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SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF SUFFOLK BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF HUNT CLUB AT CORAM HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, against JOHN P. BRENNAN a/k/a JOHN BRENNAN a/k/a JOHN BRENNAN, JR.; JPMORGAN CHASE BANK; CAPITAL ONE BANK USA NA; PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES LLC; CLERK OF THE SUFFOLK COUNTY TRAFFIC AND PARKING VIOLATIONS AGENCY; TEACHERS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION; and “JOHN DOE” and “JANE DOE”, Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered herein and dated October 30, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the front steps of the Brookhaven Town Hall, One Independence Hill, Farmingville, New York, on February 26, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. premises being at Coram in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York, known and designated as Unit No. 190 on a certain
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Police Port Jefferson Station Man Dies in Single-Vehicle Crash Jan. 30
Suffolk County police said a man was killed in Port Jefferson Station early Friday morning in a single-vehicle crash.
Police said Joel Almanzar, 35, of Port Jefferson Station was driving a 2014 BMW sedan on Green Avenue, off Bicycle Path, Jan. 30 when the vehicle veered off the roadway, hit a parked car and continued through a fence before striking a tree and a shed at around 1:30 a.m., Jan. 30.
Almanzar was transported to Stony Brook University Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
A Gofundme for Almanzar has already raised over $8,500 of a $20,000 goal for what Police said Joel Almanzar was killed after his car struck a parked vehicle, ran through a fence, striking a tree and shed. Photo from Almanzar’s Gofundme
is described as the man’s funeral costs and for his only son, Niko. The fundraiser can be found at www.gofundme.com/f/fundraiser-for-joel-almanzar.
— Compiled by Kyle Barr
Centereach Woman Killed While Crossing the Street
Police said a Centereach woman was killed in Centereach last Saturday while she was crossing the street.
Suffolk County police said Christine Chellis, 35, of Centereach was driving a Chevrolet Suburban westbound on Route 25, west of Wood Road, and was changing from the right lane to the left lane when the vehicle struck a pedestrian crossing the street at 6:24 p.m. The pedestrian, Laura Godek, 57, of Centereach, was transported by the Centereach Fire Department to Stony Brook University Hospital where she was pronounced dead. Chellis was not injured.
The vehicle was impounded for a safety check. Anyone with information on this crash is asked to call the 4th Squad at 631- 854-8452.
— Compiled by Kyle Barr
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Police Say More Than 200 Sex Traffi cking Victims Known
But Have ‘Only Scratched the Surface’
BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM
Two mothers, one from Farmingville and the other from Merrick, may live on different parts of Long Island, but both had very similar experiences, watching their daughters abused in sex traffi cking schemes that saw men use drugs to keep their children captive.
Lisa Principe and Maria Francavilla spoke of their experiences Jan. 31 at a Suffolk County Police Department press conference in Yaphank to round off National Slavery and Human Traffi cking Prevention Month.
Principe said her daughter, Jenna, went to school at Wellington C. Mepham High School in Bellmore. She said her daughter fell in love with a man who ended up taking advantage of her in the extreme. She was gang raped at only 19 years old, as her “initiation.” She was kept in motels with a number of other girls as her pimps used her addiction to drugs to keep her under control. She would spend time in and out of jail, but as soon as she got out the traffi ckers were there to pick her up and bring her back into the fold.
“They took her soul,” Principe said. Even after the men keeping her were arrested, Jenna would later die at 27 from an overdose at home. Though her hardship remains, she said she hopes new initiatives from the police will help combat the slew of sex traffi cking cases happening all across the Island, targeting potential victims on the internet, in public places or even around schools.
Jennifer Hernandez, the executive director of the nonprofi t Empowerment Collaborative of Long Island, which provides trauma services for victims of human traffi cking and other abuse, said they have worked with more than 160 victims of traffi cking just this past year.
“Most of which were born and raised right here on Long Island — in Suffolk County.” she said.
Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart said the biggest misconception about sex traffi cking is that it’s men piling people, mostly immigrants, into the back of trucks and taking them away. Modern sex traffi cking happens to people of all walks, immigrants and native-born Long Islanders. Traffi ckers take vulnerable people, mostly young women, and use a combination of drugs, violence and other emotional manipulation to Photos clockwise from top: Maria Francavilla, left, and Lisa Principe speak about their daughters experiences Jan. 31; Francavilla and Principe’s daughters; Lt. Frank Messana of the police’s human traffi cking unit speaks alongside commissioner Geraldine Hart. Photos by Kyle Barr
control these women. There’s no single place, police said, whether rich or poor, that sex traffi cking isn’t happening. The epidemic is tied to the opioid crisis that still rages in communities across the Island.
Since October of 2017, the police’s human traffi cking unit has leveraged 417 charges against individuals, with 186 she said were specifi cally related to sex traffi cking. The police
has interacted with and identifi ed over 220 women involved with traffi cking since the beginning of the initiative, with the youngest one being only 12 years old.
Still with those numbers, Detective Lt. Frank Messana, the commanding offi cer of the department’s human traffi cking unit, said they have “only scratched the surface.”
On Jan. 25, Kings Park man and alleged Bloods gang member Abiodun “Abi” Adeleke was sentenced to 25 years in prison for multiple counts of sex traffi cking. He allegedly participated in this ring from 2014-18.
Last year, Sound Beach man Raymond Rodio III was arrested for allegedly hosting a sex traffi cking ring at his parent’s house on Lower Rocky Point Road.
Police and the county district attorney said he had preyed on more than 20 women over several years, most from Suffolk, with many fl oating in and out from the man’s basement apartment as his parent’s home located in a relatively middle-class neighborhood.
Rodio had pleaded not guilty and was next expected to appear in court Feb. 4.
Rodio’s investigation originally began in 2018 when an offi cer witnessed a suspected victim of traffi cking in the alleged perpetrator’s car during a traffi c stop. Hart said such awareness and education, for not only police offi cers but the general public, is doing much of the job of fi nding and arresting sex traffi ckers.
In October 2017, police fi rst piloted its human traffi cking program, which then became permanent in 2018. The commissioner said in the year prior to the unit being formed, there hadn’t been any examples of sex traffi cking arrests.
In 2019, the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Offi ce started a human traffi cking unit to work inside the county jails. Undersheriff Kevin Catalina said the team of offi cers look to identify human traffi cking victims within the jail. While women are in jail for a stint, offi cers can get them to “open up.” Many, he said, could not even identify they were victims of traffi cking, instead thinking these people were their “boyfriends.”
Francavilla had a similar experience to Principe. Her daughter, Tori, fell in with the wrong people early out of high school. She described it got to the point that her daughter was, “handcuffed to a bed and kept captive.” She would eventually help put the perpetrator away but, like Jenna, the opioid addiction followed her even after her traumatic experiences. She died when she was 24.
Police said a person is at-risk or is already a victim of traffi cking if they start to show behavior of chronically running away from home or having a history of unstable housing, demonstrates inability to regularly attend school or work, exhibits bruises or other physical trauma, withdrawn behavior, signs of drug or alcohol addiction, inconsistencies in their stories, inappropriate dress, a mention of a pimp, “daddy” or being “in the life,” suspected engaging in prostitution, history of pregnancies, abortions or sexually transmitted diseases, and looking as if they worked excessively long hours.
Identifying such a person, a resident should call 911 in an emergency, or contact Suffolk County Crime Stoppers at 800-220-TIPS (8477). People can fi nd more information and resources at the ECLI at www.empowerli.org. In 2019, the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Offi ce
PAGE A8 • THE VILLAGE BEACON RECORD • FEBRUARY 06, 2020 School News Rocky Point Union Free School District
RP Students Spearhead Card Collection for WWII Vet Third-grade class and teacher Rebecca Pagnotta, back left, showcase their Valentine’s Day cards. Photo from RPUFSD
When Joseph A. Edgar Intermediate School third- grade teacher Rebecca Pagnotta saw a television report about a veteran asking for Valentine’s Day cards, she set out on a mission. Starting with her own class of 24 students who created messages of thanks and appreciation, she and the students put a call out to other classes and received a total of 475 cards. The cards have been mailed to U.S. Marine Corps Major Bill White, a 104-year-old man living in a senior citizen center in California, who requested as many Valentine’s Day cards as possible. The heartfelt gifts of kindness will be preserved with his lifetime scrapbooks of precious memories and items – including his Purple Heart.
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condense, and then touch parts of their face. Even with the mask on, people touch their eyes.
