Island Is Not an Island??………..….... 2- 3 Newsday Crossword Puzzle ……………..……4 Did You Know…..……5-6 Rules of the Road….….7 Upcoming Event…...….8 This and That and Farewell……………….9 Volume 3, Issue 15 July 31, 2016 IFLI Newsletter Inside this Issue WORDS ……. JUST WORDS FAMILY: The collective body of persons who live in one house; a household. NEIGHBOR: One who lives near another. In large towns, a neighbor is one who lives within a few doors. FRIEND: One who is attached to another by affection; one who entertains for another sentiments of esteem, respect and affection, which lead him to desire his company, and to seek to promote his happiness and prosperity. COMMUNITY: A society of people, having common rights and privileges, or common interests, civil, political or ecclesiastical; or living under the same laws and regulations. MEMORY: A retaining of past ideas in the mind; remembrance. HAPPINNESS: An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness. CONTENTMENT: A resting or satisfaction of mind without disquiet; acquiescence. Contentment, without external honor, is humility. ONE: Closely bound together; undivided; united; constituting a whole. RESPECT: A feeling or understanding that someone or something is good, valuable, important, etc., and should be treated in an appropriate way. COMMITTMENT: A promise to be loyal to someone or something. The attitude of some who works very hard to do or support someone. GENEROSITY: The quality of being kind, understanding, and not selfish.
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Island Is Not an Island??………..….... 2- 3 Newsday Crossword Puzzle ……………..……4 Did You Know…..……5-6 Rules of the Road….….7 Upcoming Event…...….8 This and That and
Farewell……………….9
Volume 3, Issue 15
July 31, 2016 IFLI Newsletter
Inside this Issue
WORDS ……. JUST WORDS
FAMILY: The collective body of persons who live in one house; a household.
NEIGHBOR: One who lives near another. In large towns, a neighbor is one who lives within a few doors. FRIEND: One who is attached to another by affection; one who entertains for another sentiments of esteem, respect and affection, which lead him to desire his company, and to seek to promote his happiness and prosperity. COMMUNITY: A society of people, having common rights and privileges, or common interests, civil, political or ecclesiastical; or living under the same laws and regulations. MEMORY: A retaining of past ideas in the mind; remembrance. HAPPINNESS: An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness. CONTENTMENT: A resting or satisfaction of mind without disquiet; acquiescence. Contentment, without external honor, is humility. ONE: Closely bound together; undivided; united; constituting a whole. RESPECT: A feeling or understanding that someone or something is good, valuable, important, etc., and should be treated in an appropriate way. COMMITTMENT: A promise to be loyal to someone or something. The attitude of some who works very hard to do or support someone.
GENEROSITY: The quality of being kind, understanding, and not selfish.
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Island is Not an Island??
True or false? Long Island is an island.
False. Well, sort of.
In 1985, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled by a vote of 9-0 that, legally, Long Island is not an island. It is part of mainland
New York State.
The ruling came as part of a decision in a case in which the federal government and the states of New York and Rhode
Island had been fighting for control of Long Island Sound and Block Island Sound. While the states won the case, Long
Island lost its island-ness, according to an April 30, 1985, Newsday article.
“Both the proximity of Long Island to the mainland, the shallowness and inutility of the intervening waters as they were
constituted originally, and the fact that the East River is not an opening to the sea, suggest that Long Island be treated
as an extension of mainland,” Justice Harry Blackmun wrote in the court decision. Blackmun died in 1999.
The issue became the focal point of the case because if Long Island was part of the mainland, as New York and Rhode
Island argued, then under international law, the sounds would be inland bays controlled by the states instead of open
waters under federal control.
Long Island, which is deemed "unusual" in the ruling, is an island that should be considered an extension of the
mainland, according to the case.
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The court was led to its conclusion as a result of Long Island's shape and relation to the corresponding coast.
According to the ruling, Long Island's north shore follows the south shore of the opposite mainland. But the shapes
of the two lands almost completely surround the Long Island Sound.
The court also determined that Long Island and the adjacent shore share a common geological history, which
contributes to its lack of island-ness. Deposits of sediment and rocks from the mainland formed the shores by ice
sheets that retreated thousands of years ago, according to the ruling.
But scientists begged to differ.
