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invoked the struggle of the Maccabees in describing New York-ers’ struggles in the af-termath of Superstorm Sandy since late Octo-ber.“Chanukah is a special time of year to spend with friends and fam-ily, and it’s a story of strength in the face of adversity and moral courage in the face of in-

justice. In recent weeks, the people of New York have also had our strength and spirit test-ed. Our city braved one of the most devastating storms ever seen on the East Coast, and New Yorkers of every back-ground and from every borough have stepped up in amazing ways to help their neighbors,” Bloomberg said in the statement. “New York is a city where, even in the

toughest of times, we have faith in the future. As New Yorkers light the menorah tonight, I wish them a Happy Chanukah.”

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Electronic medical records (EMR’s) help improve the care of patients and reduce medical errors in doctors’ offices. Med-ical groups around the country are utilizing or considering the use of EMR’s. Monsey Fam-ily Medical Center is now fully EMR, which to the advantage of the patient-translates into Increased preventive care ser-vices and rapid and remote access to patient information. It also provides easier chronic disease management.

“Our patients are the primary beneficiaries as all our doctors adopt the use of electronic tools like EHRs,” explained, Dr. Arthur Landau, an Internal Medicine doctor at Monsey Family Medical Center.

When the patient’s paper med-ical record is converted to the electronic format, the patient and his/her medical team will have a number of immediate benefits. The record will be se-cure, legible and available to all members of the physician’s staff. It can be accessed by the physician from home, the emergency room, the hospital, a nursing home, or from any-where in the world.

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Ramapo Supervisor Christo-pher P. St. Lawrence has been appointed by the New York State Thruway Authority to serve on a newly formed panel that is charged with studying ways to implement mass transit on a new Tappan Zee Bridge.Supervisor St. Lawrence is one of only seven elected officials from Rockland County on the Mass Transit Task Force. The

other Rockland elected of-ficials that are serving on the

new panel are County E x e c u t i v e Scott Van-d e r h o e f , Senator Da-vid Carlucci, Assembly-woman El-len Jaffee,

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Ramapo Councilman Friedman lighting the Spring Valley menorah

Mayor Bloomberg lights a menorah from Mayor’s Office

Suffern Mayor Dagan LaCorte lighting the menorah

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer and Rabbi Schmuel Butman in Manhattan

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Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives elevated Rep. Nita Lowey of New York’s 18th congressional dis-trict (Westchester and Rock-land counties), to their ranking member on the powerful Ap-propriations Committee.Lowey, a leading pro-Israel lawmaker who is Jewish, had

been the top Democrat on the committee’s foreign operations subcommittee. She announced her bid for the party’s top slot on the Approriations Commit-tee last April after Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) announced he was retiring.“It is especially gratifying to be the first woman to lead either

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Legislator Frank sparaco declines To seek Minority Leader post

Rockland County Legislator Frank Sparaco (R-Valley Cottage) has announced that he is declining to seek the post of Minority Leader of the Rockland County Legislature for the 2013 session. Legislator Sparaco was elected Minority Leader for the 2011 session, and again for the 2012 session. "It has been a privilege and an honor to serve as the Mi-nority Leader of the Rockland County Legis-lature. I am proud of the record I have built during that time both as a legislator and as Minority Leader – a record of fighting taxes of all kinds, and promoting the ideas of fiscal responsibility during these difficult times," said Legislator Sparaco.As Minority Leader, Legislator Sparaco has built a record of op-posing tax hikes and new taxes, including:Property tax increases of over 80%Doubling the mortgage taxIncreasing the cell phone tax by 30 cents a month, Increasing the sales tax rate to 8.75%Looking forward, Legislator Sparaco ex-pressed his desire to build on that record. "I look forward to continuing in my position as a County Legislator. By declining the position of Minority Leader, I will be able to act more independently and further the causes that have been near and dear to my constituents and me," he said.

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congradulations to mrs. nita loweyDemocrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have elevated Congresswoman Nita Lowey of New York’s 18th congressional district, (and soon to be Rockland County’s sole representative in Congress)- to their ranking member on the powerful Appropriations Committee. This is the most important commit-tee in Congress.Throughout her service on the Appropriations Committee, Congresswoman Lowey has acted as a strong advocate for the best interests of the American people, at home in Monsey and around the world. We appreciate the efforts Congresswoman Lowey has done for our community and the Country as a whole.We congratulate her on her appointment and wish her the best in the future.

THE ADVOCATE WISHES ALL OUR

READERS A HAPPY CHANUKAH

dear Editor,

senator carlucci Helps cleanup rockland

The people of our district demand leaders who are committed to creating opportunities for tomorrow. I am referring to devoted public servants, like Senator David Carlucci. On November 10th, Senator Carlucci led a community cleanup along Route 304. It was a privilege to work with neighbors performing an invaluable service to our community, assembled together by Senator Carlucci. We all picked up trash along Route

304, in an effort to help beautify our neighborhood. Senator Carlucci did a wonderful job to bring us together and leading us to be a part of the solution.

thanks to our senator,rockland resident

dear Editor,

A new Stage in Spring Valley?

This is the latest wasteful expense by Spring Valley Using reserve funds to pay for something overpriced and unnecessary that will be used roughly three times

a year demonstrates the lack of fiscal responsibility by Village Hall. For example, that $97,690 could have been spent on an animal control officer for the village AND Spring Valley's required funding to Hi Tor Animal Care Center, Inc. for over three years - money which the mayor said she could not find at all this year.

