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'Fiscal cliff' bill passes House with tax increases for wealthy

O r i g i n a l l y p u b l i s h e d : D e c e m b e r 3 1 , 2 0 1 2 1 0 : 2 1 P M U p d a t e d : J a n u a r y 1 , 2 0 1 3 1 1 : 4 3 P M By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON - Past its own New Year's deadline, a weary Congress

sent President Barack Obama legislation to avoid a national "fiscal cliff" of

middle class tax increases and spending cuts late Tuesday night in the cul-

mination of a struggle that strained America's divided government to the

limit.

The bill's passage on a bipartisan 257-167 vote in the House sealed a

hard-won political triumph for the president less than two months after he

secured re-election while calling for higher taxes on the wealthy. Moments later, Obama strode into the White House briefing room

and declared, "Thanks to the votes of Republicans and Democrats in Congress I will sign a law that raises taxes on the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans while preventing tax hikes that could have sent the econ-omy back into recession."

He spoke with Vice President Joe Biden at his side, a recognition of the

former senator's role as the lead Democratic negotiator in final compromise

talks with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

In addition to neutralizing middle class tax increases and spending cuts

taking effect with the new year, the legislation will raise tax rates on in-

comes over $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for couples. That was

higher than the thresholds of $200,000 and $250,000 that Obama cam-

paigned for. But remarkably, in a party that swore off tax increases two

decades ago, dozens of Republicans supported the bill at both ends of the

Capitol.

The Senate approved the measure on a vote of 89-8 less than 24

hours earlier, and in the interim, rebellious House conservatives demanded

a vote to add significant spending cuts to the measure. But in the end they

retreated.

The measure split the upper ranks of the Republican leadership in the

House.

Speaker John Boehner of Ohio voted in favor, while Majority Leader

Eric Cantor of Virginia and California Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the party's

whip, opposed the bill.

Supporters of the bill in both parties expressed regret that it was nar-

rowly drawn, and fell far short of a sweeping plan that combined tax

changes and spending cuts to reduce federal deficits. That proved to be a

step too far in the two months since Obama called congressional leaders to

the White House for a postelection stab at compromise.

Majority Republicans did their best to minimize the bill's tax increases,

just as they abandoned their demand from earlier in the day to add spend-

ing cuts to the package.

"By making Republican tax cuts permanent, we are one step closer to

comprehensive tax reform that will help strengthen our economy and cre-

ate more and higher paychecks for American workers," said Rep. Dave

Camp of Michigan, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means

Committee.

He urged a vote for passage to "get us one step closer to tax reform in

2013" as well as attempts to control spending.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi also said the legislation in-

cluded "permanent tax relief for the middle class," and she summoned law-

makers to provide bipartisan support as the Senate did.

The bill would also prevent an expiration of extended unemployment

benefits for an estimated two million jobless, block a 27 percent cut in fees

for doctors who treat Medicare patients, stop a $900 pay increase for law-

makers from taking effect in March and head off a threatened spike in milk

prices.

It would stop $24 billion in across-the-board spending cuts set to take

effect over the next two months, although only about half of that total would

be offset with savings elsewhere in the budget.

The economic as well as political stakes were considerable.

Economists have warned that without action by Congress, the tax in-

creases and spending cuts that technically took effect with the turn of the

new year at midnight could send the economy into recession.

Even with enactment of the legislation, taxes are on the rise for mil-

lions.

A 2 percentage point temporary cut in the Social Security payroll tax,

originally enacted two years ago to stimulate the economy, expired with the

end of 2012. Neither Obama nor Republicans made a significant effort to

extend it.

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House Republicans spent much of the day struggling to escape a political corner they found

themselves in.

"I personally hate it," Rep. John Campbell of California, said of the measure, giving voice to

the concern of many Republicans that it did little or nothing to cut spending.

"The speaker the day after the election said we would give on taxes and we have. But we

wanted spending cuts. This bill has spending increases. Are you kidding me? So we get tax

increases and spending increases? Come on."

Cantor told reporters at one point, "I do not support the bill. We are looking, though, for the

best path forward."

Within hours, Republicans abandoned demands for changes and agreed to a simple yes-

or-no vote on the Senate-passed bill.

They feared that otherwise the Senate would refuse to consider any alterations, sending the

bill into limbo and saddling Republicans with the blame for a whopping middle class tax in-

crease. One Senate Democratic leadership aide said Majority Leader Harry Reid would

"absolutely not take up the bill" if the House changed it. The aide spoke on condition of ano-

nymity, citing a requirement to keep internal deliberations private.

Despite Cantor's remarks, Boehner took no public position in advance of voting the bill as

he sought to negotiate a conclusion to the final crisis of a two-year term full of them.

The brief insurrection wasn't the first time that the tea party-infused House Republican ma-

jority has rebelled against the party establishment since the GOP took control of the chamber

24 months ago. But with the two-year term set to end Thursday at noon, it was likely the last.

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Officials: Fiscal cliff deal reached, includes tax hike on rich

O r i g i n a l l y p u b l i s h e d : D e c e m b e r 3 1 , 2 0 1 2 6 : 0 9 A M Updated: December 31, 2012 11:43

WASHINGTON - Racing the clock, the White House reached a New

Year's Eve accord with Senate Republicans late Monday to neutralize

across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts in government programs

due to take effect at midnight, according to administration and Senate De-

mocratic officials.

Under the deal, taxes would remain steady for the middle class and

rise at incomes over $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for couples —

levels higher than President Barack Obama had campaigned for in his suc-

cessful drive for a second term in office. Spending cuts totaling $24 billion over two months aimed at the

Pentagon and domestic programs would be deferred. That would allow the White House and lawmakers time to regroup before plunging very quickly into a new round of budget brinkmanship certain to revolve around Republican calls to rein in the cost of Medicare and other gov-ernment benefit programs.

Officials also decided at the last minute to use the measure to prevent

a $900 pay raise for lawmakers due to take effect this spring.

Democratic senators said they expected a vote on the measure later in

the evening. They spoke after a closed-door session with Vice President

Joseph Biden, who brokered the deal with Senate Republican leader Mitch

McConnell.

"The argument is that this is the best that can be done on a bipartisan

basis," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., when asked about the case

the vice president had delivered behind closed doors.

Passage would send the measure to the House, where Speaker John

Boehner, R-Ohio, refrained from endorsing a package as yet unseen by his

famously rebellious rank-and-file. He said the House would not vote on any

Senate-passed measure "until House members — and the American peo-

ple — have been able to review" it.

Numerous GOP officials said McConnell and his aides had kept the

speaker's office informed about the progress of the talks.

The House Democratic leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, issued

a statement saying that when legislation clears the Senate, "I will present it

to the House Democratic caucus."

Without legislation, economists in and out of government warned of a

possible recession if the economy were allowed to fall over a fiscal cliff of

tax increases and spending cuts.

And while the deadline to act was technically midnight, Obama's signa-

ture on legislation by the time a new Congress takes office at noon on Jan.

3, 2013 — the likely timetable — would eliminate or minimize any inconven-

ience for taxpayers.

Even by the dysfunctional standards of government-by-gridlock, the ac-

tivity at both ends of historic Pennsylvania Avenue was remarkable as the

administration and lawmakers spent the final hours of 2012 haggling over

long-festering differences.

"One thing we can count on with respect to this Congress is that if

there's even one second left before you have to do what you're supposed to

do, they will use that last second," the president said in a mid-afternoon

status update on the talks.

As darkness fell on the last day of the year, Obama, Biden and their

aides were at work in the White House, and lights burned in the House and

Senate. Democrats complained that Obama had given away too much in

agreeing to limit tax increases to incomes over $450,000, far above the

$250,000 level he campaigned on. Yet some Republicans recoiled at the

prospect of raising taxes at all.

A late dispute over the estate tax produced allegations of bad faith from

all sides.

After hours of haggling, Biden headed for the Capitol to brief the De-

mocratic rank and file.

Earlier, McConnell had agreed with Obama that an overall deal was

near. In remarks on the Senate floor, he suggested Congress move quickly

to pass tax legislation and "continue to work on finding smarter ways to cut

spending" next year.

The White House and Democrats initially declined the offer, preferring to

prevent the cuts from kicking in at the Pentagon and domestic agencies

alike. A two-month compromise resulted.

Officials in both parties said the agreement would prevent tax increases

at incomes below $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for couples.




Rep. Carolyn McCarthy on

House Republican Shelving of

Sandy Aid Vote: ‘It’s Shameful’

WASHINGTON, DC (Jan. 2, 2013) – Rep. Carolyn McCarthy issued the following statement on the House Republican majority cancelling a vote on the Superstorm Sandy aid package that passed the Senate with bipartisan support last week.

“I’m absolutely shocked that the House Republican leadership is adjourning the 112th Congress without addressing the needs of the victims of Superstorm Sandy.

“Like most Members whose constituents were affected by Sandy, we expected, and were all but assured, that there would be consideration of a supplemental appropriations bill before this House adjourned.

“It’s unacceptable to leave millions of Americans across the most densely populated part of the nation, including my Long Island district, on the hook for the unexpected costs of a natural disaster.

“The House Republican leadership had plenty of time to act – let’s review the timeline.

“In November, Governors from affected states acted to give pre-liminary assessments of the damage caused to their cities and towns.

“In early December, the President submitted to Speaker Boehner a detailed supplemental package.

“By the end of December, the Senate passed a bipartisan supple-mental providing $60 billion in federal resources to Sandy victims.

“And yesterday, House Republican leadership chose to give Members an extra day of vacation rather than take up the Senate-passed bill or, at the very least, even attempt to address the needs of millions because of this natural disaster.

“All the House leadership did was tell storm victims to wait un-til the next Congress.

“Excuse me for being cynical, but I don’t have much faith that this House leadership can keep its word and deliver for the people in a timely manner.

“With midnight hour deals on fiscal cliffs, and pending dysfunc-tion with the debt ceiling situation in two months, I just don’t believe it.

“This represents an unprecedented action in the Congress – never before has the United States Congress turned its back on its citizens after a natural disaster.

“Members of this Congress whose constituents were affected by Sandy have time and time again supported supplemental appropria-tions bills for other areas of the country affected by natural disaster.

“We were there with funding after Katrina, and we were there after the floods in the Midwest. Now we need to be there for mil-lions in the Northeast.

“How come when it is our constituents’ unfortunate circum-stance to be in need of similar funding we are told to wait?

“It’s shameful. “I’m pleased that both my Republican and Democratic col-

leagues have expressed their shock and disappointment in House leadership for not allowing a vote on a Sandy aid package.

“I will not rest until I can deliver this funding to my constituents on Long Island and to the millions who live throughout the North-east.

“The Senate passed a good bipartisan bill that includes much needed mitigation funding as well.

“Nine weeks is already far too long for folks to wait to be helped by our federal government after a disaster of this magnitude.

“FEMA alone cannot provide all the necessary funding until this House acts.

“The Small Business Administration, the Army Corps of Engi-

neers, other vital federal agencies and our state and local govern-ments need the additional resources to help stem the hurt Sandy caused.

“I’m appalled by the actions of this House Republican leadership and I remain committed to getting Long Islanders and those across the Northeast the federal assistance they deserve.”

Rep. McCarthy Calls on House Leaders to

Allow Vote on Sandy Aid Package

Senate has Passed $60 Billion in Storm Relief, But House Majority Has Not Acted Yet

WASHINGTON, DC (Dec. 30, 2012) – Rep. Carolyn

McCarthy (D-NY4) is urging House Speaker John Boehner and other House leaders to allow a vote on a much-needed federal relief package to help the millions of Long Islanders and other New Yorkers who are suffering the short- and long-term effects of Superstorm Sandy.

A $60 billion aid package passed in the Senate by a vote of

62-32, but the House Republican Majority also needs to bring the package up for a vote for it to reach the people who need it.

“We were there after Katrina and we were there after the

floods in the Midwest, and now we need the House leadership to be there for us here on Long Island and in the tri-state area,” Rep. McCarthy said in Washington today. “The state and local governments can’t do this alone. The Senate has seen the im-portance of helping the victims of Superstorm Sandy; I’m ask-ing Speaker Boehner and his colleagues in the House Majority to act as soon as possible so we can get this aid delivered as soon as possible.”



Rep. McCarthy Re-Introducing Bill to Ban High-Capacity Ammunition Magazines

Rep. DeGette of Colorado is Original Co-Sponsor

WASHINGTON, DC (Jan. 3, 2013) -- Reps. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY4) and Diana DeGette (D-CO1) are reintroducing legislation today to ban the high-capacity ammunition magazines that have enabled high num-bers of casualties in almost every recent mass shooting in American his-tory.

“These assault magazines help put the ‘mass’ in ‘mass shooting’ and anything we can do to stop their proliferation will save lives in America,” Rep. McCarthy said. “These devices are used to kill as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time possible and we owe it to innocent Americans everywhere to keep them out of the hands of dangerous peo-ple. We don’t even allow hunters to use them – something’s deeply wrong if we’re protecting game more than we’re protecting innocent human be-ings.”

“Since I came to Congress, I have been working to protect our children and our families from senseless gun violence,” Rep. DeGette said. “Recent tragedies have only heightened the need, and that is why Rep. McCarthy and I are reintroducing our bill to ban high-capacity assault magazines. While there is no single answer to stopping these massacres, this bill is a step that will go a long way toward making our country safe.”

The High Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act, as the bill is formally known, bans the sale or transfer of ammunition magazines hold-ing more than 10 rounds. Such a standard was federal law between 1994 and 2004, when the assault weapons ban was in effect, and it is state law in many parts of the United States. Magazines are available today in capaci-ties of up to 100 and even more.

Law enforcement officials and analysts have cited the direct role that magazine capacity plays in ensuring the high numbers of casualties in mass shootings. Often, as in the cases of Tucson, Arizona and the Long Island Railroad, the carnage ends when the shooters run out of bullets and stop to reload, at which point they are stopped by bystanders.

