voucher redeemable for four box seats to any 2012 Ducks game at Bethpage Ballpark, subject to availability, along with a food voucher good for four hot dogs and four soft drinks—a savings of up to 36 percent! 9. YOUTUBE AVENGERS BOY BAND: A video of a boy band dressed as Marvel’s Avengers is despicable and shameless. Well, better add hilarious to that description. The spoof video takes the boy band trend of the 90s and fuses it with the superhero franchise. Viewers can watch “Captain America” sing about his friends and how he needs their help. Seriously, watch this. It’s clever, funny and pretty well executed.
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Outside Over There By Maurice Sendak Arguably the biggest children’s book artist of the century, Maurice Sendak passed away at the age of 83 this week in Connecticut due to complications from a stroke. Although Sendak is known for his darkly haunting children’s book Where the Wild Things Are, he leaves behind a library of good reads along the same vein as Wild Things. Outside Over There, written and illustrated by Sendak in 1981, tells the story of Ida, a little girl whose baby sister is kidnapped by goblins and ends up on a magical and dark adventure to bring her back. Sendak had said his inspiration for the book was the sensational Lindbergh baby kidnapping case in 1932 and one of the illustrations of the missing baby in the book is actually a portrait of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. Filled with all the things that go bump in the night fans of Sendak have come to love, Outside Over There is like finding a lost recording by a favorite artist for those fans only familiar with Where the Wild Things Are. And when you finish the book, rent Jim Henson’s 1986 film Labyrinth, which was based on Outside Over There and dedicated to Sendak in the closing credits. —Jaclyn Gallucci
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5. DOWNLOAD LOGOQUIZ: This highly addictive game has been topping the iTunes charts these days and if you haven’t already played, do it now. You’ll work through different levels, where you must identify random logos you see every day, without their text—everything from Lays and Starbucks to West Coast burger joints and Italian sports cars. After you beat the first level, you’ll realize just how much marketing campaigns are silently brainwashing you.
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Jerry’s Ink BY JERRY DELLA FEMINA, Publisher, the Independent
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I miss my mom. And not just because Sunday is Mother’s Day. I have a problem with Mother’s Day as a holiday, anyway. Yes, I know it’s a great day for restaurants and florists and card stores to make some money. But it’s become a blatantly commercial day and that enables some people (who don’t pay as much attention to their mothers as they should all year long) to play “catch up” and make up for neglect with some flowers or a Mother’s Day meal. My mom died a number of years ago and I think of her just about every day. I wouldn’t like myself if I didn’t think about her as much as I do. I called and spoke to her every day from the day when I got married (as a child bridegroom) and left home, until the day she died. She would end every phone call I made to her over the years with the same two words: “Be careful.” I owe her a lot. She gave me something that every mother should give a child – unconditional love. I never felt, for a second, that she could love me any more than she did if I did well at school. Unconditional love has nothing to do with good marks at school. I never felt for a second that she would love me any more if I were a success or any less if I were a total failure in life. Success or failure doesn’t enter into the picture when a child receives unconditional love. My mom was tiny – just 4 feet, 10 inches tall. For the first 40 years of her life she weighed less than a hundred pounds. My mom never raised her voice but she always got me to hear what she had to say. She arrived in this country many years ago and really saw America as the land of opportunity. She was an immigrant and she didn’t get to become a citizen until many, many years after she got here. My mom worked at the age of 14 rolling cigars in a cigar factory. She worked in sweatshops making children’s clothes. She took in “piece work” at home, making dolls’ dresses. My grandmother and grandfather
never learned a word of English and never became citizens. Although times were hard they never took a penny of welfare. They never even considered it. I think of them when I hear people scream and march and carry on against the latest wave of immigrants. As the son of immigrants I say let’s give them all green cards, register them and allow them to go to work. Someday their work ethic will save this country. Speaking of work ethic, I’m pretty sure my mom never heard the term “work ethic” and if she did, she wouldn’t understand what it meant. But that never kept her from having one. One day years ago when I called my mom she said, “Jerry, I’m worried about you.” “What’s wrong?” I asked. “I don’t think you’re working hard enough.” “WHAT?” “I don’t think you’re working hard enough,” she repeated. “Mom,” I said, “all over America mothers are telling their sons that they are working too hard and you’re telling me you don’t think I’m working hard enough?” “People are happier when they work hard,” she replied. “I think you’re happier when you are working hard. I want you to be happy.” “How do you know I’m not working hard?” “Because when you call me in the morning, sometimes it’s after nine o’clock and you’re still home.” I then proceeded to tell her that I was an advertising writer and writers don’t have to be sitting at a desk in order to be working hard, and most of the time, for me, thinking is hard work, etc., etc. “I still think you’d be happier if you work harder,” she replied. I laughed but the next day I was in my office, sitting at my desk, at 8 a.m. On the day she died I got to see what an extraordinary effect she had on everyone whose life she touched. There in the center of her hospital room my first wife Barbara and my current wife Judy were hugging each other in grief and crying uncontrollably at the thought of losing her from their lives. Quite a lady, my mom. That’s why, for me, every day is Mother’s Day.