No group would ever pay $3,000 - $4,000 to rent this when they could get it for a small fraction of the price elsewhere. As for the $200 rental fee for village events, it would take over 488 events to cover the cost

of this stage. The Mayor thinks she will recover the costs in 3 to 5 years, which is wholly unrealistic. It would require her to rent it out roughly one out of every three days for 3 to 5 years (including the winter and through every hurricane to come) to make back the money. Additionally, the overtime needed to pay village employees to oversee its use would actually cost more than the stage itself.

sincerely,d. friedmanspring valley

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C. Scott VanderhoefRamapo Town Councilman

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Legislative Chairwoman Harriet Cornell, Mayor Tish Dubow of South Nyack, and Mayor Jen White of Nyack.The 29-member Mass Transit Task Force will have one year to pinpoint transit so-lutions for the replacement bridge and the I-287 corridor, develop funding strategies to implement and sustain transit opera-tions, and generate a corridor manage-ment plan to make certain that there is a workable transit program."The construction of a new Tappan Zee Bridge is one of the most significant pub-lic works projects in the United States to-day," said Supervisor St. Lawrence. "Un-der the leadership of Governor Andrew Cuomo, the replacement of the Tappan Zee Bridge has been brought to the fore-front, and we are finally making consider-able headway on a project that has been in the discussion stages for many years.""This project is a major investment in our infrastructure, our economy, our county, and our future," continued St. Lawrence. "I look forward to working with my col-leagues on the Mass Transit Task Force to ensure that the new Tappan Zee Bridge will have the mass transit components that our region desperately needs."Two years ago, Independent Democrats and Senate Republicans put partisan differ-ences aside to end the dysfunction, grid-lock and reckless fiscal policies of the previous Senate leadership. This partner-ship returned function and order to the Senate Chamber, restored fiscal integrity, and produced remarkable accomplish-ments that have benefited all New York-ers. Today’s agreement marks a bold new chapter in this partnership that will allow the Senate to continue pushing New York State forward, while ensuring that there will be no returning to the failed leader-ship of the past. Three highly distinctive designs for a new Tappan Zee Bridge spanning the Hudson River in New York were unveiled on Wednesday, ranging from designs that resemble two pairs of tuning forks, a re-gatta, and a cream-colored version of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.The New York State Thruway Authority unveiled the proposals for a new bridge connecting Westchester and Rockland counties north of New York City to re-place the existing Tappan Zee, which was built in the 1950s and is now in poor con-dition.Proposal 1, which looks like side-by-side

tuning forks, is the least costly at $3.1 billion and earned the endorsement of a selection committee making recommen-dations to the Thruway Authority Board, which is to choose a design on December 17."Best looking and most cost-effective," said New York Governor Andrew Cuo-mo, describing Proposal 1 at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

The selection committee's endorsement was based on price, bridge lifespan, con-struction schedule and environmental ef-fects, according to Brian Conybeare, a special adviser for the project.Proposal 2, which looks a bit like the Golden Gate, has an estimated cost of $3.990 billion, and Proposal 3, which re-sembles a crowd of sail boats racing in one of the regattas often seen on the Hud-son, is estimated at $4.059 billion.Proposal 1 also has the shortest construc-tion time frame, at just over five years, meaning the new bridge could be com-pleted before 2019.With any of the three options, there would be $600 million to $800 million in additional costs related to project finance, management, oversight, contingencies and aesthetic improvements, Conybeare said.In the hopes of insuring the massive transportation link reflects the beauty of the Hudson River Valley, Cuomo in September named a team of six artists to advise the selection team, including sculptor Jeffrey Koons and Metropolitan Museum of Art director Thomas Camp-bell, a tapestries expert.The names of the design firms that cre-ated each proposal were not released by the state.

party on this powerful committee,” Lowey said in a statement Tuesday after her elec-tion by the House Democrats’ steering com-mittee.Lowey defeated Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) for the top spot. Kaptur had seniority but was seen as problematic because of her sometimes frosty relations with the House Demcoratic leadership and her relatively conservative views on abortion.Lowey won by a vote of 36-10, sources told The Hill newspaper.“Throughout her service on the Appropria-tions Committee, Congresswoman Lowey has acted as a fierce advocate for the best interests of the American people, at home and around the world,” said Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the minority leader. “As the first woman to hold her new post, she will continue to fight for investments that strengthen the middle class and spur our prosperity.”

Pelosi emphasized that Lowey and a top Democrat on another committee, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), of the Financial Services, were women — an implied jab at House Republicans, who elected only white men to committee chairmanships.

Are you sure that white tuna roll you ordered from your lo-cal sushi place is actually tuna? Because chances are extremely high that it's actually snake mackerel, a type of fish that contains a toxin known to... cause severe diarrhea. A con-servation group called Oceana recently released a disturbing report that reveals "widespread seafood fraud" in New York City. Fraudulent food in this town? We've seen this before, and just becuase the hechsher is correct, does not always guar-antee the supply chain is getting the proper labling either. The group that tested the fish obtained 143 fresh seafood samples—from restaurants, small markets and national chain gro-cery stores—and found that 39% sold or served mislabeled fish. Of the 81

retail outlets sampled, 58% (three in five) sold mislabeled product. National chains fared the best, with only 12% carrying fraudulent stock, while small markets ranked significantly higher at 40% mislabeled fish. Perhaps most

disturbing considering the city's love affair with Japanese restaurants, 100% of the 16 sushi bars they tested sold mislabeled fish. None of these stores or restaurants were named in the study, but researchers collected the majority of their samples from Manhattan.Researchers discovered that besides tuna, red snapper was the most com-monly mislabeled product. Their tests revealed "red snapper" samples to be either a lower quality type of snapper or, among many others, tilefish, a vari-ety of seafood the FDA advises people not to eat due to the extremely high levels of mercury. Aside from health concerns, consumers are being cheated when they assume they're buying top quality products and instead getting lesser-valued fish. Dining or shopping "in higher-end eateries and retail out-lets…did not guarantee an honestly la-beled seafood meal or purchase."