“Of course, Long Island is an island,” R. Lawrence Swanson, a trained oceanographer who ran the Waste
Management Institute at the State University at Stony Brook, said in an Oct. 5, 1987, article published in Newsday's
series, “Long Island Our Story.” Swanson was an independent expert witness in the case.
Swanson argued that Manhattan and Long Island are different geologically. Manhattan is made up of exposed
bedrock hundreds of millions of years old. Long Island is mostly loose sand and came into existence during the last
150,000 years, according to the 1987 article.
Blackmun also wrote that humans widened and deepened the East River, which was previously too narrow, shallow
and navigationally dangerous to be a barrier between Long Island and New York City.
However, Swanson said in response that the two lands are separated by “a series of very complex tidal straits.”
Other experts agreed. “I never understood that Supreme Court decision,” Ralph Lewis, a geologist and an expert on
the history of Long Island Sound, said in 1987.
An article published in the academic journal Annals of the Association of American Geographers in 1959 was
referenced in the case. It stated that an island is identified as that of a mainland when the two lands are separated
by little water.
According to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, a federal body within the U.S. Geological Survey, an island is
simply an “area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland.” But apparently that was not enough
to convince the court.
“Well, at least people will no longer talk about our insular habits,” Suffolk County Executive Peter Cohalan said at the
time of the court decision. “Now they will talk about our peninsular habits.”
But don’t expect a name change to Long Peninsula.
While the Supreme Court thinks otherwise, the geographic names board still classifies Long Island as an island
since it’s surrounded by water. For them it really is that simple.
(Thank you to Larry Migliore for link to article)
Need Help?? Solutions to the puzzle can be found on www.newsday.com
Newsday Crossword Puzzle
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1) How long did the Hundred Years War last? 116 years from 1337 to 1453
2) Which country makes Panama hats? Ecuador
3) From which animal do we get catgut? From sheep and horses
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution? November - The Russian calendar
was 13 days behind ours.
5) What is a camel’s hair brush made of? Squirrel fur
6) The Canary Islands are named after what animal? Dog - The Latin name was Insularia Canaria –
Island of the Dogs.
7) What color is a purple finch? Crimson
8) Where are Chinese gooseberries from? New Zealand
9) How long did the Thirty Years War last? Thirty years, of course – from 1618 to 1648
10) What was King George VI’s first name? Albert – When he came to the throne in 1936 he respected
the wish of Queen Victoria that no future king should ever be called Albert.
DID YOU KNOW…………..
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The working section of a piano is called the action.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
The distance that a place holder falls from a glass when it is lifted (you know, place holders
sometimes get stuck to the bottom of a cold glass when you lift the glass) is called a bevemeter.
The study of creatures such as Bigfoot, the chupacabra, and the Loch Ness monster is called
cryptozoology. Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans coined the term to describe his investigations of
animals unknown to science.
The apparatus used in alcohol distilleries for freeing the spirit from water is called the dephlegmator.
One that speaks two languages – is bilingual – can be said to be diglot.
Ducks are never male. The males of the species are called drakes.
Shoemakers are commonly called cobblers but correctly speaking a cobbler is a shoe repairmen. A
shoemaker is a cordwainer – they also made leather bottles and harnesses.
The device at the intersection of two railroad tracks to permit the wheels and flanges on one track to
cross or branch for the other is called a frog.
A specific length of thread or yarn according to the type of fiber is called a hank. For linen, a hank is
274 meters (300 yards); for cotton, it is 768 meters (840 yards).
The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
The thin line of cloud that forms behind an aircraft at high altitudes is called a contrail.
In the early days of film making, people who worked on the sets were called movies. The films were
called potion pictures.
The back of the human hand is the opisthenar.
Someone who uses as few words as possible when speaking is called pauciloquent.
People that study fish are called ichthyologists.
The pin that holds a hinge together is called a pintle.
The gland responsible for producing the hormone that regulates growth is called the pituitary gland. It
is the size of a pea.
A melody is a group of notes in a certain order that results in a sweet or agreeable sound. An easily
remembered melody is called a tune.
Compulsive shopping was identified by a German psychiatrist almost a hundred years ago. Clinically
it is known as oniomania. Shopaholics are the people who do not suffer from chrematophobia, which
is the fear of touching money.