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Along the banks of the Carmans River, the white oaks are just starting
to turn green, the red maples are beginning to bud. “This was my childhood playground!” exclaims Marty Van Lith, a Brookhaven historian and environmental activist, from the stern of our canoe. We glide past a fisherman up to his knees in the river making his line flick across the water like a silken thread uncoiling off a spool. He tells us he got a late start this morning—9 a.m.—but he’s caught a 12-inch trout already, so he likes the spot he’s found. From this bend in the river we can’t hear the traffic rushing on Sunrise Highway, just the chirping of red-wing blackbirds and a couple of mallard ducks flapping off the water while some barn swallows swoop silently above the surface catching flies. We could be in the Adirondacks for all we know. Around another bend we spot a black-crested night heron on the bank craning its neck around a tree trunk to gauge our intentions. We paddle upstream, through the sedges and marsh grass to reach the C-Gate Dam, known as the Pheasant Road Dam years ago, where the river drops several feet and the current is strong. But we can go no further, so we head back, where we pull up to the dock at the park headquarters as a pair of swans loudly take off from the reeds on the far side of Hards Lake. To the naked eye, the Carmans River looks smooth and inviting. But beneath the surface trouble is brewing. Pressure is building on the Carmans. It’s still one of Suffolk County’s cleanest rivers but how much longer can its pristine quality be preserved without drastic government intervention? Overdevelopment has choked the nearby Forge River in Mastic, which is officially “dead” and in need of costly restoration. In the Carmans, the levels of nitrates and volatile organic compounds are on the rise, signs of 10
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human encroachment along the river banks and throughout the Brookhaven watershed. And if the Carmans gets polluted, then the Great South Bay— an impaired waterway that draws 17 percent of its water from the river—will be further at risk. Two years ago with much fanfare Brookhaven Town Supervisor Mark Lesko, a Democrat, put together a study group to see if they could come up with a plan to preserve the Carmans River with the same kind of forward thinking that had led to the landmark Pine Barrens Act in 1993. After many meetings and work sessions, overseen by Dr. Lee Koppelman, a Long Island master planner, the study group signed off on its plan after some 18 months and turned it over to Lesko so he could begin the initial approval process under the State Environmental Quality Review Act. But he was thwarted by two town board members of his own party, Councilman Steve Fiore-Rosenfeld and Councilwoman Connie Keppert, plus an outpouring of public opposition that came to a head at a public hearing on March 29 because the river protection plan also involved zoning changes to encourage multi-family housing. As Koppelman told the Press, the hearing “was a blood bath.” Lesko took his plan off the table. “What we were doing was fairly revolutionary for Long Island,” Lesko says. “We were taking kind of a big picture approach to the problem—the problem being that you’ve got a fairly pristine river that’s in that condition now because of prior investments by government to protect huge pieces of that watershed.” Critics of the study group plan say the citizens were excluded from the process. They called the final proposal deceptive, masking a power grab by the Pine Barrens Commission to usurp the town’s zoning authority in collusion with developers who would get “as of right” multi-family housing that would unfairly burden school districts and taxpayers. They claimed the plan was more about economic development and creating a market for the transfer
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of Pine Barrens credits—monetary compensation paid to a property owner who can no longer develop his/ her land if it’s preserved—than about saving the Carmans River. Lesko thought the Pine Barrens’ model of transferring the development rights was the right approach, given that government doesn’t have the fiscal resources to purchase the land outright. By expanding the Pine Barrens core protection area to include the Carmans River watershed, about 500 new credits would be created (a credit now goes for $80,000), and the town would identify and approve multi-family sites as receiving areas for the credits to be used by developers eager to meet the need for affordable, work-force housing, also known in planning circles as “next generation” housing because it’s aimed at keeping young people from leaving