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Congresswoman Lowey Selected as Top Dem on

Appropriations CommitteeThe Hill Reports: House Democratic lead-ers have chosen Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) over Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) for the position of ranking member on the pow-erful House Appropriations Committee in a victory for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who championed Lowey.

Kaptur had seniority on the panel, but her past independence from leadership and stance on abortion rights were seen as factors in the race. Lowey, who was fa-vored to win, is slated to replace retiring Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.), who served one term as ranking member, in January.

Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), in-coming Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, and Con-gressman Peter King (R-NY), Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security – who co-chair the bipartisan Congressional task force on recovering from Tropical Sandy – today issued the following statement on reports of a $45-55 billion supplemental appropriations request:

“$50 billion in disaster recovery funding would be insufficient to meet the severe needs faced by New York, New Jersey, and other states affected by Tropical Storm Sandy. While recovering and rebuilding

will be a long-term priority, it is important that the supplemental appropriations re-quest meets what our region requires.

“We continue to work in a bipartisan way to ensure that the White House requests – and Congress appropriates – funding suf-ficient to help our region recover.”

Senate Control to be shared in NYControl of the state Senate during the up-coming session will be shared between Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and Sen. Jeff Klein, the de facto leader of a five-member independent conference, all but eliminating the power of the Senate Democrats for the time being.

The two conference leaders together will administer "joint and equal authority" over the daily Senate agenda, the state budget process, board appointments, committee assignments and leadership posts. The title of "Temporary President" will alternate between Skelos and Klein every two weeks.

"The Senate Republican Conference has worked closely with [Klein's] Indepen-dent Democratic Conference and Gover-nor Cuomo to bring historic progress to New York," Skelos said. "We've brought spending under control, ended Albany dysfunction and consistently delivered

the bipartisan results New Yorkers need and deserve – even on many of the most difficult issues. Senator Klein has proven to be a thoughtful and effective leader and I look forward to partnering with him to move this state forward." The bipartisan coalition will be written into the Senate's rules for the 2013 session. The official title of the partnership will be the "Senate Ma-jority Coalition."

Schneiderman may Sue EPA Over Clean Air Violation

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reportedly left methane, a chemi-cal compound that is harmful to the en-vironment and released in large quanti-ties by oil and gas companies, out of a recent update in air pollution standards for those industries. Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced on Tuesday that he and a coalition of seven states, including New York, are prepared to sue the EPA for violating the Clean Air Act. Reports done by the agency show that methane warms the earth 25 times more than carbon dioxide, adding greatly to the climate change that is currently tak-ing place.

DiNapoli has dire warnings for going over the cliff

New York State Comptroller Thomas

DiNapoli, above, released a report last Thursday depicting the danger of the country falling over the fiscal cliff. DiNap-oli detailed the contents of the report dur-ing a speech before the Business and La-bor Coalition of New York that same day. If Congress fails to act to avert sweeping federal tax hikes and sharp spending cuts by January 1, New Yorkers could face more than $43 billion in tax increases and lose $609 million in federal aid in 2013, warned state Comptroller Thomas DiNap-oli in a speech to the Business and Labor Coalition of New York last Thursday.

Port Authority Bridges and Tunnels Tolls Go Up to $13

Commuters are paying more to drive from New Jersey into New York City.

The next phase of toll increases kicked in at Port Authority bridges and tunnels on Sunday. Cash tolls on the George Wash-ington Bridge, Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel, Goethals Bridge, Bayonne Bridge and Outerbridge Crossing will increase $1 to $13. Tolls for E-ZPass users will go from $9.50 to $10.25 during peak commuting hours and from $7.50 to $8.25 during off-peak hours. The Port Authority last raised tolls in September 2011. Tolls are next slated to rise on Dec. 1, 2013 unless a law-suit against the increase is successful.

Bris Millah stays legal in Germany

German lawmakers have ap-proved a bill to keep male in-fant circumcision legal after a regional court ruled earlier this year that the practice amounts to bodily harm.

The government proposed the law following heavy criticism of the Cologne court ruling by Jew-ish and Muslim groups.

Jews in particular consider male infant circumcision an ancient and essential part of their reli-gious tradition.

The new law, passed with 434 to 100 votes, grants parents the right to authorize the circumci-sion of their sons by a trained practitioner.

A cross-party minority in Parlia-ment had proposed that parents should have to wait until their son is 14 so he can give informed consent for the procedure.

Danish Jews On High Alert

If you are a Jew living in or vis-iting Denmark, you may want to think twice about wearing a yarmulke or speaking Hebrew in public according to Denmark’s

Jewish Religious Community organization and the Israeli am-bassador to Denmark.

“We advise Israelis who come to Denmark and want to go to the synagogue to wait to don their skull caps until they enter the building and not to wear them in the street, irrespective of whether the areas they are vis-iting are seen as being safe,” Ar-thur Avnon, Israel’s ambassador to Denmark told AFP

. Avnon said tourists should also be careful about wearing Star of David or other identifiably Jewish pieces of jewelry. Jewish private schools in Copenhagen were also told to take precautions.

The warnings were issued following an attack on the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen on November 19 in retaliation for Israel’s settlement expansions and its Pillar of Defense Operation against Hamas. During the embassy attack, which involved fireworks and stone-throwing, the word “childkillers” was scrawled in paint on the embassy entrance wall. There was no official response to the incident from the Denmark government.

An estimated 6,000 to 8,000 Jews reside in Denmark.

Americans Living Longer

Americans, on a whole, are dying less from cancer and heart-relat-ed causes, but at the same time, chronic conditions like obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and sedentary living are on the rise, according to a new report ranking the health of each U.S. state.