“The most important thing is to keep your hands clean,” Fries suggested.
Fries believes the 14-day quarantine period for people coming from an area where coronavirus is prevalent is “probably on the generous side.” Scientists come up with this time period to establish
guidelines for health care providers throughout the country.
Fries suggested that the only way these precautions are going to work is if they are aggressive and done early enough.
“Once the genie is out of the bottle” and an epidemic spreads to other countries, it becomes much more difficult to contain, Fries said. The best-case scenario is that this virus becomes a contained problem in China. If it doesn’t spread outside the country, it could follow the same pattern as SARS, which abated within about eight months. While there is no treatment for this new coronavirus, companies and governments are working on a possible vaccine. This, Fries estimated, could take about a year to create.
Looking out across the calendar, Fries wondered what would happen with the Olympics this year, which are scheduled for July 24 through Aug. 9 in Tokyo. Athletes who have been training for years certainly hope the virus is contained by then. A similar concern preceded the 2016 Olympics, when Zika virus threatened to derail the games in Brazil.
163650 Middle School robotics team members Alex Grundmann, left, and Kristian Hald design a contraption. Photo from RPUFSD
The Rocky Point Middle School robotics teams recently competed in one of eight Long Island qualifying tournaments for the FIRST LEGO League and brought back two major awards.
The Robo Eagles team members — Matthew Blaising, Matteo Gravinese, Alex Grundmann, Kristian Hald, Cooper Peterson and Jake Whitehouse — won the Project Research Award for their innovative idea of designing and building a handicap ramp allowing students with special needs to participate in all aspects of the robotics competitions. The Radical Robotix team — Christian Cordova, Sola Matsumoto, Iris Nakagawa, Allyson Opitz, Micah Santiago and Sofia Santos – won the Project Innovative Solution Award. The project idea is a backup rechargeable battery that will be recharged by generators hooked up to exercise bikes in the school’s weight room, which would create virtually free power. The idea stemmed from the loss of power at the middle school — a designated Suffolk County Evacuation Center — during Hurricane Sandy when backup emergency batteries for lights lasted for only eight hours during six days without power.
The Robo Eagles team qualified for the Long Island Championship Tournament, which will be held March 1 at Longwood High School.
The district also congratulated coach Mark Moorman and assistant coach Kelly O’Reilly. Rocky Point Middle School Robotics Team Kicks It into High Gear
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Local Schools Clock Times at SC Track Championship
BY BILL LANDON DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM
The Mount Sinai Mustangs were the class of the field in the Suffolk County small school championship Feb. 1, sitting atop the leaderboard to win the team championship with 66 points at Suffolk County Community College.
Kings Park finished seventh overall just ahead of Comsewogue High School. Shoreham-Wading River junior Blake Wehr placed second in the
high jump event clearing 6 feet, 4 inches, landing the Wildcats 12th in the team standings.
Photos clockwise from above: Rocky Point senior Jimmy Curley, left, runs 3,200 meters; Mount Sinai senior Matthew Schreiber throws 40 feet, 4½ inches at the county finals; Mount Sinai sophomore George Franks placed third clocking in at 37.34 in the 300m dash; Mount Sinai senior Noah Metzler finished third in 3,200m event clocking in at 9:56.77; Shoreham-Wading River senior Adam Zelin places fourth at 3,200m.
Photos by Bill Landon
Mount Sinai Girl Hoopsters Upset John Glenn
BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM
It was sweet revenge for the Mount Sinai High School girls basketball team Feb. 3, when the Mustangs edged out Elwood’s John Glenn High School 68-64. The Mustangs had suffered a 27-point loss to the same school back in January.
Playing to a capacity crowd at John Glenn was a must win game for Mount Sinai. In order to make the Suffolk County playoffs, the Mount Sinai girls pulled off a dramatic overtime win. With leading scores, sophomores Casey Campo and Kylie Budke were fouled in the fourth period. It was freshman Daniella Sofia and junior Makayla Hartcorn leading the attack going forward in overtime.
Sofia ended the game with 11 points and Hartcorn hit her stride with 14 points.
Leading Mount Sinai in scoring was Campo, who had a total of 28 points, including an incredible six 3-pointers.
Mount Sinai played Bayport-Blue Point in its final game Feb. 5, where results were not available by press time, and are set to start in playoffs next week.