In early France the distance a man could walk while smoking one pipeful of tobacco was called a pipee.
The central shaft of a bird’s feather which bears the vane or web of the feather is called a rachis.
The small cup in which an espresso is served is called a demitasse.
A philologist study linguistics and etymology.
The hairless area of roughened skin at the tip of a bear’s snout is called the rhinarium
DID YOU KNOW……… More Trivia
Visit www.didyouknow.cd/ for fascinating facts and trivia factoids, some serious, some fun, covering topics from celebrities to global warming, politics and history.
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1. Turn signals will give away your next move. A real Long Island driver never uses them. Use of them in
Massapequa may be illegal.
2. Under no circumstances should you leave a safe distance between you and the car in front of you, or the
space will be filled in by somebody else putting you in an even more dangerous situation.
3. A right lane construction closure is just a game to see how many people can cut in line by passing you on the
right as you sit in the left lane waiting for the same drivers to squeeze their way back in before hitting the
orange construction barrels.
4. Crossing two or more lanes in a single lane change is considered “going with the flow”.
5. The faster you drive through a red light, the smaller the chance you have of getting hit.
6. Braking is to be done as hard and late as possible to ensure that your ABS kicks in, giving a nice, relaxing foot
massage as the brake pedal pulsates. For those of you without ABS, it’s a chance to stretch your legs.
7. Construction signs warn you about road closures immediately after you pass the last exit before the backup.
8. Never get in the way of an older car that needs extensive bodywork.
9. Electronic traffic warning signs are not there to provide useful information. They are only there to make Long
Island look high-tech, and to distract you from seeing the state police radar car parked on the median.
10. Never pass on the left when you can pass on the right.
11. Just because you’re in the left lane and have no room to speed up or move over doesn’t mean that a Long
Island driver flashing his high beams behind you doesn’t think he can go faster in your spot.
12. Speed limits are arbitrary figures, given only as suggestions, and are apparently not enforceable during rush
hour.
13. Always slow down and rubberneck when you see an accident, or even if someone is just changing a tire.
14. Throwing litter on the road adds color to the landscape and gives Adopt-a-Highway crews something to do.
15. Learn to swerve abruptly. Long Island is the home of high-speed slalom driving thanks to the potholes.
16. It is traditional on Long Island to honk your horn at cars that don’t move the instant the light changes.
17. Seeking eye contact with another driver revokes your right of way, expect in Garden City where it acts as an
invitation to duel or play chicken.
18. It is assumed that emergency vehicles passing at high speed may be followed in the event you need to make
up a few minutes on your way to work, or the beach.
19. Never take a green light at face value. Always look right and left before proceeding. On Long Island it is
common to stop and then decide which direction to turn.
20. Real Long Island female drivers can put on pantyhose, apply eye makeup, and balance the checkbook at
seventy-five miles per hour, during a snowstorm in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
21. Real Long Island male drivers can take off pantyhose, unsnap a bra with one flick of their wrist at seventy-five
miles per hour during a snowstorm in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
22. Remember that the goal of every Long Island driver is to get there first, by whatever means necessary.
23. Heavy snow, ice, fog and rain are no reasons to change any of the previously listed rules. These weather
conditions are God’s way of insuring a natural selection process for body shops, junkyards and new vehicle
sales.
Thanks Harry Carlin for forwarding!
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UPCOMING EVENT
Come one, come all to our First Annual Beach Party Bingo, under the Boardwalk at Jones Beach
(aka Jordan Lake).
We are planning a fun time for all you IFLI members Thursday, Sept 29th at Jordan Lake.
Watch your email for full details.
Please call or email if you would like to join the planning committee for this
guaranteed entertaining and cool event.
Judy Rampolla – 919.908.0128 [email protected]
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Dear Fellow IFLI:
I began this edition of the IFLI Newsletter with “Words….Just Words”. Those words sum up many of the emotions I am currently experiencing.
This will be my last IFLI Newsletter. Lou and I have sold our home. We will be relocating to Loudon, TN. We will be leaving CP on August 20th.
I will miss creating and sharing these newsletters. I will miss being a part of the “I’m From Long Island Group” here at CP. Best wishes for continued health and happiness to all you wonderful Long Islanders.
Sincerely,
Angela Antico
IFLI Newsletter
Current IFLI Membership is 190!
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