The report, released by United-Health Group's nonprofit, the United Health Foundation, in association with the American Public Health Association and the Partnership for Prevention, shows that 27.8 percent of all Americans are obese, 9.5 percent have diabe-tes, 30.8 percent have hyperten-sion and 26.2 percent lead seden-tary lifestyles.

However, premature deaths and deaths from heart disease and cancer have decreased since 1990.

"As a nation, we've made extraor-dinary gains in longevity over the past decades, but as individuals we are regressing in our health," Dr. Reed Tuckson, M.D., medical adviser to the United Health Foun-dation and chief of medical affairs for UnitedHealth Group, said in a statement.

Election Over, Administra-tion Unleashes New Rules Put Off During Campaign

-While the “fiscal cliff” of looming tax increases and spending cuts dominates political conversation in Washington, some Republi-cans and business groups see signs of a “regulatory cliff” that they say could be just as damag-ing to the economy.

Schumer: Fiscal Cliff Would Hike NY's Milk Prices

Sen. Charles Schumer warns that if Washington doesn’t avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, New York-ers could see the price of milk

double and dairy farmers would suffer. The Democrat says Con-gress must agree on a budget or a 1940s law will kick in on Jan. 1 that will trigger higher costs even as famers get lower prices under the government’s subsidy program.

Schumer says Congress must ap-prove a temporary return of the Milk Income Loss program that protects more than 5,400 dairy farmers in New York state.

The 2008 dairy law that pro-tected farmers and consumers expired in September and must be renewed or the outdated law will kick in. Schumer says that if it does, milk could cost $6 a gallon.

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vanderhoef saves jobsVanderhoef supported the Legislature's decisions to restore the mosquito control program, which employs five people, and to also retain four officers in the county Sheriff's Department's mounted unit and five in the sheriff's patrol unit, all of whom would have been laid off, under Vanderhoef's original budget.

Earlier in 2012, Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco trimmed more than $3 million from his own budget before presenting it to Vanderhoef. Since October, Falco has shed even more expenses in overtime and relief accounts, hoping to protect officers from further layoffs.

enGel: $20 million awarded to fiX hurricane sandy

road damaGe

Congressman Eliot Engel announced last week, that $20 million in federal funds were awarded to New York State for emergency repairs of roads damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

“When natural disasters such as Sandy hit wide areas, it is up to the federal government to assist individual states in making the necessary repairs and rebuilding. This FHA money will help to restore traffic services and make emergency roadway repairs including removal of debris, repairing sign and signal damages and road washouts on federal-aid highways.”

legislator schoenberger urges residents to call telephone,internet providers for service

credits due from power outages caused by

hurricane sandy

Rockland County Legislator Ilan Schoen-berger urges residents to contact their tele-phone, cable/video and internet service providers to receive credit for service lost due to power outages experienced as a re-sult of Hurricane Sandy. The superstorm, which hit Rockland on Monday, October 28, caused outages toalmost 98,000 O&R Utility customers in the county.

“You must initiate the contact,” empha-sized Schoenberger. “Providers do not give credits unless consumers ask for them. I encourage anyone who expe-rienced loss of any of these services to contact their provider to determine if they are entitled to a credit for the time their service was out. Thousands experienced the loss of these services for many days and that could reflect almost a quarter or more of the monthly cost of the services. For about 250 residents left without power for almost two weeks, it could represent

one-half of the monthly cost. There was a lot of distraction in getting back to nor-mal after this storm; repairing damage, removing trees and debris, cleaningand re-stocking refrigerators, so many may have overlooked or are unaware of their right to receive a credit for the time they did not have telephone, cable and internet ser-vices. This also applies to wireless phone customers who may have experienced in-terruption in service due to cell tower out-ages.”

Schoenberger advises consumers to contact their providers by phone,internet or in writing to inform the provider of the length of time the service was out and to monitor their subsequent bills for the credit.

bloomberg hits brakes on pedicab rate decision

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he’ll decide by Friday whether to sign a proposal to keep pedicabs from charging confusing, sometimes exorbitant rates.

The proposal was up for Bloomberg to consider signing Wednesday. After a pedicab driver complained that the city was unfair to the bicycle taxis, Bloomberg said he wanted “to find out a little more” about the proposal.The City Council voted unanimously last month to require pedicab drivers to charge by the minute, with the timer clearly visible. Now, most pedicab drivers charge by city block and per passenger. Some add surcharges. One Texas family paid more than $400 for a 14-block ride this summer.Officials estimate 300 to 400 pedicabs are operating around the city.

after sandy, city eyes moving power Gear higher

A major push is on to move New York City’s electrical infrastructure to higher ground or upper floors after Superstorm Sandy sent seawater pouring into low-lying substations and skyscraper basements and plunged half of Manhattan into darkness for four days.The effort, likely to be enormously costly, will center partly on two old weaknesses brought into sharp relief by the surge: power distribution stations built just yards from the water’s edge, and electrical components located in vulnerable basements.Ever since Thomas Edison built the world’s first central power station in a Manhattan seaport district in 1882, central elements of the island’s electrical infrastructure have been located along the waterfront. Ten of Con Edison’s 101 transmission and distribution substations sit in flood zones.

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the office or at the hospital can be immediately added to the record. These re-sults can be graphed and viewed in a number of meaningful forms.

Patients benefit from im-proved efficiencies and service as a result of the EMR. Prescriptions are electronically sent directly to pharmacies and are ready to be picked up af-ter the office visit. Marked reductions in prescription errors and drug interac-tions have already been demonstrated in south-eastern Michigan from the use of this technol-ogy. Patients may also be able to request referrals, prescriptions refills, and appointments through the Internet from their physi-cians’ offices.