Unfortunately, the devices are still easily available to the public and have been used in every mass shooting in recent history, such as: Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut; a shopping mall in Oregon; a temple in Wisconsin; a movie theater in Colorado; a Congressional event in Arizona; at schools like Columbine High School and Virginia Tech Uni-versity; at a law office in California; and on a commuter rail car in New York. They were even acquired from the United States by mail order and used in the Norway shooting of 2011, where 69 people were shot to death.

In many cases, mass shooters intending to act don’t have access to a black market, but acquire whatever they can easily and legally, making a ban on high-capacity magazines a major obstacle for future mass murder-ers to carry out their plans.

The legislation had 138 House co-sponsors in the 112th Congress, under the number H.R. 308. One hundred and eleven House members signed on after its introduction after the shooting in Tucson, Arizona; two more signed on after the shooting in Aurora, Colorado; then 25 more signed on after last month’s shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

Rep. McCarthy, a lifelong nurse, strode into a life of activism to re-duce gun violence after her husband was murdered and son critically wounded in the 1993 mass shooting on the Long Island Railroad in New York. Her activism led her to Washington first to lobby members of Con-gress as an advocate for victims, and then as a member herself after run-ning against her own congressman who voted against the assault weapons ban.

Rep. DeGette has been an outspoken supporter of measures to reduce gun violence and played a critical role in rounding up support for new co-sponsors for the ban on high-capacity magazines after the most recent trag-edy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Her district includes Columbine High School and is adjacent to that which in-cludes Aurora, Colorado. She is now, with Rep. McCarthy, the original co-sponsor of the legislation, which will receive a bill number shortly.

The bill to ban high-capacity magazines was carried in the Senate in the 112th Congress by Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey. Sen. Lautenberg has helped lead the fight for safer gun policy for much of his decades-long career, writing the law to keep guns out of the hands of domestic violence offenders and co-sponsoring the original Brady Law to establish back-ground checks for handgun purchases, among other efforts.



Pushing the Profit Creators Off the

Fiscal Cliff

As I am writing this, hope is quickly dimming that Con-gress and President Obama will step back from pushing the nation—and our slowly recovering economy—off the fis-cal cliff. By the time you may be reading this however, we may already be in free fall. Regardless, while a county leg-islator has absolutely zero impact on the last minute budget negotiating process—if Starbucks can offer advice via caf-feinated graffiti—I think all elected officials, regardless of their level of office or party affiliation, should state where they stand on the federal stand-off. If for no other reason than because state and local governments will have to pick up the shattered pieces of our economy after the effects of the impact are felt.

Being a Democrat and not a part of what I like to call the “Washington think” I believe both sides are missing a major point of this debate. A word first to my fellow De-mocrats, simply seeking to raise taxes on the wealthy out of fairness is noble—but that argument lacks sufficient substance to be meaningful public policy. To my Republi-can friends, refusing any tax increase in order to protect the job creators is short-sighted. Simply put, both sides are wrong to either praise or demonize the ethics and efficacy

of protecting the “Job Creators”. I believe the focus of any discussion on the economy and the fiscal cliff should con-centrate on what I like to call the Profit Creators.

What, who? Why hasn’t anyone championed the cause of this group of Americans thus far in the national de-bate? Both are good and valid questions. But, before I go on I am compelled to describe who these seemingly elu-sive and overlooked species of Americana are.

To paraphrase the cartoonist Walt Kelly, we have met the profit creators and they are us, the vast majority of us actually.

If you are an American, working eight-plus hour days to provide profits for a larger business or multi-national corporation, then you too are a profit creator. None of us make even the slightest percentage of the money earned by the CEO’s and assorted corporate officers of our parent companies. Indeed, we are making a shrinking percentage of those profits to provide for the families we parent. The statistics don’t lie, over the past thirty years wealthy Americans have grown richer while middle and lower in-come earners have seen their wages fall or stay stagnant.

Ask Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke (2011 pay package $18.1 million) if his company would be hugely profitable if it were not for his army of blue-vested minimum wage cashiers, greeters and shelf-stockers (average take home pay of under $250 a week).

So every time a Republican Congressman touts the economic necessity of propping up tax cuts for the job creators I want—and expect—a Democratic Congressman to stand up and meaningfully argue for the profit creators. And to do so by reminding their GOP counterparts that no successful or profitable company has ever existed without the profit creators, who are for customers, the faces of the corporations they represent. And until Kurt Vonnegut’s dystopian reality of Player Piano takes place and mechani-zation completely takes over capitalism, we must protect the flesh and blood profit creators.

But being at the brink of this cliff is not necessarily a bad place to be. Like Vonnegut writes in Player Piano, “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”

And if you are reading this after we have already gone over the cliff, all hope is not necessarily lost either. Vonne-gut’s words from Piano still offer some hope, “a step back-ward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right di-rection.”

Sincerely yours, DuWayne Gregory Suffolk County Legislative Majority Leader 15th Legislative District



Are you, or someone you know, still suffering emotionally from

the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy?

Is the strain of trying so hard to be strong for your family, or just dealing with the sheer weight of the tragedy, still making you anxious or depressed?

Do you feel like you just can’t go on?

Don’t give up, there is hope.

Starting Monday, January 7th, 2013

Suffolk County Legislator DuWayne Gregory’s district office will serve as a confidential meeting place for people seeking crises counseling services offered through Project Hope.

The Project Hope Crisis Counseling Program:

The New York State Office of Mental Health has created the Project Hope Crisis Counseling Program to assist individuals, families, and groups impacted by the disaster caused by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. Project Hope offers free and confidential supportive counseling and public education services to Hurricane Sandy disaster vic-tims here in Suffolk County. Project Hope is funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and administered on the federal level by the Center for Mental Health Services at SAMHSA .

What do Project Hope counselors do?

Project Hope counselors are trained to speak with you about your disaster-related concerns. They can help you consider how best to meet your needs. They will also help locate other resources that you may need. If you would like to find a grief support group in your neighborhood, for instance, they can offer direction.

Key Principles of the Project Hope Crisis Counseling Program:

· Strengths Based—Program services promote resilience, empowerment, and recovery.

· Anonymous—Crisis counselors do not classify, label, or diagnose people; no records or case files are kept.

· Outreach Oriented—Crisis counselors deliver services in the communities rather than wait for survivors to seek their assistance.

· Conducted in Nontraditional Settings—Crisis counselors make contact in homes and communities, not in clinical or office settings.

· Designed to Strengthen Existing Commu-nity Support Systems—The program supple-ments, but does not supplant or replace, existing community systems.

All Project Hope services are free and confiden-tial.

Appointments will be scheduled for between the hours of 9:30 am and 2 pm in Legislator Du-Wayne Gregory’s office

15 Albany Avenue

Amityville, NY 11701 (across the street from the Sunoco Station on Route 110). Please call: (631) 854-1111 and ask to make an

appointment with a Project Hope Crises Counselor.





And as was true in earlier cases of a threatened default and government

shutdown, the brinkmanship came on a matter of economic urgency, leaving

the party open to a public backlash if tax increases do take effect on tens of

millions.

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said the measure would

add nearly $4 trillion over a decade to federal deficits, a calculation that as-

sumed taxes would otherwise have risen on taxpayers at all income levels.

There was little or no evident concern among Republicans on that point, pre-

sumably because of their belief that tax cuts pay for themselves by expand-

ing economic growth and do not cause deficits to rise.

The relative paucity of spending cuts was a sticking point with many

House Republicans. Among other items, the extension of unemployment

benefits costs $30 billion, and is not offset by savings elsewhere.

Others said unhappiness over spending outweighed fears that the finan-

cial markets will plunge on Wednesday if the fiscal cliff hasn't been averted.

"There's a concern about the markets, but there's a bigger concern,

which is getting this right, which is something we haven't been very good at

over the past two years," said Rep. Steve LaTourette of Ohio.

For all the struggle involved in the legislation, even its passage would

merely clear the way for another round of controversy almost as soon as the

new Congress convenes.

With the Treasury expected to need an expansion in borrowing authority

by early spring, and funding authority for most government programs set to

expire in late March, Republicans have made it clear they intend to use

those events as leverage with the administration to win savings from Medi-

care and other government benefit programs.

McConnell said as much moments before the 2 a.m. Tuesday vote in the

Senate — two hours after the advertised "cliff" deadline.

"We've taken care of the revenue side of this debate. Now it's time to get

serious about reducing Washington's out-of-control spending," he said.

"That's a debate the American people want. It's the debate we'll have next.

And it's a debate Republicans are ready for."

The 89-8 vote in the Senate was unexpectedly lopsided.

Despite grumbling from liberals that Obama had given way too much in

the bargaining, only three Democrats opposed the measure. Among the Republican supporters were Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsyl-

vania, an ardent opponent of tax increases, as well as Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, elected to his seat two years ago with tea party support.


At higher levels, the rate would rise to a maximum of 39.6 percent from

the current 35 percent. Capital gains and dividends in excess of those

amounts would be taxed at 20 percent, up from 15 percent.

The deal also would also raise taxes on the portion of estates exceeding

$5 million to 40 percent. At the

insistence of Republicans, the $5 million threshold would rise each year

with inflation.

Much or all of the revenue to be raised through higher taxes on the

wealthy would help hold down the amount paid to the Internal Revenue Ser-

vice by the middle class.

In addition to preventing higher rates for most, the agreement would re-

tain existing breaks for families with children, for low-earning taxpayers and

for those with a child in college. Also, the two sides agreed to prevent the

alternative minimum tax from expanding to affect an estimated 28 million

households for the first time in 2013, with an average increase of more than

$3,000. The law originally was designed to make sure millionaires did not

escape taxes, but inflation has gradually exposed more and more house-

holds with lower earnings to its impact.

The legislation leaves untouched a scheduled 2 percentage point in-

crease in the payroll tax, ending a temporary reduction enacted two years

ago to help revive the economy.

Officials said the White House had succeeded in gaining a one-year ex-

tension of long-term unemployment benefits about to expire on an esti-

mated two million jobless.

It was unclear whether the legislation would prevent a 27 percent cut in

fees for doctors who treat Medicare patients was unknown.

Also included is a provision to prevent a threatened spike in milk prices

after the first of the year.

Even as time was running out, partisan agendas were evident.

Obama used his appearance not only to chastise Congress, but also to

lay down a marker for the next round of negotiations early in 2013, when

Republicans intend to seek spending cuts in exchange for letting the Treas-

ury to borrow above the current debt limit of $16.4 trillion.

"Now, if Republicans think that I will finish the job of deficit reduction

through spending cuts alone — and you hear that sometimes coming from

them ... then they've got another think coming. ... That's not how it's going to

work at least as long as I'm president," he said.

"And I'm going to be president for the next four years, I think," he added.

Obama's remarks irritated some Republicans. Sen. John McCain of Arizona they would "clearly antagonize mem-

bers of the House."




Kathleen Rice says she'll seek

3rd term as DA Originally published: January 3, 2013 11:51 AM

Updated: January 3, 2013 11:54 AM By ANN GIVENS AND ROBERT BRODSKY [email protected],[email protected]

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice an-nounced Thursday morning that she will seek a third term in November, for now ending speculation that she has immediate plans to run for higher office.

In an email to supporters, Rice said that if re-elected, cracking down on violent crime, cyber crime and public corruption would be among her priorities.

"While our strides have been bold and our progress steady, I believe I have more to contribute to an office that we all rely upon to protect our families and to ensure the integrity of the criminal justice system," she said in the email.

Rice, a Democrat, took office in 2006 after unseating Nassau's 31-year Republican district attorney, Denis Dil-lon, in her first bid for public office.

In 2010, she ran an unsuccessful bid for state attor-ney general, losing in the primary to Eric Schneiderman. Since then, Rice's impressive campaign war chest -- she ended the first half of 2012 with nearly $2 million in the bank -- has fueled speculation that she may still have her eye on higher office, though she had remained mum on the subject.

Nassau Democratic operatives have publicly touted Rice as a top-tier candidate to challenge Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano this November.

Rice's decision creates a void for Democrats in the race. Among the rumored remaining candidates are Nassau Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs, North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jon Kaiman and Legis. David Denenberg of Merrick. Roslyn School Board member Adam Haber has already declared his candi-dacy while former County Executive Thomas Suozzi has said he would not run.

MANGANO REMINDS SMALL BUSINESSES TO TAP HURRICANE SANDY RECOVERY RESOURCES

Mineola, NY – As small businesses continue their struggle to re-

build following devastating losses from Hurricane Sandy, Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano today urged business owners to utilize the programs and resources that are available to get back on their feet. Immediately following Hurricane Sandy, County Execu-tive Mangano directed the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency (NCIDA) to establish a Business Recovery Center to help businesses get up and running.

County Executive Mangano stated, “There are many resources

available to businesses impacted by Hurricane Sandy. My admini-stration is doing everything possible to help small businesses rebuild in Nassau County as they are the backbone of our economy.”

The Business Recovery Center offers affected businesses a sales

tax exemption on the purchase of any furniture, fixtures, equipment, machinery, computers and building material that is necessary to en-sure the businesses can reopen. Thus far, more than $1.5 million in exemptions have been issued by the NCIDA.

Approximately 20 volunteers are available to respond to inquiries

relating to economic development issues. The responders are from Hofstra University, JP Morgan Chase, TD Bank and Deloitte and thus far, they have handled more than 500 inquiries to the Business Recovery Center.

The 24-hour Business Recovery Center has a dedicated Hotline

staffed by economic development representatives. The number is (516) 571-1745. In addition, all federal, state and local business re-c o v e r y r e s o u r c e s c a n b e a c c e s s e d a t : www.nassaubackinbusiness.org. The County IDA has also estab-lished a dedicated email address where questions can be addressed by economic development professionals – [email protected].

Other resources that are available to assist local businesses are: The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has low-interest loans available for

businesses and most private nonprofits for up to $2 million dollars for physical property losses. Small businesses and most private nonprofit organizations can also apply for economic injury loans for up to $2 million. Interested businesses can apply at any of the State/FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers, SBA Business Recovery Centers, online at: https://disasterloan.sba.gov/ela or contact the SBA at 1-800-659-2955.