LI. “In essence, you could preserve the property using a market-based system,” Lesko says, “and protect the last third of the river that needs to be protected.” But now the effort to protect the river rests on the shoulders of four council members, two Democrats and two Republicans, whose “new road map” or “Carmans River 2.0” idea, as Fiore-Rosenfeld has dubbed it, either puts the public ahead of “the special interests” or signs “a death warrant for the river,” depending on who’s talking. The specifics of this road map have been in short supply but the public will get to weigh in at Brookhaven Town Hall on May 30 at 6 p.m. and June 2 at 1 p.m. One thing is clear. The Carmans River may be only 10 miles long but the fight over its fate seems to embody everything that’s wrong with the Island: an aging suburb, inadequate sanitation, dearth of affordable housing, a growing threat to drinking water, and a toxic mix of NIMBYism and racism. “Some of my colleagues did not want this process to move forward to the next phase so they stopped it,” Lesko says. “They appealed unfortunately to elements in our community that for a variety of reasons are opposed to next generation housing when the proposal involves putting it in their communities.” Practically everybody in town insists they want to save the river— they just can’t agree on how. And when their constituents are screaming about “those people” moving into their school districts, the council members may have understandably buckled. Another wrinkle is that Brookhaven’s councilmanic system, now over a decade old, may make it even harder for them to come together and do the right thing for the town as a whole without a bitter, protracted battle. “This is like Armageddon,” says a well-connected official with long-time 12
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ties to Brookhaven Town who served on the study group and asked not to be identified because he wasn’t authorized to speak. “Now, they’re shooting missiles!” “If my colleagues can create a better process that gets us to a point where you have the political will to do this, that would be wonderful,” Lesko tells the Press. “I have yet to see a plan, though. I have seen a resolution that creates a plan for a process.”
River of Time
The Carmans River got its start about 20,000 years ago in a valley cut through the Ronkonkoma Moraine when the glaciers retreated and the icy meltwater scoured the sediment deposits, exposing the groundwater table. Today about 94 percent of the Carmans is from groundwater. Go back a couple of centuries and the English settlers who’d acquired the original patent from King William and Queen Mary in 1693 were starting to put the river to good use. Soon there’d be grist mills, lumber mills and fulling mills, which turned flax into cloth. Samuel Carman bought a mill in 1780 and his family lent the river their name. The mills are gone but not the lakes the mill dams created. This river has a storied history. These days the state stocks the river with trout, but that wasn’t the case when Daniel Webster caught a 14-pound trout in Carmans River in 1824 and brought it to the fabled Delmonico’s restaurant for cooking. His catch was immortalized by a Currier & Ives engraving, and was the inspiration for the trout replica in the weathervane of old Southaven Presbyterian Church. Martin Van Buren and Theodore Roosevelt are just two of the illustrious Americans who’ve hunted and fished along the Carmans. Thanks to the wellendowed sportsmen of the Suffolk Club, led by millionaire August Belmont, the land around Hards Lake was preserved, later becoming the Southaven County Park, Suffolk’s first park in 1964. On the other side of Sunrise, the Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge, another generous donation from a rich benefactor, preserves the mouth of the river from future development. Near Carmans’ headwaters a historical milestone with far-reaching significance that occurred in 1965 when a local woman, Carol Yannacone, saw workers from the Suffolk County Mosquito Control Commission dumping barrels of DDT into the river, causing a large fish kill at Upper Lake. With her prodding, her lawyer husband Victor Yannacone sued the county “in the name of generations yet unborn” to stop using the pesticide. Suffolk banned DDT in 1967, New York State followed suit in 1970, and the nation did so two