The electronic medical record has other features

that are of benefit to pa-tients. Automatic remind-ers for a variety of preven-tive health measures are easily generated. These reminders can improve disease prevention and early diagnosis. The inte-gration of laboratory and x-ray reports with other data in the EMR provides a more succinct and exact view of all of a patient’s medical information. No longer will the physician have to page through sheets of handwritten notes in a paper chart searching for information.

Last week, the Center for Disease Control and Pre-vention’s National Cen-ter for Health Statistics (NCHS) reported that the percentage of doctors adopting electronic health records has increased from 48 percent in 2009 to 72 percent in 2012.

Aspirin is a salicylate drug, often used as an analgesic to

relieve minor aches and pains, as an antipyretic to reduce fever, and as an anti-inflammatory medica-tion. Aspirin was first iso-lated by Felix Hoffmann, a chemist with the German company Bayer in 1897.

Salicylic acid, the main metabolite of aspirin, is an integral part of human and animal metabolism.

Aspirin also has an anti-platelet effect by inhibiting the production of throm-boxane, which under nor-mal circumstances binds platelet molecules together to create a patch over dam-aged walls of blood ves-sels.

In addition to being ben-eficial for brain and colon health, aspirin is also good for your heart.

According to the Mayo Clinic, an aspirin a day ups your heart health by inter-fering with your blood's clotting action. When you bleed, cells in your blood called platelets build up at the site of a cut or wound to help form a plug that stops the bleeding. This clotting can also occur in the blood vessels that supply blood to your heart, leading to a blood clot that can block the artery or prevent proper blood flow. While it doesn’t completely prohibit clotting altogether, aspirin helps by reducing platelets' ability to clot.

cholesterol: the good, the bad, and the Essential

Is an aspirin a day for you?

Despite its popularity, doc-tors don’t readily recom-mend aspirin to their patients or see aspirin as voluntary.

However the mounting body of research pointing to aspirin’s ability to pro-tect against a host of dis-eases begs the question: Should patients ask their doctor about incorporating an aspirin a day?

Many doctors do suggest daily aspirin therapy to pa-tients who have had a heart attack or stroke, or have a family history of colon cancer.

Dr. Arthur Landau an In-ternist at Monsey Family Medical Center suggests Asprin to patients who have had a stent placed in a coronary artery, or have had coronary bypass sur-gery, or have chest pain due to coronary artery dis-ease (angina)

"If you are a man with diabetes older than 50 or a woman with diabetes older than 60, it is also higly sug-gested." notes, Dr. Landau.

The typical dosage of aspi-rin as a preventative is 75 mg, fewer than a standard baby aspirin. However, many doctors will pre-scribe 81 mg (the dose of a typical baby aspirin) up to 325 mg, which is a regular strength aspirin.

There are downsides to aspirin, including aspirin allergy that can trigger an asthma attack, bleed-ing stomach ulcers, and clotting disorders. Before starting a daily aspirin regimen, it’s best to talk to your doctor about your specific benefits and risks.

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Chinese students attending U.S. collegesUndergraduates, by school year, scale in thousands

Chinese student boomThe number of Chinese undergraduate students attending college in the United States has increased nearly sixfold since the 2000-01 school year.

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Tips to help you prioritize and stop

procrastinatingMake specific, actionable plans. Make it easier for you

to get to done by spending some time thinking about what that journey will look like. If I am reminded by my list to do some general task like "write blog post" instead of some-thing specific like "research and brainstorm some ideas for blog post about to-do lists", I'll be much less likely to reach the intended goal.

At the same time, don't micromanage your tasks, or you'll feel locked in and unable to make adjustments and respond to things that come up. Use your dones as a refer-ence to make better, more responsive plans.

Use implementation intentions in your planning. An

implementation intention is a planning strategy that helps automate a desired action. You plan out an if-then process, where you use a certain situation to lead to a desired re-sponse. Setting out in advance some specifics of when and where forms the "if-component" of the implementation in-tention, and the specifics of how forms the "then-compo-nent." In effect, you're the director in the play of your life, giving the cue to act a certain way.

Give yourself earlier deadlines. Studies found that even when earlier deadlines were self-imposed, students per-formed better than those who had later deadlines.

Prioritize. Look at those 150 tasks you have to do and pick the most important, pressing or interesting ones to work on, big and small. It's easier to focus on 5 things and get them out of the way than running away from a towering mountain of DO THIS NOW!

Ease up and pat yourself on the back. Since our minds can get overloaded to the point of distraction, forgive your-self for not getting to 150 tasks. Be realistic about what you can do in a day.

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the name of a group of behaviors found in many children and

adults. People who have ADHD have trouble paying attention in school, at home or at work. They may be much more active and/or impulsive than what is usual for their age. These behaviors con-tribute to significant problems in relationships, learning and be-havior. For this reason, children who have ADHD are sometimes seen as being "difficult" or as having behavior problems.

ADHD is more common in boys than in girls. You may be more familiar with the term attention deficit disorder (ADD). This disorder was renamed in 1994 by the American Psychiatric As-sociation.

The child with ADHD who is inattentive will have 6 or more of the following symptoms:

-Has difficulty keeping attention with work or play activities at school and/or at home

-Loses things needed for activities at school and/or at home

-Appears not to listen

-Doesn't pay close attention to details

-Seems disorganized

-Has trouble with tasks that require planning ahead

-Forgets things

-Is easily distracted

The child with ADHD who is hyperactive/impulsive will have at least 6 of the following symptoms:

-Fidgety

-Runs or climbs inappropriately

-Can't play quietly

-Blurts out answers

-Can't stay in seat

-Talks too much

-Is always on the go

Children who have ADHD have symptoms for at least 6 months.

Children who have ADHD do not produce enough chemi-cals in key areas in the brain that are responsible for organizing

thought. Without enough of these chemicals, the organizing cen-ters of the brain don't work well. This causes the symptoms in children who have ADHD. Research shows that ADHD is more common in children who have close relatives with the disorder. Recent research also links smoking and other substance abuse during pregnancy to ADHD. Exposure to environmental toxins, such as lead, can also be a factor.