The National Grid Hurricane Sandy Relief Program provides grants up to $250,000

to National Grid commercial, industrial or multi-family residential gas customers that were impacted by Hurricane Sandy. Eligible customers can use program funds for en-ergy infrastructure repairs or replacement, rehabilitation of buildings, and costs associ-ated with replacement of machinery or equipment necessary for the operation of the businesses. Funding consideration will be based on documented financial need and im-pact to the community. To determine eligibility and for additional information, custom-ers should contact National Grid at 1-855-496-9359.



$70 million for NASCAR; $0 for Sandy Victims

House GOP Favors NASCAR Racetracks Over Nassau County's Sandy Victims

WASHINGTON - John Boehner and the other Republican members of the House of Representatives announced today that they have decided to pass on voting for a $60 billion relief package that would provide aid to the many communities ravaged by Hurricane Sandy. Con-gressional Republicans deemed their actions justifiable because they believed “it was filled with pork” (Rep. Darrell Issa). They decided that money used to help rebuild homes, schools, small businesses and transportation systems that were destroyed by the storm was excessive. Adding insult to injury, it was revealed today that the Republicans managed to include a $70 million subsidy for NASCAR as part of the 150+ page Fiscal Cliff Bill. Surprisingly, it was Rep. Peter King who assessed the situation most appropriately by stating, “Anyone from New York or New Jersey who contributes one penny to Congressional Republicans is out of their minds.”

MANGANO ALERTS RESIDENTS TO NEW STEP PROGRAM

DEADLINE OF JANUARY 18TH

Mineola, NY – Nassau County Executive Ed-ward P. Mangano urged residents today to apply for Sheltering and Tem-porary Essential Power (STEP) Program assis-tance before the new January 18th expiration date. The program pro-vides emergency assis-tance with restoring temporary electricity, heat and hot water to homes which can shelter homeowners while per-manent repair work con-

tinues. Residents seeking assistance through the Nassau

County STEP Program should dial 1-888-684-4267. Once the call is made, a program administrator dispatches an as-sessment team. After an assessment is conducted and a scope of work is detailed and approved, the contractor will obtain the required permits and schedule the work. Work must be completed 60 days from when the assessment was conducted.

HEMPSTEAD PUBLIC LIBRARY

ADULT WORKSHOP

ONLINE JOB SEARCH AND RESUME TECHNIQUES

Lecture and Demonstration – Part I

Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

6:30P.M. –8:30P.M.

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Learn how to use the Internet to find that perfect job! In this lec-ture and demo class, you will learn how to develop and create a powerful resume, find and use online job search websites, and for-mulate a job search process that will work for you. Such topics as online applications, the do’s and don’ts of resume writing, customiz-ing cover letters and thank you notes will also be covered. This is the first part of a two part workshop. A basic knowledge of com-puter usage as well as a current e-mail address is required to attend this workshop.

The program will be held in the Community Room. Registration is required for this free program.



From the Desk of Mayor Hall We are tempted by the onset of a new year to look ahead with eager optimism, to set resolutions and as-semble great plans. But at this time especially, we must not neglect to look back. The tri-state area has en-

dured a number of tragedies in recent months, from the destruction of our shores in superstorm Sandy to the senseless and unimaginable loss of life in Newtown. Now is the time – however hard it may be – to look back at these events, to remember those we lost and to learn from the mistakes. We will face the obstacles of 2013 toughened by the challenges of 2012. But we will be stronger and more prepared.

Hempstead Village showed tremendous resolve in the wake of disaster. Our community felt the destruction of Sandy personally, and we responded swiftly. In 2012, Long Island was burdened with the harsh effects of Mother Nature for the second consecutive year, and we have no excuse for being unprepared moving forward. I am confident that our hard-working public and private sec-tors and our resilient residents will be up to the challenge.

But not all adversities are beyond our control.

Too often it requires a tragedy like the shooting at Sandy Hook to instill in a nation a sense of urgency to a cause. It is a frustrating reality. As your mayor, I find this unacceptable. We will not rely on disaster to awaken us from inaction; we will take preventative measures to ensure that it does not happen to our children and our families. We have felt the pain of gun violence too often in our Village to do it otherwise. In 2012, we made strides in reducing violent crime, including the institution of a gun buyback program, a Stop the Violence Rally in front of Village Hall, and programs aimed at stopping illegal gun traf-ficking and gang violence. I am proud of these measures, but we must not rest on them. We do no service to the memories of those who fell in Newtown if their legacy does not mobilize us to prevent others from falling. We will con-tinue the fight in 2013.

This is my eighth year as your mayor, and each year my gratitude for this position grows. I am honored to be your mayor. We make continual improve-ments to the quality of life for residents in the Village of Hempstead, and 2013 will be no exception. I urge you to stay involved and make your voices heard. One way you can do so this month is to participate in the Martin Lu-ther King Jr. Day of Service on January 21, 2013, and give back to your com-munity

To learn more about what is going on in the Village of Hempstead, includ-ing information about local organizations that serve youth and families, visit www.villageofhempstead.org.You may also join our electronic mailing list by sending your name and email address to: [email protected]. To keep abreast of the downtown revi-talization, visit www.renewhempstead.com. On that site, you may share your ideas for the redevelopment and/or provide your feedback on the plan.

Sincerely,

Wayne Mayor Wayne J. Hall

Filing Period Extended for STAR Program

Applicants (NASSAU COUNTY, NY) – Nassau County Legisla-

tor Kevan Abrahams would like to advise residents that the exemptions filing period for the STAR program for the 2013-14 property tax year has been extended to April 1, 2013 for any Nassau County homeowner. A special excep-tion to extend this deadline has been made due to Superstorm Sandy.

STAR is the New York State School Tax Relief Pro-gram that provides an exemp-tion from school property taxes for owner-occupied, primary residences. Qualified home-owners of all ages, regardless of income, may apply. Seniors over the age of 65 whose income is less than $79,050 may apply for the “enhanced” STAR exemption.

The Nassau County Department of Assessment proc-esses applications for property tax exemptions and the Ba-sic and Enhanced STAR programs for qualifying Nassau County homeowners.

Basic and Enhanced STAR application forms, as well as a variety of other tax exemption forms for Nassau County homeowners, business owners and non-profit organiza-tions, can be found online. Please visit: http://www.nassaucountyny.gov/agencies/Assessor/Online%20Forms/exempt.html

For more information regarding the STAR program, or any other property tax exemption program, please call the Nassau County Assessor’s office at 516-571-1500. Their office is located at 240 Old Country Road, Mineola, NY 11501.



First ‘African-designed’ smart phone and tablet launches

Congolese technology company VMK is attempting to break into the smart phone and tablet market by unveiling the first homegrown de-vices specifically geared towards Africans.

VMK announced the launch of the new Way-C tablet and Elikia smart phone earlier this week. To market the devices as authentically African, the budding tech company chose the names Way-C, which means “the light of the stars” and Elikia, which translates to “hope” in the local Lingala language.

“Only Africans know what Africa needs,” says Congolese entrepre-

neur and founder, Verone Mankou. “Apple is huge in the US, Samsung is huge in Asia, and we want VMK to be huge in Africa.”

While the specs of the devices are not quite ‘top of the line’ com-pared to its competitors, its reasonable price tag is what Mankou be-lieves is the biggest selling point for local African communities. The 27-year old entrepreneur says the aim is to get these products into the hands of African locals by making the products more affordable, according to his statement at the Tech4Africa conference in Johannesburg last month. Both devices use Google’s Android operating system.

Although the company has high ambitions to compete with mobile juggernauts Apple and Samsung, there has been some negative specula-tion amid the tech community surrounding the authenticity of VMK’s products because the devices are manufactured in China. This reaction is due to the tainted reputation that other African tech companies have garnered in the past for producing copies of other products.

For instance, Smartplanet reports that a Nigerian-based company a few years ago first claimed to have released Africa’s homegrown tablet;

however, it was soon discovered that the device was simply an OEM product sold throughout the world under different names.

While Africa’s tech reputation has plummeted in recent years, VMK firmly states that the design and engineering of their products are authentically African-based, even though they are manufactured over-seas.

“We are somewhat offended by the disregard of those who persist in denying the authentication of our products, despite evidence,” accord-

ing to statement from VMK’s website. “Most of those critics are either Afro-pessimistic (who argue that ‘nothing good’ can come from Africa’), or just (future) competitors who have [an] OEM on the market or are planning to market and/or commercialize one.”

He says that their reason to outsource the manufacturing process to China was due to lower costs and limited availability of factories in the Congo.To make it even more clear, Mankou decided to engrave “Designed in the Republic of Congo, assembled in China” on the devices, which mimics the engravings on Apple’s iPhones and iPads that read “Designed by Apple in California.”

The three-year-old tech company also says that unlike previous “African-based” smartphones and tablets, there are no products on the market matching VMK devices in other countries under different brand-ing.

VMK plans to sell the devices at retailers across 10 West African countries in addition to releases in Belgium, France and India.

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IN THE BLACKIN THE BLACK





is beautiful isn’t enough. Unfortunately, when you’re a teen, what your peers think is more important. Research shows however, that teens involved in clubs, sports, music or volunteer activities have higher self-esteem and do better in school. Children gain self-esteem from doing something they are success-ful in. The WebMD website has these five tips for par-ents:

Be a good role model. Your teen does notice. Don’t complain that you are fat in front of her!

Be positive! Teach your teen about media. Don't let your daughter be a

fashion victim or your son become obsessed with being muscle-bound. Help him or her develop a healthy skep-ticism about images in magazines, on screen, and on the web. Make sure your teen understands the airbrushing, photo manipulation, stylists, personal trainers, cosmetic surgery, and other tricks that make up the beauty indus-try and celebrity culture. Guide your teen to decode ad-vertising messages that link products with personal ful-fillment.

Emphasis other qualities over appearance! Is she a good writer? Gets good grades? Is she funny? Does she make friends easily? Make sure to point out these types of qualities when she displays them!

Make good health a family affair! It helps kids if all mem-bers of the family eat healthy together and exercise to-gether! She may enjoy joining the organization Black Girls Run! Find your local chapter. Emphasize that exercising is not for her to lose weight, it’s for her over-all health! As she makes gains in running she will feel healthier, her body will tone and she’ll feel better about herself!

Visit the WebMD.com and TeenAdvice.About.com web-sites for more information!

Lisa-Anne Ray-Byers is a licensed and certified speech-language pathologist who has worked in education for over two decades. She holds graduate degrees in speech-language pathology and multicultural education. She also holds certification in educational administration. She is the author of the books, They Say I Have ADHD, I Say Life Sucks! Thought From Nicholas and They S S Say I'm a StStStutterer, But I S S Say Nothing! Meet Kelly and co-author of 365 Ways to Succeed With ADHD available by contacting her. She is the education editor of the Commu-nity Journal newspaper in Baldwin, NY and a member of the National Education Writers Association. You may con-tact her at [email protected] or by visiting her web-site at www.AskLisaAnne.com.

ASK LISA-ANNE How Can I Help My Daughter Improve Her Body

Image? Q. My fifteen year old daughter has poor body image

and low self-esteem. She thinks she is fat and ugly because other girls at school call her fat. I don’t think she is fat at all and her doctor says she is not overweight! How can I help her?

A. So many of our girls suffer from this! Especially in the teen years however, we are seeing younger and younger girls as young as eight years old referring to themselves as fat. It’s so unfortunate. First let’s talk about what body image is. Body image has to do with how you think about your size and shape. How you think about your body relates to how you think about yourself as a whole, so a negative body image is often linked to low self-esteem, anxiety, depression and feel-ing bad about yourself. Many people with a negative body im-age struggle with eating disorders, dieting and self-doubt. A healthy body image is essential to your health, happiness and well-being. People with a healthy body image are less likely to engage in self-destructive habits such as crash dieting, smoking to lose weight, excessive drinking, cutting, and bingeing and purging. They are more likely to feel good about themselves overall and see the way they look as one small part of who they are and less likely to beat themselves up when they have too many French fries or a big slice of cake. Both girls and boys are affected. Between glossy fashion magazines, MTV, social media, and popular movies, teenage girls can get the impression that fashion models and celebri-ties have perfect bodies and flawless skin. Many teenage boys compare themselves to the buff athletes and movie stars they see in magazines, the Internet, and on TV. They feel dissatis-fied if their own teen bodies don't measure up. In some cases, negative body image has been linked with depression, eating disorders, and other risky teen behaviors. Teenage boys aren't usually as verbal about their body image issues as girls are, but that doesn't mean they don't experience them. Boys who are overweight often endure social isolation and even bullying in middle and high school. Boys also suffer from eating disor-ders, though parents and doctors may overlook them, even if they are alert to such problems in girls. Your daughter has the added pressure of being bullied. You may not view being called fat bullying but it is! Find out if this was an isolated case or if it’s a frequent occurrence. Speak to the guidance counselor for tips on how your daughter can try to handle it herself. If that doesn’t work you will have to intervene in-volving the principal if you must! You must try to put a stop to it as soon as possible. Many parents do not realize their children are being bullied or don’t realize the severity of the bullying until it’s too late. If your daughter is severely af-fected by her body image you may want to consider counsel-ing. Explain to your daughter that most models don’t look like the magazine photos. Spend time with her so that you know how she’s feeling and she feels close enough to share with you. Encourage her to enroll in a club at school or to join a sport. Many high schools have Girls’ Clubs. Telling her she



“The Alpha College Tour—One of the

“Go to High School, Go to College”