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years after that. From the river’s near-death experience came another remarkable achievement a couple of years later, when two students from Bellport High School, Mike Butler and John Sailor, rode their bikes all the way to Albany to bring a sample of the Carmans’ “still-pure water” to Assemb. Bill Bianchi as the State Legislature was considering the Wild Scenic and Recreational Rivers Act. The publicity worked, and the Carmans was included in the “study” in 1974, and later became the first river in New York to be designated under the act. The law’s protections are narrow, according to activists, and not nearly as broad as the restrictions on development under the terms of the Pine Barrens Act that came two decades later. The Carmans is one of three rivers in the Pine Barrens and environmentalists say it would gain more protection if the core preservation area of the Pine Barrens Act were expanded to include more of its watershed. Under the act, 52,500 acres are in the core preservation area, and 47,500 acres are in the compatible growth area. So far 9,000 acres in the core in Brookhaven are protected outright, according to Supervisor Lesko, and ideally his Carmans River plan was going to add 3,570 acres more. All told, he wanted to use about 566 acres, a scant amount of Brookhaven’s 165,000 News
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acre total, to accommodate multi-family housing by transferring Pine Barrens credits to selected receiving areas. Lesko thought the Pine Barrens Act was a good model and he looked to the Carmans River Partnership, formed over a decade ago to prevent Home Depot from building on a 15-acre parcel on the east bank of the river just north of the Sunrise Highway, to lay the groundwork.
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“Public input was certainly wanting in this process,” says Councilwoman Connie Keppert, adding that it was a “tremendous flaw” not to include the civic groups at the table “and I think that is what really killed the plan.” The Affiliated Brookhaven Civic Organization, aka ABCO, an umbrella group of civics, has hailed the road map proposal by Steve Fiore-Rosenfeld (D-East Setauket), Kepert (D-Middle Island), Dan Panico (R-Manorville) and Tim Mazzei (R-Blue Point) and strongly criticized Lesko’s “last ditch attempt to save the flawed Carmans River Watershed Plan, developed by special interest groups without any significant citizen input.” Fiore-Rosenfeld had not returned repeated requests for comment for this story as of press time.
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He told the Village Times Herald last month that his process would involve the community more than the study group chaired by Dr. Koppelman. “They had these meetings but they had them called ‘the Carmans River protection plan’ and only had them at Town Hall,” he told the Herald. “How many people from Three Village are going to show up to a meeting for a river they’ve never heard of?” But some who tried to get involved said they were sidelined. “I had to go to extraordinary lengths to be able to have any input into that process,” says Doug Swesty, a nuclear astrophysicist who teaches at Stony Brook University and is the LI watershed director of the Sea Run Brook Trout Coalition as well as past president of Trout Unlimited. “The meetings were scheduled during the day. I ended up taking a large number of vacation days in order to attend these meetings. We could not speak during debate within the groups. We only had the opportunity to add comments.” Swesty had sympathy for those who said there wasn’t enough citizen input but he faulted Councilwoman Keppert. “I haven’t seen her really advocating for protections of the river whatsoever,” Swesty says. “What I see her doing is advocating for development within the river corridor.” Keppert, through her staff, denied the accusation. Particularly outspoken was Maryann Johnston, the former president of ABCO, who attended every study group meeting but never got what she was looking for. “There were no civics at the table,” she says. “We didn’t have a vote. “We believe in community organizing, grass roots, from the bottom up,” says Johnston. “We don’t put developers in a room with environmentalists and [then have them] come out and tell people what their communities are going to look like. That’s not how we do things here.” One of the six members of the town board beside Lesko who supported the study group plan was Councilwoman Kathy Walsh (R-Centereach). “I would have liked to see the original plan be set for a public hearing so that it can go before the town board with all the research that had been done and get a public vetting,” she says. “It was a good plan. It wasn’t a political plan… I think there was a hysteria thrown out there about multi-family housing…. I think we deserve some credit for having an understanding of our community. No elected official is going to be supportive of bringing the Bronx into their neighborhood—I don’t mean to be derogatory of the Bronx, I’m from Brooklyn—but I’ve been out here all my life…. We definitely need to 14