Things that don't cause ADHD:

-Bad parenting (though a disorganized home life and school environment can make symptoms worse)

-Too much sugar

-Food allergies or other allergies

-Lack of vitamins

-Fluorescent lights

A team effort, with parents, teachers and doctors working together, is the best way to help your child. Children who have ADHD may be difficult to parent. They may have trouble under-standing directions, and their constant state of activity can be challenging for adults. Children who have ADHD also tend to need more structure and clearer expectations. You may need to change your home life a bit to help your child. Here are some things you can do to help:

Make a schedule. Set specific times for waking up, eating, playing, doing homework, doing chores and going to bed. Post the schedule where your child will always see it. Reward good behav-ior. Congratulate your child when he or she completes each step of a task.

Set a homework routine. Pick a regular place for doing home-work, away from distractions such as other people. Break home-work time into small parts and have breaks.

Focus on effort, not grades. Reward your child when he or she tries to finish school work, not just for good grades. You can give extra rewards for earning better grades.

Talk with your child's teachers. Find out how your child is do-ing at school--in class, at playtime, at lunchtime. Ask for daily or weekly progress notes from the teacher.

To learn more you should consult a professional. Talk to a therapist at Project Ohr Department of Behavioral Health to learn about whether you need to make any changes to your children’s daily routine, or if therapy is an option.

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The issue: This title carries an odd message, don’t ‘ya think? How on earth can rejection be good? Well, it’s not that rejection is itself good, but it can sprout positive byproducts. Let us explain.

When a person experiences social rejection, what does he do? For one thing, he withdraws and turns inward. People don’t want him around. So, then if he turns inward, does anything come outward from him? Does the rejected person remain inward, or does he transform in some way? Contrary to what some of us might imagine, it seems that some people who experience social rejection come outward in creative ways. They may even do creative things that we didn’t expect from them. Very interesting. The wow facTor: Dr. Sharon Kim is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in Baltimore. She recently completed an award-winning study on the topic of social rejection and creativity, analyzing the workings behind the phenomenon of people demonstrating creativity after being socially rejected. She and her team believe that some people have independent self-concepts, which are not damaged by social rejection. Even though social rejection does take its toll, the independent self-concepts continue to

function. Yes, these people may be socially rejected by others, but that does not destroy their self-worth. Rather than collapse, these folks become energized to pursue their creative ambitions. We picture this as someone who gets rejected by others and then says to himself, “Thank goodness they are out of my way. I don’t have to worry about pleasing society. Now I can have fun my way and do what I like to do.” That is very much how Kim et al. also view it. our Take on The issue: This re-energization seems like a release that frees the individual to be himself. And that’s the point. Prior to the bout of social rejection, our friend was probably acting responsibly within society by trying to live up to the standards of those around him, but that fit like an uncomfortable pair of shoes. In a way, social rejection replaced the painful shoes with comfy slippers. What does this have to do with education? It’s quite simple. There are a couple of lessons here for us adults to learn. The first lesson is that what you see is not always what you get. How many of us would ever imagine that behind the figure of a socially awkward child stands a creative mind or pair of hands? By the way, no one said that this applies to all children, meaning that not all socially rejected children are creative individuals. Our responsibility is to bear in mind that some are.

Behind the figure of a socially awkward childstands a creative mind.

The second important lesson is that we should avoid stifling children’s creativity. At the same time that we encourage and teach children to be socially involved and appropriate, we need to provide opportunities for their creative sides. From Kim’s study, we realize that we may need to provide private opportunities for creative activities because the unencumbered private self is what comfortably hosts creativity for these guys. our professional advice: From all of the above, we should be sure to take at least one main point to heart, and it has nothing to do with social rejection. People bring out their best, and in the Johns Hopkins study that was creativity, at times or in circumstances that may elude us. As educators this leads to our need to identify the premium environment for children to bring out their best. In other words, if a child thrives when he is by himself, give him opportunities to work solo, so that he can work most comfortably and therefore productively. Some people study best when they are holed up in a closet with no interference from others. Others don’t; they thrive on the opposite. To each his own, but we have to determine each child’s “own.” What we also see is how elusive that premium learning situation may be. In the above-mentioned study we saw that creativity was hiding under a very

unsuspecting rock. The only thing that social rejection really did was to trigger a comfortable opportunity for creativity, something that may have been lacking otherwise. Unfortunately, there seems to be no easy test that is able to identify each child’s preference. It’s mostly a matter of trial and error. Realize that Sharon Kim and her team pretty much happened upon their interesting discovery. Nevertheless, when we see our children performing at what appears to be below their potential, we should try various approaches and environments to trigger their strengths. The boTTom line: This is another great opportunity for us to campaign in behalf of individualized education. We all have our strengths, weaknesses, and preferences that shine at different times. No two of us are identical. Our responsibility as parents and educators is to help children identify and realize their potential via their strengths and preferences. Sometimes that takes digging, probing, and hard work on our part. That’s okay. It’s what we should all love to do because we will be “helping children to help themselves.”

Eliezer and Miryam Vilinsky are educational consultants in private practice. They provide direct instruction to students, conduct teacher-training seminars and consult with schools and families worldwide. They can be reached at Educational Support Services at 426-3673 and at www.TReaching.com. The weekly edition of Educational insights is available via subscription. Please call for details.

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2. Contact Points. Clean metal contact points by working a piece of heavy bond paper or thin card stock between the contact points and blowing the contacts clean.

3. Liquid Mercury Contacts. The previ-ous step is not necessary if the unit has a liquid mercury contact enclosed in an airtight glass tube instead of contact points.