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The opinions of columnists and letter writers are their own. They do not speak for the newspaper. Letters to the Editor An Open Letter to Victoria’s Secret CEO Dear Mr. Les Wexner, CEO of L Brands, owner Victoria’s Secret,
Dropping you a quick note to share some thoughts around your latest reported earnings.
Noticed the sales of Victoria’s Secret dropped a bit and thought to provide you with my experience of your brand. As compared to when the company first started, the quality of Victoria’s Secret has dropped considerably. When I mentioned this quality concern to your store associate, specifically regarding your products premature failure to retain their form, the associate cheerfully shared I should not place my undergarments in the dryer, because it causes the elasticity to wear prematurely. Yes, it’s true, this can happen. However, I don’t have this experience with other clothing, either undergarments or outer garments. Instead, it’s clear that this associate’s suggestion is meant to compensate for the products diminished quality.
There could be another reason for Victoria Secret’s lower reported earnings, and it has to do with marketing. I should share ahead of time; my career involves marketing. It is from this perspective that I note your marketing might be offensive to women, because we are only depicted in one way. If it works, great. But when it doesn’t, or the message gets worn out, it’s time for a change. Given the times, depicting woman simply as sex objects could be to some, after a while, ridiculous — one dimensional, if you will.
As far as addressing your falling sales, my first suggestion is to increase your quality and be known for quality. Another way to say it is to make “quality” a synonym with your name. My second suggestion is to update your marketing to something relevant to 2020. Perhaps depicting women as successful instead of your singled-minded depiction of them as nothing more than sex goddesses or sex toys. In my own work, I find it beneficial to grow sales by portraying women as professional, successful and intelligent regardless of our role in life, home, work and play. Women are made up of so many unique and wonderful qualities, just like men, and depicting them in such a limited fashion needs a “brand new dance”!
Gretchen Specht Miller Place I have been watching the impeachment of Donald J. Trump with great interest. I have also noted some disturbing behavior exhibited by my representative, Lee Zeldin (R-NY-1). Zeldin is an ardent Trump supporter, eager to defend his most obvious and flagrant abuses. Like Trump, Zeldin has been using Twitter and Facebook to demean and insult opponents and disseminate false information.
He repeats lies, calling impeachment “a sham, rigged, based solely on hearsay.” He pretends that calling Trump to account for his lawlessness is “ripping the country apart.” When a journalist asked him to name corruption pursued by the Trump administration other than Biden and CrowdStrike, he could not. Instead, he called the journalist “a Schiff shill” who insulted her audience for asking the question.
Zeldin has plenty of time to appear on Fox News both day and night, tweet, carry two Facebook pages where he shadow bans, show up in Port Jeff to call its mayor a “far left anti-Trumper” while cheering a building owner who brazenly broke the Village’s sign ordinance but never has time to hold a town hall at night, when working people can attend. He flits from firehouse to restaurant during the day where his audience sports gray and white hair.
It has been over three years since Zeldin engaged people of all political persuasions within his district. I want to know why he supports dismantling federal regulations that protect our air, water and land and cuts to Social Security and Medicaid and votes against our SALT deductions, to name a few. I consider all this cowardly and unbecoming of a representative of all the people. We deserve better.
Cristina Bono East Setauket Zeldin’s Comments Are Demeaning Recognizing the Signs of Sex Trafficking While many may equate the stereotype of human trafficking to immigrant communities being shuttled around the United States, sex slavery — of women being coerced and then forced into prostitution — happens right in our North Shore communities.
As difficult as it is to accept this fact, residents need to come to terms in order to help combat the problem.
Last week, Suffolk County police held a press conference to discuss the threat, especially to young women, and the role drug addiction plays in the exploitation. It’s important to take note that some of these victims didn’t start as drug addicts. Many are fed drugs by their pimps to keep them helpless and dependent on them. We all know the general rules of safety in public to be wary of strangers trying to convince us to go to a secluded place. Other things to keep in mind are also the basics like to travel in groups at night or crowded events, don’t overindulge in alcohol while in public, be aware of your surroundings at all times, keep track of others in your group and never leave a drink unattended.