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address the housing issues that we have here.” Pine Barrens Society President Dick Amper says the goal was to smooth the process. “The builders are going to build anyway,” he says. “You want the preservation! So why would you separate the two? It’s the linkage that allows it to happen! You get the housing over there, we protect the river over here.” Johan McConnell, past president of the South Yaphank Civic Association, was supportive of the study group’s intentions. “I had the ability to speak when I wanted to,” she says. “And then I could follow up with the people in the planning department if I had more questions… Maryann had the opportunity to speak as much as anybody did,
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and Maryann did speak.” McConnell, who attended many of the public sessions, faulted Councilman Fiore-Rosenfeld for realizing late in the game how the study group plan would impact his North Shore constituents. She says the town held numerous meetings “but nobody from the North Shore bothered to come.” She pointed out that under the revised multi-family zoning code, the maximum number of units per acre would actually go from 12 units to 10.5 units. “I understand that multi-family housing does not always negatively impact on a school district,” McConnell says. “It can have a positive impact.” But people did show up in full fury at the March 29 public hearing to rail against affordable housing, in no small part due to the robo-calls from Comsewogue Schools Superintendent Joseph V. Rella, who said he’d gotten a call from Fiore-Rosenfeld. “The only thing I ever asked people to do is go and be represented,” says Rella. “We wanted to be at the table when there was a discussion about placing any kind of housing in our community. That’s all.” LI’s decades-old denigration of “those people” was on full display the night of the hearing, much to the discomfort of civic leader McConnell, who tells the Press, “‘Those people’… That’s not what ‘affordable’ [housing] is. It’s your starting nurse, your
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starting teacher, your fireman, your policeman.… It’s not Section 8, it’s not low-income!” Fiore-Rosenfeld’s “new road map” does worry her, however, since “200 people could show up [at one of the two public meetings] and each one could have a different plan!” So, she adds, “Now you’re having this public input, [but] are you going to listen to the person who’s the loudest?” Her solution is simple. “My plan is just up-zone everything because they don’t need to have public input on that,” McConnell says. “It’s well with the town’s land-use management to up-zone.” And another thing she’d do is mandate that the towns of Riverhead, Southampton and Brookhaven use the Pine Barrens credits.
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“We’re not happy about the notion of a rezone,” says Joe Gergela, head of the Long Island Farm Bureau. “In our opinion the best way to preserve something is to buy it. So, if they’re serious about protecting the watershed areas, they need a better plan on how they’re going to raise the money to acquire the open space and compensate the land owners. Whether it’s a farmer or anybody who owns land, there’s a fairness issue. Rezoning does not get us there. That screws land owners.” “Down-zoning allows more density per acre,” says ABCO’s Johnston. “Upzoning allows less density per acre. I think up-zoning is the way to go. It was not even a tool in the tool box in the plan that was presented the last time around.”
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McConnell, the Yaphank civic leader, said that Lesko “got blindsided because he thought he had included the communities, that he had reached out to them and that he had held public meetings…. The public had an opportunity to come to every study group [and] technical session and speak. Dr. Koppelman was always fair. He always asked the people sitting there: ‘Do you have any comments? Do you have any concerns? Speak them now.’ And people did!” Lesko says the plan was done in by a smear campaign. News