4. Switch Contacts. Clean any metal switch contacts along the top or edges of the unit with a cotton swab moistened with alcohol.

5. Alignment. Check alignment with a level and adjust as necessary.

6. Calibration. Check temperature read-ings for accuracy and adjust as necessary.

Forced Air Heat

Forced air heating systems warm many modern homes. First a furnace or electric heat pump heats cool air. A blower then forces the heated air throughout your home. The heated air travels through ducts and registers into your home’s living areas. Next cool air returns to the furnace by a separate register and duct known as the cold air return. Finally, the furnace heats the returning cool air and the cycle begins again.

Your forced air heating system requires comprehensive annual maintenance by a professional heating contractor at the beginning of each heating season. In addition, you should follow the simple maintenance suggestions discussed below to keep your system operating at peak performance.

Air Filters

Dirty air filters restrict airflow and reduce the heating system’s efficiency. Inspect your air filters once a month when the system is in use for heating or cooling. Clean or replace dirty air filters as neces-sary.

The first step in inspecting your air filters is to locate and remove the metal panel covering the filter or filters. The cover panel should be located near the heating system’s blower. Next, slide out the filters. Clean or replace the filters with new filters of the same size. Slide the new filters into position according to the air-flow directions on the filter. Finally, replace the cover panel. Regular inspection, cleaning and replacement of your furnace filters will reduce your heating bills and prolong the life of your heating unit.

RCDC HOUSING DEPARTMENTThe following information is provided to the community by the RCDC Housing Department as a public service

FORECLOSURE COUNSELING

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Is your home drafty?Is it cold in your home during the winter?

Are your heating bills high?If you answered YES to any of these questions

then give us a call to find out if you are eligible for theNew York StateWEATHERIZATION Program

Weatherization is a New York State funded program open to income eligible homeownersand renters. If eligible, you would receive a home energy audit to determine how yourhome’s efficiency could be improved. We replace windows and doors, insulate attics andwalls (all determined at your audit) as well as do overall measures to better airseal yourhome. Weatherization works! Call today for an application.

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Programmable Thermostats for Consumers-did you know?The average household spends more than $2,200 a year on energy bills - nearly half of which goes to heating and cooling. Homeowners can save about $180 a year by properly setting their programmable thermostats and maintaining those settings.

A programmable thermostat helps make it easy for you to save by offering four pre-programmed settings to regulate your home's temperature in both summer and winter - when you are home, asleep, or away. The pre-programmed settings that come with programmable thermostats are intended to deliver savings without sacrificing comfort. Depending on your family's schedule, you can see significant savings by sticking with those settings or adjust them as appropriate for your family. The key is to establish a program that automatically reduces heating and cooling in your home when you don't need as much.

Heating & cooling maintenance

extended deadline for fema disaster assistance

Thirteen counties declared disaster areas after Hurricane Sandy will be allowed to apply for assistance from the Fed-eral Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through Jan-uary 28, 2013 as opposed to the previous deadline of De-cember 31, 2012.

Assistance may come in the form of money to help with rent, home repairs, property loss, or other disaster-related needs not covered by insurance. The counties that have been granted this extension are: Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Richmond, Rockland, Westchester, Suffolk, Queens, Orange, Putnam, Sullivan, and Ulster.

The website for registering is www.disasterassisstance.gov.


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Councilman David G. Green-field introduced a resolution in the City Council this week call-ing on the state legislature to no longer incarcerate drivers for not responding to traffic summons-es such as tickets for moving violations. Under Councilman Greenfield’s proposal, drivers whose license was suspended solely due to failing to pay traffic summonses would face a fine, instead of the threat of jail time.Currently, a motorist who fails to pay a ticket for a moving viola-tion faces the same type of crim-inal penalty as someone who commits serious crimes against society. Many New Yorkers in-nocently forget to respond to a summons because they have moved or simply don’t realize that their license will be sus-pended and they may be jailed if found driving as a result.Councilman Greenfield intro-duced this resolution at Mon-day’s Stated Council meeting to bring the punishment in line with the actual offense after sev-eral constituents informed him they were jailed after having simply forgotten to pay a traffic ticket. In one case, a former city resident who had since moved abroad was pulled over by po-lice while visiting Brooklyn for a family wedding. Because he had forgotten to respond to a near-ly two-decade-old traffic ticket before moving, his license was suspended. As a result, when he was pulled over for a minor traf-

fic infraction, the man was de-tained, handcuffed, arrested and spent the time that he should have been at the wedding in a prison holding cell.

“It struck me as a little extreme to drag someone from their car in handcuffs for what could easily have been a simple mistake like forgetting to respond to a ticket. I have heard of outrageous cas-es like parents being handcuffed and hauled off to a prison cell in front of their small children all because they forgot to respond to a ticket. Drivers should obey all traffic laws and pay when is-sued a ticket, but we must also recognize that forgetting to re-spond is not a criminal act,” said Councilman Greenfield.In addition to individuals who honestly forgot to pay their ticket or were visiting at the time, Councilman Greenfield has heard from constituents who were incorrectly detained due to a simple paperwork mis-take. The resolution introduced at yesterday’s Stated Council meeting recognizes that individ-uals who have their license sus-pended due to a serious viola-tion such as driving while intoxi-cated should not be on the road and should be arrested. How-ever, it seeks to draw a distinc-tion between those who commit criminal acts that threaten public safety with those who simply did not pay less serious traffic sum-monses.

Greenfield to state: don't jail drivers over unpaid

traffic summonses

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How to avoid BPABisphenol A (BPA), a chemical found in plastics used to package food, may be linked to birth defects, reproductive problems, heart disease, breast cancer.