Programs The Eta Theta Lambda Education Foundation, a non-

profit subsidiary of the Eta Theta Lambda Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., is currently preparing high school students to participate in its 2012 31st Anniversary GO TO HIGH SCHOOL, GO TO COLLEGE, HISTORI-CALLY BLACK COLLEGE TOUR. This great opportunity for New York City area, Connecticut, New Jersey and other high school students to visit 15 outstanding Historically Black Colleges and Universities will begin on October 20, 2012, and end on October 27, 2012. The basic cost of the Tour is $625.00 and includes hotel accommodations and bus transportation for the week. In addition to the College Tour, participants can at-tend Leadership Development Workshops which focus on topics such as College Prep, Financial Literacy and Devel-oping Study Skills & Academic Integrity. A Parent-Student Orientation session is required of all participants, and a post-trip debriefing for all participants is scheduled annu-ally where a video of Tour highlights is finalized for pro-duction. In its 31th year, the Eta Theta Lambda Education Foundation conducts an invigorating College Tour, which will visit approximately 15 Historically Black Colleges and Universities. This year's Tour will span five states over a seven-day period. Since 1981, the College Tour has as-sisted approximately 3,000 high school aged youths by helping them give serious consideration to their future edu-cational pursuits. Chaperoned by members of the Eta Theta Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and female vol-

unteers from our communities, the students who participate in the Tour can expect to meet with admissions officers of the schools visited, obtain applications and financial aid in-formation, tour the campus environment, and meet with for-mer students of the Tour to compare and share educational experiences. In addition, while on the Tour students will participate in youth development activities that foster lead-ership skills, as well as keep up with homework assign-ments. The itinerary for the 2012 College Tour is as follows (*itinerary subject to change): Morgan State University, Howard University, Bennett College, Johnson C. Smith Uni-versity, Fisk University, Meharry Medical College, Tennes-see State University, Claflin University, South Carolina State University, Morehouse College, Spelman College, Clark-Atlanta University, North Carolina A&T State Univer-sity, North Carolina Central University, Hampton University, Virginia State University. We may be able to work into our schedule a pilgrimage to the recently dedicated MLK, Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in DC, and a visit to the Mar-tin Luther King, Jr. Center in Atlanta. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (the nation's oldest Black Greek Letter Fraternity founded on a college campus) was founded in 1906 at Cornell University and celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2006. The Eta Theta Lambda Educa-tion Foundation's mission is to promote scholarship and academic achievement among African-American and Latino youths. Representatives from the College Tour Committee are available for presentations at schools, churches and com-munity groups. For more information, contact the Eta Theta Lambda Chapter hotline at 516.733.0442 or via email [email protected], visit our website @ www.etlEducationFoundation.org or follow us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Start early, secure your seat on The Alpha College Tour…for next year, the 2013 College Tour, the 32nd. Call now!



Special Guests Bring New Visions Students Holiday

Cheer New Visions Elementary School students went into their holiday

recess with renewed spirit and new backpacks thanks to coordinated efforts from within and outside the Freeport community.

New Visions Principal Renee Crump-Dedmon introduced students to three special people from outside the Freeport community: Gordon Fox (East Rockaway), Becky Hans (Albany) and Mike Hauck (Baldwin). These three individuals, who work together at Thomson Reuters Wealth Management, are at the core of “Sandy Claus,” a group that focuses on aiding those children most affected by Superstorm Sandy. As an extension of their overall storm relief efforts for Long Island, they coordinated with a church group in Kentucky to provide each student in the school with a new backpack filled with gloves, a hat and a book.

After receiving their backpacks, the students convened in the school lobby, where the high school select chorale, directed by Monique Retzlaff, lined the main staircase to serenade the students with holiday caroling just prior to dismissal.



37 Philadelphia public schools may close in June

In early December, the Philadelphia school district announced its proposal to close 37 public schools by June — a proposal that has left tens of thousands of K-12 students in disbelief concerning what will happen next for their education.

With a $1.1 billion cumulative budget deficit over the next five years, superintendent William Hite Jr. said that the announcement to close and consolidate around 15 percent of the district’s public schools is a “painful” and “emotional” decision for the board, accord-ing to the New York Times. But Hite has emphasized that these school closures come at a year when the district has experi-enced a $419 million education state cuts, the end of federal stimu-lus funding and the increase of pension costs.

“We are about to embark on a very difficult process,” said Super-intendent William Hite Jr. at press conference in early December. “As an educator and as a parent, I realize that the recommendations will be shocking, painful, emotional and disruptive for many commu-nities, not least our students, our families and our staffs.”

But Hite has reassured that though the proposal may at first seem shocking and drastic, it is a necessary step to get the Philadelphia school district back on its feet in the long run. He ar-gues that many of the school buildings are underused with almost 27 percent of the nearly 200,000 seats standing empty. The district plans on selling the buildings, transferring students to the remaining schools and converting middle schools into high schools and vice versa.

A source tells NBC10 that the closures are expected to save as much as $28 million for the district.

“We run the risk of talking about a district that is no longer finan-cially able to operate,” Hite said. “”If we don’t take these actions now, we actually have no money to spend.”

Philadelphia governor Michael Nutter says that he gives his Hite his “full and unequivocal support” for the plan, saying it will hopefully result in safer and better-equipped schools, and will encourage fami-lies to stay in the school district.

Some of the schools on the list of closures include an all African-American school, Germantown High School, that has had a dismal improvement in scores within the last few years, with only one in five students meeting the state requirements for reading, and only one in six students reaching the standards for math.

In addition, Andrea Vare Elementary, another school that has seen improving test scores, will also be closing — the student body is 33 percent black according to Parents United. In total, 22 elementary, four middle and 11 high schools are listed under those set to close or consolidate by the June deadline.

“That shows that they really don’t care about our children in low poverty neighborhood.” said parent, Dawn Hawkins, to 6 ABC Action News, 11 of the schools set to close in June are located in North Central Philadelphia, an area known for being low-income and pre-dominantly populated by minorities.

Although the district has support from the Philadelphia governor, parents and community leaders alike have rallied together to protest the changes. The Thursday following the announcement of the clo-sures, hundreds of people, with signs and booming voices, rallied outside the Philadelphia school district building voicing their opposi-tion to the proposals.

A statement released by the Parents United for Public Education reads, ”National studies have shown that Districts do not improve academically or financially through mass school closings. Community groups nationwide have formally complained that mass school clos-ings have had disparate racial impact… Instead, the school closings process has been dishonest and disrespectful to the broader Phila-delphia community and especially parents, students and families who have been blindsided by the pending announcement.”

Other community groups are also taking action in different ways. The ACTION United a group, a part of the Philadelphia Coalition Ad-vocating for Public Schools, has studied the impacts of these school closures and is advocating to impose a moratorium on the school closings because the closures would disproportionately affect poor and minority students. The group is has encouraged students across the district to band together and write letters to Mayor Nutter.

“Please, Mayor Nutter, think of us as your own children,” wrote 12-year-old Khyrie Brown, a seventh grader at L.P. Hill in Strawberry Mansion, in a letter to Nutter. “Don’t forget, we all have dreams.”

The proposed cuts are scheduled to be voted on by the state or-ganization the School Reform Commission this upcoming March.



Updated: January 3, 2013 9:40 AM By BILL MASON AND ELLEN YAN [email protected],[email protected]

A Central Islip ex-convict is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on a grand jury indictment in the killing of his next-door neighbor and hid-

ing the body in his bedroom closet for a week, Suffolk County prosecu-tors said.

Aston Barth, 33, confessed to strangling a neighbor in December and


ATTENTION STUDENTS, PARENTS,

AUNTS, UNCLES, GRANDPARENTS AND

TEACHERS! IN AN EFFORT TO PRAISE AND ENCOURAGE OUR

CHILDREN IN THEIR EDUCATIONAL

ENDEAVORS, WE WOULD LIKE TO SPOTLIGHT A STUDENT A

WEEK WHO HAS ACCOMPLISHED

SOMETHING SPECIAL IN SCHOOL!

If you know a student from kindergarten - college who has

graduated, won a certificate, passed an exam, written a poem, created or invented something, has significantly improved his/her grades, wrote a fantastic essay, joined the track team, sang a solo, has a part in a play or painted a beautiful picture, let us know and we’ll show him/her off in the paper! Contact Lisa-Anne Byers at [email protected]

3 charged in Lakeview robbery, beating

Originally published: January 3, 2013 7:56 AM Updated: January 3, 2013 8:23 AM By GARY DYMSKI [email protected]

Three Lakeview men are charged with robbery after one of them beat another man and then took his cellphone Wednesday outside a deli-catessen, Nassau County police said.

Reginald Summers, 44, of 405 Champlain Ave., Terence Cunning-ham, 26, of 413 Jefferson Ave., and Volney Milfort, 26, of 84 Tangle-wood Rd., are charged with second-degree robbery after a 30-year-old man was punched outside the deli, at 1290 Woodfield Rd., at about 9:56 p.m., police said.

Police said all four men were inside the Lakeview deli when a verbal confrontation began. Summers grabbed the victim by the jacket, pulling him outside, with Cunningham and Milfort following, police said.

When the victim tried to call police on his cellphone, Summers punched him in the face and about the head, knocking him to the ground, police said. Summers also took the victim's cellphone, police said.

The three men then went back inside the deli, and when they left, police said, Summers threw the cellphone at the victim.

Fourth Precinct officers arrived and arrested Summers, Cunningham and Milfort.

Personnel from Nassau County Police Ambulance treated the victim at the scene for an abrasion to his right eye and contusions and swelling to the back of his head, police said.

Summers, Cunningham and Milfort are scheduled to be arraigned Thursday at First District Court in Hempstead.

Man to be arraigned in neighbor's slaying

Originally published: January 3, 2013 9:37 AM



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In 2005, I chose to run for public office for the first time in my life because I felt I had the energy and ideas to make a difference in a county I care so much about. Nearly two terms later, I’m proud to have kept my promises and to have helped the district attorney’s office become one of the most professional, independent and innovative prosecutor's offices in the nation.

While our strides have been bold and our progress steady, I believe I have more to contribute to an office that we all rely upon to protect our families and to ensure the integrity of the criminal justice system. That’s why I’m so excited to announce my candidacy for a third term as Nas-sau County’s district attorney.

Our work over the last two terms is something we can be proud of.

Our office has become a national leader in the fight against drunk and drugged-driving. We’ve cut plea-bargaining and toughened prosecutions of violent criminals and cyber predators. We’ve gone after corrupt officials who abuse the public’s trust and we've recovered millions of dollars of misused taxpayer money. Our community and school education programs have received widespread praise and our efforts to help rehabilitate non-violent offenders and reduce recidivism have put our office on the forefront of the criminal justice reform movement.

We’ve done all this as non-political, independent prose-cutors not guided by fear or favor, but instead by what’s right and what’s wrong. If you give me the opportunity to continue my public service as your district attorney, I can promise that you will get more of the same independence that has become the hallmark of our time in office. And you will always know where I stand on the issues.

My top priorities for a third term are clear: I will to continue to crack down on violent and cyber crime.

I will redouble investigative efforts targeting those who steal from taxpayers or abuse the public’s trust.

I will help lead local and state reform of the juvenile jus-tice system so that we can reduce recidivism and redirect non-violent teen offenders to paths of prosperity.

I will fight to get illegal guns off our streets and I will lobby Albany and Washington for sensible gun-control laws.

I will continue to push for reforms that better safeguard the integrity of our criminal justice system.

I need your help to make sure that the progress that has improved the safety of Nassau County families continues. If you share my belief in the importance of keeping the office in the hands of prosecutors who are committed to innova-tion and independence, then please take a moment to con-tribute to our campaign (link below), forward this email to your circle of contacts, or visit our website, Facebook or Twitter accounts using the links below. Additionally, our first event of 2013 is next Thursday, January 10 at the Cra-dle of Aviation Museum in Garden City.

As a homicide prosecutor, as an assistant U.S. attorney, and as Nassau County’s district attorney, I have spent my entire life advocating for victims of crime and for reforms that make our criminal justice system more effective. I ask for your support so that we can build on our successes and continue to make Nassau County a safer, more prosperous place for us all.

Sincerely, Kathleen Rice



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then hiding the body in his closet, Suffolk County Assistant District At-torney Glenn Kurtzrock said.

Judge Richard Ambro is expected to unseal the indictment against Barth in Riverhead. Barth is being held without bail in the Suffolk County jail.

Barth admitted to police he argued with his friend, Jason Campbell, 35, then choked him in his bedroom on Dec. 18, prosecutors said.

After attempting to decapitate the victim with an ax, Barth wrapped the body in a blanket and covered the head with a black plastic trash bag, Kurtzrock said.

It wasn't until Christmas Eve that Barth's mother and brother found Campbell's body at the home they shared on Ferndale Boulevard and called police, authorities said.

"He was acting strange and said, 'Don't go into my room,' " to his family, Kurtzrock said.

He faces 25 years to life if convicted. After an earlier court appearance, his court-appointed attorney, Paul

Barahal, had declined to answer questions. Barth has three robbery convictions, authorities said. He completed

parole in September after serving about three years for the 2007 holdup of a Citibank branch in Central Islip, dressed as a woman. Kurtzrock said Barth was also convicted of a pair of robberies in 2000.

Kurtzrock said it wasn't clear what sparked the early morning argu-ment between Barth and Campbell. Both had attended Central Islip High School, according to friends.

The suspect's mother told reporters outside their home in December that her son has been treated for mental illness since he was 3.

"I'm so sorry. My son should have some treatment," Connie Barth said. "My son needed medication but he wouldn't take it."

She said Barth was working as a chef but was having financial diffi-culties and had recently been agitated over having to pay child support.

Kurtzrock said he hadn't seen Barth's medical records and declined to comment on the mother's account of the man's mental illness.

Barth has a 14-year-old daughter, records show. Friends said Campbell had two children, a baby and a 7-year-old. Campbell's friend, Sean Epps, said he and other friends went to

Barth's house the day Campbell disappeared. Epps said they asked about Campbell because it wasn't like him to disappear or not answer his phone.

They were in Barth's bedroom, only feet from the body, as Barth denied knowing anything about Campbell's whereabouts, according to Epps.