If you feel you’re being followed in a store, try to find an employee, who will ensure someone walks out to your car with you. If you are not the person being followed by someone, approach the individual you feel may be in danger. It’s better to look like a fool if you’re wrong than to hear that a person was abducted. Act like you know the person being followed. Greet them loudly as you approach and then get as close as possible and whisper that you think they are being followed.
But regarding sex trafficking, much of it is happening behind closed doors. Often young women around high school age — those going through an emotionally turbulent time — are targeted by men who manipulate them.
While police officers described efforts to become familiar with the signs of sex trafficking, Long Islanders need to become more aware of just what sex trafficking looks like, and they need to become more willing to step up and call police if they have suspicions.
Police describe women who are approached by men at public places, such as malls, parties or even schools. They endear themselves to the women, taking them out on dates and treating them like they are loved, before getting them addicted to drugs and using that addiction to control them.
In public, or even amongst your family, if you notice young women with unexplained bruises or signs of drug or alcohol addiction, look for them disappearing at odd hours and speech mentioning a pimp, “daddy” or being in the “life.”
Most victims of trafficking do not even understand they are being used in the way they are.
Trafficking activities can also be spotted at hotels, where more and more employees are being trained to spot victims, but you should never hesitate to notify a manager if you notice signs such as various men coming and going from one room. (This is something to take note of, even in your neighborhood when it comes to a house.) Other signs are of a person allowing someone else to do the talking for them or a young woman with a much older man as her “romantic” partner.
When it comes to voting, pay more attention to the judges elections. To save these victims, judges need compassion and to be able to spot when a person isn’t choosing to sell their bodies for money. They need to know what organizations to reach out to in order to help these victims.
An African proverb says it takes a village to raise a child. Keep all young people under your watchful eye to protect them from these predators. Long Island Rail Road President Phil Eng announcing that his on-time performance for train arrivals is the best in three years was far from credible when you look at the criteria used for his assumptions. Here is what he neglected to mention. What about all the canceled and combined trains due to periodic power outages, signals, broken rails and other problems? These result in overcrowding and standing in the aisles.
Claiming that on-time performance is improving was misleading. Any train arriving within 600 feet of a Penn Station platform or other final destinations within 5 minutes and 59 seconds is considered “on time.” For many LIRR commuters who have to arrive at work on time, their bosses would not be happy. The LIRR definition of on time is like a teacher giving students a passing grade by rigging the results.
Larry Penner Great Neck LIRR Has a Different Definition of On Time
This was the week that was. And what a week of atypical news it was. Let’s start with the coronavirus and its progression toward a pandemic. The global death toll stood at 492 as of Wednesday morning, according to NBC News, and confi rmed cases top 24,000 in mainland China. More than 185,000 people are currently under medical observation, Chinese health offi cials said. Hundreds of U.S. nationals were removed from locked-down Wuhan and have arrived in the United States, as two more rescue planes landed at Travis Air Force Base in Northern California. Passengers will be quarantined for 14 days before being released. So far, there have been 11 cases in the U.S. Trailing China with confi rmed cases are Japan with 35, Singapore with 28, Thailand with 25 and South Korea with 19. But the virus has defi nitely spread beyond Asia and has been found in Germany, France, Britain, the United Arab Emirates, Sweden, Finland and beyond. There are even 10 passengers with the virus from a cruise ship quarantined off the coast of Japan. Another cruise ship, with 3,600 aboard, has been quarantined in Hong Kong.
While there is talk of work on a coronavirus vaccine, health professionals agree it will take up to a year before such a vaccine would be available to the general public.
A traditional news event with an unusual twist was the president’s State of the Union address Tuesday night in the House of Representatives that had voted to impeach him. Extreme partisanship was on display at the start when President Donald Trump (R) did not shake hands with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) — second in the line of succession to the highest offi ce next to Vice President Mike Pence (R). Then the speaker tore up a text of the speech as the cameras were rolling immediately at the end of the president’s talk.
As residents listened for the results of the Iowa caucuses, the fi rst indication of voter sentiment in a presidential election year, the new app relaying the results that the Iowa Democratic Party planned to use broke down, and those trying to log in or download it had no training for the task. Fortunately, there seems to be paper backup for the votes, but it takes time for the voting cards to be counted by hand. According to partial returns so far, still only 71 percent, former Vice President Joe Biden is trailing the other three leaders: Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and the youngest candidate at age 38, has a slim and unpredicted lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders followed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Even as people await the fi nal results, the scene is now shifting to the second voting site and the fi rst primary in the nation, that of New Hampshire.