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“If elected officials engaged in misinformation campaigns like the one that Maryanne Johnston has engaged in on the Carmans River, they would be indicted,” exclaims Lesko. “This is some of the most irresponsible fear-mongering I’ve experienced as a sitting town supervisor. I have no problem disagreeing with people, I respect them if they disagree with me, and I respect them if they’re knowledgeable. I have a problem with people who intentionally misrepresent what the plan proposed and do it in a way that fans emotions among the public based upon that misunderstanding. Maryanne Johnston was at every meeting, so it is again an absolute misrepresentation to say that this was done behind closed doors!” Koppelman sees a lost opportunity. “As soon as that plan was finished, I suggested strongly that we immediately start the process in terms of getting the plan accepted so that legally the process could continue,” says Koppelman, looking back. “And that’s when the separate meetings started to take place. If the supervisor had put it on the [town board] agenda at that time, even if the builders and the environmentalists would have bitched, at least the process could have gone forward.” McConnell recalls the passage of the Pine Barrens Act two decades ago for inspiration. “When the act finally passed, the developers and the environmentalists both gave in on something for the betterment of the community,” she says. “We would never have the act that we have now—saving 100,000 acres—if those two groups could not have come together for a compromise.” Amper would no doubt agree with her on the value of compromise but not on her solution for the river. “You’re not preserving it by up-zoning,” he says. “If you put it into the Pine Barrens core, it’s protected with the full faith of the State of New York.” Jim Tripp, senior counsel at the Environmental Defense Fund and chairman of the Pine Barrens Credit Clearing House, says there’s a rationale for rejuvenating the Pine Barrens credit program because in Brookhaven as of Oct. 20, 2011, 464 credits have been issued but only 230 had been redeemed. “The success of the program depends not only on the issuance of Pine Barrens credits but their redemption. And the redemption rate is too low,” Tripp says. A top state environmentalist with no direct connection to the Pine Barrens Commission says, “The credit program isn’t stagnant, but there is a concern that towns should not approve higher housing densities without requiring the redemption of Pine Barrens credits.” “By requiring the redemption of credits, they’ll make the program even stronger,” the official adds. “To me the transfer
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in the process and we will continue to monitor the situation closely. At the end of the day, the initiative appears to have fallen victim to an inability on the part of local government to reach consensus. Hopefully, they will break that logjam and agree on the appropriate way to provide stronger protections for the river. “Compared to other rivers, the Carmans River is in fairly good shape,” Scully says. “There are threats to it but the general quality of the water is relatively high.” Lesko doesn’t want a repeat of the Forge River. “We can see all throughout Long Island examples of what will happen to that river inevitably if we don’t take steps now to protect it,” says Lesko. “The Forge River is essentially a dead river. Virtually nothing is living in the river because of the nitrogen levels.” Swesty of Trout Unlimited agreed that Carmans River is “certainly cleaner than the Forge but at this point this is not a pristine river.” He wants a stringent water quality standard to regulate nitrate levels in the river. “The groundwater has been seriously compromised,” he says. “There’s good peer review science that shows that you begin to suffer damage to aquatic vertebrate communities.” Kevin McAllister, the Peconic Baykeeper, served on the study group and voted against the final draft because it omitted his preference for a stringent nitrogen standard. “If we’re serious about protecting the Carmans River, there has to be constraints on the amount of development that occurs and new development has to incorporate state-of-the-art wastewater treatment,” he says. “We have an opportunity for a do-over here and I hope that everybody will be committed to an above-board, transparent process that again prioritizes water quality protection.” And so the fate of the Carmens is unclear. “What’s going to happen to Long Island when they don’t have clean groundwater anymore because they don’t control where and how our development happens?” warns John McNally, environmental program officer and communications director at the Rauch Foundation, a not-for-profit group that produces the Long Island Index. “As long as the needs of a few continue to outweigh the needs of the many, that’s the way it’s going to be. The region as a whole has a tremendous need for affordable, mixed-use housing but if every single community decides that it doesn’t want to carry that burden, and as long as there’s no real leadership on these issues, we’re basically sealing our fate as a region that’s in decline.” And that’s what’s really riding on the Carmans River.