"He said 'I haven't seen him. It's crazy that he's missing,' " he said.


Security company sues George

Zimmerman, his wife and his attorney for

$27,000 in unpaid fees George Zimmerman, his wife and

his attorney are being sued by the Associated Investigative Services security company for approxi-mately $27,000 in unpaid bodyguard fees. AIS alleges in a recently filed civil complaint that ever since an inde-pendent trustee took over the admini-stration of Zimmerman’s defense fund, payment for its contracted security ser-vices has ceased.

The company asserts that Zimmerman’s attorney Mark O’Mara hired AIG on June 26. Subsequent to that date, the firm claims it has provided nearly constant watch over the de-fendant, who is facing second degree murder charges for kill-ing Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teen, on February 26 in Sanford, Florida. After claiming he shot in self-defense and citing Florida’s controversial Stand Your Ground law, which empowers individuals to advance against attackers if under lethal threat, Zimmerman was not immediately arrested.

These circumstances sparked a national controversy over the perception that Zimmerman’s acts were racially moti-vated. Resulting threats made against Zimmerman and his family may have made a constant security detail seem neces-sary.

O’Mara has stated in response to the allegations of AIS that the firm has been paid $40,000, and that a different company is now providing Zimmerman’s security for $700 per week. AIS had been charging Zimmerman $7,000 for the same time-frame. It claims his attorney broke Zimmerman’s contract with the firm, because the defendant’s legal defense fund is running low.

AIS is suing for breach of contract in addition to unpaid fees.

Last month, Zimmerman announced through O’Mara that he would be revamping his online fundraising efforts due to a slow-down in donations. It is unclear whether the fund-raising rate has increased since these changes were imple-mented. Total giving to Zimmerman’s legal defense is esti-mated to be $340,000.



Are you at risk for type 2 diabetes?

You’ve been tired lately. And your vision isn’t what it used to be. You’re always thirsty – which means you’ve been running to the bath-room a lot. But these are little things – not even worth mentioning to your doctor.

The reality is, feeling tired, sudden vision changes, increased thirst, and frequent urination are classic symptoms of type 2 diabetes that should not be ignored. Other symptoms of diabetes include extreme hun-ger, itchy or dry skin, slow-healing cuts or sores, more infections than usual, tingling or numbness in hands or feet, and unexplained weight loss.

In America nearly 26 million people are quietly living with diabetes and, of that number, 7 million don’t know they have the disease.

Diabetes is practically invisible with a few subtle symptoms. But, if not properly cared for, its progressive effects can put you at risk for kid-ney disease, heart attack, stroke, amputation and even blindness.

Of the 26 million people who have been diagnosed with diabetes in the United States, four million are African-Americans. A full quarter of African-Americans between the ages of 65 and 74 have it. One quarter of all black American women over 55 have it. And black people suffer greater consequences from the complications of diabetes. For example, they experience kidney failure four times more often than white Ameri-cans with diabetes. They’re twice as likely to suffer from diabetes-related blindness, and more likely to experience amputation as well.

There are three major types of diabetes. In type 1 diabetes, the body does not make insulin. People with type 1 need to take daily insulin to live. In type 2 diabetes — the most common type, which has risen in in-cidences along with the obesity epidemic — the body does not make or use insulin well. People with type 2 may need to take pills or insulin to manage the disease. A third type, gestational diabetes, occurs in some women during pregnancy. It usually goes away after the birth, but these women and their children have a greater chance of getting type 2 diabe-tes later in life.

Type 2 diabetes most often occurs in people who:

Are older than age 40. As you age, the pancreas, where insulin is made, may not work as well.

Are overweight or physically inactive. When you’re heavy your cells become more resistant to insulin.

Have a family history of diabetes. Other members of your family having diabetes makes you a prime candidate.

Have a history of diabetes during pregnancy. Pregnancy hor-mones make your cells more resistant to insulin. After the baby is deliv-ered, the hormones and blood sugar levels go back to normal.

Have given birth to a baby who weighed more than nine pounds. Women giving birth to large babies might have had gestational diabetes, which is a risk factor for diabetes.

Are African American, Latino American, or American Indian. Researchers think this may be cause by the “thrifty” genes that helped our ancestors survive by increasing fat storage during periods of famine. But today, with food readily available, the ability to store fat only results in obesity.

Have impaired glucose tolerance. This means you have blood glucose levels above normal, but lower than a person with diabetes.

Have high blood pressure or high blood fats. These conditions are associated with insulin resistance.

The more items that pertain to you the greater your risk of develop-ing type 2 diabetes.

It’s easy to have one or two symptoms – feeling tired, contracting infections – and think nothing of them. But if you have one of the other risk factors noted above, that makes you a prime candidate for diabetes – and you have some of the classic symptoms of diabetes, you should defi-nitely seek advice from your healthcare team, including a registered die-titian or RD.

Diabetes has a closer association with food than perhaps any other disease. And what you eat has a big impact on how well you can prevent or manage the disease. But having diabetes doesn’t mean the end of good eating. An RD will work with you to create a healthful eating plan tailored to your specific needs. Even if you eat traditional soul food, Caribbean food or Creole food, you’ll be happy to know that many tradi-tional dishes can stay on your menu.

The sooner you’re diagnosed the sooner you are able to start to manage the disease and live a long healthy life.



A CHALLENGING SEASON

It's the beginning of the New Year and the high school basketball season is in full swing. Some teams have got-ten strong out of the gate; others have crawled along and are hoping to pick things up in the latter part of the sea-son. Hempstead High Tigers are in the latter group. They hold a 2-5 record and are ranked last in the Nassau AA-1 conference, a rarity for the Tigers, and they hope to rebound soon. New seasons are a challenge for any team and sometimes it takes several games for the team to jell. There are often a mix of a few veterans and the new kids on the block and they must get to know each other, learn to play together while also learning new offenses and defenses and they don’t have a lot of time to practice before the new season is upon them. In Hempstead’s case, senior leader Tidell Pierre is the main cog on the team, which means many

of the offensive plays likely run through Pierre, a gifted player who is averaging 17 points and, most nights, double-digit rebounds. Pierre is joined by Tywan Watson, Arnold Coward, John Blocker, DeArius Rogers and Andrew Stanton, among others. The team will be strongly tested, Friday, January 4 when they host Massapequa (6-2) at home for a 4:30 contest.

Next up is a game Tuesday, January 8th at Oceanside (5-3). If the Tigers can string together a couple of wins, they could find them-selves in a much more competitive stance. Meanwhile nearby neme-sis Uniondale is 3-3 in the conference. –B.J. Robinson

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Coach Romeo Crennel fired by Kansas City Chiefs

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs fired coach Romeo Crennel on Monday, but made no move on em-battled general manager Scott Pioli despite a 2-14 season marked by blowout losses, fan rebellion and a murder-suicide involving one of their players.

Crennel was fired after one full season as coach, and one day after Kansas City matched the fewest wins in franchise his-tory with an embarrassing 38-3 loss to the Denver Broncos.

“I am embarrassed by the poor product we gave our fans this season, and I believe we have no choice but to move the franchise in a different direction,” Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt said in a statement. “I will immediately begin the search for the next head coach of the Chiefs. The entire football operation will remain under review and there may be additional changes to come.”

Hunt said that “no final determination has been made” about Pioli’s future.

The Chiefs’ only victories this season came against New Orleans and Carolina, the latter coming one day after line-backer Jovan Belcher shot his girlfriend to death and then drove to the team’s practice facility and turned the gun on him-self as Crennel and Pioli looked on.

Crennel seemed to know the end was coming Sunday night when he was asked to defend his job and said, “If your criteria is wins and losses, there’s not much defense.”

Kansas City will have the No. 1 pick in the draft after the most disappointing season in its 53-year history. The only other time the Chiefs finished 2-14 was 2008, the year before Pioli was hired. They were 2-12 in 1977, the only other time they’ve failed to win at least three games.

“Words can’t describe it, to be honest with you,” cornerback Brandon Flowers said. “We have to do the best we can to block this out and start from scratch next year.”

With five players voted to the Pro Bowl last week, there are certainly pieces in place for the Chiefs to make rapid improve-ment. But four of them were inherited by Pioli’s regime, and that haul of Pro Bowl players may have been Crennel’s biggest indictment.

The only other teams with at least five players voted to the all-star game made the playoffs.

The Chiefs’ inept offense managed 18 touchdowns in 16 games, finished minus-24 in turnover ratio and lost nine times by two touchdowns or more. Along the way, they broke an 83-




Chicago Bears fire coach Lovie Smith after 9 seasons

LAKE FOREST, Illinois (AP) — The Chicago Bears have fired coach Lovie Smith after the team missed the playoffs for the fifth time in six seasons.

Smith was informed of the decision by general manager Phil Emery on Monday, a day after the Bears beat Detroit to finish 10-6 but still missed out on a playoff spot.

Smith led the Bears to a Super Bowl, but also saw his team collapse in the second half of the past two seasons. Hired in 2004, Smith led the Bears to three division titles, two NFC title games and a Super Bowl appear-ance in his nine seasons. His record is 81-63.

The Bears scheduled a news conference Tuesday to discuss the move.

Brooklyn Nets fire coach Avery Johnson

NEW YORK (AP) — Avery Johnson has been fired as coach of the Brooklyn Nets, who have lost 10 of 13 games to drop to .500.

General manager Billy King announced the move Thursday without saying who will be interim coach. The Nets next play at home Friday against Charlotte.

Brooklyn started the season 11-4, winning five in a row to end November. But the team has been in a spiral since and is now 14-14. The Nets lost to Milwaukee 108-93 on Wednesday night. They also have dropped two games to the crosstown Knicks.

Johnson has been the Nets’ coach for a little more than two seasons. He went 60-116 with the Nets, who moved from New Jersey to Brooklyn to start the 2012-13 season. Johnson coached the Dallas Mavericks to an appearance in the NBA Finals in 2006.

year-old NFL record by not holding a lead in regulation until their ninth game.

Crennel, whose career record as a head coach is 28-55, was hired in 2010 to be the Chiefs’ defensive coordinator. Re-spected by his players, he was appointed interim coach last December when Pioli fired Todd Haley with three games left in the season.

Crennel immediately brought a sense of stability to a floun-dering franchise, defeating the previously unbeaten Green Bay Packers and winning at Denver in the season finale — after which, players spontaneously started chanting his name in the visiting locker room.

“That’s my guy. Everybody knows that,” defensive tackle Shaun Smith said. “That’s not only my coach, that’s my role model. My father figure. We don’t just talk football, we talk life.”

With the support of the players, Pioli made Crennel the per-manent coach a few weeks later, giving him another opportu-nity as a head coach after going 24-40 in four seasons with the Browns.

The season wound up being a disappointment from the start.

The Chiefs were blown out by the Falcons in their opener, trounced on the road by the Bills and needed an 18-point comeback to force overtime in their win over the Saints.

Then a stretch of eight consecutive defeats. Empty seats began to multiply at Arrowhead Stadium, once

one of the most intimidating venues in the NFL. An organized fan rebellion paid for banners to be towed behind airplanes asking for Pioli to be fired, and the majority of fans dressed in black for a home game against Cincinnati.

Nothing Crennel did seemed to work, either. He began the season as the defensive coordinator, but fired

himself and turned those duties over to linebackers coach Gary Gibbs. He benched Matt Cassel, in the fourth year of a $63 mil-lion contract, and went with Brady Quinn, who played just as poorly the rest of the season.

Injuries were numerous, turnovers plentiful, penalties crip-pling and blown assignments became the hallmark of a team that was rarely in games into the fourth quarter.

Then came the morning of Dec. 1, when tragedy struck. Belcher, a part-time starter, shot the mother of his 3-month-

old daughter, Kasandra Perkins, multiple times at a home not far from Arrowhead Stadium. The linebacker then sped to the team’s practice facility and was confronted by Pioli, who tried to talk him out of more violence.

After thanking Pioli and Crennel for his chance in the NFL, Belcher shot himself in the head.

The Chiefs played the following day against Carolina, and Crennel was praised for the way he stoically led a team in tur-moil. Kansas City put together its best performance in a 27-21 victory.

It wound up being their last win, though. The Chiefs were blown out by Cleveland, shut out by Oak-

land and beaten by the Colts before an embarrassing season finale against the Broncos.

It was enough to finish Crennel, and enough to put Pioli’s future in jeopardy.

“I want our fans to know that I will do everything I can to provide them a dramatically better team,” Hunt said, “both next season and in the seasons to come.”






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Many Voices, One Goal

Monday, November 21, 2011 The Riverside Church Our Legacy: The Moral Imperative The Voice of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today - remarks by Rev. Dr. H. DeVore Chapman, Pastor, Greater Bright Light & Bethel Baptist Churches Here we are tonight, nearly a half a century away from that mar-velous voice from the drum major, as he gave us insights and direc-tion and review of our circumstances then. As we look upon it to-night, the circum-stances have not changed, only the scenery. And we have gathered here tonight at Riverside as a united body to say ‘somebody ought to do some-thing.’ We thank our elected officials who’ve signed on, the 29 of them. We thank those groups who have put their arms together to march with us, but tomorrow somebody has to do something because we’re in a terrible state. We have these senseless wars and they are asking still the question about weapons of mass de-struction. I need to tell them they need to run down to Washington and watch the Super Committee try to operate compromise and they will see a classic act of weapons of mass de-struction. They should ride around our city, see

the poor housing our people live in and they’ll see classic acts of weapons of mass destruction. They should walk in the school houses where our kids go and they learn how to walk through surveillance and through security racks but they don’t learn how to read and write. Those are weapons of mass destruc-tion. And somebody, somebody ought to do some-thing. And somebody ought to do it tomorrow. Isn’t it sad that we live in the richest country in the world and yet the poverty level yet rises? My brothers and sisters, don’t let a Coach bag or a Louis Vuitton

kit make you think that everything is alright. There are still babies that go to bed at night with swollen bellies not from being full but from being hungry. And I come by tonight to tell us that somebody ought to do something. And I come tonight as a voice of the drum major to say if we can just help somebody as we travel along then our living shall not be in vain. Everybody talking about heaven and going there and if you don’t do something to help somebody you’re going to be on a different train on a different way. But I am so glad tonight that you have an opportu-nity tomorrow to make sure that you do something to help somebody else. May God bless you and march on, fight on, love on,

but most of all remember the words of the master called Christ. He said that as much as you’ve done onto me, you’ve done to the least of my little ones. When I was hungry you wouldn’t feed me, when I was naked you wouldn’t clothe me, I was without shoes and you did not offer me sandals. But I know that New Yorkers going to come together aren’t we? And we look at somebody and say ‘we’re going to do something.’