Back in Washington, the vote in the Senate to impeach the president was another historic and unprecedented news item. The partisan wrangling in the House and Senate between the two major parties has been constantly on display throughout the impeachment hearings the past Misdirected Fear of New Virus Is Not Acceptable F ear can be a great motivator. Fear of failing a test can lead someone to study harder, to pay attention in class and to do whatever is necessary to learn the material.
In many movies, the lead character has to face his or her fears to accomplish something. Luke Skywalker from the “Star Wars” fi lms had to face his father, Darth Vader, to become a Jedi.
Fear, however, can also bring out the worst in people, especially when that fear is misplaced and misdirected.
Last week, the University of California’s Tang Center, in Berkeley, listed a set of normal reactions to the new coronavirus on its Instagram account. Among other reactions, like feeling anxiety, worry or panic, the school suggested that xenophobia, or “fears about interacting with those who might be from Asia” was also normal. The Instagram post went on to add that having “guilt about these feelings” was normal, too. Chances are, if you’re feeling guilty about a feeling, it’s probably misdirected and uninformed.
Amid an enormous backlash from alumni at the school, whose current freshman class is about 43 percent Asian, the university has since apologized and taken down the post.
The school hopefully learned, and also offered a valuable lesson.
People in the United States are no more likely to contract a virus that currently has a 2 percent mortality rate from an Asian person than they are from anyone else who is sniffl ing and coughing.
In fact, at this point in the year, someone near you who is sneezing, coughing or looks sick is exponentially more likely to have the fl u. Yes, the vast majority of the almost 25,000 cases of the coronavirus — with about 3,200 critical — are located in China and, yes, many countries, including the United States, have taken strong steps to limit the possibility of turning this epidemic into a pandemic, causing the virus to spread to two or more continents.
Where someone’s ancestors come from, or where they themselves were born, is much less relevant than where they themselves have traveled in the last two weeks.
And, on top of that, even if someone — Asian, Caucasian, African American, Native American or otherwise — has been to Asia in the last month, if that person has been back in the United States for more than two weeks without showing any signs of illness, then he or she falls into the same category as anyone and everyone else with whom we ride the Long Island Rail Road, sit in a movie theater or stroll through a mall. The mandatory quarantine period for people returning from Wuhan, the Chinese center of the outbreak, is two weeks. Fear of this virus shouldn’t encourage any Between you and me BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF D. None of the above BY DANIEL DUNAIEF A Most Dramatic Week
of us to avoid people with a specifi c heritage because the virus doesn’t care about the small genetic differences that create races. It only seeks the receptor in our cells that allow it to get inside and cause respiratory infections. So, how do we manage our fear of the virus? We tackle it the same way we do our fear of getting a fl u. We wash our hands regularly, we try not to touch our face, and we don’t shake hands with anyone who has a stuffy nose or is coughing.
We can also boost our own immune system by getting enough sleep and eating the right foods.
The coronavirus, for which there are currently no treatments or vaccines, has generated a steady drumbeat of horrible news, from the number of people infected to those who have died, which has climbed to almost 500 but with more than 1,000 recoveries.
Fear of the virus can be and is healthy, motivating countries to protect their citizens and limiting the spread of the virus. The fear, however, of any group will never be “normal” and certainly isn’t acceptable.
months. The drama was put forth with an eye to the coming elections and promises a hard and bitter fi ght from now until November.
A little bit of relief was provided by the annual football contest, the Super Bowl, this past Sunday evening. For those who watched, the fourth quarter provided much excitement and an intensity that blocked out even the loudest grim news. Three cheers for the 24-year-old quarterback, Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs, who brought his team back from defeat and became the youngest winner of both a Super Bowl and a regular season NFL (2018) MVP award. Then there is Harvey Weinstein and the trial that, for me, is too much in the news. The constant stream of rape details that are being eagerly reported is a nauseating backdrop for the aforementioned news. There will undoubtedly be a movie.
Speaking of movies, the Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are coming this Sunday, and they should provide distraction from the heavier events. And isn’t it interesting to learn from a recent news article, that there are probably more than 10 million American nudists? See, you can fi nd happy news if you just try.
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