Baby bottles

Nondisposable water bottles

Canned food lining

What to look for

Potentially harmful

Safer alternativesProducts, purpose of BPA

• Container bottoms marked with 7* or 3 may contain PBA

• Mimics the hormone estrogen• Found in the urine of 93 percent of the population over age 6; suggests constant exposure to BPA• BPA can leach into food or beverage if plastic container is heated

Prevents corrosion, food contamination

Dental sealant, compositeResin contains BPA-based materials

Makes bottle transparent

Makes bottle shatterproof

• Use glass bottles or plastic bag inserts• BPA-free bottles available

• Choose food packagedin cardboard cartons• Eat fresh produce

• Amalgam filling; contains50 percent mercury• Consult dentist to limit risk

• BPA also found in plastic eyeglass lenses, coatings on cash register receipts, CDs, paints, medical equipment, toys

• Do not wash in dishwasher• Use stainless steel or BPA-free plastic bottles

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The attorney-client relationship can be fruitful and productive or tense and strained. Fortunately, some manda-tory procedures and common sense can bring peace of mind to both client and attorney.

Most individuals who seek our legal as-sistance are confronted with a problem-- whether it's an unanticipated lawsuit, a family tragedy, an arrest or a business idea. Few people show up at a law office anxious to part with a fortune.

Price, however, is just one criteria to look for in selecting an attorney. Shopping for quality legal advice is not buying soap and the attorney's rates should be one of a number factors you evaluate in selecting your counsel.

Pursuant to state rules government the legal profession, a written retainer agree-ment is required for any representation in which the fees paid will exceed $3000. A written retainer agreement should clearly state how the lawyer's fee is calculated (whether it is a flat fee or an hourly fee), what the minimum deposit it, when bills are generated, what work you will be billed for and what expenses you will need to cover. The retainer should also clearly state how many days you have to pay your bill and any interest charges for late payments. Most retainer agreements provide that in the event you do not pay your bill, the law firm can cease work on your account. In the event you and your attorney have a dispute over the bill, the Rockland County Bar Association has a committee to assist with fee disputes.

Quality legal advice can be costly. At the beginning of your engagement of an attor-ney, clearly outline any financial concerns and ask the attorney for guidance on what you can expect your entire case to cost. An honest discussion at the beginning of a representation will save aggravation for both attorney and client later on. It is im-portant for clients to understand many le-gal matters are far more complex than the client may initially realize. Open communi-cation is the best way to prevent problems. Lawyers are also supposed to provide cli-ent's with a list of "Client Rights and Re-sponsibilities." This document, drafted by the court system, explains your attorney's obligation, your obligations as a client and other parameters of the attorney-client re-lationship.

In the event you believe an attorney has violated his responsibilities to you, you can file a complaint with the Grievance Com-mittee. While the overwhelming majority of complaints are dismissed and the com-mittee does generally involve itself in fee disputes, you should press forward with a Complaint if you believe your attorney has acted in a fashion contrary to his or her obligation to zealously represent your interests. Contrary to the belief of some, attorneys are not obligated to provide any-one with a free consultation. Though some lawyers will offer a free consultation, never show up at a lawyer's office expecting to get advice free of charge. Always inquire in advance if there will be a fee for your meet-ing.

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Bargains are great, but cross these gross, broken, and

unsafe items off your list when you head out to garage sales. HelmetsHelmets are designed to protect you from one accident, and one accident only. Sometimes damage isn’t visible, so buy a new helmet to make sure you’re getting full protection.

car seatsLike helmets, car seats are really only meant to protect in one accident. But damaged car seats are common; a survey found that one in ten have been in an accident. Plus, car seat technology improves each year.

If they’ve been in an accident, tires are likely to be unstable and unreliable. Make sure you can get an accurate history.

mattressesWith bed bugs infesting homes in record numbers, chances are the critters could lurk in any used mattress. You might also end up sleeping with other people’s mold, mites, bacteria, and bodily fluids (yuck!).

cribsScores of crib recalls, as well as changing safety standards, make it hard to verify the safety of a used crib.

laptopsLaptops are more likely to be dropped, knocked around and spilled on, simply because they’re out in the world, while a desktop computer sits (mostly) safe at home.

sHoesUsed shoes have been molded to their previous owner’s feet—and poorly fitting shoes will make you miserable, or you'll just never want to wear them.

sHeets and pillowcases

Sure, you can wash them in hot water, but that might not protect against bed bugs.

baby bottlesWhile sanitation and cracks can be an issue, the real culprit is the chemical BPA that's present in most older bottles—

and as of June 2012, the FDA no longer accepts that as safe. Go with new bottles to make sure you're getting the safest, most up-to-date bottles.

worn plates, pots, and otHer

cookwareRust, flaky non-stick coatings, and chemicals that leach out are just a few of the safety problems you can run into with older cookware.

UpHolstered fUrnitUre

Just like mattresses and sheets, any upholstered furniture can be home to bed bugs, fleas, and spiders, as well as unknown odors and stains. Unless you're going to reupholster the piece, steer clear.

clotHes tHat reqUire a tailored

fitIt might look like it fits—until you put it on. Unless you can try something on, it's often not worth the money you'll spend on alterations.

fragrance or makeUp (new or old!)

The quality of both can lessen over the years (and yes, they do expire!). Even if an item is brand new in the box, skip it unless you can tell that it was recently manufactured.

stUffed animalsStuffed animals can be hard to send through the extra-hot cycle on a washing machine, and like mattresses and upholstered furniture, they can be full of creepy crawlies and other unsavory finds.

blenders and otHer kitcHen electronicsBlades and mechanisms can become dull and wear down over time, even if the machine looks fine on the surface.

rUnning sHoesUsed running shoes are often devoid of the cushioning that runners need; stick with new shoes for the cushioning and fit that will protect knees and feet,.

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