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E. RASSAN HOSKINS IS ORDAINED TO THE GOSPEL MINISTRY: Hempstead Town Councilwoman Dorothy L. Goosby (center) presents an official Town of Hempstead Certificate of Recognition to Brother E. Rassan Hoskins of Roosevelt (left), who was recently ordained into the Gospel Ministry by Rev. Dr. William A. Watson Jr., Pastor of St. John’s Baptist Church in Westbury and Rev. Elijah Crawford. The ordination service was held at St. John’s Baptist Church in Westbury.

Hempstead Town Councilwoman Dorothy L.Goosby (center) presents official Town of Hempstead Cita-tions to the distinguished honorees at the Councilwomen’s 11th Annual Kwanzaa Celebration held recently at the town’s Nathan L. H. Bennett Pa-vilion at town hall in Hempstead. Pictured (left to right) are Rev. Philip McDowell, Pastor of South Hemp-stead Baptist Church in Hempstead; Carolyn Harding of Freeport, Wilton Robinson of Roosevelt, Council-woman Goosby, More Steak Than Philly Owner Melvin Walker Jr. of Baldwin, Reggie Lucas of Hemp-stead, Cecilia Hamilton of Uniondale High School, and Urban League Long Island CEO Theresa Sanders of Hempstead.


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Question: "What should be the order of priorities in our family?" Answer: The Bible does not lay out a step-by-step order for fam-ily relationship priorities. However, we can still look to the Scriptures and find general principles for prioritizing our family relationships. God obviously comes first: Deuteronomy 6:5, “Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” All of one’s heart, soul, and strength is to be committed to loving God, making Him the first priority. If you are married, your spouse comes next. A married man is to love his wife as Christ loved the church (Ephesians 5:25). Christ’s first priority—after obeying and glorifying the Father—was the church. Here is an example a husband should follow: God first, then his wife. In the same way, wives are to submit to their husbands “as to the Lord” (Ephesians 5:22). The principle is that a woman’s hus-band is second only to God in her priorities. If husbands and wives are second only to God in our priorities, and since a husband and wife are one flesh (Ephesians 5:31), it stands to reason that the result of the marriage relationship—children—should be the next priority. Parents are to raise godly children who will be the next generation of those who love the Lord with all their hearts (Proverbs 22:6; Ephesians 6:4), showing once again that God comes first. All other family relationships should reflect that. Deuteronomy 5:16 tells us to honor our parents so that we may live long and so things will go well with us. No age limit is specified, which leads us to believe that as long as our parents are alive, we should honor them. Of course, once a child reaches adulthood, he is no longer obligated to obey them (“Children, obey your parents...”), but there is no age limit to honoring them. We can conclude from this that parents are next in the list of priorities after God, our spouses, and our children. After parents comes the rest of one's family (1 Timothy 5:8). Following one’s extended family in the list of priorities are fellow believers. Romans 14 tells us not to judge or look down upon our brothers (v. 10) or do anything to cause a fellow Christian to “stumble” or fall spiritually. Much of the book of 1 Corinthians is Paul’s instructions on how the church should live together in har-mony, loving one another. Other exhortations referring to our broth-ers and sisters in Christ are “serve one another in love” (Galatians 5:13); “be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you” (Ephesians 4:32); “encourage one another and build each other up” (1 Thessalonians 5:11); and “consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds (Hebrews 10:24). Finally comes the rest of the world (Matthew 28:19), to whom we should bring the gospel, making disci-ples of Christ. In conclusion, the scriptural order of priorities is God, spouse, children, parents, extended family, brothers and sisters in Christ, and then the rest of the world. While sometimes decisions must be made to focus on one person over another, the goal is to not be neglecting any of our relationships. The biblical balance is allow-ing God to empower us to meet all of our relationship priorities, in-side and outside our families.

Question: "What are the roles of the hus-band and wife in a family?" Answer: Although males and females are equal in rela-tionship to Christ, the Scriptures give specific roles to each in marriage. The husband is to assume leadership in the home (1 Corinthians 11:3; Ephesians 5:23). This leadership should not be dictatorial, condescending, or patronizing to the wife, but should be in accordance with the example of Christ leading the church. “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word” (Ephesians 5:25-26). Christ loved the church (His people) with compassion, mercy, forgiveness, respect, and selflessness. In this same way husbands are to love their wives. Wives are to submit to the authority of their husbands. “Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything” (Ephesians 5:22-24). Although women should submit to their husbands, the Bible also tells men several times how they are supposed to treat their wives. The husband is not to take on the role of the dictator, but should show respect for his wife and her opinions. In fact, Ephesians 5:28-29 exhorts men to love their wives in the same way that they love their own bodies, feeding and caring for them. A man’s love for his wife should be the same as Christ’s love for His body, the church. “Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them” (Colossians 3:18-19). “Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers” (1 Peter 3:7). From these verses we see that love and respect characterize the roles of both husbands and wives. If these are present, then authority, headship, love, and submission will be no problem for either partner. In regard to the division of responsibilities in the home,


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Life Changing Words

“A Word to Light your Path”

(Psalms 119:105 KJV) “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”

In everyday life we sometimes forget that God is still on the throne. As we go about our daily rituals of working and planning for tomorrow of-ten time’s things come along to discourage us and even depress us. Many times we are overwhelmed and burden down and have no one or nowhere to turn to for help.

Not that life is always bad or we are always in a struggle but God has lead me to write words of healing and hope to those people who need it in this season. We must all realize that there is al-ways hope for the hopeless. Jesus is our “Blessed Hope”. Our God is not a God of confusion, dis-cord or hatred but He is a God of love, peace and joy. Be encouraged God is still in control no mat-ter what it looks like. He is still in the healing, deliverance and miracle working business. His word is still the same today as it was yesterday and will be in the future.

However there is always a word from God that can and will shed Light on your very situa-tion. See when they say His word is a lamp to your feet that means it can and will shed some light on which directions your feet are going. Thy word as the lighted path helps you to face those things ahead and allows you to see what God has for you as you go down your own personal path …

It is not that we, as Christians don’t go through our problems but when you go through them with Jesus He can make it alright. See we learned to Praise Him in the midst of our struggles (not because they are any better) but because we already know that Jesus got the victory over 2000 years ago at Calvary… I’m writing to tell you be of good cheer for God has overcome the world mean-ing everything that you are going through can and will get better. See there is nothing that satan can do to us to that Jesus has not already conquered…Even death no longer has a sting!!!!

Dr. Karen Deadwyler is a new author inspired by God. Her first book titled “His Miraculous Way” speaks of her victory through Jesus Christ. This book can be purchased at her website www.godlypleasures.org She is the Visionary and Co-founder along with her husband Apostle Ronnie Deadwyler of Glory Temple Ministries.

the Bible instructs husbands to provide for their families. This means he works and makes enough money to suffi-ciently provide all the necessities of life for his wife and children. To fail to do so has definite spiritual consequences. “If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever” (1 Timothy 5:8). So, a man who makes no effort to provide for his family cannot rightly call himself a Christian. This does not mean that the wife cannot assist in supporting the family—Proverbs 31 demonstrates that a godly wife may surely do so—but providing for the family is not primarily her responsibility; it is her husband’s. While a husband should help with the children and with household chores (thereby fulfilling his duty to love his

wife), Proverbs 31 also makes it clear that the home is to be the woman’s primary area of influence and responsibility. Even if she must stay up late and rise up early, her family is well cared for. This is not an easy lifestyle for many women—especially in affluent Western nations. However, far too many women are stressed out and stretched to the breaking point. To prevent such stress, both husband and wife should prayerfully reorder their priorities and follow the Bible’s in-structions on their roles. Conflicts regarding the division of labor in a marriage are bound to occur, but if both partners are submitted to Christ, these conflicts will be minimal. If a couple finds arguments over this issue are frequent and vehement, or if arguments seem to characterize the marriage, the problem is a spiritual one. In such an instance, the partners should recommit themselves to prayer and submission to Christ first, then to one another in an attitude of love and respect.


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Name of Church Telephone Number 1. Antioch Baptist Church of Hempstead (516) 485-1499 2. Antioch Citadel of Hope (516) 485-6071 3. Apostolic Faith Church (516) 538-6058 4. Assembly of God Church of Hempstead (516) 489-7337 5. Adonai Christian Center (516) 489-8105 6. Believing Gods Word Church (516) 505-3501 7. Calvary Tabernacle United Pentecostal Church (516) 292-3685 8. Cham Sarang Korean Methodist Church (516) 485-2103 9. Christ’s First Presbyterian Church (516) 292-1644 10. Church of Christ (516) 505-2160 11. Church of God of Prophecy (516) 486-7010 12. Church of the Four Leaf Clover (631) 588-6802 13. Congregation Beth Israel (Conservative) (516) 489-1818 14. Congregational Church of South Hempstead (516) 489-3610 15. Curtis Riley Ministries (516) 486-3026 16. Christian Fellowship Center (516) 280-3125 17. Church of God (516) 292-9348 18. Church of the Redeemer (718) 435-4914 19. Centro Espiritual Los Pastors (516) 538-0237 20. Changing Lives Church (516) 481-9371 21. DRC Christian Fellowship (516) 292-4008 22. Eglise Evangelique (516) 543-4380 23. Faith Baptist Church of Hempstead (516) 538-3335 24. Faith Fellowship Christian Center (516) 565-1480 25. Faith, Hope and Charity Church of God Inc. (516) 483-1063 Family Federation for World Peace and Unification Long Island Chapter (516) 481-7322 27. First Baptist Church of Hempstead (516) 483-6330 28. First Hempstead AME Church (516) 485-5550 29. Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Paul (516) 483-5700 30. God’s Miracle Temple (516) 292-7647 31. Greater True Deliverance Evangelists Ministry (516) 292-1025 32. Gospel of Peace International (516) 414-6810 33. Good News Faith Tabernacle (516) 795-1985 34. Hempstead Seventh day Adventist Church (516) 481-3252 35. Hempstead Spanish Seventh Day Adventist Church (516) 292-8807 36. Iglesia Pentecostal Roca de Salvacion, Inc. (516) 489-4530 37. Iglesia La Luz Delmundo (516) 414-2594 38. Iglesia Apostoles Y Profetas (516) 485-1776 39. Iglesia Presbiterian Hispana (516) 564-0201 40. Iglesia de Dios Ministerial de Jesus Cristo International (516) 292-1063 41. Jackson Memorial AME Zion Church (516) 483-2724 42. Joyful Heart Baptist Church (516) 485-1631 43. Judea United Baptist Church (516) 485-5770 44. Kings Chapel of Hempstead Holiness Apostolic Church PAW (516) 483-2452 45. Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses (516) 292-0932 46. Korean Church of the World Crusade (516) 485-2102 47. Lutheran Church of the Epiphany (516) 481-9344


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Lutheran Church of the Epiphany, 35 Fulton Avenue, Hempstead is interested in being included in the Village of Hempstead Church Directory. Please include the following information: Lutheran Church of the Epiphany, 35 Fulton Avenue (between Mead and Hilbert Streets), The Rev. Clifford A. Lewis, Interim Pastor, Phone: 516-481-9344 email: [email protected]. Sunday wor-ship with Holy Communion 9:15am (English) and 11:00am (Spanish). 48. La Iglesia de Dios Monte Sion (516) 565-1190 49. Living Faith Church (516) 307-8803 50. Long Island Council of Churches (516) 565-0290 51. Long Island Family Church (516) 481-7322 52. Macedonia Church of the 7th Day Adventist (516) 483-8532 53. Mt Zion Beth-El Holiness Church Inc. (516) 538-7456 54. Miracle Christian Center (516) 505-2595 55. Mack World of Gospel (516) 565-4863 56. Ministries Holy Ghost (516) 481-5777 57. Ministry Escrito ESTA (516) 342-9077 58. Mt Calvary Church of God Christ (516) 465-8881 59. New Horizons Ministries Inc. (516) 481-5769 60. New Life Ministries (516) 414-0357 61. New Generation Church (516) 214-6358 62. Our lady of Loretto Roman Catholic Church (516) 489-3675 63. One Offering (516) 833-7473 64. Pilgrim Tabernacle Seventh Day Adventist Church (516) 481-0306 65. Progressive Holiness Church (Apostolic) (516) 486-9621 66. Perfecting Praise Ministries (516) 481-2250 67. Pentecostar Iglesia (516) 750-5392 68. Pentecostal Church of Hempstead (516) 292-1780 69. Pilgrim Tabernacle-Seventh (516) 481-0306 70. Rehoboth Fellowship (516) 505-0514 71. RCCG Chapel (516) 279-6280 72. St. George’s Episcopal Church (516) 483-2771 73. St. John’s Episcopal Church (516) 538-4750 74. St. Ladislaus Roman Catholic Church (516) 489-0368 75. St. Vladimir’s Ukranian Catholic Church of the Eastern Rite (516) 481-771 76. Salvation Army Church (516) 485-4900 77. South Hempstead Baptist Church (516) 481-7090 78. Stand Up Ministry (516) 564-0058 79. Seventh Day Adventist Church (516) 481-3252 80. SHRI Vishnu Sai Inc. (516) 833-5022 81. The Temple of the Living God Inc. Harvest Time (516) 485-4544 82. Union Baptist Church (516) 483-3088 83. United Methodist Church of Hempstead (516) 485-6363 84. Unity Church of Hempstead (516) 481-2300 85. Universal Tabernacle of Love, Peace & Joy (516) 481-2555 86. Union Baptist Church Parsonage (516) 483-1317 87. Union Christian Church (516) 489-2316 88. Victory Christian Tabernacle (516) 538-3604 89. Worldwide Revival Ministries (516) 486-4590 90. Whole Truth Prayer Tower (516) 483-0511


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Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT)

Net Income Subject to the UBIT Churches and religious organizations, like other tax

exempt organizations, may engage in income-producing activities unrelated to their tax-exempt purposes, as long as the unrelated activities are not a substantial part of the organization’s activities. However, the net income from such activities will be subject to the UBIT if the following three conditions are met:

■ the activity constitutes a trade or business, ■ the trade or business is regularly carried on, and ■ the trade or business is not substantially related to

the organization’s exempt purpose. (The fact that the or-

ganization uses the income to further its charitable or reli-gious purposes does not make the activity substantially related to its exempt purposes.)