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www.thegramercytheatre. com Highline Ballroom—431 W. 16th St. 212-414-5994. www.highlineballroom Irving Plaza—17 Irving Pl. 212-777-6800. www. irvingplaza.com Joe’s Pub—425 Lafayette St. 212-539-8778. www. joespub.com Mercury Lounge—217 E. Houston St. 212-2604700. www.mercuryloungenyc.com Terminal 5—610 W. 56th St. 212-582-6600. www. terminal5nyc.com Town Hall— 123 West 43rd St. 212-840-2824. www.the-townhall-nyc.org United Palace Theatre— 175th Street and Broadway. www.unitedpalaceconcerts.com Webster Hall—125 E 11th St. 212-353-1600. www. websterhall.com
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Crossword THE MINIMOM ACROSS 1 Word with dance or hero 5 - Pet 9 Play thing? 13 Rushes 17 Destroy 18 “You -?” (Lurch’s line) 19 Merchant 21 “- partridge in . . .” 22 Dermatological problem 23 Foot part 24 Event of 622 25 Fancy 26 Start of a remark by Roseanne 30 “Sheila” singer 31 Echidna’s tidbit 32 Account entry 34 Arthurian knight 38 Dunce 40 Scandinavian capital 44 Susan Lucci role 45 Beige 46 Burly Burl 47 Black and white delight 49 Neighbor of Okla. 50 Part 2 of remark 56 Way to satori 57 Team scream 58 Light metal group? 59 Spouse of Isis 63 Football’s Lavelli 65 “The Scarlet Letter” heroine 68 Curtain fabric 69 Agricultural
inventor 72 Part 3 of remark 75 Tucker or Roberts 76 Land measure 77 Crops up 78 Montezuma, for one 80 Peat’s place 82 Forster’s “- With a View” 85 “To be sure!” 86 Shorten a skirt 89 Part 4 of remark 94 Carry to class 97 Intuit 98 Green land 99 Kruger or Gluck 100 Clumsy 102 Prune a paragraph 104 Present for pop 105 Writer Rushdie 107 Pigeonhole 108 Glowing 110 Private reply? 111 End of remark 122 Meter reader? 123 Journalist Fallaci 124 Where to speak Farsi 125 Emilia’s husband 126 “- take arms against a sea . . .” 127 “The Compleat Angler” author 128 Arrogant 129 It may be bitter 130 Govt. agents 131 - -do-well 132 Actress Joyce 133 Toboggan
DOWN 1 College club 2 “That hurts!” 3 Queue 4 Had no doubts 5 Kindergarten item 6 Writer Bret 7 Foot part 8 Eastern leader 9 Rapidly, to Rossini 10 Frenzy 11 Garfield’s pal 12 Gilpin of “Frasier” 13 Nautical rope 14 Check 15 Impressive building 16 TV’s “My Sister -” 19 Dilute 20 Sneaky sort 27 Meyers of “Kate & Allie” 28 Ornamental dangler 29 Principles 33 Duty 34 Saxophonist Stan 35 Need a rubdown 36 Small bird 37 Great bird? 38 Actress Gardner 39 Doris Day refrain 41 Cavort in the pool 42 - Cruces, NM 43 Can. province 46 ‘87 Warren Beatty film 48 Last name in fashion 51 “Dies -”
52 Rowan or Rather 53 Truman Cabinet member
LEAGUE FOR ANIMAL PROTECTION
54 Movie mogul Marcus 55 Whitman’s bloomer
60 Fled 61 Frigid 62 Monsarrat’s “The Cruel -”
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For this young Lab mix, Prince is more than his name—it is his persona. He is handsome, sure of himself, stately and in control. He really can’t understand this whole shelter situation...it doesn’t fit with his image of himself. He was turned in by his owners along with his sister, who was lucky enough to find her forever family, but as of yet, no one has stepped up to take this regal lad home. He is affectionate, playful, walks nicely on lead and knows basic obedience. He has shown to be fond of other dogs, but not cats. He would do best with an owner that will be firm but kind and consistent. He needs to be reminded of the rules and realize that even if he is a prince, his owners are the king and queen. Once he gets it down, peace will reign throughout the kingdom.
63 Night vision? 64 Inventor Whitney 66 Actress Leoni 67 Pepsin or lipase 69 Barrier 70 Word form for “environment” 71 Goof 73 Sanford of “The Jeffersons” 74 Ralston or Miles 75 Hardy woman 77 Tennis legend 79 Golfer’s gadget 81 Nervous 83 “Swan Lake” heroine 84 1,102, to Calpurnia 86 Ian of “The Borrowers” 87 Role for 27 Down 88 Nasty 90 Sturm - Drang 91 Compass pt. 92 Mine find
93 Lyricist David 94 Coal container 95 Doughboy’s duds 96 Conceal 101 Light quantum 103 Poet Wylie 105 Burnt 106 Branch 109 Terrible name? 110 Periwinkle, for one 112 “Would you look at that!” 113 Algerian port 114 Vex 115 Winslet of “Hamlet” 116 Jackknife, e.g. 117 - surgery 118 Puppy protests 119 Monopoly destination 120 Stare salaciously 121 Daring 122 Ample abdomen
Last Week’s Answers
Prince is about 3 years old, neutered, housebroken and is rabies vaccinated.
“Saving the life of one animal may not change the world, but the world will surely change for that one animal.”
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