Exceptions to UBIT Even if an activity meets the above three criteria, the

income may not be subject to tax if it meets one of the following exceptions: (a) substantially all of the work in operating the trade or business is performed by volun-teers; (b) the activity is conducted by the organization primarily for the convenience of its members; or (c) the trade or business involves the selling of merchandise sub-stantially all of which was donated.

In general, rents from real property, royalties, capital gains, and interest and dividends are not subject to the unrelated business income tax unless financed with bor-rowed money.

Examples of Unrelated Trade or Business Activities Unrelated trade or business activities vary depending

on types of activities, as shown below. Advertising Many tax-exempt organizations sell advertising in

their publications or other forms of public communica-tion. Generally, income from the sale of advertising is unrelated trade or business income. This may include the sale of advertising space in weekly bulletins, magazines or journals, or on church or religious organization web sites.

Gaming Most forms of gaming, if regularly carried on, may be

considered the conduct of an unrelated trade or business. This can include the sale of pull-tabs and raffles. Income derived from bingo games may be eligible for a special tax exception (in addition to the exception regarding un-compensated volunteer labor covered above), if the fol-lowing conditions are met: (a) the bingo game is the tradi-tional type of bingo (as opposed to instant bingo, a varia-tion of pull-tabs); (b) the conduct of the bingo game is not an activity carried out by for-profit organizations in the

local area; and (c) the operation of the bingo game does not violate any state or local law.

Sale of merchandise and publications The sale of merchandise and publications (including the actual

publication of materials) can be considered the conduct of an unre-lated trade or business if the items involved do not have a substan-tial relationship to the exempt purposes of the organization.

Rental income Generally, income derived from the rental of real property and

incidental personal property is excluded from unrelated business income. However, there are certain situations in which rental in-come may be unrelated business taxable income:

■ if a church rents out property on which there is debt out-standing (for example, a mortgage note), the rental income may constitute unrelated debt-financed income subject to UBIT. (However, if a church or convention or association of churches acquires debt-financed land for use in its exempt purposes within 15 years of the time of acquisition, then income from the rental of the land may not constitute unrelated business income.)

■ if personal services are rendered in connection with the rental, then the income may be unrelated business taxable income, or

■ if a church charges for the use of the parking lot, the income may be unrelated business taxable income.

Parking lots If a church owns a parking lot that is used by church mem-

bers and visitors while attending church services, any parking fee paid to the church would not be subject to UBIT. However, if a church operates a parking lot that is used by members of the general public, parking fees would be taxable, as this activ-ity would not be substantially related to the church’s exempt purpose, and parking fees are not treated as rent from real prop-erty. If the church enters into a lease with a third party who oper-ates the church’s parking lot and pays rent to the church, such pay-ments would not be subject to tax, as they would constitute rent from real property.

Whether an income-producing activity is an unrelated trade or business activity depends on all the facts and circumstances. For more information, see IRS Publication 598, Tax on Unrelated Business Income of Exempt Organizations.

Tax on Income-Producing Activities If a church, or other exempt organization, has gross income of

$1,000 or more for any taxable year from the conduct of any unre-lated trade or business, it is required to file IRS Form 990-T, Ex-empt Organization Business Income Tax Return, for that year. If the church is part of a larger entity (such as a diocese), it must file a separate Form 990-T if it has a separate EIN. Form 990-T is due the l5th day of the 5th month following the end of the church’s tax year. (IRC section 512(b)(12) provides a special rule for parishes and similar local units of a church. A specific deduction is pro-vided, which is equal to the lower of $1,000 or the gross income derived from any unrelated trade or business regularly carried on by such parish or local unit of a church.) See Filing Requirements


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Rapper Lil Twist was reportedly driving Justin Bieber’s car at time of

deadly incident Last night a photographer was struck and killed by an SUV while

attempting to get a picture of Justin Bieber in his Ferarri, after the vehi-cle was pulled over by Los Angeles police.

According to TMZ, Bieber, 18, was not even in the car. The vehicle was being driven by his pal, 19-year-old rapper Lil Twist, who is Lil Wayne’s protégé.

Lil Twist and Bieber were hanging out at the Beverly Hills Four Sea-sons Hotel Tuesday afternoon, and for some reason Lil Twist left in the white Ferrari without Justin.

Around 6:00 p.m. the California Highway Patrol pulled over Bie-ber’s white Ferrari on Sepulveda Boulevard in Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Chris Guerra, the 29-year-old photographer, arrived at the scene, got out of his car and crossed the street to take photos, but was directed by officers to return to his car. He was reportedly struck and killed by an SUV as he went back across the boulevard to his vehicle.

The singer has since issued a statement offering his condolences to the photographer’s family and also calling for legislation to protect ce-lebrities from being harassed by paparazzi.

“While I was not present nor directly involved with this tragic acci-dent, my thoughts and prayers are with the family of the victim,” Bieber said in a statement to CNN.

“Hopefully this tragedy will finally inspire meaningful legislation and whatever other necessary steps to protect the lives and safety of ce-lebrities, police officers, innocent public bystanders, and the photogra-phers themselves.”

The LAPD are investigating, but no charges have been filed. Bieber and Lil Twist were last photographed together New Year’s

Eve in Mexico where they were popping champagne bottles.

Jay-Z set to score new ‘Great Gatsby’ film

It’s a surprising and unconventional combination — rap music and one of America’s most classic novels.

But director Baz Luhrmann has reportedly signed rapper Jay-Z to produce an original score for his ambitious upcoming adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

The news leaked out when Jeymes Samuels of theThe Bullitts tweeted yesterday, “Jay-Z and myself have been work-ing tirelessly on the score for the upcoming #CLASSIC The Great Gatsby! It is too DOPE for words!”

No official statement from Jay-Z has been released re-garding his involvement.

Rumors were circulating prior to the tweet on which artist was set to score the film, but the first trailer (watch above) that




Blue Ivy voted ‘Worst Celebrity Baby Girl Name

of 2012′. According to BabyNames.com, Blue Ivy has been voted the worst celebrity girl’s name of 2012. Over 2,000 members of the website voted for the best and worst celebrity baby names of 2012. About 47.1 percent of participants voted Jay-Z and Beyonce’s daughter the worst celebrity baby girl’s name. Founder and CEO of BabyNames.com, Jennifer Moss told the press celebrity parents aren’t as daring when it comes to naming their children as some have been in the past. “We’re not seeing crazy names like Pilot Inspektor or Moxie Crimefighter anymore,” Moss explained. “I think celebrities are becoming a little more sensitive to the fact that the child has to live with his or her name.”

Lion, son of Alex O’Loughlin and Malia Jones, was voted the worst celebrity baby boy’s name of 2012. While Charlotte Grace, daughter of Jenn Schefft and Joe Waterman, was voted the best celeb-rity baby girl’s name and Luca Cruz, son of Hillary Duff and Mike Comrie, was voted the best celebrity baby boy’s name of 2012.

was released earlier this year featured Jay Z’s Watch the Throne track, “No Church In The Wild” which may have hinted that Jay-Z was the favored choice. That’s in addition to Luhrmann supposedly playing Jay-Z’s music on the set ofThe Great Gatsby, according to cast members.

“On my first day he had Jay-Z pumped up full, and we did the entire scene with, you know, Jay-Z in our ear on full blast while acting, and it was just so liberating,” Isla Fisher, who plays Myrtle Wilson, toldMTV.

And this isn’t the first time that the Aussie-native direc-tor has juxtaposed modern music with classic stories – Romeo + Juliet with Radiohead in 1996 and Moulin Rouge! with Madonna in 2001.

The Great Gatsby starring Leonardo DiCaprio and To-bey Maguire hits theaters May 10th, 2013.

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"Television debut Announcement"

Hi Face book family and friends,I hope that you are having a wonderful holiday season! A few weeks ago I was approached by a new TV show titled "Court Side Jones" they ask if I would do a time lapse painting for their 20 sec-ond intro. Being a huge fan of the NBA I accepted the of-fer, also the interviews are incredible! The show will debut on Fox5 Sports Dec 30Th at 10:30am. You will actually see me painting the piece from the beginning to the end every week. Make sure you let me know what you think and remember I only had 4hrs so be nice. Cheers Frank Morrison

Shawty Lo reality show ‘All My Babies’ Mamas’ prompts online petition

Rapper Shawty Lo allegedly has 10 “baby mamas” and 11 children. A new reality show about his life, children and all of his baby mamas is slated to be released in spring of this year on Oxy-gen TV, but thousands are already protesting the show’s pro-duction. A petition started by Sabrina Lamb calling for the cancellation of the show has over 3,800 supporters on change.org, only needing a little over 1,000 to reach its goal. “By pushing these degrading images, your company seeks to profit from the humiliation of girls and women and the blatant stereotyping of African-Americans,” writes Lamb in the peti-tion. “We think Oxygen and the show’s creators and producers have gone too far and if this show is aired, we will, without hesitation, boycott any and all companies that advertise during this minstrel show.”

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Kanye West and Kim Kardashian pregnancy to be documented on

E! reality television show Rapper Kanye West announced that he and girlfriend Kim Kardashian

are expecting their first child this past weekend in front of a crowd of 5,000 at

West’s concert in Atlantic City.

Now, West and Kardashian are set to have the pregnancy and birth of the couple’s

firstborn all recorded on the upcoming season of Kourtney & Kim Take Miami on

E!, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

“Kim and Kanye are an incredibly dynamic couple, and their baby news is just so

exciting,” E! president Suzanne Kolb told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement.

“Like so many Kardashian fans, we love it when this close-knit family gets even

bigger. We look forward to sharing the joy as they prepare for more diapers, more

bottle and without a doubt, more fabulous baby wear.”

A boost in ratings is expected in the latest season of Kourtney & Kim Take Mi-

ami and a source tells the Hollywood Reporter the network ”will continue to cover

all aspects of Kim’s life as it always has,” implying the pregnancy.

E! has been carrying the Kardashian brand for a few years now. Keeping Up With

the Kardashians just finished its seventh season and Kourtney & Kim Take Mi-

ami and Kloe & Lamar both have two seasons behind them. Kim is still legally married to Brooklyn Nets forward Kris Humphries, but

filed for divorce 72 days after their marriage in August 2011. Kim and Kanye have been dating since April 2012.



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THE TEMPTATIONS and THE FOUR TOPS

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The Temptations are an American vocal group known for their suc-cess in the 60s and 70s at Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, during its five-decade career, R&B, doo-wop, funk, disco, soul, and adult contemporary music. Known for their rec-ognizable chore-ography, distinct harmonies, and flashy onstage suits, the Tempta-tions have been said to be as in-fluential to soul as The Beatles are to pop and rock.[1]

Formed in De-troit, Michigan, in 1960 as The Elgins (not to be confused with an-other Motown group with the same name), the Temptations have always featured at least five male vocalists/dancers. Having sold tens of millions of al-bums,[2] the Temptations are one of the most successful groups in music history.[3][4] As of 2010[update], the Temptations con-tinue to perform and record for Universal Records with its one living original mem-ber, Otis Williams, still in its lineup.

The original lineup included members of two lo-cal Detroit vocal groups: from The Distants, sec-ond tenor Otis Williams, first tenor Elbridge "Al" Bryant, and bass Melvin Franklin; and from The Primes, first tenor/falsetto Eddie Kendricks and

second tenor/baritone Paul Williams (no relation to Otis). Among the most notable future Temptations were lead singers David Ruffin and Dennis Edwards (both later solo artists), Ali-Ollie Woodson, Ron Ty-son, Glenn Leonard, Damon Harris, Richard Street, Theo Peoples, and G. C. Cameron. Like its "sister" female group, the Supremes, the Temptations' lineup

has changed fre-quently over the years.

Over the course of their career, the Temptations have released four Bill-board Hot 100 number-one sin-gles and 14 Bill-board R&B num-ber-one singles. Their material has earned them three Grammy Awards, while two more awards were con-ferred upon the songwriters and producers who crafted their 1972 hit "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone". The Temptations were the first Motown act to earn a Grammy Award. Six Temptations (Dennis Edwards, Melvin Franklin, Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin, Otis Williams, and Paul Williams) were in-ducted into the

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989. Three classic Temptations songs, "My Girl", "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)", and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone", are among The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.



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THE FOUR TOPS Four Tops are an American vocal quartet, whose rep-

ertoire has included doo-wop, jazz, soul music, R&B, disco, adult contemporary, hard rock, and showtunes. Founded in Detroit, Michigan as The Four Aims, lead singer Levi Stubbs (born Levi Stubbles, a cousin of Jackie Wilson and brother of The Falcons' Joe Stubbs), and groupmates Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson and Lawrence Payton remained together for over four decades, having gone from 1953 until 1997 without a single change in personnel.

Among a number of groups who helped define the Motown Sound of the 1960s, including The Miracles, The Marvelettes, Martha and the Vandellas, The Temp-tations, and The Supremes, the Four Tops were notable for having Stubbs, a baritone, as their lead singer; most groups of the time were fronted by a tenor. The group was the main male vocal group for the songwriting and production team of Holland-Dozier-Holland, who crafted a stream of hit singles, including two Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits: "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" and "Reach Out I'll Be There". After Holland-Dozier-Holland left Motown in 1967, the Four Tops were assigned to a number of producers, primarily Frank Wilson. When Motown left Detroit in 1972 to move to Los Angeles, California, the Tops stayed in Detroit and moved over to ABC Records' Dunhill imprint, where they continued to have charting singles into the late-1970s. Since the 1980s, the Four Tops have recorded for, at various times, Motown, Casablanca Records and Arista Records. Today, save for Indestructible (owned by Sony Music Entertainment), Universal Music Group controls the rights to their entire post-1963 catalog (through various mergers and acquisitions), as well as their 1956 single, "Could It Be You".

A change of line-up was finally forced upon the group when Lawrence Payton died on June 20, 1997. The band initially continued as a three-piece under the name The Tops,[1] before Theo Peoples (formerly of The Temptations) was recruited as the new fourth mem-ber. Peoples eventually took over the role of lead singer when Stubbs suffered a stroke in 2000 with his position assumed by Ronnie McNeir. On July 1, 2005, Benson died of lung cancer with Payton's son Roquel Payton re-placing him. Levi Stubbs died on October 17, 2008. Fa-kir, McNeir, Payton, and Harold "Spike" Bonhart, who replaced Peoples in 2011, are still performing together as the Four Tops. Fakir is now the only surviving founding member of the original group.



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an executive assis‐tant! Whoop‐de‐doo! I can’t wait to see what she comes up with AND can pay her bills. I am going to sit qnd brew over this for awhile. Anyone have any suggestions? Anyone have spare cash laying around? Well, what a great way to start the New Year!!!

enough to support an aca‐demic effort, but we also had a desire to enter the entertain‐ment industry, so what did we do?

Daddy, paid for all the col‐lege expenses for his three daughters, and, as a single dad, did everything he could do to make sure his daughters were protected from harm, had NO worries about college debt, assuming all expenses along the way. Clothing, books, cell phones, laptops, and every conceivable elec‐tronic doo‐hickey you could think of to assist them in their quest for perfection AND keep up with all the neighbors and schoolmates.

No one ever told me that the current trend for staying in college is no longer four years, but five to seven years! At anywhere from $38,000 to $52,000 a year for tuition and board and books, the bottom line final figure is astounding and quite frightening. In my case, close to $500,000 for the total, however, one of my

“REASONABLE THINKING” By Jim Reed Well, here we go again! I supported every effort my daughter made toward building her life’s

work, her career. Ahem, careers. It would have been

daughters is heading into her 7th year of living the easy life!!!

None of my daughters seem to really know what they want to do when they grow up. I seem to be the same way and look for‐ward to starting a professional partner‐ship with them in the near future so we can all agree on some‐thing.

Getting back to my one daughter, she no longer wants to be a teacher, or an enter‐tainer. Wow, what a let‐down for me. All my connections can now be flushed down the toilet bowl because she is in conflict! Yippee, skippy! What do I do with the 20+ instruments I purchased for her? Can I get any of the $60‐$85 dollar‐an‐hour lessons I paid for? How about all the time I waited around for her during those lessons and taking her to them? That was a lot of time and



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SANDY STORM RELIEF BENEFIT Proceeds to Benefit The American Red Cross on Long Island

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LINDA EDER HOLIDAY SHOW

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22 at 8 PM Tickets are $79.50, $39.50 and $29.50

KENNY ROGERS “CHRISTMAS & HITS”

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JACK HANNA’S INTO THE WILD LIVE! SATURDAY, JANUARY 12 at 1 PM

Tickets are $29.50, 49.50 to $59.50 (Includes Meet & Greet)

THE LITTLE PRINCE SUNDAY, JANUARY 13 at 1 PM Tickets are $39.50 and $29.50

Family Four Pack tickets available at $19.50 each

LISA LAMPANELLI FRIDAY, JANUARY 18 at 8 PM

Tickets are $49.75

PAT BENATAR & NEIL GIRALDO REBUILD LONG ISLAND CONCERT – A Sandy Relief Benefit

A Portion of the Proceeds will benefit Habitat For Humanity’s ReSTORE, The Lindenhurst Fire Department

And The Village of Lindenhurst Sandy Relief Fund FRIDAY, JANUARY 25 at 8 PM

Tickets are $59.50, $49.50 and $39.50

SUPER DIAMOND A Neil Diamond Tribute Concert

SATURDAY, JANUARY 26 at 8 PM Tickets are $29.50

MASTERS OF ILLUSION

SUNDAY, JANUARY 27 at 3 PM Tickets are $69.50, $39.50 and $19.50

A Tribute to JOHN DENVER

A ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH CONCERT FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 at 8 PM Tickets are $39.50 and $29.50

THE TEMPTATIONS & THE FOUR TOPS

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9 at 7 PM Tickets are $69.50 and $49.50

THE SPINNERS LITTLE ANTHONY and THE IMPERIALS

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16 at 8 PM Tickets are $69.50 and $49.50

CHRIS YOUNG

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ARTIE LANGE LIVE! SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23 at 8 PM

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HOW I BECAME A PIRATE SATURDAY, MARCH 2 at 1 PM Tickets are $39.50 and $29.50

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MARTIN SHORT

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RON WHITE: A LITTLE UNPROFESSIONAL SATURDAY, MARCH 16 at 8 PM Tickets are $52.75

DOO WOP EXTRAVAGANZA

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Willie Winfield & THE HARPTONES Vito Picone & THE ELEGANTS

THE KNOCKOUTS – THE TOYS and THE BROOKLYN REUNION

The Mystics - The Passions – The Classics SATURDAY, MARCH 23 at 7 PM

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The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess has triumphantly returned to Broadway, in an electrifying new staging as timeless as ever presenting themes that reflect the cultural landscape of America, featuring such leg-endary songs as "Summertime," "It Ain't Necessarily So" and "I Got Plenty of Nothing," plus a remarkable cast led by four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, Drama Desk nominee Norm Lewis, and two-time Tony nominee David Alan Grier. Experience the show TIME Magazine declares, "Exquisite, intimate and musically ravishing. A don't-miss theater event!" and The Associated Press calls,“A gor-geous version of The Gershwin Masterpiece!”

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ABOUT THIS BOOK: “THE WAY STATION” (Genre: Christian fiction) By Minister Larry Montgomery, Sr. Author of the ‘U.S. Marshal Harry Bailey Parables of Life Series’ The Way Station is a fictional account of what could happen immediately following a person’s death. This book is about the mo-ments’ right before the souls of six strangers transitions to either the other side of life, better known as the ‘hereafter’ or to the next phase of life, known as the second chance to get it right. This book was written on the the-ory that either you learn the les-son you were sent into this world to learn, or you can be recycled, given another chance to get it right before it is finally too late. Seven people take an elevator ride together, each from a differ-ent walk of life, but unbeknownst to them; they are each riding into either their next destiny or a sec-ond chance. In their minds, they are all going to the top floor of an office building owned by a world renowned charitable or-ganization, to receive a cash re-ward for doing something good but none of them really remem-bers exactly what. None of the six awardees are known to one another but during the elevator ride to the top-floor office they each have a chance to talk about that part of his or her life, they believe earned them this recognition. As they tell their story, they recollect the trials and tribulations they went through which they believe made them worthy of this honor. Each per-son’s story is of no consequence to any of the other recipients, but the seventh person on the elevator seems to know a lot more about their lives then even they realize. Once each of the awardees reaches their individual destination they are ushered off the elevator to confront life’s ultimate choice; to choose their soul’s next destination. Each awardee is left to choose between two doors. Each door holds a different destiny behind it. So, don’t be fooled by the majesty or outward appearance of either, the one selected is the one each recipient is most worthy of. One door is made of solid OAK1 and the other solid Birch2 wood. Ride with these six people to their final destination and read how each of them chose their soul’s next resting place based on the trials and tribu-lations that made up their lives. Then think how your life compares to theirs; if at all, and you just may find out more about what really awaits you at the ‘Way Station.’

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Museum Mission Statement The mission of the African American Museum of Nassau County

[AAM] is to provide programming and events that foster the intellectual development of community members and visitors with an interest in Af-rican-American art, history and culture. A primary goal is to dissemi-nate the history of African-Americans on Long Island and the African-American contribution to the social and cultural development of Ameri-can society through material and visual culture. The AAM, located in

Hempstead, New York, opened in 1970, at the height of the black power movement, as the Black History Exhibit Center. It is the only African American history museum on Long Island, and is located to serve Nas-sau County’s largest African-American population. The museum is a multi-disciplinary cultural institution that provides art installations, historical exhibitions, film programs, commu-nity service events, and educational program-ming. This 6,000-square-foot facility, offers a rotating series of exhibits showcasing local and national African American artists. The Afri-can American Museum also houses the African Atlantic Genealogy Society. This organization provides workshops and individual research instruction in family genealogy. The museum has installed a new E-Learning Program that offers an innovative pedagogical approach, using subject headings relative to Americans of African descent, for con-ducting research on the internet. The AAM is currently working on methods to expand the community’s understanding of knowledge or-ganization methods, literary warrant, and information retrieval and how these relate to African-American social history.

African American Museum and

Center of Education and Applied Arts

110 North Franklin Street

Hempstead, New York 11550

516-572-0730 fax: 516-572-032

Mr. David Byer-Tyre, Museum Di-rector/Curator

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.theaam.org

Hours of Operation

Monday: by appointment,

Tuesday-Friday: 12-8, Saturday: 10-5, Sunday: Closed

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CHILDREN’S MUSEUM EXPLORES THE

“BEASTIES THAT BITE YOU”

Attack of the Bloodsuckers Exhibit Opens January 18

Visitors to the Long Island Children’s Museum this week will be able to explore the sci-ence of what’s eating you, when Attack of the Bloodsuckers opens on Friday, January 18. The traveling exhibit looks at the wonders of sanguinivores — creatures that eat blood, such as mosquitoes, leeches and ticks.

Special Note: The Museum will be open Monday, January 21 (Martin Luther King Jr holi-day)

Open to a New Year

Tuesday, January 15 through Friday, January 18 from 2:30 to 4 p.m.

Come join us in the Inner Lobby to decorate your very own wooden door hanger to welcome family and friends into your home (or room) during 2013!

All ages. Free with Museum admission.

Language Immersion at LICM

Tuesday, January 15 and Thursday, January 17 from 11:30 a.m. to noon

Children’s language skills develop rapidly, absorbing eve-rything they hear. Why not in-troduce another language to your child while they are young and receptive to new things? Join us while we explore basic themes in Spanish in a fun and relaxed atmosphere. Workshops are drop in and do not require advance sign up.

This five-week series will cover a different theme each week – from names and num-bers to colors and animal names. A class project and song will be used each week to reinforce learning. Take home activities

will also be distributed at the end of each class.

Ages: 3-5. Fee: $3 with Mu-seum admission ($2 LICM mem-bers)

Dreaming with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Monday, January 21 at 11a.m., 1:30 and 3 p.m.

Art has long been used to record historical events. Come join us as we explore the re-markable life of Dr. Martin Lu-ther King Jr. Draw inspiration

from his life, speeches and vi-sions as you produce an artwork of peace.

Ages: 5 and up. Fee: $3 with Museum admission ($2 LICM members)

New Exhibit - Sound Show-ers

Get ready to be immersed in sound and music as you enter an immersive environment to ex-plore soundscapes of the imagi-nation, create rhythms using in-struments from around the world and experience the fun of creat-ing music using objects found all around us. Sound Showers features three gallery experi-ences exploring the concept that “sound is music and music is sound” and encourages visitors to “look” with their ears to un-cover the unexpected rhythms

that are all around us. The ex-hibit is funded by a generous grant from the Gertrude and Louis Feil Family.

All ages. Free with Museum admission.

Traveling Exhibit: Attack of the Bloodsuckers!

Friday, January 18 through Sunday, May 5, 2013

Be the first to explore the science of what’s eating you in this skin-crawling exhibition! Examine the what, why, when and how of mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, leeches and other parasites known as sanguinivores (creatures that eat blood). Learn why bloodsuckers are important to the ecosystem -- and how to keep them out of your system!

Attack of the Bloodsuckers! offer visitors the chance to:

· Look a real leech in the mouth;

· Pull off your socks and test your bug-appealing foot odor;

· Receive a big hug from a giant, inflating tick;

· Get itchy and knotty with the life-size game of "Twitcher" — a buggy variation on Twister™!

Take a bite out of science during our exhibit preview as you take part in themed activi-ties and enjoy light refresh-ments.

Attack of the Bloodsuckers! is produced by EEC! -- the En-vironmental Exhibit Collabora-tive (ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center, Burlington, Vermont; EcoTarium, Worces-ter, Massachusetts; and the Children’s Museum of Maine, Portland, Maine) -- and made possible by grants from Jane's Trust, Cabot Family Charitable Trust, and the Institute for Mu-seum and Library Services.

Early Childhood Pro-grams*

Spanish Language Im-mersion Class: Tuesday and Thursday (January 8 through February 7) from 11:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. †

stART (Story + Art): Tuesday to Friday from 12:30-1 p.m. †

Music and Movement: Wednesday and Friday from 11:30 a.m. -12 p.m. †

Messy Afternoons: Satur-day-Sunday, from 3:30-5 p.m. (Except Jan 12-13)

†Fee: $3 with Museum ad-mission

All activities will be held at the Long Island Children’s Mu-seum, 11 Davis Avenue, Gar-den City, NY. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Mu-seum Hours: Tuesday-Sunday from 10 am.-5 p.m. and most school holidays. Museum ad-mission: $12 for adults and children over 1 year old, $11 seniors, FREE to museum members and children under 1 year old. Additional fees for theater and special programs may apply. For additional infor-mation, contact 516-224-5800.

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